***Everything from the Vinyl-on-Demand 5xLP box set (VOD39). A compilation and retrospective of GARY MUNDY's (RAMLEH) influential noise label. With SUTCLIFFE JUGEND, CONSUMER ELECTRONICS, UN-KOMMUNITI, MAURIZIO BIANCHI, CONTROLLED BLEEDING, Ramleh, MALE RAPE GROUP (MUNDY/BEST), KLEISTWAHR, TOLL, NEW BLOCKADERS, MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA, FALX CEREBRI, GIANCARLO TONIUTTI, VORTEX CAMPAIGN and many more. Edition of 500.
5XCD $109.25
07/31/2012
***BACK IN STOCK AT A NEW LOWER PRICE!!! The second volume in Secret Seven’s excellent In A Cloud series featuring previously unreleased tracks from the cream of the San Francisco scene. You get thirteen previously unreleased cuts from TY SEGALL, VETIVER, TIM COHEN, KELLEY STOLTZ (FRESH & ONLYS), CHUCK PROPHET, WILL SPROTT (MUMLERS), HANNAH LEW (GRASS WIDOW), PAULA FRAZER, BAD BACKS (ANDREW of TRAINWRECK RIDERS), PAPERCUTS, LUCKY EYES, SONNY & THE SUNSETS, and WYMOND MILES (FRESH & ONLYS). Edition of 650 copies.
LP $10.50
07/17/2012
***This year Teen Action Records is getting in on the TAPE STORE DAY action! (Saturday June 30th) Throw one of these magnetic mutations into your car's tape deck and teleport yourself to that "Independence Day" barbecue... The Battery Davis compilation features seven tracks of otherworldly electronics spanning the Bay Area gutters to the outer galaxies from COPY LAKE, SEVEN LIES ABOUT GIRLS, WEIRD HABIT (ex 16BPU), COAGULATOR (member of TUSCO TERROR), ABYSS OF FATHOMLESS LIGHT, STYROFOAM SANCHEZ. Features handmade packaging by BERT BERGEN. C62, edition of 100 copies.
MC $9.25
06/26/2012
***Assembled by Vancouver punk rock journalist and THE EVAPORATORS singer NARDWUAR THE HUMAN SERVIETTE, Busy Doing Nothing! features ANDREW WK, FRANZ FERDINAND, THE CRIBS, FUAD AND THE FEZTONES, KATE NASH, JILL BARBER and SAGE FRANCIS all showing their love for Canadian punk heritage preservation! Side A kicks off with an original collaboration by Andrew WK and The Evaporators. The action continues with Wakefield, England’s The Cribs covering ’70s Vancouver punk band The Dishrags, London’s Kate Nash covering ’90s Vancouver “cuddle-core” band (and Mint Records’ signature act) Cub, and Franz Ferdinand’s rendition of the legendary Pointed Sticks’ “Real Thing.” Fuad & the Feztones, Bobby Beaton and John Davis from Montreal’s veteran garage punk band The Gruesomes, offer their take on The Evaporators’ first single from 1992, and Sage Francis raps on a verse of The Evaporators’ “Hot Dog High.” The Evaporators rule side B, delivering a number of original tunes plus covers of 1970s rockabilly truck driver Doug Rutledge (featuring Andrew WK and Canadian singer / songwriter Jill Barber) and The Pointed Sticks. The album closes with a clip from the first interview Nardwuar ever did with Franz Ferdinand. This fantastic collection also includes a free 40-page 2013 calendar of vintage 1970s punk rock photos taken by renowned Vancouver photographer Bev Davies!
LP $17.50
03/06/2012
MP3 $9.90
03/06/2012
***NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! Fat Wreck’s first comp ever now on kick-ass vinyl. Features fourteen tracks from PROPAGANDHI, LAGWAGON, STRUNG OUT, GUNS ‘N’ WANKERS, NO USE FOR A NAME, BRACKET, TILT, FACE TO FACE, GOOD RIDDANCE, 88 FINGERS LOUIE, RANCID, and NOFX. One-time pressing on colored vinyl.
LP $25.50
01/24/2012
To commemorate three decades of spoken word releases on Alternative Tentacles, the label has complied four budget-priced spoken word box sets for release this fall—two in September, two in October. Black Power and Liberation Struggles features pieces by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Ward Churchill, Christian Parenti and more.
6XCD $17.50
10/11/2011
To commemorate three decades of spoken word releases on Alternative Tentacles, the label has complied four budget-priced spoken word box sets for release this fall—two in September, two in October. Ranters, Reformers & Raconteurs Volume 1 features titles by a variety of iconoclastic thinkers from the archives of Alternative Tentacles.
6XCD $17.50
09/20/2011
***“We hear a lot about Brooklyn, Montreal and San Francisco, but think Vancouver’s music community is the best around. The CiTR/Mint Pop Alliance Compilation is just that—a snapshot of our rainy city on a Friday night in 2011. It features 11 prominent local bands including NO KIDS, KELLARISSA (P:ANO, THE CHOIR PRACTICE), FINE MIST, SLAM DUNK, APOLLO GHOSTS and many more. The songs, labour, mastering and artwork were donated and proceeds from the record will benefit CiTR 101.9 FM, the campus radio station where Mint Records began. Tiny trimmings from CiTR’s Duncan McHugh’s beard and Mint Shena’s cat’s hair were mixed into the molten vinyl during the manufacturing process (Not really. But you get the picture, this record was made possible by several people with a lot of love).” Hand-numbered edition of 300 copies pressed on 180-gram vinyl.
LP $0.00
09/20/2011
Just in time to celebrate the 2004 holiday season came Mint Records' second Christmas release, It's a Team Mint Xmas Vol. 2! You may recall Vol. 1, a snappy, now out of print, 7" record that featured five holiday-themed songs from your pals at Mint Records and their friends just four years prior. It's a Team Mint Xmas Vol. 2 contains those five classic songs and piles a few more on to make a 13 song CD that goes well with your holiday stuffing and couple glasses of wine. Best of all It's a Team Mint Xmas Vol. 2 contains a little gem you don't want to miss: The Buttless Chaps' version of Band-Aid's classic "Do They Know It's Christmas"! The track features a variety of Mint artists: Carolyn Mark, Coco Culbertson (The Gay, The Choir Practice), Grant Lawrence (The Smugglers, CBC Radio 3), Ida Nilsen (The Gay, The Beans, Radiogram, The Buttless Chaps) Katie Sketch (The Organ), Tobey Black (The Gay, Maow), Maija Martin (The Gay, The Tennessee Twin, I Mudder Accordion), and Paul and Lucy (Young and Sexy).
CD $9.50
09/20/2011
***Fabrice, 17 years old, is a minet, or to say it better, a mod from one of the posh neighbourhoods, the 16th district in Paris and such “golden ghettoes” as Auteuil, Neuilly and Passy. Fab’ likes to have his “ronron at the Dugstore”, as Dutronc sang it (an untranslatable wordplay on ronron, “cat food”, and a minet—“a kitten”—purring). Fabrice attends Henri IV prestigious high-school; his father, a businessman who made a fortune selling plastic flowers, and his mother, a former model from Jacques Fath, are never home – a cosy home indeed! With his Weston shoes, a slim-fitting suit by Renoma and his haircut modelled on those of Anglo-Saxons musicians appearing on French Eps, Fabrice dreams of Carnaby Street and the Sunset Strip. He is not alone: there’s his sister Stéphanie, 16, who wears a fringe, a mock Courrèges dress, a pink Shetland pullover and white boots. Stéphanie reads Salut Les Copains and Mademoiselle Age Tendre, which both fuel her passion for Françoise Hardy, Zouzou, Twiggy and the Beatles. The Groove Club is happy to present twenty-two records that we dug out as a tribute to Fabrice’s kinky faves. We imagine those magic years 1966-71 (with two inclusions from 1976 & 77) to have been as you can hear it here — truly decadent pop-sike, as beautiful as the cathedral of Evry... whether it's the arch-hippie Lolita taking us beyond the limits of pop music, singing songs which make one dream of Anicée Alvina riding her bicycle in a red...
CD $15.50
08/16/2011
2XLP $20.60
08/30/2011
"'Play That Beat Mr. Raja' is a gobsmacking compilation of recordings made for the Tamil film industry, taking in all manner of bizarre mid-late '80s sonics in the most beguiling, mindblowing manner. Like Charanjit Singh's 'Ten Raga's To A Disco Beat' or the Tafo Brothers' 'Plugged-in Pakistani Pops' it's an ear-opening exposé of the nascent, yet hugely sophisticated, electronic productions from this part of the world, making for a potently intoxicating experience to these Western sensibilities. To be fair, we're being a bit broad there, as this sound is really most specific to the Kollywood film industry based in the South Indian city of Chennai (formerly Madras) at the opposite end of the sub continent to Charanjit Singh and the Tafo Bros. It was compiled by the obsessives over at Cartilage Records, a team of Parisian bloggers/DJs and runs through eleven ecstatic fusions of truly insane drum machine acrobatics, slashing cinematic strings, the nuttiest analog synth sounds and the most charming vocals with an innate feel for daring structures and delirious composition. The sense of freedom and creativity is utterly endearing, placing familiar western concepts in a whole other context to leave us floored at every turn. Take the almost avian vocals and fractal arrangement of Japanil Kalyanaraman's opening 'Title Music' (1985) for starters, then just try keeping your composure when the machine funk and vocoders of Vikram's 'Vikram Vikram' (1986) hit, because we certainly couldn't! There's just too much to sink into, from the demented drum flurries of Mangamma...
MP3 $9.90
08/02/2011
It’s summertime, and the living’s sun-drenched and sleep-deprived on our end. The latest entry in Tigerbeat6’s ¡Andalé! Vol. 4 is a nice little soundtrack for after-hours, before-hours, and between-dreamtime partying. Put this on and ignore your pulls toward natural circadian rhythms and lack of darkness in the day – and if you don’t live as far up north as Berlin, just substitute with plenty of cigarette butts, dry heat and lakeside barbecues. As to the music? TB6 mainstay Luke’s Anger starts it off hyped with “Chronicles Of Funktronica”, with 8-bit squeals and guttery ejaculations (stop giggling) to hit you right in the solar plexus. Continuing with the 8bit trills, there’s the butcher-block beats on “Go Bananas”, from Bruce Stallion. Get smacked with the bowel-emptying wobbles you’d expect from the guy whose last EP featured tracks titled “Drugs = Bad” and “Sunglasses”. Now we’re Frenching a bit, as TB6’s BlattCouture delivers a take on fellow countrymen dDamage’s “JB Savage”, from the latter group’s EP 100% Hate. The pummel of the original is still there, but now you can jump to it (essential for a summer night groove). Baseck finishes things up handily with a track to shout about (literally, he’s screaming himself horse), the vocal mix of “Unbalanced”. You ever eat a bunch of candy and stay up all night playing videogames? Baseck did, and then hooked an IV up to a mixer. Check the blood sugar.
MP3 $2.49
07/18/2011
***Group Flex Volume 1 is a compilation of five Bay Area bands who are all globe trotting Bay Area dominators. It's a fully playable book of flexi discs and art by WILLIAM KEIHN (resident artist at Castleface) with ten exclusive, burning tracks by BLASTED CANYONS, BARE WIRES, FRESH & ONLYS, THEE OH SEES, and TY SEGALL & MICHAEL CRONIN. Pressed on multi- colored flexi discs with holographic images adorning each page. This is a one of a kind creation produced by hand in the caves of Pirates Press. The first pressing has a nice little secret buried in its pages somewhere too, so don't wait. Holy smokes, and have a nice day! Includes a download.
5X7" FLEXI BOOK $24.00
07/12/2011
***First in series, with each artist contributing one side. Unreleased tracks, demos and/or rare tape-only material from PVC, White Russia, No More, Didaktische Einheit, MDK, Din A Testbild, Off Band, Poison Dwarfs, Funtastiklons, Die Gesunden. 5 LPs and a 10-inch packaged in a box.
6XLP $159.00
06/28/2011
***The era of the Ethiopian big brass bands came to an end in the period of 1975-1991. In the last few years something new is emerging. Young producers have started combining traditional rhythms & strong dance beat production. The result is very original, uplifting & very danceable music. The gurage, wollo, gondar, konso and other traditional rhythms work wonders for this new dance music. And the Ethiopian youth loves it. No Export.
CD $9.75
05/31/2011
¡Ándale! Vol. 3 kicks off with a newcomer to the Tigerbeat6 family, Vaetxk a.k.a. Rob Clouth, and his stellar offkilter Glitch IDM masterpiece “List of Lists”, with its binaural sound design and beats that refuse to stick to any time signature we know you will be thirsting for more. Obi Blanche is best known for his work with Finland’s New Judas label as well as remixes for Boy 8 Bit, Les Gillettes, Zombie Nation, The Raveonettes, and his sweaty electro DJ sets in clubs across europe. We are quite pleased to present his more experimental and wildside with “Doorombroom”, also on his upcoming “The Lost Tapes” album on Tigerbeat6. Joe Lentini appears courtesy of Miami’s one and only Schematic Records family. He is one of the brightest lights in America’s new crop of underground and challenging electronic music producers, and we are sure he will move onto bigger things with his cut and paste spastic funky club crossover tracks. Duran Duran Duran gave us this killer hard-to-find Otto Van Schirach remix of “Bass Galactica 8” from his vaults and it definitely deserves to be heard again and again and again. Dolby Anol finish things off with the most surprising track they have ever made, “Naboomboo”, featuring UK vocalist Beccakhan. It sounds like The Bug jamming with Modeselektor in a middle eastern harem with a demented female MC on the Mic. And we love it. This month’s cover image comes courtesy of visual artist Paul Mares.
MP3 $2.49
05/23/2011
***A collection of weird dance music. Solitude need not be a destination. What you’ll find here is the work of six acts who use isolation as an escape hatch into vaster internal realms, zones for transmitting untethered from the mores and strictures of music scene etiquette. The tracks here are not ‘done things’—instead, in bedroom retreat, working feet from where they sleep each night, PATTEN and PROTECT-U, PARIAH and BATCHCRONES, DUNIAN and D’EON are free to conjure impressions of the club’s invisible parts. Those that loiter between its sweating walls, ceilings and pillars. Some hear purity, some hear slime. Some of The Bedroom Club sounds written in the dark hours beyond shut bars, while other moments seem to anticipate the club’s unifying noise and ooze with the wide-eyes found bursting most often from the desirous, waiting skulls of the underage. All of them, by inference, honour the value of the most private portal, where the digital air snares strike into can hold still-quivering cuts of ecstatic rib-meat as easily as they can harbour the chrome heart of some colossal jet. It's the idea that counts—here are intimate ones, for you. Windows to auteured territories for you to prise. UK import.
LP $17.25
05/17/2011
¡Ándale! Vol. 2 jumps off in style with “Ing Zorg 2” from Dead Fader, UK’s truly subversive dubstep/noise duo. It’s a blistering remake of “JBE Zorg”, from their now classic “Corrupt My Examiner” album. Berlin’s Positive Self & Miffy give us “Shindig Nation”, a completely original and unique blending of braindance melodics and hard club beats. Tigerbeat6 veteran Kevin Blechdom joins up with occasional collaborator Ad Hawk for “Frankenstein”, a magical mess of mutant general MIDI madness you can both hum along and dance to. Sweden’s Hakan Lidbo steps out of from his usual dance producer persona for blistering chiptune noise rawk with “Lab-rats.” Most surprisingly, we have Ed Flis – more commonly known for his many recordings as Duran Duran Duran – with his first release under his own name, and it’s a massive glitchy techno stomper, as well produced as it is relentless. The cover image (Untitled Biological Landscape No. 2, Acrylic on wood panel, 25 x 25cm, 2008) comes courtesy of stellar visual artist Ryan Hays.
MP3 $2.49
03/29/2011
***REISSUED ON CD!!! In A Cloud is a collection of fourteen previously unreleased songs from many of San Francisco’s greatest contemporary artists including: THEE OH SEES, SONNY & THE SUNSETS, FRESH & ONLYS, HANNAH & RAVEN (of GRASS WIDOW), JACQUES BUTTERS, TY SEGALL, SANDWITCHES, EXRAY’S DONOVAN QUINN & THE 13TH MONTH, TRAINWRECK RIDERS, DYLAN SHEARER, PAULA FRAZER, TIM COHEN and KELLEY STOLTZ. Limited edition CD pressing housed in simple card stock jackets. Mastered by PAUL OLDHAM.
LP $13.50
03/02/2010
CD $9.25
03/29/2011
***NOW AVAILABLE!!! Volume 6 in the beloved series features tracks from faves LITTLE CLAW, EAT SKULL, and PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT. The “shitgaze” edition for those keeping score.
7" $6.30
03/01/2011
***The 12XU label is being dragged back into semi-operation for the release of Casual Victim Pile II, an 18-band, all-Austin compilation, and a follow-up to Matador’s release of volume one. Seventeen of the eighteen songs are previously unreleased and participants include the following : OBN IIIs (Tic Tac Totally), RAYON BEACH (HoZac), CRUDDY, WOMEN IN PRISON (HoZac), NAW DUDE, SIMPLE CIRCUIT, HATCHET WOUND, CRISIS HOTLINE, LITERATURE, SALLY CREWE & THE SUDDEN MOVES, A GIANT DOG, THE DEAD SPACE, SERIOUS TRADERS, FRENCH INHALES, BOTTLE SERVICE, ZOLTARS, COMA IN ALGIERS, and EXPENSIVE SHIT.
LP $13.50
02/22/2011
On ¡Ándale! Vol. 1 Kid606 delivers the massive 150 bpm mutant-bass stomper of a track “Daylight Bangin’,” as Cardopusher is rolling out deep Bass and House vibes with “Morning Attempts.” Wascal is representing Bristol with the funky and heavy original 2-step of “Set Up”, while Luke’s Anger mixes the wonk and the wobble for the four on the floor laid-back techno bumper “Warble Tone.”
MP3 $2.49
02/08/2011
***NOW AVAILABLE!!! The original Chamberlain/Mellotron music from DIANNA DILWORTH’s documentary film/DVD Mellodrama (Bazillion Points). Includes tracks from MATTIAS OLSSON, HARRY CHAMBERLAIN, BRIAN KEHEW, MICHAEL PENN, DAVE BIRO, BIGELF, and PATRICK WARREN.
CD $9.25
02/08/2011
***“S.S. Records is pleased to present the first vinyl edition of the FM-BX Society Tape Vol. 1. Originally released in 1981 on only cassette, with a limited run of 200, FM-BX V1 was the first in a series of compilation tapes released by the staff of a radio station in Brussels, Belgium. Needless to say, not many tapes made it around, and very few survive today. I’d say that is a shame but with this vinyl release, the word will get out about the bands on this tape, albeit a few decades after its initial release! FM-BX V1 features three bands, two from Belgium, one from Scotland. The Belgium bands are ISOLATION WARD and UNIT 4. Isolation Ward are known in underground synth collector circles, as they had a bit of a run after their debut on this release. Bleak and futuristic, Isolation Ward fuse post punk with early 80s synth sounds and a DIY approach. The stars of FM-BX are the all-woman foursome Unit 4. Little is known about the band or their current whereabouts. No problem because their music is all you need to tell you that they had something special going. By their sound, the influences are obvious: Kleenex, Delta 5, and the Raincoats all reverberate here though less ‘slick’ than any of those bands. Unit 4’s aesthetics are more akin to the Petticoats and, at times, the Shaggs. This is truly wonderful punk rock. From Scotland comes the TOPPLERS. If the name sounds familiar, it is...
LP $13.00
12/07/2010
***This long-in-development compilation is finally seeing the light of day. Featuring three of Canada’s best post-punk acts coupled with three of San Diego’s, this 12-inch highlights the common ground that acts in both countries share. DEFEKTORS deliver a blast of punk energy with “Not the One”; O VOIDS contribute their lurching “Crawling Machine”; hot off their HoZac and Mammoth Cave Records 7-inch, SHARP ENDS debuts their best track yet, “Whiteout,” a scorching, noisy post-punk anthem. On the US side, San Diego’s ALE MANIA follow up their Volar Records and Hell Yes! Records 7-inches with the great, chaotic “Fawkus”; BEATERS offer up the pulsating “They Don’t Really Care About Us”; and SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY turn in their first new track since their Sacred Bones 7-inch, “Where is the Light”. 45 RPM, 100 on white vinyl, 400 on black, all handmade covers.
12" $11.25
11/30/2010
“Regolith” is a term used by lunar scientists to describe the loose scree of stones covering the solid rock of the moon. From the scrappy fuzzabilly of the Leisure Birds’ “Burn the Beach” to Moonstone’s pontificate-n-jam, Moon Glyph have found an apt title for their first compilation of local bands. Regolith Vol.1 is a wide sampling of songs scattershot across a solid foundation of rock by artists committed to the exploration of new vibrations and frequencies. The listener will find all forms of psychedelia on this record: laid back odes to laid-back women from Magic Castles and Velvet Davenport (with a little help from Ariel Pink and Gary War), a rave-up from Vampire Hands, a spaced out war-drum workout from the Daughters of the Sun, and a pair of face-melters courtesy of The Blind Shake and Skoal Kodiak amongst others.
MP3 $9.90
11/23/2010
The Widower is a surreal black romantic comedy featuring familiar faces like Jello Biafra, Joey "Shithead" Keithley, Ani Kyd and Nardwuar the Human Serviette. It’s a creepy, kitschy comedy about love and death, blood, cops, and donuts, that has some surprisingly sweet touches among the corpses, punk rock and out-sized characters! This here is the incredible previously unreleased soundtrack! The previously unreleased soundtrack CD features Neko Case and Her Boyfriends, DOA, The Smugglers, Chris Houston, The Astronuts, The Loudmouths, Huevos Rancheros, Bughouse 5, Coal, Thee Goblins, Elvis Love Child, The Mach III's, Sarcastic Mannequins, The Problematics and The Colorifics. The soundtrack is not available as a separate CD - rather it comes bundled with the DVD or as digital download only. About the movie : With The Widower, director Marcus Rogers has created an instant cult classic. Inspired by the sinister visions of David Lynch and the colorful, comic book camp of John Waters, the film is a cartoonish world of decay in a timeless, nameless city, where the very fringes of reality are starting to unravel. This is especially true for Milton, the nebbish romantic widower who is unable to face the reality of his wife's demise... But why should he? She still talks to him.
MP3 $9.90
10/12/2010
***Since it’s first volume in 2005, Tompkins Square’s Imaginational Anthem series has introduced many new acoustic guitarists, and unearthed many forgotten legends of the American Primitive genre. Volume 4 strays from the formula by focusing on the present generation of pickers, representing American and English musical traditions. The stunning gatefold LP (limited edition of 500) and CD are created by PAUL ROMANOo, best known for his incredible designs for Mastodon. Features C JOYNES, TYELR RAMSEY (BAND OF HORSES), WILLIAM TYLER (SILVER JEWS) and more.
LP $17.50
09/28/2010
CD $9.25
09/28/2010
***Yes, its finally here, all on one handly format for accessing the hottest cuts from the first Round of the HoZac singles club, along with two previously unreleased BONUS TRACKS by TEEPEE and IDLE TIMES. This compilation spans the first ten elusive subscription-only 7-inch records released from 2009-2010, featuring rare tracks by DUM DUM GIRLS, WOVEN BONES, BOX ELDERS, FLIGHT, WHITE MYSTERY, TEEPEE, IDLE TIMES, MOTHER OF TEARS, ART THIEVES, and TEETH (the elusive Blank Dogs/Spider side project), and is not to be missed.
LP $13.50
08/24/2010
CD $11.25
08/24/2010
MP3 $9.90
08/24/2010
***Perseo Edits Volume One features the first three 12-inches (to be released 8/10/2010) on the new Perseo label (a spin-off of Italians Do It Better) on one CD, plus a bonus MIKE SIMONETTI track not available anywhere else. Features cuts by BOTTIN, M. VOGEL and Mike Simonetti. Eight tracks in all.
CD $12.00
08/03/2010
***Received a 7.0 rating from Pitchfork. It's true--the sons and daughters of Homestead, Xpressway and first-wave Drag City (et al.) are now making good music. The '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s are all there, bound together by shitty tape machines, reverb and easy chord changes, but melody is back and so is the joy of jamming a perfectly mangled pop song. Welcome Home might hit some new kids the way Human Music or Nuggets did back in their day. In any case, it's one of those rare compilations you can play straight through and over again. --Glenn Donaldson All tracks (excepting WHITE FENCE’s “The Love Between”) are exclusive to this release.
LP $17.50
07/06/2010
MC $9.50
07/20/2010
MP3 $9.90
07/06/2010
***Excerpts from Italians Do It Better’s disco sleeve series 2007-2010 covering the fringe elements & producers of the label. Volumes one and two compiled by JOHNNY JEWEL. Almost every track featured on this CD is out of print on vinyl. Limited one-time pressing with tracks from TIEDYE, INVISIBLE CONGA PEOPLE, PREMIER RANG, T&K, BOTTIN, TWISTED WIRES, SOLANGE, and RUBIES. Ten solid gold tracks. Sixty-one minutes from Houston, New York, Paris, Venice, Berlin, Lisbon, and Gothenburg. Gatefold CD with full-color artwork! Essential music for the warm summer nights
CD $9.25
07/06/2010
"All of them sparkling clean digital hand-jobs (of late) got me to thinking about the years I spent renting a room above a former farmer's garage, dubbing tapes when my better-minded friends were going to college and/or fucking with crystal meth. Time flies (except when you are constantly typing in 0s and 1s to get someone's laptop to cum) and certainly somewhere, a 16-year-old kid is online awaiting some hilarious critiques of the 20th anniversary Shrimper compilation Smooth Sounds: The Future Hits of Wckr Spgt double-CD: 36 exclusive songs specifically written for this project by Wckr Spgt and then given out blindly to the artists participating. With close to 200 releases under our belt and hundreds of artists that have recorded for the label, it was near impossible to choose bands for this project, so blindly into the depths of the third circle went we. "Smooth Sounds features key Shrimper acts (Soul-Junk, Sentridoh, Joy, The Mountain Goats, Simon Joyner, Jad Fair), recordings by artists from the surrounding environs that influenced the label (Norma Tanega, Kurt Ross, John Harrelson) and over a dozen new bands to keep intact the spirit of what a Shrimper compilation is supposed to be. The first pressing features covers lovingly hand-decorated by artists who have recorded for the Shrimper label, as well as extensive liner notes by Franklin Bruno. There are a number of festivals set to take place on July 24th, the official 20th anniversary of Shrimper, in Southern California, Virginia, England and New York,...
2XCD $9.25
07/06/2010
MC $7.75
07/06/2010
MP3 $13.99
06/22/2010
A blistering collection of today's best bass addicts radically inspired reworkings of Si Begg's Seminal Releases as Buckfunk 3000 on Tipper's Fuel label way back in 2001. Si Begg should need no introduction due to his large body of work under countless aliases, including soundtracks for the BBC, Channel 4 and MTV, his Noodles recordings label or starting Mosquito with Cristian Vogel in 1997. Si Begg has managed to continually stay at the forefront of innovative and experimental techno and electronic music and we thought now was the perfect time to pay tribute alongside three other volumes of remixes coming out concurrently on Hardcore Beats, Future Perfect and Noodles Recordings. Don't sleep on these stellar remixes of "High Volume", "Jump", and "Disrupt" by Kid606, Kanji Kinetic, EBOLA, HecQ, Luke's Anger, the Squire of Gothos, Bruce Stallion, Wascal, and a special Updated Vip remix from Si Begg himself.
MP3 $6.99
04/20/2010
***REISSUED WITH NEW COVER AND YELLOW VINYL!!! Flex Your Head was first released in January 1982 and was the first full-length album released by Dischord Records. The compilation features thirty-two songs by 11 DC area bands and went a long way towards “putting DC on the map” as one of the era’s great punk scenes. This new edition, which has been re-cut features a cover image of the DC Flag stars and bars (on a new yellow field), an image so associated with DC punk that many mistake it for a made-up symbol for straight edge. This cover image was also used (on a black field) for an edition of the album briefly pressed in conjunction with Alternative Tentacles in the ‘80s. Tracks from MINOR THREAT, TEEN IDLES, SOA, G.I., YOUTH BRIGADE, VOID, IRON CROSS, ARTIFICIAL PEACE, and more. Includes a free MP3 download coupon,
LP $17.75
03/16/2010
CD $11.00
06/25/1996
***REISSUED ON VINYL!!! Thai pop history has been largely ignored and neglected by the international musical community for far too long. By the late 20th century, Thai pop music had developed as many faces as localized roots music such as molam or styles like luk thung or luk krung (each with their own respective pop-sectors). Bangkok—always the hub of the Thai recording industry—attracted musicians and singers from across the country that were both informed by tradition and inspired by the wealth of international sounds entering the region via radio and phonograph. Jazz, for instance, had a profound influence on early Thai pop music, the King of Thailand himself being a noted jazz composer. This superb collection features modern Thai music styles combining with elements of surf, rock, funk, disco and comedy, revealing the use of clever instrumentation, brilliant vocals, great arrangements, twisted breaks, and resourceful production techniques. Discover the Queen of Luk Thung, the 1960s "Shadow Music" sound, classic tracks from Thai films, blazing examples of Bangkok disco from the 1970s, legendary Thai comedy pop, and the most outrageous version of "The Night Chicago Died" you'll ever encounter. Thick horn sections, wah-wah guitars, tight drums, and funky organs help round out this astounding set which proves beyond a doubt that the Thai were a completely unique and powerful force during the 1960s, '70s & '80s global popular music explosion. Gorgeous double-LP heavy gatefold vinyl.
CD $17.25
01/26/2010
2XLP $29.65
04/18/2015