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DISLOCATION Coyote's Call (Fusetron) $9 Way-above-average improv from Japan. Electric strings (guitars?), saxophones, electronics, and samples move with unexpected ease from meditative passages to intense blow-outs to free scatter. Sax player Yoshinori Yanagawa plays with the same sort of depth and passion as Albert Ayler--no fakin', no academic rendering. But he's only part of a much larger whole. The wash of precision rumble and sound-tweaking that surrounds everything creates chaos from an intensely ordered technology. Strange (not "weird"), exciting music.

THE GIZMOS 1976: The Rockabilly Yobs Session (Vulcher/Hate Records; Italy) $14 Krazee Ken Highland and Ready Eddie Flowers got the blooz in both their shoes. This contains the entire Yobs session from the Gizmos' Demos & Rehearsals CD, inside a new package, with the usual high-quality Hate vinyl pressing.

THE GYNECOLOGISTS Bukkake Hit Parade (Rave Up Records; Italy) $12 "Greatest hits" LP from early 80s Indiana punk band: "Sex Orgy With The Brady Bunch," "Nancy Reagan on Crack," "Sally Struthers' Tears," "Aunt Bee," "Brandy," "Dahmer's Diner," etc.

	LE MAN AVEC LES LUNETTS ? (Old Gold) $10 Old Gold catalog: "Perfect summer music for you courtesy of the new LP '?' from Italy's Le Man Avec Les Lunettes! Limited to 1000 vinyl copies, this is some white hot psychedelic Old Gold, cloaked in the poppy Lucky 13 imprint--be the first on your block to brag on this beauty!"
	LIL' BUNNIES 50 Children's Favorites (Rockin' Bones; Italy) $10 Rockin' Bones catalog: "WOW!!! The worst record of all time!!! Absolutely idiot!!! Demented punk!!! Fake Easter bunny cover!!! TRACKLIST: sorry, no tracklist…the band told me that you can call the songs as you prefer!!!" Edition of 500. Released 2001.

MERCURY 4ºF Phased (Suggestion Records; Germany) $10 Swirlin' stompin' chaotic noise-rock band from Switzerland. They sound kinda like the Butthole Surfers with a more focused Hawkwind-like attack, plus mocked-up dog-fight vocals and a nutty cover of "My Little Red Book" (Burt Bacharach/Manfred Mann/Love). Not heavy metal but close enough for those who might have bad memories of getting beat up by Scorpions fans in high school. Sounds pretty dang good to these well-worn ears. Released 1997.

MONOTRACT Pagú (Public Eyesore) $10 Hyper electronic crash'n'burn, glitch-rock, hiphop references, harsh angular (non)grooves, noise a-go-go, precision randomizing, a bit o' space float. Monotract is the NYC-Miami trio of Nancy Garcia, Carlos Giffoni, and Roger Rimada.

THE PANICS 1980-1981: Please Panic!! (Vulcher/Hate Records; Italy) $14 After the original Gizmos were long gone, and Dale Lawrence was leading the late-edition 'Mos in Bloomington, Indiana, this band of high-school goofs appeared on the "scene." They released one inspired slice of teen punk in 1981. "I Wanna Kill My Mom," "Best Band" ("We're the best band in Bloomington/And we buy our drugs on the courthouse lawn"), and a cover of the Ted-era Gizmos' "Tie Me Up, Baby!" use the raw elements of Anglo punk, the Ramones, and second-hand garage-isms to create a burst of greasy kid stuff that has the same feel as early Red Cross on Posh Boy or the Shirkers' great "Drunk and Disorderly"/"Suicide" single. This LP contains all of the music from the Gulcher CD (except four songs from a 2000 reunion show): the Panics' one 7-inch; their cut from Gulcher's 1981 Red Snerts comp LP; '81 demo of lo-fi art-damage punk from a Panics off-shoot called Johnny Esad & the Music Killers; an entire live set from '80 comprised mostly of covers (Ramones, Kinks, later Gizmos, Sex Pistols, most of the cover songs from The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle). Pressed on nice vinyl, like all the Hate releases.

SPLINTERED Moraine (Suggestion Records; Germany) $10 English group, from Kent, do two side-long pieces of swirling druggy droney collage-like rock'n'space. Guitars, drums, electronics, voices, acoustic piano, sax, etc. ooze along in a big soundscape--then fly apart completely in a flurry of heavy-noise-rock crunch'n'mulch through most of side two. Good shit. Released 1996; edition of 600.

SQ/QUADRAFACET (split) (Carbon Records) $8 SQ (Marc Faris and Joe Tunis) take the usual rock instruments and create a slowly developing (but intense) roar with simple melodic touches and a sweet clang. On the flip, Quadrafacet add violin to guitar/bass/drums/vocals, and float through four dense, druggy tunes. Rochester, New York, 1997.

VARIOUS ARTISTS Fire Crawl With Me (Bar La Muerte; Italy) $10 "Dark, electronic and experimental compilation" with Al:Freda (minimal percussion clang and hiss with voice), Daniele Brusaschetto (noisy rock), D.S.E. (spacey guitar float), Lips Vago (synth soundscape with built-in groove), Lava (a034 and Bruno Dorella rocket through a dark swirl), Deep (noisy cover version of an unidentified "well-known 80's group"), and (r) (chill-out prettiness with low-scatch noise).

VARIOUS ARTISTS OGX (Old Gold) 2LP $15 Atlanta label Old Gold celebrates its tenth year of crazy music with this ultra groovy double vinyl packaged in recycled LP covers, with a big booklet and inserts. Released and unreleased music by Jad Fair and R.Stevie Moore, Petland Toy Faktory, Charlie Parker (the free-music group), Bad Poet, Morgan Guberman, CD (Christian Dergarabedian), David Daniell, Eyeball Hurt and the Medicine, Cheryl Leonard, Zandosis, How To Kick Yourself, Two Geniuses, DangerWoman, L. Contra, Dog, Davey Williams and Eugene Chadbourne, Drue Langlois, Bon Vivants, Autobody, Untanned Hide Of A Young Cow, the Buford Highway, Yximalloo, More, Tom Heasley and Ken Rosser, Gold Sparkle Band, Die Spatzen, and Craig.

VARIOUS ARTISTS Songs from 20th Century Homes (Old Gold) $9 Collection of home recordings, originally released on cassette, from around the city of Winnipeg and a couple other places in Canada. The music varies widely and wildly: primal improv, noise, free-jazz-like sounds, songs, kids acting silly, adults acting sillier, tape manipulations, the theme from Night of the Hunter, skronk-rock, etc., etc. Featuring these artistes: Rudy Bust, Drue & Myles Langlois, NDF, Alien Hybrid, Albatross, Adrian Shalom Williams, Michael Dumontier, Pot Roast, Eyeball Hurt & the Medicine, the Untanned Hide of a Young Cow, Tom Elliott, go action with da-da sound, the Garage People, Todd Martin.

THE W.I.N.K.S. Too Hot to Be This Cool (Rockin' Bones; Italy) $10 Rockin' Bones catalog: "Imagine Tura Satana from Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! starting a punk band after too many tallboys and you'll understand the eternal bad girl camp at the heart of this local endeavor. The women of the Winks cultivate a saucy, swaggering dynamic that keeps their otherwise straightforward approach to punk rock ticking. There's no wheel reinvention here, just a 20-minute nonstop burst of come-ons and put-downs. They brings to mind the trashpunk of the BobbyTeens and early Donnas mixed with the wild raw of the VKTMS and Deadly Weapons. TRACKLIST: He's a gun, You're so hot, Sorry baby, You're gonna die, Miss brown, Fuck me around, Turn it up; Saturday night, Trick or treat, Electric, Don't want to, Never gonna die, Spoil me." Edition of 666. Released 2005.