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HASIL ADKINS
"Kim Rock"/"Baseball Bat Song" (Rockin'
Bones; Italy) 12" single $9
The West Virginia do-it-hisself one-man-band
rocks it hard on the A-side. Some gal named Kim got Haze to pantin'
'n rantin', hunchin' 'n uh-rockin' for a solid 4-minute ramble.
He whups out some real cool finger-tangled guitar spurts too. The
flip sounds like a straight, and very deep, reading of some old mountain
ballad for a couple minutes--and then up pops the subject of baseball
bats! Adkins handles this ballad of sexual menace and twisted humor
with the elegance of a man possessed. He even takes on the high-voiced
role of the scared chick: "I had to run to get away from that baseball
bat!" Crazy, man! Crazy man--R.I.P. (1937-2005). This is an edition
of 500 copies. Released 2003.
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KJETIL D. BRANDSDAL (Ecstatic
Peace) $12
Fourth LP, I think, by sound-based music-maker from
Norway. Electronics samples feedback clang scrape moan
into dense swirls and layers. The second side starts with an Eastern-flavored
acoustic-guitar trance that deviates completely from what
might have seemed like a formula. Etc. |
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CRAWLSPACE
The
Dark Folds of Infinity Grow Pink With Desire (Majora
Records) $10
1997 home-recorded
(on 16 track) LP which introduced a collective-improv
approach to Crawlspace that included these players in various
combinations: Eddie Flowers, Joe Dean, Dave Fontana, Greg
Hajic, Todd Homer, Larry Robinson, Les Greenfield, and Paul
Fontana. Fred Mills, Magnet: "Some tracks here involve
the cut-up, paste/splice aesthetics of serious Burroughs disciples,
while others invite squinty-eyed comparisons to Ornette Coleman,
Faust, and even the Beatles. The small symphony squawkings
of 'Scungilli' could be misheard as outtakes from old cartoon soundtracks;
the dada-esque twang and marching kazoo band thump of 'Another
Fine Mess' sound like the Godz playing Beefheart." |
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THE DIRTY BABIES (Wood
Shampoo) $10
2005 LP by punk-rockers
from Las Vegas. |
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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. |
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DREDD FOOLE
A Long, Losing Battle With
Eloquence and Intimance (Ecstatic Yod) $12
Byron Coley, Yod catalog:
"7 songs of studio-recorded solo Dredd Foole on vocals
and acoustic guitar, in a totally different vein than the
last Dredd Foole & the Din record with Pelt & Thurston
Moore. No reverb, no din, just a heap of great Dredd songery. Full
color cover art by Kim Gordon." |
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THE GIZMOS
1976/1977
(Vulcher/Hate Records; Italy) $14
The Gizmos EP,
Amerika First EP, Gizmos World Tour EP, and another
unreleased outtake of Johnny Cougar's "Boring" (!?)
pressed on nice vinyl, with photo of the Gizmos sitting
and standing on the Gizmobile for the front cover. |
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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. |
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THE GIZMOS
Never
Mind the Gizmos Here's the Gizmos: 1978-1981 (Vulcher/Hate
Records; Italy) $14
Vinyl version
of Gulcher's collection of the post-Ken Highland Gizmos'
recorded output. This includes the NEVER MIND THE SEX
PISTOLS EP (with the only original Gizmo Ted Niemiec), the
'Mos side of the HOOSIER HYSTERIA split LP (Dale Lawrence +
no original members), and their track from the RED SNERTS comp LP. |
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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. |
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LE MAN AVEC LES LUNETTS
? (Old Gold) $12
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!"
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LIL'
BUNNIES
50 Children's Favorites (Rockin'
Bones; Italy) $12
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.
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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. |
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MONOTRACT
Pagú
(Public Eyesore) $11
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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VARIOUS ARTISTS
Fire
Crawl With Me (Bar La Muerte; Italy) $14
"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). |
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VARIOUS ARTISTS
OGX
(Old Gold) 2LP $20
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. |
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VARIOUS ARTISTS
Red
Snerts (Vulcher/Hate Records; Italy) $12
Reissue of 1981
Gulcher Records LP compilation of Indiana punk and
new wave. Most of the bands fall roughly into two categories.
The first is post-Ramones punk: Dale Lawrence's Gizmos
("The Midwest Can Be Allright"), the Panics ("Drugs Are
for Thugs"), the Zero Boys ("New Generation"), the Jetsons,
the Defekts, and Post Raisin Band. The other "category" is art-damage
new wave, mostly of the post-Devo sort: Mr. Science, A. Xax, Dow
Jones & the Industrials (kinda punk too), Last Four (4) Digits,
and Amoebas In Chaos. The Dancing Cigarettes fit in there too, but
you can hear a lot more going on with them: Canterbury prog, free
jazz, Captain Beefheart. On the other extreme, teenage Phil Hundley
does an inspired 30-second garage-a-billy tune called "30 Second
Affair." The duo of bay-root offers up an effective, no-bullshit
take on English-inspired post-punk. These guys came from the "scene"
in smalltown Vincennes, Indiana that exported the Lazy Cowgirls
dudes to L.A. For this recording, future Cowgirls Pat Todd and Allen
Clark were the rhythm section; vocalist Pat played bass, with Allen
on drums. It's the first recording by both, and Slippy Town fans might
want to note that Allen was also a founding member of Crawlspace. Finally,
there's Freddy & the Fruitloops doing a dopey ska tune that may or
may not be a "joke." |
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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. |
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THE W.I.N.K.S.
Too Hot to Be This Cool (Rockin' Bones;
Italy) $12
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.
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