3inch CDR (50 items)

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  Artist/Title: Austere - caruscate 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: sound-o-mat Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SEANCE02 5min piece on rectangular CDR in a cellophane-wrapped and decorated paper box {edition of 50]. the cdr is the ouija board, comes with literature on using the baord, etc. amazing packaging! part of the Music for Seances series (http://austere.org/oracle/seances.shtml)

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  Artist/Title: Ben Reynolds and Andy Jarvis - s/t 3 Format: 3inch CDR Label: First Person (UK) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_First_Plural009 “This installment of Andy Jarvis' excellent First Person CD-R series features collaborations with another excellent UK-based artist, Ben Reynolds. These three tracks do a fine job of exploring the realm of solo steel-string acoustic guitar. In the spirit of Fahey and other Takoma artists, Jarvis and Reynolds do a marvelous job playing off each other. On the opener, "Princess Metal Mountain," soft drones flow underneath the dual picking, give a sense of tranquility and peace. This is a solemn track with an underlying mysticism. It's like you're being followed by a mythic creature, but every time you turn around it scurries out of site. "Bronze Tower (That Holds Up the Sky)" is short but oh so sweet. This follows two high school lovers through golden fields at dusk one summer evening. The smell of grass is in the air, and they are guided by nothing more than young love. There's an endearing quality to this piece that is hard to pin down, but present throughout. It's quite beautiful. The third, and final, piece is the epic "The Immortal Yip." Meandering through clouds of dust, Reynolds and Jarvis seem to be constantly searching each other out. There's a sense that they are just barely out of reach to each other, but that adds to the overall dynamics of the track. In all, it thrives in its length (it's over 11 minutes) and leaves you wanting more”.- Brad Rose

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  Artist/Title: Cameron Wood - s/t 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: rhizome Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_rhcd15 completely overblown/saturated guitar(?) layers, with buried melodies. harsh but soothing.

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  Artist/Title: Carl Kruger - sound takes 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD87 "The short press text for these new Tibprod releases rave about the 'typical Carl Kruger-style', but since I never heard the mans music, I can't say wether that is false or true. On 'Sound Takes' he presents a couple of pieces that were previously released on various websites. Kruger shows an interest in technoid rhythms and the world of digital cut-ups. Cut and paste instruments, no doubt lifted from obscure sources on the internet, with some dance rhythm in the background. I don't think I describe it very well, but the result is not bad at all. Not startling new either, but nevertheless quite nice." - Vital Weekly

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  Artist/Title: Colonel Parmisan - Retaste 6 Format: 3inch CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $6 Catalog ID: CR161 20 minutes from this solo Rochester arist - Brian Blatt. also plays in Gaybot, Dufus and No, among others. this is two tracks. one short studio piece, synth/textural warbly-ness. and a longer live synth/drone/noise/voice piece. amazing repetition of melody in the noise context, with hiss, static and air/fog mixed in. [cdr is wrapped in a cardstock insert, inserted into a vinyl sleeve, affixed to a (roughly) 5x5" piece of plywood, which is painted with various layers/colors, and then stenciled with more colors. CDR is also stenciled]

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  Artist/Title: Eugene Carchesio - Garden of Souls 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: Kindling Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_KIN13 solo release from this collaborator of Leighton Craig and also member of G55 with Leighton and Simon Ellaby.

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  Artist/Title: flea apparitions and lame prey - split 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: small doses (USA) Price: $5 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosethirtysix "this is the first in a small doses split personality series. lame prey and flea apparitions are both products of the same mind, that of lorne zeman. lame prey starts the disc off with a long piece that mixes up huge, harsh sounds that tend towards power electronics with feedback laced calms in the storm. the flea apparitions portion takes a similarly harsh but more relentless approach built from tape loops. edition of 66 copies."

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  Artist/Title: Fossils From the Sun - Somebody's Gotta Lose 6 Format: 3inch CDR Label: Abandon Ship (USA) Price: $5 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ASR040 "The latest release from Ray Hare's (Century Plants, Burnt Hills) Fossils From the Sun is a 19 minute sonic geography where fuzzed guitar propulsion buckles into static beats and shaken vox damage. Think Omit's desolation, Spacemen 3's nod and Alan Vega's terrorism. Refract that through the brutality of Century Plants Bloodrise and Somebody's Gotta Lose appears on the horizon � a dub of the sun"

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  Artist/Title: Future Guru - funeral for bucky 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: sound-o-mat Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SEANCE03 5min piece on rectangular CDR in a cellophane-wrapped and decorated paper box {edition of 50]. the cdr is the ouija board, comes with literature on using the baord, etc. amazing packaging! part of the Music for Seances series (http://austere.org/oracle/seances.shtml)

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  Artist/Title: G3 - s/t 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: White Flag (USA) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_whiteflag04 featuring Tim Albro and Jesse Kudler from HZL, and joined by Ben Stanko. each playing various forms of guitar, electric, acoustic and harmonics, respectively. and each also using other devices such as rebab, contact microphone, synthesizer and electronics.

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  Artist/Title: Heads of Pagans - Under the Tall and Darkened Arches 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: Ruralfaune (France) Price: $7 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_rural_sab002 "Under the darkened arches the two ghosts of the damned stag preach. Playing a repetitive bleak suite, they bring us to the final punishment with a hidden depressive voice and crowleyfic guitarscapes. Magickal pain" limited to 66

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  Artist/Title: Heathen Prayers - acoustics portrayed 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: h-p imprint (Netherlands) Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_hpr006 "heathen prayers; sander wildeboer with laurens karsten h-p imprint, hpcdr006, ltd to 48 (available) hand numbered cdr in paper sleeve with text attached to the back of one unique piece of a painting. tracks: a magnificent whole (4'44) / falling into pieces (3'28) / scattered all over (3'23) / impossible to retrieve (5'17). ---- first laurens made an improvised painting to recordings of acoustic guitar improvisations by sander. then the painting was divided into 48 pieces and the concept of the division of it, was then again musically improvised to using acoustic guitar, several wind instruments and other stuff laying around. the concept of this ep may be interpreted as the course of a social matter."

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  Artist/Title: Insects with Tits - s/t 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD95 "Insects With Tits, a.k.a. Roger Smith and Kenneth Yates, do whatever they do best: play noise. Four tracks in twenty minutes. Loud, furious, but it seems to have a bit of progression from the previous work. A bit more structured and with more dynamics all around. Taking back the gear and building up again. That makes this actually quite allright. But perhaps it's also because it's short and to the point." - Vital Weekly

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  Artist/Title: izanami's labour pains - osorezan no itako 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: small doses (USA) Price: $4 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dose68 "super harsh, cut-up electronics centered around the theme of the blind female shamans of Osorezan. fantastic harsh noise from germany. check the sample. edition of 66 copies."

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  Artist/Title: Joe Gilmore and George Rogers - Elseif 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: Entr'acte (UK) Price: $16 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_entracte33 "Six computer music compositions using dynamic stochastic synthesis -- a technique developed by the Greek composer Iannis Xenakis, which uses probability fluctuations to generate the successive sample values in digital waveforms." [packaged in a sealed anti-static-type package. must destroy to open]

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  Artist/Title: Joe+N - leaves fall 8 Format: 3inch CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $6 Catalog ID: CR163 nearly 17min of solo electric guitar. three, almost equal length pieces. the middle, lighter one, is sandwiched in between two slabs of thick heavy guitar throb, ala Alasehir/Alumbrados, [3" CDR affixed to a 5" square piece of 1/4" plywood with twine. the plywood is sprayed and stenciled on one side. disc is also sprayed/splattered] limited to 25!!!

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  Artist/Title: Joe+N - head cold 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: Dirty Demos (UK) Price: $7 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dirtycdr_015 2 pieces recorded live at A|V in Rochester NY USA. loud guitar with distorted and looped melodica. almost sounds like a train at times. limited to 50. packaged in spray/splattered envelope. nicely done.

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  Artist/Title: Joe+N - Opsy Delet Space Before Com 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: First Person (UK) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_singuler039 a collection of pieces which are more layered and textured than the normal guitar work from Joe+N. still mostly guitar generated, but with more effects and even some vocals to boot. from the label.... "By day Joe Tunis runs Carbon Records, a project that began in 1994 as a means to release his own Joe+4=Poopie cassette. Located in Rochester, New York the label has since gone on to birth releases by such esteemed acts as Dead Machines, Cock ESP, Reynols, Blood Stereo, Tom Carter, Ming, Bjerga/Iversen, Emil Beaulieau and Yellow Swans among countless others. Carbon releases come on a variety of formats (clear 7” singles, triple CD’s, DVD’s etc) and usually come wrapped in meticulously rendered artwork or some form of tactile outer packaging, each aural/visual missive being a testament to ingenuity and good old fashioned hard work. In amongst this Mr Tunis also finds the time to release music under the name Joe+N and has built up an exhaustive and prolific back catalogue on Carbon and various other like-minded labels. For his FirstPerson disc we are treated to 5 untitled tracks of stream of consciousness vox and downer guitar scrabble. Those familiar with the work of Joincey, particularly in his Wagstaff/Coits mould of the early to mid 90’s, will recognise subtle comparisons specifically in approach and attitude that being music which burns bright with the white heat of creativity “in-the-moment”. The “message” and actual “doing” of the work overriding any technical aspects or peripheral logistics connected with recording “quality” or concessions to “correctness”. This is music borne of passion and a need to document that which lies incommunicable in the language of the everyday. "

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  Artist/Title: Joe+N - 35 trips around the sun 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $6 Catalog ID: CR127 heavy-ass guitar piece, powering this hunk of rock around the sun, far too many/few times. sludging, burning up amp noise, with a glimmer of hope cutting thru the heavy dark matter. [comes with unique hand-painted covers by joe, cara and ella]

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  Artist/Title: Joe+N - like the back of my hand 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $5 Catalog ID: CR60 "constructed from the sounds of test-tone cds and contact mics placed in various places on the cd player which played them. in addition, a contact mic was inserted into my mouth while i proceeded to narrate the accompanying video of my all-too-familiar drive from my home town of Scranton, PA to my current residence in Rochester, NY." recorded live at the &ltinit.one&gt event held at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester NY on January 19, 2002. this is the third in a series of releases from that event. [3" mini-CDR in mini-jewel case with color insert. edition of 23]

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  Artist/Title: Joe+N - patterns+space 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $5 Catalog ID: CR44 miniCDR (3"), clocking in at 17+ minutes. contains field recordings of trains, space between trains, echos of trains and some guitar for good measure. an experiment in the (unintentional) patterns around us, day to day, and the spaces in-between. [limited edition of 75, each packaged in a mini jewel-case. 25 different images were used. numbered by design.]

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  Artist/Title: Kitty Midwife + Lala - four inch giggle 5 Format: 3inch CDR Label: Below PDX (USA) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BELOWPDX13 "Mostly micro-cassette recorder (circuit-altered and otherwise) processed samples journey almost linear down waterslides of churning meows, alternating creeping and whipping against ribbed oscillations. When the kittens are at play, the orchestras can often fill with delay.. You won’t find much delay and reverb here. You will have a numbing sensation in your cheek from listening to this. Your head will feel all fuzzy until your brain drains. Kitty Midwife is also in Animal Writes and she is hard at work on a full-length recording for Below PDX. . Gross candle wax covered cases. They smell slightly intense."

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  Artist/Title: lunar miasma - blackest haze 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: small doses (USA) Price: $4 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dose69 "panos alexiadis (heavensore, insult recordings) turns his attentions to analog synthesisers for his lunar miasma project. the two tracks on this disc may be his finest and most fully realized yet. deceptively simple, these layered prog synth recordings unfold slowly, revealing interesting complexities and textures. play it loud. packaged in heavy cardstock covers with insert. edition of 81 copies."

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  Artist/Title: meditations - eternal absence 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: small doses (USA) Price: $5 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosethirtythree "this is the third release from this trio - franklin teagle, matt yacoub, and ryan mcgill (bones of seabirds). schizophrenic noise -PE-like one moment dark ambience in others - of the highest order - drenched in feedback with a heart of stone. cover art by matt yacoub. edition of 115."

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  Artist/Title: men scryfa - the sky was troubled with the dread strength of the wind 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: small doses (USA) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosefourteen "Men Scryfa is Chris Naughton and Simon Lucas of Atavist. Atavist is a good starting point to envision the sound for this project, but they take the sound in different directions than the band that brought them together. It's heavy and plodding, but progressive and melodic with spoken vocals. It feels a bit like a doom metal version of something from Slint's Spiderland record. Absolutely fantastic. Edition of 199 copies."

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  Artist/Title: Metal Tech - sounds through fishing lines 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: Digitalis Industries Price: $5 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_foxglove022 an appropriate title if there ever was one. these loose, noisy improvisations dangle in the air, communicating in the way of the old world. telegraph lines hang in the balance, hoping not to snap under the pressure. claustrophobic whirs and buzzes sit next to fuzzy drones, all hoping that their imminent death isn't just around the corner. there's a subtle, fragile beauty here, too. but i find that in all things chaotic

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  Artist/Title: nicholas szczepanik - a stillness rarely seen 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: small doses (USA) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosetwentysix "This is a new 21 minute composition from Nicholas. He never does the same thing twice, so it's not very surprising to say that this is completely different from the previous release on Small Doses, Astilbe Rubra. It's a very quiet, contemplative, and, at times, heartbreaking piece of music. Edition of 139 with a front cover photo by Rob Dobi."

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  Artist/Title: Nōh - s/t 6 Format: 3inch CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $6 Catalog ID: CR158 duo of Larry J Patti (Foot and Mouth Disease) and Joe Tunis (Joe+N, Crush the Junta, Entente Cordiale, former-Pengo, etc), doing analog and electronic heavy/deep synth. [3" CDR housed in a LP cover, sprayed and stenciled. limited to 50 copies!]

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  Artist/Title: PeasAndPopOff - puff: pull up to park (strapped n the cab) 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: First Person (UK) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Singuler027 "~Which is of >>geriatric flotation/ "Creature from the Black Lagoon wants to be your friend". Willo-the-Wisp dogging alarmed HAIRDRYERS >>twittering in a windtunnel, funereal stampedes to see electric pickaxes at dawn! ~ [Mel Delaney] PUFF splinters into PEASANDPOPOFF (+ soon PALLIATIVES, PALIMPSEST, PUPPYJUMPUP...ad infnt.) Beaming from the brain of Joincey = SLOW GLOOP ELECTRONICS/MUFFLED MURK, MOANING GHOST VOX,"

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  Artist/Title: philp halke - the two edges 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: philip halke (Greece) Price: $5 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_philiphalke01 "This first release contains two pieces, composed in june 2006 and july 2007. Both of them move in minimal electro-acoustic way, influenced by the mysterious worlds of musique acousmatique and field recordings. Subtle raw recordings hold a discourse with proccessed ones, resulting in two strange electro-acoustic compositions. "

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  Artist/Title: philp halke - above the din 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: philip halke (Greece) Price: $5 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_philiphalke02 "This second release consists of one long piece, which was composed for the 1st Symposium for Acoustic Ecology, which took place at Corfu in December 2007. Unprocessed recordings from several fields narrate a sonic story about the dominance of artificial sounds to natural ones. (sample) thanks to eri for the foto and foto development. The gradual masking of physical sounds by ongoing noise, as a result of the civilization of machines and contemporary societies, is the starting point for the idea and structure of this piece. The piece devotes its first half to physical sounds from several sound environments. In the second part machine sounds appear, setting up a discourse with the physical ones. The human activity is the key for the transition between these two different worlds (the �epitaph� band works like a lament for a smothered nature). The sound mixing was realized in such a way as to demonstrate the continuous existence and intrusion of artificial sounds into the natural soundscape. The used sounds were recorded at Kayiafas beach (one year before its destruction by fire), at the area of Kipriadou of Patissia, at the city of Corfu, and at Axaravi of Corfu by friends and me."

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  Artist/Title: Professional Friend - n Order to be a Successful Artist, You Must Share your Dreams with the Audience 5 Format: 3inch CDR Label: Below PDX (USA) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BELOWPDX15 Professional Friend is Nick Bindeman and James Squeaky. recorded in July 2006

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  Artist/Title: Puff - 3rd Puff 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: First Person (UK) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Singuler033 "Currently making a nuisance of himself w/ STUCKOMETER, JOINCEY (COITS, INCA EYEBALL etc etc) adopts his best "kid-in-sand-pit" face and once again digs deep to pull out the shining tone poems that astound us all. The third part in this series of short works (013 & 023) is enlivened somewhat by some lovely double bass playing, who saw that coming? Hands down fucking GENIUS"

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  Artist/Title: PUFF - s/t 3 Format: 3inch CDR Label: First Person (UK) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_First_Singular013 Joincey = PUFF. 3 songs, 3 minutes

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  Artist/Title: PUFF - 2 3 Format: 3inch CDR Label: First Person (UK) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_First_Singular023 "Part 2 of 3 from Joincey (COITS, INCA EYEBALL etc"

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  Artist/Title: pummeler - troll wing 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: small doses (USA) Price: $5 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosefiftyone "following up on excellent releases here on small doses and basses frequences, denmark's mikkel valentin dunkerley is back with another amazing 14+ minute drone piece. slow moving, minimal and brilliant. edition of 71 copies."

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  Artist/Title: pvmntsw - forintelsen elfenbensportar 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: small doses (USA) Price: $5 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosethirtyseven "this has been in the works for quite a while, and it came together better than i ever expected. sweden's pvmntsw (read pavementsaw) gives two tracks of incredible synth (and some guitar) work. it plays like a lost lament from a john carpenter film that never got made. packaged in a folded vellum cover with two-sided insert. edition of 96 copies."

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  Artist/Title: Rambutan - Fallen Smoke 6 Format: 3inch CDR Label: Abandon Ship (USA) Price: $5 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ASR041 "Fallen Smoke captures the live debut, from April 2008, of Rambutan, the solo project of Eric Hardiman from Century Plants and Burnt Hills. Vastly different than either of those units, Rambutan finds Hardiman in a completely new mode, with no guitars in sight. The results are hauntingly beautiful, intensely personal, and utterly compelling, with a warm, organic feel throughout. The music builds in intensity ultimately hypnotizing the listener in its gathering tractor beam of psychedelic gauzy haze. Jump right in."

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  Artist/Title: Schroedinger's Cut - Bowed Insides 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: Phase! (Greece) Price: $7 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PHR23 "Schroedinger's Cut offer 3 tracks of interior drone manipulation for their debut release, an itroduction to their forthcoming full length CD on ektopia/phase! Limited edition of 60, these metal string rippers are here to stay, so clean your ears out." - SOLD OUT at the source.

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  Artist/Title: Sound 00 - Love EP 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD54

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  Artist/Title: sound 00 - micronoise 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Price: $5 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD11

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  Artist/Title: Spool Ensemble - three electronics 6 Format: 3inch CDR Label: Heat Retention Records (USA) Price: $5 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HRR015 comes in a slim dvd case

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  Artist/Title: Staplerfahrer - live at OT301 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $6 Catalog ID: CR132 microsonic transmissions from a small insect walking across a large plant, or a small being wandering across a large planet or a distant factory churning out goods. this release entices you to listen more and more closely to the sounds its exposing. [3" cdr in various mini cases/sleeves with full color insert, spray-painting, etc] Reviews (2): Modisti Liminal exploration of non-action, the by-products of electric rhythms, glitch noise and various interference noise resulting in a wholly horizontal attitude to listening where the microscopic is celebrated through acceptance and an unquestioning attitude towards the accidental. Foxy Digitalis First, a drone of static is faintly heard in the background. Then, layers of hisses and buzzes are sparingly added one after the other while a skeletal, chopped-up electronic beat barely detaches itself from this discreet mass of sound. And suddenly, there’s that annoying sound that cell phones make when an incoming call passes through the speakers... Yet, each time that noise resurfaces, it is carefully controlled like some sort of guitar feedback – the sound of modern life being transfigured, acting as much as a sound generator as a possible commentary on our most current means of (mis)communication. By the 6th minute, some distant/ muffled female vocals can be heard (via the cell phone), announcing the changes to come. From that moment onwards, a saturated motif gradually appears and becomes amplified to the point where it fills the entire acoustic space. As the skeletal beat re-enters the picture, the overall sound gets more and more intense and one feels compelled to give in to this surge of ecstatic ethereal noise. Towards the end of its course, this mini-industrial symphony decides to take on a more introspective side though. As more and more hisses are added/ subtracted/ stretched to their outer limits, the flow of sounds manages to turn your senses around – through a subtle use of “ghost” noises – just before ending on an abrupt, exhilarating note. As brief as it is intense, this intriguingly-packaged (paint-sprayed small-case) 3” CDR (courtesy of the always amazing Carbon Records) is highly recommended to all those who love to experience music as a continuously disturbed, yet ecstatic flow of sound. A true shot of sonic adrenalin and a hell of a great record to come out of blue/ into the void. 9/10 -- (27 December, 2006) - Francois Hubert

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  Artist/Title: Staplerfahrer - depths in perception 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Price: $5 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD39 "staplerfahrer started out to be me, some ten years ago, when Icircuitbended the amplifier of my first record player....the resultturned out to be some ecstatic noise and from that moment on I washooked....from then on sound was the law....and I do (or try to do)just about everything with it...." "'Depths In Perception' is the follow-up of 'scsi vs ata', also on TIBProd (see Vital Weekly 392) by fellow Dutch man Steffan de Turck. The long gap has been used to produce these eight tracks of microscopic sounds, but I'm told that Steffan is also using circuit-bending to generate his sounds. I think this new release is a major step forward. He combines 'real' samples of instruments with sounds that are fully loaded with plugins. With these samples at hand he manages to craft almost melody like stuff in these small sketch like tunes. Breaking away from the really abstract microsound and moving towards a more poppy sound." ---Frans de Waard in Vital Weekly 452

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  Artist/Title: Stuckometer - muung 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: First Person (UK) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Plural029 Immediately arresting deconstructed "rock". " ? free/spontaneous (igneous) rock dismembered sinewy zombie limbs flailing contact mic microcassette mayhem recorded in a goat/in a pig ? " [Joincey] This band have made quite a name for themselves this year as an exceptional live experience with support slots to the Magik Markers, Sunburned Hand of the Man amongst many many others. Features Joincey (Inca Eyeball, Coits, PUFF etc) M U U N G can be heard here - myspace.com/stuckometer

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  Artist/Title: Taiwan Deth - LIVE 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: Roger Records (USA) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Rogerrecords_taiwandeth "Captured live on a magical, mystical night in Nashville, TN, this album takes you deep into the Taiwan Deth psyche. Organic pulses, guitar scree, haunting voices, saxophone skronk, and unidentifiable sounds from a parallel dimension. Crystal clear sound quality too. Just saw these guys mesmerize everyone at INC in Miami and I'm totally thrilled to be putting this out. Cool golden handmade package too, can you even tell what you're looking at in that picture? Limited to 200 copies!"

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  Artist/Title: Th. - afflux 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: small doses (USA) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosefifteen "a 19+ minute glitched out composition that varies from minimal and dark to piercing and cacophonic. th. is taylor holdgraf who also works under the iamseamonster moniker. edition of 77. housed in a trifold, two-sided vellum cover."

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  Artist/Title: The Mystifying Oracle - the ceremony 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: sound-o-mat Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SEANCE01 5min piece on rectangular CDR in a cellophane-wrapped and decorated paper box {edition of 50]. the cdr is the ouija board, comes with literature on using the baord, etc. amazing packaging! part of the Music for Seances series (http://austere.org/oracle/seances.shtml)

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - fok rotkop 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: imvated Price: $9 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Imvated_cp48 [comes with 3CDR and silkscreened bookmark with plenty of art. The time to rot has begun. I know that weaklings start to rot rapidly when they are exposed to the air. They seem to rot even more rapidly if they are exposed to warmer air. Human beings might stoop to bless a creature so evil - as indeed Rotkop was blessed, with money, deference, even a Nobel Prize - but God, I am quite sure, will damn them for eternity. The human being (also referred to throughout culinary history as "long pig" and "hairless goat" in the case of younger specimens) is not generally thought of as a staple food source. Can you smell the rot? Tomorrow - belongs to nobody... (Awesome Donovan 2004) All info about this disc on http://www.fokrotkop.tk/ .

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  Artist/Title: willful - procession 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: small doses (USA) Price: $5 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosefortynine "21+ minutes in a windswept purgatory on a trainride to hell. harsh noise walls. packaged in an 8 page booklet. edition of 66 copies."