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  Artist/Title: 13RXTNLE / fleshghxst - death swank 4 Format: CDR Label: noise good Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_NG007 Split CDr featuring 9 tracks from 13RXTNLE recorded over the last 2 years. Some of the best work from this project. Fleshghxst is Ohio‘s best kept secret delivering 10 tracks of varying noise. Very tasteful arrangements, a wonderful listening experience, although it might just drive you mad. Limited to 50 copies in full color paper sleeve.

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  Artist/Title: 2673 / Unicorn - split EP 4 Format: CDR Label: Kitty Play Records (USA) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_kittyplay002 "An EP split between two electronic bruisers. 2673’s minimalist program is a perfect companion to Unicorn’s (members of Man is the Bastard/Bastard Noise) more complicated and sometimes relentlessly driven scorch. Packaged with hand-inked sleeves pressed by Thumbprint."

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  Artist/Title: A Bloody Occurrence - s/t 4 Format: CDR Label: Audiobot (Belgium) Price: $12 Catalog ID: CarbonDist-DRAMA_BLOODY schizoide, belgian famous guitar destroyer raging against electronic sillyness produced by his beloved 'sharki', known from crack w.a.r. and tarantism. its all about friends and frustrations actually. co-released with audiobot and x+z=0. comes affixed to a large multi-color poster.

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  Artist/Title: a radio with guts - sugat in eleven parts 4 Format: CDR Label: fort hazel Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist-FHM33 Experimental ambient noise instrumental jazz. Here‘s how it worked: several musicians jammed out, bits of samples and snippets were reworked, melodic and noise overdubs were done, and the result is here now, the first part of a trilogy.

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  Artist/Title: A Real Knife Head - split sky 4 Format: CDR Label: Slow Toe (USA) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_slowtoe_str004 A Real Knife Head?s second release, Split Sky, was recorded in their practice space, The Box, in the Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland. �Straight to 4track, it?s a mixture of sonic shit, minimal guitar and drum, and a cover of Jandek?s Just Die. �A Real Knife Head continue to work the idea of freedom within the limits of equipment, cash and technique.

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  Artist/Title: a vibrant struggle - whispering bones 4 Format: CDR Label: small doses (USA) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosethirtyone ""a vibrant struggle" is a collaboration between norwegians sindre bjerga and jan m. iversen and dutchman steffan de turck (aka staplerfahrer). in the fall of 2007, the trio spent a weekend putting music to tape. this is the third volume from their sessions -following fast on the heels of a release on 905 tapes. a single 31+ minute jam comprised of meditative drones, percussive acoustics, and cacaphonous bliss. edition of 83."

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  Artist/Title: Ails al'on - ten ten ten 6 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR193 This is the last release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. 36+ minutes of noisy pop, synth, psych, heaviness from this duo consisting of David Merulla of Autumn in Halifax and Joe Tunis (of Carbon, Tuurd, Tumul, formerly of Pengo, etc). [packaged with 3-color silkscreened covers in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes]

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  Artist/Title: Algebrassiere - Bip Malentendu 4 Format: CDR Label: imvated Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Imvated_cp77 "impromptu rockballads. radiosamples and ongoing drum solo's. records on Breathmint, Ecstatic Peace, SNSE, etc etc... comes with painted and stencilled art and stapled covers and jewel cases filled with paint and and and... " - comes in sprayed jewel case, with nice-printed paper wrapper, silver tape, etc.

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  Artist/Title: Algebrassiere - that's irritainment 4 Format: CDR Label: SNSE Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_snse047 Algebrassiere is a seven-armed gilamonster, hairy everywhere except on it's chest, eight cat heads sprouting from it's spine. As it lumbers through the plasma center, it batters upon musical instruments with the severed limbs of Randy Savage. It lives to lick the flames of fire and spew stream-of-consciousnesses into a coffee can that doubles as a toilet. It longs for love, but will settle for a crooked, gap-filled smile from a whiskeystench bum. This album raises a racket that swings, 12 trax of impromptou fiendrocking fuck rock that makes you more virile with each successive listen. Spraypainted, screened, colorcopied that shit

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  Artist/Title: Alpendre - 01:05:03,924 4 Format: CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD92

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  Artist/Title: Andy Gilmore - Lord, hold my hand while i run this race. 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR88 10YR.Series.08 - the eighth in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. a truly magnificant collection of guitar and piano pieces from one of the nicest and most creative people i know. Andy creates, whether it be with guitar or piano, pencil or ink, word or thought. clocking in at over 44min, this release contains 13 tracks, one of which is a 14min live piece, each of which exudes the level of emotion and delicateness that we've come to expect from Andy. Reviews (1): Foxy Digitalis I’ve only ever paid Andy Gilmore passing interest. I never really gave his Of Lice and Moons much contemplation. It was only when I absorbed myself in Lord, Hold My Hand While I Run This Race that I discovered a truly captivating and emotionally-driven exhibition of sound. These lonesome guitar and piano creations drift and stray out of the disc and implant themselves directly into your imagination, where they reminisce over whispered sighs of sentimental memories and ecstatically rejoice over the empty shells of past glories. In doing so, it evokes a stirring, sequestered awareness of abandonment, and removal from these joyful recollections. These bleaker elements begin to penetrate and alter those thoughts. The stark sensation that you are now withdrawn from reality is a cold wake-up call that spits you back out into Gilmore’s desolate sounds. The clanking of piano pedals and clinking of keys makes for a perfect soundtrack to a despondent existence, but through this, it still manages to radiate splendour and beauty. This won’t just pull at your heartstrings, it will puppeteer them. When we were younger, we couldn’t appreciate the lack of responsibility we had. Now that we’ve grown, we increasingly find ourselves asking, like Gilmore, for someone to hold our hand while we run this race. - James Clarke

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  Artist/Title: Antoine Chessex - Silences 6 Format: CDR Label: tanzprocesz (France) Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_tzpCD21 "vocals, sax, tapes, mics, 4-track manipulations by monno's saxophonist and dave phillips collaborator. drone sax vs sound poetry vs ritualistic invocations vs electricity. 120 copies."

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  Artist/Title: Antony Milton and Joe+N - can you find your what 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR120 two extended tracks totally 35+ minutes, this is a long-distance collaboration between Antony Milton (aka AM, etc, Pseudoarcana label man) and Joe+N (aka Joe Tunis, Carbon label man). the two traded snippets, full tracks and mixes, back and forth during 2006. the sounds included are a great mix of guitar, drone-strings, found sound, vocals and various other noise makers. [packaged in a heavy-duty vinyl sleeve with a transluscent yellow "dimple" cover, artwork beneath, and wrapped in a band of metallic foil tape.] Reviews (2): Modisti [ Antony Milton and Joe+N - can you find your what CDR ] Starting out from what could be described as a ‘textural guitar drone scene’, this duo explores the possibilities of such a medium using a greater scope in terms of spatialization and processing. The harsh, extended character spreads in sweeping strokes, featuring a greater experimental set of techniques, less based on real time instrumental performance and thus allowing a greater sophistication and variation in sound processing. The second track presents a more experimental approach –featuring a casual, accidental attitude as well as a wide palette of sound sources- to the composition of materials as well as a thoroughly refreshing outlook, allowing space to be defined through the absence of sound rather than by featuring large amounts of materials. Foxy Digitalis This postal meeting between two underground label kingpins, Antony Milton (Pseudoarcana) and Joe+N (Carbon records) begins in surprisingly heavy territory. Pulsing fuzzed-out electronics combine with guitar mangling to create a truly disorienting murk. It seems Milton’s recent forays into black metal have spilled over into the work he does under his own name. For a mail collab the distance between the two performers is quite effectively bridged here. The interplay and symbiotic relationship between the Milton and Joe+N creates the impression of a late night jam in a low-lit room, rather than CDRs carted across a vast ocean by indifferent hands. The packaging of this release really does seem to give a good indication of the sounds within, it features a picture of a moth obscured by a piece of yellow plastic (which looks like some sort of factory off cut). The whole thing is bound in silver electrical tape. Sounds pretty haphazard, but it ends up looking cool. So too with the album itself, the sounds some times seem a little random, but it works. Overall the first track reminds me of an extended instrumental track by Gate, which is good thing for sure. Feedback, static and dissonance (the pet hates of creepy audiophiles the world over) are deployed over the course of this piece without fear and to great effect. Track two is more eerie, a moaning violin is married to an ambling acoustic guitar to create the ideal Pagan festival comedown soundtrack. There is a vocal somewhere in the mix, but it ends up only as a suggestion of a voice, like some murmer of a human presence, somewhere back there in the trees. The spell is momentarily broken by the voice of child and the response of a parent (presumably Joe+N). It’s kinda funny and serves as a reminder that you really shouldn’t take this stuff so seriously. “Can You Find Your What” is a successful collaboration on every level. Further fruits of this musical friendship should be eagerly anticipated. 8/10 -- (13 February, 2007) - Cola Nitida

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  Artist/Title: Argumentix - Beyond Party Destruction Time 8 Format: CDR Label: tanzprocesz (France) Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_tzpCD23 "oops, tapes, beats, samples, vocals. evil post-apocalyptic songs for post-apocalyptic 24-hour party people. recycled 12" packaging. cdr + anti-12" 100 copies."

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  Artist/Title: Argumentix + Adam Gnade - wilderness and the hold gold 6 Format: CDR Label: Below PDX (USA) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BELOWPDX04 "Music journalists by day, musical story-tellers by night, writer Adam Gnade likes to put his words to music and Boss of Goth, Argumentix likes to put music to words. For a night the two loaded up on ecstatic narratives and wrangled together this album, a swirling evil spirits hijacking the amusement park journey. But this isn't soundtrack music. There are beats, melodramatic interludes and crushing gasps for air. This is two story-tellers sharing war stories and raising their fists to the youth. This is something to drink to. This is something to dance to. This is something to die to. Here's to hoping you die before we do. Cover art by Adam, beautifully screenprinted by Ben at Diesel Fuel Prints."

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  Artist/Title: Arthur Doyle - No More Evil Women TOUR CD 8 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $10 Catalog ID: CR104 20 minutes of Arthur Doyle's trademark vocalizations. recorded direct to cassette, this is a great vocal only recording from Arthur, to celebrate his recent mini-tour of the NorthEast US. [limited edition. packaging started as 3 4'x4' paintings on 1/4" plywood. the pieces were then cut into 6"x6" boards that serve as the cover/carrier for the release.] Reviews (1): Volcanic Tongue Although free folk spirit Arthur Doyle is primarily associated with the saxophone, the arc of his trails takes in a whole bunch of classic 20th century song and dance modes. Doyle's vocal style is a particularly original amalgam of a bunch of seemingly mutually exclusive currents, all reconciled with a delivery that is as far-out and unmediated by any concern for traditional expressive modes as it is playful and totally spontaneous. No More Crazy Women (nothing to do with the recent Qbico LP of the same name) is a special tour-only CD-R that bundles three impossibly-great solo vocal performances recorded straight to cassette. Packaging is real sweet too, with each CD fastened to a 6"x 6" painted board. The sound here is somewhere between early jazz scat singing, primitive field moans, the gutteral automatic accompaniment of Bhamanian guitarist Joseph Spence and the syntax-dissolving experiments of Henri Chopin. Features wild versions of "Round Midnight" and "Stormy Monday". Limited to only 150 copies. - David Keenan

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  Artist/Title: AUN - Multigone 6 Format: CDR Label: Crucial Blast Price: $9 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ BLISS32 ".This seven track disc is undeniably the heaviest music that AUN has created so far, a grinding, distorted soundscape that begins with the keening electronic drones and muffled, disembodied metallic riffing that becomes endlessly tanged in a nest of squirming low-end noise in the opening title track, and steadily ratchets up the heaviness with each track, until we come to the punishing "Palejoy", a bludgeoning Industrial metal dirge that has massive, Godflesh-like percussion fused to processed, almost synthetic sounding doom riffage, a black cloud of buzzing, ultra downtuned black dirge drifting over a muffled, slow motion breakbeat. In between, AUN erects vast walls of crumbling distortion and rhythmic guitar loops forged into apocalyptic ambient drift streaked with heavenly synth choirs and sweeping cosmic fx, crushing fifteen-minute blasts of immolating amplifier ragas formed from a nebula of melting woodwind sounds, distant elephantine tympani drums, hellish symphonies of rusted, scraping strings and celestial electronic whiteout that ends up sounding like something from Skullflower's Orange Canyon Mind but one hundred times heavier, and strange deep-space blues jam instrumentals with impossibly detuned guitar soaring through black holes of reverb and tape fluctuation. This is seriously crushing stuff that stands out in sharp contrast to the hordes of amp-leaning feedback riders, and is highly recommended to anyone into KTL, Final, Black Boned Angel, To Blacken The Pages, K.K. Null, Aethnor, Fall Of The Grey Winged One, Fear Falls Burning, Hlidolf, Messiah Complex, and other heavy, textural industrial/ambient/sludge groups. Multigone is packaged in the signature Bliss sleeve with full color artwork, and the disc is attached to the interior of the sleeve on a plastic hub. Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies."

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  Artist/Title: Austere - Monodia 4 Format: CDR Label: USED Price: $4 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_austere1 (This is a USED item)

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  Artist/Title: Austere - Convergence 4 Format: CDR Label: USED Price: $4 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_austere2 (This is a USED item)

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  Artist/Title: Autumn in Halifax - Kites With Broken Strings 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR117 autumn in halifax is "the quiet avant folk drone guitar and voice of david merulla." and this release showcases pretty much every aspect of that description. in addition to his amazing guitar/looping and vocal work, he is joined on a number of tracks by various friends from his previous stomping grounds in the San Diego (post)pop/rock scene. David does an amazing job of mixing delicate (and catchy) melodies and looping, with abstract sounds and textures . www.autumninhalifax.com Reviews (4): Two Way Monologues A lot of people have a tough time understanding how I can appreciate watching baseball, golf or even (gasp!) curling as much as I do, and I can understand that. The reality is that those activities just move too slowly for the majority of people. It can be the same way with a movie, like one of my all-time favourites, Waking Life. I find that movie riveting, and to date I still am trying to wrap my head around the intricacies of what it all means. I'd be an idiot to expect everyone to have the patience for that type of movie. And I would be an idiot to expect everyone to have the patience for Autumn in Halifax's record Kites With Broken Strings. Patience is absolutely crucial to enjoy Autumn in Halifax. There are moments that occur in the album that are absolutely crushing. The music has a way of lulling you into a mesmerized state where it is just you and the music; and then, like a cold bucket of water to the face, an abrupt change in the pacing or volume awakens you. It is just an incredible feeling when music can do that to you. The key is in the build up, or what I referred to as the lull. Rudimentary rules about song lengths are ignored here, and whatever length it takes to satisfactorily complete the song is used instead. The album title is fascinating, isn't it? Kites With Broken Strings -- what does that mean to you? To me, the one word that comes to mind is potential. A kite with broken strings at is useless; the sole function of a kite cannot be performed without strings. But that doesn't mean it can't regain that potential again and that it hasn't done beautiful things before. Maybe I am completely wrong and the band just named the album what it did because it sounds cool. I hope not. I also like my analysis because it fits well with this music in general. It is only as rewarding as you let it be. A casual listen to songs like "Farewell" just isn't going to cut it. "Farewell" actually offers the listener a great microcosm for what they going to experience during Kites With Broken Strings. Clocking in at 10:38, it is a slowburn, to say the least. In many ways I am reminded of Raising the Fawn but with a heavier emphasis on folk and more of a hint of fragility in David Merulla's vocals. Repeatedly, Merulla plays this quiet tranquil melody against the rhythmic drums, and the melody has more of an effect on me than most hard rock riffs ever do. When I listen to this song I know that everything will go on hold for ten minutes of my life and I can just let myself get lost into this music. And this, as I am discovering, is the true beauty of the drone style. For a minute and thirty seconds "Memphis" plods forward as it builds toward something, but the repetition soothes you -- and then it happens and demands that you perk up and listen. Merulla's voice couldn't be described as polished, it has a raw quality that contrasts well with the meticulous thought that goes into the guitar and instrumentation. I wouldn't suggest playing any of these songs at your next social gathering, but in those late artistic, contemplative hours of the night this is the soundtrack that you are craving. I am asking/encouraging anyone who reads this and would like to share an opinion on what they think the following lyrics mean to post or email and let me know, because I find them utterly fascinating: "Ghostly coma breaks/the radius of your smiles/when I need them most/Sparkles rival faith/Rivals sparkles truth/Sparkles rival faith/Rivals sparkle truth" Those lyrics come from "Stinger Glows Relief," another of the many excellent tracks Kites With Broken Strings has to offer. The song is constructed to force the listener to focus on Merulla's voice and those mysteriously beautiful lyrics. In spite of not knowing precisely what the lyrics mean, the sadness or despair in this song is still bordering on overwhelming. And it doesn't end with the three songs I mentioned. On their own these songs are decent, but as a whole the album is a more powerful and rewarding experience. The learning curve is higher, so you make the call. The flavour of the month or something that you won't be sick of this time in July? That is up to you. Songs to hear: As your attorney, I'd advise listening to the entire album. (Fear and Loathing reference, for those who just decided that I am crazy.) SCORE: 8.5 - Dan City Newspaper Cover story excerpt Rochester City Weekly (OCTOBER 26, 2005) A brisk wind blows through David Merulla's music At times, he inhabits his own music with such a gentle touch that he may as well be a ghost himself. His playing also moves forward at an unhurried pace almost unheard of in this day and age. The arrangements, which feature light electronic touches and playing and recording by members of Kill Me Tomorrow, Bartender's Bible, and the Black Heart Procession, leave ample room for echoes. Echoes in the spaces of buildings, echoes that span the rural American West... echoes of a tree-lined Rochester street bracing itself for the cold. - Saby Reyes-Kulkarni Pop Matters Autumn in Halifax is (mostly) David Merulla, and to get an idea of his music, it helps to know that he’s intrigued by both nature and architecture, and these two obsessions shape his music.  Like the former, his songs are often unconstrained and unpredictable, changing direction and feel without warning.  But like the latter, Merulla’s songs possess shape, though it’s not always apparent.  This is the rewarding part of his music—a few listens just do not suffice.  You have to live with the songs to discern the overall harmony and symmetry of its components, and what first sounded like random noise reveals itself to be part of a larger structure.  Merulla, you might say, paints on a large canvas, and standing too close prevents you from seeing the complete picture.  Once you see it, though, you can’t look away, despite that it’s often haunting, lonely, and unsettling. Kites with Broken Strings is Autumn in Halifax’s new album; consisting of eleven tracks, it exemplifies Merulla’s eccentric brand of folk.  Merulla handles vocal and guitar duties, but it would shortchange him to say he “plays” the guitar.  All the conventions of guitar playing—pleasing chord progressions, catchy hooks, pyrotechnic guitar solos—are absent from Merulla’s songs.  Lest you think, though, this means Merulla doesn’t know the tool of his craft, he does.  His approach, however, is completely different from the classic pop model of verse/chorus/solo/chorus/fade. Instead, his guitar lines drift back and forth, moving in and out of frame, disappearing only long enough to instill a sense of unease and anxiety, returning to both please and taunt.  His playing has been described as “quiet avant folk drone,” and while it’s all of these things, it might be more apt and succinct to say it’s surreal.  Each song on Kites with Broken Strings sounds like a collage of fragments of dream or memories, juxtaposed against one another, the interplay equally revealing and disturbing. Adding to the illusory feel of Autumn in Halifax’s songs is Merulla’s voice, which is always shaky, often shrill, and deliberately off-key.  Yes, this doesn’t sound like the kind of music you play at a party, and it isn’t—at least, that is, not until all the obligatory guests have left and only your core group of confidantes remain.  Autumn in Halifax, you see, isn’t for everyone, but only those who enjoy investing in the listening experience, those who know that rewarding art often requires something from the observer.  And Merulla’s voice and songwriting do require that you pay attention, but together, they are hypnotic, each chasing after one another until they collide. Overall, Kites with Broken Strings is disquietingly serene, much like a memory that has no tangible power in the present, but still manages to disrupt.  Indeed, songs like “A Quiet Long Enough” and “In Slow Arcs” capture the transitory nature of memories, each based on loose guitar patterns that repeat themselves.  “A Quiet Long Enough” is an instrumental song, and the repeating guitar patterns are complimented with backwards electric guitar notes.  This gives the song a reverse momentum, as if any forward progress is always determined, and ultimately thwarted, by what came before.  “In Slow Arcs” features vocals and instrumentation, but still feels transient.  Drums crash into the middle of the song, accelerate the pace, but then disappear into the background.  Later, they repeat the same pattern, creating a bizarre ebb and flow. Lyrically, Merulla isn’t interested in telling stories or creating character sketches; rather, he gives the listeners images and lets them make connections.  You might, for instance, think a song titled “Memphis” would tell of drunken nights down on Beale Street, but that’s too obvious.  Instead, Merulla presents a series of snapshots that, while loosely related, don’t tell a coherent story: “The sound of winter... I came to... Memphis... we left it in the sea.” Likewise, in “Water + Wire,” the listener is forced to make coherence out of fragmented thoughts: “Nothing left unless we rest / Accidents, they... they test / The gentle texture of water and wire.” Only half the words in most the songs are discernible, which somehow makes the lyrics all the more intriguing.  Of course, such lyrical wordplay would be easy to dismiss as artistic pretension, but Merulla’s lyrics make perfect sense within the context of his songwriting. Like both architecture and nature, Autumn in Halifax’s songs deal with the role of space—the space between people, the space between the past and the present, and the space between reality and illusions.  Kites with Broken Strings is perfect for pondering such reflective matters, and while it offers no answers, it makes you realize that questioning is better than knowing. Transitory and haunting, Autumn in Halifax's songs sound like all those past moments that determine your present situation. - Michael Franco Delusions of Adequacy “Thank you...from the bottom of my bloody folk heart,” David Merulla writes in the liner notes for Autumn in Halifax’s Kites with Broken Strings, and I’m struck with what an interesting description that would be for this band: bloody folk. Take your structured folk music, and dissect it, sometimes into its barest components and sometimes into delectable chunks of folk goodness, and you get the unique and endearing sound of Autumn in Halifax. Rochester native Merulla is the heart of his bloody folk sound, assisted on the album with assorted friends, and on this release, he delivers one of the most intriguing albums I’ve heard in ages. There’s tracks here for those who love traditional song structures and those who eschew them, and sometimes both will be pleased in the same song. At the heart of these songs is a moody folk sensibility, but Merulla and friends get so creative in mixing these songs and adding in ebow, lap steel, Rhodes piano, and assorted noises, that the result is something truly unique. The album opens with the quiet “A Quiet Long Enough,” which warps its guitars forward and backward, creating a kind of ambient soundscape. It’s merely a prelude, though, to the lengthy and brilliant “Farewell,” which gives perhaps the perfect feel for Autumn in Halifax’s sound. It’s flowing, eerily moody at times and yet striking in Merulla’s lyrics and lilting vocals. The drums are booming, the guitar repeating its lines in the backdrop, keyboards lilting and pretty by contrast, and what seems incohesive in theory comes together beautifully. “In Slow Arcs” brings to mind Joan of Arc in structure as well as Merulla’s purposefully off-key singing style. “Water + Wire” is sweet and gentle, and Merulla’s singing style is endearing more than jarring, nicely complimenting the rich tones of this quiet yet poppy track. “Echo in the Lower Case” is a gentle instrumental, lilting and smooth and evocative. It leads nicely into the album’s centerpiece, the brilliantly powerful and instrumentally textured “Memphis.” The album is rounded out by the more folky “Aluminum Smile,” creative found songs to back up “Lemon Tigers,” more poppy “Pretty Noise,” the stark and stripped-bare “Stinger Glows Relief,” and the esoteric “Screen of Province” that provides a nice bookend to the opening instrumental. Merulla spins tales in true folk style that take on an almost dreamy feel, his lyrics telling of “birds, avalanches, water, hearts, and silence,” as he notes in his bio. His instrumentation – at times quiet and moody, at times experimental in approach – is the perfect accompaniment to these tales and still works on its own in the instrumentals. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself getting lost in these songs, wondering where the time went, wondering where these strange and discomforting thoughts are coming from. Merulla’s music is meant to lull you disarmingly and strike you with its dichotomies. It’s enigmatic and unusual and startlingly effective. And I’ve yet to hear a release this experimental in approach work so well. This is truly a gorgeous album. - Jeff Marsh

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  Artist/Title: Autumn in Halifax - the soft, soft shakes 6 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $10 Catalog ID: CR177 Recorded in multiple studios over the course of 2007 and 2008, in both Upstate New York and San Diego California, Autumn in Halifax; David Merulla and W.Dirk Doucette, along with various contributors put together another collection of songs with considered arrangements and colored by multiple instruments including Wurlitzer and Fender Rhodes pianos, singing saw, accordion, trumpet, vintage effects and the familiar guitars,drums and bass. The warmth of 1970's rock and roll, concise pop songs and subtle experimentation all can be found within this particular song cycle. Reviews (1): City Newspaper Setting out to make a "more pop-sounding" album this time around, Autumn In Halifax leader David Merulla proves that poppiness doesn't have to come at the expense of substance. Merulla's work can flow as gently as a canoe being carried downstream by a slow current, but tends to be heavy on the atmosphere. He also writes prose, and his songs often come across like the sonic equivalent of pastoral scenes described in dense passages of literature. By contrast, "Soft Shakes" immediately gets off to a more anthemic start with the singalong-inducing "Sleepwalkers." As the album goes on, drummers William Doucette and Jonathan Stevens provide lively beats even as Merulla begins to evoke the deep stillness of vintage acoustic Neil Young. Merulla has an unparalleled knack for challenging your expectations while going easy on your ears. As accessible and beautiful as it is, "Soft Shakes" still commands a most rewarding kind of patience. - City Weekly

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  Artist/Title: Bethell - ep1 4 Format: CDR Label: Epicene Sound System (USA) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ESR019 "This is one fucked up release. Bethell is the brain child of one Justain Netherly, another ohio resident with some desfunctional ideas. At first you might think this is a grind record, but only if said grind band had Masonna and Merzbow in it's ranks. Then there is all the Galaxy 500/My Bloddy Valintine space/psych parts... then back into the sick noise grind blur. completly fucked."

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  Artist/Title: BJ Nilsen - Hazard 06_12_03 4 Format: CDR Label: Touch Price: $11 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TOCDR5 "Christian Fennesz has started curating a series of events at the Konzerthaus in Vienna as part of the ‘generator‘ series of live performances held there each month. In early December he performed with Philip Jeck and BJNilsen (aka Hazard) as part of the Touch night, during which Jon Wozencroft also showed his films. All the concerts were recorded, and BJNilsen‘s becomes the 5th in the TO:CDR series." CD (wallet) -- factory manufactured.

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  Artist/Title: Bjerga / Iversen - In broken dreams the world still keeps turning 4 Format: CDR Label: Dead Sea Liner (UK) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_deadsealiner005 "A great slice of industrial ambience from the Norwegian duo - walls of drone improv and inteference cut through with robot birdsong."

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  Artist/Title: Bjerga / Iversen - buring the light at both ends 6 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR119 36+ min of desperate transmissions from a desolate place. a collaboration including Sindre Bjerga,the man behind the amazing Gold Soundz label (Norway) and Jans-M Iversen, the man behind the, equally amazing, Tibprod label (also from Norway). [from the Carbon Recycled.Series. recycled 2 and 3 fold covers, spray painted and silkscreened with some of the original artwork bleeding thru the paint fog.]] Reviews (1): Foxy Digitalis This Norwegian duo of Sindre Bjerga and Jan Iversen has been quite prolific in 2005. This is hardly a bad thing as their "Lighthouse Tapes" series has continually offered memorable moments that explore varying styles and influences. On this wonderfully packaged CD-R from the Carbon imprint, the duo slows things down with a soft, disjointed electronic swim in the ice-cold polar seas. "Burning the Light at Both Ends" is one single, 36 minute modern sea shanty. Low level drones keep this long piece together and constantly moving. It's hypnotic reverie for the freezing tides that surround the southern tip of their native Norway leaves no stone unturned. This steady descent into the dementia of being lost at sea, with no hope of survival is undaunting. As it begins with it's rolling waves of watery electronics, you can see the storm clouds forming off in the distance. There's a determination in these tones to face down your gravest fear and continue pushing forward. A stunning build-up of tension twists the listener into a pretzel of nerves. Just over the midway point is when the delirium starts to set in. Through the careful use of orchestral and opera (I think) samples, the duo creates a real-time look at someone losing it in the face of insurmountable odds. This is what it sounds like to have voices in your head. By the time the pulsing electric guitars come into the mix, you are already gone. You are lying on your back, staring into the sun laughing at your own demise. These shambolic tones haunt you and mock you, never letting up until your brain finally explodes into a caustic mash of flesh and bone. In your demise you are reborn. Bjerga & Iversen are two highly talented individuals. One can only hope that their collaborative efforts continue well into 2006. "Burning the Light at Both Ends" is another wonderful and interesting sonic entry into their every growing discography. This is one ship I never want to get off. 7/10 -- (27 June, 2006) - Brad Rose

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  Artist/Title: Blood Stereo - Hymn for the Crippled Mulato 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR90 10YR.Series.10 - the tenth (and final release) in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. 30+ minutes of a beast emerging from a swamp of static. or a seismic mic on the tail pipe of my brother's Harley. kicks ass! [Blood Stereo is Karen Constance and Dylan Nyoukis]

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  Artist/Title: bones of seabirds - subterranean lightsource 4 Format: CDR Label: small doses (USA) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosethirtyfour "it seems that ryan mcgill is complete unable to cover the same ground twice. this is the fourth (i believe) bones seabirds release, and it sounds nothing like any of the others. this one foregoes the guitars (for the most part) and relies on ryan's handmade voice of saturn synth.the first nearly 35 minute track is intense and brutal - like being strapped into some sort of machine that's boring deeper and deeper into the earth only to slowly burn you alive. the second gives a bit of respite, but leaves you lost in a dark cave drone. it's not to be missed. packaged in a folded artwork by matt yacoub, with an obi and an insert. edition of 129 copies."

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  Artist/Title: Bruise Halo - + 12 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $10 Catalog ID: CR199 nearly 30min of heavy dirty synth, buried beats, mumbling, effect-saturated vocals and other elements. this is the electronic/synth side of Joe Tunis (aka, Joe+N, member of Tumul, Tuurd, Crush the Junta and more, and former member of Pengo and Hilkka). [packaged with a 12"x12" piece of unique wooden artwork, layers of drywall compound, paint, sprayed, stenciled and splattered. limited to 96 pieces]

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  Artist/Title: BRXTNLE / fleshghxst - Death Swank 5 Format: CDR Label: USED Price: $4 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1945 (This is a USED item) Noisegood release

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  Artist/Title: Burnt Hills - Alpha Seven 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR186 This is the eighth release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. 60+ minutes of psyched out jam vibrations from this Albany NY ensemble. [packaged with pro-printed covers in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes]

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  Artist/Title: Cama - demo #1 4 Format: CDR Label: noise good Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_NG008 Careplace (Canada) and Mauder (Sweden) team up to bring you ultra loud harsh electronix to scrape away at your brain, and leave you a pile of flesh demanding more. Fans of Gov‘t Alpha, Guilty Connector, Taint take note!! Limited first pressing of 50 in slimline cases.

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  Artist/Title: Carbonic - Forest Creatures 5 Format: CDR Label: Ghost Woods Records (USA) Price: $7 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_carbonic_forest_creatures "Carbonic is Benoit Guerroué, who spent most of his life in Brittany, France, but moved in 2003 to the US, to Rochester, NY. ‘Forest Creatures’ is already his 8th album. The style on the 12 songs with improvisations are a mixture of simple, recognisable, natural (say also : as if living in the woods and thus creating its mood) dreamy moody psychfolk excursions and instrumentals build around a basic collection of songs (vocals, vocal harmonies, harmonica, acoustic strummed guitar, flutes, harmonium, hand percussion, and a few other instruments like piano,..) giving the impression they celebrate the quietness of a life near or in a house in the woods, perhaps dealing with cold now and then but always surrounded by something which is beautiful, because it gives an inner condition that makes us more peaceful inside, in a natural way. Besides, there still is the human person who has to deal with his own ghosts and realities with the surrounding real persons. So in this case, Benoit also sings, more clearly, about that, as a human being, finding his own place within this space, while the forest cures most easily most of the spinning thoughts. Although most of it is recorded on his own (?), more than once, the songs sound as if performed by a duo/trio, even by two vocalists (with some cello on two tracks by Ian Downey). Makes for a rewarding repeated listen, from start to finish." - PSYCHEDELIC & ACID FOLK MUSIC

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  Artist/Title: Carlos Giffoni - 9 hours with Jim and the Greatful Dead 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR54 [Recently found inventory from record store. 1 copy back in stock!] "9 hours with jim and the greatful dead is a 30+ minute improvisation using guitar, amp and a few guitar modulation effects that I find unique and necessary to express through certain sounds, and is a one take 30+ minute "jam". when I first planned to record it it was meant to be a joke on a long and strange conversation I had with Jim Dunbar and Don Fleming at a show the night before about The Legendary Greatful Dead jams in the west coast that supposedly lasted sometimes up to that long and that apparently Jim saw more than once. I wanted to make something with enough variation of sound and mood so that it felt like it was 9 hours compressed in a much shorter "jam", steal some interesting moments from the eternal dictation and crunch them all together in one piece. When I started playing the guitar, the piece evolved into something else and I just let it go. for 30 minutes +, what I consider a long time for 1 "jam". maybe I am to young and have a short attention span, or maybe I just wasn't there. You can ask Jim about it, Jim was there, for 9 hours, more than once. I really couldn't be there, I wasn't born at the time and currently I am still trying to finish college." [color stickers attached to sealed white cd folders. edition of 75]

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  Artist/Title: Century Plants - Copper Visions 6 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR184 This is the sixth release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. 32+ minutes of dirgy space jams from this amazing duo out of Albany NY. like lost transmissions from deep seated roots. Ray and Eric are also members of Burnt Hills, Transcendental Manship Highway, Rambutan and Fossils From the Sun. [packaged with pro-printed covers in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes]

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  Artist/Title: Chad Oliveiri - Pathetique 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR98 40min+ of top-notch electronic performance/composition from this musician/writer from Rochester NY. this release includes pieces based on live collaborations with various individuals throughout as well as solo pieces, recorded between 2001 and 2005 . the tracks range from static-driven compositions to organic pastoral drones, including guitar, piano, voice, electronics, etc. Chad also has a collaborative release with Brannon Hungness (also featured on this release) coming out on Entr'acte (UK) this spring (2006). [heavy duty vinyl cover, with full color insert and "prism" overlay. factory-colored CDR]

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  Artist/Title: Chad Oliveiri - enduser 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR36 RE-RELEASE: from chad... "reveals kind of a different side compared to my more recent stuff, which tends to be more "song" or "music" oriented. these were really experiments in the strictest sense. me just feeling my way." - Original Desc: manipulated and processed/glitched works, built from tape recordings Chad made throughout the 90‘s. feels right at home along side releases from labels such as Mego, Meme, and Touch, not to mention, our own Bobo.

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  Artist/Title: Chad Oliveiri - express yourself 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $3 Catalog ID: MP3.03 an amazing collection of pieces culled and manipulated from his on-going weekly radio show/performance (WRUR 88.5fm). and just cause he uses a laptop, don‘t expect the usual glitch-fest. this is really an amazing collection of moving experimentations. [pre-assembled version of MP3.Series release, which is also free to download]

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  Artist/Title: Chad Oliveiri and Figure - the complete detachment 4 Format: CDR Label: Audiobot (Belgium) Price: $12 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BOT191 "A complete brain submission that detaches your head, captures faces and rewires them into an undefined human-hybrid. Like falling asleep under an alien radar-post and losing track of all earthly life around you while analog-synth fumes drag your lungs into the zone. Puzzle solving mode with no solutions. Both Oliveiri and Figure love drinking strange fluids and further exploring the mysteries of life. Packaged in full color fold-out covers by none other than Carlos Pitchphase, in an edition of only 65 copies. File under = alienating upheaval."

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  Artist/Title: Chad Oliveiri and Figure - Celest 4 Format: CDR Label: Entr'acte (UK) Price: $16 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_entracte32 "Chad Oliveiri and Brannon Hungness (Figure) are friends from Rochester, upstate New York. Their sounds are improvised, and some of them are recorded. Celest is a collection of a few recent bits Brannon painfully edited together in his bedroom." [packaged in a sealed anti-static-type package. must destroy to open]

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  Artist/Title: Charles Balls - less difficult to hard water / progressive furniture totemic 6 Format: CDR Label: Bennifer Editions (Cananda) Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_bennifer_charles_balls_less

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  Artist/Title: cheapmachines - com. ver. 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $3 Catalog ID: MP3.05 xperimental electronic recordings since 1997. Com. Ver. = Common Version (common) - ... widely known and notorious, considered by the speaker to below-class, vulgar, or coarse. (version) - ... a variant form or type... a translation from one language to another. -- (Collins English Dictionary, Millenium Edition.)

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  Artist/Title: chefkirk - MODULAR JAC PLAT 5 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR131 repeating and scratchy glitches, tones and drones made with who knows what else. 10 tracks named after Chefkirk's favorite birds to watch, listen and lear, woodpeckers and nuthatches. "chefkirk is Roger H. Smith. Working under the inclusive category of experimental noise, chefkirk creates distinctive compositions of sound by combining together improvised drone and harsh electronics forced from a minimal arsenal of glitchy instruments and feedback loops. Being a socially and politically conscious citizen of the world, chefkirk illustrates his deep concern and love for all living things through the artwork, titles, and modest messages on his numerous releases. The whole of his work will unquestionably carry his personal message loudly: animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment, GO VEGAN!" [CDR with full color insert, spray-painted cdr in slim case]

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  Artist/Title: Christopher Reeg - el borracho 6 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR139 el borracho is Christopher Reeg's first solo full-length release, showcasing Chris' skills on double bass, keyboard/synth, guitar and melodica, as well as other random instruments. with help from some of his Blood and Bone Orchestra band-mates, Jim Colby, Ed Downey and Darren DeWisperlaere, Chris lays down 8 perfectly crafted pieces (28+ min) ranging from abstract drone/textural scapes, melodic instrumentals, to outsider keyboard/sampling/bass/sax improv, and finally rounding things out with a angular rock gem. [packaged in a kraft Arigato folded sleeve with 2 color artwork by Chris and silkscreened by Alex Schmidt] (Chris also plays in Blood and Bone Orchestra, The Years, Ada le O, Entente Cordiale, Crush the Junta, and a couple other offshoots)

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  Artist/Title: Cock Robot - electric young men 4 Format: CDR Label: radio shock Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist-CRobot01 electronic and guitar based deconstructed... rock?

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  Artist/Title: Coffee - dik mik rabbit ear antennae 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR86 10YR.Series.06 - the sixth in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. almost a full hour of Coffee magic. consists of two live recordings from 1997 and 1998. includes the Coffee core of Dave Cross and Tim Poland, along with Brian Shafer (Nod), Phil Marshall, John Olsen (Wolf Eyes), Sticky Foster, Neil Campbell and Nuuj.

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  Artist/Title: Coffee - presents: muddy waters...electric mud 4 Format: CDR Label: Pirate Scheme Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PS001 on the mysterious Pirate Scheme label. unknown source. mixed-mode CDR (audio and data) containing recording of live Coffee set, and remix of set (and other goodies on data portion of CDR).

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  Artist/Title: Colonel Parmisan - Ziggurat 5 Format: CDR Label: No Label Price: $5 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ColPam_Ziggurat 34+mins. at times, dense instrumentation and other times, very airy and sparse with lots of room. consists of electronics, strings and percussion.

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  Artist/Title: Core of the Coalman - Spirograph / End Grain 4 Format: CDR Label: Zum (USA) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ZUM_Core "New recordings from Core of the Coalman, the solo works of Oakland's Jorge Boehringer (Treehugger, Brown Bunny Ensemble, Peloton, 7Central and Mountain). Song structures and viola experiments mix with electronic textures and warbly vocals, a deep dig into the carbon fields and nature's edges."

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  Artist/Title: Crank Sturgeon and Gastric Female Reflex - live at radio centraal 4 Format: CDR Label: Bennifer Editions (Cananda) Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Bennifer_gfr_crank_cdr "beniffer editions cordially invite you to take a whiff of the soggy tour panties of crank sturgeon and gastric female reflex who in the midst of poor hygiene and everlasting sunday morning sentiment bring you their first collaboration. these psychic emanations of pedal gazing, pause button cliff-hangers and haphazard button compressions were recorded on dennis tyfus' radio show and edited down to the bare essentials by charles balls. art works by sekitani in tri-silkscreened splendor by thee benifese retions! "

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  Artist/Title: Crawling With Tarts - Ludiques Manifestes 8 Format: CDR Label: Lunhare (Italy) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Lunhare_zzz01 "Three live recordings from concerts held in Oakland in 1991 and 1992. Intended to be released on cassette in 1999, but kept in the drawer until now, this work is published for the first time. Improvisation sketches on percussive patterns, self-constructed instruments, and even a punky, fast and furious song. Different sides of a group always different from the rest. " part of Lunhare's Lethargy Series - "New releases of recordings dating back to the last millennium"

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  Artist/Title: Crawlspace - melbourne cabbage ratio 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR85 10YR.Series.05 - the fifth in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. always expecting great things from this veteran noise/out-rock group, and as usual, they deliver with this jam packed release. over 67 minutes full of non-computer aided electronic, out-rock, noise and even a little comedy thrown in.

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  Artist/Title: Crawlspace - the roaring winds of louie louie 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR51 "Today‘s Whether Report: You done found the eye o‘ the storm right here ‘tween sleepwalk ‘Space and static comin‘ outta the Blower Coast." an amazing work of playground sampling, guitars, percussion, blank tape, radio, video, etc. part 2 of the "trilogy" which started with Crawlspace Slept Here (OutsideTheAntHill) and will conclude with Static on the Blower Coast. [hand-packaged in recycled LP covers. each hand painted and uniquely illustrated. edition of 100]

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  Artist/Title: Crawlspace - s/t 4 Format: CDR Label: outsidetheanthill Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist-OTAH08 Guitars-‘n‘-drums improv comin‘ on strong; toys shakin‘ and eekin‘ ‘tween the cracks; ambient mics for birds and aeroplanes and ice-cream trucks; the blimps are still risin‘. This was gonna be a sorta fill-in disc, constructed randomly of recent (late 2001) recordings, but it turned out to be such a nice listen that we‘re givin‘ the world an edition bigger than the originally projected 30 copies (96 is the plan). Front cover of each package is different; most are photographs chopped down to fit into a jewel case.

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  Artist/Title: Crawlspace - the rain, the park, and other things 4 Format: CDR Label: outsidetheanthill Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist-OTAH05 Mix-collage 4-track cassette and dubbing-deck cut-and-paste fuck-up done by Eddie in ‘90/‘91. Featuring snippets of ‘88/‘89 and ‘90/‘91 Crawlspace line-ups, many unknowing "guest stars," XXX-rated humor, spoken word with bass, and solo Eddie insanity (partly while tripping). Numbered edition of 30 in hand-assembled map/envelope-in-jewel-case sleeves.

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  Artist/Title: Crawlspace - ...slept here 4 Format: CDR Label: outsidetheanthill Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist-OTAH07 Eddie & Greg start loopin‘ the turntable. Joe‘s layerin‘ on ‘puter. A little "live" percussion but not much. Is that calypso or heavy meddle? Is this Phase 1 of The Roaring Winds? What the fug‘s goin‘ on!? Ever-changing laser-printed sleeves in colored jewel cases. 100 copies.

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  Artist/Title: Crawlspace - birds of the southern regions 4 Format: CDR Label: slippy town Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist-SLIPT01 "Walk Away Slowly" (4:26) rock-slip; "Birds of the Southern Regions (33:06) layers of ‘Space improv; "Short Thing April 1" (5:13) a bit o‘ blimp; "McKeever" (31:40) takin‘ it to the street. Handmade torn-cardboard-in- jewel-case package.

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  Artist/Title: Crawlspace - static from the slowdown 4 Format: CDR Label: slippy town Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist-SLIPT13 The "trilogy" (?) is completed (??). 16 bite-size "tunes" done with turntable, blank tape + EQ, CD loops, acoustic guitars, trumpet, bird call, jaw harp, percussion, guitar amp, voices, & mac. Ssssss . . . kraaaang! Cover art by Greg circa 1975. 100 copies.

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  Artist/Title: Crazy River and Sindre Bjerga - black stained songs from silver spines 6 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR172 recorded live at Sound of Mu in Oslo Norway, this nearly 25min piece slowly builds into a drone/tone/static throb with periodic blasts of heavier tones, thuds and feedback. always quality sounds from this duo. [packaged in 5x7 chipboard stay-flat with silkscreen and splattered artwork. includes sprayed cdr]

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  Artist/Title: Crazy River and Sindre Bjerga - Everything We Know is Barely Being Held Together 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR148 2 live tracks recorded is Oslo and Stavanger Norway in 2005. scratchy drone-transmissions from the north. this is some quality throb/drone/heavy sounds. another feather in Sindre's frozen cap. [packaged in heavy vinyl sleeve with handmade green paper, sprayed with silver. veluum cover for liner notes on back and sprayed CD] Reviews (1): Crucial Blast The duo of Bjerga and Iversen have been prolific recorders of heavy free-drone and guitar/electronics based psychedelic improv over the past two years, and many of their releases have been finding their way into Crucial Blast. Using electronic noise, found sounds, and heavily distorted guitar drones, the duo consistently deliver slabs of evocative, weighty drift that at times sound like a trippier, FX-drenched version of Sunn O))). But the musicians are also busy outside of their core collaborative project, as we find Sindre Bjerga teaming up with a project called Crazy River for a massive 33 minute drift jam split across two tracks on this handmade disc from Carbon. The group open with "Black Forests Of The Mind", a live improvisation recorded in Oslo, Norway in 2005, and it's a massively heavy zoneout punctuated by weird noises and voice samples. The sound of revving engines and small machines is fed through a thick wall of delay and released to float over a thick amplif ier hum that builds in volume and heaviness over the course of the set until it becomes a buzzing black roar of ambient drone-metal swirled with druggy FX and whirring noises, like Sunn O))) mixed with Nurse With Wound or something along those lines. Nearly eighteen minutes long, the jam finally winds down into a hazy, muted hum. The second track "Brusied But Not Broken" was captured in Stavanger, Norway in 2005 and is another epic improvisation, this time composed from random percussion, squelchy tape manipulations, and hushed riffing. It's a dense soundworld of scraping textures and sampled piano concertos, unnerving stereo panning that send monstrous chewing sounds and snarls spinning around the room, metal scraping and digging sounds, and heavily distorted psych-rock riffing that's buried under it all. A really creepy free-noise jam that sounds like the audio soundtrack to some demented slasher flick. A really nice handmade package as usual from Carbon, with a green paper sleeve sprayed with silver paint and layered with a vellum insert that's printed with the track info, and slipped inside of a heavy plastic sleeve.

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  Artist/Title: Crush the Junta - your brother, my brother 6 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR191 This is the fourteenth release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. 3 pieces from a live set recorded at the Bug Jar in July 2010. The heavy, loud low-end-heavy free-rock you've grown to expect from this 3-piece. [packaged with pro-printed covers in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes] Reviews (1): Crucial Blast The latest chunk of lava-like improv-rock from Crush The Junta, that towering trio from Rochester, NY that features members of Entente Cordiale and Transcendental Manship Highway. Yep, we love dark, heavy free rock, and Crush The Junta deliver that in spades with this three track full length that documents a live performance at the Bug Jar in Rochester from earlier in 2010, released as part of Carbon's sprawling 15YR. Series. Think loud, bass-heavy riffage wandering through pounding saurian rhythms, wailing noise guitar freak outs, lumbering slow-core; this'll be right up your alley if you are into the likes of likeminded freeform riff monsters like Rakhim, Burnt Hills, Skullflower, Heavy Winged, Ultrabunny, and Grey Daturas. First up, "Driving Forward" hangs suspended guitar notes among the slow outward wheeze of feedback, introducing their set with a thick foggy drone, a stream of feedback slowly beginning to swell, then recede; the band gradually cranking the volume as the drums enter in a storm of crashing cymbals, and the song strengthens into a pounding drone-rock jam with a powerful melodic riff forming within the bashing, overloaded rock drone, a monstrous single-chord pounding that becomes infused with rumbling, buzzing machine noises that fade in and out, then veers off into jazzier, noisier territory in the latter half of the track. Then the title track comes in with crushing Codeine-esque slowcore based around a droning repetitious riff and slow heavy drums that tread into oblivion, splattered with drugged howls and gusts of amplifier noise. Finally we come to the massive seventeen minute "Clausius", starting with a minimal percussive rhythm and the buzz of a cranked amp, then introducing a lone guitar playing a simple, almost jazzy figure, the drums alternating between shuffling snare and heavier pounding, the guitar beginning to work itself into circular shapes; after several minutes of this, the band finally lets loose, erupting into a brutal squall of Fushitsusha-style feedback and powerful drumming and mangled guitar skronk, and then around halfway in, it turns into a rumbling, zonked out feedback drone jam, waves of garbled guitar noise and bending feedback notes rippling through the air, forming a thick atmosphere of amplifier electricity that gets pretty hypnotic as it stretches out for several minutes. Then the drums crash back in, hammering out a slow, ponderous dirge, while the simple droning guitar begins to bloom into a simple moody riff that repeats over and over, the whole thing morphing into a super heavy droning slowcore crush, getting noisier and more atonal and more distorted as it goes on, screaming high end guitar dropping in sinister howling leads, the sound going from trancey and mesmeric into this darker sludge assault that finishes out the set. Comes in a full color cardboard jacket in a thick vinyl sleeve.

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  Artist/Title: Crush the Junta - the curse of abraham 8 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR156 two live tracks, totally 42+ minutes. ranges from the stoner/heavy riff-n-drive that live CTJ audiences have been experiencing, to some more deconstructed, almost US Maple-influenced jitters. [packaged in kraft chip-board envelope with full color artwork affixed and dual-color spray splatter. disc is also sprayed. also includes color insert.] Reviews (2): Foxy Digitalis Made up of two tracks “Curse of Abraham” is the first full length CDR by Crush the Junta; a trio that bring forth a blend of pounding doom-inflected sludge with hints of math and indie rock weaving their way in and out of the mix. To lay it out simply this trio really knows how to lay it all flat out and show no mercy with their sonic assault. The first track starts out with some guitar swells and ambient drum noises slowly but surely coalescing into a lumbering monster. What really sets this track ablaze is the rumbling undertones of Chris Reeg’s stand-up bass, as it forms a foundation for the drums and guitar to play over as well as maintaining its own directional clarity. As the first track trudges forward a sudden silence is reached until a quickly strummed guitar moves in and out and then explodes into more extreme heaviness. But the real clincher comes in the third movement of this track where the guitar becomes the rhythmic foundation, laying it down with a jazz infused math-rock swing, while the bass and drums find their way in and out of its simple repetition. The second track, another live effort continues on with similar energies, beginning a bit more melancholy than before, invoking the desert airs of Earth’s latest forays. Slowly the beast reappears moving forward with its single-minded energy to destroy, littered with some melodic leads that soon explode into all out chaos only to recover and find a new path to trod down, before making a half tempo return to the main riff that got the set going in the first place and eventual return to a (slow) full speed accompanied by the faintly heard cries of someone screaming vocals over the din and finally chaos takes us out. 9/10 -- Cory Card (26 September, 2007) - Cory Card Crucial Blast Just found out about this new trio from Rochester, NY, which includes Joe Tunis somewhere in it's lineup. When the fuck does this guy sleep? In addition to running the massive avant-noise label and mailorder Carbon, doing one-day tours where he performs short, fast sets of his solo experimental electronics at various locations around Rochester, collaborating with a million different artists, and playing in the amp-cranking free-rock unit Entente Cordiale, Tunis apparently also operates this killer group alongside Dennis Mariano (also of TIger Cried Beef and Hungness) and Chris Reeg (Blood And Bone Orchestra, The Years). Reeg and Tunis are actually both in Entente Cordiale, and that group's hazy, droning noise rock improv is sort of the starting point for what Crush The Junta are doing. But this outfit however definitely gets more raucous, combining formless guitar riffs and feedback, meandering basslines a la The Dead C and likeminded rock deconstructionists, electronic textures, synths, and freeform percussive splat into waves of amorphous rock action that crest with loud and burly bursts of psychedelic sludgery that come close at times to Grey Daturas-levels of sonic muscle. The Curse Of Abraham is one of the group's first recorded works, a document of two live tracks that each toe the twenty-minute mark, and which run the gamut between brooding, pummeling krautrock workouts, spidery meandering math rock jams, and punishing metallic sludge dripping with woozy, detuned guitars and howling screams. One of the heaviest releases from Carbon to date - keep it up, Joe! I'm looking forward to hearing more from this band. The spraypainted disc comes packaged in a hefty, hand-assembled chip-board envelope similiar to that Pengo disc we carried last year, with full color artwork glued to the front and splattered in dual-color paint, with a color insert.

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  Artist/Title: Dark Inside the Sun - Chattanooga 6 Format: CDR Label: Drama (Belgium) Price: $12 Catalog ID: CarbonDist-DRAMA_DARK_INSIDE "Ever wondered how albino rats playing jazz funk greats, would sound ? Second street to the left and you're halfway out there... Dark Inside The Sun bark primitive in the pure songwriter rattling bone style. A crackling array of wounded instruments that jump like ants out of the pants. Smelly drumsticks, broken casio and a delirious craftmanship of hysteric love songs. Even lower than the whale turd at the bottom of the sea... Strongly affilitated with Western Mass psychos Yeay!. Packaged in phat silkscreened fold-out covers by none other than Drama chief Jelle Crama. Limited to 150 copies, if memory card still works..." - carlo steegen

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  Artist/Title: darph/nadeR - the green album 5 Format: CDR Label: USED Price: $4 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1942 (This is a USED item) 2002 Samsa Records release

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  Artist/Title: darph/nadeR - the red album 5 Format: CDR Label: USED Price: $4 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1943 (This is a USED item) 2001 Samsa Records release

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  Artist/Title: David Kendell - Triumph of Individuality 4 Format: CDR Label: gameboy Price: $9 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_gb97 "The title for this one is most appropriate as Mr. Kendall's work and vision rest in a realm all his own. Working with digital noise in a time when the genre titans are dusting off their analog gear again, Kendall's intense programming stands out, but it stands tall. Combining elements of improvisation, composition, field recordings and pure noise, Kendall's work is both sharp and vivid. This one is crisp. Analog purists beware. CDR edition of 100."

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  Artist/Title: Dead Machines - mystery of the fall off islands part two 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR84 10YR.Series.04 - the fourth in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. more amazing handmade electronics and tape manipulation from John Olson (Wolf Eyes) and Tovah O‘Rourke, otherwise known as The Dead Machines... Reviews (1): Weirdo Records One big slow stream of speckled, fritzing electronics from Olson & Tovah, made back before the spray paint had dried. Bubbles up crude like the Beverly Hillbillies striking oil.

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  Artist/Title: Dean and Thodi - Stories and Statistics 4 Format: CDR Label: Expanding Pegasus (USA) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ExpandingPegasus001 "Stories and Statistics �Dean & Thodi� is a space opera miniature with epic/intimate reverberations. Created entirely by Brandon Herford (of Pegacide infamy), Laptopish lo-fi effects combine with innocence and unlikely croons to make a unique, oddly moving patchwork of moments. Originally conceived as an adventure story revolving around the space travelling boy Dean, and the princess Thodi, the album became something more like a companion peice to a childrens book from another time, than a linear story told through song. The songs are short and sweet, (the album clocks in at 16 minutes) and waste no time in hitting all the notes and themes needed to pull the listener within Brandon�s warm, bluesy cosmic aura. The cynical music nerd should beware however, Stories and Statistics has the ability to sneak under pre-conceived barriers of what genres one likes and dislikes. Is this bedroom-space-indie-pop? Ambient-blues-noise-folk? Before you have the chance to sort it out, you are reliving childhood dreams that aren�t your own. Confused yet? So am I, but I�m loving the soundtrack. Stories and Statistic�s Dean and Thodi is presented on a handpainted cd-r in a smooth cardstock gatefold sleeve with printed cover and interior. Each record includes a unique piece of art, torn from Brandon�s lengthy portfolio. Limited to 50 copies."

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  Artist/Title: Disguises - Weaponizer 5 Format: CDR Label: Wintage (Canada) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_wrt12 "Debut full length by Toronto's noise/punk barfers. Nine tracks of harrrd sci-fi, total wasted psych. During recording sessions for the album, the group developed a lean, muscular physique. A garunteed punch in the sonic plexus."

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  Artist/Title: Dixie Prix - Le Tombeau de Dixie Prix 4 Format: CDR Label: Pirate Scheme Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PS002 The ideal thing for club owners to clear the place out when it‘s closing time. No matter what kind of show, be it Pop, Jazz, Punk or Extreme Noise, this disc will have everyone out in no time.

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  Artist/Title: Drive the Pieces Together - Ethnography 6 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR182 This is the fourth release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. "Drive the Pieces Together was a band that existed for one performance only. Actually, now that I think about it, I'm not sure if it was a band or a composition....Peter Warren, a guitarist, had composed a piece of electronic music with significant silences in it. The group, consisting of Steve Norton (a sax player who would, for this project, only play a turntable), Vic Rawlings (amplified cello), Erik Carlsen (tuba), Dave (reeds), and me (Howard Stelzer) (cassette tapes), would improvise along with Peter's recording, which would function as a sort of score." [packaged with silk-screened logo over a unique "sampled" page in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes]

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  Artist/Title: Duf Davis and The Book Club - Shut Up and Detune Your Guitar 4 Format: CDR Label: USED Price: $3 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_DUF (This is a USED item)

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  Artist/Title: Durán Vázquez - Ghetto, Borghetto 6 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR108 "It is a work that arose from the experimentation with software effects, and in a very intuitive way." Durán is a Spanish noise artist, with releases on Alg-a netlabel and Crónica. transmissions.... contact?.... responses.... contact? parts of this almost sound like the tribute release(s) Sub Rosa did years ago for philospher Gilles Deleuze. [packaged in spray-painted slim jewel case with spray painted cdr] Reviews (1): Modisti Distorsion processed electronic sources progressively give way to denser texture of various other materials featuring all maner of idiomatic, mediatic, music samples and instrumental processings that contribute to the weaving of this accretion of assorted noise. Constant disruption comes to mind as a common denominator of these busy sumperimpositions of unrelated, chaotic materials, thus illustrating an illuminating portrait of present day relevance. The internal logic of the accretions obey its obvious lack of coherence, thus drifting in a careful manner if totally devoid of aim, purpose or message. It is merely a portrait in its recurrent, relentless insistence and merciless precission of development.

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  Artist/Title: Dylan Nyoukis - The Curious March of the Goat Faced 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR187 This is the ninth release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. 1 second under 60 minutes of vocal experiments, field recordings, sound collage, synth space effects, string arrangements and more. [packaged with pro-printed covers in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes] Reviews (1): Weirdo Records A rather outdoorsy feel to these recordings from then-recent touring around the continent. Some background growling that makes it seem like you're Jane Goodall traipsing down a misty mountain, but at the bottom, instead of gorillas there are a bunch of tiny aliens landing in thousands of miniature spaceships, beeping as their engines swoop down. Plenty of contact mics rustling, dogs & birds & cow imitations, daughter Elka laughing like she just got a good one over on you, a cello sawing back & forth, whispery shudders of some sorta footpump (played by Chris Corsano no less), wet ploppings, unidentifiable brapps, and so on. I hear my favorite brand of duck call in there too!

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  Artist/Title: Ed Chang - marble / latch 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR106 here's an amazing drone guitar release from Ed Chang, the man behind NYC-based Quodlibet label. member of Spin-17, and all around free-improv, experimental, out-there musician. this showcases his softer, more subtle drone-infestations/incantations. [packaged in heavy vinyl sleeve with b&w photo by Ed on the front, and veluum back cover. cds are spray painted] Reviews (1): Modisti A careful work exploring the possibilities of continuous electric guitar drones developed over extended periods of time. Featuring smooth transitions between the different sound masses, the static character is the result of a careful mastery; the balance involved in handling feedback being akin to that of high-tension wires. Quite subtle in its approach, the materials are displayed with a certain Indian tanpura quality in the slow unfolding of overtones. Other tracks present harsher surfaces, with noise elements that emphasize rougher textures and larger doses of processing.

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  Artist/Title: Electric Mono River - No sunlight down here 4 Format: CDR Label: Dead Sea Liner (UK) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_deadsealiner019 "Live mini-album of mono spectral meditations and caveman incantations from Norwegian supergroup of Sindre Bjerga, Per Gisle Gal�en and Martin Powell."

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  Artist/Title: Emil Beaulieau - live in WNY 6 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR115 two 30+min live performances by "America's Greatest Living Noise Artist." first set is from July 2003 recorded at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester NY. in the middle of the set, Emil instructs all the visitors in the space, that they MUST enter the performance area before he continues on with his set. YES! the second track is from a performance in August 2003 at Hallswalls in Buffalo NY. Mr. Beaulieau getting melodic towards the end of the set, completely annihilating an orchestral moment. [second in the Carbon Recycled.Series. cover is a "recycled" LP, cut down to 5" x 5" square]

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  Artist/Title: Entente Cordiale - 100 yrs 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR102 a little over 34min of triple-guitar damage and drone. 2 tracks. not too far from their first release, 1904, at first. but the second track, ends with a crushing 10+min drone and dual-drummer action. even took us by surprise ; ) [original covers were hand-silkscreened, edition of 102. 2 color print job. about 30 of them are silver and gold, while the rest are silver and dark blue, on heavy watercolor paper (textured). re-release is a simple color-printed cover. folded into a plastic sleeve.] Reviews (1): Crucial Blast More formless, heavy amp-drone jams from the Rochester-based group Entente Cordiale. 100 yrs is made up of two long, untitled tracks...the first features a gradually building storm of shambling free-guitar-noise, lots of mangled, howling feedback, and loud vibratory drones emitting from the amplifiers. The second track works up some great, shimmery feedback textures into almost My Bloody Valentine style blobs of wobbly, melodic pink noise before lumbering into a crushing horizontal dirge with two drummers pounding away under waves of amplifier chant. I love it when formless guitar noise and feedback rock creeps into that sugary territory between mid-90's Skullflower and MBV's Loveless, and this track delivers. Loud, lo-fi, melted drone-rock with three guitars that draws from the whole amp sludge/Skullflower/Earth 2 legacy...I can never get enough of this stuff. 34 minutes of pure guitar damage. Comes packaged in a heavy watercolor paper sleeve with blue and silver artwork screenprinted onto it.

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  Artist/Title: Entente Cordiale - 1904 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR80 a 22+ minute experiment in guitar drones, swells and even some melodies. 3 guitars, multiple (distortion) pedals and some very loud amps. think Gate, Earth, Vibracathedral Orchestra, etc. Reviews (3): Crucial Blast This single-track, 23 minute disc contains some excellent, gluey, guitar-based improvised drones that sort of bridge the gap between Earth 2 and the celestial sludgy krautrock of SKULLFLOWER's Orange Canyon Mind, with thick rumbling feedback dripping slowly over swells of repetitious chords and peals of strangled guitar strings. ENTENTE CORDIALE rarely employ any actual melodies in this recording, but those that do appear, surface only momentarily before they are dragged back down beneath the mighty amplifier hum. The Rochester, NY based group uses 3 guitars and an army of distortion pedals to erect 1904, and it's a solid monument of amp worship along the lines of early EARTH, VIBRACATHEDRRAL ORCHESTRA, FULCI, and SKULLFLOWER. The unmarked disc is packaged in a minimal but nice looking cardstock wallet in a resealable plastic sleeve. Modisti [ Entente Cordiale - 1904 CDR ] A collective approach to the development of extended drone textures created by means of electric guitars. Featuring a dense flow of pulsating, transparent veils, the superimposition of overtones and processed fabrics creates a complex dome of continuous noise. The vault’s nerves become increasingly close, layers getting thicker, their continuous character contributing to add to the density of the whole although the careful process of addition unfolds according to a calculated plan. The immediate reminiscences of the materials –such as harshness and protest- are here counterbalanced by the extreme subtlety with which the sounds are handled. More importantly, they subtly hint at the fragility beneath the complex veil of abstract noise, which simultaneously states an almost trance-like recurrence of rhythmic statements of collective celebration/cry. Foxy Digitalis 1904. 100 years ago. I can't imagine anyone back then thought the advancements in music technology that have happened in that time would have ever been possible. Entente Cordiale are another new addition to the fantastic Carbon imprint. This short release contains only one track that clocks in at just under 23 minutes. From what I can tell, there is nothing here other than two, distorted, improvised guitar tracks. It's simple, but there is still a lot happening. There are some other minimal effects as well like reverb (and possibly some subtle tremolo), but they aren't very important. What makes this release good is how the guitars play off each other so well. Because of this, the track is dense, sucking in all the sounds of the space in which it was recorded. Each takes its turn at the forefront as well. While one will play something more melodic, perhaps higher on the fretboard, the other will continue laying down thick layers of distorted goop below. Keeping this low-end constant allows the track to sound more full. I feel like this is one, really short moment stretched into 20 minutes. It unfolds so slow that, at times, it feels like it's not unfolding at all. It's like you're just sitting there having your ear drums massaged by sound. Like I said, it's simple, but in that simplicity is something quite beautiful. As a short debut, Entente Cordiale definitely have my attention. I can't wait to see where they go next. - Brad Rose

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  Artist/Title: Estasy - s/t 6 Format: CDR Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IKU_Estasy "black velvet mask, golden wigs, untied shoes, candle flames & beautiful trickling of wax, vine leaves, powder puffs. mystery is the word. all tracks recorded in darkness. its about spiritual evol love emotion....its not the pills...oh oh whatever" - emi estasy

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  Artist/Title: evapori / [-hyph-] - bewegungen /fragmentation itself 4 Format: CDR Label: Anti-information (Germany) Price: $11 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ AICdisc001 split cd-r 60min, 1st ed/100

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  Artist/Title: failsafe - about time 4 Format: CDR Label: sijis Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_sijisep01 "here‘s a question. you‘ve grown up loving dance music, slowly disolving your spine twisting the night away, getting home and playing midi until it‘s time to call in sick at work. everything‘s great. then suddenly one day you notice it‘s been nearly ten years since you left the house, let alone went to a club, but the machines are still there, getting smaller every year, looking at you. Sound familiar? of course not, otherwise everybody would have made this wonderful ep. an ep that says above everything, "take a fish out of water for long enough and you might be able to explain to him what water is." this is music for those happiest dancing in a sitting position. you have been warned."

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  Artist/Title: fervent - conjestion 6 Format: CDR Label: more mars (Greece) Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_mm02 "fervent is a solo project by a.m., who lives in larissa (greece). This is his first release. Guitar, numb keyboards, ackward field recordings, silly talks and extensive editing comprise this almost 60 minute album of (that should be thought of according to his own words as) 'meta-emo'."

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  Artist/Title: Finkbeiner - lucky scorpion 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR11 Scarey outsider freak stays up for 48 hours straight and concocts a demented classic. Kinda sounds like John Fahey at the end of a week long Alcohol and prescription pill binge. This record is not recommended for small children or anyone recovering from acute psychosis.

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  Artist/Title: Finkbeiner - the challenge 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR16 Completely damaged outsider strum and wank. Seriously overamped, distorted and making no apologies. If every young aspiring guitar player had to listen to this record instead of overdone crap like Joe Satriani, the world would truly be a better place. Finkbeiner‘s guitar abuse is in the similar realm as Rudolph Gray, Alan Licht and Kenji Hano. All of those guys should be on the cover of Guitar Player Magazine. And in a perfect world they would be. Also, all beer would be free. "Can you face the Challenge?"

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  Artist/Title: Finkbeiner - washed up 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR19 Deconstructed instrumental pop songs and expansive higher key head benders. "You‘ve got yr chocolate in my ratweed!" this is the first finkbeiner recording of non-solo material. here, he‘s joined by c.dugan on bells, and also backed up by his bandmates charles and jona on a couple of the songs.

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  Artist/Title: Foot and Mouth Disease - Shiva Knows 4 Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK010 another self-release by the ever prolific, Rochester legend, Larry J Patti. minimal synth and noise guitar pieces, dark transmissions from somewhere.

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  Artist/Title: Foot and Mouth Disease - Restop 4 Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK011 another self-release by the ever prolific, Rochester legend, Larry J Patti. (sometimes-broken-up) synth noise, sampling and drones.

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  Artist/Title: Foot and Mouth Disease - Conservative Puke '77 4 Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK009 Foot and Mouth Disease is back, this time with an increasingly omninous sound. heavy noisy synth and effectedness.

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  Artist/Title: Foot and Mouth Disease - Not So Real... 4 Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK008 sample/damage/drone/noise solo project from Rochester native and no.1 noise-fan Larry J. Patti.

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  Artist/Title: Foot and Mouth Disease - Clear III 4 Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK007 sample/damage/drone/noise solo project from Rochester native and no.1 noise-fan Larry J. Patti.

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  Artist/Title: Foot and Mouth Disease - don't kill animals - urban noise 4 Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK005 another release from F+M (Larry Patti). recycled cdr covers, HARDCORE DEMO SCENE IS NOT DEAD!!

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  Artist/Title: Foot and Mouth Disease - ...but what ends when the symbols become schtick? 4 Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK002

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  Artist/Title: Foot and Mouth Disease - santa muerte 4 Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK004

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  Artist/Title: Fossils From the Sun - From Another Sun 6 Format: CDR Label: Tape Drift (USA) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TD06 "Monster solo debut from Ray Hare of Century Plants and Burnt Hills. Ranging from meditative guitar mantras to blissed out noise to hazy melodic riffage, and covering most of the points in between, this release has fast become a favorite here at Tape Drift headquarters. A very tight and driven set, this has the conceptual purity that only a debut can have, as it represents years and years of preparation and inspiration. Get on the train early - there's much more to come and you won't want to have missed out on the beginnings. Edition of 50."

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  Artist/Title: fourier - remixes 4 Format: CDR Label: sijis Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_sijisep05 "we apologise for the lack of commercial sucess inherent in above releases. as a means of compensation here are some free pop remixes. help yourself."

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  Artist/Title: Gang Wizard - 4515 Thesis: A Series Of Split Pots - 2007 Tour CDr 6 Format: CDR Label: tanzprocesz (France) Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ tzpCD19 "GW in europe in february 2007 !!! teddy bear noise, blast rock, invocations."

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  Artist/Title: Half Ice Half Wasted - MUDBOY BEATS (SERIES II) 6 Format: CDR Label: Mudboy (USA) Price: $7 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_mudboy_halfice "Someone had the retarded Idea of attaching the inputs and outputs of the nations finest DJ of Freakcore smashedup with the stylings of mudboy Beats. As DJ Jassy Jesssss turns the twist hop up up up mudboy hotwires his openfaced drum machine live. A finely compiled collection from many hours of recording. 100% HITS! We promise to meet you in the future with this one."

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  Artist/Title: Half Makshift - final 6 Format: CDR Label: small doses (USA) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosesix "This new disc from Half Makeshift/Nathan Michael will serve as a bridge of sorts between his new release of 20BuckSpin and the new material he is working on for an upcoming release. Final’s deconstructed guitar and dark piano melodies provide the soundtrack to the quiet after the storm. Numbered edition of 151 split between two versions featuring different paper stocks and front cover images."

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  Artist/Title: Hassu Pelle - s/t 6 Format: CDR Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IKU_HassuPelle Hassu Pelle (Funny Clown) from Tampere, Finland was active only a couple of years at the first part of 2000s. This hilarious quintet was formed by Pelle Eloton, Pelle Svansl�s, Ulkomaan Pelle, Pelle J�tk�, and Apupelle who was involved with the recording session. Hassu Pelle�s self-titled first and only record was originally released by the band members themselves with the edition of approximately only 30 copies. Hassu Pelle played some mind-boggling live shows for the handful of people mostly just in their home town. These small audiences were witness to the surprisingly fresh and thrilling musical happiness. First impression might be that Hassu Pelle�s music is just �foolery�, but hidden underneath the seeming simplicity these compositions carry true brilliance. Eight catchy tracks were recorded at those mighty days when Hassu Pelle was dancing at the peak of their strength. At the recording session they used the simple one-take-style without overdubs. The result is extremely playful, yet confident, jagged with the taste of life. Hassu Pelle played beautifully bittersweet, yet at the same time hysterically merry music, which could be described in this context as "circus music". Even the most hardened humourless person will get a smile on the face while listening to Hassu Pelle. There's no other ensemble which has reached such enchanting carnivalistic atmospheres like Hassu Pelle. This cultural achievement from Ikuisuus label saves these sounds of delight from the oblivion. Step into the circus, you won't regret!

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  Artist/Title: Heathen Prayers - songs of moments 6 Format: CDR Label: h-p imprint (Netherlands) Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ hpcdr008 "most of the lyrics are poetry oriënted, decribing a single moment or social subject. references are made to environment and the lyrics often can be interpreted in different ways. the foundation of the music consists of slow structered rhythmic guitar and percussion, mostly folk derived, as we explore and make accessible odd bars. the whole is accompanied by improvised guitar that tends to disrupt the linear nature of the songs, as well as it adds depth. this was the initial setting for heathen prayers before we really started to explore improvised music. the tapes on which songs of moments were recorded therefore have been on the shelves for quite a while, but we will continue working in this setting and hopefully release a disc with songs once a year or so." [hand numbered disc in handmade plastic and paper sleeve, and insert sleeve with text and art]

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  Artist/Title: Heathen Prayers - behind the patterns 6 Format: CDR Label: h-p imprint (Netherlands) Price: $12 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_hpr007 heathen prayers; bart jacobs & sander wildeboer - "dialogue between freely improvised persussion and guitar feedback playing. bart and i hadn't played together for longer than half a year but when we met again, it appeared that we share the same mind set about improvised playing. everthing we thought about and studied independently just fell in place during the sessions for this recording. i feel behind the patterns forms a strong foundation for our future playing. it is who we are right now." [ltd to 90 (available) - hand numbered disc in mailer envelope with picture on front and text on back]

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  Artist/Title: Hilkka - i can‘t hear my teevee! (early material) 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR67 a collection of very early recordings from Hilkka. includes some alternate recordings of previously released tracks, unreleased studio recordings, live tracks, as well as recordings from the very first rehearsal, and some collage re-works. a mix between math-rock and noise-textures. it‘s a mess! [packaged in a clear jewel case with a transparent tray card (liner notes), along with metal screen material in the tray.]

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  Artist/Title: Hinkley - Heaven is High 8 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR190 This is the tenth release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. 14 tracks from Will Veeder and company. Hinkley is a departure from the usual Carbon improv/abstract/noise/etc releases, but if you're into song writing, and really great rock, sometimes country-ish, sometimes poppy, songs, then this is your bag. [packaged with pro-printed covers in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes]

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  Artist/Title: Hinkley - listening for the breathing 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $3 Catalog ID: MP3.04 some great intelligent pop songs by some former members of Muler. [pre-assembled version of MP3.Series release, which is also free to download]

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  Artist/Title: Hollydrift - in these days of merriment 4 Format: CDR Label: USED Price: $4 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_hollydrift2 (This is a USED item)

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  Artist/Title: Hollydrift - Study the Wilderness 4 Format: CDR Label: USED Price: $4 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_hollydrift4 (This is a USED item)

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  Artist/Title: Howard Stelzer and the Cherry Point - Gross 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR89 10YR.Series.09 - the ninth in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. 46+ minutes of bi-costal, brutal, tape/electronic fabric. full, and right on!

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  Artist/Title: Irene Moon ++ - Triffles and True Trifles 6 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR181 This is the third release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. This is an amazing collection of various projects of Irene Moon, including Auk Theatre, Darker Florida, Collection of Late Howell Bend and solo Irene. Performance art/installations, meets science/entomology, meets weirdo noise-scapes. check out www.begoniasociety.org for more information on each group. [packaged with a full-color pro-printed folded card in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes]

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  Artist/Title: Iversen - Restituent L'atmosphère 4 Format: CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD45 hot new release from the man behind TIBProd - Jan-M Iversen.

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  Artist/Title: Joe Sorriero - time and time takes two 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR72 20+ min piece on guitar, manipulated through a homemade oscillator/filter with signature Scrappy Joe vocal wanderings. Some may know Joe from his full-time gig in Nod (Smells Like Records).

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  Artist/Title: Joe+N - live at christchurch 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR81 10YR.Series.01 - the first in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. this is recording from a show at Christ Church in Rochester NY, which features Joe on solo guitar and later, feedback and piano. 17+min. [full-color cover in vinyl sleeve] - NOTE: check out the 10YR.Series page(http://www.carbonrecords.com/10yr_series/) for more info. Reviews (1): Foxy Digitalis Joe + N is Joe Tunis, the mastermind behind Carbon Records and the 10YR Series. This is, as the title states, a live recording at Christchurch. Here Joe serves up a gorgeous slice of resonating solo guitar that rings out and basks the audience in a warm, misty glow. The guitar continues to ascend into the highest reaches of the atmosphere, like a stream of smoke rising and then dispersing into thin air. This reverb-treated guitar passage is maintained until it begins to decompose and then gradually expands and progresses into a much more shadowy, heavy, piano-trodden piece. If the first reverb-led half covered the listener in a warm glow, then this is the cold, stark, solitary aftermath. It increasingly detaches itself from the original body, and embarks on a journey into the ominous unknown. Now becoming much more assertive, a high pitched ringing builds in strength, and the scattered piano keys develop into a thunderous pattern. From here, it turns into something much more sinister and destructive; the ringing drone growing louder and more dominant, then collapses under its own chaotic confusion. This slow recording ends up falling to pieces, but the perverse beauty still shines through the rubble. - James Clarke

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  Artist/Title: Joe+N - oneyear 8 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR166 4 live pieces, spanning the course of one exact year. solo guitar, in the style of Loren Connors/etc, with the addition of some melodica, looping, vocals and more. [packaged in a heavy vinyl sleeve, with a full-color pro-printed cover and sprayed and stamped back cover. cdr is sprayed and splattered]

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  Artist/Title: Joe+N - introducing something to the system 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR39_reissue Reissue of the long out of print release by Joe+N. in the original edition, each copy came in kraft envelope with unique artwork and hand numbered. this reissue is a scanned photo from my favorite copy (and also my personal copy). full color cardstock in heavy-duty vinyl sleeve. 5 tracks of field recordings and ultra-harsh electronics. no instruments were used on this recording. constructed entirely using a portable MiniDisc recorder, contact mics, Behringer mixer and patch cords.

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  Artist/Title: Joe+N - Neither Painting Nor Sculpture 8 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR140 same name as a previous harddrive release, which had the same original inspiration, this is the audio portion of a Joe+N art show (of the same name) at A|V in Dec 2006. the show consisted of 6+ pieces, and the audio consisted of 6 companion pieces. each building from the one before. mostly heavy drone guitar. dense, from simple to complex. [packaged in a 5x7 full color heavy cover with sprayed CDRs] Reviews (2): Modisti (Joe+N - Neither Painting Nor Sculpture - CR145) Vast textural surfaces of abstract (sonic) materials unfurl upon large format canvases. Concerned with continuity and dimension, the actual sound sources have a secondary relevance, thus simply featuring a rusty red distorted electric guitar wall of sound. As we advance in time, the pieces begin to include a more complex, difficult aspect pointing at the progression –from construction to destruction- proposed in the visual work the sound pieces accompanied. Foxy Digitalis These are sound recordings designed to accompany guitarist (and Carbon mogul) Joe+N ’s first installation of visual art. The idea with both music and art is to show process, stages of destruction and creation, points at which, while not a final piece of “art” art is present as is in the state of being constructed. Too theoretical? Not really, if you can picture the frame of a painting hung on a wall with not picture inside. Just by hanging that frame, to decide on its place on the wall, it becomes art, in the sense that the beauty and use of anything becomes deeper and more varied when isolated and contemplated. Here, joe+n’s music is a kind of example of the visual pieces, in construction. We can’t see the art, and yet we know that the music we are listening to is an accompaniment to art; the listener is constructing the installation for herself, given the involvement being only auditory. This in effect includes the listener into the process of creating the installation; all that is left is to see the visuals, and the music is the door into that. 7/10 - Mike Wood

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  Artist/Title: Joe+N - The Non-Confidential Part of a Boring-Ass Meeting 4 Format: CDR Label: Gold Soundz (Norway) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GS039 "New great album from the active Carbon man Joe Tunis + the "n" factor always present in his works.. Poisonous psych-guitar workouts smashing in & slashing up the atmosphere of high-corporate boardrooms.... Edition of 75."

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  Artist/Title: Joe+N - lock32 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR12 a release inspired by the cyclical patterns of lock32 on the Erie Canal System. Joe+4 is Joe Tunis of Hilkka‘s solo joint. Covering mostly ambient and stark trajectories with guitar, static, found sounds and lots of effects. This release conjures up a brooding and unnerving atmosphere. Some tracks might bring to mind Jandek or Loren Mazzacane Connors at their most lonesome and desolate. The original edition came in deluxe hand made packaging incorporating actual pebbles from the Erie Canal. A compelling listen.

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  Artist/Title: Joe+N - Day-Tour 2004 MP3 CDR - full-recording 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $10 Catalog ID: cr107_cdr This is the MP3 CDR version of the HDD release. aday-long recording of he Joe+N 2004 Day-Tour. on June 26, 2004, i performed the fifth-annual day-tour in and around Rochester NY. the day-tour included 9 shows, each consisting of a 20-30 minute set performed from the back of my jeep (or thereabouts), starting at 11am and one occurring every hour, on the hour. i recorded the entire day on both audio (with various devices) and video devices. what is contained in this recording is a (barely) uninterrupted recording straight to VHS (audio only) from my mixing board. i used a VCR to record the full-day audio, due to the length of tapes that are available. various inputs were plugged into the mixing board throughout the day, including guitar, contact mics (for various non-electric instruments), pzm mic, vocal/air mic, etc. on a couple occasions, i performed away from my truck, so i had to turn off the engine and lock it up, "losing" the recording. these locations include the All-Purpose Room, Court Street Bridge and Washington Grove Park. these sets were recorded using a digital video camera and are/will be available on other Day-Tour 2004 related releases. [comes sealed in a white cd mailer with color sticker artwork.]

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  Artist/Title: Joe+N - receipts and belt loops 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR77 i put on a coat i haven‘t worn in a while. and in a pocket i guess i haven‘t used in a longer while, i discover a receipt (for food, i believe). almost from 10 years ago to the date. it got me thinking about how quickly time passes, and how fragments can pull us back, mentally, to a previous time, place (physical and mental). a smell, a sound, a feeling. pretty neat stuff. the backdrop of this recording consists of an uneditted walk in the neighborhood right around sunset. at the beginning, you‘ll hear cicadas singing out loud. as the recording goes on, the sound slowly (almost imperceivably) transforms into crickets singing. somewhat showing the transformation of time without perception. there are overdubbed guitar pieces on occasion, showcasing nothing in particular (well, maybe something having to do with events that stand out, etc).

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  Artist/Title: Joe+N - cycles 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $3 Catalog ID: MP3.01 running, birds, cicadas, cars, walking, birds, cicadas, cars... [pre-assembled version of MP3.Series release, which is also free to download]

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  Artist/Title: Joe+N - experiments for ella 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $3 Catalog ID: MP3.02 collection of piano and acoutic guitar experiments for my infant daughter ella. [pre-assembled version of MP3.Series release, which is also free to download]

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  Artist/Title: Joe+N - oil leaks and cicadas 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR63 from the liner notes... "82 billion photographs are taken every year on earth. School portraits, remarkable sunsets, birthday parties, catastrophic weather phenomena, and your girlfriend in her underwear all evoke a desire to take a picture. The most popular subjects for photographs are typically vacations. People travel on their vacations and see new things and snap as many photos as they can. Regular people that is. This recording is not the result of regular people taking a vacation. It is an example of people who take sounds not pictures. They experience new things and resist the natural urge to let vision dominate the sensory landscape, and instead choose to listen to the new things. These new things are recorded, reproduced, concocted, orchestrated - choose your own word here - into music for you. " [unlimited CDR version of out of print 12" lathe cut]

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  Artist/Title: Joe+N - e+e (live) 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR28 2 live recordings from the exposure and experience day long tour that occurred on May 27th of 2000. "the notion of "moving" sounds from one location to another. That is, recording environmental samples of one location, and replaying them at another location. Juxtaposing them in a way where the listener wouldn‘t necessarily realize the sounds were "foreign" to the specific location. In fact, the sounds could possibly be naturally heard at that location, but on this occasion, were being introduced to the [eco]system by an outside force..." [limited edition of 100, hand-packaged and numbered in DVD cases. Also includes booklet describing the "tour" with block-printed design on cover.]

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  Artist/Title: Joe+N - post 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR29 a compilation of found tape experiments and field recordings from the past couple years. ranges from full-out drone guitar/reverb to underwater mic‘ing. [limited edition of 64, hand-packaged and numbered in recycled LP sleeves. Includes block-printed logo on cover and painted "vinyl art" inside (recycled LPs).]

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  Artist/Title: Joe+N - selector:AM or... 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR52 "during one of my thrift-store stops, while searching for reel-to-reel tapes and 8-track cassettes to use during the Joe+N day-tour back in the spring, i came across a Don Rickles 8-track cassette. i had to buy it. Finkbeiner is a huge fan. weeks later, i finally got around to dumping it to a format which was a little more current. i borrowed an 8-track deck from cara‘s mom. but shortly after inserting the tape, something went "wrong." i pressed the track-select button a couples times, thinking that would do the trick. i then realized the tape had stapped and was being unwound inside the deck.so i yanked it out and for some reason, switched the channel selector to AM. browsed the airwaves a little, and noticed that the device had a mind of it‘s own. interjecting harsh noise in the middle of talk-show babble. i figured i‘d document the setup visually, so i took some photos. the flash on the camera also affected the signal being played. almost like a phaser or flanger effect. after a couple shots, i decided to let it go. this is a document of that late night experiment." [hand-packaged in slip-cases with full-color artwork. edition of 75]

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  Artist/Title: Joe+N - driving thru the lehigh valley tunnel 4 Format: CDR Label: slippy town Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist-SLIPT14 One long (18:47) guitar thing by Joe Tunis (Carbon Records, Pengo, SQ, Hilkka). Feedback, hiss, and ambient buzz build into a simple modified blues lick that repeats for awhile--and then shifts into a more single-minded guitar-plucked drone--and then does some other stuff. Edition of 90

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  Artist/Title: John Charlton - Form Disruptor 8 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR165 this is quite the full-range package from John Charlton. from noise/texture guitar, to beat-driven and free, effect-laden noise rock blasts, to static transmissions from a visitor from another world/dimension. here to screw with us. "So I had this idea of this being who is sent throughout the galaxy as a Form Disruptor. He receives his orders from some distant civilization and carries them out with varying degrees of success to disrupt various forms in other civilizations for whatever reason. These songs represent transmissions we intercepted that which the Form Disruptor was sending back to his superiors. We have yet to decode them but we believe they are his reports on his completion of specific Form Disruption orders with regards to their effectiveness and suggestions for future action." - from John. [packaged in a heavy-duty vinyl sleeve with a pro-printed full-color cover. CDR is sprayed and splattered.]

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  Artist/Title: John Charlton - Walking the Red Road 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR147 This is John's first full-length on Carbon, with, i'm sure, more to come. former member/cohort of TenTon (now in Chicago), John lives in the Boston area and records all sorts of sounds, guitars, tibeten bowls, cymbals, strings, etc. he was featured on the Carbon 3CD compilation I Don't Think the Dirt Belongs to the Grass and won this praise from Keith Fullerton Whitman: "there’s something on here for everyone... and in fact you might end up, like myself, enjoying just about everything on this set, from the pieces by the names you know/trust to those by otherwise unknowns (for example; i didn’t know john charlton’s name, but his acoustic guitar/tibetan singing bowls/wine glasses piece on here ended up being one of my favorite pieces.)". This full length is a study in guitar, from repetitive/looping acoustic and clean electric with incidental backgrounds, to busy hammering/drumming/droning on an acoustic, to warbly electric mood (ala LMC), to full-on saturated noise/drone. to mirror KFW's comment, something for everyone. [packaged in heavy vinyl sleeve with handmade red and gold paper and spray-painted CD] Reviews (2): Foxy Digitalis Chicago area guitarist/sound artist John Charlton 's debut “Walking the Red Road,” is deep study into the very nature of the guitar; incorporating its past, present and potential future within a span of 40 minutes. The tracks range in style from delta blues numbers such as “Stephen Taukus Pharaoh,” and the opener “Flood” to more experimentally bent approaches to the instrument, as is the case with the track “Chelvdra” where he trends a similar path to Area C’s Eric Carlson or when the guitar is employed as a percussive instrument as on “Zhiishii.” The biggest shock is the albums closer, “The Montauk Project,” where your ears are suddenly engulfed in a dense swath of layered feedback and beautiful overtones invoking Michael Morley at his most ferocious. As Charlton veers through guitar styles on “Walking the Red Road,” he maintains an almost baffling amount of clarity, allowing his voice on the instrument to really ring through, no matter what style he is playing off of. Each track is imbued with an expansive amount of space and layering that resembles nothing more than walking down some desolate dusty road. Though he may at times tread similar territory to some of the Takoma revivalists, Charlton manages to create a very distinct and refreshing approach that sets him far beyond the same old finger-picking that this writer has heard way too much of lately. Hopefully we’ll hear from him again very soon. 9/10 -- Cory Card (22 August, 2007) - Cory Card Modisti [ John Charlton - Walking the Red Road CDR] Superimposed layers of acoustic guitar reminiscent of those extremely reverberant and static playing styles associated with vast plateaux, progressively lead to complex textures of increasingly processed sound. Departing from the original source and occasionally turning back, only to begin once more, the music is clearly influenced by rhythmical concerns, while subsequent developments include the use of a wider timbre palette and highlighted acoustic features. The use of processing greatly boosts the possibilities, clothing the instrumental with a nightmarish outlook and, at the same time, continuing to cling on to form which is by now almost inviable.

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  Artist/Title: John Charlton and Joe+N - opposite ends of 90 8 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR155 the third in the Joe+N collaboration series (the first two being with Antony Milton and Sindre Bjerga). this release consists of three tracks totally 32+ minutes, this is a long-distance collaboration between John Charlton and Joe+N (aka Joe Tunis, Carbon label man). the two traded tracks over 2007/2008, John started the recordings with his range of guitars, drones and percussion. Joe then overdubbed more guitars and vocals (though usually not vocal-sounding). [packaged in a heavy-duty vinyl sleeve with a pro-printed full-color cover. CDR is sprayed and splattered.]

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  Artist/Title: Jon Dale - rotten sun 4 Format: CDR Label: rhizome Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_rhcd24 "The follow-up to his amazing Son D'Or CD-R, Jon Dale's Rotten Sun is described by its creator simply as "the end of the hand-held fan obsession"." -- soundandfury.com

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  Artist/Title: Jon Dale - son d'or 4 Format: CDR Label: rhizome Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_rhcd16 "Jon Dale is the man behind Adelaide-based CD-R imprint The Rhizome Label. He has released several records as Moth, making desolate, haunting dronescapes. Son D'Or is his first album under his own name, and features guest guitar from Kynan Lawler juxtaposed against Dale's eerie, singular organ notes." -- soundandfury.com

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  Artist/Title: Jos Smolders - textures and mobiles 5 Format: CDR Label: CONV net.lab (Spain) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CNVR01 Jos Smolders (Deurne, The Netherlands, 1960) studied architecture at the Delft Technical University but quit and continued the musical tape experiments of his childhood. He started musicological studies of electronic and recorded music, was six years co-editor of Vital Magazine and is the founder/owner of Earlabs.org. Active in the underground electronic scene, founding member of the renowned Dutch electroacoustic ensemble THU20 (which also features Roel Meelkop and Peter Duimelinks, both of Kapotte Muziek and Goem), he released his own music on cassette, LP and CD since early 80's. He now works as a sound designer and composer in Tilburg (The Netherlands). "Textures and mobiles" is his latest work. Based enterely on pure sine waves and mobiles tones, the CDr has a really nice flow in the pieces and can easily meet as one of the best composed works of Jos Smolders. It has the Jos trademark all over it, despite the fact that he limits himself to just pure sine waves. One hour of introspection with minimals elements.

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  Artist/Title: Juarez / Barzábal - split series #5 4 Format: CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CaRbonDist_TIBCD91

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  Artist/Title: Kapotte Muziek - enhanced room acoustics 8 Format: CDR Label: Lunhare (Italy) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Lunhare_zzz04 "Previously released on cassette in 1996, the two original tracks are here enhanced by a new one especially composed and performed by Freiband in 2007. From the analogic sound modifications of last century's industrial age to the micro and nearly audible variations of the new digital era. " - part of Lunhare's Lethargy Series - "New releases of recordings dating back to the last millennium"

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  Artist/Title: kenji siratori - morgue 6 Format: CDR Label: small doses (USA) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosetwentyfour "A divergence from the spoken-word noise that Kenji has come to be known for. Three tracks of dark, ambience that move into harsher territories. The title matches the tone of the disc. Edition of 66 stamped cdrs."

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  Artist/Title: Kheta Hotem - Bowl Ceremony 6 Format: CDR Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IKU_KhetaHotem "Gigging with a varying and often an extensive group, Kheta Hotem has visited the studio with a somewhat stripped basic essence. This release is a collection of sense-filling presentations starting with a ritual-like bowl ceremony, which leads into results closely related with free jazz and ethnomusic. In their gig brochure the group claims they continue the more than 1000 years old musical tradition of Komutia, where the musician acts as a mediator between the world of sounds and everyday existence. The instruments Kheta Hotem use are traditional instruments of ritual music: the didgeridoo and different percussions. However, the synthesizer and the electric guitar are not forgotten, either. Acoustic instruments, including the human guttural voices, meld with those produced electrically - the traditional Komutian rituals turn into avant-garde. One can admire and listen to the outcome as an impressive technical performance, and experience the atmosphere to the marrow."

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  Artist/Title: Kitchen Cynics - Compulsive Songwriting Disorder 4 Format: CDR Label: Audiobot (Belgium) Price: $12 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_AUDIOBOT15 "Small and quiet places are the perfect breeding ground for fragile beauty that fights the inner demons, painting a poetic picture drenched in acid folk gentleness. Another very nice collection of songs by poet Alan Davidson, accompanied by a variety of instruments, with some great versions of Briget St.John, Ivor Cutler & a Lal Waterson songs, in a typical Kitchen Cynics style. Very inspired texts showing a poetic vision of tiny worlds situations that show a variety of perspectives, and a desire to open up like seeds. One track is a dialogue with Simon and Cara Lewis. All other songs are entirely multitracked one man performances. Like any Kitchen Cynics release, highly recommended. Alan's favourite songtitles : "I want you on a mountain top", "Snowflakes, oatcakes and earthquakes", "Lethargic lover", "Unwoozling invalid woman". If you have good memories on Pearls Before Swine, this is right up your alley... Packaged in stencil-printed fold-out jackets by design therapist Jelle Crama. Limited to only 150 copies."

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  Artist/Title: Knurl - Subluxation 8 Format: CDR Label: Wintage (Canada) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WRT23 "comes in a deluxe metal tin spryed down in mettalic blue car paint discs have a very nice black on black splatter effect ltd. ed.100"

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  Artist/Title: Koff Koff - the quality of life 4 Format: CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD75

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  Artist/Title: Korperschwache - Ritual of the Ouroboros 6 Format: CDR Label: Crucial Blast Price: $9 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR_ KORPERSCHWACHE_ritual "One of two new installments in Korperschwache's ongoing tribute to the great serpent; featuring further exercises in blackened hypno-drone and necrotic black metal-encrusted trance rock from the diseased underbelly of Austin, TX, somewhere at the stygian intersection between Skullflower, Burzum, and Godflesh."

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  Artist/Title: Korperschwache - Sacrifice of the Ouroboros 6 Format: CDR Label: Crucial Blast Price: $9 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR_ KORPERSCHWACHE_sacrafice "One of two new installments in Korperschwache's ongoing tribute to the great serpent; featuring further exercises in blackened hypno-drone and necrotic black metal-encrusted trance rock from the diseased underbelly of Austin, TX, somewhere at the stygian intersection between Skullflower, Burzum, and Godflesh."

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  Artist/Title: Koura - temperament 4 Format: CDR Label: naninani Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_nrec005 "unprocessed and ultra-sensitive field-recordings made in japan during 2002. in my humble opinion, this is one of the most poetic work of brian labycz. text by dale lloyd. other releases on and/oar, throat... this is nrec005. ltd edition of 98 copies. printed double panel artwork + insert, white label "

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  Artist/Title: loopool - useless unless 4 Format: CDR Label: Arbor (USA) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Arbor004

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  Artist/Title: Luke Cincotta - every second / estimation 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR73 "the best cd you will ever listen to in your life. Better than pet sounds."

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  Artist/Title: Lunt - Fragments of free vol 1 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR103 46+ mins of some very emotional, blissful guitar work from Lunt aka Gilles Deles of Hitomi Recordings. in a similar vein as Loren Mazzacane Connors, Mick Harris (Dirty Three) and our own Andy Gilmore. "...improvised with one overdrive pedal and infinite delay..." "We cannot free our music from all constraints. Neither can we free ourselves from everything. But we can make music as free as we are."

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  Artist/Title: Lydhode - My life in the ghost of bush 4 Format: CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD99 "Lydhode means something like 'soundhead' and is an ongoing and open collaboration. Here it's labelboss Jan M. Iversen with Roar Borge of Cadmium Dunkel. You could expect a release about emptiness with a title like that, but it's not. It starts out in a rather free mode with sounds bouncing and colliding towards eachother, a free fall from the sky, until the temperate is raised and we land in a world of colliding loops that oddly enough reminded me of very old Merzbow cassettes. It had that similar lo-fi reel to reel tapeloop quality. It made this into quite a nice affair. A free flow of sounds that could have very well be by Bjerga and Iversen, but it's Lydhode. Nice." - Vital Weekly

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  Artist/Title: Mahmoud Refat - Mirarmar 4 Format: CDR Label: 100 Copies (Egypt) Price: $12 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_100Copies001 "100COPIES is a music label based in Cairo/Egypt, releasing music from Egypt, the Arab world and International. 100COPIES is focusing on experimental music, noise and sound. Including other genres will be active with the local artists from Egypt. The recent work of Mahmoud Refat is based on memories of locations and situations that have been experienced between 2002 and 2005. Working with the raw sound material and field recordings that have been recorded in the past 3 years, and dealing with them in the present time and state of mind. 'It is is always fascinating what I find in my older sound material, and how I recognize them. It opens all possibilities to those hidden aspects and emotions of one regular reality,' Refat says. In Miramar Refat wants to pay attention to the inconsiderable sounds and patterns that has been part of his/other's daily life at the time. As you hear a call for prayer or a voice of a woman passing by, or the sound of a portable power station drifting in through the window on a normal day, then hearing it through speakers after some years. Would you react in the same way? It is to expand a person's perception of the surrounding space. Using the drum patterns in Track 3 ('Miramari') and track 7 ('2nd April2006') and keeping them on a repetitive loop. Was a slight drift towards the recognizable and familiarity. In Miramar Refat found a new language to present a musical abstraction and make it possible to the common listeners."

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  Artist/Title: Marc Faris - DRONE-ON THIS; Or, Why the "New Minimalism" Is Underground Rock‘ 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR42 Among men, marc faris is a puppy. Drone-On This is a confluence of many musics, not just funk-tinged bluegrass like so much of the CDR.Series. Includes 3 "pop songs" (including an ill-advised cover of Lou Reed‘s "Satellite of Love"), 3 tracks of "free improv," 1 longer "piece," 43 tracks of digital silence and 1 "hidden bonus track" (entitled "Hidden Bonus Track"). The results are not as immediately compelling as, say, the recent output of Finkbeiner or what have you, but the attentive listener will find much to enjoy. Includes instructions for devising one‘s own track sequence to suit a variety of listening environments. [limited edition of 75, each packaged in a glossy white cd folder with a swatch of Thai paper attached to spine, and 4 double-sided postcard inserts with song descriptions. hand numbered]

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  Artist/Title: Massaccesi - a wholesome life in the best of taste 4 Format: CDR Label: ignivomous Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ig105

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  Artist/Title: Midwich - 3 days in, 4 to go 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR61 30+ minutes of minimalistic electro-drone by this one-man machine from Leeds, UK. �?? one of the men behind the amazing Fencing Flatworm label. [hand silk-screened covers in simple slip case, each one differently colored. limited edition of 75]

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  Artist/Title: Mike Shiflet - Xenakis Youth 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR82 10YR.Series.02 - the second in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series.This is an AMAZING collection of tones, glitches and drones. Would fit perfectly on your shelf alongside releases from such labels as Mego, Touch, Raster-Noton, etc. I was blown away by this when i got the master CDR from Mike in the mail.

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  Artist/Title: Mike Shiflet and Ryan Jewell - Hysteresis 6 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR183 This is the fifth release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. 35+ minutes of controlled feedback, drone, silence, static, samples and acoustic/live improv. [packaged with silk-screened logo over a unique "sampled" page in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes]

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  Artist/Title: Ming - Versus the Great Satan 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR83 10YR.Series.03 - the third in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. the anonymous force of Ming, in the great battle for the hearts and minds of all beings everywhere, from the Great Satan. the battle rages on....

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  Artist/Title: Moth - 1997-2003 6 Format: CDR Label: rhizome Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_rhcd24x "this disc compiles recordings previously available on the ghost town by the sea, kodak ghost poem and the secret tapes releases. "

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  Artist/Title: Motoko Shimizu - Jennie and Me 4 Format: CDR Label: Quodlibet (USA) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_QLCDR-03 "Solo Turntable compositions for young and fun people - appropriate for the beach, cocktail parties, crime scenes, giant squid sightings and much more. The 5-foot woman strikes again with her sidekick turntable Jennie - phono needles everywhere beware! (for fans of Christian Marclay, 90's Otomo Yoshihide and DJ-collage music in general)" [Ultra-limited edition in clear poly-keeper]

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  Artist/Title: mr mutton_deluxe - not in the lake 4 Format: CDR Label: sijis Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_sijisep02 "mr. deluxe finally bites the bullet and admits with this release that yes, he‘s a better accordion player than carl craig. with a body of work made possible by a kind donation from the justice league of america, mr. deluxe presents us with an worldview based on the belief that fashionable people are more flammable than you might expect. he‘s willing to take the risk for you, so stany low and wait for the fire engines to arrive"

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  Artist/Title: mystified - skywatchers 4 Format: CDR Label: small doses (USA) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosetwentyeight this is a concept album of sorts from mystified's thomas park. dark, shimmering ambience - sometimes transcendent, sometimes unnerving, but never anything less than engrossing. packaged in hand torn vellum with a torn insert. numbered edition of 121 copies.

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  Artist/Title: Nicolas Felix Kauffman and Stefan Geoffrey Neville - OWL LOW 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $10 Catalog ID: CR124 46+ minutes of acoustic guitar, bells, woodwinds, primitive percussion, patented Pumice-style buzzing guitar, organ/keyboard, drone-vocals and more from Stefan Neville (aka Pumice) and Nicolas Kauffman (part of Family Underground - Denmark) . recorded 2005 in a giant concrete room, this release is a fine companion to Stefan and Nicolas' other recordings on various other labels such as Last Visible Dog, Soft Abuse, Audiobot, Chocolate Monk, QBICO, Into the Lunar Night). [packaged in hand-silkscreened cardboard cover in various colors] Reviews (1): Foxy Digitalis Once again, New Zealand’s musical chameleon Stefan Neville (solo as Pumice, and a collaborator with what seems to be an entire musical microcosm) proves that he – quite literally – plays well with others. On “OWL LOW” he’s teamed up with Nicolas Kauffman, a member of Denmark’s Family Underground. FU specialize in creating thick, blackout-inducing, sky-high walls of extended, malleable drone. This recording was laid down live to Walkman in a large concrete room in Copenhagen in early 2005. Both Kauffman and Neville agree that the environment is the true star of the recording; the natural echo chamber was a vehicle, accentuating their drunken ‘cosmic delusions.’ Musically, “OWL LOW” resides more in Pumice territory than in the miasmic drone world of Family Underground, but there is definitely no clear captain of the ship. This is a true collaboration: the influences of both musicians are unmistakably reflected in the recording. The first track (the track names are all blank, perhaps an invitation for us to fill them in) features guitar, flute and bells and evokes an afternoon prayer session in an East Asian temple. The guitar is minimal at first, leaving vast spaces for the other instruments to occupy; gradually, the tempo increases and a mysterious percussion element provides a subtle rhythm. The guitar disappears entirely and the room fills with the clatter of numerous bells. Spectral voices groan out from a dark corner of a forgotten ruin, calling to us to join them in their agony. For some reason I find this music extremely comforting, as if I’m being wrapped snugly in a warm blanket. Perhaps it’s the raw nature of the recording, or the delicate simplicity of the song structures. Or perhaps it’s the echo effect created by the giant concrete room. Whatever it is, it makes the recording worthy of repeated spins on the CD player. The fourth track features some signature Pumice-style fuzzed out guitar scrapings overtop mournful organ tones. The music quickly swells into an amorphous bubble of high-pitched sonic madness that somehow dissolves into a lone hand drum keeping a steady beat. A persistent buzzing drone permeates the sixth and final track of “OWL LOW,” along with ringing bells and some murky unidentifiable percussive sounds. The latter half of the album is definitely noisier and more abstract than the first half. The CD-R comes encased in a silk-screened cardboard cover with a self-closing flap, and a paper envelope with the Carbon Records address stamped on it. I’ve been seeing more and more of these self-closing cardboard CD covers popping up lately, and I like the utilitarian design that they offer. The artwork calls to mind the photocopied cut-and-paste ‘zines of the eighties and nineties. “OWL LOW” is certainly a welcome addition to the lengthy discographies of these two prolific artists. Collaborative improvisations such as this one prove that the concept of synergy is in full force in this small world of ours. 8/10 -- (11 September, 2006) - Bryon Hayes

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  Artist/Title: Nuuj - plays sad songs for gurls 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR37 Disgustingly pretty multi-tracked instrumental guitar songs. In some ways a natural extension of his song writing for Hilkka, in other ways something entirely different. If Nuuj really thinks that your average girl would actually like these songs, then it‘s obvious why he‘s been such a success with the ladies. No matter how hard he tries to write pop songs, or how happy he actually is, all his songs come out in some sense sad. [limited edition of 75, packaged in standard jewel case with color insert and tray card]

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  Artist/Title: old fashion monkeys - carnival is burning 4 Format: CDR Label: Gold Soundz (Norway) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GS033 two tracks from Nicolas Malevitsis and Panagiotis Spoulos from 2005.

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  Artist/Title: Opticsp - blocks 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR55 BLOCKS consists of feedback loops generated with analog equipment. Signals were generated with a synthesizer, combined through an effects processor which fed the signals back into itself. Also, recording signals for ADAT recorders were fed through a mixing board, processor and then back then back into itself therefore creating a loop. All of the sounds on this recording were generated in real time and were only manipulated to combine tones. There is no signal processing outside of the real time system. [hand-packaged in slip-cases with full color printouts on heavy yellowish-green cardstock. edition of 100]

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  Artist/Title: origami minimalistika - x12 4 Format: CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD26 from what i can gather, the minimal subunit of the origami non-organization.

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  Artist/Title: Panagiotis Spoulos - Torpor 4 Format: CDR Label: Phase! (Greece) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PHR036 "Psychedelic noise / drone songs, ideal for hypnotherapy. Guaranteed to force you see surrealistic dreams. The anxiety and the ecstacy, the man and the journey through the guitar and the voice. Limited to 60, handmade sleeves w/ paste-on photography."

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  Artist/Title: Pangolino Orchestra - 0 8 Format: CDR Label: Lunhare (Italy) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Lunhare_zzz03 "Studio recordings previously released on cassette in 1995. Art&free-rock structures with a somewhat strange approach to melody. Featuring the genius of Piume E Sangue’s Gi Gasparin." - part of Lunhare's Lethargy Series - "New releases of recordings dating back to the last millennium"

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  Artist/Title: Pegacide - Cosmic Forest 6 Format: CDR Label: Expanding Pegasus (USA) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ExpandingPegasus003 "Perhaps Pegacide�s most graspable of musics, Cosmic Forest is a focused, muscular event, equal parts explosive and brooding. Stripped down from the possbile 5 member band, to a tight 3-piece, and recorded live in an entirely improvised 48 minute stretch, Pegacide seems lost in a world all its own, running through the woods, kicking over trees, inhaling stars and moon-beams. Beautiful piano segments melt into heavy, corrosive stomp, managing both abrasive, and beautiful results. The musicians this time around are Paul Scota on drums, Phil Herford on electric violin and guitar, and Joel Dow on all sorts of feedback looped, warped electronic gadgetry, that only he understands. The members flit back and forth between piano, various percussion, and vocal sections as well, but it is the Drum/Violin/Noise setup sets the foundation for this strange epic. Cosmic Forest comes packaged in a beautiful hand-painted/stamped black cardboard sleeve, inside a resealable propylene slip. A silver and black hand-stamped cd-r with album info insert await the listener inside. "

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  Artist/Title: Perlon - s/t 4 Format: CDR Label: USED Price: $4 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_perlon (This is a USED item)

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  Artist/Title: Phroq - Ueno Park Memories 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR105 an amazing composition of pure field recordings and heavy manipulations. recordings of Ueno Park in Tokyo Japan. recorded, composed, performed, deconstructed and cared for by Francisco Meirino. "But for me, Ueno Park is an amazing place where there is great mixture of sounds as various as foreign languages spoken by tourists, japanese spoken by people visiting the museums and having a relaxing time walking, the sounds from the zoo animals, and also from all the birds hidden in the trees. sounds from the road surrounding the park and from the homeless people who have formed a real small city made of cardboxes and blue plastic tents, hidden behind the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum."

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  Artist/Title: Piediepie - s/t 4 Format: CDR Label: Veglia Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_veg17

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  Artist/Title: Pinkeye and friends - s/t 4 Format: CDR Label: USED Price: $4 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_pinkeye (This is a USED item)

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  Artist/Title: Placenta Popeye - black fever 6 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR159 31+ minutes from this french noise duo. deconstructed songs, similar to the DeadC with their guitar and vocal work sometimes low-key drone/tones, sometimes more aggressive and harsh. its all very good. (at least) 1/2 of the group runs the Tanzprocesz label (http://tanzprocesz.free.fr/). [packaged in Stumptown-Arigato package, sprayed and stenciled, multiple colors, with insert and sprayed and stenciled CDR]

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  Artist/Title: POG - Mitote 6 Format: CDR Label: Flipped Out Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FOR17 "69 hallucinatory, ghostly and otherworldly minutes of solo freak from this burnt hills member, recorded with bongos, floor drum, triola, acoustic guitar, kiddie accordion, broken kiddie electric guitar, cello, piano, electric guitar, kick drum, electric mandolin, wah wah, giant metal tweezers, pocket rocket and little big muff on a variety of boom boxes, tape decks and dictaphones with hand decorated mini lp gatefold jackets and "vinyl" cdrs in an edition of 99 copies"

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  Artist/Title: Poochlatz - thanks for giving in 6 Format: CDR Label: Something on the Road (Israel) Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SOTR018 "Combining elements of primitive power electronics and their explorations into contemporary drone-metal territories, "Thanks for Giving in" is the new live album from Israel's Poochlatz. Recorded in July 2006, when opening to the Grave Temple Trio, Poochlatz are bleak, sinister and iconoclastic than ever, mending and molding moral conventions, slaughtering holy cows and questioning the truth only to make it more vague and unreachable than it already is."

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  Artist/Title: Psicklops - dark cinema 6 Format: CDR Label: Free Matter for the Blind (USA) Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FreeMatter_Psicklops "Psicklops is the first work in a series of radical audio theater recordings under the moniker “Dark Cinema”- which is to say that though there be no image, it is a film of sorts to be watched in the dark all the way through. To this end the narrative combine the engagement of point-of-view vocabulary normally limited to visual based cinema with the often abstract impressionism inherit in audio to produce an effect in which the audience is treated not just as an outside observer but complicit in, and anticipated by the piece itself. This first foray was conceived as a modern day sequel to Kafka’s “The Trial” realized through a multi textured story using found sounds, guerilla field recordings, sampled creative common works, studio actors, experimental electronics, and other mind altering subsonic practices. The result is an invitation to a hypnotic journey- a one-way pass to a dark world of interrogation, surveillance and modern day capitalism. "

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  Artist/Title: Quetzolcoatl - Sleeping within the Sun 5 Format: CDR Label: Phantom Limb (USA) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ARM010 "Easily one of the hardest working young artists in the free-form music world today, Tim Hurley, aka Quetzolcoatl, has been releasing his sonic bliss like a hundred flowers blooming. Luckily, he stopped by our garden and gave us this collection of works, a cosmic swirl of keyboard pulses and vocal loops. Guaranteed to make you nod out and then undergo some powerfully transformative dreaming." ALMOST GONE at the source

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  Artist/Title: Quttinirpaaq - Quttinirpaaq 8 Format: CDR Label: Ruralfaune (France) Price: $11 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ Sab007 "White as a bone of a dead musk ox, heaby as the skull of the beast, the monolithic guitars of Q take your breath away. Lost on the glaciial island, you will face the blizzard. Massive"

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  Artist/Title: R. Scott Oliver - Someday technology may save me 15 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $10 Catalog ID: CR171 the first solo release from Scott, also a member of Deciduous vs Conifer, Oliver/Reeg and part-time member of Autumn in Halifax. the sounds on this disc harken back to the early great days of the Kranky label, think Labradford, Magnog, Stars of the Lid, etc. but without sounding dated at all. this is current drone at its finest. [packaged in an amazing steel folder designed and assembled by Scott, who is a blacksmith by trade. a laser-cut pinwheel is riveted to the cover, over a matching laser-cut punch-out of the same design. the cd is affixed to a chipboard insert that slips out the top of the folder. you have to see/feel this!]

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  Artist/Title: Radio Shock - s/t 5 Format: CDR Label: USED Price: $4 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1988 (This is a USED item) Radio Shock tour EP

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  Artist/Title: Radio Shock - Burn Down Radio EP 4 Format: CDR Label: Roger Records (USA) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_rogerrecords001 its been a while since i heard anything from Radio Shock aka MP Lockwood. this is another collection of fun noise/electronic/guitar/drum-machine rock. [limited to 200 copies, packaged in black and pink duct-tape covered jewel case]

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  Artist/Title: Radio Shock - tour ep 4 Format: CDR Label: radio shock Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist-CRobot02 electronic and guitar based deconstructed... rock?

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  Artist/Title: Rambutan - Rusted Prayers Converge 6 Format: CDR Label: Tape Drift (USA) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TD09 "CDR Debut solo release from Eric Hardiman of Century Plants and Burnt Hills. From ghostly noisescapes to swirling organic drone plateaus to pure guitar improvisations, Hardiman floats in and out of various sound worlds on this one, yet always ties things together with a thoughtful and compelling sonic thread. Four tracks recorded basement style deep in the night, and it shows. Dig in, yet another surprise from the Century Plants camp. "

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  Artist/Title: Rats with Wings - Out Vile Jelly! 4 Format: CDR Label: Gold Soundz (Norway) Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_rats_jelly

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  Artist/Title: Rats with Wings - Die Kunst Des Polycrhomatischen Fagott Vol 1 8 Format: CDR Label: Gold Soundz (Norway) Price: $12 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_rats_die_kunst

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  Artist/Title: Reverse Mouth - We Rub Our Hands With The Tendency To Start Fires 4 Format: CDR Label: Phase! (Greece) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PHR35 "Two entire live sets by Reverse Mouth, "Heroin Nurse" and "Happy Hands Club Band", both took place in Athens, Greece. Black drone lo-fism and analog vomit. Limited to 65, handstamped covers by RM w/ hand-numbered outers and shit-painted labels."

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  Artist/Title: Robe - Bleak 8 Format: CDR Label: Crucial Blast Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BLAZE01 "The first entry in the new Crucial Blaze series of limited edition cdr/cd titles, which picks up where the now completed Crucial Bliss series ended. Now, our explorations into ambient drone, electronic noise and abstract heaviness descend into darker and more apocalyptic zones than before, and Robe's newest release Bleak combines all of these elements into an ideal flagship release for this new series. C-Blast customers may remember when I gushed over a stunning cassette that Robe. released on Thor's Rubber Hammer a while back; this new set of tracks continues in that intensely dark and oppressive vein, with seventy-five minutes of rumbling, creeping ambience and oozing, blackened bottom end raked with the blare of distant horns, smeared trumpets echoing across a vast ocean of black sludge, evil screeching violins time-stretched into endless drones, an immensely oppressive and threatening atmosphere drifting over formless glacial guitar/bass grind like plumes of pungent black smoke. It's like hearing corroded, distressed blasts of orchestral sound, broken and warped BM guitars and clanking machinery rotting beneath massive waves of low-end heaviness; the same reference points that I used for their Remains Of A Burning World apply equally here (Abruptum's Casus Luciferi, Neuntoter Der Plage, and Aderlating's most atmospheric moments), but leaning even more towards a sort of surrealistic industrial nightmare. This limited-edition release of Bleak is packaged in a clear plastic library case with full color artwork, limited and hand-numbered out of 250 copies, and includes a set of two full color 1" buttons, a vinyl Robe. sticker, and an foldover insert, all carefully crafted and assembled."

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  Artist/Title: Robert Horton - If I can't play my Boot I don't have a leg to stand on 6 Format: CDR Label: Nothing Out There (Belgium) Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_NOT09 "In May 2007, along with the master CD of his 3" release Salts that have lost Water, Robert Horton sent me an home-burnt CD-r selecting nine unreleased tracks from a recent period of recording, ranging from November 2006 to March 2007. In the midst of a battle with health troubles, the American improvisor and handyman still managed to carry on his experimental musical process. A couple of months ago, in Autumn 2008, on an accidental fresh listen of this collection of tracks, I was struck by how high they standed into the man's production so far. Inside this unreleased selection, I felt were collected some of Horton's best recent works, and thus proposed him to get an official release done for them. Though currently having a break away from the digital world, Robert welcomed my proposal immediately."

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  Artist/Title: Scenic Railroads - Airports & Apartments, Vol. 1 4 Format: CDR Label: gameboy Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_gb94 "Dropping the in-joke titles for a change, Scenic Railroads present some live documentation capturing tracks from 2005 actually recorded during a layover at Washington Dulles airport and in the dining room of the then soon-to-be-evacuated Shiflet residence. The first weekend of April, 2005: Pope John Paul II was pushing out his last slow breaths. Stuck in a seemingly-endless layover in Washington DC, there seemed to be no escape from the airport TVs blaring CNN's over-the-top reporting. The only options were headphones & noise. Mid-July, 2005: The last performance before the group was put on "contintental separation" hiatus. Recorded in the almost completely empty apartment 12 hours before the keys were turned over & 167 E. Tulane ceased to be grounds of operation. CDR edition of 100 with covers made using various red & pink Japanese papers/prints."

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  Artist/Title: Schrei Aua Stein - Tsisnaasjini 8 Format: CDR Label: Crucial Blast Price: $7 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BLAZE03 "The third entry in the Crucial Blaze line is the new full length disc from Schrei Aus Stein, the experimental black metal/ambient alter ego of Ross Hagen from the drone/ambient outfit Encomiast. I've been a fan and follower of Ross's work with Encomiast going back to the beginning of the last decade, and we've released two of his releases as Encomiast through the Crucial Bliss series over the past five years, so when he emerged last year with this new project that combined his trademark droneological sounds with a noisy, moody brand of mid-paced black metal, I couldn't wait to hear it. The first release from Schrei Aus Stein was a limited edition disc on Starlight Temple Society called Talus that came out in 2009, an eerie blend of frostbitten mid-paced black metal, gothic post-punk throb, and sweeping arctic ambience, an excellent debut that showed that Hagen was going for more than just another downbeat depressive black metal project. Now, Schrei Aus Stein returns with it's second release Tsisnaasjini, a three song full length with songs that average at around thirteen minutes, long majestic soundscapes that still reveal a bit of that Encomiast ambience, but which delve into harsher, more unfriendly terrain than before, mixing together strange industrial dirge, blown-out depressive black metal, and ambient drone into icy realms of hypnotic atmosphere. Icy synthetic winds open the first track "Light On Wings", which takes off into a slipstream of arctic drift and low, oceanic static that reaches out for a couple of minutes before a series of low percussive rumbles begins to appear within the swirling blizzard of hiss and static, the vague beats slowly materializing into view as a creeping drumbeat that slowly plods forward through the wintry noisescape, the drums gradually joined by waves of guitar feedback and low bass buzz, and the song begins to take form from a nebulous wash of sound into a sort of eerie slowcore dirge that's all awash in amp grit and speaker rumble. Those guitars slowly form into minimal, droning minor key sorrow, a simple haunting riff that loops over and over while hissing demonic vocals drift in, enshrouded in reverb, an unintelligible smear of black malevolence over the plodding hypnotic dirge. On the second song "Like Arctic Moons", the sound shifts from that lumbering blackened slowcore into something a bit more like regular downer black metal, with slow, morose minor key riffs swarming over slow moving drums, stretched out shrieks and distorted howls echoing across the wintry backdrop of feedback and dissonant guitar drone, but as the song goes on, the music gradually picks up steam, getting oddly angular, the drums slipping into off-time rhythms, and then suddenly it locks into a mesmeric, almost motorik beat that begins driving beneath the eerie tremolo riffs, turning into a sort of krautrocky DSBM for a moment until the drums shift once again, this time into frantic blast beats while the guitars staying the same. It lurches back and forth between this hypnotic black pulse and stumbling doom and hectic thrashing, until it finally falls off into a long stretch of howling, buzzing mechanical drone, like the sound of machinery slowly winding down, becoming slower and slower, the drones pulling apart to reveal bits of shimmery metallic ambience, chimes and metal clank off in the distance, a creepy, mysterious dronescape that resembles the distant receding roar of a jetliner disappearing into a black hole, slowly dissolving into some minimal spacious ambience at the end, field recordings of trains and yipping wolves creating an eerie nocturnal drift. The last song "Vague as Blown Smoke" ends the disc with an epic blast of blown-out, abstract black metal, a classic sounding wash of blackened buzz, evil tremolo guitar swarming over swirling minor key guitars, droning bass and doom-laden drums, and malicious hissing vokills. Early on, the sound is distorted and creepy and off-kilter, erupting into a blazing wall of psychedelic black blast with layers of howling guitar and mechanized blast beats, and it gets more atmospheric and abstract as it progresses, morphing into a swirling ambient storm of abstract horror that slips in and out of doom-laden crush and passages of strange, bass-driven, industrial-tinged dirge, the instruments surrounded by wraithlike feedback and melting amp whir and whirling loops of delirious electronic melodies that slow down bit by bit until the music dissolves into pure cosmic drone at the end, with several minutes of surging waves of distorted low-end shifting beneath gleaming synthesizer hum and high-end shimmer that finally fades out into nothingness.... Anyone into the amorphous, melancholy black metal of bands like Velvet Cacoon and Xasthur should investigate Schrei Aus Stein, but this is much more droning and streaked with noise than those bands, often moving into pure ambient buzz within the storms of blackened violence. Like Talus, this is great stuff, and if you enjoyed that debut, you won't go wrong with Schrei Aus Stein's latest. The disc comes in a plastic library case with full color sleeve art, limited to a hand-numbered run of 250 copies, and includes a double-sided color insert card, a vinyl Schrei Aus Stein sticker, and a set of two Schrei Aus Stein 1" buttons."

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  Artist/Title: scott taylor - postcard 4 Format: CDR Label: sijis Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_sijisep04 "let the music speak for itself you say, but this doesn‘t help our necessary paragraph. needless to say our most spiritual artist, his time spent on on the wrong side of the pop charts has finally paid off as sijis welcomes mr. taylor back [after intensive re-education] into the fold. a gentle ep mixes nostalgia and melancholy to create a stunning ep made by/with a computer that obviously loves him. recommended listening for those nursing a hangover or those too depressed to get out of the bath. in the first of a slew of his forthcoming releases, we only hope your total disinterest can slow him down."

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  Artist/Title: Sewer Election - Last Breath 4 Format: CDR Label: gameboy Price: $9 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_gb93 "Sweden's finest forgoes his usual dense harsh noise in favor of equally dense dirty drones. It's still a wall of sound, but far from impenetrable. This wall is more likely to crumble with the slightest touch and leave you buried beneath the rubble. It's a different, but equally effective, methond of simultaneous attack and defense. A short but epic piece, "Last Breath" unravels in under 20 minutes, but the coma it will induce is guaranteed to last for hours if not days. Indeed this disc makes a perfect soundtrack for those precious moments spent dying, living, or lingering anywhere between the two. CDR edition of 100. Dedicated to Dagmar Lassander."

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  Artist/Title: Shafer/Tunis - drum improvisations 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR43 65+ minutes of drum and percussion experimentations. recorded with 2 mics, straight to a stereo mix, the duo utilized everything at their disposal, including 2 drum kits, tibeten prayer bowls, a mini-gong, brushes, sticks, a cello bow, cymbals, lighting fixtures, a thumb piano, bells, and even the walls themselves. moving from the repetitive chattering of rain, to the all-out intensity of crashing thunder, this recording has range. free and open... [limited edition of 75, each packaged in a slim jewel-case. hand numbered]

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  Artist/Title: Sheet - live at the bug jar 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR09 Amazing documentation of this one man power electronics tsunami. Giant walls of pure sound crash over each other to form a mesmerizing and frightening whole. Having witnessed this performance live myself, I can only say that I‘ve only seen a small handful of other performers polarize an audience‘s reaction so drastically. People were totally blissed out by the sound of Sheet while others were moved to violence. The set was actually terminated by direct threat of physical harm. Packaged in a spray painted and melted jewel case. An appropriate approximation of what yr eardrums will look like after wrapping them around this unholy cd.

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  Artist/Title: Signals - s/t 4 Format: CDR Label: Entr'acte (UK) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_entracte25 "Recorded in situ between 16.20 and 17.00 on Saturday 10 Sept 2005 during a performance by Signals (a collaboration project between Cheapmachines and Karina ESP) at the London Placard headphone festival. This is an acoustic recording. any audible reference to Signals' performance is purely coincidental. Five inch CD in a die-cut wallet."

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  Artist/Title: Sindre Bjerga and Joe+N - slow collapse / building nature 6 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR149 the second in the Joe+N collaboration series (the first being with Antony Milton. this release consists of six tracks totally 27+ minutes, this is a long-distance collaboration between Sindre Bjerga (Gold Soundz label man) and Joe+N (aka Joe Tunis, Carbon label man). the two traded tracks over 2006/2007, Sindre started the recordings with some heavy synth loops/drones/etc. Joe then overdubed various instruments (guitars, drums, field recordings), extending/looping the originals at times, to get them to a final state. [packaged in a heavy-duty vinyl sleeve with a transluscent red "dimple" cover, artwork beneath, and wrapped in a band of metallic foil tape.]

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  Artist/Title: Sindre Bjerga and Textured Bird Transmission - Temple of Transparent Wisdom 6 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR180 This is the second release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. Recorded in 2007 and 2009 in Stavanger Norway and Weymouth UK respectively, this is some dense heavy drones with the perfect balance of texture and movement. [packaged with a full-color pro-printed folded card in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes]

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  Artist/Title: sluggo - completed under duress 4 Format: CDR Label: sijis Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_sijisep03 "yes it‘s finally happened. the long-time agent proscrastinateur, and guitarist in far to many real bands for our liking has finished some tracks he is happy with. under duress relates to the physical nature to which certain members of sijis had to look through mister sluggo‘s hard drive and extract the audio needed for a release. Never one to let go, and recently caught denying all knowledge of how these tracks ended up on his computer, we hope you enjoy these deliciously brutal slices that took us nearly a year to prize out of sluggo‘s reach."

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  Artist/Title: Social Junk - Summer Concussion 6 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR179 This is the first release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. Documenting Social Junk's 2008 Summer Tour (with Big Nurse), this is a great collection of live drone/drum/out captures. Similar to the Dead C, but with their own unique rhythm and pace. [packaged with a full-color pro-printed folded card in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes]

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  Artist/Title: Sonic Catering Band / Bohman Brothers - Imperial Metric 8 Format: CDR Label: Gold Soundz (Norway) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GS50 "3 fine dishes, served with white wine... Astonishing sonic cookery from these fine gentlemen.. Co-released with Absurd."

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  Artist/Title: Sorc'Henn - FARO: Death Of The Island Sheeps 8 Format: CDR Label: Crucial Blast Price: $9 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BLISS38 "I've been haunted by the beautifully dark loopscapes of French artist Sorc'henn dating back to first hearing the band on their Harmonium pieces & dead reveries disc released by Faunasabbatha, so we were immensely stoked when Sorc'henn was interested in releasing some more of their music through Crucial Bliss. This new full length features four tracks of Sorc'henn's murky, dreamy drones that stretch out over a misty, grey-washed landscape much like the one pictured on the exterior of Faro's foldout sleeve, a lightless wetland that fades way into the distance, obfuscated by a thick veil of shadow, and the fourth track is additionally notable for being a collaboration between Sorc'henn and members of Portland black metallers L'Acephale and Virginia deathdrone outfit One Lifeless Eye. The first track is essential Sorc'henn, a twenty-one minute dronescape that is mainly made up of a single warbling harmonium loop that repeats over and over and over, as a young woman whispers lines of poetry over top. As minimalist and simple as this is, it's amazingly beautiful, and almost has a My Bloody Valentine-like quality to it, like one of the guitar-feedback ambient parts of Loveless that has been melted and crushed into a misshapen version of the original melody. The second track is a mere four minutes in comparison - a deep, murky field of subterranean rumblings and a distant crackling sound, like a phonograph needle stuck in a run-off groove over crashing waves of distorted tidal thunder and ominous harmonium drones. The next track is basically a continuation of the previous, with those sinister harmonium drones humming over surges of distorted low-end thunder and weird noises that pan from speaker to speaker. The last track, the collaboration between Sorc'henn and members of L'Acephale and One Lifeless Eye, is the longest on the disc at ovr twenty-six minutes. This one is a sprawling expanse of murky black ambience, a slow-swirling fog of muted harmonium notes, oceanic sounds, chirping noises that might be frogs, and hushed, whispered cackles and demonic processed vocals drifting across a vast void of Lustmordian darkness. " REVIEW FROM JULIAN COPE/HEAD HERITAGE: These past two months, my personal choice for all night repetition, ie: the piece that helps me most easily access the Underworld, has been the Uber-haunting 22-minute track �D�dsdansen (Death�s Dance), Life of an Island Lad�, from the FARO album by Sorc�henn. Released on that tremendous Crucial Blast subsidiary Crucial Bliss (www.crucialblast.com), FARO is a fine fine Black Metal record and, except for the more obvious and more stylized final 26-minute �evil� track �Enez Varv Faaro�, goes about its sinister business secretly, intoning plainsong in cloisters, invoking camp-fires, digital distortion and wolves, and dancing at the edge of total ambience, nay, ambulence! Then, two minutes from the end, some old French torch song comes in and really sealeth ye atmosphere. Su-fuckin�-perbe!

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  Artist/Title: Sounds of North American Adult Bookstores - mermaid in a manhole 6 Format: CDR Label: Bennifer Editions (Cananda) Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_bennifer_adult_bookstores "ever get fed up with the name of your band (especially the one that seems to suggest the female's discard of feces during the laborious conception of her child)? i mean, after a while people kind of presume a certain quality of the work based solely on the name. for example really archaic names (mostly "initial" bands) like REM or INXS can pretty much guarantee that theres going to be some expensive shit lying around and this really deep asshole that writes long-winded letters signed "prudence" telling people what to do with them. you can also pretty much assume that if theres a "town" in there (like boytown or crazytown) theres bound to be some hair-gel going around, getting all over everybody's hands- trying for the life of them to seemlessly combine post-STP grunge and caucasian-afflicted hip-hop into some highly manicured suburban pap. the only thing you can really do, you figure, is fabricate a plethora of band names that you rip off from various comedy records. "now we're a vaguely nymphomaniacal psych-band!!". this is the sister-album to gastric female reflex's "nairobi piece", and appropriately she's a 'beaut! although, i must say that she similarily inhereted a bad temper and a propensity for getting her abnormally sized "hormonal-stage" wiskers stuck in the gears of the tape recorder. she keeps her head straight on this one, though, promise. this one comes in roofing material with tits screened on it."

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  Artist/Title: Soup Purse - s/t 6 Format: CDR Label: Below PDX (USA) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BELOWPDX07 "Creep into the murky methodical mayhem of Soup Purse’s electronic effacing slips into subliminal sorcery. Todd Dickerson wrestling with new technology from Peter B’s secret ciat-lombarde laboratory. Cocolase processing Science-Fiction inspired playful keyboard emissions. Constantly churning and shifting, perfect for short attention spans and or for your pet monkey’s walkman on his first trip to the moon. Todd also plays keyboards/narrates the journeys of Space Hawk and The Dendrites. He has a shrewd opinion about just about all topics and sometimes he’s one of the funniest people I know. Mastered by Pete Swanson (Jyrk/Yellow Swans). Hand acrylic painted directly on jewel case by Todd."

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  Artist/Title: Spin-17 with Jeffrey Shurdut & Ravi Padmanabha - 21st Century Folk Music Vol 3 4 Format: CDR Label: Quodlibet (USA) Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_QLCDR_SPIN17 "Motoko Shimizu (voice, turntable, toys), Ed Chang (sax and radio), Jeffrey H Shurdut(guitar), Ravi Padmanabha (percussion). Free soul improvisations - this incarnation of Spin-17 (with special sauces Jeffrey Shurdut & Ravi Padmanabha) takes the best parts of free improv folk-skronk and ladles it over an epiphany-prone drone-groove rhythm section resulting in a full-flavored creative music casserole."

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  Artist/Title: sq - 06.29.00 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR35 35 minutes of free-improv swells, bursts and dialogues, recorded like at the Bug Jar (Rochester NY). accompanying the SQ duo were John Schoen (Pengo) on alto saxophone and r.nuuja (Sheet) on japanese noise making devices. [limited edition of 75, numbered and packaged in sealed kraft cardboard CD folders. must be torn to open.]

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  Artist/Title: Stab at God - Praying with a Gun in my Hand 8 Format: CDR Label: Below PDX (USA) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BELOWPDX16 housed in DVD case with multi-page insert entitled "DEICIDE INSTRUCTION MANUAL"

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  Artist/Title: Sten Ove Toft - landmark 4 Format: CDR Label: Humbug Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HUMBUG035 "a live recording, very noisy in the Mezbow sense but mixed with some tense churning, shifting electronics."

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  Artist/Title: Stone Baby - if English is good enough for jesus, then its good enough for me 6 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR185 This is the seventh release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. 40+ minutes of guitar, effects, violin, synth and vocals. textured drones, ghostly vocalizations, keyboard swells and progressions. this is quite a collection of tracks from this geographically challenged duo (WesternNY/US and Germany) [packaged with pro-printed covers in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes]

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  Artist/Title: Stone Baby - fully render(ed) /cloud/s 6 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR160 44+ minutes from this drone/creeper duo (Cory and Jen) from Rochester NY. guitars, violin, effects, dulcimer, homemade tape machine and more. really amazing layers of sounds from just two people. good sense and mixture of denseness and space. [packaged in a 5x7" kraft chipboard envelope, original cloud artwork from Cory, affixed with clear/thread-grid tape and sprayed/splattered, insert/notes and sprayed CDR]

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  Artist/Title: Stone Baby - Black Blossom Blues 4 Format: CDR Label: House of Alchemy (USA) Price: $9 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HOA007 "Distorted maniac no- blues music for people who live under bridges! Following up on a severely limited self-released cd-R, Black Blossom Blues is the next step towards the ultimate goal of conquering Western Civilization with black-hole, black-eye jams bellowed from the dark alleys of Rochester, NY. Tapes are cruelly manipulated, drones are squashed and guitars are turned inside out. It's finally time for the Stone Baby army to take back the streets! CD-R edition of 123."

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  Artist/Title: Stone Baby and Joe+N - destruction for appetite 8 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR168 the fourth in the Joe+N collaboration series (the first three being with Antony Milton, Sindre Bjerga and John Charlton). this release consists live in-person sessions (different from the other three which were all long-distance efforts). this is a mixture of dual guitar pieces as well as guitar and drums heavy drone/psych epics. [packaged in a heavy-duty vinyl sleeve with a pro-printed full-color cover. CDR is sprayed and splattered.] Reviews (1): Foxy Digitalis You have to applaud Carbon Records head Joe Tunis (aka Joe+N ) for always seeking out worthwhile collaboration partners. Previously working together with Anthony Milton, Sindre Bjerga and now Stone Baby, these pairings always turned out to be wonderful low-key treasures hiding out in the foggy lands between heavy psych and burning drone. �Destruction for Appetite� definately belongs to the heavy psych part of Tunis� collaborations and don�t mistake the album�s title, and track titles for some kind of hardrock mockery here. These are serious psychedelic guitar burners and I trust these guys to never make a fool of one of the greatest heavy rock albums of all time. Right�.guys? But back to the music, there�s three tracks, not counting the somewhat discordant, chaotic intro, all involving psychedelic guitar work outs and all basking in lo-fi feedback, �Mr Stone Brown� (hah) feels like a 16 minute long intro to the rest of the album. Slowly unfolding patterns surrounded by hushed feedback, the kind of thing you�d expect when going to a smoky Bardo Pond gig where you find out those guys are way too stoned to rock out. �O' Mine Sweet Child� starts off similarly but gradually evolves into a thick puddle of psych-guitar and desperate howls. It�s unfortunate the drums are so far back in the mix which makes the track lose some of the tribal force that it certainly has. During �Queen Rocket� Joe and the gang try to mix up the heavy psych with the burning drone. The guitar motifs are stretched out and sewn together by a lingering electricity. A fitting closer to an album that�s perfect for a hung over Sunday afternoon. You might have just found your cure here. 6/10 - Joris Heemskerk

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  Artist/Title: Straight Outta Mongolia - the redundancy of saying sorry 4 Format: CDR Label: fencing flatworm Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ff026 returning briefly from his hermitage on an orbiting asteroid, the master of mutant pop treats us to half a dozen future smash hits. kick ass programming and an utterly unique vocal style: this is some broke-dick funk. the disco jandek? like new order tried to record ‘low life‘ by scoring the grooves directly into barely set jelly..

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  Artist/Title: SunShip Sextet - s/t 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR50 "In June 2000, E.S.P. was asked (along with John Vance and Jesse Petersen) to perform at an outdoor rock show in Minneapolis opening for Sonic Youth and Stereolab. The corporate sponsors didn‘t like the "cock" in our name, nor did they want 3 seperate noise sets. So, along with special guests Weasel Walter and Misty Martinez, we did an overlapping noise gala under the SunShip Sextet umbrella. The snazzy digital board recording of the set, along with a subsequent live TV performance, has been released as a specially-packaged Carbon Records CDR." [limited edition of 100, each packaged hand-made cardboard cover with toner-transfer artwork and full-color inserts.]

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  Artist/Title: Suprastate - modern classics 4 Format: CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD86 "From this new lot on Tib Prod, Suprastate is a new name for me. It's one Thomas Aslaksen from Norway, who plays computer music. So far he has made releases on MP3 labels and here for the first time on CDR. I must say that I thought it was all a bit unsurprising. Loops of noise, although not loud, go bump around, culling extra sounds from field recordings, and have some plug in running. It works best when things aren't really loud and when it seems that there is something of structure or even a faint trace of melody occurring. But throughout I thought this was a rather unengaging release." - Vital Weekly

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  Artist/Title: Tape That - Autumn Collection 4 Format: CDR Label: Humbug Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HUMBUG042 What is THAT? TAPE THAT tapes almost everthing and layers it with almost everything else. Not soundscapes, but pieces of music created by juxtaposing different sounds in different spaces. Live playing in the studio layered, in real time, with ambient recordings from other places, complex microphone set ups recording the sounds up close and afar, samples put directly to TAPE as well as being recorded in the room, switching from this to THAT according to different principles of organisation and different structural limitations; different species of hits: The Background Hits, The Very Room Hits, Hit Hits, Pure Tape Hits, etc. The autumn collection can be listened to in numerous ways: Loud and up-close, soft and in the background. Add sounds to your house or hear speleologically through the layers of the sounds taped onto the CD. Everything you hear is taped live in the studio. No overdubs have been added in post-production. A little cutting here and there, though. Please enjoy it... -TT, november 2004   Finally! The debut release from the Dutch duo, Tape That. Who are part of the fabulous Amsterdam based "N collective" along with PHÔ and many other improvising groups. Check out: www.radiantslab.com/n Comes in a full colour cardboard packaging, with a Tape That collage on the cover, insert, liner notes.

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  Artist/Title: Telecult Powers - Amazing Laws of 6 Format: CDR Label: Abandon Ship (USA) Price: $5 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ASR050 "Abandon Ship is proud to announce it's 50th release! And with it comes the first non Temple of Pei Telecults album. It took some convincing via Vulcan mind-meld, but I couldn't feel more honored. So wipe the dust off of your ouija board, reshuffle your deck of tarot cards, and hem the stitches on your voodoo doll. Some real-deal mystical shit is about to go down. Keep a tight grip on your salvia pipe, for it may be your only companion on this dark voyage. Some local myths turned heroes in this mind-expanding duo. Trade in your distortion and delay for magickal boxes of pure analog spirit. Nobody has kept it realer than these guys. "

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  Artist/Title: the circle and the point - and so on for ever 4 Format: CDR Label: House of Alchemy (USA) Price: $9 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HOUSEOF004 "Post-Terrastock 6, two weary travelers holed up in a spare bedroom with a random cache of instruments and various noisemakers in an attempt to unleash some of the beer-fueled steam that had built up over the previous weekend. The music here comes from two delirious afternoons, still weary from a lack of sleep, minds still overloaded from a weekend of mania- both music related and beyond. Floating acoustic guitars buried in the murk of distorted electric guitars. Featuring Grant Capes from (VxPxC), these are ideas six years in the making, now just starting to unwind. Adorned with major cover art by Darryl Norsen. 2006. house of 004. limited edition of 123 cd-r's"

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  Artist/Title: The French Flys - s/t 4 Format: CDR Label: finkbeiner entertainment group Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FEG03 four hillbilly freaks from Albuquerque NM. four tracks of deconstructed hillbilly music. four flys smelling the shit in the basement.

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  Artist/Title: The Gizmos - Raw First Takes 1977 4 Format: CDR Label: slippy town Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SLIPTO26 "More groovy barrel-scrapings from the original '76/'77 Gizmos! This includes the previously unreleased first takes of "Kiss Of The Rat," "Human Garbage Disposal," "Cave Woman," "Gizmos World Tour," "Amerika First," and (previously released on Gulcher's SIMPLY GOOD TASTE comp CD) "Hey Beat Mon!" Although some of the written parts aren't quite executed properly, there's a spontaneity that was lost on some of the released tracks. I kinda prefer these versions myself! Plus two unreleased bonus tracks of the 1976 Gizmos performing "Muff Divin' (In Willkie South)" and "Mean Screen" at a drunken teenage party. Listen as sloshed Gizmos slowly crawl through the two songs. Adolescent mud tones! With Ken Highland, Eddie Flowers, Ted Niemiec, Rich Coffee, Dave Sulak, Davey Medlock, Rick Czajka, Jim DeVries, Don Jaskulske, and MX-80's Rich Stim. Edition of 177. Released April 2004."

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  Artist/Title: The Juniper Meadows - Jacaranda twilight 4 Format: CDR Label: Deserted Village (UK) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_DV21 "Jacaranda twilight is a pastoral instrumental duo of Brad "Foxy" Rose and Chris Skillern. It's a bright, uncluttered recording and an entirely acoustic affair and they manage to play a dozen instruments between them over seven tracks. "

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  Artist/Title: The Turd Burglar - s/t 4 Format: CDR Label: finkbeiner entertainment group Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FEG02 a most disturbing set that started out as a Pengo set and special guest, The Turd Burglar, turned into something more Shittie. this release includes live tracks and manipulations that will make your bowls move...

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  Artist/Title: Thee Free - Welcome to Liberty City 5 Format: CDR Label: Freenoise (UK) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FCD06 "The most inventive and progressive album so far from Thee Free. At times imaginative and always very free, even when soaked in (sporadic) heavy rhythms or walls of harsh noise. Mangled radio output and voice samples blend with abusive storms of coloured noise, drums, clarinet, flutes and heavy electric guitars make twisted and psychedelic appearances. Certain tracks show how the total (sometimes very gradual) deterioration of a 'tune' can amount to something just as, if not more, engaging. We are also offered hope from the words of a yogi in the midst of this warped sonic landscape during 'Juice Bug'... 'Coily' was recorded on the day of the announcement of Coil artist Johnn Balance's passing. The album title is in tribute to Mark Stewart and the Mafia's track 'Liberty City', appearing on 'Learning to Cope with Cowardice', a hugely significant album of the early eighties, musically and otherwise. Seven lengthy tracks (56 mins total) from the archives of 2006 TF's sessions; stimulating and truly experimental, resulting in a powerful underground album."

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  Artist/Title: Thurston Moore - Suicide Notes for Acoustic Guitar 8 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR192 This is the eleventh release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. 25+ minutes of guitar explorations from this veteran of the scene, as well as Sonic Youth. this is some of the best solo guitar works i've heard in a while and one of my favorite from Thurston. [packaged with pro-printed covers in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve]

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  Artist/Title: Tinnitustimulus - Various Titles 4 Format: CDR Label: Thunder Crap (USA) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_tinnitustimulus_series001 a while ago, i got a bunch of various titles from Tinnitustimulus, Tom Bennett, a high school kid residing in Bath NY (middle of nowhere). this entry is actually for a random release by Tom. most of the items he gave me were of editions of 10. some of only 2!!! so, add this to your order, and you'll get a random, very limited edition, hand-created/unique package/artwork in a slim-jewel case. awesome noise, no-input mixer, feedback loop stuff. here's Tom's description.... "tinnitustimulus is from the 'woods and likes to take advantage of having no neighbors by wrecking stereo equipment at signifigant volumes. most of his music is composed of feedback going through an eq, by means of a cheap dj mixer. this creates low freq feed, while his computer and/or amp is both inputted and outputted as well, making high feed. then they are overdubbed on top of eachother. it may be much more than this however, synths, mics, acoustic guitar (bowed with plexiglass), radio interference and interference causers have been used occaisionally. almost always on a high amplitude( what noise art doesn't?) this stuff real be definatly heared when played. there has been no tinnitustimulus shows (as of yet)."

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  Artist/Title: Tom Carter and Shawn McMillen - colors for 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR87 10YR.Series.07 - the seventh in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. a beautiful collection of drones, tones and guitar magic. All of what you would expect from Tom Carter (of the Charalambides) and Shawn McMillen (Ash Castles On the Ghost Coast, Iron Kite) and more!

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  Artist/Title: Tom Lake - Whoomsical Proclamation 6 Format: CDR Label: Expanding Pegasus (USA) Price: $7 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ExpandingPegasus002 "This is my version of a smiling, enthusiastic shout out. I wanted to project, to proclaim to the world my true, inner self. To let it all hang out and marinate a bit in the Every Ear. Too heart-on-my-sleeve for you? A little gross sounding? Fear not, tentative one, I was not alone in this audible endeavor. I have always been a person who draws energy from other people, so this album features many contributions from people I love and am inspired by. I also had the desire for a sort of collaboration with the music I was making. I wanted the album, as it was being formed, to sort of direct itself. I hoped to constantly be surprising myself, to be pushed into uncomfortable places, and to happen upon gooey, gobs of florescent joy whenever possible. As I was finishing the album, surprise after surprise occurred until I had an album that felt like it had it�s own voice and character, eventually telling it�s own story of prophetic, whoomsical proportions. Whoomsical Proclamation is presented in a full color printed cardstock sleeve with beautiful art drawn by Kate Wheeler. The Cd-R is printed with a hand-carved rubber stamp, and embellished with purple paint by hand."

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  Artist/Title: Topon Das - eleven songs 4 Format: CDR Label: Ghetto Blaster Records (CANADA) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TOPON01 Sultry Eastern rhythms, ethnic melodies, Eastern singing, strange guitar-sounds, samples of different nature sounds.

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  Artist/Title: Tore Honore Boe - summertime blues 4 Format: CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD44 "..Also quite nice is the release by Tore Honore Boe. On the cover of this CDR we find the cryptic note: 'for the realisation ov this project, Tore went swimming'. The one piece is called 'Even Poolboys Get The Blues' (subtitled: 'Opus for longing loins, fm synthesizes and blending outside) on this CDR starts out with a short sample that is being repeated ad infinitum. Over the course of thirty-five minutes two grainy, low resolution samples are added, one on the right side and one on the left. Nothing much else, until things slow down towards the end. Simplistic one might say, but played at a somewhat higher volume this is certainly a most captivating piece of minimal music, but it stretches the level of what the listener can handle to considerable length." ---Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly

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  Artist/Title: torso/gack - split 6 Format: CDR Label: small doses (USA) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosetwentytwo - split (CDR) - small doses $8.00 "The Torso/Gack split is two sides of the same apocalyptic coin. The Torso portion's P.E. styled synth destruction walks you through your own torturous death. Then Gack's more atmoshperic blackened noise takes you on a slow journey through purgatory and leaves you stranded in hell. Edition of 103."

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  Artist/Title: Totally Dad - Video for the Snake 6 Format: CDR Label: Abandon Ship (USA) Price: $5 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ASR043 "Three hell-hermits from Middleton Street extra choose to live like field mice. one yea cooks, one ha cleans, and one cuts doh paper. if they notice the night late has begun, they drop their gold duties and fold instruments into towels bang. It has all been full saved. Somebody does it better than."

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  Artist/Title: Transcendental Manship Highway - lord of the trees 6 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR174 a heavy and awesomely black psych meeting of the upstateNY/thruway scene, including Eric and Ray of Century Plants, Cory from Stone Baby and Joe from Carbon/Tumul/Tuurd/etc, captured at Metropolis Underground in Syracuse NY. heavy/loud drone guitar with thunderous tribesman-beat and ghostly sweeps leading into free/noise-rock, kraut mayhem and back again. [packaged in a heavy vinyl sleeve with pro-printed card-stock cover] "You just can't get those manly sounds anywhere else; brings back the good old days, when all men were spirit brothers, walking the primordial earth, looking around at cool shit..." - Mike-O. Reviews (3): Crucial Blast The experimental noise/drone scene that revolves around Rochester's Carbon Records has produced a very small but exciting crop of heavy free-rock groups like Stone Baby, Crush The Junta and Entente Cordiale, and I've become a pretty big fan of all of them. This little scene is as incestuous as these kinds of insular communities usually are, with just a handful of bands swapping members back and forth and forming into different permutations of one core sound, which in this case is a kind of burly, guitar-based brand of improvisational riff-ooze that takes the New Zealand free-rock sound of the Dead C and Gate and pumps it full of volume and testosterone and crushing distortion. Transcendental Manship Highway is the latest project to grow off of the Carbon/Rochester free-skuzz trunk, and it's pretty heavy stuff. Featuring members of Crush The Junta and Stone Baby, TMH go for the sludgy, improvised heaviosity shared with Crush The Junta, but the half-hour track that makes up this debut disc is much more free and trippy. Sprawling metallic sludge riffage goes off in twenty directions at once, the guitarists grinding away at thick droning powerchords over a battery of pouding, somewhat tribal sounding percussion. The riffage weaves its way through a dense fog of swirling feedback, black plumes of amplifier smoke and formless guitar solos that race skyward and send off fiery sparks and chunks of melody; halfway through the track, the music dissolves into this crushing wall of blackened amp drone teeming with extreme wah-pedal abuse and reverb and cymbal noise that stretches out for several minutes, until the band crashes back in, krautrock drums pulsing deep underneath the layers of delayed vocals and blackened shrieking and feedback. Formless and massive, feedback is the focus and TMH spit out monolithic gobs of the stuff across this set, and deliver a thunderous sludge-drone blast that sounds like the loudest sections of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless being blasted at full volume over another sound system spinning Skullflower's IIIrd Gatekeeper. You can smell the amplifier smoke all over this. Even the disc itself, painted silver with a weird bubbling texture across it's surface, looks like it has been in the presence of a powerful heat source. The disc comes in a full color ardstock folder with nice wintery photography of frost-covered woodlands, which ties in nicely with the group's bleak, blasted tribal psych sludge Auxillary Out The awesomely christened Transcendental Manship Highway is an upstate NY �supergroup� featuring Hare, Eric Hardiman (Century Plants, Burnt Hills, Rambutan,) Cory Card (Stone Baby) and Joe Tunis (Joe+N). This CD-r is a single half hour bludgeoning and damn fine one at that. Beginning rather quietly with a lone drum and indecipherable speech, guitar tones drift in along with a vocal sample submerged in a effects. Tension is built up gradually with some frantic, slicing wah-wah work before the tempo picks and the full crew gets moving. It�s actually nearly relaxing at first. Shuffling mid-tempo drums and 2 or 3 blurry guitars combining with ease, but there�s always a suggestion of something a bit more evil on the horizon. Around the 7 minute mark, TMH shifts to sinister. A lot of cymbal smashing and wah freak outs and general disarray. The drums drop out a bit revealing a pretty solid chunk of noise being kicked out by the other dudes. I think there�s someone shouting an arena rock chant but it�s completely buried by grimy feedback. About halfway through the drummer picks up a fast groovy pattern and the track takes off. All of sudden the psychedelic feedback bath becomes a foot stomper with the return of a (still buried) lead vocalist. It�s all pretty ruling, especially an aborted guitar solo during a breakdown. Whoever was watching this gig was treated to quite a show. Things slow way down and get a little heavier and there�s a killer repeated synth swoop coming from somewhere that adds a second point of rhythmic orientation. All guitars take this as a cue to go to town, some go wild but one keeps things steady with a nice melody. If this was completely improv�d then, damn, these guys know to write great songs on the spot. The track actually fits somewhere between a long jam and already worked out songs. No one ever gets lost either which is always good in long jams like this because it can be a bit of a bummer when some dudes are roaring but another isn�t sure what he�s doing. An amazingly protracted drum pummeling ensues against more feedback and wah-wah excursions. There�s a come down which actually a total fake out before the four horsemen lay waste to the room and everything in it in the final minute. Pretty rad set, I�m looking forward to seeing more of this combo; so hopefully this wasn�t a one-off performance cause, you know, if it is that would suuuuck. Foxy Digitalis The bleak, blown-out free-noise world that is upstate New York, especially the damaged genius that revolves around Rochester�s Carbon Records, does NOT get enough attention! Transcendental Manship Highway is an upstate NY super-group of sorts, comprising Eric and Ray of Century Plants, Cory from Stone Baby and Carbon head honcho Joe Tunis. Their debut CD-R �Lord of the Trees� is a mammoth half-hour blast of cranium-devouring guitar and drum punishment that is sure to call attention to this underrated scene. Skullflower is the first thing that comes to mind when attempting to conjure up comparisons, as these four dudes lather their sonic terrorism with the blackened char of an apocalyptic premonition. Navigating the seemingly impromptu appearance of labyrinthine thrash soloing, melting sheets of feedback, and almost motorik rhythms that descend from what must be a starless night sky (a sky blackened perhaps by the many failed factories of decades past) is a daunting yet worthwhile endeavour. The recording quality is surprisingly top-notch, as the disc documents what must have been a deafening live show. When the Angel of Death approaches at the end of days, he will be striding along the Transcendental Manship Highway. Will you be prepared? 9/10 - Bryon Hayes

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  Artist/Title: Tsarskoie Selo Hemophilarmonic - s/t 6 Format: CDR Label: Nothing Out There (Belgium) Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_NOT10 "I've said this times and times before, but the very first show of Tsarsko�e Selo Hemophilarmonic was one of the best live soundtrack I've witnessed so far. On the night Belgium's national day, at the break of summer, a group of people quietly gathered in the backyard garden of an instruments-filled house in Tournai. The rendez-vous was for a solo improvisation upon a projection of Robertson's silent adaptation for the screen of Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde. Under the twisted pseudonym of TSH acts the same man already known here as L'Enfant M�duse. But TSH aims at a very different, though not completely unfamiliar sound universe. Sharing the darkness and loneliness of the M�duse, TSH is much more ghotic and less obvious, and, if anything, much more electricity-based and noisy. Still it is not an accident that the first important project of TSH involved the myth of Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde, for it forms, with L'Enfant M�duse, a kind of supplementary schizophrenic duo. One year after Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde, The home sessions of this first release by TSH have quickly followed the recording day in Odomez of L'Enfant M�duse's recent release. From the man's word, it is a religious album, an abstract requiem inspired by the na�ve and fatalistic faith of northern continental Europe's coalfield, its desperately black and flat earth, and its memory disturbed and transformed by the industrial exploitation. "

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  Artist/Title: tucker dulin/nick hennies - as so 4 Format: CDR Label: Digitalis Industries Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_foxglove021 a quiet evening spent in the warm, ocean air of san diego turns the locals on their ass. barely audible and practically effortless improvisations from drums and trombone fill the night sky. in the background, the hum of flickering lights and chirping crickets provide the perfect backdrop. take heed young master, this is your magic.

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  Artist/Title: Tumul - writing in tongues 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR195 two tracks (32+ minutes total) of live Tumul madness. each track a complete set. vocal drones and pattern, electronic wizardry, etc. an auditory rival to their live, very visual, sets. [originally release with a plywood and plaster mount, but these are simple flat-package versions. black and white print in heavy vinyl sleeve)

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  Artist/Title: Tumul - awaken this light 8 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR170 50+ minutes of Tumul's brand of vocal-manipulations, electronics, turntable-samples and shear lunacy. culled from live and studio recordings over the first 6 months of 2008 (well, the first one is from Dec of 2007). [packaged in a heavy vinly gate-fold sleeve, with stencil and splattered artwork, on top of printed text. CDR is also sprayed/splattered]

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  Artist/Title: Tumul - Tension Management 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR121 Tumul is Camburger Fahresh (aka Dr. Hamburger) and Joe Tunis (aka Joe+N, etc), long lost twins. this is electronics, mics, bowls, samples, etc. recorded at Penarrow Catacombs. [sprayed and stenciled cardstock cover with sprayed CDR inside heavy vinyl sleeve]

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  Artist/Title: Tungsten Grasshopper - tg2 4 Format: CDR Label: fencing flatworm Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ff022 a welcome return for the mechanical cricket, surfing his own neo-radiophonic wave, in amidst the flotsam and detritus of our shared world. pure tones, autistic programming hint at a tightly controlled anger, a limitless sadness. very real electronics

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  Artist/Title: vakhchav - the relative middle 4 Format: CDR Label: small doses (USA) Price: $7 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dose67 "this was the first vakhchav material i'd heard, and have to say that i was blown away. nickolas mohanna takes a unique approach to making drones. with guitar and electronics he creates these pulsing, swirling sounds that hover in your ears for just the right amount of time, 5 tracks over 32 minutes. color cover with insert. edition of 71 copies."

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - don't teach a man to bake, teach him to eat -- Joe+N 2007 Day-Tour Recordings 10 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $10 Catalog ID: CR169 2 disc set consisting of recordings from the Joe+N 2007 Day-Tour. The theme of this day-tour was to incorporate each of the bands Joe was involved in at the time. So each stop on the tour, a different Joe+N related band would perform either acoustically or with battery-powered amps/instruments. The release consists of tracks from Joe+N, Tumul, Tuurd, Entente Cordiale, Deciduous vs Conifer, Crush the Junta and Ada le O (with guests). [packaged in a 5x7x1 box, sprayed/splattered, stickered and taped shut. along with sprayed cdrs]

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Bjerga / Iversen remixed - dissect and connect 4 Format: CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD90 remix collection from Hoh, Robert Horton, Dead Wood, Andy Jarvis, Joe+N , Swamps Up Nostrils, Hronir, Green Kingdom, Prester, Tzesne and Culver. co-released with Gold Soundz

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - the art of loren connors 6 Format: CDR Label: h-p imprint (Netherlands) Price: $13 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_hpcdr011 "a thematic tribute for which key elements of loren connors' art are acknowledged and emphasized. cult phenomenon loren connors has been recording blues derived improvised guitar since 1978, and to my knowledge no one before has ever paid tribute to his inspirational and unique work. through collecting, studying and help sorting his work for his discography site, i've been working towards the idea of expressing my admiration for him through my own method of thematic improvised guitar playing. with the help of a few enthousiastic fellow admirors who i've met along the way, i'm proud to present this release as a collective effort to show deep respect and gratitude for loren and suzanne connors for who they are and what they do. ---- anthony lavaud - guitar; andy gilmore w/ada le o (andy gilmore - guitar; david merulla - guitar; chad oliveiri - guitar; chris reeg - bass; joe tunis - drums); craig colorusso - guitar; sander wildeboer - guitar, voice; joe+n aka joe tunis - guitar; laurens karsten - cover drawing. ltd to 80 - silk-screen printed on prepared canvas cover, printed back picture and insert, and hand numbered silver disc in plastic greeting card outer sleeve"

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Location Study 4 Format: CDR Label: Dirty Demos (UK) Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dirtycdr_016 a varied collection of field recordings from around the world. includes Adrian Newton (Englang), Lasse-Marc Rick (Bosnia-Herzegovina/Germany), Martin Thompson (England), Kurt Tidmore (Ireland/Sicily), Ollie Hall (Spain/England), Aaron Ximm (India), Adam Baker (Netherlands/England), Joe Tunis (Joe+N) (USA) and Allan Upton (Iceland/USA)

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Rewired Burglar Alarms 6 Format: CDR Label: Gold Soundz (Norway) Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GS042 "A bunch of artists who I admire were asked to remix/ rewire/ re-whatever my music. All source sounds are taken from my bottom-heavy drone-opus "New sounds for burglar alarms" disc. I'm really happy with the results. Cut-up electro-bashing, thrashy noise, artsy drones and flat-out doom, a great album, actually, and it all goes surprisingly well together... Features Robert Horton, Staplerfahrer, Crazy River, Qrt, Anders Gjerde, Sten Ove Toft (of Ryfylke), Pål Asle Pettersen, Jan-M. Iversen, Charles Balls (of canadian duo Gastric Female Reflex) and A. Jarvis/M. Jarvis (of Firstperson fame). Comes in ejector-case. 40 copies."

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - three.pieces 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR133 a collection of mostly out-of-print 3" releases from the festival, all compiled on to one 5" CDR . features ~20min pieces from Andy Gilmore, Chad Oliveiri and Joe+N. all three pieces were recorded at visual studies workshop, rochester ny on 01.19.2002 at -- Andy Gilmore - "an amazing live recording of Andy's brand of beautiful solo guitar layering. for fans of Loren Mazzacane Connors, Noel Akchote, Brian Eno (ie. Discrete Music) and the like."; Chad Oliveiri - "feels right at home along side releases from labels such as Mego, Meme, etc"; Joe+N - "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."

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  Artist/Title: Wether - Uncertain Ritual 8 Format: CDR Label: Crucial Blast Price: $9 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BLISS35 "Wether is the blackened noise project from Mike Haley, the beardo that runs the classy Electric Human Project label and who is also half of Big China & Little Trouble...this entity has released an assload of cassettes and splits and even a wee bot if vinyl over the past couple of years, and all of it which I've heard has been excellent, a kind of formless, ganrled industrial blackness, usually very dirgey and crushing, possessed by the occasional blast of snarling black metal screams buried in distortion and awesomely malevolent synthesizer drones that, when they really get going, sound like the tarblack afterbirth of Wolf Eyes jamming on cues from John Carpenter's The Fog OST from '94. We finally hooked up with Mike to bring you this new full length of infernal hypnosis Uncertain Ritual, a collection of hellish mechanical atmospheres, meditative trance-loops constructed from machine clatter and blocks of white noise, torrents of bellowing distortion goo and black ambience that's creepy as fuck. This is super-high quality fx pedal/circuit-bent generated deathscape action, brutally heavy in spots with massive creeping industrial rhythms and whirlpools of ultra-distorted metal-like crunch, and tranquil and beautiful in others when Wether moves into placid drones and subdued underground vibrations. This is terminally evil shit though, and it falls somewhere in between the black ambient/industrial chaos of artists like Nordvargr and Abruptum, and the grinding electronic skum of Wolf Eyes and Anenzephalia. Uncertain Ritual is packaged in the signature Bliss sleeve with full color artwork from Crucial Blast, and the disc is attached to the interior of the sleeve on a plastic hub. Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies."

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  Artist/Title: Wolfnuke - Nightwar 8 Format: CDR Label: Crucial Blast Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BLAZE02 "The second document on the new Crucial Blaze imprint, Wolfnuke's Nightwar is a glorified demo, the first raw recorded work from this new Hagerstown, Maryland quartet that includes the C-Blast boss on bass and bellows, as well as a current member of long-running hardcore/grinders Strong Intention (Six Weeks / Coalition Records) on guitar. Wolfnuke seeks a different form of mayhem however, forging a furious, blackened thrash assault out of an unlikely combination of influences that include the obvious (classic second wave black metal and Teutonic thrash), the vitriolic crossover thrash of Cro-Mags's 1989 album Best Wishes, a lust for the driving, apocalyptic power of late 80's UK goth rock (Fields of The Nephilim, Sisters Of Mercy), and the violent aggression of Scandinavian hardcore. The four songs on Nightwar are universally fast-paced and dark as hell, starting with the nihilistic blackened thrash of "Beneath The Last Of The Neuro-Goat" and continuing through the blazing black metal-meets-crossover extermination vision of "Deathfire", the crushing mid-tempo blackened metalpunk of the title track and the anthemic matricide hallucination of closer "Filthwraith". Originally made available as a free download and cassette at local performances earlier in the year, the Nightwar demo has been presented here as a hand-numbered cd-r release in a print run of 250 copies and packaged in the Crucial Blaze signature library case with an insert card, a set of 1" buttons, and a vinyl sticker. It is also available on cassette, likewise limited to a print run of 100 copies."

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  Artist/Title: Yes, Collapse - final diagnosis 6 Format: CDR Label: Crucial Blast Price: $9 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR_ YesCollapse "the final recording from this Dayton improv-noise crew; brutal industrial factory scrape, rusted sheet metal floating through dank halls, and the buzz of destroyed electrified instruments heard through 10 feet of concrete."

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  Artist/Title: [-hyph-] - breathing gadgets 4 Format: CDR Label: Anti-information (Germany) Price: $12 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_AICdisc004 cd-r 60min, 1st ed/100. "… breathing still is the essential metaphor for everything organic and the proof of everything organic to be a matter of regularity, linearity [otherwise pathological] and of natural calculation / calculated naturality."

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  Artist/Title: � +YN - La cancion del ciempies / Quise ser buho 6 Format: CDR Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IKU_OYN "This is � +yn : a group formed by Gustavo Valerga, Mar�a Victoria Arener, Pablo Picco and C�sar Young. Four people from different parts of the country mixed together in C�rdoba (one of Argentina�s bigger towns, 600 km west from Buenos Aires). Recorded in 2007 and mixed this year, �La canci�n del ciempi�s� (�the song of the centipede�) comes from the same recording sessions of �Copa de un �rbol sin ra�z� [LP that is about to be finished later this year]. Vocals are mostly throat singing by Mar�a Victoria, Gustavo makes all the guitar walls, C�sar does the drumming and Pablo the keyboards & flutes. Spectral melodies in second track �Quise ser b�ho� (�i wanted to be an owl�), sung by the special quest, our friend Gubia from Ecuador. Long minutes of electric static after some thick guitar and keyboard barriers, mixed with tons of voices, just to uncannily land in some woods near home, calmly hypnotized by some hand made stick flutes. We like folk, we like drone, we like to hit electric guitars, we like overtone singing and we like the trees that cover us at night. Just sit back there and enjoy the music from the heart of the centipede."