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  Artist/Title: Chen Santa Maria - Jefferson Chopper/Great Society 8 Format: 7inch Label: Zum (USA) Price: $5 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ZUM030 The duo of George Chen and Steven Santa Maria document another phase in their half-decade collaboration of improvised sonic experiments. This co-release with 333 (7" single series that has worked with Deerhoof, Girltalk, Crack: We Are Rock) captures the band playing with rhythmic elements recorded with Brian Tester (Bulbs, Triangle) in pastoral Berkeley, CA. The pedals and effects used for this recording were stolen shortly afterward so this is the last of this type of sound, not by choice but necessity. Having toured Europe and UK in Spring 2010 (opening for Mount Eerie, High Places, Talk Normal, and Weasel Walter), CSM continues its California campaign. Numbered edition of 250. "The surprise of the evening was Chen Santa Maria who hail from Oakland, CA (Oaktown represent!). With just a suitcase-encased synth, a drum machine, guitar and bass, Chen Santa Maria put on a set that was somewhere between Black Dice, Best Coast and Keith Fullerton Whitman. If that means nothing to you, their set began with some synth and guitar loop doodles, that progressively became more composed and rhythmic. Gradually it became fuzzier and fuzzier and ended up with an occasional 4/4 beat. While noise music can sometimes be very ‘in your face’ and/or annoying (read for: tapped out modes of confrontation), Chen Santa Maria created a thoughtful space that allowed the listener to enter slowly and with pleasure." Carpe Berlin

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  Artist/Title: Core of the Coalman - 2/3(r4) 6 Format: CASS Label: Zum (USA) Price: $7 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ZUM_TTT009 c47 Jorge Boehringer heavy insomniac beehive cluster one long piece "New Cassette from George Chen and Steve Santa Maria's label Two Thousand Tapes features a variation on a continuous sound structure performed by Core of the Coalman many times in concerts in Oakland and San Francisco as well as in Czech Republic. Here, heavy, physical sounds drone and rub against one another in a crushing geological sexuality. New minerals are born here. This is something of a sequel to the very well recieved cassette Carnasie released by Custodian Color Zoo Containers a few years back. (2/3)r to the 4th power"

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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: Gaze - 2 6 Format: CASS Label: Zum (USA) Price: $5 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ZUM_TTT015 "Electronic collaboration from Collin McKelvey (Orbless, Slaughtering Dolphins, Liminal Planes), Ned Meiners (Eat Skull, Hospitals), Corey Hucks Two side long tracks of synth and drum machine abuse. Side A recorded under the guidance of LSD. C18 Edition of 100 "

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  Artist/Title: High Castle - You're On Your Own Way 10 Format: LP Label: Zum (USA) Price: $9 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ZUM026 [1 SIDED EP] Hailing from different corners of the noisier spectrum of Southern California bands (Child Pornography, Duchesses, Woman's Worth, Work, Hips, and Saboteurs), we signed them not on the strength of their pedigrees but on the bona fides of a suckerpunch live delivery and one self-released CDR. High Castle is your older brothers' favorite band, assuming he grew up on a steady diet of '90s underground rock. They produce a viscous byproduct of the jams you grew up on dragged through a record collection's worth of sludge and muck. Once you decide to bring it, that's kinda the only way to go. The "You're on Your Own Way" EP is the debut record for High Castle, a culmination of songs road tested on summer 2008 US tour and written post New Years hallucinations. Songs about garbage strikes, astral projection, lonely security guards, hedonism, dropping out, meditation, injustice, misplaced hearts...and more. Seven short bursts of salvation, pressing of 500, mastered by Weasel Walter. Two color silkscreened covers by Paul Morgan (Club Sandwich, Business Lady) "The new High Castle 12" EP is pretty brutal throughout, metal and HC tinged, but it still finds these weird little spazzy, jazzy grooves in spots. Maybe it's art rock? Whatever you want to call it, it's geting some turntable time, and with a song titled 'Are Fixed Gear Tricksters the New Rollerbladers?' I think you get an idea where they stand. It's on Zum Records, and I think it's the band's debut." -THRASHER

• Artist/Title: John Benson, George Chen, Brian Miller - s/t 6 Label: Zum (USA) Price: $7 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ZUM_Chen "October 15, 2005 jam session in the Club Short basement. JB (A Minor Forest, Hale Zukas, Creepign Death, Evil Wikkid Warrior), GC (7 Year Rabbit Cycle, KIT, Treehugger) and BM (Gang Wizard, Rose for Bohdan, Foot Village) mix acoustic instruments, electronics, percussion, voices, and mucus. Print gocco is to thank for the art...over 45 minutes of music"

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  Artist/Title: Mi Or And The Pedestals - ||||| 6 Format: CASS Label: Zum (USA) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ZUM_TTT005 "Solo project of one Ceci Moss (formerly of Boxleitner and SSSSpectres), 40 minutes of synth wash and vocal bits sifted in, percussive and weird! Total find! Limited edition of 90"

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  Artist/Title: Social Junk - Somebody Should've Told You 6 Format: CASS Label: Zum (USA) Price: $7 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ZUM_TTT011 c47. edition of 100 side one Division Jersey Girls Three Thousand Times Wilderness side two Love Inside Skeleton of a Punk Swirl

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Zum Audio Vol 3 4 Format: CD Label: Zum (USA) Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ZUM020 TRACK LISTING: 1. Channels 3 and 4- New Freelance Society 2. Beak Full of Rubies - Reading the Leaves 3. Coughs - Malibu 4. Child Abuse - Blessed From the Bowels 5. John Wiese - Arrhythmia 6. Silver Daggers - Keep Away 7. Lakes - Song of Investment Capital Overseas 8. TG - La Nuit Version 9. Huts - Camp Along Young Oxen 10. Antifamily - Rome is Not a City 11. KIT - Forest 12. Micose and the Mau Maus - #Z 13. Stefan Udell - Little Glotchy 14. Axolotl - Legs, Shouts 15. Bromp Treb - Daughters & Sons of Perpetual Limp-Riddim 16. We Quit - Bones 17. Can't - Homesick 18. Deerhoof - C (live 2004)19. My Little Red Toe - Room 20. Dim Diamond - Red Flowers Bloom 21. Yellow Swans 22. Shoplifting - Leaving Your Station 23. Ghost to Falco - The End Mastering by Weasel Walter, cover artwork collaboration by George Chen and Lart Cognac Berliner in a gatefold sleeve from Pinball Press in Portland.