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  Artist/Title: John Horner - s/t 8 Format: CASS Label: Carbon Records Price: $6 Catalog ID: CR207 2 sides, each around 12 minutes of heavy pummeling solo bass guitar excursions. [C24. limited edition of 51. Wood cut and stamped Stumptown press covers, with color copy inserts]

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  Artist/Title: Carbon Records - Carbon Emblem Design 10 Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonTSHIRT_CarbonEmblem Black ink on solid gray shirt. Available in S, M, L, XL, and 2XL

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  Artist/Title: Tuurd - Hand Design 10 Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonTSHIRT_TuurdHand Red ink on heather gray shirt. Design by Mike Turzanski - www.miketurzanski.com. Available in S, M, L, XL, and 2XL

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Tunes from the Toilet Vol. 1 10 Format: 7inch Label: Continuum (USA) Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Continuum25 55 bands each doing 15 seconds or less on a 140 gram 7" vinyl record. Includes tracks from Tuurd, Sissy Spacek (John Weise), Waves Crashing Piano Chords, Sunken Cheek, Tinnitustimulus, Foot and Mouth Disease, Swallowing Bile, and many more. Limited to 500 copies.

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  Artist/Title: Fields of Gaffney / Pernath - split 4 Format: 7inch Label: Morc Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_morc28 four new songs bringing the lofi-era back to life. Fields of gaffney is the new band of Eric gaffney, co-founder of sebadoh. though his releases over the past ten years have been very rare, he has lost nothing of his songwriting talents: these songs can easily stand the comparison with the songs he wrote for the critically acclaimed albums ‘III‘ and ‘bubble and scrape‘. this is his first single since his contribution to sub pop‘s singles club in 2000. Two new Pernath-hits as well. songs about mad cows and saying goodbye in spanish - for fans of swearing at motorists. a welcome follow-up to their split single with bingo trappers,wio and mongrellreplica louis vuitton handbags

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  Artist/Title: Tuurd - Not So Heavy / Pollock Dracula 9 Format: 7inch Label: Carbon Records Price: $10 Catalog ID: CR206 Culled from the same recording session as Tuurd’s LP I Wish My Wife Was This Dirty, this single features the almost poppy (but still heavy and loud) Not So Heavy, and the slow trudging Pollock Dracula. [Packaged in a silkscreened Stumptown press fold-together kraft sleeve featuring artwork by Mike Turzanski. It also includes two 7” x 7” one-color silkscreened prints on heavy chipboard of Turzanski’s work. Digital download coupon included. Random colored vinyl. Limited to 100 copies.]

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Total Fucking Depression 12 Format: OTHER Label: Animal Disguise (USA) Price: $13 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ADR060 2XC60 BOX SET COMPILED FROM 2005-2007, THIS IS A STUDY IN COMPLETELY SOUL-DRAINING APOCALYPTIC SOUNDSCAPES FROM THE ADR FAMILY. 12 ARTISTS SPREAD ACROSS 2 C60 TAPES AND PACKAGED IN A BLACK VINYL BOX W/ A FOLDED POSTER INSERT FEATURING IMAGERY/NOTES FROM EACH ARTIST (MAMMAL, GROWING, MONSTROSITY BRINKMAN, VIKI, C. DRAHEIM, KITES, REDROT, HIVE MIND, IOVAE, CHARLES LAREAU, PANICSVILLE, BRAN(...)POS). A MOSTLY UNPLEASURABLE JOURNEY INTO THE SUB-UNDERGROUND VOID. ALL AUDIO PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED. LIMITED EDITION OF 100. THE END IS HERE.

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  Artist/Title: Warmer Milks - Margaret is Blind 10 Format: 7inch Label: Animal Disguise (USA) Price: $4 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ADR101 THE FINAL WARMER MILKS RECORDINGS AND LINEUP FROM 2009 THAT WOULD EVENTUALLY BECOME THE BAND CROSS. LIMITED PRESSING OF 200 COPIES WITH COVER ART/DESIGN BY GARY BEAUVAIS. LARGE CENTER HOLE, 45 RPM.

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  Artist/Title: Mammal - Lonesome Drifter 20 Format: 2LP Label: Animal Disguise (USA) Price: $12 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ADR100 "THIS IS BOTH THE END AND THE BEGINNING." "Mammal's 2007 album Lonesome Drifter is a study in nihilism. It conjures up the classic themes of alienation, of "souls in isolation," of a misanthropic artist hunched over a guitar, drum machine and four-track recorder in a rustic cabin in the barren wilderness, both metaphorically and literally. Which is not to say it isn't fun. It's a work of serious outsider art, but if you look closely between the psychotic breaks you'll find smart, if stinging, doses of dark humor. How funny is the over the top ridiculousness of the opening track "Repulsion" with its minimal beat, overdriven to the point of crackling distortion, and half-step monster guitar riff repeated ad infinitum with only minor variations for over ten minutes?! But its effectiveness is undeniable -- it will have you banging your head while it sucks you deep into the world of Mammal. The second track, "Fatherlands," is just as minimal but in different terms: the guitar is muffled, quiet and drenched in reverb, the drums are absent, and this track has lyrics, albeit oblique ones seemingly thanking a mother and father before death...a suicide note perhaps? The rest of the album basically oscillates between these two extremes, with subtle variations on the theme, perfectly capturing the very essence of bipolarity and manic depression. This music reflects the psyche of an individual for whom "pissed off at the world" barely scratches the surface. These are the songs that should be playing in the iPods of Columbine kids and mall shooters everywhere, rather than lame corporate hip-hop. However, it would be hypocritical to say that none of us on the listening end have never experienced black moods such as the one Mammal resides in perpetually, so this music essentially provides a potential catharsis, and hopefully an exorcism of the demons within us all." - All Music

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  Artist/Title: Bad Party - Coming Out Slowly 12 Format: LP Label: Animal Disguise (USA) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ADR085 DEBUT RELEASE FROM THIS DETROIT BASED INDUSTRIAL/PUNK DUO FEATURING EX-MEMBERS OF WHITE DEVIL AND TAMION 12 INCH. 8 SONGS OF RAW, UNCOMFORTABLE MISANTHROPY AND SELF REFLECTION. INCLUDES THE FAN FAVORITES 'ANOTHER GIRL DIES', 'HATE HALF MYSELF', 'I TOUCHED HER TWICE', 'STRAP ON, I'M A MAN', 'FEATHERED HAIR AND TIGHTASS JEANS', 'KILL KILL KILL', 'CATHOLIC GUILT', AND 'LONDON'. PARENTAL ADVISORY SUGGESTED. LIMITED VINYL PRESSING OF 500 COPIES.

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  Artist/Title: Cadaver in Drag - Raw Child 12 Format: LP Label: Animal Disguise (USA) Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ADR084 THE DEBUT FULL-LENGTH ALBUM FROM KENTUCKY'S CADAVER IN DRAG IS AN EXTREMELY POWERFUL AND MISANTHROPIC CHUNK OF HEAVINESS THAT REACHES BEYOND ANYTHING THEY HAVE DONE BEFORE. THE COVER ART TELLS THE ENTIRE STORY BETTER THAN I COULD. FOR FANS OF TRUE KENTUCKY SCUM ROCK AND MAN IS THE BASTARD. ALSO FEATURES ROBERT BEATTY (HAIR POLICE, THREE LEGGED RACE) ON SYNTHESIZER AND MASTERING DUTIES.

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  Artist/Title: Gentle Jones - Let's Be Friends 16 Format: LP Label: Little Mafia (USA) Price: $12 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ LM093 "Gentle Jones sits comfortably atop the Mason-Dixon line in his home state of Delaware, performing frequently as a Hip-Hop MC and DJ, though he's done stints as the front man for a Ska band and a Punk band as well, winning local awards and international acclaim. His newest album "Let's Be Friends" is a playful conglomerate of live musicians and studio wizardry which showcases Jones breathtaking vocal range, moving easily from singing, to screaming, to intricate rhyming cadences. Honing his craft on stages from California to Ireland, Gentle Jones has delighted concertgoers beside music legends The Wailers, Murs, Condemned 84, Murphy's Law, The Pietasters, Cappadonna, Trombone Shorty, Brother Ali, The Slackers, and Bad Luck 13. This newest album is the first record to capture the many facets of this phenomenal songwriter with working class roots and space age chops."

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  Artist/Title: Gert-Jan Prins & Anla Courtis - <+> 16 Format: LP Label: Little Mafia (USA) Price: $12 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ LM095 Collaboration between Argentinian experimental musician Courtis (of Reynols) and sound artist Prins of the Netherlands. "Born 1961 in Ijmuiden, the Netherlands, Gert-Jan Prins has been known for twenty years as one of the most challenging sound artists in the Netherlands and established himself as one of the central electronic performers in improvised music. His unique self-developed live-electronics make use of radio and transmitter technology, and create sounds with great physical energy. Prins focuses on percussive and environmental noise creating a music that's characterized by pure rawness in volume and sound, but also utilizing subtlety in color through specific use of scraping, rasping and other noise sounds. " "Argentinian experimental musician, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (February 22, 1972). Co-founded the band Reynols in 1993."

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  Artist/Title: Kuda-Gitsune - Cistern Hymns 16 Format: LP Label: Little Mafia (USA) Price: $12 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ LM096 Collaboration between Japanes noise artist Banetoriko and non-traditional sax player Ken Kawamura.

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  Artist/Title: The Revival Hour - Clusterchord EP 16 Format: LP Label: Antiphon (USA) Price: $13 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ANON002 Outside what Carbon normally carries in the catalog, this is from a couple friends currently living in Rochester NY, who know how to create massively lush, melodic compositions. A very broad reference, would be a more vocally-centered Animal Collective, with multi layered percussion, keyboard/piano, guitars, etc. Clusterchord is the 5-track debut EP from The Revival Hour, which is D.M. Stith (Asthmatic Kitty) and John Mark Lapham from the Earlies (Secretly Canadian/Names) and The Late Cord (4AD), with a full length LP coming in early 2013. Review of their forthcoming LP in The Guardian of London. [note, all Carbon copies have a slight split on the top spine]

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  Artist/Title: Sympathetic System - box chocolate 8 Format: CASS Label: Carbon Records Price: $6 Catalog ID: CR204 Sympathetic System is Peter Vincent from the Rochester area, but currently residing in Brooktondale, NY. This release is a collection of improvised single-takes, but you'd be hard-pressed to discern that. They come across as composed thoughts, laid out with guitars, vocals, homemade synth, a bent drum machine, keyboard, and more. An amazing use of space and tone. Similar to the Wolf Eyes related project Starecase, or Shadow Ring at times, or Jandek at other times. Completely captivating. [C32. Edition of of 58 copies in standard cassette cases. Comes with digital download coupon]

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  Artist/Title: PSI - artifically retarded soul care operators 8 Format: CD Label: Evolving Ear (USA) Price: $13 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_evolvingear12 "Captured live and in the studio over the past two years, Artificially Retarded Soul Care Operators is the definitive pee-ess-eye blast of true and pure sacrificial brain-rot. A fifty-minute collection of densely cultivated mitherings from the unforeseen masters of complete silence. Featuring beautiful full color gatefold cover art and poster by Fritz Welch and Stephen O’Malley."

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Touch 30 Years and Counting 32 Format: 2LP Label: Touch Price: $23 Catalog ID: CarbonDIst_TONE033 Gatefold double LP version. Released to coincide with Touch's 30th anniversary celebrations at Beaconsfield, London, on December 5th and 6th, 2012. All tracks are exclusive and original to this release. Music by Touch 33, Fennesz, Bruce Gilbert, Rosy Parlane, Oren Ambarchi, The Book Depository, Eleh, BJNilsen, Nana April Jun, Chris Watson, Mika Vainio, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Jana Winderen, Philip Jeck, Z'EV, Hildur Gudnadottir, Senescent, and Biosphere. "30 Years and Counting is an echo of a time when the world was in a critical condition, and potentially about to blow itself into oblivion. As such it is a wry reflection on the situation we find ourselves in today, where the final curtain is less likely to close, but the stakes somehow seem to be more extreme and polarized than ever. As far as Touch is concerned, it is an expression of our youthful relationship to the work. Mike Harding and Jon Wozencroft invited each of the Touch artists to contribute a glimpse of their current practice to what is effectively a group show rather than a compilation. The brief was not only to celebrate a situation, but to remind each other why we are doing it, and make a kind of documentary realism. Some artists responded quickly with significant twists and returns to their signature sound and others left it to the last minute. The net result was that Mike and Jon mastered the LP/CD more or less as live performance in the cutting room, Transition, as an expression of the vitality of the project rather than some pre-ordained historical item. The history is built into the cover with two images of the first computer, the 'Colossus', built in Bletchley Park during the early 1940s as a means of cracking the Enigma codes? Here the pressure of time is at its most compressed. Two contrapuntal images were shot only recently, backstage moments of Touch 30 situations which as historical events, pale in comparison -- they are just personal, memory. Duration becomes a key aspect, which might explain why there is no recording by Phill Niblock, but nonetheless a filmic/time-based response from a collective of artists who have made a distinct impression on contemporary music and the way things go. We started with cassettes; this project commenced as a dedication to vinyl rather than digital. 30 Years and Counting is a manifesto after all these years. The vinyl flares with the crackle of the present." --Jon Wozencroft, November 2012

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  Artist/Title: Body / Gate / Head - Glare Luring Yo 18 Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Records (USA) Price: $19 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FTR099LP "In the spring of 2011, Michael "Powderfinger" Morley was in the U.S. for a short visit. There had been some talk of doing a Gate show or two, but when he visited Western Mass., Feeding Tube Records decided to put use to his collaborative talents. He played one night at the Yod space in Florence with Kim Gordon and Bill Nace, then at Feeding Tube with Spencer Yeh and Meg Clixby. Both sets provided jumbo pleasure, and Michael managed to record the Yod set for our presentation to you. Kim and Bill were at the beginning of their duo explorations at this point. Can't even remember if they'd started using the Body/Head name yet. Regardless, the instrumental sluice -- with occasional spirit-vocals by Kim -- is similar yet quite different from the duo tactics they've since evolved. Morley's presence gives the proceedings a bit of a grungy psychedelic smear, whereas their other recordings (at least as of now) have a rather more ethereal arc. The set occurred in front of a slowed-down screening of Catherine Breillat's gorgeous 1976 film Une Vraie Jeune Fille. Feeding Tube thinks you'll agree that the music here matches the sexy surrealist power of that film frame-for-frame, or your money back. The cover, by the way, is a beautiful silkscreen designed by Morley and based on an outtake from Susan Harris' NBC program, The Golden Girls. The image was based on Bea Arthur and Betty White's characters from a season five episode entitled "Break-In." The album title is a phonetic spelling of what Ms. Arthur's character keeps chanting while attending a Madonna concert. Now you know."

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  Artist/Title: Trop Tard - Ils Étaient 9 Dans L’Obscurité 16 Format: LP Label: Sacred Bones (USA) Price: $17 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SBR3011 "The second Trop Tard release, Ils Étaient 9 Dans L’Obscurité, continues in the same sorrowful vein as its predecessor, Photodrome, but with a much clearer sound, having been recorded in a small studio. The piercing shards of the simplistic guitar and wicked bursts of electronics complement the ennui of the vocals on this rare record. Sacred Bones is excited to be making this album available to the world in a limited edition of 700 deluxe LP format. “Trop tard” is a French term translating to “too late.” It is also the name of one of the darkest and most elusive bands to come out of Europe. For nearly a quarter century the music of Trop Tard has been lost to the world, trapped in the icy expanse of mid-80s provincial France. The trio self released Photodrame k7(1987) and Ils Etaient 9 Dans L’Obscurité LP(1988) in extremely limited editions that likely saw little if any distribution outside of their native France. Yet these are two of the true coveted jewels in the crown of the French Cold Wave. Also known as La Vague Froide, the movement was inspired by inspired by British post-punk and legendary producer Martin Hannett, creator of Manchester’s Factory Records sound. Looking back now, 25 years later, Trop Tard stands as one of the purest embodiments of its Romantic spirit." [includes download code]