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• Artist: 13RXTNLE / i dick the f table Title: the ___ split es dope Format: CD Label: noise good Price: $6.00 $3.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_NG002 BRXTNLE turns in some live tracks, and some studio tracks of weird noise from all over the spectrum using all kinds of source sounds and instruments. idmtft gives some of his unique brand of audio sculpture including harsh noise, voices, strange music, and all around great sounds.

• Artist: 68 Comeback Title: Golden Rogues Collection Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1970 (This is a USED item) 1995 Sympathy For The Record Industry release

• Artist: A.M. Title: Orla Format: CD Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) Price: $15.00 $9.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IKU_AMCD One day in early 2004 I arrived home to find the biggest parcel I had ever received sitting on my doorstep, it was crudely wrapped and covered in stamps. I was amazed that anyone would POST something like this through the regular mail system. I brought it inside and cut away the packaging. To my astonishment I found that it contained a large old 'Orla' chord organ and a letter from Marcel Bear (Empirical) saying that he had noted my recent enthusiasm for organ tones (see also With Throats As Fine As Needles and Sunken...). He had found this one at a garage sale and thought that I might like it. My interest in organs had been at least in part inspired by my reading about Charlemagne Palestine and his concept of the "Golden Music". His idea of a stream of sound that may facilitate an ecstatic bliss of religious intensity has been hugely influential to me (in much the same way as Haino's 'sound of the universe'...). I decided pretty much straight away that I would record an album using this organ as the predominant sound source (the only other sound sources are the field recordings of rain on the 1st track and scaffolding pipes on the 2nd). As the recordings progressed from the straight ahead drone of the 1st track I stripped away more and more unnecessary components of the machine until on the last track I was bowing and plucking the spring pegs of the keys. One of my favourite sounds was that of the fan motor itself.

• Artist: Aaron Dilloway Title: Beggar Master Format: CD Label: Hanson Records (USA) Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HN132CD CD issue of first full-length LP by ex-Wolf Eyes member Aaron Dilloway. Recorded in Kirtipur, Nepal, March 2005. Originally released on LP limited to 300 copies. Tape manipulations, feedback, crude field recordings, & Nepali dirt. "Side 'Beggar Master' is like a video game of a brick wall chasing a 300 pound wobble legged mosquito. High feedback intercepted by sliding horizontal pile of bricks. Beating thud heart with some open holes in the side corresponding to sludge lake bug liberation. Pumping muscle disorders team up with mud and dirt bubble bath to make larvae spawn engine. Whir and blur background mechanical swamp. The end of the 'Beggar' side cuts off immediately just as you think the whole mess of introduced sound is going to rise up and start knocking down buildings. You can hear the displaced air of the kong leg lifting and zip! The 'Prayer Flush' side starts off as a homage to prehistoric Raptors vs. the Soccer Thugs of Britain. Whistles, bites on the ass, distorted knee scrapes highlight various parts of the first few mins of screaming melee. This fades into some drawn out electro fry. The sound that no living being can stand up to: deep long forked tongue death. Hum of the end. Then the New Blockaders on the Thalid-O-Kid interrupt to make a canal of tumbling pile of canned garbage flowing into a heightened snow storm of singing trident lava-needled record players. Welcome here all trashit, submit your excessive horrible souls to our torture disparagement! If you listen close enough you might be able to hear the behemoth garbage truck rolling up everything into a black hole rear compartment. Background Killoway with his garbage can lid crook pointing the way into vortex nothing. Canned fuzz drops dead after the tidal bleach hand eliminates all movement. If you've heard it all from the Christians how scary the sounds of hell will be, you can hear from Killoway's field recording how your garbage is being treated once it's putrid soul is released. Definitely a mood soundtrack for oblivionic conoise-suers with plans to ride the flume to hell." -- Bonnie Banks, Brutal Sound Effects.

• Artist: Aaron Dilloway Title: Bad Dreams Format: CD Label: PacRec (USA) Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TRO115 "Dilloway's got a grave problem! Tense ghost clatter and haunted Michigan sputter collapse helplessly into fever, exhaustion, depression. This is home-taping of unconscious dread and hopeless shudder. Originally released in a small edition on his own Hanson Records, Bad Dreams return for the Wolf Eyes / ex-Violent Ramp/Galen/Couch member. When Aaron wakes up, he'll wish he were dead..."

• Artist: Aaron Moore Title: The Accidental Format: CD Label: Elsie and Jack Price: $13.00 $7.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_eaj017sl "as a founding member of the english experimental group volcano the bear, aaron moore has been a part of creating some of the most stimulating and diverse music of the last 10 years with releases on nurse with wound’s united dairies label, and the american label, beta-lactam ring records, to name but two. ‘the accidental’ is moore’s first solo release and is in stark contrast to his drumming and vocal work with volcano the bear. using such instrumentation as bowed and beaten vibraphone, cymbal, chord organ, thumb piano and keyboard, mainly concentrating with one instrument per track, moore has created an album of mesmerizing beauty. shifting, woozy soundscapes, blurred drones, soft conjuring, and deep meditations - perfect for late night headphone trips. on ‘three guineas’, a keyboard is used to create a new lullaby in which we are reminded of years past. the majority of these recordings, made at his home in leicester on a digital 8 track and one microphone in 2003 were intended for an aborted collaboration with oren ambarchi. they then sat on his machine for a year or so until, with the nagging of friends, he set about doing something with them. some of the tracks, he felt, needed the hand of another so he sent some tracks to friends andrew liles, luke fowler and alex neilson to collaborate on. they in turn sent the finished tracks back to moore where he set about editing them for inclusion on ‘the accidental’. the title, ‘the accidental’ comes from the fact that were it not for the original aborted collaboration attempt with ambarchi, moore would not have recorded this music. moore is continuing his work with volcano the bear and his new duo, dragon or emperor, as well as planning several collaborations in the coming months. if a follow up to ‘the accidental’ is to happen, then maybe it will be on purpose next time?!"

• Artist: Agents at Midnight Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Quodlibet (USA) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_QLCD004 "The full-length debut of noise-jazz duo Agents At Midnight, and a real pro-pressed CD in an edition of 500 copies, the first in 5 years! Meticulously constructed from hours and hours of recording sessions, this album is a distillation of all the many sounds and styles explored by this duo. Rumbling bassy drones, unflinchingly ear-piercing examinations of feedback tones, dizzyingly fast sample-based pieces, musique concrete-inspired collage. And on all of it, sax and electronics flow subtly into one another, bleeding over until the authorship of sounds is often uncertain. Agents At Midnight inhabits a weird hybrid territory somewhere between abstract modern improv, harsh noise, and free jazz, sometimes blending these styles, sometimes veering between them." - limited to 500, co-released with Fargone

• Artist: Alasehir Title: the stone sentinels Format: CD Label: Archive Recordings (USA) Price: $13.00 $7.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_archive033 "3 tracks spawned from a night of riffs and jams at Lemur house from Bardo brothers on dual guitars and current Bardo drummer Jason. Heavy psych that sways a little closer to the Sabbath side of jams then the normal Bardo Pond burn. Also features Igler on electronics on 2 of the 3 jams. Single pressing of 600 "

• Artist: Alec K. Redfearn and the eyesores Title: the smother party Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_alecredfearn (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Allun Title: onussen Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1947 (This is a USED item) Bar Le Muerte release

• Artist: Allun Title: et sise Format: CD Label: bar la muerte Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_Allun_et_sise (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Aloha Title: the great communicators... Format: CD Label: Polyvinyl Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_73 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Angel Corpus Christi Title: Louie Louie Format: CD Label: gulcher Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Gulcher601 "12 songs by for and about Lou Reed 1. Louie Louie 2. Caroline Says II 3. Tell It To Your Heart 4. She's My Best Friend 5. Disco Mystic 6. Banging On My Drum 7. I Want To Boogie With You/Je T'aime 8. Lou"

• Artist: Angel Corpus Christi Title: divine healer Format: CD Label: gulcher Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GULCHER415 The latest sad-funny avant- pop sounds from San Francisco singer-songwriter- accordionist and longtime MX-80 collaborator. With Rich Stim and Dave Mahoney from MX-80.

• Artist: Anomoanon Title: asleep many years in the wood Format: CD Label: Temporary Residence Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_127 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Antony Milton Title: The End of this Short Road Format: CD Label: Deserted Village (UK) Price: $14.00 $8.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_DV27 "I recorded it in 2000 a few months before I started the PseudoArcana label, and given that my initial idea for P.A. was for it to focus on harsher and more abstract musics the simple melodic folk songiness of 'Short Road' resulted in it sitting on the shelf for much longer than it perhaps should have. There was a great poet who said of his work that all he had ever done was write the same poem again and again, trying to get it right. I've sometimes felt that I only have the one song inside me, and I've approached that song from a hundred radically different angles and have ultimately become convinced that this song can never in fact be realised in any definitive way. But that one song is still there inside me and there are places on 'Short Road' where I think I come as close to realising that song as anywhere."

• Artist: Army of Ghosts Title: The Horror Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1969 (This is a USED item) 1999 Parallelism release

• Artist: Ashtray Navigations Title: Four More Raga Moods Format: CD Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) Price: $15.00 $9.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IKU004 "Mmmm my mouth is watering at the prospect of listening to this with one look at the various underground luminaries involved: Ben Reynolds, Pete Nolan, Andy Jarvis, Alex Neilson, Chris Hladowski (Nalle / Scatter), Mel Delaney and of course Phil Todd. Do I really need to write anymore?! The album opens with its only raga, an acoustic duet from Reynolds and Jarvis, heavily warped by analogue delay. "Hey Sunflower Motherfucker" has Todd's sun-seeking guitar working its way through thick waves of wow. "The Pete Nolan Effect" is a deep pool of drone (once the microphone returns from its wind-blasted trip outside!) as is the immensely atmospheric final track which sounds like the inners of a dank, dark cave." - Boa Melody Ba

• Artist: Atomic 61 Title: purity of essence Format: CD Label: Cavity Search Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_81 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Aube Title: Reworks Stefano Gentile II Format: CD Label: Silentes (Italy) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SME0720CD "Long static drones and suspended frequencies of harmonic, sonorous wafts in constant evolution riding cyclical hypnotic perennially changing synthetic curved..."

• Artist: Auger Title: like little machines Format: CD Label: rectrix Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_RECTRIX02 subtle single-noise-compositions, reminding me of Bernhard Gunter‘s work. from the Rectrix site: Complex, rhythmic noise packaged with a nice minimal look. This is a bit different from the harsh wall of noise stuff that I am used to."

• Artist: Baka! Title: Ephemere Format: CD Label: Hitomi Recordings Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HITOMI02 Once they played noise music� Then Unique Records released their first critically acclaimed album� Baka have never stopped ever since experimenting, making and unmaking sounds. Dealing with Baka can�t go without evoking their astonishing prolixity - many different projects (Tomek and Gasp by Franck Lafay, Imagho, Frz+Imagho, Sketches of Pain by JL Prades) and above all many live improvisations, where all fields of experiments are tackled: drones, guitars, Electro-acoustic manipulations, guitar feedback... etc. Eph�m�re was born through all this searching. Several live sessions and improvisations were linked, mixed and edited from various stereo tracks. The result is one 40-minute track. The different layers go on dephasing themselves, while acoustic flows roll through the stereo so as to question our own perception. Baka plays with time and space, creates powerful amounts of energy and finally finds light again thanks to crystal-clear arpeggios. The melodies mix themselves, the arpeggios flow together before being in the end melt into organised chaos. We urge you to listening to this new record, this invitation to a trip, both through noise and yourself.

• Artist: Barbara Manning and the Go-Luckys! Title: You Should Know By Now Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1989 (This is a USED item) 2001 Innerstate release

• Artist: Barky Title: a study in rocking Format: CD Label: Barky (USA) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BARKY01 "Barky is an instrumental trio from the boroughs of New York City, whose peculiar combination of Indie Rock, Avant Jazz, and Americana..." - this record is a great combination of math-rock, a little jam/noodling, and a little jazz-sound. basically, like if Karate played more complex songs, or the midwest math-rock bands threw in some solos. good stuff.

• Artist: Bass Tone Trap Title: Trapping Format: CD Label: Music a la Coque (Italy) Price: $13.00 $7.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_musicalacoque004 "Re release of 1983 album LP. This english band is a mish mash of freeform jazz, jagged white funk, empty spaces, great to tangle to !"

• Artist: Bats'i son Title: music of the highlands of chiapas Format: CD Label: USED Price: $6.00 $3.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1948 (This is a USED item) 2004 Latitude release

• Artist: BCT Title: The Life and Times of Steven Character Format: CD Label: Yawn Factory (USA) Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_YF001 "Conceived in a thick haze of flatulence and other suspicious airborne activity in 1996, Blatant Crap Taste is the one-man grind machine from Rochester, NY native and technical metal juggernaut, Erik "pinchmaster" Burke. Formerly the creative mastermind behind legendary underground sensations LETHARGY, and current SULACO and NUCLEAR ASSAULT guitarist, the multi-talented Burke handles all the instruments on this 77-song squealography that would literally suck the Tin Man right through a keyhole. Sustained, explosive bursts of humorous intensity is the prime agenda of B.C.T., and via Burke's construction of labyrinth-like mazes of crooked riffing and torrential blast beats, he yanks and twists the listener through a schizophrenic 64 minute minefield of unpredictable aural acupuncture. Despite the prickly nature of the hyper-kinetic, porcupine-needle guitar style, there is an absolute punchdrunk magnetism and sense of groove in the songwriting that slithers and winds itself into your permanent memory. The Life & Times of Steven Character is an essential release for fans of quirky, rhythmically complex extreme metal of the Human Remains/Cephalic Carnage variety, and is truly a testament to the immense talent and staggering creativity of the original Rochester berserker, Erik Burke. Guaranteed to unfold your brain into shrapnel-shaped pieces of THC-stained origa" -- Drew Johnstone

• Artist: Beekeeper Title: anywhere will do Format: CD Label: Muss My Hair Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_55 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Big Chief Title: Face Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1939 (This is a USED item) 1992 Sub Pop release

• Artist: Big Hair Title: the pickle farm Format: CD Label: Energy Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_99 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Big Whiskey Title: the bloated museum of treachery Format: CD Label: warm freedom of tongue Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist-WFOT1 Seven pieces of outside-rock in just over an hour. Don Rettman (guitars/electronics/stuff) and Dave Bryson (drums/percussion) make a big ol‘ sound that grooves noisily for awhile, and then surges in search of another groove for awhile, and lets the guitar feedback for a ‘nother little while, and then does something else. Hypnotic and noisy.

• Artist: Bill McCarter / Stalingrad Symphony Title: secrets / struggle Format: CD Label: gulcher Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_gulcher414 Ex-Crawlspace McCarter‘s unreleased 1978 EP (Velvet-y not-pop) + his 2001 free-rock CDR Struggle. With members of Crawlspace & the Lazy Cowgirls.

• Artist: Bjerga / Iversen Title: (Go With The Flow) Like a Twig on the Shoulders of a Mighty Stream Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR178 .. that is kinda what Bjerga/Iversen have been doing, since the humble beginnings 4 years ago.. After more than 50 releases and about the same number of gigs since then, it is perhaps somewhat of a contradiction that it�s all more or less just as humble�. �Thanks to its piercing frequencies, paranoid multitasking, mantra-like grooves and billowing fields of feedback, this record represents both one of the last bastions of true Punk and a 21st century take on the Krautrock spirit. It is the kind of music that would have your parents worried if you listened to it alone in your room. It is also, in a way, the exact opposite of what you would associate with the Norwegians just by reading about them. If this is a best-of, then it�s probably the least representative in the world.� This CD collects some choice cuts and edits from our now quite (stupidly) extensive recorded catalogue.. It might not be an easy task to single out the best moments, which would sort of be beside the point anyway.. In a way it�s all the same song, the song that never ends.. We tap on to the frequency, and sometimes the psychedelic transmissions are seeping through like burning sunlight on technicolored drops of water and other times the harrowing, fleshy minimalism of solitary organ notes and foggy feedback overtones dig out deeper, darker furrows in uncharted territories�. �It may seem like another contradiction, then, that "(Go with the flow) like a twig on the shoulders of a mighty stream" breaks these documents down into easily digestible (relatively speaking, mind you) and highly selective moments. Suddenly, there is nothing but magic and everything makes sense. From the opaque clouds and glassy ambiance of �There�s always a little light that shines� to the hypnotic and yet playful ultra-minimalism of �Most things are made of water� and their stretched-out metaphorical �ber-message �The trumpets of silence�, descending from its warm opening bass pulsation into a frosty cellar of disentangled frequencies, these are undeniable works of mesmerizing sound art. Extracted highlights from twisting and turning improvisations like �There�s a ghost in the dream machine� surprisingly put them in a league with the en-vogue Guitar drone fraction, while there are stretches of subtle experimentation which are of a decidedly more microtonal nature. On the other hand, these moments of coherency are definitely also a relevant part of their cosmos and they deserve to be appreciated as well. Glued together on a single, cohesive disc, it is almost as if these Norwegian cowboys had simply decided to mix everything they stand for into a delirious DJ mix, taking no detours whatsoever.� Still going with the flow, but for the past four years the flow has dragged us though the muddy swamps, the pitch black forests and down the magic rivers of pure sound�. �When I saw them for the first time, struck by their perplexing quietude and their naive way of drawing ripping sound from random objects. This album is about those times. It is about showing what you missed if you weren�t there when it happened. And about why it is worth remembering if you were.� Reviews (1): Crucial Blast The Norwegian duo of Sindre Bjerga and Jan-M. Iversen has been wowing me for a few years with their dark improv-noise, mostly through their prolific release schedule that sends clutches of super limited cd-rs out into the world through labels like Carbon, Ruralfaune, At War With False Noise, and Utech. It 's hard to believe that these guys are able to explore as wide ranging a realm of sounds as they do with all of their myriad releases, and I hardly ever hear them stay in one spot for long on any given release. Massive Earth-en guitar drone will find itself next to a track of battered toy noises, or the duo will emit crushing blasts of feedback and electronic squonk, then slide effortlessly into glistening ambience that blooms from a field of effects pedals that the artists manipulate in expert fashion. For any newcomers to Bjerga/Iversen's dark noisescapes, I would recommend this disc in a heartbeat. (Go With The Flow) Like a Twig on the Shoulders of a Mighty Stream has been put together as a collection of some of Bjerga/Iversen's best material, culled from an assortment of rare and out of print releases. Sixteen minute epics of flattened high-end feedback tones, mutated radio signals, psychedelic guitar noise and throbbing low-end are matched with shorter tracks like the grinding Teutonic sludgedrone of "Drawn To The Light, Like Moths To A Flame" and the eerie space horror and industrial skulk of "Invisible Empire". The untitled eighth track is the one unreleased recording on here, and it's a killer blat of dark ambience that makes my skin crawl, a deep Lustmordian drone flecked with glitchy computer noises and unnerving dissonance. The whole disc tends to lean more towards the darker, more ambient side of Bjerga/Iversen's improv recordings, but that is where these guys really shine anyways, so who's complaining. The whole disc flows together so nicely that it hardly even sounds like the compilation that it is, and anyone who hungers for the heavier and more corroded end of the deathdrone/dark ambient spectrum needs to hear it. Think Maurizio Bianchi's cold industrial drones combined with the fractured, blackened industrial throb of newer Wolf Eyes, Lustmord's cavernous ambience, early krautrock and the grinding guitar buzz of Earth's 2. Sounds pretty great, right? This is definitely the place to start, and after sinking your ears into this heavy collection of psychedelic industrial drone, you might just want to start hunting down all of the other fifty-plus releases that Bjerga/Iversen have released over the past few years... Nice red and black packaging, and the booklet has some well written liner notes on the duo written by Tobias Fischer.

• Artist: Black Elk Title: Always a Six, Never a Nine Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $11.00 $6.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR70 "Always A Six, Never A Nine is the second album and the follow up to the 2006 self-titled debut from Portland, OR aggro wreckers Black Elk, whose psychotic brand of crushing, noise-rock influenced heaviosity is a return to the unhinged underground rock force of bands like Jesus Lizard, Melvins, Black Flag and Hammerhead. This new album features ten songs of seething weirdness, with the dissonant, crushing riffage, lunging rhythmic push and awesome freaked out, Yow-esque vocals of singer Tom Glose that made their debut a fave among anyone who remembered the days when Amphetamine Reptile ruled the underground rock scene, but with some interesting new elements (bleak, blackened guitar ambience, a smattering of piano, skyreaching guitar harmonies, etc.) that add new shadows to Black Elk's ferocious sound. Always A Six, Never A Nine is packaged in a heavy four-panel gatefold jacket with an eight page lyric booklet. "

• Artist: Black Twig Pickers Title: north fork flyer Format: CD Label: vhf Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_140 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: bluetile lounge Title: lowercase Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1920 (This is a USED item) 1995 Summershine/SubPop release. riyl Codeine

• Artist: Book of Shadows Title: 777 Format: CD Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IKU_BookOfShadows "The Book of Shadows CD 777 on the label Ikuisuus is the bands seventh release. The band was formed in 1999 when ST 37 founder Carlton Crutcher and his wife Sharon began seeking a magical, improvisational musical outlet. The band has stayed true to this vision for 9 years of live shows, studio recordings and numerous musicians. All of the recordings on 777 were recorded in 2007 and represent a peak for Book of Shadows as a live band as well as a studio band. For this CD, Sharon on vocals and Carlton on keys, are joined by Eric Archer (Numbers on the Mast) on guitar/electronics, long time Book of Shadows guitarist/composer Aaron Bennack, guitarist Jonathan Horne (Plutonium Farmers), Johnny McCollom (Primordial Undermind) on percussion, Matt Thies (Numbers on the Mast) on keys/electronics, Greg Elliott (Spagirus) on dulcimer, and Vanessa Rossetto (The Mighty Acts of God, Bright Duplex, Pulga, etc...) on viola, bowls and bells!!!....You are the magic that you make...."

• Artist: Bottomless Pit Title: Hammer of the Gods Format: CD Label: Comedy Minus One (USA) Price: $11.00 $6.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CM0001 "Bottomless Pit was formed in the fall of 2005 by erstwhile Silkworm members Tim Midgett and Andy Cohen. Their longtime friends Chris Manfrin (Seam) and Brian Orchard (.22) complete the quartet. 2007 finds the group playing "their blues" - soulful, emotionally intense, and often transcendent postpunk that is as inviting as it is bracing."

• Artist: Brokeback Title: Morse Code In The Modern Age: Across the Americas Format: CD Label: Thrill Jockey Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_2 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Brutum Fulmen / Dan Bodah / Noumena Title: massachusetts Format: CD Label: gameboy Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GB35 three live tracks all recorded in the wonderful state of massachusetts. the first two recorded live at the infamous RRRecords, and noumena‘s is from UMASS student radio. brutum fulmen presents a noiser-than-usual tape piece that makes me really wish he‘d tour soon...dan‘s piece is starts off with a couple minutes of vocal wierdness that leads into a rather strong electroncs set...noumena rounds it out with an off-the-wall improv work of guitar, tapes, and electronics. mellow one second, screaming the next, riffing black sabbath the next. a fitting tribute to a beautiful state.

• Artist: Burmese / Fistula Title: split Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR38 "Hyper destructive low-end violence from two of the American underground's most ferocious hate-sludge outfits. Available from Crucial Blast on August 1st, 2004. Crucial Blast regrets to announce the end of your hearing. The good news is, the cause of your deafening is the dual assault of feedback-warriors BURMESE and battle-sludge titans FISTULA. BURMESE annhilate everything before them with a lethal blast of low frequency skree tantrums, cough-syrup drenched blastbeats, WHITEHOUSE-worshipping noise, and demonic free improvised violence. Think KHANATE, DROPDEAD, EARTH, and MERZBOW in an earth shattering, widow-making basement deathmatch. Ohio 's FISTULA batter up with megaheavy sludge, blistering blackened thrash, diseased rock, and some incredibly infectious riffs . Hear these tarpit battle anthems, hail the low frequency berserker. BURMESE burn you down...FISTULA pisses all over the ashes. "

• Artist: Burmese and Cadaver Eyes Title: split Format: CD Label: Heart and Crossbone (Israel) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HCB016 "Like demented twins in crime, Burmese (tUMULt / Load Records) & Cadaver Eyes rephrase Doom, Grindcore and Power Electronics by using an agonizing mechanism of plain brutal aesthetics, ascending these genres to a higher level of cognitive surge. This split CD is difficult and pungent, a warm spew in the face and an endless buzz in the eardrum that fiercely occupies the brain and treats the grey cells as if they were an ashtray. A crude awakening and a classic case of ponderous self indulgence."

• Artist: Burnt Hills Title: Tonite We Ride Format: CD Label: Flipped Out Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FOR19 "dig the raging thunderstorm of sound as four squealing, reeling and paint peeling guitars thrash riffs, tones and cosmic bursts, a massive bass throbs and centers, propulsive dive bomb drums explode constantly and the sweet glaze of an insistent chiming xylophone rings out from the eye of the storm....one track, one hour and twenty seven seconds long....cover art by bill nace"

• Artist: Calliope Title: (in)organics Format: CD Label: Thick Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_71 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Calliope Title: i can see you with my eyes closed Format: CD Label: Thick Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_16 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Cheapmachines Title: diagrammene Format: CD Label: Entr'acte (UK) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_entracte18 "Two long tracks, recorded live in Norway: Oslo, Dans for Voksne, 16 April 2005: Bergen, Kunsthall/Landmark, 17 April 2005. Five inch CD packaged in a 5.25 inch floppy disc case"

• Artist: Chefkirk Title: The Earth is Mostly Ocean Format: CD Label: Entr'acte (UK) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_entracte17 "This CD contains 9 tracks, totally 32 minutes and 10 seconds. Desalination, oxygenation, and purification by Roger H Smith. The packaging of this CD is based on the percentage of ocean covering the earth. This is officially calculated as 71%."

• Artist: Cock E.S.P. Panicsville Title: last train to cocksville Format: CD Label: Sunship Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SUN35 The Upper Midwest‘s two most serious and dedicated experimental music ensembles join forces in a tribute to the grand-daddys of all outsider music: The Monkees. The stunning audio content of this release is surpassed only by the cover and insert photos, which feature an uncomfortable glimpse into the dark world of homoerotic railroad engineer fetish. Co-released with Little Mafia and Nihlist.

• Artist: Connie Acher and Blind Drunk John Title: for the love of it Format: CD Label: Flipped Out Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FOR11 a mountain of melodie and shimmering strings makes a ghostly trail under sweet vocal clouds with percussion eruption and hot vapor guitar

• Artist: Connie Acher and Jelly Title: Love Pop Format: CD Label: Flipped Out Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FOR13 "the rhythm of life in happy harlem spins jelly into the melodie jamming note chomping blur over and under connie’s cascading songs of high beauty"

• Artist: Connie Archer Title: spray me down Format: CD Label: Flipped Out Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FOR23 "amazing grace and beauty abounds on this fourth full length recording by connie acher....this time around strawberry is the foil and he sweetens her stew with precise production and virtuosic instrumentation....connie gushes forth streams of magic honey that slide right down to the sweet spot of the soul....full cover covers....edition of 500 copies"

• Artist: Contagious Orgasm Title: From the Irresponsible Country Sounds Format: CD Label: PacRec (USA) Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PACREC105 long-running japanese electronic/experimental/sound collage artist with releases on Ant-Zen, Groundfault, & more.

• Artist: Control Title: The Cleansing Format: CD Label: PacRec (USA) Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PACREC103 Aversion Online: "I wish more experimental noise projects would release CD's like this, because it's just impossible to keep up with every limited release, compilation appearance, etc. from artists in such a vast scene that is expanding at all times. This collection displays over 45 minutes of rare material from one of the finest American power electronics acts out there right now, including the contents of "The Cleansing" 3" CD-R (Frozen Empire Media), one track from the "Bitmapping" compilation (Objective/Subjective), two tracks from the "Field Tales" compilation (Hospital Productions), and the excellent "Praying to Bleed" 7" (LSDO). The songs from "The Cleansing" have a good balance of styles involved and to me are reminiscent of sort of a classic death industrial sound with obscured samples and vocals against dark ambient undercurrents and perfectly integrated harsh layers. The heavy flanging and reverb on the vocals in "Cleansing" lend a UK sort of vibe to the piece, whereas "Elite" is the most subdued and minimal of that bunch. In fact, many of these tracks are a bit less harsh than I was anticipating. Of course there are some scorching vocals in compositions like "Praying to Bleed", but I'm pleasantly surprised by just how effective and fluid all of these songs are when listened to as a complete release. Pretty much all of the recordings are on the raw side, but in a manner that makes sense, so everything is ultra thick and a little rugged, but not sloppy, and any muddiness that's involved feels intentional. Like the other new PACrec releases thus far, the package consists of a matte black and white slipcase, here with largely abstract artwork and clean text. Very well done. I hope other such acts with extensive and somewhat scattered discography appearances will follow this lead. This one's limited to 500 copies as well, making it another potential rarity in and of itself in a few years' time, but for now you shouldn't have a problem tracking down this excellent set of recordings."

• Artist: Courtis / Kiritchenko / Moglass Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR122 Collaboration album by Anla Courtis, Andrey Kiritchenko and the Moglass. Co-released by Carbon Records, Nexsound, Gold Soundz, Tibprod and 1000+1 TiLt. tracklist: (1-3) by andrey kiritchenko (sound sources by anla courtis, bandura, objects and field recordings by andrey kiritchenko), (4-6) by the moglass (sound sources by anla courtis, guitar and synth by the moglass), (7-11) by anla courtis (sound sources by the moglass). Alan Courtis (a.k.a. Anla Courtis, Alna Courtis, Courtis, etc.) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on february 22nd, 1972. He studied classical guitar, piano, theory and composition. He holds a degree in Communication Science from the University of Buenos Aires, where he currently runs an annual music workshop. He played electric guitar in diverse bands and in 1993 he co-founded the group Reynols. With this group he has released more than one hundred CDs and vinyls worldwide in labels like Trente Oiseaux, Digital Narcis, Drone Records, Locust, Sedimental, Beta-Lactam Ring Records, Celebrated Psi Phenomenon, RRR, Audiobot Records, Roaratorio, JDK, Reverse, Matching Head, American Tapes, The Last Visible Dog, Carbon Records, etc. Andrey Kiritchenko is a person known as an author of projects like Critikal, Sidhartha, NEX(Nihil Est eXcellence), founder and co-runner of Nexsound records, musician who has largely contributed into the development of electronic music scene in Ukraine and already considered as one of the premiere experimental artist from Eastern Europe. Being involved mostly in experimental electronic and electroacoustic music for the last few years, Andrey is now gaining recognition among the musicians and followers of this style all over the world. His activities range from glitch with blurred beats to electroacoustis experiments, from improv to musique concrete, from drones to microsound. The group under the Moglass came into being in 1997, preceded by five years of home projects that were never released in public. The Moglass widely used the latest technical achievements of the time such as sampling and postproduction of all kinds, hereat gaining a reputation as post-rock musicians and performing at fashionable discos on repeated occasions. Spellbound with the aesthetics of freeform music, the musicians of the group gradually turned away from glossy sound of their early records and began to decline invitations to fancy discos thus gaining freedom of creating music at home and communicating with a bunch of soul mates scattered all over the world. Up-to-date records of the Moglass are spontaneous improvisations, mostly live records, that by no means always can be called free-noise because sometimes they are very gentle and melodic. Reviews (3): Foxy Digitalis I have no idea why it took five different record labels to put this disc into my grubby paws, but I’m certainly glad it got here. This amazing three-way split is pure teamwork; sounds sourced from one amazing artist become fodder for the creative manipulation of another equally brilliant collaborator. Ukrainians Andrey Kiritchenko and The Moglass and Argentinean Anla Courtis take turns weaving masterful tapestries from threads of sound provided by the other participants. Kiritchenko is widely regarded as a pioneer of experimental music in Eastern Europe and is the head of the adventurous Nexsound label. Courtis is probably best known as a founder of the inimitable Reynols, but his excellent solo works have garnered him recent appreciation. The Moglass are a trio who extract dreamy soundscapes from the outer reaches of the atmosphere. Each of these relatively well-known artists lends their distinct flavour to the compositions, and the resulting document resembles a cohesive whole rather than the work of three disparate entities. Kiritchenko begins by combining the sounds provided by Anla Courtis with his own bandura, guitar and field recordings. These three tracks showcase Kiritchenko’s skill in combining sources generated both organically and electronically into complex textural works. Dense drone build-ups melt into static-filled clouds of electronic dissonance; coruscating guitar fragments pierce rumbling waves of sound. Urgency is implied, as if catastrophe is imminent. When The Moglass mix their unique style with that of Courtis, the results are both soothing and unnerving. Each of their three tracks travels a unique path through outer space. What starts out as an alien lullabye soon devolves into shredded strings and guttural scat vocalizing (possibly in Ukrainian). The third, and strongest, track could be the perfect soundtrack for an astral voyage. Courtis closes out the disc by dicing up the sounds provided by the other two participants. The first three tracks find him rubbing elbows with The Moglass, creating the perfect accompaniment for prenatal amniotic stasis. Courtis fabricates crystalline structures from the malleable material provided, resulting in a construction that collapses in upon itself only to be rebuilt in an entirely different way. All rhetoric aside, it’s a heady yet engaging listen. His treatment of Kiritchenko’s work is slightly more organic, as the source material is mainly acoustic. A thousand wind-up toys engage each other in battle before being drowned out by a sea of bells on varispeed. You can almost see the wizard Courtis smiling gleefully over a pile of spliced tape (or maybe a computer full of samples). This rather seamless collection of tracks is definitely the work of people who are at the top of their game. Creating sound art that can hold a listener’s attention is no easy feat, and this recording definitely succeeds at doing just that. I’m definitely going to search out more work from all three of these amazing contributors, and I know there’s a lot out there for me to find! 9/10 - Bryon Hayes Cracked Anla Courtis provides sounds for Andrey Kiritchenko to work on. Anla Courtis also provides sounds for The Moglass to work on. And both provide sounds for Anla Courtis to work on. Obviously, this three way global interchange of sounds and noises has Anla Courtis at the centre (this time), though Kiritchenko starts off followed by the Moglass and ended by Anla Courtis. So much for the basics of this release. What is missing to fill the matrix are the interchanges between The Moglass and Andrey Kiritchenko, but there are no reasons to fill a matrix aside purely formal ones and formality is something that you should forget about completely when confronting this release. Or any release on Nexsound for that matter, because they are all challenging your senses, your hearing restraints and the status of fringe music. What combines the three artists is that they tend to take on sound as something physical, elevating it to a tangible level that works not only through the auditive sense but also via the skin. Even though The Moglass are the most “song-oriented” of the lot from their history onwards, they also step into the chaotic-dynamic lines of this animated soundforgery. They seem to work with sound like a lion tamer works his wild animals, teasing them and teaching them, but always on the lookout for they might break out and wound someone. They are also very eclectic in their work, splunging into all kinds of ambients and sounds which were neatly divided by journalist types and collectors and with a wave of their hand mixing them all together again. And in the end all three have long careers, discographies and impressive biographies to show for them. Andrey Kiritchenko’s tracks are like a wave, but no tsunami but a slow motion wave that surrounds and embrazes you, tightly and densely, and starts to drag you down. His processed field recordings and noises (the notes say guitar but it is hard to believe and anyway wouldn’t be recognizable from something else in this mix except for some parts in his third track) are dynamic and frantically changing while remaining massive and powerfull throughout. When they start to fade out your brain starts to breathe again and you wonder if the crackles of fire in your head are for real or still coming from the CD. But what did you expect from on of Eastern Europe’s foremost proponents of noise and electroexperimental music? This adds very nicely to his growing and recommended discography. The Moglass start off almost atmospherically with waves of almost new age sounds and synths. The stress lays on almost, as almost always. The band is know to prefer being led by the sounds than to lead the sounds, so this time the sounds first lead them to a really quiet and peaceful place and afterwards to more rocky and rough terrain, which still has a lot of good echo. They also add spooky and tripping vocals to great effect and with lots of echo and sustain, though it has to be said that I like their current release “sparrow juice” (also on Nexsound) some more than the big walls and monumental sounds they build up on here. On the other hand, the finely carved and worked out songs on their album wouldn’t really fit here. Anla Courtis has adopted many names during his long career, which started off in Buenos Aires when he studied classical guitar, piano and composition, then threw all of that away to play a very early form of free rock with another guy and a third guy, one of which was a mongoloid who sang and played the drums, under the name of The Reynols. Believe it or not, before Courtis called it quits for The Reynols the trio released more than one hundred CDs and vinyls worldwide almost everywhere and, which is much more important, has connected to likeminded musicians in every town of the world possibly. Here he connects on a completely different level. He actually flies off in various directions during the course of his four tracks, and sometimes he flies into different directions at the same time. A combining element of his contribution is wild creativity and a sense for being “out there”. I have no better words to describe it. He dares to use gentle tone and to fall into more softer paces at times where his cooperators might have chose power and volume in favor of subtlety or microsounds, for instance when he lays softly swaying yet deftly distorted guitar chords over a bass-heavy basis of crackling industrial noise. All in all this three way cluster is a great and powerful invocation of the liberating spirits within noise and experimental electronics. I don’t believe anyone reading the reviews on Cracked regularly has never heard of any of these three artists, but if so, let this be an introductory guideline for you. Vital Weekly The Moglass are also present on a three way compilation, together with Andrey Kiritchenko and Anla Courtis (of former Reynols fame). A release by Nexsound, but also on Gold Soundz, Tib Prod and 1000+1 Tilt. This compilation presents various works by each artist/band, but each of them uses sounds from the others. The Moglass pieces are a bit heavier than on 'Sparrow Juice', dwelling more distortion and psychedelic sound effects. The result is nice, but doesn't match up with their own full length CD. Anla Courtis has three tracks in which he works with the sounds of The Moglass, but fails to set a difference with the group's own sound. Quite spacey and cosmic sound. In the two pieces using Kiritchenko's material, things are also spacious, but less closed. The best pieces are by Kiritchenko, who takes the various sources from Courtis and The Moglass into the world of the computer treatments and processing, creating with their sounds, a music that bears similar markings, but then entirely in the digital domain. Ambient and glitch related, but both at it's very best. - Frans de Waard

• Artist: Crawlspace Title: Law Where Prohibited By Void Format: CD Label: gulcher Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GULCHER416 Rockin‘ with toys & amps & guitars & stuff--fried boogie, flyin‘ fancies, rock trance, out grooves, kartoon rawk-- ‘lectronic wheeze--records & VHS loopin‘--Sabbath� as folk-jazz hoedown.

• Artist: Crush the Junta Title: the disappeared Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR151 45 minutes of improv noise-rock heaviness. ranging from full-on overblown jams, to thick drones, to even some melodic pieces. includes lots of guitar, bass, synth and drums, with some vocals sprayed here and there. similar at times to Grey Daturas, Heavy Winged, Alasehir/Bardo Pond and Codeine. check out ctj.carbonrecords.com for more info. [packaged in a heavy vinyl sleeve with pro-printed card-stock cover. cover artwork by Andy Gilmore - birdbrid.blogspot.com] Reviews (1): Crucial Blast The Rochester, NY free-sludge trio Crush The Junta first came to my attention last year with their crusher of a debut, the Curse Of Abraham CDR on Carbon. Featuring members of Entente Cordiale, Blood And Bone Orchestra, SQ, Pengo, and Hilkka and taking huge open chord riffs and syrupy, slow moving tempos and using them as the foundation for extended improvised jams that are filled with heavily textured feedback and amplifier noise, Crush The Junta's sound fell somewhere in between the Grey Daturas and Gravitar at their most psychedelic and the austere slowcore of Codeine. Massive and expansive, the trio uses synthesizer and electronic drones along with their core drums/guitar/bass lineup, their music is almost entirely instrumental (save for the occasional howl of ecstasy rising up above the dirge), and their first 'real' CD release The Disappeared further expands upon their trippy metallic jamming. "The Mist Rolls In" opens the album with a series of thu nderous, distorted open chords and saw toothed drone, somewhat Western in feel, almost like a rougher version of the newer Earth stuff crossed with Codeine's Barely Real. But the following track "Skull Against Stone" shifts the album into the abstract, a loop of guitar noise spinning off above guitar noise and buzzing cables and an quasi-krautrock beat until it starts to sound like a riff from the The Who stuck on repeat. "Steps Of The Temple" is one of the only tracks to feature any sort of vocal accompaniment, a few lines of spoken word poetry delivered over slow, sludgy dirge riffing. The rest of the album explores similiar territory, huge blown out psych-sludge jams, thick amplifier drones, pretty indie rock tunes played at glacial tempo, all of it surrounded by a vague sense of political unrest and dystopia. Check 'em out if you're a fan of high energy, distortion laden improv/psych/dirge rock like Heavy Winged, Alasehir, and Grey Daturas. Packaged in a cardsto ck jacket that comes in a heavy plastic mylar sleeve.

• Artist: Cyrus Rego Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Emperor Jones Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_149 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: D9 Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Heart and Crossbone (Israel) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HCB021 "Named after one of the most imaginative and infamous key roles in the Israeli occupation, D9 is as merciless as this monstrous bulldozer, ramming reality in its' forehead with their post apocalyptic hectic predictions, directed towards the Israeli state and the worlds' systematic moral corruption, fueling their fury with an offensive portion of old school hardcore punk, and generating this boiling wrath into an original crushing blend of sly grindcore and bare boned power violence hostility, with a fair amount of devastating sludgy riffage and obscure electronic noise intervals to make their squashing sound even more quirky and disturbing. Recommended if you like Dropdead, Pig Destroyer, Man is the Bastard, Burmese, early Facedowninshit, Capitalist Casualties, Dystopia and Siege."

• Artist: Danny O'Really Title: And Evening With... Format: CD Label: Solitude Records (Netherlands) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Solitude_Danny a solo album of guitar manipulations from this long-time Dutch noise/rock guitarist

• Artist: day twenty-eight Title: peep! Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_day28 (This is a USED item) all girl indie rock group out of Michigan, mid-90's

• Artist: Destructro Swarmbots Title: Clear Light Format: CD Label: Public Guilt (USA) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PG011 "Destructo Swarmbots has carved a unique niche for themselves over the past 4 years. Their live shows consist of chaotic walls of white noise, improvised textures and battered instruments. Their recordings are delicate, at times meditative, washes of ambience constructed from countless piles of tortured sounds. Influenced heavily by 200+ needle-dropped, out of print psyche records, "Clear Light" is their strongest effort yet and the next step on their journey to artistic isolation."

• Artist: Devillock Title: these graves Format: CD Label: SNSE Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ SNSE062 "DEVILLOCK: It’s all in stop motion. It’s all real. Up, out from under all places molded and GUNKED. Slithering spool tapes sliding like thin brown snakes under, amongst, and finally overtop and around. They overtake the crumbling corpsed-up organ grinder. He, with his grin full of rot and fingers of stank, is ever so pleased to allow the decayed magnetics to engulf his skeletal frame, it is how his power is attained (maintained). Only when wrapped tightly and over his entire torso and head (a tape mummy!) will he begin to play. Quietly at first, as if from a distance - but he is there, RIGHT THERE GODDAMIT - and then the groan and the moaning howl and the static insects all begin to draw near, an orchestra of loneliness. Can you still feel your legs? As your head is slowly filled with ants, you are posed a question: “What do you make?” he is asking. “What do make... of THESE GRAVES?” DEVILLOCK is Justin Chris Meyers on organ, tapes, and electronics. Justin also runs the record and tape label Tone Filth and has other additional musical projects including Panther Skull. Matthew St. Germain (Freedom From record label) plays bass on the first track of These Graves. Pete Swanson (D Yellow Swans) mastered this album."

• Artist: differenz Title: jazz workshop Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1940 (This is a USED item) 1995 Shadow Records release

• Artist: Diving Bell Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Moodswing Records (USA) Price: $9.00 $5.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: Diving Bell "The appropriately titled, Diving Bell, is the collaboration between Craig Colorusso (guitar, field recordings) and Joel Westerdale (drums), both formerly of China Pig, and their self-titled record is nothing short of breathtaking. A diving bell is a large bell shaped container made of a combination of glass and metal. The bell can be large enough for multiple people to stand in, and it is placed in the water, allowing individuals to stay underwater for a long period of time, a perfect description of the feeling you get when listening to this band."

• Artist: DJ QBert Title: wave twisters Format: CD Label: USED Price: $6.00 $3.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1922 (This is a USED item) 1998 Galactic Butt Hair release

• Artist: DJ Soul Slinger Title: upload: a continuous mix Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_DJSoulSlinger_upload (This is a USED item)

• Artist: DJ Soul Slinger Title: missing time : the abducted remixes Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_DJSoulSlinger_missingtime (This is a USED item)

• Artist: DJ Soul Slinger Title: Don't Believe Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_DJSoulSlinger_dontbelieve (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Dolores Dewberry / Origami Genitalia Title: split Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR109 Split CD featuring two of the snizziest experimental music projects to emerge from Minneapolis since Snizzy McSnizzerton and his Band of Snizz. Dolores is known well for her appearance on Susan Lawly's "Extreme Music from Women" CD, and is here in full power-electronics mode, complete with porn samples. Origami Genitalia is an electro-acoustic soundtrack collaboration between Eric Hofferber (Gentle Tasaday) and E.W. Hagstrom (Cock E.S.P.) Co-released with Apop, Sunship, Gold Soundz, Little Mafia and Nihilist.

• Artist: Eleventh Day Dream Title: eighth Format: CD Label: Thrill Jockey Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_109 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Eli Keszler Title: R.L.K. Format: CD Label: Rel Records (USA) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_REL003 "Long piece in 3 parts; Bowed percussion, drumset and electronics. Hand embossed/stamped and painted arigate pak with insert. Edition 2: Avaiable now in edition of 500."

• Artist: Entente Cordiale Title: the recognition of common interests Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR150 nearly 48 minutes of sometimes sparce, sometimes dense, guitar work by this trio consisting of Will Veeder (Hinkley, Torpedoes, formerly of Muler), Chris Reeg (Blood and Bone Orchestra, Crush the Junta, Ian Downey is Famous, DvsC, Ada le O, The Years) and Joe Tunis (Joe+N, Crush the Junta, Tuurd, SQ, DvsC, Ada le O, formerly of Hilkka and Pengo). other instrumentation includes heavy synth, droney melodica and homemade pipe chimes. co-released by Phantom Limb Recordings. [packaged in a heavy vinyl sleeve with pro-printed card-stock cover] Reviews (2): Foxy Digitalis Entente Cordiale is a three-piece unit whose work revolves mainly around string drone. “The Recognition of Common Interests” is their third full length offering, as well as there most accomplished and satisfying work to date. Starting off with “an understanding is met” the trio create a wonderful space that merges pure simple melodic beauty with dissonance in such an elegant manner that one almost always wants to begin the album over again as soon as the track comes to completion with its final trails of drifting smoke. When one is finally placated enough, for the time being, with the strange beauty of the first track and decides to move onward, one is greeted with a complex array of deep drones, heavy slow-ass riffs, odd repeated and shifting noises, and enough space augmented with the correct use of silence to keep the air filled with an almost uncomfortable and engaging tension. This music of Entente Cordiale is complex and deeply satisfying on many levels. These three players are really expert at creating and manipulating sounds and their interaction with one another displays that they really no how to listen to one another as well. 9/10 - Cory Card Crucial Blast Rochester free-rockers Entente Cordiale return with their first "real" CD after a couple of CD-R releases that were well received over here at Crucial Blast HQ. Exploring themes of alliance and collaboration, Entente Cordiale (named after a historical agreement created between the English and the French at the dawn of the 20th century) craft a nearly 50-minute jam that while broken up into seperate tracks, seems to flow together as one huge organic piece. At first, this feels like the quieter side of members Joe Tunis and Chris Reeg, whose other band Crush The Junta just came out with a hefty new CD-R of improvised free-rock sludge that buried me beneath a heavy blanket of distorted goop. Here they are joined by Will Veeder (also of Hinkley, Torpedoes, and Muler), and the first track, "An UNderstanding Is Met", is a fragile, drifting tangle of folky guitar strum and clanging pipe chimes, almost like the Dead C lazily playing on the backporch of some country farm, idyllic and folky and dreamy. But when the second track "Roots" emerges, the guitars take on a darker hue, the strings suddenly detuning and coiling up like serpents, scraping fretboard growls sliding across the neck of the guitars, fluttering heavy synthesizer electronics buzzing ominously beneath Entente Cordiale's deformed blues licks and buzzing amplifiers. The following tracks continue in a similiar vein, sparse guitar lines repeated ad infinitum over buzzing synths and droning melodica, distorted mangled riffage clawing it's way through clouds of thick feedback, quietly pretty passages of amp hum and simple strummed chords, occasionally dipping into pools of Earth-y guitar rumble and raucous skree. It's the last five minutes of the album, however, on the last track "How Long Can It Hold", where the band cuts loose and whips up a scorching tempest of noisy guitar racket and reverberating speaker float. While not as "heavy" as their previous CD-Rs, The Recognition Of Common Interests still occupies that hazy realm between Iversen/Bjerga's trippy guitar-based improv, The Dead C at their most formless, and occasionally, the deep rumble of Earth's 2. Simple but effective packaging in a heavy mylar sleeve that holds the disc in a professionally printed card sleeve.

• Artist: Euphone Title: The Calendar of Unlucky Days Format: CD Label: Jade Tree Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_4 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: everlasting the way Title: long-stretching-motorcycle-hymn-highway Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1932 (This is a USED item) 2000 Monitor Records release. this is Sean Meadows of June of 44, Lungish, etc fame.

• Artist: Family Underground Title: Salt of the Sun Format: CD Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) Price: $15.00 $9.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IKU_FamilyUndergroundCD "New minimal full-length album from Family Underground that abandons the drug-hit-sally-inside feel of early Velvets jags for the sound of the last gasp of Lou Reed's long-suffering amp in the final seconds of 'Black Angel's Death Song' extended to oblivion. Comes in a fold-out four panel digipak." - Volcanic Tongue "An oozing sprawl of malevolent drone and thick buzzing electricity from Denmark's Family Underground." - Boa Melody Bar

• Artist: Fistula Title: Goat Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR84 "Ohio is rotting. Fistula once again team up with Crucial Blast to deliver another heavy dose of their septic, filthy, lumbering death-sludge in the form of Goat, a five-song Ep of low-fi and low-end nihilistic filth and rabies-laced caveman thrash with songs based on the ghoulish discovery and subsequent investigation of the eleven decomposing bodies found in the Cleveland home of Anthony Sowell in the Autumn of 2009. This new disc delivers more of the pulverizing, slime-covered sludge and primitive death metal rot that these Buckeye barbarians have been carving out in the back of Medina garages over the past ten years, continuing to follow in the coagulated blood tracks of Frost, Autopsy and Winter, but filtered through Fistula's uniquely mangled and inebriated scum-haze and utterly negatory worldview. "

• Artist: fluf Title: Mangravy Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1918 (This is a USED item) Headhunter Records release

• Artist: Further (AUS) Title: the crow read Format: CD Label: Comrade Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_12 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Gate to Gate Title: 1 Turn Black Keys Format: CD Label: PacRec (USA) Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TRO113 "Confused like a two-headed snake trying to bite its own non-existant tail, Gate to Gate churn through gross tones, bass shudder and worst of all - vocals - with exactly the maladroit precision you'd expect from such a beast. This release presents one new 38 minute mess of blackened clatter and clunk, as well as collects their two extremely limited cassettes BANE and HOUSE WITH THE CLOCK IN ITS WALLS in remastered form. Heavy-handed and heavy-footed industrial noise by all accounts. from the blackened minds of Greh (Hive Mind, Chondritic Sound) and Mike Connelly (Hair Police, Wolf Eyes, Gods of Tundra). nearly 80 minutes of satanic black sludge."

• Artist: Gays in the Military Title: People is Beautiful Format: CD Label: gulcher Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Gulcher602 "Cover art by Peter Bagge! 1. Firepigs: A Tribute To America's Heroes 2. Hips Or Lips? 3. Evil Physician/Evil Position 4. Tiger Cage 5. AIDS Team (The Dirty Version) 6. Beverly Hills Cock Part Two 7. A Message"

• Artist: Geisha Title: Die Verbrechen Der Liebe Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $11.00 $6.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR68 "This hour-long, six track monolith follows Geisha into a psychedelic black storm, their blown-out and raw rock infused with a bone-rattling recording and covered in a thick sheen of white noise and gritty distortion. As with their previous album, the spirit of seminal noise rock / sludge rock (think Cherubs, Melvins, My Bloody Valentine's Isn't Anything for coordinates) is combined with violent, chaotic NOISE and tainted with blurred VHS cassette visions and vague allusions to BDSM, and then jammed through an orgone accumulator, forming a ferocious, crushing rock beast that reveals it's powerful hooks and melodies underneath the churning distorted bass rumble and sludgemetal riffage , blasts of psychedelic drone-noise and corrosive skree, percussive pummel, and deranged singing. The sound is immense, and the first five tracks on Die Verbrechen Der Liebe deliver Geisha's in-the-red heaviness and hooks in surplus. "Prelude To Amber Pays The Rent", "A Wilderness, Except By Sight", "Sportsfister" - every one is a crusher. But then Geisha pull out the monstrous thirty-minute, thirty-five second closer "Theme From Diana", and the tone changes completely. This track is a re-working of a "metal percussion" set that Geisha originally performed live several years ago, and it begins as a slowly building fog of voices and effects and shimmering metal that blooms into an expanse of droning, fx-heavy guitar, looping samples, cosmic effects, and improvised percussion. It's a kind of rumbling industrial dronescape that stretches out forever, until suddenly in the last few minutes the drifting drones and psychedelic guitars and sampled voices suddenly explode in an immolating nuclear blast of overdriven, speaker-annhilating noise and the track immediately, terrifyingly changes shape into a monstrous lumbering noise-metal dirge that bulldozes out of your speakers, whooshing Hawkwind effects swooping overhead, the band knotted together into a white-hot blast of ultra heavy riffage, distortion, and a wall of percussive force. "Diana" is one of the most crushing pieces of music that I have ever heard from Geisha, like some majestic and brutal conglom of Swans, Skullflower, Merzbow, and Burmese forged into a destructive space-metal supernova. Crucial Blast is releasing the CD version of Die Verbrechen Der Liebe in a limited edition of 1,000 copies, packaged in a full-color gatefold jacket. "

• Artist: Geisha Title: Mondo Dell'Orrore Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR52 "Devouring/rebirthing the concept of "noise rock" into something frighteningly beautiful and brutally heavy, GEISHA deliver crushing blasts of impossibly hyperdistorted rock baked in massive frequency overload and massive hooks and melodies and sinister crushing riffs, all of it slathered in filthy throbbing feedback and white noise horror holocaust, like the early 90's alt rock of Isn't Anything-era MY BLOODY VALENTINE and DINOSAUR JR. mashed together with the most brutal sort of Unsane/Am Rep style racket and distortion-drenched psych/noise into a sludgy metallic mass, jamming with a small army of pedal-smashing harsh electronics troglodytes playing awesomely catchy/crushing pop songs buried beneath a hellish storm of skree and amp-blowing fuzz. Terrifying. Beautiful. Licensed for North America by Crucial Blast."

• Artist: Genghis Tron Title: Dead Mountain Mouth Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR53 "Dead Mountain Mouth is the wickedly anticipated full length album from GENGHIS TRON, and the follow-up to their imaginative debut EP, Cloak Of Love. Recorded at Godcity Studios with Kurt Ballou (Converge), Dead Mountain Mouth moves beyond the rapid-fire electro/grind genre-splicing of Cloak Of Love, and forms something more fluid and cohesive, an arcane union of digital dreams and brutal heaviness, where speedcore eruptions blossom from clouds of maximum beat-driven electronic bliss, and futuristic metal riffage seethes from your speakers. These ten gloriously-dense and triumphantly catchy jams soar through valleys of immense crush and alien vistas of 8-bit wizardry unlike anything you've heard before..."

• Artist: glimr Title: south dakota logic mechanism Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_glimr (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Gnaw Their Tongues Title: All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR78 "Picking up where 2008's An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood left off, Gnaw Their Tongues is back with nine new tracks of fearsome blackened orchestral chaos and abstract horror that still sounds like little else out there. On Dread, we're feeling an even heavier bass-assault compared to the other releases, and this is easily the heaviest Gnaw Their Tongues release yet. This monstrous, noxious bottom-end roar that skulks and slithers throughout the album suggests a foul fusion of Abruptum (which is still the closest reference point to Gnaw Their Tongue's black chaos) and Leonard Rosenman's most nightmarish film scores, piled in towering heaps of sadistic noise, warped orchestral strings, degraded samples, shrieking voices, and punishing lurching doom draped in suffocating atrmosphere. Hyper-abstract black metal sound-collage? Wagnerian avant-doom psychosis? That's one way of putting it, but Gnaw Their Tongues is ultimately impossible to pin down, defying simple categorization as this album plunges even deeper into a black pit of total cinematic horror, sexual perversion, and shapeless heaviosity. Once again, we've presented the cd version of this album in a deluxe heavyweight tip-on gatefold sleeve manufactured by Stoughton, exactly the same as the sort that we used for the cd release of An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood, and the package includes a six-panel full color booklet. Both the booklet and the gatefold features new artwork from Gnaw Their Tongues mastermind Mories, whose artwork continues to get more insane with each new release. Their are images of depravity, masochism, and sadistic enslavement captured here that we're betting are still haunting the poor saps who assembled these at the plant. And again, the song titles evoke total nightmare visions: "My Orifices Await Ravaging", "Broken Fingers Point Upwards In Vain", "The Stench Of Dead Horses On My Breath And The Vile Of Existence In My Hands", "Gazing At Me Through Tears Of Urine", "Rife With Deep Teeth Marks", and the whopping "The Gnostic Ritual Consumption Of Semen As Embodiment Of Wounds Teared In The Soul". The album opens with a sudden blast of pounding tympani-like percussion and roaring distorted bass, a massive blackened dirge wading through a swirling storm of metal smashing against metal, howls of anguish and terror, bursts of majectic brass fanfare and distortion and epic string sections struggling to emerge from the chaos, then turning into a sea of tense strings and choral voices spreading out towards the end that creates a less noisy but still totally evil atmopshere before becoming devoured at last by the bulldozing black industrial doom. Then it's on to "Verbrannt und verflucht", a mechanical black dirge filled with darkly beautiful orchestral strings and stumbling chaotic drumming, weaving back and forth between a crushing lopsided industrial groove and bombastic riffage that's shot through with brief sections of shimmering ambient drift and echoing chimes and harsh whispered vocals. The next track opens with an immense deep bassline, like the shuddering tones of a massive bowed cello rumbling through an underground cave system, then launches into another stumbling industrial groove, like a broken Godflesh track draped in harrowing Bernard Herrmann strings, dissonant riffage and some of the albums most overt black metal style vocals, a seriously pissed-off ripped-throat shriek soaring over the sludge. Halfway through, the song turns into a a gripping cinemtatic dirge, just heavy drums and looped strings and ominous bassline spreading out over several minutes, then sinking back into a morass of charred distorted drone, cello and weeping female vocals towards the end. "Stench" juxtaposes a reading of a poem from Gustave Flaubert over monstrous slow-motion doom, and " L�Ange qui annonce la fin du temps" reveals a seething mass of murderous whispers and demonic black ambience, deep pounding kettledrums echoing through the pit, dissonant piano and Lustmordian darkness swirling with swarms of atonal strings and hovering drones. A heavy rhythmic orchestral loops opens "Gazing" and leads this track into one of the album's most "grooving" moments, a massive winding doom riff working its way across pitch-black film-score strings and later joined by scathing blackened vocals. "Rife" starts off with a full minute of granular black noise before dropping in to a chaotic lurching off-time riff and a churning maelstrom of distorted electronics and looped orchestral stabs, but evolves into dreamy dark ambience laced with piano and hushed female vocals in it's second half, then exploding into a monstrous speaker-shredding bass-heavy drone at the end. And then as if things couldn't get any more terrifying and nightmarish, the title track appears, opening with a distant female voice screaming for help (a sample I recognize but can't place off of the top of my head), her frantic screams repeating over and over and over as the vicious black doom riffage and industrial percussion pours forth, massive blasts of brass fanfares and dense strings piled on top, the sound absolutely suffocating. But then four minutes in, the doomy heaviness and strings drop out suddenly and we're left with minimal fluttering drones and slow dissonant chords being smashed out of a piano for a minute, a brief moment of almost-calm, and then the drums begin to pound and the orchestral sounds and distorted riffage crashes back in with an epic final hook that's one of the most majestic moments on the album, almost sounding like My Dying Bride but drowned in noise and filthy buzzing bass and psychotic strings. Finally, "Gnostic Ritual" closes the album with a simple two-chord bass riff over pounding, heavily echoing drums, a blackened dubby doomscape filled with super distorted shrieks and harsh noisy ambience, slow and crushing and utterly depressing, and as the track continues the stripped down industrial dirge is slowly joined by waves of rumbling orchestral percussion, distant warning sirens, murky strings and suspended high pitched drones that builds in intensity until finally fading out on a smoking trail of crackling feedback and distorted bass."

• Artist: GOD Title: Anti-Sex Anti-Wiretapping (made in Taiwan) Format: CD Label: Little Enjoyer (USA) Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_le02 "Mysterious Portland, OR duo. This here is heavy. Cables coming apart and shit." - The SNSE

• Artist: Goh Lee Kwang and Tim Blechmann Title: DRONE Format: CD Label: Herbal Records (Germany) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HERBAL_drone Goh Lee Kwang: prepared mixier and Tim Blechmann: laptop

• Artist: Golden Title: super golden original movement Format: CD Label: Slowdime Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_121 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Gorilla Title: Deal With It Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1973 (This is a USED item) 1993 Thrill Jockey release

• Artist: Gorilla Title: meconium, the squid row daze Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1921 (This is a USED item) 1993 Bag of Hammers release - compiles previous singles

• Artist: Grand Ulena Title: gateway to dignity Format: CD Label: Family Vineyard Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_fv18 Debut of the St. Louis instrumental trio of bassist Darin Gray (also of On Fillmore, ex-Dazzling Killmen, Brise Glace) guitarist Chris Trull (Darling Little Jackhammer) and drummer Danny McClain (Johnny Angel, Arrmy of Robots). This is disjunct rhythms played at high velocity. Disjunct beats played under broken and jagged melodies. Repetition of the retarded. Complex structures combined with complete and utter failure. Failed soloing combined with rigid riffery. Extended instrumental techniques forged into song. Polyrhythmic, Polyphonic -- Damn Jim!, Poly-EVERYTHING! The success AND the failure of rock.

• Artist: Greg Davis Title: Somnia Format: CD Label: Kranky (USA) Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_krank074 Greg Davis has made recorded appearances on numerous singles and compilations, played around the world and is best known for his two albums on the Carpark label; Arbor and Curling Pond Woods. Those two albums, as impressive and well received as they are, don¹t tell the whole story of Davis' omnivorous interest in music (he studied composition and jazz studies at DePaul University and composition at the New England Conservatory of Music) and considerable abilities. Somnia collects drone-oriented material Greg Davis has been working over the last two to three years with the final track, "Mirages (version 2)" being a recording from spring 2004 using a schaaf punchcard music box and computer. Each track features a single instrument (bowed psaltery, acoustic guitar, harmonica, fender rhodes, magnus chord organ) played by Davis and then filtered through a computer. The tones that come out of the process bear little immediate resemblance to the instrument of origin, taking on extended and diffuse forms of their own. Having performed behind a laptop and toured with his own band, Greg Davis is uniquely situated, in a scene full of point and clickers, to create music that actually synthesizes and doesn¹t merely recombine. Somnia is a product of his longstanding interest in both organic sounds (as created by instruments played in realtime) and the transformational possibilities of computers. An early version of "Clouds As Edges" was Davis' first release as a single on the Grounded label in 2001. Somnia focuses on one area of Greg Davis' many musical interests and widens his earlier laptop work as it reflects back on the instrumental textures used in his most recent solo work.

• Artist: Greg Palast Title: Weapon on Mass Instruction (LIVE) Format: CD Label: AK Press (USA) Price: $13.00 $7.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_AKA039CD 64 minutes of what the muckraking journalist does best, live and uncensored. From the 2000 elections to the Best Democracy Money Can Buy, the Bush Family Frankenstein Factory, to Fatherland Security and the FBI, Palast lays it all out with wit,and verve. And yup, its an enhanced CD with some extra video footage goodies too!

• Artist: Grey Daturas Title: Dead In The Woods Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $11.00 $6.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR63 "A re-issue of the out-of-print 2004 monsterpiece from the Melbourne, Australian trio Grey Daturas. Originally released through the band's own Crashing Jets imprint, Dead In The Woods is a massive exhortation of lumbering metallic sludge rock, freely improvised amplifier noise and crushing riff splatter, and massive, sky-streaking psychedelic corrosion. The Crucial Blast re-issue of Dead In The Woods features a full remastering by Scott Hull at Visceral Sound, and will also come with a brand new packaging design via a 4-panel case printed by Stumptown Printers. "

• Artist: Guzzard Title: Get a Witness Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1980 (This is a USED item) 1994 Amphetamine Reptile release

• Artist: Guzzard Title: quick, fast, in a hurry Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1981 (This is a USED item) Amphetamine Reptile release

• Artist: Hair Police Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions (USA) Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HOS085a "cd collects early hospital cassette, mortuary servants 7" and unreleased material from drawn dead era. total basement dirge hell."

• Artist: Happy Mother‘s Day, I Can‘t Read Title: s/t (ocean scene cover) Format: CD Label: freedom from Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HMDICR001

• Artist: Happy Mother‘s Day, I Can‘t Read Title: s/t Format: CD Label: freedom from Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ff251

• Artist: Hilkka Title: escalation/objective Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR23 What you‘ve got here is 14 tracks of post-Slint tuneage that‘s sure to get the backpack slinging crowds‘ glasses in a fog. With e/o, a perfect balance between monstrous crushing riffs and delicate pop hooks is achieved in a flawless manner. While Hilkka‘s patented claustrophobia inducing riffs are present in abundance on this release, the playing is a little looser and more open. This gives songs like "Sad Song‘s Say So Much" and "I Go Dental" room to breath and a way out of the over crowded ghetto called "Indie Rock Circa 2000". This release also establishes Hilkka as true craftsmen in the song writing field. You can tell these songs took time to compose. Face it kid, these three large men from Rochester New York show a range and depth both emotionally and cerebrally in their music that makes yr popular Midwest Emo of the month heros sound like the baggy pants wearing pussies that they really are.

• Artist: Hilkka Title: the beautiful aesthetician Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR17 the first full length hilkka release since 1995. some math, some improv, some angles, some heaviness, some pop? "...off kilter, cyclical rhythms...electronics-laden groove or heading for headier pasture..."

• Artist: Hilkka / Lift Title: in cooperation with gravity Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR03 Split release featuring short lived Rochester band Lift and Carbon Records stalwarts Hilkka. Can you really live without owning a CD that has songs with such great titles as Crackie, Bag of Dildoes, Cocksucker, 40lb. Bag of Shit and Blood Bath at the House of Death??? "Stop it!!! Your crushing me!!!!!!"

• Artist: Hinkley Title: Elephant Roundup Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR176 this is somewhat of a live record. recorded during a Dec 2007 show in Rochester NY. Hinkley then added some overdubs (more guitars, vocals, etc) and mixed and mastered it during the spring/summer of 2008 to arrive at this final product. Elephant Roundup is an incredibly strong representation of the "big band" form of Hinkley, complete with the usual guitars, bass, drums and vocals, but in addition, keyboards, misc percussion, violin, banjo, singing saw and baritone horn. the songs range from (alt) country to downer pop to full-on rock with a very strong emphasis, across the board, on song writing and meaningful (and usually story-telling) lyrics. [production CD housed in a heavy duty vinyl slip case with pro-printed full-color folded cover]

• Artist: Hinkley Title: estate sale Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR125 "In Spring of 2005 Hinkley started working on their latest CD, Estate Sale, with the help of Adam Lasus (Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, Clem Snide, Yo La Tengo). Recorded in both Brooklyn and Rochester, the mixing and production duties of the record were split between Adam and Hinkley (Adam mixing half the record remote in Los Angeles and Hinkley mixing the other half in Rochester). Each mix was carefully constructed and well though out, in some cases changes to the arrangement or instrumentation occurred after all the tracks were recorded and mixing was well underway. This approach gives the record a unique feel. Musically Estate Sale encompasses a wide variety of ideas weaving between country, 60's pop and indie-rock, while still grounded in the distinct sound that has given Hinkley its name." simply put, this is one of the best pop/rock records i've heard in quite some time, and hence, i was compelled to release this CD (joe). Reviews (4): Indie Pages Other than the Goo Goo Dolls (ugh....ok, when they first started out they actually had a kinda cool Ramones sound but what the hell happened ???) Rochester, NY ain’t known for much (and if it is, will someone please tell me ). Then along comes Hinkley....named after either the guy who shot Ronald Reagan (or Jim Hinkley the goofball I went to high school with – I’m guessing the former). The band is led by main guy Will Veedder and ESTATE SALE is full of the kind of melodic Americana that most bands written about in the pages of NO DEPRESSION would kill for. The record starts off with the gentle acoustic of “Hanging Tree” then dives right into the more rockin’/ melodic “Casino” and the record goes back and forth mixing the quieter, gentler tunes with more driving pop tunes. I think my favorite cut is the amazing “Ballerina” with the bouncy piano , jangly guitars and out of nowhere comes this killer blasting trumpet ( some nice trumpet work will always sell daggerboy on a song). Go on and open your door for Hinkley, they might be the best company you’ve ever had. - Dagger Miles of Music Estate Sale coolly exposes a wide variety of musical styles, all or which flow gracefully amongst each other while still maintaining a sound to identify as a band called Hinkley. The Rochester, NY group is fronted by songwriter Will Veeder. This surprisingly sublime collection of songs was recorded with the help of Adam Lasus (Clem Snide, Yo La Tengo). Languid alt. country tunes, with traditional strains, fuse into a kind of highly melodic bruised pop that suggests an appreciation for The Beatles and The Beach Boys. Consider an indie-rock ethos, (ala The Shins and Built To Spill) coupled with an eclectic core of Americana, and its easy to hear how comparisons to Sparklehorse and Wilco might arise. -- Robinson - Robinson Delusions of Adequacy On their third release and second full-length, the Rochester musicians in Hinkley offer a brilliant album of perfectly produced, stylistically diverse pop music that is sure to find widespread appreciation if given the opportunity. If every city has its band of hard-working artists who cause locals to scratch their heads over why the band hasn’t reached worldwide acclaim, Hinkley is Rochester’s act. Almost an all-star cast of local talent – now with singer/songwriter Gregory Paul on guitar and backing vocals – Hinkley has proved with stellar live shows and the release of Estate Sale that there’s no justice in musical popularity. Mixed in part by Adam Lasus (it-band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Yo La Tengo), Estate Sale shows the band’s penchant for diverse pop styles, adding melancholy country-tinged ballads to upbeat and insanely catchy pop songs. There’s hints of acts from Neutral Milk Hotel and Guided By Voices to Sparklehorse and Clem Snide, and what makes this album work is how well those styles mix. It doesn’t hurt that the five- or six-member line-up is present in each song, with stellar recording allowing even the most subtle of instrumentation to shine, while the focus still remains on frontman Will Veeder’s vocals and the band’s three-guitar approach. The album opens with the softly strummed country-tinged melancholy of “Hanging Tree,” featuring hints of keys and harmonica to back up Veeder’s emotive vocals and guitar. It leads into one of the band’s most memorably catchy songs, the surprisingly pretty for being so upbeat “Casino,” which bounces along happily along with backing vocals by Stacey Ackerman. From there, the album does a nice job of mixing the slower, more melancholy ballads and the upbeat, catchy pop songs. “Party on the Sun” is a pretty song, with gently picked guitars and a country-styled rhythm, while it’s followed by the can’t-get-it-out-of-your-head “Ballerina,” one of those toe-tapping, head-bobbing pop songs that stick with you for weeks. Local artist Darren Dewispelaere (Veluxe) adds trumpet to the mix for a nice touch. There’s a few timeless songs here that are sure to end up on some mix CDs. “Where the River Meets the Sea” feels like a timeless country/folk song given a more modern rock approach. “Mary Lincoln” is a pleasantly mid-tempo track, poppy but also nicely restrained and rich with deep bass, piano, and sweet backing vocals. Then you have the brilliantly up-beat and rocking “Build Me Something in the Sky,” filled with edgy guitars and a fast beat contrasted with a sweet chorus. It’s like a cross between Polyphonic Spree and Built to Spill, perhaps. The up-tempo “She Loves the Sun” takes a similar approach for perhaps the most rocking track on the album. And one of the album’s most memorable moments is the glorious “Horse of the Wood,” featuring gorgeous, booming drums, the album’s best vocals, and a deeply emotional feel. That being said, my favorite track here is “Memory in My Heart,” a staple of the band’s live shows, which is incredibly rich in sound and perhaps the band’s most catchy song yet. Even the “ooo-eee-ooo-eee-ooo” from backing vocals feels fitting to this sweet and bouncy pop song, which has surprisingly edgy guitars for being so poppy. Previous Hinkley releases and incredible live shows convinced me that Estate Sale couldn’t live up to my expectations. I was wrong. This album has been on near constant rotation in my collection, and each listen gives me a new favorite song to hit replay or move into a new playlist. The band spent more than a year working on this release, and it’s evident in the recording quality, the tracking, and the perfect songwriting. This one’s sure to hold a high spot on my best-of lists for 2006, and I couldn’t recommend it any higher. - Jeff Marsh City Newspaper With the familiar, downtempo strum-strum-strum that opens Estate Sale, it appears as if Hinkley leader and principle songwriter Will Veeder is about to lead the band down the same melancholy path it explored with such lustrous results on the band’s 2004 release, Frail and Poker Faced. Anyone familiar with Veeder’s previous work in Hinkley and the now-defunct Muler can attest to Veeder’s unparalleled gift for wresting beauty from sadness. This time, as if sensing that lightning might not strike in the same spot twice, Veeder devotes about half the album to Muler-styled upbeat pop. The band --- a veritable all-star lineup of local talent --- switches gears between trademark Hinkley Americana and British mod rock with rubbery grace. One piece even delves into abstract jazz in a loose jam that nonetheless demonstrates the band’s cohesion. Honorable mentions go to recurring guests Stacey Ackerman on vocals and Darren Dewispelaere on trumpet. - Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

• Artist: Hiroshima Title: east Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_Hiroshima (This is a USED item) japanese rock/pop/world group from the 80s/90s

• Artist: Hollowing + Major Applebaum Title: collaborating torture Format: CD Label: Heart and Crossbone (Israel) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HCB017 "Collaborating Torture is one of the last known recordings made by Matt Gibney AKA Hollowing, who died in January 2006. Gibney, a member of SOIHADTOSHOOTHIM who was also running the important Rectrix label and mail-order, was joined here by the prolific Maor Appelbaum (Grave in the Sky, Poochaltz and Maurizio Bianchi, to name but a few...) to create a brooding and massive 54 minutes track of dark pitch-black ambient of hypnagogic swirls and industrialized drones. Sometimes subtle, yet mostly haunted and delirious, this is highly recommended if you like Wilt, Murderous Vision, Brighter Death Now, Aidan Baker, Z'ev, Daniel Menche, The Caretaker and John Duncan."

• Artist: Honcho Overload Title: smiles everyone Format: CD Label: Mud Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_83 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Human Quena Orchestra Title: The Politics Of The Irredeemable Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR76 "Human Quena Orchestra first took shape as a solo project from Ryan Unks, who had previously played guitar in the final lineup of the Pittsburgh metal band Creation Is Crucifixion. After moving from CIC, Unks began to work on a new project that would incorporate elements of black metal, crushing drone music, extreme psychotropic noise and psychedelic/krautrock influences into a sound that would be much heavier any of his previous projects. The first album from Human Quena Orchestra was released in 2007 on Daft Alliance; Means Without Ends was a disturbing, introspective slab of blackened industrial doom that stood out in stark contrast from the rest of the slow n' low extreme doom scene, utilizing layers of harsh textured distortion and electronics to create a caustic form of monstrous doom that shared as much of industrial music's cold, machine-like aesthetic as it did the ultra-slow riffage of the most extreme variants of doom metal. At the same time that the bands debut was taking shape, Unks was joined by another former member of Creation Is Crucifixion, Nathan Berlinguette (who was also a member of the dark ambient project M.Kourie and the deathdrone duo 5/5/2000). With the addition of Berlinguette's skilled application of dark ambience and expansive soundscapes, Human Quena Orchestra began to move into even more textured territory which has culminated with the second HQO full-length, The Politics of the Irredeemable, a series of apocalyptic visions and epiphanies of endtime realization, prophetic screeds that look to a future rendered pustulent and war-stricken by the failed machinations of the human race, presented as six chapters that enter your consciousness through a delivery system of extreme industrial dread. The Politics of the Irredeemable is crushing and oppressive, a crawl through abstract fields of low-end sound that move from punishing blasts of ultra-heavy machine-doom and earth-shaking tectonic riffs, to thick fogs of black electronic ambience that shimmer with subsonic pulses and celestial drones, the presence of malevolent electricity crackling in the air around the lumbering, nightmarish electro-sludge monstrosity of the Human Quena Orchestra. And at the same time, there are passages of immense beauty on this album that lurk at the peripheries of HQO's malevolent crush; the track "Aspirations" for instance, where pummeling slow-motion industrial percussions grinds in an infinite loop beneath a swirling nightsky of kosmiche synthesizers and heavenly, blissed-out ambience, the drums becoming like distant mortar blasts heard over the horizon as terrified screams ring out and stars fall dead from the skies. This is seriously apocalyptic deathmachine grind ambience. "

• Artist: I Love You But Ive Chosen Chosen Darkness Title: s/t Format: CD Label: USED Price: $6.00 $3.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1979 (This is a USED item) 2003 Emperor Jones release

• Artist: Irene Moon Title: Pangolin Variations Format: CD Label: Begonia Society (USA) Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_begonia_pangolin "music of Ergo Phizmiz and remix music from Irene Moon. Just who is Ergo Phizmiz? Have a look at his site and see for yourself� He likes cows, curries and peas. Music for those that know better."

• Artist: James Plotkin Title: Kurtlanmak/Damascus Format: CD Label: Utech (USA) Price: $14.00 $8.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_URCD001 "James Plotkin began his musical career as the guitarist for metal band OLD with vocalist Alan Dubin. The two would cross paths again under the guise of Khanate. In the interim Plotkin would become involved in projects ranging from guitar bent soundscape and grind to free improvisation. His body of work spans format and label, recording for Avant, Hydra Head, Asphodel, Earache, Southern Lord and Archive among others. Whether writing, performing, or producing, his output has been invariably unique and extreme. Kurtlanmak/Damascus is no exception. Recorded live in New York and Buenos Aires respectively the tracks show a side of James Plotkin rarely seen. That of the solo artist. Plotkin utilizes two distinct setups for each performance and channels the sound of acoustic instrumentation through the hum of electronic sorcery. Released on Utech Records [022] as Kurtlanmak in the fall of last year, the limited cdr was sold at dates on the Khanate "It's Cold When Birds Fall From the Sky" tour. The music on this edition has been remastered and the packaging expanded. “Damascus” is added here as a bonus track and is previously unreleased. "

• Artist: Jason Loewenstein Title: at sizes and sevens Format: CD Label: SubPop Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_114 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Jawbox Title: s/t Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1915 (This is a USED item) release from 1996 on Tag Records

• Artist: Jazkamer Title: Balls the Size of Texas, Liver the Size of Brazil Format: CD Label: Purple Soil Price: $15.00 $9.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PULSEZEROFOUR "The latest release from Norway's hungriest noise composers is comparatively a more subdued affair, and it is much more subtle than its boisterous title would have one to believe. John Hegre and Lasse Marhaug present a noteworthy combination of heavily controlled guitar feedback and studio treatments characterize the work as a whole, but each piece is very different from the next. Opener "God Damn This Ugly Sound" is less an exercise in composition and more in locating, as it is a six-minute excerpt from a medical record documenting the sounds of various diseases. The rest isn't as obtuse, as it segues nicely into the looping guitar feedback and shrill squeal of "Blues for Sterling Hayden," which could easily be an exercise in sheer noise blast, but is instead a carefully controlled track that demonstrates just how subtle the duo can be, even under such 'extreme' conditions. Structurally similar is "A Bucket of Mayo," which is built out of feedback fragments and the warm crunch of vinyl surface noise. Marhaug can't help but show his noise chops he has honed in his solo career, and "Not Half Bad to the Bone" demonstrates his penchant for explosive bassy blasts, yet lurking under the crunch are some subtle, melodic tones that the average band wouldn't have bothered with. The ending series of false starts from a live band is a nice touch as well. "Tentacles of Broken Teeth" is somewhat reminiscent of Marhaug's recent collaboration with Nils Henrik Asheim on Touch, all massive, cavernous reverbs and expansive metallic drones, but here a bit more harsh and distortion oriented. The centerpieces of the disc are the two massive lengths tracks—the aforementioned "Blues for Sterling Hayden" and the title track—the latter being a more controlled affair of synth tones feedback, and even a bit of dark ambience. The long tracks especially show this duo's flair for creating beautifully structured chaos. Balls the Size of Texas, Liver the Size of Brazil cannot neatly be labeled as a 'noise' work, but it certainly has the elements that fans of Marhaug's solo work will enjoy, but enough compositional and structural elements that anyone who understands the appeal of esoteric music would love as well." -- Brainwashed.com

• Artist: Jeff Mueller Title: fold and perish Format: CD Label: Monitor Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_130 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Jeremy Enigk Title: return of the frog queen Format: CD Label: SubPop Price: $6.00 $3.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_125 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: joe raglani/scenic railroads Title: split Format: CD Label: gameboy Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_gb75 after both putting in the cdr dues, joe raglani and scenic railroads decided it was time to take it to the pro-pressed level. raglani's 3 ambient compositions and scenic's 4 digital improvisations play excellently off each other creating a disc with a consistent, organic flow. 52 minutes of noise underground's prettier, lusher underbelly. if these dudes were european they'd be getting 1,000 euro guarantees by now. an edition of 500. co-released with raglani's pegasus farms records and printed at the infamous thumbprint press.

• Artist: Joe+N Title: exposure and experience Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR24 exposure & experience continues the path of Joe‘s sonic evolution in a logical manner: by basically snipping all ties to the grounded world of rock and blasting off into the nether regions of improv, experimental, collage, you name it. It‘s really difficult to make blanket comparisons, as Joe+N draws creative inspiration from such a wide range of sources (witness the disparate dedications Joe makes); it‘s probably fair to say that fans of the Dead C., the Flying Luttenbachers, R. Toral, Nurse with Wound, Labradford, Current93 and other artists on the fringes of sound would all find something to adore in here, as long as they weren‘t holding on to such preconceptions too tightly.

• Artist: John Weise Title: Teenage Hallucination 1992-1999 Format: CD Label: PacRec (USA) Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TRO206 "Teenage Hallucination is a compendium of Wiese's initial recordings as a teenager to his seminal early vinyl appearances. From pure analog bedroom havoc to intense cut-up harsh noise blasts, Wiese steadily developed his highly personal and specific style of extreme music while trying to survive the St. Louis experience. 52 tracks in nearly 80 minutes of the best material from his Catwoman 7", split LP with The Haters, split 5" with Panicsville, collaborative tracks with GX Jupitter-Larsen (The Haters) and Corydon Ronnau (Sissy Spacek), and featuring many completely unreleased and unheard tracks of isolated midwest basement obscurity. Full liner notes by T.Mikawa (Incapacitants/ Hijokaidan) and Seymour Glass (Bananafish). Limited to 1,000 copies."

• Artist: Jon Eriksen / Sten Ove Toft / Utarm Title: Penumbra Booming Format: CD Label: Roggbif (Norway) Price: $14.00 $8.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_RR017 "A triple solo-split release from three of Scandinavias top noise acts. Spanning from Harsh-Noise by Eriksen, vià heavy industrial drones by Toft, to electronic doom metal by Utarm, this release has been praized by reviewers throughout the world."

• Artist: Juneau Title: s/t Format: CD Label: USED Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1941 (This is a USED item) 1998 Ba Da Bing! release

• Artist: Keijo Title: Neverending Blues Format: CD Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IKU_KeijoBlues "According to Indian mythology everything was born and will be born with vibration, sound. What Western civilization calls music, is narrow, nothing but strictly controlled thread in that vibrating area. Other kind of threads have been mastered elsewhere. Inevitably these threads will also face each other and become one. Basic note chimes in blues, raga and mantra. I dreamt of musics and players who can modulate with music, no matter which cultural background they come from � I felt I understood something about the sounds I sometimes heard in the evening just before falling into sleep and in the morning when I woke up." Keijo Virtanen (Kheta Hotem, Free Players, Rambling Boys) makes his long distance walk into the stream of folk/countryblues continuum. These marvellously rusty and dusty tracks have been cooking with tender flame in Keijo�s mind&soul for a good while: "When I was just a little boy, I used to just lay down under the blanket (just before falling to sleep) randomly switching the channels of our transistor radio. Under the crunches and washes I also found the new pirate radio stations and there, among the speeches came out the echoing, rhythmic, electric guitar music. Eventually under rock music and British pop music I discovered the sounds of the black people of North America. I felt like those deep singing voices and wailing guitars would somehow also belong to this kind of environment, to rural, middle-of-nowhere Finland, surrounded by wildlife and physical work with our own hands and whatever we may get grown from the land.

• Artist: Kelli Shay Hicks Title: Buck Again Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR144 “A needle in one arm and a bouquet in the other”. This is Kelli Shay's first full-length album. The thirteen tracks here were recorded in 2005 in Chicago with Butchy Fuego of Pit er Pat. Buck Again is not unlike Kelli's live performances in its sparseness, but each song flows into the other with the addition of ambient sounds that weave through an instrumentation consisting of little more than guitar, autoharp, violin, and voice. [Each package is unique-- hand-painted in gold and silkscreened in Nashville, Tennessee at Isle of Printing.] “She sounds like Strawberry Shortcake is coming to get me”. Reviews (1): Foxy Digitalis “Bucked Again” is the first full-length from Kelli Shay Hicks, following last year’s three song ep, “Bucked.” Reviews for that disc inevitably focused on the fact that it was produced in a handful of remote locations by independent film maker Jem Cohen (also presumably the inspiration for the new album’s “Jem”).And while she stayed in one place to record “Bucked Again” the album has a wispish intransigence to it that suggests restlessness and a fear of decay. The packaging adds to the mystique. The disc comes housed in a die-cut cardboard case painted gold; there’s no indication at all of what’s inside. Song titles and credits are then printed on an enclosed single sheet of delicately translucent paper, giving the project an air of otherworldliness. Once inside, the hushed chamber music feel brings to mind the best solo work of Kristen Hersh (whose debut “Hips and Makers” once guided me safely through a treacherous Rocky Mountains snowstorm as cars all around me careened off the road). The instrumentation primarily consists of Hicks accompanying herself on acoustic guitar and autoharp. Hicks is certainly an inspired fingerpicker. Close your eyes during the brief instrumental “Andy” and it’s not hard to imagine you’re listening to something off a Jack Rose disc At the same time, though, there are subtle rhythmic touches that add immeasurably to the depth of sound. Listen to Rob Doran’s plucked bass notes as they move across “Go Away” and marvel at the way they emphasize the song’s themes of decaying romance. Lyrically, Hicks walks that fine line between the vague and the obtuse, seemingly addressing specific people with a sparse poetry. I’m particularly enchanted by “Hospital Song.” She sings: Don’t you let them look at you don’t get inside their cars once inside they try to marry you and by then you’ve gone to far volunteers from the hospital come to try to give you tests once inside the hospital on your test you do your best I’m not quite sure what she means, but I know exactly what she’s getting at, and the irresistible poignancy of the medical metaphor only adds even more weight. This is a disc for dark nights and quiet introspection. I look forward to further uncovering its haunting charms. 8/10 -- Scott Downing (7 August, 2007) - Scott Downing

• Artist: Kelli Shay Hicks Title: Bucked Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR130 a great little EP from Kelli Shay Hicks, clocking in at just under 10min. 3 field recordings of Kelli Shay's amazingly delicate, but sharp, songs-- recorded by Jem Cohen in abandonded urban spaces off the hi-ways of upstate New York. "Kelli Hicks is well versed in the timeless. While her minimalist finger picking style, gentle voice, and wry lyrics recall the 'New Americana' movement, she’s not pretending. When you see her play, it becomes clear: This is Kelli Hicks’ music. Nothing else..." -- Chad Oliveiri, City Newspaper. "Kelli Hicks has a voice to break your heart. Her music is haunting and playful… I’m left quietly devastated." -Davey Rothbart, FOUND Magazine. [packaged in a chip-board folder with 2-color silk-screen artwork. co-release with Atone Records] - check out more info on Kelli - www.kellishayhicks.com Reviews (4): FOUND Magazine Kelli Shay Hicks has a voice to break your heart. Her music is haunting and playful... I’m left quietly devastated. - Davey Rothbart City Newspaper Kelli Hicks is well versed in the timeless. While her minimalist finger picking style, gentle voice, and wry lyrics recall the ‘New Americana’ movement, she’s not pretending. When you see her play, it becomes clear: This is Kelli Hicks’ music. Nothing else... Kelli Shay Hicks - Chad Oliveiri Foxy Digitalis Well, it’s not every three-song solo acoustic EP that comes in a package with these words on it: “Recorded by Jem Cohen.” But ‘tis true, Ms. Hicks was recorded by the famous indie filmmaker/F.O.F. (Friend of Fugazi) in what are described on her website as “abandoned urban spaces in upstate New York.” Hicks herself has also worked as a filmmaker and film preservationist at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, so I guess that explains it, call me Encyclopedia Brown. Now based in Nashville, Hicks plays spare, folk-inspired music that dances around you, then sprints away before you can ask its name. Her lyrics are strange aphorisms: “Some other organ’s grafted where my heart’s supposed to go...Half of not’s still never, so there’s really no halfway.” It takes some effort to focus on them, too, thanks to the ambient noise that suffuses the EP. Hicks’ MySpace site features some more songs with more fleshed-out arrangements (including Hicks herself on the autoharp), and they provide an even better showcase for her oddly angled approach to songwriting. Kelli Shay Hicks - Sal Addays Athens Banner-Herald This is not the banal story of a doe-eyed Midwestern girl, with a big voice and three chords, who migrates to Nashville in search of Country and Western riches. Truth is singer-songwriter Kelli Shay Hicks, performing at Flicker Theatre on Monday, came to Tennessee for the movies. No, she's not looking for music-to-silver screen crossover success; she's a film preservationist."I came here for work," she says. "I take care of old film collections. It has brought me from Chicago, where I spent my college years, to upstate New York to Nashville. I play music wherever I go." Of course, being in a town with a musical reputation doesn't hurt."There's a lot going on in Nashville besides Music Row. I haven't been here long, but like anyplace, you can find a niche," she says, adding, "I play fiddle in a band called Mother's Best and sometimes we'll busk on the streets. It's a lot of fun." Hicks is on the road in support of the recently released "Bucked" (Carbon Records), a three-song EP recorded spontaneously and without pretense in "abandoned strip malls off the upstate New York highways on very simple equipment." The field recording, of sorts, was recorded by filmmaker Jem Cohen who has worked with musicians in the past; most notably R.E.M., Cat Power and Vic Chesnutt. It's no accident the man known for capturing artists on Super 8 or 16mm and the performer who preserves films collaborated to create a record that exudes a cinematic quality. "Bucked" is a record listeners can see.If the EP can not satiate your audio appetite, rest assured Hicks has plans to release a full-length, titled "Buck Again," as soon as a suitable record label can be found. An advance copy of the mastered mix reveals more of the ethereal sound Hicks can conjure with her sparse guitar, lilting voice and autoharp. - David Eduardo

• Artist: KK Null Title: Galactic Tornado Format: CD Label: Quasipop (Ukraine) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_qpopcd051 "The album �Galactic Tornado� by Mr. Kazuyuki Kishino (KK NULL) presents the deep, dense & dynamic electronic music. It's unconditional, intuitive and highly emotional excellent audio-work. Combining synthetic sounds from various synthesizers and electronic machines with acoustic audio signals, the composer explores (from his own point of view) some artistic values of �psychedelic electronic sound� that were widly presented on space/electronic/kraut albums from 70s. Naturally, this CD could be recommended for listeners who prefer the contemporary experimental sound in its highest quality and for fans of �retro spacey� sound from the groups such as Popol Vuh, Cluster or even Tangerined Dream as well. Luxurious 6-panels digipack with silver lettering and spot varnishing feautures artwork with images done by Kazuyuki Kishino."

• Artist: KK Null Title: Ergosphere Format: CD Label: Blossoming Noise (USA) Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BN009CD "Ergosphere was recorded live during Kazuyuki Kishino’s (Zeni Geva, etc.) tour of Russia in late 2005, specifically on his only two solo dates, live at Moscow Palace of Youth in Moscow Russia October 5, 2005 and “Festival Hea Uus Heli” Kanuti Gildi Saal in Tallinn Estonia on October 7, 2005. An uneasy balance of lull and divide"

• Artist: Knurl Title: Nervescrap Format: CD Label: RRRecords Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_RRR_Knurl01

• Artist: Kotra Title: dissilient Format: CD Label: Nexsound (Ukraine) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_NS27 "a new album by Dmytro Fedorenko aka KOTRA has a new turn in his sound investigations. The new album actually based on his precise digital noise found- sound we heard in STIR MESH album and Fourfold Symmetry (together with Kim Cascone, Andreas Berthling and Andrey Kiritchenko) project released by NEXSOUND in 2002. DISSILIENT is more improvised, more structural complex, more powerfull and more fascinating."

• Artist: Kreidler Title: Au-Pair Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1976 (This is a USED item) 1998 Kiff EP release (import)

• Artist: Kreidler Title: Appearance and The Park Format: CD Label: USED Price: $6.00 $3.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1977 (This is a USED item) 1998 Kiff release (import)

• Artist: L7 Title: Bricks are Heavy Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1919 (This is a USED item) 1992 Slash Records release

• Artist: Ladyfish Title: grotesque revolution Format: CD Label: d-cross Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_28 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Land of Buried Treasure Title: East 36th and Celebrity Weather Report Format: CD Label: Tower Control (USA) Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TCR002 "Land of Buried Treasure is an experimental noise-rock band consisting of a trio of musicians called Jae Kristoff, Nate Scheible and Mike Wilkenson. They had invited 40 interesting musicians from the area of Cleveland to play with them, both individually and in larger formations, and recorded 70 hours of music with these musicians. Then they proceeded to mix and splice and cut and edited and made a brilliant hour-long piece out of it." -- Rhys Chatham

• Artist: Lava / Praying for Oblivion Title: space is the place / a lesson in obedience Format: CD Label: bar la muerte Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BAR001 Lava is an ambient noise duet featuring Bruno Dorella (of OvO/Ronin/etc) and A034. Praying for Oblivion are from Nashville.

• Artist: Lazurus Go Home Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Endless Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_103 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Lesser Title: gearhound Format: CD Label: USED Price: $6.00 $3.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1911 (This is a USED item) 2001 Matador release

• Artist: LHD Title: Curtains Format: CD Label: PacRec (USA) Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TRO101 "Double flamethrower/harsh city crust unit from Los Angeles. Phil Blankenship (The Cherry Point, ex-Lefthandeddecision) John Wiese (solo, Sissy Spacek, Bastard Noise, etc.)"

• Artist: LHD Title: Young and Restless Format: CD Label: Blossoming Noise (USA) Price: $6.00 $3.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BN003CD "sonic dissemination from LA with love. harsh crust from the hearts of Phil Blankenship (the cherry point) & John Wiese (bastard noise & sissy spacek). CDep limited to 1000 copies."

• Artist: Lietterschpich Title: i cum blood in the think tank Format: CD Label: Heart and Crossbone (Israel) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HCB013 "If Mark Stewart was joining Khanate and Bad Brains were playing black metal, there's a slight chance that a resemblance to what Lietterschpich (Hebrew for Liter of Cum) has achieved with their debut album will arise. This bleak digital-doom-dub shriek is bound to slap the hard-core fans of innovative harsh music. It doesn't get more extreme than this! Featuring members of Barbara and Grave in the Sky, this is highly recommended if you like Throbbing Gristle, Volt, Stallagh, Menstruation Sisters and White Mice."

• Artist: Liquorice Title: listening cap Format: CD Label: 4AD Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_104 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Livesexact Title: segmented purity: the remixes Format: CD Label: Hurly Burly Records Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HBRD1413 This past year, Livesexact extended an open invite to anyone and everyone to dive in and remix a song from their debut CD, Upsetting Remedy. They received mounds of interest, so much so that they put together a full-length CD, Segmented Purity : The Remixes.

• Artist: Livesexact Title: upsetting remedy Format: CD Label: Hurly Burly Records Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HBRD1412 Upsetting Remedy is the debut effort of Cambridge, MA‘s Livesexact. The disc offers up twelve tracks of Livesexact‘s un-pigeon-holy strain of electro-punk-dance-pop. With synth sounds that leave the taste of metal in your mouth, beats that whip you into a frenzy of syncopated housework, and lyrics that have you sighing and smirking all at once, Livesexact delivers itself with gusto. For all its member‘s nerdly credentials, the band never loosens its grip on the groove, even on its eerier ballads. And its precise application of samples, ranging from effusive realtors to pop culture cartoons to throbbing kechak chants, creates an ambiance that each song inhabits with ease and grace, like a break-dancer on a parquet floor. One by one the tracks accrete into a vision of a world where things are sorely amiss, but if we let the music pry our minds open, and shake our booties loose, then we begin to change the situation. With full-on dancing at this revolution, Upsetting Remedy cures what ails. - F. Baird, Stupid and Clever Music

• Artist: Lotus Title: 2.0 Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR76 electro-dance madness from 2 computer nerds. Lotus is Mat Rademan (runs Breathmint) and MP Lockwood (aka RadioShock). co-released with Breathmint, Ren, Audiobot, Human Conduct, Little Mafia, Ignivomous, Roger Records, SNSE, Sunship and Yelpco.

• Artist: Low Title: owL Remix Format: CD Label: USED Price: $6.00 $3.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1967 (This is a USED item) remixes of Low songs by Porter Ricks, Dj Vadim, Neotropic, Jimmy Somerville and more

• Artist: Lowbelly Title: s/t Format: CD Label: fort hazel Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist-FHM32 More Cartoon Jazz! From the happy casio melody of the opening cut to the rain-drenched final fadeout, this collection gently carries a bittersweet undercurrent to your heart. Lowbelly has become more focused while keeping a healthy stylistic mix. Included are several new jazz and electronic songs, final 16-track versions of the rock legacy, and tributes to Yes and Henry Mancini.

• Artist: Lunt Title: Broken words and lost answers Format: CD Label: Hitomi Recordings Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HITOMI01 Lunt gained the reputation for being a sound sculptor, wrapped up in his autistic sound researches, testing the sound material to its ultimate limit, also knowing how to sublimate the sadness in his most narrative compositions. After a first album mixing folk/rock songs and ambient/noisy experimentations, Lunt aka Gilles DELES has multiplied musical investigations.Sometimes producer for Melatonine, or for Angil�s future album, Lunt recently tried his skill at playing electro-organic music in the split album together with Virga. But improvisation remains the field where he is the most prolific. �Broken Words and Lost Answers � is part of this search for new languages, created in urgency, on the spur of the moment.

• Artist: Lynnfield Pioneers Title: emerge Format: CD Label: matador Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_124 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: M. Behrens Title: elapsed time Format: CD Label: Intransitive Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_INT017 The latest album by Marc Behrens is the end result of his attempt to understand his artistic choices in light of thier possible subconscious meanings. Regarding the process that led up to this album, Behrens writes, "I was reflecting on my own past, in which there was a period of occupying myself with plastic model airplanes out of fascination with the technology (as I understood it)... it occoured to me that electronic music has been very much linked with military technology, the latest of them being the computer. Many of our contemporary electronic tools are byproducts of military technology and, unfortuately, application. Still a bit unsure of about whether my early affection for military technology had different motivations, I saw a chance for sublimation in my musical work." Beginning in 1996, Behrens sorted through his catalog of late 1980s and early 1990s four-track tapes and field recordings, and set to examine his older analogue sounds through his current computer-based compositional aesthetic. By keeping his previous interest in military technology in mind, he preserved a sense of remoteness and removed examination in the music. Sounds seem to come from a great distance, possibly reminiscent of pilots sitting alone in planes over enemy territory, or of lonely sailors aboard submarines far below the population they are defending. In light of recent events, Behrens‘ questioning of the implications of his own decision to appropriate instruments of possible military origin for his art is especially poignant. Marc Behrens has been active as a sound and installation artist since the mid 1980s. Currently based in Frankfurt, Germany, he has exhibited or performed throughout Europe and Japan, and has worked with artists such as Francisco Lopez, bernhard gunter, Atom Heart, and Nicklaus Heyduck. His previous releases have included "Advanced Environmental Control" (trente oiseaux, GER), "Final Ballet" (Raster-Noton, GER), and "Contraction" (Digital Narcis, JAP). His piece "Revelation" appeared on Intransitive‘s "VARIIOUS" compilation last year. "Elapsed Time" is his first domestic US album.

• Artist: Machine Go Boom Title: Thank You Captain Obvious Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1949 (This is a USED item) 2003 Collectible Escalators release

• Artist: Madame Chao Productions Title: Catering to the Greatest Uncommon Denominator Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1987 (This is a USED item) 2003 .01% Records release

• Artist: Madame Chao Productions Title: catering to the greatest... Format: CD Label: .01% Records (USA) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_01Percent01 An introduction to the ChaoRin signature NY "TAAARD-CORE" Style. Comedy/BreakCore/Speedbass tracks by ChaoRin recording artists Dr. Klahn, Dj Wopner, Adam Chao and more representing Madame Chao Productions collected efforts from fall to winter of 2001.

• Artist: Magicicada Title: Everyone is Everyone Format: CD Label: Public Guilt (USA) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PG005 "Magicicada is the musical life of Atlanta musician/sound designer/photographer, Christopher White. “Everyone is Everyone” is an organic, experimental work that blends traditional, as well as folk and eastern, instruments with found objects, samplers and field recordings to create a work that varies from delicate, cinematic soundscapes to harsh electronic environments. The instrumentation includes (but is not limited to): pump organ, voice, contact mics on faulty electrical lines, melodica, toys, iron balls rolling on wooden floors, accordion, cellophane, air cans, tape decks for the blind, guitar, shruti box, MARTA (Atlanta’s public transit), synths, oven door (percussion,) cellos, zurna, paper, frogs in the backyard, and the remains of Hurricane Denis shaking the roof. The Arigato-Pak style covers are beautifully printed by Stumptown Printers on (peacepunk approved!) 100% recycled , Environment 120# cover."

• Artist: Magik Markers Title: Panegyric To The Things I Do Not Understand Format: CD Label: gulcher Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Gulcher604 "The Magik Markers Have Done It Again, But Not Yet CALIFORNIA SIDE: Didion Waltz The 4th Iliaster A Manx Is A Rare Guy One More Time Against The Wall My Ice Cream Rack Churchbells/Military Exercises/Tennis Cour "

• Artist: Matthew Welch and Craig Colorusso Title: rusted breath quiet hands Format: CD Label: Muud (USA) Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_muud002 Matthew welch and Craig Colorusso on alto saxophone and guitar respectively. droney swells.

• Artist: Maurizio Bianchi Title: Menstruum Regles Format: CD Label: Silentes (Italy) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SME0716

• Artist: Mice Parade Title: Collaborations Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_MiceParade_collaboratios (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Michael Krassner Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Truckstop Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_62 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Microwaves Title: Contagion Heuristic Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $11.00 $6.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR56 "In the anti-tradition of whitebread Bay Area thrash metal, the violent morass of New York no wave, and a familiarity with Ralph Records / THE RESIDENTS insanity, Microwaves draws from a palette that is somehow as wide as it seems limited. Spiked skronk-infested guitars spit tonality-impaired riffs like so much chaff from a surgically calibrated tree shredder, while a propulsive fretless bass assault is jammed through all manner of alien effects, often rendering it as more a bowel-rumbling presence than an actual instrument. The percussive cyborg clatter and MICROWAVE's paranoid dual vocal attack serve to further blast MICROWAVES' dystopian thrash into the outer void. Features former 1985/CREATION IS CRUCIFIXION/CONELRAD/FATE OF ICARUS personnel. "

• Artist: Mighty Mighty Bosstones Title: question the answers Format: CD Label: Mercury Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_102 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: mikroknytes Title: s/t Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1910 (This is a USED item) 2001 full-length release on Crank Automotive

• Artist: Milkmoney Title: Wheelie Format: CD Label: USED Price: $6.00 $3.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_WIC1002 (This is a USED item) slow and heavy, kinda like Codeine

• Artist: Minmae Title: Vonsachiang Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_Minmae_Vonsachiang (This is a USED item) on Airborne Virus and (Records)

• Artist: Minmae Title: My Quiet Life Format: CD Label: blackbean and placenta Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_Minmae_myquietlife (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Mix Master Mike Title: Anti-Theft Device Format: CD Label: USED Price: $6.00 $3.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1963 (This is a USED item) 1998 Asphodel release

• Artist: Monarch! Title: Mer Morte Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR82 "Yeah, this was supposed to come out ages ago, but a variety of impediments stalled it's release until now. The Crucial Blast release of Mer Morte is finally freakin' out, though, and I gotta say, it looks and sounds just as great as the previous Monarch collection on C-Blast, Dead Men Tell No Tales. If you've been following Crucial Blast for a while, you probably already know all about Monarch, the extreme slow-motion sludge/doom band from France who plays so slow, so glacially, that Decibel said in their review of Mer Morte that "even at their fastest, Monarch! sound dead". They ain't kiddin'. Monarch's previous releases pushed the envelope on just how slow and miserable and anguished one band can sound, but here their crawling black drones and tectonic doom rumble seems to actually be decaying. If you're looking for some big, fat riffs to bite into, this isn't the place to look. Like our previous Monarch release Dead Men Tell No Tales, Mer Morte is a reissue of a vinyl release that came out on the Spanish label Throne Records, this one from back in 2008. The Lp featured the monolithic track "Mer Morte" split into two halves across the two sides of vinyl; now, most Monarch fans find it pretty hard to not lust after their vinyl releases, which are all beautifully packaged and always super-limited, but it's also cool to hear the song uninterrupted, to hear it unfurl it's rotting black wings in it's entirety without pause, which is why we wanted to make this available on disc. And it's truly gargantuan sounding on this re-issue. �Mer Morte� is a single unbroken thirty-four minute sludge-and-feedback feast that sprawls out even further into the dismal black void that these French doom junkies have been lurking in for the past six years. As with previous releases, Monarch move through massive blackened tar pits of low-end riff and sheets of gluey feedback that are stretched out into monolithic slabs of sound across "Mer Morte", a grim, glacial ultra-doom monolith that crawls at a saurian sub-tempo. It's the most droning, static, deathly doomdrone that Monarch have so far released, not really that propulsive, certainly very little of anything that you could call a "groove", but instead just floating, decaying and corrupted, massive rumbling crush hovering in a sea of yawning blackness. And vocalist Emilie sounds as gaunt and ghostly as ever, her vocalizations materializing across the spatial doomscape as distant ululating wails, breathy whispers, and putrid death shrieks, at times disappearing almost completely into the black fug for minutes at a time, or lurking as a hushed lullaby whisper way off on the edges of the crushing subterranean thrum. At the same time, this disc captures the band at their most formless and distended, with long sections of droning buzz where the band collapses into waves of pure amp-rumble and minimalist percussion, smoldering black clouds of ghostly cooing vocals and howling feedback drone, and eerie tectonic melodies...definitely one of their most extreme and dismal slabs of doom yet, more ambient drone than doom really, but still completely CRUSHING. And once again, we've worked with the artisan printers at Stumptown Printers to create the packaging for this Monarch disc, presenting Mer Morte in a black offset-printed jacket with gold metallic printing and more artwork from Monarch's Michell. Might have taken awhile, but the wait was worth it!"

• Artist: Money Mark Title: Marks Keyboard Repair Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1958 (This is a USED item) 1995 MoWax release

• Artist: Monolith Zero/Never Presence Forever Title: split EP Format: CD Label: 804Noise (USA) Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_804_003 "This split CD brings together two artists with varied approaches to noise and abstraction that combine to form a complex vision of the possibilities of sound. Monolith Zero’s world brings to mind dimly lit interiors, where small buzzes on the threshold of audibility threaten to erupt at any moment and the tiniest strands of sound carry an almost unbearable tension. Small movements carry great weight inside this space, where raw electricity is guided, channeled, and shaped, but never tamed. Monolith Zero’s terse economy is at times reminiscent of Japanese masters like Ryoji Ikeda and Toshimaru Nakamura, but this music develops according to its own unpredictable rhythm, with extreme dynamic shifts lurking around the corner. The music of Never Presence Forever is above all immersive. These wavering drones fused with fits of distortion suggest tortured conflict and cry out for volume. Reference points like Merzbow (whom Never Presence Forever has remixed) and Megaptera place these dark ambient/death industrial pieces in a realm where the everyday sounds of technology (the transformer hum in a vacant lot littered with refuse, a blast furnace echoing in a concrete stairwell) express ominous atmospheres. The tracks flow one into the next forming a coherent 20-minute piece that ranges from quiet, meditative low-end tones to shrieking metallic scrapes.[MR] First pressing of 1,000 copies"

• Artist: Mr Natural Title: I Cooked Your Eggs Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_MyNatural_eggs (This is a USED item) on Gender-less Kibbutz records

• Artist: Mudhoney Title: Piece of Cake Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1944 (This is a USED item) 1992 Reprise release

• Artist: Muler Title: motelbibleschool Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR18 their best recording yet. 6 songs of pop/rock magic. great song writing, great feeling. "i listened to that fucking thing about 50 times on the drive from NYC to Norfolk. i am totally astounded by this one, man. i can‘t figure out why they‘re so damned great at writing pop songs. every single song on there is totally amazing in its own way."

• Artist: Narita Munehiro Title: ether: solo electric guitar works Format: CD Label: Archive Recordings (USA) Price: $13.00 $7.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_archive025 "with high rise being basically an in-active band the last few years narita munehiro has been keeping his electric guitar skills sharp with gigging around tokyo in varies duo’s and other small groupings.(as evidenced by the fantastic cd between narita and drummer hano on psf) this archive release documents 2 live sets from narita recorded in late 2005 and the summer of 2006 that put on display the recent solo works of the man who the term psychedelic speed freaks was really captured from. running time of around 40mins one time pressing of 600 copies packed in an extra glossy 2.5 panel sleeve with appropriately chemically treated photographic work from the live dates."

• Artist: Need New Body Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Cenotaph (USA) Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ct006 "Dax Blackwood, Sam Browne, Dinsdale Jiminez, Chris Powell, Chris R. Mostly recorded at Truckstop Audio, Chicago by Blue Hawaii, June 12-19 2000. Mastered by Joe Kraus at Masterworks, Philadelphia."

• Artist: Nerves Title: new animal Format: CD Label: Thrill Jockey Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_69 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: New Order Title: Get Ready Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1968 (This is a USED item) 2001 London release

• Artist: no. 9 Title: where come from? EP Format: CD Label: Locust Music Price: $6.00 $3.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_locust35 Where Come From? And Where To? features the aforementioned cut off of his North American debut disc, Mushi no-ne, and two generous remixes: Hrvatski locks No.9 into a galactic rub and dub mix of typically high quality tom foolery and Chicago producer/musician Bundy K. Brown (Directions in Music, Pullman) gives Where come From? his usually high caliber surgical treatment with an extended, post glitch minimal makeover.18 minute EP

• Artist: Nod Title: Tree Stuff and Lightning Format: CD Label: Nod Recordings (USA) Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_NOD_treestuff after 3 full length CDs for Steve Shelly's Smells Like Records, Nod are taking it back, self recording and releasing this gem of a record.  And Nod is now back to being a four piece, including Scrappy Joe (G+V), Tim Poland (B), Brian Shafer (D) and the newest member, Chris Schepp (K). "Since 1990, Nod has been releasing music which runs the gamut from experimental to conventional yet always wonderfully astray... The Nod muse is a many-hued beast — simultaneously funky, crushing, and just plain spaced out. There is a Shaggs-like innocence in their execution, which shouldn't be mistaken for indifference; precious few rock units become as intimate with their sound as Nod does with their creepy as all get-out caucasoid funk, which swings like Lynfield Pioneers fronted by Drungo LaRue Hazewood. "

• Artist: NOISEM Title: +- Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR67 "The first real release from the Japanese glitch/shred duo Noism, following their appearance on the Relapse compilation Drummachinegun and a series of demos. Formed by guitarist Yoshiro Hamazaki and programmer Tomoyuki Akiyama in 1999 in Tokyo, Noism focuses on ridiculously complex and spastic death/grind instrumentals using programmed drums that are cut up and spliced back together into impossible rhythms, a million brain-melting riffs and dissonant shredding, all of which is chopped up and processed into abstract death blasts that defy physics. This twelve-song, twenty-one minute disc features a unique, glitched-out chop shop of Planet Mu-style beats delivered at truly meth'd levels of chaos fused with sweeping technical death metal. Insane. Highly recommended for fans of extreme, way-out avant-guitar spazz and absurdly technical deathgrind. "

• Artist: N'at King Tron Title: in the presence of peasants Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_natkingtron (This is a USED item)

• Artist: OBJEKT4 Title: her face among the shadows Format: CD Label: Ravenheart (Czech Republic) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Raven43 "Swe. Next dashing dark ambient album from Objekt4 "Her Face Among the Shadows" including new never released 4 bonus songs" Each track starts with gently undulating tones, building on that base and adding swirling mists of sound and menacing atmosphere that ultimately increases in anxiety. Dark horror, thriller soundtrack andcombination of menacing atmosphere...drones build before crashing beast and heavy bass. Rhytmic and frame-chaotic and desperate trip to other side of light!"

• Artist: one-to-one Title: for two mono channels Format: CD Label: Entr'acte (UK) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_entracte16 "recorded continuously and simlutaneously in two separate locations between 01:00 13 April and 01:00 14 Aprill 2005. Extracted randomly, one minute per house. Compiled chronologically, without editing. Duration: 24 minutes. Five ince CD in a sealed and perforated A5 envelope. produced in two colourways. First edition of 24 copies" (OUT OF PRINT)

• Artist: Origami Replika Title: kommerz - merzbow in the hands of origami replika Format: CD Label: Segerhuva (Sweden) Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_seger003 "This CD sees Origami Replika (a now defunct part of the ever changing Origami cultural collective/phenomenon) made up by three of Norway's most diehard noiseheads -- Lasse Marhaug, Tore H. Bøe, and Mads Staff Jensen. Recorded in 1997, this effort is entirely based on sound sources from the back catalogue of Merzbow. With no back-bending, knee-scraping humility, and with a pure love for all source sounds, Origami Replika have shaped classic Merzbow sound into all-new compositions. These are innovative and highly potent re-workings of the harsh soundwaves, recommended to all those who still have a healthy addiction to the Merzbow sounds of yesterday. Thick and meaty, the blasts emanating from the speakers is filled with lusty, fetishized, organic heavy noise and experimental Dadaism, ready to be devoured by the faithful disciples. Originally planned for release on another label, and now finally unleashed on Segerhuva, this is a CD that has been tried and tested over and over again. These recordings, created almost a decade ago, have been remastered by Lasse Marhaug, and it is safe to say that this CD has stood the test of TIME. After nine years, it sounds remarkable -- a solid chunk of the classic, living breathing Noise Object that some call religion. Bottom line -- the NOISE FETISH is still very much alive and well. This time it comes from a somewhat unexpected source. Indulge!"

• Artist: Orthrelm / Behold...The Arctopus Title: split Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $7.00 $4.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR49 "This CDEP features a new, exclusive song each from New York tech/prog metal wizards BEHOLD...THE ARCTOPUS and shred meltdown duo ORTHRELM, overdosing the listener on spastic complexity and insane instrumental prowess that will liquify your grey matter. Adorned in eye-blazing original artwork from VOIVOD's Away."

• Artist: Out in Workshop Title: sterilized Format: CD Label: Perishable Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_76 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Ova and Happy Mothers Day, I Can‘t Read Title: the number on my forehead is gone Format: CD Label: freedom from Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ff0251

• Artist: Ova! / Happy Mothers Day, I Cant Read Title: s/t Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1984 (This is a USED item) Freedom From release

• Artist: Overmars Title: Born Again Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR77 "Call it some kind of dark providence, but back in early 2008 I had three different people all hit me up in the same week to tell me that we really needed to put out a US release of the new album from Overmars. I was already a fan of the French band's 2005 CD/DVD set Affliction, Endocrine...Vertigo, which reminded me of a mix of Neurosis-style slow-motion power and elements of Swans-inspired industrial rock, prog, classic old-school doom, goth rock, black metal, and the more adventurous end of the metalcore field a la Starkweather and Integrity (the former of which actually has a forthcoming split with Overmars on the horizon...), so I already wanted to hear their follow-up, which at the time had only been released in France on Appease Me, the label run by one of the guys from avant-black metallers Blut Aus Nord. After all of the raves I was hearing and the impassioned please to release the album in the US through C-Blast, I finally got in touch with the band and prepared myself for some major heaviness. But when I finally got my hands on a copy and listened to it for the first time, I was floored - that towering black/sludge/industrial/goth sound was there in full effect, but their sound was more oppressive and bleak and epic than ever before, and captured this in a single monolithic song that was almost forty minutes long. Born Again immediately became one of my fave releases of last year, a fucking devestating piece of music that documents the band evolving even further from the simplistic Isis/Neurosis comparisons that have dogged their previous releases. The album descends deep into themes of self-immolation, horror, and rebirth, and becomes a harrowing narrative as it moves through a series of different musical moods. Overmars had already established their atmospheric, electronically-tainted sludge-metal sound on their excellent 2005 album Affliction, Endocrine...Vertigo and all of the previous splits with Donefor, Iscariote, Fug�e and Icos, but Born Again is something new from the band; this forty-minute epic moves from pulverizing industrial dirge blanketed with heavily textured layers of processed guitar and fearsome gutteral roars intermixed with captivating female vocals, to passages of haunting dark ambience and bottom-heavy churn, and a magesterial finale that stretches gloom-ridden moody riffage, vaporous electronics and dramatic male/female singing across the song's final fifteen minutes, a tense, slow buildup that erupts into an earth-shaking crescendo of super heavy riffage. Immensely bleak and heavy, Born Again brings together elements of Godflesh's industrial pummel, black metal, tribal dirge , the violent nihilism of Swans, doomy death metal, and even some black strains of psychedelia into a monumental metallic black hole . Like I said, I really loved their last album Affliction, which I thought was an interesting variation on the Neurosis/psychedelic sludge sound with its heavy use of electronics, and if you liked that album as much as I did, I'm pretty sure that you'll be blown away by this darker new form that the band has taken. This Crucial Blast release of Born Again features a distinctly different album design than the original version on Appease Me, and is also packaged in a four-panel digipack (where the Appease Me release came in a standard jewel case)."

• Artist: ovum Title: epepe ep Format: CD Label: fever pitch Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist-FP24 41+ minutes of minimal surroundings constructed by Karl Midholm from Sweden. this is really great low-end drone / machine noise works.

• Artist: Pal Title: 100% Human Hair Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_pak (This is a USED item) features Ron Anderson (guitars, trumpet, voice), Jesse Krakow (bass, voice), Will Redmond (guitar, voice), Race age (drums) and Elliot Sharp (alto sax on one track)

• Artist: Paraquat Earth Band Title: if you aint with us, youre against us Format: CD Label: Flipped Out Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FOR12 re-mastered compact disc reissue of the out of print vinyl LP originally released in 1996...full on twin guitar wrangling meets collapsing cracked kit for fuzz busting forty five minutes...relentless riff stomping draped through a weave of blaktinson...

• Artist: PBK Title: Life-Sense Revoked Format: CD Label: Lunhare (Italy) Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Lunhare3 "The link between ambient and noise. Abstract turntable experiments, ambient textures, noise and song-form structures. Some tracks feature collaborations with AMK, Hands To, Brian Ladd, Deaf Lions, and Jarboe."

• Artist: Peeesseye Title: Commuting Between the Surface & the Underworld Format: CD Label: Evolving Ear (USA) Price: $14.00 $8.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_EE18 "Commuting Between the Surface & the Underworld continues Peeesseye’s pattern of ignoring virtually all patterns but those that spring forth from the swarm of earthquakes in their collective brain. Recorded following an unamplified tour of US noise venues with groups including Nautical Almanac, Life Partners, and Sharks With Wings, this record brings vocals, a more pronounced rhythmic pulse and piles of acoustic instruments to the foreground alongside the waves of electronic density that have characterized past releases. Guests on Commuting Between the Surface & the Underworld include three frequent collaborators of Peeesseye: Clare Cooper, the Australian harpist who adds pedal harp and guzheng (Chinese harp) to two tracks; trumpeter Nate Wooley, who adds brass on “Distant Mud;” and the reclusive conceptualist Shawn Edward Hansen, who provides additional percussion and vocals to two tracks. The resulting record is a perverse twist on spaced rock and post-noise ritual - mayhem in the mansion, shivers in the shack."

• Artist: Pengo Title: climbs the holy mountain Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR22 "a document of Pengo‘s 5th live performance ... The performance consisted of a live musical accompaniment to the first 31 minutes of Alejandro Jodorowsky‘s film The Holy Mountain. The first 31 minutes of The Holy Mountain are without dialog. This is the section of the film they chose to play along with. This portion of the film is also considerably less linear then the rest of the film. This perfectly suited Pengo‘s music making aesthetic. The only thing constant is continual change. There are recurring symbols in the film that pass by so fast that they are almost subliminal to the viewer." Reviews (5): La Folia The bizarre cover photos give no clue to the music genre, although first guess would be a cross between progrock and dark ambient. It begins with small instruments and percussion, almost like an Art Ensemble of Chicago performance from Paris 1968, and indeed it is a fine thirty-minute free improv performance in Rochester, NY, by Jason Finkbeiner, John Schoen, and Joe Tunis. - Steve Koenig Blastitude Ah, but what do Pengo sound like? On here, they come off as one of the more accomplished contemporary bands playing in that style I'll call The New Ominousness. Alot of noise/psych/improv artists play in this style. I think it mostly comes from AMM and MEV, which came from Webern and Stockhausen. On the rock side, it comes from the thousands of bands that have been influenced by the Doors, Velvets, Sonics, and Stooges. (The one-chord riff of The Doors' "The End" is sort of the ground zero for The New Ominousness.) Buddyhead Unfortunately, this one kind of went over my head... which is actually why I respect it. This album is pengo's fifth live performance, a performance accompanying the first 31 minutes of Alejandro Jodorowsky's film, "the Holy Mountain." Without the visuals in tact, it is somewhat difficult to really get a feel for this, or even enjoy it for that matter. me being a score composer dork, it starts to make more sense to me once the music reaches it's halfway point (and it's climax) at 15 minutes. i admire this and consider it to be art. but i honestly do not recommend it unless you are a severe film nerd or you meditate. - Kathleen Catastrophe Arthur Pengo are from upstate New York, and for some reason we usually think of them as being associated with a somewhat brutal form of post-industrial freeform noise-hunch and/or bass-heavy ass-rumblage. And yeah, they still do that, but on this new LP, A Nervous Splendor (Haoma Recordings) they visit all kindsa other space, as well. There's good avant-psych formulating, passages of free-jazz honk, answering machine messages, mock ethnological field recordings, and even semi-folk-swabbage in a vein that would appeal to fans of the Sun City Girls. That all these shenanigans emanate from inside a great cover design, swiped from the BYG Actuel series, is only icing on an already rich cake. - Byron Coley Nashville Scene Holy Mountain / Show Preview - Kinds of the Rochester NY noise scene -- larger kingdom than you might suppose -- this three-man ensemble most recently recorded a pulsing, clanging suite to accompany the wordless first 31 minutes of Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky's surreal odyssey The Holy Mountain. There's no word on whether the footage will accompany the group's show at Springwater, but without Jodorowsky's assaultive visuals of deformity and exploding frogs, the piece unfolds on CD as a sonic squall that swells, rages and recedes -- a recipe for a potentially mesmerizing live show. Adept at instruments ranging from zithers and amplified sheet metal to Tibetan prayer bowls, Pengo headline a five-band bill of electronic experimentation and drone-rock that includes one-man Toys R Us-noisemaker Radio Shock, Breathmint label chief Mat Rademan's band Newton and Nashville's own Tan As Fuck and Banjoland, both featuring former members of the New Faggot Cunts. (Oct 24, 2002) - Jim Ridley

• Artist: Phantom Limb and Tetuzi Akiyama Title: hot ginger Format: CD Label: Archive Recordings (USA) Price: $13.00 $7.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_archive026 PHANTOM LIMB + TETUZI AKIYAMA CD “hot ginger” archive AUDIO- ontime meeting between Tetuzi Akiyama and Phantom Limb (1/2 of PSI) recorded back a few months ago at Freepoint radio in Brooklyn. Basically a 30min’ish improv drone piece for two guitars and two organ type things. all and all was a fun night with cool tunes so good to get this thing out into the world for more then the 20 people that were actually there to hear it. PACKAGE- single pressing of 500 copies dropped in a two sided silkscreened deal art work by Fritz Welch of PSI, silkscreening from Alan Sherry over at SIWA records.

• Artist: Photek Title: modus operandi Format: CD Label: Astralwerks Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_126 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Pipe Title: Ball Pen Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1952 (This is a USED item) 1992 Sonic Bubblegum release

• Artist: PIUME E SANGUE presenta il DUO PORTUGAL Title: Nel ventre della balena Format: CD Label: Lunhare (Italy) Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Lunhare2 "PIUME E SANGUE disguised as DUO PORTUGAL in two longtracks of bizzare interpretation of contemporary music."

• Artist: Poochlatz Title: Victims of Self Preservation Format: CD Label: Poochlatz (Israel) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_MAP003 from their MySpace page: "Against all odds, we strive for excellence – we pray for prey, but shudder helpless – what's the meaning of this perverse? I've got them infecting on the flaws, questioning the truth – if needed, they will convert heaven into a burning hollow space – but once anxiety will slap me back, sanity will strike some points – could it be that everyone needs a miss to flourish? Get down to it and finish the job:" Sounds like: "Prurient, Wolf Eyes, Burmese, Noisegate, Masonna, Khanate, Sunn O))), Kites, Haus Arafna, Jazzkammer, Haters, Sudden Infant, Dissecting Table, Sightings, Lietterschpich, KK Null, John Zorn's Kristallnacht."

• Artist: Poster Children Title: Informational:RTFM Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1927 (This is a USED item) 1997 Reprise release

• Artist: Poster Children Title: Junior Citizen Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1928 (This is a USED item) 1995 Reprise release

• Artist: PSI Title: oo-ee-oo (burnt offering) Format: CD Label: Evolving Ear (USA) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_evolvingear015 "This live recording was made while the group was locked blindfolded and incapable of compassionate intolerance in a dank and noise-damaged basement in central New Jersey, USA. Harmonium, unamplified guitar, percussion and voice amass into a nekrocoustic forcefield of reiterated intensions. This ceremonial music demonstrates the simultaneous collision of utter apathy and the assertion of infernal humanity. Each copy is packaged in a black Digipak with hand-glued and hand-stamped artwork by the band."

• Artist: pulsoptional Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Fugu Fish Recordings (USA) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FUGU001 "Durham, NC’s band of composers –is a composers’ collective and performing ensemble, with an eclectic instrumentation (reeds, electric and acoustic strings, keyboards, percussion and electronics) and an innovative but no-nonsense approach to music making. Effortlessly strad-dling conventional categories – and equally at home in concert halls, rock clubs, and art galleries – their repertoire ranges from 20th-century experimental “classics” to newly-commissioned works by emerging composers, arrangements of TV and movie themes, spontaneous soundtracks and collective improvisation. Their long-awaited debut album features gripping, assured performances of new works by members of the collective, and captures all the genre-defying excitement of their live shows. It’s New Music, for sure, with plenty of “compositional rigor,” and will certainly appeal to fans of other contemporary-composition “bands” (Bang on a Can All-Stars, Electric Kompany, Clogs) and of the pool of avant-garde and experi-mental art-music influences the group espouses (John Cage, Steve Reich, Gyorgy Ligeti, etc.). But the album also casually (and sincerely) incorporates rock/pop, jazz, electronica, and ambient sounds and styles into the mix, and should appeal to a broad range of listeners with eclectic and progressive tastes, from post-rock and free improv to punk and prog…"

• Artist: Rafael Flores Title: Nubes, cometas, rumores y orugas Format: CD Label: Monochrome Vision (Russia) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_mv05 "First official CD album of Rafael Flores who hails from the depth of spanish noise underground scene, known for his early works released under Comando Bruno moniker. This compilation presents the latest decade of his sound experimentation, and shows quite diverse sides of his creative efforts, which ranges from collaged field recordings to noise ambient loops, from rhythmic structures to hypnotic electronic passages. Collection of 10 pieces recorded from 1994 to 2004."

• Artist: Ravi Padmanabha and Ed Chang Title: Elephant Calls Format: CD Label: Utech (USA) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_UTech048 "Limited edition of 200 in cardboard packaging. Ed uses an acoustic guitar with a tuning which took days to develop. Ravi plays tablas and a percussion array with which you could probably make very many tasty meals. All acoustic, in large part minimal and meditative, this is from yoga to yogurt to yog-sothoth." UTech release

• Artist: Resolve Title: Jack Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1954 (This is a USED item) 1995 AO! release

• Artist: Reynols Title: live in chicago Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR40 "REYNOLS started its activities in 1993 in Argentina. Since that date the work of the band has been basically oriented to improvisation, droning and deep experimental research, etc., employing diverse acoustic & electric instruments, tapes and electronics." This was recorded during theirȨ�M0 tour of North America. [limited edition of 500 in slimcase. first 100 packaged in silk-screened sewn cd "pocket".]

• Artist: Robert Horton Title: dirt speak Format: CD Label: Digitalis Industries Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_digi034 "Robert Horton made a monumental splash into the scene of free music in 2005. With nearly 30 years of experience under his belt, the catalog of recordings he's accumulated is enough to make even the most prolific artists blush. After taking a hiatus from releasing music from the mid 90s until now, the dam finally broke in 2005 with the release of "Angel Humming Through Wire" on Foxglove. Ever since, Horton has released albums on Celebrate Psi-Phenomenon, Jyrk, Important, Nosordo, Last Visible Dog and more. "Dirt Speak" is Horton's first solo CD release under his own name. When he plays with close collaborators Tom Carter (of Charalambides), Yellow Swans, and others, Horton takes on the role of primary curator. He weaves his magic into the sounds of others with mathematical precision. In his solo works, he takes this boundless inspiration and pushes it even further. Organic, insular drones are the backbone of "Dirt Speak," but the heavy tinges of folk, jazz, and musique concrète are equally important to its unique sound. Horton will use anything that makes any kind of sound as a source for his music. In addition to more traditional instrumentation, "Dirt Speak" also features the use of vibrators, an electric toothbrush, and even the sound of contact mics in a fire. In a world full of copycats and fakers, Robert Horton is one of the most original voices to emerge in music in recent memory."

• Artist: Roel Meelkop Title: 5 (Ambiences) Format: CD Label: Intransitive Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_INT024 "The music of “5 (Ambiences)” deals with ways of approaching and conceptualizing ambient sound, of abstracting sounds from the world until they become much more than documentary observations. The music plays with some referential material (are they field recordings? digitally generated? does it matter?), a very wide dynamic range (to encourage active listening), evocative and even dramatic structures but also forbiddingly impersonal distance. It toys with the notion of “ambient music” (as new age wallpaper) by using ambiences to create deeply involving compositions which change as one changes one’s listening focus. This music is open to any interpretation, or no interpretation at all. When Roel Meelkop creates a new CD, he considers anything other than the music to be a distraction from the point at which a listener apprehends a sonic experience and generates his or her own meaning. Previous albums have not included any images, text, biographic information, or even titles. This sort of presentation could be misinterpreted as willful obscurity, but quite the opposite is intended. By the composer’s reasoning, the music on the CD is exactly and only what the listener hears; richness then arises from the act of listening. On this new disc, the artist deviates somewhat from his previous pattern. At Intransitive’s urging, he wrote a bit of text to describe his thoughts about composition and listening, if not this album in particular. This may not seem like much, but for Meelkop it is a major concession. For the first time, this artist who has hardly given any interviews, whose philosophy, while quite straightforward, has been implied but never directly described, has given listeners a way in to his sound world. Which says nothing of what that world contains... This is Meelkop’s 2nd CD on Intransitive. He is also a member of Kapotte Muziek, Goem, THU20, and the Audio.nl label. Previous albums have appeared on Mego, trente oiseaux, Staalplaat, 12k, Raster-Noton, and CMR."

• Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto Title: Prayer / Salvation Format: CD Label: USED Price: $6.00 $3.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1926 (This is a USED item) 1998 Ninja Tune release

• Artist: Salaryman Title: karoshi Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1953 (This is a USED item) 1999 Parasol release - i believe this features members of Poster Children

• Artist: Sapat Title: Mortise and Tenon Format: CD Label: Siltbreeze Price: $14.00 $8.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SILT102CD "Spawned from the formidable Louisville, KY collective known as Black Velvet Fuckere (Valley Of The Ashes, Phantom Family Halo, Kark, etc.), Sapat resides as the centrifugal force in this Midwestern psychedelic madrigal set in the psychosexual backwaters of the mighty Ohio River. For the entirety of the '00 decade, members have kept busy collaborating with and/or massaging the egos of various and sundry avant-pontiffs such as Robert Fripp, Magik Markers, Dead Child (David Pajo's metal band. That's right, David Pajo!) and Eugene Chadbourne -- when not honing the orgone energy of Sapat. Acoustically packed to the gills, the octet effortlessly strums and blows breezy vibes, emitting kosmisch melodies and Teutonic ambience that channel -- Julian Cope-like -- past giants such as Limbus 4, Siloah and Lord Krishna Von Goloka (you know, the A-Team of Krautrock). Once you launch into the group's spacy and entrancing yet calming and soothing asteroid belt, you might mistake the Ozarks for the Alps if you're not careful."

• Artist: Sarge Title: charcoal Format: CD Label: Mud Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_70 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Schneider tm Title: moist Format: CD Label: CitySlang Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_31 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Screaming Trees Title: sweet oblivion Format: CD Label: Epic Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_91 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Screening Title: Low End Format: CD Label: Maor Appelbaum (Israel) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_MAP001 "Screeing is a solo project by Maor Appelbaum, Reaching the upper exremites of the avant-garde and atmposphiric jenres. It is soley created by manilpaltions and effects achived through the use of a simple bass guitar. Definitely not an east listening album, this pushes the enevelpoe on the musical definition, relying on what the listener himself can draw out of the musical experience he is faced with. All music played on the Screening projects is performed only on bass guitars with effects and manipulations"

• Artist: Seasonal Concepts Title: seasonalize Format: CD Label: Sunship Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SUN33 The idea was to create the worst band in the world. Seasonal Concepts was formed in 2001, in Minneapolis, after which the core members fled to such far-flung locales as Seattle and Tokyo in an attempt to escape their creation. Their methods have included shoddy recording, extemporaneous composition, and marginal musical skills. Song themes include wizards, robots, odors, savings accounts and - of course - hometowns. �Olympia� was composed by Concepts co-founder Xuzee Pance as an 8th grade school project for music class. She received an A, which is more than can be said for this inexcusable release. Co-released with Little Mafia.

• Artist: Self Destruct Button Title: natural selection of accidents Format: CD Label: Tower Control (USA) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TCR001 "Self Destruct Button's Natural Selection of Accidents might be the White Album of Cleveland's noise scene . A bulldozer of a song, opening track "Comparing Cancers" mingles anger, technology,..." -- Cleveland Scene

• Artist: Shelf Life Title: Ductworks Format: CD Label: public eyesore Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PE107 (ITDE) “Ductworks” finds Public Eyesore Records honcho Bryan Day with collaborators Alex Boardman, Joseph Jaros, and Jay Schleidt; working in a truly egalitarian manner to fashion an effortlessly unruffled recording. Unfortunately, the somewhat calm nature of the disc may turn off casual listeners. Pay attention, you suckers– it is for exactly this quality that I can declare “Ductworks” a real success. Let’s face it, improvisational music sometimes hits a few ‘behavioral lock grooves,’ where its an open secret that what is occurring sounds like improv, but is really a re-hash of What Worked Before. Even the overall tone of a performance can fall prey to this sort of repetition– proceeding from quiet to loud everytime, working to create a “dark” sound time and time again… it’s cheating the improv spirit, and it is my opinion that this makes it even more difficult to appreciate some real improv when you come across it. Of course, I’m thinking of “Ductworks” as I write this. No, it doesn’t seem to have an overarching theme. No, it’s not a showy display of dramatic guitar runs or sax blowing. So why listen? For starters, check how fully these musicians explore their instruments! I’m not sure of everything that’s being played, but I can assure you that whatever it is, it’s being squeezed for the last drop of sound available! It’s also very enjoyable to hear such a ‘real’ album– listeners will easily be able to place themselves within the performance, which is strikingly immediate without being at all in your face. Recommended. - DaveX

• Artist: Shifts Title: Pangaea Format: CD Label: Elsie and Jack Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_eaj002 Shifts, another pseudonym for Frans de Waard, a co-founder of Beequeen, also renowned for his ongoing experiments for recycling music with Kapotte Muziek. de Waard likes to treat his various guises with a broad stroke of monochrome paint... each name is something else, something different. Shifts as an idea has existed on paper for a number of years - only recently fully materializing in the form of two 7”’s released on de Waard’s Korm Plastics label. d e W a a r d = m i n i m a l i s m and Shifts embraces the traditional concept of minimalism implementing multi-layered drone guitars and overtones that create an overwhelming atmosphere. Pangæa is indeed a concept album, inspired by the process of the earth’s plates drifting apart into the four separate continents becoming the world we know today. The plate tectonics that cause the drifting is echoed in the music... blocks of sound are repeated in several layers to create an unworldly soundscape. There are four distinct sections to be noted here - although indexed as one track. There is a guitar sound to be spotted in the first and in the last section, the large middle section is just guitar generated overtones. Shifts, an altogether successfully realized observation from the ever prolific Frans de Waard.

• Artist: Simon Whetham Title: Ascension_Suspension Format: CD Label: Entr'acte (UK) Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_entracte41 "These minimally-processed recordings of cable cars were made during a trip to the Portes du Soleil region of France, in Les Gets, Morzine and Les Lindarets. The sounds have been layered to enhance the feelings of suspense and tension experienced during the journey. In 2000 Simon composed and recorded the soundtrack to artist Kathryn Thomas' first solo London exhibition, and has continued to record music for her shows, as well as working on his own experimental pieces."

• Artist: Skin Yard Title: 1000 Smiling Knuckles Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1916 (This is a USED item) 1991 release on Cruz Records

• Artist: Skullflower Title: Pure Imperial Reform Format: CD Label: Turgid Animal (UK) Price: $14.00 $8.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TA209 "Recorded last year live on an Antwerpen radio station comes this new guitar wall "composition" from Matthew Bower and Lee Stokoe. This is a real CD (a first for Turgid Animal) limited to 1000 copies with artwork desinged by MB himself and pro-printed on quality grey paper in standard jewel cases. This is a seriously solid release and is for fans of modern Skullflower recordings and anyone who just loves a good harsh racket! find out more"

• Artist: Skullflower Title: Tribulation Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR55 "Tribulation. The new emission from the UK trance-noise legends SKULLFLOWER. A black-void beaming of utterly destroyed drone rock and crushing amplifier obliteration that rains down black ash and punishing blasts of feedback skree on the listener. A dynamic, bleary-eyed meditation. An avalanche of powerdrone that threatens to take your cranium apart and transport your grey matter into filthy new dimensions infested with melodic razor cuts and submerged mantras. A triumphant eruption of apocalyptic meta-metal and radioactive raga swarms, guaranteed to loosen eardrums. This album is one of the heaviest, harshest slabs of guitar armageddon from Matt Bower since the glory days of Total, and bridges the void between the krautrock/celestial free drone influence of the last few Skullflower albums, and the blackened molten death of his Mirag material."

• Artist: Skullflower Title: Orange Canyon Mind Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR45 "We're extremely stoked to announce that the new full length from underground UK noise legends SKULLFLOWER, Orange Canyon Mind, will be released through Crucial Blast in early 2005! Orange Canyon Mind is the follow up to 2003's acclaimed Exquisite Fucking Boredom (Tumult Records), and the 8 tracks that stretch out over the 60 minute running time feature some of the group's most melodic, hypnotic, and searing drone rock yet recorded. SKULLFLOWER formed in the mid-1980's out of the splintering of the industrial, noise, and punk underground alongside their peers and collaborators in Whitehouse, Godflesh, etc. Their feedback-driven heaviness is a direct precursor to the likes of modern avant-garde / freeform rock/metal artists such as ISIS, SUNN O))), BORIS, and GRAVITAR, and SKULLFLOWER has been cited as a major influence on GODFLESH."

• Artist: Slicker Title: confidence.in.duber Format: CD Label: Hefty Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_148 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Souvenir's Young America Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Under Radar (USA) Price: $9.00 $5.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_UR08 "Monstrous instrumental post-metal from Richmond, Virginia that crushed our skulls! We've heard previous recordings from these guys that we really liked, which saw them working with a mixture of spare Neurosis/Godflesh informed heaviness and cinematic post-rock like Godspeed You! Black Emporer or Explosions In The Sky. Really good stuff, very pretty at times, and heavy n' crushing at others. Well, this debut full length on the ever-stellar Underadar label takes those basic ideas and carries them into a whole new realm of beautiful, flowing, HEAVY instrumental music that we have totally fallen in love with. These songs are heavily layered, masterfully assembled instrumental creations, emotionally moving and majestic like Red Sparowes, filled with dense shoegazer buildups and gorgeous droning electronc swirl, massively heavy prog-rock dirges and sludgy piano-accompanied rock, never descending into boring noodling or overextended jams. A range of instruments are used here, keyboards, percussion, samples, guitars, accordion, xylophone, cello, and much more. The whole album sounds like a soundtrack for a killer lost road-trip movie scored by members of Neurosis and Godspeed You! Black Emporer doing a weird mix of 70's prog and biker rock, and 80's soundtrack metal, but with all sorts of forays into lonesome,dusty country guitar-twang, long droning expanses of floating electronic drones, supremely beautiful and often super-crushing !!! This is ABSOLUTELY A MUST GET for fans of heavy instrumental ambient metal/post-rock (Red Sparowes, Mogwai, Mono, Pelican, Isis, etc.), and soundtrack-influenced heaviness (Zombi, Chromelodeon). Very very highly recommended!!!!"

• Artist: Souvenir's Young America Title: an ocean without water Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR61 "Richmond, VA's cinematic instrumentalists SOUVENIR'S YOUNG AMERICA present their second full length, "An Ocean Without Water," which will be released through Crucial Blast on both CD (on July 24th) and LP (shortly thereafter). The album was recorded with John Morand (Labradford, Sparklehorse, 4 Walls Falling) at Sound of Music. "An Ocean Without Water" comes in a 6-panel digipack designed by Sasha Barr. Lush, shimmering guitar ambience and hypnotic, propulsive instrumental heaviness wind through the dusty highways and burnt twilight skies of "An Ocean Without Water," the sophomore album from Richmond's Souvenir's Young America. Divided into six flowing movements, "An Ocean Without Water" is filled with intensely beautiful melodies that drift on lonesome harmonica strains and sparkling, celestial electronics, shot through with mystic, western slide guitar, passages of crushing angular riffage, rolling tribal drumming, and transcendent blues. Through their intricate song arrangements and moody textures, Souvenir's Young America has created an epic, emotional narrative. The sound draws from the collected DNA of forebears like Popul Vuh, Earth, Labradford, and Neurosis, yet they form a powerfully evocative instrumental language all of their own. Features collaborations with Aughra (Magic Bullet Records) and Nick Forte (Sublight Records, ex Rorschach / Beautiful Skin)."

• Artist: Spring Heel Jack Title: 68 Million Shades... Format: CD Label: USED Price: $6.00 $3.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1917 (This is a USED item) 1996 release on Island

• Artist: sq Title: __moments imaginaires (8988) Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR26 SQ returns with a new long player guaranteed to rearrange the molecular structure of your eardrums. Macro and micro tones clash and fuse in a post-everything petri dish. Not content with just simply pulverizing their guitars and drums into atomized dust, the SQ gang preform post production autopsies on the raw tapes and concoct new vistas in damaged sound. Like that kid who always has green fluid dripping out of the corner of his mouth, this will fascinate and scare you at the same time. "Best of the year, so far." _Journal of Mutation Research (May 2000) Reviews (1): All About Jazz Straddling genres can be a difficult task. It's not difficult to make great music, mind you, but it can be very difficult to find an audience for that music. sq, aka Speed Queen, is an improvising duo. But instead of drawing from clear roots in the jazz or euro scene, the duo uses sound textures more common in noise and electronic bands. Interestingly, sq doesn't fall into many of those genre traps either. Credit Speed Queens Marc Faris and Joe Tunis for having the wits to come up with their own path. The eight tracks are varied, not at all programmatic, yet one can make narrative associations with many. Even their titles are atypical; jazzers tend to short titles, and the laptoppers seem to prefer abbreviations. The first track here is ":thank you k for space harmonics body hearING, NG, NGNGNG:" The percussion rattles, and speeds up like a train; then there's a switch, a shift. In a sense this is pure music: It's often difficult to tell which instruments are playing. John Cage would probably approve. Percussion and guitar, surely. Bowed bass? There are major shifts in dynamic range, then silences where you think the disc may have ended. Imagine Captain Beefheart's "Kandy Korn" or "Mirror Man" horn squawks, but with no rhythm track at all. - Steven H. Koenig

• Artist: sq Title: big leaves on a small tree Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR10 Six long investigations into improvised and composed density. Ranges from math/metal to sublime ambient droning. Fans of Gaster Del Sol, godHeadSilo, Slint and Spacemen 3 take note.

• Artist: sq Title: monosite Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR20 Two men effortlessly levitate two tons of pure sound. Open and out free rock that blisters and drones. Brings to mind the Dead C., A Handful of Dust and the Air Traffic Controllers. "I can‘t believe it‘s not Kiwi!"

• Artist: Squarepusher Title: Selection Sixteen Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_squarepusher_selectionsixteen (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Starfish Title: the instrumental ep Format: CD Label: Trance Syndicate Price: $6.00 $3.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_123 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Stereolab Title: Miss Modular Format: CD Label: USED Price: $6.00 $3.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1955 (This is a USED item) 1997 Duophonic release - import

• Artist: Stereolab Title: Sound-Dust Format: CD Label: USED Price: $6.00 $3.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1974 (This is a USED item) 2007 Elektra release

• Artist: Subarachnoid Space Title: Eight Bells Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR81 "Eight Bells is the first new release from Subarachnoid Space in four years (following 2005's The Red Veil on Strange Attractors). Featuring the recording lineup of Daniel Barone, Melynda Jackson, Lauren K. Newman, Daniel Osborne and Steven Wray Lobdell, the music of Eight Bells continues in the heavy lysergic vein as their last couple of post-Release albums, fusing wicked metallic crunch with ethereal fx-laden guitar freakouts and some of the band's most narcotized jamming yet. Their last couple of records pointed towards a heavier direction for the band, and this new material continues on that trajectory, combining blazing luminous axe-howl over hypnotic heavy acid riffage and dense squalls of fx-stacked sound. The album comes in at just under 40 minutes, and is packaged in another one of Crucial Blast's high quality visual presentations with stunning new artwork from Stephen Kasner. We've been big fans of Subarachnoid Space here at Crucial Blast since back when the band was releasing albums on Release/Relapse and Charnel Music, and they have continued to be one of our favorite bands working within the heavy neo-psych spectrum. Since their formation in 1995, Subarachnoid Space has evolved into one of the preeminent navigators within the realms of psychotropic underground rock and have firmly established themselves alongside the brightest stars in the constellation of contemporary acid rock. Playing a form of lysergic and almost entirely instrumental rock that draws its DNA from the sounds of classic Krautrock, prog, long-form improvisation and metallic heaviness, the band has attracted a fervent and dedicated following over the past decade around albums on established independant labels such as Relapse Records and Strange Attractors Audio House. Subarachnoid Space have also continued to bring their ominous, ethereal riffage, soaring fx-laden guitars and pulsating rhythmic propulsion on the road with numerous tours and festival appearances, including multiple stints across the U.S., three appearances at the legendary psych-rock festival Terrastock, and a tour of Japan, and has performed alongside such a variety of artists as Sonic Youth, Acid Mothers Temple, Khanate, Wolf Eyes, YOB, Sunn O))), Danava, Red Sparowes,Boris, Lightning Bolt, These Arms Are Snakes, Master Musicians Of Bukkake, and Ludicra. Thoughout the band's existence, the one constant has been visionary guitarist and bandleader Melynda Jackson. A native of rural Texas, Jackson grew up an only child, and never considered that the isolated grasslands and windswept landscapes of her youth would eventually inspire her to evoke equally mysterious terrain through experimental, exploratory guitar and wordless vocalizations in Subarachnoid Space. Jackson moved to San Francisco at the age of twenty-six and within a year had become part of the fledgling version of Subarachnoid Space, which had been formed by experimental guitarist Mason Jones, already known within the post-industrial/psych underground from his long-running Trance project. After the release of the band's debut 7" Char-Broiled Wonderland in 1996, Subarachnoid Space went on to fine-tune their sprawling improvisations and began to tour frequently. This led to the band scoring a record deal with Relapse Records soon thereafter. After three albums on Relapse Records, the band went on to release material on a number of smaller labels like Elsie And Jack, September Gurls, and Strange Attractors Audio House, and continued to perform regularly, touring both the USA and Japan with Acid Mothers Temple and performing alongside Sonic Youth at the 2002 Terrastock V festival. After the release of 2003's Also Rising, Mason Jones retired from the band, leaving Jackson to assume control of the band and reshape Subarachnoid Space into something heavier and more song-oriented. This new phase of Subarachnoid Space saw Jackson bringing a darker and more metallic edge to the band's sound while still retaining the elements of fiery improvisation and rich textural guitar that the group was known for. Both 2003's Also Rising and 2005's The Red Veil further introduced the band to a new audience of left-field metal and heavy rock fans. Now, Jackson and Subarachnoid Space have returned with Eight Bells, the band's first new release since 2005's The Red Veil on Strange Attractors, and the newest chapter in Jackson's continually evolving vision of music as ecstatic ritual. The recording features a new lineup of Daniel Barone, Melynda Jackson, Lauren K. Newman and Daniel Osborne, and was produced by Steven Wray Lobdell who also performs on the album. The music of Eight Bells continues in a similar heavy lysergic vein as their last couple of post-Relapse albums, fusing wicked metallic crunch with celebratory sky-streaking guitar freakouts and some of the band's most narcotized jamming yet. Their last couple of records all increasingly pointed towards a heavier direction for the band, and this new material continues on that trajectory as it combines blazing luminous axe-howl over hypnotic acid riffage and dense squalls of fx-stacked sound. Eight Bells features five songs ("Lilith", "Akathesia", "Hunter seeker", "Haruspex", "Bird Signs"), and features stunning new artwork from Stephen Kasner."

• Artist: Sun of the Seventh Sister Title: Farben Raum Format: CD Label: Heard Worse Records (Australia) Price: $11.00 $6.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HW04 "Following on from their 2007 New Zealand tour triple lathe cut LP, and 6 cassette boxset on Breakdance The Dawn, comes Farben Raum, the debut CD by Sun of the Seventh Sister. This floating line-up, mushroom fuelled free-psych woolly mammoth often consists of a phalanx of between 10 and 25 players: multiple drummers, multiple electrified chordophones, horns, vocals, oscillators etc. Imagine half a dozen freak-folk ensembles congealing into a psychedelic din of Borbetomag-ian proportions. On this occasion SSS comprised members of xNoBBQx, UnAustralians, Arse Lunch, Cock Up Shitting Whore, Rats With Wings, Stasis Duo and others. The CD consists of 3 immense tracks, taken from a 3 hour straight session, lovingly recorded by the Pulled Out mobile unit, with mastering analysis for Heard Worse Records by DJ Beefcurtains."

• Artist: Sunao Inami Title: an impulse of acoustic Format: CD Label: electr-ohm (Japan) Price: $15.00 $9.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Electrohm_TCCD-20051CD "The music made by improvisation sound sketch and cut up,after that editing and constituting that it same method of his album "DELAYED", but a greatly different matter from before is the following,the multiple use of the irregular beats by the samples chopped up by filtering and Granular synthesis especiall with a complicated thing characteristic this time. The sounds influence from IDM and glitch or electronica stuff of these days, and also German electronics or experimental of the 70s and the early '80s industrial music. Sunao used NI Reaktor 4,Absynth,Ableton Live4, Waldorf synthesizers mainly."

• Artist: Sunao Inami Title: Delayed Format: CD Label: electr-ohm (Japan) Price: $15.00 $9.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Electrohm_TCCD-20041CD ""DELAYED" by Sunao Inami is the latest in a strong line of releases on his own electr-ohm label, established about 3 years ago. Sunao Inami's music's main strength lies in repetition, but where the "poison" lies is different every time: electronics, glitch, techno, noise, ambient; the result of recent years of progression, digression and collaboration from which he's gained impetus, irritation and motivation. By soaking up these sensations, he has arrived at his most recent sound. Inami embraces the thrill of improvisation on the PowerbookG4 and the feeling of tension and composition from the newest DSP recording methods and any and every editing process. For "Delayed" he used a Waldorf synth for hardware, and mainly Reaktor4, Live, Spark, Logic6 and Protools for software. Otherwise spoons and other kitchen utensils. Future plans include collaborations with American and European musicians, who have previously contributed audio fragments to Inami's many other rojects via his busy ftp server."

• Artist: Sunao Inami Title: repeater Format: CD Label: electr-ohm (Japan) Price: $15.00 $9.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_electrohm_TCCD-20012CD "Sunao Inami's 1st solo album.He going through '70s electronic music to 21st century's electronica. Almost sounds made by Wavetable synthesis (PPG Wave and Waldorf synths),and realtime looping methods, DSP based synthesis and analog modular synthesis exist together."

• Artist: Supersuckers Title: La Mano Cornuda Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1962 (This is a USED item) 1994 SubPop release

• Artist: Suzukiton Title: service repair handbook Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR39 "Service Repair Handbook is the introductory unveiling of fine-tuned, tightly-wound instrumental heaviness from Richmond, VA riff-technicians SUZUKITON. Executing an elaborate schematic of progressive, technical musicianship and earth-shaking rock propulsion, Service Repair Handbook delivers an onslaught of anthemic, pulverizing tuneage that intersects math metal, heavy prog, and stoner rock. Features both former and current members of Relapse Records artist ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY. "

• Artist: T.E.F. / Bastard Noise Title: Astronomical Sound Images Format: CD Label: PacRec (USA) Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TRO112 "Kevin Novak (T.E.F.) and Bastard Noise (Eric Wood) collaboration of pulverizing astronomical vibrations. FOUR YEARS in the making! coreleased with PITCHPHASE."

• Artist: Tabata Title: brainsville Format: CD Label: Elsie and Jack Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_eaj003 Emerging from the darkness of Zeni Geva comes Brainsville - the first solo full-length exploration in both new and traditional sounds by Mitsuru Tabata. Expressive otherworldly blues that will appeal to the right side of the brain and fans of Loren Mazzacane. This expansive music will defy all expectations. Monumental abstract rural eastern psych. An exotic transmission - graceful, shimmering, like the birth of a million suns.

• Artist: Tarwater Title: Remix EP Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1913 (This is a USED item) Room Tone release with remixes by To Rococo Rot, 3rd Eye Foundation, Kiln, Birdwatcher and Bundy K Brown

• Artist: teledroom Title: two twos Format: CD Label: Glasvocht Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_gvcd02 "Teledroom is the new recording project of The Ordinary Seaman and Wio. These two homerecorders allreasy made a cd-r together some years ago, but with "Two Twos" they seem to have really found each other. "Two Twos" slowly grew, over a period of two years, from loose improvised recordings to a cohorent and varied full-cd. It mixes the best of both Ordinary Seaman‘s and Wio‘s worlds, resulting in a laidback easy listening cd, spiced up with sparse electronica and melodic soundscapes. The Ordinary Seaman is in fact Filip Gheysen, who also runs Glasvocht records. He‘s also known for his other projects Alfa and Picturesque. Wio is a member of de Portables, and released a solo cd in 2001. He is now working on new recordings to be released on (K-RAA-K)3.

• Artist: TEN-TON Title: 2_05 Format: CD Label: Practice (USA) Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Practice003 "We are interested in: altered sounds interaction/layering planning/improvisation structure/repetition/rhythm expectations/variations/mutation process/growing intensity/energy/density collaboration" - from the TEN-TON website. pretty much describes their brand of noise, franctic rock, and looping rhythms. completely confuse me, and the best possible way. amazing live.

• Artist: The Butcherings Title: Manifesto of the Moment Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_butcherings (This is a USED item)

• Artist: The Cherry Point Title: Night of the Bloody Tapes Format: CD Label: PacRec (USA) Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TRO207 "Compiled from three years of cassette releases, Night of the Bloody Tapes provides a shattering drive-in experience of unrelenting horror and harsh noise nightmares. Equally fueled by Fangoria magazine, import laserdiscs, third generation vhs bootlegs, damaged contact mics & DOD death metal distortion, The Cherry Point has set the ultimate bait in the trap of terror. Four tracks, over 40 minutes of static walls, electronic jabs and junk crashes. Contains material originally from the long deleted split tapes with Ahlzagailzehguh, Black Sand Desert, Luasa Raelon, Nkondi, Andy Ortmann, Pedestrian Deposit, The Rita, and more. Mixed & mastered by John Wiese. ESSENTIAL VIEWING: Shriek of the Mutilated, Raw Meat, Night of the Demon, Girls Nite Out, House on Sorority Row, Just Before Dawn, The Burning, Shock Waves, Mardi Gras Massacre, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, Criminally Insane, Creature From Black Lake, The Deadly Spawn, Shredder and films by William Lustig and Larry Cohen BANNED IN 31 COUNTRIES, NIGHT OF THE BLOODY TAPES WILL RIP THE FLESH OUT OF YOUR GUTS!"

• Artist: The Cocktails Title: s/t Format: CD Label: USED Price: $6.00 $3.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1975 (This is a USED item) 1996 Carrot Top release

• Artist: The Curious Hair Title: say hello to happiness Format: CD Label: Evol Egg Nart Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_30 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: The Frantic Flattops Title: Hi-Fi Honey Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_FranticFlattops (This is a USED item) on Rock-A-Billy Records

• Artist: The Greys Title: cd sampler Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_greys (This is a USED item) 16 tracks from Greys 8 volume collection

• Artist: the haters / mr. natural / bassifondi orchestra Title: 3 way split Format: CD Label: Gender-Less Kibbutz (USA) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GLK017

• Artist: The Infusion Title: s/t Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1951 (This is a USED item) 33revpermi release featuring Ron Anderson

• Artist: The Invisibl Skratch Piklz Title: The Shiggar Fraggar Show! Format: CD Label: USED Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1936 (This is a USED item) live radio show from the Invisibl Skratch Piklz

• Artist: THe Mass Title: city of dis Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR40 THE MASS deliver unto us a scalding blast of sax-assisted King Crimson-meets-Slayer art|thrash|core worship, all light-speed riffing, shrieking vox and burly singing, malevolent soft jazz,insidious tempo shifts, and bloodthirsty dynamics. Disparate elements of No Wave, damaged pop, grindcore, post-punk, thrash metal and math-rock are crafted into a blast of avant-garde fury, but catchy as fuck. Pure dissent...

• Artist: The New Blockaders / Thurston Moore / Jim O’Rour Title: the voloptulist Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions (USA) Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HOS144 "high tension collaboration of long drawn drone with english clutter dissovling into tape hiss ambient with booming free barbaric yawps from these legendary characters. chris corsano guests on the o'rourke piece."

• Artist: The Psychic Paramount Title: Live 2002 The Franco-Italian Tour Format: CD Label: Public Guilt (USA) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PG006 "The Psychic Paramount here is a power trio in the traditional rock format (guitar, bass, drums) recorded live at performances in Paris, Lyon, Perpignan, and Napoli in Nov./Dec. of 2002. The group, going on tour less than one week after their first meeting, is captured at birth in raw immediate form. Predicating experiments with the authority of sound and primitive revival upon a rock 'n' roll platform, the music seeks to evoke a sense of urgency and a release from the banal. A document of turbulent emergency music grinding its entrance. All tracks originally recorded to cassette live using one stereo microphone"

• Artist: The Screamin‘ Mee-Mees Title: Garbage Collage Format: CD Label: gulcher Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist-GULCHER422 "Hey, it's time to play it loud on yer cheap stereo again! The Screamin' Mee-Mees' basement vault has been re-opened--and whaddayagot? Mr. Jon Ashline (vocals, coffee cans, plastic lamp shade, metal lawn table, snare drum, organ, piano, guitar) and Mr. Bruce Cole (vocals, guitar, keyboard) playin' jammin' stumblin' through 23 previously unreleased chunks o' St. Loo brain-spill--mangled Midwestern (sub-)folk/(pre-)punk--basement-rockin' (anti-)wizardry from these masters of their own universe. It was all recorded 'tween 1975 and 1980. But they start in '78 with "Struck Out (Again)," a redo of a tune from their debut LIVE FROM THE BASEMENT EP ('77)--this new version's given a cheezy surf-wave arrangement with two-handed keyboard-whiz by Bruce Cole and guest bonehead Wolf Roxon. Then Jon Ashline switches to piano for the beatnik-cellar-operatics of the duo's "Be Retarded." Jump back to '76 for "C'mon Jimmy," which features the other guest appearance of the CD: "Mean" Gene Scott sings his own punky DIY campaign ditty rootin' for Jimmy Carter (who ran for prez in that Bicentennial year). The next six tracks come from '75, with Bruce on acoustic guitar and Jon on assorted kitchen-counter percussion. This batch sometimes sounds like early T. Rex ("Ride A White Swan") with Marc Bolan mutated into 1920s hillbilly singer Dock Boggs. This is especially true of the fabulous "Money Back Guarantee," which features Fahey/Page-style finger-pick guitar brilliance from Bruce that'll shock you when heard. There's some 50's greaser stuff here 'n there too. "A Group Of Women," "No Known Antidote," "Mouth Song," "I Drink Sody," and even the obvious parody "Disco For Drunks" all have the Mee-Mees' odd "folk" vibe (also abundant on the Mee-Mees' Prenatal '72-'76 CDR, which kinda works like a companion volume to this disc). From '78 is "Too Young To Shave Part Two," an acoustic version of a tune from the HOME MOVIES EP. Then we get a cool batch of electric duo stuff from 1980, with Bruce doin' lots of great guitar noise and Jon bangin' mostly on a snare drum. The Stones are evoked in big-slop fashion on "Breathin' Bag" and "I've Been A Rollin' Stone," while surf music provides the skeleton for "You Wish That You Was You." Then Bruce turns up the reverb for the real thing on a killer version of the Chantays' "Pipeline"! They also cover an early Seeds tune ("Daisy Mae"), do a bit o' free diddle ("Untitled"), and offer up more of their free-spazz story-tellin' balladry ("Dirty Socks," "Smokey Nightclub," "James Brown"). The final tracks come from '76, and to these ears, have a C&W/outlaw-country feel--Willie & Waylon & the Legendary Stardust Cowboy?! It's bitchen stuff too. "The Radiator Song" is a classic, as is the paganesque and very looney "Why Can't A Watermelon Pray?" Plus "The Jerseyville Bake-Off" and a very stoopid version of the standard "I'll See You In My Dreams." Ain't it funny how good leftovers can taste? And ain't it groovy how funny-inspired these guys always seem to be? Yes, and yeah yeah yeah. Keep it cheap, kidz!"

• Artist: The Sound of Failure Title: s/t Format: CD Label: breathmint Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_soundoffailure (This is a USED item)

• Artist: The Sundays Title: static and slience Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1937 (This is a USED item) 1997 Geffen release

• Artist: The Tajalli Vortex Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Freenoise (UK) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FCD07 "Well worth the wait for the newest Freenoise addition. Limited to only 200, this 75 minute 'white knuckle ride into the severest improvisations' are highlights recorded 'in the earth' entirely live at sessions over the '06-'07 winter months. TTV are a newish five piece group of established and energetic free-musicians whose influences include punk, free-improv and jazz, psychedelic rock and krautrock, standing at the forefront of the new-experimental wave in the renowned musical city of Sheffield, UK. Eerie and atmospheric female and male vocals, deep sythn, percussion, bass and reed noises gradually rise to kinetic and howling psycho-rock slightly remenisscent of a Velvets / Hawkwind / Throbbing Gristle crossover! Very exciting and at times uneasy listening - certainly difficult to take in one sitting unless of course you're prepared for a long trip! Includes guest appearance from Martin Archer - sopranino saxophone. Pioneering in the UK free noise movement the Vortex have taken the most extreme free music ever and filed it away under history. They have found The Art. On 26th April 2007 in Sheffield the group performed a historic gig with Damo Suzuki (Can) and improv collective Gated Community. The gig set a precedent for outer limits of free music."

• Artist: Thinguma*jigSaw Title: awakeinwhitechapel Format: CD Label: Deserted Village (UK) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_DV33 "Two elusive, exceptional, pivotal personalities - cunningly spinning a web of flamboyant brouhahas within the idiom of their own device: charming, clever, generous, sinister splatterfolk. Splatterfolk combines elements of traditional Irish/British/American folk with contemporary art music, and spices it up with lyrical and musical components usually associated with horror films, experimental theatre and modernistic poetry. There is also an abundance of film and popcultural references. It's the new revolution within the folk music - scene of today, and you will find no finer exponents of this subversive art than Thinguma*jigSaw. "

• Artist: Thinguma*jigSaw Title: awakeinwhitechapel Format: CD Label: Deserted Village (UK) Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_DV33 "Two elusive, exceptional, pivotal personalities - cunningly spinning a web of flamboyant brouhahas within the idiom of their own device: charming, clever, generous, sinister splatterfolk. Splatterfolk combines elements of traditional Irish/British/American folk with contemporary art music, and spices it up with lyrical and musical components usually associated with horror films, experimental theatre and modernistic poetry. There is also an abundance of film and popcultural references. It's the new revolution within the folk music - scene of today, and you will find no finer exponents of this subversive art than Thinguma*jigSaw. "

• Artist: Tiger Cried Beef Title: The Facts About Fascism Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR137 While assembling a number of early home-brewed recordings for their first official full length release, Tiger Cried Beef's Keith Parkins received an email of support from Kramer of Shimmydisc/Bongwater fame. In it, Kramer suggested that the band should work with him on their next release. Unfortunately, the band had already decided to work with Chicago's Andy Bosnak on their next release. Kramer generously offered to help the band by mastering the early recordings for the release, The Facts About Fascism. The title refers to a primer that Parkins (aka Pat Rocles, CM Crisis) had found dating from the early 20th century in response to the rise of fascism in pre WWII Europe. Given the state of the country, Parkins thought to assemble a collection that would examine the internal/personal forces that lead towards complacency as opposed to the external/political forces that have been the focus of many. This is some strong pop/rock with a slightly off-kilter approach, which helps digs its hooks into you, deeper with each listen. [comes in a full-color Digi-pak. Co-release with Mono Oxide Records.].... more info on TCB --- Tiger Cried Beef started out of the Rochester band Hinkley. When Hinkley's co-founder and co-writer Sean Leahy left the band, Parkins brought some songs that he'd been working on to the group. When it became apparent that both Parkins and Hinkley frontman Will Veeder had a well of tunes, Parkins realized that he should start his own unit. Parkins had been working on his songwriting with Kelli Shay Hicks during a year where they would throw the guitar back and forth giving each other a minute to start playing something coherent. He then performed a bunch of these songs with her and Otto Hauser before forming the band with drummer Jeff Thompson. After a year of playing and recording, Dennis Mariano and Adam Wright joined the band to form the lineup that has played for most of the past year. Adam left the band during the summer of 2006 to be replaced by Brannon Hungness. Brannon brings a wealth of experience to the band having played in Glenn Branca's ensemble and in the Amphetamine Reptile band Hammerhead.

• Artist: Timeblind Title: most eye, the rastabomba remixes Format: CD Label: Orthlorng Musork Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_orthlorng011 Devastating dancehall remixes of this heavy hitter from Timeblind‘s full length released last fall on CD only on Orthlorng Musork (Rugged Redemption, ORTH06). Here the original is on vinyl for the first time along side remixes from Kid606, Kit Clayton, dj/rupture and Timeblind himself. The CD version includes two bonus Timeblind mixes.

• Artist: Tin.RP Title: starving Format: CD Label: burning emptiness inc Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist-BE07 More digital rhythms and noise aggression from Tin.RP.

• Artist: To Live and Shave in L.A. (spoof) Title: 1975 Format: CD Label: none Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_none000 lost copies of a mysterious spoof/remix of TLASILA, including background/sources such as metal, break-beat and comedy(?) records. also includes a recording of an inane roadtrip fiasco. no label info.

• Artist: Toe 2000 Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Truckstop Price: $6.00 $3.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_50 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Toenut Title: two in the pinata Format: CD Label: Mute Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_85 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Tom Carter and Rob Horton Title: steeljaguar rocket Format: CD Label: Digitalis Industries Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_digi032 "Charalambides' Tom Carter and Robert Horton have become close collaborators over the past few years, appearing in a handful of projects together from Kyrgyz (w/ Jewelled Antler-ites Loren Chasse and Christine Boepple) to Mudsuckers (w/ D. Yellow Swans). But when they are stripped back to a duo, the sonic onslaught is just as dense and impressive. "Steeljaguar Rocket" is the second album, following-up "Lunar Eclipse" on Important Records. Horton again acts as the puppetmaster, pulling the strings to move each sound into its right place. Expansive improvisations and full-on psychedelic freakouts intermingle, creating a cosmic web of enchanted debris. Fiddler extraordinaire Hal Huges adds exponentially to the dynamics at work with his marvellous playing on the title track. The strained violin notes whisk the listener away to the dirt-soaked alleys of Damascus. It's a hypnotic journey through jewel-encrusted foreign lands, like a solo flight to sun. Everything is not peaceful on "Steeljaguar Rocket," however. Digging further into the cataclysm finds Carter & Horton turning up the volume knobs and cranking out wailing solos on top of a bed of heavy drones and cacaphonic drums. Like Horton's Future Ears project, it's equal parts noise, free jazz, and fractured folk bliss. There is no stone unturned on "Steeljaguar Rocket," and just as it feels as though it will collapse in on itself, Carter & Horton bring everything back down to earth, ready to begin again."

• Artist: Tore Honore Boe Title: suave siesta Format: CD Label: Purple Soil Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_pulse_zero_one Originally intended just as simple Siesta albums repress, this CD turned beyond what people usually tend to understand as a reissue. Suave Siesta delivers two different albums on one CD. Beside the already mentioned Siesta recording (originally coming on JAZZASSIN in 2000, sold out for some time) Suave album, a brand new recording by Tore H. Boe, ORIGAMI REPUBLIKA president, exploring yet unknown paths and undiscovered areas in the realms of environmental collages. Altogether sixty minutes of calmed down music everyone will be approaching to in a different way. The listener can decide to take active part in the sound experience, or choose to put the CD on simply as a background hum, at least for me it works both ways, explains Tore. (comes with 16 page booklet)

• Artist: Totemplow Title: applaud the execution Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1972 (This is a USED item) 1996 Manifold release

• Artist: Totimoshi Title: Ladron Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $11.00 $6.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR58 "The fourth album from TOTIMOSHI. Slabs of crushing metered riffing and joyously ecstatic sludge ooze from the band's instruments over sunbaked vocal harmonies and flourishes of pure pop melodicism and bursts of old-school heavy metal energy. These songs wind through shadows of dusty blues and western music, riff-tastic instrumental rave-ups, squalls of immolating guitar noise, and smoldering post-punk dynamics clad in serious heaviness. TOTIMOSHI's distinctively elephantine rock grips the listener in the power of the big riff and saw-toothed hooks as it reconciles MELVINS/HIGH ON FIRE/KARP crush with pop and psychedelia, bolstered by powerful production courtesy of HELMET's Page Hamilton. "

• Artist: Totimoshi Title: Mysterioso Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR46 "¿Mysterioso? , the second full length from Oakland, CA-based trio TOTIMOSHI, intersects earthquake-heavy rock and wicked sludge riffage with the wiry hooks and dynamics of 80's post-punk / new wave, Spanish melodies, and an adventurous, occasionally improvisational fuzz attack. It's like someone gave an old Beggars Banquet band a cocktail of steroids, huge amps, and battered copies of Melvins' Stoner Witch and Mainliner's Mellow Out. Heavy, crunchy, catchy,hypnotic - ¿Mysterioso? winds, grinds, and explodes every step of the way. This re-issued, re-tooled version features enhanced CD-ROM extras, including video , photos, and more.."

• Artist: Trees Title: Freed of this Flesh Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR83 "The mysterious Portland ensemble Trees return with their second offering on Crucial Blast, Freed Of This Flesh, with two new fetid death rituals scraped from the crypt. Each of these tracks averages around fourteen minutes, an extended death-rattle formed from black glacial riffs suspended in space, tectonic percussive rumbles, anguished shrieks of torment and abject suffering, deep guttural demon-toad throat singing, and endless sheets of glistening metallic feedback that spill and drift to the far edges of their extreme time-stretched ambient doom, a crumbling, blighted majesty, noxious ambient blackdoom adrift on putrescent tides. The wretched vocal effluvium creeps formlessly across austere slabs of crushing heaviness arranged into ghoulish constructs of atmospheric dread, moving so slow that the music seems to lose all sense of propulsion at times, becoming lost in a fog of howling amplifiers and buzzing feedback, the guitars stretched into massive decomposing drones, the spaces between infested with controlled bursts of drums that skitter and rumble, almost "jazzy" in a vague sort of way, but still incredibly slow and ponderous. Freed Of This Flesh inhabits the same sort of black-tar depths as the likes of Burning Witch, Monarch, Khanate, and Bunkur while stripping the slo-mo heaviness into their own twisted, skeletal configuration."

• Artist: Trees Title: Lights Bane Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR66 "The debut album from the Portland quartet Trees delivers two epic tracks of monolithic, blackened doom metal with a twisted, noise-damaged approach and a dank basement vibe. Trees craft glacial abstract riffs and rivers of ashen amplifier goo that fans of feedback-laden heaviosity will find highly satisfying, a kind of grinding, slow-motion black hole psychedelia that has a similiar hypnotic death-ritual quality as artists like Bloody Panda and Khanate, but with their own unique trance state of swirling guitar textures, horrific jet black dronescapes and ghoulish, excoriating vocals. Features members of the PDX psych-sludge outfit Tecumseh (Important Records). This CD edition of the TREE's debut comes in a Stoughton printed 4-panel gatefold case. "

• Artist: Trephine Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Public Guilt (USA) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PG003 "Years in the making... For the uninitiated, Trephine play a unique blend of metal/prog/punk/ noise/math rock which finds their instrumental, guitar/bass/drums assault joined by found object percussion. To help make their strongest release yet, Trephine called upon three masters of their craft-- producer/engineer, Jon Smulyan, mastering engineer, Alan Douches, and visual artist, Stephen Kasner. Slayer riffs and Propane tank percussion collide for eight tracks of pure surgical doom!!!"

• Artist: Tumul Title: riding96 Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CR196 one track, 16+ minutes. recorded during an actual drive, while driving, on route 96 in upstate/western NY from Rochester to Ithaca. direct recording of electronics, drum machine, vocals, wind, bumps and more. amazing dense and loud, and abrasive (in a good way)

• Artist: U Can Unlearn Guitar Title: no strings Format: CD Label: yelpco Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_yelpco02 "A compendium of essential recordings and performances for the unlearned at heart from this Northern Pennsylvania (via Brooklyn and L.A.) psycho-genius; needless to say, also a member of the infamous acid-punk combo BunnyBrains. This comprehensive and incomprehensible compilation covers no less than 8 years of recorded output, pulling together and best and most bizarre cuts of acoustic singer-songwriter fare, plunderphonic experimentation and plain ol‘ nonsense ‘n‘ noise. One man, but many personalities - in live performance he finds ever more unique and absurd ways to destroy and then reconstruct guitars; but on this recorded document you get glimpses of the most refreshing songwriting in years, according to Dartmouth music professor and noted composer Larry Polansky, who contributes the liner notes. Co-released with Sunship, Little Mafia and Breathmint."

• Artist: Umbra Title: unclean spirit Format: CD Label: rectrix Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_RECTRIX01 Dark, grinding drone, similar to Gate, inparticular, the Dewline release. from Rectrix site: "Truly dark and disturbing dark and murky ambient with elements of industrialized dark noise. The sounds captured are of a truly dark nature. I urge all fans of the Cold Meat style bands to che?�}?his out, and hear some truly dark sounds to haunt you eternally"

• Artist: Unstable Ensemble Title: The Liturgy of Ghots Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_UnstableEnsemble (This is a USED item) on Family Vineyard

• Artist: Various Artists Title: What Pleasing the Lord Looks Like Marriage: Extreme Noise�and Terror from Japan Format: CD Label: Heart and Crossbone (Israel) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HCB020 "not a tribute album for the legendary U.K Grind-Crust band, nor a religious initiative, but a glimpse into the cathartic underground of the Japanese and Israeli noise and doom scenes. All tracks are previously unreleased & exclusive for this compiation; blasting off with the traditionally-oriented and bizarre doom of Osaka's Ryokuchi, This is an exquisite slow-paced 10 minutes guilt trip down memory lane. Next up are Jaffa's Cadaver Eyes, taking this trip off track with their corrosive Sloth-Doom: Zenocide drag you down the wilderness, while wiping the soil with their lo-fi sludge-core indignation, and then cums LietterSchpichDiet, with their demonic Doom-Dub and heliocentric swirl: MONEYI$GOD are up next, spreading their own cancer with a lethal dose of industrialized and Sludge-grudge, before Poochlatz poison the air with their battered Power Electronics and primitive industrial: Jerusalem's Remesh elaborate the damage with a hellish ceremony of their own, dripping gradually brutal drops of industrial-noise before Osaka's Nerveless wraps it up with a squashing, heavy as fuck, guitar-drone that would linger on and on. The Lord never seemed so pleased. *due to a printing error, Nerveless appear in the credits as Neverless. "

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Aural Holograms Vol. I Format: CD Label: Aural Hypnox (Finland) Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_AH008 "All of You who have gone before, across the ages we call You, to join us and together reach the unsetting stars of the White Nights, the Horizon of Hollow Earth. The very first part of the Aural Holograms series incorporates various call and response patterns manifesting vibrating, subtle energies, all of which have been accurately divided into separate rhythmic dimensions and time-shifting aural tapestries. The overall experience - i.e. the ecstatic effect - is transmitted by the intensity of syncopated rhythms, reed organ lingering on a few tones, self-transforming vocal work accompanied with carefully chosen oscillating tunes and a variety of percussive patterns utilising artefacts crafted according to the methods of traditional metallurgia, as well as real-time tape operations. { 61�26'N 21�52'E } The rum is poured on the ground, words are spoken in secrecy: the Dead Men will come to tell their tales. Comes in six-panel hand finished cardboard booklet, in an edition of 1.000 copies."

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Dissolution Tapes (MCE remixed) Format: CD Label: Zeromoon (USA) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_zero004 "Lets face it, most compilations suck, are filled with half-assed throw away tracks by name artists and filler by unknowns reinventing the wheel for the umpteenth time. This is were Dissolution Tapes differs. In order to maintain a stylistic consistency of music and challenge the contributors, musical themes recorded by Normal Music's secret alter ego, The MCE, were given to every participant. Its sort of a remix CD but beyond that in how attention was paid to the overall disk in terms of flow and composition creating a unified release of new and challenging music. Artists include: Cornucopia, Alexei Borisov, Anton Nikkila, Freiband, Ultra Milkmaids, Violet, Jacob Kirkegaard, Maja Ratkje, Kotra, Dead Letters, Andrey Kiritchenko, Das Torpedoes, Michael Gendreau, R.R. Habarc, Francisco Lopez, Rechord, Fe-Mail."

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Necropolis: The Dialogic Project Format: CD Label: USED Price: $6.00 $3.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1957 (This is a USED item) compilation and mix by DJ Spooky - 1995 Knitting Factory release

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Pulled from the wreckage Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1908 (This is a USED item) Grass Records compilation with brainiac, sunbrain, barnyard slut, twitch, mousetrap, cactus neve thing, edsel, and bridget

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Further Mutations LoRecordingsvolume4 Format: CD Label: USED Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1909 (This is a USED item) Lo Recordings compilation with Luke Vibert, David Kristian, Hood, Ganger, Thurston Moore, Freezer and more!

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Hotel Massachusetts Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1933 (This is a USED item) 1994 Chunk Records compilation featuring Silver Jews, Sebadoh, New Radiant Storm King, Home, Lyres, Skinner Pilots and more

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Ninja Cuts: flexistentialism Format: CD Label: USED Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1938 (This is a USED item) double CD compilation from Ninja Tune featuring Dj Food, Funki Porcini, The Herbaliser, Up, Bustle & Out, Coldcut, Kruder and Dorfmeister, DJ Vadmin and more!!!

• Artist: Various Artists Title: showtunes of the condemned Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions (USA) Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HOS093 "two years in the making, showtunes of the condemned emerges not as a compilation, but a massive unified whole. spinning, spinning, spinning. a dark, edgy, electronic epic, acting as a pandora's box of social and urban anxiety. ranging from lo-fi ambient soundscape to high-tech industrial powernoise, and rotten sound collage, the varied styles on this cd merge into a compelling argument for despair. featuring roughly fifteen minutes each from: smashed femur dance party, sinking body, pleasurehorse, work/death, kites, and meerk puffy, plus an extensive short story of contemporary mythology from scott wilson."

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Old Tyme Lemonade Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions (USA) Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HOS091a "eclectic compilation of independent music from providence including noise, grind, hardcore, electronic, and experimental. reissue of extremely limited cassette release. 100 specially coloured pink lemonade numbered copies randomly inserted into the first pressing. landed, noise nomads, necronomitron, mindflayer, knights of timbre, em dath rir, prurient, dropdead, mahi mahi, seratone, football rabbit, suffering bastard, smashed femur dance party, throne of blood, kites, lightning bolt, knifestorm, meerk puffy, white mice, patootie lobe"

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Secrets and Sounds Format: CD Label: Animal Disguise (USA) Price: $9.00 $5.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ADR025CD "Three years in the making, these are the secrets and sounds of Animal Disguise Recordings. The definitive soundtrack to ADR packed full with 22 tracks and 74 minutes. Featuring all previously-unreleased tracks from our family and friends: Arnoux, Charles Lareau, Cipher Fox, Ferox Head, Football Rabbit, Growing, Hair Police, Libythth, Liger, Mammal, Meerk Puffy, Nautical Almanac, Neon Hunk, Panama, Prurient, Rotflol, Sinking Body, Smashed Femur Dance Party, The Lowdown, Ton B / Ton B, Viki, Zombi."

• Artist: Various Artists Title: 110 Below - Vol 2 Format: CD Label: USED Price: $7.00 $4.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_100Below (This is a USED item) on the 110 Below label. features DJ Krush, Howie B, UNKLE, Beck, and more

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Good Guppy Records - Waterlog Vol 2 Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 $2.40 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_goodguppy (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Various Artists Title: the noise is all in your head Format: CD Label: Gold Soundz (Norway) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GS05 an international compilation CD, exclusive tracks from 17 artists : OREN AMBARCHI, NEIL CAMPBELL, RATS WITH WINGS, NOXAGT, VOLCANO THE BEAR, THURSTON MOORE, OJN (ex- Landshipping/ Metrotone), SINDRE BJERGA/ANDERS GJERDE, CONTINENTAL FRUIT, JULIAN BRADLEY, LASSE MARHAUG, DUO KANEL, DJ BRA NESEGIR, IF YOU MEET YOUR ANTI-SELF (Neil Mackay fra Loop / Hair & Skin Trading Co/ Juicy Eureka), SONGS OF NORWAY (Aaron og Nick from Volcano the Bear), THE WIFE CONTRACT, DYLAN NYOUKIS (of Prick Decay/Decaer Pinga and Chocolate Monk). In other words: a must have! The CD is printed in Australia and comes in a b/w foldout cardboard cover.

• Artist: Various Artists Title: sweetness will overcome Format: CD Label: Segerhuva (Sweden) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_seger014 "Here it is: the first Segerhuva compilation, a massive 74-minute budget priced CD with a 20-page booklet in jewelcase. The CD is filled from beginning to end with a strong and exciting line-up of both well known and newer groups, mainly from Sweden, but also with contributions from Finland and Japan. We are thrilled to be able to present a solid mix of sounds, from the most punishing ultra-harsh electronics, via the primitively thuggish all the way to the cocktail-sipping arty. Yes, we have room for all -- please join the party. "Sweetness Will Overcome" features a wide range of artists making it a diverse and interesting affair. Our tribute to a stagnating but in a strange sense healthy scene! Without further preaching: all tracks are new and exclusively recorded for this compilation, all served with pleasure and pain. Contributing artists: Sewer Election, Koeff, Skin Area, Mnem, Jarl, Moljebka Pvlse, Institut, Government Alpha, Sharon's Last Party, Treriksrøset, IRM, Ochu, Martin Bladh, Irgun Z'wai Leumi, Barrikad and Blod"

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Looper's Delight Compilation Volume 3 Format: CD Label: electr-ohm (Japan) Price: $15.00 $9.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Electrohm_LDCD3 A Compilation album of International Mailing List Community,it called Looper's Delight. Volume 3 is release 7 years after Volume 2 was released... 17 international looping artists joined, mbient,Experimental,Minimal,Drone,Improvised,Electro-Acoustic etc. Looper's Delight is a cultural and informational resource for musicians creating with audio loops of every sort. Loop based music essentially involves the repetition of audio samples, or loops. From that basic premise looping moves off in numerous directions, encompassing a wide range of techniques for building, manipulating, and using loops. The technique crosses many musical boundaries and appears in a wide range of musical styles and genres.

• Artist: Various Artists Title: C.U.E. Compilation 3 Format: CD Label: C.U.E. Records (Japan) Price: $15.00 $9.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CUECDC3 A Compilation from C.U.E. records. 15 artists,total time 68min20sec. including Scanner, o Inami, Kazuya Ishigami, IIJIMA,Keitaro, funaman, Huguet, Atsunobu Tadatsu, Tadashi Usami, Yow Funahashi

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Imaginational Anthem Volume Two Format: CD Label: Tompkins Square (USA) Price: $13.00 $7.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TSQ1424 "Released in October 2005, Imaginational Anthem Volume One featured two generations of important acoustic guitarists, from John Fahey and Sandy Bull to Jack Rose and Kaki King. Volume Two expands and builds on this theme with 70+ more minutes of guitar magic -- all previously unreleased on CD in the US. 23-year old UK 12-string upstart James Blackshaw opens the record, while the late master Robbie Basho, a clear influence on Blackshaw's style, closes it. Basho's track is the only live recording by this groundbreaking guitarist ever released. Riches abound on Imaginational Anthem Vol Two, with new recordings by former Takoma roster alumni Peter Lang (who made an album with John Fahey and Leo Kottke), Billy Faier (an original Greenwich Village folkie whose late '50s Riverside records inspired a fellow crack banjo player, Steve Martin) and an archival home recording by Fred Gerlach (a favorite of Jimmy Page). The new breed is well-represented by fascinating figures of today -- Smith, Carter, Sparhawk, Kraus, Rose and Blackshaw. Legendary singer/songwriter Michael Chapman, whose first albums for the Harvest label in the '60s are now seeing the light again, contributes as well."

• Artist: Various Artists Title: 804noise Format: CD Label: 804Noise (USA) Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_804_001 "Establishing 804noise as a label, this compilation features 11 exclusive tracks from 11 different Richmond based experimental and noise artists. First pressing of 1,000 copies"

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Zum Audio Vol 3 Format: CD Label: Zum (USA) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) 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.

• Artist: Various Artists Title: We Would Be Happy - A Noise Opera Format: CD Label: Sunship Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SUN50 Featuring Cock E.S.P., Costes, Lasse Marhaug, K.K. Null, Richard Ramirez and Smell & Quim. A unique project featuring the talents of five top international noise acts, collaborating by mail round-robin style, with vocals and lyrics contributed by noted French tickler Jean-Louis Costes as well as Cock E.S.P.'s own Elyse Perez. Operatic tales of love, tragedy, donuts, rape and castration with a soundtrack of top-quality noise. Co-released with Back Bacon, Little Mafia, Nihilist and Roggbif.

• Artist: Various Artists Title: We're for the Unknown, Unbought and Unbossed Format: CD Label: Glasvocht Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GVCD04 "This is one of these things that just kind of happens...the idea of doing a split compilation between Nosordo and Glasvocht came to us like a stray cat after a hot, wet and cruel summer. After choosing artists we felt strongly about that we thought deserved a place on this unique package, and a few months of juggling the material we had around, we are now ready to proudly present the result. “(We’re for the) Unknown, Unbought & Unbossed” CD is now ready for shipping, unpacking and many hours of listening. There are 16 exclusive tracks - all made with barrels of love and elegantly packaged in a beautiful fold-out cardboard sleeve, illustrated by Swedish designer I am the sample of hope. Mastered by Jürgen De Blonde aka Köhn. " includes..... Ljudbilden & Piloten, Do, Mapstation, Dijf Sanders, The Cheese, The Idealist, Mnemosyne, Osso Bucco, Douglas Ferguson, Seth Warren & David Dupuis, The Ordinary Seaman, Det Svenska Folket, Fractional, Massaccesi, Yasushi Miura, Ved

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Hi-Fi Allergi Format: CD Label: Gold Soundz (Norway) Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GS11 76 mins of norwegian noise. incl. Vehiculos de ocasion, Origami Epeleptika, DJ Bra Nesegir, Anders Gjerde, Qrt, Waffelpung, P�l Asle Pettersen, Fredrik N Sevendal, Taming Power + many others.

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Regeneration Format: CD Label: USED Price: $6.00 $3.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_MG1002 (This is a USED item) compilation featuring Neutrino, THrid Harmonic Distortion, Spectator Pump, Lazycain, And Iron, Ativin and Universal Life and Accident.

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Earthrise.Shadow.3 Format: CD Label: USED Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_Shadow026 (This is a USED item) A 1997 collection that samples domestic album releases on Shadow/Instinct by a clutch of solid, mostly European, trip-hop producers, Earthrise Shadow, Vol. 3 includes great tracks from Shantel ("Azulee"), Cujo ("The Sighting"), Jammin' Unit ("Blind Television"), Mr. Electric Triangle ("Blow Jam"), and Futique ("Free Radicals"). -- AllMusic.com

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Estrus Sizzlers Format: CD Label: Estrus Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_79 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Various Artists Title: singles soundtrack Format: CD Label: Epic Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_95 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Various Artists Title: leave your mark Format: CD Label: Endless Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_87 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Various Artists Title: the nature of systems Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR25 a document of scale. micro and macroscopic. similarities and differences. miniscule and infinitesimal. featuring Loren MazzaCane Connors, The Arthur Doyle Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, Pelt, Finkbeiner, Andy Gilmore , Golden Calves, Charalambides, Joe+N, Sheet, Nod, SQ, Mick Turner, Burlap, The Flying Luttenbachers, Pengo, Bardo Pond, and Karl Precoda/Mike Gangloff Reviews (2): NOSOAPREDIO In addition to drumming with Terrastock 1 performers, Hilkka, Joe Tunis also runs the Rochester, NY-based Carbon Records label and loops tapes and other exotic electrical and "found" instruments as leader of the algebraic equation, Joe+N (where n= his number of collaborators.) Talk about wearing your math rock credentials on your (CD) sleeve! For Carbon's 25th release, Joe has solicited contributions from several T'stock cohorts (and their various side projects) and Carbon label stalwarts and offers up this (mostly) successful experiment in the exploration of sonic textures. The Arthur Doyle Electro-Acoustic Ensemble break out their toy penny whistles on "Flue Song," while Andy Gilmore's "She's Settin' HerAssin A Bathtub" gathers conch shells and warped Carribean-styled kettle drums (bathtubs?) and sets his assdown in a cone of silence. The dichotomy between sea and sky (or water and air, to be more precise) is simulataneously unsettling and fascinating. Tom and Christina Carter will be making a rare live performance at Terrastock 4 in Seattle in November and "Mansfield Dam," recorded a mere six months ago is a tasty teaser of what fans may expect from this husband and wife duo who record under the enigmatic name Charalambides. Plucked guitar strings, recorded forwards, backwards and across all points in between are layered upon Christina's ethereal chanting, where notes and tones (not exactly "singing," per se) combine to form an angelic choir under the direction of ersatz Cocteau Twin, Liz Fraser. Christina may chastise me for making said comparison, but it is actually meant as a compliment. No amount of compliments, however, can save Finkbeiner's super distorted, melodic chaos, "Yes, It Can" from the obvious rejoinder. This sci-fi guitar extravaganza seems to be directed towards answering the musical question, "Can your guitar do this?" My response, "Perhaps; but maybe it just doesn't want to." Staten Island's Golden Calves Eskimo Lime Band is represented with the mercifully short noise experiment, "Hostel Song." The Flying Luttenbachers' "Maximum Cruelty" lives up to its name as Einsturzende Neubauten meets Faust on the dissecting table under the musical direction of Coltrane in the throes of withdrawal. Painful stuff. Burlap drop by with the sound of a cassette tape fast forwarding over a Cure-like single bass note ("Coming Home"), while T'stock vets, Pelt present a Dream Syndicate drone accompanied by Amy Shea's Conradian violin touches. "The Dream of Leaping Sharks" even sounds like a title that escaped from the clutches of Young and co. and is the highlight of the first half of the disk. Host Joe Tunis steps outside the skronk and squalor of Hilkka for some electro-astral projections which catalog certain "Types of Interference" and T'stock fave Loren MazzaCane Connors does the same with his guitar in "I've Had Trouble, I've Had Joy," a piece so quiet and meditative it lives up to the adage: I will strike no string before its time. The six string equivalent of a Low vocal. Nod break out all their Neil Young wah-wah distortion pedals and harps for a good ol' fashioned backporch, backwoods toe tapper, "John Henry vs. The Smog Monster." Can you say "Soo-eeee?!" Paging Mr. N(o)d Beaty! We began with the carny-like strains of Arthur Doyle and we now present the carnival from hell strains of Mick Turner's "Carny's Dance." It'll scare the kids (and weak stomached adults) sh*tless! Hilkka's Rich Nuuja tortures his guitar in his side project, Sheet and "Quick Stomach" will empty even the staunchest NiN fans' and is strictly for Japanese noise afficianados. Carbon Record's SQ pours Borbetomagus into the Lhasa Cement mixer and the resulting block of musique concrete should have Neubauten and Faust fans quaking in their kneehigh goose- stompers, while Bardo Pond continue to expand the gap between the quality of what they're capable of delivering (Amanita) and what they're actually releasing as the two notes and a prayer "Vagabond" goes nowhere in a hurry. Side Projects 'R' Us continues as The (other) Dream Syndicate's Karl Precoda and Pelt's Mike Gangloff meet in a "Metal Shop," fire up the blade sharpener (which often morphs into a police siren and is actually – I'm guessing – Karl's guitar) and layer the whole shebang on top of Mike's extended drone (also, presumably, his guitar) and in the process forge a whole new entity I've christened Inside the Dream Syndicate, aka IDS. It sure beats the s**t out of Table of the Element's recent snippet of the (other) Dream Syndicate (aka EGO)'s work in (and out of) progress. Tunis and Finkbeiner (assisted by John Schoen on percussion) return under the guise of Pengo, whose "New Loft Elevation 2001" again begs the industrial comparisons with Neubauten although, instead of "collapsing new buildings," this approximates erecting them. At the beginning of this review I referred to the sonic/texture exploration that can be found within these grooves (bits and bytes, actually.) Tunis has assembled a fine collection of pieces that, while occasionally derivative of areas that the past masters have delved into, offers a 21st century take on how music FEELS, as opposed to how it SOUNDS. To experience these pieces is to be enveloped within the machinery – the hardware – of the musical voices of their creators and not the typical heart (or software) that one usually expects from a composition. This is music of the body, not the mind. Don't spend too much time thinking about it (I've just done that for you), get out there and feel it. This, then, is the "nature of systems:" they act upon each other to "push society forward" as Joe says in his liners. Action, not necessarily thought (or discussion which, if you think about it, is actually IN-action or stasis) is the key. Crucial Blast This excellent compilation has been out for awhile, but we've never carried it before, and with the great mix of artists/bands on this CD, we just had to offer it for anyone who hasn't come across this stellar psyche/drone/free noise/deathjazz comp previously... Featuring exclusive songs from CHARALAMBIDES, THE FLYING LUTTENBACHERS, PELT, LOREN MAZZACANE CONNORS, BARDO POND, as well as THE ARTHUR DOYLE ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC ENSEMBLE, Andy Gilmore, FINKBEINER, THE GOLDEN CALVES ESKIMO LIME BAND, BURLAP, JOE+N, NOD, MICK TURNER, SHEET, SQ, Karl Precoda/Mike Gangloff, and PENGO. Arthur Doyle Electro-Acoustic Ensemble starts off the disc with "Flue Song," a queasy flute melody delivered overtop what sounds to be field recordings of frogs with some spacey whoosh appearing throughout. Nice. Andy Gilmore follows with some pleasant string-bending ambient guitar abstraction, all subdued haze and hum with a strange voice sample appearing briefly halfway through, and ending with a chime-driven climax. Charalambides donate "Mansfield Dam", a minimal, glacially paced piece of abstract folk drift, not too far from their "Being As Is" material released on Crucial Blast, though it sounds strangely "digital", with the sporadically plucked acoustic strings being processed into little blips of melody that zip by via tape editing and masking. Eventually a minimal riff appears reminiscent of LOW and Charalambides "Home" and "Houston" CD, as Christina Carter's angelic voice loops in and climaxes the track with an absolutely GORGEOUS haze of droning bliss as her vocals become layered upon each other into infinity. Next up is FINKBEINER, with a dusty, cosmic drone-jam that straddles the line between sublime 70's sci-fi sound effect bleepery and Ennio Morricone style epics. Golden Calves Eskimo Live Band emerge from the shadow of TOWER RECORDINGS, with a brief duet between a roughly Jandekian acoustic guitar and what might be the weird recorded laughter of a battery-operated talking doll. Thoroughly creepy. The Flying Luttenbachers appear next with "Maximum Cruelty", a BORBETOMAGUS -esque blast of improvised-with-cues free-jazz-meets-death-metal splatter. Burlap 's "Coming Home" features a haunting, repetitive bass and guitar melody with wheezing electronics and shimmering blip noise. Pelt's track is recorded live and is more of their basic ethno-forgery drone sound, being a cavernous/ominous jam by an actual violin quartet, reminiscent of Sun City Girls collaboration with Eyvind Kang. Joe+n delivers some droning vinyl pops layered over ORGANUM -esque metallic shimmer. Loren Mazzacane Connors coaxes a dreamlike melody from gently reverbed guitar. Nod do their usual shambolic garage-rock, although "John Henry vs. The Smog Monster" infuses it with a country blues vocabulary, making it a wistful, vaguely Dixieland-sounding burst of free-rock stumble. Mick Turner of the Dirty Three follows and defies expectations with a rather wild cut-and-paste plunderphonic 'contemporary classical' type piece. Sheet is another Rochester-ite doing 'sheets' of noise. Kind of John Wiese-y, though with less "digital shock" and more on the "incendiary robo-drone" tip. SQ brings back the free-death-chaos with "After Being___So Long", an icy room-ambient piece with distant amp buzz, improvised cymbal splatter, and eternal feedback that mutates into shrieking skree collapse. Bardo Pond lumber through "Vagabond", a gnarly drone rock abrasion that sounds like SHELLAC drunk on cough syrup and stuck on a merry go round. Karl Precoda and Mike Gangloff team up for "Metal Shop", fusing field recordings of the aforementioned locale to a lower-register bowed-string drone. And Pengo end the disc with a jam called "New Loft Elevation 2001." At the raucous beginning, John Schoen's 'sound sources' create a feel more like To Live and Shave in L.A. than what one would expect from these guys, although it soon dissipates and out of the dust emerges a percussion-driven ethno-forgery jam with weird multi-tracked reed playing by Joe Tunis. The last few seconds are really great stuff, as the percussion groove morphs into a lurching electro-glitch groove. Overall, a superb diverse collection of drones, psyche-folk, free-noise, and deathjazz!

• Artist: Various Artists Title: popular music for popular people Format: CD Label: gameboy Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GB20 compilation cd containing tracks from Cock ESP, Spastic Colon, Government Alpha, Noumena, Msbr and others...

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Record of Shadows Infinite Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR33 CD compilation featuring some of the finest artists in the drone/minimalist-isolationist scene, including TROUM, CHAOS AS SHELTER, FRANCISCO LOPEZ, HOUSE OF LOW CULTURE, RUHR HUNTER, THUJA, and many more.

• Artist: Various Artists Title: variious Format: CD Label: Intransitive Price: $16.00 $9.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_INT013 Intransitive is proud to present twenty-one new works by some of our favorite composers.Sound by: *0, Klas Augustsson, Marc Behrens, Justin Bennett, Brume, The Brutum Fulmen, Richard Chartier, Taylor Deupree, Kevin Drumm, John Hudak, Jason Lescalleet, Roel Meelkop,Jerome Noetinger, Pimmon, Michael Prime, Jos Smolders, Howard Stelzer + Brendan Murray, Martin Tetreault, Toshiya Tsunoda, Voice Crack, John Watermannz. �xt by Achim Wollschied.

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Hurts So Good - The Cock E.S.P. Remix CD Format: CD Label: V/Vm Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_OFFAL014 Cock E.S.P. are America‘s finest purveyors of noise music. Cock E.S.P. r o c k ! I first came across Cock E.S.P. when they ?? a two piece. Emil and Matt had travelled on the road from Minneapolis all the way up to Philadelphia for a show, the drive took over 16 hours and their show lasted less than sixteen seconds as Emil flipped Matt over his back and onto a chair..... That‘s dedication. Cock E.S.P. themselves have released numerous CD‘s and Vinyls on loads of different labels across the globe. When i approached Emil about two years ago for a release on V/Vm he came up with the concept of inviting people to remix some of their back catalogue. Since then two additional members have joined the group and the project itself has become somewhat of a tour of duty for Emil, as it‘s been mastered and remastered into the final version. Featuring 88 artists, 99 tracks and with a running time of over 69 minutes this CD is the perfect introduction to Cock E.S.P. and all their crazy friends from around the globe who have made this release possible. features Asthmatic, Joe+N and Pengo.

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Simply Good Taste - The Sounds of Slippy Town Format: CD Label: gulcher Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_gulcher413 with Allun, Big Whiskey, Blackthorne Stick, Crawlspace, The Gizmos, Jarvis/Joincey/Todd, Joe+N, Joshua Jugband 5, Lebedung, Ian Middleton, Not A Sonata, O. Rex, OvO, The Screamin‘ Mee-Mees & Hot Scott Fischer, and Stewart Walden & Neil Campbell. "Besides tracks from the various Slippy Town CDRs, this Gulcher comp CD includes a few unreleased things, including a couple groovy surprises. Allun mainwoman Stefania, boyfriend Bruno Dorella, and the rest of OvO contribute a wild slice of primo Italo-no-skronk; Joe+N clangs around for awhile on a new track recorded for the comp; and Crawlspace goes totally infantile on the pre-school rocker "Five." Adding to the timespacewarpage that always smells up Slippy Town real good are a couple unreleased 70s tracks from my personal past: the first take of the Gizmos‘ "Hey Beat Mon!" (with MX-80‘s Rich Stim on sax), and a no-fi crack-up of the Yardbirds‘ "Shapes of Things" done by Brooklyn‘s infamous O. Rex (Solomon and Jay Gruberger; Gizmos founder Kenne Highland; yours truly sittin‘ in on drums). Hope you enjoy ‘em all as much as I do! "

• Artist: Various Artists Title: things we‘re made of Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR08 A good representation of the state of indie/underground rock in Rochester NY circa 1995-1996. Exclusive tracks by Duke Galaxy and the Pipeliners, Muler, Hilkka, Shop Class Squares, Quitters, Flywheel, Race Car Bob, Nothing Doll, Nora, Malaise, Butterslax, Lethargy, Visionstain, speedQueen, SlumberScape, Finkbeiner and Joe+4 (now known as Joe+N).

• Artist: Various Artists Title: woman taken in adultery Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 $4.80 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CR68 a great compilation of heaviness/drone/noise/out sounds co-released with Glasvocht (Belgium). features Random reflections (Belgium), Noxagt (Norway, band of guitar anti-hero Kjetil D Brandsdal), Loren Connors (USA, legendary artist known from projects with Jim O‘ Rourke, Alan Licht, John Fahey and much more), Flies Inside The Sun (New Zealand, including Peter Stapleton of the label Metonymic) and Lovely Midget (New Zealand, releases on Corpus Hermeticum en Ecstatic Peace of Thurston Moore).

• Artist: Vectroscope Title: Monitoring the Blind Format: CD Label: Maor Appelbaum (Israel) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_MAP002 Vectorscope is yet another bold attempt by Maor Applebaum to explore the musical boundries known to mankind, to bodly go where very few dare to venture. It is a dark, avant-garde expreince, using his vast knowledge of electronic instruments to create a varied amglam of dark sounds and effects. Wordls of sci-fi and dark fantasy are revleaed in a singular musical expreince, best heard during the late hours of the night, While allowng the mind to seek the deeper and more emotionally motivated aspects of the music.

• Artist: Velvet Cactus Society Title: 8 songs Format: CD Label: Shimmy Disc Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_11 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Verde Title: Legenda Format: CD Label: MIR (Finland) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_MIRCD04 "Legenda is on one hand a combination and a continuum of different things, on the other something unique. Listener with a sharp ear and enlightened mind should be able to locate the past points of reference for the CD. Legenda is a logical continuum of the 1960s and 1970s wild electronic experiments and general recklessness of Finnish Underground Music. Legenda is a logical continuum of Krautrock as bands like Faust, Can, Neu and Amon Duul presented it for us. Legenda is a logical continuum of the multiplicity of golden era Pink Floyd (Ummagumma/Atom Heart Mother) and their perfection in sounds and recording techniques. Legenda is a logical continuum of the work that was started back in the day by Nurse With Wound, Throbbing Gristle and such industrial music pioneers. Legenda is a logical continuum of Miles Davis masterworks such as Bitches Brew and his live recordings from the same era. The music of Verde is not meant for superficial listening. Verde challenge their listeners instead of trying to please them. Legenda is the second official CD by Verde, lead by electronics wizard/madman Mika Rintala (ex-Circle, Ektroverde). The first one, Vuoronumero, came out in 2004. Legenda is co-released by MIR, Zum Teufel and Ruma Puulaaki. "

• Artist: Violet+Alexei Borisov+Michael Gendreau Title: Bogatiri Format: CD Label: Zeromoon (USA) Price: $10.00 $6.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_zero006 "Three masters of intelligent noise music present 3 compositions by each of the artists. Recorded live in various cities in Russia."

• Artist: Wallmen Title: hot too long time sound Format: CD Label: Bar/None Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_89 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Wildildlife Title: Six Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR64 "A couple months ago (we’re talking mid-Spring ‘07, here), I received an email from Robotic Empire boss Andy Low commanding me to check out a couple of songs that a band from San Francisco called Wildildlife had posted online, immediately. I knew that the dude has a solid idea of what kind of sounds I’m into, so I pulled up the link immediately and was totally blown away by the two Wildildlife tunes that I heard. Heavy, crunchy riffage rolling over celestial FX freakout and gang choral voices, part pop, part neo-psychedelic noisiness, part metalloid skullcrush. Super melodic and catchy but vaguely menacing and dark all at the same time. The band toured through here about a month later, and I was even more floored by their manic live energy; the band summoned up a wicked whirlpool of dense distorto crunch and freaky singing, raging metallic percussive pummel, tribal rhythms and crushing effects-soaked guitars, subdued floatational drones and ecstatically gorgeous melodies, all let loose in a series of sky-streaking eruptions of psychedelic lowcore and swirling, cosmic sludge. Going back to a review that Terrascope Magazine wrote about one of the band's earlier CD-R releases, this sounds vaguely like Black Sabbath and Butthole Surfers jamming together with ancient forest mystics, an experience both brutal and beautiful, and which proves that Wildildlife have already established themselves as serious purveyors of blown-out psych heaviness.These guys have become one of my favorite new bands, and I’m MEGA excited to be presenting their first full length Six through Crucial Blast. The CD version of Six comes in a posh, full-color 4-panel gatefold jacket printed by Stoughton Printers, which houses the disc and a full-color 8-page booklet filled with amazing, surreal photographs by Sabina Holber."

• Artist: With For Intoned Title: s/t Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 $3.00 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_WithForIntoned (This is a USED item) Works in Sound by John Latartara and Khristian Weeks on Sachimay Records

• Artist: Wolf Eyes / John Wiese Title: Collection Format: CD Label: Hanson Records (USA) Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HN155CD "This CD is a collection of the Wolf Eyes w/ John Wiese 7" and two CD-Rs originally released in very limited editions on American Tapes in 2003-04. Digitally re-mastered by Wiese this year, and finally available all together."

• Artist: Wrong Title: live at even further - high society Format: CD Label: blackbean and placenta Price: $6.00 $3.60 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BBPTC167 Features a noisy live performance by John Vance, E.W. Hagstrom, Weasel Walter and Matt Bacon; plus some mellow studio improv by Vance and Hagstrom. newly repackaged - color cover in plastic sleeve.

• Artist: Yellow Swans Title: Deterioration Yellow Swans Format: CD Label: Modern Radio (USA) Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_MRRL042 "Yellow Swans make the kind of colossally heart-breaking noise that transforms any sober, regular hour you have in a day into some sort of warm, pressurized fever dream. Like a nap you didn’t expect to take, a nap where you dream about people you thought you’d lost, or about faint and slightly unnerving childhood memories. The kind of dream you wake up from and can still taste in your throat. Those already familiar with the duo, I would hope, know this firsthand. “Deterioration” was originally a cassette only available for a few dates of a European tour. Like a majority of their releases, it is relatively hard to come by. But Modern Radio has given it a proper CD release, and so much the better, for it is certainly an excellent launching point for those uninitiated to the duo—me, included. And though I was bummed to learn that I would not likely be hearing any more from Pete Swanson and Gabriel Saloman’s Yellow Swans moniker, I am sure to be spending the next month or so searching all corners of the internet for the most limited of their releases as though sick with addiction. “Deterioration” opens with the 21 minute near-masterpiece “Broken Eraser/ Time Stretch”. Though it builds up patiently and sustains churning, almost transparent melodies through ever changing layers of thick, glorious drones, the piece ends rather abruptly, opting to rather listlessly fade out quickly as opposed to leaving as patiently as it enters. in all honesty, I wanted the intricacies of “Broken Eraser/ Time Stretch” to last the entire release. Though the subsequent tracks are undeniably pretty, they don’t seem to sustain the rapturous, grinding blend of guitar, electronics, and vocals, let alone careen through multiple, seamlessly implemented movements as well as their predecessor. “Reintegration” and “Burnt dub” greatly reduce the number of layers, each focus on a simple guitar sequence then gradually swell the presence of static to give way to a beautifully sounding drone that serves as a slightly disappointing climax. “Burnt Dub” closes with a wailing, high pitched guitar solo that is again rather gracelessly faded out, a trope I just can’t help but now find unnecessary the second time around. The brief untitled fourth track lays down a slab of cavernous, low pitched ambience below trembling watery electronics that foreshadow the final track “Dirty Heads”, a full fifteen minutes of moaning vocals and slowly oscillating guitar feedback, tinged with burst of pulsating high pitched electronics. It’s a lot gauzier than the intro, though it has a little less going on in its more obviously separated, rather similar movements—each progressively shorter than the last. “Deterioration” closes out to a blast of distant power strumming that sounds like its being broadcast from an approaching helicopter, a perfectly fitting ending were it not the third outro-quality movement of the track. “Deterioration” did launch me into warm and slightly unsettling daydreams, but there was willingness on my part, as opposed to the times I accidently put myself to sleep toying around with low frequency oscillators. Something about Yellow Swans is at first incredibly arresting and then deeply comforting to the point of hypnosis. “Deterioration” showcases that right off the bat, as well as with its more striped down middle. Though I caught myself pleasantly drooling as “Dirty Heads” gave its blasting outro, repeated listens find the latter half sometimes disappointing, though still as remarkable and intricate as it’s opening piece." Foxy Digitalis -- John Ganiard (18 June, 2008)

• Artist: Yellow Swans Title: Psychic Secession Format: CD Label: Load Records (USA) Price: $12.00 $7.20 (40% sale) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_LOAD090CD Beaming down from the sky like a ray of white-hot light intent on saving us from outselves, the Yellow Swans come up with their second studio record. Thier other record was “Bringing The Neon War Home” on narnack Although the band has countless releases documenting their live aktions, “Psychic Secession” is a work of uncomprimising vison, weaving together all sides of this duo’s 20-sided die. Moments of quiet hum but up against crunchy speaker burners to make this record essential listening. The last few years have seen the Yellow Swans coat the planet with live dates in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. Songs on this record were road tested in front of this planet’s hungry eyes.... you might have heard “True Union”, which has been a staple of many of these live sets. This record was originally released in Austrlia by the Numerical Thief label, and comes to you on LOAD in a remastered format. The new master will allow you to hear the whispered hush, disjointed polyrhthymic attack and squealing how, in a new manner, as the Australian version is a bit noisier