- Artist/Title: Nod - radio giddy-up
- 4
- Format: CD
- Label: Smells Like Records
- Price: $8
- Catalog ID: CarbonDist_slr033
Nod‘s sophomore SLR effort, 1999‘s Radio Giddy-up, was an even more realized batch of too-tremoloed post-garage goo, whose undulating grooves resemble early Talking Heads in that you simply can‘t believe folks this white manage to get this funky. The dry as bones production magnifies the crisp snare snaps, cymbal static, crusty guitar grease, and the rubber band-est bass this side of Bootsy. Moments like the single-string Verlaine-on-‘ludes riffage of Love Is On Fire, the infectious gang vocal coda of For Me For, the vaccum-sealed unison stutters of New One, and the Beefheartian bramble of Beefy, make the best case for the the band‘s uncanny knack for assimilating and expanding on what‘s come before. Getting the trad. stuff right (and using the right trad. stuff), yet also adding to the vocabulary in ways only an inspired misappropriation can
- Artist/Title: Nod - radio giddy-up
- Artist/Title: Nod - magnetic anomaly
- 4
- Format: CD
- Label: Smells Like Records
- Price: $8
- Catalog ID: CarbonDist_slr025
Nod‘s inaugural SLR release, 1998‘s Magnetic Anomoly, got the proverbial ball rolling by making a severe break with the Stooges-on-‘shrooms aesthetic of their earlier, self-released albums and singles. Suddenly leaner and limber, the group warps its way through a bluesy bongwater-bath whose highlights include the greasy squeaks of Prescription Bottle. The title track‘s handclaps and disco hi-hats, and the Stonesy crescendoes of Alba Kirky.
- Artist/Title: Nod - magnetic anomaly
- Artist/Title: Nod - good night sleep
- 4
- Format: CD
- Label: Smells Like Records
- Price: $8
- Catalog ID: CarbonDist_slr046
Levitating somewhere just above lo-fi, Good Night Sleep surfs easily from genre to genre, with the requisite charm of intact first-take stumblings. The opening track, Old Hotel, is dreamy and groovy pop, with spacey, doubled vocals and overdriven yet mild mannered guitars. The strange folk of Walk the Little Man has Scrappy Joe singing: You are my baby/and I love you/but you‘re crazy/So am I/Poke each other in the eye, in his hypnotic fairy tale-teller voice. Drunken dub debauches collide with fuzzed, electric Fahey fingerings across a skifflesque shuffle - all in a day‘s work for one of the only working rock groups with a truly original sound.
- Artist/Title: Nod - good night sleep
- Artist/Title: Nod - Tree Stuff and Lightning
- 6
- Format: CD
- Label: Nod Recordings (USA)
- Price: $8
- 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/Title: Nod - Tree Stuff and Lightning
- Artist/Title: High Castle - You're On Your Own Way
- 10
- Format: LP
- Label: Zum (USA)
- Price: $9
- Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ZUM026
[1 SIDED EP]
Hailing from different corners of the noisier spectrum of Southern California bands (Child Pornography, Duchesses, Woman's Worth, Work, Hips, and Saboteurs), we signed them not on the strength of their pedigrees but on the bona fides of a suckerpunch live delivery and one self-released CDR. High Castle is your older brothers' favorite band, assuming he grew up on a steady diet of '90s underground rock. They produce a viscous byproduct of the jams you grew up on dragged through a record collection's worth of sludge and muck. Once you decide to bring it, that's kinda the only way to go. The "You're on Your Own Way" EP is the debut record for High Castle, a culmination of songs road tested on summer 2008 US tour and written post New Years hallucinations. Songs about garbage strikes, astral projection, lonely security guards, hedonism, dropping out, meditation, injustice, misplaced hearts...and more. Seven short bursts of salvation, pressing of 500, mastered by Weasel Walter. Two color silkscreened covers by Paul Morgan (Club Sandwich, Business Lady)
"The new High Castle 12" EP is pretty brutal throughout, metal and HC tinged, but it still finds these weird little spazzy, jazzy grooves in spots. Maybe it's art rock? Whatever you want to call it, it's geting some turntable time, and with a song titled 'Are Fixed Gear Tricksters the New Rollerbladers?' I think you get an idea where they stand. It's on Zum Records, and I think it's the band's debut." -THRASHER
- Artist/Title: High Castle - You're On Your Own Way
- Artist/Title: Chen Santa Maria - Jefferson Chopper/Great Society
- 8
- Format: 7inch
- Label: Zum (USA)
- Price: $5
- Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ZUM030
The duo of George Chen and Steven Santa Maria document another phase in their half-decade collaboration of improvised sonic experiments. This co-release with 333 (7" single series that has worked with Deerhoof, Girltalk, Crack: We Are Rock) captures the band playing with rhythmic elements recorded with Brian Tester (Bulbs, Triangle) in pastoral Berkeley, CA. The pedals and effects used for this recording were stolen shortly afterward so this is the last of this type of sound, not by choice but necessity. Having toured Europe and UK in Spring 2010 (opening for Mount Eerie, High Places, Talk Normal, and Weasel Walter), CSM continues its California campaign. Numbered edition of 250.
"The surprise of the evening was Chen Santa Maria who hail from Oakland, CA (Oaktown represent!). With just a suitcase-encased synth, a drum machine, guitar and bass, Chen Santa Maria put on a set that was somewhere between Black Dice, Best Coast and Keith Fullerton Whitman. If that means nothing to you, their set began with some synth and guitar loop doodles, that progressively became more composed and rhythmic. Gradually it became fuzzier and fuzzier and ended up with an occasional 4/4 beat. While noise music can sometimes be very ‘in your face’ and/or annoying (read for: tapped out modes of confrontation), Chen Santa Maria created a thoughtful space that allowed the listener to enter slowly and with pleasure." Carpe Berlin
- Artist/Title: Chen Santa Maria - Jefferson Chopper/Great Society
- Artist/Title: Mi Or And The Pedestals - |||||
- 6
- Format: CASS
- Label: Zum (USA)
- Price: $6
- Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ZUM_TTT005
"Solo project of one Ceci Moss (formerly of Boxleitner and SSSSpectres), 40 minutes of synth wash and vocal bits sifted in, percussive and weird! Total find! Limited edition of 90"
- Artist/Title: Mi Or And The Pedestals - |||||
- Artist/Title: Gaze - 2
- 6
- Format: CASS
- Label: Zum (USA)
- Price: $5
- Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ZUM_TTT015
"Electronic collaboration from Collin McKelvey (Orbless, Slaughtering Dolphins, Liminal Planes), Ned Meiners (Eat Skull, Hospitals), Corey Hucks Two side long tracks of synth and drum machine abuse. Side A recorded under the guidance of LSD. C18 Edition of 100 "
- Artist/Title: Gaze - 2
- Artist/Title: Social Junk - Somebody Should've Told You
- 6
- Format: CASS
- Label: Zum (USA)
- Price: $7
- Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ZUM_TTT011
c47. edition of 100
side one Division Jersey Girls Three Thousand Times Wilderness side two Love Inside Skeleton of a Punk Swirl
- Artist/Title: Social Junk - Somebody Should've Told You
- Artist/Title: Core of the Coalman - 2/3(r4)
- 6
- Format: CASS
- Label: Zum (USA)
- Price: $7
- Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ZUM_TTT009
c47
Jorge Boehringer heavy insomniac beehive cluster one long piece
"New Cassette from George Chen and Steve Santa Maria's label Two Thousand Tapes features a variation on a continuous sound structure performed by Core of the Coalman many times in concerts in Oakland and San Francisco as well as in Czech Republic. Here, heavy, physical sounds drone and rub against one another in a crushing geological sexuality. New minerals are born here. This is something of a sequel to the very well recieved cassette Carnasie released by Custodian Color Zoo Containers a few years back.
(2/3)r to the 4th power"
- Artist/Title: Core of the Coalman - 2/3(r4)
- Artist/Title: Carbon Records - Summer 2011 TSHIRT
- 8
- Format: TSHIRT
- Label: Carbon Records
- Price: $8
- Catalog ID: CarbonTSHIRT_Summer2011
very small run of custom made shirts to kick off the Summer of 2011. each is different, each is silkscreened, sprayed and stenciled, and an utter fucking mess. you need one!
- Artist/Title: Carbon Records - Summer 2011 TSHIRT
- Artist/Title: OBJEKT4 - Her Face Among The Shadows
- 4
- Format: CD
- Label: Ravenheart (Czech Republic)
- Price: $4
- Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_Raven43
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- Artist/Title: OBJEKT4 - Her Face Among The Shadows
- Artist/Title: Dyn@mutt - a handbook for young scientists
- 4
- Format: CD
- Label: USED
- Price: $3
- Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_farrago
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on the Farrago label.
- Artist/Title: Dyn@mutt - a handbook for young scientists
- Artist/Title: Beequeen - ownliness
- 4
- Format: CD
- Label: USED
- Price: $4
- Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_INFC003
- (This is a USED item)
on the Infraction label (OH)
- Artist/Title: Beequeen - ownliness
- Artist/Title: Poster Children - Daisychain Reaction
- 4
- Format: CD
- Label: USED
- Price: $3
- Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_posterChildren_Daisychain
- (This is a USED item)
promo cut-out.
- Artist/Title: Poster Children - Daisychain Reaction
- Artist/Title: Pinetop Seven - Rigging the Toplights
- 4
- Format: CD
- Label: Atavistic
- Price: $3
- Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_ALP310
- (This is a USED item)
cracked jewel case cover
- Artist/Title: Pinetop Seven - Rigging the Toplights
- Artist/Title: Sensefield - killed for less
- 4
- Format: CD
- Label: USED
- Price: $3
- Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_rev32
- (This is a USED item)
on Revelation from 1994
- Artist/Title: Sensefield - killed for less
- Artist/Title: Sensefield - Building
- 4
- Format: CD
- Label: USED
- Price: $3
- Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_rev46322-2
- (This is a USED item)
on Revelation - 1996 - PROMO copy
- Artist/Title: Sensefield - Building
- Artist/Title: Duf Davis and The Book Club - Shut Up and Detune Your Guitar
- 4
- Format: CDR
- Label: USED
- Price: $3
- Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_DUF
- (This is a USED item)
- Artist/Title: Duf Davis and The Book Club - Shut Up and Detune Your Guitar
- Artist/Title: Ilium - paint by number
- 4
- Format: CD
- Label: Hefty
- Price: $3
- Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_heft015
- (This is a USED item)
- Artist/Title: Ilium - paint by number
- Artist/Title: Bluetile Lounge - half cut
- 4
- Format: CD
- Label: Smells Like Records
- Price: $4
- Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_SLR024
- (This is a USED item)
- Artist/Title: Bluetile Lounge - half cut
- Artist/Title: Phil Krauth - Silver Eyes
- 4
- Format: CD
- Label: TeenBeat
- Price: $4
- Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_TEENBEAT205
- (This is a USED item)
- Artist/Title: Phil Krauth - Silver Eyes
- Artist/Title: Agnes High Quality - En Passant
- 4
- Format: CD
- Label: USED
- Price: $3
- Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_BBE011
- (This is a USED item)
cracked jewel case cover
- Artist/Title: Agnes High Quality - En Passant
- Artist/Title: Agents of Midnight - s/t
- 4
- Format: CD
- Label: Quodlibet (USA)
- Price: $3
- Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_FAR047
- (This is a USED item)
features Ed Change and Ed Howard
- Artist/Title: Agents of Midnight - s/t
- Artist/Title: Ilium - Plexiglass Cube EP
- 4
- Format: CD
- Label: Hefty
- Price: $2
- Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_heft007
- (This is a USED item)
broken jewel case cover
- Artist/Title: Ilium - Plexiglass Cube EP
- Artist/Title: Various Artists - Well I'll be a Monkey's Uncle
- 4
- Format: CD
- Label: USED
- Price: $5
- Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_GSL032
- (This is a USED item)
compilation of remixes of Locust songs on Gold Standard Laboratories 1999
- Artist/Title: Various Artists - Well I'll be a Monkey's Uncle
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