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

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

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

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - CR200 16 Format: LP Label: Carbon Records Price: $15 Catalog ID: CR200 A mighty comprehensive snap-shot of the underground sounds emanating from the city of Rochester New York circa now (2012). From the post-noise extreme sounds of LICKER & r. nuuja (both members of Pengo) to the more pastoral psych smudged compositions of Joe Sorriero (of Nod) & Drippers, this collection of Western NY weirdos addresses the question “What the hell is going on in Rochester to create such odd sounds?”. This LP is the 200th release on long time Rochester based record label Carbon Records. We think in due time that this LP will sit easily next to other regional compilation records like Waste Sausage (Black Eye Records - Australia) & Labyrinths And Jokes (Hanson Records - Michigan) as a definitive & defining document of the Flower/Flour City's post-everything scene. The LP consists of r.nuuja (Pengo), Colonel Parmesan (Thunderbody), Dr Hamburger (Tumul, Jungle Heart), Crush the Entente (Crush the Junta and Entente Cordiale collaboration), Stone Baby, Martin Freeman, Tumul, Autumn in Halifax, Chris Reeg (Blood and Bone Orchestra, Ian Downey is Famous), Joe Sorriero (Nod), Licker (Pengo), Drippers, Andy Gilmore, Pengo, MntDst, and the Bloody Noes. White vinyl with digital download coupon. Mastered by James Plotkin. Reviews (3): Beats Per Minute Rochester seems a weird place, if Carbon Records is any indication. This local noise label, started in 1994, has long specialized in bringing the best leftfield tunes that the upstate NY town has to offer, and with CR200 they’ve released a massive compilation of bands their mining has dredged up over the years. Kicking off with some Phil-Elverum-goes-black-metal instrumentation (courtesy of Chris Reeg) and spanning more traditional noise in addition ambling acoustic guitar experimentation, fractured yelps of pop songs, and doomy drones, this compilation represents a wealth of diversity in the label’s stable. Whether it’s the kraut-noise stomp of “Free To Starve”, Crush The Entente’s contribution, or Autumn In Halifax’s austere, bluesy spiritual “David O David”, there’s incredible tracks throughout. If this is the work of a great curator, then, well, good on Joe Tunis for bringing these tracks together and celebrating the best the region had to offer. But if the general darkness of these tracks is inherent to the Rochester experience, we might be worried about the emotional state of that city’s inhabitants. Above I list several noise and psych bands in the “For fans of”, but this time you shouldn’t necessarily take those as guidelines so much as benchmarks: by and large the tunes on CR200 take a similar sort of intellectual preparation. These are tracks that, while endlessly intriguing, present a pervading heaviness that even in the most accessible moments can be a bit off-putting. That all being said, if you’re willing to give it the time it demands, it’s a compelling cross section of a widely under-examined scene. It’s like wandering into your city’s weirdest art gallery – in the dingiest warehouse space – and allowing yourself to be bombarded with what the underground has to offer. Choice Cuts: Autumn in Halifax – “David O David”, Joe Sorriero – “Electricity’s Out!”, Crush the Entente – “Free to Starve” - Colin Joyce South Wedge Quarterly Consider this a voyeuristic glimpse into what your neighbors have been up to. Small cities and towns across America all tend to have their own experimental music scenes and record labels. But it's rare to find them as uniformly dedicated and pedigreed as Carbon Records. CR200 marks the label's 200th release. It's on vinyl and cassette. And it includes exclusive recordings from several Carbon artists, new and old, all local. There's a wide range of material and recording quality among this set of (mostly) instrumentals. Some of this is rather poised, like Andy Gilmore's chiming guitar pointillism on "Clipper Ship," or the oddly tender power electronics of Dr Hamburger's "Twin Speak." And some of this is expectedly shambolic, though never predictable. Despite the variety in approach, it all hangs together rather nicely as an often breathless sonic document; the sound of your city's shadows. It even flows -- a debt owed solely to the label's curative skills and James Plotkin's expert mastering. You're very lucky to live in a city with a Carbon Records, even if you don't know that. Buy this LP or the LP/cassette boxset at Needledrop. Consider it a contribution to the untamed local arts. And then realize how lucky you are, indeed. - Chad Oliveiri Weirdo Records In every ignored town across the US, the reason there's a scene... the reason there's anything at all for you to check out while you sit bored in front of your computer... is usually that one lone sonofabitch has been grinding it out there, breaking his back day in & thankless day out to champion some local bands that no one gives a fat shit over. That single guy, he's out there telling everybody within earshot about the bands that he likes & dragging people to shows & giving his friends money for their bullshit basement recordings, and doing it over & over & over again. That guy actually causes subtle changes in the way bands sound in the area over time. In Rochester that guy is Joe Tunis & he's been whipping up bass-heavy doom, electronic freedom & some other cool shit out of nuthin & with zero dollars since 1994. A tip of the hat on his 200th release, which sounds like Rochester and no place else.

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - CR200 (LP + 4X cassette box set) 32 Format: OTHER Label: Carbon Records Price: $25 Catalog ID: CR200_bonus A mighty comprehensive snap-shot of the underground sounds emanating from the city of Rochester New York circa now (2012). From the post-noise extreme sounds of LICKER & r. nuuja (both members of Pengo) to the more pastoral psych smudged compositions of Joe Sorriero (of Nod) & Drippers, this collection of Western NY weirdos addresses the question “What the hell is going on in Rochester to create such odd sounds?”. This LP is the 200th release on long time Rochester based record label Carbon Records. We think in due time that this LP will sit easily next to other regional compilation records like Waste Sausage (Black Eye Records - Australia) & Labyrinths And Jokes (Hanson Records - Michigan) as a definitive & defining document of the Flower/Flour City's post-everything scene. The LP consists of r.nuuja (Pengo), Colonel Parmesan (Thunderbody), Dr Hamburger (Tumul, Jungle Heart), Crush the Entente (Crush the Junta and Entente Cordiale collaboration), Stone Baby, Martin Freeman, Tumul, Autumn in Halifax, Chris Reeg (Blood and Bone Orchestra, Ian Downey is Famous), Joe Sorriero (Nod), Licker (Pengo), Drippers, Andy Gilmore, Pengo, MntDst, and the Bloody Noes. White vinyl with digital download coupon. Mastered by James Plotkin. The 4-cassette box set include 15min sides from Colonel Parmesan, Dr Hamburger, Entente Cordiale, Martin Freeman, r.nuuja, Stone Baby, Pengo, and Jungle Heart. Packaged in library-style cassette binder (VHS size) with white cassettes and spray/splattered labels. Includes digital download coupon.

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - CR200 - SPECIAL EDITION BOX SET 80 Format: OTHER Label: Carbon Records Price: $75 Catalog ID: CR200 box set Check out this SPECIAL and VERY LIMITED EDITION of the CR200 LP and cassette box set, packaged in a hand made wooden box. Silkscreened designs on front and back, and each is hand decorated. Box also includes a CR200 shirt and other goodies. When ordering, I will contact you to get your shirt size. More info on the compilation... A mighty comprehensive snap-shot of the underground sounds emanating from the city of Rochester New York circa now (2012). From the post-noise extreme sounds of LICKER & r. nuuja (both members of Pengo) to the more pastoral psych smudged compositions of Joe Sorriero (of Nod) & Drippers, this collection of Western NY weirdos addresses the question “What the hell is going on in Rochester to create such odd sounds?”. This LP is the 200th release on long time Rochester based record label Carbon Records. We think in due time that this LP will sit easily next to other regional compilation records like Waste Sausage (Black Eye Records - Australia) & Labyrinths And Jokes (Hanson Records - Michigan) as a definitive & defining document of the Flower/Flour City's post-everything scene. The LP consists of r.nuuja (Pengo), Colonel Parmesan (Thunderbody), Dr Hamburger (Tumul, Jungle Heart), Crush the Entente (Crush the Junta and Entente Cordiale collaboration), Stone Baby, Martin Freeman, Tumul, Autumn in Halifax, Chris Reeg (Blood and Bone Orchestra, Ian Downey is Famous), Joe Sorriero (Nod), Licker (Pengo), Drippers, Andy Gilmore, Pengo, MntDst, and the Bloody Noes. White vinyl with digital download coupon. Mastered by James Plotkin. The 4-cassette box set include 15min sides from Colonel Parmesan, Dr Hamburger, Entente Cordiale, Martin Freeman, r.nuuja, Stone Baby, Pengo, and Jungle Heart. Packaged in library-style cassette binder (VHS size) with white cassettes and spray/splattered labels. Includes digital download coupon.

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - All TUMUL's Party 4.0 Poster 10 Format: OTHER Label: Carbon Records Price: $4 Catalog ID: Carbon_NotATP4_Poster A hand silkscreened, 3 color poster for the 4th All Tumul's Party hosted at Rochester Contemporary Arts Center in Rochester NY. This is NOT affiliated with the big/real ATP. Roughly 11" x 18".

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Red Hot + Bothered 4 Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_RED_HOT_BOTHERED (This is a USED item) compilation including Built to Spill, Folk Implosion, The Verlaines, Babe the Blue Ox, The Sea and Cake, Grifters, Gastr del Sol and more!

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - 1996 Teenbeat Sampler 4 Format: CD Label: USED Price: $3 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_TEENBEAT_SAMPLER (This is a USED item) Teenbeat compilation with Air Miami, Tel Aviv, Tuscadero, Versus and more!

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - A Storm of Drones 8 Format: 3CD Label: USED Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_DRONES_COMP (This is a USED item) 1995 3CD compilation on Asphodel with Steve Roach, DJ Spooky, Elliot Sharp, Jeff Greinke, Voice of Eye, and many more

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - woman taken in adultery 4 Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR68 Recently discovered copies of this great compilation, packed away from my last move. 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).

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Crossed Wires: abstract perspectives from Atlanta's underground 14 Format: 2LP Label: USED Price: $2 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_CROSSEDWIRES (This is a USED item) on Clockwise Records. 1997. The Elementals, Copland, Osaga, Ness, Gnosis, Parts Unknown, J. Stroke, Fascia, AS Octopussy, Rishi Kumar, Love Pheotus, Justone, Alphanumeric, DJ Damn featuing Henok, Johnny Ether, J. Square featuring Divine

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Scratch Fetishes of the Third Kind 8 Format: LP Label: USED Price: $4 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_SCRATCHFETISH (This is a USED item) on Dirt Style Records. scratch and break beat record by The Wax Fondler

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  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

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - i don't think the dirt belongs to the grass 8 Format: 3CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $20 Catalog ID: CR99 a year+ in the making, and originally slated for a 10YR celebration, this compilation is documentation of amazing people/artists i've worked with over the past, now, 12 years. it also started out as a double CD project, but with the growing list of people i wanted to involve, and the overwhelming volume of confirmations, i had to grow it to a triple CD (and even had to do some trimming to fit that format). the release is packaged in a standard-size DVD case, with a full-color cover, and holds the 3 CDs as well as a full-color card-stock insert. the dvd case is then housed in a natural-color cotton bag with single-color ink stamp art/logo. the sounds range from quiet ambient sounds, to meandering guitar work, to outsider rock, to full on noise, as well as a folk/pop track here and there. [limited edition of 500] artists include: aaron rosenblum andy gilmore anla courtis antony milton asthmatic autumn in halifax blood and bone orchestra blood stereo carlos giffoni carpentry caustic solution chad oliveiri chris reeg cock e.s.p. coffee craig colorusso crawlspace crush the junta the davenport family dead machines entente cordiale foot and mouth disease g55 gastric female reflex heathen prayers   hilkka hinkley howard stelzer irene moon joe+n john charlton justice yeldman keith fullerton whitman lunt mike shiflet nancy garcia neil campbell pengo phroq pumice rainbeaux sindre bjerga sindre bjerga / jan-m iversen sq taiwan deth taurpis tula the body the north sea thurston moore tinnitustimulus Reviews (4): The Wire The compact Rochester, New York label Carbon Records is not the normal unit-shifting operation. Judging by their Website, there seems as much music being given away as there is being sold, and the roster of artists is too wide and weird to form any sort of house style. Label boss Joe Tunis (Joe+N) carries so many collaborations in so many formats and forms that it's hard to believe just one man is behind the whole operation. Carbon's tenth anniversary entailed another minor deluge of new material. Following a dedicated CD-R series for the occasion, this weighty triple CD set features artists from the last couple years of Carbon's life cycle, and feels impressively comprehensive. More importantly, it's never less than a lot of fun. Many of the names here -- Thurston Moore, Keith Fullerton Whitman -- can already boast of substantial oeuvres, but like all of the contributors, they keep it short, sweet and fresh. Moore's amusing "Anal Cry" sounds like it's made on a car alarm rather than a guitar. Taurpis Tula move outside Heather Leigh Murray's intimate vocals into the spacious textures and layers of The Dead C. Despite the 'anything goes' experimentalism Carbon exudes, none of the artists sound like they're struggling through a momentous aesthetic dialectic. These tracks are as natural as breathing, and radiate an unpretentious joy in self-discovery. Andy Gilmore 's back-porch guitar strumming is as nimble and contented as Jerry's Garcia's soundtrack to the sand-covered lovers in Zabriske Point, and Carpentry's Loren Connors-style guitar lament is so loose and languorous it feels like you've stumbled in on a private doodle. Although I Don't Think The Dirt Belongs To The Grass spans a wide aesthetic terrain, from bedroom drone to cathartic free blowing to raga folk, Carbon's mission is not to document the state of art so much as to share their time and their world. The music resonates because, like those Website giveaways, it feels free and easy, and part of someone's everyday life in Rochester. It's the sort of compilation to live with and love. - Derek Walmsley Foxy Digitalis With his Carbon Records imprint, Joe Tunis has been exploring the underground music scene of upstate New York and its environs for over 12 years. Throughout its existence, Carbon has released adventurous music on formats both traditional and obscure – Tunis’ own Joe+N project has released music on entire computer hard drives mounted on unique works of art; various series explore DVD-R and MP3 technology as well as the use of recycled materials in handmade packaging. Tunis has played day-tours, in which Joe+N performs at multiple venues around Rochester in a single day; his band Pengo has recorded an alternate soundtrack to the first 31 minutes of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s epic film, The Holy Mountain. It seems that Joe Tunis has both an immense love for art and music, and that he is constantly searching for ways to push the boundaries of performance and production. Taking over a year to compile, assemble and produce, this three-disc compilation collects tracks chosen by Tunis from a large handful of the many musicians he has worked with during his dozen years running Carbon. The packaging is exquisite – the CDs are housed in a DVD-sized case with beautiful full-colour artwork, which is then sheathed in a natural cotton bag that is ink-stamped with a minimalist logo. The dirt/grass motif is explored thoroughly on both the insert artwork and the artwork that adorns the CDs. Each successive disc explores a geographic region of increasing size: disc 1 represents Tunis’ hometown of Rochester, and features at least three of his musical endeavours (Joe+N, Pengo, Hilkka); disc 2 reaches out across the United States, while disc 3 explores the entire globe. There is no easy visual cue to distinguish among the three discs, which according to Tunis is to demonstrate “the differences and similarities between artists next door and half-way around the world.” The styles of music represented on this mammoth release range from quiet ambience to full-on noise freakouts, from dazzling guitar explorations to computer-based sonic mayhem. Many of the artists’ names will be recognizable (The North Sea, The Davenport Family, Carlos Giffoni, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Dead Machines, Thurston Moore, Antony Milton, Pumice, Neil Campbell, Taurpis Tula), while others should be (the entirety of disc 1, for example). To say that this compilation is highly recommended is an understatement – if you’re reading this right now, you should already own it. If you don’t, what are you waiting for??? - Bryon Hayes Mimaroglu Music triple-disc compilation celebrating 12+ years of joe tunis’ (Joe+N) carbon records label... spiralling out one disc at a time from rochester, ny, first to the rest of the usa, then to the rest of the world... a very nice thing: three full-color printed discs housed in a triple-amaray case with a gatefold carstock insert, all inserted into a very familiar-looking “cloth parts” bag (uline represent!) right off the bat what strikes me as impressive/attractive about this comp is its relentless diversity; one track might be minimal computer music; the next some lo-fi broadband noise, then a sound-art piece, then a song by a rock group... but at the same time there’s a tangibly real commonality to not just the participants herein but the noises they choose to make and (re)arrange. and this, my friends, is what ultimately makes a good comp; tying bonds and an overall thread. that said; there’s something on here for everyone... and in fact you might end up, like myself, enjoying just about everything on this set, from the pieces by the names you know/trust to those by otherwise unknowns (for example; i didn’t know john charlton ’s name, but his acoustic guitar/tibetan singing bowls/wine glasses piece on here - click to your left for a sound-sample - ended up being one of my favorite pieces.) for $20 it’s an absolute steal... - Keith Fullerton Whitman Volcanic Tongue Massive, genre-defining 3xCD set packaged in a DVD case with full-colour artwork and full colour card stock insert housed in a natural-colour cotton bag with single-colour ink stamp art/logo and featuring exclusive tracks from a gob-stopping selection of underground players orbiting the Carbon universe. Limited to 500 copies. Tracks from: Aaron Rosenblum, Andy Gilmore, Anla Courtis, Antony Milton, Asthmatic, Autumn In Halifax, Blood and Bone Orchestra, Blood Stereo, Carlos Giffoni, Carpentry, Caustic Solution, Chad Oliveiri, Chris Reeg, Cock ESP, Coffee, Craig Colorusso, Crawlspace, Crush The Junta, The Davenport Family, Dead Machines, Entente Cordiale, Foot and Mouth Disease, G55, Gastric Female Reflex, Heathen Prayers, Hilkka, Hinkley, Howard Stelzer, Irene Moon, Joe+N, John Charlton, Justice Yeldman, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Lunt, Mike Shiflet, Nancy Garcia, Neil Campbell, Pengo, Phroq, Pumice, Rainbeaux, Sindre Bjerga, Sindre Bjerga/Jan-M Iversen, Sq, Taiwan Deth, Taurpis Tula, The Body, The North Sea, Thurston Moore and Tinnitustimulus. Highly recommended.

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - pyramids: wvndrkmmer 5X CASSETTE box set 16 Format: OTHER Label: small doses (USA) Price: $33 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dose88 "pyramids (hydra head records) provided each of the 52 artists participating in the project four different audio clips – not so much a song, but four separate, cooperating textures. each artist was asked to create an entirely new piece of music incorporating what they wished from the provided sounds, whatever techniques they wanted to employ,and whatever additions they wished to make. wvndrkmmer contains 52 tracks from 52 different artists on 5 cassettes with a total run time over 6 hours. the total edition is 300 copies – 100 copies of the ‘red’ edition and 200 of the ‘black’ edition." - Carbon has 'black" copies

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Carbon 15YR.Series BOXSET 64 Format: OTHER Label: Carbon Records Price: $95 Catalog ID: CR194 Mid April of 2009 marked the 15th anniversary of Carbon Records. To celebrate, Carbon announced the Carbon 15YR Subscription Series. 15 releases over the course of the 15 months. Releases include: Social Junk, Sindre Bjerga and Textured Bird Transmission, Irene Moon++, Drive the Pieces Together, Mike Shiflet and Ryan Jewell, Crush the Junta, Thurston Moore, Burnt Hills, Stone Baby, Century Plants, Hinkley, Ails al’on, Dylan Nyoukis, SHED and Jungle Heart.. [Each box is handmade from new and recycled/reclaimed wood, some unfinished wood, some finished/stained, some painted, some splatter-painted. each one unique. silk-screened top/lid and bottom and a silk-screened padder inside.]

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - What Pleasing the Lord Looks Like Marriage: Extreme Noise…and Terror from Japan 6 Format: CD Label: Heart and Crossbone (Israel) Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HCB020 "not a tribute album for the legendary U.K Grind-Crust band, nor a religious initiative, but a glimpse into the cathartic underground of the Japanese and Israeli noise and doom scenes. All tracks are previously unreleased & exclusive for this compiation; blasting off with the traditionally-oriented and bizarre doom of Osaka's Ryokuchi, This is an exquisite slow-paced 10 minutes guilt trip down memory lane. Next up are Jaffa's Cadaver Eyes, taking this trip off track with their corrosive Sloth-Doom: Zenocide drag you down the wilderness, while wiping the soil with their lo-fi sludge-core indignation, and then cums LietterSchpichDiet, with their demonic Doom-Dub and heliocentric swirl: MONEYI$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. "

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

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Dissolution Tapes (MCE remixed) 8 Format: CD Label: Zeromoon (USA) Price: $10 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."

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Necropolis: The Dialogic Project 5 Format: CD Label: USED Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1957 (This is a USED item) compilation and mix by DJ Spooky - 1995 Knitting Factory release

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Pulled from the wreckage 5 Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4 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

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Further Mutations LoRecordingsvolume4 5 Format: CD Label: USED Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1909 (This is a USED item) Lo Recordings compilation with Luke Vibert, David Kristian, Hood, Ganger, Thurston Moore, Freezer and more!

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Hotel Massachusetts 5 Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4 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

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Ninja Cuts: flexistentialism 5 Format: CD Label: USED Price: $8 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!!!

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - showtunes of the condemned 6 Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions (USA) Price: $12 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."

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Old Tyme Lemonade 6 Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions (USA) Price: $12 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"

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

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

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Sonic Protest 2007 8 Format: 2CD Label: Textile (France) Price: $21 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Textile_SONICPRROTEST2007 2CD compilation for the 2007 Sonic Protest event. features JUSTICE YELDHAM AND THE DYNAMIC RIBBON DEVICE, BRÖTZMANN / PLIAKAS / WERTMUELLER, ADAM BOHMAN AND ANDREW SHARPLEY, LES CHEVAUX DE DÜSSELDORF, ALEXANDRE BELLENGER, NO-NECK BLUES BAND, ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB, CHARLES PENNEQUIN, SUBTLE TURNHIPS, TETUZI AKIYAMA, CHOCOLAT BILLY, CARLOS GIFFONI, YELLOW SWANS, QUINTETAVANT, HARRY MERRY, STROM VARX, LSD MOSSEL, TRENCHER, JAZKAMER, BILLY BAO, HIVE MIND, BAYAL, DIGEP, OVO

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

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Celebrity Answer All #5 4 Format: CASS Label: Wintage (Canada) Price: $6 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_wrt07 "ootlegged directly from the Goodwill cassette bin. Celebrity impersonations for your answering machine. Be shocked & horrified at how bad these real life impersonations sound. Unbelivable that this was an actual product. Includes: Rodney Dangerfield, Liberace, Al Jolson,Judy Garland, Kirk Douglas, Kermit the Frog, & Clint Eastwood."

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Secrets and Sounds 4 Format: CD Label: Animal Disguise (USA) Price: $9 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."

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - 110 Below - Vol 2 4 Format: CD Label: USED Price: $7 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_100Below (This is a USED item) on the 110 Below label. features DJ Krush, Howie B, UNKLE, Beck, and more

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - pine meoquanee 8 Format: BOOK Label: Digitalis Industries Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_digi_pine_meoquanee "this is the first annual digitalis anthology of works with multiple writers. contributors include musician friends of digitalis (keith wood, james blackshaw, christina carter, michael donnelly, james barrett, michael anderson, robert horton, and spencer grady) as well as non-musicians (denton harris, michelle angelini, julie cook, sid fallon, kade l. twist, indigo tempesta, paganini jones, and manion a. schwartz). each book is hand-bound with cloth tape and a hard cover with a design by keith wood. artwork by keith wood, michael donnelly, eden hemming rose, and brad rose is also found on several pages. limited to 120 copies."

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

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Looper's Delight Compilation Volume 3 4 Format: CD Label: electr-ohm (Japan) Price: $15 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.

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - C.U.E. Compilation 3 4 Format: CD Label: C.U.E. Records (Japan) Price: $15 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

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - 804noise 4 Format: CD Label: 804Noise (USA) Price: $8 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"

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Heat Directors - Vol 1 4 Format: 7inch Label: Helicopter (USA) Price: $4 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_helicopter32 "4 part noise compilation curated by noise genius and collaborator with Bastard Noise, Wolf Eyes, Sunn O))), Dead Machines, Merzbow, Hive Mind, Cherry Point, etc, etc… JOHN WIESE debuts the first installment in an ongoing series committed to supporting personal favorites in the noise scene. This volume contains new material from Mitchell Brown, David Kendall, Damion Romero and John Wiese."

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

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Not Without a Fight 8 Format: 2CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $12 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR50 "Originally released in 1999, the NOT WITHOUT A FIGHT double-CD compilation was one of our first releases, a crude feast of brutal grindcrust, raw hardcore, and all-out noise warfare packed inside of a 64 page 7"x7" newsprint fanzine-style booklet loaded with rants, essays, poetry, artwork, and band info. It's been out of print for about two years now, but we've re-released it in this second edition of 1,000 copies, never to be repressed. The re-issue won't be available in select stores until January, but you can order it now through Crucial Blast. This limited-edition re-issue of the 1999 double CD compilation NOT WITHOUT A FIGHT is Crucial Blast's homage to the scuzz-caked grindcore/noise/sludge/speedpunk underground of the mid/late 1990's embodied in cheap cassette compilations and xerox-sleeved split 7" EPs. One of Crucial Blast's first ever releases, we grabbed exclusive outbursts from an array of subterranean sonic abusers, including BASTARD NOISE, AGATHOCLES, DAHMER, CRIPPLE BASTARDS, MACRONYMPHA, UNHOLY GRAVE, and loads of other purveyors of damaged, anti-social grind and noisecore, free noise and power electronics, spoken word, brutal fastcore, blazing D-beat driven crustcore, and lysergic psych-sludge. NOT WITHOUT A FIGHT is packaged in a DVD style plastic double-disc case that holds both CDs and a mega-thick, 64 page fanzine-style newsprint booklet loaded with band info, art, stories and rants. ARTIST LISTING: Mark Bruback, Cruel Face, Strong Intention, Bastard Noise, RPOD, SoIHadToShootHim, Katastrofialue, Unfound, Dark Skies Fallen, Retribution, Global Holocaust, Flammable Child, Depressor, John Bender, Aural Torture Mechanism, The Last Day No Human Voice, Agathocles, Daybreak, Puncture Wound, None Of Your Fucking Business, Dahmer, Samus, Mizuko, Cripple Bastards, Miseries AD, A Death Between Seasons, Macronymhpha, Unholy Grave, Falsies, Final Exit, JDog, Bloodstains & Bulletholes. "

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - three.pieces 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR133 a collection of mostly out-of-print 3" releases from the festival, all compiled on to one 5" CDR . features ~20min pieces from Andy Gilmore, Chad Oliveiri and Joe+N. all three pieces were recorded at visual studies workshop, rochester ny on 01.19.2002 at -- Andy Gilmore - "an amazing live recording of Andy's brand of beautiful solo guitar layering. for fans of Loren Mazzacane Connors, Noel Akchote, Brian Eno (ie. Discrete Music) and the like."; Chad Oliveiri - "feels right at home along side releases from labels such as Mego, Meme, etc"; Joe+N - "constructed from the sounds of test-tone cds and contact mics placed in various places on the cd player which played them. in addition, a contact mic was inserted into my mouth while i proceeded to narrate the accompanying video of my all-too-familiar drive from my home town of Scranton, PA to my current residence in Rochester, NY."

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Counter Fit Fest TSHIRT 6 Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $10 Catalog ID: CRT_CFF_2005 The 2005 Counter Fit Fest TSHIRT, beige on white shirt, with the CFF fly logo on the front, and the full list of perfomers on the back, including Carlos Giffoni, Howard Stelzer, Pengo, Coffee, Blood and Bone Orchestra, Emil Beaulieau, Urknee and Bjurton Russell, Bernhard Gal, Jack Wright, Tim Feeney, Tom Djil, Tatsuya Nakatani and Steve Baczkowski. get them while they're hot!

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - We Would Be Happy - A Noise Opera 4 Format: CD Label: Sunship Price: $8 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.

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - fok rotkop 4 Format: 3inch CDR Label: imvated Price: $9 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Imvated_cp48 [comes with 3CDR and silkscreened bookmark with plenty of art. The time to rot has begun. I know that weaklings start to rot rapidly when they are exposed to the air. They seem to rot even more rapidly if they are exposed to warmer air. Human beings might stoop to bless a creature so evil - as indeed Rotkop was blessed, with money, deference, even a Nobel Prize - but God, I am quite sure, will damn them for eternity. The human being (also referred to throughout culinary history as "long pig" and "hairless goat" in the case of younger specimens) is not generally thought of as a staple food source. Can you smell the rot? Tomorrow - belongs to nobody... (Awesome Donovan 2004) All info about this disc on http://www.fokrotkop.tk/ .

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - We're for the Unknown, Unbought and Unbossed 4 Format: CD Label: Glasvocht Price: $10 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

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Hi-Fi Allergi 4 Format: CD Label: Gold Soundz (Norway) Price: $8 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.

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Just Drums II 8 Format: 2CD Label: fever pitch Price: $17 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_fpi31 "This 2-CD set includes 35 solo & duo tracks covering a wide range of drumming styles. There are rock solos, jazz solos, industrial/noise solos, soundscapes, weirdness, and all sorts. Instruments used include drums, cymbals, gongs, bells, timpani, marimba, toys, cow bells, wood blocks, household appliances, invented instruments, etc.. Some tracks are live recordings, some are layered studio recordings, some are manipulated and twisted by electronics - you get the picture. This is a great set for exploring what today's percussion is all about. The featured artists are: Jacopo Andreini, Jeff Arnal, Ben Hall, MS Bacon, Emil Hagstrom, Christine Bard, JT Bates, Michael Bettine, Chris Corsano, Andrew Drury, Michael Evans, Mirko Sabatini, Billy Martin, Fast Forward, Mark Guiliana, John Hollenbeck, Jeph Jerman, David Lebleu, Payton Macdonald, Sean Meehan, Ravish Momin, Kevin Shea, Stephen Moses, Rich O Donnell, Mark Powers, Mike Pride, Jim Pugliese, Gilles-Vincent Rieder, Gino Robair, Jen Swartz, Ches Smith, Trey Spruance, Karen Stackpole, Moe Staiano, Jason Verhagen, Fritz Welch, William Winant and Kim Zick."

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Estrus Sizzlers 4 Format: CD Label: Estrus Price: $5 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_79 (This is a USED item)

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - singles soundtrack 4 Format: CD Label: Epic Price: $5 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_95 (This is a USED item)

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - leave your mark 4 Format: CD Label: Endless Price: $5 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_87 (This is a USED item)

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - the nature of systems 4 Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 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!

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - popular music for popular people 4 Format: CD Label: gameboy Price: $8 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GB20 compilation cd containing tracks from Cock ESP, Spastic Colon, Government Alpha, Noumena, Msbr and others...

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - USA/USB 4 Format: 2CDR Label: The Shadow Puppet Recording Company Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SPRC004 Compilation of fractured glitch soundscapes featuring Brent Gutzeit/TV POW/Gino Robair/Dale Lloyd/omnid/Andrew Hayleck/etc.etc.etc.etc.

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - untitled 4 Format: 2CD Label: Humbug Price: $14 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HUMBUG002 (a.k.a., benytt denne glimrende anledning til å ta en titt inn i musikkens virkelige skattekamre gjennom den dør som humbug holder åpen for deg) -- the very best of norwegian music! Galåen, Anders Gjerde, Ivar Grydeland/Øyvind Torvund, Continental Fruit, Düplo, Dag-Are Haugan, HOH, Dr. Poliakov Egseth‘s Kvartett, This Is Music Inc., Fredrik Ness Sevendal, MBD, ARM (w/ John Hegre), Waffelpung, Duo Kanel, DJ Bra Nesegir, Vehiculos De Ocasion, Vår Venn Gitaren, Bogus Blimp, Fusel Music, The Nordic Miracle, UM & the Detonators From Hell, Marakel, Reidarwebster, Lasse Marhaug, Andreas Meland, Cosmic Jinx, Dadaistisk Danseensemble, Pål Asle Pettersen, t++, o.melby, KA, Fibo-Trespo, Sindre Andersen, Two Shot Sons, Origami Arktika.

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Hurts So Good - The Cock E.S.P. Remix CD 4 Format: CD Label: V/Vm Price: $10 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.

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Simply Good Taste - The Sounds of Slippy Town 4 Format: CD Label: gulcher Price: $10 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! "

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - things we‘re made of 4 Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 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).

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - Alphabet Singles Vol 1 4 Format: 7inch Label: the sleepyhouse NW Price: $4 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_alpha001 feat. Essey Brooxs, Sleepyhouse, Jesse Jarnow and The Tuftees. ltd to 100 copies.