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• Artist: (VxPxC) Title: Chinatown Nose-Cut Format: CDR Label: Dead Sea Liner (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_deadsealiner011 "This sister piece to (VxPxC)'s "twelve divided by three" and "reticent to manifest" cassettes sees a more electronic slant to their blissful free improv folk sound. A murky psychedelic puddle of Californian sludge peppered with angel dust. Limited Edition of 75."

• Artist: 10,000 Maniacs Title: Trouble Me Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_10000MANIACS (This is a USED item)

• Artist: 13RXTNLE / fleshghxst Title: death swank Format: CDR Label: noise good Catalog ID: CarbonDist_NG007 Split CDr featuring 9 tracks from 13RXTNLE recorded over the last 2 years. Some of the best work from this project. Fleshghxst is Ohio‘s best kept secret delivering 10 tracks of varying noise. Very tasteful arrangements, a wonderful listening experience, although it might just drive you mad. Limited to 50 copies in full color paper sleeve.

• Artist: 13RXTNLE / i dick the f table Title: the ___ split es dope Format: CD Label: noise good 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: 2673 / Unicorn Title: split EP Format: CDR Label: Kitty Play Records (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_kittyplay002 "An EP split between two electronic bruisers. 2673’s minimalist program is a perfect companion to Unicorn’s (members of Man is the Bastard/Bastard Noise) more complicated and sometimes relentlessly driven scorch. Packaged with hand-inked sleeves pressed by Thumbprint."

• Artist: 5608 Title: C-20 Format: CASS Label: Mudboy (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_mudboy_5608.jpg "5608 Is the frank reminders of boondogle supergroup: NorthEast meets Southern Hemisphere(hear?) Join the Jam with: Stefan Neville (of Pumice) and NZ fame, ------->Guitar, Keys, Vocals<--------- Dave Lifrieri (urdog, Xerxes, Manbeard etal.) -------->Guitar and Melodica, <-------------- with Mudboybeats (x members of mudboybeats) -------->Percussion and Harmonium<-------- JAMMIN! This c-20 is like a pill you take to drive, a single solid shot of the best freak money can buy.Dowop, Doom wop, Doom warp you way on down. EDITION OF 133- LISTEN TO A BIT HERE Drawings by Mr. Neville This release will come with a ipod sticker featuring a download code to get this tape out of the internet and onto your ipod. Each sticker/code is good for two downloads."

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

• Artist: A Bloody Occurrence Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Audiobot (Belgium) Catalog ID: CarbonDist-DRAMA_BLOODY schizoide, belgian famous guitar destroyer raging against electronic sillyness produced by his beloved 'sharki', known from crack w.a.r. and tarantism. its all about friends and frustrations actually. co-released with audiobot and x+z=0. comes affixed to a large multi-color poster.

• Artist: A Certain Frank Title: remixes by Kreidler and Phoneheads Format: LP Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_CERTAINFRANK (This is a USED item) 12" remixes on Ata Trak

• Artist: A Killer Birthday Title: Corman's Delight / Vampire on Wheels Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_KILLERBIRTHDAY (This is a USED item) on Rellik Records - 2005

• Artist: a radio with guts Title: sugat in eleven parts Format: CDR Label: fort hazel Catalog ID: CarbonDist-FHM33 Experimental ambient noise instrumental jazz. Here‘s how it worked: several musicians jammed out, bits of samples and snippets were reworked, melodic and noise overdubs were done, and the result is here now, the first part of a trilogy.

• Artist: A Real Knife Head Title: split sky Format: CDR Label: Slow Toe (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_slowtoe_str004 A Real Knife Head?s second release, Split Sky, was recorded in their practice space, The Box, in the Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland. �Straight to 4track, it?s a mixture of sonic shit, minimal guitar and drum, and a cover of Jandek?s Just Die. �A Real Knife Head continue to work the idea of freedom within the limits of equipment, cash and technique.

• Artist: a vibrant struggle Title: whispering bones Format: CDR Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosethirtyone ""a vibrant struggle" is a collaboration between norwegians sindre bjerga and jan m. iversen and dutchman steffan de turck (aka staplerfahrer). in the fall of 2007, the trio spent a weekend putting music to tape. this is the third volume from their sessions -following fast on the heels of a release on 905 tapes. a single 31+ minute jam comprised of meditative drones, percussive acoustics, and cacaphonous bliss. edition of 83."

• Artist: A.M. Title: Orla Format: CD Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) 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: A.R. Kane / Geggy Tah Title: split Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_ARKANE (This is a USED item) 1193 - no sleeve

• Artist: Aaron Dilloway Title: Beggar Master Format: CD Label: Hanson Records (USA) 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) 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: Aesop Rock / I Self Devine / Cage Title: split Format: LP Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_AESOPROCK (This is a USED item) 3-way split with tracks from Aesop Rock, I Self Devine and Cage. from Nature Sounds

• Artist: Agents at Midnight Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Quodlibet (USA) 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: Agents of Midnight Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Quodlibet (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_FAR047 (This is a USED item) features Ed Change and Ed Howard

• Artist: AGF.3 and Sue.C Title: Mini Movies Format: 2CD Label: Asphodel (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ASPH3004CD Two-disc release, one CD/one DVD. "The Compact Disc: Loping, wine-soaked electrical RnB, AGF's third album (her first for Asphodel) finds her dropping neu beat poetry over cookie crumb beats and snaking across sly bass and piano. Tales of friendship, longing, and wandering through anonymous city streets permeate the airwaves. Nineteen tracks of lopsided pop and soundtrack interludes, sparse and torch lit, Mini Movies is the complete sound of disastrous freedom. The DVD: the Mini Movie: Sue C. (Gold Chains collaborator and solo video artist in her own right) and AGF worked together to put together this patchwork mystery of everyday life in the shadows of capitalism, socialism, communalism and community. It is about personal history and personal relationships. Filmed in New York, Long Island, Berlin, London, San Francisco and elsewhere, Mini Movie is a travel diary at once familiar and strange but overall it is a tribute to friendship. The soundtrack is one continuous piece from which most of the tracks on the CD were derived."

• Artist: Agnes High Quality Title: En Passant Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_BBE011 (This is a USED item) cracked jewel case cover

• Song Previews: Will You Marry Me Glitzerland

  Artist: Ails al'on Title: ten ten ten Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR193 This is the last release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. 36+ minutes of noisy pop, synth, psych, heaviness from this duo consisting of David Merulla of Autumn in Halifax and Joe Tunis (of Carbon, Tuurd, Tumul, formerly of Pengo, etc). [packaged with 3-color silkscreened covers in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes]

• Artist: Akitsa Title: sang nordique Label: Hospital Productions (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HOS163 akitsa - sang nordique - cd reissue of the second akitsa full length. very low end punkish primitivist chunky underwater black metal with hard youth spirit and epic minimalism. essential for fans of bone awl, ildjarn, early absurd etc.

• Artist: Alec K. Redfearn and the eyesores Title: the smother party Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_alecredfearn (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Title: 21 Grams Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_21GRAMS (This is a USED item) features Sean Penn, Beneico del Toro, Naomi Watts. director of Amores Perros

• Artist: Algebrassiere Title: Bip Malentendu Format: CDR Label: imvated Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Imvated_cp77 "impromptu rockballads. radiosamples and ongoing drum solo's. records on Breathmint, Ecstatic Peace, SNSE, etc etc... comes with painted and stencilled art and stapled covers and jewel cases filled with paint and and and... " - comes in sprayed jewel case, with nice-printed paper wrapper, silver tape, etc.

• Artist: Algebrassiere Title: that's irritainment Format: CDR Label: SNSE Catalog ID: CarbonDist_snse047 Algebrassiere is a seven-armed gilamonster, hairy everywhere except on it's chest, eight cat heads sprouting from it's spine. As it lumbers through the plasma center, it batters upon musical instruments with the severed limbs of Randy Savage. It lives to lick the flames of fire and spew stream-of-consciousnesses into a coffee can that doubles as a toilet. It longs for love, but will settle for a crooked, gap-filled smile from a whiskeystench bum. This album raises a racket that swings, 12 trax of impromptou fiendrocking fuck rock that makes you more virile with each successive listen. Spraypainted, screened, colorcopied that shit

• Artist: Allun Title: onussen Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1947 (This is a USED item) Bar Le Muerte release

• Artist: Allun Title: et sise Format: CD Label: bar la muerte Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_Allun_et_sise (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Aloha Title: the great communicators... Format: CD Label: Polyvinyl Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_73 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Alpendre Title: 01:05:03,924 Format: CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD92

• Artist: andreas brandal Title: the familiar stranger Format: CDR Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosefiftytwo "i don't know where to start describing this one. it is all over the place and absolutely incredible. some of the most well-thought out and composed noise i've heard in quite a while. hand-screened disc packaged in a 2-color, hand-screened cover. edition of 80 copies."

• Artist: Andy Gilmore Title: Lord, hold my hand while i run this race. Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR88 10YR.Series.08 - the eighth in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. a truly magnificant collection of guitar and piano pieces from one of the nicest and most creative people i know. Andy creates, whether it be with guitar or piano, pencil or ink, word or thought. clocking in at over 44min, this release contains 13 tracks, one of which is a 14min live piece, each of which exudes the level of emotion and delicateness that we've come to expect from Andy. Reviews (1): Foxy Digitalis I’ve only ever paid Andy Gilmore passing interest. I never really gave his Of Lice and Moons much contemplation. It was only when I absorbed myself in Lord, Hold My Hand While I Run This Race that I discovered a truly captivating and emotionally-driven exhibition of sound. These lonesome guitar and piano creations drift and stray out of the disc and implant themselves directly into your imagination, where they reminisce over whispered sighs of sentimental memories and ecstatically rejoice over the empty shells of past glories. In doing so, it evokes a stirring, sequestered awareness of abandonment, and removal from these joyful recollections. These bleaker elements begin to penetrate and alter those thoughts. The stark sensation that you are now withdrawn from reality is a cold wake-up call that spits you back out into Gilmore’s desolate sounds. The clanking of piano pedals and clinking of keys makes for a perfect soundtrack to a despondent existence, but through this, it still manages to radiate splendour and beauty. This won’t just pull at your heartstrings, it will puppeteer them. When we were younger, we couldn’t appreciate the lack of responsibility we had. Now that we’ve grown, we increasingly find ourselves asking, like Gilmore, for someone to hold our hand while we run this race. - James Clarke

• Artist: Angel Corpus Christi Title: Louie Louie Format: CD Label: gulcher 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 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: Angel Corpus Cristi Title: Louie Louie Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_CORPUSCRISTI (This is a USED item) Gulcher release from 2005

• Artist: Anomoanon Title: asleep many years in the wood Format: CD Label: Temporary Residence Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_127 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Antoine Chessex Title: Silences Format: CDR Label: tanzprocesz (France) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_tzpCD21 "vocals, sax, tapes, mics, 4-track manipulations by monno's saxophonist and dave phillips collaborator. drone sax vs sound poetry vs ritualistic invocations vs electricity. 120 copies."

• Artist: Antony Milton Title: The End of this Short Road Format: CD Label: Deserted Village (UK) 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: Antony Milton and Joe+N Title: can you find your what Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR120 two extended tracks totally 35+ minutes, this is a long-distance collaboration between Antony Milton (aka AM, etc, Pseudoarcana label man) and Joe+N (aka Joe Tunis, Carbon label man). the two traded snippets, full tracks and mixes, back and forth during 2006. the sounds included are a great mix of guitar, drone-strings, found sound, vocals and various other noise makers. [packaged in a heavy-duty vinyl sleeve with a transluscent yellow "dimple" cover, artwork beneath, and wrapped in a band of metallic foil tape.] Reviews (2): Modisti [ Antony Milton and Joe+N - can you find your what CDR ] Starting out from what could be described as a ‘textural guitar drone scene’, this duo explores the possibilities of such a medium using a greater scope in terms of spatialization and processing. The harsh, extended character spreads in sweeping strokes, featuring a greater experimental set of techniques, less based on real time instrumental performance and thus allowing a greater sophistication and variation in sound processing. The second track presents a more experimental approach –featuring a casual, accidental attitude as well as a wide palette of sound sources- to the composition of materials as well as a thoroughly refreshing outlook, allowing space to be defined through the absence of sound rather than by featuring large amounts of materials. Foxy Digitalis This postal meeting between two underground label kingpins, Antony Milton (Pseudoarcana) and Joe+N (Carbon records) begins in surprisingly heavy territory. Pulsing fuzzed-out electronics combine with guitar mangling to create a truly disorienting murk. It seems Milton’s recent forays into black metal have spilled over into the work he does under his own name. For a mail collab the distance between the two performers is quite effectively bridged here. The interplay and symbiotic relationship between the Milton and Joe+N creates the impression of a late night jam in a low-lit room, rather than CDRs carted across a vast ocean by indifferent hands. The packaging of this release really does seem to give a good indication of the sounds within, it features a picture of a moth obscured by a piece of yellow plastic (which looks like some sort of factory off cut). The whole thing is bound in silver electrical tape. Sounds pretty haphazard, but it ends up looking cool. So too with the album itself, the sounds some times seem a little random, but it works. Overall the first track reminds me of an extended instrumental track by Gate, which is good thing for sure. Feedback, static and dissonance (the pet hates of creepy audiophiles the world over) are deployed over the course of this piece without fear and to great effect. Track two is more eerie, a moaning violin is married to an ambling acoustic guitar to create the ideal Pagan festival comedown soundtrack. There is a vocal somewhere in the mix, but it ends up only as a suggestion of a voice, like some murmer of a human presence, somewhere back there in the trees. The spell is momentarily broken by the voice of child and the response of a parent (presumably Joe+N). It’s kinda funny and serves as a reminder that you really shouldn’t take this stuff so seriously. “Can You Find Your What” is a successful collaboration on every level. Further fruits of this musical friendship should be eagerly anticipated. 8/10 -- (13 February, 2007) - Cola Nitida

• Artist: Argumentix Title: nightmarcher Format: CASS Label: Below PDX (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BELOWPDX08 "Life in the Pre-Apocalypse brings Argumentix time of leisure to reflect on the immediate. The newest album joins pain and sorrow knuckle scraping on cement floors. A smashed throat spurting grunts, moans and crooning thorns against tape loop manipulations, sequencer configurations, and urban field recordings. A departure from previous albums with focused anger and reluctance to acknowledge the future. Existential crisis has never felt so optimistic. Cover art by Shoosha screenprinted by Nick Bittakis on wallpaper samples of various colors and paterns."

• Artist: Argumentix Title: Tarantula Downpour Format: 7inch Label: Trash Skull Records (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TS01 NOTE: this is a 7" vinyl and DVDR release!!!! - "My first VINYL RELEASE! Side A: “Tarantula Downpour Glass of Wine for Dinner” is based on an all too realistic dream about post-modern identity drowning itself in lack of confidence. It’s also about mind-control through chemical warfare by both force and volunteer. What if the apocalypse has already come and gone and this is just us trying to make sense of the end times? Side B: “Lend Me your Blanket (I Wanna Dream About You)” is a love song to James’s dead mother. She rests inside his voice and Argumentix feels her spirit when he sings. Of course, she would have also thought this music was really strange. DVDR includes 8 original animated videos by James Squeaky, including a video for “Tarantula Downpour,” along with songs from various other releases. They range from crude drawings and feline adventures to dense rotating patterns of melting color."

• Artist: Argumentix Title: Beyond Party Destruction Time Format: CDR Label: tanzprocesz (France) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_tzpCD23 "oops, tapes, beats, samples, vocals. evil post-apocalyptic songs for post-apocalyptic 24-hour party people. recycled 12" packaging. cdr + anti-12" 100 copies."

• Artist: Argumentix + Adam Gnade Title: wilderness and the hold gold Format: CDR Label: Below PDX (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BELOWPDX04 "Music journalists by day, musical story-tellers by night, writer Adam Gnade likes to put his words to music and Boss of Goth, Argumentix likes to put music to words. For a night the two loaded up on ecstatic narratives and wrangled together this album, a swirling evil spirits hijacking the amusement park journey. But this isn't soundtrack music. There are beats, melodramatic interludes and crushing gasps for air. This is two story-tellers sharing war stories and raising their fists to the youth. This is something to drink to. This is something to dance to. This is something to die to. Here's to hoping you die before we do. Cover art by Adam, beautifully screenprinted by Ben at Diesel Fuel Prints."

• Artist: Army of Ghosts Title: The Horror Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1969 (This is a USED item) 1999 Parallelism release

• Artist: Arthur Doyle Title: No More Evil Women TOUR CD Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR104 20 minutes of Arthur Doyle's trademark vocalizations. recorded direct to cassette, this is a great vocal only recording from Arthur, to celebrate his recent mini-tour of the NorthEast US. [limited edition. packaging started as 3 4'x4' paintings on 1/4" plywood. the pieces were then cut into 6"x6" boards that serve as the cover/carrier for the release.] Reviews (1): Volcanic Tongue Although free folk spirit Arthur Doyle is primarily associated with the saxophone, the arc of his trails takes in a whole bunch of classic 20th century song and dance modes. Doyle's vocal style is a particularly original amalgam of a bunch of seemingly mutually exclusive currents, all reconciled with a delivery that is as far-out and unmediated by any concern for traditional expressive modes as it is playful and totally spontaneous. No More Crazy Women (nothing to do with the recent Qbico LP of the same name) is a special tour-only CD-R that bundles three impossibly-great solo vocal performances recorded straight to cassette. Packaging is real sweet too, with each CD fastened to a 6"x 6" painted board. The sound here is somewhere between early jazz scat singing, primitive field moans, the gutteral automatic accompaniment of Bhamanian guitarist Joseph Spence and the syntax-dissolving experiments of Henri Chopin. Features wild versions of "Round Midnight" and "Stormy Monday". Limited to only 150 copies. - David Keenan

• Artist: Ashtray Navigations Title: Four More Raga Moods Format: CD Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) 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 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_81 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Aufgehoben Title: Axiologue / Thermidor One Five Format: 7inch Label: white denim Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WD12 (PICTURE DISC) - "Crafted in their fine tradition, Aufgehoben continue to carve harsh chunks of noise with this, their first departure on 7" vinyl. Guitar and electronics sound like neither, while sprawling percussion tumbles across the rotten landscape. The two tracks on this monochromatic record jump right for the jugular, leaving little time for subtlety or reflection. Not recommended for antique styluses. There are 524 copies of this picture disc record."

• Artist: Auger Title: like little machines Format: CD Label: rectrix 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: AUN Title: Multigone Format: CDR Label: Crucial Blast Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ BLISS32 ".This seven track disc is undeniably the heaviest music that AUN has created so far, a grinding, distorted soundscape that begins with the keening electronic drones and muffled, disembodied metallic riffing that becomes endlessly tanged in a nest of squirming low-end noise in the opening title track, and steadily ratchets up the heaviness with each track, until we come to the punishing "Palejoy", a bludgeoning Industrial metal dirge that has massive, Godflesh-like percussion fused to processed, almost synthetic sounding doom riffage, a black cloud of buzzing, ultra downtuned black dirge drifting over a muffled, slow motion breakbeat. In between, AUN erects vast walls of crumbling distortion and rhythmic guitar loops forged into apocalyptic ambient drift streaked with heavenly synth choirs and sweeping cosmic fx, crushing fifteen-minute blasts of immolating amplifier ragas formed from a nebula of melting woodwind sounds, distant elephantine tympani drums, hellish symphonies of rusted, scraping strings and celestial electronic whiteout that ends up sounding like something from Skullflower's Orange Canyon Mind but one hundred times heavier, and strange deep-space blues jam instrumentals with impossibly detuned guitar soaring through black holes of reverb and tape fluctuation. This is seriously crushing stuff that stands out in sharp contrast to the hordes of amp-leaning feedback riders, and is highly recommended to anyone into KTL, Final, Black Boned Angel, To Blacken The Pages, K.K. Null, Aethnor, Fall Of The Grey Winged One, Fear Falls Burning, Hlidolf, Messiah Complex, and other heavy, textural industrial/ambient/sludge groups. Multigone is packaged in the signature Bliss sleeve with full color artwork, and the disc is attached to the interior of the sleeve on a plastic hub. Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies."

• Artist: Austere Title: Monodia Format: CDR Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_austere1 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Austere Title: Convergence Format: CDR Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_austere2 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Austere Title: caruscate Format: 3inch CDR Label: sound-o-mat Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SEANCE02 5min piece on rectangular CDR in a cellophane-wrapped and decorated paper box {edition of 50]. the cdr is the ouija board, comes with literature on using the baord, etc. amazing packaging! part of the Music for Seances series (http://austere.org/oracle/seances.shtml)

• Artist: autodidact Title: chinese girlsm have the best asses Format: CDR Label: Crucial Blast Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR37 "8 tracks. Limited to 200 copies. The latest (released June 2004) full length from Texan dronerock/disharmonic sludge pop project AUTODIDACT. Waves of chiming discordant guitars and spare glacial beats surge beneath barely-concealed melodies and noisy pop hooks. The BAND OF SUSANS influence is strong here, as if that band reformed in a hot basement somewhere down south, trying to rewrite PIXIES tunes with a battered, beersoaked drum machine on loan from GODFLESH and cough-syrup drenched vocals moaning/croaking bizarre atonal proclamations. Completely fucked up and really catchy."

• Song Previews: Screen of Province In Slow Arcs

  Artist: Autumn in Halifax Title: Kites With Broken Strings Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR117 autumn in halifax is "the quiet avant folk drone guitar and voice of david merulla." and this release showcases pretty much every aspect of that description. in addition to his amazing guitar/looping and vocal work, he is joined on a number of tracks by various friends from his previous stomping grounds in the San Diego (post)pop/rock scene. David does an amazing job of mixing delicate (and catchy) melodies and looping, with abstract sounds and textures . www.autumninhalifax.com Reviews (4): Two Way Monologues A lot of people have a tough time understanding how I can appreciate watching baseball, golf or even (gasp!) curling as much as I do, and I can understand that. The reality is that those activities just move too slowly for the majority of people. It can be the same way with a movie, like one of my all-time favourites, Waking Life. I find that movie riveting, and to date I still am trying to wrap my head around the intricacies of what it all means. I'd be an idiot to expect everyone to have the patience for that type of movie. And I would be an idiot to expect everyone to have the patience for Autumn in Halifax's record Kites With Broken Strings. Patience is absolutely crucial to enjoy Autumn in Halifax. There are moments that occur in the album that are absolutely crushing. The music has a way of lulling you into a mesmerized state where it is just you and the music; and then, like a cold bucket of water to the face, an abrupt change in the pacing or volume awakens you. It is just an incredible feeling when music can do that to you. The key is in the build up, or what I referred to as the lull. Rudimentary rules about song lengths are ignored here, and whatever length it takes to satisfactorily complete the song is used instead. The album title is fascinating, isn't it? Kites With Broken Strings -- what does that mean to you? To me, the one word that comes to mind is potential. A kite with broken strings at is useless; the sole function of a kite cannot be performed without strings. But that doesn't mean it can't regain that potential again and that it hasn't done beautiful things before. Maybe I am completely wrong and the band just named the album what it did because it sounds cool. I hope not. I also like my analysis because it fits well with this music in general. It is only as rewarding as you let it be. A casual listen to songs like "Farewell" just isn't going to cut it. "Farewell" actually offers the listener a great microcosm for what they going to experience during Kites With Broken Strings. Clocking in at 10:38, it is a slowburn, to say the least. In many ways I am reminded of Raising the Fawn but with a heavier emphasis on folk and more of a hint of fragility in David Merulla's vocals. Repeatedly, Merulla plays this quiet tranquil melody against the rhythmic drums, and the melody has more of an effect on me than most hard rock riffs ever do. When I listen to this song I know that everything will go on hold for ten minutes of my life and I can just let myself get lost into this music. And this, as I am discovering, is the true beauty of the drone style. For a minute and thirty seconds "Memphis" plods forward as it builds toward something, but the repetition soothes you -- and then it happens and demands that you perk up and listen. Merulla's voice couldn't be described as polished, it has a raw quality that contrasts well with the meticulous thought that goes into the guitar and instrumentation. I wouldn't suggest playing any of these songs at your next social gathering, but in those late artistic, contemplative hours of the night this is the soundtrack that you are craving. I am asking/encouraging anyone who reads this and would like to share an opinion on what they think the following lyrics mean to post or email and let me know, because I find them utterly fascinating: "Ghostly coma breaks/the radius of your smiles/when I need them most/Sparkles rival faith/Rivals sparkles truth/Sparkles rival faith/Rivals sparkle truth" Those lyrics come from "Stinger Glows Relief," another of the many excellent tracks Kites With Broken Strings has to offer. The song is constructed to force the listener to focus on Merulla's voice and those mysteriously beautiful lyrics. In spite of not knowing precisely what the lyrics mean, the sadness or despair in this song is still bordering on overwhelming. And it doesn't end with the three songs I mentioned. On their own these songs are decent, but as a whole the album is a more powerful and rewarding experience. The learning curve is higher, so you make the call. The flavour of the month or something that you won't be sick of this time in July? That is up to you. Songs to hear: As your attorney, I'd advise listening to the entire album. (Fear and Loathing reference, for those who just decided that I am crazy.) SCORE: 8.5 - Dan City Newspaper Cover story excerpt Rochester City Weekly (OCTOBER 26, 2005) A brisk wind blows through David Merulla's music At times, he inhabits his own music with such a gentle touch that he may as well be a ghost himself. His playing also moves forward at an unhurried pace almost unheard of in this day and age. The arrangements, which feature light electronic touches and playing and recording by members of Kill Me Tomorrow, Bartender's Bible, and the Black Heart Procession, leave ample room for echoes. Echoes in the spaces of buildings, echoes that span the rural American West... echoes of a tree-lined Rochester street bracing itself for the cold. - Saby Reyes-Kulkarni Pop Matters Autumn in Halifax is (mostly) David Merulla, and to get an idea of his music, it helps to know that he’s intrigued by both nature and architecture, and these two obsessions shape his music.  Like the former, his songs are often unconstrained and unpredictable, changing direction and feel without warning.  But like the latter, Merulla’s songs possess shape, though it’s not always apparent.  This is the rewarding part of his music—a few listens just do not suffice.  You have to live with the songs to discern the overall harmony and symmetry of its components, and what first sounded like random noise reveals itself to be part of a larger structure.  Merulla, you might say, paints on a large canvas, and standing too close prevents you from seeing the complete picture.  Once you see it, though, you can’t look away, despite that it’s often haunting, lonely, and unsettling. Kites with Broken Strings is Autumn in Halifax’s new album; consisting of eleven tracks, it exemplifies Merulla’s eccentric brand of folk.  Merulla handles vocal and guitar duties, but it would shortchange him to say he “plays” the guitar.  All the conventions of guitar playing—pleasing chord progressions, catchy hooks, pyrotechnic guitar solos—are absent from Merulla’s songs.  Lest you think, though, this means Merulla doesn’t know the tool of his craft, he does.  His approach, however, is completely different from the classic pop model of verse/chorus/solo/chorus/fade. Instead, his guitar lines drift back and forth, moving in and out of frame, disappearing only long enough to instill a sense of unease and anxiety, returning to both please and taunt.  His playing has been described as “quiet avant folk drone,” and while it’s all of these things, it might be more apt and succinct to say it’s surreal.  Each song on Kites with Broken Strings sounds like a collage of fragments of dream or memories, juxtaposed against one another, the interplay equally revealing and disturbing. Adding to the illusory feel of Autumn in Halifax’s songs is Merulla’s voice, which is always shaky, often shrill, and deliberately off-key.  Yes, this doesn’t sound like the kind of music you play at a party, and it isn’t—at least, that is, not until all the obligatory guests have left and only your core group of confidantes remain.  Autumn in Halifax, you see, isn’t for everyone, but only those who enjoy investing in the listening experience, those who know that rewarding art often requires something from the observer.  And Merulla’s voice and songwriting do require that you pay attention, but together, they are hypnotic, each chasing after one another until they collide. Overall, Kites with Broken Strings is disquietingly serene, much like a memory that has no tangible power in the present, but still manages to disrupt.  Indeed, songs like “A Quiet Long Enough” and “In Slow Arcs” capture the transitory nature of memories, each based on loose guitar patterns that repeat themselves.  “A Quiet Long Enough” is an instrumental song, and the repeating guitar patterns are complimented with backwards electric guitar notes.  This gives the song a reverse momentum, as if any forward progress is always determined, and ultimately thwarted, by what came before.  “In Slow Arcs” features vocals and instrumentation, but still feels transient.  Drums crash into the middle of the song, accelerate the pace, but then disappear into the background.  Later, they repeat the same pattern, creating a bizarre ebb and flow. Lyrically, Merulla isn’t interested in telling stories or creating character sketches; rather, he gives the listeners images and lets them make connections.  You might, for instance, think a song titled “Memphis” would tell of drunken nights down on Beale Street, but that’s too obvious.  Instead, Merulla presents a series of snapshots that, while loosely related, don’t tell a coherent story: “The sound of winter... I came to... Memphis... we left it in the sea.” Likewise, in “Water + Wire,” the listener is forced to make coherence out of fragmented thoughts: “Nothing left unless we rest / Accidents, they... they test / The gentle texture of water and wire.” Only half the words in most the songs are discernible, which somehow makes the lyrics all the more intriguing.  Of course, such lyrical wordplay would be easy to dismiss as artistic pretension, but Merulla’s lyrics make perfect sense within the context of his songwriting. Like both architecture and nature, Autumn in Halifax’s songs deal with the role of space—the space between people, the space between the past and the present, and the space between reality and illusions.  Kites with Broken Strings is perfect for pondering such reflective matters, and while it offers no answers, it makes you realize that questioning is better than knowing. Transitory and haunting, Autumn in Halifax's songs sound like all those past moments that determine your present situation. - Michael Franco Delusions of Adequacy “Thank you...from the bottom of my bloody folk heart,” David Merulla writes in the liner notes for Autumn in Halifax’s Kites with Broken Strings, and I’m struck with what an interesting description that would be for this band: bloody folk. Take your structured folk music, and dissect it, sometimes into its barest components and sometimes into delectable chunks of folk goodness, and you get the unique and endearing sound of Autumn in Halifax. Rochester native Merulla is the heart of his bloody folk sound, assisted on the album with assorted friends, and on this release, he delivers one of the most intriguing albums I’ve heard in ages. There’s tracks here for those who love traditional song structures and those who eschew them, and sometimes both will be pleased in the same song. At the heart of these songs is a moody folk sensibility, but Merulla and friends get so creative in mixing these songs and adding in ebow, lap steel, Rhodes piano, and assorted noises, that the result is something truly unique. The album opens with the quiet “A Quiet Long Enough,” which warps its guitars forward and backward, creating a kind of ambient soundscape. It’s merely a prelude, though, to the lengthy and brilliant “Farewell,” which gives perhaps the perfect feel for Autumn in Halifax’s sound. It’s flowing, eerily moody at times and yet striking in Merulla’s lyrics and lilting vocals. The drums are booming, the guitar repeating its lines in the backdrop, keyboards lilting and pretty by contrast, and what seems incohesive in theory comes together beautifully. “In Slow Arcs” brings to mind Joan of Arc in structure as well as Merulla’s purposefully off-key singing style. “Water + Wire” is sweet and gentle, and Merulla’s singing style is endearing more than jarring, nicely complimenting the rich tones of this quiet yet poppy track. “Echo in the Lower Case” is a gentle instrumental, lilting and smooth and evocative. It leads nicely into the album’s centerpiece, the brilliantly powerful and instrumentally textured “Memphis.” The album is rounded out by the more folky “Aluminum Smile,” creative found songs to back up “Lemon Tigers,” more poppy “Pretty Noise,” the stark and stripped-bare “Stinger Glows Relief,” and the esoteric “Screen of Province” that provides a nice bookend to the opening instrumental. Merulla spins tales in true folk style that take on an almost dreamy feel, his lyrics telling of “birds, avalanches, water, hearts, and silence,” as he notes in his bio. His instrumentation – at times quiet and moody, at times experimental in approach – is the perfect accompaniment to these tales and still works on its own in the instrumentals. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself getting lost in these songs, wondering where the time went, wondering where these strange and discomforting thoughts are coming from. Merulla’s music is meant to lull you disarmingly and strike you with its dichotomies. It’s enigmatic and unusual and startlingly effective. And I’ve yet to hear a release this experimental in approach work so well. This is truly a gorgeous album. - Jeff Marsh

• Song Previews: track 1

  Artist: Autumn in Halifax Title: Robert Frank & The Moon Format: BOOKLET and CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR175 The short story Robert Frank & The Moon written by David Merulla began as a title written in one of David's notebooks and then continued to reappear in subsequent notebooks and on various scraps of paper. David's affinity for the Swiss photographer Robert Frank plays a subliminal part in seeing the story through however the story is more about memory, shapes and origami. The companion soundtrack ep is an instrumental music recording by Autumn in Halifax & The Leaves, meant to be listened to while reading the story, however can also be enjoyed by itself. The ep was recorded live to two track at the Wolf Den, Rochester, New York by Joe Tunis, mixed by Chris Reeg & David Merulla. Autumn in Halifax & The Leaves is David Merulla, Scott Oliver, Chris Reeg and Joe Tunis. [package include a 5x7 booklet with pro-printed cover, silkscreened cdr and silkscreened kraft stay-flat envelope] Reviews (2): Pirtlegimp This is an EP of instrumental tracks from the wonderful Autumn in Halifax � the band that is directly responsible for the existence of Pirtlegimp Promotions. These tracks are the audio portion of a package that includes a short story and should still be available from Carbon Records should you be interested. If you like the more minimal and lo-fi leaning post rock then you should be all over this; to me it sounds like a very slowed down collaboration between The Dead C and the pretty post rock band of your choice. - Rob Rioux Indie Street Radio Autumn in Halifax - The Story: Taking notes from Raymond Carver and Proust in a distinctly contemporary sense, Robert Frank & The Moon uses a traffic accident as the centerpiece to thematically explore and concretize an Augustinian conception of time. The Music: The soundtrack to Robert Frank & The Moon stands on its own right as a contemplative (primarily) guitar-based piece with a distinct interplay between both arpeggio rhythm and warm-sunset-drone, and structured song and ambiance. The �Total Package�: There is an inherent problem of putting story to music in this fashion: timing. That is to say, should one read the story to the pace of the music, is the music composed to fit the average amount of time one takes to read the story, how closely aligned is the music to the story, etc.? I chose to simply read the story at my own pace accompanied by the music without worry of any sort of artistic intention of alignment. While I finished the story sometime in the third song of the �soundtrack,� it would be inaccurate to say that this juxtaposition doesn�t have any meaning. My reading often became one with the pervading rhythm or mood of the piece, mimicking the narrative�s complex, intersecting, and inextricably tangled rhythms of life.

• Song Previews: Dyed in the Wool Valedictorian

  Artist: Autumn in Halifax Title: the soft, soft shakes Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR177 Recorded in multiple studios over the course of 2007 and 2008, in both Upstate New York and San Diego California, Autumn in Halifax; David Merulla and W.Dirk Doucette, along with various contributors put together another collection of songs with considered arrangements and colored by multiple instruments including Wurlitzer and Fender Rhodes pianos, singing saw, accordion, trumpet, vintage effects and the familiar guitars,drums and bass. The warmth of 1970's rock and roll, concise pop songs and subtle experimentation all can be found within this particular song cycle. Reviews (1): City Newspaper Setting out to make a "more pop-sounding" album this time around, Autumn In Halifax leader David Merulla proves that poppiness doesn't have to come at the expense of substance. Merulla's work can flow as gently as a canoe being carried downstream by a slow current, but tends to be heavy on the atmosphere. He also writes prose, and his songs often come across like the sonic equivalent of pastoral scenes described in dense passages of literature. By contrast, "Soft Shakes" immediately gets off to a more anthemic start with the singalong-inducing "Sleepwalkers." As the album goes on, drummers William Doucette and Jonathan Stevens provide lively beats even as Merulla begins to evoke the deep stillness of vintage acoustic Neil Young. Merulla has an unparalleled knack for challenging your expectations while going easy on your ears. As accessible and beautiful as it is, "Soft Shakes" still commands a most rewarding kind of patience. - City Weekly

• Artist: él-g Title: Capitaine Présent #4 Format: DVDR Label: tanzprocesz (France) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_tzpDVD01 "Capitaine Présent" is a subconscious audio-serial started in 2004 by él-g. This Fourth episode is a film with Stolen images from google, edited in a 20 minutes long futurist didactic movie with 300 different voices, inserts and orgasmic crescendos. It talks about life, universe, teenagehood, theme parks, enterprises, synaptic links and sweet skizophrenia. Tristan Tzara meets PizzaHut meets You. And yeah it's french only because it's impossible to subtitle this object, no place for it. Capitaine Présent #1-2-3 included for yr never-ending audio pleasure. Totally queer pink plush handmade packaging. 50 copies.

• Artist: Baldruin Title: Schatten & Lichter Format: CASS Label: cae-sur-a (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_caesura_005 "Sleepwalking in lost memories, a hairy goblin processes ambient Lo-Fi nightmarish tales on keyboard, flute, found objects and percussion. Recalling images from childhood days in the Bavarian woods, these Madeleines taste like cold sweat; dark, romantic and surreal elegies for a past never experienced, only imagined. Some call it �Hauntology�, we call it Bavarian Gothic. Schatten & Lichter provides ten sonic stillborn changelings at midnight, preserved and presented here on tape." -Holger Adam, Phantom Limbo Hand numbered edition of 100. C-31

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

• Artist: Barky Title: a study in rocking Format: CD Label: Barky (USA) 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) 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 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) 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 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_55 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Beequeen Title: ownliness Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_INFC003 (This is a USED item) on the Infraction label (OH)

• Artist: Below PDX ZINE Title: summer 2007 Format: ZINE Label: Below PDX (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PDX_summer2007_zine 44 pages, hand painted covers. reviews, interviews, surveys, cartoons and more

• Artist: Ben Reynolds and Andy Jarvis Title: s/t Format: 3inch CDR Label: First Person (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_First_Plural009 “This installment of Andy Jarvis' excellent First Person CD-R series features collaborations with another excellent UK-based artist, Ben Reynolds. These three tracks do a fine job of exploring the realm of solo steel-string acoustic guitar. In the spirit of Fahey and other Takoma artists, Jarvis and Reynolds do a marvelous job playing off each other. On the opener, "Princess Metal Mountain," soft drones flow underneath the dual picking, give a sense of tranquility and peace. This is a solemn track with an underlying mysticism. It's like you're being followed by a mythic creature, but every time you turn around it scurries out of site. "Bronze Tower (That Holds Up the Sky)" is short but oh so sweet. This follows two high school lovers through golden fields at dusk one summer evening. The smell of grass is in the air, and they are guided by nothing more than young love. There's an endearing quality to this piece that is hard to pin down, but present throughout. It's quite beautiful. The third, and final, piece is the epic "The Immortal Yip." Meandering through clouds of dust, Reynolds and Jarvis seem to be constantly searching each other out. There's a sense that they are just barely out of reach to each other, but that adds to the overall dynamics of the track. In all, it thrives in its length (it's over 11 minutes) and leaves you wanting more”.- Brad Rose

• Artist: Bethell Title: ep1 Format: CDR Label: Epicene Sound System (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ESR019 "This is one fucked up release. Bethell is the brain child of one Justain Netherly, another ohio resident with some desfunctional ideas. At first you might think this is a grind record, but only if said grind band had Masonna and Merzbow in it's ranks. Then there is all the Galaxy 500/My Bloddy Valintine space/psych parts... then back into the sick noise grind blur. completly fucked."

• Artist: Bhob Rainey Title: Two Bites of a Bitter Sweet Format: 7inch Label: Evolving Ear (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_EE17 "Bhob Rainey is an established bigwig of the global improv/noise/experimental underground as a result of his work alongside trumpeter Greg Kelley in the influential duo, nmperign, his direction of the improvising juggernaut, The BSC, and his numerous solo works and collaborations with the likes of Jason Lescalleet, Gunter Muller, Ralf Wehowsky, Le Quan Ninh, Alessandro Bosetti, and Michel Doneda, among others. Two Bites of a Bitter Sweet is his first release of purely electronic music, and Evolving Ear is tickled to be the messenger on this one. The material on the two side-long, 33rpm pieces ranges from homemade synth textures to field recordings from Lisbon, Venice, Huelva, and other, unremembered locations. There's some singing by Naomi Yang (Damon and Naomi) and Bhob himself, and some words of wisdom from Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Overall, a woozy alternate reality is offered for repeated dream pool swims. Beautiful, hallucinatory artwork by Elaine Kaufmann."

• Artist: Big Chief Title: Face Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1939 (This is a USED item) 1992 Sub Pop release

• Artist: Big Hair Title: the pickle farm Format: CD Label: Energy 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 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 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: BJ Nilsen Title: Hazard 06_12_03 Format: CDR Label: Touch Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TOCDR5 "Christian Fennesz has started curating a series of events at the Konzerthaus in Vienna as part of the ‘generator‘ series of live performances held there each month. In early December he performed with Philip Jeck and BJNilsen (aka Hazard) as part of the Touch night, during which Jon Wozencroft also showed his films. All the concerts were recorded, and BJNilsen‘s becomes the 5th in the TO:CDR series." CD (wallet) -- factory manufactured.

• Artist: Bjerga / Iversen Title: In broken dreams the world still keeps turning Format: CDR Label: Dead Sea Liner (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_deadsealiner005 "A great slice of industrial ambience from the Norwegian duo - walls of drone improv and inteference cut through with robot birdsong."

• Artist: Bjerga / Iversen Title: (Go With The Flow) Like a Twig on the Shoulders of a Mighty Stream Format: CD Label: Carbon Records 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: Bjerga / Iversen Title: buring the light at both ends Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR119 36+ min of desperate transmissions from a desolate place. a collaboration including Sindre Bjerga,the man behind the amazing Gold Soundz label (Norway) and Jans-M Iversen, the man behind the, equally amazing, Tibprod label (also from Norway). [from the Carbon Recycled.Series. recycled 2 and 3 fold covers, spray painted and silkscreened with some of the original artwork bleeding thru the paint fog.]] Reviews (1): Foxy Digitalis This Norwegian duo of Sindre Bjerga and Jan Iversen has been quite prolific in 2005. This is hardly a bad thing as their "Lighthouse Tapes" series has continually offered memorable moments that explore varying styles and influences. On this wonderfully packaged CD-R from the Carbon imprint, the duo slows things down with a soft, disjointed electronic swim in the ice-cold polar seas. "Burning the Light at Both Ends" is one single, 36 minute modern sea shanty. Low level drones keep this long piece together and constantly moving. It's hypnotic reverie for the freezing tides that surround the southern tip of their native Norway leaves no stone unturned. This steady descent into the dementia of being lost at sea, with no hope of survival is undaunting. As it begins with it's rolling waves of watery electronics, you can see the storm clouds forming off in the distance. There's a determination in these tones to face down your gravest fear and continue pushing forward. A stunning build-up of tension twists the listener into a pretzel of nerves. Just over the midway point is when the delirium starts to set in. Through the careful use of orchestral and opera (I think) samples, the duo creates a real-time look at someone losing it in the face of insurmountable odds. This is what it sounds like to have voices in your head. By the time the pulsing electric guitars come into the mix, you are already gone. You are lying on your back, staring into the sun laughing at your own demise. These shambolic tones haunt you and mock you, never letting up until your brain finally explodes into a caustic mash of flesh and bone. In your demise you are reborn. Bjerga & Iversen are two highly talented individuals. One can only hope that their collaborative efforts continue well into 2006. "Burning the Light at Both Ends" is another wonderful and interesting sonic entry into their every growing discography. This is one ship I never want to get off. 7/10 -- (27 June, 2006) - Brad Rose

• Artist: Black Elk Title: Always a Six, Never a Nine Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast 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: Blood Stereo Title: Hymn for the Crippled Mulato Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR90 10YR.Series.10 - the tenth (and final release) in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. 30+ minutes of a beast emerging from a swamp of static. or a seismic mic on the tail pipe of my brother's Harley. kicks ass! [Blood Stereo is Karen Constance and Dylan Nyoukis]

• Artist: Bluetile Lounge Title: half cut Format: CD Label: Smells Like Records Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_SLR024 (This is a USED item)

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

• Artist: Bone Cure Title: Moonshadow / Where's My Muffins Format: 7inch Label: fusetron (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_BONECURE (This is a USED item) somewhat rare Fusetron single

• Artist: bones of seabirds Title: subterranean lightsource Format: CDR Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosethirtyfour "it seems that ryan mcgill is complete unable to cover the same ground twice. this is the fourth (i believe) bones seabirds release, and it sounds nothing like any of the others. this one foregoes the guitars (for the most part) and relies on ryan's handmade voice of saturn synth.the first nearly 35 minute track is intense and brutal - like being strapped into some sort of machine that's boring deeper and deeper into the earth only to slowly burn you alive. the second gives a bit of respite, but leaves you lost in a dark cave drone. it's not to be missed. packaged in a folded artwork by matt yacoub, with an obi and an insert. edition of 129 copies."

• Artist: Book of Shadows Title: 777 Format: CD Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) 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) 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: Brekekekexkoaxkoax Title: we used to be such good friends Label: Hushroom Recordings (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_hushroom004 From Austin TX, an open-ended art music collective focusing on improvisational, indeterminate performances using sound, visuals and movement. Brekekekexkoaxkoax has been recently performing as a quartet with Jacob Green (oboe, organ, electonics), Josh Ronsen (guitar, clarinet, computer), Glen Nuckolls (guitars, banjo, violin), Genevieve Walsh (flute, drums, voice) and sometimes Jason Pierce (organ, cello, drums). Rick Reed, Travis Weller, Josh Russell, Brent Fariss, Alex Keller, Bill Thompson, Vanessa Arn and Elizabeth Warren have also participated in recent events. other releases on RRRecords, Beta-Lactam, phonography, and many more.

• Artist: Brian Ruryk/Mabus(RIP) Title: split Format: CASS Label: Wintage (Canada) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WRT22 "Side A: Finds Ruryk busting up the joint full on Acusto-G-tar shred, tape warp melt, tuna can jam,sample-fizz, and Brian's wonderful sense of humur, add 1/4 cup of punishing assault + blend! Side B: Mabus(RIP) holds it down with bad splices, and D grade edits done with the pause+record. A slow-fi sound collage containing field recordings of Parkdale, Westinghouse MRC-13, early morning cable TV, and various audio masturbatory devices that biuld into a speed fueled death-raga. Ltd. Ed. 50"

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

• Artist: Bruce Springsteen Title: Devils and Dust Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_SPRINGSTEEN_DEVILS (This is a USED item) 2005 release. disc is double sided, CD/DVD

• Song Previews: Take It For a Ride (excerpt) Trying To Be Something Diffferent (excerpt)

  Artist: Bruise Halo Title: + Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR199 nearly 30min of heavy dirty synth, buried beats, mumbling, effect-saturated vocals and other elements. this is the electronic/synth side of Joe Tunis (aka, Joe+N, member of Tumul, Tuurd, Crush the Junta and more, and former member of Pengo and Hilkka). [packaged with a 12"x12" piece of unique wooden artwork, layers of drywall compound, paint, sprayed, stenciled and splattered. limited to 96 pieces]

• Artist: Brutum Fulmen / Dan Bodah / Noumena Title: massachusetts Format: CD Label: gameboy 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: BRXTNLE / fleshghxst Title: Death Swank Format: CDR Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1945 (This is a USED item) Noisegood release

• Artist: Burmese / Fistula Title: split Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast 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: Burnt Hills Title: Alpha Seven Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR186 This is the eighth release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. 60+ minutes of psyched out jam vibrations from this Albany NY ensemble. [packaged with pro-printed covers in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes]

• Artist: Calliope Title: (in)organics Format: CD Label: Thick Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_71 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Calliope Title: i can see you with my eyes closed Format: CD Label: Thick Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_16 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Cama Title: demo #1 Format: CDR Label: noise good Catalog ID: CarbonDist_NG008 Careplace (Canada) and Mauder (Sweden) team up to bring you ultra loud harsh electronix to scrape away at your brain, and leave you a pile of flesh demanding more. Fans of Gov‘t Alpha, Guilty Connector, Taint take note!! Limited first pressing of 50 in slimline cases.

• Artist: Cameron Wood Title: s/t Format: 3inch CDR Label: rhizome Catalog ID: CarbonDist_rhcd15 completely overblown/saturated guitar(?) layers, with buried melodies. harsh but soothing.

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  Artist: Carbon Records Title: Fall 2011 - Black Hoodie Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CarbonHOODIE_Fall2011_Black 50%/50% poly/cotton black pullover (w/pocket) hoodie with gray/silver ink design. i used an older worn screen to distress the logo a bit.

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  Artist: Carbon Records Title: Fall 2011 - Black Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CarbonTSHIRT_Fall2011_Black 100% cotton short sleeve black tshirt with gray/silver ink design. i used an older worn screen to distress the logo a bit.

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  Artist: Carbon Records Title: Fall 2011 - Dark Blue Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CarbonTSHIRT_Fall2011_DarkBlue 100% cotton short sleeve dark blue tshirt with gray/silver ink design. i used an older worn screen to distress the logo a bit.

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  Artist: Carbon Records Title: Fall 2011 - Light Blue Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CarbonTSHIRT_Fall2011_LightBlue 100% cotton short sleeve light blue (manufacturer calls it Indigo) tshirt with gray/silver ink design. i used an older worn screen to distress the logo a bit.

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  Artist: Carbon Records Title: Summer 2011 TSHIRT Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records 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!

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  Artist: Carbon Records Title: 2007 flower design (Youth sizes) Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR164b Youth Sizes - flower design (pictured at left), 2 color design of flower and text (blue and gray) on 100% cotton white tshirt.

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  Artist: Carbon Records Title: 2007 flower design (Infant size White sweatshirt) Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR164c Infant Size Sweatshirt - flower design (pictured at left), 2 color design of flower and text (blue and gray) on 50/50 cotton/poly white sweatshirt.

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  Artist: Carbon Records Title: 2007 flower design (white onesies) Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR164d baby onesies - flower design (pictured at left), 2 color design of flower and text (blue and gray) on 100% cotton white onesie.

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  Artist: Carbon Records Title: 2007 flower design (Infant size Black sweatshirt) Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR164e Infant Size Sweatshirt - flower design (pictured at left), 2 color design of flower and text (gray and black) on cotton/poly blend black sweatshirt.

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  Artist: Carbon Records Title: 2007 flower design (grey on white) Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR164g flower design (pictured at left), flower and text in gray and black ink, on 100% cotton white tshirt.

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  Artist: Carbon Records Title: 2007 flower design Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR164 flower design (pictured at left), flower and text are two shades of grey, on heavy 100% cotton black tshirt.

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  Artist: Carbon Records Title: Carbon VINES design Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR110 if you're familiar with Keith Fullerton Whitman's label Entschuldigen label, this is the font he used for his official logo (i loved the logo so much, i had to use that font. i pretty much wear my Entschuldigen hoodie everyday). it looks like vines growing in and out of the letters, which are an old-english looking type. these shirts are light brown (almost drab-green) with cream ink.

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  Artist: Carbon Records Title: Lies Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CRT_LIES Black shirt with white ink. Front has photo of Clinton and reads "He lied to you about sex." Back has a photo of Bush Jr and reads "But he lied to you about war!" Yeah yeah, i know, Clinton lied about war as well (bombing of Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, etc), but he didnt get impeached for it.

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  Artist: Carbon Records Title: Phi-Phenomena on Wheels Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CRT_PHI white on black, double sided with diagram of Phi-RV on front and list of touring bands on back

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  Artist: Carbon Records Title: red and yellow lines Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CRT_CARBONLINES White shortsleeve shirt with red/orange and yellow ink, including Carbon C logo and glitchy lines

• Artist: Carbonic Title: Forest Creatures Format: CDR Label: Ghost Woods Records (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_carbonic_forest_creatures "Carbonic is Benoit Guerroué, who spent most of his life in Brittany, France, but moved in 2003 to the US, to Rochester, NY. ‘Forest Creatures’ is already his 8th album. The style on the 12 songs with improvisations are a mixture of simple, recognisable, natural (say also : as if living in the woods and thus creating its mood) dreamy moody psychfolk excursions and instrumentals build around a basic collection of songs (vocals, vocal harmonies, harmonica, acoustic strummed guitar, flutes, harmonium, hand percussion, and a few other instruments like piano,..) giving the impression they celebrate the quietness of a life near or in a house in the woods, perhaps dealing with cold now and then but always surrounded by something which is beautiful, because it gives an inner condition that makes us more peaceful inside, in a natural way. Besides, there still is the human person who has to deal with his own ghosts and realities with the surrounding real persons. So in this case, Benoit also sings, more clearly, about that, as a human being, finding his own place within this space, while the forest cures most easily most of the spinning thoughts. Although most of it is recorded on his own (?), more than once, the songs sound as if performed by a duo/trio, even by two vocalists (with some cello on two tracks by Ian Downey). Makes for a rewarding repeated listen, from start to finish." - PSYCHEDELIC & ACID FOLK MUSIC

• Artist: Carl Kruger Title: sound takes Format: 3inch CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD87 "The short press text for these new Tibprod releases rave about the 'typical Carl Kruger-style', but since I never heard the mans music, I can't say wether that is false or true. On 'Sound Takes' he presents a couple of pieces that were previously released on various websites. Kruger shows an interest in technoid rhythms and the world of digital cut-ups. Cut and paste instruments, no doubt lifted from obscure sources on the internet, with some dance rhythm in the background. I don't think I describe it very well, but the result is not bad at all. Not startling new either, but nevertheless quite nice." - Vital Weekly

• Artist: Carlos Giffoni Title: 9 hours with Jim and the Greatful Dead Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR54 [Recently found inventory from record store. 1 copy back in stock!] "9 hours with jim and the greatful dead is a 30+ minute improvisation using guitar, amp and a few guitar modulation effects that I find unique and necessary to express through certain sounds, and is a one take 30+ minute "jam". when I first planned to record it it was meant to be a joke on a long and strange conversation I had with Jim Dunbar and Don Fleming at a show the night before about The Legendary Greatful Dead jams in the west coast that supposedly lasted sometimes up to that long and that apparently Jim saw more than once. I wanted to make something with enough variation of sound and mood so that it felt like it was 9 hours compressed in a much shorter "jam", steal some interesting moments from the eternal dictation and crunch them all together in one piece. When I started playing the guitar, the piece evolved into something else and I just let it go. for 30 minutes +, what I consider a long time for 1 "jam". maybe I am to young and have a short attention span, or maybe I just wasn't there. You can ask Jim about it, Jim was there, for 9 hours, more than once. I really couldn't be there, I wasn't born at the time and currently I am still trying to finish college." [color stickers attached to sealed white cd folders. edition of 75]

• Artist: Century Plants Title: Copper Visions Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR184 This is the sixth release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. 32+ minutes of dirgy space jams from this amazing duo out of Albany NY. like lost transmissions from deep seated roots. Ray and Eric are also members of Burnt Hills, Transcendental Manship Highway, Rambutan and Fossils From the Sun. [packaged with pro-printed covers in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes]

• Artist: Chad Oliveiri Title: Pathetique Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR98 40min+ of top-notch electronic performance/composition from this musician/writer from Rochester NY. this release includes pieces based on live collaborations with various individuals throughout as well as solo pieces, recorded between 2001 and 2005 . the tracks range from static-driven compositions to organic pastoral drones, including guitar, piano, voice, electronics, etc. Chad also has a collaborative release with Brannon Hungness (also featured on this release) coming out on Entr'acte (UK) this spring (2006). [heavy duty vinyl cover, with full color insert and "prism" overlay. factory-colored CDR]

• Artist: Chad Oliveiri Title: enduser Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR36 RE-RELEASE: from chad... "reveals kind of a different side compared to my more recent stuff, which tends to be more "song" or "music" oriented. these were really experiments in the strictest sense. me just feeling my way." - Original Desc: manipulated and processed/glitched works, built from tape recordings Chad made throughout the 90‘s. feels right at home along side releases from labels such as Mego, Meme, and Touch, not to mention, our own Bobo.

• Artist: Chad Oliveiri Title: express yourself Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: MP3.03 an amazing collection of pieces culled and manipulated from his on-going weekly radio show/performance (WRUR 88.5fm). and just cause he uses a laptop, don‘t expect the usual glitch-fest. this is really an amazing collection of moving experimentations. [pre-assembled version of MP3.Series release, which is also free to download]

• Artist: Chad Oliveiri and Figure Title: the complete detachment Format: CDR Label: Audiobot (Belgium) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BOT191 "A complete brain submission that detaches your head, captures faces and rewires them into an undefined human-hybrid. Like falling asleep under an alien radar-post and losing track of all earthly life around you while analog-synth fumes drag your lungs into the zone. Puzzle solving mode with no solutions. Both Oliveiri and Figure love drinking strange fluids and further exploring the mysteries of life. Packaged in full color fold-out covers by none other than Carlos Pitchphase, in an edition of only 65 copies. File under = alienating upheaval."

• Artist: Chad Oliveiri and Figure Title: Celest Format: CDR Label: Entr'acte (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_entracte32 "Chad Oliveiri and Brannon Hungness (Figure) are friends from Rochester, upstate New York. Their sounds are improvised, and some of them are recorded. Celest is a collection of a few recent bits Brannon painfully edited together in his bedroom." [packaged in a sealed anti-static-type package. must destroy to open]

• Artist: Chad Oliveiri and Joe+N Title: nowhere is now here Format: DVDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR129 the video portion was created by Joe+N. an experiment in video confusion. trying to present everyday items in ways that are not easily recognizable, using blurring effects, extreme zoom, extreme motion, and time modification. the audio was created by Chad Oliveiri and Joe+N during a show at Gallery31 in Rochester NY. the audio was created while viewing the video portion. the two were then synced up for this release. 30 min. [NOW ON NTSC DVD-R]

• Artist: Charles Balls Title: less difficult to hard water / progressive furniture totemic Format: CDR Label: Bennifer Editions (Cananda) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_bennifer_charles_balls_less

• Artist: Charm Farm Title: sick / dear Laura Jones Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_CHARMFARM (This is a USED item) on PRA Records - 1996

• Artist: Cheapmachines Title: diagrammene Format: CD Label: Entr'acte (UK) 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: cheapmachines Title: com. ver. Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: MP3.05 xperimental electronic recordings since 1997. Com. Ver. = Common Version (common) - ... widely known and notorious, considered by the speaker to below-class, vulgar, or coarse. (version) - ... a variant form or type... a translation from one language to another. -- (Collins English Dictionary, Millenium Edition.)

• Artist: chefkirk Title: MODULAR JAC PLAT Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR131 repeating and scratchy glitches, tones and drones made with who knows what else. 10 tracks named after Chefkirk's favorite birds to watch, listen and lear, woodpeckers and nuthatches. "chefkirk is Roger H. Smith. Working under the inclusive category of experimental noise, chefkirk creates distinctive compositions of sound by combining together improvised drone and harsh electronics forced from a minimal arsenal of glitchy instruments and feedback loops. Being a socially and politically conscious citizen of the world, chefkirk illustrates his deep concern and love for all living things through the artwork, titles, and modest messages on his numerous releases. The whole of his work will unquestionably carry his personal message loudly: animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment, GO VEGAN!" [CDR with full color insert, spray-painted cdr in slim case]

• Artist: Chefkirk Title: The Earth is Mostly Ocean Format: CD Label: Entr'acte (UK) 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: Chen Santa Maria Title: Jefferson Chopper/Great Society Format: 7inch Label: Zum (USA) 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: China PIg Title: auf Zehenspitzen durch die Bruthammer Format: LP Label: Moodswing Records (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist__MUUD_ChinaPig

• Artist: Christopher Nolan Title: Momento Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_MOMENTO (This is a USED item) with Guy Pierce

• Artist: Christopher Reeg Title: el borracho Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR139 el borracho is Christopher Reeg's first solo full-length release, showcasing Chris' skills on double bass, keyboard/synth, guitar and melodica, as well as other random instruments. with help from some of his Blood and Bone Orchestra band-mates, Jim Colby, Ed Downey and Darren DeWisperlaere, Chris lays down 8 perfectly crafted pieces (28+ min) ranging from abstract drone/textural scapes, melodic instrumentals, to outsider keyboard/sampling/bass/sax improv, and finally rounding things out with a angular rock gem. [packaged in a kraft Arigato folded sleeve with 2 color artwork by Chris and silkscreened by Alex Schmidt] (Chris also plays in Blood and Bone Orchestra, The Years, Ada le O, Entente Cordiale, Crush the Junta, and a couple other offshoots)

• Artist: Cock E.S.P. Title: greatest dicks 3 Format: 3inch CD Label: Sunship Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SUN42 The best and worst of Cock E.S.P. from 2001-2003. The material has been layered, refined, edited and enhanced over a period of two months, making this the most complex and multidimensional Cock E.S.P. release to date. Includes special guest appearances by Crank Sturgeon, PrairiePusher, Eugenics Council, Rotten Piece, Panicsville, Newton and Burning Star Core. Co-released with Breathmint, Deadline and Little Mafia.

• Artist: Cock E.S.P. and Suffering Bastard Title: split 10" Format: 10inch Label: Freenoise (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Freenoise666 "Suffering Bastard = Brutal grindcore featuring a dual-bass assault of the highest gain and lowest frequency, complete with brain-rattling vocal violence and remorseless drumkit abuse. Cock E.S.P. = Ugly and unlistenable shrieking noise overload inspired by Duran Duran and a pure unadulterated hatred of humankind. Together at last, in a beautiful green and silver cardboard jacket."

• Artist: Cock Robot Title: electric young men Format: CDR Label: radio shock Catalog ID: CarbonDist-CRobot01 electronic and guitar based deconstructed... rock?

• Artist: Coffee Title: pissing contest loser Format: DIGITAL Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR138 At some point QBICO mentioned to Dave Cross that they were interested in putting out a Coffee album. Dave Cross gave me two cassette tapes that were recorded years earlier. One had a spacey synth jam that he wanted me to change from Stereo to Mono and spruce up a bit. The other was a four track practice jam tape of Dave Cross, Tim Poland and Joe Sorriero playing some sort of noisy free jazz or something. Dave told me that he liked how bits of it sounded, but did not like any particular chunks as songs. His direction to me was to use this as source material and make it sound like Harry Pussy. I transfered the four tracks individually from the tape, listened to each and then selected short sections that seemed the most appropriate and mastered them individually. I then dumped all the snippets into a multi-track program and started to arrange them. Mostly I stuck similar bits together and sort of constructed songs, that overlapped. At some point I also got the idea that I should give each player a short solo section, to make it seem more like one long, organic, free jazz piece. The result was "Pissing Contest (Loser Version)". It did not sound like Harry Pussy. For some reason it reminded me of This Heat. I then had an idea that I should make a more chaotic version by simply looping every track after it made its appearance in my constructed recording. Afterwards I made several different mastered versions of both versions and gave them to Dave. Dave told me had a hard time picking as he liked both versions, but the second version came closer to his original concept so that's what we sent to QBICO to get pressed as "Pissing Contest". If one listens closely, one can hear this first version underneath the official version. Also included in this release is a Stereo version of "Space 1988". r.nuuja 2011

• Artist: Coffee Title: dik mik rabbit ear antennae Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR86 10YR.Series.06 - the sixth in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. almost a full hour of Coffee magic. consists of two live recordings from 1997 and 1998. includes the Coffee core of Dave Cross and Tim Poland, along with Brian Shafer (Nod), Phil Marshall, John Olsen (Wolf Eyes), Sticky Foster, Neil Campbell and Nuuj.

• Artist: Coffee Title: presents: muddy waters...electric mud Format: CDR Label: Pirate Scheme Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PS001 on the mysterious Pirate Scheme label. unknown source. mixed-mode CDR (audio and data) containing recording of live Coffee set, and remix of set (and other goodies on data portion of CDR).

• Artist: Coldcut Title: More Beats and Pieces Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_COLDCUT_MOREBEATS (This is a USED item) 1997 release from Ninja Tune with hybrid disc containing Quicktime video

• Artist: Coldcut Title: Atomic Moog / Boot the System Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_COLDCUT_ATOMICMOON (This is a USED item) 2000 remixed release on Ninja Tune

• Artist: Colin Andrew Sheffield Title: in between Format: 10inch Label: Elevator Bath (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDIst_eeaoa08 recordings by colin andrew sheffield in between is an atmospheric new piece in two parts. It is possible that Colin's work is best listened to peripherally, perhaps while writing or (as is the case with in between) while reading.... front cover text by ilex fenusova The evocative writings which grace the record's jacket come provided by this acclaimed poet from Texas. On transparent vinyl with lovely text-only jackets, in an edition of 295 copies.

• Artist: Colonel Parmisan Title: Ziggurat Format: CDR Label: No Label Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ColPam_Ziggurat 34+mins. at times, dense instrumentation and other times, very airy and sparse with lots of room. consists of electronics, strings and percussion.

• Artist: Colonel Parmisan Title: Retaste Format: 3inch CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR161 20 minutes from this solo Rochester arist - Brian Blatt. also plays in Gaybot, Dufus and No, among others. this is two tracks. one short studio piece, synth/textural warbly-ness. and a longer live synth/drone/noise/voice piece. amazing repetition of melody in the noise context, with hiss, static and air/fog mixed in. [cdr is wrapped in a cardstock insert, inserted into a vinyl sleeve, affixed to a (roughly) 5x5" piece of plywood, which is painted with various layers/colors, and then stenciled with more colors. CDR is also stenciled]

• Artist: Connie Archer Title: spray me down Format: CD Label: Flipped Out 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) 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) 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: Control R Workshop Title: missing Format: LP Label: control r workshop Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CONTROL01 Missing was recorded a full year before being pressed. The title of this record is in reference to past contributors. The LP captures a live performance originally part of a broadcast on KDVS on 6/28/01, during the trio period spanning 5/01 to 4/02..... Control R Workshop is a sound arts collective operating in Oakland California. Formed in 6/99 Control R Workshop has been performing steadily in the bay area in addition to self-releasing home packaged audio media. Control R Workshop exists as a forum in which self-discipline, group collaboration and individual contribution is embraced and put forth to perform works.

• Artist: Corduroy / The Meices Title: split Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_CORDUROY (This is a USED item) on Volta Records

• Artist: Core of the Coalman Title: 2/3(r4) Format: CASS Label: Zum (USA) 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: Core of the Coalman Title: Spirograph / End Grain Format: CDR Label: Zum (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ZUM_Core "New recordings from Core of the Coalman, the solo works of Oakland's Jorge Boehringer (Treehugger, Brown Bunny Ensemble, Peloton, 7Central and Mountain). Song structures and viola experiments mix with electronic textures and warbly vocals, a deep dig into the carbon fields and nature's edges."

• Artist: Courtis / Kiritchenko / Moglass Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Carbon Records 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: Craig Colorusso Title: Strap Parts Format: 10inch Label: Moodswing Records (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_MUUD042 "I have always been fascinated by the way music and sound alter the way we perceive time and space. We organize all experiences in these terms. The motivation behind my musical compositions and installations over the past several years has been the exploration of the conventions that determine the way we experience time and space, and thereby our world. These pieces seek to expose such conventions by giving the listener the chance to become familiar with unfamiliar tonalities and rhythms, as well as to register the divorce of space and sound made possible by contemporary audio technology. And they sound good" For fans of such labels as Table of The Elements, Edition, etc. etc."

• Artist: Crank Sturgeon and Gastric Female Reflex Title: live at radio centraal Format: CDR Label: Bennifer Editions (Cananda) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Bennifer_gfr_crank_cdr "beniffer editions cordially invite you to take a whiff of the soggy tour panties of crank sturgeon and gastric female reflex who in the midst of poor hygiene and everlasting sunday morning sentiment bring you their first collaboration. these psychic emanations of pedal gazing, pause button cliff-hangers and haphazard button compressions were recorded on dennis tyfus' radio show and edited down to the bare essentials by charles balls. art works by sekitani in tri-silkscreened splendor by thee benifese retions! "

• Artist: Crawling With Tarts Title: Ludiques Manifestes Format: CDR Label: Lunhare (Italy) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Lunhare_zzz01 "Three live recordings from concerts held in Oakland in 1991 and 1992. Intended to be released on cassette in 1999, but kept in the drawer until now, this work is published for the first time. Improvisation sketches on percussive patterns, self-constructed instruments, and even a punky, fast and furious song. Different sides of a group always different from the rest. " part of Lunhare's Lethargy Series - "New releases of recordings dating back to the last millennium"

• Artist: Crawlspace Title: melbourne cabbage ratio Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR85 10YR.Series.05 - the fifth in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. always expecting great things from this veteran noise/out-rock group, and as usual, they deliver with this jam packed release. over 67 minutes full of non-computer aided electronic, out-rock, noise and even a little comedy thrown in.

• Artist: Crawlspace Title: Law Where Prohibited By Void Format: CD Label: gulcher 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: Crawlspace Title: the roaring winds of louie louie Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR51 "Today‘s Whether Report: You done found the eye o‘ the storm right here ‘tween sleepwalk ‘Space and static comin‘ outta the Blower Coast." an amazing work of playground sampling, guitars, percussion, blank tape, radio, video, etc. part 2 of the "trilogy" which started with Crawlspace Slept Here (OutsideTheAntHill) and will conclude with Static on the Blower Coast. [hand-packaged in recycled LP covers. each hand painted and uniquely illustrated. edition of 100]

• Artist: Crawlspace Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: outsidetheanthill Catalog ID: CarbonDist-OTAH08 Guitars-‘n‘-drums improv comin‘ on strong; toys shakin‘ and eekin‘ ‘tween the cracks; ambient mics for birds and aeroplanes and ice-cream trucks; the blimps are still risin‘. This was gonna be a sorta fill-in disc, constructed randomly of recent (late 2001) recordings, but it turned out to be such a nice listen that we‘re givin‘ the world an edition bigger than the originally projected 30 copies (96 is the plan). Front cover of each package is different; most are photographs chopped down to fit into a jewel case.

• Artist: Crawlspace Title: the rain, the park, and other things Format: CDR Label: outsidetheanthill Catalog ID: CarbonDist-OTAH05 Mix-collage 4-track cassette and dubbing-deck cut-and-paste fuck-up done by Eddie in ‘90/‘91. Featuring snippets of ‘88/‘89 and ‘90/‘91 Crawlspace line-ups, many unknowing "guest stars," XXX-rated humor, spoken word with bass, and solo Eddie insanity (partly while tripping). Numbered edition of 30 in hand-assembled map/envelope-in-jewel-case sleeves.

• Artist: Crawlspace Title: ...slept here Format: CDR Label: outsidetheanthill Catalog ID: CarbonDist-OTAH07 Eddie & Greg start loopin‘ the turntable. Joe‘s layerin‘ on ‘puter. A little "live" percussion but not much. Is that calypso or heavy meddle? Is this Phase 1 of The Roaring Winds? What the fug‘s goin‘ on!? Ever-changing laser-printed sleeves in colored jewel cases. 100 copies.

• Artist: Crawlspace Title: birds of the southern regions Format: CDR Label: slippy town Catalog ID: CarbonDist-SLIPT01 "Walk Away Slowly" (4:26) rock-slip; "Birds of the Southern Regions (33:06) layers of ‘Space improv; "Short Thing April 1" (5:13) a bit o‘ blimp; "McKeever" (31:40) takin‘ it to the street. Handmade torn-cardboard-in- jewel-case package.

• Artist: Crawlspace Title: static from the slowdown Format: CDR Label: slippy town Catalog ID: CarbonDist-SLIPT13 The "trilogy" (?) is completed (??). 16 bite-size "tunes" done with turntable, blank tape + EQ, CD loops, acoustic guitars, trumpet, bird call, jaw harp, percussion, guitar amp, voices, & mac. Ssssss . . . kraaaang! Cover art by Greg circa 1975. 100 copies.

• Artist: Crazy River and Sindre Bjerga Title: black stained songs from silver spines Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR172 recorded live at Sound of Mu in Oslo Norway, this nearly 25min piece slowly builds into a drone/tone/static throb with periodic blasts of heavier tones, thuds and feedback. always quality sounds from this duo. [packaged in 5x7 chipboard stay-flat with silkscreen and splattered artwork. includes sprayed cdr]

• Artist: Crazy River and Sindre Bjerga Title: Everything We Know is Barely Being Held Together Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR148 2 live tracks recorded is Oslo and Stavanger Norway in 2005. scratchy drone-transmissions from the north. this is some quality throb/drone/heavy sounds. another feather in Sindre's frozen cap. [packaged in heavy vinyl sleeve with handmade green paper, sprayed with silver. veluum cover for liner notes on back and sprayed CD] Reviews (1): Crucial Blast The duo of Bjerga and Iversen have been prolific recorders of heavy free-drone and guitar/electronics based psychedelic improv over the past two years, and many of their releases have been finding their way into Crucial Blast. Using electronic noise, found sounds, and heavily distorted guitar drones, the duo consistently deliver slabs of evocative, weighty drift that at times sound like a trippier, FX-drenched version of Sunn O))). But the musicians are also busy outside of their core collaborative project, as we find Sindre Bjerga teaming up with a project called Crazy River for a massive 33 minute drift jam split across two tracks on this handmade disc from Carbon. The group open with "Black Forests Of The Mind", a live improvisation recorded in Oslo, Norway in 2005, and it's a massively heavy zoneout punctuated by weird noises and voice samples. The sound of revving engines and small machines is fed through a thick wall of delay and released to float over a thick amplif ier hum that builds in volume and heaviness over the course of the set until it becomes a buzzing black roar of ambient drone-metal swirled with druggy FX and whirring noises, like Sunn O))) mixed with Nurse With Wound or something along those lines. Nearly eighteen minutes long, the jam finally winds down into a hazy, muted hum. The second track "Brusied But Not Broken" was captured in Stavanger, Norway in 2005 and is another epic improvisation, this time composed from random percussion, squelchy tape manipulations, and hushed riffing. It's a dense soundworld of scraping textures and sampled piano concertos, unnerving stereo panning that send monstrous chewing sounds and snarls spinning around the room, metal scraping and digging sounds, and heavily distorted psych-rock riffing that's buried under it all. A really creepy free-noise jam that sounds like the audio soundtrack to some demented slasher flick. A really nice handmade package as usual from Carbon, with a green paper sleeve sprayed with silver paint and layered with a vellum insert that's printed with the track info, and slipped inside of a heavy plastic sleeve.

• Song Previews: Your Brother, My Brother

  Artist: Crush the Junta Title: your brother, my brother Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR191 This is the fourteenth release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. 3 pieces from a live set recorded at the Bug Jar in July 2010. The heavy, loud low-end-heavy free-rock you've grown to expect from this 3-piece. [packaged with pro-printed covers in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes] Reviews (1): Crucial Blast The latest chunk of lava-like improv-rock from Crush The Junta, that towering trio from Rochester, NY that features members of Entente Cordiale and Transcendental Manship Highway. Yep, we love dark, heavy free rock, and Crush The Junta deliver that in spades with this three track full length that documents a live performance at the Bug Jar in Rochester from earlier in 2010, released as part of Carbon's sprawling 15YR. Series. Think loud, bass-heavy riffage wandering through pounding saurian rhythms, wailing noise guitar freak outs, lumbering slow-core; this'll be right up your alley if you are into the likes of likeminded freeform riff monsters like Rakhim, Burnt Hills, Skullflower, Heavy Winged, Ultrabunny, and Grey Daturas. First up, "Driving Forward" hangs suspended guitar notes among the slow outward wheeze of feedback, introducing their set with a thick foggy drone, a stream of feedback slowly beginning to swell, then recede; the band gradually cranking the volume as the drums enter in a storm of crashing cymbals, and the song strengthens into a pounding drone-rock jam with a powerful melodic riff forming within the bashing, overloaded rock drone, a monstrous single-chord pounding that becomes infused with rumbling, buzzing machine noises that fade in and out, then veers off into jazzier, noisier territory in the latter half of the track. Then the title track comes in with crushing Codeine-esque slowcore based around a droning repetitious riff and slow heavy drums that tread into oblivion, splattered with drugged howls and gusts of amplifier noise. Finally we come to the massive seventeen minute "Clausius", starting with a minimal percussive rhythm and the buzz of a cranked amp, then introducing a lone guitar playing a simple, almost jazzy figure, the drums alternating between shuffling snare and heavier pounding, the guitar beginning to work itself into circular shapes; after several minutes of this, the band finally lets loose, erupting into a brutal squall of Fushitsusha-style feedback and powerful drumming and mangled guitar skronk, and then around halfway in, it turns into a rumbling, zonked out feedback drone jam, waves of garbled guitar noise and bending feedback notes rippling through the air, forming a thick atmosphere of amplifier electricity that gets pretty hypnotic as it stretches out for several minutes. Then the drums crash back in, hammering out a slow, ponderous dirge, while the simple droning guitar begins to bloom into a simple moody riff that repeats over and over, the whole thing morphing into a super heavy droning slowcore crush, getting noisier and more atonal and more distorted as it goes on, screaming high end guitar dropping in sinister howling leads, the sound going from trancey and mesmeric into this darker sludge assault that finishes out the set. Comes in a full color cardboard jacket in a thick vinyl sleeve.

• Artist: Crush the Junta Title: the disappeared Format: CD Label: Carbon Records 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: Crush the Junta Title: the curse of abraham Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR156 two live tracks, totally 42+ minutes. ranges from the stoner/heavy riff-n-drive that live CTJ audiences have been experiencing, to some more deconstructed, almost US Maple-influenced jitters. [packaged in kraft chip-board envelope with full color artwork affixed and dual-color spray splatter. disc is also sprayed. also includes color insert.] Reviews (2): Foxy Digitalis Made up of two tracks “Curse of Abraham” is the first full length CDR by Crush the Junta; a trio that bring forth a blend of pounding doom-inflected sludge with hints of math and indie rock weaving their way in and out of the mix. To lay it out simply this trio really knows how to lay it all flat out and show no mercy with their sonic assault. The first track starts out with some guitar swells and ambient drum noises slowly but surely coalescing into a lumbering monster. What really sets this track ablaze is the rumbling undertones of Chris Reeg’s stand-up bass, as it forms a foundation for the drums and guitar to play over as well as maintaining its own directional clarity. As the first track trudges forward a sudden silence is reached until a quickly strummed guitar moves in and out and then explodes into more extreme heaviness. But the real clincher comes in the third movement of this track where the guitar becomes the rhythmic foundation, laying it down with a jazz infused math-rock swing, while the bass and drums find their way in and out of its simple repetition. The second track, another live effort continues on with similar energies, beginning a bit more melancholy than before, invoking the desert airs of Earth’s latest forays. Slowly the beast reappears moving forward with its single-minded energy to destroy, littered with some melodic leads that soon explode into all out chaos only to recover and find a new path to trod down, before making a half tempo return to the main riff that got the set going in the first place and eventual return to a (slow) full speed accompanied by the faintly heard cries of someone screaming vocals over the din and finally chaos takes us out. 9/10 -- Cory Card (26 September, 2007) - Cory Card Crucial Blast Just found out about this new trio from Rochester, NY, which includes Joe Tunis somewhere in it's lineup. When the fuck does this guy sleep? In addition to running the massive avant-noise label and mailorder Carbon, doing one-day tours where he performs short, fast sets of his solo experimental electronics at various locations around Rochester, collaborating with a million different artists, and playing in the amp-cranking free-rock unit Entente Cordiale, Tunis apparently also operates this killer group alongside Dennis Mariano (also of TIger Cried Beef and Hungness) and Chris Reeg (Blood And Bone Orchestra, The Years). Reeg and Tunis are actually both in Entente Cordiale, and that group's hazy, droning noise rock improv is sort of the starting point for what Crush The Junta are doing. But this outfit however definitely gets more raucous, combining formless guitar riffs and feedback, meandering basslines a la The Dead C and likeminded rock deconstructionists, electronic textures, synths, and freeform percussive splat into waves of amorphous rock action that crest with loud and burly bursts of psychedelic sludgery that come close at times to Grey Daturas-levels of sonic muscle. The Curse Of Abraham is one of the group's first recorded works, a document of two live tracks that each toe the twenty-minute mark, and which run the gamut between brooding, pummeling krautrock workouts, spidery meandering math rock jams, and punishing metallic sludge dripping with woozy, detuned guitars and howling screams. One of the heaviest releases from Carbon to date - keep it up, Joe! I'm looking forward to hearing more from this band. The spraypainted disc comes packaged in a hefty, hand-assembled chip-board envelope similiar to that Pengo disc we carried last year, with full color artwork glued to the front and splattered in dual-color paint, with a color insert.

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  Artist: Crush the Junta Title: hanging design Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR157_RED the Crush the Junta "hanging" design. brick red shirt with gray and white ink and wrap-around design.

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  Artist: Crush the Junta Title: hanging design Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR157_BLUE the Crush the Junta "hanging" design. muted blue shirt with gray and white ink and wrap-around design.

• Artist: Cyrus Rego Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Emperor Jones Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_149 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: D9 Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Heart and Crossbone (Israel) 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: Dakota Title: i go called a teenage on the 10 o'clock news Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_DAKOTA (This is a USED item) on Twistworthy - 1998

• Artist: Dan Melchior und das Menace Title: Catbirds & Cardinals Format: LP Label: Northern Spy (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_NS011 "Catbirds and Cardinalsis the latest psychedelic album lobbed in to New World shores from Dan Melchior und das Menace. Coming down slow with a clear vision, it�s a sure hit. Since the late 90s, Shepperton, England native Dan Melchior has consistently delivered an avant-pop that is off-kilter and literate, with a sense of menace and a stronger sense of play. He�s a new Jesus of Cool, riding just about the underground like the antipodean Chris Knox. The sound of Catbirds and Cardinals is clean, lo-fi, deeply-engaging, and guaranteed to pull in new legions of fans. It�s a clever garage pop set that will lick your pate clean. On Catbirds and Cardinals, Dan Melchior und das Menace successfully meld a hodge podge of disparate elements into a cohesive whole, bringing to mind veteran UK and US underground bands like The Swell Maps, Andrew Klimek, Chrome and Alternative Television more than they do old blues men or the tweedy garage rock conservatives of Dan�s past. Catbirds and Cardinals is probably the most overtly �poppy� Das Menace release, with songs like �Poison Pete�s Holiday� and �English Shame� lodging in the cranium like carpet warehouse jingles. The recordings retain the overdriven quality Melchior is known for but push the envelope sonically into some unexpected places, with the dream like synths of �Crow Radio number 1′ showing a marked departure from the overall guitar grime."

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

• Artist: Dark Inside the Sun Title: Chattanooga Format: CDR Label: Drama (Belgium) Catalog ID: CarbonDist-DRAMA_DARK_INSIDE "Ever wondered how albino rats playing jazz funk greats, would sound ? Second street to the left and you're halfway out there... Dark Inside The Sun bark primitive in the pure songwriter rattling bone style. A crackling array of wounded instruments that jump like ants out of the pants. Smelly drumsticks, broken casio and a delirious craftmanship of hysteric love songs. Even lower than the whale turd at the bottom of the sea... Strongly affilitated with Western Mass psychos Yeay!. Packaged in phat silkscreened fold-out covers by none other than Drama chief Jelle Crama. Limited to 150 copies, if memory card still works..." - carlo steegen

• Artist: darph/nadeR Title: the green album Format: CDR Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1942 (This is a USED item) 2002 Samsa Records release

• Artist: darph/nadeR Title: the red album Format: CDR Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1943 (This is a USED item) 2001 Samsa Records release

• Artist: Darryl Norsen Title: Sublime Frequencies Films tour poster Format: OTHER Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CarbonPosters_sublime_frequencies Designed by Darryl Norsen (www.dnorsen.com) for the Rochester NY tour stop of the Sublime Frequencies Film viewing and lectures featuring Robert WIllis and Ian Nagoski. This is an 11x17 pro-printed poster on heavy glossy card stock. not many copies left, so hurry.

• Artist: Dave Chappelle Title: Chappelle's Show - Season One (uncensored) Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_CAHPPELLE (This is a USED item) still shrink wrapped. full season 1, uncensored.

• Artist: David Cross Title: Let America Laugh Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_DAVIDCROSS (This is a USED item) stand-up comedy

• Artist: David Kendell Title: Triumph of Individuality Format: CDR Label: gameboy Catalog ID: CarbonDist_gb97 "The title for this one is most appropriate as Mr. Kendall's work and vision rest in a realm all his own. Working with digital noise in a time when the genre titans are dusting off their analog gear again, Kendall's intense programming stands out, but it stands tall. Combining elements of improvisation, composition, field recordings and pure noise, Kendall's work is both sharp and vivid. This one is crisp. Analog purists beware. CDR edition of 100."

• Artist: Dead Machines Title: mystery of the fall off islands part two Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR84 10YR.Series.04 - the fourth in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. more amazing handmade electronics and tape manipulation from John Olson (Wolf Eyes) and Tovah O‘Rourke, otherwise known as The Dead Machines...

• Artist: Dean and Thodi Title: Stories and Statistics Format: CDR Label: Expanding Pegasus (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ExpandingPegasus001 "Stories and Statistics �Dean & Thodi� is a space opera miniature with epic/intimate reverberations. Created entirely by Brandon Herford (of Pegacide infamy), Laptopish lo-fi effects combine with innocence and unlikely croons to make a unique, oddly moving patchwork of moments. Originally conceived as an adventure story revolving around the space travelling boy Dean, and the princess Thodi, the album became something more like a companion peice to a childrens book from another time, than a linear story told through song. The songs are short and sweet, (the album clocks in at 16 minutes) and waste no time in hitting all the notes and themes needed to pull the listener within Brandon�s warm, bluesy cosmic aura. The cynical music nerd should beware however, Stories and Statistics has the ability to sneak under pre-conceived barriers of what genres one likes and dislikes. Is this bedroom-space-indie-pop? Ambient-blues-noise-folk? Before you have the chance to sort it out, you are reliving childhood dreams that aren�t your own. Confused yet? So am I, but I�m loving the soundtrack. Stories and Statistic�s Dean and Thodi is presented on a handpainted cd-r in a smooth cardstock gatefold sleeve with printed cover and interior. Each record includes a unique piece of art, torn from Brandon�s lengthy portfolio. Limited to 50 copies."

• Artist: Deciduous vs Conifer Title: leaves and needles Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR153 2 tracks, 50+ minutes. DvsC is a trio consisting of R. Scott Oliver, Chris Reeg (Blood and Bone Orchestra, Entente Cordiale, Crush the Junta and more) and Joe Tunis (Joe+N, Entente Cordiale, Crush the Junta, SQ and formerly of Pengo). the trio plays only non-electrically enhanced instruments, including batteries (so no eBows). instruments on these recordings include acoustic guitar, homemade string instrument, double-bass, homemade mallets, bowls, bells, wooden box drums, bottles, melodica and more, "creating a non-shamanistic/spiritual approach to earthly music. it is what it is." [laser cut wooden cover with the DvsC logo, image behind the cut-out, with the CDR inserted into an adhesive backed vinly sleeve] Reviews (1): Foxy Digitalis Deciduous vs Conifer is the quiet, non-electronically enhanced improvising trio of Joe Tunis (Carbon Records, Joe+N), Chris Reeg (Blood and Bone Orchestra) and R. Scott Oliver. The three employ a wide variety of instrumentation across the two extended tracks; one can hear various percussive instruments, bowed string instruments, bowls, whistles, and any other sound producing device that is ready available without requiring electricity. The most successful aspect of these two works is how well the space is activated with their array of instrumentation. The incorporation of silence and subtle sounds demand the listener’s attention, while an occasional louder groove does arise, it is in these tinier aspects that the group really shines allowing plenty of breathing space while weaving intricate layers in and out of one another. The first of the two untitled tracks has a slightly jazzier feel especially towards the end where a very free and heady groove develops between the stand-up bass and drums. This brings a feeling of resolution to the heavy instrumental tension and silent interludes found in the beginning. The second track is a bit more out there with the heavy use of chimes, bowed strings and even a beautiful meleodica duo; this is the set where the trio can be found at their absolute peak with a focus on tension, texture and the subtle building and decay of sound. Where this work becomes extremely interesting is in the live context as the trio plays at a level in which the audience is forced to be extremely mindful of the sounds they make. Even the subtle shifts of ones body in the chair makes quite a racket during a performance with a very attentive and engaged audience. This aspect of the work does make itself somewhat evident in the recording as the audience is occasionally heard as a part of the recording, especially towards the beginning of each track, but unfortunately the real thing can only be experienced in the flesh. Regardless of my good fortune of experiencing Deciduous vs. Conifer live, I do have to say that this is exciting and vibrant recording full of wonderful textures and sounds. The disc is also wonderfully housed in a plastic sleeve attached to a laser-cut wood panel. 9/10 -- Cory Card (7 August, 2007) - Cory Card

• Artist: DEL Title: No Escape From the Valley of the Cannibals Format: 7inch Label: Killer (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_DEL (This is a USED item) super heavy vinyl

• Artist: Delarosa / u-sheen Title: split Format: LP Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_DELAROSA (This is a USED item) split 12" on Fluid Ounce Records 1997

• Artist: Demons/THAMES Title: split Format: CASS Label: Wintage (Canada) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WRT30 "Part of the ongoing Wintage Tape Subscription Club Side A: Demons create a totom of Psychodelic Brain-wash, the proto-prog travelouge for the psychonaut in all of us. To Jupiter and beyond..set the controls for the heart of the yada yada yada... hands down favorite release to date, only Black Monoliths & Tracers remain! Side B: THAMES hail from Montreal and create wasted walls of Psychodelic scum. Blake Hargreaves(Dreamcatcher, Cousins of Reggae) & Alexander Moskos(Drainolith,Unireverse) kick you in with a bucket full of Brain-skunk, obliterating and Phat! Ltd. Ed. 100"

• Artist: Derek Rogers Title: Relative Quiet (C32) Format: CASS Label: Bathetic (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BATHETIC043 "With Relative Quiet, Derek Rogers offers us 6 tracks of shimmering ambiance. Tremulous tones flirt with the sensitive areas of your psyche while the bass coos you into slumber. This cassette drifts into areas not too removed from the likes of Tim Hecker, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, or Grasslung. "

• Artist: Destructro Swarmbots Title: Clear Light Format: CD Label: Public Guilt (USA) 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: Disguises Title: Weaponizer Format: CDR Label: Wintage (Canada) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_wrt12 "Debut full length by Toronto's noise/punk barfers. Nine tracks of harrrd sci-fi, total wasted psych. During recording sessions for the album, the group developed a lean, muscular physique. A garunteed punch in the sonic plexus."

• Artist: Diving Bell Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Moodswing Records (USA) 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: Dixie Prix Title: Le Tombeau de Dixie Prix Format: CDR Label: Pirate Scheme Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PS002 The ideal thing for club owners to clear the place out when it‘s closing time. No matter what kind of show, be it Pop, Jazz, Punk or Extreme Noise, this disc will have everyone out in no time.

• Artist: DJ QBert Title: wave twisters Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1922 (This is a USED item) 1998 Galactic Butt Hair release

• Artist: DJ Scud and Christoph Fringeli Title: Bodysnatcher 12" single Format: LP Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_DJSCUD (This is a USED item) on Ambush. 12" single.

• Artist: DJ Soul Slinger Title: upload: a continuous mix Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_DJSoulSlinger_upload (This is a USED item)

• Artist: DJ Soul Slinger Title: missing time : the abducted remixes Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_DJSoulSlinger_missingtime (This is a USED item)

• Artist: DJ Soul Slinger Title: Don't Believe Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_DJSoulSlinger_dontbelieve (This is a USED item)

• Artist: DJ Spooky and Totemplow Title: kaotik : transgression Format: LP Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_DJSPOOKY (This is a USED item) on Manifold Records. illbient techno.

• Artist: DJ Thumper / Vankmen Title: split Format: CASS Label: hatestate (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HS015 "both sets recorded live at the Ravesploitation festival in Los Angeles, in complete hi fidelity by Jonathan Snipes. Gabber power and spirit of punk."

• Artist: Dogbox Title: s/t C62 Format: CASS Label: 905 Tapes (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_905.107 "i got a package in the mail about a month ago that looked as if it was sent by a four year old. barely legible scribble on the envelope and a letter inside (click here to check it out) which read "dear 905 tapes, we saw your review and liked it. here is a tape. put it out on your music label. thank you. dogbox". the review they were talking about is one that i wrote on tabs out last year for a tape of theirs on scumbag relations. it was a total fuck-up, garbled mess and i loved it. this jam is just as exquisite. confused, bong ripper sounds from two 7-11 employees. the return address on the package is actually a 7-11. did i mention that? how perfect is that?! this must be a joke. these dudes can't exist"

• Artist: Dolores Dewberry / Origami Genitalia Title: split Format: CD Label: Carbon Records 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: Doug Liman Title: The Bourne Identity Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_BOURNEIDENTITY (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Drive the Pieces Together Title: Ethnography Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR182 This is the fourth release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. "Drive the Pieces Together was a band that existed for one performance only. Actually, now that I think about it, I'm not sure if it was a band or a composition....Peter Warren, a guitarist, had composed a piece of electronic music with significant silences in it. The group, consisting of Steve Norton (a sax player who would, for this project, only play a turntable), Vic Rawlings (amplified cello), Erik Carlsen (tuba), Dave (reeds), and me (Howard Stelzer) (cassette tapes), would improvise along with Peter's recording, which would function as a sort of score." [packaged with silk-screened logo over a unique "sampled" page in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes]

• Artist: Duf Davis and The Book Club Title: Shut Up and Detune Your Guitar Format: CDR Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_DUF (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Dum Dum TV / Wire Hippo Title: split Format: 7inch Label: fever pitch Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_DUMDUM (This is a USED item) transparent red vinyl

• Artist: Durán Vázquez Title: Ghetto, Borghetto Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR108 "It is a work that arose from the experimentation with software effects, and in a very intuitive way." Durán is a Spanish noise artist, with releases on Alg-a netlabel and Crónica. transmissions.... contact?.... responses.... contact? parts of this almost sound like the tribute release(s) Sub Rosa did years ago for philospher Gilles Deleuze. [packaged in spray-painted slim jewel case with spray painted cdr] Reviews (1): Modisti Distorsion processed electronic sources progressively give way to denser texture of various other materials featuring all maner of idiomatic, mediatic, music samples and instrumental processings that contribute to the weaving of this accretion of assorted noise. Constant disruption comes to mind as a common denominator of these busy sumperimpositions of unrelated, chaotic materials, thus illustrating an illuminating portrait of present day relevance. The internal logic of the accretions obey its obvious lack of coherence, thus drifting in a careful manner if totally devoid of aim, purpose or message. It is merely a portrait in its recurrent, relentless insistence and merciless precission of development.

• Artist: Dylan Nyoukis Title: The Curious March of the Goat Faced Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR187 This is the ninth release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. 1 second under 60 minutes of vocal experiments, field recordings, sound collage, synth space effects, string arrangements and more. [packaged with pro-printed covers in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes]

• Artist: Dyn@mutt Title: a handbook for young scientists Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_farrago (This is a USED item) on the Farrago label.

• Artist: Earzumba Title: Afuera de la naranja Format: CD Label: Audiobot (Belgium) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_BOT024 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Ed Chang Title: marble / latch Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR106 here's an amazing drone guitar release from Ed Chang, the man behind NYC-based Quodlibet label. member of Spin-17, and all around free-improv, experimental, out-there musician. this showcases his softer, more subtle drone-infestations/incantations. [packaged in heavy vinyl sleeve with b&w photo by Ed on the front, and veluum back cover. cds are spray painted] Reviews (1): Modisti A careful work exploring the possibilities of continuous electric guitar drones developed over extended periods of time. Featuring smooth transitions between the different sound masses, the static character is the result of a careful mastery; the balance involved in handling feedback being akin to that of high-tension wires. Quite subtle in its approach, the materials are displayed with a certain Indian tanpura quality in the slow unfolding of overtones. Other tracks present harsher surfaces, with noise elements that emphasize rougher textures and larger doses of processing.

• Artist: Electric Annihilation Title: Issue #01 Format: ZINE Label: Electric Annihilation (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_electric_annihilation01 EA is a 20-page music publication, b&w on tabloid-size (11 x 17 pages) newsprint. Circulation of 5,000 copies. The first issue includes interviews with: Thurston Moore Henry Rollins John Olson (Wolf Eyes/American Tapes) Emeralds Sun Araw Wet Hair Nomen Dubium Plus scene reports from Gothenburg Sweden (written by Matthias Andersson of Release the Bats), Cleveland (by Sam Goldberg) and Iowa City (by Shawn Reed). Also an article by Jon Isaac. There's a centerfold poster too. Cover artwork and border/frames by Zachary Fleming.

• Artist: Electric Mono River Title: No sunlight down here Format: CDR Label: Dead Sea Liner (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_deadsealiner019 "Live mini-album of mono spectral meditations and caveman incantations from Norwegian supergroup of Sindre Bjerga, Per Gisle Gal�en and Martin Powell."

• Artist: Eleventh Day Dream Title: eighth Format: CD Label: Thrill Jockey Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_109 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Eli Keszler Title: R.L.K. Format: CD Label: Rel Records (USA) 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: Emil Beaulieau Title: live in WNY Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR115 two 30+min live performances by "America's Greatest Living Noise Artist." first set is from July 2003 recorded at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester NY. in the middle of the set, Emil instructs all the visitors in the space, that they MUST enter the performance area before he continues on with his set. YES! the second track is from a performance in August 2003 at Hallswalls in Buffalo NY. Mr. Beaulieau getting melodic towards the end of the set, completely annihilating an orchestral moment. [second in the Carbon Recycled.Series. cover is a "recycled" LP, cut down to 5" x 5" square]

• Artist: Entente Cordiale Title: life underground Format: 2CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR167 This is a set of studio and live Entente Cordiale recordings. disc 1 consists of a studio session at the Bunker in Rochester NY, recorded by Nuuj (of Pengo/Asthmatic/Tuurd). three pieces varying from the EC guitar pattern/drone approach, and ending with an on-the-edge of falling apart secular mantra before diving into the most uncharacteristic EC sounds to date (channeling the then future direction of Tumul). disc 2 consists of a long live set recorded at Soundlab in Buffalo NY, when EC (accompanied by Nuuj) opened for the Yellow Swans. a marathon blast of loud guitar riffs, drones and deep synth action. [sprayed and silkscreened 5x7 chipboard stay-flat kraft envelopes with sprayed discs] Reviews (1): Foxy Digitalis I know that I�m not the only wholehearted advocate for Rochester, NY�s most excellent Carbon Records imprint, but I feel like there just isn�t enough love being broadcast throughout this worldwide �web� of ours for this high-quality label. I can�t say enough how consistently these guys (guy, actually) issue quality recordings. Carbon Greatness Exhibit A: this latest double CD-R of guitar goodness from Entente Cordiale � a trio consisting of Chris Reeg, Will Veeder and Carbon boss man Joe Tunis. These guys specialize in slow-motion shredding and extended feedback wrangling. The two discs that comprise �Life Underground� demonstrate the two unique faces of the EC oeuvre. The first disc is a home studio recording, while the second disc documents a single live show from a few months prior to the studio session. Both discs amply serve as platforms for the group�s relaxed approach to improv, but each contains a unique cache of treasures befitting the specific recording environment. In the studio, EC showcases their sense of balance: melody is played off of dissonance, and quietude begets commotion. On the first track, a short guitar line repeats ad infinitum underneath a slowly-building web of textured guitar noise. The second and third tracks are lengthy feedback-laden sludge feasts whose landscapes are littered with the debris of ruined guitars. The live disc is a demonstration of the drone-to-chaos aspect of the EC sound. What starts out as a manageable slow-burning ember of sound erupts into a frenzied blaze, with furious waves of feedback cast to and fro. A churning cascade of deep-end drone pierces the madness, reeling in any stray frequencies. There is almost two hours of music on �Life Underground�, enough to satiate the hungriest of out-guitar fans. After this, do we need any more evidence that there is quality music coming from the bowels of post-industrial America? I think not, but I welcome it anyway. 9/10 - Byron Hayes

• Artist: Entente Cordiale Title: the recognition of common interests Format: CD Label: Carbon Records 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: Entente Cordiale Title: 100 yrs Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR102 a little over 34min of triple-guitar damage and drone. 2 tracks. not too far from their first release, 1904, at first. but the second track, ends with a crushing 10+min drone and dual-drummer action. even took us by surprise ; ) [original covers were hand-silkscreened, edition of 102. 2 color print job. about 30 of them are silver and gold, while the rest are silver and dark blue, on heavy watercolor paper (textured). re-release is a simple color-printed cover. folded into a plastic sleeve.] Reviews (1): Crucial Blast More formless, heavy amp-drone jams from the Rochester-based group Entente Cordiale. 100 yrs is made up of two long, untitled tracks...the first features a gradually building storm of shambling free-guitar-noise, lots of mangled, howling feedback, and loud vibratory drones emitting from the amplifiers. The second track works up some great, shimmery feedback textures into almost My Bloody Valentine style blobs of wobbly, melodic pink noise before lumbering into a crushing horizontal dirge with two drummers pounding away under waves of amplifier chant. I love it when formless guitar noise and feedback rock creeps into that sugary territory between mid-90's Skullflower and MBV's Loveless, and this track delivers. Loud, lo-fi, melted drone-rock with three guitars that draws from the whole amp sludge/Skullflower/Earth 2 legacy...I can never get enough of this stuff. 34 minutes of pure guitar damage. Comes packaged in a heavy watercolor paper sleeve with blue and silver artwork screenprinted onto it.

• Artist: Entente Cordiale Title: 1904 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR80 a 22+ minute experiment in guitar drones, swells and even some melodies. 3 guitars, multiple (distortion) pedals and some very loud amps. think Gate, Earth, Vibracathedral Orchestra, etc. Reviews (3): Crucial Blast This single-track, 23 minute disc contains some excellent, gluey, guitar-based improvised drones that sort of bridge the gap between Earth 2 and the celestial sludgy krautrock of SKULLFLOWER's Orange Canyon Mind, with thick rumbling feedback dripping slowly over swells of repetitious chords and peals of strangled guitar strings. ENTENTE CORDIALE rarely employ any actual melodies in this recording, but those that do appear, surface only momentarily before they are dragged back down beneath the mighty amplifier hum. The Rochester, NY based group uses 3 guitars and an army of distortion pedals to erect 1904, and it's a solid monument of amp worship along the lines of early EARTH, VIBRACATHEDRRAL ORCHESTRA, FULCI, and SKULLFLOWER. The unmarked disc is packaged in a minimal but nice looking cardstock wallet in a resealable plastic sleeve. Modisti [ Entente Cordiale - 1904 CDR ] A collective approach to the development of extended drone textures created by means of electric guitars. Featuring a dense flow of pulsating, transparent veils, the superimposition of overtones and processed fabrics creates a complex dome of continuous noise. The vault’s nerves become increasingly close, layers getting thicker, their continuous character contributing to add to the density of the whole although the careful process of addition unfolds according to a calculated plan. The immediate reminiscences of the materials –such as harshness and protest- are here counterbalanced by the extreme subtlety with which the sounds are handled. More importantly, they subtly hint at the fragility beneath the complex veil of abstract noise, which simultaneously states an almost trance-like recurrence of rhythmic statements of collective celebration/cry. Foxy Digitalis 1904. 100 years ago. I can't imagine anyone back then thought the advancements in music technology that have happened in that time would have ever been possible. Entente Cordiale are another new addition to the fantastic Carbon imprint. This short release contains only one track that clocks in at just under 23 minutes. From what I can tell, there is nothing here other than two, distorted, improvised guitar tracks. It's simple, but there is still a lot happening. There are some other minimal effects as well like reverb (and possibly some subtle tremolo), but they aren't very important. What makes this release good is how the guitars play off each other so well. Because of this, the track is dense, sucking in all the sounds of the space in which it was recorded. Each takes its turn at the forefront as well. While one will play something more melodic, perhaps higher on the fretboard, the other will continue laying down thick layers of distorted goop below. Keeping this low-end constant allows the track to sound more full. I feel like this is one, really short moment stretched into 20 minutes. It unfolds so slow that, at times, it feels like it's not unfolding at all. It's like you're just sitting there having your ear drums massaged by sound. Like I said, it's simple, but in that simplicity is something quite beautiful. As a short debut, Entente Cordiale definitely have my attention. I can't wait to see where they go next. - Brad Rose

• Artist: Eric Valli Title: Himalaya Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_HIMALAYA (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Estasy Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IKU_Estasy "black velvet mask, golden wigs, untied shoes, candle flames & beautiful trickling of wax, vine leaves, powder puffs. mystery is the word. all tracks recorded in darkness. its about spiritual evol love emotion....its not the pills...oh oh whatever" - emi estasy

• Artist: Eugene Carchesio Title: Garden of Souls Format: 3inch CDR Label: Kindling Catalog ID: CarbonDist_KIN13 solo release from this collaborator of Leighton Craig and also member of G55 with Leighton and Simon Ellaby.

• Artist: Euphone Title: The Calendar of Unlucky Days Format: CD Label: Jade Tree Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_4 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Euphone Title: Breaking Parole Format: CDEP Label: Hefty Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_5 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: evapori / [-hyph-] Title: bewegungen /fragmentation itself Format: CDR Label: Anti-information (Germany) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ AICdisc001 split cd-r 60min, 1st ed/100

• Artist: everlasting the way Title: long-stretching-motorcycle-hymn-highway Format: CD Label: USED 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: Extreme Noise Terror / Cock E.S.P. Title: split Format: OTHER Label: Little Mafia (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_LM068 THIS IS A 5" VINYL RECORD. EXTREME NOISE TERROR needs no introduction; the legendary British crust/grind band has spent 25 years building a reputation for uncompromising aural brutality as well as genre-crushing experimentation. Presented here is an alternate recording of "Human Waste" - a track from the band's recent "Law of Retaliation" album on Osmose Productions. http://www.extremenoiseterror.co.uk http://www.myspace.com/extremenoiseterroruk COCK E.S.P. was born from the American cassette undergound in 1993, producing extreme and unlistenable electronic noise. Over hundreds of releases and dozens of chaotic live shows, the group has distanced themselves from their avant-garde peers with their aggressive attitude and absurdist sense of humor. Presented here are three brief tracks unreleased elsewhere, which appear to be somehow inspired by M�tley Cr�e. http://www.cockesp.com http://www.myspace.com/cockesp

• Artist: failsafe Title: about time Format: CDR Label: sijis Catalog ID: CarbonDist_sijisep01 "here‘s a question. you‘ve grown up loving dance music, slowly disolving your spine twisting the night away, getting home and playing midi until it‘s time to call in sick at work. everything‘s great. then suddenly one day you notice it‘s been nearly ten years since you left the house, let alone went to a club, but the machines are still there, getting smaller every year, looking at you. Sound familiar? of course not, otherwise everybody would have made this wonderful ep. an ep that says above everything, "take a fish out of water for long enough and you might be able to explain to him what water is." this is music for those happiest dancing in a sitting position. you have been warned."

• Artist: Family Treasures + Hunted Creatures Title: split C20 Format: CASS Label: 905 Tapes (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_905.104 "d. moore appropriates the outer limits synth/electronic mind wipe on the family treasures end. serious layers of sharp bites and wavering tones build and build and build. r. emmett brings the soothing, glacial chill-out moments blending mega deluxe drones with market place percussion and ultra slim, glitchy rhythms. it's like your brain is stuck in a rainbow. taste the rainbow."

• Artist: Family Underground Title: Salt of the Sun Format: CD Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) 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: Fastbacks Title: The question is NO. Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_FASTBACKS (This is a USED item) Sub Pop release from 1992

• Artist: fervent Title: conjestion Format: CDR Label: more mars (Greece) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_mm02 "fervent is a solo project by a.m., who lives in larissa (greece). This is his first release. Guitar, numb keyboards, ackward field recordings, silly talks and extensive editing comprise this almost 60 minute album of (that should be thought of according to his own words as) 'meta-emo'."

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

• Artist: Finkbeiner Title: lucky scorpion Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR11 Scarey outsider freak stays up for 48 hours straight and concocts a demented classic. Kinda sounds like John Fahey at the end of a week long Alcohol and prescription pill binge. This record is not recommended for small children or anyone recovering from acute psychosis.

• Artist: Finkbeiner Title: the challenge Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR16 Completely damaged outsider strum and wank. Seriously overamped, distorted and making no apologies. If every young aspiring guitar player had to listen to this record instead of overdone crap like Joe Satriani, the world would truly be a better place. Finkbeiner‘s guitar abuse is in the similar realm as Rudolph Gray, Alan Licht and Kenji Hano. All of those guys should be on the cover of Guitar Player Magazine. And in a perfect world they would be. Also, all beer would be free. "Can you face the Challenge?"

• Artist: Finkbeiner Title: washed up Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR19 Deconstructed instrumental pop songs and expansive higher key head benders. "You‘ve got yr chocolate in my ratweed!" this is the first finkbeiner recording of non-solo material. here, he‘s joined by c.dugan on bells, and also backed up by his bandmates charles and jona on a couple of the songs.

• Artist: Fistula Title: Goat Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast 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: Flaming Lips Title: Zaireeka Format: OTHER Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_LIPS2CD (This is a USED item) 4CD concept release, all CDS are meant to be played at the same time on different stereos, or you can just go one at a time.

• Artist: flea apparitions and lame prey Title: split Format: 3inch CDR Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosethirtysix "this is the first in a small doses split personality series. lame prey and flea apparitions are both products of the same mind, that of lorne zeman. lame prey starts the disc off with a long piece that mixes up huge, harsh sounds that tend towards power electronics with feedback laced calms in the storm. the flea apparitions portion takes a similarly harsh but more relentless approach built from tape loops. edition of 66 copies."

• Artist: fluf Title: Mangravy Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1918 (This is a USED item) Headhunter Records release

• Artist: Flycatcher Title: Pee single Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CabonUSED_FLYCATCHER (This is a USED item) on Chunk Records - 1995

• Artist: Flywheel Title: s/t Format: 7inch Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR02 Flywheel is a catchy 3-piece pop band. The band consists of 2 girls on guitar and drums, and an ever-changing male lineup on bass.

• Artist: Foot and Mouth Disease Title: Shiva Knows Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK010 another self-release by the ever prolific, Rochester legend, Larry J Patti. minimal synth and noise guitar pieces, dark transmissions from somewhere.

• Artist: Foot and Mouth Disease Title: Restop Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK011 another self-release by the ever prolific, Rochester legend, Larry J Patti. (sometimes-broken-up) synth noise, sampling and drones.

• Artist: Foot and Mouth Disease Title: Conservative Puke '77 Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK009 Foot and Mouth Disease is back, this time with an increasingly omninous sound. heavy noisy synth and effectedness.

• Artist: Foot and Mouth Disease Title: Not So Real... Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK008 sample/damage/drone/noise solo project from Rochester native and no.1 noise-fan Larry J. Patti.

• Artist: Foot and Mouth Disease Title: Clear III Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK007 sample/damage/drone/noise solo project from Rochester native and no.1 noise-fan Larry J. Patti.

• Artist: Foot and Mouth Disease Title: Two Sicilies Format: 2CDR Label: Cornsilk Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK06

• Artist: Foot and Mouth Disease Title: don't kill animals - urban noise Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK005 another release from F+M (Larry Patti). recycled cdr covers, HARDCORE DEMO SCENE IS NOT DEAD!!

• Artist: Foot and Mouth Disease Title: ...but what ends when the symbols become schtick? Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK002

• Artist: Foot and Mouth Disease Title: santa muerte Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK004

• Artist: Foot and Mouth Disease / Better Title: split cassette Format: CASS Label: BT Recordings (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BT003 "C40. F&MD contributes one long track of pulsing, varied noise/electronics. Betty's side is four shorter tracks of decaying tape noise"

• Artist: Formatt Title: extended Format: 3inch CD Label: ROBORECORDS Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ROBO004 The very matter of sonic microscopy, pulling found sounds out of context to fully explore and adjust their hidden characteristics, never exposing light on their unpresuming origin, has become the driving vessel for investigating the extrems of auditory perception. His sound never stays silent till the last, yet squeamishly evoking timorous phrases that gradually coalesce around the subtle treasures of the soil. Fractured breathy analog injections, titled from a scarcely asserted sonic palette, are decidedly adjustable, hovering forward yet peeling their modulated delays fully into the arctic backbone of resonating hollowness. Providing a few flirtations with fuzzy pulses and fluctuating watery plops, the frictional rhythmic resistance that comes drifting onto the surface is suspiciously dark in its corners of scooped out complexity. As if the stark subtlety and finesse has fallen into the clutches of a hypnotic state of mind, mysteriously paying homage to imminent dub techniques, that fight like Kilkenny cats over evaporated sinewaves. Formatts work tends to emphaze a schizophrenic structure, infusing the sound-clusters with highly deliberate analog patterns hence any potential sound grown to the surface gets seemingly restructured into the core of its faceless vessel.

• Artist: Fossils From the Sun Title: Somebody's Gotta Lose Format: 3inch CDR Label: Abandon Ship (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ASR040 "The latest release from Ray Hare's (Century Plants, Burnt Hills) Fossils From the Sun is a 19 minute sonic geography where fuzzed guitar propulsion buckles into static beats and shaken vox damage. Think Omit's desolation, Spacemen 3's nod and Alan Vega's terrorism. Refract that through the brutality of Century Plants Bloodrise and Somebody's Gotta Lose appears on the horizon � a dub of the sun"

• Artist: Fossils From the Sun Title: From Another Sun Format: CDR Label: Tape Drift (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TD06 "Monster solo debut from Ray Hare of Century Plants and Burnt Hills. Ranging from meditative guitar mantras to blissed out noise to hazy melodic riffage, and covering most of the points in between, this release has fast become a favorite here at Tape Drift headquarters. A very tight and driven set, this has the conceptual purity that only a debut can have, as it represents years and years of preparation and inspiration. Get on the train early - there's much more to come and you won't want to have missed out on the beginnings. Edition of 50."

• Artist: Found Magazine Title: issue #3 Format: ZINE Label: Found Magazine (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Found_03 "(March 2004, 96 pages) Kick His Heart's Ass - The Love And Heartbreak Issue! "For Sale. Set of his & hers gold wedding bands. (Never used) $50.00." The best, most heart-wrenching finds yet, coupled with interviews with The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players and Popcorn Pete- The World's Greatest Finder."

• Artist: Four Fifty Six Title: 1, 2 and 3 Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_FOURFIFTYSIX (This is a USED item) on ActionBoy 300 (Chicago)

• Artist: fourier Title: remixes Format: CDR Label: sijis Catalog ID: CarbonDist_sijisep05 "we apologise for the lack of commercial sucess inherent in above releases. as a means of compensation here are some free pop remixes. help yourself."

• Artist: freiband Title: martin. seven [new] aspects Format: 3inch CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD36

• Artist: Friction Title: hours of operation - discography 1991-1994 Format: 2CD Label: Polyvinyl Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_132 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Fritz Lang Title: Metropolis Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_METORPOLIS (This is a USED item) original 1926 silent movie with musical score

• Artist: Further (AUS) Title: the crow read Format: CD Label: Comrade Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_12 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Further (AUS) Title: infinite space Format: CDEP Label: Comrade Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_9 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Future Guru Title: funeral for bucky Format: 3inch CDR Label: sound-o-mat Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SEANCE03 5min piece on rectangular CDR in a cellophane-wrapped and decorated paper box {edition of 50]. the cdr is the ouija board, comes with literature on using the baord, etc. amazing packaging! part of the Music for Seances series (http://austere.org/oracle/seances.shtml)

• Artist: G3 Title: s/t Format: 3inch CDR Label: White Flag (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_whiteflag04 featuring Tim Albro and Jesse Kudler from HZL, and joined by Ben Stanko. each playing various forms of guitar, electric, acoustic and harmonics, respectively. and each also using other devices such as rebab, contact microphone, synthesizer and electronics.

• Artist: Gang Wizard Title: 4515 Thesis: A Series Of Split Pots - 2007 Tour CDr Format: CDR Label: tanzprocesz (France) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ tzpCD19 "GW in europe in february 2007 !!! teddy bear noise, blast rock, invocations."

• Artist: Gays in the Military Title: People is Beautiful Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_GAYSIN_MILITARY (This is a USED item) Gulcher release from 2005

• Artist: Gays in the Military Title: People is Beautiful Format: CD Label: gulcher 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: Gaze Title: 2 Format: CASS Label: Zum (USA) 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: Geisha Title: Die Verbrechen Der Liebe Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast 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 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 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: George Cartwright and Davu Seru Title: Rag Format: LP Label: roaratorio Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ROAR19 "Rag captures the best from a series of freely improvised meetings between saxophonist George Cartwright and percussionist Davu Seru, recorded at various Minneapolis venues over the course of 2009. Cartwright � longtime leader of Curlew, and owner of a musical c.v. which includes Ornette Coleman, Half Japanese, Alex Chilton and Loren Mazzacane � can be restlessly melodic or jaggedly guttural on the reeds, although his bedrock lyricism is never far from the surface. Seru�s playing is a trompe l�oreille marriage of forward motion and suspended stasis; over the past decade, he�s performed with Milo Fine, Paul Metzger and Evan Parker, among others. From the anthemic opening of �Titus� to the miniature coda of �I Think Eudora Knows,� Rag is a lively dialogue between two masters of their craft. Released in an edition of 300 copies on colored vinyl, each with a unique cover print by Anne Elias and a digital download coupon."

• Artist: Giantschair Title: Purity and Control Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_GIANTS_CHAIR (This is a USED item) braille embossed cover. on Caulfield Records (Lincoln NE)

• Artist: glimr Title: south dakota logic mechanism Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_glimr (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Gnaw Their Tongues Title: L'arriv�e de la Terne Mort Triomphante Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR85 "One of the extreme metal/industrial underground's most unique bands, Gnaw Their Tongues arises again with a new album of majestic, orchestral death-terror called L'arriv�e de la Terne Mort Triomphante, a series of five hymns to the death shroud, a celebration of dissolution. This Dutch one-man avant black/doom/industrial band is responsible for two of the most chilling albums of abstract heaviness to have been released in recent years (An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood and All The Grand Magnificence Of Perversity, both from Crucial Blast), but with this new full-length, Gnaw Their Tongues peels back additional layers of it's bombastic horror to reveal moments of euphonic beauty more than we've heard on the previous albums. This is still harrowing stuff, though. The album opens with soaring choirs of the damned and a cacophony of tortured shrieks and demonic howling underneath a crushing, sludgy bass riff and pounding elephantine drumming, total blackened doom that's soon joined by peals of dissonant strings and softer droning cellos and violins. As you get deeper into " L'arriv�e de la terne mort triomphante", there are moments of severe beauty that emerge, brief passages of fragile piano and mournful strings, the soft crackle of ancient vinyl grooves and French horns. These moments repeat throughout the album, lots of symphonic shadow that drifts amidst the pounding industrial blackness, but they never last for long as the spiraling woodwinds and cyclical piano figures inevitably become subsumed into the blasts of malevolent orchestral might. The fearsome martial drums and brass fanfares at the beginning of "Les anges fr�missent devant la mort" eventually evolve into stretches of abstract industrial percussive pummel over droning strings and organ, and then into a stunning cinematic finale. That's followed by the clanking doom, swarming black buzz and sheet-metal cacophony of "La mort dans toute son ineffable grandeur/splendeur", the most industrial-sounding track on the album. "Le Chant De La Mort" is a lurching, blown-out death march that shifts into an infernal dubbed-out dirge, and the closing track " Le tr�ne blanc de la mort (de white throne of death)" rumbles through funereal classical drift, waves of horns, strings, percussion surging into a series of dark, mournful shapes at first, but are then shattered by pounding doom metal drums and wailing choir voices, becoming an utterly grim blackened dirge with distorted shrieking vocals that are wracked with agony, ending the album with a suffocating atmosphere of death. At its heaviest, it's like funeral doom bathed in modern orchestral music, a cross between Penderecki and pitch-black doom filth, pulverizing and intensely evil. Of course, this is essential for fans of previous Gnaw Their Tongues albums, but it's equally recommended to fans of both abstract blackened weirdness of bands like Emit, Abruptum, and Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, and the bleak Wagnerian industrial of In Slaughter Natives and Shinjuku Thief. Like the previous two Gnaw Their Tongues releases on Crucial Blast, this comes in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket (which is exclusive to the North American release of this disc). Released for North America and all other non-European/UK territories by Crucial Blast."

• Artist: Gnaw Their Tongues Title: All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast 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) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_le02 "Mysterious Portland, OR duo. This here is heavy. Cables coming apart and shit." - The SNSE

• Artist: Godfrey Reggio Title: Naqoyqatsi Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_NAQOYATSI (This is a USED item) Philip Glass soundtrack with Yo-Yo Ma

• Artist: Goh Lee Kwang and Tim Blechmann Title: DRONE Format: CD Label: Herbal Records (Germany) 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 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_121 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Gorilla Title: Deal With It Format: CD Label: USED 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 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 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 Palast Title: Bush Family Fortunes Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_BUSHFAMILY (This is a USED item) documentary

• Artist: Greg Palast Title: Weapon on Mass Instruction (LIVE) Format: CD Label: AK Press (USA) 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 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: Gus Van Sant Title: Good Will Hunting Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_GOODWILLHUNTING (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Half Ice Half Wasted Title: MUDBOY BEATS (SERIES II) Format: CDR Label: Mudboy (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_mudboy_halfice "Someone had the retarded Idea of attaching the inputs and outputs of the nations finest DJ of Freakcore smashedup with the stylings of mudboy Beats. As DJ Jassy Jesssss turns the twist hop up up up mudboy hotwires his openfaced drum machine live. A finely compiled collection from many hours of recording. 100% HITS! We promise to meet you in the future with this one."

• Artist: Half Makshift Title: final Format: CDR Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosesix "This new disc from Half Makeshift/Nathan Michael will serve as a bridge of sorts between his new release of 20BuckSpin and the new material he is working on for an upcoming release. Final’s deconstructed guitar and dark piano melodies provide the soundtrack to the quiet after the storm. Numbered edition of 151 split between two versions featuring different paper stocks and front cover images."

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

• Artist: Happy Mother‘s Day, I Can‘t Read Title: s/t Format: CD Label: freedom from Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ff251

• Artist: Harold Barclay Title: The State Format: BOOK Label: Freedom Press Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ISBN-1-904491-00-6 The state is neither an inevitable, nor natural, phenomenon, but the creation of despots. Its history is a history of power, wealth and tyranny. The immortality of the state is the greatest myth of our society. Anthropologist Harold Barclay explains how a powerful elite has hijacked control of society. Through control of agriculture, warfare, trade, labor and other resources the state has seized complete power. Do we really need the state or should we organise society ourselves?

• Artist: Hassu Pelle Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IKU_HassuPelle Hassu Pelle (Funny Clown) from Tampere, Finland was active only a couple of years at the first part of 2000s. This hilarious quintet was formed by Pelle Eloton, Pelle Svansl�s, Ulkomaan Pelle, Pelle J�tk�, and Apupelle who was involved with the recording session. Hassu Pelle�s self-titled first and only record was originally released by the band members themselves with the edition of approximately only 30 copies. Hassu Pelle played some mind-boggling live shows for the handful of people mostly just in their home town. These small audiences were witness to the surprisingly fresh and thrilling musical happiness. First impression might be that Hassu Pelle�s music is just �foolery�, but hidden underneath the seeming simplicity these compositions carry true brilliance. Eight catchy tracks were recorded at those mighty days when Hassu Pelle was dancing at the peak of their strength. At the recording session they used the simple one-take-style without overdubs. The result is extremely playful, yet confident, jagged with the taste of life. Hassu Pelle played beautifully bittersweet, yet at the same time hysterically merry music, which could be described in this context as "circus music". Even the most hardened humourless person will get a smile on the face while listening to Hassu Pelle. There's no other ensemble which has reached such enchanting carnivalistic atmospheres like Hassu Pelle. This cultural achievement from Ikuisuus label saves these sounds of delight from the oblivion. Step into the circus, you won't regret!

• Artist: Hatred Title: Pitted Water Format: CDR Label: AA Records (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_AA030908 "Hatred featuring Max Eisenberg and Twig Harper. Recorded Live in Detroit on 03/29/08 and Live in Baltimore on 03/09/08, in that order."

• Artist: Hatred Title: Sciatica Format: CDR Label: AA Records (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_AA022508 "The last couple weeks I've had a hard time walking. This tape represents sciatic nerve problems: the inability to walk, numbness of the limbs, sharp pain and the realization that you can damage yourself without even moving. Not a light topic, not an easy listen. 4 tracks of slow, traumatic movements made with a UHER 4200."

• Artist: Hatred / Demons Title: split Format: LP Label: Troubleman Unlimited (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TMU201 "Reissue of the first signs of life from Demons and a particularly brutal Hatred. Recorded Fall 2005 in the old Wolf Studios. Thanks Simonetti! "

• Artist: Haunted House Title: Blue Ghost Blues Format: LP Label: Northern Spy (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_NS012 "The blues has grown up a lot in the last ten years, since guitarist Andrew Burnes left New York for Georgia, bringing a de facto end to the powerful abstract blues of Haunted House. In the time since, a new generation � sometimes referred to as Freak Folk or New Weird America and spearheaded by Tom Carter*, Jack Rose and Ben Chasny � has followed in the footsteps of Loren Connors, John Fahey and a handful of others who have long maintained that the blues is something more than 12 bars and a backbeat. After the demise of Haunted House, Connors continued preaching the gospel, often with his wife � the enigmatic singer Suzanne Langille � to anyone who would listen, playing a slow, distorted, reverb-drenched blues as slowly the world began to come around. Then, in the summer of 2010, the stars aligned just so: Burnes was in town for a few days, percussionist Neel Murgai was available, and the Brooklyn�s Issue Project Room was booking matinee concerts in their courtyard. The band had only existed for a brief two years and had been absent for a decade, but they picked up right where they left off with only a brief soundcheck as rehearsal. Another matter of months, and they were in the studio, recording at long last the follow-up to their 1999 Erstwhile release Up in Flames. Looking back, maybe it isn�t that the blues has grown up. Maybe it has reverted to its youth. After all, John Lee Hooker, Son House and Mississippi Fred McDowell weren�t beholden to any 12-bar fixity. Nor was Lonnie Johnson, whose song �Haunted House� gave the band its name. They all played it how they felt it. It wasn�t until the 1960s and the British blues revival (its champion, ironically perhaps, being Connors� beloved Eric Clapton) that the blues was codified into its current formula. Haunted House is an unusual band. With Indian hand percussion and no bass, they don�t look like a blues band � and maybe they�re not. But they play it how they feel it. What more could you ask for?"

• Artist: Heads of Pagans Title: Under the Tall and Darkened Arches Format: 3inch CDR Label: Ruralfaune (France) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_rural_sab002 "Under the darkened arches the two ghosts of the damned stag preach. Playing a repetitive bleak suite, they bring us to the final punishment with a hidden depressive voice and crowleyfic guitarscapes. Magickal pain" limited to 66

• Artist: Heathen Prayers Title: songs of moments Format: CDR Label: h-p imprint (Netherlands) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ hpcdr008 "most of the lyrics are poetry oriënted, decribing a single moment or social subject. references are made to environment and the lyrics often can be interpreted in different ways. the foundation of the music consists of slow structered rhythmic guitar and percussion, mostly folk derived, as we explore and make accessible odd bars. the whole is accompanied by improvised guitar that tends to disrupt the linear nature of the songs, as well as it adds depth. this was the initial setting for heathen prayers before we really started to explore improvised music. the tapes on which songs of moments were recorded therefore have been on the shelves for quite a while, but we will continue working in this setting and hopefully release a disc with songs once a year or so." [hand numbered disc in handmade plastic and paper sleeve, and insert sleeve with text and art]

• Artist: Heathen Prayers Title: behind the patterns Format: CDR Label: h-p imprint (Netherlands) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_hpr007 heathen prayers; bart jacobs & sander wildeboer - "dialogue between freely improvised persussion and guitar feedback playing. bart and i hadn't played together for longer than half a year but when we met again, it appeared that we share the same mind set about improvised playing. everthing we thought about and studied independently just fell in place during the sessions for this recording. i feel behind the patterns forms a strong foundation for our future playing. it is who we are right now." [ltd to 90 (available) - hand numbered disc in mailer envelope with picture on front and text on back]

• Artist: Heathen Prayers Title: acoustics portrayed Format: 3inch CDR Label: h-p imprint (Netherlands) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_hpr006 "heathen prayers; sander wildeboer with laurens karsten h-p imprint, hpcdr006, ltd to 48 (available) hand numbered cdr in paper sleeve with text attached to the back of one unique piece of a painting. tracks: a magnificent whole (4'44) / falling into pieces (3'28) / scattered all over (3'23) / impossible to retrieve (5'17). ---- first laurens made an improvised painting to recordings of acoustic guitar improvisations by sander. then the painting was divided into 48 pieces and the concept of the division of it, was then again musically improvised to using acoustic guitar, several wind instruments and other stuff laying around. the concept of this ep may be interpreted as the course of a social matter."

• Artist: Hering und seine sieben Sachen Title: Nautical Twilight Format: CASS Label: cae-sur-a (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_caesura_001 "Hering und seine sieben Sachen is the kosmische solo vehicle of one Daniel Voigt (Autistic Argonauts, Pawned Pajamas, Horzes, Phantom Limbo). Nautical Twilight is comprised of five compositions that submerge the listener deep under a gauzy surface of rippling bass frequencies and shimmering pulses that float their way to the ear as if transmitted from thousands of miles away from the dark recesses of the ocean. Recorded in July 2010. Hand numbered edition of 100."

• Artist: High Castle Title: You're On Your Own Way Format: LP Label: Zum (USA) 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: Hilkka Title: i can‘t hear my teevee! (early material) Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR67 a collection of very early recordings from Hilkka. includes some alternate recordings of previously released tracks, unreleased studio recordings, live tracks, as well as recordings from the very first rehearsal, and some collage re-works. a mix between math-rock and noise-textures. it‘s a mess! [packaged in a clear jewel case with a transparent tray card (liner notes), along with metal screen material in the tray.]

• Artist: Hilkka Title: beautiful bare feet Format: 7inch Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR07 This is the third single by Hilkka, Rochester‘s answer to Chicago loud hard rock. This single shows the band‘s growth in song structures and catchy rhythms.

• Artist: Hilkka Title: escalation/objective Format: CD Label: Carbon Records 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 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 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!!!!!!"

• Song Previews: Lake of the Clouds Hatchback

  Artist: Hinkley Title: Heaven is High Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR190 This is the tenth release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. 14 tracks from Will Veeder and company. Hinkley is a departure from the usual Carbon improv/abstract/noise/etc releases, but if you're into song writing, and really great rock, sometimes country-ish, sometimes poppy, songs, then this is your bag. [packaged with pro-printed covers in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes]

• Artist: Hinkley Title: Elephant Roundup Format: CD Label: Carbon Records 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 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: Hinkley Title: listening for the breathing Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: MP3.04 some great intelligent pop songs by some former members of Muler. [pre-assembled version of MP3.Series release, which is also free to download]

• Artist: Hiroshima Title: east Format: CD Label: USED 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) 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: Hollydrift Title: in these days of merriment Format: CDR Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_hollydrift2 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Hollydrift Title: Study the Wilderness Format: CDR Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_hollydrift4 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Hollywood Squaretet Title: Tet-Offensive Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_KAWAMURA (This is a USED item) Gulcher release from 2005 featuring Kenny Kawamura, Todd Homer and Larry Copcar

• Artist: Holy Other Title: With U Format: LP Label: TRI ANGLE (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TRIANGLE004 "This is the debut release by elusive producer Holy Other. Following on from critically-acclaimed records by Balam Acab, oOoOO and How To Dress Well, With U is the fourth release on Tri Angle records. Taking the alien kinetics of UK garage, the euphoric highs of vocal house and the slow sensuality of R&B, Holy Other has created a sound that's as melancholy as it is beautiful, spectral and yet slightly at unease with itself. Playing these five songs feels like a slow, solitary walk into the city night, lights flashing around you, muted where once they seemed to shine more brightly. With U was recorded in Berlin, Gothenburg and Manchester, where Holy Other currently resides."

• Artist: Honcho Overload Title: smiles everyone Format: CD Label: Mud Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_83 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Howard Stelzer and the Cherry Point Title: Gross Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR89 10YR.Series.09 - the ninth in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. 46+ minutes of bi-costal, brutal, tape/electronic fabric. full, and right on!

• Artist: Howard Zinn Title: You Can‘t Be Neutral on a Moving Train Format: BOOK Label: Beacon Press Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ISBN-0-8070-7127-7 [paperback] - An autobiography from the great activist and historian - a personal history of more than 30 years of fighting for social change - from civil rights and the Vietnam war, to organized labor. A lively, engaging and vastly entertaining political memoir. Now with a new preface.

• Artist: Human Quena Orchestra Title: The Politics Of The Irredeemable Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast 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 Am Spoonbender Title: teletwin Format: LP Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_SPOONBENDER (This is a USED item) 12" on Little Army

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

• Artist: If, Bwana Title: I, Angelica Format: 2CD Label: Pogus (USA) Catalog ID: Carbon_P21024-2 "Into t��?hackets are ya, punk?" "Yeah, that's my story and I'm sticking to it." "Get outta here, ya punk." I headed down the steps and out the front door. "!@#$%^&* nogood goddamn !@#$%^&* noisemaker," I heard them mutter behind my back. (wow - I always wanted to write one of these). Yeah, I'm one of them. So there you have it. I, Angelica, the noisy loud new double If, Bwana cd - trying to clear a backlog of recordings out - at a not double cd price. I, Angelica should be played loud. Real loud. Works for computer, electronics, voice (?), guitars, synthesizers.

• Artist: Ilium Title: paint by number Format: CD Label: Hefty Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_heft015 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Ilium Title: Plexiglass Cube EP Format: CD Label: Hefty Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_heft007 (This is a USED item) broken jewel case cover

• Artist: Infidel? / Castro? Title: Bioentropic Damage Fractal Format: 2CD Label: Crucial Blast Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR41 "Undefineable, uncatagorizeable, INFIDEL? / CASTRO! return with Bioentropic Damage Fractal,a 14-part, 2-disc epic of electro-acoustic ambient metal destruction that travels the extremes of density and sparsity, speed and sluggishness, length and brevity, beauty and ugliness. Hyper-complex and hyper-epic, the band weaves an engrossing tapestry of spastic electronic carnage, sweeping melodic bliss, futuristic heaviness, and swirling, hypnotic walls of sound. Concepts of degradation and the inherent instability of the organic are thoroughly explored in this cohesive and focused double CD. For fans of Fantomas, Sigur Ros, My Bloody Valentine, Discordance Axis, and Scanner."

• Artist: Insects with Tits Title: s/t Format: 3inch CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD95 "Insects With Tits, a.k.a. Roger Smith and Kenneth Yates, do whatever they do best: play noise. Four tracks in twenty minutes. Loud, furious, but it seems to have a bit of progression from the previous work. A bit more structured and with more dynamics all around. Taking back the gear and building up again. That makes this actually quite allright. But perhaps it's also because it's short and to the point." - Vital Weekly

• Artist: instruction shuttle Title: black citrus ep Format: 7inch Label: astromass Catalog ID: CarbonDist-AM01 a nice little vinyl piece filled with: crunches, haunted melodies, drones, rings, squeaks, shimmers and various ambient textures. play loud, at dusk or night, at any speed...

• Artist: Irene Moon Title: From Field Station Format: 10inch Label: Begonia Society (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_begonia_from_field "10 inches of fun--entomology lectures set to organ music. Repressed in 2004."

• Artist: Irene Moon Title: Pangolin Variations Format: CD Label: Begonia Society (USA) 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: Irene Moon ++ Title: Triffles and True Trifles Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR181 This is the third release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. This is an amazing collection of various projects of Irene Moon, including Auk Theatre, Darker Florida, Collection of Late Howell Bend and solo Irene. Performance art/installations, meets science/entomology, meets weirdo noise-scapes. check out www.begoniasociety.org for more information on each group. [packaged with a full-color pro-printed folded card in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes]

• Artist: Irene Moon and ORTHO Title: split picture 7" Format: 7inch Label: Begonia Society (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_begonia_dentist_auk "Split picture disk with ORTHO. It�s the first released recordings from the Auk Theatre 7 inch picture disc "

• Artist: Iversen Title: Restituent L'atmosphère Format: CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD45 hot new release from the man behind TIBProd - Jan-M Iversen.

• Artist: izanami's labour pains Title: osorezan no itako Format: 3inch CDR Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dose68 "super harsh, cut-up electronics centered around the theme of the blind female shamans of Osorezan. fantastic harsh noise from germany. check the sample. edition of 66 copies."

• Artist: Jack O' Fire Title: The Destruction of Squaresville Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_JACK_O_FIRE (This is a USED item) Estrus release from 1994

• Artist: Jacques Beloeil Title: Quatre tonalites pour enceintes urabaines Format: CDR Label: Entr'acte (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_entracte23 "Produced with a Casio keyboard, a microphone, an effects unit and a tape recorder. The seemingly simplistic instrumentation belies the four track's sustained elegance and Beloiel's compositional flair. Five inch CD in a 190mm x 150mm sleeve. available in several colourways."

• Artist: Jacques Perrin Title: Winged Migration Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_WINGEDMIGRATION (This is a USED item) documentary about bird migrations

• Artist: James Plotkin Title: Kurtlanmak/Damascus Format: CD Label: Utech (USA) 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: Jared Hess Title: Napolean Dynamite Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_NAPOLEANDYNOMITE (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Jason Loewenstein Title: at sizes and sevens Format: CD Label: SubPop Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_114 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Jawbox Title: s/t Format: CD Label: USED 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 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: Jazzfinger/Culver and Fordell Research Unit Title: split 10" Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Blackest_Jazzfinger_CulverLP "Brand new split LP featuring heavy hitting UK bleak dudes... A-Side is Jazzfinger's 'Killed In A Clear Sky', one solid slab of fucked up tapped guitar drone and distant errie whir... like a storm of electric feedback, slashes and cuts. Far out, and a real killer 20 odd minutes to make you lull out. B-Side is a collaboration between Culver and Fordell Research Unit, another side long piece, that starts off with some bassed up doom chugs and slogs that sound like fucking something that could lay down by some Southern Lord brutality, but then it punches you in the face with its distorted churning hell. Limited to 280 white label LPs in black sleeves with hideous brutal artwork by French."

• Artist: Jeff Mueller Title: fold and perish Format: CD Label: Monitor Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_130 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: jenks miller and nicholas szczepanik Title: american gothic Format: CD Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dose92 "this disc is a landmark collaboration of two small doses favorites. jenks miller, perhaps best known for his work under the horseback moniker and nicholas szczepanik come together for an incredible recording that runs the gamut between lilting, minimal drones to dark, dense harsh soundscapes. the discs closer, cranberry sauce, was featured on the most recent wire tapper compilation from wire magazine."

• Artist: Jeremy Enigk Title: return of the frog queen Format: CD Label: SubPop Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_125 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Jim Sheriden Title: In America Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_IN_AMERICA (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Joe Gilmore and George Rogers Title: Elseif Format: 3inch CDR Label: Entr'acte (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_entracte33 "Six computer music compositions using dynamic stochastic synthesis -- a technique developed by the Greek composer Iannis Xenakis, which uses probability fluctuations to generate the successive sample values in digital waveforms." [packaged in a sealed anti-static-type package. must destroy to open]

• Artist: joe raglani/scenic railroads Title: split Format: CD Label: gameboy 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 Sorriero Title: time and time takes two Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR72 20+ min piece on guitar, manipulated through a homemade oscillator/filter with signature Scrappy Joe vocal wanderings. Some may know Joe from his full-time gig in Nod (Smells Like Records).

• Artist: Joe+N Title: oneyear Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR166 4 live pieces, spanning the course of one exact year. solo guitar, in the style of Loren Connors/etc, with the addition of some melodica, looping, vocals and more. [packaged in a heavy vinyl sleeve, with a full-color pro-printed cover and sprayed and stamped back cover. cdr is sprayed and splattered]

• Artist: Joe+N Title: leaves fall Format: 3inch CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR163 nearly 17min of solo electric guitar. three, almost equal length pieces. the middle, lighter one, is sandwiched in between two slabs of thick heavy guitar throb, ala Alasehir/Alumbrados, [3" CDR affixed to a 5" square piece of 1/4" plywood with twine. the plywood is sprayed and stenciled on one side. disc is also sprayed/splattered] limited to 25!!!

• Artist: Joe+N Title: Day-Tours 2005/2006 - the best part of today was it wasn't yesterday Format: 3CD Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR96 this is a BOXSET containing 2 audio CDRs and 1 video DVDR. material culled from the 2005 and 2006 Joe+N Day-Tours. each of the audio discs contains 3 tracks around 20min long. the DVDR contains 7 videos, also each roughly 20min in length. [packaged in a 5" x 7" x 1" kraft box, each with a unique color image transfered onto the cover, along with spray paint, and each package comes with some variety of Day-Tour postcards, including this year's (2007). limited to 50 copies!!!]

• Artist: Joe+N Title: head cold Format: 3inch CDR Label: Dirty Demos (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dirtycdr_015 2 pieces recorded live at A|V in Rochester NY USA. loud guitar with distorted and looped melodica. almost sounds like a train at times. limited to 50. packaged in spray/splattered envelope. nicely done.

• Artist: Joe+N Title: Opsy Delet Space Before Com Format: 3inch CDR Label: First Person (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_singuler039 a collection of pieces which are more layered and textured than the normal guitar work from Joe+N. still mostly guitar generated, but with more effects and even some vocals to boot. from the label.... "By day Joe Tunis runs Carbon Records, a project that began in 1994 as a means to release his own Joe+4=Poopie cassette. Located in Rochester, New York the label has since gone on to birth releases by such esteemed acts as Dead Machines, Cock ESP, Reynols, Blood Stereo, Tom Carter, Ming, Bjerga/Iversen, Emil Beaulieau and Yellow Swans among countless others. Carbon releases come on a variety of formats (clear 7” singles, triple CD’s, DVD’s etc) and usually come wrapped in meticulously rendered artwork or some form of tactile outer packaging, each aural/visual missive being a testament to ingenuity and good old fashioned hard work. In amongst this Mr Tunis also finds the time to release music under the name Joe+N and has built up an exhaustive and prolific back catalogue on Carbon and various other like-minded labels. For his FirstPerson disc we are treated to 5 untitled tracks of stream of consciousness vox and downer guitar scrabble. Those familiar with the work of Joincey, particularly in his Wagstaff/Coits mould of the early to mid 90’s, will recognise subtle comparisons specifically in approach and attitude that being music which burns bright with the white heat of creativity “in-the-moment”. The “message” and actual “doing” of the work overriding any technical aspects or peripheral logistics connected with recording “quality” or concessions to “correctness”. This is music borne of passion and a need to document that which lies incommunicable in the language of the everyday. "

• Artist: Joe+N Title: introducing something to the system Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR39_reissue Reissue of the long out of print release by Joe+N. in the original edition, each copy came in kraft envelope with unique artwork and hand numbered. this reissue is a scanned photo from my favorite copy (and also my personal copy). full color cardstock in heavy-duty vinyl sleeve. 5 tracks of field recordings and ultra-harsh electronics. no instruments were used on this recording. constructed entirely using a portable MiniDisc recorder, contact mics, Behringer mixer and patch cords.

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  Artist: Joe+N Title: Neither Painting Nor Sculpture - TSHIRT (YELLOW) Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR146_YELLOW (mustard) yellow tshirt. very limited quantities. released in coordinatioin with the Joe+N art show at A|V (Dec 2006) and release of the Neither Painting Nor Sculpture CDR release.

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  Artist: Joe+N Title: Neither Painting Nor Sculpture - TSHIRT (GRAY) Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR146_GRAY gray tshirt. very limited quantities. released in coordinatioin with the Joe+N art show at A|V (Dec 2006) and release of the Neither Painting Nor Sculpture CDR release.

• Artist: Joe+N Title: Neither Painting Nor Sculpture Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR140 same name as a previous harddrive release, which had the same original inspiration, this is the audio portion of a Joe+N art show (of the same name) at A|V in Dec 2006. the show consisted of 6+ pieces, and the audio consisted of 6 companion pieces. each building from the one before. mostly heavy drone guitar. dense, from simple to complex. [packaged in a 5x7 full color heavy cover with sprayed CDRs] Reviews (2): Modisti (Joe+N - Neither Painting Nor Sculpture - CR145) Vast textural surfaces of abstract (sonic) materials unfurl upon large format canvases. Concerned with continuity and dimension, the actual sound sources have a secondary relevance, thus simply featuring a rusty red distorted electric guitar wall of sound. As we advance in time, the pieces begin to include a more complex, difficult aspect pointing at the progression –from construction to destruction- proposed in the visual work the sound pieces accompanied. Foxy Digitalis These are sound recordings designed to accompany guitarist (and Carbon mogul) Joe+N ’s first installation of visual art. The idea with both music and art is to show process, stages of destruction and creation, points at which, while not a final piece of “art” art is present as is in the state of being constructed. Too theoretical? Not really, if you can picture the frame of a painting hung on a wall with not picture inside. Just by hanging that frame, to decide on its place on the wall, it becomes art, in the sense that the beauty and use of anything becomes deeper and more varied when isolated and contemplated. Here, joe+n’s music is a kind of example of the visual pieces, in construction. We can’t see the art, and yet we know that the music we are listening to is an accompaniment to art; the listener is constructing the installation for herself, given the involvement being only auditory. This in effect includes the listener into the process of creating the installation; all that is left is to see the visuals, and the music is the door into that. 7/10 - Mike Wood

• Artist: Joe+N Title: The Non-Confidential Part of a Boring-Ass Meeting Format: CDR Label: Gold Soundz (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GS039 "New great album from the active Carbon man Joe Tunis + the "n" factor always present in his works.. Poisonous psych-guitar workouts smashing in & slashing up the atmosphere of high-corporate boardrooms.... Edition of 75."

• Artist: Joe+N Title: lock32 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR12 a release inspired by the cyclical patterns of lock32 on the Erie Canal System. Joe+4 is Joe Tunis of Hilkka‘s solo joint. Covering mostly ambient and stark trajectories with guitar, static, found sounds and lots of effects. This release conjures up a brooding and unnerving atmosphere. Some tracks might bring to mind Jandek or Loren Mazzacane Connors at their most lonesome and desolate. The original edition came in deluxe hand made packaging incorporating actual pebbles from the Erie Canal. A compelling listen.

• Artist: Joe+N Title: 35 trips around the sun Format: 3inch CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR127 heavy-ass guitar piece, powering this hunk of rock around the sun, far too many/few times. sludging, burning up amp noise, with a glimmer of hope cutting thru the heavy dark matter. [comes with unique hand-painted covers by joe, cara and ella]

• Artist: Joe+N Title: Day-Tour 2004 MP3 CDR - full-recording Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: cr107_cdr This is the MP3 CDR version of the HDD release. aday-long recording of he Joe+N 2004 Day-Tour. on June 26, 2004, i performed the fifth-annual day-tour in and around Rochester NY. the day-tour included 9 shows, each consisting of a 20-30 minute set performed from the back of my jeep (or thereabouts), starting at 11am and one occurring every hour, on the hour. i recorded the entire day on both audio (with various devices) and video devices. what is contained in this recording is a (barely) uninterrupted recording straight to VHS (audio only) from my mixing board. i used a VCR to record the full-day audio, due to the length of tapes that are available. various inputs were plugged into the mixing board throughout the day, including guitar, contact mics (for various non-electric instruments), pzm mic, vocal/air mic, etc. on a couple occasions, i performed away from my truck, so i had to turn off the engine and lock it up, "losing" the recording. these locations include the All-Purpose Room, Court Street Bridge and Washington Grove Park. these sets were recorded using a digital video camera and are/will be available on other Day-Tour 2004 related releases. [comes sealed in a white cd mailer with color sticker artwork.]

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  Artist: Joe+N Title: day-tour 2004 Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CRT_DAYTOUR 3-color design (red, white and black) on solid grey shirt in the NYC subway series style, with a full route map of the 2004 Day-Tour on the back.

• Artist: Joe+N Title: Day-Tour 2003 Format: DVDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR95 This DVD-R release contains all the performance footage from the 2003 Joe+N Day-Tour. 9 performances in all. NOTE: this is a DVD-R, not a production manufactured DVD. similar to CDRs, they are burned on a computer, and like CDRs in their infancy, some DVD players do not support this disc format. Please see the Carbon.DVDRSeries page for more details, how to get info on your player, etc. Most players manufactured in the past year support this and other formats.

• Artist: Joe+N Title: live at christchurch Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR81 10YR.Series.01 - the first in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. this is recording from a show at Christ Church in Rochester NY, which features Joe on solo guitar and later, feedback and piano. 17+min. [full-color cover in vinyl sleeve] - NOTE: check out the 10YR.Series page(http://www.carbonrecords.com/10yr_series/) for more info. Reviews (1): Foxy Digitalis Joe + N is Joe Tunis, the mastermind behind Carbon Records and the 10YR Series. This is, as the title states, a live recording at Christchurch. Here Joe serves up a gorgeous slice of resonating solo guitar that rings out and basks the audience in a warm, misty glow. The guitar continues to ascend into the highest reaches of the atmosphere, like a stream of smoke rising and then dispersing into thin air. This reverb-treated guitar passage is maintained until it begins to decompose and then gradually expands and progresses into a much more shadowy, heavy, piano-trodden piece. If the first reverb-led half covered the listener in a warm glow, then this is the cold, stark, solitary aftermath. It increasingly detaches itself from the original body, and embarks on a journey into the ominous unknown. Now becoming much more assertive, a high pitched ringing builds in strength, and the scattered piano keys develop into a thunderous pattern. From here, it turns into something much more sinister and destructive; the ringing drone growing louder and more dominant, then collapses under its own chaotic confusion. This slow recording ends up falling to pieces, but the perverse beauty still shines through the rubble. - James Clarke

• Artist: Joe+N Title: receipts and belt loops Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR77 i put on a coat i haven‘t worn in a while. and in a pocket i guess i haven‘t used in a longer while, i discover a receipt (for food, i believe). almost from 10 years ago to the date. it got me thinking about how quickly time passes, and how fragments can pull us back, mentally, to a previous time, place (physical and mental). a smell, a sound, a feeling. pretty neat stuff. the backdrop of this recording consists of an uneditted walk in the neighborhood right around sunset. at the beginning, you‘ll hear cicadas singing out loud. as the recording goes on, the sound slowly (almost imperceivably) transforms into crickets singing. somewhat showing the transformation of time without perception. there are overdubbed guitar pieces on occasion, showcasing nothing in particular (well, maybe something having to do with events that stand out, etc).

• Artist: Joe+N Title: video works vol 1. (2002-2003) Format: DVDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR78 over 90 minutes of experimental video. this is a collection of 4 video pieces i‘ve created over the past 2 years for various purposes (shows, installations, etc). all contain the accompanying audio from the debut showing/using of the video, 3 are joe+n peformances and 1 is by chad oliveiri. NOTE: this is a DVD-R, not a production manufactured DVD. similar to CDRs, they are burned on a computer, and like CDRs in their infancy, some DVD players do not support this disc format. Please see the Carbon.DVDRSeries page for more details, how to get info on your player, etc. Most players manufactured in the past year support this and other formats.

• Artist: Joe+N Title: cycles Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: MP3.01 running, birds, cicadas, cars, walking, birds, cicadas, cars... [pre-assembled version of MP3.Series release, which is also free to download]

• Artist: Joe+N Title: experiments for ella Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: MP3.02 collection of piano and acoutic guitar experiments for my infant daughter ella. [pre-assembled version of MP3.Series release, which is also free to download]

• Artist: Joe+N Title: like the back of my hand Format: 3inch CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR60 "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." recorded live at the &ltinit.one&gt event held at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester NY on January 19, 2002. this is the third in a series of releases from that event. [3" mini-CDR in mini-jewel case with color insert. edition of 23]

• Artist: Joe+N Title: oil leaks and cicadas Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR63 from the liner notes... "82 billion photographs are taken every year on earth. School portraits, remarkable sunsets, birthday parties, catastrophic weather phenomena, and your girlfriend in her underwear all evoke a desire to take a picture. The most popular subjects for photographs are typically vacations. People travel on their vacations and see new things and snap as many photos as they can. Regular people that is. This recording is not the result of regular people taking a vacation. It is an example of people who take sounds not pictures. They experience new things and resist the natural urge to let vision dominate the sensory landscape, and instead choose to listen to the new things. These new things are recorded, reproduced, concocted, orchestrated - choose your own word here - into music for you. " [unlimited CDR version of out of print 12" lathe cut]

• Artist: Joe+N Title: e+e (live) Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR28 2 live recordings from the exposure and experience day long tour that occurred on May 27th of 2000. "the notion of "moving" sounds from one location to another. That is, recording environmental samples of one location, and replaying them at another location. Juxtaposing them in a way where the listener wouldn‘t necessarily realize the sounds were "foreign" to the specific location. In fact, the sounds could possibly be naturally heard at that location, but on this occasion, were being introduced to the [eco]system by an outside force..." [limited edition of 100, hand-packaged and numbered in DVD cases. Also includes booklet describing the "tour" with block-printed design on cover.]

• Artist: Joe+N Title: exposure and experience Format: CD Label: Carbon Records 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: Joe+N Title: patterns+space Format: 3inch CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR44 miniCDR (3"), clocking in at 17+ minutes. contains field recordings of trains, space between trains, echos of trains and some guitar for good measure. an experiment in the (unintentional) patterns around us, day to day, and the spaces in-between. [limited edition of 75, each packaged in a mini jewel-case. 25 different images were used. numbered by design.]

• Artist: Joe+N Title: post Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR29 a compilation of found tape experiments and field recordings from the past couple years. ranges from full-out drone guitar/reverb to underwater mic‘ing. [limited edition of 64, hand-packaged and numbered in recycled LP sleeves. Includes block-printed logo on cover and painted "vinyl art" inside (recycled LPs).]

• Artist: Joe+N Title: selector:AM or... Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR52 "during one of my thrift-store stops, while searching for reel-to-reel tapes and 8-track cassettes to use during the Joe+N day-tour back in the spring, i came across a Don Rickles 8-track cassette. i had to buy it. Finkbeiner is a huge fan. weeks later, i finally got around to dumping it to a format which was a little more current. i borrowed an 8-track deck from cara‘s mom. but shortly after inserting the tape, something went "wrong." i pressed the track-select button a couples times, thinking that would do the trick. i then realized the tape had stapped and was being unwound inside the deck.so i yanked it out and for some reason, switched the channel selector to AM. browsed the airwaves a little, and noticed that the device had a mind of it‘s own. interjecting harsh noise in the middle of talk-show babble. i figured i‘d document the setup visually, so i took some photos. the flash on the camera also affected the signal being played. almost like a phaser or flanger effect. after a couple shots, i decided to let it go. this is a document of that late night experiment." [hand-packaged in slip-cases with full-color artwork. edition of 75]

• Artist: Joe+N Title: driving thru the lehigh valley tunnel Format: CDR Label: slippy town Catalog ID: CarbonDist-SLIPT14 One long (18:47) guitar thing by Joe Tunis (Carbon Records, Pengo, SQ, Hilkka). Feedback, hiss, and ambient buzz build into a simple modified blues lick that repeats for awhile--and then shifts into a more single-minded guitar-plucked drone--and then does some other stuff. Edition of 90

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

• Artist: John Charlton Title: Form Disruptor Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR165 this is quite the full-range package from John Charlton. from noise/texture guitar, to beat-driven and free, effect-laden noise rock blasts, to static transmissions from a visitor from another world/dimension. here to screw with us. "So I had this idea of this being who is sent throughout the galaxy as a Form Disruptor. He receives his orders from some distant civilization and carries them out with varying degrees of success to disrupt various forms in other civilizations for whatever reason. These songs represent transmissions we intercepted that which the Form Disruptor was sending back to his superiors. We have yet to decode them but we believe they are his reports on his completion of specific Form Disruption orders with regards to their effectiveness and suggestions for future action." - from John. [packaged in a heavy-duty vinyl sleeve with a pro-printed full-color cover. CDR is sprayed and splattered.]

• Artist: John Charlton Title: Walking the Red Road Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR147 This is John's first full-length on Carbon, with, i'm sure, more to come. former member/cohort of TenTon (now in Chicago), John lives in the Boston area and records all sorts of sounds, guitars, tibeten bowls, cymbals, strings, etc. he was featured on the Carbon 3CD compilation I Don't Think the Dirt Belongs to the Grass and won this praise from Keith Fullerton Whitman: "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 ended up being one of my favorite pieces.)". This full length is a study in guitar, from repetitive/looping acoustic and clean electric with incidental backgrounds, to busy hammering/drumming/droning on an acoustic, to warbly electric mood (ala LMC), to full-on saturated noise/drone. to mirror KFW's comment, something for everyone. [packaged in heavy vinyl sleeve with handmade red and gold paper and spray-painted CD] Reviews (2): Foxy Digitalis Chicago area guitarist/sound artist John Charlton 's debut “Walking the Red Road,” is deep study into the very nature of the guitar; incorporating its past, present and potential future within a span of 40 minutes. The tracks range in style from delta blues numbers such as “Stephen Taukus Pharaoh,” and the opener “Flood” to more experimentally bent approaches to the instrument, as is the case with the track “Chelvdra” where he trends a similar path to Area C’s Eric Carlson or when the guitar is employed as a percussive instrument as on “Zhiishii.” The biggest shock is the albums closer, “The Montauk Project,” where your ears are suddenly engulfed in a dense swath of layered feedback and beautiful overtones invoking Michael Morley at his most ferocious. As Charlton veers through guitar styles on “Walking the Red Road,” he maintains an almost baffling amount of clarity, allowing his voice on the instrument to really ring through, no matter what style he is playing off of. Each track is imbued with an expansive amount of space and layering that resembles nothing more than walking down some desolate dusty road. Though he may at times tread similar territory to some of the Takoma revivalists, Charlton manages to create a very distinct and refreshing approach that sets him far beyond the same old finger-picking that this writer has heard way too much of lately. Hopefully we’ll hear from him again very soon. 9/10 -- Cory Card (22 August, 2007) - Cory Card Modisti [ John Charlton - Walking the Red Road CDR] Superimposed layers of acoustic guitar reminiscent of those extremely reverberant and static playing styles associated with vast plateaux, progressively lead to complex textures of increasingly processed sound. Departing from the original source and occasionally turning back, only to begin once more, the music is clearly influenced by rhythmical concerns, while subsequent developments include the use of a wider timbre palette and highlighted acoustic features. The use of processing greatly boosts the possibilities, clothing the instrumental with a nightmarish outlook and, at the same time, continuing to cling on to form which is by now almost inviable.

• Artist: John Charlton and Joe+N Title: opposite ends of 90 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR155 the third in the Joe+N collaboration series (the first two being with Antony Milton and Sindre Bjerga). this release consists of three tracks totally 32+ minutes, this is a long-distance collaboration between John Charlton and Joe+N (aka Joe Tunis, Carbon label man). the two traded tracks over 2007/2008, John started the recordings with his range of guitars, drones and percussion. Joe then overdubbed more guitars and vocals (though usually not vocal-sounding). [packaged in a heavy-duty vinyl sleeve with a pro-printed full-color cover. CDR is sprayed and splattered.]

• Artist: John Weise Title: Teenage Hallucination 1992-1999 Format: CD Label: PacRec (USA) 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 Dale Title: rotten sun Format: CDR Label: rhizome Catalog ID: CarbonDist_rhcd24 "The follow-up to his amazing Son D'Or CD-R, Jon Dale's Rotten Sun is described by its creator simply as "the end of the hand-held fan obsession"." -- soundandfury.com

• Artist: Jon Dale Title: son d'or Format: CDR Label: rhizome Catalog ID: CarbonDist_rhcd16 "Jon Dale is the man behind Adelaide-based CD-R imprint The Rhizome Label. He has released several records as Moth, making desolate, haunting dronescapes. Son D'Or is his first album under his own name, and features guest guitar from Kynan Lawler juxtaposed against Dale's eerie, singular organ notes." -- soundandfury.com

• Artist: Jon Eriksen / Sten Ove Toft / Utarm Title: Penumbra Booming Format: CD Label: Roggbif (Norway) 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: Jos Smolders Title: textures and mobiles Format: CDR Label: CONV net.lab (Spain) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CNVR01 Jos Smolders (Deurne, The Netherlands, 1960) studied architecture at the Delft Technical University but quit and continued the musical tape experiments of his childhood. He started musicological studies of electronic and recorded music, was six years co-editor of Vital Magazine and is the founder/owner of Earlabs.org. Active in the underground electronic scene, founding member of the renowned Dutch electroacoustic ensemble THU20 (which also features Roel Meelkop and Peter Duimelinks, both of Kapotte Muziek and Goem), he released his own music on cassette, LP and CD since early 80's. He now works as a sound designer and composer in Tilburg (The Netherlands). "Textures and mobiles" is his latest work. Based enterely on pure sine waves and mobiles tones, the CDr has a really nice flow in the pieces and can easily meet as one of the best composed works of Jos Smolders. It has the Jos trademark all over it, despite the fact that he limits himself to just pure sine waves. One hour of introspection with minimals elements.

• Artist: Josh Lay Title: true mask Format: CD Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dose66 "it's hard to believe that this is the first josh lay release to find its way to the compact disc format. fittingly, josh considers this to be his best work to date, and i can't say i disagree. this is a four track, nearly 40 minute meditation on the masks people wear to make their way in the world. elements of black metal, harsh noise, power electronics and dark ambient combine to create a dark, twisted environment built from electronics, guitar, and some of the most gutteral vocals I've heard him spew. the accompanying art was hand-made by the artist. edition of 200 copies packaged in jewel cases with 4-panel inserts and double sided jewel cases."

• Artist: Juarez / Barzábal Title: split series #5 Format: CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Catalog ID: CaRbonDist_TIBCD91

• Artist: Judd Apatow Title: The 40-Year-Old Virign Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_40YEARVIRIGN (This is a USED item) unrated version, 17min bonus material

• Artist: Julian Schnabel Title: Before Night Falls Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_BEFORE_NIGHTFALL (This is a USED item) featuring Javier Bardem

• Artist: Jungle Heart Title: nipple confusion Format: CASS Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR189 This is the thirteenth release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. a new collaboration between the members of SHED and TUMUL. 47+ minutes of beat-oriented, draaag influenced. low/sloooow vocals, dirty electronics, beats and loops and more. [packaged with spray/splattered/stamped cardboard cassette holder, pro-dup'd and printed cassettes and b&w poster sheet. ]

• Artist: Kam Hassah Title: This Forest Format: LP Label: Dokuro Records (http://www.dokuro.it) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_DK011 This is a single-sided 12" "This Forest" is the single side vinyl that italian noise honcho Kam Hassah (also headchief of the secondsleep records) done to the dokuro's catalogue. What Kam Hassah do with "this forest" is to move perfectly a dense stratas of sounds in a hypnagocic way, the rotary slow motion of drones, the layers of reverberated voices, will bring you down under the moaning branches of this gloomy forest of sounds. A spiral implosion will show you the dark side of your soul where no light can shine and then... under again, in the viscous undergrowth where the beasts crawl. One track of pure bleak catharsis. Hand-numbered edition of 100 copies with silkscreen sleeves printed by Canedicoda. Artwork done by Kam Hassah himself.

• Artist: Kapotte Muziek Title: enhanced room acoustics Format: CDR Label: Lunhare (Italy) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Lunhare_zzz04 "Previously released on cassette in 1996, the two original tracks are here enhanced by a new one especially composed and performed by Freiband in 2007. From the analogic sound modifications of last century's industrial age to the micro and nearly audible variations of the new digital era. " - part of Lunhare's Lethargy Series - "New releases of recordings dating back to the last millennium"

• Artist: karst Title: the blood moon lands Format: CDR Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dose63 "george proctor is a busy man. when he isn't running his label, turgid animal, he's recording or performing as mutant ape, murder book, or with one of his many other endeavors. karst is probably my favorite. this one is really minimal, harsh drone. it's as though you're sitting in your car, waiting for a train to pass, but it doesn't. the cars keep coming. you lose track of time, zone out, and 42 minutes later, suddenly realize that you're on the train, half-asleep, heading who-knows-where. packaged in a heavy, green cardstock folder screenprinted in metallic gold ink. edition of 57 copies."

• Artist: Keijo Title: Neverending Blues Format: CD Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) 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 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 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: kenji siratori Title: morgue Format: CDR Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosetwentyfour "A divergence from the spoken-word noise that Kenji has come to be known for. Three tracks of dark, ambience that move into harsher territories. The title matches the tone of the disc. Edition of 66 stamped cdrs."

• Artist: Kheta Hotem Title: Bowl Ceremony Format: CDR Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IKU_KhetaHotem "Gigging with a varying and often an extensive group, Kheta Hotem has visited the studio with a somewhat stripped basic essence. This release is a collection of sense-filling presentations starting with a ritual-like bowl ceremony, which leads into results closely related with free jazz and ethnomusic. In their gig brochure the group claims they continue the more than 1000 years old musical tradition of Komutia, where the musician acts as a mediator between the world of sounds and everyday existence. The instruments Kheta Hotem use are traditional instruments of ritual music: the didgeridoo and different percussions. However, the synthesizer and the electric guitar are not forgotten, either. Acoustic instruments, including the human guttural voices, meld with those produced electrically - the traditional Komutian rituals turn into avant-garde. One can admire and listen to the outcome as an impressive technical performance, and experience the atmosphere to the marrow."

• Artist: King Dude Title: My Beloved Ghost EP Plus Format: LP Label: Bathetic (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BATHETIC042 "Issued first on Bathetic via cassette, My Beloved Ghost was the debut of TJ Cowgill's King Dude project -- he also plays in Book Of Black Earth and Cross, while running the clothing brand, Actual Pain (beloved by many, including Kanye West). My Beloved Ghost was a release near and dear to our hearts, and really opened the world up to King Dude. Subsequent releases followed, like the Black Triangle 7'' on Clan Destine Records (featured here on this 12'' vinyl reissue) and a long-playing CD-R on Disaro, Tonight's Special Death. King Dude is making, hands down, some of the best modern neo-folk. Fans of Death In June, Sol Invictus, & Blood Axis - take notice if you haven't already, you're going to love this. However dark the music of King Dude, it's never cheesy, and to an extent, I'd say the tongue is firmly in cheek -- keep in mind it is called KING DUDE. His songs are incredibly well-written and catchy as hell. We're proud to work with him and excited to see what he does in the future -- expect an upcoming full-length in the future on DAIS Records. Edition of 500 -- 400 on black vinyl / 100 on white vinyl"

• Artist: Kiss Title: Rock and Roll All Nite Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_KISS (This is a USED item) no sleeve

• Artist: Kitchen Cynics Title: Compulsive Songwriting Disorder Format: CDR Label: Audiobot (Belgium) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_AUDIOBOT15 "Small and quiet places are the perfect breeding ground for fragile beauty that fights the inner demons, painting a poetic picture drenched in acid folk gentleness. Another very nice collection of songs by poet Alan Davidson, accompanied by a variety of instruments, with some great versions of Briget St.John, Ivor Cutler & a Lal Waterson songs, in a typical Kitchen Cynics style. Very inspired texts showing a poetic vision of tiny worlds situations that show a variety of perspectives, and a desire to open up like seeds. One track is a dialogue with Simon and Cara Lewis. All other songs are entirely multitracked one man performances. Like any Kitchen Cynics release, highly recommended. Alan's favourite songtitles : "I want you on a mountain top", "Snowflakes, oatcakes and earthquakes", "Lethargic lover", "Unwoozling invalid woman". If you have good memories on Pearls Before Swine, this is right up your alley... Packaged in stencil-printed fold-out jackets by design therapist Jelle Crama. Limited to only 150 copies."

• Artist: Kitty Midwife + Lala Title: four inch giggle Format: 3inch CDR Label: Below PDX (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BELOWPDX13 "Mostly micro-cassette recorder (circuit-altered and otherwise) processed samples journey almost linear down waterslides of churning meows, alternating creeping and whipping against ribbed oscillations. When the kittens are at play, the orchestras can often fill with delay.. You won’t find much delay and reverb here. You will have a numbing sensation in your cheek from listening to this. Your head will feel all fuzzy until your brain drains. Kitty Midwife is also in Animal Writes and she is hard at work on a full-length recording for Below PDX. . Gross candle wax covered cases. They smell slightly intense."

• Artist: KK Null / Ovo Title: split Format: 3inch CD Label: Sunship Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SUN48 A cute split 3-inch CD featuring the infamous Japanese noise artist K.K. Null, and the Italian free-noise combo Ovo. Null is mostly known for his extreme guitar pieces and for leading the noise-rock outfit Zeni Gevi, but here performs some surprisingly intricate hard-edged electronica. Ovo is best known for exploring various shades of no-wave and noise-improv, however their first track is a spastic electronic-oriented remix by Miniwagonwheel. Co-released with Bar La Muerte.

• Artist: Knurl Title: Subluxation Format: CDR Label: Wintage (Canada) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WRT23 "comes in a deluxe metal tin spryed down in mettalic blue car paint discs have a very nice black on black splatter effect ltd. ed.100"

• Artist: Knurl Title: Nervescrap Format: CD Label: RRRecords Catalog ID: CarbonDist_RRR_Knurl01

• Artist: Koff Koff Title: the quality of life Format: CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD75

• Artist: Korperschwache Title: Ritual of the Ouroboros Format: CDR Label: Crucial Blast Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR_ KORPERSCHWACHE_ritual "One of two new installments in Korperschwache's ongoing tribute to the great serpent; featuring further exercises in blackened hypno-drone and necrotic black metal-encrusted trance rock from the diseased underbelly of Austin, TX, somewhere at the stygian intersection between Skullflower, Burzum, and Godflesh."

• Artist: Korperschwache Title: Sacrifice of the Ouroboros Format: CDR Label: Crucial Blast Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR_ KORPERSCHWACHE_sacrafice "One of two new installments in Korperschwache's ongoing tribute to the great serpent; featuring further exercises in blackened hypno-drone and necrotic black metal-encrusted trance rock from the diseased underbelly of Austin, TX, somewhere at the stygian intersection between Skullflower, Burzum, and Godflesh."

• Artist: Kotra Title: dissilient Format: CD Label: Nexsound (Ukraine) 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: Koura Title: temperament Format: CDR Label: naninani Catalog ID: CarbonDist_nrec005 "unprocessed and ultra-sensitive field-recordings made in japan during 2002. in my humble opinion, this is one of the most poetic work of brian labycz. text by dale lloyd. other releases on and/oar, throat... this is nrec005. ltd edition of 98 copies. printed double panel artwork + insert, white label "

• Artist: Kreidler Title: Au-Pair Format: CD Label: USED 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 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1977 (This is a USED item) 1998 Kiff release (import)

• Artist: Kummerlige Forhold / Soviet Subliminal Seduction Title: split Format: 7inch Label: KFI Catalog ID: CarbonDist_KFI01 Off the wall harsh noise meets true breakbeat noise. Tweaks, small loops, scratch, beep, brrrzzzx, messy but not. Tight & fast enough to make you insomniac meets the massive, loud bbrrrummblings of KF.

• Artist: kyle willey Title: fracture Format: DVDR Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosethirtynine "the first video release on small doses. fracture is a 55 minute film made by kyle willey and scored by robe. it's an abstract atmospheric horror film of the highest order. you can see influences from merhige's begotten and hints from the likes of nosferatu and der golem. the twisted plot follows a man's battle against himself with everything at stake. the music adds a whole other level to the mood. if you've heard robe. before, imagine the imagery that the music evokes - there is fracture. dvdr with a laser etched face packaged in a heavy black folder with an insert and obi. edition of 109 copies."

• Artist: L7 Title: Bricks are Heavy Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1919 (This is a USED item) 1992 Slash Records release

• Artist: Ladyfish Title: grotesque revolution Format: CD Label: d-cross 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) 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: Larsen / Mr. Bread Title: split Format: 7inch Label: bar la muerte Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_LARSEN (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Lava / Praying for Oblivion Title: space is the place / a lesson in obedience Format: CD Label: bar la muerte 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 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_103 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: les Hommes qui wear espandrillos Title: Kario Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_LESHOMMES (This is a USED item) German loud/post rock

• Artist: Lewis Black Title: Unleashed Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_LEWISBLACK (This is a USED item) stand-up comedy

• Artist: LHD Title: Curtains Format: CD Label: PacRec (USA) 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) 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) 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 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_104 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Livesexact Title: segmented purity: the remixes Format: CD Label: Hurly Burly Records 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 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: loopool Title: useless unless Format: CDR Label: Arbor (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Arbor004

• Artist: Lotus Title: 2.0 Format: CD Label: Carbon Records 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: Lovid Title: s/t Format: VIDEO Label: kaboom press Catalog ID: CarbonDist_kaboom01 A sound and video project by Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus. Fragile compositions of the decay of sound and image present a portrait of the human figure trapped in the chaos of electronic noise.

• Artist: Low Title: owL Remix Format: CD Label: USED 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 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: Luke Cincotta Title: every second / estimation Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR73 "the best cd you will ever listen to in your life. Better than pet sounds."

• Artist: lunar miasma Title: blackest haze Format: 3inch CDR Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dose69 "panos alexiadis (heavensore, insult recordings) turns his attentions to analog synthesisers for his lunar miasma project. the two tracks on this disc may be his finest and most fully realized yet. deceptively simple, these layered prog synth recordings unfold slowly, revealing interesting complexities and textures. play it loud. packaged in heavy cardstock covers with insert. edition of 81 copies."

• Artist: Lunt Title: Fragments of free vol 1 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR103 46+ mins of some very emotional, blissful guitar work from Lunt aka Gilles Deles of Hitomi Recordings. in a similar vein as Loren Mazzacane Connors, Mick Harris (Dirty Three) and our own Andy Gilmore. "...improvised with one overdrive pedal and infinite delay..." "We cannot free our music from all constraints. Neither can we free ourselves from everything. But we can make music as free as we are."

• Artist: Lunt Title: Broken words and lost answers Format: CD Label: Hitomi Recordings 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: Lutefisk Title: Tin Man's Cue / Miniature in F Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_LUTEFISK (This is a USED item) on Bong Load Records. transparent green vinyl

• Artist: Lutnahimat Title: Kleine Mietzekatze Format: 3inch CD Label: Entr'acte (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_entracte31 [packaged in a sealed anti-static-type package. must destroy to open]

• Artist: Lydhode Title: My life in the ghost of bush Format: CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD99 "Lydhode means something like 'soundhead' and is an ongoing and open collaboration. Here it's labelboss Jan M. Iversen with Roar Borge of Cadmium Dunkel. You could expect a release about emptiness with a title like that, but it's not. It starts out in a rather free mode with sounds bouncing and colliding towards eachother, a free fall from the sky, until the temperate is raised and we land in a world of colliding loops that oddly enough reminded me of very old Merzbow cassettes. It had that similar lo-fi reel to reel tapeloop quality. It made this into quite a nice affair. A free flow of sounds that could have very well be by Bjerga and Iversen, but it's Lydhode. Nice." - Vital Weekly

• Artist: Lynnfield Pioneers Title: emerge Format: CD Label: matador Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_124 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Mabus Title: Kubla Khan Format: CASS Label: Wintage (Canada) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_wrt10 "First full length solo outing by Disguises devient Crump. Conspira-noia, perversion, and dystopia combine to create a shroud of feedback, mucas, and crunched out throbs. Warning, the fumes are still deadly on this one, the pukeist Wintage release to date."

• Artist: Machine Go Boom Title: Thank You Captain Obvious Format: CD Label: USED 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 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) 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: Mahmoud Refat Title: Mirarmar Format: CDR Label: 100 Copies (Egypt) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_100Copies001 "100COPIES is a music label based in Cairo/Egypt, releasing music from Egypt, the Arab world and International. 100COPIES is focusing on experimental music, noise and sound. Including other genres will be active with the local artists from Egypt. The recent work of Mahmoud Refat is based on memories of locations and situations that have been experienced between 2002 and 2005. Working with the raw sound material and field recordings that have been recorded in the past 3 years, and dealing with them in the present time and state of mind. 'It is is always fascinating what I find in my older sound material, and how I recognize them. It opens all possibilities to those hidden aspects and emotions of one regular reality,' Refat says. In Miramar Refat wants to pay attention to the inconsiderable sounds and patterns that has been part of his/other's daily life at the time. As you hear a call for prayer or a voice of a woman passing by, or the sound of a portable power station drifting in through the window on a normal day, then hearing it through speakers after some years. Would you react in the same way? It is to expand a person's perception of the surrounding space. Using the drum patterns in Track 3 ('Miramari') and track 7 ('2nd April2006') and keeping them on a repetitive loop. Was a slight drift towards the recognizable and familiarity. In Miramar Refat found a new language to present a musical abstraction and make it possible to the common listeners."

• Artist: Marc Faris Title: DRONE-ON THIS; Or, Why the "New Minimalism" Is Underground Rock‘ Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR42 Among men, marc faris is a puppy. Drone-On This is a confluence of many musics, not just funk-tinged bluegrass like so much of the CDR.Series. Includes 3 "pop songs" (including an ill-advised cover of Lou Reed‘s "Satellite of Love"), 3 tracks of "free improv," 1 longer "piece," 43 tracks of digital silence and 1 "hidden bonus track" (entitled "Hidden Bonus Track"). The results are not as immediately compelling as, say, the recent output of Finkbeiner or what have you, but the attentive listener will find much to enjoy. Includes instructions for devising one‘s own track sequence to suit a variety of listening environments. [limited edition of 75, each packaged in a glossy white cd folder with a swatch of Thai paper attached to spine, and 4 double-sided postcard inserts with song descriptions. hand numbered]

• Artist: Massaccesi Title: a wholesome life in the best of taste Format: CDR Label: ignivomous Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ig105

• Artist: Matthew Welch and Craig Colorusso Title: rusted breath quiet hands Format: CD Label: Muud (USA) 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) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SME0716

• Artist: Meddlesome Meddlesome Meddlesome Bells Title: Sirens, Too, Sang That Way Format: CASS Label: Meddlesome Meddlesome Meddlesome Bells (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Meddlesome01 This, quite possibly, will be at the top of my favorite records of 2010. i know, quite a premonition, but i'll risk it. A perfect blend of psych, folk, creep and heaviness. The band recorded this in their basement studio, but you would never know it, much like Bardo Pond's house studio work. completely well rounded, perfectly sounded(?), and over all, a great mix of song writing and sounds. they've really blown me (and others) away with this release.

• Artist: meditations Title: eternal absence Format: 3inch CDR Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosethirtythree "this is the third release from this trio - franklin teagle, matt yacoub, and ryan mcgill (bones of seabirds). schizophrenic noise -PE-like one moment dark ambience in others - of the highest order - drenched in feedback with a heart of stone. cover art by matt yacoub. edition of 115."

• Artist: men scryfa Title: the sky was troubled with the dread strength of the wind Format: 3inch CDR Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosefourteen "Men Scryfa is Chris Naughton and Simon Lucas of Atavist. Atavist is a good starting point to envision the sound for this project, but they take the sound in different directions than the band that brought them together. It's heavy and plodding, but progressive and melodic with spoken vocals. It feels a bit like a doom metal version of something from Slint's Spiderland record. Absolutely fantastic. Edition of 199 copies."

• Artist: Metal Tech Title: sounds through fishing lines Format: 3inch CDR Label: Digitalis Industries Catalog ID: CarbonDist_foxglove022 an appropriate title if there ever was one. these loose, noisy improvisations dangle in the air, communicating in the way of the old world. telegraph lines hang in the balance, hoping not to snap under the pressure. claustrophobic whirs and buzzes sit next to fuzzy drones, all hoping that their imminent death isn't just around the corner. there's a subtle, fragile beauty here, too. but i find that in all things chaotic

• Artist: metek versus nordbeck Title: 5 Format: CDR Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosefiftythree "this is the fifth installment of the epic battle of these two swedes. over 36 minutes of dark ambience, shimmering drones and screaming crescendos. edition of 59 copies."

• Artist: Mi Or And The Pedestals Title: ||||| Format: CASS Label: Zum (USA) 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: Mice Parade Title: Collaborations Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_MiceParade_collaboratios (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Michael Krassner Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Truckstop Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_62 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Michael Moore Title: Bowling for Columbine Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_BOWLINGFORCOLUMBINE (This is a USED item) documetary

• Artist: Michael Moore Title: Fahrenheit 9/11 Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_FAHRENHEIT911 (This is a USED item) documentary

• Artist: Michel Goundry Title: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_EternalSunshineDVD (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Microwaves Title: Contagion Heuristic Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_CBR56 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Microwaves Title: Contagion Heuristic Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast 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: Midwich Title: 3 days in, 4 to go Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR61 30+ minutes of minimalistic electro-drone by this one-man machine from Leeds, UK. �?? one of the men behind the amazing Fencing Flatworm label. [hand silk-screened covers in simple slip case, each one differently colored. limited edition of 75]

• Artist: Mighty Mighty Bosstones Title: question the answers Format: CD Label: Mercury Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_102 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Mike Shiflet Title: Xenakis Youth Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR82 10YR.Series.02 - the second in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series.This is an AMAZING collection of tones, glitches and drones. Would fit perfectly on your shelf alongside releases from such labels as Mego, Touch, Raster-Noton, etc. I was blown away by this when i got the master CDR from Mike in the mail.

• Artist: Mike Shiflet and Ryan Jewell Title: Hysteresis Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR183 This is the fifth release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. 35+ minutes of controlled feedback, drone, silence, static, samples and acoustic/live improv. [packaged with silk-screened logo over a unique "sampled" page in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes]

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

• Artist: Milkmoney Title: Wheelie Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_WIC1002 (This is a USED item) slow and heavy, kinda like Codeine

• Artist: Ming Title: Versus the Great Satan Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR83 10YR.Series.03 - the third in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. the anonymous force of Ming, in the great battle for the hearts and minds of all beings everywhere, from the Great Satan. the battle rages on....

• Artist: Minmae Title: Vonsachiang Format: CD Label: USED 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 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_Minmae_myquietlife (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Mix Master Mike Title: Anti-Theft Device Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1963 (This is a USED item) 1998 Asphodel release

• Artist: Mold Omen Title: Blacktop Format: CASS Label: cae-sur-a (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_caesura_010 "Mold Omen�s Blacktop wastes no time initiating a continuous battle between a heavy, droning maelstrom of noise and the electro-melodies desperately trying to free themselves. By the end, the balance between forces becomes a serious mantra for the head. With a lo-fi sonicscape that wreaks of scorched earth, this Baltimore duo knows how to leave a serious path of devastation in their wake."

• Artist: Monarch! Title: Mer Morte Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast 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: Monarch! Title: Dead Men Tell No Tales Format: 2CD Label: Crucial Blast Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR59 "Hailing from the picturesque Northern Basque Country of France, MONARCH! unleash a slow motion avalanche of impossibly glacial, blackened sludge and hypnotic feedback, each song a series of epic tarpit riffage stretched out eternally over lumbering drums and the cavernous rumble of speaker cabinets. Over these yawning expanses of black void appears the demonic, throat-shredding shrieks and ghostly singing of Emilie, whose petite appearance belies one of the harshest throats in the underground Doom spectrum. Beyond heavy. MONARCH!'s mega-crawling ambient doom/drone/sludge follows in the grand tradition of fellow tarpit adventurers Melvins, Corrupted, Noothgrush, and Black Sabbath, and accompany their music with an iconoclastic design style that decorates their material with deceptively cute imagery drawing from the collective influence of Sanrio, Japanese animation, European graffiti, weirdo hardcore, and skateboard culture. This double CD set contains both MONARCH!'s newest album Die Tonight, and the now out-of-print Speak Of The Sea LP, both released in limited vinyl editions as European imports, with additional unreleased songs exclusive to this release. The North Amercian version of Dead Men Tell No Tales is presented in an offset-printed, 4-panel case printed by Stumptown Printers, with all new original artwork in the band's unique design style. "

• Artist: Money Mark Title: Marks Keyboard Repair Format: CD Label: USED 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) 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: Monroe Mustang Title: Carcrash Head / Wusses Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_MONROEMUSTANG (This is a USED item) on At a Glance Records - 1994

• Artist: Moth Title: 1997-2003 Format: CDR Label: rhizome Catalog ID: CarbonDist_rhcd24x "this disc compiles recordings previously available on the ghost town by the sea, kodak ghost poem and the secret tapes releases. "

• Artist: Motoko Shimizu Title: Jennie and Me Format: CDR Label: Quodlibet (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_QLCDR-03 "Solo Turntable compositions for young and fun people - appropriate for the beach, cocktail parties, crime scenes, giant squid sightings and much more. The 5-foot woman strikes again with her sidekick turntable Jennie - phono needles everywhere beware! (for fans of Christian Marclay, 90's Otomo Yoshihide and DJ-collage music in general)" [Ultra-limited edition in clear poly-keeper]

• Artist: Movere Workshop Title: Western Hamlet Format: LP Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_MOVEREWORKSHOP (This is a USED item) on Word/Object Records. 1999

• Artist: mr mutton_deluxe Title: not in the lake Format: CDR Label: sijis Catalog ID: CarbonDist_sijisep02 "mr. deluxe finally bites the bullet and admits with this release that yes, he‘s a better accordion player than carl craig. with a body of work made possible by a kind donation from the justice league of america, mr. deluxe presents us with an worldview based on the belief that fashionable people are more flammable than you might expect. he‘s willing to take the risk for you, so stany low and wait for the fire engines to arrive"

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

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  Artist: Muler Title: Hope You Found a Home Format: LP Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR197 THIS LP COMES WITH A COUPON FOR FREE DOWNLOAD OF HIGH 320MBPS TRACKS After a 10 year hiatus, the boys (now men?) of Muler decided to get back together to document some lost (never recorded) gems and some brand new tunes. Recruiting a couple old friends, the 5 guys went into the studio and laid themselves out on these 10 tracks, blending the old with the new, and keeping it all fresh and lively. All proceeds from this record are being donated to The Grant Fund (www.thegrantfund.org). played and written by: David Baumgartner: vocals and guitar Sean Leahy: drums and vocals Daniel Smith: guitars and vocals Joe Tunis: bass, noise and vocals Will Veeder: guitar, piano and vocals with Kris Durso: guitar Nathan Montague: harmonica photographer: Jason Wilder model: Casey Daggett design/layout: Chris Reeg with Joe and Dave recorded and mixed at ACME Recording Company Rochester NY, in the Summer, Fall and Winter of 2010. engineered by Luke Yaeger. mixed by Luke and Muler. mastered by David Hurtgen we dedicate this record to Anna Nuuja, Jen Schoen and Grant Stone. All proceeds of this record are being donated to The Grant Fund. www.thegrantfund.com thanks.

• Artist: Muler Title: thrush Format: 7inch Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR04 Muler are a noisy pop 4-piece. Most songs are fast and catchy. They have recently released their first full length CD on Dedicated Records (distributed by BMG). They also have 3 other singles out and a couple tapes. The most recent 7" single release is on Deep Elm Records out of NYC, where they play frequently. Check out their full length, which was recorded by Adam "Red" Lasus..

• Artist: Muler Title: here comes nod Format: 7inch Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR15 here comes the second Carbon Records single by the best indie pop band in Upstate NY. the 7" single contains 2 tracks, here comes nod and ghost writer.

• Artist: Muler Title: motelbibleschool Format: CD Label: Carbon Records 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: mystified Title: skywatchers Format: CDR Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosetwentyeight this is a concept album of sorts from mystified's thomas park. dark, shimmering ambience - sometimes transcendent, sometimes unnerving, but never anything less than engrossing. packaged in hand torn vellum with a torn insert. numbered edition of 121 copies.

• Artist: Need New Body Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Cenotaph (USA) 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: Nekrasov Title: Extinction Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR86 "Riding atop the recent wave of black metal/noise hybrids who combine the bleak frosty riffs and blackened ferocity of underground BM with blown-out and corrosive strains of industrial noise (see also WOLD, Emit, Grief No Absolution, Enbilulugugal, Vargr), the Australian one-man band Nekrasov has so far made a substantial mark in the realm of extremist necro-racket with a series of limited edition, brutally abrasive albums (Cognition Of Splendid Oblivion, The Form Of Thought From Beast, etc) that have mostly been self-released, save for some recent offerings on labels like Siege Of Power and Chrome Leaf. Early on, Nekrasov's sound was steeped in caustic noise, a blazing industrialized black metal assault that was doused in heavy levels of irradiated distortion and Merzbowian skree. But more recently, it's mutated into less metallic regions, alternating the hyperblast black metal with forays into crushing, demonic wall-noise and blasted ambience. Now, Nekrasov is back with a new full length (the first for Crucial Blast), and it's the most advanced slab of their blacknoize terror that we've heard so far. An octagonal prism of isolationist drone, flesh-rending mechanical black metal, abstract otherworldly beauty, claustrophobic industrial dread, and the most violent, suffocating strains of harsh noise, Extinction is pure cyclonic contempt for humanity. The eight-song disc combines hyperspeed cybernetic blastscapes and bleak black metal riffage, the tracks often revealing snarled minor key melodies that are buried deep beneath blizzard blasts of machinegun drum machines, the drums veering through nerve-fraying rhythmic shifts, and acidic croaks bathed in black hiss. Triumphant frost-bitten riffs scream out of maelstroms of violent distortion, and Choral voices soar through a cyclone of helicoptering blastbeats and sheets of blown-out, ultra distorted drone, streaked with bits of gorgeous vibraphone-like melody, somber Hammond-like organ drones and looped synth, sometimes breaking off into grinding slo-motion industrial throb or swirling kosimiche drift. The tracks on Extinction go back and forth between the noisier, more industrial like material and overt black metal, though the two sides of Nekrasov's sound are always present together. When the sound does move into pure noise, it's either vast fields of minimal ambient drift, metallic clank and distant percussive sounds, utterly bleak Lustmordian soundscapes, or crushing, almost HNW-style slabs of molten noise, scouring waves of hellish skree and crushing slow-motion tidal surges of jet-black sonic syrup flecked with dubbed-out blasts of tectonic crush and electronic glitches that ripple across the void. Closing the album, the title track descends even further into black industrial crush, a monstrous, almost seventeen-minute long sprawl of plodding, simple drum pound echoing within a slowly swirling fog of distorted fx, churning, billowing black ambience, buried black buzz, an endless whirlpool of blown-out synthesizers and the immense black breath of leviathan lungs heaving deep below the surface. Like everything else from Nekrasov, this album is loaded with blasting inhuman drumming and ferocious riffing that form into noise-drenched trance-scapes of bestial industrial BM, but the attention to texture and sound sculpture elevates this above most mechanized black metal projects, with immersive layers of electronic sound, creative stereo panning techniques, and other production tricks that create a harsh, alien atmosphere that is pretty unique to Nekrasov's sound. This is a scorching new chapter from one of our favorite bands out there right now fusing black metal and noise. The cd version comes packaged in a full color six-panel digipack."

• Artist: Nerves Title: new animal Format: CD Label: Thrill Jockey Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_69 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: New Order Title: Get Ready Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1968 (This is a USED item) 2001 London release

• Artist: nicholas szczepanik Title: a stillness rarely seen Format: 3inch CDR Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosetwentysix "This is a new 21 minute composition from Nicholas. He never does the same thing twice, so it's not very surprising to say that this is completely different from the previous release on Small Doses, Astilbe Rubra. It's a very quiet, contemplative, and, at times, heartbreaking piece of music. Edition of 139 with a front cover photo by Rob Dobi."

• Artist: Nicolas Felix Kauffman and Stefan Geoffrey Neville Title: OWL LOW Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR124 46+ minutes of acoustic guitar, bells, woodwinds, primitive percussion, patented Pumice-style buzzing guitar, organ/keyboard, drone-vocals and more from Stefan Neville (aka Pumice) and Nicolas Kauffman (part of Family Underground - Denmark) . recorded 2005 in a giant concrete room, this release is a fine companion to Stefan and Nicolas' other recordings on various other labels such as Last Visible Dog, Soft Abuse, Audiobot, Chocolate Monk, QBICO, Into the Lunar Night). [packaged in hand-silkscreened cardboard cover in various colors] Reviews (1): Foxy Digitalis Once again, New Zealand’s musical chameleon Stefan Neville (solo as Pumice, and a collaborator with what seems to be an entire musical microcosm) proves that he – quite literally – plays well with others. On “OWL LOW” he’s teamed up with Nicolas Kauffman, a member of Denmark’s Family Underground. FU specialize in creating thick, blackout-inducing, sky-high walls of extended, malleable drone. This recording was laid down live to Walkman in a large concrete room in Copenhagen in early 2005. Both Kauffman and Neville agree that the environment is the true star of the recording; the natural echo chamber was a vehicle, accentuating their drunken ‘cosmic delusions.’ Musically, “OWL LOW” resides more in Pumice territory than in the miasmic drone world of Family Underground, but there is definitely no clear captain of the ship. This is a true collaboration: the influences of both musicians are unmistakably reflected in the recording. The first track (the track names are all blank, perhaps an invitation for us to fill them in) features guitar, flute and bells and evokes an afternoon prayer session in an East Asian temple. The guitar is minimal at first, leaving vast spaces for the other instruments to occupy; gradually, the tempo increases and a mysterious percussion element provides a subtle rhythm. The guitar disappears entirely and the room fills with the clatter of numerous bells. Spectral voices groan out from a dark corner of a forgotten ruin, calling to us to join them in their agony. For some reason I find this music extremely comforting, as if I’m being wrapped snugly in a warm blanket. Perhaps it’s the raw nature of the recording, or the delicate simplicity of the song structures. Or perhaps it’s the echo effect created by the giant concrete room. Whatever it is, it makes the recording worthy of repeated spins on the CD player. The fourth track features some signature Pumice-style fuzzed out guitar scrapings overtop mournful organ tones. The music quickly swells into an amorphous bubble of high-pitched sonic madness that somehow dissolves into a lone hand drum keeping a steady beat. A persistent buzzing drone permeates the sixth and final track of “OWL LOW,” along with ringing bells and some murky unidentifiable percussive sounds. The latter half of the album is definitely noisier and more abstract than the first half. The CD-R comes encased in a silk-screened cardboard cover with a self-closing flap, and a paper envelope with the Carbon Records address stamped on it. I’ve been seeing more and more of these self-closing cardboard CD covers popping up lately, and I like the utilitarian design that they offer. The artwork calls to mind the photocopied cut-and-paste ‘zines of the eighties and nineties. “OWL LOW” is certainly a welcome addition to the lengthy discographies of these two prolific artists. Collaborative improvisations such as this one prove that the concept of synergy is in full force in this small world of ours. 8/10 -- (11 September, 2006) - Bryon Hayes

• Artist: Nirvana Title: Smells Like Teen Spirit - CD single Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_NIRVANA_SMELLSLIKE (This is a USED item) contains Smells Like Teen Spirit, Even in His Youth and Aneurysm

• Artist: no. 9 Title: where come from? EP Format: CD Label: Locust Music 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: radio giddy-up Format: CD Label: Smells Like Records 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: Nod Title: magnetic anomaly Format: CD Label: Smells Like Records 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: Nod Title: good night sleep Format: CD Label: Smells Like Records 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: Nod Title: Tree Stuff and Lightning Format: CD Label: Nod Recordings (USA) 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 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: Not My Son Title: Gruesome Worms of Hate Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_NOTMYSON (This is a USED item) on Reflection Records

• Artist: Novoe Tsarstvo Title: Voda Naidet Teply Dim Format: CASS Label: cae-sur-a (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_caesura_012 "This ever- fluctuating group of musicians from Russia finds themselves teaming up with other like-minded musicians in Finland. A precursor to a forthcoming LP on 8mm and a follow up to a self released cassette, Voda naidet telpy dym showcase the breadth of this collective�s sonic force as they explore improvisation by melding jazz, drone and folk melodies. This double-sided suite documents the group live in Helsinki 01/02/2011. Pro Printed inserts on heavy card stock. Hand numbered edition of 100."

• Artist: Nuuj Title: plays sad songs for gurls Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR37 Disgustingly pretty multi-tracked instrumental guitar songs. In some ways a natural extension of his song writing for Hilkka, in other ways something entirely different. If Nuuj really thinks that your average girl would actually like these songs, then it‘s obvious why he‘s been such a success with the ladies. No matter how hard he tries to write pop songs, or how happy he actually is, all his songs come out in some sense sad. [limited edition of 75, packaged in standard jewel case with color insert and tray card]

• Artist: Nōh Title: s/t Format: 3inch CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR158 duo of Larry J Patti (Foot and Mouth Disease) and Joe Tunis (Joe+N, Crush the Junta, Entente Cordiale, former-Pengo, etc), doing analog and electronic heavy/deep synth. [3" CDR housed in a LP cover, sprayed and stenciled. limited to 50 copies!]

• Artist: N'at King Tron Title: in the presence of peasants Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_natkingtron (This is a USED item)

• Artist: OBJEKT4 Title: Her Face Among The Shadows Format: CD Label: Ravenheart (Czech Republic) Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_Raven43 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: OBJEKT4 Title: her face among the shadows Format: CD Label: Ravenheart (Czech Republic) 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: old fashion monkeys Title: carnival is burning Format: CDR Label: Gold Soundz (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GS033 two tracks from Nicolas Malevitsis and Panagiotis Spoulos from 2005.

• Artist: Opticsp Title: blocks Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR55 BLOCKS consists of feedback loops generated with analog equipment. Signals were generated with a synthesizer, combined through an effects processor which fed the signals back into itself. Also, recording signals for ADAT recorders were fed through a mixing board, processor and then back then back into itself therefore creating a loop. All of the sounds on this recording were generated in real time and were only manipulated to combine tones. There is no signal processing outside of the real time system. [hand-packaged in slip-cases with full color printouts on heavy yellowish-green cardstock. edition of 100]

• Artist: Origami Arktika Title: at Royspytten Format: 7inch Label: Killer (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Killer009 "The same Origami Arktika dreamteam line up as the last single on killer - at Snippen. This time the Norwegian folk music undercurrents are even more pronounced, including their very own version of a Jørund Telnes song (Norwegian folk music performer). Since last time the band has released several CDs - >brook< - a spilt CD with Lull and a live CD from Poland. This single is the first material to arrive from their latest session and hopefully the rest of this material sees the light of day. Origami Arktika sounds like nothing else on earth, a bit folk music, a bit drone rock, a bit outlandish as a freeform arctic storm. Personnel are Tore H. Bøe, Kai S. Mikalsen, Bjarne Larsen, Rune Flaten and Kjell Ø. Braaten. Current activities include Salvatore, several Origami fractions, Kobi, Ka, Sketch, Palace of Pleasure and a lot more. Beautiful colour cover courtesy of Jarle Hrafn Grindhaug. 45 rpm, edition of 300 where 100 are on dark lilac vinyl "

• Artist: Origami Genitalia Title: The Aboriginal Sin / Rigid Compression Fixation Format: CASS Label: E.F. Tapes (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_EFTapes_OrigamiGenitalia C-46 - "at times a kaleidoscopic soundtrack for high-risk behavior: indulgences in vice alternately presented as legitimate male rites of passage and as the cold rush of extreme sports. instruments and non-instruments combine to create dark atmospheres where altered states of body and mind are celebrated and codified. at other times pure aural catarsis providing a peek into the exhaustion of crippling lethargy and the brain chemical reactions leading to clinical depression."

• Artist: origami minimalistika Title: x12 Format: CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD26 from what i can gather, the minimal subunit of the origami non-organization.

• Artist: Origami Replika Title: kommerz - merzbow in the hands of origami replika Format: CD Label: Segerhuva (Sweden) 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: Othern Lights Title: video experience - DVD special edition Format: DVDR Label: Mudboy (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_mudboy_othernlights "Directions: Project 10'x10' or place face close to television screen. Press play. 200 copies. " Othern Lights is a 7 minute immersive video experience. This video animation was programmed at the most basic level in postscript and C using late era mainframes. No video editing software was introduced at any time to produce the visual effects you see. Sound by mudboy, animation by David Fischer.""

• Artist: Out in Workshop Title: sterilized Format: CD Label: Perishable 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 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ff0251

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

• Artist: Overmars Title: Born Again Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast 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 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: Panagiotis Spoulos Title: Torpor Format: CDR Label: Phase! (Greece) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PHR036 "Psychedelic noise / drone songs, ideal for hypnotherapy. Guaranteed to force you see surrealistic dreams. The anxiety and the ecstacy, the man and the journey through the guitar and the voice. Limited to 60, handmade sleeves w/ paste-on photography."

• Artist: Pangolino Orchestra Title: 0 Format: CDR Label: Lunhare (Italy) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Lunhare_zzz03 "Studio recordings previously released on cassette in 1995. Art&free-rock structures with a somewhat strange approach to melody. Featuring the genius of Piume E Sangue’s Gi Gasparin." - part of Lunhare's Lethargy Series - "New releases of recordings dating back to the last millennium"

• Artist: Parafanalia Title: Bowl Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_PARAFANALIA (This is a USED item) Peep Show Records - 1995. clear vinyl

• Artist: Paraquat Earth Band Title: if you aint with us, youre against us Format: CD Label: Flipped Out 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: Paul Greengrass Title: The Bourne Ultamatum Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_BOURNEULTIMATUM (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Paul Greengrass Title: The Bourne Supremacy Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_BOURNESUPREMACY (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Pay Toilets Title: Wet & Wild USA / Freedom Rock Format: LP Label: white denim Catalog ID: CarbonDist_wd07 The only logical path for Pay Toilets travels from ocean to swamp to desert to vinyl. Frustrated minds and runny noses join forces to crunch together a horrible mashing of the Minutemen's nervous politics and Monorchid's self-assured nihilism. 'Wet & Wild USA / Freedom Rock' comes with two titles, your favorite to be chosen after these twelve scorchers fill your shorts with sand. Like any combustible structure, this may be the last testament or simply the introduction for Pay Toilets, only time will tell. Like the war, this record is one-sided. There are 5 test pressings, each on black vinyl with hand-cut b-side grooves and a hand-written and numbered insert taped to the dust sleeve. There are 525 copies on solid brown vinyl, each with a two-sided 8.5" x 11" white paper insert and full color hardstock jackets

• Artist: PeasAndPopOff Title: puff: pull up to park (strapped n the cab) Format: 3inch CDR Label: First Person (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Singuler027 "~Which is of >>geriatric flotation/ "Creature from the Black Lagoon wants to be your friend". Willo-the-Wisp dogging alarmed HAIRDRYERS >>twittering in a windtunnel, funereal stampedes to see electric pickaxes at dawn! ~ [Mel Delaney] PUFF splinters into PEASANDPOPOFF (+ soon PALLIATIVES, PALIMPSEST, PUPPYJUMPUP...ad infnt.) Beaming from the brain of Joincey = SLOW GLOOP ELECTRONICS/MUFFLED MURK, MOANING GHOST VOX,"

• Artist: Peeesseye Title: Commuting Between the Surface & the Underworld Format: CD Label: Evolving Ear (USA) 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: Pegacide Title: Cosmic Forest Format: CDR Label: Expanding Pegasus (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ExpandingPegasus003 "Perhaps Pegacide�s most graspable of musics, Cosmic Forest is a focused, muscular event, equal parts explosive and brooding. Stripped down from the possbile 5 member band, to a tight 3-piece, and recorded live in an entirely improvised 48 minute stretch, Pegacide seems lost in a world all its own, running through the woods, kicking over trees, inhaling stars and moon-beams. Beautiful piano segments melt into heavy, corrosive stomp, managing both abrasive, and beautiful results. The musicians this time around are Paul Scota on drums, Phil Herford on electric violin and guitar, and Joel Dow on all sorts of feedback looped, warped electronic gadgetry, that only he understands. The members flit back and forth between piano, various percussion, and vocal sections as well, but it is the Drum/Violin/Noise setup sets the foundation for this strange epic. Cosmic Forest comes packaged in a beautiful hand-painted/stamped black cardboard sleeve, inside a resealable propylene slip. A silver and black hand-stamped cd-r with album info insert await the listener inside. "

• Artist: Pengo Title: Alchemy and Bullshit Format: 2CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR101 a double CDR document of Pengo's migration from a 3-piece out-spazz-noise group to 4-piece drone-psych-noise-rock group. recordings ranging from the 2001 Phi-Tour series, 2002 live and "studio" pieces (including a show with guests Dave Cross of Coffee, Ed Wilcox of Temple Bon Matin and Charles Leport of Hinkley/Finkbeiner/etc), thru pounding live 2003/2004 sets, much in the vein of current configuration. 2 black-bottom cdrs, glossy print insert, sealed in a 6"x8" silkscreened and spray painted chipboard mailer. Reviews (3): Volcanic Tongue Heaviest slab yet served from the gob of this Rochester-based unit, with two beautifully packaged CD-Rs that bridge the gulf between the early American hobbyist art/action goofs that defined the three-piece incarnation to the heavy psychedelic post-Airway gravity that the current world-beating quartet have been shovelling from their guts for the past few years. Recordings run from the 2001 Phi-Tour series through 2002 live and studio pieces (including guest spots from Dave Cross of Coffee and Ed Wilcox of Temple Of Bon Matin) and wild style tear-em-ups from 2003/2004. Pretty much the definitive set from these bozos, all sealed inside a 6”x 8” silkscreened and spray painted chipboard mailer. Recommended. - David Keenan Patchwork Collective PENGO MAN. 4 monsters from Rochester have got the art of mind fuckery down to a science. "Alchemy and Bullshit" is a 2 disc retro of sorts that complies their insanely hard to pin down style. I mean, its aloof in the sense that they have moved passed their 3 piece heavy drone unit that dawned the organ heavy "A Nervous Splendor" in 2001, to a 4 piece incarnation they've been working with as of late... This slab really does bring out the raddest sense of complete ambivalence in the most fun way possible. Heavy as shit, Harry Pussy like guitar work, bright eyed hysterical sax spurts, fast paced narcoleptic drumming, and over blown organ work is just the beginning. Similar instrumentation spans throughout both discs, but you're hard pressed to find congruence. The first track of disc one is a seamless jointing of what seems like six of seven live shows. Its all "covers" of a genre catch all. The Stooges, Rush, the Organization, Neil Young, and Negative Approach (if you think they were just mediocre hardcore, go back to bed shit stain). They rip apart the essential elements of each song to the barest, and slap on their own sound. It's repetitive, but totally insane. But its fun see. They take themselves out of the lame self important avenues of typical drone, and basically blend together 142 styles into one snot rocket of GROSS ROCK. Quotin' John Schoen from a Blastitude interview last year, he shows his love for Chilean schlock director Alejandro Jodorowsky. "(Jodorowsky) treads the same fine line between mystic and bullshitter..." That line is never defined with this band. It's psychedelic in the sense that it resists categorization. Released in December of 2005, you can still snag a copy of this at the Carbon Records website. 2 black-bottom CDRs, glossy print insert, sealed in a 6"x8" silkscreened and spray painted chipboard mailer is what you're going to be staring at. Keep it scummy. - Brock Kappers 200LBU Rochester's Pengo have carved out a truly unique spot for themselves in the past few years. Live, they can sometimes come off like some manic tribal ritual that would of taken place on the Spahn Ranch right before a creepy crawl. Their recorded output can be a confusing though fulfilling stew of found audio, grey noise clouds and ham fisted guitar wrenching that would send any strong blooded struggler for the Geritol in no time. This double disc set, entitled 'Alchemy and Bullshit', is made up of various live recordings done around their hometown a few years back and it showcases the various forms of dementia this unit is capable of. The first disc is a perfect soundtrack for a late night wander through old newspaper clippings and various forms of mildew found behind the toilet. The boys attempt to cover Blue Oyster Cult, Thin Lizzy, Negative Approach and Organization only to end up sounding like pygmies dropped off in the middle of Sunflower City with only a bamboo shoot and a paper thin guitar pick to fend with. The gem of this disc is the closing 'Official Genius' which meanders through much fog and steam to relieve itself in a way only Captain Beefheart or Ansley Dunbar would find fitting. How quaint. The second disc is made up of shorter pieces of subtle mud slapped guitar crap that'll have ya heavin' in no time. Swap a copy of your Hunger Artist 12" to the fine folks at the Carbon label and maybe they'll throw ya one - Tony Rettman

• Artist: Pengo Title: climbs the holy mountain Format: CD Label: Carbon Records 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: Perlon Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_perlon (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Persona Title: i keep breaking you Format: 7inch Label: Audiobot (Belgium) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BOT002 Scrawled in crayon for ages. here‘s the emotionally direct art out of scribbles that has rushed through the Detroit underground electronica scene in the past years. Having spent several months on teethgnarling and ankle surgery - Eric Cook decided to abandon the limitations of group affinities. Without surrendering his alternative wider shorelines. quickly noticing the amount of output was inversely proportional to the number of people involved in the project . Since then he‘s kept on processing source sounds into glorious cacophony. The title-track centres around the contradictory nature of the guitar. where technology makes primitive wood and wire howl. The abrasive artificial hiccup sound explores multiple paths. creating a troubling almost chokelike atmosphere from a suspenseful distressed blues riff. that shakes nostalgic hands with Cook‘s tribute to the ill-conceived psych-blues of Muddy Waters and his musical past with groups as Bantam Rooster and Gravitar. His organic manipulations. filmic approach and hyperelectronic excursions into caffeine headaches have kept his music away from being morphed into a complete disorientated clich�. Not all caught up in smoke since he shakes studio hands briefly with His Name Is Alive‘s Warn Defever. If it wasn‘t agreed to walk and spin out weepily dancefloor expression. it would be a fairly accurate description of ecstatic torchlighting and ghost talking. You weren‘t listening... ? Yeah we ‘ re all uptight about it...

• Artist: Pete Jones Title: Stolen Summer Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_STOLENSUMMER (This is a USED item) Project Greenlight film.

• Artist: Phil Krauth Title: Silver Eyes Format: CD Label: TeenBeat Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_TEENBEAT205 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: philp halke Title: the two edges Format: 3inch CDR Label: philip halke (Greece) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_philiphalke01 "This first release contains two pieces, composed in june 2006 and july 2007. Both of them move in minimal electro-acoustic way, influenced by the mysterious worlds of musique acousmatique and field recordings. Subtle raw recordings hold a discourse with proccessed ones, resulting in two strange electro-acoustic compositions. "

• Artist: philp halke Title: above the din Format: 3inch CDR Label: philip halke (Greece) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_philiphalke02 "This second release consists of one long piece, which was composed for the 1st Symposium for Acoustic Ecology, which took place at Corfu in December 2007. Unprocessed recordings from several fields narrate a sonic story about the dominance of artificial sounds to natural ones. (sample) thanks to eri for the foto and foto development. The gradual masking of physical sounds by ongoing noise, as a result of the civilization of machines and contemporary societies, is the starting point for the idea and structure of this piece. The piece devotes its first half to physical sounds from several sound environments. In the second part machine sounds appear, setting up a discourse with the physical ones. The human activity is the key for the transition between these two different worlds (the �epitaph� band works like a lament for a smothered nature). The sound mixing was realized in such a way as to demonstrate the continuous existence and intrusion of artificial sounds into the natural soundscape. The used sounds were recorded at Kayiafas beach (one year before its destruction by fire), at the area of Kipriadou of Patissia, at the city of Corfu, and at Axaravi of Corfu by friends and me."

• Artist: Phroq Title: Ueno Park Memories Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR105 an amazing composition of pure field recordings and heavy manipulations. recordings of Ueno Park in Tokyo Japan. recorded, composed, performed, deconstructed and cared for by Francisco Meirino. "But for me, Ueno Park is an amazing place where there is great mixture of sounds as various as foreign languages spoken by tourists, japanese spoken by people visiting the museums and having a relaxing time walking, the sounds from the zoo animals, and also from all the birds hidden in the trees. sounds from the road surrounding the park and from the homeless people who have formed a real small city made of cardboxes and blue plastic tents, hidden behind the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum."

• Artist: Piediepie Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Veglia Catalog ID: CarbonDist_veg17

• Artist: Pine Smoke Lodge Title: Season Above Lakes Format: CASS Label: cae-sur-a (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_caesura_004 "With the sonorous bray of the hunting horn Pine Smoke Lodge transport their audience back in time to ancient primeval forests and mist-enshrouded landscapes. Season above Lakes is an earthy pagan byway where semi-identifiable sounds shimmer around the periphery creating a sense of unease and wonder. Recorded live at Sugar City in Buffalo New York, 30of May 2010. Hand numbered edition of 100." C-33

• Artist: Pinetop Seven Title: Rigging the Toplights Format: CD Label: Atavistic Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_ALP310 (This is a USED item) cracked jewel case cover

• Artist: Pinkeye and friends Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_pinkeye (This is a USED item)

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

• Artist: Placenta Popeye Title: black fever Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR159 31+ minutes from this french noise duo. deconstructed songs, similar to the DeadC with their guitar and vocal work sometimes low-key drone/tones, sometimes more aggressive and harsh. its all very good. (at least) 1/2 of the group runs the Tanzprocesz label (http://tanzprocesz.free.fr/). [packaged in Stumptown-Arigato package, sprayed and stenciled, multiple colors, with insert and sprayed and stenciled CDR]

• Artist: Plastic Boner Band Title: s/t Format: CASS Label: Plastic Boner Band (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PlasticBonerBand01 "It is harsh noise to be imprecise. The text in each copy is from a different page in either The Debauched Hospodar or Memoirs of a Young Rakehell by Guillaume Apollinaire." samples can be heard - http://virb.com/plasticbonerband

• Artist: POG Title: Mitote Format: CDR Label: Flipped Out Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FOR17 "69 hallucinatory, ghostly and otherworldly minutes of solo freak from this burnt hills member, recorded with bongos, floor drum, triola, acoustic guitar, kiddie accordion, broken kiddie electric guitar, cello, piano, electric guitar, kick drum, electric mandolin, wah wah, giant metal tweezers, pocket rocket and little big muff on a variety of boom boxes, tape decks and dictaphones with hand decorated mini lp gatefold jackets and "vinyl" cdrs in an edition of 99 copies"

• Artist: Poochlatz Title: thanks for giving in Format: CDR Label: Something on the Road (Israel) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SOTR018 "Combining elements of primitive power electronics and their explorations into contemporary drone-metal territories, "Thanks for Giving in" is the new live album from Israel's Poochlatz. Recorded in July 2006, when opening to the Grave Temple Trio, Poochlatz are bleak, sinister and iconoclastic than ever, mending and molding moral conventions, slaughtering holy cows and questioning the truth only to make it more vague and unreachable than it already is."

• Artist: Poochlatz Title: Victims of Self Preservation Format: CD Label: Poochlatz (Israel) 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: Popular Shapes Title: B-Ball Music Format: 7inch Label: white denim Catalog ID: CarbonDist_wd08 "As the last will and testament of Popular Shapes, 'B-Ball Music' is clearly Popular Shapes' most focused and cohesive effort. Savvy listeners will be reminded of The Fall, Le Shok, The Victims and Wire within these two tracks, assuming they weren't knocked over by the sweaty bodies splashing wine from a box. Intricate guitar interplay coasts freely like the plot of The OC while squirmy vocals free themselves from a box. The emphasis is clearly on song-writing, but the exuberance of four boys patting each other shirtless remains as bright a glare as Ford Explorer floodlights. It's rare that a band comes along where all the pieces fit seamlessly, equally throbbing and subdued. 'B-Ball Music' is just that, with equal parts Kobe and Shaq. There are 10 test pressings, each on black vinyl with handmade covers. There are 835 copies on white vinyl with orange, clear and black spatters, each with a full-color hardstock jacket."

• Artist: Poster Children Title: Daisychain Reaction Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_posterChildren_Daisychain (This is a USED item) promo cut-out.

• Artist: Poster Children Title: Informational:RTFM Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1927 (This is a USED item) 1997 Reprise release

• Artist: Poster Children Title: Junior Citizen Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1928 (This is a USED item) 1995 Reprise release

• Artist: Praying For Oblivion Title: the fear experiments Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_PRAYINGFOROBLIVION2 (This is a USED item) on Final Judgment Church - 1999

• Artist: Praying For Oblivion / Outermost Title: split Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_PRAYINGFOROBLIVION (This is a USED item) clear vinyl - 2000

• Artist: Professional Friend Title: n Order to be a Successful Artist, You Must Share your Dreams with the Audience Format: 3inch CDR Label: Below PDX (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BELOWPDX15 Professional Friend is Nick Bindeman and James Squeaky. recorded in July 2006

• Artist: Prurient Title: The History of Aids Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HOS079 "Massive, textural, throbbing, destructive, electronic, feedback-drenched power electronics and industrial noise with heavily processed vocals and field recordings dealing with vulnerability. Uses some of the thirteenth century love poems of the Persian poet Rumi as lyrics. Originally created in 2000 on CD with the Armageddon label, this was the first widely distributed prurient full length and appears on vinyl for the first time now."

• Artist: PSI Title: oo-ee-oo (burnt offering) Format: CD Label: Evolving Ear (USA) 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: Psicklops Title: dark cinema Format: CDR Label: Free Matter for the Blind (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FreeMatter_Psicklops "Psicklops is the first work in a series of radical audio theater recordings under the moniker “Dark Cinema”- which is to say that though there be no image, it is a film of sorts to be watched in the dark all the way through. To this end the narrative combine the engagement of point-of-view vocabulary normally limited to visual based cinema with the often abstract impressionism inherit in audio to produce an effect in which the audience is treated not just as an outside observer but complicit in, and anticipated by the piece itself. This first foray was conceived as a modern day sequel to Kafka’s “The Trial” realized through a multi textured story using found sounds, guerilla field recordings, sampled creative common works, studio actors, experimental electronics, and other mind altering subsonic practices. The result is an invitation to a hypnotic journey- a one-way pass to a dark world of interrogation, surveillance and modern day capitalism. "

• Artist: Psyclone Rangers Title: Don't Burn Your Glove / Teenage Head Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_PSYCLONERANGERS (This is a USED item) on Brutal Records. no sleeve

• Artist: Puff Title: 3rd Puff Format: 3inch CDR Label: First Person (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Singuler033 "Currently making a nuisance of himself w/ STUCKOMETER, JOINCEY (COITS, INCA EYEBALL etc etc) adopts his best "kid-in-sand-pit" face and once again digs deep to pull out the shining tone poems that astound us all. The third part in this series of short works (013 & 023) is enlivened somewhat by some lovely double bass playing, who saw that coming? Hands down fucking GENIUS"

• Artist: PUFF Title: s/t Format: 3inch CDR Label: First Person (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_First_Singular013 Joincey = PUFF. 3 songs, 3 minutes

• Artist: PUFF Title: 2 Format: 3inch CDR Label: First Person (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_First_Singular023 "Part 2 of 3 from Joincey (COITS, INCA EYEBALL etc"

• Artist: pulsoptional Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Fugu Fish Recordings (USA) 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: pummeler Title: troll wing Format: 3inch CDR Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosefiftyone "following up on excellent releases here on small doses and basses frequences, denmark's mikkel valentin dunkerley is back with another amazing 14+ minute drone piece. slow moving, minimal and brilliant. edition of 71 copies."

• Artist: pvmntsw Title: forintelsen elfenbensportar Format: 3inch CDR Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosethirtyseven "this has been in the works for quite a while, and it came together better than i ever expected. sweden's pvmntsw (read pavementsaw) gives two tracks of incredible synth (and some guitar) work. it plays like a lost lament from a john carpenter film that never got made. packaged in a folded vellum cover with two-sided insert. edition of 96 copies."

• Artist: Quentin Taratino Title: Reservoir Dogs Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_RESEVOIRDOGS (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Quetzolcoatl Title: Sleeping within the Sun Format: CDR Label: Phantom Limb (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ARM010 "Easily one of the hardest working young artists in the free-form music world today, Tim Hurley, aka Quetzolcoatl, has been releasing his sonic bliss like a hundred flowers blooming. Luckily, he stopped by our garden and gave us this collection of works, a cosmic swirl of keyboard pulses and vocal loops. Guaranteed to make you nod out and then undergo some powerfully transformative dreaming." ALMOST GONE at the source

• Artist: Quttinirpaaq Title: Quttinirpaaq Format: CDR Label: Ruralfaune (France) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ Sab007 "White as a bone of a dead musk ox, heaby as the skull of the beast, the monolithic guitars of Q take your breath away. Lost on the glaciial island, you will face the blizzard. Massive"

• Artist: R. Scott Oliver Title: Someday technology may save me Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR171 the first solo release from Scott, also a member of Deciduous vs Conifer, Oliver/Reeg and part-time member of Autumn in Halifax. the sounds on this disc harken back to the early great days of the Kranky label, think Labradford, Magnog, Stars of the Lid, etc. but without sounding dated at all. this is current drone at its finest. [packaged in an amazing steel folder designed and assembled by Scott, who is a blacksmith by trade. a laser-cut pinwheel is riveted to the cover, over a matching laser-cut punch-out of the same design. the cd is affixed to a chipboard insert that slips out the top of the folder. you have to see/feel this!]

• Artist: Radio Shock Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1988 (This is a USED item) Radio Shock tour EP

• Artist: Radio Shock Title: Burn Down Radio EP Format: CDR Label: Roger Records (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_rogerrecords001 its been a while since i heard anything from Radio Shock aka MP Lockwood. this is another collection of fun noise/electronic/guitar/drum-machine rock. [limited to 200 copies, packaged in black and pink duct-tape covered jewel case]

• Artist: Radio Shock Title: tour ep Format: CDR Label: radio shock Catalog ID: CarbonDist-CRobot02 electronic and guitar based deconstructed... rock?

• Artist: Radio Shock/Shack Title: split Format: 7inch Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR58 co-released by Roger Records, Breathmint, Ignivomous and Sunship, this release includes a side of lo-fi electronics/noise and a side of one-man band driven rock/dance-party! packaged in a RadioShack-modified bag.

• Artist: Rafael Flores Title: Nubes, cometas, rumores y orugas Format: CD Label: Monochrome Vision (Russia) 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: Raga Chrome Title: s/t (C30) Format: CASS Label: Bathetic (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BATHETIC035 "Stefanie Franciotti of SLEEP ∞ OVER fame lays down thick psych-murk. It's the kind of dark-ish purple and turquoise fog that hollows out your skull and leaves it full of fairy dust and debris. Free form scorcher. Don't miss out. Edition of 200. (100 gold ink on black shell, 100 silver ink on black shell)"

• Artist: Rage Against the Machine Title: Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_RAGEAGAINST (This is a USED item) live concert and other videos

• Artist: Rambutan Title: Fallen Smoke Format: 3inch CDR Label: Abandon Ship (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ASR041 "Fallen Smoke captures the live debut, from April 2008, of Rambutan, the solo project of Eric Hardiman from Century Plants and Burnt Hills. Vastly different than either of those units, Rambutan finds Hardiman in a completely new mode, with no guitars in sight. The results are hauntingly beautiful, intensely personal, and utterly compelling, with a warm, organic feel throughout. The music builds in intensity ultimately hypnotizing the listener in its gathering tractor beam of psychedelic gauzy haze. Jump right in."

• Artist: Rambutan Title: Rusted Prayers Converge Format: CDR Label: Tape Drift (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TD09 "CDR Debut solo release from Eric Hardiman of Century Plants and Burnt Hills. From ghostly noisescapes to swirling organic drone plateaus to pure guitar improvisations, Hardiman floats in and out of various sound worlds on this one, yet always ties things together with a thoughtful and compelling sonic thread. Four tracks recorded basement style deep in the night, and it shows. Dig in, yet another surprise from the Century Plants camp. "

• Artist: Ranphorynchus Title: s/t Format: LP Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_Ranphorynochus (This is a USED item) 12" on Bubblecore Records

• Artist: Rats with Wings Title: Aide-Memoire Format: 2LP Label: Rats with Wings (Australia) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_RWW_2LP double LP of material taken from CD-R releases: The Fish Rots From The Head (unreleased), Southern Oscillation Index (HoLR) CDR-RWW (MIR), Ratified Loopholes (AEN), Ashtray Cabbage (Fiend), Get And Put (Deadline), Out Vile Jelly! (Gold Soundz), Night Science and Underground Australia compilations (Cipher Productions). [package has a damaged CD glued to the cover]

• Artist: Rats with Wings Title: Out Vile Jelly! Format: CDR Label: Gold Soundz (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_rats_jelly

• Artist: Rats with Wings Title: Die Kunst Des Polycrhomatischen Fagott Vol 1 Format: CDR Label: Gold Soundz (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_rats_die_kunst

• Artist: Reeg + Tunis Title: ....shhh... this is for Derek Bailey Format: 7inch Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR136 recorded in the days and weeks after Derek Bailey's death on xmas of 2005, the daughter/father duos of Ella and Joe Tunis and Ada and Chris Reeg, joined forces for this ultra-limited split lathe-cut release. Joe plays in Joe+N, Hilkka and used to be in Pengo. Chris plays in Blood and Bone Orchestra and Ian Downey is Famous. Together, they play in Crush the Junta, Entente Cordiale and Ada le O. the Tunis side is sparse acoustic guitar, vocals and running, while the Reeg side is overblown cymbals and keys. the duos also go together to create the covers. 3 seperate 2x4ft wood panels, painted, stamped, rubbed, scratched, sprayed, walked on, etc, and then cut into 7x7in squares. [7" lathe-cut. limited to 50 copies!!!!]

• Artist: Reflektionen Musique Title: 5/5/200 Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_REFLEKTIONMUSIQUE (This is a USED item) Post Replica release from 2005

• Artist: Resolve Title: Jack Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1954 (This is a USED item) 1995 AO! release

• Artist: Reubens Accomplice Title: borders / o the night Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_REUBENS (This is a USED item) self released - 1998

• Artist: Reverse Mouth Title: We Rub Our Hands With The Tendency To Start Fires Format: CDR Label: Phase! (Greece) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PHR35 "Two entire live sets by Reverse Mouth, "Heroin Nurse" and "Happy Hands Club Band", both took place in Athens, Greece. Black drone lo-fism and analog vomit. Limited to 65, handstamped covers by RM w/ hand-numbered outers and shit-painted labels."

• Artist: Reynols Title: live in chicago Format: CD Label: Carbon Records 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: Robe Title: Bleak Format: CDR Label: Crucial Blast Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BLAZE01 "The first entry in the new Crucial Blaze series of limited edition cdr/cd titles, which picks up where the now completed Crucial Bliss series ended. Now, our explorations into ambient drone, electronic noise and abstract heaviness descend into darker and more apocalyptic zones than before, and Robe's newest release Bleak combines all of these elements into an ideal flagship release for this new series. C-Blast customers may remember when I gushed over a stunning cassette that Robe. released on Thor's Rubber Hammer a while back; this new set of tracks continues in that intensely dark and oppressive vein, with seventy-five minutes of rumbling, creeping ambience and oozing, blackened bottom end raked with the blare of distant horns, smeared trumpets echoing across a vast ocean of black sludge, evil screeching violins time-stretched into endless drones, an immensely oppressive and threatening atmosphere drifting over formless glacial guitar/bass grind like plumes of pungent black smoke. It's like hearing corroded, distressed blasts of orchestral sound, broken and warped BM guitars and clanking machinery rotting beneath massive waves of low-end heaviness; the same reference points that I used for their Remains Of A Burning World apply equally here (Abruptum's Casus Luciferi, Neuntoter Der Plage, and Aderlating's most atmospheric moments), but leaning even more towards a sort of surrealistic industrial nightmare. This limited-edition release of Bleak is packaged in a clear plastic library case with full color artwork, limited and hand-numbered out of 250 copies, and includes a set of two full color 1" buttons, a vinyl Robe. sticker, and an foldover insert, all carefully crafted and assembled."

• Artist: Robert Horton Title: If I can't play my Boot I don't have a leg to stand on Format: CDR Label: Nothing Out There (Belgium) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_NOT09 "In May 2007, along with the master CD of his 3" release Salts that have lost Water, Robert Horton sent me an home-burnt CD-r selecting nine unreleased tracks from a recent period of recording, ranging from November 2006 to March 2007. In the midst of a battle with health troubles, the American improvisor and handyman still managed to carry on his experimental musical process. A couple of months ago, in Autumn 2008, on an accidental fresh listen of this collection of tracks, I was struck by how high they standed into the man's production so far. Inside this unreleased selection, I felt were collected some of Horton's best recent works, and thus proposed him to get an official release done for them. Though currently having a break away from the digital world, Robert welcomed my proposal immediately."

• Artist: Robert Palmer Title: Heavy Nova Format: LP Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_ROBERTPALMER (This is a USED item) big hit record, dancing girls video, etc. duuuude. 1988

• Artist: Robert Rodriquez and Frank Miller Title: Sin City Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_SINCITY (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Rodd Keith Title: My Pipe Yellow Dream Format: LP Label: roaratorio Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ROAR23 �Song Poems Wanted� read the ads. �We need new ideas for recording!� The send-us-your-lyrics business was a borderline scam, taking whatever lyrics came their way from would-be songwriters and � for a fee � setting them to music. None of the results ever came close to being a hit, and to be sure, the vast majority was sufficiently bland or clumsy to insure no great karmic loss in their instant obscurity and miniscule press runs. But Rodd Keith � the late, great genius whose prolific output was almost completely confined to the song-poem industry � had a knack for turning sow�s ears into silk purses. The nature of the business required him to work quickly, with no second takes, and his skill at writing and arranging on the fly was not unlike that of a master improviser. When at his best, he put his unique musical stamp on some lucky customer�s submission. My Pipe Yellow Dream is the second Roaratorio anthology of the highlights of Rodd Keith�s work. Compiling fifteen previously unreissued songs from 1966 through his death in 1974 � including a never-before-heard cover of �Choo Choo Train� � My Pipe Yellow Dream showcases the full range of his talents. From exquisite mid-60s pop balladry (�Deep Velvet�) to blue-eyed soul (�You Don�t Have To Alibi�) to folk-rock (�Tired Of Waiting�) to solo Chamberlain creations (�Red Sports Car�) to gospel testifying (�O Jesus My Savior�) to a pair of patriotic screeds (the all-spoken word �America The Not So Beautiful� and the bizarre-world lounge funk of �Search Out Your Soul, American�), this collection continues the rehabilitation of Rodd Keith�s recorded legacy from thrift-shop throwaway to celebrated cult artist. A limited edition LP in a gorgeous gatefold jacket, with artwork by Josh Journey-Heinz and liner notes from song-poem vocalist Dick Kent.

• Artist: Roel Meelkop Title: 5 (Ambiences) Format: CD Label: Intransitive 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: Roman Wolfe Title: Ylem C62 Format: CASS Label: 905 Tapes (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_905.108 "holy shit. an hour's worth of celestial acuteness from arabian blade runner donz solo. this shit just leaks into your brain like jupiter flavored syrup. eno's what he's doing - you know what i mean, dude?"

• Artist: Rotkop Collective Title: no title Format: ZINE Label: ROTKOP Catalog ID: CarbonDist_rotkop_nn_booklet "rothund is sold out, but last week rotkop + antistrot + smittekilde + knust/extrapool did a oneweek collaboration which resulted in a new full color stencilprinted book. no title only a proud but shy nn on the gay side of the cover. if i would be good in writing reviews, i probably didnt make drawings. yueyh.. too quickly done inside work by janus prutpuss, kevin apetown, dennis tyfus, zven balslev, soren mosdal, johan kleinjan, jan-dirk krust and jelle crama. 44 pages, A5 size, full color" [sample pages]

• Artist: Russian Tsarlag / Lesson Lesson Lessen Relearn Title: split Format: 7inch Label: West Palm Beotch (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WPBR007 Two longtime and long distance comrades on one piece of wax. Random marble-colored vinyl with full color pro printed covers. Russian Tsarlag is Providence musician/filmmaker/artist/Kinky Noise Records CEO Carlos Gonzalez. Tsarlag contributes what could be considered the soundtrack to a late-night teenage creep cult pep rally; his most plugged in and power chorded ripper yet. It's the perfect progression from his "Community Death Tube" LP (Night People) and split 12" with Blue Shift (Rare Youth). Kind of reminds me of early Chrome without the tacky electronics. Lesson Lesson Lessen Relearn is the ongoing project of What's YR Damage?'s Nelson Hallonquist. His side slows things down, way down, with a warped out analog burner. Thick synths, oscillations, finger piano, and the contents of a warbled tape found in a public garbage are utilized, in which two men contemplate a body transcending experience via the metaphysics of sports. Weird shit.

• Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto Title: Prayer / Salvation Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1926 (This is a USED item) 1998 Ninja Tune release

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

• Artist: Sarah Johnson / Cornucopia Title: split Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_SARAHJOHNSON (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Sarge Title: charcoal Format: CD Label: Mud Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_70 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Saturn Battery Title: Stainless Steel / Whipping Boy Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_SATURNBATTERY (This is a USED item) Rainman Records

• Artist: Savath+Savalas Title: fold songs for trains, trees and honey Format: CD Label: Hefty Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_Heft016 (This is a USED item) digipak in good condition

• Artist: Scanner Title: Sulphur Format: CD Label: Sub Rosa Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_sr95 (This is a USED item) warn jewel case

• Artist: Scenic Railroads Title: Airports & Apartments, Vol. 1 Format: CDR Label: gameboy Catalog ID: CarbonDist_gb94 "Dropping the in-joke titles for a change, Scenic Railroads present some live documentation capturing tracks from 2005 actually recorded during a layover at Washington Dulles airport and in the dining room of the then soon-to-be-evacuated Shiflet residence. The first weekend of April, 2005: Pope John Paul II was pushing out his last slow breaths. Stuck in a seemingly-endless layover in Washington DC, there seemed to be no escape from the airport TVs blaring CNN's over-the-top reporting. The only options were headphones & noise. Mid-July, 2005: The last performance before the group was put on "contintental separation" hiatus. Recorded in the almost completely empty apartment 12 hours before the keys were turned over & 167 E. Tulane ceased to be grounds of operation. CDR edition of 100 with covers made using various red & pink Japanese papers/prints."

• Artist: Schneider tm Title: moist Format: CD Label: CitySlang Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_31 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Schrei Aua Stein Title: Tsisnaasjini Format: CDR Label: Crucial Blast Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BLAZE03 "The third entry in the Crucial Blaze line is the new full length disc from Schrei Aus Stein, the experimental black metal/ambient alter ego of Ross Hagen from the drone/ambient outfit Encomiast. I've been a fan and follower of Ross's work with Encomiast going back to the beginning of the last decade, and we've released two of his releases as Encomiast through the Crucial Bliss series over the past five years, so when he emerged last year with this new project that combined his trademark droneological sounds with a noisy, moody brand of mid-paced black metal, I couldn't wait to hear it. The first release from Schrei Aus Stein was a limited edition disc on Starlight Temple Society called Talus that came out in 2009, an eerie blend of frostbitten mid-paced black metal, gothic post-punk throb, and sweeping arctic ambience, an excellent debut that showed that Hagen was going for more than just another downbeat depressive black metal project. Now, Schrei Aus Stein returns with it's second release Tsisnaasjini, a three song full length with songs that average at around thirteen minutes, long majestic soundscapes that still reveal a bit of that Encomiast ambience, but which delve into harsher, more unfriendly terrain than before, mixing together strange industrial dirge, blown-out depressive black metal, and ambient drone into icy realms of hypnotic atmosphere. Icy synthetic winds open the first track "Light On Wings", which takes off into a slipstream of arctic drift and low, oceanic static that reaches out for a couple of minutes before a series of low percussive rumbles begins to appear within the swirling blizzard of hiss and static, the vague beats slowly materializing into view as a creeping drumbeat that slowly plods forward through the wintry noisescape, the drums gradually joined by waves of guitar feedback and low bass buzz, and the song begins to take form from a nebulous wash of sound into a sort of eerie slowcore dirge that's all awash in amp grit and speaker rumble. Those guitars slowly form into minimal, droning minor key sorrow, a simple haunting riff that loops over and over while hissing demonic vocals drift in, enshrouded in reverb, an unintelligible smear of black malevolence over the plodding hypnotic dirge. On the second song "Like Arctic Moons", the sound shifts from that lumbering blackened slowcore into something a bit more like regular downer black metal, with slow, morose minor key riffs swarming over slow moving drums, stretched out shrieks and distorted howls echoing across the wintry backdrop of feedback and dissonant guitar drone, but as the song goes on, the music gradually picks up steam, getting oddly angular, the drums slipping into off-time rhythms, and then suddenly it locks into a mesmeric, almost motorik beat that begins driving beneath the eerie tremolo riffs, turning into a sort of krautrocky DSBM for a moment until the drums shift once again, this time into frantic blast beats while the guitars staying the same. It lurches back and forth between this hypnotic black pulse and stumbling doom and hectic thrashing, until it finally falls off into a long stretch of howling, buzzing mechanical drone, like the sound of machinery slowly winding down, becoming slower and slower, the drones pulling apart to reveal bits of shimmery metallic ambience, chimes and metal clank off in the distance, a creepy, mysterious dronescape that resembles the distant receding roar of a jetliner disappearing into a black hole, slowly dissolving into some minimal spacious ambience at the end, field recordings of trains and yipping wolves creating an eerie nocturnal drift. The last song "Vague as Blown Smoke" ends the disc with an epic blast of blown-out, abstract black metal, a classic sounding wash of blackened buzz, evil tremolo guitar swarming over swirling minor key guitars, droning bass and doom-laden drums, and malicious hissing vokills. Early on, the sound is distorted and creepy and off-kilter, erupting into a blazing wall of psychedelic black blast with layers of howling guitar and mechanized blast beats, and it gets more atmospheric and abstract as it progresses, morphing into a swirling ambient storm of abstract horror that slips in and out of doom-laden crush and passages of strange, bass-driven, industrial-tinged dirge, the instruments surrounded by wraithlike feedback and melting amp whir and whirling loops of delirious electronic melodies that slow down bit by bit until the music dissolves into pure cosmic drone at the end, with several minutes of surging waves of distorted low-end shifting beneath gleaming synthesizer hum and high-end shimmer that finally fades out into nothingness.... Anyone into the amorphous, melancholy black metal of bands like Velvet Cacoon and Xasthur should investigate Schrei Aus Stein, but this is much more droning and streaked with noise than those bands, often moving into pure ambient buzz within the storms of blackened violence. Like Talus, this is great stuff, and if you enjoyed that debut, you won't go wrong with Schrei Aus Stein's latest. The disc comes in a plastic library case with full color sleeve art, limited to a hand-numbered run of 250 copies, and includes a double-sided color insert card, a vinyl Schrei Aus Stein sticker, and a set of two Schrei Aus Stein 1" buttons."

• Artist: Schroedinger's Cut Title: Bowed Insides Format: 3inch CDR Label: Phase! (Greece) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PHR23 "Schroedinger's Cut offer 3 tracks of interior drone manipulation for their debut release, an itroduction to their forthcoming full length CD on ektopia/phase! Limited edition of 60, these metal string rippers are here to stay, so clean your ears out." - SOLD OUT at the source.

• Artist: Science vs. Witchcraft Title: 300 Useful Sound Effects Format: CASS Label: cae-sur-a (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_caesura_009 "At this point in time 300 Useful Sound Effects stands as the swan song for Rochester�s premier lewd boner rock band, Science vs. Witchcraft. Captured live to tape at the Bug Jar in 2010, with the band in top form. This limited edition release features 6 classics culled from their previous 2 eps including Sweatpant Boners, Too Big for Pants and crowd favorite Beautiful Package. Pro printed inserts on heavy card stock. Hand numbered edition of 100."

• Artist: Scott Hull Title: Audio Film I Format: 3CD Label: Crucial Blast Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR71 "...a terrifying fug of demonic drone that utilizes delirious stereo panning and slabs of obsidian ambience, and it slowly unfolds over the length of the piece to reveal layers of malevolent black drone and unsettling voices seemingly lost between planes of shadow. Audiofilm I plays out like a wildly hallucinogenic horror film score, and anyone into Scott's previous ambient/soundscape work will find this to be one of his darkest pieces yet. The disc is limited to a single pressing of 1,000 copies, packaged in a tiny 4" x 4" glossy gatefold jacket with stunning full color artwork from artist Seldon Hunt. Recommended to enthusiasts of the isolationist terror of Painkiller�s Execution Ground ambient disc, Lustmord, and Scorn... "

• Artist: scott taylor Title: postcard Format: CDR Label: sijis Catalog ID: CarbonDist_sijisep04 "let the music speak for itself you say, but this doesn‘t help our necessary paragraph. needless to say our most spiritual artist, his time spent on on the wrong side of the pop charts has finally paid off as sijis welcomes mr. taylor back [after intensive re-education] into the fold. a gentle ep mixes nostalgia and melancholy to create a stunning ep made by/with a computer that obviously loves him. recommended listening for those nursing a hangover or those too depressed to get out of the bath. in the first of a slew of his forthcoming releases, we only hope your total disinterest can slow him down."

• Artist: Screaming Trees Title: sweet oblivion Format: CD Label: Epic Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_91 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Screening Title: Low End Format: CD Label: Maor Appelbaum (Israel) 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 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: Sensefield Title: killed for less Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_rev32 (This is a USED item) on Revelation from 1994

• Artist: Sensefield Title: Building Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_rev46322-2 (This is a USED item) on Revelation - 1996 - PROMO copy

• Artist: Sewer Election Title: Last Breath Format: CDR Label: gameboy Catalog ID: CarbonDist_gb93 "Sweden's finest forgoes his usual dense harsh noise in favor of equally dense dirty drones. It's still a wall of sound, but far from impenetrable. This wall is more likely to crumble with the slightest touch and leave you buried beneath the rubble. It's a different, but equally effective, methond of simultaneous attack and defense. A short but epic piece, "Last Breath" unravels in under 20 minutes, but the coma it will induce is guaranteed to last for hours if not days. Indeed this disc makes a perfect soundtrack for those precious moments spent dying, living, or lingering anywhere between the two. CDR edition of 100. Dedicated to Dagmar Lassander."

• Artist: Shafer/Tunis Title: drum improvisations Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR43 65+ minutes of drum and percussion experimentations. recorded with 2 mics, straight to a stereo mix, the duo utilized everything at their disposal, including 2 drum kits, tibeten prayer bowls, a mini-gong, brushes, sticks, a cello bow, cymbals, lighting fixtures, a thumb piano, bells, and even the walls themselves. moving from the repetitive chattering of rain, to the all-out intensity of crashing thunder, this recording has range. free and open... [limited edition of 75, each packaged in a slim jewel-case. hand numbered]

• Artist: Sharks with Wings / Paper Legs Title: split Format: 7inch Label: Heat Retention Records (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HRR011 "Nice split this time from a couple of East Coast groups who've floated under my radar thus far. The single by Paper Legs and Sharks W/ Wings (Heat Retention 7") is packed inside a handsome silk- screened sleeve. Paper Legs have a very nice clattery sound, like a fat-ass freak rumble inside some gamelan storage room. The Sharks W/ Wings track is more in the line of Midwest US electronic murk, but without as much high-end caterwaul we've come to expect." -Byron Coley (The Wire)

• Artist: SHED (aka Jungle Heart) Title: Street Ghost Format: CASS Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR188 This is the twelfth release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. 32+ minutes of sampled and live vocals, guitars, drones, cut-ups, dirge, textures, beats, throb, sourced-tape warble, and electronic wizardry. Note: this is the US based duo, not the European DJ guy. [packaged with spray/splattered/stamped cardboard cassette holder, pro-dup'd and printed cassettes and b&w poster sheet. ]

• Artist: Sheet Title: live at the bug jar Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR09 Amazing documentation of this one man power electronics tsunami. Giant walls of pure sound crash over each other to form a mesmerizing and frightening whole. Having witnessed this performance live myself, I can only say that I‘ve only seen a small handful of other performers polarize an audience‘s reaction so drastically. People were totally blissed out by the sound of Sheet while others were moved to violence. The set was actually terminated by direct threat of physical harm. Packaged in a spray painted and melted jewel case. An appropriate approximation of what yr eardrums will look like after wrapping them around this unholy cd.

• Artist: Shelf Life Title: Ductworks Format: CD Label: public eyesore 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: Shriek Bunnies Title: Song of the Moth man Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_SKRIEKBUNNIES (This is a USED item) on Bulb (Ann Arbor). 5 tracks - 1993

• Artist: Signals Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Entr'acte (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_entracte25 "Recorded in situ between 16.20 and 17.00 on Saturday 10 Sept 2005 during a performance by Signals (a collaboration project between Cheapmachines and Karina ESP) at the London Placard headphone festival. This is an acoustic recording. any audible reference to Signals' performance is purely coincidental. Five inch CD in a die-cut wallet."

• Artist: Simon Whetham Title: Ascension_Suspension Format: CD Label: Entr'acte (UK) 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: Sindre Bjerga and Joe+N Title: slow collapse / building nature Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR149 the second in the Joe+N collaboration series (the first being with Antony Milton. this release consists of six tracks totally 27+ minutes, this is a long-distance collaboration between Sindre Bjerga (Gold Soundz label man) and Joe+N (aka Joe Tunis, Carbon label man). the two traded tracks over 2006/2007, Sindre started the recordings with some heavy synth loops/drones/etc. Joe then overdubed various instruments (guitars, drums, field recordings), extending/looping the originals at times, to get them to a final state. [packaged in a heavy-duty vinyl sleeve with a transluscent red "dimple" cover, artwork beneath, and wrapped in a band of metallic foil tape.]

• Artist: Sindre Bjerga and Textured Bird Transmission Title: Temple of Transparent Wisdom Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR180 This is the second release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. Recorded in 2007 and 2009 in Stavanger Norway and Weymouth UK respectively, this is some dense heavy drones with the perfect balance of texture and movement. [packaged with a full-color pro-printed folded card in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes]

• Artist: Skin Yard Title: 1000 Smiling Knuckles Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1916 (This is a USED item) 1991 release on Cruz Records

• Artist: Skullflower Title: Tribulation Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast 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: Slick Fifty Title: Evicting the Robinsons Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_SLICKFIFTY (This is a USED item) self released - transparent green vinyl

• Artist: Slicker Title: confidence.in.duber Format: CD Label: Hefty Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_148 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: sluggo Title: completed under duress Format: CDR Label: sijis Catalog ID: CarbonDist_sijisep03 "yes it‘s finally happened. the long-time agent proscrastinateur, and guitarist in far to many real bands for our liking has finished some tracks he is happy with. under duress relates to the physical nature to which certain members of sijis had to look through mister sluggo‘s hard drive and extract the audio needed for a release. Never one to let go, and recently caught denying all knowledge of how these tracks ended up on his computer, we hope you enjoy these deliciously brutal slices that took us nearly a year to prize out of sluggo‘s reach."

• Artist: Smashing Orange Title: the glass bead game Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_SMASHINGORANGE (This is a USED item) American Native release from 1992

• Artist: Snapcase Title: steps Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_SNAPCASE (This is a USED item) on Victory Records - 1995

• Artist: Social Junk Title: Summer Concussion Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR179 This is the first release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. Documenting Social Junk's 2008 Summer Tour (with Big Nurse), this is a great collection of live drone/drum/out captures. Similar to the Dead C, but with their own unique rhythm and pace. [packaged with a full-color pro-printed folded card in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes]

• Artist: Social Junk Title: Somebody Should've Told You Format: CASS Label: Zum (USA) 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: Sonic Catering Band / Bohman Brothers Title: Imperial Metric Format: CDR Label: Gold Soundz (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GS50 "3 fine dishes, served with white wine... Astonishing sonic cookery from these fine gentlemen.. Co-released with Absurd."

• Artist: Sorc'Henn Title: FARO: Death Of The Island Sheeps Format: CDR Label: Crucial Blast Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BLISS38 "I've been haunted by the beautifully dark loopscapes of French artist Sorc'henn dating back to first hearing the band on their Harmonium pieces & dead reveries disc released by Faunasabbatha, so we were immensely stoked when Sorc'henn was interested in releasing some more of their music through Crucial Bliss. This new full length features four tracks of Sorc'henn's murky, dreamy drones that stretch out over a misty, grey-washed landscape much like the one pictured on the exterior of Faro's foldout sleeve, a lightless wetland that fades way into the distance, obfuscated by a thick veil of shadow, and the fourth track is additionally notable for being a collaboration between Sorc'henn and members of Portland black metallers L'Acephale and Virginia deathdrone outfit One Lifeless Eye. The first track is essential Sorc'henn, a twenty-one minute dronescape that is mainly made up of a single warbling harmonium loop that repeats over and over and over, as a young woman whispers lines of poetry over top. As minimalist and simple as this is, it's amazingly beautiful, and almost has a My Bloody Valentine-like quality to it, like one of the guitar-feedback ambient parts of Loveless that has been melted and crushed into a misshapen version of the original melody. The second track is a mere four minutes in comparison - a deep, murky field of subterranean rumblings and a distant crackling sound, like a phonograph needle stuck in a run-off groove over crashing waves of distorted tidal thunder and ominous harmonium drones. The next track is basically a continuation of the previous, with those sinister harmonium drones humming over surges of distorted low-end thunder and weird noises that pan from speaker to speaker. The last track, the collaboration between Sorc'henn and members of L'Acephale and One Lifeless Eye, is the longest on the disc at ovr twenty-six minutes. This one is a sprawling expanse of murky black ambience, a slow-swirling fog of muted harmonium notes, oceanic sounds, chirping noises that might be frogs, and hushed, whispered cackles and demonic processed vocals drifting across a vast void of Lustmordian darkness. " REVIEW FROM JULIAN COPE/HEAD HERITAGE: These past two months, my personal choice for all night repetition, ie: the piece that helps me most easily access the Underworld, has been the Uber-haunting 22-minute track �D�dsdansen (Death�s Dance), Life of an Island Lad�, from the FARO album by Sorc�henn. Released on that tremendous Crucial Blast subsidiary Crucial Bliss (www.crucialblast.com), FARO is a fine fine Black Metal record and, except for the more obvious and more stylized final 26-minute �evil� track �Enez Varv Faaro�, goes about its sinister business secretly, intoning plainsong in cloisters, invoking camp-fires, digital distortion and wolves, and dancing at the edge of total ambience, nay, ambulence! Then, two minutes from the end, some old French torch song comes in and really sealeth ye atmosphere. Su-fuckin�-perbe!

• Artist: Sound 00 Title: Love EP Format: 3inch CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD54

• Artist: sound 00 Title: micronoise Format: 3inch CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD11

• Artist: Sound 00 / Iversen Title: s/t Format: 7inch Label: Dirty Demos (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dirty7_001 "Antonio and Jan-M collaborate here for a debut release of theirs and ours, creating four moody, abrasive, electronic sound experiments collected here in a nice 7” vinyl format. "

• Artist: Sounds of North American Adult Bookstores Title: mermaid in a manhole Format: CDR Label: Bennifer Editions (Cananda) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_bennifer_adult_bookstores "ever get fed up with the name of your band (especially the one that seems to suggest the female's discard of feces during the laborious conception of her child)? i mean, after a while people kind of presume a certain quality of the work based solely on the name. for example really archaic names (mostly "initial" bands) like REM or INXS can pretty much guarantee that theres going to be some expensive shit lying around and this really deep asshole that writes long-winded letters signed "prudence" telling people what to do with them. you can also pretty much assume that if theres a "town" in there (like boytown or crazytown) theres bound to be some hair-gel going around, getting all over everybody's hands- trying for the life of them to seemlessly combine post-STP grunge and caucasian-afflicted hip-hop into some highly manicured suburban pap. the only thing you can really do, you figure, is fabricate a plethora of band names that you rip off from various comedy records. "now we're a vaguely nymphomaniacal psych-band!!". this is the sister-album to gastric female reflex's "nairobi piece", and appropriately she's a 'beaut! although, i must say that she similarily inhereted a bad temper and a propensity for getting her abnormally sized "hormonal-stage" wiskers stuck in the gears of the tape recorder. she keeps her head straight on this one, though, promise. this one comes in roofing material with tits screened on it."

• Artist: Soup Purse Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Below PDX (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BELOWPDX07 "Creep into the murky methodical mayhem of Soup Purse’s electronic effacing slips into subliminal sorcery. Todd Dickerson wrestling with new technology from Peter B’s secret ciat-lombarde laboratory. Cocolase processing Science-Fiction inspired playful keyboard emissions. Constantly churning and shifting, perfect for short attention spans and or for your pet monkey’s walkman on his first trip to the moon. Todd also plays keyboards/narrates the journeys of Space Hawk and The Dendrites. He has a shrewd opinion about just about all topics and sometimes he’s one of the funniest people I know. Mastered by Pete Swanson (Jyrk/Yellow Swans). Hand acrylic painted directly on jewel case by Todd."

• Artist: Spin-17 with Jeffrey Shurdut & Ravi Padmanabha Title: 21st Century Folk Music Vol 3 Format: CDR Label: Quodlibet (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_QLCDR_SPIN17 "Motoko Shimizu (voice, turntable, toys), Ed Chang (sax and radio), Jeffrey H Shurdut(guitar), Ravi Padmanabha (percussion). Free soul improvisations - this incarnation of Spin-17 (with special sauces Jeffrey Shurdut & Ravi Padmanabha) takes the best parts of free improv folk-skronk and ladles it over an epiphany-prone drone-groove rhythm section resulting in a full-flavored creative music casserole."

• Artist: Spool Ensemble Title: three electronics Format: 3inch CDR Label: Heat Retention Records (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HRR015 comes in a slim dvd case

• Artist: SQ Title: LONG WIRES Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR113 40+ minutes of SQ from the summer of 2001. recorded at Visual Studies Workshop, this recording finds SQ delving into the sounds of wires. all string instruments, including a long-wire instrument constructed using a floating wall-section used by the gallery. 20+ feet long, contact mic'd as well as room-mic'd. [packaged in heavy-duty vinyl sleeve with full-color insert along with a section of wire] Reviews (1): Modisti (SQ - LONG WIRES) A thoroughly experimental approach to the realm of strings under a wide lens, featuring conventional instruments and techniques as well as abstract explorations in the realm of noise... Experimental instruments are explored in a series of settings and with a wide palette of techniques: preparation, tuning, fluctuating pitches, weaving of textures through the superimposition of different strands, possibilities of amplification –whether acoustic (sound boxes and their material dyeing of sound) or electric (feedback, effects). Engulfed by the sheer amount of possibilities that such adventures open up, the tracks move from the discovery of sounds to musical explorations of great beauty.

• Artist: SQ Title: ROUND Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR111 first in the SQ.Archive Series. this recording is from 1996 and is a piece for 6 guitars, positioned in a circle, following in a round. lo-fi recording with hi-fi texture. Branca-esque. covers are hand-silkscreened, edition of 90. 3 color print job, on heavy watercolor paper (textured). folded into a plastic sleeve.

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  Artist: SQ Title: big leaves on a small tree - Black Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CRTSQ_BIGLEAVES_BLACK Black shortsleeve tshirts Black shirt with white ink. Front left pocket with (older) Carbon logo. Back includes SQ lake scene from "big leaves on small tree" release.

• Artist: sq Title: 06.29.00 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR35 35 minutes of free-improv swells, bursts and dialogues, recorded like at the Bug Jar (Rochester NY). accompanying the SQ duo were John Schoen (Pengo) on alto saxophone and r.nuuja (Sheet) on japanese noise making devices. [limited edition of 75, numbered and packaged in sealed kraft cardboard CD folders. must be torn to open.]

• Artist: sq Title: __moments imaginaires (8988) Format: CD Label: Carbon Records 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 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 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: sq / quadrafacet Title: split Format: LP Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR13 jam packed sides from each of the bands. speedQueen delivers a droney NZ-inspired collage of live recordings, while quadrafacet come up with 4 space-rock masterpieces ala Darla/SpaceAge/Kranky bands.

• Artist: Stab at God Title: Praying with a Gun in my Hand Format: CDR Label: Below PDX (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BELOWPDX16 housed in DVD case with multi-page insert entitled "DEICIDE INSTRUCTION MANUAL"

• Artist: Staplerfahrer Title: live at OT301 Format: 3inch CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR132 microsonic transmissions from a small insect walking across a large plant, or a small being wandering across a large planet or a distant factory churning out goods. this release entices you to listen more and more closely to the sounds its exposing. [3" cdr in various mini cases/sleeves with full color insert, spray-painting, etc] Reviews (2): Modisti Liminal exploration of non-action, the by-products of electric rhythms, glitch noise and various interference noise resulting in a wholly horizontal attitude to listening where the microscopic is celebrated through acceptance and an unquestioning attitude towards the accidental. Foxy Digitalis First, a drone of static is faintly heard in the background. Then, layers of hisses and buzzes are sparingly added one after the other while a skeletal, chopped-up electronic beat barely detaches itself from this discreet mass of sound. And suddenly, there’s that annoying sound that cell phones make when an incoming call passes through the speakers... Yet, each time that noise resurfaces, it is carefully controlled like some sort of guitar feedback – the sound of modern life being transfigured, acting as much as a sound generator as a possible commentary on our most current means of (mis)communication. By the 6th minute, some distant/ muffled female vocals can be heard (via the cell phone), announcing the changes to come. From that moment onwards, a saturated motif gradually appears and becomes amplified to the point where it fills the entire acoustic space. As the skeletal beat re-enters the picture, the overall sound gets more and more intense and one feels compelled to give in to this surge of ecstatic ethereal noise. Towards the end of its course, this mini-industrial symphony decides to take on a more introspective side though. As more and more hisses are added/ subtracted/ stretched to their outer limits, the flow of sounds manages to turn your senses around – through a subtle use of “ghost” noises – just before ending on an abrupt, exhilarating note. As brief as it is intense, this intriguingly-packaged (paint-sprayed small-case) 3” CDR (courtesy of the always amazing Carbon Records) is highly recommended to all those who love to experience music as a continuously disturbed, yet ecstatic flow of sound. A true shot of sonic adrenalin and a hell of a great record to come out of blue/ into the void. 9/10 -- (27 December, 2006) - Francois Hubert

• Artist: Staplerfahrer Title: depths in perception Format: 3inch CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD39 "staplerfahrer started out to be me, some ten years ago, when Icircuitbended the amplifier of my first record player....the resultturned out to be some ecstatic noise and from that moment on I washooked....from then on sound was the law....and I do (or try to do)just about everything with it...." "'Depths In Perception' is the follow-up of 'scsi vs ata', also on TIBProd (see Vital Weekly 392) by fellow Dutch man Steffan de Turck. The long gap has been used to produce these eight tracks of microscopic sounds, but I'm told that Steffan is also using circuit-bending to generate his sounds. I think this new release is a major step forward. He combines 'real' samples of instruments with sounds that are fully loaded with plugins. With these samples at hand he manages to craft almost melody like stuff in these small sketch like tunes. Breaking away from the really abstract microsound and moving towards a more poppy sound." ---Frans de Waard in Vital Weekly 452

• Artist: Starecase Title: Lose Today Format: LP Label: DE STIJL (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IND096 "Lose Today wields the ethereal meditative power leftover from The Velvet Underground�s Sweet Sister Ray epic bootleg. The result: a melodious somnolent grievance that leaves the listener to feast on a curiously endless and internal banquet. Young snarls and writhes in irritated spiraling pronouncements that trail off in regretful, pained fashion, producing the same eventual something-isn�t-right that The Velvet Underground secured, but set aside to allow the Michigan basement bluesmen to borrow. Also, here is Young�s virgin performance on bass, a venture that proves suiting as his sparse yet stable meanderings are the backbone to a jam lost in the arcane. At times the bass lines seem to be counting off the seconds until an eventual meltdown. Meanwhile, Olson wanders off on woodwinds, seemingly tangled in wavelengths, letting his own sounds guide him through a brassy chilling darkness. He follows scales�Indian scales, blues scales�though the subtlety of Olson�s discipline fosters to an expansive intimacy, a nuance so massive his quips on flute and saxophone are the secret architects of Lose Today�s meditation. Olson takes the spiraling mania inspired by the likes of The VU�s Sweet Sister Ray lose-all jam and lets it blossom into a soundtrack for a secret think tank whose sole purpose is to maintain a shadowed fire. "

• Artist: Starfish Title: Stellar Sonic Solutions Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_STARFISH (This is a USED item) Trance Syndicate release

• Artist: Starfish Title: the instrumental ep Format: CD Label: Trance Syndicate Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_123 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Sten Ove Toft Title: landmark Format: CDR Label: Humbug Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HUMBUG035 "a live recording, very noisy in the Mezbow sense but mixed with some tense churning, shifting electronics."

• Artist: Steve Baczkowski Title: Tone Arm Format: CASS Label: cae-sur-a (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_caesura_002 "Known primarily for his work on baritone sax in a variety of duo and trio formats with the likes of Chris Corsano, Paul Flaherty, Ravi Padmanabha and most recently Bill Nace, Steve Baczkowski unleashes his first recorded solo outing that pushes his improvising techniques and sonic palette to a whole new level on Tone Arm. The foundation of the piece is maintained through looping and tone arm manipulation of home modified vinyl records over which Baczkowski introduces melodies, whistles, scratches, squeaks, squawks and bellows through bird whistles, baritone sax, flutes, and bells. Recorded live Sugar City, Buffalo New York, May 30th 2010. Hand numbered Edition of 100."

• Artist: Stone Baby Title: if English is good enough for jesus, then its good enough for me Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR185 This is the seventh release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. 40+ minutes of guitar, effects, violin, synth and vocals. textured drones, ghostly vocalizations, keyboard swells and progressions. this is quite a collection of tracks from this geographically challenged duo (WesternNY/US and Germany) [packaged with pro-printed covers in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve] [Digital Download comes with a PDF of the artwork and liner notes]

• Artist: Stone Baby Title: fully render(ed) /cloud/s Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR160 44+ minutes from this drone/creeper duo (Cory and Jen) from Rochester NY. guitars, violin, effects, dulcimer, homemade tape machine and more. really amazing layers of sounds from just two people. good sense and mixture of denseness and space. [packaged in a 5x7" kraft chipboard envelope, original cloud artwork from Cory, affixed with clear/thread-grid tape and sprayed/splattered, insert/notes and sprayed CDR]

• Artist: Stone Baby Title: Black Blossom Blues Format: CDR Label: House of Alchemy (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HOA007 "Distorted maniac no- blues music for people who live under bridges! Following up on a severely limited self-released cd-R, Black Blossom Blues is the next step towards the ultimate goal of conquering Western Civilization with black-hole, black-eye jams bellowed from the dark alleys of Rochester, NY. Tapes are cruelly manipulated, drones are squashed and guitars are turned inside out. It's finally time for the Stone Baby army to take back the streets! CD-R edition of 123."

• Artist: Stone Baby / Entente Cordiale Title: our lungs are bleeding, but we keep breathing Format: 3inch 2CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR162 this is a split release, with each band contributing a 3" cdr worth of their form of drone, scrap and sometimes thump. [packaged in a kraft gift-box, with full-color pro-printed cover affixed (and also inserted), and tied off with 100% jute twine. cdrs are sprayed and stenciled] - first edition limited to 100 Reviews (2): Crucial Blast When it comes to delicate, beautifully constructed handmade CD-Rs of crazed improv-noise and droning, rumbling free-rock, the Carbon Records label out of Rochester is one of the coolest. We've been carrying their heavier titles for years and some of the more recent stuff that the label has been putting out (Entente Cordiale, Crush The Junta) has been really massive in a Dead C-on-steroids, buzzing amp-noise and spontaneous riff-mangle sort of way, and every one of these CDs and CD-Rs looks amazing. This split release is the latest from Carbon, a two-disc set that features a different 3" CD-R from the Rochester bands Entenete Cordiale and Stone Baby, and both of 'em deliver about twenty-some odd minutes of dark, shadowy free-sludge/psych/drone that hits the spot. The first disc is from the mysterious Stone Baby, who I'd never heard of before picking this up, but who craft these really dark and creepy free-drone ambient scrapescapes. Their twenty minute disc features the three-part "Silicosis Suite", which begins with echoing plucked strings of some sort looped over what sounds like a violin being slowly played and a dark expanse of shimmering ambience and distant, pulsing tympani-like thuds. The piece slowly becomes more detailed as creepy distorted voices, warbling electronic melodies and heavy, Earth-esque dronemetal guitars begin to appear, the latter being a slow rumbling cloud of looped amp-crunch that hovers over everything like a toxic thundercloud. Things become heavier and darker as moaning choral voices and some really depressing violin melodies rise to the surface, and the distorted guitar textures swell in volume, sometimes forming into a murky droning riff. The third and final part of the suite drops the distorted guitars and has processed violin weeping over waves of blackened droning drift. Imagine a doped-up Tony Conrad playing with doom-psych basement trogs Robedoor and yer almost there. Moving on to the Entente Cordiale disc, we get a single twenty two minute track called "96/89", an epic piece of dark free-drone-rock that starts off with softly rising swells of low-end feedback and a softly plucked melody, simple and pretty, played over and over. Droning bass notes and scraping guitar strings drift around as the playing slowly builds steam and the volume gradually rises, and as the melody and chords start to change, the sound moves from airy prettiness to darker shadows of buzzing bassy rumbling and droning strings that seem to slip in and out of tune. The sound melts and distends, turning sickly as all semblance of melody evaporates leaving only the nauseaous warbling feedback and atonal humming of guitar strings. But then it all transforms again in the last eight minutes when a simple tribal-type drumbeat enters and another melody appears, a basic, catchy indie rock hook on one of the guitars that kinda sounds like Sebadoh or something, played for a couple of minutes over the murky tom-tom beats and then swamped by waves of loud amplifier feedback and guitar noise. Definitely poppy by Entente Cordiale standards, but still in the vein of their dark Dead C brand of free-noise-rock jamming. Amazing packaging as always...this set comes packaged in a brown kraft gift box with full color artwork glued to the front, the two mildly spray-painted discs enclosed inside with an insert card, and tied together with a thick piece of twine. Limited to 100 copies. Ear Conditioned Nightmare Rochester's Carbon Records have been dropping weirdness from the north for a while now, and this double 3" is a killer format for showing off two like-minded wranglers of mind-fuckery in a concise and effective format. Stone Baby is a group that, I believe, includes Cory Card, though I'm not sure of or if there are any other members. The "Silicosis Suite" presented here in three parts, maintains the spooky, sterile vibes that both the track and the band name conjure. For those who don't know, a stone baby is the name given to some crazy process whereby a baby gets lodged in the wrong spot of a woman's body and essentially calcifies so as not to cause infection. Sometimes these things aren't found for forty years, which is definitely the kind of grueling, creepy, body invading spinal discomfort that Stone Baby bring to mind here. Really crisp metallic expanses here, with radio babble and guitar tinklings riding atop some deeply buried brain dead mumbles. Eventually the darkness overwhelms and you enter the howling monstrosity of the second movement, which manages to be as dense while still maintaining a kind of oxygenated undertow. The last movement culls more scraping metal with warped vocal bellows while guitar and endless echo trail along in gloomy desolation. Not exactly a finger snapper, which means a pretty complete realization of its own aesthetic. Entente Cordiale is another mystery group who lead down a similar path as Stone Baby does. A trio consisting of (if I'm reading it right...) Chris Reeg, Will Veeder and Joe Tunis, it sounds like a three guitar attack going on, though the restraint would suggest otherwise. Patiently ringing melodic fragments and textural billows, about forty percent of the sound they wrangle is each others feedback meshing and melting inward. Despite the apparent chilliness of the disposition on "96/89," there is actually quite a lot of warmth in these subtle interactions. Sudden changes are few, but they build themselves a sort of tactile sound world to bathe about in. Sometimes it gets bleaker, sometimes more muddied, and sometimes it is quite harsh, but the overall approach is one that favors interaction and listening to mental degeneration via guitar splaying. Even so, some pretty fucked levels of weird are apparent. Weird little package in one of those Michael's arts and crafts boxes with packaging fuzz and a nice pro-printed card. The twine (not pictured) really seals the deal on a wild split. - Henry Smith

• Artist: Stone Baby and Joe+N Title: destruction for appetite Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR168 the fourth in the Joe+N collaboration series (the first three being with Antony Milton, Sindre Bjerga and John Charlton). this release consists live in-person sessions (different from the other three which were all long-distance efforts). this is a mixture of dual guitar pieces as well as guitar and drums heavy drone/psych epics. [packaged in a heavy-duty vinyl sleeve with a pro-printed full-color cover. CDR is sprayed and splattered.] Reviews (1): Foxy Digitalis You have to applaud Carbon Records head Joe Tunis (aka Joe+N ) for always seeking out worthwhile collaboration partners. Previously working together with Anthony Milton, Sindre Bjerga and now Stone Baby, these pairings always turned out to be wonderful low-key treasures hiding out in the foggy lands between heavy psych and burning drone. �Destruction for Appetite� definately belongs to the heavy psych part of Tunis� collaborations and don�t mistake the album�s title, and track titles for some kind of hardrock mockery here. These are serious psychedelic guitar burners and I trust these guys to never make a fool of one of the greatest heavy rock albums of all time. Right�.guys? But back to the music, there�s three tracks, not counting the somewhat discordant, chaotic intro, all involving psychedelic guitar work outs and all basking in lo-fi feedback, �Mr Stone Brown� (hah) feels like a 16 minute long intro to the rest of the album. Slowly unfolding patterns surrounded by hushed feedback, the kind of thing you�d expect when going to a smoky Bardo Pond gig where you find out those guys are way too stoned to rock out. �O' Mine Sweet Child� starts off similarly but gradually evolves into a thick puddle of psych-guitar and desperate howls. It�s unfortunate the drums are so far back in the mix which makes the track lose some of the tribal force that it certainly has. During �Queen Rocket� Joe and the gang try to mix up the heavy psych with the burning drone. The guitar motifs are stretched out and sewn together by a lingering electricity. A fitting closer to an album that�s perfect for a hung over Sunday afternoon. You might have just found your cure here. 6/10 - Joris Heemskerk

• Artist: Straight Outta Mongolia Title: the redundancy of saying sorry Format: CDR Label: fencing flatworm Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ff026 returning briefly from his hermitage on an orbiting asteroid, the master of mutant pop treats us to half a dozen future smash hits. kick ass programming and an utterly unique vocal style: this is some broke-dick funk. the disco jandek? like new order tried to record ‘low life‘ by scoring the grooves directly into barely set jelly..

• Artist: Stuckometer Title: muung Format: 3inch CDR Label: First Person (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Plural029 Immediately arresting deconstructed "rock". " ? free/spontaneous (igneous) rock dismembered sinewy zombie limbs flailing contact mic microcassette mayhem recorded in a goat/in a pig ? " [Joincey] This band have made quite a name for themselves this year as an exceptional live experience with support slots to the Magik Markers, Sunburned Hand of the Man amongst many many others. Features Joincey (Inca Eyeball, Coits, PUFF etc) M U U N G can be heard here - myspace.com/stuckometer

• Artist: SubArachnoid Space Title: Aslo Rising Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_SUBARACHNOIDSPACE (This is a USED item) Strange Attractors release from 2003

• Artist: Subarachnoid Space Title: Eight Bells Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast 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) 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) 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) 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) 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: SunShip Sextet Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR50 "In June 2000, E.S.P. was asked (along with John Vance and Jesse Petersen) to perform at an outdoor rock show in Minneapolis opening for Sonic Youth and Stereolab. The corporate sponsors didn‘t like the "cock" in our name, nor did they want 3 seperate noise sets. So, along with special guests Weasel Walter and Misty Martinez, we did an overlapping noise gala under the SunShip Sextet umbrella. The snazzy digital board recording of the set, along with a subsequent live TV performance, has been released as a specially-packaged Carbon Records CDR." [limited edition of 100, each packaged hand-made cardboard cover with toner-transfer artwork and full-color inserts.]

• Artist: Suprastate Title: modern classics Format: CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD86 "From this new lot on Tib Prod, Suprastate is a new name for me. It's one Thomas Aslaksen from Norway, who plays computer music. So far he has made releases on MP3 labels and here for the first time on CDR. I must say that I thought it was all a bit unsurprising. Loops of noise, although not loud, go bump around, culling extra sounds from field recordings, and have some plug in running. It works best when things aren't really loud and when it seems that there is something of structure or even a faint trace of melody occurring. But throughout I thought this was a rather unengaging release." - Vital Weekly

• Artist: Suzukiton Title: service repair handbook Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast 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: Swamps Up Nostrils Title: Reconstruct III Format: 2CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD55 "Some while ago, an ep made by Swamps Up Nostrils were made available through tibprod for remixing purpouses. The results are overwhelming. Not just one disc, but two discs, full of wonderful reconstructed music by totally awesome people. " - co-release with Krakilsk.

• Artist: T.E.F. / Bastard Noise Title: Astronomical Sound Images Format: CD Label: PacRec (USA) 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: Taiwan Deth Title: LIVE Format: 3inch CDR Label: Roger Records (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Rogerrecords_taiwandeth "Captured live on a magical, mystical night in Nashville, TN, this album takes you deep into the Taiwan Deth psyche. Organic pulses, guitar scree, haunting voices, saxophone skronk, and unidentifiable sounds from a parallel dimension. Crystal clear sound quality too. Just saw these guys mesmerize everyone at INC in Miami and I'm totally thrilled to be putting this out. Cool golden handmade package too, can you even tell what you're looking at in that picture? Limited to 200 copies!"

• Artist: Tape That Title: Autumn Collection Format: CDR Label: Humbug Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HUMBUG042 What is THAT? TAPE THAT tapes almost everthing and layers it with almost everything else. Not soundscapes, but pieces of music created by juxtaposing different sounds in different spaces. Live playing in the studio layered, in real time, with ambient recordings from other places, complex microphone set ups recording the sounds up close and afar, samples put directly to TAPE as well as being recorded in the room, switching from this to THAT according to different principles of organisation and different structural limitations; different species of hits: The Background Hits, The Very Room Hits, Hit Hits, Pure Tape Hits, etc. The autumn collection can be listened to in numerous ways: Loud and up-close, soft and in the background. Add sounds to your house or hear speleologically through the layers of the sounds taped onto the CD. Everything you hear is taped live in the studio. No overdubs have been added in post-production. A little cutting here and there, though. Please enjoy it... -TT, november 2004   Finally! The debut release from the Dutch duo, Tape That. Who are part of the fabulous Amsterdam based "N collective" along with PHÔ and many other improvising groups. Check out: www.radiantslab.com/n Comes in a full colour cardboard packaging, with a Tape That collage on the cover, insert, liner notes.

• Artist: Tarwater Title: Remix EP Format: CD Label: USED 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: Taurpis Tula Title: Cadillac Sitting Like a Ton of Lead Format: LP Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IKU_TarpisLP "Cadillac Sitting Like A Ton Of Lead, the brand new album from the Taurpis Tula trio of David Keenan (Tight Meat Duo), Heather Leigh (Scorces/Dream Aktion Unit/Jandek) and Alex Neilson (Tight Meat Duo/Directing Hand/Jandek/Richard Youngs et al), represents the absolute apex of their twin guitar/drums incarnation, with two side-long improvised psychedelic blues that combine the kind of epic string-muscle of Fushitsusha, Ohkami No Jikan, Kousokuya and Rallizes Denudes with a sublime avant-garage sensibility and massive pockets of time-killing freedom. Further amplifying the malevolent narcosis of their debut LP on Eclipse, Cadillac… is a full blown rock record that full delivers on their vision of Yoko jamming with Red Transistor in a world where the conventional middle-brow ‘canon’ is pretty much upended in favour of primitive avant garde brut. There are grooves here that are as magnetic and future-visioned as The Magic Band circa “Big Eyed Beans From Venus” or the final seconds of amplifier meltdown on Mainliner’s Mellow Out while the playing is at an all-time ESP-channelled high, with the group generating glorious metal-inflected simultaneities without the slightest whiff of ‘dialogue’ or even listening with ears.This is a profound statement of the kind of freak-out freedoms inherent in the most primal blues/rock forms and a revitalising connection to the source of *it*, further building on the kind of form the group were packing during their monstrous jam at Thurston Moore’s Nightmare Before Christmas. Features Heather Leigh on vocals, harmonica and pedal steel, David Keenan on electric guitar and Alex Neilson on drums. Packaged in individually silkscreened sleeves by disobedient Belgian artist Jelle Crama and featuring all-original artwork by Heather Leigh on the front, the insert and the labels, Cadillac Sitting Like A Ton Of Lead comes in a limited edition of 440 copies." - Douglas Gully.

• Artist: Tel Aviv Title: s/t Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_TELAVIV (This is a USED item) Teenbeat release. feat. Marc Robinson, post-Unrest

• Artist: Telecult Powers Title: Amazing Laws of Format: CDR Label: Abandon Ship (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ASR050 "Abandon Ship is proud to announce it's 50th release! And with it comes the first non Temple of Pei Telecults album. It took some convincing via Vulcan mind-meld, but I couldn't feel more honored. So wipe the dust off of your ouija board, reshuffle your deck of tarot cards, and hem the stitches on your voodoo doll. Some real-deal mystical shit is about to go down. Keep a tight grip on your salvia pipe, for it may be your only companion on this dark voyage. Some local myths turned heroes in this mind-expanding duo. Trade in your distortion and delay for magickal boxes of pure analog spirit. Nobody has kept it realer than these guys. "

• Artist: teledroom Title: two twos Format: CD Label: Glasvocht 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) 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: Teriyakis Title: Positive Influence / Romper Stomper Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_TERIYAKIS (This is a USED item) on Egoless - 1995

• Artist: Th. Title: afflux Format: 3inch CDR Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosefifteen "a 19+ minute glitched out composition that varies from minimal and dark to piercing and cacophonic. th. is taylor holdgraf who also works under the iamseamonster moniker. edition of 77. housed in a trifold, two-sided vellum cover."

• Artist: THC Title: Blue Wave 12" single Format: LP Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_THC (This is a USED item) 12" single. Drum and Bass

• Artist: the 1985 Title: Obscured by Pink Clouds Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR21 [Recently found inventory from record store. 2 copies back in stock!] 4 Rockers from Pittsburgh lick up the phuh of David Yow, Florian Schneider and Mark Mothersburg and end up recording a goddamn No Wave car crash. 23 tracks of pure panic. "No, I didn't get electrocuted. My hair just naturally looks like this! this is their second full length, their first, _nerve eighty_, being an amazing record on Progeria Records.

• Artist: The Butcherings Title: Manifesto of the Moment Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_butcherings (This is a USED item)

• Artist: The Cherry Point Title: Night of the Bloody Tapes Format: CD Label: PacRec (USA) 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 circle and the point Title: and so on for ever Format: CDR Label: House of Alchemy (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HOUSEOF004 "Post-Terrastock 6, two weary travelers holed up in a spare bedroom with a random cache of instruments and various noisemakers in an attempt to unleash some of the beer-fueled steam that had built up over the previous weekend. The music here comes from two delirious afternoons, still weary from a lack of sleep, minds still overloaded from a weekend of mania- both music related and beyond. Floating acoustic guitars buried in the murk of distorted electric guitars. Featuring Grant Capes from (VxPxC), these are ideas six years in the making, now just starting to unwind. Adorned with major cover art by Darryl Norsen. 2006. house of 004. limited edition of 123 cd-r's"

• Artist: The Cocktails Title: Long Sound Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_COCKTAILS_LONGSOUND (This is a USED item) Carrot Top release from 1993 featuring Archer Prewitt (Sea and Cake)

• Artist: The Cocktails Title: Peel Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_COCKTAILS_PEEL (This is a USED item) Carrot Top release from 1994 featuring Archer Prewitt (Sea and Cake)

• Artist: The Cocktails Title: s/t Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_COCKTAILS_ST (This is a USED item) Carrot Top release from 1996 featuring Archer Prewitt (Sea and Cake)

• Artist: The Cocktails Title: s/t Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1975 (This is a USED item) 1996 Carrot Top release

• Artist: The Crownhate Ruin Title: Until the Eagle Grins Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_CROWNHATERUIN (This is a USED item) Dischord release from 1996

• Artist: The Curious Hair Title: say hello to happiness Format: CD Label: Evol Egg Nart Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_30 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: The Dylan Group / We Title: bittersweet / remix Format: LP Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_DYLANGROUP (This is a USED item) 12" with original by Dylan Group and remix by We on Bubblecore Records

• Artist: The Eternals Title: chapter and verse Format: LP Label: Thrill Jockey Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_ETERNALS (This is a USED item) 12" single. 1999. recorded by Casey Rice

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

• Artist: The French Flys Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: finkbeiner entertainment group Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FEG03 four hillbilly freaks from Albuquerque NM. four tracks of deconstructed hillbilly music. four flys smelling the shit in the basement.

• Artist: The Gizmos Title: Raw First Takes 1977 Format: CDR Label: slippy town Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SLIPTO26 "More groovy barrel-scrapings from the original '76/'77 Gizmos! This includes the previously unreleased first takes of "Kiss Of The Rat," "Human Garbage Disposal," "Cave Woman," "Gizmos World Tour," "Amerika First," and (previously released on Gulcher's SIMPLY GOOD TASTE comp CD) "Hey Beat Mon!" Although some of the written parts aren't quite executed properly, there's a spontaneity that was lost on some of the released tracks. I kinda prefer these versions myself! Plus two unreleased bonus tracks of the 1976 Gizmos performing "Muff Divin' (In Willkie South)" and "Mean Screen" at a drunken teenage party. Listen as sloshed Gizmos slowly crawl through the two songs. Adolescent mud tones! With Ken Highland, Eddie Flowers, Ted Niemiec, Rich Coffee, Dave Sulak, Davey Medlock, Rick Czajka, Jim DeVries, Don Jaskulske, and MX-80's Rich Stim. Edition of 177. Released April 2004."

• Artist: The Greys Title: cd sampler Format: CD Label: USED 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) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GLK017

• Artist: The Hectics Title: Come Booze Down With... Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_HECTICS (This is a USED item) on 360 Twist Records - 1996

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

• Artist: The Intima Title: Panic and Peril Format: LP Label: JYRK (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_JYRK012 Limited to 500. Covers Silk Screened and Letter Pressed. Co-release with ZUM CDs on Slowdance

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

• Artist: The Juniper Meadows Title: Jacaranda twilight Format: CDR Label: Deserted Village (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_DV21 "Jacaranda twilight is a pastoral instrumental duo of Brad "Foxy" Rose and Chris Skillern. It's a bright, uncluttered recording and an entirely acoustic affair and they manage to play a dozen instruments between them over seven tracks. "

• Artist: The Lemonheads Title: Style Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_Lemonheads (This is a USED item)

• Artist: The Meices Title: Words / One hand Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_MEICES (This is a USED item) on Word of Mouth Records. white vinyl. comes with Bobby is Fred zine #2

• Artist: The Mystifying Oracle Title: the ceremony Format: 3inch CDR Label: sound-o-mat Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SEANCE01 5min piece on rectangular CDR in a cellophane-wrapped and decorated paper box {edition of 50]. the cdr is the ouija board, comes with literature on using the baord, etc. amazing packaging! part of the Music for Seances series (http://austere.org/oracle/seances.shtml)

• Artist: The New Blockaders / Thurston Moore / Jim O’Rour Title: the voloptulist Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions (USA) 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) 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 Rods Title: Wings of Fire / You Keep Me Hanging On Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_THERODS (This is a USED item) picture disc

• Artist: The Screamin‘ Mee-Mees Title: Garbage Collage Format: CD Label: gulcher 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 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_soundoffailure (This is a USED item)

• Artist: The Sundays Title: static and slience Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1937 (This is a USED item) 1997 Geffen release

• Artist: The Tajalli Vortex Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Freenoise (UK) 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: The Turd Burglar Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: finkbeiner entertainment group Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FEG02 a most disturbing set that started out as a Pengo set and special guest, The Turd Burglar, turned into something more Shittie. this release includes live tracks and manipulations that will make your bowls move...

• Artist: The Wire Title: JUNE 2003 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE232 (This is a USED item) Yo La Tengo, The Ex, David Sylvian, Mauricio Kagel, Soft Machine, Nina Simone, Asmus Tietchens, Sightings, Cliff Martinez, Semiconductor

• Artist: The Wire Title: SEPTEMBER 2003 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE235 (This is a USED item) Matmos, Kaffe Matthews, David Dyrne, Mike Kelley, Ron Geesin, Borad Bergman, Robert Wyatt, Erase Errata, Leafcutter John, Eric Glick Rieman

• Artist: The Wire Title: NOVEMBER 2003 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE237 (This is a USED item) Aphex Twin, Christian Marclay, Taku Sugimoto, Spectral music: from Varese to Saariaho, Gloria Coates, Earth Erik Friedlander, Tim Hecker, Burning Man, Will Menter

• Artist: The Wire Title: JANUARY 2004 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE239 (This is a USED item) 2003 Rewind, Arthur Russell, Jermome Noetinger, Paal Nilssen-Love, Matt Rogalsky, Damon and Naomi, Basil Kirchin, Matthew Bourne

• Artist: The Wire Title: FEBRUARY 2004 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE240 (This is a USED item) Einsturzende Neubauten, Sun City Girls, Joe Boyd, Charles Mingus, Greg Tate, Anthony Pateras, Portable, Davis Redford Triad, Halfer Trio, Mike Cooper

• Artist: The Wire Title: MARCH 2004 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE241 (This is a USED item) cLOUDDEAD, Gyorgi Ligeti, Art Bears, Mars, Four Tet, Olga Neuwirth, Double Leopards, Bernhard Gal, A Hack and a Hacksaw, Ghost, Squarepusher, Paul Wirkus

• Artist: The Wire Title: MAY 2004 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE243 (This is a USED item) The State of the Song, Halfer Trio, Buck 65, Takehisa Kosugi, Jem Finer, Nautical Almanac, Oxbow on Dino

• Artist: The Wire Title: JUNE 2004 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE244 (This is a USED item) Fennesz, Eric Dolphy, Vinicius Cantuaria, Oriental woodwinds, Susan Philipsz, PG Six, Henrik Rylander, Sixtoo

• Artist: The Wire Title: JULY 2004 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE245 (This is a USED item) Alvin Lucier, Damo Suzuki, Ellen Fullman, Devendra Banhart, Sunn O))), Bark Psychosis, Dengue Fever, Mark Leckey

• Artist: The Wire Title: SEPTEMBER 2004 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE247 (This is a USED item) Derek Bailey, Time Barnes, Jac Berrocal, Chris Watson, Kenneth Anger, Mira Caliz, Felix Kubin, Thomas Melchoir, Text of Light

• Artist: The Wire Title: OCTOBER 2004 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE248 (This is a USED item) Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori, Henry Flint, Mats Gustafsson, Psychedelic soul, Jennifer Herrema, Radian, Juana Molina, Comets on Fire

• Artist: The Wire Title: JANUARY 2005 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE251 (This is a USED item) 2004 Rewind, LCD Soundsystem, Glenn Jones, Zeitkratzer, Joanna Newsom, Nils Okland, My Cat is an Alien, Dalek

• Artist: The Wire Title: FEBRUARY 2005 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE252 (This is a USED item) Anthony Braxton, The Soft Pink Truth, Mike Ladd, A user's guide to subterranean Metal, Gang Gang Dance, Hugh Davies, Dylan Nyoukis, Oki

• Artist: The Wire Title: MARCH 2005 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE253 (This is a USED item) MF Doom, Bill Fay, Hijokaidan, James Tenney, Ken Vandermark, M Ward, Colin Potter, Wally Shoup, Hugh Metcalfe

• Artist: The Wire Title: APRIL 2005 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE254 (This is a USED item) Mike Patton, Ira Cohen, Anthony and the Johnsons, Elliot Sharp, Grime, Richard Barrett, Venetian Snares, MIA

• Artist: The Wire Title: MAY 2005 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE255 (This is a USED item) Electrelane, Steve Beresford, Kali Z Fasteau, Foetus, Alex Von Schlippenbach, Boris, Josephine Foster, The Complainer, Annie Gosfield

• Artist: The Wire Title: JUNE 2005 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE256 (This is a USED item) Laugh till it hurts, Tod Dockstader, Mark Stewart, The Books, Cooper-Moore, Clemens, Gadenstatter

• Artist: The Wire Title: JULY 2005 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE257 (This is a USED item) Jamie Lidell, Ornetter Coleman, Animal Collective, Keiji Haino, Primer: Lone Horns Improv, Magik Markers, Monolake, Tony Bevan

• Artist: The Wire Title: AUGUST 2005 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE258 (This is a USED item) The Red Krayola, Carla Bozulich, Pierre Schaeffer, This Heat, Wolf Eyes vs Braxton, Bjork, Marissa Nadler, The Skaters

• Artist: The Wire Title: SEPTEMBER 2005 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE259 (This is a USED item) Richard Youngs, Hugh Hopper, Ralf Wehowsky, Xenakis, Broadcast, Alexander Hacke, Okkyung Lee, Tracy and The Plastics, Tony Oursler

• Artist: The Wire Title: OCTOBER 2005 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE260 (This is a USED item) Boards of Canada, Elaine Radigue, The new London silence, The Dirty Three, Jarboe, Alexander Tucker, Birchfield Cat Motel

• Artist: The Wire Title: NOVEMBER 2005 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE261 (This is a USED item) Remake Remodel, Steve Reich, Earth, Rolf Julius, The birth of Japanese free music, Oren Marshall, Mazen Kerbaj, Jackson and His Computer Band

• Artist: The Wire Title: DECEMBER 2005 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE262 (This is a USED item) Lightning Bolt, Ken Yder, Vashti Bunyan, Ray Russell, Primer: Jamaican deejays, Tujiko Noriko, Suasanne Brokesch, Rodney Graham

• Artist: The Wire Title: MAY 2010 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE315 (This is a USED item) Excepter, Daniel Carter, Sweet Seoul Music, August Darnell, Jahtari, LilB, Toro Y Moi, Craig Balwin

• Artist: The Wire Title: FEBRUARY 2010 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE312 (This is a USED item) Wadada Leo Smith, Mark Ernestus, Mattin, Elaine Radigue, Raymond Dijkstra, Moon Wiring Club, David Grubbs, Pangaea

• Artist: The Wire Title: JULY 2008 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE293 (This is a USED item) Mark Stewart, Bill Dixon, Necks, .snd, Rustie, Franz Hautzinger, Zoe Laughlin

• Artist: The Wire Title: MAY 2008 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE291 (This is a USED item) Wolfgang Voigt, Max Eastley, Kan Mikami, Dean Roberts, Carl Craig, Dexplicit, Frans de Waard, Jon Hassell

• Artist: The Wire Title: DECEMBER 2006 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE274 (This is a USED item) Melvins, John Surman, Texan Hiphop, Marc Ribot, Charles Atlas, Steve Mackay

• Artist: The Wire Title: OCTOBER 2006 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE272 (This is a USED item) Pere Ubu, Rafael Toral, Chris Corsano, Melbourne 1976-1984, Jayne Parker, James Blackshaw, COH, Little Annie

• Artist: The Wire Title: SEPTEMBER 2006 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE271 (This is a USED item) Kool Keith, Charalambides, AMM, Merce Cunningham, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Ira Cohen, Digital Mystikz, Excepter, Jason Lescaleet

• Artist: The Wire Title: AUGUST 2006 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE270 (This is a USED item) Smegma, Dabrye, Biosphere, Akio Suzuki and John Butcher, Die Trip Computer Die, Brian Eno, Philip Samartzis, Leopard Leg, John Wiese

• Artist: The Wire Title: JULY 2006 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE269 (This is a USED item) Current 93, Die Todliche Doris, Kode9, Annea Lockwood, Boxcutter, FM3

• Artist: The Wire Title: MAY 2006 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE267 (This is a USED item) AGF, Scott Walker, Conrad Schnitzler, Ryoji Ikeda, William Parker, Scatter, Mattin, David Rothenberg

• Artist: The Wire Title: APRIL 2006 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE266 (This is a USED item) Tom Verlaine, Spring Heel Jack, Burnt Friedman, Primer: The Fall, Kinder, Mouthus, The Knife, Ned Sublette

• Artist: The Wire Title: MARCH 2006 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE265 (This is a USED item) Phill Niblock, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Mat Maneri, The Bug, Wooden Wand, Tape, Keith Barry, Max Eastley

• Artist: The Wire Title: JANUARY 2006 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE263 (This is a USED item) Rewind 2005, Records of the Year, Noah Howard, Nurse with Wound, Volcao the Bear, Tetuzi Akiyama, Burning Star Core, Dan Wilson, Yannis Kyriakides

• Artist: The Wire Title: MARCH 2003 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE229 (This is a USED item) Faust, Steve Roden, Heiner Goebbels, Paul Dolden, Joe McPhee, David Toop, Black Dice, Maja Ratkje, Martin Siewart, Daphne, Oram, Ryoji Ikeda, Aphex Twin

• Artist: The Wire Title: FEBRUARY 2003 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE228 (This is a USED item) Lou Reed, Alan Silva, Mutant disco, Spring Heel Jack, Supersilent, Helmut Lachenmann, Out Hud, Charalambides, Keiji Haino, Bonnie Prince Billy

• Artist: The Wire Title: JANUARY 2003 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE227 (This is a USED item) 2002 Rewind, Asian Dub Foundation, Albert Ayler, Shandar, John Sinclair, Schimpfluch, Henry Grimes, Oxbow, Throbbing Gristle

• Artist: The Wire Title: MAY 2002 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE219 (This is a USED item) John Oswald, Shirley Collins, The Fall, El-P, Hillbillies hoedowns and hellcats, Jewelled Antler Collective, Mission of Burma, Mick Beck, Vinko Globokar, Patti Smith

• Artist: The Wire Title: #287 January 2008 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE287 On The Cover: Rewind 2007: our massive annual survey of the last 12 months in underground music, with 16 pages of charts, including the 50 records of the year, as voted for by our crack team of critics, plus reflections from writers and musicians on the highs and lows of the last year of alternative music activity. Features: Stefan Németh (With his new Film project, the Viennese Radian founder is reinventing the guitar for the digital age); nsi. (Tobias Freund & Max Louderbauer's Non Standard Institute is open for new electronica business); Cross Platform: Ian Forsyth & Jane Pollard (Louise Gray hears about the duo's forensic re-enactments of significant rock gigs and scientific Victorian entertainments); Invisible Jukebox: Keith Rowe; Steve Jansen (The ex-Japan drummer and David Sylvian collaborator talks about the global networking that fed into his solo album); Six Organs Of Admittance (Keith Moliné hears about the latest apocalyptic folk-blues and drone rock epic from Com ets On Fire/Badgerlore/Current 93 member Ben Chasny; Once Upon A Time In Stockholm (The enlightened Sweden of the late 60s produced the free rock and psychedelic folk of Pärson Sound, International Harvester and Träd Gras Och Stenar)."

• Artist: The Wire Title: #288 February 2008 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE288 "On The Cover: Vladislav Delay (Whether as Luomo, Uusitalo or Delay, Finnish electronica producer Sasu Ripatti has always avoided slipping into generic blueprints). Features: Wooden Shjips (The San Francisco fuzz quartet conjure transcendent incantations from traditional tools); Warrior Queen (How MC Annette Henry's uncensored stream of Jamaican patois is enlivening the dubstep scene); Cath & Phil Tyler (The twining harmonies of this husband and wife duo recall the heyday of English pastoral folk song); Cross Platform: What's opera.doc? (La Fura Dels Baus' post-industrial Wagner Ring cycle and Hideaki Takahashi's 'media opera' update the medium for the digital age); Invisible Jukebox: George E. Lewis; Hot Chip (The London quintet hatch a witty hybrid of urban electronic musics, taking in everything from minimal techno to Puerto Rican reggaeton); Sightings (The New York avant power trio explain to Marc Masters how their customary clouds of distortion and overdrive were parted by new producer Andrew WK)."

• Artist: The Wire Title: #276 February 2007 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE276 "Seismic performances: did the earth move for you? Our crack writing squad dredge the collective cultural memory to recall some of the most dynamic, ground-breaking or just plain awesome concerts, gigs and live music performances of all time; events that changed the way we see and hear things; or that reached a peak of emotional/physical intensity; or that simply provided the soundtrack/climax to a great night out. From minimalist endurance tests to transgressive audience baiting, our writers were there, saw it, and have something to say about it. Features: Infinite Livez (London's hiphop's Cockney rebel describes his headlong collisions with Swiss electronica duo Stade); Richard Skelton (The musician behind Harlassen, A Broken Consort and Carousell on the life-affirming properties of art); Cross Platform: Shinro Ohtake (The Japanese artist and occasional Puzzle Punk halts his ceaseless activities for long enough to talk to Chris Sharp); Invisible Jukebox: Bert Jansch; The Primer: Adrian Sherwood (David Stubbs provides a user's guide to 30 years of the producer's innovative 'per-versions' for On-U Sound and beyond, from Creation Rebel and Lee Perry to Tackhead)."

• Artist: The Wire Title: #219 May 2002 Format: ZINE Label: The Wire Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WIRE219 (This is a USED item) John Oswald, Shirley Collins, The Fall, The Primer: The Weird, Old America, El-P's Jukebox, Jewelled Antler Collective, Mission Of Burma, Mick Beck, Vinko Globokar

• Artist: Thee Free Title: Welcome to Liberty City Format: CDR Label: Freenoise (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FCD06 "The most inventive and progressive album so far from Thee Free. At times imaginative and always very free, even when soaked in (sporadic) heavy rhythms or walls of harsh noise. Mangled radio output and voice samples blend with abusive storms of coloured noise, drums, clarinet, flutes and heavy electric guitars make twisted and psychedelic appearances. Certain tracks show how the total (sometimes very gradual) deterioration of a 'tune' can amount to something just as, if not more, engaging. We are also offered hope from the words of a yogi in the midst of this warped sonic landscape during 'Juice Bug'... 'Coily' was recorded on the day of the announcement of Coil artist Johnn Balance's passing. The album title is in tribute to Mark Stewart and the Mafia's track 'Liberty City', appearing on 'Learning to Cope with Cowardice', a hugely significant album of the early eighties, musically and otherwise. Seven lengthy tracks (56 mins total) from the archives of 2006 TF's sessions; stimulating and truly experimental, resulting in a powerful underground album."

• Artist: these are powers Title: silver lung Format: 7inch Label: Elsie and Jack Catalog ID: CarbonDist_eaj701 "These Are Powers forge future-primitive songs from inspiration such as dreams, spiritual mysticism, art movements like Der Blaue Reiter, globalization, supernatural phenomena, and the prophecies of a UFO-obsessed cab driver. These influences constitute a transcendent and visceral sound the Brooklyn trio has christened Ghost-Punk. The unconventionality of the band also rules their process. Drummer Ted McGrath eschews a traditional high-hat setup in order to take full advantage of a limited kit, creating inventive percussive patterns. Likewise, bassist/vocalist Pat Noecker (Liars, n0 things) and guitarist/vocalist Anna Barie (Knife Skills) achieve uniquely deconstructive tones via prepared guitar and experimentation. These Are Powers’ live performances resound in both volume and pure emotional intensity, as songs sway from meditative hymns to resonant dirges, audience and band share equally in the awakening."

• Artist: These Feathers have Plumes Title: All Cats are Grey by Night Format: CASS Label: cae-sur-a (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_caesura_011 "Hailing from the fair city of London, with previous releases on Period.Tapes and Tartuga Records, These Feathers Have Plumes finds Andie Brown expanding upon her original, deep droning compositions for double bass, field recordings and glass. Exploring elements of psychogeography and modern composition, All Cats are Grey by Night winds the listener through dark and heavy soundways and into light, haunting beauty. Pro printed inserts on heavy card stock. Hand number edition of 100"

• Artist: Thinguma*jigSaw Title: awakeinwhitechapel Format: CD Label: Deserted Village (UK) 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) 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: Thomas Riedelsheimer Title: Andy Goldsworthy: Rivers and Tides Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_RIVERSTIDES (This is a USED item) documentary. awesome visuals. soundtrack by Fred Frith

• Artist: throuRoof Title: Feathers & Blood Format: CASS Label: cae-sur-a (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_caesura_008 "throuRoof paints his work with a language that bleeds full spectrum. From the sun drenched fields of the opener Birdism to the solemn blue depths of the accompanying title track. Feathers & Blood is a work that is subtle and sophisticated, made by impressively restrained means that engulf the listener in a landscape of wide-eyed beauty. Hand numbered edition of 100."

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  Artist: Thurston Moore Title: Suicide Notes for Acoustic Guitar Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR192 This is the eleventh release in the Carbon 15YR.Series. 25+ minutes of guitar explorations from this veteran of the scene, as well as Sonic Youth. this is some of the best solo guitar works i've heard in a while and one of my favorite from Thurston. [packaged with pro-printed covers in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve]

• Artist: Tiger Cried Beef Title: The Facts About Fascism Format: CD Label: Carbon Records 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 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 Catalog ID: CarbonDist-BE07 More digital rhythms and noise aggression from Tin.RP.

• Artist: Tinnitustimulus Title: Various Titles Format: CDR Label: Thunder Crap (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_tinnitustimulus_series001 a while ago, i got a bunch of various titles from Tinnitustimulus, Tom Bennett, a high school kid residing in Bath NY (middle of nowhere). this entry is actually for a random release by Tom. most of the items he gave me were of editions of 10. some of only 2!!! so, add this to your order, and you'll get a random, very limited edition, hand-created/unique package/artwork in a slim-jewel case. awesome noise, no-input mixer, feedback loop stuff. here's Tom's description.... "tinnitustimulus is from the 'woods and likes to take advantage of having no neighbors by wrecking stereo equipment at signifigant volumes. most of his music is composed of feedback going through an eq, by means of a cheap dj mixer. this creates low freq feed, while his computer and/or amp is both inputted and outputted as well, making high feed. then they are overdubbed on top of eachother. it may be much more than this however, synths, mics, acoustic guitar (bowed with plexiglass), radio interference and interference causers have been used occaisionally. almost always on a high amplitude( what noise art doesn't?) this stuff real be definatly heared when played. there has been no tinnitustimulus shows (as of yet)."

• Artist: To Live and Shave in L.A. (spoof) Title: 1975 Format: CD Label: none 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 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_50 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Tom Carter and Rob Horton Title: steeljaguar rocket Format: CD Label: Digitalis Industries 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: Tom Carter and Shawn McMillen Title: colors for Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR87 10YR.Series.07 - the seventh in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. a beautiful collection of drones, tones and guitar magic. All of what you would expect from Tom Carter (of the Charalambides) and Shawn McMillen (Ash Castles On the Ghost Coast, Iron Kite) and more!

• Artist: Tom Lake Title: Whoomsical Proclamation Format: CDR Label: Expanding Pegasus (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ExpandingPegasus002 "This is my version of a smiling, enthusiastic shout out. I wanted to project, to proclaim to the world my true, inner self. To let it all hang out and marinate a bit in the Every Ear. Too heart-on-my-sleeve for you? A little gross sounding? Fear not, tentative one, I was not alone in this audible endeavor. I have always been a person who draws energy from other people, so this album features many contributions from people I love and am inspired by. I also had the desire for a sort of collaboration with the music I was making. I wanted the album, as it was being formed, to sort of direct itself. I hoped to constantly be surprising myself, to be pushed into uncomfortable places, and to happen upon gooey, gobs of florescent joy whenever possible. As I was finishing the album, surprise after surprise occurred until I had an album that felt like it had it�s own voice and character, eventually telling it�s own story of prophetic, whoomsical proportions. Whoomsical Proclamation is presented in a full color printed cardstock sleeve with beautiful art drawn by Kate Wheeler. The Cd-R is printed with a hand-carved rubber stamp, and embellished with purple paint by hand."

• Artist: Tom Tykwer Title: Run Lola Run Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_RUNLOLARUN (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Topon Das Title: eleven songs Format: CDR Label: Ghetto Blaster Records (CANADA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TOPON01 Sultry Eastern rhythms, ethnic melodies, Eastern singing, strange guitar-sounds, samples of different nature sounds.

• Artist: Tore Honore Boe Title: Knekk Format: 7inch Label: Killer (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Killer010 "Tore H. Bøe should by all rights be well known to you all from his many years as a performing artist. Sometimes in various Origami fractions, sometimes in different hotshot bands and sometimes on his own, as he is on this single. Alone Tore specialises in micromanipulations. Glitch without a Laptop. The wonderful world of contact microphones. The comfort of objects. Tapes and trolls. The seriously stunning Siesta on CD last year was a revelation. Now he's moving to Gran Canaria to set up recording facilities to be known as Hacienda. Could be well worth a visit. Righteous colour cover by Tore himself, now to be known as a designer also. 45 rpm, edition of 300 where 100 are on clear tangerine vinyl"

• Artist: Tore Honore Boe Title: summertime blues Format: CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD44 "..Also quite nice is the release by Tore Honore Boe. On the cover of this CDR we find the cryptic note: 'for the realisation ov this project, Tore went swimming'. The one piece is called 'Even Poolboys Get The Blues' (subtitled: 'Opus for longing loins, fm synthesizes and blending outside) on this CDR starts out with a short sample that is being repeated ad infinitum. Over the course of thirty-five minutes two grainy, low resolution samples are added, one on the right side and one on the left. Nothing much else, until things slow down towards the end. Simplistic one might say, but played at a somewhat higher volume this is certainly a most captivating piece of minimal music, but it stretches the level of what the listener can handle to considerable length." ---Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly

• Artist: Tore Honore Boe Title: suave siesta Format: CD Label: Purple Soil 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: Tore Honore Boe and Emmanuel Mieville Title: s/t Format: 3inch CD Label: TIBProd (Norway) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD25

• Artist: torso/gack Title: split Format: CDR Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosetwentytwo - split (CDR) - small doses $8.00 "The Torso/Gack split is two sides of the same apocalyptic coin. The Torso portion's P.E. styled synth destruction walks you through your own torturous death. Then Gack's more atmoshperic blackened noise takes you on a slow journey through purgatory and leaves you stranded in hell. Edition of 103."

• Artist: Totally Dad Title: Video for the Snake Format: CDR Label: Abandon Ship (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ASR043 "Three hell-hermits from Middleton Street extra choose to live like field mice. one yea cooks, one ha cleans, and one cuts doh paper. if they notice the night late has begun, they drop their gold duties and fold instruments into towels bang. It has all been full saved. Somebody does it better than."

• Artist: Totem Mold Growth Title: Verl Splurt C92 Format: CASS Label: 905 Tapes (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_905.109 "substitute soundtrack to the 1993 classic freaked, starting alex winter (the other guy from bill and ted's excellent adventure) who also directed, wrote, and produced the flic. the dude had a vision, man. keanu reeves makes a cameo, which was pretty nice of him when you think about it. mr. t was in it, too. who the fuck is his agent, verl splurt or something!? this shit is weird."

• Artist: Totemplow Title: applaud the execution Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1972 (This is a USED item) 1996 Manifold release

• Artist: Totimoshi Title: Ladron Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast 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 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: Towering Breaker with Dylan Nyoukis Title: Visions Versions Format: CDR Label: Blackest Rainbow (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BRR13 "New collaboration bursts from TB's duo of Jack and Ben with Dylan Nyoukis, Chocolate Monk label boss and Blood Stereo man. Weird creeped out noise and vocal sickness. Hits in at over 50 minutes. Hand numbered edition of 100, with exposed brain panda cover art that surely the World Wildlife Fund would approve of? "

• Artist: Transcendental Manship Highway Title: lord of the trees Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR174 a heavy and awesomely black psych meeting of the upstateNY/thruway scene, including Eric and Ray of Century Plants, Cory from Stone Baby and Joe from Carbon/Tumul/Tuurd/etc, captured at Metropolis Underground in Syracuse NY. heavy/loud drone guitar with thunderous tribesman-beat and ghostly sweeps leading into free/noise-rock, kraut mayhem and back again. [packaged in a heavy vinyl sleeve with pro-printed card-stock cover] "You just can't get those manly sounds anywhere else; brings back the good old days, when all men were spirit brothers, walking the primordial earth, looking around at cool shit..." - Mike-O. Reviews (3): Crucial Blast The experimental noise/drone scene that revolves around Rochester's Carbon Records has produced a very small but exciting crop of heavy free-rock groups like Stone Baby, Crush The Junta and Entente Cordiale, and I've become a pretty big fan of all of them. This little scene is as incestuous as these kinds of insular communities usually are, with just a handful of bands swapping members back and forth and forming into different permutations of one core sound, which in this case is a kind of burly, guitar-based brand of improvisational riff-ooze that takes the New Zealand free-rock sound of the Dead C and Gate and pumps it full of volume and testosterone and crushing distortion. Transcendental Manship Highway is the latest project to grow off of the Carbon/Rochester free-skuzz trunk, and it's pretty heavy stuff. Featuring members of Crush The Junta and Stone Baby, TMH go for the sludgy, improvised heaviosity shared with Crush The Junta, but the half-hour track that makes up this debut disc is much more free and trippy. Sprawling metallic sludge riffage goes off in twenty directions at once, the guitarists grinding away at thick droning powerchords over a battery of pouding, somewhat tribal sounding percussion. The riffage weaves its way through a dense fog of swirling feedback, black plumes of amplifier smoke and formless guitar solos that race skyward and send off fiery sparks and chunks of melody; halfway through the track, the music dissolves into this crushing wall of blackened amp drone teeming with extreme wah-pedal abuse and reverb and cymbal noise that stretches out for several minutes, until the band crashes back in, krautrock drums pulsing deep underneath the layers of delayed vocals and blackened shrieking and feedback. Formless and massive, feedback is the focus and TMH spit out monolithic gobs of the stuff across this set, and deliver a thunderous sludge-drone blast that sounds like the loudest sections of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless being blasted at full volume over another sound system spinning Skullflower's IIIrd Gatekeeper. You can smell the amplifier smoke all over this. Even the disc itself, painted silver with a weird bubbling texture across it's surface, looks like it has been in the presence of a powerful heat source. The disc comes in a full color ardstock folder with nice wintery photography of frost-covered woodlands, which ties in nicely with the group's bleak, blasted tribal psych sludge Auxillary Out The awesomely christened Transcendental Manship Highway is an upstate NY �supergroup� featuring Hare, Eric Hardiman (Century Plants, Burnt Hills, Rambutan,) Cory Card (Stone Baby) and Joe Tunis (Joe+N). This CD-r is a single half hour bludgeoning and damn fine one at that. Beginning rather quietly with a lone drum and indecipherable speech, guitar tones drift in along with a vocal sample submerged in a effects. Tension is built up gradually with some frantic, slicing wah-wah work before the tempo picks and the full crew gets moving. It�s actually nearly relaxing at first. Shuffling mid-tempo drums and 2 or 3 blurry guitars combining with ease, but there�s always a suggestion of something a bit more evil on the horizon. Around the 7 minute mark, TMH shifts to sinister. A lot of cymbal smashing and wah freak outs and general disarray. The drums drop out a bit revealing a pretty solid chunk of noise being kicked out by the other dudes. I think there�s someone shouting an arena rock chant but it�s completely buried by grimy feedback. About halfway through the drummer picks up a fast groovy pattern and the track takes off. All of sudden the psychedelic feedback bath becomes a foot stomper with the return of a (still buried) lead vocalist. It�s all pretty ruling, especially an aborted guitar solo during a breakdown. Whoever was watching this gig was treated to quite a show. Things slow way down and get a little heavier and there�s a killer repeated synth swoop coming from somewhere that adds a second point of rhythmic orientation. All guitars take this as a cue to go to town, some go wild but one keeps things steady with a nice melody. If this was completely improv�d then, damn, these guys know to write great songs on the spot. The track actually fits somewhere between a long jam and already worked out songs. No one ever gets lost either which is always good in long jams like this because it can be a bit of a bummer when some dudes are roaring but another isn�t sure what he�s doing. An amazingly protracted drum pummeling ensues against more feedback and wah-wah excursions. There�s a come down which actually a total fake out before the four horsemen lay waste to the room and everything in it in the final minute. Pretty rad set, I�m looking forward to seeing more of this combo; so hopefully this wasn�t a one-off performance cause, you know, if it is that would suuuuck. Foxy Digitalis The bleak, blown-out free-noise world that is upstate New York, especially the damaged genius that revolves around Rochester�s Carbon Records, does NOT get enough attention! Transcendental Manship Highway is an upstate NY super-group of sorts, comprising Eric and Ray of Century Plants, Cory from Stone Baby and Carbon head honcho Joe Tunis. Their debut CD-R �Lord of the Trees� is a mammoth half-hour blast of cranium-devouring guitar and drum punishment that is sure to call attention to this underrated scene. Skullflower is the first thing that comes to mind when attempting to conjure up comparisons, as these four dudes lather their sonic terrorism with the blackened char of an apocalyptic premonition. Navigating the seemingly impromptu appearance of labyrinthine thrash soloing, melting sheets of feedback, and almost motorik rhythms that descend from what must be a starless night sky (a sky blackened perhaps by the many failed factories of decades past) is a daunting yet worthwhile endeavour. The recording quality is surprisingly top-notch, as the disc documents what must have been a deafening live show. When the Angel of Death approaches at the end of days, he will be striding along the Transcendental Manship Highway. Will you be prepared? 9/10 - Bryon Hayes

• Artist: Transmission56 Title: dedicated Format: 7inch Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR14 Transmission56‘s first release. Math rock with melody. Chicago stylings, right from our own backyard, Rochester NY!

• Artist: Trees Title: Freed of this Flesh Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast 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 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: Treetops Title: Brighter Light Format: CDR Label: Blackest Rainbow (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Blackest_TreetopsBrighterLight "Mike Pollard is basically the man right now, not only does he do this awesome project called Treetops thats had some killer stuff on Ecstatic Peace, Not Not Fun, DNT and Gilgongo, but he runs one of my favourite labels Arbor. So i'm psyched to be releasing this disc from him. Sounding like some kind of 70s cavern ritual nightmare throughout, tapping, churning weirdness with occasional patterred drums, shattering cymbals, and more full on room engulfing density-intensity. Comes in full colour collage sleeves designed by Bethany of Pocahaunted. Handnumbered edition of 100 on black bottomed cdrs."

• Artist: Trephine Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Public Guilt (USA) 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: Tsarskoie Selo Hemophilarmonic Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Nothing Out There (Belgium) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_NOT10 "I've said this times and times before, but the very first show of Tsarsko�e Selo Hemophilarmonic was one of the best live soundtrack I've witnessed so far. On the night Belgium's national day, at the break of summer, a group of people quietly gathered in the backyard garden of an instruments-filled house in Tournai. The rendez-vous was for a solo improvisation upon a projection of Robertson's silent adaptation for the screen of Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde. Under the twisted pseudonym of TSH acts the same man already known here as L'Enfant M�duse. But TSH aims at a very different, though not completely unfamiliar sound universe. Sharing the darkness and loneliness of the M�duse, TSH is much more ghotic and less obvious, and, if anything, much more electricity-based and noisy. Still it is not an accident that the first important project of TSH involved the myth of Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde, for it forms, with L'Enfant M�duse, a kind of supplementary schizophrenic duo. One year after Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde, The home sessions of this first release by TSH have quickly followed the recording day in Odomez of L'Enfant M�duse's recent release. From the man's word, it is a religious album, an abstract requiem inspired by the na�ve and fatalistic faith of northern continental Europe's coalfield, its desperately black and flat earth, and its memory disturbed and transformed by the industrial exploitation. "

• Artist: Tsui Hark Title: Once Upon a Time in China Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_OnceUponATimeDVD (This is a USED item)

• Artist: tucker dulin/nick hennies Title: as so Format: CDR Label: Digitalis Industries Catalog ID: CarbonDist_foxglove021 a quiet evening spent in the warm, ocean air of san diego turns the locals on their ass. barely audible and practically effortless improvisations from drums and trombone fill the night sky. in the background, the hum of flickering lights and chirping crickets provide the perfect backdrop. take heed young master, this is your magic.

• Artist: Tulips Title: Wet Format: 7inch Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_TULIPS (This is a USED item) on Sonic Bubblegum

• Artist: Tumul Title: writing in tongues Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR195 two tracks (32+ minutes total) of live Tumul madness. each track a complete set. vocal drones and pattern, electronic wizardry, etc. an auditory rival to their live, very visual, sets. [originally release with a plywood and plaster mount, but these are simple flat-package versions. black and white print in heavy vinyl sleeve)

• Artist: Tumul Title: riding96 Format: CD Label: Carbon Records 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)

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  Artist: Tumul Title: shirt design #2 Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR145 light gray shirts with various color stencils/sprays, including blue, black, white, pink, yellow, etc.

• Artist: Tumul Title: awaken this light Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR170 50+ minutes of Tumul's brand of vocal-manipulations, electronics, turntable-samples and shear lunacy. culled from live and studio recordings over the first 6 months of 2008 (well, the first one is from Dec of 2007). [packaged in a heavy vinly gate-fold sleeve, with stencil and splattered artwork, on top of printed text. CDR is also sprayed/splattered]

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  Artist: Tumul Title: spray-stencil design Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR123 various color shirts (light heather gray, dark heather gray, orange, dark red) with mixture of ink colors (white, black, gold, orange) with variety of sizes (not all colors in all colors, so its a surprise!)

• Artist: Tumul Title: Tension Management Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR121 Tumul is Cameron Farash (aka Dr. Hamburger) and Joe Tunis (aka Joe+N, etc), long lost twins. this is electronics, mics, bowls, samples, etc. recorded at Penarrow Catacombs. [sprayed and stenciled cardstock cover with sprayed CDR inside heavy vinyl sleeve]

• Artist: Tungsten Grasshopper Title: tg2 Format: CDR Label: fencing flatworm Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ff022 a welcome return for the mechanical cricket, surfing his own neo-radiophonic wave, in amidst the flotsam and detritus of our shared world. pure tones, autistic programming hint at a tightly controlled anger, a limitless sadness. very real electronics

• Song Previews: Water I wish my wife was this dirty Russian Frankenstein (from the Bonus EP)

  Artist: Tuurd Title: I wish my wife was this dirty (vinyl PRE-ORDER) Format: DIGITAL Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR198_PRE-ORDER 35 minutes of mostly slow, sometimes fast, and always super heavy and thick bass and drums, with limited vocals. Tuurd rises from the ashes of Hilkka (math/indie rock band around for 13yrs). Featuring Nuuj (Pengo, Asthmatic, r.nuuja) and Joe Tunis (Tumul, Crush the Junta and formerly of Pengo), on bass and drums respectively. metal/stoner/doom/spazz/noise. In the tradition of Ruins, godheadsilo, Halo, Lightning Bolt, Big Business, Hella, Orthrelm and Om. Influenced by Corrupted, Abruptum, Sleep, Harvey Milk, Crom, Melvins, Karp, Killdozer, Zeni Geva, Thrones, Earth, Sunn 0))), Codiene, Painkiller, Oxbow, Cheer Accident, Slug, Unsane, Pelican, Meshuggah, 400 Blows, Isis, and of course Black Sabbath. Pre-order the limited edition vinyl LP and get a free digital BONUS EP. You'll get the full-length download immediately, and then receive a download code for the BONUS EP shortly, and then the vinyl LP when we have it pressed. The BONUS EP contains 6 songs, totally over 25mins!

• Song Previews: Water I wish my wife was this dirty Russian Frankenstein (from the Bonus EP)

  Artist: Tuurd Title: I wish my wife was this dirty (vinyl PRE-ORDER plus TSHIRT) Format: DIGITAL Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR198_PRE-ORDER-PLUS 35 minutes of mostly slow, sometimes fast, and always super heavy and thick bass and drums, with limited vocals. Tuurd rises from the ashes of Hilkka (math/indie rock band around for 13yrs). Featuring Nuuj (Pengo, Asthmatic, r.nuuja) and Joe Tunis (Tumul, Crush the Junta and formerly of Pengo), on bass and drums respectively. metal/stoner/doom/spazz/noise. In the tradition of Ruins, godheadsilo, Halo, Lightning Bolt, Big Business, Hella, Orthrelm and Om. Influenced by Corrupted, Abruptum, Sleep, Harvey Milk, Crom, Melvins, Karp, Killdozer, Zeni Geva, Thrones, Earth, Sunn 0))), Codiene, Painkiller, Oxbow, Cheer Accident, Slug, Unsane, Pelican, Meshuggah, 400 Blows, Isis, and of course Black Sabbath. Pre-order the limited edition vinyl LP and get a free digital BONUS EP. You'll get the full-length download immediately, and then receive a download code for the BONUS EP shortly, and then the vinyl LP when we have it pressed. And at this level, you'll be able to pick a Carbon shirt, including a couple Tuurd variations, for a very low price. And give more and you'll get more (surprises!). The BONUS EP contains 6 songs, totally over 25mins! Once you place your order, email me your desired shirt size and style - joe@carbonrecords.com

• Song Previews: Water I wish my wife was this dirty

  Artist: Tuurd Title: I wish my wife was this dirty Format: DIGITAL Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR198 35 minutes of mostly slow, sometimes fast, and always super heavy and thick bass and drums, with limited vocals. Tuurd rises from the ashes of Hilkka (math/indie rock band around for 13yrs). Featuring Nuuj (Pengo, Asthmatic, r.nuuja) and Joe Tunis (Tumul, Crush the Junta and formerly of Pengo), on bass and drums respectively. metal/stoner/doom/spazz/noise. In the tradition of Ruins, godheadsilo, Halo, Lightning Bolt, Big Business, Hella, Orthrelm and Om. Influenced by Corrupted, Abruptum, Sleep, Harvey Milk, Crom, Melvins, Karp, Killdozer, Zeni Geva, Thrones, Earth, Sunn 0))), Codiene, Painkiller, Oxbow, Cheer Accident, Slug, Unsane, Pelican, Meshuggah, 400 Blows, Isis, and of course Black Sabbath.

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  Artist: Tuurd Title: Cover the Earth (black short sleeve) Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR152 short sleeve black shirt with 2-color (white and brown) Cover the Earth logo.

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  Artist: Tuurd Title: cover the Earth (black long sleeve) Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR152a long sleeve black shirt with 2-color (white and brown) Cover the Earth logo.

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  Artist: Tuurd Title: cover the Earth (brown short sleeve) Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR152b short sleeve brown shirt with 2-color (white and brown) Cover the Earth logo.

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  Artist: Tuurd Title: Cover the Earth (brown long sleeve) Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Catalog ID: CR152c long sleeve brown shirt with 2-color (white and brown) Cover the Earth logo.

• Artist: Twinsistermoon Title: Then Fell the Ashes... Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow (UK) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_blackest_Twinsistermoon "Blackest Rainbow - UK �15.00 / Europe �16.00 / USA & ROW �19.00 Brand new full length vinyl LP from Natural Snow Buildings' Mehdi Ameziane's solo project. This is the third vinyl release from Twinsistermoon since last summer's The Hollow Mountain LP and Bride of Spirits 7" which were both released on the excellent Dull Knife label. Following on from these two gems, as well as various obscure self released discs and CDs on Digitalis and Students of Decay, Ameziane's sound has grown somewhat darker at times with this brand new LP featuring nearly 50 minutes of new material. The A side features 6 tracks, where as the B side is a huge almost 25 minute track. The opening track 'Black Nebulae' is a gorgeously textured psychedelic drone based piece, followed by a short, quieter, guitar plucked piece with vocals, but no words entitled '1976'. 'Ghost That Was Your Life' is a stunning beautiful layered guitar piece with Ameziane's astounding beautiful vocals shining through. 'Big Sand' opens as one of the darker pieces, with an occult feeling to its sound, swirling vocal drones, almost like a choir at times, and in come those stunning warm and distinctive gutar sounds with layered ghostly sound scapes, that haunt much of Ameziane's solo and NSB recordings. Half way through this track it fades into layered field recordings, drones, and distant chimes, the sound of this track at this point just has a real melancholy vintage sound, the last two minutes are again a change of sound with a slow plucking of guitar strings. 'Desert Prophecy' returns of the sound of just Ameziane and his guitar, with some lo-fi electric riffing distrotion in the background. Its pretty incredible to hear this and think that its from 2010, and not from the 60s or 70s. The sixth and final track on the first side is 'Trailer', another beautiful somewhat lighter folk sound, which is interesting considering the following is the albums title track 'Then The Ashes Fell', a side long track which is a considerably darker and heavier than much of the rest of the LP, but it weaves in some beautiful lighter more reflective moments. Heavyweight vinyl housed in deluxe heavy thick card tip on jackets. Edition of 979."

• Artist: U Can Unlearn Guitar Title: no strings Format: CD Label: yelpco 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 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: UNKLE Title: eye for an eye Format: CD single Label: MoWax Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_129 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Unstable Ensemble Title: The Liturgy of Ghots Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_UnstableEnsemble (This is a USED item) on Family Vineyard

• Artist: USA Title: Little Birds Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_USA (This is a USED item) Drag City release recorded by Jim O'Rourke

• Artist: vakhchav Title: the relative middle Format: CDR Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dose67 "this was the first vakhchav material i'd heard, and have to say that i was blown away. nickolas mohanna takes a unique approach to making drones. with guitar and electronics he creates these pulsing, swirling sounds that hover in your ears for just the right amount of time, 5 tracks over 32 minutes. color cover with insert. edition of 71 copies."

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Red Hot + Bothered Format: CD Label: USED 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!

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

• Artist: Various Artists Title: A Storm of Drones Format: 3CD Label: USED 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

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Xen Cuts Format: 3CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_XEN_COMP (This is a USED item) 3CD 2000 compilation from Ninja Tune including Herbaliser, Amon Tobin, DJ Vadim, Kid Koala, Coldcut, Up Bustle and out, Quannum MCs, Luke Vibert, DJ Food, Funki Porcini and more!

• Artist: Various Artists Title: woman taken in adultery Format: CD Label: Carbon Records 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).

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Crossed Wires: abstract perspectives from Atlanta's underground Format: 2LP Label: USED 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

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

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Well I'll be a Monkey's Uncle Format: CD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_GSL032 (This is a USED item) compilation of remixes of Locust songs on Gold Standard Laboratories 1999

• Artist: Various Artists Title: i don't think the dirt belongs to the grass Format: 3CD Label: Carbon Records 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.

• Artist: Various Artists Title: pyramids: wvndrkmmer 5X CASSETTE box set Format: OTHER Label: small doses (USA) 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

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Carbon 15YR.Series BOXSET Format: OTHER Label: Carbon Records 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.]

• Artist: Various Artists Title: What Pleasing the Lord Looks Like Marriage: Extreme Noise�and Terror from Japan Format: CD Label: Heart and Crossbone (Israel) 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) 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: don't teach a man to bake, teach him to eat -- Joe+N 2007 Day-Tour Recordings Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records 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]

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Dissolution Tapes (MCE remixed) Format: CD Label: Zeromoon (USA) 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 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 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 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 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 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) 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) 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: Bjerga / Iversen remixed - dissect and connect Format: CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) 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

• Artist: Various Artists Title: the art of loren connors Format: CDR Label: h-p imprint (Netherlands) 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"

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Sonic Protest 2007 Format: 2CD Label: Textile (France) 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

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Location Study Format: CDR Label: Dirty Demos (UK) 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)

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Celebrity Answer All #5 Format: CASS Label: Wintage (Canada) 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."

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Secrets and Sounds Format: CD Label: Animal Disguise (USA) 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 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 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_goodguppy (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Various Artists Title: pine meoquanee Format: BOOK Label: Digitalis Industries 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."

• Artist: Various Artists Title: the noise is all in your head Format: CD Label: Gold Soundz (Norway) 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: Rewired Burglar Alarms Format: CDR Label: Gold Soundz (Norway) 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), Pål 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."

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Looper's Delight Compilation Volume 3 Format: CD Label: electr-ohm (Japan) 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) 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) 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) 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: Heat Directors - Vol 1 Format: 7inch Label: Helicopter (USA) 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."

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Zum Audio Vol 3 Format: CD Label: Zum (USA) 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: Not Without a Fight Format: 2CD Label: Crucial Blast 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. "

• Artist: Various Artists Title: three.pieces Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records 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: Various Artists Title: Counter Fit Fest TSHIRT Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records 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!

• Artist: Various Artists Title: We Would Be Happy - A Noise Opera Format: CD Label: Sunship 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: fok rotkop Format: 3inch CDR Label: imvated 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/ .

• Artist: Various Artists Title: We're for the Unknown, Unbought and Unbossed Format: CD Label: Glasvocht 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) 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: Just Drums II Format: 2CD Label: fever pitch 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."

• Artist: Various Artists Title: February 2003 Format: BOOK Label: Slow Toe (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_slowtoe_feb2003 Features poems by Todd Colby (Riot in the Charm Factory, Soft Skull Books, 2000 and former lead singer of Drunken Boat), Alex Gildzen (Swimming, Submarine Enterprises, 1976), Thurston Moore (Fuck a Hippie� but be a Punk, Glass Eye Books, 2001, guitarist with Sonic Youth), Matthew Wascovich (Boxes of Shattered Dishes, Slow Toe Publications, 2003, guitarist with A Real Knife Head). First Edition, 1,500 copies 122 pages | perfect bound, color cover       "It was a beautiful concept. Get four writers, from different pockets of the U.S. to commit to composing a poem a day during the year�s shortest month. Then shuffle those poems together like a deck of well-handled cards and see what epiphanies develop.       The four poets involved � Todd Colby, Alex Gildzen, Thurston Moore, Matthew Wascovich � would seem to have little in common, besides deep humanist resonances, and certain tendencies towards emotional telegraphy. But they all threw themselves into the project. And while the country watched itself being sucked inexorably into Bush War 2, they wrote what they saw and said what they felt.       Each of the writers has personal themes that emerge over the course of the month: movies, recipes, cultural riff-raff, levy�s Cleveland, email, music. These and other topics are rolled by gentle fingers, prodded by moist tongues, tamped into cigarette-sized abstracts that rub against each other in a variety of ways. Sometimes it seems as though the poets are reading each other�s minds, each other�s moods; that they are connected by synaptic veins scrolling across the cold vastness of American February. Their thoughts and words sync up, forced into strange cohesion by the unstoppable forces of grave reality. But that�s only sometimes. Mostly, they blow free, letting format and rhythm and content and mood erupt in reaction only to what each of them has written previously.       As though in the thrall of Heraclitus� declaration that it is impossible to step in the same river twice, everyone here seems to be making an effort to repeat neither form nor function. All four appear to be highly attuned to the flow of their month�s work, extremely interested in seeing that their words are headed forward in all ways, dedicated to the idea of a personal, interactive narrative. And it works. It really works.       Everyone who�s likely to read this book in the next twenty years lived through this month. And as you read these poems, little bits of the feel of February 2003, the tremors generated by the collapse of common reason, the general grasping-at-straws of the month, will flood your mind. This total commonality of experience between writer and reader has an unexpected effect. It sucks me/you/us into the give-and-take of the narrative flow to a much higher degree than usual. Like assholes talking back to their televisions, we will find ourselves drawn into the communicative subtext of this collection, penciling some of our own thoughts on the period into the margins. Hey, why not? If you bought the book, you can do whatever the fuck you want with it! Live it up.       But I must admit. What is perhaps most noteworthy to me about this volume is that its most arcane bit of underground rock trivia was written not by Thurston Moore (noted archeologist of lame duck rock facts), but by Alex Gildzen. Indeed, Gildzen�s reference to the early line-up of the Numbers Band may rate as the single best bit of pure information in February 03. But the rest of it still fucking great. To wander in these words, to amble through these minds, to have the opportunity to recast this savage month in new, more fully graspable terms�well it�s just a goddamn treat.       So live it up. Again. And do it right this time." --Byron Coley, Deerfield MA 5/03

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Earthrise.Shadow.3 Format: CD Label: USED 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 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_79 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Various Artists Title: singles soundtrack Format: CD Label: Epic Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_95 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Various Artists Title: leave your mark Format: CD Label: Endless Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_87 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Various Artists Title: the nature of systems Format: CD Label: Carbon Records 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 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 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: USA/USB Format: 2CDR Label: The Shadow Puppet Recording Company 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.

• Artist: Various Artists Title: untitled Format: 2CD Label: Humbug Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HUMBUG002 (a.k.a., benytt denne glimrende anledning til � ta en titt inn i musikkens virkelige skattekamre gjennom den d�r som humbug holder �pen for deg) -- the very best of norwegian music! Gal�en, Anders Gjerde, Ivar Grydeland/�yvind Torvund, Continental Fruit, D�plo, 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, V�r Venn Gitaren, Bogus Blimp, Fusel Music, The Nordic Miracle, UM & the Detonators From Hell, Marakel, Reidarwebster, Lasse Marhaug, Andreas Meland, Cosmic Jinx, Dadaistisk Danseensemble, P�l Asle Pettersen, t++, o.melby, KA, Fibo-Trespo, Sindre Andersen, Two Shot Sons, Origami Arktika.

• Artist: Various Artists Title: Hurts So Good - The Cock E.S.P. Remix CD Format: CD Label: V/Vm 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 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 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: Alphabet Singles Vol 1 Format: 7inch Label: the sleepyhouse NW Catalog ID: CarbonDist_alpha001 feat. Essey Brooxs, Sleepyhouse, Jesse Jarnow and The Tuftees. ltd to 100 copies.

• Artist: Vectroscope Title: Monitoring the Blind Format: CD Label: Maor Appelbaum (Israel) 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 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_11 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Velvet Elvis Title: Favorite Horses Format: CASS Label: cae-sur-a (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_caesura_006 "Thundering in like a psychedelic unicorn from outer space, Velvet Elvis is the five-headed Hydra of stoner rock. Expanding across the galaxy in their own Ship of the Imagination, the exceptionally crafted songs on Favorite Horses pummel the listener with their heavy riffing and crooning voices." Hand numbered edition of 100 - C-27

• Artist: Violet+Alexei Borisov+Michael Gendreau Title: Bogatiri Format: CD Label: Zeromoon (USA) 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 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_89 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Walter Salles Title: Motorcycle Diaries Format: DVD Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_MOTORCYCLEDIARIES (This is a USED item) about Che Guevara as young med school student traveling around South America

• Artist: Ward Churchill Title: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the Consequences of U.S. Imp Format: BOOK Label: AK Press (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ISBN_1-902593-79-0 "The record speaks for itself... The "Most Peace-Loving of Nations" has been engaged in brutal military campaigns in every corner of the globe, unceasingly, since its inception. In attempting to forever alter Americans false self-concept, Ward Churchill contextualizes US aggression and the most effective response to it yet-the attacks of Sept. 11th-in a readable format. Churchill has meticulously chronicled both U.S. military campaigns-domestic and foreign-1776-Present and U.S. attempts to violate, obstruct and/or subvert International Law from 1945-Present. Drawing from US military and interventioist history, lessons from Nuremburg and the UN‘s own voting records, the two Chronologies, exhaustively researched and annotated, illustrate a heartwrenching history of senseless butchery and democracy deterred. In this context, the only fitting question for a nation still reeling from the wake-up call of Sept. 11th is, "How can they not hate us?." In his newest offering, Churchill demands that the American public shake off its collective unconscious and take responsibility for the criminality carried out in its name. Introduction by Chellis Glendinning. Ward Churchill (Keetoowah Cherokee) is professor of American Indian Studies and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado/Boulder. A member of the leadership council of Colorado AIM (American Indian Movement), he is a past national spokesperson for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee. A prolific writer and lecturer, he has authored, co-authored or edited more than 20 books and 4 AK Press Audio cd‘s."

• Artist: warmth/medroxy Title: progesterone acetate Format: 7inch Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosenine "Co-released with Phage Tapes. One track from each on the vinyl, Limited to 300 total copies. First 100 copies Come with a 3" with an addition exclusive track from each artist."

• Artist: Web (aka Takuya Sugimoto) Title: the EVA ep Format: LP Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonDist_USED_WEB (This is a USED item) on FatCat records from 1996

• Artist: Wether Title: Uncertain Ritual Format: CDR Label: Crucial Blast Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BLISS35 "Wether is the blackened noise project from Mike Haley, the beardo that runs the classy Electric Human Project label and who is also half of Big China & Little Trouble...this entity has released an assload of cassettes and splits and even a wee bot if vinyl over the past couple of years, and all of it which I've heard has been excellent, a kind of formless, ganrled industrial blackness, usually very dirgey and crushing, possessed by the occasional blast of snarling black metal screams buried in distortion and awesomely malevolent synthesizer drones that, when they really get going, sound like the tarblack afterbirth of Wolf Eyes jamming on cues from John Carpenter's The Fog OST from '94. We finally hooked up with Mike to bring you this new full length of infernal hypnosis Uncertain Ritual, a collection of hellish mechanical atmospheres, meditative trance-loops constructed from machine clatter and blocks of white noise, torrents of bellowing distortion goo and black ambience that's creepy as fuck. This is super-high quality fx pedal/circuit-bent generated deathscape action, brutally heavy in spots with massive creeping industrial rhythms and whirlpools of ultra-distorted metal-like crunch, and tranquil and beautiful in others when Wether moves into placid drones and subdued underground vibrations. This is terminally evil shit though, and it falls somewhere in between the black ambient/industrial chaos of artists like Nordvargr and Abruptum, and the grinding electronic skum of Wolf Eyes and Anenzephalia. Uncertain Ritual is packaged in the signature Bliss sleeve with full color artwork from Crucial Blast, and the disc is attached to the interior of the sleeve on a plastic hub. Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies."

• Artist: Wild Safari Title: We Laid Our Heads In Their Laps (C26) Format: CASS Label: Bathetic (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BATHETIC044 "Jon (Bathetic) & Cody (ex-Pink Priest, etc) lay down sonic tumblers that drift in and out of nostalgic, schoolyard sidewalks into lush forests. We Laid Our Heads In Their Laps is the follow up to the acclaimed Cave Sequins released last year on Night-People. By the way ...they've never taken off the floaters. "

• Artist: Wildildlife Title: Peas Feast Format: LP Label: Crucial Blast Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR72 "The band released this EP as a handmade CD-R that has been sold at shows over the past year, but the songs on Peas Feast are so cool that we wanted to give this a proper vinyl documentation, and have been remastered for vinyl by Scott Hull at Visceral Sound. The record will be pressed on yellow wax with black splatter in an edition of 1,000 copies, and will also come with a digital dropcard that will allow you to download the tracks from the Peas Feast EP as well as a digital-only EP titled Drongolet Demos that has a bunch of unreleased tracks from Wildildlife. The Peas Feast vinyl features four lengthy songs, starting with the zonked ultraheavy sludge and atonal, barbed wire guitar freakouts of "White Eyelidz" which goes from crushing glacial metal to drunken bassloaded punk rock in the bat of an eye, and then moves on to the pop genius of "Violent". "Violent" is the catchiest song these guys have, starting off slow with plaintive FX-soaked vocals swimming over pulverizing sludge metal riffage - think Harvey Milk but waaaaaay more freaked out and poppy and mutated by unnameable effects boxes....the hook here is so catchy it gives me a toothache, it's like hearing the saddest old alt rock song ever being played by Corrupted, complete with vocal harmonies. But then comes "Shining Son", another amazingly catchy pop song, still heavy but way more upbeat and driving, more noise rock than sludge, with a big burly bass riffs and ecstatic guitars that strafe the sky until the sludge rears it's head again, a massive swampy riff that rises up and flattens everything towards the end. MASSIVE. And then the final song, "My Song", formerly an acoustic song that appeared on Wildildlife's self titled debut 10", another amazing pop gem, but this time damaged and drunken sounding, the pop hook molten and oozing, the vocals a desperate howl, slow and sludgy and creeping but still unbelievably catchy and exuberant as it trails off into an almost Mammatus-like psych rock coda. Although this early material is more immediate and raw than the band's debut album Six, the music is crushing, catchy and totally spaced-out. On Yellow vinyl with black splatter in a run of 1,000 copies."

• Artist: Wildildlife Title: Six Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast 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: willful Title: procession Format: 3inch CDR Label: small doses (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosefortynine "21+ minutes in a windswept purgatory on a trainride to hell. harsh noise walls. packaged in an 8 page booklet. edition of 66 copies."

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

• Artist: Wolfnuke Title: Nightwar Format: CDR Label: Crucial Blast Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BLAZE02 "The second document on the new Crucial Blaze imprint, Wolfnuke's Nightwar is a glorified demo, the first raw recorded work from this new Hagerstown, Maryland quartet that includes the C-Blast boss on bass and bellows, as well as a current member of long-running hardcore/grinders Strong Intention (Six Weeks / Coalition Records) on guitar. Wolfnuke seeks a different form of mayhem however, forging a furious, blackened thrash assault out of an unlikely combination of influences that include the obvious (classic second wave black metal and Teutonic thrash), the vitriolic crossover thrash of Cro-Mags's 1989 album Best Wishes, a lust for the driving, apocalyptic power of late 80's UK goth rock (Fields of The Nephilim, Sisters Of Mercy), and the violent aggression of Scandinavian hardcore. The four songs on Nightwar are universally fast-paced and dark as hell, starting with the nihilistic blackened thrash of "Beneath The Last Of The Neuro-Goat" and continuing through the blazing black metal-meets-crossover extermination vision of "Deathfire", the crushing mid-tempo blackened metalpunk of the title track and the anthemic matricide hallucination of closer "Filthwraith". Originally made available as a free download and cassette at local performances earlier in the year, the Nightwar demo has been presented here as a hand-numbered cd-r release in a print run of 250 copies and packaged in the Crucial Blaze signature library case with an insert card, a set of 1" buttons, and a vinyl sticker. It is also available on cassette, likewise limited to a print run of 100 copies."

• Artist: Yellow Swans Title: Psychic Secession Format: CD Label: Load Records (USA) 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

• Artist: Yes Title: Big Generator Format: LP Label: USED Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_YES (This is a USED item) 80's Yes. post-psychedelic or whatever. 1987. one of my first concerts

• Artist: Yes, Collapse Title: final diagnosis Format: CDR Label: Crucial Blast Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR_ YesCollapse "the final recording from this Dayton improv-noise crew; brutal industrial factory scrape, rusted sheet metal floating through dank halls, and the buzz of destroyed electrified instruments heard through 10 feet of concrete."

• Artist: York Factory Complaint Title: We Call it Prayer Format: CASS Label: cae-sur-a (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_caesura_003 "We Call it Prayer is violence and a transcendent meditation on brutality. Homeward Bound (at last) transmits pure darkness from the Mariana Trench, while its b-side cohort thunders along like a runaway freight train. This is an early incarnation of York Factory Complaint featuring Michael Berdan (Veins, Drunkdriver) and Ryan Martin (Dais Records). Hand numbered edition of 100." C-30

• Artist: [-hyph-] Title: breathing gadgets Format: CDR Label: Anti-information (Germany) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_AICdisc004 cd-r 60min, 1st ed/100. "… breathing still is the essential metaphor for everything organic and the proof of everything organic to be a matter of regularity, linearity [otherwise pathological] and of natural calculation / calculated naturality."

• Artist: [n.] Title: ein klagelied für 3f Format: CASS Label: cae-sur-a (USA) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_caesura_007 �Sprechen Sie deutsch?� � Despite the fact that Jen Marquart is quite a fluent speaker, Ein Klagelied f�r 3f is mostly a non-verbal electro-acoustic affair. Even though Jen�s voice is barely audible on these recordings, the music speaks to you in the most intimate way. Rushes of noise tickle your ears, waves of drone gently make you shiver and occasionally�, voices appear in this hot n� cold experimental mix. In short: an immersive experience to affect your body & soul! -Holger Adam, Phantom Limbo Hand numbered edition of 100

• Artist: � +YN Title: La cancion del ciempies / Quise ser buho Format: CDR Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IKU_OYN "This is � +yn : a group formed by Gustavo Valerga, Mar�a Victoria Arener, Pablo Picco and C�sar Young. Four people from different parts of the country mixed together in C�rdoba (one of Argentina�s bigger towns, 600 km west from Buenos Aires). Recorded in 2007 and mixed this year, �La canci�n del ciempi�s� (�the song of the centipede�) comes from the same recording sessions of �Copa de un �rbol sin ra�z� [LP that is about to be finished later this year]. Vocals are mostly throat singing by Mar�a Victoria, Gustavo makes all the guitar walls, C�sar does the drumming and Pablo the keyboards & flutes. Spectral melodies in second track �Quise ser b�ho� (�i wanted to be an owl�), sung by the special quest, our friend Gubia from Ecuador. Long minutes of electric static after some thick guitar and keyboard barriers, mixed with tons of voices, just to uncannily land in some woods near home, calmly hypnotized by some hand made stick flutes. We like folk, we like drone, we like to hit electric guitars, we like overtone singing and we like the trees that cover us at night. Just sit back there and enjoy the music from the heart of the centipede."