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masters sent off for Cornucopia "Ultima" LP and Raven Chacon's "At The Point Where The Rivers Crossed, We Drew Our Knives" LP
final artwork for Power/field Compilation #2 coming soon. duping discs. spinning wheels
Live at THE SMELL DVD
::Featuring::
The Mae Shi, Foot Village, Ponytail, Abe Vigoda, High Places,
Gowns, BARR, No Age, HEALTH, and Captain Ahab
a fundraiser for The Smell, and a toast to its... scent
Runtime 2 hours, All-Region DVD, 6-panel Digipak
PITCHFORK: "those of us who never get out to L.A. will finally get to see what all the fuss is about." LA RECORD: "The shots capture The Smell in true form." LA WEEKLY: "The Live at the Smell DVD is a veritable yearbook commemorating over 10 years of creativity and passion." THE PLAYLIST: "well worth seeking out." THE ORGAN GRINDER: "an impressive cast of bands."
ordering here
more info: coldhandsvideo.com or thesmell.org
Tom Grimley "Looks Like We Automate It!!" CDr
A radio drama gone bad - Live recording of Tom Grimley's Automated Electronic Music Ensemble during the "SEMI-AUTOMATIC ACCOMPANIED SOLO DANCE TOUR!!!" on KBOO Portland. True audio carnage by the wild man of the LA noise scene.
If you don't know Tom's work: with a background in composition (Loyola Marymout, home of KXLU); audio engineering (recording Beck and hundreds of others for the WIN record label he founded in 1989 with Devin Sarno); playing bass and electronics for various early/mid-90s projects in LA such as The Rentals and Slug; he now exclusively builds boxes based in circuit-bent projects, housed in homemade plexiglass and wood cases that are controlled by remote. Performances typically included him setting them up one by one, placing them in various locations around the listening space, then sitting back drinking a beer and smoking while they play. His stamina when it comes to beer is beyond competition.
In Spring 2007 he set off for a 3 month US tour in his VW Bug, leaving a trail of destruction in his path. Near the Badlands of South Dakota he spent 5 hours rebuilding the engine at a rest stop, then drove stright through to Portlandistan, where he shocked the club owners by asking that the lights be turned on during a featured Friday night slot. That next week he played at my house and broke the landlord's bench for the cute breakfast nook; luckily he didn't play the washing machine (by turning it on with a bunch of beer bottles inside) like he did in Ypsilanti. He drank me under the table and then left to get laid.
Finally, he played on the radio at KBOO. He decided to close-mic his boxes, and that alone made for such a super-hot noise barrage that i demanded he let me release it. About 15 minutes into it, he races into the live room (where i and his boxes were) and urgently beckons me to follow him into the engineering booth, where he was wildly mixing the signals. All the levels were cranked to their fullest - every trim pot, EQ, fader, etc. He even turned up the main compressors heading to the DJ booth (where thankfully for the FCC they had another bank of compressors, otherwise he could have brought down the station). He ends up composing by drunken maw - knocking all the faders down except one, then throwing them all back up in time with his minion's divine expressions.
Halfway through the hour-long slot, he turns off the boxes (by remote) to go into the DJ booth with all his friends, to have a discussion about The Future. During this discussion (which is not presented on the CDr) the mics for his boxes are still live, and feeding back down the hallway, around the corner, to the engineering room where everything is still recording. After the discussion the boxes are fired up again (by remote) and the show goes on. Eventually the speakers in the engineering room cut out, and he high-tailed it out of there before the hippies could patchouli his Wile E. Coyote ass.
All the mayhem that ensued in this small chapter of this gifted circuit-bender-audio-ninja-sonic-weatherman is captured on Looks Like We Automate It!! without any polite gain adjustments. Every fade up out and overload is preserved. He asserts this will be his last recorded release ever, as to quote from the DJ room discussion "you have to be a troubador, you have to be a wandering minstrel now. you have to take your stuff on the road and present it to people. there is no point to having something and selling it, it's totally embarassing. anybody who sells anything is embarassing, and they should just go home. recorded music is over, and live performance is where it is at."
Ed of 200, jewel case, pro-pressed booklet and insert, rubber-stamped and machine-labelled discs.
Bob Bellerue and Jarrett Silberman "Amplified Piano Duets" 12" and CDr
A lost journey to unknown planets, defective machinery, dead pilots at the controls. Recorded in late 2006, in the waning light of the Il Corral, when free pianos roamed the wild west. Jarrett Silberman is one of the few remaining gunslingers of downtown LA, a founding member of the Smell, formerly in Young People, tours with Liars and others. Bob Bellerue is the harbinger of Halfnormal / Anarchymoon, plays with KILT, formerly of the Il Corral. Both have solo amplified piano pieces, and getting together seemed like the perfect idear.
12" + CDr (ed 200 paste-on neon orange cover art) OR CDr-only version (ed 100, jewel case, pro-pressed booklet and insert, rubber-stamped discs) "Amplified, fuck yeah!... slabs of leaden Noise... thrust through their Noise-making processes to dynamic effect." (The Wire)
PEOPLE WHO DO NOISE DVD:: featuring performance footage and interviews with 14 of the most active noise artists in Portland OR (incl Smegma, Daniel Menche, Yellow Swans, Pulse Emitter and more). released on a new label called Cold Hands Video. available soon on filmbaby.com and Netflix. for more info visit peoplewhodonoise.com and please add us on myspace: myspace/coldhandsvideo
DOG BONE 2x7" with The Cherry Point, Obstacle Corpse, God Willing, Privy Seals
Sublime disturbances from these 4 harsh noise monks. Thick pummeling abuse from The Cherry Point, huge dynamics, deep and a very different style from what i'm familiar of his. Obstacle Corpse brings in a pcp-anime soundtrack full of wild ravings and shreddingtones. Thick gnarl from the creep-drone surgeon God Willing, like drilling through gloass and chains. Live set by Privy Seals that catches him in his prime wail-wall, explosions of volcanic rage.
ed of 161 copies, red vinyl with red labels, color insert, in 3-color chipboard glue-pocket gatefold sleeves by SeizurePalace, even an obi strip. sorry for the pain, it's good for you ::: $20 ppd
anok22:: Justice Yeldham and the Dynamic Ribbon Device "Birthdays" LP
Birthdays consists of two live sets by maverick amplified-glass player Justice Yeldham recorded during his & Keg's recent tour of Europe. If you've never heard of the guy you are in for a bloody treat. Using concert-grade piano contact mics, he amplifies a sheet of glass and plays it with his mouth and face, processing it with pedals attached to his belt, usually barefooted. The results are unworldly, and hearing it you would never imagine what created it, something only an Aussie could achieve. Like careening assaults of insect spaceships, he transports the listener to other worlds of sound, ending most often in a crash of the glass upon his head. He survives, bloody but alive, never worse for wear in the morning.
Side A was captured in Marseille on the eve of Justice's 35th birthday while side B was recorded on Kegs birthday in Porto (for a preview listen at myspace/justiceyeldham). And to top off the birthday cheer Keg also did the cover illustration as a gift for Justice's Birthday. Mastered by the god-like Rasheed of Dubplates (Berlin), the record has been collaboratively released in an edition of 600 copies across the world by Anarchymoon Recordings (North America), Turgid Animal (Europe) & All Thumbs Press (Australia).
Black vinyl, B-on-W labels, 2-sided glue-on cover art (lim 600, 200 for UxSx distro), $13 ppd
:: still available ::
anok19 :: Tecumseh "Crossing Divides" LP
anok18 :: Smegma "The Smell Remains The Same" LP
anok17 :: ABQ=/= LAX 7"
anok16 :: KILT "Snow White In Hell" LP
anok12 :: Roman Torment / Feed the Dragon split 12"
anok11cd :: Redglaer "American Masonry" CD
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