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Earjerk
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EJK-032 Gitchi-anahmi-bezheu 'Wonder' cassette // $6  We have said it before and we'll say it again... Earjerk is not a drone label... exclusively. But when something beautiful graces our ears we can't resist packaging that beauty up! (no matter what pigeon hole you want to stuff it into). I got to hang out with this cat and do a few live shows with him out on the East Coast, and man... I gotta say, dude delivers! I actually saw Ian perform as Dream Safari but, if anything, this new incarnation just turns everything up a notch... or down...however you wanna look at it! I guess down would be more appropriate. Cause this is deep, deep stuff! Fantastic Underwater Panther Music! The two times I saw Ian play live (and on all the cassette releases I have encountered) there is a definite progression that his pieces live through. This is something that is missing in many (MANY!) drone projects you might encounter, in which most finished pieces sound like they were chopped out of some large sprawling jam. *Snip! Snip! There' s the best chunk.* Not with Gitche. You can tell these pieces were self contained. A definite beginning, middle and end, you know? You can easily imagine these creations as living things as you listen to them originate, grow and die. Fleshy pink tapes. Individually hand-stamped covers on beautiful vintage paper. Limited to 99 copies. |
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EJK-030 (DAK-003) Circulation of Light Cirulation of Light cassette // $6 Heady skronk. Saxophone drone. It sounds like dinosaur jazz. As in Jazz for dinosaurs. I don't know where this was recorded or when but it seems like whenever this tribe gathers ecstatic jams erupt. But they can lull you too. Just give them a chance and they'll definitely let you float awhile. |
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EJK-029 Dreamcolour Solar Gaze c51 // $6 Magic material here. Gnostic Audio. A stillness pervades. Liquid piano. Transcendental Medication. Solo Project of Nathaniel Ritter of Kinither |
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EJK-028 Enfer Boreal / Drunjus Climate Change / Ranking Charioteer cassette // $6 OK. We'll admit it. Earjerk is kind of a drone label. Not on purpose though! We just keep coming across like-minded folks I guess... Some of the headiest material ever from both of these projects. Enfer Boreal starts from a deep bell toned pulse and as soon as you have locked on he tosses you into space. You bounce off various soft, rubbery astroids and UFO's. You will have to re-enter the Earths atmosphere without burning up and these cold drones won't leave you hangin. Drunjus... Awww, you know what to expect. Anyway, how many times can I use the words heavy and deep and cosmic when describing drones. I mean this is heavy, deep, cosmic and COSMIC, but I have used all those descriptions before.Throbbing? Pulsing? Alive? Yes. All that. A definite buzz enhancer. Blue tapes with carefully applied green spray. Killer wrap-around collage artwork by Woodman. Limited to 45 copies. |
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EJK-025 Second Family Band Whose Wave We Ride c60 // $6 Tropical bass lines and a sunset vibe definitely rule this release. Hey! I said Pina Colada not Ayuasca! Come aboard... we're expecting you... 99 copies. |
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EJK-024 Second Family Band Weird Sword / Seers Word c32 // $6 Possibly the darkest SFB excursion to date. The Second Family make up a strange bed o 'spheres.Vox courtesy Max Elliott. Karen Eliot lends a healing chant and some wicked guttar...also crawling around in the dark: Iam Lee Ian, Dave 3000, Ivan Mairesse, Endless and Woodman.45 copies. |
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EJK-023 Second Family Band East to West c80 // $6 Pack some granola. Two long hikes through the haze grace this 80 minute cassette. 'Morning in the East' blazes trails." I'm taking my banjo along through the Himalayas and if you wanna drag that ARP along that'd be cool with me." The flip has a real dirty metropolis groove. Traveling. Lets crescendo awhile. Way out west now...How long we been drivin? ...Any Natives still live around here? 99 copies. Earlier copies have red case. |
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EJK-021 E.C. Brown and I'Diamond Gothick Reforme cassette // $6 Everything just keeps getting darker and darker... It must be time for this lost treasure to be unearthed. In 2001 someone gave me a cd-r. They said they knew I liked "strange music" and they thought I should have this. The cover art was a robed figure with a golden mask and the back had a similar figure (perhaps female) posing with similar robes and a different mask. Both figures were set against a background of neon pink and yellow forest leaves. Somehow, despite the colors, there was something definitely ominous about the artwork for this cdr. And the same can be said of the sounds within. Truly ahead of it's time, I had no frame of reference for this at the time. I kept the cdr mostly to mysel; a secret revealed only to some. Very few were ready to except it's slimy, sometimes oppresive atmospheres, it's jarring filmscore "scene changes", and it's mixture of pre-Free(k) Folk, Noise and even Black Metal tendencies. Earjerk has tracked down Mr. Brown and has re-issued this wonder on puke-pink or yellow cassettes with the original artwork formated for cassette, for all the world to hear no longer lingering in dark corners of cardboard boxes and basement floors, subject to cd rot and digital decay. Buy this. Be the first to say you weren't there. 99 copies. |
| EJK-020 Crystal Dragon The Crystal Demos cd-r // $6 Who is this mysterious analog synth warrior/fighter pilot from the Land of Light? For this release he is your guide. Ride along on amazing journeys through quartz caverns with Erik Satie and Klaus Schulze at the helm. Essential! The Crystal demos have been making the rounds and it is clear! There will be some fully realized albums solidifying soon. These gems can't stay buried forever. Medieval Musique Kosmiche. 45 copies |
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EJK-018 The Second Family Band Changing Suns c46 // $6 5 or 7 tunes out of thin air. Recorded on the shores of windy Lake Mendota. Acoustic strumming, guitar-body drumming, trad sec fam throat singing, courtesy db pedersen and some amazing string action from Jared Annoye. For the most part a daylight affair but the Suns definitely dip behind the cloud more than a few times. First 25 copies on sunny yellow cassettes. |
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EJK-016 Varlet Tarsod S/T c44 // $6 Killer Prog voyages from this strange Wisconsin mind. Push play and you' re locked in to this swirling world of rythyms, heavy riffing and shifting shred. Definite dark desert vibes. 45 copies |
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EJK-014 Annapurna illusion Heat of the Fire, Heat of the Sun cdr // $8 The debut release of Annapurna iIlusion, presents us with four tracks of woven electric breath. And a mystery. Who or what is Annapurna ilIusion. The answers will have to wait. As our ascent begins, expansive mountainous waves of guitar-drone and snowy feedback swirl around my head. Several seperate washes of sound combine to create a beautiful blizzardy backdrop to the many intricate organic noises that are floating to the surface and then fading away. Chimes sound somewhere in the distance. As the blizzard thickens, the drone rises to a wail and I am left to follow the trail blindly. I am totally enveloped in the environment that has been created. Somewhere toward the middle of this disc, I feel as if I am eavesdropping on some ancient mountain side ritual as a procession of silent monks in robes of white enter a frozen cave and tiny bells ring through the foggy feedback. Huge mountain horns and shimmering gongs sound. Perhaps the ceremony has begun. I follow the monks into the cave. DVD-style case with full-color home-spun collage artwork and insert. myspace.com/annapurnaillusions |
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EJK-012 Andy Futreal Did you find it? c60 // $6 On his first release on Sloow Tapes Andy melted minds with his oud improvisations, tape manipulations and radio freque-ing. This tape is no exception. Cassette walkman, microcassette recorder, laud, pedals and something called a postcard weevil are just some of the objects Andy employed this time around. This cassette reveals another mystery each time you listen. If you've had the pleasure of checking out his first release, the A-side of this one might surprise you; a very heavy, heady lapsteel guitar journey through steep orange and brown canyon walls with blue sky and soaring eagle.You'll want to take this journey again and again to really appreciate everything that is going on. First copies have hand stamped case and cassette. |
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EJK-011 The Second Family Band The Eternal Lag c30 // $6 An older age filtered through dirty magnetic strips. Wander through these distorted landscapes. The sounds on this tape just seem to be bleeding off the reels. All analog. Recorded direct to hand-held mono cassette Dec. 1st 2008 and dumped to stereo cassette early morning Dec. 2nd 2008 and then commited to these tapes. The Second Family lays it on THICK here! There is an almost steady piano throb smothered in some epic, Dark Age synth, gritty atmospheres with slanted hand drum rhythms and break neck tempo shifts, piano pulses and banjo abuses. |
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EJK-010 The Second Family Band "When We Are Gone'" c71 // $8 Set sail with the Second Family. Here they are back in full force honoring their ancestors. In numbers not seen since the Teargas Tournaments. A chemical enhanced Samhain gathering with db Pederesen,Theresa Behnen, Clay Ruby, Nico Kain, Dan Woodman, Iam Lee Ian, Endless, K. Eliot and Nic Stage. Sunset and the music begins... Hard to say what the hell is goin on here. Lysergic chants, throat-singing crescendos, guitar, piano, synth bells...Freeeeeeeee Jams with db Pedersens vocal contortions and a Spontaneous Sabbath Sermon by Father Karen Eliot...it is morning before long. What a trip. Recorded 31st of October, 2008. 99 copies. Variant color blue, black or green cassette and case. |
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EJK-006 The Second Family Band Phasiss cassette // $8 The Second Family Band - 'Phasis' - cassette - Another killer collision with Peaking Lights and this time with Relentless Corpse! Recorded live to stereo cassette in the barn on the P.L.'s compound. The flip side contains a traditional solstice jam and a small piece performed for Indra and Aaron's wedding. 99 copies on yellow tapes with yellow or black case. |
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EJK-001 Drunjus Thorn Shield LP // $16 Two killer journeys. Both recorded live. One side completely in the analog realm From the boys'cassette deck straight to 180 gram black wax. Strictly limited to 300 copies. Hand screened on thrifted album covers turned inside out. No two alike. Side A - 'Drencrom' is a sideways drift through the earths crust which confirms that the core truly is molten. Upon reaching their destination Drunjus bore a hole straight to the center of your brain. Live at the infamous Wisco Biker Bar...Side B -'Relax Hunter' is a more galactic affair. With enough molten fuel to get their ship airborn, Drunjus escape the atmosphere and enter a 300 year cryogenic sleep... co-released with Tree Tapes... |
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Dark Age
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DAK-004 Lens Chant Down Babylon / Chant Up Babylon cassette // $6 Dark Age Kassettes No. 4!!! Two medieval devotionals from the solo project of Drunjus's Dan Woodman. Lens throws an enigma in the dungeon to wait out the dark age. First 27 copies come with an actual lens. Purple Tapes. Limited to 45 copies. |
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DAK-003 (EJK-030) Circulation of Light Cirulation of Light cassette // $6 Heady skronk. Saxophone drone. It sounds like dinosaur jazz. As in Jazz for dinosaurs. I don't know where this was recorded or when but it seems like whenever this tribe gathers ecstatic jams erupt. But they can lull you too. Just give them a chance and they'll definitely let you float awhile. |
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DAK-002 Second Family Band The Eternal Lag Pt.2 c30 // $6 Murky. The newest Dark Age Kassette release! The latest addition in the Dark Age subscription series... (Also available through Tomentosa and Eclipse) 66 copies |
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DAK-001 Drunjus / Anvil Dome Dawn of Dark Age c44 // $6 Kicking off our new subscription series is a killer split cassette with Drunjus and Anvil Dome. Both contribute their live sets from a January 08 gig in Milwaukee set up by Mike of Black Eagle Child and Ghost Whale. Field Recordings, weighted bass lines, starry synth washes and positive karma. |
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Tree Tapes
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TRTP-0307 Neon Shit More Neon Shit cassette // $6 Continuing where the first sensory defying Neon Shit Tape left off. Phasing vortex! 8-bit shit storm! Mind Erase! Scientology Weapon! Get this now! |
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TRTP-0306 Neon Shit Neon Shit cassette // $6 Continuing where the first sensory defying Neon Shit Tape left off. Phasing vortex! 8-bit shit storm! Mind Erase! Scientology Weapon! Get this now! |
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TRTP-0209 Second Family Band Street Weaver c47 // $6 Making the rounds called Streetweaver. Side A is a weirdo dime and dollar synth wheeze called Dirty Dimensions and the flip is the title track, an acoustic porch stomp with a touch of twang |
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TRTP-0205 Drunjus Dreams Are Our Arms cassette // $5 The droning duo match one for the second cassette in the series: 'Dreams Are Our Arms'. No longer happy to just smoke, Drunjus vaporize that shit with solid rolling waves of gauzy, blown-out bliss. Summertime on the porch with Drunjus. |
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TRTP-0108 Lens Surveyor cassette // $6 The first release from Woodman's new solo project, Lens and the third release in the Tree Tapes 'Too Heavy Cassette' series. These heavy lead tones will sonically map the exact expanses of your skull. First 23 copies or so come with an actual lens insert. |
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TRTP-0104
Drunjus Driftin' cassette // $5 Tree Tapes is rollin' em up and handin' em out! The new THC series hits with two 90 minute slow burners. (T-H-C that's 'Too Heavy Cassettes'. A mono cassette series on the Tree Tapes label). The first, Driftin', is a solo outing by the Woodman. One solid hitter packed with some primo drone. |
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Object Tapes
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| OBC-042 Pan to Scratch Pagan Blood cassette // $6 Two live shows. Using thrift-score cassette decks, vintage analog synths (also from the thrift) and Bouzoki (on loan from Mumber Toes), Pan to Scratch succeeds in creating live, the kind of forgotten-time vibes that the Pan to Scratch field-collage tapes can evoke in the tape deck. Low tones, treated field recordings, unmanned machines, sad strings... it's all here to be sure, but this is a whole other monster in a live setting. Instruments are treated like any other object that might be stumbled upon on any abandoned plot. Side A was recorded in Madison, WI sometime in Nov. 09 and Side B is a live set from this summer in New Bruswick, NJ. (the same set (but not the same audio) as the live set which can be viewed here>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r8G8b2sbl8 ). Hand etched case with painted paper insert. Limited. |
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OBCS-040 Pan to Scratch With Happiness cassette // $6 Spring time in a can. Banjo, bouzouki melodica, cassette and sounds captured live, outside. 7/1/09 through 7/11/09. Variant color tape, insert and case with hand carved text. Limited. |
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OBCS-039 Anvil Dome Within Huron c22 // $6 The latest from Object Tapes. Two spacers... nice, thick, fuzzy, zone outs from this contender. We actually try to avoid releasing drone-based material around here. Since everyone's "doin it doin it doin it". But let's be up front. There is nothing average about this deep lake drone. Bright orange cassettes with etched plastic case. 45 copies |
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OBCS-037 Pan to Scratch The Sourcerer c30 // $6 Daily, solitary, outdoor rituals documented over two months time in the Fall of 2008. Field recordings and multi-layer melodica musings crumble and decay over the 15 meditative minutes comprising side A of the latest Object Tapes release. Side B is a version on this number, with the drifting melodica drone having a bit more presence this time and taking on a pensive contemplative mood, punctuated with bells and minimal instrumentation. As with the release on Cabin Floor Esoterica, this is dedicated to the great Olivier Messiaen. |
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OBCS-031 Pan to Scratch Wintermarch cassette // $6 unseen territories explored via microphone. |
OBCS-030 |
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| OBCD-027 Endless early morning ragah cdr // $4 RESTOCKED SECOND RUN AVAILABLE! Improvisation with barely-there guitar, birds and dawn rain. Limited to under 10 copies. |
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OBCS-026 Mothwings c46 // $6 RESTOCKED SECOND RUN AVAILABLE! Sinister. Throbbing piano and strings, atmospheric wanderings and something in a dark corner. Recorded 8-8-06 (limited to 36 copies) |
OBCS-025 Live @ Mother Fools. Two live shows, one solo and one with Woodman and Olson. |
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| OBCS-023 90 min tape V/A c90 // $5 SECOND RUN AVAILABLE! The story behind this tape begins with a huge festering box of 90 minute tapes Endless had amassed. These tapes were full of old and new recordings. Recordings of jams, live shows, found sound and also tapes found with recordings already on them, recorded and abandoned by someone unknown. Being an obsessive recorder and pack rat but never a practicing documentarian, Endless left many of these unmarked. Or, if marked, then only with some obscure, indecipherable scribble unreadable even to himself . (Endless says " I had this bad habit of doing that. I guess I wanted to make it more mysterious...for myself. It's a part of my whole master plan.") In the end the formula used to arrive at our present compilation was something like this: We took all of the worthy material from all of these 90 minute tapes, We cleaned up each track a bit, boiled it down, arranged them all and packed it all onto one of the aforementioned festering ninety minute tapes. Doubley Crusty! You get a miniature, 90 minute, time capsule of Midwestern American weird, and Endless cleans out some sorely needed space in his cave. Definitely one hell of a 90 minute thrill ride; this tape has tracks from everywhere and everyone, as well as found sound-tape collage-mash up recordings of unknown bands captured live! Tracks from the Davenport Family, Right Arm Severed, Kino Rattlers, Craig Microcassette System - but good luck identifying any of them, we can't! Also contains really really super duper rare jams from we-cant-say-who. |
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OBCS-019
Davenport smoking / not smoking cassette // $5 RESTOCKED SECOND RUN AVAILABLE! Chant-style New York rooftop ritual from Davenports 2004 East coast tour. A different angle on the 2004 skyscraping score (some of which was heard on some other Davenport Famly release - 'ceptin nawt this raw!). Here is one of many archived live Family jams. Another glazed-out, inner-journey through the disintigrating, collective brain of Davenport. This one recorded high above Gothoms rooftops. Some serious comatose monk drones here, with trademark, slow-build junk-percussion orchestra. And This time you can truly hear the Family doing what it does best: siphoning. No one person is a single entity, all are of one mind - a cosmic conduit for something much, much bigger. Closer to heaven than ever before, the Family truly channel something eternal. All together now! Original edition on spray painted cassettes in envelope with glued playing card artwork. A second edition of 45 copies with random artwork exist. |
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OBCS-016
Pan to Scratch Natura cassette // $5 RESTOCKED SECOND RUN AVAILABLE! 100% natural ingredients. summertime (35%), devils fiddle (20%), redwing blackbird (8%), Rain (3%), wind in trees (6%), crickets (6%), sparrows (6%), bees (4%), crow (3%), catbird (3%), other birds (3%), other bugs (2%) - less than 2% airplane. Notes: Environmental audio moments compiled together for listening in a sequence. Yellow spray painted cassette in decorated cigarette box. Possibly no reference to label or artist anywhere on package. The title ‘Natura’ is sometimes visible. Under 25 copies exist. |
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OBCS-015
Pan to Scratch (rust) cassette // $5 RESTOCK SECOND RUN AVAILABLE! Recordings of one day in a train-yard. Side A contains a spontaneous occurrence of events recorded live. On Side B, primitive multi-layering techniques were abused to create a sonic environment using the previously mentioned occurrence. Serendipity and chance composition. Notes: I think the description actually covered it. |
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OBCS-014
Pan to Scratch (green) cassette // $5 RESTOCKED SECOND RUN AVAILABLE! Windmill, crow, and wind in pier post. Hermetical motifs are eclipsed by impressions of times passage. Clouding events and eventually obscuring the actual. Notes: Pan to Scratch focuses on and is fascinated by the natural, dirty grit of lo-fi analog recording. And just natural dirty grit in general. This is a woven audio walk through Wisconsin’s fields, farms and forests. Green and yellow spray painted cassettes in clear plastic envelope with decaying leave used in the recording. Usually there is no indication of artist or label on this cassette. Approximately 25 copies exist. sound samples |
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OBCS-013
SUPERJACK! cassette // $5 RESTOCKED SECOND RUN AVAILABLE! Ultra-coincidental meeting of three misanthrope. Innocent and menacing at the same time, this is what happens when you introduce an open-mic, poetry ranting uh...poet (voices/spit), a jaded, record store reject (guitar/feedback), and one stoned, space slingin creep (electronics/effects). Sound bad? Its superbad! And its good for the soul. Contains an extra bonus mystery jam on the flip-side. Notes: Pretty legendary locally, this recording captures one of only two recordings of this truly whacked-out trio. Superjack formed when Endless met Mumber Toes. Basically strangers these two decided to have a session. The date was set to jam, but as fate would have it, on the way to meet Mumber Toes that day, Endless happened to run into a poet whom he had seen perform once by happenstance. Long-story-short-as-possible: Endless had stumbled into a local coffee joint for some much needed java, and before he could reach the counter to have his brain buzzed by the bean it was blown by this CAT… this old unassuming cat just ranting away… all the other poets on the scene seemed completely indifferent if not annoyed. This guy was going off, waving his hands around (one holding his note-pad of lines), screaming a babbling stream of sometimes cliché, sometimes completely off the wall, non-sense poetry. Kind of charming and psychotic and the same time, this guy was so off he was on. Endless thought to invite him along… Mumber Toes was not amused. The A-side are the results of this jam. This trio played a second and final surprise live set at the Tomb with Nautical Almanac and others. That freak-scene can be witnessed on the highly limited ‘Music for Teeth’ 4 cassette box which was released on 23 productions in an edition of about 8 copies. The B-side is a strange jam involving Sven Bolan among others… perhaps someday we will tell you a bit about that adventure too. Right now no one seems to remember much about this jam. Probably about 6 copies of this out there on 3”cdr and maybe 30 copies on cassette. |
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OBCS-012
Teargas Tournament cassette // $5 RESTOCKED SECOND RUN AVAILABLE! Fare cross-breed ambush recording. Majorly fucked snap-shot of a Madison never-to-be-assembled-again super?group. The bastard offspring of a nasty case of the crankies and alien visitors in the living room. This was recorded through a crack in the floorboards. Recorded, reprocessed and played back live on three ailing tape-decks without the participants knowledge or consent. Notes: Basically this is a recording of a huge jam with many of the characters from Davenport jamming in the pre-Davenport days. Endless was feeling rather anti-social one day when EVERYONE showed up at his hovel to jam. Cranky, but still wanting to jam, he locked himself in his bedroom, propped some mics by the gap under the door and started recording everything that occurred on multiple tape decks. Some of these tapes were then rewound and played back live, with Endless manipulating the recording and playback decks and jamming “solo” over the jam which was still going on outside the bedroom door. Pretty fucked recording all around. About 30 copies all in weird plastic slipcase-type cassette case. |
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OBCS-010
SWAMPDWELLERS Memorial Archives Vol. 2 cassette // $5 RESTOCKED
SECOND RUN AVAILABLE! Distant storm warning. More and mellower musics from a time before we knew there were many like us. Not really making music, only exploring things that sometimes sounded like music. Notes: Pretty weird old recordings from early 90’s Portage, Wisconsin group. I can’t really think of much that sounds like this stuff. True outsiders, these guys really were on there own trip. Spacey. Sometimes slightly dubby. Very lo-fi. |
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OBCS-006
Postage mail-hook cassette // $5 RESTOCKED SECOND RUN AVAILABLE! Guitrainyard metalworks.. This is a scrap-yard scramble with slide guitar and locomotive ramble. Postage rumble through a dense environmental fog with gentle hands-on musings. sound samples Notes: Ordinary household objects and pre-recorded field recordings of a Train-yard played back on cassettes and manipulated live with a generous helping of wicked slide guitar, courtesy Andrew Knackert. Approximately 36 copies on 3” cdr and 15 on cassette. sound samples |
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OBCS-005
TED SAK-AK vs Greg Michaels cassette // $5 RESTOCKED SECOND RUN AVAILABLE! Obscurious non-systematical oxycontin angels. These two should never be in the same room at the same time. Substratal, undeveloped bass lines battle with patchy off-balance percussion. a staggering stumble across uncharted territory. Notes: This was actually Mansfield and Endless using more than just micro-cassettes. Actually, micro-cassettes are not used much at all… usually this project had Andy Knackert from Postage / Second Family Band laying down some guitar licks but he is mysteriously absent from this recording. Around 36 copies made. |
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OBCS-004
Craig Microcassette System 4&5 cassette // $5 RESTOCKED SECOND RUN AVAILABLE! Scavanged salvaged consumed and regurgitated. Every manner of stolen trust and personal emotion, exposed and remixed by rewind. Found in garbage dumps and under rocks. Found on messages discarded and not approved for your consumption. The first and foremost in "cassette-sploitation". Notes: Originally a double 3” cdr of two different live shows. (All craig recordings released have been live gig recordings, except the micro-cassettes, which are Mansfield remixes.) No effects are ever used for these exploits…just amps and micro-cassette players. Probably about 36 copies on cdr and 15 on cassette. sound samples |
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OBCS-000
Endless An Intro... cassette // $5 RESTOCKED SECOND RUN AVAILABLE! Ok .There should be about 99 copies of this thing floating around out there. A few old friends make appearances but this is mostly composed of old and moldy solo's by T. Endless... this is a clouded group of sounds from the archives. Four or so longer pieces. This tape is overflowing with ailing African horn moans, tape hiss and trash loops slathered upon analog synth rhythms of the most primitive order. Notes: Most of the material heard here is pre-2000. Definitely pre-Davenport Family era stuff. Some of the Swampdwellers play on this recording including S. Asparagus and The Salzman Brothers. |
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EJK-027 Xiphiidae / Pan To Scratch Split LP LP // $14 SOLD OUT Co-release with Housecraft---this is Housecraft's first wax! Moth-eaten fidelities, from both sides of the soil: xiphiidae's 'Web of Light' is like a mycelial network, a conscious grid through which all elements interact and mutually evolve. Pan's 'Sourcerer' cackles mysteriously and pensive under an old tree, straight off a wax cylinder... recorded in 1502. Double-sided variant silk-screened recycled jackets by Iam Lee. numbered edition of 100 |
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EJK-026 Second Family Band Logos Destroyer cassette // $6 SOLD OUT On side A SFB conjure the sounds of a somber, drifting, purple cloud. On side B: Another cosmic noise conference with a killer crew of Family members and collaborators old and new! |
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EJK-019 Spiral Joy Band Black Earth Hymns c80 // 6 SOLD OUT Two seshins live at the WORT, so good! Black Earth b/w Spiral Joy Dogs. Just moments after making Wisconsin ther new home base, this two/thirds of the Spiral Joy Band (Patrick Best and Mikal Dimmik) were channeling thee scony plains vibe guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh! Actually, that's the sound you make after about three minutes into this shimmering miasma. Beautiful cover art by Emily Keown. Limited quantities on day or night sky blue tapes. |
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EJK-017 Absinthe Minds Rising Kulo Summit" b/w "Passage of the Wicked, River of Time (c23) // $6 SOLD OUT Mangled tape. lo-fi, mucked up, too close to the band, deck onthe floor boards, picking up every vibration. every drop of the crowds sweat. this is an indie-reject hell. This is absinthe minds. Nice live recording from the new york tour jams. Looks like the boys took a little bit of the midwest along when they dropped this on NYC. Plains Indian Style. But Plains Indians ancestors back from the dead and pissed style. Upon arrival back in the home territories the Minds souls just kept heading west... God damn if the boys dont lay out a total fucking zombie SURF ROCK tune! Absinthe Minds stylee! For real so but dont be sceered! 45 copies on unholy white and bloody sunset red cassettes. |
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EJK-015 V/A - Burial Hex, Sorc'henn, Drunjus, Crystal Dragon, Teeth collection, Black Sparrow, Pan to Scratch, Taikuri Tali Bright and Dark Light Box Set 4xcassette Box // $18 SOLD OUT Each artist was asked to contribute a side long piece representing light or darkness. I gotta say, this one is heavy on the darkside... Sorc'henn – A Dozen Moons against the Sun - This is a soundtrack to a haunting. A wandering ghost floating through streets of drizzling rain. The groans of the not quite dead. A distant rumble of thunder is heard through a haze of lamentation. Regret, misery, and abandonment.. Teeth Collection - untitled - A metallic (in the literal sense) symphony starts out this piece. Activated and bowed metal sounds build to a frenzy as a bed of noise creeeeps in behind and gradually envelops the metal sounds creating a cold fog of swirling texture that is truly entrancing. Drunjus - Silo (version) - A deep gutteral drone created in a silo (designed by a student of Frank Lloyd Wright) and pitched down. Waaaay down. While we weren't looking Pat Best of Pelt sneeked in and contributed gong flourishes. That didn't make it in the liner notes, but it's true! Thanks Patrick! Crystal Dragon - Sirens of Hyperspace - A total space odyssey! This is some dreamy analog synth action from the Dragon. Someone needed to shed a little light, so the Dragon steps up. Amethyst mountains rising from a pink bubbling haze of 50's science fiction soundtrack sounds. Black Sparrow - untitled - A bit lighter now. Black Sparrow takes us on a flight above the clouds. As our shadow passes the moon we can hear below us a howling wolf chorus of analog synth. Burial Hex - untitled - A dark journey through scraping cemetery gates with rolling sarcophagi stones and bones Pan to Scratch - August 2008 V - Pan to Scratch presents us with another organic cassette composition. A true 'Sound Sculpture', this piece is a layering of tones upon tones. The original tone being inspired by a captured environmental ambiance and then enhanced with several moog drones. Once the initial drones were laid out, (layered over) a loose pattern began to emerge. This pattern was then used as a skeleton to build the piece, each successive layer adding to and changing the course of the pattern. This was repeated until the piece was 'finished', the tones gradually fading out and leaving only the original ambiance. Taikuri Tali - untitled - Spectacular contribution from these Finnish freakers! Taikuri Tali (here composed of Antti Tolvi, Pekko Kappi and Niko-matti Ahti) contribute a piece so out there that I have No idea whats happening on this recording. What I Imagine: A weird squeak-toy, spring peeper drone with AM frequency fiddle and electronic bull roarer/Goose duo...then the elf dervishes start in and it just gets weirder from there... |
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EJK-013 Ophibre Approaching the Ionized Piezo Kiosk cdr // $6 SOLD OUT "Stone Gon' Drone". A constantly phasing,shimmering cloud of color that shifts and morphs, yet maintains a cohesiveness throughout that will continually make you drift and forget you are listening. The really great stuff you just can't describe. Ophibre already stumped me with his self-released 'Compositions For Disassembled Cassette", which was comprised of all the little things you need to make a cassette. The reels, the screws (in a little ziplock coin baggie taped to the side of the case), the tape, the shell.. If you want to hear it your gonna learn to put together the cassette! I havent remembered to ask him, but I think the sound source for the composition in Ophibre taking apart all the cassettes! Luckily this cdr will come fully assembled. Each cdr is stickered and sleeved. The packaging for each one of these is unique. Each has a different black and white, psychedlic, eyestraining "visual aid" insert, which is double-sided so you can "choose your cover" and each has its one thrift store LP section insert as well. All housed in a nice shiny plastic envelope. Edition of 36. |
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EJK-008 Drunjus Chainmail Future cassette // $5 SOLD OUT Drunjus' millionth release! You see, it's from the future... Swords in hands, silhouetted against twin moons, Drunjus, controlled via joystick, travel through some eternal scrolling 24 bit universe. On the flip side, leaving a dark forest, entering an expansive prairie littered with burnt out cars, the boys are greeted by the Natives and are immediately initiated into the tribe through an ancient psychedelic rebirthing ritual. green, hand decorated tapes, color insert. 45 copies. |
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EJK-007 Drunjus Kallisti Gold cassette // $5 SOLD OUT Have a seat. You won't be going anywhere for a while. Hope you have one of those tape decks that automatically flips the tape for you cause this piece should thouroughly gelatinize yer brain. On second thought, you might never get up to STOP the tape if that were the case... Lobotosize me Cap'n! O'Time Your Pyramids b/w Grey-Green Jazz. Blue-green hand decorated tapes. 45 copies. |
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EJK-003 The Second Family Band / Jooklo Duo / Peaking Lights Family Jams Vol. II CDR // 6 SOLD OUT Another totally spontaneous, universal sludge jam from Family II (db Pedersen, Iam Lee, Endless, Clay Ruby and Karen Eliot), Jooklo Duo, Peaking Lights, Sam Henry (Plastic Boner Band) and Jason Soliday. All the things you want from all parties involved. fluid improv jams, weird prog moments, and menacing noise. When people come to Wisconsin they just wanna gather round and jam.(Cd-r, lovingly hand packaged in envelopes with one-of-a-kind artwork. Limited to 50 copies |
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EJK-000
The Grass Magic Self-Titled LP // $16 SOLD OUT This LP features members of the Skaters, Jewelled Antler Collective and Davenport, all kicking up dust in a rickety old barn. A spontaneous happening, the few hazy nights leading up to PastureFest 2004 may not be easily recalled, but the christening sounds, emenating from a ramshackle farm in the vales of southeast Wisconsin, are imprinted here on this unassuming LP. Featuring an alternate B-side jam (of music pulled from the same session) not found on the cassette version. Otherworldly and just down right cosmic! |
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TRTP-0101 Drunjus For Fahey C46 // $5 SOLD OUT Two devotional dirges dedicated to the fleet-fingered guitar shamen. Performed solo by the Woodman, recorded directly to tape in his bedroom during the dark Wisconsin winter. |
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TRTP-0102 Drunjus "Bone Rug" b/w "Bone dub" C46 // $5 SOLD OUT 2008 analog document of Woodman's solo flights; this journey cruises over Deutschland beore burrowing underground & blindly seeking jamaican coasts. Hunger & thirst. |
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OBCS-038 Tricorn and Queue Maize Among Whispers (c38) // $6 SOLD OUT Such an organic feel is captured everytime Jeffry Astin gets his fingers in something. His project with Kane Pour, Tricorn and Queue is no exception. We get the earthy mic in the dirt, but also this time an floating airiness. A whistle of wind repeats and repeats and creates a stream of rippling sound you can really sink into. Recorded Oct '08 at the southwestern corner of the narrowing synagogue of wavering light, vanishing hours on high. |
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OBCS-036 The Second Family Band Sad Blues cassette // $5 SOLD OUT Another weirdo group hug from The Second Family Band. This time Math Balance Volumes and Endless lay down the slanky off center grooves. This sounds like the master tapes of some wannabe-Spaghetti-Western-turned-psychedelic-Peter Fonda-B-movie-soundtrack which were left out in the rain overnight. green cassette , stickered envelope. 45 copies. |
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OBCS-O35 Drunjus Aztalan Pt.1 c24 // $5 SOLD OUT Live site-specific recording. Mystics Woodman and Endless channeling the vibes of this ancient city site. Mysteriously abandoned 400+ years ago, this city and it's inhabitants of remain shrouded in myth and legend. Part two out soon on Housecraft. |
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OBCS-034 Pan to Scratch 2 x cassette // $8 SOLD OUT Straying from the strictly field recording-based pieces and veering into more instrumental territories. Feedback, banjo, guitar, bass /amp, gong, found percussion, and earthdrones. Recorded in and around The Tomb 3-22-06 through 3-23-06. |
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OBCS-033 Drunjus Tripling cassette // $8 SOLD OUT Constantly evolving, eternal drones. Three endless loop cassettes, to be played simultaneously. No two alike! Collect all thirty-six! Don't have a lifetime to listen to the whole composition? We suggest this finite version, which usually lasts eight to twelve hours and can be realized either in or outside, of whatever walls contain you: First, procure three battery-powered, portable cassette players and supply them with batteries of varying qualities. (if you would like a shorter piece, find some partially used and/or poor-quality, dimestore batteries. If you would like a longer piece buy some fresh name-brands) Next, place the loop tapes in your players, turn them on, adjust the volumes to your liking, and place them anywhere you wish. The piece lasts until all players have ceased. (Limited to 36 copies) |
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OBCS-032 Xiphiidae iiustus c90 // $5 SOLD OUT Insane, hazy, acid-steeped field recording montage taken from Payne's Prairie Florida. Ancient condenser mics and tapes through battery powered effects straight to cassette, all in local woodlands.Very subtle, very alien, this one really blurs the line between reality and subjective fantasy. Like an ayahuasca burial rite in a damp hollow tree except you're the corpse and somehow still sensing bugs all over you.(Green c90 cassette and hand packaged case, Limited series of 45) |
| OBCS-029 Trow'n w/ db pedersen trowie knoes (live @ King Club) c24 // $5 SOLD OUT A live gig. Somber and foreboding. Brooding guitar and tape noise. Subterrainean stirrings, sinister analog synths... add db pedersens anguished, operatic bellows, grunts and caterwauls and you have summoned a darkness befitting the dwellers-under-the-hills. Probably about 15 copies total of this out there. |
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OBCS-025 Live @ Mother Fools. Two live shows, one solo and one with Woodman and Olson. Under ten copies exist.
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| OBCS-024 coffin chile cd-r/cassette // $5 SOLD OUT More superdank, stumbling moods with a metal edge / zombie vibe. With Woodman, Endless and Iam Lee Ian. Under 30 copies of the cassette and the same number of cdr’s exist. |
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OBCS-022 coffin chile C20 // $8 SOLD OUT A cassette, encased in a small hand-made coffin.(limited to thirteen copies). probably sold out. - Guitar, synth, feedback, found sound, and drone creepiness. A true product of it's environment, this dark project was conceived birthed and buried, all in 9 months time at the Tomb in Madison WI. Stillborn, Coffin Chile miraculously, gimped thru a few deathly jams and at least one basement shindig, before it was buried (literally). There was a general sense of gloom and doom in the air when this all went down. all these things happened independently of one another ; Wormsblood loosened the soil, the collective started calling the studio "the Tomb", Clay started Burial Hex, and Coffin Chile spontaneously arose from the dust. October 31st two-thousand and six on hallowed ground, thirteen small coffins were buried. A year later they were dug up. Resurrected, the Coffin Children plod the earth spreading their putrid, big stink. Contained within this cassette there are dark shambling skeleton dances and undead folk instrumentals. Creepy. Most of these were given away as gifts and promos. 13 copies exist. |
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OBCS-021
Loudquiet cassette // $5 SOLD OUT
An inside operatives stealth recording procedure. This mission was undertaken by Sven Bolan, Mastermind Behind, the Loop Retard and one third-half of Right Arm Severed. The goal: still not clear. This seems to be an ultra undercover recording of some dudes who wouldn't let Sven hang out, so instead he hung around. The recording, taken alternately from inside and (mostly) outside the premises, this alternates between audible musical moments and sparse, sometimes almost non-existent happenings. About 15 copies exist.
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Visitor 3" cdr // $5 SOLD OUT Smash-up in-your-face State Fair trash. Visitor explores the explosive sonic sound-scrapes that is the local derby. Smell the cheap beer, the grease stains and the port-a-potties! Funnel Cake! Hear the screamin trash! Better than any merzbow album by far! About 15 copies exist. |
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OBCS-018 The Grass Magic cassette // $5 SOLD OUT Blown-up, blissed-out PastureFest barnyard jam. You heard right. Members of the Skaters, Jewelled Antler Collective, Davenport, and Bruce Carkiss all kicking up dust in a rickety old barn. The few hazy nights leading up to PastureFest, may not be easily recalled, but the lights and sounds emenating from that ramshackle farm, in the vales of southeast Wisconsin, are imprinted here on this unassuming brown tape. Otherworldly, cosmic and just down right weird. About 45 copies exist. Most are on brown spray painted tapes in envelope with playing card artwork. |
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OBCS-017
Postage/Drunjus cassette // $5 SOLD OUT Super-villain team up. Two duos, and each does a side. Postage take their cassette recorders and guitars and tromp through wisconsins landscapes. Bogs, hills, tracks, and trails. Andy Knackert takes us on a slow subtle guitar trip and then its all black holes, atmospheres and six-string tension before it spits you out the other side, dizzy and bewildered. b/w an official bootleg Drunjus recording - 'crippled crutch drone' - a creepy, lo-fi, deformed Drunjus. Limited to 45 copies on dusted blue and pink spray painted cassettes in envelope with playing card artwork. (Limited to 45 copies) postage sounds / drunjus sounds |
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OBCS-011
WOLF in the BREAST cassette // $5 SOLD OUT Forest feathers and chemical raindrops. A mystery with no clues. Dragging whatever can be drugged into the woodlands, Wolf in the Breast explore the outsides of their individual, inner worlds with an acoustic and battery-operated mish mash of devices. Most of which did not make it onto this recording. Notes: RJ Remington initiated this project to help him explore new territories outside the boundaries of Right Arm Severed and…well, just outside. Super quiet interactions with the environment. 15 copies? |
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OBCS-009
SWAMPDWELLERS Memorial Archives Vol. 1 cassette // $5 SOLD OUT Freak-psych mud-drones and trash sample dub. Salvaged from years of moldy tapes, these were the dusted off photographs and smoke-smeared flashbacks of an uninfluenced time. Impressions of times and people no longer known. Notes: True garage music… actually come to think of it, it was a basement. These guys never went anywhere. No. Really. They never left the house. Black cassette with foil “swamp flower’” sticker. About 36 copies of this exist. |
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OBCS-008
TED SAK vs Teargas Tournament cassette // $5 SOLD OUT Muddled three-for-all free-junk. Two sides, three groups. a hodge-podge of Madison unmentionables burning it down. at first, as rambling as a sunny pick-up truck ride through the rural hills, TED SAK takes us on and on into the drunken night. it is a journey that can only end in the ditch of death.CANDIRU rears its ugly head and TEARGAS TOURNAMENT pulls a Carl Stalling. Notes: Candiru eventually lost this fight… partly because of it’s stupid name. Originally this was titled Candiru vs. Teargas Tournament vs. TED SAK… later copies have “Candiru” crossed out with black marker. Probably about 30 copies of this exist. Somewhere. Basically this was two jams. Teargas Tournament and Candiru were both names which were tacked onto many free-jam recordings before The Davenport Family solidified as a “band” The big jam contains all the Familiar faces... Clay Ruby, Iam Lee Ian, T. Endless, Andrew Knackert, Mansfield, Nic Stage Joanne Pow!ers and Brennan Connors all are present. The flip-side is TED-SAK. Under 36 copies exist.
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OBCD-007
What is a Frog? SOLD OUT Track 1: swampland Track 2: swampwater. A tribute to our favorite indicator species. Notes: There is no mention of the artist on the cover of this release. Artwork is actual pages from a book about frogs. Most are stamped with the title, track listings and possibly label info/catalog number. Swamp themes explored via 8-bit electronic minimalism. Probably less than 20 copies exist. 3 are presently accounted for. |
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OBCS-003
Woodman in the beach cassette // $5 SOLD OUT A long shore and a distant ocean. Deserted beaches serve as the conduit for interior affections of the heart to be laid bare. Notes: Dan Woodman explores the Beaches of an Island off the coast of Florida. Delicate balance of wind, waves, bells… 25? Copies made. |
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OBCS-002
Opaque cassette // $5 SOLD OUT A variety of silences and tiny failures. A fist-full of abandoned pieces. Wind-whipped, microphone muffled malaise and stoned hesitation. the legacy of a tape-hiss junkie. Faint and faded. Notes: Literally a compilation of mistakes. All sounds were sourced from a group of recordings that did not turn out as expected. After time had passed, however, these recordings revealed their previously unrealized, true potential beyond expectations. This cassette has no insert but the case actually has the word “OPAQUE” scraped into the cover. There were about 25 of these made. Some may have catalog numbers or the word opaque written on the top spine of the cassette.
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OBCS-001
Endless Motor / Mother cassette // $5 SOLD OUT Quietnesses of a kind. An abstract exercise with(out) the aid of the linear-time thought process. Through intense ear focus, murky memories of your forgotten years can be brought to surface. This is a limited time offer. Notes: There are no identifying marks on this cassette that would indicate it is Endless… creating the sounds. Also there is no label identification except perhaps a catalog number. These were recorded on old pre-recorded cassettes and there are less then 15 copies in existence. All copies are unaccounted for at this time. |
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OBCS-000
Endless cassette // $5 SOLD OUT Ok .There should be about 99 copies of this thing floating around out there. A few old friends make appearances but this is mostly composed of old and moldy solo's by T. Endless... this is a clouded group of sounds from the archives. Four or so longer pieces. This tape is overflowing with ailing African horn moans, tape hiss and trash loops slathered upon analog synth rhythms of the most primitive order. Notes: Most of the material heard here is pre-2000. Definitely pre-Davenport Family era stuff. Some of the Swampdwellers play on this recording including S. Asparagus and The Salzman Brothers. |
