Tuesday, March 31, 2009

OGX

Hard to believe we put this together five years ago already. Time flies when you throw your alarm clock out the window. Anyway, this 2LP set features tracks that people sent us to consider releasing over the course of our first decade as Old Gold. It also includes live tracks recorded around Atlanta, some alternate versions of songs we did release, and other oddities we honestly meant to put out earlier. There are 210 copies of the comp, and the first 110 came with handmade gatefold jackets and painted/collaged centefolds as well as a booklet documenting Old Gold's first 10 years and discography up to that point. Needless to say it was a bitch to put together, so for the final 100 copies, we're jamming both LPs into one jacket and giving you the track listing - no booklet, no gatefolds. Sorry but that's the way the cookie crumbles. However, it is cheaper now - $12 per copy. Impossible to find a better comp for less out there. We dare you, asshole.

Oh yeah, OGX includes sounds from: Jad Fair & R. Stevie Moore, Charlie Parker, Petland Toy Faktory, Bad Poet, Cheryle Leonard, David Daniell, Eyeball Hurt & The Medicine, Tom Heasley, Morgan Guberman, 2 Geniuses, Zandosis, How to Kick Yourself, Earzumba, The Buford Highway, Bon Vivants, More, Yximalloo, Eugene Chadbourne & Davey Williams, Gold Sparkle Band, and others I'm forgetting right now.








BRILLIANT CONCERT NUMBERS

When all this madness began in 1994, one of the people we wanted most to work with was Eric Gaffney. The guy contributed some of the wildest/weirdest tunes to the Sebadoh catalog, and helped warp our minds. Fast forward a few years and we track him down and managed to put this CD out. It was our first "real" CD in a case with printed insert and shrink wrap. We sold almost all of them, but did get about two dozen back from a distributor. The cases are damaged, but the music is still awesome. If you want one we can keep it as is or put it in a new case for you. Your choice. $10 each.

"...fans of early Sebadoh, where Gaffney's Hyde was the perfect foil to Barlow's Jekyll, will no doubt find much to admire in this collection, and there are indeed a number of lo-fi gems here." - Reviewed by Mark Thompson, www.lostatsea.net









LA LUBA MIA

Released in 2004, this is the last More collection to see the light of day. We think La Luba Mia means "my she wolf" in Spanish. But it might not. This one is subtitled "an old gold kind of punishment," though there's not much on here that fits the usual M.O. of More (that being atonal assault). Instead, this cdr collects snippets captured on tape recorders and four-tracks in basements, farm houses, bedrooms and a burrito restaurant. Some real beauty on display from time to time, abstraction shines through on a few short cuts, and there are three actual songs including the first version of "Carson Jones," a sweet version of "Dial Tone" (check the audio sample here), and a Fugs cover. Not only that, but this release has the greatest photo ever taken on its cover (courtesy of Matt Miller's found photo collection). 15 tracks, probably 50 or 60 minutes long, and $5 each. Damn!



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Sunday, March 29, 2009

SVRDHDS2

SPRING 2009 issue with 24 pages of black and white imagery from Andrew Coltrane, Ben Young, Steve Pomberg, and Marshall Avett. Comes with a cdr that includes 30 photos by Stewart Voegtlin. An edition of 50. $5 each. Take a look see...


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DUST COLLECTION AGENCY

Witt was one of atlanta's great artists, who left an incomparable stamp on everyone he knew before passing in 2000. Many friends and relatives helped put this astounding comp together that only begins to cover his remarkable range. Noise and ambient explosives punctuated with pop marvels and punk rambles. With solo jazz peices, a Smoke-esque track and a computer playable movie. Treat yourself.

"Some is pretty and some is creepy and some is just straight up weird. Highly recommended." -Katie P, KZSU

"8.5 out of 12" - Adam Strohm, Fakejazz.com



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FAIRMOORE

MAN, is this a great cd - as adorable as the drawings of a newborn child. We can hardly believe we put it out! Jad Fair is pretty well known for his career writing and singing catchy songs of adoration and mayhem with Half Japanese and 6,000 other units. R. Stevie Moore should be well known, especially now that everyone out of California seems to reference his fidelity style, but also because he's released something akin to 6,000 albums. Seriously. Kinda. But don't take our word for it:

"Utterly poppy and slightly twisted at the same time...the best album Fair has been involved with since the heyday of Half Japanese." Stewart Mason, AMG

"Worthwhile for the adventurous (Rating: 5 - excellent)" - Babysue

"a wild and wooly ride of childish humor and wacky home-recorded pop. (4) (out of 5)" - Tom Schulte, Outsight

"A lovely, heartfelt effort that shows both in top form." - Dave Mandl, The Brooklyn Rail



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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

ONES, TWOS, and THREES

Live improv from 1996 ... many great Atlanta artists from Gold Sparkle Band, William Carlos Williams, San Agustin, More, etc. assemble for on-the-spot-groupings. Hot and cheap, like your mom. $5

"Whomever enters this improv pool burns calories at a furious rate... gladiatorial" - The Wire



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OBVIOUS URBAN LANDSCAPE

After three wildly different cassettes for Old Gold, our man in Hoboken, Tim Foljahn delivered this CD that's different from any of the tape or anything else he's done as Two Dollar Guitar, La Lingua Assessina, Mosquito, or Male Slut. Nine tracks that kinda walk listeners around a construction site where robots are building a ghetto from scratch. They have no plans to go by, good rhythm, and something keeps eating their work at night. Edition of 500 CD that comes with reading for the eyes closed. Embrace your pillow. $5

"A one-hour-long electronic journey through the man's complex mind, packaged with a twenty-page booklet of dream journal diary entries. Lovely, and limited to 500 copies." - Midheaven/Revolver



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SIMULANDO UN REFUGIO

The first American release from Buenos Aries-born, Barcelona-based sound artist Christian Dergarabedian, ex-Reynols/CD& Lens Cleaner Trio. Electronic sound collage in the tradition of "Jungle Cookies" and "Obvious Urban Landscapes," using field recordings and AMMesque instrumental improvisation, "Simulando" rockets these techniques into the 21st century, layering fascinating atmospheres and moods spanning two continents - bordering on the fringes of elusive black hole delirium, destined to take you places you will never want to leave.

"There isn't a single moment of weakness here." - Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly

"Seems to contain the voices of aliens offering redemption." - Josie Clowney, Dusted



Actual CD in color slip card. $8








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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

INSTA-LABEL

Christ almighty. Well, this was bound to surface sooner or later, and here it is for a few lucky souls. Two hours of sounds spread across two cdrs that capture the best/worst of a monthlong project Old Gold put together to mark its fifth anniversary back in 1999. Anyone visiting the Eyedrum music/art/beer space in Atlanta could record their own six-minute-long cassette and create a cover and name for it. In the end, 40 tapes were put together to form the genesis of a new label that we tried to auction off for like $30. No one wanted it, so we kept it. And now in honor of Eyedrum's 10th anniversary and Old Gold's 15th, here ya go. Drunken conversation, bootlegged performances, street noise, urination, sex talk, improv blues and folks tunes by "groups" with names like Grand Dysentary, Florida is Death, A Beautiful Indian Pancake, Slowmobile and my favorite, Formula 44DD.

Packaged almost professionally in a 2CD case with color cover and insert. Edition of 13. $12 each. Will not ship to Georgia.



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OUR TEAPOTS ARE BROKEN

Double three-inch cdr set by Marshall Avett with one disc containing something like 92 clips from spoken word-type records, and the second disc featuring a 20-minute jam-packed collage of layers of all the clips. Which is more psychedelic? Bad question with a good answer.

Edition of 15 in hand-stamped paper covers. A few left. $6 each.



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THE DOG WITH A CHICKEN LEG IN HIS MOUTH WHO THINKS HE HAS THE WHOLE CHICKEN IN HIS MOUTH

First official release by this loose collective of freaks called Dirtbrain. This cdr compiles some hits and misses, shits and pisses from their live shows. Instrumentation ranges from saxophone, acoustic guitar, turntables, sitar, drums, percussion, radios, "bass," piano, toys, voice, stray dogs, vehicles, etc. Pretty much laid back with its mind dipped in honey and its honey dipped in moonshine. Hard to tell what the heck is going on most of the time, but overall the experience of listening to this beginning to end is the equivalent to locking yourself in the trunk of your car and letting your pet drive you through a shopping mall surrounded by zombies. You'll never forget, but it could have very easily killed you.

Edition of 50 cdrs, around 50 minutes long. $5 each.



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0131

Zandosis live in several formations: the core trio, the Megazandosis lineup with Omar on sax and Ben on guitar/shortwave, etc. Some brutal audio fangs are flashed, but the emphasis seems to be the subtle/strange sounds evoked in the larger group settings. New instruments in use = new sound worlds to explore. Named after our favorite FMP album.

Cassette edition of, say, 12. $5 each.



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SUN RATTLER/HER MUSIC

Two sidelong pieces from Marshall Avett.

The first, either titled "Sun Rattle" or "Sun Rattler," reaches a large metal fist into outer space and knocks that big ball of fiery gas around the milky way. Large, crusty electronic sounds produced with junk/damaged equipment and fed through tiny headphones into a drooling microphone. The guest room was never the same again.

The second is called "Her Music," and was recorded in the house Avett used to live in. It remained vacant for a weeks following move-out, he knew where the key was, and the only thing left in the house was this big female spider with a web in the glass of the front door window. She had two huge eggs sacks ready to pop, too, so she must have had it pretty good in there. Anyway, different sound sources set up in five different rooms and left to their own devices while the recording devices were moved around throughout. LIke being wrapped in delicate silk threads under the full moon - delicious, delirious and devoured.

Edition of 8 tapes released in August 2008 for a show, but still a few around. $5 each.



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THE KREED

Chattanooga, 1986. I'm at boarding school there. Formative year. Main cassettes on the stereo are Master of Puppets, Suicidal Tendencies, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, and The Kreed. The Kreed? Sit back. A short walk from campus through a long tunnel finds me once a week at a little record store on the second floor of some shop or other. The old guy running it stocks everything hippy and head, AC/DC to Zappa, vinyl/tapes/books/posters. He also stocks a bit of punk and hardcore, which is what I usually hit. One day I bop in and there's a new tape (and maybe LPs? - can't remember) by a band called The Kreed. The B&W cover has a crusty looking Pushead-type goblin and the price was right, so I scored a copy. Honestly, not a year has passed since that I haven't popped it into a tape deck. Classic hardcore trio lineup of bass, guitar, drums and "yells," "shrieks," and "growls." Yes, the shred. And they also have a sense of humor (see songs like "Is it soup yet?" and "Beatrice").

Fast forward to the here and now, and there is like zero information about these guys on the web. Just some old photos and pining for days gone by. So why not dupe some copies to spread The Kreed's messages on a new generation (or the old one that may have never heard them)? So here ya go: an edition of 20 copies with exact repro of the cover. $5 each.



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Saturday, March 7, 2009

SVRD HDS #1


First issue of visual/audio mayhemics from November 2008. 24 pages (8.5" x 11") of collage, enlargements, commentary, drownings, and a nude model on a church altar. Seriously. Works by Steve Pomberg and Marshall Avett. Edition of 50. First 25 copies come with CD featuring sounds by ZANDOSIS, WILSON & HEATH, FREEBASS, and M. AVETT (each labeled with a different adult female Halloween costume model). $5 per copy cdr or not.
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