OLD GOLD

JIB KIDDER/EARZUMBA split 12"

2010-09-17T10:21:00.001-07:00

IT IS OUT - OG-2010!
Jib Kidder and Earzumba Split 12-inch with DVR
Now available from our new website! www.oldgold.org
Release Jib Kidder show Sept. 30 at the Wulf, Los Angeles

Jib Kidder is Sean Yent-Shustercraig’s appropriator identity, a sort of graffiti tag in the virtual non-identity world. Heard on vinyl or as the soundtrack to his youtube collages, “Lossy Angeles” is a whirlwind of wild references and vanishing points; a mixture of audio-visual cues from beyond and within soul fried together, spiced and spliced with maximum frettage. JK, raised in Atlanta and tutored by guitarist Jimmy Young and artist Alex Kvares, recorded his side in Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Atlanta, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles over a span of three recent months. These tracks are not only funky and awesome; they also ponder the surrender of cultural forces to unexpected collaboration and permutations. The fireworks that result – as they do here - point towards a new kind of art revolution ahead. The microcosmic potential of sampling is limitless.
Similarly, Earzumba mixes “real” instruments with millions of random samples for a kaleidoscopic spiral rainbow of massive colours reflecting the environs of his portastudio: Vienna, Buenos Aires, Germany and Barcelona. Earzumba was a founding member of Reynols and presents the follow up to his Old Gold 2005 release “Simulando En Refugio” with a spicy glissando of “digital gloss” (JK’s words) more like Beaver and Krause than the Beastie Boys, but not without killer breaks. Earzumba draws from a spectacular palette of field (city) and jungle (nocturnal) recordings – employing live musicians Tomas Muller (space guiter), Edu Herrera (distorted wahwah guitar), Rafa Franceschelli (bass) and ‘unknown African drums, free doom metal, Muriel Latow and drunken bandoneon (Earzumba’s words).’ A glorious wash of exotic noise mixed with beautiful jams – Ives, Satie, and Zoviet France.

A word about the new site: a number of limited edition and occasionoally available releases from our massive discography dating back to 1994 may not be listed on oldgold.org. Please refer to this blog where we will frequently update the status of these more ephemeral releases, as well as distributed items and audio visual treats.

ENDLESS FASCINATION VIDEOS

2010-01-21T11:51:00.001-08:00

Here's some footage of the "making of" Sea is for Cookie and Crictor, part of the Endless Fascination series of releases. Nice.

ENDLESS FASCINATION, VOLS. 1, 3 & 4

2010-01-17T09:51:00.000-08:00

A new series of CDR releases from Marshall Avett - each limited to 26 copies, lettered A to z - featuring nothing but the sounds of skipping records.

VOLUME 1: Gospel Pet Fat
Recorded around 1997, this one features a wide range of records that might play for a bit but then start skipping, natural skips, forced skips, warped LPs, you name it. One track, 45 minutes. Orange spray painted case and disc.

VOLUME 3: Sea is for Cookie
Features Bella Avett in the background on keyboard and toddler talk. Heavy on the Sesame Street Live, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Erik B. & Rakim, TGT, Phil Collins, Lil Jon, etc. One track, 45 minutes. Blue spray painted case and disc.

VOLUME 4: Crictor
Was going to spray paint over this story book seven inch then started listening to it. Sheesh! Weird story, weirder skips. Down right creepy in places. One track, 36 minutes. Red spray painted case (with google eye on snake) and disc.

$5 each. Please specify which volume or volumes you want when ordering.

More volumes on the way, including VOLUME 2: Another Brick in the Head and VOLUME 5: Beach Stones.

Jib Kidder

2010-01-11T08:42:00.000-08:00

Coming soon from Old Gold: Jib Kidder / Earzumba Split 12"/DVR

you all know Earzumba, the Argentine/Spaniard on a mission to dissolve all our synapses into a pool of salsa gravy. His second release for Old Gold is sure to push the balloon further into the velvet until the collective unconsciousness explodes in bewilderment. He is joined on side 2 by his west coast North American cohort and Old Gold first timer Sean Schustercraig aka Jibb Kidder. Kidder gets the honors of answering Earzumba's side with his own zaptastic kaeleidescope of free-crunk misinvention, AND the bonus honors of collecting his massively viral online videos for a first ever compilation (the DVR will also include audio tracks from the album). Stay tuned for a release date, and go see Sean this Thursday at Kavarna with Bon Vivant Ben Lawless' King Congregation.
have a Dudley Moore 10! Ben
www.instantkavarna.com
www.myspace.com/jibkidder
www.myspace.com/earzumba

DESTROY ALL MUSIC FESTIVAL

2009-10-20T09:51:00.000-07:00

The skinny....

Saturday, October 24
at Eyedrum (Atlanta)
the

25th ANNIVERSARY
DESTROY ALL MUSIC FESTIVAL

featuring

ANDREW COLTRANE
WASTELAND JAZZ UNIT
SEAN MEEHAN
TAMIO SHIRAISHI
TRAUMA
MR. NATURAL
GRAHAM MOORE
FENTON

One night only, doors at 6 p.m., music starts 7 p.m.
It ends when all music is destroyed.
Admission is $10. Cheap!

Please forward this to any and all you think might be interested.
And thank you for your support.

The meat...

It's been 25 years since the first DESTROY ALL MUSIC FESTIVAL hit Atlanta like a brick of petrified dinosaur brain to the head. Since then, the weekly Destroy All Music show has aired weekly bringing the most adventurous of sounds and noise to its willing audience. More than a few young minds have been turned on to the dark side of music by DAM hosts over the years: Glenn Thrasher, Ellen McGrail and Tony Gordon. In honor of the 25th anniversary of that first festival and the radio show, Old Gold Records and the Butts County Humane Society are proud to bring some of the greatest, most under-appreciated, down-right righteous musicians and set-the-controls-for-the-heart-of-the-sun-style maniacs to Atlanta to celebrate the spirit of noise and freedom. The two go hand-in-hand like peanut butter and chocolate, so come out and gobble it up before it's all destroyed!!!!!!!!

ANDREW COLTRANE
The cream of the crop of the Michigan-basement-dwelling-sound-attackers. Through his own cassette label, Hermitage Tapes, Coltrane has put together over 100 releases of the most primo noise/freedom/industrial loop screw you can find. He rarely performs live, and this will be his first appearance south of the Mason-Dixon Line. He'll be performing as COLD TURKEY alongside The New Pledgemaster who rocked Atlanta back in March of this year. Here's the only clip related to Andrew on Youtube, him playing saxophone with some other guys:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtVZG4v7TDY
It doesn't do him justice, but gives you a taste of the vibe to come.

WASTELAND JAZZ UNIT
Winner of the coveted Best Band Name of the Decade trophy from Jazz Improv magazine! This duo from Ohio have been peeling the paint off souls for years. Their methodology is simple, but brilliant: amplify the living hell out of reeds and go to work. Seriously. If you are a fan of Borbetomagus (or missed them at the DAM Fest five years ago), Wasteland Jazz Unit have the same spine-shattering attack, but use a different register entirely, one that only bats, porpoises and you can hear. Awesome. First show in the south for these guys.
Here they are in action with a guitarist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvkn9QSB7Js

SEAN MEEHAN
Meehan began showing up to play his music at ABC NO RIO in New York City in the 1980s. Since then, he has stripped the drum to its very essence and found new ways to conjure sound out of a snare. Seriously, how does he do it? I want to see it, too. Anyway, his releases tend to be brilliant in that they are either CDs encased in handmade paper, wooden cassettes, or (so I hear) a candle with ball bearings and BBS in the wax to be burning on a drum (or a pot or pan?)? Come on! How ahead-of-time is that! Each Summer, he and Tamio Shiraishi perform an outdoor concert in and around New York City. Two of these performances were released on Atlanta's Old Gold Records in 2006. The DAM Fest marks Meehan's first appearance in the South.
Watch him closely:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSYOqoyJMqw

TAMIO SHIRAISHI
Truly one of the greatest saxophone players you're likely to find on Planet Earth. Not in the post-Coltrane, neo-Zorn, or out-Ayler style, but in a way that honestly takes the instrument outside of what it was meant to do and into a new world of sound. Shiraishi got his start in the Japanese music scene back in the 1970s, when he was part of the first incarnation of Fushitsusha and played in a number of other influential groups circling around the famous label Pinakotheca. Since then, he has performed alongside Alan Licht, No Neck Blues Band and other sonic luminaries. Each Summer, he and Sean Meehan perform an outdoor concert in and around New York City. Two of these performances were released on Atlanta's Old Gold Records in 2006. The DAM Fest marks Shiraishi's first appearance in the South.
See if you can find Shiraishi playing in this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuBQQretN6A

TRAUMA
Are you familiar with Graveyards' brand of slooooow doom jazz? If not, get with it, friend. Trauma is the duo of Ben Hall, the drummer from Graveyards, and Chris Riggs, an electric guitarist who sometimes opens coffins with the Grave crew. Hall deconstructs rhythm on the drums, offering bare bones with which to propel the music. He also runs, I think, http://www.brokenresearch.com/. Riggs chokes and strokes his six strings in ways that bring to mind not a guitar, but a flock of woodpeckers trying to get at the marrow inside a steel power pole. You'd have to put your ear to the tension wires to appreciate what hat sounds like. Anywho, this should be an off-the-charts rocker that the kid will be talking about for weeks!
Czech Riggs out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaiqngKgEzA
OK, now check Hall out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uXG7_nGKcE

MR. NATURAL
Is Jon Sharpe from the great state of Tennessee. For the last, oh, 25 years, he's been building his own instruments and microphones. Last time I saw him perform, he had mic'd a ficus tree and was creating an audio tornado inside the old Dotties/Lennys. Even the pool game stopped to check it out. Mr. Natural has toured Europe and Japan and the US of A, and returns to Atlanta to teach the trees a thing or two about magic!
He's the guy closest to you in this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue5tuB-gAs8

GRAHAM MOORE
Mr. Moore is the head honcho behind Blossoming Noise the most wildly successful and well-put together noise label in Atlanta (albeit OTP). In addition to releases works by Merzbow, Francisco Lopez, Dead Machines and Thurston Moore, Graham carves sound out of the air using an array of effects boxes and amplified dulcimer-looking thing. Full speed ahead noise guaranteed to fry your hair.
This not him, but you need a break by now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5eLp9bMt9c

FENTON
Is Stephen Fenton, the man behind Friction on WREK-FM. At the last DAM Fest, he set up an audio/visual installation in a room off to the side and it rocked about as hard as Emil Beaulieu did. I've also seen him make banana fosters while a video of radio antennas at night is played behind him. Bottom line: Lord knows what he'll be up to this time around. Wrap yourself in plastic if you sit in the front row just in case.

EYEDRUM is a not-for-profit art and music space in Atlanta that has been the premiere spot of experimental music for the last 10 years. Find out more about them, how to get there or whatever else you need at: www.eyedrum.org

SPAM SERIES TAPES

2009-05-30T06:41:00.000-07:00

Edition for five each...

PIMPLES AND THEIR SOLUTIONS
Teenage punk rock a la Da Black Headz, The Wet Dreams or STRIDEX. Very lo-fi and dumb. C-20

UNDER EYE DARK CIRCLES
Moody, atmospheric noise not unlike The Ringing in My Ears, Hammer vs. Thumb, or early Cavity Creepz. C-20

FERRARI CALIFORNIA
No, not another Skaters-related sensory deprivation chamber, but an honest to goodness recording of the sounds of an Italian sports car dreaming. C-60

INDIAN SEXY BABIES
Not to be sold to minors music that reminds us of pre-Girls of Mechanic Calendars work by Eskimo Skank (whatever happened to them?). C-20

All tapes $5 each.
E-mail to reserve.

SHORT TAKES

2009-05-29T11:09:00.001-07:00

Finally got around to searching for those animated shorts HBO used to show in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Loved them at the time. Now?

ARCADE ATTACK

ROCK N ROLL PET STORE

RECORDED LIVE

THE END

SONGS FROM 20th CENTURY HOMES

2009-04-09T05:16:00.001-07:00

An understated whopper of an album is what we've got here. 27 songs by over a dozen artists and groups working out of Canada circa the late 1990s, and centering around the great Royal Art Lodge. Compiled by Michael Dumontier {Eyeball Hurt & the Medicine) from a tape he sent us back in the day, with a few other additions, this slab o' wax captures a miraculous period not only in musical exploration and song creation, but accurately sums up what it's like to work on such endeavors in the comfort of your own homes when no one else is around. Great vibe throughout both sides.

Features pieces by Eyeball Hurt & The Medicine, Untanned Hide of a Young Cow, Drue & Myles Langlois, Alien Hybrid, NDF, Rudy Bust, Albatross, Pot Roast, Tom Elliott, Go action with da-da sound, Adrian Shalom Williams, The Garage People and Todd Martin. It's funny, its poignant, its brilliant from start to finish. If you like compilations that come at you from all sides, and find a place of honor in your collection - this is the LP for you.

Edition of 210 copies, screen printed cover, four-page booklet. Not many left. $12 each.

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I GOT MY HANDZ FULL!

2009-04-01T19:08:00.000-07:00

Oh boy. DJ Dirty Pillowz is known to wreck vibes at otherwise groovin' get togethers. Why people keep asking him to spin is beyond us. Yet there he was recently kicking a lone turntable to change up the skipping vinyl he was playing for a "crowd" at a "show." Apparently, he thought enough of himself to put together a cdr of sliced up hip hop 12" singles that he reconfigured and played on shitty turntables. He gave us a few copies done in a totally bootleg street vendor style - crummy cover image, blurry porn, and no info whatsoever anywhere - and we're passing them on to you if you dare. So, like, it's an edition of 4 copies (about 50 minutes of music) for $5. Please.

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LUCKY WAFFLES

2009-04-01T19:04:00.001-07:00

Stewart Voegtlin and Marshall Avett were invited by Todd the Werewolf to do whatever they wanted in an old warehouse before it was converted into - guess what? - lofts! So they dragged a drum kit, some horns, other percussion items, a reel-to-reel machine and some microphones and hit it. The result is this recording, which shows the depth of the space they invaded and just how cool nails sound when hurled across a cement floor towards a shitty microphone. Is it jazz? Is it metal concrete? Uh...
Edition of 50, color inserts, $5 each, and named after their cats (circa 2001).

"The strangeness of this artifact may derive from the fact that it was recorded in an empty warehouse... you wont know where to put yourself as you spin this blarting oddity and succumb to its acoustical conundrums." - Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector

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NUCLEAR WINTER

2009-04-01T18:58:00.000-07:00

Two lengthy ice-cold jams from Zandosis recorded in an empty concrete and glass room in February of 2005 or 2006. After the war, you spent weeks? months? years? in that bunker trying to tune your emergency radio in to any signs of human life out there. Finally, you decide to open the hatch and venture out. Your house is gone. Your neighborhood is gone. Your city is gone. There is only a gray landscape and these constantly falling big fat snowflakes that seem to glow in the white sky. You stick your tongue out, catch one of these flakes, and taste these sounds. Edition of 50, color cover, $5 each.

"This one could be something of a grower; it has some sense of rawness and import which you wont find among the more polite end of the acoustic-improv spectrum." - Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector

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?

2009-04-01T08:08:00.000-07:00

Old Gold is proud to unearth and release onto wax these melodic masterpieces which have a timeless, tireless power unto themselves. Like the spawn of the Beach Boys and the Beatles, the glorious Italian duo LMALL sound like they have been entertaining tourists on the coast of Brescia for decades, with lovely, multi-instrumental flourishes to their unusual pop songs reminiscent of Martin Denny and Harry Mancini. To wake up or make your day, this is music that simply feels good.

The lyrics are English but in a whispery accent that is at times hard to grasp. The band name, Le Man Avec Les Lunettes, is strangely untranslateable (the man with the crescent moon shaped glasses), and to add to the esoterica, the album title is simply "?" - wild courage from these young poets of the old country.

But following a thorough listen, tracks like "She's a Dogsitter," "Hallo Hallo", and "Victoria's Swimming Pool" reveal a great since of humor; we're all having fun together. Sometimes we're not sure if it's ironic, but we can all laugh and cry at the infatuations of young love/lust that recur lyrically amid the happy/sad dreamscapes that rise from the spinning vinyl. (Pink Floyd/Tim Buckley references intended.)

Le Man Avec Les Lunettes (or simply LMALL) are Fabio Benni and Alessandro Paderno. This release corresponds to their successful CD on Italy's Zahr records. This is their first American release, and the first release of Old Gold Lucky 13, a pop/noise imprint of Old Gold Records. AND it's only $10!

REVIEWS:

"Old Gold has branched out with a subsidiary! Lucky 13 is a "pop" imprint, and the first release is an LP from this Italian (yes, Italian - the album as released on CD in Italy) band. Le Man is a duo who can apparently, between them, play most any instrument. It's good, diverse '60s-derived psychedelic pop, sung in English in a relaxed, Lennon-like style, harmonies and all. It's all very light and pleasant, with friendly organ, acoustic guitar, adn moments of musical whimsy. I guess there'll always be a place for music like this. Le Man pull it off as well as, or better than, most." (Dugan Trodglen, Stomp and Stammer, July 2007)

Le Man Avec Les Lunettes is, in their own words, "an Italian project, that have a French name and that sings in English". They claim to be influenced by "Belle & Sebastian, Blur, Beatles, Beach Boys", and probably some other bands that start with B. The name of this track may or may not be "Sybil Vane", but either way it's pretty damn good: - Chris (gorillavs. bear blog)

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LOVE CHANGES

2009-04-01T07:48:00.000-07:00

Man, these guys could put on a live show! But they also rocked a studio for these songs and they sound every bit as dreamy as they did live. Forever was Ben Young's post-Bad Poet/pre-Bon Vivants group, and if you are familiar with either of those incarnations you'll be ripe for this sweet fruit. It's an actual CD with a poor reproduction of one of Ben's paintings on the cover - a kind of nod to Love's Forever Changes LP. Get it? I knew you would. $5.

"Forever pretents nothing more than to be just a pop band. Making good songs and tunes is their trade. They sound unpretentious, friendly and a litle folky. Their are some nice instumental (distorted) parts. Nice arrangments also. These people seem to be in good balance. So have a good time with 'Love changes'." - Vital Weekly

"The simplicity and the honesty is the beauty of it." - Tom Schulte, Outsight

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OGX

2009-03-31T12:00:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-31T10:07:00.001-07:00

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

2009-03-31T07:55:00.001-07:00

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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SVRDHDS2

2009-03-29T18:30:00.001-07:00

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

2009-03-29T18:19:00.000-07:00

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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$8

FAIRMOORE

2009-03-29T17:53:00.000-07:00

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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$8

ONES, TWOS, and THREES

2009-03-11T18:10:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-11T18:03:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-11T18:00:00.000-07:00

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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INSTA-LABEL

2009-03-10T18:13:00.001-07:00

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

2009-03-10T18:07:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-10T17:58:00.001-07:00

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

2009-03-10T17:50:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-10T17:41:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-10T17:30:00.001-07:00

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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SVRD HDS #1

2009-03-07T19:18:00.000-08:00

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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