Meaning
untitled CD-R $7
ESR104

“Process of Divorce” is the 2^nd release from Meaning… the trio of Teeth Collection/Plasmic Formations/ and Original Tongues. Brilliant electro-acoustic work for percussion and voice.

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Teeth Collection
various failures 08 tour CD-R $7
ESR103

“Various Failures”, like the Swans release it bites it’s title from is a collection of various out of print tracks, collected here for the march 08 tour with To-Night Golden Curls, where Teeth Collection performed as a duo with Plasmic Formations. 5 tracks in all cultivated from the “Black Ghost Knife” release on HUSK, splits w/ Blue Sabbath Black Cheer and Migrations in Rust on ESR, and the 07 tour cdr w/ To-Night Golden Curls on Community College. ltd to 15

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Plasmic Formations
08 tour CD-R $7
ESR102

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Plamsic Formations & Teeth Collection
split & collab 4 cassette box $13
ESR101

This 4 cassette box was initially made for the march 08 tour with To-Night Golden Curls, where they preformed as a duo rather than two solo sets (which if you seen them live, is more often the case than getting to actually see them perform solo). This box contains one c30 of Teeth Collection solo, a re-issue of the out of print “Fire Mouth / Smoke Breather” tape originally released on Italian label Long Long Chaney, one c40 of Plasmic Formations solo, a re-issue of the out of print “Calm Before The Storm” tape originally released here on esr, and two c40’s of Teeth Collection & Plasmic Formations performing as a duo. This is a great introduction to both their solo work and their work as a duo.

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Meaning
untitled C-30 $7
ESR100

Meaning is an improv electro-acoustic trio imploring non lyrical vocals and treatments, concrete sounds, minimal electronics set ups, utilizing live “processing” and looping, and percussion from sources as varied as amplified small sounds to junkyard metal (a few actual drums get in there too.) all swirling in a polyrhythmic, ritualistic, enveloping sound world with out any conventional guitar, bass, drum kit “rockisms” to ground your shamanistic journey. Meaning is made up of members of Plasmic Formations, Teeth Collection, Original Tongues, Small Life, Ghost of Obtuse, Yes,Collapse, Kvlt of Unicron, Black Almas, and Antennaeboy (which basically evolved/dissolved into Meaning)

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Black Almas
untitled C-30 $7
ESR099

Strange voices crawl in and out of dense layers of caustic claustrophobia, bowel moving low end and stretches of near silence, metal scraps and clatter, shards of electronics blister, blissed out tones, and junkyard rhythms boiled into a molten lava. Trio of concrete arteries, plasmic formation and teeth collection.

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Kidsok Nuit
untitled CD-R $7
ESR098

COMING SOON

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Original Tongues
soon
ESR097

“Disparity and Likelihood” is the first release from Original Tongues, which is Eli from small life, meaning, antennaeboy, etc. O.T. is quite a bit like small life, only more focused and mature, where I think small life is more of an experiment to see what works and what doesn’t for Eli, and from what he tells me is an autobiography. If you liked the small life releases at all, you will be blown away by O.T.

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Kvlt Of Unicron
untitled (show tape ) C-30 $7
ESR096
two side long tracks on the new… side a is KofU as 3 piece, blasting out blackened beats and tone harshness. Side b is the whole group on an unusually harsher jam. Each side sounds drastically different than the other, and drastically different than the debut while still retaining the droned out creep factor that has folks referring to them as a “super group”. ltd to (?) pro printed covers on textured paper.

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Millipede
hyrule C - 30 $7
ESR095

Yes the name Hyrule is a Zelda reference, which is evidently also inspiration for these recordings… but regardless of weather or not 8-bit is yr thing, this is really cool doom sludge by way of my bloody valentine. Super heavy riffs, sometimes melodious, sometimes, absolute feedback noise, drones, minimal and minimal percussion. Worth yr time to check out.

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Terrence Fuller
soon
ESR094

COMING SOON

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Autoerotic Asphyxiation
utied at the ankles by the threads of fateC-30 $7
ESR093

Minimal junkyard doom sludge, looped into trance like rhythms and splintered w/ the occasional outburst of skin blistering harsh electronics, throat shredding vocals, and swirling sound fields of blessed out tones.

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Dull Knife
untitled C-30 $7
ESR092

Dull Knife are Zen masters, there are four members in this group, and upon my initial listen I was amazed at their restraint. Usually it’s damn near impossible to maintain this kind of menacing “drifting in space” drone with more then one or two people without it getting all mucked up with busyness. This has a perfect ebb and flow – reminds me of the isolationism movement from the mid 90’s

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Malachia
Monkey Reveled Malachia cd-r $7
ESR091

Italian noise group Malachia bring forth some strange almost new age drone work. It seems like this record is some kinda concept album as there seems to be quite the narrative going on, but I’m not totally sure what that concept or narrative is. Pretty brilliant stuff for laid back stoner moments.

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Vesuvan
untitled C-30 $7
ESR090

Both sides of this tape, while sounding drastically different, are created from a collage of inventive loops, taped monologs, and electronic weirdness, all undergoing the pitch shift, tape speed, and delay treatment. Side A is like a collage of pop music if the radio was melting, while B is much creepier and uses mostly voices as it’s source. Very soundtrack like.

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Vestigial Limb / Celestial Indifference
split C-40 $7
ESR089

Vestigial Limb. shred faces as usual with a barrage of electronics shrapnel, tape rape, and turntable terrorism. Celestial Indifference provide us with an equally skin melting side of harsh sounds, that have a beautiful evolution.

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Seven Hour Germ
untitled C-30 $7
ESR088
Shattered, deconstructed beats that sound like a weirder Autechre or a slightly tamer Venetian Snares mixed with razor slices of droned out doom, and blistering harsh noise speed freak outs, and minimal ambience. This Platform off shoot is pinpoint and never loses focus.

Color cover on textured paper. Ltd to 30

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Arklight
set up on different croses C-60 $7
ESR087

Arklight are hard to describe, the easy way out would be to simply say they FUCKING PUMMEL, but that’s not really much of a description. This is like an endless barrage of percussive sounds being piled high on top of each other, weird rhythmic loops, live drums & drum machines, sirens, blown out guitars, vocal murmurings, all sounding like it’s being treated, processed, chopped up and regurgitated in real time into a dense mass the FUCKING PUMMELS

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Metek
untitled C-40 $7
ESR086

Metek hail from Sweden, but this sounds like the Antarctic, Lost voices in the broken signals of snowstorm howling, glacial drifts, total isolationism. Upcoming split 7” with teeth collection on Daisy Cutter.

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Zweizz
untitled C-30 $7
ESR085
Two side long tracks, both recorded in 2007, one made mostly from field recordings of the “Happy Days Sound Festival” in Norway, the other built entirely from recordings of the ANS Synthesizer at the Thermin Center in the Moscow Conservatory. After hearing these recordings it’s hard to think that this guy has also spent time in groups like pronounced “sex”, dhg (doheimsgard), and black metal groups Fleurety and Umorl.

Color covers on handmade textured paper. Ltd to 30

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Wasteland Jazz Unit
untitled C-30 $7
ESR084
Cincinnati duo of Jon Lorenz on saxophone and John Rich on clarinet… so far they have pending releases on Community College and Outfall Channel, and a collaboration with Demonologist on deck… as well as having collaborated live with Organs, Teeth Collection, C. Spencer Yeh, Ryan Jewel, D.B.H. and members of This Moment In Black History and Blunder Children. This is annihilating gorilla free jazz, total butcher style! Like Borbetomagus amped up on meth and the “brown” acid. Added bonus track not mentioned in the cover called “How’s Your Head?” 

Cassette cases covered in Spackle with grid strips, paint, paper and polyurethane. Ltd to 30.

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Flea Apparitions
untitled C-30 $7
ESR083
Strange commotion over drizzled out synth drones, shimmers and silences, coughing and hiccupping electronics, treated junkyard percussion, ghost voices from warn tapes, general instrument abuse. This Pennslvania solo project from ½ of Poison Light brings the goods on this super dynamic display of electronic fuckery.

Color covers on textured paper. Ltd to 30.

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Warning Lights / Colossus
split C-30 $7
ESR082
Warning lights side:  - Georgia seem to have a super cool scene, Destructo Swarmbots, Black Meat, Oubliette, 1 Thousand Holy Shards, Magicicada, probably more that I’m forgetting and Tree Creature… of who’s Drew Haddon is also Warning Lights. The sidelong piece was created entirely out of synths and is a smoldering, slow building, and constantly evolving brilliant drone masterpiece.

Colossus side: Colossus is Ryan Laliberty from New Hampshire, and his shit is fucking brilliant. This sidelong track goes from luscious suspended drones to weird tribal industrial clatter, to full on psych jam. Dunno if he had others playing on this part or if he overdubbed the drum guitar workout, but either way this shit jams and doesn’t jam in all the right ways.

Color cover on handmade textured paper, and cardstock. Ltd to 30.

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Raperies ( like Draperies )
our faces are formless like the stars C-40 $7
ESR081
this one of those tapes that when you feel like yr kind of bored with noise, you listen too this and get excited again. Not yr typical harsh wall… this is a super dynamic electro-acoustic style flesh peeler. Yes it’s heavy as shit at times, but it also shows a soft side… something to contrast the heavy and make it seem all the more violent. Subtly is not always something you here in noise. But my man peter j. woods is on top of his fucking game.

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Caves
rain of ghost C-30 $7
ESR080
this is not the caves from ky that I’ve played with live and has tapes on husk and ides… this caves is from ny… I didn’t actually realize that until after I asked him to do this tape, and I will eventually ask the other caves to do a release, as he is a cool dude and really knows how to kick out the jams. That being said let me say a few things about this caves… also a totally cool dude. And one that really knows how to tear the flesh from yr face with a doomed /sludged out / strung out / blackened guitar drone… the feedback and distortion is constantly on the verge of breaking up into the void before another thunderous cord brings It back to the blackened bliss. Totally stellar.

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Blue Sabbath Black Cheer / Vestigial Limb
split C-40 $7
ESR079
both soon to be the subjects of their own split 7” (bsbc w/ pig heart transplant and v.l. w/ fletcher pratt). Figured we should have these guys do a pre-7” split release of there own as a little teaser. Bsbc again bring the black doom straight to yr fucking dome. While Ray delivers what is possibly vestigial limb’s finest moment of total electronic brain seizure meltdown. 

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Small Life
restrain and harvest C-30 $7
ESR078
falling somewhere between the freak folk movement, Fahey revivals, a slightly more traditional bluegrass upbringing, electro-acoustics, and subtle hints of free jazz, small life (like it’s totally unstructured sister antennae boy) blurs lines, decodes and deconstructs them, then puts them back together as only the schizophrenic mind of elisha caudil could see fit. Complete genius.

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Kvlt Of Unicron
leave nothing in our wake C-40 $7
ESR077
This blackened unholy beast is made up from 2/3rds of To-Night Golden Curls, M. Reis of Teeth Collection and Josh from Plasmic Formations. This is a brutal drone fest of the vilest proportions. Brown note bass rumbles, factory scrapes, synth moans, lots of creepy not quite silences. It’s like they took the creep factor from all their other projects and turned it up to eleven. This is the future… this is darkness… this is the fuckin end… and they will leaven nothing in their wake!

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JPTR
S/T C-30 $7
ESR076
This recording was not what I expected… the result of not really listening to a band enough before asking them if they want do a release. At the best times this recalls some kind if tribal This Heat, at worst, some kind of bad vocals, and some cheese samples. But other than that, this is a pretty interesting engagement. Reminded me a lot of a subtle version of some 90’s era skin graft band, or maybe a little bit like a watered down version of early swans. Strange stuff.

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Poison LIght
Red Milk Cd-r $7
ESR075
My boy Ray from Vestigial Limb and his dude Lorne from Flea Apparitions flat out level the field with this duo. Ray uses the usual blend of gear here, while Lorne adds synth, and more tapes and electronics to this frustrated mash up of sound. Comparable to both participants solo outings… but with more breathing room and some really structured bits. Like all things involving these dudes, it’s fuckin amazing.

color covers on colored acetate over b&w photocopy. ltd to 50

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Gnaw Their Tongues
...Prefering human skin over animal fur... C-30 $7
ESR074
Brutal, super harsh, one-man band industrial black metal from the Netherlands. The myspace page mentions leviathan, swans, coil, abruptum and khanate as influences, which is really kind of a good description. Blackened industrial metal that has so much atomosphere that it’s almost not metal. EVIL!

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Altar of Flies
Kill the Lights C-30 $7
ESR073
This is the blackened sounds of Mattias Gustafsson from Sweden. Altar of flies has a busy release schedule, probably because his sounds are fucking dark and twisted gems. Buzzing tones that recall the spirit of black metal without all the church burning. This is really brilliant stuff.  

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Violence Jazz
S/T Cd-r $7
ESR072
This is a skonking violent rampage… the violence is there… but don’t let the name fool you… this isn’t jazz… this is totally devastation. There are a few times on this recording that it almost resembles jazz…a total cacophony of sound that recalls only the most extreme of free jazz. Mostly it’s just constantly twisting chaos… that’s headed for a severe melt down, that will of course cause the end of life, as we know it

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Jabladav
3Khum C-30 $7
ESR071
Jabladav was evidently a studio only project based around 3 people from 95-99… evidently, one of those dudes kept the name and the “spirit” of the group and now does this stuff solo. Other releases by Jabladav are black metal ala Weakling or Wolves In The Throne Room. So I guess that after I asked James to do a tape for epicene_esr, he must of thought it would be a good idea to give me some drone pieces. While I really wanted some of the B.M. stuff… these drone pieces are gorgeous. Massive bellows of guitar driven drone.  Kind of reminds me of Justin Broadrick’s Final… or maybe when Andy Hawkins of Blind Idiot God did that Skinner’s Black Labs project. Pretty sinister dark drones

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Ghost of Obtuse
S/T C-30 $7
ESR070
Ghost Of Obtuse is a duo of Josh Fink (plasmic formations, kvlt of unicron, antennae boy collaborator, ex-yes,collapse, etc) and M. Reis (teeth collection, kvlt of unicron, antennae boy, ex-yes,collapse, etc.). From the list of other projects, former groups, etc. one can tell that these dudes have played together a lot. The intuitive nature of there playing reflects that… like most of their projects, this is entirely improvised, but most of the time you would probably think at least parts were worked out. Nope, total improv! For this new project they wanted to do something different than there usual blend of drone and scrape… this is more reminiscent of Aufgehoben, fractured super effected beats (from live processed real drums being played in real time), rhythmic synth lines, total organic organization instead of abstract flow, and everything covered in filth.

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Teeth Collection / Migrations In Rust
Split C-20 $6
ESR069
Teeth drop some more slow burner factory decimation. The sound you’ve come to expect from teeth… or at least come to expect half the time… when he’s not throwing in some abstract tape cut ups or black prog fuckery. This is the sound of the ghost in the distance. The sounds of building collapsing from far far away. The crystal crackle of bones being shattered into dust. The calm before the guillotine blade drops.

Migrations in Rust deliver the shimmering sounds of extreme beauty. I can not express to you how this track make me feel. Like something sinister is about to happen or is already happening, but yr somehow calm. This is the sound of Leng Tch’e: the feeling of euphoria as yr limbs are slowly hacked away.  

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Fletcher Pratt
Mind Gunk Vol 5 C-20 $6
ESR068
Completely fucked tape collage work from Canadian Fletcher Pratt (who also runs Midori records as well as being involved in several other projects). Sort of like the hanatarash “the art of” 7”, but with some actual melody thrown in. great use of tape speed and fucked juxtaposition of odd ever changing sound sources.

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Triptych Trencher
Rival Sentinels C-30 $7
ESR066
Well if you haven’t noticed… I really like a good tape collage, both in the hanatarash vein and in the more academic domain; I also like all electronic warfare. The people that can put these things together well are sometimes even better. Triptych string bits of tape together to almost create songs, not un-like like Zappa’s lumpy gravy or Stock, Hausen, and Walkman. Amazing juxtaposition and use of layers.

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Teeth Collection / Red Needled Sea
Split C-20 $6
ESR065
The Teeth track here is a live set from the st. Louis noise fest in 2006. Really harsh drone and scrap with little bits of electronic cancer and circuit bent drum machine destruction. No beats, just racket. Greece’s Red Needled Sea unleashed and brilliant shimmering drone. Pure bliss.

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Plasmic Formations / Zemekky
Split C-40 $7
ESR064
the drone god returns with a side long track of typical plasmic sounds… blissed out drug haze that leaves you motionless as the waves of sound wash over yr paralyzed body. Up and coming local boys Zemekky give us two killer tracks of guitar and murk dealings on side two. These guys have not been around all that long, and live are already making me drool like a morphine drip.

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Body Collector
Blood Worship C-20 $6
ESR063
Khristopher from Villa Valley’s harsh noise project. Usually I’m not into straight harsh noise, but the fact that I know Khrist, and the fact that he fuckin kills at this shit, and knows how to make if more interesting than most helps quite a bit. This is like having mammoth dump trucks spilling a mix of scrap metal and corpses on yr face over and over again for 20 min straight. Brutal as fuck

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Slow LIstener
Sundowner Cd-r $6
ESR062
I don’t know if any of you are familiar with slow listener… but you should be. This is one of those brilliant guitar/feedback/electronic drone records that makes you realize that guitar feedback is still beauty full and bliss full. Ya know like the first time you heard Jim O’Rourke’s “remove the need” and you just sat in a daze for the entire duration of the record. It serene, like it’s snowing in yr back yard when yr really young. 

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Teeth Collection / Vestigial Limb
SplitC-40 $6
ESR061
Teeth deliver another doomy drone and scrap fest from the factory. While vestigial demolishes a nail warehouse with yr face. Both sides brutal, like a noise version of a sludge band / grind band split.

cover on velume with silver spray paint. ltd to 30

Scutopus
Batiscauthen C-60 $6
ESR060
Wendell told me he was in a “drone” mood. And was he ever. You can almost feel the air crystallizing in yr lungs… the cold icy shimmer… total control over balance is impossible, no footing on the ice… you stumble and slide along, the glacial glare of the sun blinding yr vision, and all at once you misstep and you suddenly sink into the sea. Drowning as you descend to the bottom.

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Teeth Collection / Blue Sabbath Black Cheer
Split C-60 $6
ESR059
Blue Sabbath black cheer has to be the best name for a band ever. BSBC just happen to be a noise band, and actually somehow seem to capture a little bit of the spirit of there name sakes… heavy sludgy psychedelic blackened noise. One long 30 min piece… complete with scathing blackened vocal chanting and harsh guitar feedback sludge un-riff. Teeth Collection drops another drone scraper from the haunted factory, this time much more attention is paid to the use of brief silences, and stretches of quite.

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Women In Tragedy
Part The Sky And Pretend You'reThere C-20 $6
ESR058
Nice short tape from the Canada‘s women in tragedy. One short track and one that wraps around the rest of the tape… vocals and synth… this actually for some reason makes me think of the dark crystal, I don’t know why, but it does.

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Plasmic Formations
Calm Before The Storm C-40 $5
ESR057
Finally the return of the troubador. 3 new psychedelic brain melters. The simple set up of 1 or 2 snyths and minimal electronics creates these crushingly dense wave of drones, pulses, hums, bleeps, and washouts. the 2nd track has enough low end to produce an unwanted bowel movement. This is the first Plasmic release in over 2 years.

color cover. Ltd to 30

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AntennaeBoy
A Day With No Use Cd-r $6
ESR056
A lulluing beutiful clamor, guitar, stand-up bass, metal bowls, all being played and bowed, pulse generator, effecs, coils and devices. at once calming and tense, like all AntennaeBoy releases, the mirror or Eli and Matthew's friendship. This release seems slightly more fluid, stremlined, focused even. It still won't sit still, but there is a basic feel to the entire recording and not as all-over the place as other recordings.

Handmade materiala over paper. Ltd to 30.

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AntennaeBoy
Killjoy Cd-r $6
ESR055
Here is the chaos you might come to expect from A.B. actually this maybe more chaotic than usual. Isolation drones fill the air, strange free form folk floats in and out, bits of metal fall from the sky, machinery can be heard in the distance. fractured found percussion almost creates a rhythm before being desconstructed into a dump truck full of scrap metal pouring out onto school children who are to preocupied with strange video games to noticed being crushed by waves of metal objects. guitar lines, keyboard shards, and metal percussion begin to form a song, before falling back to chaos. calming and tense, ugly and beautiful, focus and chaos, the never ending confusion.

cover printed on yellow cardstock, insterted into biohazard bags. ltd to 30.

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1 Thousand Holy Shards
Untitled C-30 $6
ESR054
This four peice collective from Atlanta somehow straddles the fence of weird dark folk and industrial factory clunk. Sometimes they get into songs, and i don't mean "almost get into songs", i mean full on songs, vocals, lyrics, guitar parts, the whole deal. While other times they flow seemlessly from the dark side of free folk to some strange ambient factory. this is all together a very mystertious recording.

Cover on copper paper. Ltd to 30.

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Teeth Collection / Sports
Split C-30 $6
ESR053
This is some seriously grim, grim shit! Sports bring it black vocals, best use of a piano I've heard in a long time (doesn't anyone else realize the potintial of the inside of the piano?) , some sorta of tea kettle hiss or harsh wind billowing in the background. This has a very electro-acoustic feel to it all, a blackened electro-acoustic feel that is.

The Teeth side is a live recording from inside the walls of the Mckabee in Cincinnati Ohio from the 2006 ART DAMAGE "Brutal Damage Fest". Hugh rooms with curved ceilings, the greatest natural reverb ever! By far my favorite place to play on the planet. Metal on metal scrapings, coils, perparation devices, delays. blissed out factory drones.

Black Moss / Josh Lay
Split C-30 $6
ESR052
Kentucky More grimmness from the blackened noise gods. Side one is a mail collab between the two. The ceremony begins with a pulsing rhythm, with overblown tones and metal screech coming in and out of the muck. Around 4 min we get into what seems like the 2nd movement, much more violent and abrasive, again there is a rhythm, but this one is struggling for air amidst the gunk. At 7 min we get to movement 3.. feedback, gorgeous blissful feedback, which gets ugly real quick.

Side two is a solo track eac. The first being BLack Moss, vocals and feeback mesh together for a thick garbled mess. Josh Lay follows this with slow motion pig chanting, which ends up shredded ork by the malfunctioning machines of the doom factory.

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Teeth Collection / Is
"..." Split C-40 $6
ESR051
Kentucky When it comes to harsh noise, I'm usually not a big fan of tracks that are 20 min long. Typically it's on long wall of sound with never enough dynamics to keep you from wanting to blow yr brains out with a shotgun. IS is the exception to this rule. This track never stops moving, nothing sits long enough to get boring, and nothing is so short that it's totally missed altogether. this is fast paces, violent, musique-concrete at it's best.

For my side I decided to attempt the 20 min long peice as well, i figured seems how i usually don't dig that lenght, it would be a challenge to make something that i would enjoy of that lenght. so i went with a tae composition... angelic pulses, distant voices, metal scrapings, tape collage using machinery sounds, nature sounds, old performances, creaking doors, fwd, rwd, and other unidentafiable sounds. cut up some circuit bent drum machine grindcore overload and watched the whole thing drip our of the eye sockets of a hollowed out skull.

V/A
UNTITLED 3 cd boxed set $15-
ESR050

A year and a half in the making... three labels (Public Guilt, Epicene Sound Systems and Underadar) teamed up to co-curate and co-release a 55 artist, 225 minute, 3CD compilation of some of the best noise / experimental / avant artists active today. Collected in a 5" x 6" x 1" kraft paper box and wrapped in a beautiful gold ink on red paper band , "untitled" features the visual art of four visual artists (2 pieces per artist) who are also represented in sound: Shaun Flynn (Wzt Hearts), Christopher White (Magicicada), Jason Zeh (as himself) and Matthew Reis (Teeth Collection).

Disc 1 (artist: Shaun Flynn)
Black Meat - Writers Block | Door | Noveller | Jason Zeh | Teeth Collection | Earwicker | tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE | Gerritt | Thurston Moore | Wzt Hearts | Skullcaster | Steve Bradley | Wether | Mermaids | Strotter Inst. | Mike Shiflet | Leslie Keffer | Magicicada

Disc 2 (artist: Christopher White)
Burning Star Core | Oblong Box - Black Needles | Aughra | Travis Ryan | Donna Parker | Robert Inhuman | Yellow Tears | 1thousand holy shards | Back from Iraq | Sick Ill Cell | Dead Machines | Herpes Ö DeLuxe | The Cherry Point | scutopus | Ben S. Jacobs | Blango | Decimation Blvd. | Ultra//Vires | Subterrane | Destructo Swarmbots | Darsombra

Disc 3 (artist: Jason Zeh)
Panicsville | OP Rechts - Passiv Negativ | Bet Hell | Gerritt & John Wiese | Josh Lay | Cotton Museum | Big China/Little Trouble | Forbes Graham | Small Life | Iovae | Heirs of Rockefeller | Perfect Teeth | Hum of the Druid | Sword Heaven | Tonight Golden Curls | Guilty Connector

Liner notes panel: (artist: Matthew Reis)

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Teeth Collection
Flowers For Algernon C-20 $5
ESR049
I made 10 of these for the st. Louis noise fest, and came home with one. So unfortunately these were sold out long before I could get them up here. Falling more in line with my half of the iovae split cd-r, this is a more electro-acoustic affair than some of the more recent harsh face shredding electronic blasts. Two sidelong tracks, one using prepared guitar and effects, the other using a tone box, effects and my coil set up. Ltd to 10 copies and stuffed in a tape case that was layered with metal objects, spackle, oil and spray paint, polyurethane, and spray glue. At the fest these were referred to as the “gross mess cass” and the “it’s still sticky” tape.

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Love Letters
Girl Next Door C-30 $6
ESR048
This is a husband and wife duo that also runs the loveless tapes label. More total chop and slop tape fuckery for the modern musique-concrete cannon mixed with some serious masonna like fast paced pedal aktion. This is the sound of cassette decks everywhere exploding, this is the sound of buildings collapsing, this is the sound of love... brutal and violent. Two sidelong tracks that never let up... but this is no single tone wall of nothing... this is fast paced face shredding tape mutilation. a total killer

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Vestigial Limb
Gravity's Rainbow C-30 $5
ESR047
Kentucky fried electronics. One dude, a record player, a mountain of tapes, and some serious fx. Sorta reminds me of a less silly, and maybe harsher hanatarash. This is a head-spinning miasma of harsh swirling madness. Up coming track on Hanson’s underground series, I sent some of these to Aaron, and they sold out in a few days. Keep an eye on this guy.

Ltd to 30 copies. b&w photo copies on orange cardstock, and red spray paint.

Oubliette
Swamp Touch C-30 $5
ESR046
I seem to see oubliette everywhere now, and with good reason. Essentially oubliette is a modern day musique-concrete composer, and he’s been getting his crude tape experiments around (Hanson, audiobot, turgid animal, no horse shit, loveless, etc). Oubliette takes Eddie prevost’s notion that “no sound is innocent” to a whole new height… lawn mowers and skipping cds are amongst a ton of other blips and burps and snapshot clips caught on tape then spliced through in a matter of seconds.

Ltd to 30 copies. b&w photocopy on pink cardstock, spray paint & stencel.

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Wether
Churning C-20 $5
ESR045
Well this is a fucking banger! Dark, harsh, slowly “churning”, skull scraping evil! Blackened doom via noise. Mike Haley of no horseshit and electric human project fame drops some sick fear and omnipresent oppression right after he doses you with the bad acid and too much weed.

Ltd to 40. color covers on acetate w/ red spray paint.

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Small LIfe
Range and Ability CD-R- $6
ESR044
First solo outing of the other half of antennae boy. We’ve been describing this, as dark folk like if all the “new weird America” fucked up folkies had taken the bad acid and not banged Lindsay lohan. Eli describes this as his “less song” oriented disc, hence he gave it to me to release. Kinda like some guy trying his hardest to play some sad distant guitar while a mountain of junk is being dropped on his head.

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AntennaeBoy
A Shared Intrest In Destruction CD-R- $7
ESR043
Shared interest in destruction indeed. The cover says it all, corroding death junk collage, chunks of tin, oil, acrylic, and spray paints, paper, fire, card board, spackle, polyurethane and spray glue were all used to create this hideous block of doom. And the music inside sounds quite a bit like the cover, sweat acoustic guitar is shredded into splinters via electronic abuse, drums are clubbed by cave men, jagged chunks of scrap metal violent thrown around the nursery, sounds of the unknown.

Ltd to 25 copies

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SWORD HEAVEN
Poisoning nohio vol 12 CS- $6.50
ESR042
can exercise in momotonous pounding rhythm and seasick electronics. this is slow, this is brutal. a single song evolving over the course of nearly a half an hour, picking up shards of glass and taking water in the bow. 33 copies - Dan Rizer (together tapes)

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Crack In Iraq
Mblaoc Glom nohio vol 11 CS- $6.50
ESR041
record player loops run through heavy broken mixer feedback. metallic static rhythmically collapses over fluttering drones. no longer in Ohio, but will be partying there for new years. 30 copies -Dan Rizer (together tapes).... this is Dan's project Back From Iraq with a new name, ex Yes,Collapse.

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Burning Star Core
Ten Vocal Loops nohio vol 10 CS- $6.50
ESR040
the title pretty much sums it up... ten vocal loops. meditive vocal vomit to "pith" sounds to some shit that has no vocal identitifiers at all. i don't know what else to say except Spencer Yeh does it again. 33 copies - Dan Rizer (together tapes).

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Yes,Collapse
Final Times nohio vol 9 CS- $6.50
ESR039
My old band with Matthew Reis (teeth collection) and Josh Fink (plasmic formations). One of our last recordings before our disbandment. This is where we always shined: stoned in Matt's basement surrounded by music equipment we had no idea how to use in any musical sense. Nice lo-fi recording welds the tapes, guitar, synths, and percussion into a muddy mess. 30 copies. - Dan Rizer (together tapes, back from iraq, etc)

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Organs
Untitled 1 & 2 nohio vol 8 CS- $6.50
ESR038
Organs... what it sounds like inside you. Well this sounds like your insides have fallen out and you're slipping around in it trying to maintain your balance, pretty soon it's just blood and entrails everywhere... then you're dead. Nasty shit here. Organs is the collaboration project of Ron Orovits (Iovae) and C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core), so you already know it rules. 30 copies - Dan Rizer (together tapes, back from iraq, etc)

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Steam Drapula