SELF PROMO. thanks guys

welcome to the September 2006 edition of the Carbon Records Newsletter.

(if you know someone who wants to be on this list, have them email
me. if you are on this list and would like to be removed from it,
check out the links at the bottom of this email, and sorry in
advance. ok, on with the news:)


News:
====================
the Carbon iPod nano Raffle ended on Sept 1 and a winner was drawn.
Derek Gedalecia of California was the lucky winner. thanks to all
who participated in the raffle by spending money at Carbon
Mailorder. a video of the drawing is currently posted at
www.carbonrecords.com.mailorder/ (though it will be coming down soon).

the Carbon triple CD compilation "i don't think the dirt belongs to
the grass" is going fast and getting some great reviews. its
available directly thru Carbon as well as other mailorder houses
( mimaroglu music, volcanic tongue, eclipse, fusetron and more
coming.). thanks again to all of the artists that contributed. full
details on the comp follow in the Releases section.

The Carbon.SoundSystem is going strong, with the 29th installment
coming in a couple days with some live Joe+N Day-tour recordings and
more. SoundSystem background info: each week, a new recording will
be posted (available as a podcast, or manual download) and will
feature selections from the most recent additions to the Carbon
mailorder catalog as well as other Carbon goodies, including release
previews. i record it in the style of a radio show. point your
favorite podcast client (like iTunes) to www.carbonrecords.com/
podcast/ , or you can just go there with your browser and right-
click---"save-as linked file" on the "Read more.." links... more info
on podcasts down below.

reminder:10YR.boxset is ALMOST GONE FOREVER!!! i have about 3 copies
left. once they're gone, the releases will only be available
individually, with no wooden/metal-goodness.


Band Info:
====================
the Joe+N Day-Tour 2006 was held on August 20 and was a great time.
joined at each location by an ever-increasing group of players, i had
a great time playing and talking and just hanging out. all of it was
recorded on audio and video media. this tour, and past tours, will be
compiled on a couple different releases planned for the fall/winter.
keep an eye out. plenty of photos have been posted to the Photos page.

3 new releases featuring Carbon artists, on GoldSoundz out of Norway
have been releases this past month. Crush the Junta and Entente
Cordiale are each featured on the recent Gold Cassettes series. and
also, there is a brand new full-length Joe+N CDR entitled "the non-
confidential part of a boring-ass meeting". all releases are
available on the Carbon mailorder site, as well as directly from
GoldSoundz - http://www.tibprod.com/goldsoundz.htm


New Releases:
====================
the long awaited REEG+TUNIS LATHE-CUT is finally in!!!! limited to 50
copies! PLUS NEW TSHIRTS!!!! (http://www.carbonrecords.com/
mailorder/shirts.php)

Artist: Reeg + Tunis
Title: ....shhh... this is for Derek Bailey
Format: 7inch
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $10.00
Catalog ID: CR136
recorded in the days and weeks after Derek Bailey's death on xmas of
2005, the daughter/father duos of Ella and Joe Tunis and Ada and
Chris Reeg, joined forces for this ultra-limited split lathe-cut
release. Joe plays in Joe+N, Hilkka and used to be in Pengo. Chris
plays in Blood and Bone Orchestra and Ian Downey is Famous. Together,
they play in Crush the Junta, Entente Cordiale and Ada le O. the
Tunis side is sparse acoustic guitar, vocals and running, while the
Reeg side is overblown cymbals and keys. the duos also go together to
create the covers. 3 seperate 2x4ft wood panels, painted, stamped,
rubbed, scratched, sprayed, walked on, etc, and then cut into 7x7in
squares. [7" lathe-cut. limited to 50 copies!!!!]

Artist: Courtis / Kiritchenko / Moglass
Title: s/t
Format: CD
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $10.00
Catalog ID: CR122
Collaboration album by Anla Courtis, Andrey Kiritchenko and the
Moglass. Co-released by Carbon Records, Nexsound, Gold Soundz,
Tibprod and 1000+1 TiLt. tracklist: (1-3) by andrey kiritchenko
(sound sources by anla courtis, bandura, objects and field recordings
by andrey kiritchenko), (4-6) by the moglass (sound sources by anla
courtis, guitar and synth by the moglass), (7-11) by anla courtis
(sound sources by the moglass). Alan Courtis (a.k.a. Anla Courtis,
Alna Courtis, Courtis, etc.) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on
february 22nd, 1972. He studied classical guitar, piano, theory and
composition. He holds a degree in Communication Science from the
University of Buenos Aires, where he currently runs an annual music
workshop. He played electric guitar in diverse bands and in 1993 he
co-founded the group Reynols. With this group he has released more
than one hundred CDs and vinyls worldwide in labels like Trente
Oiseaux, Digital Narcis, Drone Records, Locust, Sedimental,

Beta-Lactam Ring Records, Celebrated Psi Phenomenon, RRR, Audiobot
Records, Roaratorio, JDK, Reverse, Matching Head, American Tapes, The
Last Visible Dog, Carbon Records, etc. Andrey Kiritchenko is a person
known as an author of projects like Critikal, Sidhartha, NEX(Nihil
Est eXcellence), founder and co-runner of Nexsound records, musician
who has largely contributed into the development of electronic music
scene in Ukraine and already considered as one of the premiere
experimental artist from Eastern Europe. Being involved mostly in
experimental electronic and electroacoustic music for the last few
years, Andrey is now gaining recognition among the musicians and
followers of this style all over the world. His activities range from
glitch with blurred beats to electroacoustis experiments, from improv
to musique concrete, from drones to microsound. The group under the
Moglass came into being in 1997, preceded by five years of home
projects that were never released in public.!

The Moglass widely used the latest technical achievements of the
time such as sampling and postproduction of all kinds, hereat gaining
a reputation as post-rock musicians and performing at fashionable
discos on repeated occasions. Spellbound with the aesthetics of
freeform music, the musicians of the group gradually turned away from
glossy sound of their early records and began to decline invitations
to fancy discos thus gaining freedom of creating music at home and
communicating with a bunch of soul mates scattered all over the
world. Up-to-date records of the Moglass are spontaneous
improvisations, mostly live records, that by no means always can be
called free-noise because sometimes they are very gentle and melodic.

Artist: Nicolas Felix Kauffman and Stefan Geoffrey Neville
Title: OWL LOW
Format: CDR
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $10.00
Catalog ID: CR124
46+ minutes of acoustic guitar, bells, woodwinds, primitive
percussion, patented Pumice-style buzzing guitar, organ/keyboard,
drone-vocals and more from Stefan Neville (aka Pumice) and Nicolas
Kauffman (part of Family Underground - Denmark) . recorded 2005 in a
giant concrete room, this release is a fine companion to Stefan and
Nicolas' other recordings on various other labels such as Last
Visible Dog, Soft Abuse, Audiobot, Chocolate Monk, QBICO, Into the
Lunar Night). [packaged in hand-silkscreened cardboard cover in
various colors]

Artist: Various Artists
Title: i don't think the dirt belongs to the grass
Format: 3CD
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $20.00
Catalog ID: CR99
a year+ in the making, and originally slated for a 10YR celebration,
this compilation is documentation of amazing people/artists i've
worked with over the past, now, 12 years. it also started out as a
double CD project, but with the growing list of people i wanted to
involve, and the overwhelming volume of confirmations, i had to grow
it to a triple CD (and even had to do some trimming to fit that
format). the release is packaged in a standard-size DVD case, with a
full-color cover, and holds the 3 CDs as well as a full-color card-
stock insert. the dvd case is then housed in a natural-color cotton
bag with single-color ink stamp art/logo. the sounds range from quiet
ambient sounds, to meandering guitar work, to outsider rock, to full
on noise, as well as a folk/pop track here and there. [limited
edition of 500] full list of artists: http://www.carbonrecords.com/
mailorder/search.php?search_field=release_id&search_value=1260




Pending releases:

coming up later in the fall will be a release by Staplerfahrer (aka
Stefan de Turck) from the Netherlands, Chris Reeg, Tiger Cried Beef,
Talibam!, SQ, Anthony Milton / Joe+N collaboration, Edward Ruchalski,
Joe+N and more.


Most recent Carbon releases:

Artist: Hinkley
Title: estate sale
Format: CD
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $10.00
Catalog ID: CR125
"In Spring of 2005 Hinkley started working on their latest CD, Estate
Sale, with the help of Adam Lasus (Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, Clem
Snide, Yo La Tengo). Recorded in both Brooklyn and Rochester, the
mixing and production duties of the record were split between Adam
and Hinkley (Adam mixing half the record remote in Los Angeles and
Hinkley mixing the other half in Rochester). Each mix was carefully
constructed and well though out, in some cases changes to the
arrangement or instrumentation occurred after all the tracks were
recorded and mixing was well underway. This approach gives the record
a unique feel. Musically Estate Sale encompasses a wide variety of
ideas weaving between country, 60's pop and indie-rock, while still
grounded in the distinct sound that has given Hinkley its name."
simply put, this is one of the best pop/rock records i've heard in
quite some time, and hence, i was compelled to release this CD (joe).

Artist: OvO / Cock E.S.P.
Title: split single
Format: 7inch
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $5.00
Catalog ID: CR126
"Italy's Ovo create fierce and pounding postpunk featuring heavy
injections of noise, free jazz and seminal no-wave. The duo features
talented multi-instrumentalist and Bar La Muerte Records chief Bruno
Dorella (Ronin, Wolfango, Bugo) and Stefania Pedretti (Allun, ?aloS),
whose stunning vocal range begins with cutsey child-like whispers,
peaks with banshee wails, and finishes with brutal death metal roars.
This release sees them in full rock mode, causing one sneak-preview
listener to compare the first of their two tracks -- "Pastorale" --
to Godflesh. Daniele Brusaschetto, Jacopo Andreini and Capoccia make
special guest appearances. America's Cock E.S.P. are generally known
for producing harsh noise only surpassed in intensity by the contempt
they generate within certain corners of the underground music scene.
This release is more of a diverse collection than their usual
outings, featuring mostly duo recordings of bandleader Emil Hagstrom
and vocalist Elyse Perez. In additio

n to the usual electronic noise and ranting vocals, certain tracks
also feature delicate experimental soundscapes and even some beats.
One of E.S.P.'s ten short tracks, "Yoko OvO", includes Elyse's vocal
ode to Stefania. Alexandra Kohl makes a guest appearance. The
packaging features several impressive photos from a notorious
November 2004 show in Oakland -- the last of 15 shows the two bands
played together on their respective 2004 US Tours -- on a bill which
included No Doctors, Unconditional Loathing, and Stooges sax player
Steve Mackey. An edition of only 500 copies" - co-released with 8mm,
Apop, Bar La Muerta, Bastardized and Little Mafia.



Shows (Rochester, NY):
====================
Sat Sep 9th - Jakob Olausson & Susanne skov Gronlund, Rainbeaux and
Times New Viking - A|V (8 Public Market, Rochester) - 9PM

Mon Sep 11th - Imaginational Anthem Tour 2 featuring Christina
Carter, Shawn David McMillen and Mac Ochs - Metropolis Underground
(615-C South Main Street, N. Syracuse) - 8PM

Wed Sep 13th - Newton, The Freedom Agenda (Ian Downey / Joe Tunis
duo) and Bowerbirds - A|V (8 Public Market, Rochester) - 9PM

Sat Sep 16th - Hinkley - Valentines (17 New Scotland Ave, Albany) - 8PM

Sun Sep 17th - Sword Heaven, Skeleton Warrior and Crush the Junta - A|
V (8 Public Market, Rochester) - 9PM

Sun Sep 24th - The Black Swans, Lewis and Clarke, and Hinkley - A|V
(8 Public Market, Rochester) - 9PM

Fri Sep 29th - Wolf Eyes, John Wiese and Pengo - Bug Jar (219 Monroe
Ave, Rochester) - 8PM

Sat Sep 30th - Wolf Eyes, John Wiese, Pengo and Thames - Club Lambi
( 4465 St-Laurent, Montreal) - 8PM

Sun Oct 1st - ArtistRow with music by Hinkley, Gregory Paul and Nod -
A|V (8 Public Market, Rochester) - 10AM

Sun Oct 1st - MoHa! and Ada le O - A|V (8 Public Market, Rochester) -
9PM


you can also check out the Carbon Shows Calendar Site at http://
www.carbonrecords.com/calendar/ for up-to-the-minute additions/
changes/etc.

And now, you can subscribe to the Carbon Shows Calendar using iCal on
the Mac, or other calendar applications that support the iCal
standard. the Carbon iCal URL is http://www.carbonrecords.com/
calendar/carbon.ics



Media Updates:
====================
- new photos have been posted, including Joe+N Day-Tour 2006,
Hinkley, HZL, Entente Cordiale and more - www.carbonrecords.com/photos/
- check out the latest Carbon Records podcasts (details below) -
www.carbonrecords.com/soundsystem/



MAILORDER:
====================

New Releases since 8/4/2006 (27 items)
======================================

1/3 Octave Band - Tarakohe/Ritual Of Gravity (7inch) - fusetron $5.00
""If you've ever heard of New Zealand musician Bill Wood, chances are
that it was related to his work with Campbell Kneales Birchville Cat
Motel. But Bill has his own line of space rock/guitar drone/massive
atmopsherics as well, and he records them as 1/3 Octave Band. Woods
music is new to my ears but its highly impressive. He takes a very
maxist approach to drones, filling the pulses of his endless
frontiers with shifting arrays of instrumental intrigue and ominously
pulsing lights. A great thing, and on that thick Czech vinyl that
weighs about a pound. What more could you want?" - Byron Coley, WIRE.
Edition of 250."


Across Tundras - Dark Songs Of The Prairie (CD) - Crucial Blast $10.00
"Dark Songs Of The Prairie, the first full-length album from Denver's
ACROSS TUNDRAS, holds eight portraits of heavy majesty carved out of
massive syrup riffage and spacious melodies. It's almost like hearing
some mysterious 70's country rock outfit thawed out and refitted with
mighty amplification, sludgecore tempos, and shoegazey shimmer that
conjures up visions of the wide open prairies and looming mountains
of the band's home territory. As weighty as the melodic heaviness
coming from the from the whole "post-metal" camp, but coming from a
different place altogether, ACROSS TUNDRAS draw a tangential line
from Neil Young to HUM to NEUROSIS, and unleash a powerful new
statement of rustic, crushing Americana. Features former members of
Sioux Falls, SD post-hardcore outfits SPIRIT OF VERSAILLES and
EXAMINATION OF THE... "


Carbon Records - the Andy Gilmore design (TSHIRT) - Carbon Records
$10.00
an amazing collage of two drawings by Andy Gilmore (check out his
site) on the front, in two colors (red and brown), and the Carbon
"sketch" logo and slogan on the back (also in two colors), on a
"natural" color shirt.


Carbon Records - Electron Path (TSHIRT) - Carbon Records $10.00
2 color (blak and white) 2 sided design available on 2 different
color shirts, Gold (yellow-orange) and Leaf (blue-green). This is the
Electron Path design, front has the electron path and the standard
Carbon C, while the back has the electron scribbles with the
carbonrecords.com web address.


Carbon Records - Electron Path (TSHIRT) - Carbon Records $10.00
2 color (blak and white) 2 sided design available on 2 different
color shirts, Gold (yellow-orange) and Leaf (blue-green). This is the
Electron Path design, front has the electron path and the standard
Carbon C, while the back has the electron scribbles with the
carbonrecords.com web address.


Chris DeLaurenti - Live in New York at the Republican National
Convention Protest - September 2 - A (CD) - DeLaurenti $10.00
"Inspired by Glenn Gould's Solitude Trilogy, Live in New York at the
Republican National Convention Protest September 2 - August 28, 2004
welds combative field recordings of the various protests and art
actions with police transmissions, NOAA weather alerts, radio
broadcast anomalies (splashes and sprays of tape hiss, enigmatic
numbers glossolalia, crude phase encoding), and wild card audio
snatched from the airwaves into a vivid soundscape of dissent. Live
in New York... is the fourth in my series of Ulterior Audio Discs:
CDs that bypass the usual distributor-reviewer-store route and appear
unexpectedly to an unsuspecting audience at a limited, site-specific
time. From August 25 to 31, 2005, the CD lurked as a free bonus in
10,000 issues of Real Change, a Seattle newspaper that not only
advocates for the poor and homeless but addresses issues along the
entire continuum of social justice including the war, economic
policy, fair housing, and poverty. Live in New York... is an
homage to Luigi Nono. " [Live in New York... is a 65 minute
manufactured compact disc packaged in a DVD case with a collage
cover. This hand-numbered edition of 100 includes an insert and a
rare paper artifact. ]


Dead Machines - mystery of the fall off islands part two (CDR) -
Carbon Records $8.00
10YR.Series.04 - the fourth in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR
series. more amazing handmade electronics and tape manipulation from
John Olson (Wolf Eyes) and Tovah O‘Rourke, otherwise known as The
Dead Machines...


Dead Machines - The Night Callers (LP) - Blossoming Noise $15.00
"Brand new LP from husband-and-wife duo John (Wolf Eyes) & Tovah
Olson (Wooden Wand...) left field horror drone, flutes and garbage
electronics. Cover art by John Olson. Limited to 500 hand numbered
copies on 140gram pink marbled vinyl." SOLD OUT AT SOURCE


Excepter - Self Destruction (LP) - fusetron $12.00
"Players: John Fell Ryan: Vocals, Programming, Processing, Synth; Dan
Hougland: Programming, Synth, Echo; Caitlin Cook: Vocals, Echo;
Calder Martin: Vocals, Guitar, Percussion; Nathan Corbin: Synths.
"Self Destruction" was recorded in the winter of 2004 and mixed,
edited and reprocessed mostly in the winter of 2005. Self Destruction
is the first Excepter record to be feature multi-track recording and
overdubbing. Outside of Dan Houglands drum programming and a few
vision directives from producer John Fell Ryan, the playing is
entirely improvised by the group. Self Destruction is also the first
Excepter record to prominently feature the polyphonic synthesizer
playing of Nathan Corbin. The husband-wife duo of Caitlin Cook and
Calder Martin make the final statement on the album as they take sole
vocal duties on the last track, Your House. This recording has been
edited short for maximum sonic impact on vinyl." - Recording Notes.
"First off, Self Destruction is a house record. Pe
rhaps more in spirit than in its realized form, but if that sounds
like a joke, stop reading. New Yorks most amorphous five-necked
entity (which includes Other Musics own Dan Hougland) have never been
strangers to taking the longer, more undulating gravel road, as
evidenced by the stretched out subterranean sermons on last years Ka
album. On Self Destruction , Excepter crawl out of the cellar and
into the warehouse. This is a house record. If Xenakis had made one.
It is throbbing mental machine music that (much like the quintets
live shows) appears to detour, but often climaxes with the religious
fervor of a Wicker Man/Moodymann ritual. Definitely more Black
Mahogani than Black Dice. Excepter just traveled all over New Weird
America, and torched it in the process. Incendiary." - AK, Other Music."


G3 - s/t (3inch CDR) - White Flag $6.00
featuring Tim Albro and Jesse Kudler from HZL, and joined by Ben
Stanko. each playing various forms of guitar, electric, acoustic and
harmonics, respectively. and each also using other devices such as
rebab, contact microphone, synthesizer and electronics.


Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth (CD) - Crucial Blast $10.00
"Dead Mountain Mouth is the wickedly anticipated full length album
from GENGHIS TRON, and the follow-up to their imaginative debut EP,
Cloak Of Love. Recorded at Godcity Studios with Kurt Ballou
(Converge), Dead Mountain Mouth moves beyond the rapid-fire electro/
grind genre-splicing of Cloak Of Love, and forms something more fluid
and cohesive, an arcane union of digital dreams and brutal heaviness,
where speedcore eruptions blossom from clouds of maximum beat-driven
electronic bliss, and futuristic metal riffage seethes from your
speakers. These ten gloriously-dense and triumphantly catchy jams
soar through valleys of immense crush and alien vistas of 8-bit
wizardry unlike anything you've heard before..."


Hurray - Dreams, Not Soft Illusion (LP) - fusetron $13.00
"Hurray is Zak Prekop, Josh Brand, Pete Mandradjieff & Rich Aldrich.
They hail from the hidden sectors of New York City, and have released
one 7" on the skul record label and recently presented their first
art show at the Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery also of New York City. This
is their first full length recording and is a must for fans of
ambiguous, anomalous, and unobtrusive sound creation whose mystery is
not invoked by hyperbole, pseudo-mythology or fake histories, but by
giving full allowance to otherness and seeking beauty by allowing it
to happen, which often means allowing it not to happen. Mishandled
guitars, unknown electronics, amplified percussives and various
layers of buzz coagulate and dissipate in measured restraint. I
hesitate to use blighted terms like "lowercase" music, as Hurray shys
not from some harsher territories and melodic (if emaciated and
ghostly) material sometimes drifts into consciousness; two things I
think of as contrasting w/ the more didactic, "
European" music associated w/ said term. So, Ill avoid terminology
and just say Im very glad to know this record." - Greg Kelley, 12/27/05.


HZL - Ayes (CDR) - White Flag $8.00
"Tim Albro and Jesse Kudler have played together since becoming
friends at Wesleyan University around the turn of the century. They
first worked together in the large electronic improvising ensemble
Phil Collins, playing synthesizer and guitar/electronics,
respectively. After graduating in 2002, the two didn't play together
again until Winter 2004-2005, after Jesse's move to Philadelphia.
Their interest in a more restrained and spacious form of
improvisation was first realized in the guitar trio G3 (with Ben
Stanko). Where that group had them playing guitars in a more or less
conventional manner (Tim on electric 12-string and Jesse on
acoustic), HZL arose from a more intense investigation of the use of
electronics and electro-acoustic means. Fall 2005 found Jesse moving
again, to West Philadelphia, and he and Tim became close neighbors. A
schedule of record-listening sessions and concert attendance
developed into a more focused musical collaboration in Winter
2005-2006, when
proximity and available practice space allowed the two to work
intensively on developing a duo language. Jesse resumed use of his
"regular" set-up of table-top guitar, synthesizer, contact mic,
various objects and devices, and sundry electronics. Tim began
working with a unique electronics rig that incorporated radio and an
archtop guitar prepared with surface-mounted speakers inside its
body. Small rooms and intensive listening led to the configuration of
a still-changing sound, making ample use of resonances, small sounds,
and an awareness of the spaces containing them. Live performances
have focused on subtle room-filling drones and textures, with
speakers arrayed around the audience, evoking installation art as
much as musicians on a stage."


Joe+N - The Non-Confidential Part of a Boring-Ass Meeting (CDR) -
Gold Soundz $8.00
"New great album from the active Carbon man Joe Tunis + the "n"
factor always present in his works.. Poisonous psych-guitar workouts
smashing in & slashing up the atmosphere of high-corporate
boardrooms.... Edition of 75."


Ravi Padmanabha and Ed Chang - Elephant Calls (CD) - Quodlibet $10.00
"Limited edition of 200 in cardboard packaging. Ed uses an acoustic
guitar with a tuning which took days to develop. Ravi plays tablas
and a percussion array with which you could probably make very many
tasty meals. All acoustic, in large part minimal and meditative, this
is from yoga to yogurt to yog-sothoth." UTech release


Reeg + Tunis - ....shhh... this is for Derek Bailey (7inch) - Carbon
Records $10.00
recorded in the days and weeks after Derek Bailey's death on xmas of
2005, the duos of Ella and Joe Tunis and Ada and Chris Reeg, joined
forces for this ultra-limited split lathe-cut release. the Tunis side
is sparse acoustic guitar, vocals and running, while the Reeg side is
overblown cymbals and keys. the duos also go together to create the
covers. 3 seperate 2x4ft wood panels, painted, stamped, rubbed,
scratched, sprayed, walked on, etc, and then cut into 7x7in squares.
[7" lathe-cut. limited to 50 copies!!!!]


RICHARD YOUNGS and ANDREW PAINE - Mauve Dawn (LP) - fusetron $13.00
"For the past eight years Andrew Paine and Richard Youngs have met on
almost every Sunday and recorded music. Mauve Dawn is the result of
ten meetings during 2004. Its nine tracks feature processed epinette
des vosges, glockenspiel, vintage keyboards and guitars alongside
granularly synthesised household objects hacked together with
resonated voices and filtered bells in a stereo field heavy on ring
modulation. One part of the Mauve trilogy, this is an instrumental
album of classic length." - Richard Youngs & Andrew Paine.


Sightings - Castle Moat/Invisible Coats (7inch) - fusetron $4.00
"I dont wanna eat McDonalds, I wanna eat Sightings!" - Jack Brewer;
Saccharine Trust, , May 19, 2005. "Tour" single, edition of 500.
Plays at 33 rpm, despite what the label says.


Skullflower - Tribulation (CD) - Crucial Blast $10.00
"Tribulation. The new emission from the UK trance-noise legends
SKULLFLOWER. A black-void beaming of utterly destroyed drone rock and
crushing amplifier obliteration that rains down black ash and
punishing blasts of feedback skree on the listener. A dynamic, bleary-
eyed meditation. An avalanche of powerdrone that threatens to take
your cranium apart and transport your grey matter into filthy new
dimensions infested with melodic razor cuts and submerged mantras. A
triumphant eruption of apocalyptic meta-metal and radioactive raga
swarms, guaranteed to loosen eardrums. This album is one of the
heaviest, harshest slabs of guitar armageddon from Matt Bower since
the glory days of Total, and bridges the void between the krautrock/
celestial free drone influence of the last few Skullflower albums,
and the blackened molten death of his Mirag material."


Storm Bugs - Up the Middle Down the Sides (LP) - fusetron $13.00
"After some twenty years in the wilderness when Storm Bugs were known
only to a handful of aficionados, the DIY electronic duo were
rediscovered in 2000 when they were included on the deliciously dodgy
but possibly seminal bootleg LP I Hate the Pop Group. A CD of the
Bugs finer moments followed shortly after on the reactivated Snatch
Tapes label and prompted one receiver to comment "How could such
sounds, radically challenging the accepted texture of electronic
music, have been recorded over 20 years ago?" Another review
suggested that.. "they were spiritual forefathers to Oval and todays
Clicks & Cuts generation". Since 2001 Storm Bugs have featured on
stations such as Resonance FM and WFMU and there have been more
archive recordings by Philip Sanderson (one half of the duo) reissued
by labels such as Anomalous and Die Stadt including collaborations
with Organum main man David Jackman. There was even an EP of new
material The Bugs are Back put out by Klanggalerie in 2002. Ma
ny have thought that there must be more vintage Storm Bugs recordings
in the attic and after a 2 year period of intense rummaging and
restoration Fusetron are pleased to present a further installment of
Storm Bugs material from 1978-82 entitled Up the Middle Down the
Sides. The LP delves deep into the Snatch Tapes sound banks to
produced two continuous collaged sides of often-spontaneous sonic
experimentation. Tracks such as Skid Pan Buoy and Thin Line Flash of
Traffic use the classic Bugs DIY instrumentation of rewired radios,
scratched vinyl and disemboweled guitars (Storm Bugs were circuit
bending before the term was invented). Other pieces such as Little
Bob Minor exploit the sonic capabilities of that most eccentric of
British synthesizers the VCS3. But this is not simply a barrage of
industrial mayhem for spliced into the fabric of controlled excess
are moments of contemplative soundscapes such as 111 and Waspbottle,
the latter scored for a duet of milk bottle and wasp!
synthesiser. In short Up the Middle Down the Sides is possibly the
first (and last) DIY electronic concept LP." - Storm Bugs. The Storm
Bugs are Philip Sanderson and Steven Ball (with special guest David
Jackman of Organum on the track In The Naked Girls Majesty).


Talibam! - hungry hungry hemispheres (CDR) - The Fair School $10.00
" this record isn't as full on blasted, but offers bizare vocal
commentary from all three of us, as well as further timbre like
experiments and some total kick ass playing."


Various Artists - Green Gold (CASS) - Gold Soundz $8.00
Compilation tape with 1 track each by ARMPIT, CRUSH THE JUNTA and
COARSEBANGOR and 2 short tracks by JAZZFINGER. Green cassette, green
paper fold-around cover. 40 copies.


Various Artists - Yellow Gold (CASS) - Gold Soundz $8.00
Compilation tape with 1 track each by ENTENTE CORDIALE, MY CAT IS AN
ALIEN, NUMBER NONE and SECRETS TO THE SEA. Yellow cassette, yellow
paper fold-around cover. 40 copies.


Various Artists - Pink Gold (CASS) - Gold Soundz $8.00
Compilation tape with 1 track each by FUTURIANS, BLOOD STEREO, ANVIL
SALUTE and VILLE MOSKIITTO. Pink cassette, pink paper fold-around
cover. 40 copies.


Various Artists - Red Gold (CASS) - Gold Soundz $8.00
Compilation tape with 1 track each by INFINITE ARTICLE, CRAZY RIVER,
SINDRE BJERGA, PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST and UNITED BIBLE
STUDIES. Red cassette, red paper fold-around cover. 40 copies.


Various Artists - Orange Gold (CASS) - Gold Soundz $8.00
Compilation tape with 1 track each by ROBERTO OPALIO, RAMESES III,
AGITATED RADIO PILOT and SHATTERED MINDS. Orange cassette, orange
paper fold-around cover. 40 copies.


Various Artists - Rewired Burglar Alarms (CDR) - Gold Soundz $10.00
"A bunch of artists who I admire were asked to remix/ rewire/ re-
whatever my music. All source sounds are taken from my bottom-heavy
drone-opus "New sounds for burglar alarms" disc. I'm really happy
with the results. Cut-up electro-bashing, thrashy noise, artsy drones
and flat-out doom, a great album, actually, and it all goes
surprisingly well together... Features Robert Horton, Staplerfahrer,
Crazy River, Qrt, Anders Gjerde, Sten Ove Toft (of Ryfylke), Pål Asle
Pettersen, Jan-M. Iversen, Charles Balls (of canadian duo Gastric
Female Reflex) and A. Jarvis/M. Jarvis (of Firstperson fame). Comes
in ejector-case. 40 copies."




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NOTES ON ORDERING:
as always, you can mail order Carbon Records releases directly from
me. send check or money order, payable to Joe Tunis or Carbon
Records, at the address below, or use www.carbonrecords.com/
mailorder/ for online credit card purchases. email me or check out
the web site for the current price list.

SECURE ONLINE ORDERING is available on the Carbon site!!! Go to
www.carbonrecords.com/mailorder/ to buy the latest in Carbon releases
with your credit card. The Secure Online Credit Card transaction is
handled by PayPal.com (www.paypal.com), a reputable online merchant
service for individuals and merchants.


NOTES ON PODCASTS:
Carbon is now PODCASTing and is listed on Apple's iTunes podcast
directory. if you use iTunes, update to version 4.9 and you can
subscribe to the Carbon podcast, and it will automatically download
recordings as i post them to the Carbon site. in the iTunes Podcasts
Directory, type Carbon Records into the Search box and it will find
the Carbon podcast entry. then click on the Subscribe button and
viola, you're subscribing to the Carbon Records Podcast. for those
not using iTunes, you can use Podcasting clients, such as iPodder
(FREE download for Mac/Windows/Linux at http://
ipodder.sourceforge.net/). in iPodder, you'll have to enter the URL
of the Carbon podcast page. it is the following: http://
www.carbonrecords.com/podcast/ . pretty nifty technology. basically
its radio-on-demand, or audio subscriptions, etc. i have some test
files up there now, but i will be posting recordings on a regular
basis, live performances, vocal rants/interviews/thoughts, etc.


ok, thanks

joe







Carbon Records
PO Box 10718
Rochester, NY 14610
www.carbonrecords.com