Distro: L - Z

LOOSERS - Logic On Its Head 10"

Not Not Fun/Woodsist - ￡9.00

'Portugal's greatest export (besides cork and textiles) continues itsdusky, creeping bleed of six-limbed psychedelic windmilling. Loosers have always excelled at ripping strange spatial curvatures out of drums, electronics, and exotic moods, and Logic On Its Head serves up two more classic black platters of sidelight ritualism. The A

drapes incense and chimes atop an old copper bowl of ringing tones and tentacle percussion fusion that slow-burns a sweet smoke you never wanna exhale. Don't. The B, "Daeh Sti No Cigol," is even more perverse, as backwards as its title and dusty as a mosque. Sudden gestures flutter in the dusk and the sky turns purple. Really commanding and liberated in a way few improv outfits achieve so easily. Impending double LPs on Eclipse and Qbico should only escalate their visionary aura. Two-color silkscreening on fabric-photocopied, hand-stamped sleeves. Black vinyl. Edition of 340' - NNF

SEAN MCCANN - Boomerangutan CDR

Open Range Records - ￡5.00

'Seriously WARRRPED tones. Frog croaks, giant vines, and backwards leopard roars. Similar to the Skaters in that sort of 'recorded-underwater-on-a-broken-tape-deck' way. Twisted nursery-rhymes and jungle fever audio hallucinations. Hot hot hot. Guitar, voice, and feedback melt together into indistinguishable hooks and catchy tribalistic drum bubbles. Sean's most epic yet at 72min. Packed. Oversized cardstock folder collage art with sprayed stamped CDRs in construction paper pockets. Limited to 30' - Open Range

MEDROXY PROGESTERONE ACETATE - Blearyeared cassette

A sixty-five minute soundtrack to MPA's Satanic babysitter cult film. I pray to God no one has to see that thing. This tape alone will produce night sweats. MPA is up to his usual business, making absolutely uncomprising and unclassifiable sound, composed of horribly mutated mystery samples, tape mutilations, and malevolent synthesizer. DB summons a depth unmatched by most of the drone and community. You don't want to live here, and you probably shouldn't visit for long.Full-color glossy foldover prints with insert and hand-painted tapes. Edition of 93...

METAL ROUGE - Storm Veil/Desert Champion cassette

Not Not Fun - £5.00

'Ex-Auckland high artists Helga Fassonaki and Andrew Scott first began hammering their flux-core electronics into sustained tunnels of pale fire back in early 2006, when living down under in New Zealand's thriving hive of free music freemasons. Their early documents were obscure, open-mouthed starclusters of harsh Hototogisu-heatspells, FX-heavy improv, and isolated tinkering. Since relocating to the Hollywood grid, however, the Metal Rouge matrix has transformed significantly. Recent volumes of their excellent Ephemeroptera series, as well the Eulogy For Keeler disc (on Phantom Limb), have showcased MR's increasingly controlled avant noise architectures, but Storm Veil/Desert Champion strikes their best balance yet. Both sides unfold from keening, tense beams of drone light, layering levels of expressionist tones one after the other, slowly growing into futurist frenzy, a thousand interstitial atoms of tempest noise warring for amp space. A focused and furious 40 minutes at the forge/4-track. Pro-dubbed, shell-imprinted tapes in cardstock J-cards adorned with metallic fabric shreds plus gold flecks. Edition of 100' - NNF

MENEGUAR - In The Hour LP

Woodsist - £12.00

'Switching instruments and experimenting with recording techniques, Meneguar has cooked up a totally unique(and surprising) record. The In Hour channels the spontaneity and aesthetics of Swell Maps, the pop hooks of the Zombies, and lyrical collage of Guided By Voices. Everything was home recorded at their little Xanadu in Brooklyn, Rear House, home base to the Woodsist label and the changing roster of Meneguar's alter egos(Woods, Shepherds). Only six months since their last record, The In Hour represents a serious departure that still holds true to the band's undeniable pop sensibility' - Woodsist

MV+EE - Meets Snake Pass and Other Human Conditions LP

Singing Knives - £11.50

Well, after a long wait, delays, dodgy pressing plants making bootleg Beyonce LPs and robbing innocent record labels of hard earned money, here it is! This was a show from MV+EE's tour back in November 2006, just a matter of weeks after the Blackest Rainbow shop opened. The awesome Heeley Institute here in Sheffield, and a bunch of folks witnessed this superb show from MV+EE, post Mother of Thousands, and pre Gettin' Gone - I think?? Here you got 'Cold Rain', 'Tea Devil', 'Boo Woe (When It's All Gone)', 'Athem Of The Cocola Y&T', 'Suspended In The Sky', 'Mine All The Troubled Blues' and 'Freight Train'. It was a great night, bring your own beers were drank, and some fine music was played, and thankfully recorded by Ben Nash and Brett Womersley. Pro printed sleeves, with liner notes by both Matt and Erika, plus an insert. and limited to only 500 copies, this will not last very long at all... highest recommendation!

OWL XOUNDS/MEF TEEF - Split cassette

Arbor - £5.00

Pure energy and total expression are the only boundaries around the free-jazz/music movement. Primitivism and psychedelic confusion act as the main themes. Mef Teef of Iowa City, a relatively new collective, have one past release on Raccoo-oo-oon’s Night People Label (of which MT percussionist Andy Spore is a member). Spastic drumming acts as the basis for which brass, piano, and silence interweave. Culled from a hometown live session, “Dark Star Voyage Pt. 1” features unique instrumental interplay causing the piece to progress almost theatrically with definitive mood changes. Brooklyn’s Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy is a heavy hitter in the free jazz underground. Comparisons to avant-garde greats are not unjustified. With a recent LP out on Wooden Wand’s Mad Monk label and a plethora of sold out self released jams, this is the collectives first tape. Focused on the youthful energy of punk music and centered around the drumming of Adam Kriney (La Otracina, Castanets), in “Transmission To The Pineapple Universe”, Owl Xounds produce pure blown out oblivion never faltering in its onward progression. Recorded live at the Cakeshop featuring Gene Janas on upright bass, Darius Jones on alto sax, and Greg Vegas on electric guitar the jam is a total freak-out, seething equally with nods to Sonny Simmons as it is to Sonic Youth. In a numbered edition of 100 tapes with printed labels, art and an insert by Andy Spore. OUT OF PRINT AT LABEL!

OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY/DATASHOCK - split cassette

Meudiademorte - ￡5.00

'NY based freak-jazz troupe OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY, featuring the core of drummer Adam Kriney (LA OTRACINA/Colour Sounds Recordings) and upright bassist Gene Janas, upright bassist Shayna Dulberger, Bonnie Kane on amplified tenor sax and electronis and Greg Vegas on tenor sax. "The textures/times/vibrations embarked upon in this free-music setting draw from the sewers of outsider-experimental jazz explorations and intuitive approaches to instant composition received from the cosmos above." recorded live at goodbye blue monday brooklyn Datashock is a stylized German neo hippie collective who combine their kraut roots with contemporary psych folk vibes. Improv sound rituals, offerings to the altar of free flows and creation, together in a noisy harmony. recorded live in darmstadt. lim to 125' - Meudi.

PUKERS - Beach Cop cassette

Not Not Fun - ￡5.00

Pukers are gonna have a release on Blackest Rainbow soon in the future... features Andy Spore of Raccoo-oo-oon and Youth of the Beast.... '"Where are you going, what are you doing, you're doing a bad job, you're doing a bad job." Lyrics like these – and song titles like "Look at Me" and "Don't Look at Me" – are what elevate Pukers' meta-thrash into an even wilder arena of high art internal debate. Beach cops aren't the only law enforcers brought to task on this savage C32; bike cops and park cops get equally brutalized. Since semi-temporarily relocating to Culver City/LA, Pukers have ditched the dead dog worship for a more conceptual crowd-surf across the polluted waters of stream-of-songciousness. The results are sick and blazing. Especially seeing as how the A-side finds Britt sitting in on electric axe for a session while the B stars Manda's intuitive six-string synergies. This is some supergroup shit. Cardstock fold-out J-card in a case stuck with weirdo foam shapes. Edition of 100' - NNF

JACK ROSE AND THE BLACK TWIGS - 7"

Golde Pop Supplement - ￡5.00

'Total killer new Jack rose 45 on The Great Pop Supplement featuring 2 tracks originally recorded by Jack (solo) for the "Dr. Ragtime" full length. Given radical reworkings with the help of the Black Twig Pickers, uniquely for this release. Full on lap steel, banjo, harmonica hoedown- Jack himself rates this his best 45 so far! Totally essential, double A side 45 in cool booklet style sleeves. Pressing of 500' - GPS

JOHNNY SCARR - Untitled cassette

Turgid Animal - ￡4.00

'New Johnny Scarr tape, UK experimental music at it's best! Quiet tone and feedback manipulation with scrap electronics make up the first side of the tape and organic sounding flowing high end electronics make up the flip. A really tonal and soothing tape from this Nottingham master/sometime member of Fossils' - TA

SCORCES - Dreamers Of Decadence CDR

Volcanic Tongue - ￡10.00

'The first new Scorces release from the duo of Christina Carter (Charalambides) and Heather Leigh Murray (Charalambides/Taurpis Tula/Ash Castles On The Ghost Coast et al) in over four years and a taster for their forthcoming double LP on Not Not Fun, Dreamers Of Decadence presents an album's worth of new material recorded in the Folk & Cinema Basement in Northampton, Massachusetts, in late 2007. Christina plays electric guitar and vocals; Heather plays pedal steel and sings. The sound is extremely eerie, with distant far-away sounds and hallucinated almost-melodies forming gorgeous, spectral matrices of folk-tone and sanctified steel in a way that feels quite unlike anything even remotely contemporary. The playing is pointillist in the extreme, building song constructs from the delicate interactions of single steel notes suspended high in the air, giving the whole album that weird, Venusian quality sometimes associated with fellow instrumentalist Loren Mazzacane Connors. There's an evocatively refracted acid-rock feel to some of the more wailing passages, with Murray and Carter cranking their axes like hogs and spitting feedback and fuzz in luminous, melodic arcs. The vocals feel even more disembodied than usual, like voices through clouds, with words and sighs propelled on heavy gravities of breath. Just don't mention fucking sirens, okay? The disc is a limited edition of only 200 hand-numbered copies and comes with hand-stamped sleeves and discs housed in a printed transparency film cover over gold card and wrapped in high-quality plastic slipcases. Highly recommended' - David Keenan

SLEEPWALKERS LOCAL - Better Living Through Science CDR

Stunned Records - ￡6.00

Another great new release on Stunned this month... This is came outta nowhere, Grant Capes of (VxPxC), The Circle and the Point, etc goes all solo on us, and damn its real good! Opener "Back To Start' is some bleak desert wandering soundtrack music which sets you up for thinking that the whole disc could be like this, but straight in to track two, and it changes, a slow paced drum track, with a sound layered all over it, really reminds me of a bunch of electronica I bought back in the late 90s/early 00's... very mellow and very nice. 'Sleepers Awake!' is some far out, almost bluesy/back room guitar/vocal/drum haze... I'll not ruin the whole release but describing each track, but it does end on 'Slow Dreams', a slow, almost reflective guitar focussed piece... Limited to 80. Recommended!

SUBTERRANEAN LEAGUE - s/t cassette

Night People - £5.00

New project featuring Daren of Raccoo-oo-oon. 'This one is total damage, psychic vampires spinning around on their heads slathering a bunch of gross cut up pedal wreckage out of maxed out PA's. SL comes straight out of Iowa City's most moist basement corners, anonymous, cult vibe, Asian twins, ready for wreckage. Dynamic, fast, psychedelic harshness, for underground lurking and poisonous raptures of the heart. Re-release of ultra limited Eager Mother cass. Silkscreened artwork by SDReed' - Night People

SUNBURNED - The Sweeter Natural CDR

Blueberry Honey - ￡5.00

New CDR from Sunburned of a bunch of stuff from their UK tour towards the end of last year, features Keith Wood and Mick Flower here and there, but essentially is the line up of Moloney, O'Shea, Thomas, Labrecque and Schneiderman... 8 tracks, colour covers..

TIME LIFE - Double Blackberry one sided cassette

Meudiademorte - ￡5.00

Out of print! 'Heidi Diehl and G. Lucas Crane Non Horse of Vanishing Voice formed a new duo called Time life. Heidis totally beautiful hypnotic female vocals and guitar lines / acoustic strings over the psyched tape manipulations from Lucas. packaged in a silkscreened a6 (4 x 6 inch) folder by p.h.' - Meudi.

TIME LIFE- Drumlins 7"

Not Not Fun - ￡5.00

'To those not well versed in the studies of esoteric land mass terminology, the word "drumlin" might be pure WTF. But to Heidi Diehl and G. Lucas "Non-Horse" Crane it's the key to a musty trunk ripe with memories, magic, mystery. In plain terms it describes a specific sort of glacially-carved hillock endemic to upstate NY (and Antarctica and

Greece) which in recent years and regions have been utilized as dumping grounds for mining town industrial slag. A childhood spent summering on such junkyard drumlins spawned the strange smoggy swan-songs of Drumlins, Time Life's vinyl debut. Decaying tape loops rumble beneath somberly sung lyrical riddles and bowed-string tonal

arcs. Electric Appalachian regression fantasies. Metal mountain music. All of this and more (more or less). Black vinyl 7 inches with snowflake stickers in hand-cut full-color cardstock fold-over sleeves with drumlin collage by Manda and adorned with 2 pairs of (the hills have) eyes. Edition of 252' - NNF

TREETOPS - Giant Earth cassette

Sick Head - ￡6.00

Incredible new jams from Arbor head honcho and BR bro, Mike Pollard... Mike's had some killer shit on Arbor, Ecstatic Peace, DNT...

TREETOPS/CYGNUS - Split cassette

Arbor - £4.99

At it's purest, recorded music is two things: basements and one track recorders. Treetops and Cygnus are a complimentary pair of basement sludge psychers armed with little more than a few effect pedals(no distortion?!). The Treetops track is a grower and coming in at just 10 minutes one of the longer Treetops jams to date. Light guitar strumming, tape manipulations and the occasional incantationare the sole sources for "Wild Beauty". Sky bound riffs float through the storm clouds. This track is a companion piece to the upcoming Ecstatic Peace tape, "In The Vanilla Grove/ Man and Horse". Cygnus is the guitar/keyboard duo of Heath Moerland(Sick Llama/Fag Tapes) and his friend Glen. Heath and Glen use slow flanged strumming and

haunted house keyboards all progressing at a slow-ed down pace. The second track starts out with some fuzzed heavy riffage and keyboard overload while progressively deconstructing itself to two guitars; a totally zoned out "I forgot we we're recording" style gem. Much more chill then their previous blown out shred fests. In a numbered edition of 100 sprayed/stamped tapes in red youth stickered poly cases.

USURPER/GREEN MIST - split cassette

Sick Head - £5.99

'Irrefutable evidence that this country is losing "The War on Drugs"' - Sick Head