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gods of tundra (usa) #got omp4 cs

hair policeour minds problems vol. 4” quadruple c30 cassette boxed set

  • (1) (1)
  • (1) (2)

  • (2) (1)
  • (2) (2)

  • (3) (1)
  • (3) (2)

  • (4) (1)
  • (4) (2)
september 2009 release ; epic 4-tape box (covering 2 hours of music !!!) from mike connelly, robert beatty, and trevor tremaine’s hair police, continuing their “our minds problems” series of archival issues covering jams, gigs, and blowouts culled from 8 years of their existence & featuring work from former members matt minter & ross compton as well as outsiders greg kelley, c. spencer yeh, and john olson ...

this set was manufactured as a “fundraiser” for their fall 2009 european tour ; mms received half of the tiny pressing to help the guys out (i.e. this is only available here & out on the ‘ol lonesome road) ... naturally, it comes highly recommended !!!
gods of tundra press release...

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gods of tundra (usa) #got hunting lp

failing lightshunting ethic” one-sided long playing record

  • hunting ethic (1) (3:06)
  • hunting ethic (2) (6:51)
  • hunting ethic (3) (5:12)
  • hunting ethic (4) (4:10)
november 2010 release ; gorgeous 4-part suite of pieces for guitar & tape echo from wolf eyes / hair police’s mike connelly, flitting back & forth between somber, melancholy modes (such as in the sound-sample) and full-gain, hysteresis-laden crackle ...

one of mike’s finer recorded moments, inexorably issued in a micro-run lp with taped-on collage art ; highly recombended !!!
gods of tundra press release...
--failing lights "hunting ethic" one sided lp.

hymns to distance and obscurity.
winter hibernation approaches ...
time to prepare.

edition of 100.

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hospital productions (usa) #hos 085a cd

hair policehair police” compact disc




  • mortuary servants
  • rare animals
2005 release collecting several small-run releases into a monster wallop of sound ...
hospital productions press release...
basement hell

"basement noise dirge death skuzz hell. compiles the long out of print hospital cassette and mortuary servants ep while adding new exclusive mud/noise constructions from the drawn dead sessions." - hospital productions.

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hundebiss (italy) #h 003 lp

hair policetotaled and stranded” one-sided long playing record

  • totaled and stranded (16:20)
february 2009 release ; ah, i was wondering when / where this recording would turn up ...

a winter or so back the members of hair police (mike connelly, trevor tremaine, and robert beatty) were in a bad van-crash whilst on tour, after which they were pretty much stuck in rural ohio at a best western or something such for days ...

faced with the ennui of endless pay-per-view softcore, they salvaged what gear they could, set up in their room & recorded this timeless nugget, a meditation on black ice & the uncertainty of “the road” - live to cassette (the omnipresent patina of magnetized iron-ferrite is often louder than the music) using guitar, cracked-electronics, and tons of misted effects & filtering ...

it’s probably the most “delicate” thing i’ve heard from these guys (undoubtedly they were still shell-shocked from the wreck) with the piece approaching the sort of crude backwards tape-echo of any number of lps of private-press central & south-american early electronic music ...

highly recommended, especially if you’ve pegged these guys solely as brink-of-oblivion types ...

gorgeous edition to boot, featuring some origami-level intertwining print-objects coming together to form the record’s cover (assembled to the left, in parts below) with a psyched-looking german shepherd (the label’s name translated as “dog bite”) silk-screened onto the “blank” side ...
hundebiss press release...

h003

please check out our new release :

hair policetotaled and stranded” one sided p (ltd. 500 copies)

recorded in a hotel room after we totaled out tour vehicle and became stranded in the worst snowstorm in ohio historybeatty, connelly, tremaine

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33 rpm
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artwork: hand cutted black cardboard, xeroxed recycled paper, raw paper inner sleeve.
the b side is screenprinted by serima
limited edition in 500 copies. no repress.

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ideal (sweden) #ideal 071 ep

failing lightsstay absent” seven inch single record

  • moon recovery

  • no new cycle
july 2009 release ; molten gristle from mike connelly, preserved in hot wax ...
ideal press release...

failing lights: stay absent

catalogue #: ideal071
format: 7"
edition: 200
release date: 2009-05-31
notes: black vinyl. black & white cover. limited to 200 unnumbered copies.

rough vinyl 7" by wolf eyes and hair member mike connelly's solo project failing lights. this a fine record with two dark, damaged noise pieces that will effect you somehow. not sure exactly in what way but it sure gets to you.

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 best of 2010 !!! 
intransitive (usa) #int 036 cd

failing lightss/t” compact disc

  • moon on the first hunt (2:25)
  • revealing scene (6:18)
  • serve in silence (6:37)
  • telling artifacts (4:40)
  • the comfort zone (18:32)
august 2010 release ; here’s one i’ve been waiting on for ages (or at least as long as it’s been seen howie told me was doing it) :: the intransitive debut of wolf eyes / hair police member mike connelly’s failing lights project !!!

mike’s issued a steady stream of excellent cassettes (largely via his own gods of tundra label) over the past five years, but it wasn’t until he foisted a few copies of the “a cruel picture3-disc box upon us back in 2008 that it really clicked for me :: this wasn’t a set of grimy, sewer-escaping sludge but in fact a rather subtle set of chiming minimalism, forged with the same nuance (albeit rendered in far crispier fidelities) as travellers like yoshi wada & charlemagne palestine ...

lo & behold, this disc continues on where “cruel” left off ; offering an uninterrupted chunk of minimal crackle, hissy vocal filigree, ring-modulated guitar klang, and tape-mangled bells, all ebbing & flowing throughout like characters in an altman movie, culminating in one hell of a rising organ drone ...

i, too (much like steve, dom, and ... henry ... below) hear this as the crown jewel in mike’s extensive discography ... highly recommended !!!

ps. i’ve put up an extra-long sound-sample of the piece/disc’s triumphant final section as it’s a gorgeous slow-burner whose subtleties would be lost on a regular 2-minute job ... enjoy !!!
intransitive press release...

int036 failing lights cd

mike connelly's failing lights cd is a deep trip into darkness, density and dimension. this work is not random noise. connelly is able to bend sound and texture at will, with a great deal of control. he sculpts huge amounts of space and intensity with a great deal of grip. really good!

- henry rollins

...

with the first full-length cd of failing lights, mike connelly melds his diverse and obscure personal musical interests into one inspirational album. patience. minimalism. refinement. restraint. filthy dirty home recording, executed with the cutting skill of a sound-art composer and the heart of folk music. an amazing album, by far his best!

- dominick fernow, prurient

...

never before has the solo force of mike connelly been so clearly on display. failing lights is a dark necessity, an important document from one of underground music's most important figures.

- steve lowenthal

...

an evocative work of bleak electronic atmosphere and suffocating dread, failing lights is the intensely personal vision of michigan (via lexington, ky) artist mike connelly. while he has toured the world as 1/3 of legendary industrial/noise units hair police and wolf eyes, connelly spends his days crafting a much different sound on his own. under the failing lights flag, he has selfpublished a nearly uncountable number of cassettes and cdrs of rough drones, detuned improvised grit and unstable acoustics in tiny editions that quickly vanish into collector-land. intransitive is proud to present the definingand first widely availablefailing lights statement, an album of sinewy horror with a fine-tuned beauty within its darkness.

a single piece in five sections, failing lights begins with disquietingly barren negative space. as the album creeps forward, it steadily dispenses sheets of diffuse throat-scratch and skittering strings, culminating in a blast of molten organ. not noise, ambient, improv, black metal, or anything else: this is failing lights .

available august, 2010. edition of 1000, in shrink-wrapped jewel case featuring full color artwork by the artist.

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 best of 2007 !!! 
no-fi (uk) #neu 004 ep

burning star corewsbc/sss” ten inch single record

  • white swords in a black castle (11:06)

  • sun starved skyscrapers (7:45)
  • to spread your dying flower one last time (3:21)
may 2007 release; the second in this series of 6 10” records reissuing c. spencer yeh’s prior cd-r & lim-run output. i know the price sucks; u.k. vinyl is never cheap... but then again spencer does more with 10-minute sides than most do with their 120-minute triple-lp ‘epics’ ...

this installment includes “white swords in a black castle” (colossal wave of distorted chordal activity done in collaboration with iovae and hair police & issued as part of a double cd-r set on dronedisco; reminiscient of pita’s “get out”), “sun staved skyscrapers” (looping free-jazz/psych overload with robert beatty, trevor tremaine, dana hamblen, and jeremy lesniak from a since 1972 tape), and “to spread your dying flower one last time” (three minutes of doom-drone; initally spencer’s half of a split w/mike shiflet on gameboy)
no-fi press release...
burning star corewsbc/sss’ 10" (neu004)

second in the series of six 10"s by c. spencer yeh entitled 'mes soldats stupides 96-05'. hard to find reissues on vinyl for the first time. includes insert with design by guest artist john olson (wolf eyes).

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 best of 2007 !!! 
ultra eczema (belgium) #ue 42 lp

hair policeblind kingdom” one-sided long playing record

  • blind kingdom
may 2007 release; a one-sided lp (well... the record physically has two sides - i don’t think even tyfus can break the time-space barrier to produce a truly 2-d record - but as we used to say in new jersey in the 80s: “one to play, one to cuddle with...” - one side with music and one with an embossed/etched design [see below]) by the prolific connelly / beatty / tremaine warship hair police, as recorded mid-tour at antwerp’s radio centraal when the band were properly primed & ready for aktion.

note that this one comes in a regular lp-sleeve (none of that fold-out poster-action the last few u.e. came as...)
ultra eczema press release...
ultra eczema 42
hair police blind kingdom one sided lp

odd coloured carpet of bizar 3d fields dominate the bright and lurid psychedelic forests u'll have to run thrue to grib a mug a brew at the end of the trip! hop on the back of a giant pink elephant and let go, eventually follow his tiny dick-like tail if u are to small to climb up this pink turt in space!

but do give it a try and check out whats left, thats right; nothing! just a puddle of restless throbbing poop in different colours. the elephant turns out to be a puddle as well and the sounds you're hearing are all on the most psychedelic hiar police lp so far! this is definatly way different then any of their other recordings, way more high bliss, blown out delayed voice and hardly any harchness.

originally recorded as a hair police radiospecial for radio centraal in antwerp!

thick black and neon blue eye distructive cover design and a psychic lazer etch on the b side of this 180 grams wax!

600 copies made


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weird forest (usa) #weird 013 lp

hair policedrawn dead” long playing record

  • untitled (1)
  • untitled (2)

  • untitled (3)
  • untitled (4)
august 2006 release ; vinyl edition of hair police’s 2005 magnum opus - long out of print, managed to snag a few for the late-comers (in a way... we’re all late-comers really) ...
weird forest press release...

hair police
drawn dead lp

whats inside the putrid, rotting, decrepid bandages ruined by the slow feral decay of time ... its in your ears, that noise that creeps up in one small, rat-like, continous tonality of frozen windshields cracking from the chill of mortality that pulsates louder and louder and you caress the bandaged corpse and the dust of the long-deadened flesh shuffles from the caked, pale red cloth and the pulses turn to howls which are slashed quiet by the bludgeoning sterility of your mundane existence. take this with you under the dirt.

this is the vinyl version of the cd that was released on hanson records.
limited to 475 copies with insert.

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american tapes (usa) #am 799 lp

no state no sound” one-sided long playing record

  • body moprh
  • birth refusal
  • hive mind
  • sick llama
  • new pledgemaster
  • tom & john
  • ???????
  • moontravellers
  • a.c. & khrust
  • alicia warning
  • no fucker
  • burning star core
  • hair police
  • rodger stella
  • damion romero
  • hellfire holly
  • iron lung
  • 16 bitch pile up
  • the haunting
october 2008 release ; boggling comp of artist “silences” - the word on the street being that this lp, by and large, consists of olson holding a cassette walkman up to either the face of, or telephone receiver jacked up to the artists listed below, and instructed them to be “quiet” ...

whether this qualifies as “good art” is something each one of you will have to take up with your respective maker(s) and/or your personal copy of cage’s “silence” ... as you can hear from the sound-sample there’s a fair bit going on other than silence ; cell phones interfere, heating and a/c systems come to life, traffic passes ...

confusing, yes, but in its own way a kind of a time-capsule of this particular musical social network ...
american tapes press release...
am-799 no state no sound compilation one-sided lp

hold on gnaw...last but not least..... the no state no sound comp lp. don't know what led up to it...think i vaguely remember getting "dared" by nurse khrust to put out a record of silence by the crew, not sure, but maybe told haunted square d about it....but anyhow.....flashblack to an average but killer brewsday in the late summer, got the crew shooting the gip, no biggy, and square d rolls up with his "body morph" one minute silent track....takes a sec to remember but all right...lets do this.

greh and v invite the now deep crew black to they hut, and on the way i had a walkman in the whip, so i popped in d's master, hit record and the stop watch for a minute and me and the connartist sat in silence for a minute and recorded the second track birth refusal. as we got to grehs, we assembled all the jammers present and hit em up for a minute, all on three different walkman's all on the original master tape.

was totally strange, sick llama was just standing in a yard with the crew looking at him pointing a recorder his way while nothing happened. it was like a very strange gig. so after everyone at the party got recorded/ trapped in no sound, some the garage, some inside a bathroom whilst the crew stared at the close door, someone had the idea to call up some jammers. so no fucker johnny, romero, others all held on the line for a minute of nothing. totally rules.

the end result sounds like a folkways experiment. i ended up coming home and getting busted for "recording silence and not grabbing the air condition window unit" which was the only reason i went grehs begin with. hey, window ac unit or not, you are still kool with this platter!! heres the full iiterary, recorded in order, no overdubs or tom foolery, no voices nothing, just weird hiss and an occasional bird chirp in lonesome...

1) body moprh
2) birth refusal
3) hive mind
4) sick llama
5) new pledgemaster
6) tom & john
7) ??????? (we eventually figured out who it is, heres a hint: weighs 90 lbs, goes from 0-passed out in 3 brews, now in p. rico)
8) moontravellers
9) a.c. & khrust
10) alicia warning
11) no fucker
12) burning star core
13) hair police
14) rodger stella
15) damion romero
16) hellfire holly
17) iron lung
18) 16 bitch pile up
19) the haunting

all pressed on colored gray vinyl on the new at style wrapped around sleeve with creepy art,
numbered edition of 200.

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 best of 2009 !!! 
mountaain (usa) #door 012 cd
rampart (usa) #rampart resonant cd

resonant hole, vol. 1” compact disc recordable

  • ed sunspot - you are not a prisoner, you are a patient (2:48)
  • jeanne vomit-terror - end of the day (3:42)
  • benstances - phones (1:03)
  • the guilty feelings - we will fail (3:23)
  • eyes and arms of smoke - i don't want to go to the moon (2:45)
  • hugo wheel - look away (1:38)
  • spray - mormon in a gay house (2:18)
  • dry sunset - three then two (1:14)
  • betweensday - if it's not too much (2:29)
  • the appearants - water the plants (1:49)
  • arras - simple symptoms (2:07)
  • chel rodeque - crib death (1:22)
  • benstances - the question (0:51)
  • the preterite - no energy (1:30)
  • sterile drawberry - eye exams (2:22)
  • rzrz - delayed reaction (1:21)
  • attempt - confusion is sex (2:44)
  • cerbinals - saints (2:33)
  • kraken fury - stair creek (1:29)
  • nonapse - 'plosion (2:45)
  • the 4 o'clock lime - memory energy (1:44)
  • silverware - antenna (2:03)
  • street gnar - grayson roadz (2:21)
  • walter carson and the three legged race - ransom style envelope (1:14)
  • multiple girls - leaves (1:50)
  • carl calm and the flower man band - wasn't it a bit like today (2:09)
  • jeanne vomit-terror - now that it's gone (it's time to move on) (2:06)
  • idiot glee - i did it sober (1:32)
  • benstances - surfin' usa bird (1:03)
  • ed sunspot - no more said the explorer (1:20)
  • upwind - i saw the desert from afar (1:36)
  • rzrz - interruption (2:27)
  • the beforers & irene moon - feld (4:02)
  • the appearants - everything in this garden belongs to you now (1:17)
  • memorial day cookout at resonant hole (1:22)
neat & tidy (well, not quite)scene-comp” covering new activities from in/around the whole lexington, ky axis (think :: hair police, warmer milks, etc) ...

many names with which i was previously unfamiliar, many that are likely aliases of trevor tremaine and/or robert beatty (aka the rampart & mountaain label-heads whose pet-project this comp most certainly is) and/or acts to which they contribute/produce, plus folk like irene moon, flower man (aka caboladies’ chris bush), kraken fury, walter carson, etc ... plus at least two covers (that i can spot anyways ; harry pussy & sonic youth ; gives you something of an idea of the sonic warpath mapped out herein) ...

tons of short blasts, largely of synth / voice damage, with the occasional odd scrabble ... obscure, inviting, and out on top right now ...
mountaain press release...

-- various artists - resonant hole, vol. 1 cdr

mysterious compilation featuring eyes & arms of smoke, ara, three legged race, attempt, and irene moon, along with a host of tantalizing obscurities comprising the bulk of its 35-track, 70 minute duration. more questions than answers, here. jeanne vomit-terror sums it up pretty tidily:

what is a hole? well, look around, because they can be found almost anywhere. your body is full of holes with distinct names and distinct uses, each abundant with a distinct mucous membrane, like a state bird. look up at the sky. it’s the biggest hole of all—-a hole so big that it goes all the way around you, and there’s no way to know whether you’ve fallen in or whether it’s even a hole at all. you yourself are a hole in the aether. a hole in the hole. you are a shallow hole with yourself at the bottom. your perimeter is malleable and consuming. that is, when you touch a hole, it becomes a part of the you-hole. because a hole is whole.

the resonant hole is a useful one. it is a refracting lens for sound and thought, so that all that passes through it is stripped of order and meaning, so that we might know what our sounds are really trying to tell us. it is also a contagion, seeking to include and redefine your whole. this is not a music compilation, it is a mass hallucination. no matter what words you speak into the well, the echo that issues forth is a voice unfamiliar because it is not a sound—at least not as we understand sound. it is a vibration, shaking loose something ancient and intangible, opening the secret streets in the map of your mind, streets with names like rzrz and the appearants and silverware and idiot glee and hugo wheel. some streets are initially familiar, and so you stride confidently, comforted by lamps and shops and trees you know. but they lead not to a home, a heart, but into more holesholes in holes in holes in holes in holes!

a hole so big that it cannot be closed. we are at the bottom and still falling. hole is where the hear is.

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sonic protest (france) #sp 2006 cd

sonic protest 2006” compact disc

  • prurient - trapezoid / spectre of death
  • tomutonttu - paha paha haju
  • monno - downtempo b
  • volcano the bear - spanish francis
  • the skaters - untitled_am485--04 1
  • heliogabale - return crystal
  • panicsville - grave ghoul
  • cosmodrone - cosmorgane
  • don caballero - haven't lived afro pop (live at the empty bottle)
  • viki - cleanfreak
  • zaimph - 3/06 live leeds (excerpt)
  • le dernier cri - les religions sauvages (excerpt)
  • magic is kuntmaster - slowest way down
  • hair police - endless coma
  • bulbul - schwebend
  • pétrifié - walls of terrorism
  • charlie o. trio feat. q. - 4'33" in bamako
  • ben "the country teasers" rebel - hitlers & churchills
really lovely french compilation, released in time for the may 2006 sonic protest event(s) in paris. comes as a proper replicated disc affixed via nub to a screen-printed cardboard brick, with an obi-strip w/all of the info...

exclusive tracks by almost everyone (save for the prurient bit which is from the o/p wolf eyes collab) including tomutonttu, volcano the bear, the skaters, panicsville, viki, zaïmph, hair police, and many others...

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