keith fullerton whitman / mike shiflet “070325 b/w 080409” long playing record

• keith fullerton whitman - 070325 (14:32)
  
  
• mike shiflet - 080409 (19:50)

amethyst sunset press release...

keith fullerton whitman / mike shiflet - "070325 b/w 080409" lp (amethyst sunset) one live track a piece from keith and mike. keith presents a modular synth recording from the spring of 2007. mike's side is an excellent guitar/drone piece recorded during the summer heat of 2009. pressed on 180 gram vinyl.

mike shiflet / pete swanson “bedside b/w college view” long playing record

• mike shiflet - bedside (15:04)
  
  
• pete swanson - college view (12:32)

amish press release...

required wreckers volume 5 mike shiflet / pete swanson “bedside” b/w “college view” lp release date: 9/4/2012 catalog: ami035r/w format: lp * mastered by timothy stollenwerk * letter- pressed obi strip * artwork and 16-page art booklet by miranda lichtenstein and cameron martin amish is pleased to officially announce a new release featuring work from two american noise and sound artists, the ohio-based mike shiflet and the recent portland-to-new york transplant pete swanson. the fifth installment in the label’s required wreckers series (ami-035r/w) features side-long compositions that borrow as much from the worlds of noise and power electronics that swanson and shiflet were affiliated with in the early parts of their careers, as from techno and modern composition. mike shiflet’s “bedside” utilizes disparate sources - guitar, field recordings, abstract electronic textures and white noise - to create a composition that’s both warmly pastoral and defamiliar. this is one of shiflet’s most beautiful works to date. shiflet has released a number of critically acclaimed recordings over the last decade for labels like type and ecstatic peace!, as well as collaborating with c. spencer yeh in burning star core. pete swanson’s “college view” documents another example of his recent recordings’ attempt to blur the lines between techno, noise, and electronic music. “college view” drags detroit dance music into a static field of electricity, and then doubles back again. “college view” documents another great example of swanson’s mature, post-yellow swans output, as indicated on a series of releases since 2011 on labels like three-lobed and type. miranda lichtenstein and cameron martin provide the visual art for this release. the cover art and booklet included with the release feature images from a series of manipulated photographs of chinese scholar rocks that the artists have worked on since 2008. the images suggest the same kind of blasted pastoralism that shiflet and swanson invoke in each of their pieces. lichtenstein and martin have each exhibited their work internationally in shows in new york, tokyo, austria and at the 2004 whitney biennial. with equal nods to throbbing gristle’s retrograde conceptualism and recommended records unwavering musicality, amish is pleased to announce the required wreckers series. r/w will explore the work of artists operating at the intersections of sound art, improvisation, drone, outsider experimentation and modern composition. in the spirit of its name, r/w aims to disrupt the boundaries typically used to delimit genre and the sensibilities that help to inform taste. in so doing, r/w slips out from under the simple, reductive classifications so often used to discuss, and even critically engage, contemporary music. situating r/w in the gap between throbbing gristle’s celebrated a-musicality and the unrelenting craftsmanship of henry cow, these releases acknowledge their debt to historical precedent. each release is a one-time vinyl pressing and will be housed in a letterpress band (designed by bryan christopher baker) that will vary with each installment. these lps will also include artwork and assorted ephemera that invoke our deepest respect for the medium and the hand-crafted (and assembled) components we regret have disappeared with the rise of digital media. r/w terminates after ten installments.

mike shiflet / francisco meirino “raizan tatami” double three inch compact disc recordable set

• part one (18:54)
  
  
• part two (22:22)

banned production press release...

mike shiflet & francisco meirino -"raizantatami" 2x 3"cdr mike shiflet, the honcho of gameboy records and francisco meirino who used to be phroq. got together at a raizen in osaka and while drinking too much japanese beer recorded this. a sizzling static becomes relentless as weird electronic insects buzz around. somebody attached a contact mic to a tatami mat and beats on it mercilessly. it all changes into a high pitched whiny rumble of junk electronics that goes on forever. in a destroyed package.

tv pow “powerful friends and devoted lovers” double compact disc set

• oren ambarchi - that’s ok, brush off the dirt and you can still eat it
  
• motor - motormx 4 tv pow
  
• boris hauf - the return of the expiration date reader
  
• thymme jones - fooled into fatality
  
• otomo yoshihide - where there’s smoke, there’s weapons
  
• m. behrens -
  
• ken brown - the law of misonymy
  
• vadim sprikut - with friends like these
  
• toshimaru nakamura - untitled
  
• ernst karel - 1/3 tvp 24.02.02
  
• leif elggren - untitled
  
• ancient greeks - spiral light wave dispenser
  
• tu m’ - ignore 1 version
  
• 7000 dying rats - means to an end of myth and power
  
  
• sutekh - guitar heroes mix
  
• burkhard stangl - there’s a picture
  
• greg kelley - my great grandfather was hung for horse stealing
  
• jazzkammer - komm süsser tod
  
• drillchop 9 - if bush had a brain...
  
• olivia block - untitled
  
• panicsville - nazi’s fuck ibm often
  
• mike shiflet - being tv pow is funny
  
• amnon wolman - pow trail mix
  
• koura - tanbo
  
• stilluppsteypa - it’s johnny cash not cage
  
• freiband - dentist drill mix
  
• stephan mathieu - zedernholzflammen
  
• vertonen - despite themselves (in sunday propers for attending carnival)
  
• reynols - elanio tiermo patribo

mike shiflet “meadowbathers” c21 cassette

• meadowbathers (m. shiflet mix)
  
  
• meadowbathers (j. panzer mix)

digitalis limited press release...

ltd201: mike shiflet “meadowbathers” c21 mike shiflet's "llanos" was one of my favorite albums of 2010 and these two extended reworkings / remixes turns that material on its ear. shiflet and his longtime cohort, joe panzner untangle and retangle the thick aural web of album tracks "pink meadow" and "sunbathers" (hence the title). thick swashes of noise are undermined by subterranean melodies that aren't succeeding if they're not falling apart. the two pieces work very well in tandem with shiflet's restrained touch working as the perfect opposition to panznzer's blown-out mini-masterpiece. i usually shy away from remixes but "meadowbathers" finds very worthwhile new ground. get lost. edition of 75, pro-dubbed chrome.

16 bitch pile-up / mike shiflet “make like a fetus and abort / extract, behold” long playing record

• 16 bitch pile-up - make like a fetus and abort
  
  
• mike shiflet - extract, behold

michael bernstein / mike shiflet “live, new york” compact disc recordable

• live, new york

noumena / season of discontent “split” seven inch single record

• noumena “platform for a new religion”
  
• season of discontent “mankind gets electrocuted while the the others sit back and laugh”

sickness “fragmented memory” one-sided long playing record

• fragmented memory (17:09)

gods of tundra press release...

--sickness "fragmented memory" one sided lp. live in cleveland on november 4th, 2010. incredible capture of the newest sickness directions. breaking and tearing sound into strange silences. a bizarre atmosphere hangs heavy in the room...and refuses to leave even after the record ceases to spin. throw your expectations in the garbage can, this is true sonic disturbance.

mike shiflet “ichinomiya 5.3.6” compact disc

• ichinomiya (47:00)

mike shiflet “honeyed crest” c22 cassette

• honeyed crest
  
  
• poisoned root

nna tapes press release...

nna028: mike shiflet "honeyed crest" c22 mike shiflet conjures a harrowing atmosphere of dark, melodic storm clouds on "honeyed crest". a dense fog of organic buzz permeates through both sides of the tape, only to be pierced by a siren's choir of shimmering, jagged guitar fuzz. as always, shiflet expertly holds a microscope to texture and detail, creating a massive entity of cascading melody and contemplative sound.

burning star core “papercuts theater” double long playing record set

• part i (16:40)
  
  
• part ii (16:31)
  
  
• part iii (16:31)
  
  
• part iv (16:25)

no quarter press release...

burning star core papercuts theater noq022lp, no quarter ah, the live album: often a tool for bands looking to wiggle out of contracts or perhaps, squeeze a few more pennies from a loyal fanbase. rare is it a work of art. inspired by these singular instances (grayfolded, the grateful dead; sonic death, sonic youth; in search of spaces, flying saucer attack) c. spencer yeh, the lone constant of the long-running burning star core project, conceptualized papercuts theater: one long piece (broken into four movements) culled from over sixty live performances, spanning years and continents. these formerly disparate relics of time and space now exist as one: a sonic document of the present.

brendan murray / mike shiflet “sentimental gentlemen” compact disc-recordable

• early retirement (15:49)
  
• “how’s your late 90’s?” (18:21)

mike shiflet “merciless” long playing record

• feeble breaths (breaths) (10:41)
  
• exodus and exile (10:41)
  
  
• (exile) (10:40)
  
• merciless (10:40)

mike shiflet “sufferers” long playing record

• (sufferers) (2:28)
  
• sufferers (5:33)
  
• axle grease (12:15)
  
  
• blessed and oppressed (10:09)
  
• no sanctuary (8:12)

“4 sides a circle” quadruple three inch compact disc recordable set

• tom grimley - quartet number one (5:00)
  
• al margolis - xylo for amk (3:59)
  
• the cherry point - el caminos in the west (3:23)
  
• mike shiflet - let crushed bones rejoice (4:36)
  
  
• vertonen - waver pane (4:43)
  
• brutum fulmen - ice walks (5:09)
  
• howard stelzer - burning chops (6:29)
  
• hive mind - southern effret (3:59)
  
  
• pcrv - chopped seattle splendor (2:36)
  
• sixes & yellow swans - untitled (8:19)
  
• r.h.y. yau - orbiter (3:49)
  
• mitchell brown - resonant pectin (3:30)
  
  
• jason talbot - live at the electric heavyland (3:29)
  
• brent gutzeit - the disappointment of waking up (4:02)
  
• oscillating innards - the expected behaviour of domesticated animals pt.1 (5:10)
  
• fin - brollachan (3:34)

banned production press release...

"4 sides a circle " 4x3" cdr set 16 tracks by 17 acts. tom grimley, al margolis, the cherry point, mike shiflet, pcrv, rhy yau, sixes & yellow swans. mitchell brown, vertonen, brutum fulmen, howard stelzer, hive mind, jason talbot, brent gutzeit, oscillating innards, fin. none of whom have ever appeared on a bp release, compass included to point a way.