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no fun productions (usa) #nofunacid 03 cd

no fun acid “this is no fun acid 3” compact disc

untitled (1) (23:04)
untitled (2) (13:35)

april 2010 release ; small-run “tour merch” edition from carlos giffoni (technically not a no fun productions release, we’re listing it so for continuity’s sake) ‘s no fun acid project, consisting of two long “jams” made with his serge / x0x setup ; the first a nice, slowly mutating churner done at a reasonably ass-quaking tempo ... but the second goes well past jeff mills territory, ending in a fine, stereo-heavy mindfuck (listen to the sound-sample) ...

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no fun productions (usa) #nofunacid 01 ep

no fun acid “this is no fun acid 2” long playing record

no fun acid 2
no fun acid 2 (gavin russom remix)

april 2010 release ; ... and here carlos takes his fascination with “acid” to its next logical evolutive step ; he’s released a “dancefloor” 12” of a side-length tumbler that, while in stages a plausible “people-mover” largely consists of several-minute-long chunks of gorgeously morphing pulse-width patterns (listen to the sound-sample) that have more in common with the synthetic minimalism of douglas leedy, j.d. emmanuel, et.al than that of the smiley-face miscreants he so adores ... comes complete with a wonderfully psychedelic remix from delia & gavin’s gavin russom ...

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nofunacid01 no fun acid 'this is no fun acid 2' 12"

in the beginning there was roland's founder ikutaro kakehashi and an arsenal of "computer controlled" analog jock boxes designed specifically to outmode the trad rock (read: human) rhythm section... the circuitry was so tightly wound however, so rooted in synthesis that it failed to meet its promise. it wasn't until the mid-80s that the tb/tr system took novel form as acid house; a simple but novel attitude shift that saw an embrace of extra-terrestrial machine funk aesthetics converging with the all-too-human need to make austere, robotic dance music.

enter no fun acid ::: carlos giffoni's reinvention and reanimation of the noise cadaver vis a vis german minimal synth rewired to memories of seedy venezuelan raves circa 199x. a nebulous drone gives way to 606 delirum, followed by an array of sequenced modular synth, infinitely spiraling like a borehole through kakehashi's 3rd eye. this is acid: the primordial years. on the flip is an elegiac space hymnal take on nfa from techno alchemist gavin russom.

mastered by rashad becker in berlin,
pressed in detroit at archer.
limited to 500 copies.

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best of 2011 !!!

no fun productions (usa) #nfp 999 cd

jim o’rourke / carlos giffoni “japan tour 2011” compact disc

carlos giffoni - acid queens-prototype version (12:13)
jim o'rourke - canadian bonus track (14:51)
jim o'rourke / carlos giffoni - roulette (17:42)

june 2011 release ; ... first new no fun release in a dog’s age (apparently carlos is back on the books ; expect a split with oren ambarchi in the near future) acting as “tour merch” for a recent spell in japan just weeks after the tsunami & resultant nuclear disaster(s) ...

... while carlos’ 12-minute mind-fuck head-swirler of a drum-less acid coup is of course, bonkers, i have to hand it to jim’s gorgeously fluid synth-concrète track, recalling the work made available via this month’s “old news #5”, albeit in an even more mellow & flowing nature, replete with processed field recordings ...

... this all culminates with an extended collaborative work, merging the pair’s communal love of unfettered analogue drone with increasingly frenetic synth-blurt, eventually working some of carlos’ acid-magic against jim’s a-temporal fm-ed clusterings to great effect ... great disc, pretty much only available during the tour and, now, here ...

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999 - jim o'rourke / carlos giffoni 'japan tour 2011' cd

despite all odds jim o'rourke and carlos giffoni toured japan in april of 2011, this was a release put together exclusively for the tour and limited to 500 copies. it includes one completely new studio track from each jim and carlos as well as a long collaboration of intense psychedelic electronics. file under new acid / analog electronics / synth / psychedelic / 21st century all out music.

these tracks are only available on this cd which is limited to 500 and will not be released digitally for download. a handful of copies left from the tour are available trough a few select distributors world wide.

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no fun productions (usa) #nfp 57 cd

russell haswell “value + bonus” double compact disc set

left right mono stereo (0:10)
my no!se floor test (2:00)
sub bass test (0:55)
wino (4:05)
room voice freeze tone (2:41)
motorway sequence (2:10)
the artist and the record company would like to warn you that consistent high volume playback of these recordings may damage your audio system and ears. do not set levels to maximum. (0:21)
multicultural no!se @ 17.5 db rms (black, brown, pink and white no!se + mix) (5:01)
sine wave/no!se @ -10.2 db rms (1:40)
none (5:17)
trk 4 (6:46)
computer no!se (8:44)
acid no!se (3:39)
coventry (6:20)
thursday afternoon 15102009 (11:59)
no!se set + acid no!se encore (live @ 23 romily st, 12082009) (11:43)
nocturnal playlist edit + wave repeat variations (10:02)
roberts r871 fm/mw/lw/sw 1-12 unedited radio scan solo (after michael snow, consumer electronics, toshiji mikawa) (63:45)

april 2010 release ; neat set of modulated test tones, skipping-cd gabber, digital processing experiments, and raucous acid (listen to the sound-sample for the latter) from haswell & hecker’s russell haswell ... russell’s recorded sets for mego/emego (not to mention his opening sets for frequent tourmates autechre) are the stuff of legend ; nice that he’s crossed over into the whole no fun world ...

comes with a bonus disc including a pair of pieces, the latter of which is a straight “cover” of michael snow’s “2 radio solos” ; an hour-plus of glorious shortwave static & “happy accident” style musical events ...

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57 russell haswell 'value+bonus' 2xcd

combining cd player demonstration test signals, 24 bit digitally recorded improvised freeform analog pedal/electronic no!se, direct to hd computer generated and recorded no!se, flashbacks from the 1980s of 303 and 909 no!se assaults including free-style repeat and reverse editing, a frog call editing experiment, finishing off the second disc is a unedited long-form radio de-tuning session!

value + bonus is the sixth solo album release by russell haswell.

it comes in deluxe no fun gatefold jacket and is limited to 1000.

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no fun productions (usa) #nfp 52 lp

carlos giffoni / keith fullerton whitman “techno b/w 070207” long playing record

carlos giffoni - techno
keith fullerton whitman - 070207 (15:51)

september 2009 release ; split lp release debuting both carlos’ new “acid” direction and the first bit of my own music performed solely on an analogue modular synthesizer back on july 2nd, 2007 ...

rather than write about this again, i’ll just copy y’all on the post i already put on the internet ::

... thanks for repping the no fun lp ; mms received its copies on friday. it turned out great !!! i love how maya's art channels both the acid-era design sensibility & the early-mid-70s "dark era" (see: the andromeda strain soundtrack, etc ...) ; carlos' side is incredible, a sort of drum-less 4-part cycling minimalism borne of mutating sawtooth waves - definitely the first release of his "new thing" (well, aside from the track on the lopatin comp) ; we blasted it at full volume here in the office & it sounded incredible, although i don't know how well it will work on headphones (you kind of need to have the waves coming out of two speakers, then meeting up the air for it to "work") ...

my side is a straight room recording of the first solo synth concert i gave back in 2007 (opening for major stars & donna parker @ pa's lounge, no less) ; this was the first time i'd played a gig w/o using a laptop in prob. 10 years !!! the idea for those first few concerts was to stay as far away from synthesizer-music "cliches" as possible ; i.e. no straight filter-sweeps, arpeggiations, etc ... it's extremely minimal, lots of space between the "notes", with a somewhat convoluted cv patch "playing" a pair of oscillators while the inverted version of the same "plays" the delay-time of a bucket-brigade echo ... it builds up into a nice dense array of overlaid parts that's probably more in tune w/ the no fun aesthetic, but other than the ending gambit it's largely very pointillist / iterative - i'm actually pretty psyched that carlos picked this one out of all those early sets as it's by far the most challenging ...

the idea i had for these solo synth-concert recordings was to let folks that run labels release them as sides on split-lps with whomever they want (ala melt banana's 7" wave back in the 90’s) ; i have a few other takers besides carlos in the works, but if any of you guys are interested, get in touch w/ me via email - i'm on sales@mimaroglumusicsales.com ... -k

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52 carlos giffoni / keith fullerton whitman ‘techno b/w 070207’

two very active modern electronic musicians who enjoy 20th century analog equipment deliver a document of mind expanding electronics with very different approaches. giffoni's track 'techno' is full of layered and perfectly synched synthetic rhythms matched with some very adhesive evolving sounds; creating something that somehow ends up being a homage to both early techno and harsh japanese electronics. whitman's track is a beautiful exploration of synthetic tonality and space, like a sudden massage to several areas of the brain one by one but also all at once with a little spice of musique concrete . both of these recordings share an expansive and psychedelic nature, as well as a nod to the past while moving into the future.

artwork by maya miller. limited to 400.

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no fun productions (usa) #nfp 50 cd

noveller “red rainbows” compact disc

rainbows (3:53)
brilliant colors (6:46)
st. powers (14:05)
tunnels (10:17)
bends (19:55)
video - 'interior variations'

august 2009 release ; ace disc of of static-leaning, loop-based solo electric guitar pieces from brooklyn’s sarah lipstate ...

love the earlier nfp lp of her music (of which there’s only one piece in overlap here) ; this raises the bar with a pair of almost skullflower-ian black-metal guitar voids which segue into a pair of more oxygenated offerings, finally culminating in a 20-minute sea of bleeping high frequency gating & zipper patternage, all impeccably played & recorded / assembled ... great stuff.

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50 noveller ‘red rainbows’ cd

debut cd from brooklyn musician and film maker sarah lipstate. red rainbows is full of growing tonal drones that evoke visions of menacing multicolored skies alongside tracks full of beautiful minimalistic structures that shoot straight for the heart. sarah uses double-neck guitar and various electronics to create breathtaking atmospheres with an intensity that works on both a cognitive and emotional level. these tracks are either really beautiful or really dirty when the time is right, which is the key here. sarah knows what she is doing and when to do it. this is an essential initial document from one of the new artists bending abstract sound into meaningful structures. includes a collaboration with carlos giffoni. this is an enhanced cd and includes the short film 'interior variations'. artwork by caroline contillo.

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no fun productions (usa) #nfp 49 combo
no label (usa) #nfp 49 combo

john wiese “circle snare” book and compact disc set

circle snare (75 tracings of sek / nok / ddk)
circle snare (first part) (10:46)
circle snare (second part) (6:22)
circle snare (third part) (8:56)
mystical finland (4:53)

may 2009 release ; special edition of john wiese’s “circle snare,” replete with the private-issue book ::

“print-on-demand” style private-issue book from john wiese, collecting the complete set of drawings (essentially traces of swedish, norwegian, and danish kronor / kroner) used to adorn the cover of his “circle snare” disc on no fun productions ...

tiny edition of 100, each copy is signed by john ...

... and the no fun cd edition ::

gestural / aktion-oriented pause-button cassette / computer-processing suite from john wiese - could perhaps be seen as a return to harsher realms after a few forays into straight tape music (the recent ultra eczema lp, i think, qualifies), electro-acoustic improv (the “c-section” duo w/ evan parker), and ... however you want to classify the duo sessions w/ c. spencer yeh ...

blasted this on the mms stereo just now ; even the “quieter” moments (listen to the beginning of the sound-sample) had every stray, non-bolted-down piece of fine china vibrating in unison on the credenza ; when things got “louder” (ditto, the end) i was breathing in a fine mist of ceramic powder for hours afterwards ...

powerful stuff ; i can’t think of anyone else working anywhere near wiese’s level of in-situ process-music virtuosity ... highly recommended !!!

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49 john wiese 'circle snare' cd

consider "circle snare" a hard-wrought souvenir. composed and realized in the midst of a comprehensive scandinavian/european tour in 2008, john wiese found himself tangled deep in dialogue with his instruments and ideas. wiese increasingly scrutinized his native tongue and vocabulary, seeking new forms of grammar and cadence, as only extensive dives in unfamiliar waters can inspire. his given electronic anatomy of drum machine, microphones, tapes, and msp folded out of their hard accustomed formations, breaking out into a more cogent and vital arsenal.

"circle snare" is the cumulative result -- a finely detailed and dimensional evolution of an already unique voice. those who have been stalking wiese all along -- through the landmark statement "soft punk," to the recent "dramatic accessories" lp -- will find "circle snare" to be a revelatory work. as wiese continues to travel and work relentlessly and restlessly, we have no choice but to keep up; the circle is a spiral from the side, and the greatest trap is standing still.

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no fun productions (usa) #nfp 49 cd

john wiese “circle snare” compact disc

circle snare (first part) (10:46)
circle snare (second part) (6:22)
circle snare (third part) (8:56)
mystical finland (4:53)

april 2009 release ; gestural / aktion-oriented pause-button cassette / computer-processing suite from john wiese - could perhaps be seen as a return to harsher realms after a few forays into straight tape music (the recent ultra eczema lp, i think, qualifies), electro-acoustic improv (the “c-section” duo w/ evan parker), and ... however you want to classify the duo sessions w/ c. spencer yeh ...

blasted this on the mms stereo just now ; even the “quieter” moments (listen to the beginning of the sound-sample) had every stray, non-bolted-down piece of fine china vibrating in unison on the credenza ; when things got “louder” (ditto, the end) i was breathing in a fine mist of ceramic powder for hours afterwards ...

powerful stuff ; i can’t think of anyone else working anywhere near wiese’s level of in-situ process-music virtuosity ... highly recommended !!!

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no fun productions (usa) #nfp 48 lp

white out / c. spencer yeh / carlos giffoni “live at no fun” long playing record

turbulent flow
the junkman’s obligato

september 2009 release ; awesome set of rising, freely-improvised thunder from tom surgal, lin culbertson, carlos giffoni, and c. spencer yeh, recorded at last year’s no fun fest ...

while this teeters on the edge of an fmp-lineage euro-improv blowout, the rest is pure new york noise, with the solenoids attached to tom’s endlessly flailing limbs actually powering the rest of the group’s electronic apparatus ...

crystal clear recording lets us actually hear the detail for once ; nice one !!!

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48 white out (with spencer yeh and carlos giffoni) ‘live at no fun’

recorded live at no fun fest 2008. white out (tom surgal and lin culbertson) are true pursuers of the mythical everlasting improvisational fire. with a style thats both oblique and right to the point tom's dynamic poly-rhythmic percussion and lin's dynamic electronics and voice are augmented in this scorching live recording by c. spencer yeh (burning star core) on violin and carlos giffoni on analog synth. this was their first collaboration and is full of amazing interplay that covers a wide spectrum of sound, from other-world evolving sounds to furious free improvisation to thick layers of dense drones, this is a totally bombastic and essential document of ageless modern improvisation.

limited to 350.

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best of 2010 !!!

no fun productions (usa) #nfp 46 lp

ducktails / dracula lewis “split” long playing record

ducktails - screen scene
dracula lewis - gone by dawn

august 2010 release ; ok, i’m going to step away from the edge of my recent hate-abyss (re: the chill-house-beach-witch-wave-agogia) to remark (perhaps, hopefully, controversially) that i think that not only is the ducktails side of this particular lp the best thing that he’s done, but actually one of the best sides of any lp i’ve heard recently (so much so that i actually encoded it to FLAC.WAV or whatever and put it on my phone - right now the only audio on there - so that i could listen to it while driving around, nonstop, for the last couple of weeks) ...

it kinda nails the whole collective german-leaning zeitgeist (case in point ; matt spent some time in berlin some years back, oddly, as arnold dreyblatt’s assistant) of the last coupla years into one concise, ultra-lo-fi 4-track trench-gaze parallax that i honestly can’t find any kind of fault with it whatsoever ... builds up for 4 minutes & rides a long stretch of tarmac, autobahn style for the remainder ; totally deluxe & way removed from any/all recorded evidence of mondanile’s pop-chops laid down so far ...

drac.lewis’ construct is a fine side of casiometry, hanson-esque tape wobble & misted metals in it’s own right all the same ... but damn, that ducky side ; total bees knees, as least for tje lifer harmonia / cluster advocate ... i’m watching you matt ...

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nfp-46 ducktails / dracula lewis split lp

there is a murder in the beach. ducktails arrives in his spaceship escalade to investigate the scene. dracula lewis is the principal suspect. they become best friends and decide to work on a split lp. when a vampire kills a body is never found. at the same time beautiful and terrifying cavern drone sounds from dracula lewis, psychedelic spiraling melodies and electronics beats from ducktails. both investigate the limits of the space time continuum. this is the new dawn of expansive music. ducktails is matthew mondanile (also a member of real state.) dracula lewis was born in transylvania but currently lives in the country side of italy, were the locals refer to him as 'a gypsy.'

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no fun productions (usa) #nfp 45 lp

zaïmph “death blooming pleasure” long playing record

great are the riches hidden in tribulation
of hildegardes
as well in death

april 2009 release ; winter 2007 recordings of blackened guitar-wash and (a first?) coffin-scratch vocals from hototogisu’s marcia bassett ...

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45 zaimph 'death blooming pleasure' lp

when spinning this dark velvet cloak a door opens to clouds of smoke shooting out the windows sills of the shell of old library like ink plumes while smokes leaps like black cats between the curtains. stone and concrete crumble and fill the air with gray gas showering the the maze of shrubs in the courtyard with a dark veil of soot. marcia bassett has tread the waters of noise pysch drone and continues to defy the categories. a dark psychadelic guitar wash peaks its head out of the smoldering coals that could have been released on the mighty slaughter productions death industrial temple from italy. further morbidity croaks from the slicing vocals of a distraught entity being ripped from one dimension to the other... and rather enjoying her ordeal. light the candles and burn the incense....

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no fun productions (usa) #nfp 44 lp

alfredo costa monteiro “cinq bruissements • for solo accordion” long playing record

bruissement (1)
bruissement (2)
bruissement (3)
bruissement (4)
bruissement (5)

august 2010 release ; five ... “rustles” for prepared accordion, albeit rather removed the language of said instrument, instead inhabiting some post-tnb / raymond dijkstra zones, demarcated only by the omnipresent thrum of baited bellows-breath ... outstanding !!!

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44 alfredo costa monteiro ‘cinq bruissements – for solo accordion’ lp

coming after my first solo accordion recording (rumeur on creative sources, 2004), cinq bruissements is a new step into the exploration of the accordion; this time, the microphones were placed at a very tiny distance of the instrument, almost inside, as if it was literally auscultated by very greedy ears, attentive to any remote rumor. trying to penetrate the sonic secret of this secular box (pandora’s one was more essential, although it was a jar) reemphasizes a disconnection between what is predictable and what is identifiable.

very singular sounding accordion solo recording, at times like an array of bizarre analog electronics and at others like beautiful minimalist tape music, this is an unbelievable achievement in extended technique. there are still boundaries to be pushed and there is no genre to define one man’s most unique and inspired creation.

limited to 300 copies.

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no fun productions (usa) #nfp 42 lp

marco fusinato “ripping skies” long playing record

untitled (1) (17:30)
untitled (2) (16:15)

july 2009 release ; neat to see a record by marco fusinato showing up on nfp here ...

marco’s name has recently been mentioned alongside frequent collaborators such as oren ambarchi (whose influence undoubtedly led to this issue’s existence) & the like, but he’s been a man-on-the-scene (both the music and contemporary art ones - the latter as part of the slave pianos collective) down in melbourne for at least a decade ... this release seems to land squarely in both ; with a context-free cover (grainy, almost greco-roman figures hunting kangaroos) & back (documentation of a riot in myanmar, text in turkish) giving absolutely nothing away re: the music engraved on the lp ; largely gloopy multi-filter arrays processing “aktion” oriented guitar improvs, with the first half focusing on more iterative formations, the second a straight wall of held “power chord” -lineage blur ...

really great sounding record ; landing halfway between kevin drumm’s earlier work (the s/t disc & “sheer hellish miasma,” perhaps) and hiroshi hasegawa’s harsh synthesizer sput ... highly recommended !!!

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42 marco fusinato 'ripping skies' lp

from the bowels of the southern hemisphere, guitar / electronics noise signor marco fusinato gives us the full f/a-18 squadron attack. one side is an inferno of mangled guitar spit, relentlessly speeding and colliding with all in its path. the flipside features a giant monochord stuck and struggling to escape from the shards of the volatile overload. recorded live, then spliced/mixed/mastered by oren ambarchi. cover artwork by australian colonial convict/forgerer/artist joseph lycett. and now… everything’s wrong.

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no fun productions (usa) #nfp 41 lp

astromero “live in san francisco” long playing record

live in san fransisco (19:35)
the dust coma (21:05)

july 2009 release ; blistering pair of synth / electronic burners from damion romero & hiroshi “astro” hasegawa ...

while the a-side piece (recorded at grux’ now-legendary “godwaffle noise pancakes” series in march of 2006 ; it’s worth noting that this does not appear on either of the astromero cd sets) is a fine, fine blurt of claustrophobic oscillator scraggle, it’s the b-side “studio” cut that does it for me, unleashing a furious wall of damion’s bottom-heavy murk crossing over into hiroshi’s keening synthi / echo warble ...

these guys have never sounded better ; highly recommended !!!

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41 astromero 'live in san francisco' lp

astromero is the psychedelic synth / noise project of japanese pioneer hiroshi hasegawa (astro, cccc), and la's damion romero (speculum fight). side a is a live show in san francisco, a total scorcher with an immense level of energy where shifting walls of synthetic sound produced by hasegawa are complemented by the signature rumbling low end frequencies coming from damion's custom electronics. side b is a new studio track, full of brain melting tones and showing the more compositional side of this sick ongoing collaboration.

limited to 350.

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no fun productions (usa) #nfp 40 cd

carlos giffoni “adult life” compact disc

the endless mirror (9:12)
comfort and pleasure (9:26)
a son with no father (9:22)
this is how you pull the trigger (9:53)
a permanent choice (12:52)

october 2008 release ; nestling in squarely with the wdr camp, carlos here offers a full-length album of “pure electronic music” ; i.e. purely (analog) synthesized pieces with a certain douglas leedy-lineage “automatic synth” feel to them ...

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nfp-40 carlos giffoni 'adult life' cd

this is shining and pure electronic music. adult life continues carlos giffoni's work in slow-building drones and prickly, trebly peaks, but he also imbues these new compositions with subtle structure and blind-siding rhythmic pulses which recall the many pioneers of electronic composition, among them cluster, brian eno, kraftwerk, and tangerine dream. the caustic melding of foreboding abstraction and lively pulse raises adult life to a paradigm of the breathing and the immaculate, a strange set of dichotomies finding a shocking common ground. carlos giffoni describes this as some of his most musical work to date, a pure electronic excursion into more grounded troupes which almost paradoxically work out completely new sonic concepts and ideas. original illustrations for this full length by megan ellis.

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no fun productions (usa) #nfp 38 lp

carlos giffoni / the rita “two on a match” double long playing record set

two on a match (1) (14:45)
two on a match (2) (14:55)
two on a match (3) (15:05)
two on a match (4) (15:05)

march 2009 release ; insanely monolithic power-electronics set involving sam mckinlay’s treatment(s) of carlos giffoni’s raw-wave analogue synthesis ...

over four 15-minute sides (cut as loud as humanly possible) the fury of oscillator-driven sand-blasting doesn’t develop inasmuchas envelop ; even the slightest changes to the overall matrix of blown-speaker grit so few & far between they begin to sound like major events ...

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38 carlos giffoni / the rita 'two on a match' 2xlp collaboration.

the ongoing study and execution of harsh noise by driven artists constantly reinstates the medium via different techniques, concepts, and different artist amalgamations for a collaborative work. for myself, working with the different 'warbling' and generative moving lines of modular synth from carlos giffoni offered me a chance to investigate many different 'spaces' of tone and line manipulation. manipulating and playing with escalating and dying tones that all the while keep a throbbing pace was something that i always wanted to work with being a fan of the jutting and tremolo-like rough 'wave' tones of harsh noise artists from aaron dilloway / spine scavenger to atrax morgue. the opportunity of working with the sources of carlos giffoni was exciting as i got to manipulate 'dirty' and constantly moving cutting modular synth electronics, the challenge being making the lines articulate with something of the rita's hiss and pedal driven nature.

the examination and crossing of the different lines slowly become their own parallel entity as the adjoined and wavy synth lines are further dirtied, cut repeatedly, and joined with the knife of 'gated' and cutting hn pedal work. not unlike the manipulation of the textural, rough, and linear landscape pieces of richard longs mixed with the 'chopping', yet smooth lines of donald judd's installations. both exude the same amount of power, but via very different textural 'lines' of installation. to further manipulate and display the different lines and hn stylizations, giffoni had the opportunity to heavily edit the textural work of the rita to exude the constantly moving and jutting sense of giffoni's own pulsing and driving synth decay via the dirtied analog source material of the rita. modular synth and pedal work have been long standing tools in the world of harsh noise, but not often are they crossed over with such investigative and crackling tendencies – a virtual criss-crossing of the different technical lines.

- sam mckinlay (the rita)

limited to 300 copies

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harsh-noise
electro-acoustic-improvisation
free-jazz

no fun productions (usa) #nfp 37 lp

dror feiler / lasse marhaug “no more drama” long playing record

he-male (15:20)
no more drama (15:20)

december 2008 release ; total fucking annihilation, jointly channeled through the bells/circuits of dror feiler & lasse marhaug ...

seriously, this has to be one of the most impenetrable sides that’s landed here @ mms in recent months, maybe tied only with the recent mattin / junko lp on tochnit aleph for immediate annoy-on-impact tactics (it’s akin to throwing a zippo at a fireworks truck & dancing around while trying not to get burned by m-80s whizzing past your head) ...

if you think borbetomagus’ noise-improv spec borders on the “tame” ; you’ve found your next vicarious thrill-ride ...

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nfp-37 marhaug/feiler "no more drama"

edited live recordings, sometimes sounds like a borbetomagus storm, sometimes sounds like being in the middle of a bombing in palestine. a picture of this record should be next to every definition of noise music. lasse marhaug plays in jazkamer and has at least 300 other great projects solo and with other people. dror feiler served as a paratrooper in the israel defense forces, and refused to serve in the occupied territories in the early 70's. he is now a swedish-israeli musician and artist and has been living in stockholm, sweden since 1973. he is active as a composer of modern music and enjoys giving ear problems and headaches to classically trained musicians. the most brutal vinyl record you will hear this year.

limited to 300 copies.

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threads:
modern-psych
minimalism-drones
analogue-synth
guitar-themed

best of 2009 !!!

no fun productions (usa) #nfp 35 cd

emeralds “what happened” compact disc

alive in the sea of information (8:02)
damaged kids (15:01)
up in the air (4:02)
living room (16:43)
disappearing ink (13:32)

february 2009 release ; the long-awaited follow-up to emeralds’ breakthrough album “solar bridge” ...

the aforementioned disc was certainly the sleeper-hit of 2008 ; here the band regroup, seemingly unfazed by their sudden notoriety & offer up five new pieces ... notably, mark mcguire’s guitar playing is far more front-and-center than on previous outings (at least after the first few pieces) , and while the synth-arrays of john elliot & steve hauschildt do drone on, there’s more of an ebb & flow to their dovetailing patterns than any straight all-on stasis (plus there’s a bit of drone-singing involved, and that’s always nice) ...

in attempts to capture the slow-swell of this music, i’ve put up a longer-than-usual sound-sample (drink it in, folks) ... unquestionably, these guys are making some of the most pertinent contemporary music in and of the mms-friendly cosmos ... i’m a huge fan (their set @ no fun topped my favorite concerts of 2008), and this one just cements it ... highly recommended !!!

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35 emeralds what happened cd

emeralds is at the forefront of a new american movement that continues the experimentation in analog electronics of the 60's and 70's while ignoring the formulaic and boring turn electronic music took in the later part of the 20th century. add a renewed energy gained from their connections to the noise movement, and you have some of the most original and true music of the new century.

'what happened' continues their exploration in tonal beauty of their recent work that brought to mind pioneers like tangerine dream and cluster, while presenting a new approach to structure that brings to mind masters like luc ferrari and opens our ears to a new universe full of astonishing possibilities. this is the true new american infinite electronic music of our present.

recorded by emeralds and mastered by james plotkin.

$15.95

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electro-acoustic-improvisation
guitar-themed
lo-fi
modern-psych
harsh-noise

no fun productions (usa) #nfp 34 cd

a handful of dust “now gods, stand up for bastards • the philosophick mercury” double compact disc set

the book nature: chapter the first (3:38)
oration on the dignity of man (13:39)
the expulsion of the triumphant beast (15:08)
the lullian art (8:55)
the book nature: chapter the second (6:01)
the dark lantern of reason (22:29)
fama fraternitatis (29:58)
god's love to his people israel (30:16)

october 2008 release ; just-right (timing-wise) reissue of these two prior corpus hermeticum discs (hermes 013 & 002 - 1996 & 1994, respectively) of noisy free-improv by the duo of the dead c’s bruce russell & alastair galbraith ...

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nfp-34 a handful of dust 'now gods, stand up for bastards / the philosophik mercury' 2xcd

now gods, stand up for bastards / the philosophik mercury is a double-disc re-issue of two limited and long out-of-print works by this obscure enigma. plunging straight into the chasm of ultra-minimalist abrasion and chaotic improv, these two records stand as unrelenting and engrossing epics of guitar feedback, disintegrating electronic sound, string-shredding violin abuse, and other facets of impassioned iconoclasm. recommended for lovers of amm, henry flynt, and hijokaidan.

a handful of dust are a group consisting of a core duo of bruce russell (the dead c) and alastair galbraith. formed in dunedin, new zealand in 1990.

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threads:
analogue-synth
harsh-noise

best of 2008 !!!

no fun productions (usa) #nfp 33 lp

greg kelley “religious electronics” long playing record

despair is sin (18:05)
o lord the star torments me (14:22)

august 2008 release ; an astoundingly great improvised no-input 4-track blast from greg kelley ...

miles away from anything he’s done in the past (aside, arguably, from his ring-modulated trumpet interference w/heathen shame) ... two side-length piece of endlessly transmogrifying harsh synth timbres with a certain jump-cut “live” feel ... highly recommended !!!

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33 greg kelley 'religious electronics' lp

two sides of melting electronics from greg. this is not jazz.

limited to 350 copies.

$11.95

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digital-musics
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones

no fun productions (usa) #nfp 32 cd

dan burke / thomas dimuzio “upcoming events” compact disc

deregulation (10:52)
closed circuit (4:50)
upcoming events (2:20)
infecticidal (5:10)
freedom fries (1:01)
in god we trust (3:03)
devil’s torrent (2:44)
umbrella sanctions (4:00)
arc’d (1:16)
leave here right now (5:54)
operatve (4:35)
aggregate (3:23)
primordial decree (1:53)
mediastorm (4:34)
transmission (1:33)

august 2008 release ; debut release from the duo of dan “illusion of safety” burke and thomas dimuzio ... finely hewned electro-acoustic duo exchanges ; mostly huge multi-layer electricity-addled drones dwelling on fizzing cracked electronics & dimuzio’s impeccable sense of frequency-range placement ...

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32 dan burke/thomas dimuzio 'upcoming events' cd

further exploring the collaborative powers of illusion of safety mastermind dan burke and prolific sound crafter thomas dimuzio, upcoming events is an unending spur of equal parts gorgeous and uncomfortably perplexing sound spread of 15 tracks. crackles of electronic fire, tremolo-infused waves of sustained guitar, broken music boxes and found sounds among all other sorts of unfounded wails of gargantuan melancholy drone, burke and dimuzio's collaboration is a forceful collection of early industrial sound ruination combined with classic krautrock ambiance of the tangerine dream/cluster ilk reassuringly composed into something wholly modern and powerful.

$11.95

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threads:
modern-psych
lo-fi
bedroom

no fun productions (usa) #nfp 31 cd

dino felipe “no fun demo” compact disc

stuck on you (2:26)
working on not (2:42)
rabbit head (3:11)
6 feet under (4:25)
rockin’ the ark (3:33)
play my tape (3:25)
found 2 photos (2:47)
chandeliers (by: haunted house) (4:05)
i wanna feel better (3:21)
willow waly (2:57)
just call me (2:29)
what’s wrong with me (2:45)
been waiting (3:31)
i dont want to (2:01)

june 2008 release ; move on over, religious knives, we’ve got a new ugly duckling in the no fun roster ...

carlos giffoni’s former old bombs bandmate dino felipe (whose name you may recognize / remember from his run of oddly affecting, genre-resistant albums for the domestic idm hotbed schematic) here drops a downright confounding selection of home-recorded song-smithings, not all that far removed from ariel pink’s whole “thing” (mumbled vocal grumblings underpinned with copious overdubbed harmony tracks accompanied by errant drum-machine & direct-recorded guitar) ...

always love a good wrench-in-the-mechanics ; funny to imagine the reaction(s) of the iheartnoise forum users upon gripping the full summer 2008 no fun line, trying to make sense of this one ...

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31 dino felipe 'no fun demo' cd

previously know for his electronic work with miami's schematic label and his experimental records on his own and with others (old bombs, fukktron, etc) this time dino stares right at the ghost of his mtv dreams childhood years and comes out of it with the most beautiful record of well put together songs you'll hear this year. a full instrumented record of pop rock, ballads, psychedelia, no-wave, rock noise and total mutations injected with dino's own unique approach. this is the pop music of the present, and a recording shooting to change the future.

$11.95

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threads:
modern-psych
minimalism-drones

best of 2008 !!!

no fun productions (usa) #nfp 30 cd

religious knives “resin” compact disc

in the back (6:11)
luck (8:24)
everything happens twice (8:26)
growth (9:35)
the sun (9:16)
twelve bottles and one white cone, part 1 (8:32)
twelve bottles and one white cone, part 2 (8:54)
in the back (6:46)

april 2008 release ; the second album on no fun from double leopards’ / heavy tapes’ mike bernstein & maya miller with mouthus’ nate nelson and todd cavallo as religious knives ...

leagues away/under the rest of the no fun roster (they’ve always the odd ducks out ...) this is much closer to the quiet-storm continuum of classic / contemporary psychedelic rock running from arthur lee’s love right on through royal trux et.al - this disc collects their o/p heavy tapes 12”, their “side” of the split tour cdr w/ airport war, ditto w/ woods, and a few otherwise unreleased tracks (two of which feature nnck’s dave nuss) ...

rk are one of my favorite acts going right now from any scene ; very glad to have this material all in one place (for easy reference / naysayer-swaying purposes) - highly recommended !!!

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30 religious knives 'resin' cd

since their first release for no fun productions, the collection of early lp's/singles entitled 'remains', the religious knives have grown into a stunningly assured and powerful rock n' roll band of sorts, one liberally and noticeably immersed in the smoke-addled haze of the psychedelic underground. resin marches ahead with a vigorous potency that accurately shares its bloodline with the best psychedelic acts of the past. this is brooklyn's true psychedelic rock.

$15.95

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threads:
sound-poetry
harsh-noise
art-punk
outsiders-deviants
anti-music

best of 2008 !!!

no fun productions (usa) #nfp 29 lp

menstruation sisters “ma” long playing record

ma (1) (1:31)
ma (2) (4:34)
ma (3) (6:19)
ma (4) (1:42)
ma (5) (1:28)
ma (6) (2:07)
ma (7) (1:24)
ma (8) (1:35)
ma (9) (1:37)
ma (10) (1:46)

august 2008 release ; new issue of this classically hard-to-find debut by the duo of nick “rizili” kamvissis (vocals, guitar) and oren ambarchi (here on drums) ... already something of a classic in the burgeoning aussie no-wave / wha-fuck vector ; not at all like harry pussy jamming with henri chopin (not. at. all.) ...

kind of out in its own cosmos, really ; an emission of pure chutzpah from two inspired souls ...

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29 menstruation sisters 'ma' lp

reissue of their legendary first lp, released originally in an edition of 100 in australia only. best band ever?

limited to 500 copies.

$11.95

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harsh-noise
minimalism-drones

no fun productions (usa) #nfp 28 cd

nels cline / carlos giffoni / alan licht / lee ranaldo “nothing makes any sense” compact disc

nothing makes any sense (53:03)

december 2007 release; lengthy free-improv session from the guitar trio of nels cline, alan licht, and lee ranaldo; with no fun’s carlos giffoni on synthesizer...

not quite the white-heat-laced shards-of-sound approach you might expect given the lineup, but rather a fairly static, drone-based piece (guitars are tuned down, bells are chimed) closer in spirit to something like maurizio bianchi’s early 80s tape-work than anything else... splendid.

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28 nels cline / carlos giffoni / alan licht / lee ranaldo 'nothing makes any sense' cd

a constantly shifting and engaging long-form piece of developed drone, foreboding melody, and harsh grit, nothing makes any sense finds lee ranaldo (sonic youth), nels cline (nels cline singers, wilco), and alan licht pushing their guitars into a cacophonous state that bears much influence from the post-jazz fields they've all cut their teeth in, but also bearing down a forceful brutality that has sometimes eluded their past material. while carlos giffoni uses his analog synth mastery to adequately contend and mesh seamlessly with the trio of strings, letting his analog noise pulsate and pierce with its own sense of contained stampede.

$21.95

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harsh-noise
electro-acoustic-composition
analogue-synth

no fun productions (usa) #nfp 27 lp

prurient “and still, wanting” picture disc long playing record

returning truth
subject
lust end
total terrorism
memory repeating
strict ideas
incense and rubber

december 2008 release ; picture-disc vinyl of prurient’s recent no fun cd ...

as dom gets more & more prolific, i end up returning to this one more often than others, simply as it’s the most musically interesting of his last few “mass-market” full-lengths ... the swirling chord-shapes that underline (undermine?) his texts throughout are well thought-through & work well on repeat listenings ...

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nfp-27-lp prurient 'and still wanting'

this is the picture disc lp version of the now classic and out of print prurient release.
limited to 500 copies.

original description:a tale of lost love and desperation, this is prurient's full length follow up to the acclaimed pleasure ground. and still, wanting takes the recent new direction of combining layered synth's and electronic loops with his usual poignant vocals to a whole new level of intensity. a new chapter in obsession with all that is mundane in our human life.

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guitar-themed
minimalism-drones
analogue-synth
electro-acoustic-improvisation

no fun productions (usa) #nfp 26 cd

thurston moore “sensitive / lethal” compact disc

sensitive (21:59)
/ (3:59)
lethal (26:01)

april 2008 release ; a series of three sound-art / process-music pieces from the coachmen’s thurston moore ; the first a groovy motorik take w/t on full-strum acoustic & legions of synth / electronic interference - then a shorter feedback-dose - then an extended caterwaul coming across the blessed middle-child of jean tinguely and masayuki takayanagi ...

of thurston’s recent wave of “kunst” projects, this is easily the wooliest ... very nice !!!

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26 thurston moore 'sensitive/lethal' cd

sensitive/lethal is thurston moore in deep basement cosmosis. investigations into acoustic guitar as noise instrument as well as noise/amp discussion for a hopeful and bright blackness. childhood dreams of noise essayed with photos of unsuspecting innocents running from noise weirdo (front cover) and texas blues albino drug zap (johnny winter – still alive and well detail – back cover). this is the story told in drone meditation and sweet slice.

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harsh-noise
concert-recordings
experimental-instruments
digital-musics
sound-art

no fun productions (usa) #nfp 24 cd

merzbow “live destruction at no fun 2007” compact disc

live destruction at no fun 2007 (41:29)

december 2007 release; the transcription of masami akita’s set at the 2007 no fun fest; which he in turn took back to his “bedroom” and remixed shortly thereafter... hailed by many as a “return to form” after years of strictly computer-based recording & performance regimes, this packs a powerful wallop utilizing an “amplified sheet metal instrument” alongside laptops & assorted electronics...

quite surprising in the amount of jump-cuts/change-ups (compared to his other recent work, much of which consists of loops) ; coming across almost through-composed in spots ... very nice.

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24 merzbow 'live destruction at no fun 2007' cd

at this year's no fun fest, the legendary japanese noise king merzbow (masami akita) gave a blistering performance that stunningly brought together both his classic analog and recently-explored digital concerns. keeping pace between two laptops and an amplified sheet-metal instrument, the walls of computerized droning distortion and psyched-out metallic scarping easily reminded those attending to the world of noise that even icons with twenty-plus year careers under their belts can still vivaciously channel the advancements they helped build as well as compose stunning untried sounds. merzbow's set no doubt left longtime followers thoroughly fulfilled while those who've only heard the name thrown around in mythical regard were bound to have been left with a hearty appreciation of his genius.

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harsh-noise
concert-recordings

no fun productions (usa) #nfp 23 cd

pain jerk / incapacitants “live at no fun fest 2007” compact disc

pain jerk - “hello america” (excerpt) (33:44)
incapacitants - “the crowd inched closer & closer” (22:37)

october 2007 release; a pair of truly inspired blasts from pain jerk & incapacitants, both recorded @ this year’s no fun fest ... the state of the union: good.

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23 pain jerk / incapacitants 'live at no fun fest 2007' cd

like no other music in this planet, these two japanese noise masters deliver obsessive, precise and unforgettable live sets of intense electronic harsh beauty. legendary japanese noise masters incapacitants and pain jerk performed for the first time ever in the us at no fun fest 2007, this cd include crystal clear board recordings of their sets, mastered for full audio brutality. if you haven’t had the pleasure of experiencing either of this acts live this is your chance, if you have then this is also your chance to re-experience two of the most amazing live performers of our time. liner notes by carlos giffoni and chris goudreau (sickness).

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concert-recordings
harsh-noise
analogue-synth
playback-music
electro-acoustic-improvisation
minimalism-drones
lo-fi

best of 2008 !!!

no fun productions (usa) #nfp 22 lp

aaron dilloway / carlos giffoni “live at no fun fest 2007” long playing record

aaron dilloway - live at no fun fest 2007 (17:37)
carlos giffoni - live at no fun fest 2007 (15:01)

april 2008 release ; a split lp covering both carlos’ & dillo’s solo sets at last year’s no fun fest ; aaron’s lo-fi tape-machine manipulations start out quite minimal (barely audible @ the beginning there) before building up into a wall of synthetic repetition & creaky, lo-fi warble (natch) - carlos starts out with some deep pulse-width extrapolations which quickly (again) rise up into a fairly rich shit-storm of electronic sound ... both parties are in fine form throughout ...

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22 carlos giffoni / aaron dilloway 'live at no fun fest 2007' split lp

limited to 350. full no fun 2007 live sets, from giffoni and dilloway recorded to the best possible quality. total tape mangling, and analog synth destruction.

$15.95

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threads:
harsh-noise
machine-music
concert-recordings

best of 2008 !!!

no fun productions (usa) #nfp 21 lp

enema syringe “live at no fun fest 2007” long playing record

ekoredaktionen (2:56)
no brain no mind (8:40)
nån hemma (5:35)
jag kanner ethomo (7:19)
jag kanner en man (6:29)
allt vi kan (0:22)

april 2008 release ; the first domestic release by kai parvainen’s enema syringe, a late-80s swedish noise act (originally appearing on a few cold meat industry comps) going through something of a renaissance at present, with recent albums for ultra eczema & ufo mongo ...

oddly charming / hypnotic machine-music (read: drum-machine) lineage harsh-noise skreamo aktion, with much feedback / synth hysteresis ... awesome.

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21 enema syringe 'live at no fun fest 2007' lp

limited to 350. full no fun 2007 live set, recorded to the best possible quality. totally insane and heavy set from industrial/noise swedish pioneer's enema syringe.

$34.95

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threads:
harsh-noise
modern-psych
electro-acoustic-improvisation

file under:
psych-prog

best of 2007 !!!

no fun productions (usa) #nfp 20 cd

c.c.c.c. “early works” quadruple compact disc set

live at gospel #1
live at gospel #2
live at gospel #3
live at donzoko house #1
live at donzoko house #2
live at gargoyle mechanique
phantasmagoria
magick in the cave

attractive 4-disc boxed set covering live works collectively performed by hiroshi hasegawa, mayuko hino, fumio kosakai, and ryuichi nagakubo between 1990 and 1992.

an astonishing wealth of woozy, in-situ electro-acoustic treatments, hasegawa’s guitar playing edged out as early as the second disc by an all-synthesizer/electronics lineup that’s eerily prescient of the contemporary synth-noise spectrum.

those of you already familiar with c.c.c.c. have been waiting for this set for some time; others - a great, if overwhelming survey of this classic, pioneering japanese-noise act...

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20 c.c.c.c. 'early works' 4xcd box

box set from japanese psychedelic noise legends c.c.c.c. collecting unreleased live material, including very early recordings from some of their first shows in 1990 and their 1992 us tour, along some long unavailible studio classics like the phantasmagoria tape. extensive liner notes by original member fumio kosakai (now in incapacitants, and many others) about the band beginings and his take on the c.c.c.c. vision. an essential document in the unique c.c.c.c. sound which kosakai describes best as "psychedelic, cosmic and erotic". produced by c.c.c.c. founder hiroshi hasegawa. extensive audio restoration and mastering by james plotkin. comes in deluxe slipcase box and digipack packaging. limited to 1000 copies.

$21.95

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modern-psych

no fun productions (usa) #nfp 18 lp

mouthus “untitled” double twelve inch single record

untitled
untitled
untitled
untitled

december 2007 release; a limited title-less double-lp from nate nelson & brian sullivan... hot off the press; will re-visit this in a few days w/more info...

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18 mouthus 'untitled' 2x12”

industrial psych rock from broolyn troglodites of heavyness. twice the volume, twice the destruction, twice the machinery, twice the head ache of psychedelic industrial joy! play it at whatever speed you want. limited to 350 copies.

$15.95

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no fun productions (usa) #nfp 17 lp
misanthropic agenda (united states) #mar 018 lp

deathroes “final expense” long playing record

untitled
untitled

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17 deathroes 'final expense' lp

deathroes is gerritt and sixes. total auditory destruction by these west coast veterans debut collaboration lp. dark psychedelic drone, walls of sounds, electronic impossibility. tectonic plates shift and rain of lava annihilates ones own soul along with everyone else’s. enligthment and new death-born feelings combined with hallucinations so sharp and vivid that they lead to the disintegration of all senses. salvation, elation, truth?-no, only the final expense! split release with misanthropic agenda. limited to 500 copies.

$11.95

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modern-psych
electro-acoustic-improvisation

no fun productions (usa) #nfp 16 cd

jazkamer / smegma “endless coast” compact disc

heavy fog (11:42)
white witch (5:33)
portland swamps (5:55)
stone eater (3:15)
carniviorous bog (8:13)

supersession involving the full smegma lineup (dr. id, ju suk reet meate, conroy, burned mind, oblivia) with an expanded jazkamer lineup (lasse marhaug, john hegre, and carlos giffoni) - the acoustic/plunderphonic cromp of smegma (much ayler-ian funeral-march freedom) meshing perfectly with the guitar & electronics of the norwegian/bushwick contingent.

aside from the fact that jazkamer and smegma are two of my favorite contemporary units; this record has much staying power aside from the initial jolt - both sides let down their guard in spots and the music sways readily from pointilist improv jank to full-bore skree. excellent stuff.

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16 jazkamer / smegma 'endless coast' cd

a collaboration between american underground psychedelic/noise pioneers (and still kicking hard now for over 30 years) smegma and norweigan noise/metal masters jazkamer. from two totally different worlds and approaches to sound a totally original abstract language is born creating an imaginary coast that extends from the brutality of the scandinavian frozen seas to the dark and mysterious rock filled beaches of the american northwest - a landscape full of strange creatures and beings, an eternal and endless coast. recorded and mixed at smegma’s legendary home base portland studio.

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no fun productions (usa) #nfp 15 cd

merzbow / carlos giffoni / jim o’rourke “electric dress” compact disc

electric dress (52:16)

late april 2007 release; a recording of a concert that took place at tokyo’s uplink factory on september 30th, 2006 featuring the debut trio of masami “merzbow” akita (ems synthi ‘a’, handmade instruments and various effects), carlos giffoni (custom synthss and analog filters), and jim o’rourke (synth and microphone.)

“electric dress” is a single 50+ minute synth-blast that delivers on a bunch of levels; it has a nice, narrative flow; lingering in “space machine” territory for the first half before amping up into full-on annihilation for the second... the recording is actually quite clean; not the “in-the-red” lineage tape-saturated blowout you’d expect, much closer to the sound of the zero gravity records from the mid 90s (incidentally, also mostly recorded @ uplink - i’ve got to check that place out!)

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15 merzbow/carlos giffoni/jim o’rourke 'electric dress' cd

electric dress covers the full spectrum of sound color possibility, from totally brutal walls of destructive noise to beautiful minimal synthetic interplay, analog drone and shifting alien electronics. a total mind melting collaboration recorded live in tokyo using synths and a variety of custom analog equipment, even including merzbow's classic spring/junk metal instrument. warm, varied, and obsessive this is what industrial music should have been, the sound of infinite machines demolishing a planet and creating a new structure where live organisms have been eradicated.

edited and mastered by jim for maximum sonic annihilation. documents one of nowadays very rare merzbow's all analog live shows, one of jim o'rourke's rare live appearances since his move to japan and the culmination of carlos giffoni's japan synth destruction tour. all this at the same time! 100% essential!

electric dress is recommended for fans of analog period merzbow, early noise and industrial music, academic electronic and analog synth music-and for those adepts of beautiful and invigorating evil music.

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no fun productions (usa) #nfp 14 lp

consumer electronics “nobody's ugly” long playing record

black cotton wool
grubbing

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14 consumer electronics 'nobody's ugly' lp

consumer electronics is the work of mr. philip best (whitehouse, male rape group, ramleh just to name a few!) pioneer of power electronics and noise who's been at it since the early 80's in his early teenage years while we were all still sucking on our mother's breast and crying like retards.

first full length vinyl release for c.e. since 1993. produced by mr. william bennett.

two side long tracks of beautiful evil noise and heavy layers of drone with the sonic power of recent whitehouse releases and the classic consumer electronics tense and obsessive vibe.

comes in heavy delux screened covers.
limited to 500 copies.

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no fun productions (usa) #nfp 11 lp

pita “a bas la culture marchande” long playing record

pkn (7:20)
atrac kals (10:47)
1127429874 (10:35)
1134 parts 1+2 (6:48)

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11 pita 'a bas la culture marchande' lp

pulsating inhuman sounds, minimal drone work, silence? harsh layered electronics and total death. explorations into the infra-worlds with a few tool boxes and a fucking gigantic drill of destruction manned by a single man, mr. peter rehberg-a sick man and 20th/21st century pioneer of evil electronic music with all the secret formulas to create artificial breakdowns of space and time. hail primal electronic darkness. first vinyl from pita in several years. limited to 300.

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no fun productions (usa) #nfp 08 cd

carlos giffoni “arrogance” compact disc

no more air (8:53)
wait for me dressed in one color (8:03)
i always lie (16:25)
the snake rises (11:43)
a proper end (4:13)

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08 carlos giffoni arrogance cd

five chapters of sound inspired by one of the most powerful and complex emotions of humankind. arrogance is a departure from the digital machine insanity of his previous full length release, welcome home (important records), for a world of total analog electronics, primal energy, walls of monumental sound and precise attention to layers - creating massive slowly evolving structures that are both beautiful and terrifying. arrogance is the first cd release on the no fun productions label. recorded live with no overdubs in brooklyn during a 12 month period by carlos giffoni and mastered by james plotkin. cover artwork by award winning artist/designer megan ellis.

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