john krausbauer “imager” compact disc

• upwards/skywards (18:06)
  
• in light (15:26)

autumn press release...

ar019 john krausbauer - imager cd release date: 07-13-10 200 copies artwork by garek druss this is the debut solo release by john krausbauer. he has been a fixture on the portland oregon improvised and experimental music scene (in groups like tecumseh, aures and more...) john's solo music is the electronic compliment to aures' power acoustic static drone minimalism. here we have 2 different deep weighty shimmering views of one eternal drone vista. subtle oscillations reveal infinite details. play this in a room, on speakers, loud & let your ears explore the sonic space ...

john wiese “mixed metaphor b/w into a bad way” seven inch single record

• mixed metaphor (3:59)
  
  
• into a bad way (3:26)

cloaked light “uuuuuu” compact disc recordable

• (2:47)
  
• (15:28)
  
• (15:35)
  
• (5:30)

young tapes press release...

cl ~ "uuuuuu" _disc 01' 02:47 02' 15:28 03' 15:35 04' 05:30 ___ 39:16 live

eagle’s breast “assault and flattery” c120 cassette

• power equipment
  
• water soothes a critic
  
  
• born in lakeland
  
• a song draws pilgrim to remote grave

razors & medicine press release...

eagle’s breast - assault and flattery (new and regular project from me. live prepared guitar and dual tape loops and voice. c-120!)

ricardo donoso “linear transformation matrices ” c30 cassette

• translation operator
  
• looking up at nothing
  
  
• american officer
  
• perspective projections

razors & medicine press release...

ricardo donoso - linear transformation matrices  (awesome, kinda perispirit style)

vile bodies “demo” c18 cassette

• novelization
  
• monotongue
  
• host becomes parasite
  
  
• the healer
  
• face w/o hands
  
• point diner
  
• indentured

razors & medicine press release...

vile bodies - demo (strunk’s band. conversions with a male singer)

perispirit / virile games “split” c18 cassette

• perispirit - we’re so happy or they aren’t dead
  
  
• virile games - lapped

razors & medicine press release...

perispirit / virile games (best perispirit track yet. virile games is from the same guy who did that virgin spring tape and is a member of kp.)

jim shepard / vertical slit “slit & pre-slit” long playing record

• 1-2-3... hello (0:34)
  
• in-no-sense 1x2 (2:44)
  
• ascencion (2:22)
  
• dedication loop (0:52)
  
• fair exchange (bill nelson) (4:27)
  
• 66 2/6 (1:00)
  
• 7:00 a.m. jam (6:55)
  
• 6x4 (0:40)
  
  
• siren intro (1:05)
  
• 6x4 f*1 (1:35)
  
• a day at the factory (st. edmunds church) (3:46)
  
• greensleeves (1:25)
  
• 3 piece (4:25)
  
• 6x4 f*2 (1:14)
  
• the bed (lou reed) (4:50)
  
• in-no-sense • outro (0:55)

ay / arc “ohio feathers: volume 4” c30 cassette

• ay - untitled (1)
  
• ay - untitled (2)
  
  
• arc - untitled (3)
  
• arc - untitled (4)

pizza night press release...

48: "ohio feathers: volume 4" c30 ay / arc "****"

steel dangerous / khaki blazer “ohio feathers: volume 3” c30 cassette

• steel dangerous - untitled (1)
  
• steel dangerous - untitled (2)
  
• steel dangerous - untitled (3)
  
  
• khaki blazer - untitled (4)
  
• khaki blazer - untitled (5)
  
• khaki blazer - untitled (6)

pizza night press release...

47: "ohio feathers: volume 3" c30 steel dangerous / khaki blazer "****"

keith fullerton whitman “live generators (1)” c38 cassette and c34 cassette set

• generator 1.0 • 090919 • cafe du nord, san francisco (18:41)
  
• generator 1.1 • 090927 • the armory, somerville (17:41)
  
  
• generator 1.2 • 091009 • spectacle, boston (16:41)
  
• generator 1.3 • 091024 • the elevens, northampton (15:41)

july 2010 release ; second protracted view tape we’ve managed to stock (after the epic “synth night” set from last year ; apparently there were another 38 releases in between this & that !!! wonder what they were ...) covering the first four “generator” concerts from september & october of 2009 ... ... after my initial, exploratory phase of performing music with only a (steadily growing) eurorack modular synthesizer (as documented on the “split series” lps on no fun, amethyst sunset, ... and soon dekorder, amish, and others) i settled down with the “generator” patch / system ; a double 4-part canon (i.e. four sinewave oscillators and four pulsewidth ones) that works with tuning & tracking inconsistencies across the various make & model of oscillator to yield, at first, a swarming/buzzing field of closely tuned intervals ... then an ear-piercing, “inside your head” wall of shrieking overtone movement ... using this patch as a building-block, i started adding various sub-patches to modify the canons (recording them digitally at low bit-rates to emphasize the nyquist bleed, running them through a bucket-brigade for more harmonic congestion, filtering & frequency-shifting, etc...) as well as augmenting them with sounds from a commodore 64 emulator & even adding poly-rhythmic accents to “anchor” the piece ... as these concerts show the piece in it’s infancy, it feels nice to have them all available in one place ... for me it’s a keepsake of this very busy month :: ... the label gave the go-ahead to architect this all-clear edition, with professionally duplicated / imprinted tapes housed inside the elusive “side by side” double norelco (went to hell & back trying to track these down ; wasn’t easy !!!) with two separate laser-transparency inserts (one 5” x 14” “cover”, then a 3.5” x 14” “insert”) ... and while the fidelity ranges from the crystal-clear board-capture (c/o the norman conquest) of the “on land” set to the room-sound video-mic gristle of the “i hear a new world” piece (c/o feeding tube’s ted lee) the tape-duping levels the playing field & all come across as a coherent whole ... super happy with how this turned out ; hope you enjoy !!!

protracted view press release...

hype williams “untitled” long playing record

• untitled (1)
  
• untitled (2)
  
• untitled (3)
  
  
• untitled (4)
  
• untitled (5)
  
• untitled (6)
  
• untitled (7)

daphne oram “oramics” quadruple long playing record set

• introduction
  
• power tools
  
• bird of parallax
  
• in a jazz style
  
• purring interlude
  
  
• contrasts essconic
  
• lego builds it
  
• pompie ballet (excerpt)
  
• intertel
  
• ardwick high school no. 1
  
• look at oramics
  
• rotolock
  
  
• purple dust
  
• high speed flight
  
• studio experiment no. 1
  
• four aspects
  
• kia ora
  
  
• dr faustus suite
  
• ardwick high school no. 2
  
• tumblewash
  
• studio experiment no. 2
  
• snow
  
  
• rockets in ursa major (excerpt 1)
  
• food preservation
  
• studio experiment no. 3
  
• bala
  
• episode metallic
  
• studio experiment no. 4
  
  
• ardwick high school no. 3
  
• fanfare of graphs
  
• studio experiment no. 5
  
• brociliande
  
• mary had a little lamb
  
• incidental music for invasion (excerpts)
  
  
• costain suite
  
• rockets in ursa major (excerpt 2)
  
• passacaglia
  
• missile away
  
  
• pulse persephone
  
• ardwick high school no. 4
  
• nestea
  
• rockets in ursa major (excerpt 3)
  
• conclusion
  
• studio jinks

young americans press release...

youngam001 “oramics (deluxe vinyl edition)” by daphne oram daphne oram was the founder of the bbc radiophonic workshop, a department she more or less single-handedly created in 1958 camping out at the bbc studios for nights on end splicing tapes and working with various modified machines to carefully arrange her abstract soundscapes. eventually the bbc bent under her pressure and in studio 13 created the soon-to-be-legendary radiophonic workshop, with oram its first director. among her countless other achievements, oram is cited as the first woman ever to design and build an electronic musical instrument, one that worked around the ‘drawn-sound’ technique whereby strips of 35mm film would be manipulated before being fed into her home-made ‘oramics’ machine which would convert and ‘read’ the film into sound. despite her considerable and historic list of achievements, oram’s life and work remain largely unknown by the wider public. as this remarkable 44-track collection shows, however, her work ranks amongst the most varied and pioneering ever made, it’s quite incredible to think that this is the first time any of these precious recordings have been available on vinyl. as opposed to so much of the radiophonic-era material that has surfaced over the last few years, oram’s work is often characterised by a much more layered and introspective quality, offsetting classic playful interludes and commercial recordings with beautiful, immersive pieces like the breathtaking “pulse persephone” and “bird of parallax” – pieces that simply have no equal in electronic music made at the time. it would be impossible to over-emphasise the importance and brilliance of this material – it really is compulsory listening for anyone with even just a passing interest in electronic music – her influence can be charted through pretty every musical current shaping the sounds of today. 155 minutes / 8 sides of vinyl cut by lupo at d&m, housed in a heavyweight 300 gram gatefold sleeve, featuring rare archive photographs.

pete swanson “ghost o clock” c20 cassette

• ghost o clock (1)
  
  
• ghost o clock (2)

no label press release...

pete swanson “challenger” c20 cassette

• challenger (1)
  
  
• challenger (2)

no label press release...

ravi binning “in the city of mimes ” c20 cassette

• in the city of mimes (1)
  
  
• in the city of mimes (2)

future sound index press release...

ravi binning - in the city of mimes minimalist music for human holograms and living statues. an all analog synth affair made mechanical by tape delay loop rhythms. cut live straight from source. not too far from the loner synth chamber music of mark anthony heide or the early 80s home taper compositions on the icr label ... 100 pro printed and dubbed cassettes, black shells with white printing on the tape.

evil moisture “if you want to fuck the sky, teach your cock to fly” long playing record

• if you want to fuck the sky
  
• teach your cock to fly (1) (21:10)
  
  
• if you want to fuck the sky
  
• teach your cock to fly (2) (17:10)

quiet light water gap “nerve trigger” c38 cassette

• nerve trigger (1)
  
  
• nerve trigger (2)

wagon press release...

j. guy laughlin “solo percussion vol.i” c35 cassette

• solo percussion vol.i (1)
  
  
• solo percussion vol.i (2)

wagon press release...

j. guy laughlin “solo percussion vol. i” one of the most talented percussionists active on the right half of the united states makes a fine debut for wagon. j guy may be better known as the time keeper and main rhythm source of projects like the up and coming puffy areolas, or cleveland's dead peasant insurance. he may also be found in duo formation w/the infamous mike forbes or w/the "electronic key-holder" bob drake.  recorded at the now defunct zombie proof studios last year, this marks one of the first widely released recordings featuring just mr laughlin with his drums and assorted percussion and in a very fine fidelity no less. the cuts contained on this release glow with a mastery of dynamics and rapidly shifting phrases, a true guru of free-improvisation as expression. j guy continually challenges himself and his unsuspecting audiences to create a realm where true to the moment expression exists, even if it means taking a live blitzkrieg from the man himself...you deserve it. this cassette serves as an entrance to the infinite tunnel of new ideas for percussion on a professional level in an era where a sudden mass quantity of amateur hour jazz and jazz fusion tactics live as an extra value meal without criticism. this is as true as expression can be and a brave solo adventure. forthcoming releases on wagon are not so far off limited to 150 on chrome tapes.

howard stelzer / jason talbot “recent work” compact disc recordable

• cashier
  
• adminstrative assistant
  
• bookstore employee (fired)
  
• pizza maker
  
• temp
  
• record store clerk
  
• textbook editor

songs from under the floorboards press release...

floor6 stelzer & talbot “recent work” cdr edition of 100 copies a reissue of stelzer & talbot‘s album from 2002, recent work was originally published by rrrecords for the occasion of their tour with emil beaulieau and sudden infant. to celebrate the occasion of the duo’s reunion show in june 2010, their first performance in at least five years, it’s available again with a redesigned cover and new art by mike hale. fast-paced tape and turntable action, executed live at mike shiflet’s avantronics festival in columbus oh. first edition of 100 pro-duplicated cdrs in jewel case with full-color artwork. out now on songs from under the floorboards, a division of intransitive recordings.