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Posted: October 29 2010 at 21:58 |
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---------------||| New Arrivals #357.13 ---------------||| HALLOWEEN SPECIAL ---------------||| 29 October 2010 Beloved Customers and Friends: Hey everyone! What's up? We're back again with another in-between list list. When we were trying to figure out this week's "theme", our first thought was to do something related to our AQ40 birthday party (which was AWESOME, by the way, more on that below), like "40 records from 40 years" or something like that. But then we thought, enough about our birthday, how about a World Series themed list, with bands from San Francisco vs. bands from Texas!? Could be good. But, ultimately, we went for the most obvious thing: a Halloween themed list! Happy Halloween folks! We've chosen 13 dark/scary/creepy/ominous albums, generally from either the experimental drone or metal categories, which wasn't tough since we've got a LOT of dark, scary music here at the store as it turns out. So these are just some frightening faves... they include a classic creepy organ music soundtrack, actual recordings of ghosts, and one from the recent all-tUMULt list, Pyha's The Haunted House, for obvious reasons! And, with that theme, we were able to put TWO brand new (well, reissued, new and improved) Records Of The Week on this list! There's Southern Lord's expanded edition of the seminal drone-dirge debut from AQ fave's EARTH! Definitely a hugely recommended, even mandatory one to get if you don't have it already, and with enough bonus music and artwork to make it very much worth getting again even if you do! AND, also, the finally at last now on cd version of last year's long gone Malevolent Grain 12" by cult Cascadian black metal mystics Wolves In The Throne Room, limited edition, self-released and acquired direct from the band themselves!! Check out the special inbetween Halloween list here: http://www.aQuariusrecOrds. So, about the birthday party, wow. Just wow. The place was packed. Thanks everyone who came out (and sorry to those who couldn't get in, as it was in fact sold out!). All the bands RULED, the cake was delicious (and the decoration on the "New Wave Music Is Our Specialty" flaming A guitar one turned out really well, we'll have to post a photo of it someplace). The whole evening was super fun, it just had a really good vibe. So, special thanks to Best Coast, Mantles, Lumerians, Dzjenghis Khan (more cowbell!), Date Palms, and Pigs for playing, that was incredibly cool of all of you to do it, also thanks to all the nice people at the DuNord, and also to all the labels who sent us rad swag to give away: Neurot, Mint, Hydra Head, Beta-Lactam Ring, Relapse, Drag City, Porter, Gigante Sound, Dynamophone, Temporary Residence, Matador, Root Strata, Absolutely Kosher, Southern Lord - and Issues magazine store in Oakland... Believe us, we really appreciate the support!! THANKS!!! We'll do something like this again next year for sure. Ok, so, Halloween list time. Besides the two Records Of The Week, we've picked 13 things, all of 'em eerie... and recommended!! Of course, we there's more we'd have picked, if we had Judson Fountain in stock for instance, or Jacula, or Flingco's Black Box... but these 13 ought to be spookily satisfactory enough! Be back in a week with another New Arrivals list as always, until then, enjoy this special spooky inbetweener! And have a happy halloween... ------------------------------ And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch! ------------------------------ As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/ And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/ ------------------------------ |
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Posted: November 12 2010 at 20:11 |
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____|_____|__________ aQuarius recOrds _______|_____|_______ New Arrivals #359 __________|_____|____ 12 November 2010 Beloved Customers and Friends: Greetings everybody! Please pay close attention, this isn't the ordinary in-between-list-list. No, this week's in-between-list-list is a bit more like a non-in-between-list-list! In other words, a LIST. Surprise! A bit shorter than usual, but basically another regular New Arrivals list full of, naturally, new stuff. That's 'cause, when we were pondering what this week's "theme" should be, we realized there were a number of things we'd meant to list on last week's New Arrivals (which you should check out if you haven't already!) that didn't show up quite in time, including in fact one potential Record Of The Week. But they're here now, along with a bunch of other cool new records, plus some crucial now-on-vinyl or now-on-cd releases... it all added up to enough to do a short-but-sweet list, so why wait? Thus, the theme is: ALL (almost) NEW!! Aquarius Records, keeping you on your toes. Our Record Of The Week this week is the new album, entitled Lime, from those fabulously mesmeric space/psych rockers Mugstar, and it's the perfect follow-up to one of last week's Records Of The Week, the In Search Of Hawkwind tribute comp which also heavily featured Mugstar (for good reason)! As for Highlights, that's most of the rest of the list (there's just a few items, some "warehouse finds" and things that we just have a tiny handful of, that we're not technically highlighting, and if you order those, including some alternates wouldn't be a bad idea). Since it's a short list, we won't do our usual item-by-item Highlights rundown. Suffice to say, you'll find everything from the psychedelically poptastic attack of another Purling Hiss lp, to a new industrial nu-gaze / new wave 12" fave from White Car, to double drummer Southern stoner doom from Kylesa, to the Dum Dum Girls covering the Misfits on a new Slumberland 7", to the pre-Cold Cave coldwave project Ye Olde Maids now on cd, and more! Oh and all you cassette freaks will be stoked on 3 new Tapeworm releases, including one that both is and isn't by Fennesz, in a really fascinating way... You can see why we didn't want to wait a whole 'nother week to list all this. So, please read on and order up! And while we have your attention, another reminder about next upcoming instore: Fabulous Diamonds, all the way from Australia! That's on November 17th, a Wednesday, at 5 o'clock pm. The hypnotic boy-girl synth duo is planning on getting especially spacey for our instore, should be fantastic! So mark your calendars. OK, then, one with this week's non-in-between-list-list! Dig it!! ------------------------------ And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch! ------------------------------ As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/ And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/ ------------------------------ |
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Posted: November 19 2010 at 22:32 |
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)=( )====( aQuarius recOrds )====( )=( )=( o )====( New Arrivals #360 )====( o )=( )=( )====( November 19 2010 )====( )=( )=( )====( )====( )=( Beloved Customers and Friends: Hey folks! Welcome to another one of our exciting lists. Since we did an "in-between list" last week that turned into a REAL list, #359, with a bunch of brand new stuff, we were worried that this list might wind up smaller. Didn't happen! Got a TON more great new releases here for you on #360. Plus, we are re-listing a few of the key things from #359 that we still have stock of, just in case you weren't paying attention last Friday, thinking it was just a round-up of previously reviewed stuff like we usually do, wouldn't want you to miss, say, the Mugstar we made Record Of The Week last time! Concerning this week's Records Of The Week, there's three of 'em... MURMUURE: Finally on cd, strange improvised atmospheric electronic flecked shoegazey black metal experimentation from France, seriously twisted and fantastic and probably our BM record of the year! REUBER: A dizzying assemblage of loops and samples and textures and effects woven into a series of super varied soundscapes, from hypnotic kosmische krautdrone (and they are German), to hazy murky pulsing techno flecked electronica, to super frantic spaced out new wave, to murky electronic dirgey psych rock, so good! GROUP DOUEH: Latest on Sublime Frequencies, the third from the mighty Group Doueh, a super limited lp of course, this record focused on the roots of Saharoui music, which are of course the roots of Group Doueh's sound, played mostly on traditional Moorish instruments, but still unmistakably Group Doueh. And then a plethora of Highlights, naturally... AGALLOCH: Exquisitely crafted, carefully orchestrated black metal and more from these forest dwelling artistes, new on Profound Lore. And on sale! ANWORTH KIRK: Limited vinyl artifact culled from vintage British horror scores and such, on a new Andy Votel / Demdike Stare related label. BEACH FOSSILS: A short and sweet 7" batch of dreamy breezy jangle pop via Captured Tracks. THE BIG PINK: Killer mix tape by these shoegazey electro popsters, full of witch house, nu-gaze, glow-wave, weirdo electronica... BLANK DOGS: Another batch of gloomy fuzz pop from this one man band, on Captured Tracks. BLUE WATER WHITE DEATH: Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu + Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater collaborate on a weird and lovely, dark somber pop record! CINDYTALK: A double vinyl + 7" collection of the digital glitch abstraction found on this band's two recent Editions Mego cds. CONCERN X 2: More meticulously crafted looped and processed soundscapes from this artist, a whole new album on Arbor and the vinyl version of his 2009 Digitialis release. COUGH / THE WOUNDED KINGS: Vinyl-only heavy duty doom matchup from these two riff/sludge masters! CRAFT SPELLS: New wave eighties influenced retro garage pop straight outta Stockton, on a Captured Tracks 7". KEVIN DRUMM: Editions Mego vinyl reissue of some epic and apocalyptic, noize-doom from Mr. Drumm. BRIAN ENO: As true a return to classic form as could be expected by this pioneer of ambient music, on Warp. FAR EAST FAMILY BAND: The Japanese '70s space rock masters debut, reissued! THE FRESH & ONLYS / DAN MELCHIOR: Split 7" back in print, which is great since we never got to list it before! MATTHEW FRIEDBERGER: Taking *preorders* for this limited 8lp box set from Fiery Furnaces front man, f**kED UP: Fourth (?) in a series of Chinese Zodiac eps, this one featuring two extended, repetitive hypno-kraut post rock jams by these punks, with Zola Jesus cameo! THE FUN YEARS: Epic soundscapey full length number three from this turntable / baritone guitar duo, whose last two records have been huge favorites around here!! GAUNTLET HAIR: Mexican Summer 7" from a duo who specialize in distorted jangly bombastic pop, falling somewhere between Animal Collective and The Big Pink. GIRLS: This AQ fave band introduce a delightful twang and bittersweet elegance to their music on this lengthy ep. GIRLS NAMES / BRILLIANT COLORS: Garagey pop bliss on this Slumberland 7" split, the new to us Girls Names definitely for fans of Crystal Stilts! GOLD PANDA: Recent Record Of The Week of ragalike loops and samples, NOW HERE ON VINYL!! GRUNTRUCK: Two albums by this obscure '80s grunge fave reissued as a double cd! HANDGJORT: Scandinavian folk psych reissue on cd, with individually handmade covers just like the original lps. IMAGINARY SOFTWOODS: Yet another great homage to the transcendent, cosmological sounds of mid-'70s progressive electronics by way of John Elliott, better known as one of the synth dudes in Emeralds! JATOMA: Danish techno trio on Kompakt that recall the best of Four Tet, Matthew Herbert, and even Matmos from time to time, really great! ERNST KAREL: Fascinating field recording from scientific laboratories at Harvard! LAZER SWORD: Neon colored retro-futuristic hiphop sampling from this electronic outfit, 1/2 of whom used to work here at AQ. DAVID LEE JR.: Reissue of a beautiful early-seventies drum-centric spiritual jazz record we almost mistook for black metal 'cause of the cover! LITHIUM DREAMS / STARLA DUST: Two enigmatic projects share this 20-minute cassette, both doing krauty, sci-fi sountracks electronics. LUNGFISH: Reissue of this 1994 Dischord release, on cd and VINYL, from this great band (feat. singer Daniel Higgs y'know). MALAKAT: Sprawling double disc of self described 'other planetary field drone' from this mysterious Aussie duo. MASERATI: New full-length from these rhythmic instrumental post rockers, a collision of heavy crunchy guitars, propulsive motorik krautrock, and that sort of new age/wave-y synth, definitely for fans of Majeure and Zombi! MELECHESH: Middle Eastern masters of razor sharp, ripping blackened deathly thrashy metal return, with a mystical and mesmermic new album, maybe their best yet! MONARCH: Now on cd, this latest disc of extreme glacial heaviness, ultra black beauty, these French crushers now augmented by an Australian drummer (from the Grey Daturas!). MOURNER: Gorgeous weirdly melodic ultra doom, surprisingly lush, lumbering lurching slomo doooom with harmonium, Echoplex, noise, drones, tape loops, field recordings, on Paradigms! NADJA: Sprawling live document of two live shows, 3 hours each from Nadja and Aidan Baker solo, drone and buzz accompanied by incredible visuals from a ton of amazing filmmakers. PIGEONS: Now on vinyl, this latest collection of moody broody Portisheady lope, fuzz drenched hazy dreamfolk, murky drum machine pulses and swirling ethereal steel string drift. PSYCHIC REALITY / SEX WORKER: Got in a tiny handful of copies of this latest installment in Not Not Fun's Bored Fortress 7" series from these two modern drone-drug-psych combos... PUBLICIST: Debut 12" from Trans Am's drummer of fuzzy sci-fi synths, vocodered vocals, live drums and programmed beats, all woven into some seriously propulsive robotic cyber synthfunk grooviness! RENE HELL / THREE LEGGED RACE: SPlit lp of fractured homages to early electronic music, experimental tape music and science fiction outsider bedroom private press weirdness. Cool!! SETI-X: A collection of alien remixes of the legendary Voyager gold record sent into space decades ago, fantastic and weird and strangely enough released on Negativland's label. Hmmm.... SISTOL: Double disc reissue of this early Vladislav Delay project, a very skeletal techno, austere and minimal, with a whole disc of remixes. STELLAR OM SOURCE: Droned out minimal krautrock, raw private press naive electronic experimentation, Carpenter/Goblin influenced retro soundtrack synthscapes + percolating analog atmospherics, so good. STEREOLAB: Brand new record from this space age pop groop, featuring material recorded during the Chemical Chord sessions... HOWARD STELZER & DAVID PAYNE: Gorgeous and creepy, churning, lumbering emanations that crawl out of calcified hums, decayed tones, and wind-sheer microphone obliteration from these two noisemakers. SUFFER THE SHARDS OF THE LOST CULT OF SILENCE: Killer improvised droned out black metal from members of Woe and Absu on VHS! With an accompanying barrage of nightmarish collaged video. SUN ARAW: A reissue of the second album from SA, a fuzzy, druggy, washed out, effects heavy psychedelic krautdrone new age blow out... SWAGGER JACK: Warehouse find of gorgeous lo-fi hillbilly slo-mo Appalachia, hazy, druggy, minimal Fahey meets the VU via the NZ underground... THEOLOGIAN: Latest disc of crumbling black beauty from this power electronics / black ambient / dark industrial / synthdrone technician. TOBACCO: Twisted hip hop remix from this Black Moth Super Rainbow side project, featuring tons of guest rappers... UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US: The black metal doc you've been waiting for, finally on dvd and Blu-Ray... V/A GREAT GOOGLY MOO: Killer comp of jumpin' and jivin' treats from the early years of rock n' roll, circa 1955-1965, all with crazy NONSENSE LYRICS! V/A I LOVE TECHNO 2010: Crazed, over the top, blown out synth heavy techno madness that we can't get enough of. We DO love techno! V/A RIDDIM BOX: Another amazing Soul Jazz comp, this one focusing on the recent dubstep offshoot UK funky... WEED DIAMOND: Super awesome melodic jangle noise pop from Denver! WILD NOTHING: Another batch of perfect '80s inspired dream-pop gems from these golden haze merchants... WORMROT: Killer collection of crushing ultra heavy grindcore from Singapore, with a bonus disc of demos! Plus lots and lots more, including a several dark wave classics on the Dark Entries label repressed, a number of random (but interestin') "warehouse finds", a new issue of The Wire, other readin' as well, some more now-on-vinyl treats (DJ Nate for one), and as mentioned a few highlights from last time we wanted you to be sure to see, so read carefully... All right. Everybody have a great weekend, and a happy Thanksgiving next week. We'll be closed for Turkeyday, the 25th, but of course open on "Black Friday", the 26th, which by the way is supposed to be a sort of "mini-Record Store Day", there's some special limited edition Black Friday releases we'll have in stock then (Iron & Wine, The Sword, a few others) as well all the special releases we have here anyway, so we expect to see you locals then in a big shopping frenzy, right? Much better to come here than wait in line at Target or whatever at 5am to buy a big screen TV! Also, thanks to Fabulous Diamonds and Pigeons for coming by this past Thursday to play their instore here, and thanks to the folks who came out to see 'em, we know you enjoyed it 'cause both bands were wonderful! And since we're on the subject of thanks and Thanksgiving, THANKS to all of you out there reading this for doing just that, and buying stuff from us!!! And one last announcement, be sure to check out this show we're presenting TOMORROW: aQuarius recOrds presents SNAILFACE - box set release show THE ATOMIC BOMB AUDITION - "Roots into the See" release show CARTOGRAPHER Saturday Nov 20 Hemlock Tavern 1131 Polk St, San Francisco 9pm, 21+ Should be killer. And Snailface sonic mothership Kowloon Walled City is playing next week with UNSANE (!!!) so probably be wise to go to that show too... Okay then, enough intro, it's aQ list time... ------------------------------ And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch! ------------------------------ As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/ And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/ ------------------------------ |
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