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          [] <> <>  14 December 2007
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Beloved Customers and Friends:

Whew! One more New Arrivals list under our belts. Lots of great stuff
this time of course, we'll get to all that in a minute. It's been
crazy busy here lately (a good thing) what with the holiday season
being in full swing and all, so first off -- Happy Holidays!! Merry
Christmas!! Mailorder customers hoping to get stuff by Christmas,
there's some important FYI's for you below, please read that section.

Record Of The Week this week is one to start any krautrock lover
drooling, a previously unissued live set from Neu!/Kraftwerk/Cluster
related outfit Harmonia, the long-awaited Live 1974 set. Sooooo
goood, gorgeously tranceworthy stuff, a precious addition to this
band's classic but brief (two album) discography.
And even if you've never heard Harmonia before, please do yourself a
favor and go ahead and dive in here!

And the Highlights, alphabetically go something like this:

3/4hasbeeneliminated: lavish wood-box packaging of latest from these
Italian mystery-makers.
A Place To Bury Strangers: noisy NYC shoegaze awesomeness.
Ai Aso: fresh from her 7" split with Boris' Wata, a soothing solo cd
from this Japanese singer.
Audiopain: a lethal dose of modern blackened thrash from these
Norwegian neck-wreckers.
Bongzilla: 2-on-1 reissue of these sludge stoner faves first album
and ep.
Steven Brodsky's Octave Museum: almost-overlooked total pop gem from
the Cave In frontman.
Burning Saviours: third timelost album from these Swedish '70s style
doom/prog/folk rockers.
Sylvain Chauveau: delicate soft fragile frozen soundtrack sounds.
Circle: limited new 2-song 7" from our favorite Finnish hypno rockers.
Dave Clarke: this DJ hearts techno and so do we when he's spining
these killers.
Philip Cohran x 2: two reissues, one vinyl, one cd, of two albums
from this '70s Sun Ra-ish jazzer.
Richard Crandell: new Tzadik disc from the minimalist mbira master.
Divanity: cd-r of Israeli doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom.
Dukkha / Black Vomit: you loved Skultroll and Ice Bound Majesty, now
here's these two!
Fear Falls Burning: massive 5lp remixes box set featuring Birchville
Cat Motel, Aidan Baker, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and others!
Alastair Galbraith: the NZ bard is back with a disc of magical noise,
folk, and pop experiments.
Goat Witch: live cd of psychedelic mathrock ambient spaciness from
down under.
Harumi: East-meets-West on this sixties psych-pop reissue.
Tim Hecker: 10" of gorgeously gauzy sonic soundscapes from this AQ fave.
His Name Is Alive: Warn Defever & Co.'s surprising tribute to jazz
saxophonist Marion Brown.
Jeremy Jay: we've got a crush on this new singer whose pop music
sounds soooo Factory records '80s.
Jazzfinger: limited 8" SQUARE lathe cut from these English drone
merchants.
Kobayashi: 7" picture disc of wigged out grindcore.
LSD-March: limited double cd of psychedelic experimentation from
these Japanese heavies.
Marblebog: Ambient black metal buzz from these Hungarian
foresthearted faves.
Meads Of Asphodel: 7" of punk covers from this bizarre black metal
troupe.
The Mile End Ladies String Auxiliary: tense chamber rock from
Godspeed/Silver Mt. Zion members.
Murmer: limited, lovingly packaged new disc of drones from this
Jonathan Coleclough collaborator.
Njiqahdda: double cd-r of insane unblack metal on EEE.
Of: Jewelled Antler-er Loren Chasse's latest solo set of dreamlike
drones.
Yui Onodera: pump organ and field recordings meld on this dark and
lovely drone disc.
Korla Pandit: twofer reissue of B-3 exotica from the late great Korla
Pandit.
Pet Genius: Cave In frontman's surprising new act channels both the
Beatles and QOTSA.
Prurient: limited 8" SQUARE lathe cut from this noise fiend.
Rastan: the other video game in the new "AQ arcade" gets its due.
Michael Rother x 2: two of the Harmonia guitarists sublime solo
efforts at last reissued.
Shevalreq: like Xynfonica, but the black metal vocals are over synth
JAZZ music this time...
The Skull Defekts: a limited 3" cd-r on Kning from these Swedish
repetitive noise rock artists.
The Sound Projector: 16th issue of this UK must-read music review
fanzine.
The Story: 2nd lovely Brit folk-psych album from Forest's Martin
Welham and Son.
Striborg: reissue of two early, amazing demos by the "Jandek of black
metal".
Sun City Girls: cd reissue of supposed soundtrack featuring guests
Eyvind Kang and The Ruins!
Taj Mahal Travellers: back in print, the 2cd August 1974 set from
these seminal '70s psych improvisors.
The Telescopes: a 7"+cd-r from the veteran UK spacerocking shoegazers.
V/A Black Mirror: amazing compilation of tracks from old 78 rpm
records from around the world.
V/A Box Of Dub 2: another Soul Jazz mix of hard hitting dubstep and
pure spacey dub.
V/A Eccentric Soul: The Outskirts Of Deep City: more obscure '70s
funk/soul gems in this superfine series.
V/A Pop Ambient 2008: Kompakt wows us again with this year's
installment in their blissed out series.
V/A (Daft Punk) Discovered: the sample sources that make Daft Punk so
great.
V/A No Skull Left Unturned: 3cds, 4 booklets, and more stuff from the
Man Is The b*****d archives.
White Hills: 2nd actual cd album from these East Coast heavy space
psych rockers.
Wildildlife: Crucial Blast debut from these noise-rockin' SF weirdos,
heavy and even kinda poppy!
Wolfskull: evil cd-r of NZ droney murk.

And we've got new tapes!

Inca Ore / Grouper: noise/drone split from these two lady-led projects.
V/A Matter 10.2007: new tape of the month comp from black metallers
Amocoma & friends.
SS Hell Camp: cassette release of super obscure, super cool exploito
Nazi prison torture film soundtrack.

But those highlights aren't the only things on this list we'd
recommend. For instance, we've got a few copies back in stock of the
first album from Circle stoner side project Pharaoh Overlord... and
the issue of Wax Poetics... a new Nardwuar (double) DVD... two new EM
Records reissues devoted to the steel drums jazz sound (!), a
collaborative set by Cloudland Canyon and Lichens on the Holy
Mountain label... a sw**k Sigur Ros double DVD... Patagonian wind
recordings by Francisco Lopez... a new Growing 7"... a new quite
excellent ep by the postpunk vets Wire... and lots more!

And you'll notice one of our highlights is the new album Six, from
Wilildlife, featuring our very own Matt. Well, if you're local,
there's a record release show / party. It's December 19th, at the
Elbo Room. Wilildlife will be tearing it up (obviously) along with
guests Flood and Prizehog. And as we mentioned in our review, you
gotta see them live if you can!

So here's where things get complicated. Folks placing mailorders, and
hoping to get their orders BEFORE Christmas, will most likely at this
point have to spring for expedited shipping. Post list, there's
always a bit of a backlog, so even if we have everything you ordered
in stock, it still might take a couple days to get it in the post.
Since Monday is the 17th, a mere 8 days before Christmas, with a
weekend in there too, it seems like regular shipping won't get your
your package until on or right after Christmas. So if you do need it
quicker than that, let us know and we will do our very best.
Overseas folks, it might be too late for you, but we're of course
willing to try, it might end up being a little pricey though. Just
let us know and we'll do what we can.

The next list falls right after Christmas, and will most likely not
be an ordinary list. Assuming we can all get our sh*t together, it
will feature our BEST OF 2007 lists, and if we really manage to kick
ass over the holidays, maybe a handful of new stuff reviewed as well.
But we're not making any promises.
We'll keep you posted for sure. And just 'cuz there's no list doesn't
mean there's still not plenty of goodies to order!!

Thanks everyone for another fantastic year. We know it's been said
before, but it definitely bears repeating...
WE LOVE YOU ALL!! Without you, we're nothing.
Happy holidays. Be safe. Be happy.

We'll be back in two weeks, as always! See you then.

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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!

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