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Hey everybody! Thanks for tuning in to another edition of the Aquarius New Arrivals List. Thanks also to everyone who came down for the White Hills instore here last week, it was fun. So, it's about 11pm Friday as we write this intro, which isn't too bad. We lost about 90 minutes of review writing time (and/or enjoying our lives time) to watching the VP debate yesterday, and now it's nice to have all this great music that we're about to tell you about, to take our minds off that golly gosh darn... oh never mind... We've got one of those shoo-in Records Of The Week this week, it's yet another Sublime Frequencies gem, this time the cd version of the record by Group Inerane from North Africa. Brain melting, heart wrenching, psychedelic "Tureg Guitar" jams. Very much recommended indeed! Then, many many quite essential highlights... Alter Echo and ERS-One Meet Dr. Israel: Limited, one sided, lowslung proto-dubstep 7". And of course, OF COURSE, much more. Including Romanian black metallers Negura Bunget's last album, now on vinyl. And a bunch of other now-on-vinyl treats too. And a new issue of Terrorizer. And a new Tindersticks. And not one but three Kiss reviews!! All right then. Read on! But, also, be sure to read our new blog, announced here last time. We've been blogging hard over the past two weeks, and wanted to mention that fact even though Andee can't stand the word "blog". Check it out here: And here's some other news, we'll surely be blogging about shortly, but you can read it here first: aQ pal Aaron from the band Iran, and his partner Audrey have been working for years on a documentary about black metal and it's finally done. And appropriately enough, the premier is on HALLOWEEN! So if you live in LA, don't miss it! Here's the details: UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US Oct. 31 7:45 pm Unfortunately we're gonna be seeing Corrupted on Halloween, their first SF show in ELEVEN YEARS!!!
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/cat/newest.html -- to read the New Arrivals list online where you can SEE COVER ART and HEAR SOUNDCLIPS we prepared for you. Plus it makes ordering almost effortless 'cause a single mouse click will pop an item directly into your shopping cart! No more trying to remember everything that you wanted to order after having read a hundred or so reviews! 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/streaming.html |
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\/ /\ \/ /\ \/ /\ \/ /\ /\ \/ /\ \/ /\ \/ /\ \/ Aquarius Records \/ /\ \/ /\ \/ /\ \/ /\ New Arrivals #303 /\ \/ /\ \/ /\ \/ /\ \/ 17 October 2008 \/ /\ \/ /\ \/ /\ \/ /\ /\ \/ /\ \/ /\ \/ /\ \/ Beloved Customers and Friends: Ah, Indian Summer here in San Francisco. Nothing like a hot, sunny day to make us wish we were sending out a brief, abridged New Arrivals list, instead of the mammoth virtual tome that we of course as always generate. Oh, well, at least it'll still be sorta warm and nice outside at 3 in the morning when we're done, which is a rare occurrence here in SF... and we're running late tonight on account of how stuff happens, like Pyha calling Andee long distance from Korea to chat, the Dead C stopping in to do some shopping, other friends dropping in, Andee getting a new Sruti-box app for his iPhone he has to show Allan, stuff like that... Not to mention all our hard work writing up last minute reviews and such (although everybody here at the store works really hard, we'd like to give a shout out to Scott for being such a trooper today). Worth it we hope you'll agree, 'cause we've got lot of great stuff on this week's list, including among other things an unholy dose of black metal and doom, which goes well with the item we're really excited about: the first in our new series of Limited Artist Edition AQ T-Shirts, with art by "killustrator" Justin Bartlett! That's right, we've been out of our regular logo AQ T's for too long now, so in addition to getting some more of those printed up (yup), we also have this grim new design, the first in a series done by rad artists who also happen to be AQ customers. You can get the details on the shirt below, sizes and stuff. Order up while they last! And if you want to see the desing, just head over to the aQ site... Ok, on with other excitement. This week's Record Of The Week almost seems like a gimme, but in addition to being the work of two of our favorite artists, it's even more awesome than we were expecting. Fantasma Parastasie by Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker is a breathtaking exploration of both distortion and dreaminess. Wow. And then there's whole crowd of Highlights: The 5th Dimension: Reissued, one of those bittersweet gems that fans of sixties pop and production will love! Adrenalin O.D.: Reissued, Reagan-era punkrock genius that's funny and very metal too. A classic! Ajilvsga / Mass Ornament / The North Sea / Alms: Limited 4-way split double cassette of doomdirgedeathdrone and free folk shimmer. The Alps: Now on cd, the fantastic new album from this San Francisco new-kraut-folk-age groop. Behexen: The cvlt Finnish black metal horde's latest, full of buzz and dirge and Satan and weirdness. Nathan Bell: Limited cd-r of solo banjo mesmer from Lungfish member. Black To Comm: Awesome new outing from this weirdo German drone combo! Blue Sabbath Black Cheer x 2: Two super limited cassettes featuring more of that doomdeathdirgedrone. Brobdingnagian: Underground noiserock meets black metal. Bulbs: Dreamy driftworthy drone, cassette only, limited to 50 copies! Celestial Bloodshed: So very blackened buzz and blast from this new grim Norwegian crew. Loren Chasse: Solo disc of field recordist explorations from Jewelled Antler mainstay. Loren Chasse & Michael Northam: Dreamtime psychedelic lullabies conjured in the bunkers by the Bay by these likeminded sonic collaborators. Church Of Misery: Limited 12" on Kult Of Nihilow from these Japanese masters of serial killer stoner sludge. Combat Astronomy: Brutal/beautiful USA/UK industrial prog + jazz freekout project's 2nd album. Corrupted: Back in stock, last copies EVER, vinyl of the crushing Paso Inferior. Crystal Antlers: Great garage psych freakiness here, hyped but worthy! Dead C: NZ freerock heroes return with another essential, out there album of abstract textures AND songs, simultaneously. Department Of Eagles: Great for Grizzly Bear fans!! Elm: Super limited, super good cd-r from 1/2 of Barn Owl... dark and droning twang... he works here, but we're not just being nice! Elysium / Monarch: Back in stock, but don't blink, a split LP of utter heaviness. Emit: Black metal buzz and creepy ambience, this final Emit balances over that abyss. Alec Empire: Industrial synth pop new wave awesomeness from the Digital Hardcore commando. Epidemia Mortaliis: 2 demos on one disc from these obscure French black metal weirdos. The (Fallen) Black Deer: Limited Latitudes series cd from members of Red Sparowes, intended as an alternate soundtrack to The Shining! Frail: The Cure + black metal vokills = Andee's favorite new black metal cassette! f**ked Up: Latest from these avant punks, with a guest review from aQ pal Forrest! Gang Gang Dance: Sounds like Kate Bush performing at an all night psychedelic rave! Genghis Tron: Vinyl-only remix 12" w/ Justin Broadrick, Rob Crow, Zombi, and Eluvium! Glass Candy: Now on vinyl, with bonus 7", the latest from these disco-pop sensations. Gore x 2: DELUXE vinyl reissues on Southern Lord of these '80s Dutch proto-math-metal, power trio instrumental ESSENTIALS. Grails: Back in stock but not for long, their "Interpretations Of Three Psychedelic Rock Songs From Around The World" Latitudes 12"! Hevoset: Limited, LP-only Finnnish free folk supergroup (well, duo) doing a drone-heavy effort. Hototogisu: Vinyl only 4 sided slab of abstract guitarscapery, soothing and abrasive at the same noisy droney time! Ignatz: Far out freaky alien-folk from Belgium, abstract and murky as ever but somehow bluesier too. Stephen John Kalinich: 1969 Brian Wilson produced album of psychedelic poetry from sometime Beach Boys lyricist, finally released! La Dusseldorf x 2: Domestic cd reissues of two crucial Krautrock classics from the Neu!/Kraftwerk/Harmonia scene. LSD-march: The Japanese psychsters get trippier than EVER on this disc of rhythmic, playful, cut-up craziness. Machinefabriek: More dark and brooding and beautiful ambience from the ever reliable Machinefabriek!! Magic Lantern: Not Not Fun LP-only debut of sheer psychedelic power from SoCal. Menace Ruine: Neo-folk, noise-rock from these blackened Canadian avantgardists. Mi Ami: Sweaty disco, dub, no wave, post-punk party on 12" wax from local faves. Miss Lana Rebel: LP of minor key, twangy, heartbreak country music from former bassist of mathrockers Last Of The Juanitas! Juana Molina: Visionary pop artistry from this lovely vocalist. Mount Eerie With Julie Doiron & Fred Squire: Gorgeous disc of sweet melancholy downer folk, with sweet vocals from JD from Eric's Trip! Thee Ohsees / The Intelligence: Raw garage rock ass kickery on both sides of this split LP! Onra: Vintage Vietnamese vinyl chopped and mixed by French-Vietnamese DJ/digger Onra, way cool! Plastic Crimewave Sound: Freaked out murky druggy space garage jams from Chicago's PC and crew, only on vinyl. Pocahaunted: Vinyl-only chunk of swirling drone drenched drift from this crushworthy LA duo, the title track a Fleetwood Mac cover! The Present: Rusty Santos from Animal Collective's new project! Jack Rose: Ultra limited deluxe live vinyl release from the steel string maestro. Rusted Shut: Another filthy, f**ked up slab of crusty chaotic blown out whatthef**k noise rock, on a thick vinyl 12". Salome: Female fronted slow motion sludge juggernaut for fans of Khanate and Monarch! Nina Simone: Antony & The Johnsons fans, and everybody else too, ought to add this old classic to your collections if it's not there already. The Stargazer's Assistant: Proggers from Guapo/Miasma side project of dramatic droned out weirdness under the stars... Marnie Stern: Super shred from guitar maestro Marnie and drummer Zach Hill, like Erase Errata meets Lightning Bolt with Mick Barr on gtr. Sun Ra: Awesome, early '60s spaced out Ra from the vaults! T.O.M.B.: Total, Occultic, Mechanical, Blasphemy! One of our black metal albums of the year, so far. Tecumseh: Slow motion slab of ambient sludge from these Portland heavies. Titan: Now on vinyl, gorgeous limited vinyl, Pilzmarmelade (long out of print on cd-r) from the heavy Brooklyn space rockers. Shugo Tokumaru: Clever, catchy, effortless and endearing pop from Japan. Uton: LP-only glimpse into these Finnish freeks warped and warbly avant folk free noise sound world. V/A 1970's Algerian Proto-Rai Underground: Latest Sublime Frequencies North African stunner, vinyl-only (for now...). Warmth / Medroxy Progesterone Acetate: Crazy limited vinyl noisedrone teamup. We The People: Killer collection of garagey popsike from these '60s Florida rockers. White Magic: Limited edition Latitudes series cdep from these magical AQ faves. Windy & Carl: Dream-drone, slow-slowcore uberwunder duo W&C are back with another fantastic album. Zebulon Pike: 3rd album of massive instru-metal / post-rock from Minneapolis's heaviest and most epick. Not to mention (oh wait, we will) the new issue of The Wire, new issue of Chunklet, FOUR limited edition aRCHIVE label DVDs (from Ai Aso, Mick Barr, Khlyst, and Suishou No Fune), a great '70s glam ROCK comp called Blitzing The Ballroom, new discs from Jolie Holland and TV On The Radio, Dengue Fever's latest now on vinyl, etc. Also on this week's list, please look our for the tons of cool vinyl we have back in stock, being relisted. LP's and 7"s!!! A note for those who haven't noticed it yet: we've started an Aquarius Records blog which can be found here: http://www.aquariusrecordsblog.blogspot.com We've been doing our best to post to it regularly, mentioning stuff that's just come in stock, announcing shows and special events, sometimes revisiting a "random review of the day", and blogging other items of interest to AQ followers. We encourage you to check it out, as we'll be using it also to ask for pre-orders on some upcoming limited edition items, running "blog special" deals, and anything else fun and/or informative that we can think of. Keep an eye on it next week, we'll probably post a "pop quiz" that Allan put together, that stumped a few AQ staffers. And of course please leave comments! Also we're presenting a killer show coming up soon. Check it out: Sir Richard Bishop Oaxacan plus TBA Monday, October 27th at Cafe Du Nord: Doors 8:00 / Show 8:30 / Tickets are $10, available at www.cafedunord.com or by calling the box office M-F 2pm-6pm at 415.861.5016 And we have two pairs of free tix to give away. Just drop us a line with SIR RICHARD BISHOP TIX as the subject line, and we'll pick a couple emails at random. FInally, some of you might remember a magazine called Nordic Vision, most notable for its hilarious and hilariously harsh record reviews. Almost all negative, and all strangely written (due in no small part to English not being their first language). So mean and funny and bizarre. Andee was so smitten by Nordic Vision, that he named the publishing company for his old band after his favorite NV review: "WE CAN NOT SAY WE ENJOY THIS MUSIC ONE BIT." Indeed! Well aQ pal Steven Schultz just discovered the joy Of Nordic Vision and decided to scan the reviews and post them on the internet. So for your pleasure, check 'em out here: http://www.hellodamage.com/tdr/archive/SCANS/2008%20nordic%20vision.htm Thanks as always! It's getting mighty late (or early, depending on your perspective) so we better wrap this up. Enjoy! And have a great weekend! --------------------------------------------------------------- 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/cat/newest.html -- to read the New Arrivals list online where you can SEE COVER ART and HEAR SOUNDCLIPS we prepared for you. Plus it makes ordering almost effortless 'cause a single mouse click will pop an item directly into your shopping cart! No more trying to remember everything that you wanted to order after having read a hundred or so reviews! 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/streaming.html |
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0============0 0====================0 0==== Aquarius Records ====0 0======== New Arrivals #304 ========0 0==== October 31 2008 ====0 0====================0 0============0 0====0 Beloved Customers and Friends: Happy Halloween everybody! We'd like to tell you that we're doing this list in costume, that Andee's dressed up as Sarah Palin or something, or that Cup reprised her King Diamond makeup from a few years ago, but that's not the case. We knew we probably wouldn't be going out to any parties tonight... though if we do get done early enough, Allan and Andee are gonna try to make it to see Corrupted at Slim's. We have had trick-or-treaters coming though the store all evening, which is always fun. And we have some treats for you too, on this week's list, of course. In fact, so many that we picked FOUR Records Of The Week. For maximum Halloween grimness we've got a black metal one by a "band" called Nahvalr. Buzz upon buzz upon buzz. The first "open source" black metal record (read the review to see what that means), from the same guys behind the blissed out blackened gloom metal of Have A Nice Life! Then, there's two crucial legendary albums by Fripp & Eno, No Pussyfooting and Evening Star remastered and reissued, sounding as good as ever, with a whole bonus disc on No Pussyfooting, ready to be worshipped by a new generation of listeners into the likes of Expo '70 and Growing. And lastly, there's Gore. Finally reissued together on two cds, two of THE most awesome records ever of groundbreaking minimal metallic crunch from this legendary Dutch trio. Want more sonic candy in your Halloween basket? Of course you do... so, a whole bunch of highlights, including an extra dose of doomdirgedrone and sick black metal to put the razorblade in your apple this Halloween: Agitation Free x 2: The first two albums by this brilliant, Egypt-exploring krautrock band, reissued again with bonus tracks. Ahousen: On PSF, an underground Tokyo psych rock/free jazz freakout. Asva: The dooooomdrone supergroup's second album of atmospheric glacial genius. Aural Fit: Another new PSF release, a disc of utter ultra-heavy, blown-out noiserock insanity. Betty Botox: Wild mix of dancefloor oddities and space rock from this twisted DJ (1/2 of Optimo). The Black Bug: A buzzy and blown out slab of in-the-red new wave flecked garage rock minimalism, riot grrl revamped. Black Moth Super Rainbow: Essential outtakes and rarities ep from this group of playful analog electronic popsters. Brown Jenkins: Latest in the Lovecraft series of 3"cd-r tributes, from one of the most Lovecraftian black metal bands around. The Catalyst: Post Amrep heaviness from these East Coast crushers. Noisy post punk pummel. Chancha Via Circuito: From Argentina, a slice of "Cumbia digital", dubbed out and danceable. The Clean: From Mississippi Records comes this legendary chunk of classic Kiwi pop ON VINYL!! Cloak Of Displacement: Disturbing, ritualistic avant doom offshoot of the mighty Gargotheron, on cd-r. Darkthrone: Triple disc package of rare demos for diehard fans of this black metal institution. Davila 666: Kickass garage rock with a pop side too, from Puerto Rico. Dead C: Limited, tour-only vinyl 12" of the unique freerock textures of these NZ legends. Deathrow / Moloch: Split cassette of ultraweird ambient black metal from Italy and the Ukraine. Deerhunter: Double disc from this indie fave that recalls the best of classic 4AD shimmer with sixties wall of sound pop. DNA: Now on vinyl (with bonus tracks) the ultimate collection of tracka by this seminal NYC No Wave act. Earth: NOW ON VINYL! Incredibly packaged 2lp edition of The Bees Made Honey in the Skull of the Lion. El Guincho: If Panda Bear ever got to be captain of a Spanish party cruise we're pretty sure this is what it would sound like to be on that ship. El-G: Vinyl-only release on (K-raa-k)3 from this interestingly freaky French pop weirdo. Electric Wizard / Reverend Bizarre: Limited vinyl 12" split of spaced out Sabbathy doom from two of the best in the business. Ensemble Economique: Starving Weirdos dude's solo cd of lovely minimal drone, limited to 500. Enslaved: Latest slab of the Viking black metal, proggy Pink Floyd loving genius that is Norway's amazing Enslaved. Fennesz: Touch label reissue of maybe the shoegazey-est album from this AQ experimental guitar fave. Funereal Moon: Super damaged demented black metal weirdness from Mexico. Gareth Hardwick / Taiga Remains: Limited split 10" of dreamy dronemusic from these two AQ faves. Gnaw Their Tongues: A nearly hour-long "ep" of cinematic doom dirge black ambience from this freaky one man band. Grails: Their latest, Doomsdayer's Holiday, now on vinyl! Hammers Of Misfortune: A new DOUBLE cd of amazingly operatic, progtastic, cerebral metal from this unique SF outfit. Tim Hecker: A bracing expanse of buzzing blissful ambient sound on this ep from one of our faves in the field. Bernard Herrmann: Foreboding future shock 1957 soundtrack to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Koen Holtkamp: Debut Type release for this Mountains member, gorgeous stuff. Hototogisu & Burning Star Core: Limited edition LP documenting this rather noisy collaboration. Illusion Of Safety: Super limited cd-r of aerosolized isolationist drone from this long running project. Inca Ore: Songy, satisfying vinyl-only record from this dreambliss lady. Jabladav: Numbered, limited cd-r of industrial blackened ambience from this strange artist. Philip Jeck: Limited vinyl only release of live recorded minimal crackle/drone turntable manipulations from this all time AQ fave! Jason Kahn & Asher: A very cool field recordings based drone collaboration. Kemialliset Ystavat / Sunroof!: You read that right. Split 12" vinyl of Finnish freakfolk and British dronebliss. Lazer Crystal: 12" of New Wavish electronic madness from those crazy Cave / WH48K kids! Shawn Lee And Clutchy Hopkins: Another cryptically groovy release from the mysterious Clutchy Hopkins (and friend). Lesbian / Ocean: That would be a cool band name, but it's actually a split 10" of post rocky doom we like playing at 33. Lilys: Not new, just an old fave of blissed out Krautrock worship. Love: Reissue of great 1969 album of West Coast psych from the Arthur Lee & Co. Machinefrabriek x 2: A 7" and 3" cd-r from the prolific minimal drone dude, both limited of course. Malveillance: Evil Quebecois black metal nastiness, including Ramones covers! Mamaleek: First vinyl release from this confusional blackened shoegazey grind project. Nambajazz: Extreme guitar/drums duo improv featuring Yamamoto Seiichi, of Boredoms fame. Benoit Pioulard: Very pretty, tape hiss treated avant folk on Kranky. Plastic Crimewave Sound: Now on cd, the latest in swirling druggy spacey psych rock from PCS. Steve Roden: A gentle, experimental song with voice and banjo, inspired by a field recording through a ship's hull, on 3" cd. Samothrace: Doomy post rock stoner sludge metal from the Midwest. Sea And Cake: Another breezy album from these indie stalwarts. Seven Mile Journey: Transcendent cinematic ambient post rock without much of the rock. Shining Path: Vinyl reissue of cassette of WTF? druggy psychrock. Silentist: Classical piano, shrieked vokills, wild frenetic drumming, one of the coolest weirdest bands going... Skepticism: Quite possibly our favorite depressive black doom band returns with their first record in FIVE years! Skullflower x 2: A new lp -and- a super limited triple cd box, finds Mr. Bower reinventing Skullflower, with more riffs, less noise, even some black metal. Slomatics: Kick ass UK sludge doom behemoth from the same scene that spawned doom / prog juggernauts Like A Kind Of Matador. Steel Pulse: An old reggae favorite, on constant rotation in the shop and now finally reviewed on the list. Joel Stern: Difficult to describe collection of twisted sounds and processed field recordings, damaged and ramshackle and genius! V/A Downer Rock Genocide: Super kick ass compilation of obscure '70s heavy psych / prog rock! V/A Eccentric Soul: The Young Disciples: Another winner from Numero Group, equal parts social work and funk jams! V/A Fight On, Your Time Ain't Long: Another amazing lp only collection of old time blues and gospel on Mississippi Records. V/A Singing For Life: Songs Of Hope, Healing And HIV/AIDS In Uganda: A cappella African music about the AIDS epidemic, from Smithsonian Folkways. V/A Sprechen Sie Pop?: For In-Kraut fans, NON-German artists singing '60s pop songs in German. V/A Sprigs Of Time: 78's From The EMI Archive: Another breathtaking collection of lost sounds from Honest Jon's. Watain: This essential slab of grim black metal reissued, in a spiffy new digipak with a BONUS TRACK! White Hills: First lp from these NY drone-y druggy space rockers... Woe: Gorgeous but grim buzzing black metal, infused with bits of jangle and loads of hooks and unlikely arrangements... Xela / North Sea: Killer split lp from these two long time aQ favorites, one side shimmery and abstract, the other dark and drone-y. Yek Koo: Solo record from one half of aQ faves Metal Rouge, ultra limited cd-r. And lots lots more more, so read carefully! There's plenty of other now-on-vinyl items you won't want to misseither, a bunch of great magazines to read, two Sublime Frequencies repressings, a new Numero comp... As to other business, lots of thanks to everybody who came out to see Sir Richard Bishop instore last Sunday - and of course thanks to SRB himself, who was a super nice guest to have. What a great instore! Also had other visitors, Jussi from Circle and his lady friend Anne were here for two weeks, there was much hanging out, lots of tourist stuff, and dare we say it, maybe a little TOO much record shopping. Okay, we better get out of here. Too late to see Corrupted (don't worry, they're playing next weekend at Gilman Street) but not too late to get to bed at a somewhat decent hour. Happy Halloween! Don't forget to vote on Tuesday! And now on with the list... ------------------------------ 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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---------------------||| New Arrivals #305 ---------------------||| 14 November 2008 Beloved Customers and Friends: Hey everybody! As we experience the last gasp of sunshiney summer here in San Francisco (that's right, it's almost Thanksgiving but it's been kinda hot out the last day or two!) we've labored to get this list together, another batch of goodies reviewed for your perusal. We've been whistling while we work, though, not just on account of the nice weather but also 'cause we all still have smiles on our faces from Nov. 4th (though not regarding Prop 8... but the presidential thing was pretty cool to say the least!). Ok, better get on with the list. Starting with our two Records Of The Week. First up, Ursula Bogner! Hadn't ever heard of her before either, but as soon as we heard her lovingly packaged Recordings 1969-1988, we were smitten, fascinated by the secret sonic life of a mother and housewife, and entranced by her homebrewed hobbyist minimal analog electronic music that's so wonderfully playful and dreamy. Wow. And even if the compelling story of Ursula Bogner were not true (if, say, this was an elaborate hoax perpetrated by Jan Jelinek) we'd still love the music... Our other Record Of The Week is also kinda electronic, also a little bit hip hop, and most definitely the work of Tobacco, aka Black Moth Super Rainbow. Fuzzed out swap meet synths and vocodered '80 vocals in a WTF? electro pop concoction with guest rapping from Aesop Rock! In heavy rotation here at AQ... And, there's also a new release on Andee's tUMULt label! And no, it's not any sort of black metal, not this time. This one's for the pop lovers out there, it's an album from Canadian indie noise poppers The Memories Attack, a duo featuring one of the dudes from Eric's Trip. And as always, we have a plethora of Highlights. Alphabetically, they are... Ancestors: Raw, damaged black metal f**kery now on ltd. vinyl (once was a ltd. cassette). Astral Social Club: 2nd mp3 cd-r of ASC's blissful drone, almost 8 hours of it! Asva: Now on vinyl, the debut album from this doomdrone supergroup. Azrael Rising: Another of the many projects from our Finnish friend Albert Witchfinder, on the grim buzzing black metal tip this time. Aidan Baker: 2cd 'greatest hits' from the prolific dronelord, and actually you probably -don't- have any of these rarities! Aidan Baker / Leah Buckareff / Nadja: Super limited new vinyl-only release from this dromedronebiss duo. Barn Owl / Tom Carter: Limited split lp-only from SF's darkly ambient Barn Owl and Charalambides' Tom C. Baroness: Back in print at last, both early eps 1+2 from these metal masters. Bixobal: Issue #5 of this great 'zine, wherein NNCK guy interviews Ya Ho Wa among other interesting content. Black Sun: A vinyl-only dose of dronedirgedeathcrush from the bowels of Glasgow. Blithe Sons: Jewelled Antler linchpins Loren Chasse and Glenn Donaldson join forces once more for a new, lp-only album of improv-folk-and-prog loveliness. Blood Of The Black Owl: 2nd album of serious doom metal/post rock/black metal/ambient hybrid wyrdness from the same guy responsible for the shamanic, organic drones of Ruhr Hunter. Blue Ash: Reissue of pretty cool 1973 American power pop obscurity, by/for fans of the Beatles and the Byrds. Blue Sabbath Black Cheer: Another limited edition LP of hellish heaviness and caustic black ambience from the BSBC guys. Bohren & Der Club Of Gore: The latest glacially gorgeous disc of noir-jazz "heaviness" from this amazing AQ fave German band! California Raisins / Cave: 10"+cd split release of that finds the fuzzy psych of AQ faves Cave teamed up with the punkish rock action of, that's right, California Raisins. Joshua Convey: Harmonica, guitar and electronics creating deep listening drones, and mesmerizing soundscapes of repetitive texture. Crystal Stilts: New full length from a band we can't stop playing, sounding as they do like Spacemen 3 doing a record full of Crystals covers. Csection: Unspeakable and confusional things done to a guitar, with fantastic results. Current 93 x 2: The first two albums from David Tibet's dramatic C93 reissued on wax at last. Dead C x 2: Two classics of NZ freerock reissued on vinyl, double lps with lots of extras! Envy / Jesu: Now on vinyl, the (limited of course) split featuring more blissed out '80s shoegaze from Jesu. Five Or Six: A definite 'best of' from this '80s band doing 4AD / Factory Records style post-punk dirge. Henry Flynt: Another from the endless Flynt archives, this time a 1983 boombox guitar/drums duo that sounds like a minimalist boogie version of Rhys Chatham or Glenn Branca. Girl Talk: The kaleidescopic pop/hiphop mash-up master returns, you gotta love it, he's good! Gnaw Their Tongues: Limited (already out of print) filthy little black 7" slab from the always gnarly Gnaw Their Tongues. Linda Hagood: Limited vinyl-only Awesome Vista release of childlike spookiness, super cute and super weird! Hammers Of Misfortune: Now on vinyl, the (2) new album(s) from SF's most ambitious operatic prog metallers. Harry Pussy: Another live document, this time a cd, from our favorite '90s lo-fi noisemongers, including a Kraftwerk cover! Steve Hillage: The '70s prog guitarist's blissed out avant-New-Age effort Rainbow Dome Musick reissued. Hush Arbors: Somewhere between a forested acoustic ritual and a boozed up, barn burning hoedown! James Din A4: Collection of minimal techno and leftfield electronica from this artist's hard to find 12"s, a 2008 fave for sure. Liliental: Krautrock reissue for fans of the Cluster/Harmonia sound. Liquid Liquid: Finally back in print, the music of this influential '80s no wave disco funk group. Ed Luce: Wuvable Oaf #1, our favorite big hairy muscley kitten olving oaf returns, the only comic book (so far) that Aquarius and Andee have (sort of) appeared in. M83: Extra spaced out and ambient special release, the first in a series, from these fuzzy AQ faves. Matmos: Perhaps our all time fave Matmos release, reissued! The country-flecked The West. Mountains: Vinyl-only and already out of print new ep from the NYC duo of Koen Holtkamp and Brendon Anderegg, super shoegazey on the B-side. Tom Neely: The Melvins comic book from the Senile Animal boxed set we never got! No Neck Blues Band: Newest record from these NYC masters of improvised kraut drift and clattery free rock weirdness, at their best, and most difficult. Thee Oh Sees: Super limited 12" of groovy garage rock, on Chris Johansen's Awesome Vistas label. Oxbow: Back in stock. Oxbow, Justin Broadrick, Stephen O'Malley, live and LIMITED! Pelican / These Arms Are Snakes:These two groups seem joined at the hip and meet up again to collaborate on a classic track from each band. People Like Us / Ergo Phizmiz: Latest in Touch's 7" series, and it's a weird one, cracked carnivalesque lush pop.... Peste Noire: Long out of print double cassette box from these French black metal eccentrics now available as a super deluxe double lp. Pig Heart Transplant: Thick sludgey pummeling power violence, Man Is The b*****d meets Geronimo! Pussygutt: A gorgeous single track of slow motion Earth 2 style abstract riffage and string laden cinematic ambience. Rahdunes: Awesome disc of spaced out cosmic synth guitar ur-drift. Tripped out and druggy and divine. Jonas Reinhardt: Debut disc for Kranky of krautrock inspired cosmic synth drift, equal parts Tangerine Dream, Cluster, Klaus Schulze... Lalo Schifrin: The Enter The Dragon soundtrack!! Awesome kung fu groove. Secret Abuse: A sizzling slab of blown out radiance, noisy but lush heaviness, on vinyl from Not Not Fun. Ty Segall: Sweat soaked wild and wooly timeless kick ass garage rock, released on John Dwyer's Castle Face label. Shizuka: Drifting, haunting distorto-delic psych rock from Japan, recorded live in '95. Souvenir's Young America / City Of Ships: Awesome split lp of gorgeous sweeping cinematic post rock from these two East Coast outfits. Spektr x 2: Two of our favorite records, from one of our favorite weirdo French industrial black metal hordes get reissued on super deluxe vinyl! Sweat Lodge: Crushing math rock post rock screamo emo heaviness from Virginia, super limited cassette! Karel Valebny: A killer reissue of late sixties free jazz genius from Czechoslovakia, with a seriously twisted cover. Vibes AND flutes! Wicked King Wicker x 2: Two full lengths from these East Coast heavies, slow, low, thick, and punishing, blown out and so so so heavy. Dirge drone doom newcomers threaten the masters. Windsurf: Breezy cosmic beachside bliss out! Winterfylleth: First record from these Neo-Pagan naturalist black metallers hailing from the UK! Yahowa 13: The family band reunites after 30+ years for more spiritual psych rock in the name of Yod! Yo Majesty: Two Live Crew meets Le Trim with the politics of Bikini Kill The Younger Lovers: DIY scrappy punk rock from Gravy Train dude.... Plus lots more, including a new Acid Mothers Temple, a bunch of stuff 'now on vinyl', even some Def Leppard. A bunch of rare out of print cds listed for the first (and last) time. And like we said, more! But before we get to the list, one quick announcement, we're presenting a free show on Monday at the Hemlock, here are the details: Aquarius Records presents: FREE early show -- doors at 7, music will be done by 9! Helms Alee - http://myspace.com/ Kowloon Walled City - http://inthewalledcity.com Monday, November 17 Hemlock Tavern 1131 Post St, San Francisco http://hemlocktavern.com We've yet to review the Helms Alee, but it should be on the next list. Needless to say, it's on Hydra Head and it's good. And of course we DID review Kowloon Walled City and we've barely been able to keep their records in stock! We were gonna give away tickets but since it's a free show we figured we'd give away some records instead. So if you plan on going to the show, and want to win some free records, email [email protected], and one lucky winner will be able to stroll right up to the merch table and claim a copy of the Kowloon 10" and the Helms lp. How cool is that? Okay, let's get on with the list... ------------------------------ 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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___________|_______|_________ ______________|_______|______ _________________|_______|____ Beloved Customers and Friends: Ho ho ho everybody! Good Grief, just 2 weeks to go 'til Xmas. Our next list is on the 26th, that's right, so this is the last one before the 25th, so we'd better say our Season's Greetings now. Hope you all have a happy, safe Hannukah/Christmas/Kwanza/etc. Of course it's hectic here, what with selling so many Buddha Machine II's and all, but we're hanging in there. And we've managed to get what we consider a pretty kick ass list together, if we may be so bold. Without further adoo... Our Records Of The Week this week are both from an old, old fave. Deluxe new double cd (bonus disc!) editions of Heaven's End and Fade Out, the first two albums by late '80s British band Loop. Spaced out, druggy droney psych, hard rockin' and hypnotic. Essential of course! And plenty o' highlights (read the whole list - you don't want to miss the W's!!!): AFCGT: 10" vinyl version of limited "new punk" cd-r tracks from this A-Frames meets Climax Golden Twins combo. The Alps x 2: Two separate cd-r's of improvised spacey radness from the same sessions that produced The Alps III. The Animated Egg: Awesome exploito-psych-pop reissue from LA, circa '67-'68, a true "guitar freakout" indeed. Anwech: Freaked out, f**ked up black metal from some of the same guys in Leaden, way weird. Apostle Of Solitude: True doom a la Gates Of Slumber, slow n' super heavy, with a Sabbath cover and a odd Americana twist on one track. David W. Bernstein - Tape Music Book: Fascinating book about the avant garde San Francisco Tape Music Center in the '60s, comes with a bonus DVD! Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry: Another limited cd-r of atmospheric field recordings and manipulations from this Midwestern duo. Blood Ceremony: Now on vinyl, the witchy, flutey retro-proto-doom of this band's debut. Blood Of Kingu: Droney, trancey, ritualistic Ukrainian/Egyptian black metal! Boredoms Boa Drum 77: ULTRA DELUXE import 2cd+DVD+book documenting the historic 77 drummer Boredoms show in Brooklyn last year!! Cat Power: More soulful covers by Chan, from the Jukebox sessions, on a vinyl-only 2x10" edition! Darsombra: Eclectic remix project, 12 acts attacking a bass-heavy track by this great ambient-drone-doom act. The Crowned Heads Of Europe: Gog and Servile Sect folks bring us this super limited LP of odd abstract heaviness. Eldrig: This mystical one man black metal horde returns with a new blackened, cinematic, almost power metally sound. DJ Female Convict Scorpion: Wild and mysterious mix cd-r from this local crate digging DJ, all Shadow-y rhythmic weirdness. Fennesz: One of last week's Records Of The Week, now on vinyl! Flipper x 4: A quartet of ESSENTIAL reissues from this seminal SF art-punk-sludge combo! Ghast: A -different- but also cool and creepy Ghast, this one from Wales, all blackened buzz and punkish doom. Hateful Abandon: Some formerly black metal gloom-goth dirge! Helios: On Type, the latest batch of blissful ambient dreamdrone pop tunes from this Boston based alchemist. Horna: A double cd from one of our all time favorite Finnish black metal rock masters. Invisible Bees: Limited cd-r of drifting dronefolk from this quietly abstract combo. Neil Landstrumm: Planet Mu full-length of demented dubsteppy delights from this new fave. Legendary Pink Dots: Edward Ka-Spel's still got it, this new one really getting under our skin in a good way with its Coil-meets-'70s Floyd psych-pop moodiness. Manteca: Vinyl-only reissue on Japan's EM Records of an awesomely FUNKY Cuban percussion extravaganza from the '70s. Morker: Some NOT f**ked up black metal for a change, just brilliantly bombastic and melodic Swedish black metal. Natural Snow Buildings: Legndary recording of spacey, droney sounds from this French combo, on 2cd - OR limited multiple extra cd-r havin' deluxe edition (we only have 5 of those though!). Nocturnal Emissions: Cd reissue of Drowing In A Sea Of Bliss from this '80s industrial industrial electronics act, definitely their best album, way better than anything else they ever did! Perineum: Cd-r of hiss and buzz from this local noise duo, members of Horn Of Dagoth, Horseflesh and Ozmadawn. Richard Pinhas / Merzbow: The Japanese noise maven and the prog guitar god from Heldon join forces for this sprawling live set! James Plotkin: An entry in Utech's Arc series from the prolific Plotkin (OLD, Khanate, Phantomsmasher, Khlyst, etc.) Jack Rose: The folk guitarist's Dr. Ragtime record, now on super deluxe, super limited vinyl. Arthur Russell x 2: An excellent new archival release of pop songs (reviewed by Tarentel's Jef Cantu) and also a DVD documentary from the late '80s artist A.R. Colin Sheffield: Super limited, deluxely packaged disc of ominous shimmering field recording based sound art loveliness. Shop Assistants: Awesome reissue of super catchy indie jangle from these Scottish dream poppers. Sound Projector: Issue #17 of this must-read music magazine from England, 172 pages mostly of reviews, even better than ours!! J. Spaceman & Matthew Shipp: Legendary jazz pianist jams with space rock guitar legend on gorgeous long form space out dronemusic. Sprung Aus Den Wolken: German rhythm and noise from these early eighties junk electronic noisemakers. Svarte Greiner: Super limited lp only release of washed out deep blackened ambient acoustic doom from these longtime aQ faves. David Szczesny: From Porter Records comes this amazing disc of processed electronics and jazzy electronic abstract skitter. Terminal Sound System: Awesome fractured electronic dubstep weirdness from this former member of Aussie heavies Halo. Triskele: Buzzing blown out Burzumic mayhem recorded in a frosty Canadian forest. Scott Tuma x 2: Two long out of print aQ faves, one a past record of the week, available again, gorgeous blissed out dreamfolk guitarscapes. V/A African Scream Contest: One of the coolest collections of far out African music yet, heavy, funky, fuzzy groovy and seriously psychedelic. V/A (Boys Noize) I Love Techno 2008 : A comp that truly has us convinced we do indeed love techno, wild buzzing blonw out synths all over the place! V/A Calypsoul 70: Seventies. Calypso. Soul. What else do you need to know? V/A Dancehall: The Rise Of Jamaican Dancehall Culture: A killer double disc Dancehall reggae primer from Soul Jazz. V/A Japan: Shakuhachi: The Japanese Flute: A reissued disc of gorgeous tranquil Japanese flute music. V/A Kung Fu Super Sounds: Library music from Shaw Brothers chop socky flicks from the '70s! V/A Like Black Holes in the Sky: The Tribute to Syd Barrett: Comp with Jesu, Circle, Stinking Lizaveta, Unearthly Trance, Pentagram, and other heavies!! Could it get more any more psychedelic?? The Wandering Midget: Ultra heavy Sabbathian troo doom from FINLAND! The return of the Wandering Midget! Wavves: Buzzing lo-fi crunchy surf pop garage stomp weirdness that is quickly becoming a new favorite around here. Wicked Witch: On EM Records, an anthology of trax from this '80s outsider funk obscurity, damaged and druggy like Ariel Pink playing funk! Really insane and psychedelic and unbelievable!! Wooden Shjips: A holiday cassingle from this beloved local psych combo, SUPER LIMITED, and for a good cause - all proceeds go to the SF Food Bank. Wrnlrd: Cd-r of earlier stuff from these weirdoes, more black metal, less banjo this time! Xela: Another gorgeous fuzzed out collection of washed out abstract dronescapes from these aQ faves, on Type. And plenty more to stuff yr stocking: a limited Boredoms 12", a double cd tribute to Ulver, a $21 Jesu cd single (oops, actually a tribute to the Cure with a bunch of other bands), a killer krautrock/proto-metal reissue from Lucifer's Friend, BMSR's Drippers on 10" vinyl, more cool psych and metal reissues, reissues of La Dusseldorf now on vinyl (and their third album now on cd), and a great new large scale epic of ethic improv jazz from composer/band leader/bassist William Parker. Among other treats. Check it all out, please! Also, YaHoWha 13 are returning to SF to perform at Slims on December 18th! And not only is aQ presenting it, we're also giving away TWO pairs of free tix to the show, which just so happens to also feature another band of aQ faves, Wooden Shjips opening up. So if you want a shot at tickets, send an email to [email protected], with YaHoWha TIX in the subjet line. We'll pick two winners at random. Also we're giving away tickets to a couple Sonic Muppets films at Yerba Buena! Next weekend, there's a pretty amazing-sounding double feature playing at the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts (701 Mission St.) screening room. One film about the music of The Muppets. The other, about an obscure band called Sonic Youth. Details follow. And we'll be giving away a pair of tickets to each night. Send an email to store@aquariusrecords with "Sonic Muppets Friday" or "Sonic Muppets Saturday" in the subject line, depending on your preference. We'll do a random drawing next week and put your name on the will-call list for a free pair of tickets if you win! See the end of the list for more info!!! A couple more random bits of business before we get to the list, first, Andee seems to have developed an unhealthy obsession with German hip hop. It began when he and Heather were in Europe way back in 2001, and has only gotten worse (better?) over the years. So he's looking for an aQ customer, in Germany, who might be up for helping him get his hands on MORE German hip hop. A mutually beneficial trade/ barter arrangment would most certainly be ideal. If any one is up for it, drop him a line at [email protected]. And finally, a last minute non-musical holiday gift idea! As many longtime aQ customers know, our own Cup is a maker of many things - musical (in I Am Spoonbender), drawn (also in IAS, as well as illustrator for Chunklet Magazine and hand-drawn typography designer for Nardwuar The Human Serviette to name a few) and handcrafted (most notably her Sog Mongeys which we've carried in the past!), now she's entered the realm of the tiny tots with her adorable fleece baby bunny slippers! Approximate size measurements: 0-6 mos, 4" long, ankle stretches to 6". Note: each slipper is individually handcrafted and sewn on her trusty sewing machine, and as such each pair will be unique! Very limited quantities! Check 'em out at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ Okay, enough of all that. On with the show. Happy holidays. Now dig in!! ------------------------------ 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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We'll do our best to get you whatever strange sounds you desire. The lists are all the way at the bottom, so when you get to the end of this week's list, just keep scrolling down... Also with the posting of our top tens, comes that time when we ask you for YOUR lists! So c'mon, send us your Top Ten lists, favorite records, best songs, raddest gigs, favorite videos, as long as it's mostly musical, all lists are welcome, and as always, in a month or so, once we have all of your lists, we'll put them together and post them on the aQ site for all the world to see. AND... we'll pick a couple lists at random and those folks will each receive an aQuarius recOrds gift certificate! So go ahead and send those lists to [email protected]!!! As always, Christmas has been crazy and we're sailing with a skeleton crew, in fact right now, the store is empty and dark except for yours truly, doing my best to put this list to bed. And myself not soon after. Allan is on the East Coast, Jim is in Tennessee, Jon went South, so this list is a bit shorter than usual, but somehow surprisingly not by much. Thanks to Scott and Irwin who both worked extra hard, and Cup who even came in on her day off. There is one strange thing you might notice about this week's list and that's the fact that there's no Record Of The Week. What? But... How?! Why?! Okay, simmer down. Before you panic, as we're sure you were about to, let us explain. All sorts of factors came into play, and we finally just decided instead of picking a ROTW, we'd just have a bunch of mind blowing, super rad highlights, in fact you could think of it more like a list with 45 possible Records Of the Week, or at the very least FIVE or SIX (we almost went for it, but thought better of it). So yeah, many of our distributors have been closed, the mail has been slow, and we've been strangely indecisive, so this week, it's Choose Your Own Record Of The Week time. May we suggest the first 5 or 6, all serious contenders for the coveted ROTW spot, but by all means don't stop there, plenty more awesome highlights follow, and heck no need to stop there either, after the highlights there's still more, lots of back in stock stuff, a new WIRE magazine packed with THEIR year end lists and on and on and on... But before we get to the list proper, for those of you who enjoy the thumbnail descriptions of the various joys to be found within the actual list, here goes: Lifelover: Latest disc of demented genius doom pop, gorgeous and gloomy and catchy and heavy and one of the best records of the year. Of: While they last, the super limited cd tape combo from Loren Chasse's minimal dreamy drifty alter ego Of. Paysage D'Hiver x 2: FINALLY! Two more discs from this wintery Swiss shadow, cold and frosty black metal genius from a member of Darkspace. Incredible packaging too! Skullflower: Another mindblower from this legend, noisy as hell but groovy and riffy and textural and still brilliant after all these years. Old Wainds x 2: THEE Russian black metal horde return to aQ! One disc back in stock at a much lower price, another in stock for the first time EVER! Benge: A gorgeous cd/book tracing the development of the synthesizer from the sixties to the eighties. Lots of pix and amazing sounds. Anapparatus / Llange: Awesome split between these two metallic post rock bands who twist a sound we love into new and exciting shapes. Avsolutized: Super limited demo tape from this demented Japanese black metal horde. Maurizio Bianchi & Land Use: A fantastic drone record from this duo second collaboration, MB back and in fine form! Brethren Of The Free Spirit: One of our folky favorites now available on vinyl. Burmese / Potop: Sf's best band the grinding metal monsters Burmese team up with Russian abstract doomsters Potop for a super limited lp. Andrew Burnes: The lesser known San Augustin guitarist contributes a disc of gorgeous buzzing drones to Table Of The Elements' 'Guitar' series. Clockcleaner: A tour only single from these noisy punk rock sh*t stirrers, including an X cover (the Australian X not the L.A. one). David Daniell: The more well known San Augustin guitarist gets heavy and buzzy on his Table Of The Elements 'Guitar' 12". Dead Shell Of Universe: Awesome avant black metal from Serbia featuring members of The Stone, for fans of Deathspell for sure! Eibon: Sludgey doom from France on the same label that brought us the classic Esoteric discs. Ekpyrosis: Gnarled mathy black metal weirdness, the first in Paradigms Recordings' second act! Exordium: Buzzing, blazing, grim black metal genius from FINLAND! Fennesz: One sided lp follow up to the recent Black Sea Record Of The Week. Part of the Table Of The Elements 'Guitar' series. Final: The return of Justin Broadrick's (Godflesh, Jesu) solo ambient drone project, heavier and darker and noisier than ever. Golden Sores: Debut disc of deep listening drone music drift from this Chicago duo. Super limited. Grouper / Inca Ore: It was a tape, then an lp, and now finally a cd. Blissed out ethereal loveliness from these two masters of the soft noise. Gruenewald: Haunting German slowcore doom like Codeine meets Seam meets Bohren! Hammemit: After the black buzzing ambient weirdness of Emit comes this, creepy blackened medieval liturgies, weird and beautiful. Haunted Graffiti: A new 7" from Ariel Pink and his new crew! WAY limited. Hypothermia: Brand new two song full length lp of loping depressive jangle from this blackened Swedish duo. Metalocalypse: Dethklok return, more metal, more mayhem, more band conflict and way more death and destruction. Nasuno Mitsuru: Improvised avant pop from this member of Altered States and Korekyojin. Mgla: First full length from this Polish black metal horde, and maybe the best black metal record of the year. Barbara Morgenstern: Piano laced electronic flecked pop from this former techno maven. Think PJ Harvey meets the Notwist. Murkrat: Female goth doom duo whose sound is a murky washed out lumbering mournful melancholy, with lots of keyboards and haunting female vox. Ocean: Maine's pre-eminent doom combo offers up another disc of crushing crashing doom sludge heaviness. Max Ochs: Phil Ochs' cousin, a beautiful disc of open blues and Eastern raga influenced Appalachia. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou: First in a planned two part reissue from these Afro-funk legends. Pegataur: Total Champs shred from these ex- Boyjazzers. Pig Heart Transplant: Tw track 7" of sloooow ultra heavy power violence from this ever shifting collective, with an entirely different lineup on each side! RST: Another disc of beautiful and heavy drones, the most blown out and distorted yet, and quite possibly our favorite so far. R.Y.N.: Deep buzzing dronemusick from this Marzuraan side project. Mysterious and blissed out, dark and hauntingly heavy. Slomo: Latest from this UK dronedoom duo, another disc of rumbling creep and shimmering crawl. Ernest V. Stoneman: The unsung father of country music? You decide. Incredible packaging, extensive liner notes and some of the best old timey country music you'll ever hear. Stormhat: An old record by one of our customers FINALLY gets reviewed, an awesome disc of strange sounds and subtle drone and textures. Toy Killers: A treasure trove of lost eighties aggro new wave, available for the first time ever! Duel drumming, funk flecked punk rock mayhem. V/A Grind b*****ds 2: A grinding blast of... well. GRIND! Featuring tons of short sharp shards of crushing riffage and blasting beats. Our new favorite song is 51 seconds long. V/A Messthetics Greatest Hiss (#110): Another fantastic and impeccably annotated collection of lost gems, these all culled from TAPES! Voivod: One of the group's unsung records that to this day still remains one of out favorites. Reissued, complete with 3D glasses. Also, we're sad to bid farewell to our coworker Antaeus, and not just because he shares a name with one of our favorite black metal bands, but because we love him and we're gonna miss him big time. He's off to play music and record with his band Lazer Sword... we wish him all the luck in the world!! Taking Antaeus' place is the one and only Andrew, who some of you might know as the man behind the mighty Mausoleums, a long time fave around here. Please welcome him to the aQ family. We're glad to have him aboard. And also please welcome to the family, another new addition, our newest video game: GHOSTS 'N GOBLINS, one of the coolest games EVER, definitely one of Andee's all time favorites, and as most video game nerds agree, one of the most ridiculously difficult games EVER. Come by and check it out. You don't need ALL those quarters for laundry... Finally, much love goes out to our customers Martin and Amelia who share a romantic date every two weeks, drinking wine, and cuddling (well, we figure they must be cuddling), while they peruse the New Arrivals list, and play a game they enjoy trying to spot the references to Sunn 0))) in reviews. To help keep that flame burning, we've managed FIVE this week, we'll see if they can spot them. Okay, it's getting late, and I'm lonely sitting here all by myself and I'm getting very very sleepy. Don't forget to scroll to the end of the list to check out all our Top Tens! Enjoy the list. Have a safe and happy new year. We'll see you in 2009! ------------------------------ 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. 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(Note: covers not quite mint) Tetuzi Akiyama / Toshimaru Nakamura / Taku Sugimoto / Mark Wastell: English uber-minimalist hooks up with the Japanese onkyo crowd. Animal Collective: Hotly anticipated new one from the AC crew, for all of Panda Bear's Person Pitch fans for sure. Antony & The Johnsons: Also eagerly awaited, the magical voice of Antony returns on another lush and emotional opus. Austere / Lyrinx: A suicidal black metal split with two of the grimmest from Australia and England, respectively. Bad Acid: Tab 7 of this overwhelming multi-media magazine devoted to psychedelic stoner prog doom metal etc. Mp3's, video, print pdfs, etc. Pierre Bastien: Wonderful collection of the early works of this experimental French musician and his mechanical helpers. Borg: Blackened ambience meets analog driven electronica on this limited edition cd-r. Bridez: Dirty sleazy rock n' roll 7" debut from this local lady and her band. Cause Co-Motion: The resurrected Slumberland label brings us some great DIY garage pop! Cluster: 1979's lovely Grosses Wasser reissued! Common Grave: Italian black/doom metal misery, all about "the spleen". Den Saakaldte: Old style Norwegian black metal super group named after a Ved Buenes Ende song, lives up to the grand tradition! Dodsferd: Practically punk black metal bleakness, ultra harsh and negative, on this reissued demo. Elegi: Atmospheres of Arctic exploration conjured by this Norwegian artist on the always evocative Miasmah label. Expo '70: Audio Archives 003 takes the krauty drone voyage of these cosmic explorers even deeper into the blackness of space... Gedo: Hippie biker power trio rock n' roll from '70s Japan, reissued. Grasslung / Pulse Emitter: Limited split cd-r of pure analogue synth sweeping and Kosmische dirges. Group Bombino: Latest vinyl-only release from Sublime Frequencies, more amazing Tuareg guitar music!! Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson & Sigur Ros: Reissue of this 2001 soundtrack collaboration from these atmospheric Icelanders. Ezekiel Honig: Warm and crackling soundscapes melding bits of field recordings with minimalist beats and dreamy tones. Intrusion: Excellent solo outing from half the heroin-house meets dub-factory duo Echospace. Journey To Ixtlan: Glorious drug addled desert hippy folk drone doom heaviness we're totally tripping out to. Juaneco Y Su Combo: Traditional Peruvian music meets garage-psych on these reissued '70s recordings by the masters of 'Chicha'. KTL: SUNNO)))'s Stephen O'Malley and Pita's Peter Rehberg team up again for more digitaldronedoomduo soundscapery, Atsuo of Boris guests! La Otracina: Vinyl-only new album from these psych jammers, on Holy Mountain. Light: Super limited handmade cd-r of lugubrious lo-fi doom, drone and black metal! Little Joy: Tropical soft-psych pop with one of the Strokes, & Devendra B. vocal cameo. Magnetics: Trio of Australian underground vets teamed up for some gorgeous sprawling free rock / free jazz weirdness. Mamiffer: Moody dramatic postrock like a malevolent Rachels, from members of These Arms Are Snakes, Everlovely Lightningheart. Mord: Headbanging speed thrills from these Norwegian black metal maniacs. Morkobot: Sci-fi, atmospheric, bass-heavy instrumental industrial postrock/psych from this Italian outer space trio. Mudhoney / Mugstar: Also back in stock, last copies of this other Hawkwind tribute split. A.C Newman: The New Pornographers fella back with a new solo outing of sweet, mellow pop NP fans will love. Nisennenmondai: Exciting all-girl Japanese noise-rock trio's old ep's reissued on cd and lp... last copies on vinyl! Leyna Noel: Exquisite handmade packaged cd-r of equally awesome soulful sounds from this local folkie songstress. The Passionistas / Hard Place: Kick ass split feturing the glammy power pop of the Passionistas and the eighties pop of Hard Place. Pom Pom: A super minmal mysteious disc of spare skeletal psychedelic techno. Pretty & Nice: Debut full length from these kinetic power pop new wavers, whose newest records was one of our favorites of last year. Prevalent Resistance: Killer black metal from Finland! Arthur Russell: Now new, but one of our favorite Russell discs! Collie Ryan: Vinyl-only collection from one of the "Ladies Of The Canyon". Buffy Sainte-Marie: One of our favorite folk records from back in the day. Mystical, mysterious and lovely. Colin Andrew Sheffield: This gorgeous disc miniaml avant dronemusic, now available as a less expensive standard version. Simian Mobile Disco: A kick ass dance floor destroyingmix from one of our favorite DJ teams... Six Organs Of Admittance: A killer collection of long outof print singles, ep and comp tracks, Bsides and more. Skullflower: Rare find of long-out-of-print classic Last Shot At Heaven by these noise/drone heavies, very limited quantities! The Lord Weird Slough Feg: Double cd of early demos and live recordings from this eccentric heavy metal cult act. Spiritual Singers: A strange record of evangelical pop with awesome drumming and bizarre and beautiful vocals, from MISSISSIPPI Records! Donna Summer: Disco classic, long time favorite, produced by Giorgio Moroder. SYNB / HSDOM: A split / collaboration of harrowing harsh fractured ominous black noise, beautifully packaged and WAY limited. Szarlem: Avenger from VARGHKOGHARGASMAL cranks the distortion and wooden metal becomes a buzzing confusional blast of heavy stumbling blackness! Tarentel: A collection of recordings from a recent European tour, some gorgeous blissy stuff to tide us over until the next full length. LIMITED! Usputuspud: Latest tape from former aQ mailorder monkey Matt (from Wildildlife), a mind blowing druggy solo harmonica and fractured drum machine blown out psych jam! V/A Biting On Ravecore: Awesome 12" of fractured raved up junglized drill and bass, with a bad ass new sh*tmat track! V/A European 60's & 70's Singers & Pop Groups Made In France: Cool collection of psychedelic Ferench pop. Cheesy and fun! V/A I Woke Up One Morning In May: Another incredible comp from MISSISSIPPI Records, more old timey blues and gospel. V/A Wackies Sampler Vol. 3: Awesome collection of rare eighties Wackies reggae 12"s on cd for the first time. Visitors: Early seventies psych prog grooviness featuring aQ fave Jeab-Pierre Massiera! The Wizar'd: A'wesome t'rue d'oom from these strangeley named psychedelic doomlor'ds... Thom Yorke: Remixes of Radiohead frontman's solo record, by Burial, The Field, The Bug and others! Zeitkratzer & Carsten Nicolai: Experimental orchestra Zeitkratzer team up with minimal electronic technician Carston Nicolai. And, believe it or not, a bunch more cool stuff... Pan Sonic's Ilpo back in Angel, another Zeitkratzer collab, with Keiji Haino. In between that A and that Z, there's a new issue of The Wire, a new Bon Iver ep, vinyl reissues from Jorge Ben, Gal Costa, and Eno/Moebius/Roedelius... the McCartney-esque cd-r pop of locals Magic Leaves, M83's Saturday = Youth on vinyl, etc. etc. etc. Local folks, this Sunday, don't forget about our Irwin's film screening at ATA! Details at the end of the list (and if you're feeling particularly punk rock, Amebix is playing later that night!!). And also remember that the Scott Walker movie opens tonight! A definite must see! Playing for a week at Opera Plaza. Congratulations to Stanley and Julia who won free tickets! But c'mon, even if you didn't win, you gotta go see it! Also only a couple more weeks to send us your top ten lists from last year so we can post them and pick a couple winners for aQ gift certificates. And finally, on the next list we should be announcing the lineup for our aQuarius recOrds / WFMU South By Southwest showcase in March, it's gonna be a doozy! Okay, that about covers it. Thanks as always to the aQ faithful, without you we're nothing. And here's to a glorious new year, with a glorious new administration, and why not celebrate by treating yourself to some amazing and far out sounds... ------------------------------ 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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((+:+:+:+:+:+ Aquarius Records ((+:+:+:+:+:+ New Arrivals #312 ((+:+:+:+:+:+ February 20, 2009 ((+:+:+:+:+:+ Beloved Customers and Friends: Greetings!
Glad to be with you all again. Though, instead of doing the list, it
was VERY tempting to go out to see our favorite Austrialian
trance-jazz-improv trio The Necks who were playing tonight at the
Swedish-American Hall. Theirs was an early show, which normally would
be great, but being a list night if the show starts before 3am good
luck... Of course that only applies to the late-night list crew, mainly
Allan and Andee. And actually Allan succumbed to temptation, however
briefly - he just rode his bike up to the Swede-Am to catch some of
their set, to bliss out for a just half hour before coming back to
attend to further list duties (while Andee remained at work dilligently
plugging away on this week's list BTW!!)! Damn The Necks were good, and
mesmerizing. Allan found it tough to tear himself away, but the list
must go out! And we think it's a worthy list indeed. With three Records Of The Week. Which are: Night Control:
Culled from long out of print cd-r's, a collection of gorgeously
fractured noise pop genius from the man formerly known as Crystal
Shards. V/A Pop Ambient 2009: Maybe the best Kompakt
collection yet of blissed out ambient dronemusic... darker, more
organic, and with a handful of unlikely additions, including some long
time aQ faves like Tim Hecker and the Fun Years. Wormsblood:
Totally twisted lofi underground black metal free noise new weird
America freak folk genius from Clay Ruby of Jex Thoth, Davenport, and
others... And then quite a few Highlights, as follows: A Sunny Day In Glasgow: Kicking off a new 7" series with some of their swirling, shoegazing, sunny daydream delights! AFCGT: The kickass A-Frames/Climax Golden Twins collab, now on vinyl, previously a limited cd-r. Alva
Noto: Vol.2 of the Xerrox series continues in a much more buzzy,
blissy, droney vein, way more textural and melodic than many of the AN
records that have come before. Astral Social Club: These faves get back to the Ur-drone on this very limited vinyl-only release. Ayat: Excessively extreme but extremely rockin' black metal from Beirut, Lebanon! B.Son / Crowskin: We've got a few copies of this vinyl-only blackened ultra doom split release. Barn
Owl: Listed last time with a bonus cassette, now sans cassette but
still some of the best deep and emotional and soul satisfying drone
music around. Black Moth Super Rainbow: A picture disc 12"
from these faves, extended instrumentals all oozy and melty and drippy
and druggy and divine... Borgazur: Confusional and Christian (!) black metal from Holland, really really weird stuff. Burnt
Hills: More freaky noisy basement rock jams from this band, part of
Noiseville's new Outer Bounds Of Sound limited vinyl series. Chicago Thrash Ensemble: A limited edition cassette on the Plustapes label that's not an int'l psych reissue, but instead METAL. Chrome:
Half Machine Lip Moves is our favorite of the three newly reissued
albums from these '70s scifi punks, the others are cool too and
reviewed also this list. Coldworld: Depressive black metal
that's mindblowingly beautiful, incredibly majestic, just out and out
amazing, not for black metallers only! Chris Connelly:
Another limited Plustapes release, this one a sort of droney folk thing
from the guy from Revolting Cocks and Ministry, really! Ata
Ebtekar & The Iranian Orchestra For New Music: Aka Sote, this
electronic composer presents a double LP of processed 20th C. classical
Iranian music. Emeralds: Hypnotic, heavy deepspace drone from
these kosmic explorers, heading onwards and upwards from their Hanson
release last year. Fauna: New on Aurora Borealis, gorgeous foresty black metal from these neighbors to Wolves In The Throne Room. Fen: First proper full length from these UK black metallers, who we once described as a black metal Polvo! Final: Four new tracks of heavy ambient drift on vinyl, from Justin Broadrick of Jesu/Godflesh/etc. Forest:
One of our all time favorite black metal records EVER, now available on
vinyl, in a super deluxe, totally gorgeous gatefold sleeve. Martin Franklin & Michael Northam: Organic textures of grit and ambience from this skilled drone duo. Grouper / City Center: Split 7" from fave Grouper - her poppiest track yet? - and hazy lofi popsters City Center. Hans
Grusel's Krankenkabinet: There's weird and baffling, and then there's
this local band. Abstract, obtuse, experimental, avant... Helms Alee: Former members of heavies Harkonen return with a new band, still loud and rocking but surprisingly lovely too. Scott Hull: Pig Destroyer dude gets all ambient and scary soundscapey on a limited edition 3", first in a series. Human Instinct: Reissue of Hendrixy New Zealand heavy psych classic from 1970. Jasper TX: Six lovely new songs on a 3" cd from this AQ fave. Kleistwahr:
Powerful new skree from Ramleh/Skullflower guitarist, also in
Noiseville's Outer Bounds Of Sound limited vinyl series. Hitoshi Kojo: 10" vinyl of ancient sounding drone music from this Japanese artist. Leo Kottke: Classic Takoma guitar solo LP from 1969 reissued on vinyl. Maleficia: LP from Bay Area band making a desolate, post-industrial smear of voice, violin, and electronics. MGR
Y Destructo Swarmbots: Collaborative, gorgeous disc of trancey blissed
out ambient heaviness, from two friends of the guitar. Moloch: First proper full length from unpredictable Ukrainian one man black metal horde Moloch. Mountains:
In their effortless beautiful blur of acoustic guitars and elegantly
sculpted ambience, this duo celebrate the natural world. A best of 2009
contender for sure. Nav: Two demos on one cd of of ultra raw Russian black buzz from this Old Wainds offshoot. Northern
Valentine: Darkened, drifty sounds that make us think of Windy and Carl
playing with Rameses III in some giant cathedral. Jean Ritchie: Essential anthology of Appalachian folk, The Child Ballads as sung by this Kentuckian folklorist. Satyricon: Latest grim "black n' roll" behemoth spawned by these masters of Norwegian black metal. The
Shadow Ring: A wonderful 'best of' and rarities collection from this
odd British duo, who sound a bit like Jandek doing Current 93... Sic Alps: Cassette of fractured noise pop from this local artist, we just persuaded 'em to dub more copies for us. Sigh: Finally reissued, our favorite album of Japanese black-metal-psych-disco-jazz- Silent
Land Time Machine: Weird and wonderful, imagine if you will Penguin
Cafe Orchestra at a krautrock bluegrass hoedown... unique! Elder Utah Smith: Attention Mississippi-heads, here's book+cd all about this old time gospel guitarist wearing big angel wings. Souvenir's Young America: Found a stash of these LPs of awesome post-metal crunch, slightly crunched themselves. Strotter
Inst.: Brand new disc of ominous, haunting mysterious mechanical
soundscapes created with customized turntables, Jeck fans check this
out! Suishou No Fune: Ultra limited disc of Japanese underground psych folk, from these long time aQ faves. Sun Circle: Dense drifting organic drone music, this out of print cd-r now available as a super limited lp. Tarentel:
One drum heavy jam, one blissy drift, on this limited 7", part of a
series including Tussle and A Sunny Day In Glasgow. Tussle: Super limited 7" of rhythmic grooves from these local boys. V/A Skull Disco 2: Double disc collection of minimal dubstep, featuring compiled 12"s and remixes!! Vanessa Van Basten: Awesome heavy post rock from Italy! Vertiver: Another gorgeous disc of dreamy sun dappled country folk, their first record for Sub Pop! M. Ward: Brand new disc of rustic Americana from this long time aQ fave, with guests including the SHE from She & him. Plus tons more, of course. Read on! But
first, a note about the show we're co-presenting at South By Southwest
next month, with our friends at WFMU. We sent out an announcement last
week, we were so excited to finally reveal the lineup. In case you
didn't see it, please check the post about it on our blog. But tonight
we can also add that we've confirmed an additional 3 acts to perform
(Belong, Gary War, and Prizehog), bringing the AQxWFMUxSXSW showcase extravaganza up to a total of 14 fantastic bands. In alphabetical order: Absu,
Belong, Gunslingers, Major Stars, Mayyors, Obits, Ovens, Prizehog,
Renderers, Slough Feg, Gary War, Wildildlife, Woven Hand, XYX!! If you're gonna be in Austin for SXSW, we expect to see you at our show! Come by, rock out, and say hi! And big thanks everybody who came to our Arcade Party last week, it was a ton of fun! We'll do it again soon... But
before we get to the list, a couple more show announcements. First,
we'll be presenting a kick ass show in July, at the Bottom Of The Hill,
check it out: Jonas Reinhardt Wooden Shjips Oneida Saturday July 11th 2009 The Bottom Of The Hill All Ages $10 ticket Should be great, love to see you there. And we're also presenting an awesome black metal / noise festival taking place in June in Chicago, it's called Matchitehew, and you can get all the information here: And just to get an idea of what sort of festival it will be, have a look at some of the confirmed acts: Bone Awl Volahn Velnias Do Tremble and Fall Silent Marblebog Bloodyminded Cadaver in Drag Mammal Burial Hex HeatdeatH Nondor Nevai Locrian Oakeater And
plenty more to come! Looks amazing already. We'll keep you updated on
how to get tickets, and what other bands are playing. It's gonna be
killer. Looking WAY ahead, we'll be hosting a CAVE instore in May, but more on that later. And finally, for anyone keeping track, Andee had a birthday since the last list and has now joined the ranks of the 39ers. Wheeee. Alright then. On to the list... ------------------------------ 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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It is a bit shorter than usual, maybe, but hardly lacking in cool stuff, we think. Getting it done this week was made a bit trickier too, 'cause we were playing host to French acid punk psych garage trio Gunslingers (two of 'em also members of Aluk Todolo and Diamatregon, all 3 of 'em really nice guys), who were in town to play a gig with Wildildlife last night, on their way to LA and then to Texas for our SXSW show. Seeing both those bands slay at the Hemlock last night made us very confident that the SXSW thing will be killer, and that's only two of the 14 bands we've got on the AQ-WFMU bill. We realize that not everybody reading this is gonna be able to be in Austin next week, but we can't help but be excited - and remind you that where ever you are, if you've got the internet (which you must, otherwise how are you reading this?) you will be able to tune into hear all the performances which will be broadcast on WFMU! Anyway, we managed to juggle all that, and here we are with this special one-week-early edition of the AQ New Arrivals list. Our NEXT list will be in two weeks, and then we'll stick to that schedule going forward (unless we decide to go crazy and always do a list every week, but that would probably kill us, even if partying with French rockers wasn't always part of the deal... or maybe that would help). And like we said, plenty of great stuff that we're happy to offer to you a week sooner than we would have otherwise. There's three Records Of The Week, and also (another!) new tUMULt release!! Of the RotW's, one's for the black metallers, one for anyone into dark doomy droniness, and one that's not like the other two at all. And the tUMULt disc is (not so) pure pop! The first Record Of The Week is from a band with the lovely name Dead Peni. Total buzzing black doom industrial noise nirvana, lumbering and druggy, riffs torn apart into scary soundscapes. Then, there's a new double cd various artists collection on the excellent reissues label Omni Corporation, entitled Plantation Gold, devoted to compiling the most 'incredibly strange music' side of '60s and '70s country & western we've ever heard. And thirdly, we had to make the new album from Sweden's Funeral Mist a Record Of The Week, especially since we were warned repeatedly that it was terrible and sounded like "nu-metal", but when we got it, it totally kicked our asses, and has us convinced that despite those warnings, it just might end up being the black metal album of the year. We, know, we say that about a lot of black metal records, but we mean it (always)! The new tUMULt release is a timely one - the debut cd from San Francisco's Ovens, who will be playing at our SXSW shindig next week too! Beat the crowd at the merch table and pick this up now. It's 44 songs long, each one a brief blast of incredibly poppy, yet sometimes metallic rock, like a quirky blend of Guided By Voices, the Beatles, the Melvins, Weezer, and Iron Maiden. Really. Andee put this out 'cause it's his favorite pop album of the year (next to The Memories Attack, also on tUMULt) and he's never actually seen 'em play even though they're local. So he's looking forward to seeing 'em in Texas just as much (or more) than anybody. Plus, the first fifty copies of the Ovens cd come with an extra tape, ONLY available here at aQ! And then on with the Highlights, let's have 'em... A Storm Of Light / Nadja: Super deluxe 2lp (+cd with the same tracks) split release from these two heavy bands, 1 side each, plus a side of remixes, plus a side that's an etching! Absu: Highlighted on cd last list, now on 180 gram double vinyl with different rad cover art, the new album from the Texan occultic black thrash masters! (Actually not here 'til Monday...) Aun: Dreamy doomscapes that sound like Machinefabriek or Jasper TX, with some Nadja or Jesu mixed in. Beastie Boys: 20th anniversary reissue of the brilliant Paul's Boutique, now considered a classic of sample-based hiphop, on cd and vinyl! Blank Dogs: Another, vinyl-only release from one of our new one-man darkened fuzz-pop faves. Bonnie Prince Billy: Rich and sometimes dark country sounds on the latest from the prolific and talented Mr. Will Oldham. Brainbombs: Ohmigod! A new LP from the misanthropic Swedish dirge-punks!! Superduper limited. No cd as yet. Circle: A dvd "documentary" about our favorite Finnish prog/psych/metal band, done in the "circular" style of their music, visually gorgeous, dreamy and tripped out, full of mystic ritual and snowy forest scenery. Diagonal: A young prog rock band from England, in the grand '70s tradition of Van Der Graaf Generator, Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, etc.... Diapsiquir: Double disc demo compilation from French black metal freaks, and we mean freaks. DJ /Rupture: A killer mix from one of our fave DJs, heavy on the dubstep, yeah! Julie Doiron: She made the last Mount Eerie one of the best, now here's the latest solo album from this emotive vocalist. Dum Dum Girls: 12" on Captured Traces from another new lo-fi garage pop sensation. Flower-Corsano Duo: Hypnotically looping out there improv on this awesome VHF label release, like Orthrelm mixed with Dan Higgs, somehow. Gary War x 2: An LP and a 7" of warped bedroom 4-track pop from this Ariel Pink related artist, who also will be appearing at the AQxWFMUxSWSW showcase! Carlos Giffoni / The Rita: Two different approaches to NOISE music. Harsh and hard and aggro and heavy and blackened and bleak. Ginnungagap: This Sunn 0))) side project / satellite sees it's long outof print cd get reissued as an equally limited colored vinyl lp. A Handful Of Dust: Two long out of print discs reissued from this legendary NZ noise duo (sometimes trio), blissed out, chaotic, abstract and mesmerizing. The Holy Kiss: Druggy, swaggery, boooozy, bloooozy Birthday Party style post punk from this SF combo featuring our very own Nick on drums. Island: Members of Klabautamann and Woburn House offer up some folk flecked blackened post metal! Mako Sica: New on PlusTapes, dreamy hazy abstract dronemusic from this Chicago combo. Robert Millis: A reissue of an out of print cd-r of amazing audio collage / field recording from this Climax Golden Twin. Nana April Jun: Digital post black metal ambience on Touch. Oaken Throne: Issue 6 of just about the best metal / weird music mag going! Comes with a cd. Obscure: Ass kicking classic hard rock / power metal featuring ex Enslaved member! Oneohtrix Point Never: Sprawling cosmic synth weirdness, old school new age meets Italian horror soundtrack, for fans of Zombi and Goblin. Portland Bike Ensemble: Live record from these 'cycling' enthusiasts, clangy and clattery and weirdly beautiful, bikes as musical instruments! Power Pill Fist: Super noisy earlier record from these former Record Of The Week honorees, buzzing and blown out crumbling 8bit crunch. Robedoor: Vinyl version of an out of print cd from these heavy psych doom crushers. Scale The Summit: Soaring epic instrumental guitar jams, somewhere between the f**king Champs, Explosions In The Sky and Joe Satriani(?). Solitaire: New record from these Finnish heavy metal legends, released on Jussi from Circle's Ektro label. Starving Weirdos: Gorgeous super limited lp release of clattery noise jams, shimmering ambience, and warm space-y psychedelia. Studio 1: Essenetial and legendary minimal techno from Wolfgang Voigt aka Gas. Suishou No Fune: Killer underground Japanese psych / folk. The disc we sold out of recently, back in stock for a limited time. Svarte Greiner + Anduin: Collaborative 7" of moody minimal dark drift. Recorded live. This Will Destroy You & Lymbyc System: Buzzing epic post rock crush meets glitched out downtempo post rock skitter. Irma Thomas: Some sweet New Orleans soul classics. Tomhet: Buzzing black weirdness featuring members of aQ black metal faves Leaden and Anwech. Ugly Things: Latest issue of oneof our all time favorite mags! Underjordiska / Spectral Lore: Split cd, two loooooong tracks of drifting brooding blackened ambient dronemusic. V/A G-Spots: Finally on cd, library music from this mysterious studio, spacey folk and electro horror! Wavves: Another s/t disc jam packed with fuzzy fractured lo-fi garage pop. Wild Classical Music Ensemble: Freaked out noisy rock out free for alls from non musicians and mentally handicapped adults. Wildildlife: Long out of print cd-r now available on lp with bonus downloads, totally tripped out psyche metal noise pop weirdness! Xela: Incredibly new lp, lush shimmery and droney, but also strangely choral. Younger Lovers: Garage punk jams from Brontez, ex-Gravy Train, now on vinyl! Plus (a little bit) more, including a new issue of The Wire with SUNNO))) on the cover! New Grace Jones, rad Swedish retro metal from Bullet, A Casiotone singles collection, and one or two more goodies. Also, our pals in Kowloon Walled City are playing their first headlining gig, so for locals we're giving away one pair of tickers. Just email [email protected], with the subject KOWLOON TIX, and will pick a winner at random. Here's more info about the show: Saturday, March 21, 9:00p Hemlock Tavern - http://hemlocktavern.com 1131 Polk St @ Post, San Francisco $7, 21+ Kowloon Walled City - http://inthewalledcity.com Dark Castle - http://myspace.com/ Sod Hauler - http://myspace.com/sodhauler Dark Castle is a fuzzed out doom/sludge 2-piece from Florida. Female-fronted and heavy as f**k. They're on At A Loss. Sod Hauler is a fuzzed out doom/sludge 3-piece from Seattle. Male-fronted and also heavy as f**k. Here's our review of the Kowloon Walled City record: Pretty much every metalhead in SF went to see Carcass at the Grand Ballroom the other night (in fact, we were joking that a well placed incendiary device could have wiped out the entire scene in one fell swoop). And yeah, of course Carcass destroyed, but the very same night, all the way across town, a band called Kowloon Walled City were faced with the daunting task of laying waste to a room not exactly full of the few metalheads who for whatever reason were not at the Carcass show. And listening to this, the debut release from this SF foursome, we'd be hard pressed to say that the folks at Carcass, ourselves included, didn't miss out on something serious. Thankfully, unlike Carcass, KWC are a going concern, so we'll get another chance, but until then, get a load of this five song ep, of fierce, furious, crushing heaviness. Think Unsane, old Helmet, the Melvins, Buzzov-en, Neurosis of course, this is some seriously heavy sh*t. The guitars massive and downtuned, a relentless sea of roiling chug and churn, the drums dense and pounding, the vocals a throat shredding howl. The AmRep vibe is all over these songs, the sound incredibly thick and corrosive, the rhythms alternatingly pounding and lurching, most often settling into a lumbering almost-groove, the melodies buried amidst the crunch and rumble, sometimes surfacing as the band slips into something more dynamic, letting the guitars moan and keen, the drums getting all spacious, sheets of Eyehategod style feedback, a weirdly doomy sort of abstract sludge, before slipping back into a furious grinding metallic crush. Pretty f**king excellent, and definitely has us looking forward to finally seeing what we missed that fateful night. Should be awesome. Okay, that's about it. We'll try to report from SXSW. Allan will be blogging, Andee will be twittering (ugh, we know), if you're gonna be in Austin, come by and see us, Sprio's Friday the 20th. And if you're not, be sure to tune in to WFMU (wfmu.org) and enjoy it from afar. Thanks to everybody for sticking with us. Hope you're all weathering these tough times. We'll be back with a new list in two weeks time. With another massive batch of amazing sounds and killer new music. But for now, let's get on with this list, number three fourteen... Enjoy! ------------------------------ 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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___________|_______|_________ ______________|_______|_______ _________________|_______|___ Beloved Customers and Friends: Greetings, all! It's been quite a couple of weeks since the last list. Last week, Andee and Allan and Jon all went off to Texas for South By Southwest, where Aquarius was co-sponsoring a show with radio station WFMU. This week, Andee and Allan are still recovering from SXSW. Jon's still off on tour with Barn Owl. And Nick just left on tour with his band Holy Kiss. And Jim just yesterday played a show opening for Nurse With Wound! So, we've all been busy. But we still got another new arrivals list together, never fear. Our SXSW showcase with WFMU was fantastic, it went really well. If you follow us on Twitter, you got Andee's tweets from Texas, proving he was having fun. We'll also soon have some photos and stories and links and whatnot up on the Aquarius blog about it. We definitely want to thank our friends at WFMU, the folks at SXSW, all the great bands who played, and everybody who turned out to see 'em! There'd be more stuff on our blog about SXSW already, but hey writing reviews for this list had to come first... speaking of which, we have again three Records Of The Week this time. Epic and intense dronebliss from Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words. So beautiful. Also a reissued Slumberland jangle shoegaze pop gem circa 1990 from the late great Black Tambourine, totally for fans of the label's current sweethearts Crystal Stilts and Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. And thirdly, the eagerly awaited (and amazing!) new album from Wolves In The Throne Room for all you black metal maniacs (and even the ones who only dabble). And then there's the highlights, we've got Circle, we've got Mississippi, we've got more black metal, and folk and pop, and we've even got a Japanese/Israeli noise summit... Angel Eyes / A Fine Boat, This Coffin!: Cool limited split 7" of post rock metal from two bands, one of which we already loved a lot. Antaeus / Katharsis: Two new killer blasts of frenzied and gloriously f**ked up blackness from two faves, on super thick 7" vinyl, already out of print. Aosoth: This Antaeus side project brings more blackness! The Appleseed Cast: Latest from these old faves, playing indie rock with an extra bit of metallic heft and post rock dynamics. Aidan Baker x 2: Canadian dronelord Baker (of Nadja) has a new cd with Thisquietarmy, and gets his Thoughtspan cd-r reissue on vinyl! Ariel Pink x 2: Damaged popster Mr. Pink himself brought these by, and handful of copies of a new LPs and new 7"! Dan Burke & Thomas Dimuzio: Mangled drones and manipulated noise from this Illusion Of Safety offshoot. Burmese: Super limited new 10" record from these SF crushers, now with Weasel Walter in the band, more insane and grindy than ever!! Circle: Oh yeah, it's the new album from our favorite Finns, mixing up metal and kraut and even country, with special guest Bruce Duff on vocals and lead guitar! Blossom Dearie: 25 track collection of classics from this '50s/'60s jazz vocalist who just recently passed away, wonderful stuff! Frozen Cloak: Mysterious LP that's actually some of the guys from Reeks and the Wrecks playing lo-fi black metal! Gunslingers: Now on vinyl, the debut acid punk garage action from this French trio who just played our SXSW show. Happy Days: The depressive black metal band with the best name ever is back, with a really weird new album. Dave Hurley: '70s styled cosmic outside jazz from SoCal, with lots of freakout spirit and groove too. Michael Hurley & Pals: MISSISSIPPI vinyl reissue of this slice of charming backwoods Americana folk circa 1971. Iran: Former tUMULt label noise pop act returns with more pop, less noise! Jeremy Jay: The sort of record that could unite fans of melty disco delights those who thrive on a steady diet of The Smiths! Khanate: Final vinyl from this ultra doooooom super group, somehow extra ambient and experimental and extreme. Korean Black Eyes: Limited new archival cassette release of early '70s all girl Korean kick ass trashy garage rock combo! Mighty Diamonds: Reissue of a rich roots reggae debut from 1976, classic stuff. Mirah: Latest and one of the greatest from this songstress, at her best at her most ambitious. Marissa Nadler: Magnificent new album of gothic-country-folk-pop from Ms. Nadler! Niela Miller: 1st release from vinyl-only Numero Group offshoot, long lost early '60s folk featuring the original "Hey Joe". Nightbringer: Triple LP of sheer black metal supremacy!! Nite Jewel: 12" on Italians do it better of bedroom jams that sound a bit like Grouper making dance music! Obits: Sub Pop debut full-length from the new band Rick Froberg, ex-Hot Snakes, Drive Like Jehu. Super rockin', as we saw at SXSW... Onna: 7" reissue of Les Rallizes Denudes inspired Japanese psych genius from 1983, on Holy Mountain! Yoko Ono: Just an old fave we finally had to list, Yoko Ono's grooved-out krautrock-y masterpiece Fly. Orcustus: Excellent buzzing black metal from Norwegian vets, new on Southern Lord. Caroline Peyton: Numero reissues the private press debut of this folk mistress's early '70s debut, with bonus tracks, for Ladies Of The Canyon fans. Redrot: Old school noise drenched '80ish industrial, on a limited 7" record. Roedelius: Reissue of 1979 record from the 'romantic' half of krautrock legends Cluster, with bonus tracks and remixes on the cd format. Arthur Russell: Left field disco productions from Russell's legendary Sleeping Bag Record imprint, so good! Sanhedrin: Heavy duty Japanese psychedelic power trio improv featuring Keiji Haino, Tatsuya Yoshida, and Mitsuru Nasuno. Servile Sect: Now on vinyl, this awesome slab of blackened outerspace buzz and drone metal weirdness. Sleepy Sun: Limited vinyl 10" release on ATP from these stoned San Franciscans, jamming it out with ethereal vocals. Smokey Emery: Far away drones and loops on limited cd-r from this Austin based painter and installation artist. Throne Of Katarsis: Grimmer than grim Norwegian black metal from some of the grimmest. Trist: Bleak ambient drone, like an extended black metal intro, from the label that brings us Paysage D'Hiver. Gil Trythall: Country Moog! On Omni (responsible for recent Record Of The Week, Plantation Gold) a collection of synthed-up, switched-on country!! Urthona: New cd-r of blown out amped up psychedelic drone from this nature-worshipping English electric axe master! V/A African Scream Contest: Now on vinyl, and in stock! Great Afro-funk collection of '70s gems! V/A Local Customs: Downriver Revival: Numero digs into the vaults of some defunct old local studios, starting with this Michigan outfit recording soul, funk, garage and really great gospel. V/A An Outbreak Of Twangin': Phantom Guitars, volume two! '60s British guitar instros in the style of The Shadows. V/A Pop Ambient 2009: Now on vinyl (with cd included), the latest installment in one of our favorite electronic music series. V/A The Electric Asylum: 'Acid Freakrock' obscurities and absurdities from late '60s/early '70s England, some of it like bubblegum Black Sabbath. V/A What Pleasing The Lord Looks Like-Marriage: Japan vs. Israel in a NOISE (and doom and grind) battle royale, including Ryokuchi and Lietterschpich among others. Vaka: Piano driven, drum heavy post doom heaviness from Sweden! Valet: Vinyl only 12" from Ms. Owens, including a cover of Boris' "Rainbow" in her intimate personal dreamy druggy style. Xasthur: New album, so far cassette only, and thus super cvlt. With patch and buttons in special packaging. And it's also an amazing album! And there's much more on this list besides, so don't stop 'til you've read it all! But before we get to that, we have some tickets to give away, and an announcement or two. SO first up, tickets! Frist, VETIVER at the Great American, here's the info: Wed. Apr. 8 at GAMH Vetiver (CD Release Party for “Tight Knit”!) Richard Swift Adam Stephens (of Two Gallants) $16 Doors 8, Show 9 We've got 2 pairs of tix to give away, just email with VETIVER TIX in the subject line to [email protected], and we'll pick two lucky winners at random. And then we've got the Anvil Experience! Not only do you get to see the film, which is amazing, and which has been viewed maybe 5 times between Allan and Andee, but you also get to see Anvil rock out live right afterwards!!! It's gonna be amazing. Here are those details: Sun. Apr. 12 at Slim’s VH1 Classic Presents The Anvil Experience Movie Premiere followed by live performance! $18 Doors 6:30, Show 7:30 We've got 2 pairs of tix to give away to that one too, just email with ANVIL TIX in the subject line to [email protected], and again, we'll pick two lucky winners at random. Finally, for aQ list readers out East, check out the line up for this amazing festival: AVANT FAIRFAX fest Cheer-Accident Kohoutek Mike Tamburo Anduin Stag Hare Outpost Kuschty Rye Ergot Insect Factory Layne Garrett 3999 University Dr. Fairfax, VA 22030 Saturday, April 25th 6p-1a $5 suggested donation http://www.myspace.com/ Definitely worth checking out!!! Finally, a big ol' thanks from the bottom of our hearts to all the folks who have continued to buy records from us, even during these tough times, we appreciate it more than you know. And as we mentioned before, we do have a donate button on the front page of the website, for folks who might not buy records from us but still use our list and website as a resource and who might want to support the cause. Thanks to the folks who have donated already, every little bit helps. We're in it for the long haul, and plan on sticking around and being your source for sounds weird and wonderful, as long as you'll have us! Now lets get to those weird and wonderful sounds, shall we... ------------------------------ 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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o o o o o New Arrivals #317 o o o o o o o o o o April 24 2009 o o o o o Beloved Customers and Friends: Wow. It's been a festive couple weeks here at AQ. Last week, we had not one but two cool instores - Wavves on Monday, and Daniel Higgs & Bill Nace both on Friday. Then last Saturday was of course Record Store Day, and boy was it busy!! Thanks everyone who came down, hung out, ate donut holes, drank beers and bought stuff. And thanks to all the folks who couldn't be here, 'cause they don't live in SF, but wrote to say they wished they could have been. Makes us think they should have this Record Store Day thing at least once an month, instead of merely as an annual occasion. Of course, as we often say, every day is Record Store Day here, right? We were hoping too that some of the folks who hadn't been record shopping in a while, but who made it out last Saturday, had a blast, and might start trying to come out every week, or every other week, you can never have too much music! While there's only a few of the various special Record Store Day releases we still have left (several listed below), y'know we always have *something* that's super special and limited... and great music that isn't limited either. Anyway, we didn't know what to expect from RSD this year but now we're believers. Next week, Tuesday the 28th to be precise, we've got another instore coming up, from Grouper! And we'll try to keep the special events rollin', maybe we'll plan another video arcade party soon too. So, it's been busy, and fun, but somehow amidst the shows and holidays we managed to listen to and review a bunch of New Arrivals for this week's list... of course! We've selected two Records Of The Week, plus there's *another* new release from Andee's tUMULt label (what's gotten into him??!) and a ton of rad Highlights too. Here goes... Our first Record Of The Week is nominally a black metal album, from France's Peste Noire, but we've determined that it's something even the non-totally-black-metal- Our other Record Of The Week comes from local faves Thee Oh Sees, Dwyer and Co. having made their catchiest slab of garage pop yet, you bet. So good. And then, new on tUMULt, more French black metal. Can't get enough!! This time it's the return of Diamatregon, whose new cd (and lp, released by Paragon, also in stock) called Crossroad is -somehow- their tribute to the blues. Blackened blues metal? Bluesy black metal? You'll have to listen hard to hear it... but it's in there. As are droned out buzzscapes and raw blasting metal. Maybe their eclectic eccentricity will make more sense when you remember that 2/3s of the band are also in Aluk Todolo and Gunslingers. Highlights, highlights, highlights... Acid Mothers Temple: Latest cosmic transmission from these hard working hippies! Agoraphobic Nosebleed: Thee grindlords surprising new album RULES... on vinyl, or on cd in a 'old fashioned' longbox (!) with buttons, patch and poster! Ancestors: A relentless blown out blast of blackened ultra distorted metallic punk on 7" or cassette! Art Brut: Wicked new wavey Fall worship that simply kicks ass. Astral Social Club: Limited new vinyl only release on Qbico from these dronesters. Bardo Pond: Limited cd (or not quite as limited lp+cd) archival collection of heavy gems from this veteran psych stoner act. Beck: Reissued, early and best Beck effort One Foot In The Grave, with bonus tracks. The Beets: Shambolic lo fi pop punk lp on Captured Tracks. Black Moth Super Rainbow: RECORD STORE DAY limited 7", a teaser for these cats sure to be awesome upcoming new album. Bodychoke: Reissued final album from industrial rock act that sounds part Swans, part Joy Division. Brutal Truth: Reunited (mostly) grind heroes comeback album is a f***ing masterpiece. Burial Hex / Silvester Anfang: Split 7" of funereal folk and ambient ritual, super creepy and limited too. Bill Callahan: Smog feller is back with an other 'solo' set of songs, somber and subdued but so good. Chen Santa Maria: Hypnotic textures from fractured guitar and primitive electronics. Chord: High concept heaviness here, the Pelican side project playing one chord per song, collectively. Crocodiles: Noisy shoegaze lofi bliss from the San Diego scene. Darwinsbitch: Hazy Eastern influenced dark drone on Digitalis. Dead As Dreams / Aurvandil: Two Weakling worshipping black metal bands on one split cassette! Dengue Fever / Chicha Libre: RECORD STORE DAY limited split 7" from SE Asian pop lovin' faves DF and another band celebrating Peruvian Chicha music. Dog: Cool lil' 3" cd of truly bizarre black metal rawness from Hungary, featuring members of Marblebog and Vorkuta, whose split you'll see below. Emeralds: Vinyl-only latest maybe greatest installment of kosmiche new agey drone buzz from these guys. Endless Humiliation: A total face melting wall of blacknoise on vinyl that lives up to their moniker. James Ferraro: Skaters dude lp only Holy Mountain release of "tropical drone". Hallow: Super limited, artistically packaged 2lp debut of metallic soundscape skree from Ancestors dude. Harappian Night Recordings: DIY ethnic exotica that sounds like samples of Sublime Frequencies field recordings! Human Quena Orchestra: Brutal and beautiful heaviness from this unique act. Irepress: Tight, metallic, Neur-Isis styled postrock put through some sort of fusion blender! Iron & Wine: RECORD STORE DAY! Super limited live cd!!! Last copies... Jeremy Jay: A new 12" from this dream pop new wave heartthrob. Junior Boys: New record of slow burning electro indie pop. Kellarissa: Haunting beautiful ethereal pop from this Canadian songstress. Liverpool: Long overdue reissue of this long lost Tropicalia gem. Marblebog / Vorkuta: Killer split from these two Hungarian hordes. Grim buzzing black metal weirdness! Mazes: Seet lilting pop from folks who also do time in the 1900's (the band, not the century!) Moebius & Plank: Another legendary karutock rarity finally reissued! Moloch: Eyehategod style stoner sludge, haevy and brutal and just a little bit groovy. The Mountain Goats / John Vanderslice: Super limited lp collaboration from these two pop songsmiths... No Neck Blues Band: An lp featuring the soundtrack to their upcoming film. Tribal and tripped out awesome as always. Noveller: Some awesome experimental avant drone guitar explorations from this one woman band. Pig Destroyer: The awesome, previouslty dvd-audio only half hour jam "Natasha", now availble on cd. Poobah: Rad reissue of a lost gem from these seventies Midwestern hard rockers. Potop: First full length from these Macedonian sludgelords, fresh off their split with local noisemakers Burmese. Jack Rose: Another disc from one of our favorite guitar players, another darkly delicate twangy slide flecked masterpiece. Shogun Kunitoki: Far out electronic pop fron these Finnish faves. Smokey Emery: Cinematic drones and dreamy loops, so lovely! Sollubi: Crushing doomy filth! Starkey: Insane double disc mix of some of the best dubstep EVER! Strings Of Consciousness & Angel: A new record of fantastic drones from this French / Icelandic collab. Superchunk: A brand new single from these indie punk pop legends. Bishop Perry Tillis: A new Mississippi Records release! What else do you need to know? Tinted Windows: Cheap Trick + Smashing Pumpkins + Fountains Of Wayne + Hanson = Tinted Windows! Kick ass power pop! V/A Eight Acts Of Origin: Super limited black metal lp comp feat. Akitsa, Ash Pool, Woods Of Infinity and others! V/A Records Toreism: Thrill Jockey's RECORD STORE DAY record: White Hills, Tortoise, Mountains and more... V/A This LP Crashes Hard Drives: A killer RECORD STORE DAY lp only releases, last copies! Verde: Ex-Circle member returns with another disc of strange sounds created with homemade instruments. Warlus: Kick ass French psych pop gem reissued for the first time. Wooden Shjips: Now on vinyl, the new one from the SF psych sensations! Woods: Now on cd, what we highlighted last list on vinyl. Xasthur: Double vinyl version of the new album, previously only on cassette. Young Widows / Bonnie Prince Billy: Split 7", both sides great! Zaimph: Harsh wall of sound guitarnoise from Maria Bassett of Hototogisu and Double Leopards. Zoroaster: Massive melodic doom from these Southern doomlords. Also plenty more goodies, including some other desirable now-on-vinyl items like Jacaszek, Death, and Blut Aus Nord... and some things we won't even mention here 'cause we barely have enough as it is, just read on... But first some show stuff and some more ticket giveaways. We're presenting two more kick ass shows, the details are below: Thurs. May 7 at Great American Music Hall Spectrum featuring Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3 The Entrance Band Dora Flood $17 adv/$20 door Doors 7:30, Show 8 Sun. May 10 at Great American Music Hall Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Fred Frith Khi Darag! $17 adv/$19 door Doors 7, Show 8 We have two pairs of tickets to give away to each show, so if you want to be entered for the Spectrum tix, just send an email to [email protected] with the subject SPECTRUM TIX. And if you want to see Sleepytime, send an email to that same address, with the subject, you guessed it, SLEEPYTIME TIX. Also, as we mentioned on the last list, we're pleased to be presenting the always amazing Windy & Carl, their first tour in 6 years, performing right here in SF. Here's the details: Wed, May 27 aQuarius recOrds & Kranky Records present WINDY & CARL (first tour in 6 years!) Jonas Reinhardt Nudge Rickshaw Stop 155 Fell St. SF 8 pm $10 Rickshaw Stop WINDY & CARL The longtime Michigan space-rock duo tours for the first time in 6 years, following the release of their latest Kranky Records CD. "While Windy & Carl's music has often explored the world of extreme emotions filtered through shimmering feedback cascades, 2008 proved to be a watershed year for the duo. ... With Windy's singing here on the opening 'Btwn You + Me' sounding at once murkily distanced and close, while the lush guitar work familiar from past albums feels like a looming wave, there's a lurking dissonance in many of the songs that feels almost palpable. Often the guitars sound downright mean, as the angry buzz and hum of 'La Douleur' ebbs and flows before resolving into a more exultant conclusion, while 'When We Were' takes a calmer but no less unsettled tone, the stretched-out howls of feedback feeling like caged animals testing their limits against a buried background growl, before turning into a suddenly free keening charge, as if something had been finally set free." --AllMusic WINDY AND CARL MYSPACE And we have TWO PAIRS of tickets to give away to this show as well. Just send an email to storeaquariusrecords.org with WINDY & CARL TIX in the subject line, and we'll pick two winners at random! Everyone probably knows by now, but we have a blog, and a twitter, and a Myspace page, we post to all three, some more often than others, but if you want to keep up on all the aQ happenings, couldn't hurt to follow all three, in addition to this big beast of a biweekly list. And that's all for now, enjoy the list as always, thanks again for the making this year's Record Store Day so fantastic, and please know that we do appareciate you, our loyal customers and friends, thanks for buying your records at aQ, it means the world, and helps make all this possible. Have a great weekend, let's get on with this week's list! ------------------------------ 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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___________|_______|_________ ______________|_______|______ _________________|_______|____ Beloved Customers and Friends: Greetings once again! What's the big news with us this week? Well, nothing beats having one of the AQ staff jump out of an airplane at 18,000 feet. That's right, resident AQ daredevil (who knew?) Cup went skydiving !!!! last Sunday with her significant other Dustin, for his birthday. She LOVED it, though we're all sorta hoping she doesn't make a habit out of it... we were worrying about her the whole time! The rest of us had to settle for, y'know, listening to music and writing reviews for our excitement this week. Well, Andee went to see a show (Torche) too which is rare, we'd thought that attending our SXSW thing had filled up his show-going quota for the year and then some. The two Records Of The Week this week are both on the shoegazey side of things, which we also find exciting... one comes from the prolific Nadja, the Canadian dronedoomduo who offer up perhaps their most accessible album yet, a sublime all-covers affair paying tribute to their influences, from My Bloody Valentine to Slayer to A-Ha! We liked the concept, being curious before we'd even heard it, and it turned out to be even better than we were hoping for. And then there's a Record Of The Week sequel of sorts, a second volume of spaced-out singles from '90s UK drug-psych rockers the Telescopes. Their first Singles Compilation was a Record Of The Week and part 2 is just as good, maybe even more far out. Tons of Highlights this time too... Avarus: LP only action from these freaky Finns, IV is here! Sir Richard Bishop: Sun City Girls guitar whiz gets all Middle Eastern on The Freak Of Araby. Black Moth Super Rainbow: We've got the plush FURRY edition of these AQ faves new disc!! James Blackshaw: Epic, orchestrated instrumentals, maybe his best and most ambitious album yet. Blank Dogs: A new full-length from this prolific, one-man lo-fi gloom-pop genius! Blue Sabbath Black Cheer: Two different releases from these NW blacknoizemakers, one their first cd (of odds and ends), the other an lp made with cement mixers! Bong / Quttinirpaaq: More drugged out doomlordiness on a ltd. edition split LP from Bong and some new friends with a less obvious name. Cadaver Yelleth At Amber Tower: Experimental side project of Russian black metal freaks Ithdabquth Qliphoth sounds more like something from the Conet Project!! Cauldron: Quick riffing and catchy, utter old school hesher metal awesomeness from Canada! Children: Another rad young metal act, from NYC, all about the dual guitar action and thrashy jams. Nels Cline: Great new album from avant-guitar master Cline, that added to his fanbase here at AQ. Cold Cave: A collection of previously released tracks from the darling noisenik / minimal wave project! Alice Coltrane: Relisting the cd edition of her 1976 LP we highlighted last time. Current 93: Goes full on psych rock with a curious cast of guest musicians! Karen Dalton: Now reissued on deluxe vinyl, the '60s folk vocalist's It's So Hard To Tell... album. Ducktails: A tropical tripped out psychedelic, sun dappled batch of lo-fi weirdo pop from this one man band. El-B: COllection of long out of print 12"s from this pre-dubstep electronic music innovator. Emaciator: Some seriously dense and ominous floorcore looped dronemusic, super limited lp. JD Emmanuel: Great collection of 1979-1982 output from this minimal, mystical, mind expanding electronic New Age artist. Yvonne Fair: Reissued early '70s album from this funky soul singer with attitude. Forgotten Path: Tr00 cvlt black metal 'zine, buy or die! Grey Machine: Debut 12" single (with exclusive dubsteppy b-side remix) from this new project teaming up Justin Broadrick (Jesu) and Aaron Turner (Isis)! Harvey Milk x 2: Their latest album now on sw**k vinyl, and the Anthem DVD reissued with extras... Heaven & Hell: Aka Black Sabbath, with Ronnie James Dio at the mic, what Andee will tell you is their best lineup, and this is a grand, DOOMY comeback album! HTRK: Aussie outfit doling out doleful minimal coldwave gloom rock a la Sisters of Mercy and The Birthday Party, due to be deservedly hyped we think! Inner Space: In stock now on LP, this pre-Can krautrock soundtrack gem. The Intelligence: More lofi sh*tgaze garage pop action on In The Red, for fans of Thee Oh Sees for sure. Iron And Wine: Incredible singles and Bsides collection, lots of covers, and lots of gorgeous strum and croon. Irr. App. (Ext.): Final part in the trilogy, of off kilter abstract Dada minimalism. Ithdabquth Qliphoth: More bizarre and abstract Russian alchemical black metal dark drone weirdness from these blacknoise alchemists. Jabladav: Super limited tabe og glimmering Tangerine Dream like ambience, to tide us over until the next crushing full length. L'Acephale: Second full length from these Northwestern black metallers who mix plenty of apocalyptic folk into their black buzz. Jason Lytle: Brand new solo record from ex Grandaddy member, that sounds, well, like Grandaddy, and we love it! Malkuth: Second disc of raw grim blackend buzz from this NY trio (which just so happens to feature members of the No Neck Blues Band). Mastodon: Ultra limited 45rpm 2lp + free cd edition of this massive metal band's latest! Maximo Park: Long overdue 3rd album from these frenetic angular power poppers, Interpol meets XTC, but a bit more reserved. So good. Hisham Mayet: Sublime Frequencies DVD documentary dvd action, on location in Africa. The Monks: Their essential Black Monk Time now reissued on deluxe double vinyl! Geoff Mullen & Keith Fullerton Whitman: Super limited lp of experimental processed guitar music from these two long time aQ faves. Thee Oh Sees: A brand new super limited 7" from these local garage pop phenoms. Shuggie Otis x 2: Reissues of two more Shuggie LPs, including the one with "Strawberry Letter 23" on it! Ovens: An ep predating this SF band's popular tUMULt label release! Esther Phillips: Reissue of her sultry and smokey soulful album from '72. Psychedelic Horsesh*t: 12" of self-proclaimed "sh*tgaze anthems"! Pyramids: The one we didn't have last time, more reissued-on-vinyl '70s cosmic jazz from these cats. Reigns: These UK gloom pop electronic post rock soundscapers are back with another cryptic concept album. Savath & Savalas: Soft psych electronica from the prolific Scott Herren (he of Prefuse 73 among others). sh*tmat: Another killer disc of raved up junglized ragga drum and bass electronic madness. Skullflower: Brand new live disc, heavy and blown out and noisy, featuring another original SF member! Sleepy Eyes Of Death: M83 meets Zombi on this ep! Steven R. Smith & Gareth Davis: One of our favorite teams up with a clarinetist for some dreamy, droney instrumental drift. Alan Sondheim / Myk Freedman: Awesome collaboration, guitar, slide guitar and banjo, tripped out, abstract improvised folkiness. Sons Of Otis: Latest chunk of crushing stoner doom from these sludge doom masters... Omar Souleyman: Brand new record on Sublime Frequencies, wild and festive and far out and so so good. Spacemen 3: Recent rarities ep now available on vinyl! Total blissed out drone drenched space rock. Anna St. Clair: Latest from Plus Tapes, this rare French pop gem, produced by Jean-Claude Vannier! SUNNO))): Latest record, lush and expansive, strings, horns and choirs oh my! Sweet: Double disc collection from these '70s glam rockers, from bubblegum to "Ballroom Blitz" to some almost-metal masterpieces. UFO: Early '70s blown-out boogie and psychedelic space rock jams on a 2cd set, the lesser known proto-metal part of this classic band's career. V/A Scott Walker: 30 Century Man: Soundtrack/covers album featuring Jana Winderen: Super limited tape from this field recordist of lobsters, crabs, shrimp and other decapods! Wolf Eyes: New record on Hospital, crushing buzzing noise and weirdly melodic gloomy coldwave! What? You heard us... Wooden Birds: Ex American Analog Set frontman returns with his new band and they're divine! Young Widows / Melt-Banana: Seccond split in this four part series another crushing YW jam and a bad ass MB track as well! And of course, MORE. Including the new issue of The Wire magazine, the Fresh & Only's album now in stock on LP, and some sludgy doom from Lazarus Blackstar, some now-on-vinyl's and loads more. Tons of announcements too. First up, we're having an instore TOMORROW. Saturday, May 23rd, at 6:00 pm. We're super excited to have CAVE performing right here in the shop. They'll be doing something much different than their usual thing, but you can still expect some seriously spaced out psychedelic kraut drone drift. Don't miss it! We're also hosting a Black Moth Super Rainbow listening party, next Tuesday, on the occasion of the release of their new album, Eating Us! (which we have in stock, in the limited zippered furry pouch! While they last). Here are the details: Tuesday, May 26th Terrorbird Media, aQuarius recOrds, & Graveface Present: BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW 'Eating Us' Album Listening Party featuring live performances from Ghosts On Tape + Tempo No Tempo + free BMSR giveaways & exclusive download cards & your chance to win the entire BMSR catalog from Graveface 6-9pm, FREE, 21+ @ The Knockout 3223 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94110 Black Moth Super Rainbow's much anticipated new album, 'Eating Us,' will be released on vinyl, digitally, and on cd on Tuesday, May 26th in North America. BMSR also embarks on a national tour with School of Seven Bells on May 20th. To coincide with the release of the new album as well as their cross country tour, Graveface records is throwing a string of release/listening parties across the country in conjunction with Terrorbird Media, record stores, and college radio stations. For the San Francisco edition, Graveface teams up with aQuarius recOrds and Terrorbird Media to throw a happy hour bash from 6-9pm at the Knockout in San Francisco, where people will have the chance to purchase the record courtesy of Aquarius, get BMSR freebies, and have a chance to win the entire Black Moth Super Rainbow back catalog as well as the special import only "hairy" edition of the album! In addition to a full listen of 'Eating Us', joining the SF festivities are live performances by local post-dub/disco upstarts Tempo No Tempo as well as tropical-bass maestro Ghosts On Tape. This event is FREE and open to the pubic from 6-9pm, 21+! In addition, Black Moth Super Rainbow hits San Francisco two days later on Thursday, May 28th @ Bottom of the Hill for a sold out show with School of Seven Bells and Odd Nosdam. And to celebrate the release and the listening party, we have a bunch of cool swag to give away, records and lps and posters, all you need to do is send an email to [email protected] with the words BLACK MOTH CONTEST in the subject line, and we'll pick some folks at random to win these Black Moth goodies. Also, we're presenting a bunch of cool shows. And we're giving away tickets to all of em! First up... YOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The return of Yob Slim's - Sat. June 27 doors 8pm/show 9pm With Will Haven + tba Tickets are $13 advance/$15 door and are on sale this Sun. May 17 We have THREE pairs of tix to giveaway, just email [email protected] with the subject YOB TIX.... and we'll pick three lucky winners at random. We're also co-presenting these shows: Wed. June 10 at GAMH Secret Chiefs 3 Kayo Dot $17 adv/$19 door Doors 7, show 8 and Fri. June 19 at GAMH (((folkYEAH!))) Presents Sleepy Sun (CD Release Party for "Embrace") Spindrift Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound DJ Wet Burrito $13 Doors 8, Show 9 Both should be awesome. We have two pairs of tickets for each to give away, usual drill, email [email protected], with either SECRET CHEIFS TIX or SLEEPY SUN TIX in the subject line, depending on which show you want to go to, and we'll pick some winners at random. And finally be sure not to miss this killer show: BLACK DICE WOLF EYES SIC ALPS POD BLOTZ w VJ KAMAU PATTON DJ McDUECE FRI MAY 29TH OCD WAREHOUSE 758 NATOMA (@ 9TH) We don't have tickets to give away, but you can buy them here at the store. Only $10 ($12 at the door). One quick note before we go, we've discovered all these amazing food carts lately, the creme brulee cart, the curry cart, cheap and delicious, popping up all over SF, we love it, the more the merrier, however we just discovered the ultimate, SNEAKYS BBQ, they do the BBQ at home, in big old barrel smokers in their Portrero Hill back yard, pulled pork, ribs, macaroni, all that good stuff, the best part is they DELIVER!!! Check it out: http://sneakysbbq.blogspot. Sign up for their list so you can find out when they'll be BBQing, and when you can get some delicious BBQ delivered to your door! Okay, that's it, we're knackered, we've had a long long day, enjoy this week's list, and don't forget to come by tomorrow, to hang out, buy records, and see CAVE rock the house... ------------------------------ 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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Well now those two tracks are on cd, with a whole bunch more archival material, including several songs featuring guitarist Michio Kurihara whom you know from his work with Ghost and Boris. And then there's 2 more essential reissues from UK hypnorock masters Loop, 1987's 12" collection World In Your Eyes and their final album A Gilded Eternity from 1990, with TONS of extra stuff. The former is a triple cd now, the latter a double! More drugged out, riff-looping bliss than you can believe. And a whole lotta highlights too... AA: Limited edition 7" reissue of 1981 Belgian minimal new wave post punk coolness. Aavikko: New album from our favorite Finnish synth-combo, with a cosmic disco goes classical vibe to it! Ariel Pink: Reissued as a deluxe double lp, this early AP rarity of fantastic 4-track outsider pop is finally available again. Atavist: Now on vinyl, the super sad sludge of II: Ruined! Blank Dogs: Now on vinyl, the latest full-length from this prolific, one-man lo-fi gloom-pop genius! Bosnia: Filthy, downtuned blackened doom crust on Paradigms. Brainbombs: Finally got a handful more of these, the vinyl-only f**king Mess album from these nihilistic Swedish sludge-Stooges. Sandy Bull x 3: THREE different wonderful vinyl reissues from this '60s folk/raga guitar (and oud, etc.) master, on new label Sutro Park! Burial Hex / Zola Jesus: Deluxe split vinyl release on Aurora Borealis of "oppressive necro electronics" from both these acts. Caina: A new cdep from this one man UK avant black metal outfit. Lula Cortes: Reissued Brazilian psych from 1980, more song based than his earlier stuff. Cough: Now on vinyl, this fine slab of gloriously filthy f**ked up drug drenched doom-ed sludge. Dinosaur Jr.: Indie guitar god J. Mascis and co. are back, this new album including a special bonus disc while they last. Olivier Dumont: Also new on Utech, a debut of textural abstract electric drone-groan from this French artist. Earth: On Southern Lord, a new LIVE Earth album! Vinyl only. El Michaels Affair: The music of the Wu-Tang Clan, reinterpreted by this groovy instrumental soul-jazz combo! Emtidi: Cosmic-folk krautrock duo's spaced out 1972 album Saat reissued! Fearthainne: Droning meditative mountain folk from the dudes in Fauna. Ganglians: Lo-fi but somewhat orchestral summertime pop from Sacramento, so good! G.E.S.. (Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples): Golden Sores: 2nd album of ethereal dronemusick from these krauty Midwesterners. Hanging Thief: Limited edition cassette documenting a stormy night of drones whipped up by Barn Owl and Brad Rose. A Hawk And A Hacksaw: Lastest album of Eastern European gypsy folk stylin's from this buzz-worthy crew. Jim Haynes: Limited 2-cd edition dronological document from our very own Jim Haynes. And we're being totally honest when we say it's really good. Headdress: These Texas trippers get a little heavier and dronier on their new one. Heavy Winged: Two more sidelong (vinyl) tracks from these masters of metallic psychedelic and blown out krautnoise bliss. Hyadningar: Yet ANOTHER amazing slab of extreme, gnarled grim blackness from the seemingly bottomless depths of the French underground. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble: A street-jazz ensemble, featuring 8 (!) of Philip Cohran's sons, all playing horns, plus a drummer! Infinite Body / Emaciator: A really nice split LP from two up-and-comers in the ever blossoming US post-noise scene. Irrwisch: Awesome logo = awesome band. This time anyway. Jason Kahn: Minimal synth experimentation on the 23five label, from ex-SST'er. Katharsis: Definitely our black metal Record Of The Week!! Lamp Of The Universe: New disc from NZ spacerock stoners, this time 'round with a '70s Brit-folk-raga-psych vibe. Lord Vicar: Doom metal supergroup featuring ex-members of Reverend Bizarre, Count Raven, Saint Vitus... super heavy, sad and '70s progged. Los Natas: Latest disc of blown out druggy groovy desert stoner rock from these Argentinian aQ faves. Jean-Pierre Massiera: Killer collection focusing on the eccentric prog, pop and disco productions of this incredible French mad genius. Moon Phantoms: Bardo Pond and Suishou No Fune team up for some druggy lysergic drift... Mourning Dawn: Awesome depressive blackened dooooooooooom from France. Mrtyu: Antony Milton's weirdo outsider blacknoise avant drone solo project unleashes a suprisingly gorgeous, but still grim, new lp. Nadja: Deluxe lp, featuring Nadja reintepreting previously released Aidan Baker solo tracks. Nightbringer: Incredible black metal, now on cd, one of our favorite BM records EVER. Nite Jewel: Slow burning modern DIY disco groove. Nordvargr: Double disc of hellish black ambience from the master, ex MZ412. Ofege: Lost Afro-Rock jem reissued! Old Mayor: Post rocky sludge from this guitar / drums duo. On Paradigms. Heavy and trippy and super unique. Our Love Will Destroy The World: Two long noise drenched jams from Campbell Kneale's post Birchville combo. Our Love Will Destroy The World / Bark Haze: Awesome split, Campbell Kneale's new porject on one side, THurston Moore's drone duo on the other. Phoenix: Pop record of the year? Maybe. M83 meets the Strokes, but BETTER. Pig Heart Transplant: This sick slab of heavy filth, now available as a super fancy lp with a bonus 7". P.I.L.: Deluxe vinyl reissue of this legendary post punk milestone. Purple Rhinestone Eagle: Quix*O*Tic meets Pentagram, awesome all girl mystical garge rock doom metal! Pyramido: Some crushing NOLA style stonery sludge from Sweden. Heavy Heavy Heavy! Revenent: Mysterious field recordings and haunting nature sound mysteries from these sonic forest explorers. Matt Shoemaker: Latest disc of buzzing, droney, experimental soundscaping from this long time aQ fave. Shogun Kunitoki: Brand new picture disc from these FInnish faves and past Record Of The Week honorees... Sleepy Sun: SUper hyped debut of druggy stonery grooves from these local rockers. Sonic Youth: Latest, and first indie record in ages from these indie noise rock legends. Spiral Joy Band: Some seriously transcendental high end raga drones. Starving Weirdos: Latest batch of haunting mysterious drone-d soundscaping from these mystical sonic alchemists. Sun Araw: Weirdo mind melting psychedelic soul pop out-jams... Vieux Farka Toure: More amazing music from Mali from the son of Ali Farka Toure! V/A Dub Echoes: Sprawling collection of dub from classic to modern dubstep, from the alwasy kick ass Soul Jazz label. V/A Jalan Jalan: Killer collection of field recordings from Indonesia. For fans of Sublime Frequencies for sure. V/A Open Strings: Amazing 2cd compilation of amazing string music from the Middle East, including modern string players responses as a bonus! V/A Panama 2: Awesome collection of sixties and seventies jams from Panama. Yep, the 2nd volume! Simon Wickham-Smith: New cd-r of darkly delciate Eno-esque ambience. So lovely! Wolok: 2nd disc of insane twisted black metal from France, BM record of the year contender for sure. Wolves In The Throne Room: The latest from these Cascadian black metal warriors now on deluxe vinyl! Peter Wright: DOuble disc of dark, heavy droniness from this long time aQ fave Kiwi noisemaker. Xasthur / Black Circle: Swedish grim depressive buzz meets US even more depressive buzz, exclusive tracks from both! And of course tons more. A new Wm. Basinski, a new issue of The Wire, some more now-on-vinyl items (like Six Finger Satellite and Wino), and plenty more... including Roxxcalibur! Also, as we mentioned on the last few lists, we're presenting the return of YOB, and we have tickets to giveaway, we're gonna draw the winners tomorrow, so this is your last chance to get in the running, here are the details: YOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The return of Yob Slim's - Sat. June 27 doors 8pm/show 9pm With Will Haven + tba Tickets are $13 advance/$15 door and are on sale this Sun. May 17 We have THREE pairs of tix to giveaway, just email [email protected] with the subject YOB TIX.... and we'll pick three lucky winners at random. TOMORROW!!! Also our pals Audrey and Aaron (who you might know from his band Iran) spent several years living in Norway working on a movie all about black metal, and it's finally done, and touring the states. It's finally coming to SF, and we have 5 pairs of tickets to give away. There are 5 screenings over three days, one pair for each show, they'll be picked at random, so hopefully if you win, you can clear your calendar for some arty documentary blackened grimness! Here are the details: UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, July 9 - 11 Thurs. 7:30, Fri. & Sat. 7:30 and 9:30 701 Mission Street, San Francisco, 94103 tel 415.978.2700 / tix 415.978.2787 www.YBCA.org UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US is a stunning, voyeuristic window into the morbid world of Norwegian black metal, the most malevolent musical genre in existence, whose surprisingly articulate founders hold complex sets of extreme nationalist, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian beliefs. Unlike musical purveyors of evil who do so only for the sake of showmanship, these young friends actually practice what they preach, engaging in rampant church burning, suicide, and – as notoriously chronicled in the European media – murder. The film examines the birth and explosive arc of this genre, while simultaneously exploring the idea that re-interpretations by media and modern art have irreversibly altered it. Co-directors Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell spent two years living in Oslo, where they procured the trust of ringleader Varg Vikernes (a/k/a “Count Grishnack”), architect of the criminal movement. Along with other influential members of the “Black Circle,” Vikernes gave the filmmakers unprecedented, intimate access to their shadowy world. UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US chronicles the true story behind the music and mayhem, and reveals what happened when these complicated young artists could no longer control the dangerous scene they had created. Featuring interviews with outspoken black metal fan Harmony Korine, and the music of Black Dice, Boards of Canada, Burzum, Darkthrone, Enslaved, Gorgoroth, Lesser, Mayhem, Múm, Sunn 0))), Thorns, and Ulver. (USA, 2009, English, 93 minutes) We have FIVE pairs of tickets, to be eligible to win, send an email to [email protected], with the subject line BLACK METAL MOVIE, we'll pick 5 winners at random. Good luck. See you there! And that's about it. Thanks as always for buying your records from us, we are forever grateful. Have a great weekend, and enjoy all these new sounds... ------------------------------ 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. 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((+:+:+:+:+:+ aQuarius recOrds ((+:+:+:+:+:+ New Arrivals #322 ((+:+:+:+:+:+ July 03, 2009 ((+:+:+:+:+:+ Beloved Customers and Friends: Hello hello hello. Another list, and we're amazed to be writing this intro while it's still (barely) light outside. Not sure how that happened (though today's relative proximity to the recent summer solstice probably helps). But still, it's a big list, and considering that some of us here managed to go out last night to a show (a once in a life time chance to see PENTAGRAM!!! which was awesome) and didn't get home 'til late, we're still surprised that we're not still writing reviews right now or something. Anyway, glad to be (almost) done with list #322 so early (the store's even still open!) and about to send it out to you all. So, in interest of getting on with it, let's get on with it... Therem are 3 rad Record Of The Week this week, as follows: Rusted Shut: Brand new record from these Texan filth mongers, droney and psychedelic and HEAVY, Buttholes meet Brainbombs meet Black Flag, and then some. The Units: Archival collection from these SF new wave punk rockers, equal parts Devo and Screamers, no guitars, just synths, and tons of killer hooks and catchy songs. Big Business: Former members of Karp, now the second rhythm section for the Melvins, do their twisted hooky heaviness, but mix in some impossible show tuney weirdness for one of the best records of the year. Melvins meets Meat Loaf? Sounds good and it IS!!!! And then, naturally, a whole lotta Highlights: A Broken Consort: A heartfelt musical missive to his deceased wife, ABC creates a gorgeously epic, timeless sounding space drone record. Acid Mothers Temple: Yep, another AMT record, but like all the ones that came before, a heady psychedelic long hair blowout. Horace Andy: One of our all time favorite dub discs! Arkha Sva / Winter Funeral: Killer split, operatic Japanese black metal weirdness versus tripped out choral flecked French black buzz. Astral Social Club x 2: Latest discs in the long running cd-r series from these UK drone/dance/raga noisemakers. Beherit: Return to form for these FInnish legends, new sound, better production, same old hellish grim blackness. Belong: This classic disc of blissed out gauzy guitar dreaminess finally available on lp! Bergraven: Third disc of twisted gothic blackened heaviness from these Swedish black metal weirdos. Black Uhuru: Classic reggae disc long overdue for some aQ love. Bohren & Der Club Of Gore: Long awaited Latitudes ep from these jazz doom slowcore technicians, one stunning ten and a half minute epic. Bong: TRIPLE cd of live spaced out buzz drenched druggy heaviness from these UK dronelords. brokeNCYDE: Crunkcore has finally hit aQ, and against our better judgement, we are just a little bit obsessed. Cathedral: This epic doom classic, reissued, with the just as kick ass Soul Sacrifice ep tacked on along with a documentary dvd. Church Of Misery: Serial killer obsessed stoner doom sludge from Japan. Latest and greatest. Climax Golden Twins: Long out of print tape now available on vinyl. Clubroot: Contender for dubstep disc of the year, super atmospheric, ultra dubbed out, bass heavy, dark and creepy and beautiful, even Fenriz from Darkthrone digs it! Cluster: First new record in 14 years, that classic Cluster sound, mixed with newer modern sounds... So good. Coalesce: First record in TEN years, the same crushing heaviness, but with all sorts of new weirdness, one of the metal records of the year for sure. William Fowler Collins: Epic collection of hauntingly doom flecked drones from this aQ fave. Death Cheetah: Gorgeous handmade 3" cd-r, limited to 20 copies! From dark skittery jazzy slowcore to dubbed out distorto post punk weirdness. So cool. Double Dagger: Totally kick ass bass heavy (no guitar!) post/noise rock! Drudkh: Long awaited new disc of folk flecked black buzz from this Ukrainian horde, best record yet? Quite possibly... Drive Like Jehu: Finally back in print, an all time AQ fave from this pre Hot Snakes, pre Obits band. Encomiast / The Copper Thieves: Double disc of dark haunted drones, recorded in an actual haunted theater. Creepy and beautiful. Es: Beautiful experimental trippiness, heavy on the synths, from these Finnish experimentalists. Expo 70 x 2: A new 3" cd-r from these droney space explorers, and also a ltd. ed. cassette edition of one of their previous cd-r releases! Father Murphy: Recent aQ fave, twisted off kilter pop/folk weirdness, now available on vinyl. Flood: Crushing ultra doom heaviosity from these SF heavy ultra doom crushers. Gnaw Their Tongues: Two long out of print cd-r's reissued, pummeling symphonic industrial black doom noise genius! Gulaggh: Insane asylum black ambient classical music perversion! Joe Hasselvander: Reissued kick ass obscure '80s metal from this ex-Pentagram multi-instrumentalist. Heavy, hooky, over the top and awesome. Hunx And His Punx: Fuzzy bubble gum garage pop from this ex-Gravy Trainer. Iota: Spaced out super heavy hard rocking grunginess from these Salt Lake City stoners. Khanate: Most recent (& final) record of crushing abject slow motion doom heaviness, now on cd! Kiila: Gorgeously twisted folky indie rock from these long time Finnish faves. Krazy Baldhead: Ed Rec banger Krazy Baldhead offers up his own epic suite of synth heavy dancefloor destroying freakiness. Lascowiec / Marblebog / Verzivatar: Awesome split cd of blissy weirdly melodic black buzz, 2 Hungarian bands, and one from right here in SF. Leviathan / Acherontas: Long awaited split from these two black metal hordes, Acherontas is a great discovery, Leviathan still destroys! Major Lazer: Dancehall jam of the year from Diplo and Switch, goofy and wild and over the top and so so fun! Mammut: Tripped out groovy folky krautrock rarity reissued. FLUTE!!!! Mos Def: The return of Mos Def, and good to discover all that acting hasn't done anything to dull his flow. Moss: Recent disc of crushing druggy doom, now on 10" vinyl! Nurse With Wound x 2: Two rare initially mailorder / tour only NWW releases, available here for a limited time! Oh Sees / Ty Segal: Two garage pop faves cover each others songs on this limited 7". Our Love Will Destroy The World: Super limited lathe cut from Campbell Kneale's post Birchville combo, another blast of blissed out mayhem. Pandiscordian Necrogenesis: The world's only ACTUAL LITERAL one man black metal band, every cd-r cover painted with actual blood. KVLT! Pelican: Brand new 12", their first for Southern Lord, heavy and grungy, with an Earth cover featuring Dylan Carlson on extra guitar! Psychedelic Horsesh*t: Compilation lp of long out of print cd-r's and tapes, ultra lo-fi pop genius from these sh*tgaze pioneers. Jack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers: Killer disc of old timey bluegrass featuring these long time labelmates. Secret Abuse: Incredible record of crumbling blissed out drone-y soft noise heaviness, Tim Hecker, Fennesz, now Secret Abuse... Ty Segal x 2: Two kick ass 7" singles from this awesome garage rocker, for fans of Oh Sees, Wavves and all that good stuff. Skullfower: Another record of black metal infused guitar skree from these noise rock guitar drone legends. Spoon: New single from these indie rock heroes (the bonus track even includes some rapping! What?) Staff Benda Bilili: From the same folks who brought us Konono No1, another amazing group from Kinshasa in the Congo... Suck: Legendary South African proto metallers' only record finally released legitimately, covers of Sabbath, King Crimson, Deep Purple and more! SUNNO))) + Pan Sonic / Alan Vega / Stephen Burroughs: SUNNO))) and Pan Sonic and Joe Preston collaboration! What else do you need to know?! Tarab: Gorgeous record of manipulated field recordings and humid drones from this long time aQ fave. Tomutonttu: Tripped out folk flecked noisy folkiness from Finland, long out of print lp, now available on cd! Tortoise: Long anticipated new record from these post rock icons, and guess what? It's pretty great! V/A Legends Of Benin: Latest kick ass collection of African music from the seemingly infallible Analog Africa label! V/A World Is Shaking: Another awesome comp from Honest Jon's: Cubanismo From The Congo, 1954-55. Venetian Snares: Latest ep of twisted electronic weirdness, this time with singing, and a hit single if we've ever heard one! Voltiguers: Guitar and cello blackened noise rock heaviness from 1/2 of Skullflower. Weirdly pretty too... Vordr: Super buzzy lo-fi black metal from Finland, HELL YEAH! Wilco: A new record, the band shake off the 'Dad rock' of the last few releases, and come up with a definite winner. White Magic: Another Latitudes title, previously on cd, now here's the lp version, super limited of course! Yahowah 13: Another lost disc of psychedelic cult rock reissued. All hail Father Yod! Young Widows / Pelican: Part three in this kick ass series of split 7"s, more bad ass noise rock from YW, some awesome soaring post metal from Pelican. And, of course, as always, tons more... including a new issue of Terrorizer, two more Bardo Pond related limited edition 12"s (from Alasehir and Alumbrados), vinyl reissues of Chubby Checker's psychedelic funk and Crissy Zebby Tembo's fuzzy Afro-rock, a 3" cd-r and 7" from dronemeisters Locrian both quite limited, and lots more cool items, some things back in stock or now on vinyl... Got some tickets to give away as always, this time around, we have two pairs to give away, to see... WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM Mon. July 13 at Slim's with: Minsk Ninth Moon Black $15 Doors 7:30, Show 8 Just email [email protected] with the subject WOLVES TIX. Will pick two emails at random for the free tix. And there's still time to win tickets to see UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US, the kick ass black metal movie made by our pal Aaron from the band Iran. It's playing 3 nights at the Yerba Buena, here's the info: UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, July 9 - 11 Thurs. 7:30, Fri. & Sat. 7:30 and 9:30 701 Mission Street, San Francisco, 94103 tel 415.978.2700 / tix 415.978.2787 www.YBCA.org UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US is a stunning, voyeuristic window into the morbid world of Norwegian black metal, the most malevolent musical genre in existence, whose surprisingly articulate founders hold complex sets of extreme nationalist, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian beliefs. Unlike musical purveyors of evil who do so only for the sake of showmanship, these young friends actually practice what they preach, engaging in rampant church burning, suicide, and – as notoriously chronicled in the European media – murder. The film examines the birth and explosive arc of this genre, while simultaneously exploring the idea that re-interpretations by media and modern art have irreversibly altered it. Co-directors Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell spent two years living in Oslo, where they procured the trust of ringleader Varg Vikernes (a/k/a “Count Grishnack”), architect of the criminal movement. Along with other influential members of the “Black Circle,” Vikernes gave the filmmakers unprecedented, intimate access to their shadowy world. UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US chronicles the true story behind the music and mayhem, and reveals what happened when these complicated young artists could no longer control the dangerous scene they had created. Featuring interviews with outspoken black metal fan Harmony Korine, and the music of Black Dice, Boards of Canada, Burzum, Darkthrone, Enslaved, Gorgoroth, Lesser, Mayhem, Múm, Sunn 0))), Thorns, and Ulver. (USA, 2009, English, 93 minutes) We have FIVE pairs of tickets, to be eligible to win, send an email to [email protected], with the subject line BLACK METAL MOVIE, we'll pick 5 winners at random. Thanks again for reading all this, and have great July 4th weekend, everybody! Hopefully a visit to AQ will be a part of your patriotic plans. On with the list... ------------------------------ 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. 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~~~000000000~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New Arrivals #323 ~~~~~000 ~~~~~~~~~000000000~~~~~~~~~~ Jul 17, 2009 ~~~~~000 Beloved Customers and Friends: Greetings and salutations, fellow music freeks! We hope you all are enjoying your summertime, so far. One thing local folks should know about is that this weekend, if (when!) you come to the store, our block of Valencia Street (and several more in both directions, along with some other streets in the Mission, including a big stretch of 24th St.) will be closed to cars Sunday morning 10am-2pm, open only to pedestrians and bicyclists and skateboarders etc. It's part of this rotating "Sunday Streets" closure thing they've been doing here in San Francisco, and it's our turn again (they did it a several weeks ago too, but guess what, we didn't know about it 'til that Sunday, when we were like, hey what's going on, what are all these people doing out there?!). Pretty neat, it should be a nice sunny day so great for promenading about and popping in to do some shopping at your favorite local music emporium, right? Maybe we'll make toast or something. Or stop by Saturday and avoid all that madness. Of course, we'd be glad to see you both days. We've chosen two, both fairly intense Records Of The Week this time around, as follows... sh*t AND SHINE: Latest disc from this multiple bass-ed and multiple drummed UK collective, easily their best yet, heaviest, most tripped out, psychedelic and heavy. Butthole Surfers, Rusted Shut, Brainbombs, Geronimo, all tangled up into a series of hyper rhythmic, ultra hypnotic, weirdo drumnoise jams. LEGION OF TWO: A dark, heavy, droning, electronic record (sort of), with crushing live drums, buzzing synths, all manner of electronic squiggle and hazy ambience, all woven into one of the most original records we've heard in ages, imagine Neurosis doing dubstep, or some ambient doom band dabbling in electronica, or a heavier, more modern and avant Tortoise! And then, quite a few highlights... AANAL BEEHEMOTH: Ultra Misery Blackout Metal Nekropunk Psykosound from Finland, f**k yeah! AFCGT x 2: Two super limited cd-r's from this collaborative outfit, equal parts the A-Frames and Climax Golden Twins. CECIL BARFIELD: Latest lp on Mississippi, some of the weirdest, most twisted sounding blues we've ever heard. BASS COMMUNION: Live record of swirling, epic, laptopped guitar ambience from another long time aQ fave. DAVE BIXBY: Long lost private press, Christian drug psych classic, finally reissued. BLACK BONED ANGEL: Incredible new disc of sludgy doom from Campbell Kneale, featuring one of the best riffs EVER. BLUES CONTROL: Lush and warped meditative sound collages and lo-fi droned out rock from this NY duo, now on Siltbreeze. CIRCLE OF OUROBORUS: Lp compiling two lost sides, originally for splits with Urfaust, now collected into a single record of dour, woozy, blackened doom pop weirdness. And they're Finnish! CLOAKS: Burial Meets Einsturzende Neubauten, crushing metallic dubstep heaviness, abrasive and caustic and groovy and so good. TIM COHEN: Debut solo lp from the Cohen, who fronts the Fresh & Onlys, AmocomA, Black Fiction and 3 Leafs, gorgeous lush home brewed pop. CONGOS: Killer remixes of this legendary reggae classic, courtesy of Carl Craig. DESIRE: Latest disc of sultry late night sexiness from Italians Do It Better. DEUTER: Lovely album of blissed out new agey kosmiche krautrock, reissued. DISCOVERY: Phoenix meets Kanye West, poppy genius from a Vampire Weekend member. ETERNAL TAPESTY: Heavy heavy psych sludge from Portland, lp with cd! ETHNIC ACID: Double disc collection of damaged tape music and abstract free noise from this legendary pre-Ramleh / pre-Skullflower power electronics outfit. EXPO 70: Brand new lp of blissed out, druggy, outer space krautdrone, deluxe packaging, comes with a bonus cd featuring a live set recorded on the radio. FOUST!: Stunning disc of looped ambience and minimal drone music from the non-krautrock Foust! GALACTIC ZOO DOSSIER: Latest issue of Plastic Crimewave's psychedelic fanzine, complete with cd packed with killer tunes and more psychedelic trading cards. GANGLIANS: The Beach Boys-like lo-fi indie pop of these Sacramento pop rockers, now on vinyl, with a bonus Eat Skull 7"! RUSS GARCIA: Killer reissue of outer space exotica, long lost gem! RICHARD GARET & BRENDAN MURRAY: Long in the works collaborative effort from these two sound sculptors, short wave transmission flecked abstract dronemusic. Harvey Milk: The kick ass Singles record, now on vinyl!!! JIM HAYNES: Awesome dronological document from our very own Jim Haynes. And we're being totally honest when we say it's really good. Now available as a single cd. JAYHAWKS: Awesome greatest hits collection from one of the most under rated of the No Depression bands, and easily one of our favorites. KRENG: On Miasmah, sparse post-classical minimal surrealist soundscapes, originally composed for dramatic dance, lovely and haunting. PAZ LENCHATIN: Gorgeous lp/cd combo of hazy folk and reverb drenched bluegrass from this former A Perfect Circle-r and present Entrance Band member. LIMOSINE: Cd-r of rumbling, repetitive, distorted, droning, lo-fi WTF psych/art 'rock' from this new local outfit. LOCRIAN: The most recent full length of black metal flecked minimal dronemusic, now on vinyl, with a bonus 3" cd-r. MI AMI: SF based electro indie punkers, try their hand at techno on this new 12" and we like! MILANESE: Latest kick ass disc of super distorted big beated jungle/grime/dubstep/hip hop/techno whateverthef**k! MOONDOG: Killer lp reissue from this legendary outsider musician, an all time aQ fave for sure! MOON DUO: New 12" from this Wooden Shjips side project, similarly psychedelic, and crazy limited, so grab one while you can. NADJA / BLACK BONED ANGEL: 2nd collaboration, and it's way heavier and harrowing than the first. NECROFROST: Super rare, long out of print, and completely unhinged legendary demo from these weirdo black metallers, now on super limited 10" vinyl. NURSE WITH WOUND: A super scary new record from these legendary sonic dadaists, one that black metallers and ultra doomers might really like! ONEIDA: Massive sprawling TRIPLE cd, 2nd in the series, and it's all over the map, in a good way: heavy, hypnotic, harsh, rocking... for some of us here, a 3rd Record Of The Week! PALE HOARSE: Strung out sorrowful dark folk from this local duo, so gorgeous. PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT: A crackling, low end, bristling drone / noise record that manages to be both intense, noisy and mesmerizingly beautiful. RADIANT HUSK: Another release of tripped out mystery, completely played on the saxophone. Really? It's true, and it's awesome.... RAPE & HONEY: New micro-zine from one half of the team that produces Oaken Throne! MILAN SANDBLEISTIFT / AIDAN BAKER / RELAPXYCH.0: A gorgeous collection of guitar based ambience, with one of the best Baker tracks ever we think. STEPHEN O'MALLEY: From the Table Of The Elements 'Guitar' series, some gorgeous acoustic drones from one half of dronelords SUNNO))). PAJO: The legendary tape of Dave Pajo doing acoustic Misfits covers now properly reissued on super deluxe vinyl (and comes with a cd)! REICHMANN: Now on cd, this reissued forgotten cosmic-kraut masterpiece from '78, for fans of Cluster, Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream! JACK ROSE & BLACK TWIG PICKERS: Now on cd, killer disc of old timey bluegrass featuring these long time labelmates. SCANTILY CLAD: Bedroom space rock improvisation from SoCal, super limited handmade cd-r! TY SEGALL: Yet another disc of fuzzy lo-fi garage pop from this aQ fave, the cd on a 'nice price' sale here for the next 2 weeks! AL SIMONES: From the nineties, sounds like the sixties, druggy, freaked out guitar heavy wild psychedelia. SLOUGH FEG: Now on fancy ultra limited import vinyl, this recent Record Of The Week from these local eccentric ape-obsessed heavy metallers. We only have a few... THE SOUNDCARRIERS: Brand new disc of summery sixties style retro psych pop. STARVING WEIRDOS: Latest lp from these Humboldt County experimentalists, this time it's all collaged piano recordings. So nice. SUBWAY: Dubbed out kraut-house from this British duo, on Soul Jazz. SUMMER CATS: Another kick ass disc of exuberant indie pop from the re-energized Slumberland label. TETRAGON: Long overdue reissue of this hard to find krautrock classic. TRAD GRAS OCH STENAR: Brand new, hypnotic record from these Swedish psych legends. TINY VIPERS: Latest disc of her hushed dark folky smoldering gorgeousness. TUNNELS: Latest from this PDX one man band, incredible mix of druggy psychedelia, deep dronemusic and freak folk. Best Tunnels yet... PETER WALKER: His legendary Rainy Day Raga finally reissued on vinyl. WICKED KING WICKER: Latest slab of crushing downtuned black doom riffage from this East Coast two piece wrecking crew. V/A Dirty French Psychedelics: A killer comp of, just like the title says, dirty French psychedelics! V/A Punk Ja Yak: *Pre-order* this massive 4 disc history of Finnish punk rock. We're only ordering copies for folks who pre-order! YOB: Newest, darkest record from these reunited doom masters! YOUNG WIDOWS / MY DISCO: Final installment in this 4 part series, two side of classic nineties sounding noise rock. Awesome. And plenty more, so delve in! Oh, and before we get on with the list, a note for domestic Mailorder Customers: Due to rising postage/shipping rates, we've finally had to make a slight adjustment to the flate rates we charge for both USPS and UPS shipping. We've kept the same two tier system, but we just had to make a small increase the 1-2 item Priority Mail charge, bringing it to $5, and also raised the 3+ item UPS cost to $7.50. Sorry about that, but it had to be done. Truth be told, we're still losing money on the shipping cost of most people's packages, so we think it's still a good deal (for you). And we're considering some other options, we'll do what we can to male ordering as easy, and as cheap as we can. Thanks! And one quick thing before we get to the list, Andee was invited to take part in a blog / mixtape thing, called the Three Minute Pop Miracle Project, where folks were asked to make kick ass pop mixes, Andee's ended up being THREE discs long (of course), and pretty kick ass if we do say so ourselves. You can download all three discs via the links below, and as with all that sort of stuff, if you find songs and groups on there that you totally dig, and they're still available, then please track em down and buy the records, support the bands, the labels, and stores like ours... So dig in: Andee's pop mix: http://3mpmp.blogspot.com/ http://3mpmp.blogspot.com/ http://3mpmp.blogspot.com/ And NOW, on with the list... ------------------------------ 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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ANALS: Pummeling, ear drum punishing, filthy, noisy, depraved speaker shredding ultra noise rock from France. BOBBY BEAUSOLEIL: The COMPLETE Lucifer Rising sessions available as an insanely deluxe 4lp boxset. MAURIZIO BIANCHI / M.B.: Another reissue from this industrial legend, TWO discs worth. BLACK TO COMM: One single epic drone workout, slow building, slow burning and totally gorgeous. BLANK DOGS: Two new songs from this one man gloom pop phenom, maybe the best stuff we've heard from him so far! BUBBLE PUPPY: Super fancy reissue of this slab of sixties Texas psych pop! CAIN: Another seventies proto-metal lost classic gets reissued! CHRISTINA CARTER: Long out of print cd-r from this Charlambides chanteuse reissued as a super deluxe double lp. THE CATALYST: One of the few bands tearing it up nineties Amrep noiserock style. These guys SLAY!!!!! CONCERN: One of our favorite new drone records, thick and shimmery and dense and so so so beautiful. CURRENT 93: Now on vinyl, the recent psychedelic rock album from this witchy UK outfit. ELEVEN POND: A lost dark pop gem from the eighties reissued and rescued from oblivion. EMACIATOR: A tape of psychedelic synthesizer-ed drone drenched hypnogogic pop (to borrow a term from the Wire!) END: 6 years in the works, the latest album from these Greek black metal legends. JESSIE EVANS: Ultra rhythmic solo debut from the singer from The Vanishing. FAUST: One of our favorite krautrock records EVER, available again on vinyl. SERGE GAINSBOURG: Bonnie and Clyde, Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot, need we say more? Reissued on vinyl! GALAXIE 500 x 3: Three all time slowcore classics reissued on vinyl! GARY WAR: Brand new 7" from these twisted noise poppers, 2 more killer jams! GNAW THEIR TONGUES: Latest blast of cinematic black doom filth from these purveyors of grinding sonic misanthropy. GOLIATH BIRD EATER: Incredible dose of spaced out drone-y heaviness from this L.A. duo. LORNE GREENE: Awesome fuzz guitar flecked over the top kitschy country record from Bonanza star Lorne Greene. HARBINGER: Haunting lost Christian psych folk gem unearthed, the sequel to last list's Ode To Quetzalcoatl. BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON: One of a handful of vinyl blues reissues, all gorgeously packaged and meticulously restored. JABLADAV: This one-man Weakling worshiper is back with maybe his best effort yet! JONSI & ALEX: A gorgeous new side project from the singer of Sigur Ros. KOOL & THE GANG: Amazing, mostly instrumental live funk / jazz set from 1971, long before "Celebration"... L'ACEPHALE: Latest from these Northwestern apocalyptic noise folk black metal mavens, their least metal, and most tripped out noise drenched offering to date. LISA O PIU: Gorgeous creeping majestic mysterious female led folk troupe from Sweden presents their first bewitching album. BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Fantastic blues document, reissued on deluxe vinyl! MEADS OF ASPHODEL: Killer disc collecting tons of old rarities and demos from these weirdo anti-Christian black metal legends. METI BHUVAH: Buzzing primitive raw black metal from Russia for fans of Ildjarn and the like! MOGRAG: Gorgeous Japanese D.I.Y. magazine / catalog documenting their most recent exhibit. Eye popping and limited! DJ ILYA MONOSOV: Wild new 12" of motorik tropical prog weirdness from another long time aQ favorite. MOONDOG x 2: Two more vinyl reissues from this legendary outsider music legend. OMAR S: House music legend's Fabric mix, chock full of minimal thump and skitter, one track even mixes in video game music! ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER: Super limited dvd-r of totally psychedelic YouTube sourced cut up videos with a killer soundtrack from this aQ favorite. PAN SONIC / HAINO: Japanese freak out psych guitar meets Finnish minimalist glitch and crunch, what could be better?! CHARLEY PATTON x 2: Legendary blues classics on vinyl!!! MARTIN POPOFF & MICHEL LANGEVIN: The long awaited book of artwork from Voivod's Away!!! RHUITH: Bizarre black metal from Italy, includes an amazing Portishead cover! TERRY RILEY: An all time minimalist cosmic favorite reissued on vinyl! ROEDELIUS: First solo outing from this CLuster / Harmonia member reissued on vinyl. Blissed out organic ambience. ROMAN SOLDIERS: All you need to know: Blank Dogs + Gary War adds up to Roman Soldiers!!! SAX RUINS: Sax plus Ruins equals Sax Ruins! HELL YEAH! Zorn fans will love this. IVOR SLANEY: Two amazing soundtracks on an lp from two '70s British horror flick classics. SOKAI STILHED: Sound sculpted vocals and gorgeous hand crafted ambience, super limited hand made cd-r! SPRUNG AUS DEN WOLKEN: 1st officially released work from this legendary art-pink / industrial outfit. TALBOT TAGORA: From the same label as Pretty & Nice, some super Seattle pop, chaotic and catchy!! TEENAGE PANZERKORPS: Latest single from this Jewelled Antler satellite, way poppier than past releases but still plenty Teutonic! TERRORS: Creepy nocturnal synth drones from this mysterious LA noisemaker. V/A Up All Night: KILLER comp of mind blowing ass kicking vintage proto metal! BROCK VAN WHEY: Double disc of blissed out pop ambience, one disc of warm whirling shimmer, plus a disc of remixed dubbed out versions of disc 1! VOLTAIC OMEN: Incredible twisted outsider blackness from this Northwestern one man black metal horde. VOLTIGEURS: Second disc from this Skullflower off shoot. Guitar and cello, noisy as all get out, but still weirdly melodic and listenable. VON: Legendary Bay Area blackness, reissued on cd and on super limited ultra deluxe 2lp. MORITZ VON OSWALD TRIO: Minimal electronic experimentation from this 3 man supergroup. WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS: Another killer group of Scottish new wave-niks, a sound we never seem to tire of. WOBURN HOUSE: Latest from these German post rock avant metallers, prettier, mathier, catchier, and less metal than the last one... WOE: Now on blood red vinyl, the debut from this wonderfully woeful one man black metal act. PARI ZANGENEH: Reissued female folk psych masterpiece from Tehran! ZOLA JESUS: Latest full length of female powered brooding bedroom psychedelia. Plus loads more, including the new issues of the Wire and Wax Poetics... What else is goin' on? We've been kinda hectic all the past two weeks, Andee had a whole bunch of family in town for a visit, nephews and sisters and brothers in laws, Allan was up at the Yuba river last weekend, Nick went camping, and Jon's actually off in Hawaii right now. Which makes sense, 'cause it's really not that summery here in SF at the moment. Allan's also in the midst of moving (from the Sunset back to the Mission, out of the fog!), Andee's been (seriously) looking for a house to rent (or maybe even buy?) in the East Bay (anybody got one for him? cheap?)... We should also mention the upcoming ROOT STRATA FESTIVAL. Well, it's called the ON LAND festival, but it's been put together by our pals at the Root Strata label. It's going to be September 19th-20th, Saturday and Sunday, at the Cafe DuNord and The Swedish American Hall here in SF. Featuring the likes of Grouper, Christina Carter, Ilyas Ahmed, Barn Owl, Sun Circle, Common Eider, King Eider, Brendon Murray, Tarentel, Keith Fullerton Whitman, The Alps, Ducktails, Pete Swanson, Starving Weirdos, William Fowler Collins, Darwinsbitch, Jim Haynes, and more. We'll post all the exact details on our blog in a bit, also the festival has a website at onlandfestival.com, and tickets are available through cafedunord.com. And we'll have some tix availbe here too any day now. Pretty exciting, eh? Also, you may have already seen mention of this on our blog, but if you missed the black metal documentary Until The Light Takes Us, which sold out several screenings at Yerba Buena recently, it's now going to be showing for a whole week near here at The Roxie Theatre on 16th street, starting tonight! 9:10 every night through 8/6, with 4:40 matinees Saturday and Sunday. Go see it if you're at all interested in Burzum and Darkthrone and the whole Norwegian '90s black metal deal. Also, as always, got a bunch of tickets to give away, three shows this time. they are: DEERHOOF / ABE VIGODA / ZACH HILL / DEATH SENTENCE: PANDA Sunday August 2nd at the Great American Music Hall $16 - Doors 7, show 8 THE GRIS GIRS (REUNION!) / SPINDRIFT / TY SEGALL Friday August 7th at the Great American Music Hall $16 - Doors 8, Show 9 HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE / LUDICRA / AMBER ASYLUM Friday August 28th at the Great American Music Hall $20 - Doors 8, Show 9 You probably know the drill by now, but if you want a chance to win a pair of tickets (we two pairs to each show!) just email [email protected], with one of these subject lines: DEERHOOF TIX GRIS GRIS TIX HAMMERS TIX Depending on which show you want to win tickets to. And one final note, for local folks, we've endeavored to spread the word about our new food sicoveries, in the past we've hailed the mighty Creme Brulee Cart, his brother card the Curry Cart, Sneaky's BBQ, and of course the awesome cupcakes of Sugar Beat Sweets, now for all you pie lovers, we have the Pie Truck, that's right, if you're in Alameda or SF, this man will bake you a pie, and deliver it. How bad ass is that? Check him out here: www.alamedapietruck.com We had one of his pies today and it was DIVINE! Okay then, let's wrap this intro up and get to all the amazing sounds on this week's list! Enjoy..... ------------------------------ 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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[] <> <> [] <> <> [] <> <> aQuarius recOrds [] <> <> New Arrivals #325 [] <> <> 07 August 2009 [] <> <> [] <> <> [] <> <> Beloved Customers and Friends: Hello everybody! Surprise! Not only is it before 10:00pm, it's also only been a week since our list #324. Folks who keep up with our blog already know, we had to bump the list up a week 'cause Allan's flying to the East Coast for a wedding (no, not his) next week when we'd normally have being doing this list. Our friends Matty and Suzi are tying the knot (congrats to them!!) and Allan has to be there to represent AQ. So, here we are, doing a list THIS week. A bit hectic for us, but hey, at least y'all are gonna be able to get these goodies a week earlier than you would have otherwise. Our next list is back on the usual 2-week schedule, so look out for it not next Friday but the week after, August 21st. However, at some point soon we'll have to bump things up again, 'cause otherwise we'll end up having one come out on Dec. 25th. We'll try to keep you informed of any impending list schedule shifts, but of course checking our website and blog 24-7 is always recommended... Despite having half the usual time to get our reviews together, it's another extensive list, with we think LOTS of crucial stuff. Starting with the Records Of The Week, there's FOUR of 'em, as follows... CIRCLE: A lost (sort of) Circle record finally available in the US. Heavy and heady and hypnotic, repetitive and mesmerizing, wild vocals, motorik drumming, flute, c'mon IT'S CIRCLE!!! SYLVESTER ANFANG: Brand new album of electronic flecked tribal spaced out druggy free folk krautrock weirdness from this Belgian Funeral folk collective. NOMEANSNO x 2: Two classic slabs of mathy proggy post punk from these Canadian legends, remastered, repressed, available again, heavy and far out and catchy, and two of our favorite records EVER. Plus a plethora of Highlights... ALICE COOPER: One of our favorite psychpop hard rock classics, and a former ROTW, now on vinyl! AMON DUUL 2: One of THEE most legendary krautrock jams of all time, available again on VINYL! ANAAL NATHRAKH: Latest from these filthy grinding UK black metallers. ANVIL: METAL. ON METAL. An essential slab of '80S heaviness from these legendary Canadian metalheads, you might have seen them in ANVIL the movie! ARMPIT: Killer disc of psychedelic blissed out noise from New Zealand. AVARUS: Live on WFMU session, released as a super limited deluxe lp from these Finnish free folkers. BILLY BAO: Earlier record from this maniacal Basque noismaker, after we made the new one our Record Of The Week last week. Sludge-y downtuned heaviness. JEAN BAUDRILLARD: Strange cassette release featuring a text by French thinker Jean Baudrillard read by a mysterious female duo. BLOODY PANDA: Harrowing atmospheric doom with Yoko Ono like vocals, includes a bonus dvd. NICK BUTCHER: Gorgeous collection of live ambience created using old tapes and broken guitars. BUTTHOLE SURFERS: The legendary debut from these drug addled Texan noiserock legends, available again on vinyl! DEAN CARTER: Wild, weird, way out '60s garage reissue, kinda like outsider '50s rock n' roll. CAVE: Another past Record Of The Week, long out of print, available again, swirling tripped out psychedelic hypnorock. CAVE IN: New 12" of bombastic metallic arena pop heaviness from these long long long time aQ faves. CIRCLE OF OUROBORUS: Metal record of the year? Maybe, if you like your metal twisted and stumbling and poppy and moody and gloomy and genius. CULTURAL DECAY: Another killer post punk minimal wave reissue! GREG DAVIS: Fantastic disc of extended cosmic minimalism. DUCKTAILS: Collection of early out of print cassette releases from this one man tropical lo-fi garage rock gloom pop combo. EAGLE TWIN: Gentry from Iceburn returns with a new guitar/drums duo, heavy and intense and complex and LOUD. FRUIT BATS: More perfect countrified, twang flecked pop from these aQ faves, features members of Red Red Meat, Loftus and Califone. GLASS CANDY: Brand new 12" from this sassy nu-disco duo. GREY MACHINE: Aaron Turner from Isis joins the dudes from Jesu, for some crushing Godflesh like industrial pummel. HAMMEMIT: Second record of medieval minimalism from the band that used to be Emit. Dark and haunting and ritualistic. HARVEY MILK / WILDILDLIFE: Killer tag team match up, HM offers up dream pop sludge, Wildildlife give us their trippiest poppiest jam yet. SUPER limited 7". ROBERT HENKE: A gorgeous bit of drone-y minimalism from an installation, hushed and mysterious. ARVE HENRIKSEN: Dark sampled trumpet driven chill out moodiness one of the Supersilent guys. HORSEBACK: This former drone combo kick out the repetitive, blackened, post rock jams, heavy and dark and loud and evil! INH HALENTROPY / DULL KNIFE: Cd-r split of cinematic new age-y black ambient doom! BERT JANSCH x 3: Three reissues of mid-seventies Charisma folk classics from this ex-member of Pentangle. PHILIP JECK: Super limited tape of solo bass works that sound remarkably like his gauzy hazy blurred turntable compositions. SO GOOD. MAUS HAUS: Experimental synth driven pop from this kick ass SF combo. DEE MULLINS: Some killer lost country, one of our favorite country reissues ever, featured on the Plantation Gold comp, a past ROTW! NISENNENMONDAI: Latest disc from this Japanese all-girl, uber rhythmic skronk rock group, totally hypnotic! NOMEANSNO: The very first release from these genius post punk rockers, when they were still just a rhythm section! (Yes, a third NMN reissue reviewed in addition to the two ROTW's!) PESTE NOIRE: First full length from these freaky black metal weirdos available on vinyl! SUPER LIMITED. PETIT MAL: Bowed bicycle wheel dronology on this ultra limited 3" cd-r. JULIAN PLENTI: Debut solo record from Interpol vocalist, and it RULES, we dig it even more than the last Interpol disc! TERRY RILEY: We listed the lp reissue last week, so why not now the cd, in case for some reason you don't own this dreamy blissed out minimal classic. OUMOU SANGARE: Gorgeous sounds from this legendary singer from Mali. SA-RA CREATIVE PARTNERS: Psychedelic soul and futuristic hip hop, some serious leftfield soul /hip-hop / funk! SHEVALREQ: Second record from one of the most bizarre bands ever. The Record Of The Week for the truly twisted and tin eared! SLAUTER XSTROYES: Cult 80's metal from these bombastic Midwestern maniacs, finally available again. PEKKA STRENG: Legendary Finnish prog-folk from this underground legend, first record from 1970 available on cd with bonus tracks. TARENTEL + PAUL CLIPSON: Super8 films by Clipson, moody minimal soundtracks by Tarentel, dvd-r limited to 100 copies. TERMINALS: Record number three from these legendary NZ gloom rockers, reissued, still sounds fantastic! THOR: More bad ass eighties metal from he-man rocker Thor, reissued on Jussi from Circle's Ektro label. 24 CARAT BLACK: Oft sampled soft psychedelic soul rarity, deluxe reissue on Numero. TYVEK: First 7" single from these lo-fi garage poppers. Maybe their best track! V/A (Kurt Vile / Jack Rose / Meg Baird / US Girls): Killer Philly comp, on Kraak, from folky flutter, no dreamy noise drenched pop. V/A Raks Raks Raks: Amazing collection of vintage garage psych pop from IRAN! V/A Rocky Mountain Low: Killer collection of seventies pop, and punk, and post punk from Colorado, 2lp AND cd, comes with a massive magazine sized booklet. WARHAMMER 48k: Another long out of print aQ fave returns from the grave, psychedelic heaviness from this pre-Cave combo. WITCH TRIALS: Cool, minimal, subversive post-industrial sounds from Jello Biafra, recorded in an apartment in the eighties. O.V. WRIGHT: Legendary deep Mepmphis soul! ZOLA JESUS: Now on cd too, this latest full length of female powered brooding bedroom psychedelia. And more, including a beloved Beastie Boys reissue, Britfolk vinyl from Anne Briggs, the new Casiotone, a new Antony single, some good magazine readin', more cool stuff now-on-vinyl, and like we said, more! Ok, thanks again for reading all this, and for your continued business, we really appreciate it. Sorry if we messed anybody up by bumping this list forward like we did. If when next Friday night rolls around and you find yourself bummed that there's no AQ list then, well, just go back and pore over the last couple lists for stuff you missed! No dawdling in the intro this time, short and sharp, looks like everything was covered, so let's go!!!!!!! ------------------------------ 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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But it is (he eventually relents), we've got everything from black metal (of course - but some of it's by Mount Eerie!) to garage pop to skweee to dub to krautrock to disco, and a little bit of country, and more. Including lots of limited edition vinyl items and other stuff that will be gone all too fast, unfortunately. And, we think, some less limited things that will become longtime faves. There's three Records Of The Week, they are... SOROR DOLOROSA: Incredible disc of modern coldwave that's a dead ringer for a classic from back in the day, featuring the drummer from blasting faerical punk rockers Nuit Noire on vocals! MOUNT EERIE: Indie pop meets black metal, the man responsible for one of our favorite dark folk gems channels his inner Xasthur! VELVET CACOON: A two disc drug drone epic from this Northwestern black metal / black ambien(t) duo. And just a few more than three Highlights... AEMAE: Super limited tape of warped drone music from this local sound maker. ANCHISKHATI CHOIR: gorgeous collection of sacred polyphonic vocal from the the Republic of Georgia. BACHELORETTE: Latest record from this New Zealand pop songstress. BILLY BAO: Duct tape / sand paper wrapped cd collecting lots of ultra heavy noisesludge from this Basque via NYC noisemaker. CORNELL CAMPBELL: Amazing dub from this under appreciated legend. TOMMY CASH: Long overdue collection from the Man In Black's little brother! His two best albums, classic country! CATHODE TERROR SECRETION: Blasting, punishing, noise drenched hyper grind that will melt your speakers. CATAYLST: CHURCH OF MISERY: Finally, the latest chunk of serial killer obsessed stoner sludge available on vinyl! ALICE COLTRANE: Legendary disc from this jazz icon, reissued on vinyl! D.A.: Debut from this LA duo, total spaced out, cinematic, sci-fi synthscapes equal parts John Carpenter, Goblin and Expo '70. DESOLATION WILDERNESS: Hazy dreampop from this Northwestern crew. DIAL M FOR MURDER: More kick ass cold wave post punk new wave, somewhere between Cold Cave and Interpol! DUCKTAILS: New lp of gorgeous gauzy soundscapes, from tropical lo-fi pop, to looped hazy drift, to super rocking eighties warble and beyond. DUCKTAILS / JULIAN LYNCH: Lo-fi bliss pop twofer - aQ faves Ducktails, and new kid Lynch with his own take on the new wave of warped pop. EXPLORERS: Gorgeous collaged sonic mindf**k, blissy and spacey, very much like a more washed out glimmery Skaters! FINAL: Justin Broadrick's most recent solo outing of ambient drones and soundscapes now on cd with FOUR bonus tracks. FLAMING TUNES: Long awaited reissue of this long out of print tape from Gareth Williams of the mighty THIS HEAT! PHILIP GLASS: Finally available again, his classic career defining soundtrack to Koyaanisqatsi, now extended to its original length. BRIAN GLAZE: Yet another up and comer in the world of tweaked warped lo-fi pop weirdness, for fans of John Maus, Ariel Pink, etc. GNAW THEIR TONGUES: Yet another disc of grim cinematic blackened doom from THEE undisputed master. GRASSLUNG: Ultra limited tape of blackened electronics, incredible packaging. HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR: Deep, dark, hazy dreamlike cello music. JOYCE: Tropicalia classic from this legendary Brazilian songstress. KEELHAUL: We waited six years for this? f**k yeah, mathy heavy noise rock of the highest order. RULING. LITURGY: Pure Transcendental Black Metal! One of our favorite black metal records so far this year! DALE LLOYD: Super limited picture disc of abstract drone music and processed field recordings. MAEROR TRI: Incredible disc of post industrial dronescapery, finally available again. MAYYORS: Second pressing (the first disappeared in a heartbeat) of chaotic noise drenched drug rock from these Sacramento noisemakers. MALCOLM MIDDLETON: Not so dour new solo record from one of the Arab Strap. MAMMUT: Kool krautrock obscurity now available on vinyl, big time Andee and Allan fave. MIIKE SNOW: Animal Collective meets Phoenix, one of our new favorite pop jams. NITE JEWEL: New 12" of sexy hazy spaced out bedroom dancefloor jams. THE OBSERVATORY: Dark drifty mysterious indie folke from Singapore. Incredible hardcover book packaging with original Justin Bartlett artwork. OM: This duo revisit an old classic album in its entirety, and perform it live with their new drummer. Heavy and hypnotic and LIMITED. ADAM PACIONE: Limited picture disc of dark blissy ambience. JOE PERNICE: Gorgeous disc of all covers, a soundtrack to his forthcoming novel. PERSISTENCE OF MOURNING: Incredible and incredibly f**ked up record of stumbling ultra doom, a concept record about zombies! PERVERTS: Ty Segall's punk rock band, kick ass single of blown out garage punk crunch. PISSED JEANS: Latest disc on Sub Pop of loud gnarly post punk from these aQ faves. PRINCE FAR I: Another dub classic you should definitely own. JAY REATARD: Amazing disc of fuzzy power pop from this former garage rock wunderkind. THE RENDERERS: Latest disc of surprisingly rocking downer pop from these New Zealand legends. ROEDELIUS: Now reissued on cd, the 1st solo outing from this Cluster / Harmonia member, blissed out organic ambience. reissued on vinyl. Blissed out organic ambience. TY SEGALL: Lp only collection of out of print rarities from this lo-fi garage rock aQ fave. sh*tS AND GIGGLES: What happens when you mix Ariel Pink with Vas Deferens Organization? THIS. Super limited vinyl too... SIC ALPS x 2: The singles collection finally available on vinyl AND a brand new 7", which features a Donovan cover. Lo-fi SF noise pop radness. SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE: Western gothic meets Eastern psych, latest disc from Ben Chasny and his Six Organs. SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE / AZUL: Super limited split lp from Japan, dark droney folk from Six Organs, sunshiney sixties psychedelic folk from Azul. 16 HORSEPOWER: Finally resissued, one of our favorite discs from these masters of apocalyptic gothic swamp folk. IVOR SLANEY: Two amazing soundtracks on an lp from two '70s British horror flick classics. Now on cd with bonus tracks. STARGAZER / INVOCATION: Some seriously twisted death metal from Australia, pre-Portal, on vinyl, and of course limited! SYLVESTER & THE HOT BAND: Awesome collection of seventies disco funk from the legendary Sylvester and his Hot band. TEITANBLOOD: From the same label that brought us Deathspell Omega, Funeral Mist, Katharsis, Watain, comes mighty Spanish blackened death merchants Teitanblood. TETRAGON: Excellent unreleased 1971 record from these obscure keyboard-heavy, progged-out krautrockers. 39 CLOCKS: Punkish beat sounds from this German duo, their first record reissued! V/A AUDIO APOGEE - FREQUENCY THIRTEEN: Head spinning double disc compilation of TRUE SHEFFIELD BLACK PSYCHEDELIA. V/A FUNKY FRAULEINS: Full on sixties/seventies go-go kaleidoscopic cocktail party sounds from Germany. V/A HORSE MEAT DISCO: Killer comp collecting some of the most legendary disco327 tracks. V/A STRING Of PEARLS: ***MISSISSIPPI RECORDS*** new release, breathtaking compilation of old 78s, compiled by the same guy who did that awesome Black Mirror comp. V/A KOMPAKT TOTAL 10: Latest collection of amazing minimal techno from the same label that brings us all those fantastic Pop Ambient comps. V/A UNDERWATER PEOPLES SUMMERTIME SHOWCASE 2009: Super cheap comp of tripped out tropical lo-fi garage pop from Ducktails, Julian Lynch and others! VULPECULA: Vinyl reissue of this long time aQ fave, outsider ambient space metal from right here in the US. WHITE HILLS: Long out of print single track 3" cd-r of deep spaced out krautdrones from these NYC psych rockers. Final copies!! WHITETREE: Gorgeous lilting, wistful, blissful piano / electronic music featuring members of To Rococo Rot and Tarwater. WODENSTHRONE: Killer heathen black metal from the UK, long awaited debut full length. And then there's the new issue of The Wire, four different skweee 7"s from the Flogsta Danshall label, and a super limited, oddly packaged split 3" cd-r from Loren Chasse and friends... Also, as always, we have some tickets to give away. Here are the facts: Sun. Aug. 30 at GAMH An Evening With The Minus 5, The Baseball Project & The Scott Wynn IV (performed by Peter Buck of REM, Scott McCaughey of Young Fresh Fellows, Steve Wynn & Linda Pitmon) $16 Doors 7:30, Show 8 We have 2 pairs of tix to give away, just send an email to [email protected] with the subject MINUS 5 TIX! Wed. Sept. 9 at GAMH Cass McCombs The Papercuts (co-headlining) Girls $14 adv/$16 door Doors 8, Show 9 We have 2 pairs of tix to give away to this one as well, just send an email to [email protected] with the subject CASS TIX! And finally, before we get to the list, a quick call out to aQ folks in the East Bay, Andee and Heather are thinking about taking the plunge, and jumping the Bay. Anyone know of any cool houses in Oakland, Berkeley, El Cerrito, Emeryville or anywhere in between, by all means email [email protected]. Thanks tons. And now on with the list... ------------------------------ 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. 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0============0 0====================0 0==== aQuarius recOrds ====0 0======== New Arrivals #327 ========0 0==== September 04 2009 ====0 0====================0 0============0 0====0 Beloved Customers and Friends: Whew! Another two weeks have gone by and we're BACK. Happy Labor Day Weekend everybody. We've certainly been laboring (and no, we won't be taking Monday off, we're open, all weekend, come on by, before or after your BBQs and such) and have a kickass list for you this time 'round. Lots of stuff from old faves (including an unusual new Boris split) and some items bound to become new faves (like The Black Box, a "Buddha Machine" like device with a darker disposition). So please read on, carefully. For folks shopping in the store this weekend, we're having a special holiday sale. All Used CDs will be $2 off, except the dollar discs which will be half off. This Saturday, Sunday and Monday ONLY. So come check out what we've got in the used bins!! Oh, and also please come down here 6pm on Tuesday, September 8th, we have an instore performance by PUMICE, all the way from New Zealand! Don't miss it. We've picked 3 Records Of The Week this week. All of 'em sound sorta warm and cuddly. Well at least the names do: Forest Creature, Yoga, Velvet Cacoon. The music, not entirely. Forest Creature is a UK duo playing a sort of fantastically twisted, blissed out, rhythmic, synthdrone techno psychedelia. Yoga's full-length is the latest from the Holy Mountain label, and while they're not black metal they wouldn't wouldn't sound like they do if black metal didn't exist. And then, the third Record Of The Week actually IS black metal, well, sort of. We made Velvet Cacoon's completely ambient double disc Atrophine a Record Of The Week recently, and this follow up disc is perhaps even better - and definitely much more metal. But still warped and weird in that special Velvet Cacoon way. Those 3 are pretty essential, and lots of this week's Highlights are, too: ACEPHALIX: 7" debut from crusty local metalpunks with sick vocals, who also bust out the Maiden-y guitar shred. ACID WITCH: Druggy, doomy, deathly, witchy, warty metal that mixes Goblin-esque keyboards with Sabbathy riffage and guttural vokills! APPLES IN STEREO: A best-of from these beloved Elephant 6 popsters, songs that really should all have been #1 (indie) pop hits. THE ARCTIC MONKEYS: The latest from this former UK buzz band, produced by Josh Homme, turns out to be a grower. ARECIBO: Deep space sounds melded into pulsing rhythms or left as ambient drift, like Lustmord meets Dopplereffekt, and it IS Lustmord. BANJO OR FREAKOUT: Buzzy, warm and warbly fuzz drenched indie folk noise pop on a 12" from happenin' label Half Machine. BARN OWL: Another all-too limited cd-r release from these San Francisco dronelords! BLACK BONED ANGEL LP: Now on vinyl, incredible new disc of sludgy doom from Campbell Kneale, featuring one of the best riffs EVER. BLACK BONED ANGEL / NADJA LP: Also now on vinyl, these two dronesters 2nd collaboration, and it's way heavier and harrowing than the first. THE BLACK BOX: Wrnlrd, Haptic and Cristal are among the blackened drone artists looping on this little tombstone-shaped portable ambient sound device, a la FM3's Buddha Machine!! BLOOD FOUNTAINS: New on Utech, dark dreamdoom drone drift from a band featuring painter Stephen Kasner, with the singer from Bloody Panda guesting! BLUE SABBATH BLACK CHEER: Fancy limited new vinyl from these masters of the blacknoize harsh realms. BORIS / 9DW: Limited import 12" and cd split from Japanese faves Boris and... a disco/techno band? Boris's side is unusual too, but very cool. BORNEO: San Francisco just got a lot heavier now that this band has arrived. BREEDERS x2: At long last, vinyl reissues of the first two (and best) records by this crucial '90s alt rock supergroup. THE CARETAKER: Vinyl (sorry, cd went out of print too fast) edition of this otherworldly Philip Jeckish jazz/ambient set from this UK sampling artist. DIALING IN: New lp of mysterious Middle Eastern field recording ambient sound collage. ENDLESS TIME: Limited cassette-only release of disturbing drone and synth bliss. ETERNAL TAPESTRY: Another (vinyl) slab of spaced out kosmiche kraut riffage from these psychedelic warlords. JAMES FERRARO: Double lp of warped otherworldly sound collage murky warble from one half of the late great Skaters. GARY WAR: New Captured Tracks LP of skewed pop, part Joe Meek, part John Maus. GENOCIDE: Deluxe reissue of cult '80s Japanese heavy metal, with a really insane vocalist! HAPPY DAYS: The return of possibly our favorite depressive black metal band going these days... depressive, but somehow poppier and poppier! HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR: Double disc import, not a new album but a killer mix documenting Hercules' influences. JAPANDROIDS: A guitar and drums duo, who kick up a killer indie pop post punk racket! GREGG KOWALSKY: Super limited cd-r release from this long time aQ fave, continuing on in his recent Tape Chants direction. LAUDANUM: Crushing, punishing doom infused sludge from Oakland, on 20 Buck Spin. LONESUMMER: Cd-r that's a noise drenched, chopped and looped take on buzzy poppy shoegazey black metal, great stuff! SAMARA LUBELSKI: More of her mystical voice and psychedelic shimmer! JULIAN LYNCH: First full length (as far as we know) from this sometimes Ducktails collaborator, vinyl only on Olde English Spelling Bee. MANILLA ROAD: Back in print, our favorite album from these eccentric epic '80s underground metallers!! NATHANIEL MAYER: Posthumous release from the Detroit soul singing legend, again backed up by members of the Black Keys, Dirtbombs, etc. SEAN MCCANN: Lovely droneworks on this limited cassette from SF artist McCann. MOUNTAIN GOATS & KAKI KING: That's right, a new super limited vinyl only Mountain Goats collaboration. Going fast!! NEKRASOV: Now on vinyl, a big time aQ black metal fave, record number two from this grim Australian one man nekronoise black metal horde. NON TOXIQUE LOST: Back in print (for a limited time), the art-damaged noise from this little known German industrial project. NOVELLER: A dark maelstrom of guitar minimalism from former Parts & Labor member Sarah Lipstate. NUDGE: On Kranky, a blissed out 4AD inspired late night musical love affair featuring members of Valet, Fontanelle, and Strategy. ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER: Sci-fi synth LP on Arbor from this dystopian sound artist. YUI ONODERA: Japanese drone 'n' field recordist's blissful ambient album. JIM O'ROURKE: At long last, a new solo album from Mr. O'Rourke, and it's great! FEDAYI PACHA: Middle Eastern Dub Music! JOHNNY PAYCHECK: Outlaw country singer's '60s sides for the Little Darlin label, super dark and twisted country music!! PIGS: Kickass local punkmetal power trio with Sabbathy riffs and gnarly guitar shred... a new favorite!! PULSE EMITTER x 2: Two new cd-rs from this one-man synth symphony. RALE: Excellent abstract modular synth dronescapes on this 2-song 12". REAL ESTATE: Also on Half Machine, a 7" from the Ducktails school of shimmery fuzzy tropical garage pop, with Pavement-y tendencies too. SCIENCE FICTION DANCE PARTY: B-music "krautsider music" reissue, of sci-fi exotica they definitely don't make anymore! SHANNON AND THE CLAMS: More great garagey music from the Bay Area, on 7". STEVE R. SMITH: Vinyl-only all-instrumental solo album, dreamy dark and melodic, from the ever-reliable SRS (of Thuja, Hala Strana, Ulaan Khol, etc.). SNAKE FLOWER II: Finally listing this sleeper hit ('round here) from this SF stoner garage blues band. SPLINTERS: 7" from a local female four piece into The Raincoats, the Vaselines, and the Shop Assistants. SUPERCHUNK: Are back, new 7"!! TORTOISE: Best song from their new album remixed by Eye from the Boredoms!!! 12" only. And limited! TROUM: Reissue of ambient dronedrift epic from this post Maeror Tri unit. V/A GRIND b*****dS 3: Japanese grind b*****ds keep it short and sick. V/A LORDS OF CHAOS: Great double disc of classic Satan-inspired music, your new church burning soundtrack, and it's NOT just black metal. V/A LOVING TAKES THIS COURSE: Amazing lineup of indie rock artists pay tribute to cult folkster Kath Bloom on this 2cd! V/A WAYFARING STRANGERS: The Numero Group strikes again with this comp of "Lonesome Heroes". VAGUSNERVE: Utech awesomeness #2, cosmic chaotic droning guitar/laptop improv from China all about UFOs and feng shui gadgets. THE VAMPIRES OF DARTMOOR: Another B-music find, "horrotica" album that's groovy and sexy and pretty wacked out. VARIANT: Latest from the Echospace stable, droney dubby heroin house electronic ambient we love. WOODS: Brand new two tracker from these dreamy forest folkers, another one from Half Machine. Plus lots more, including a cool new album from hippy rockers Entrance, a bunch of other stuff "now on vinyl" (Legends Of Benin, Alva Noto, Tortoise, etc.), and a great old school metal 'zine from Quebec (where we read that Fenriz from Darkthrone's favorite band is the B-52's!)... ________________ We've got two big shows we're hoping to spread the word about. First, Stella Natura, an incredible weekend long black metal / noise / ambient fest, which takes places in the Sierra Nevada mountains, in the woods! Here are the details: ________________ STELLA NATURA: Reaping the Flesh of Light A two-day gathering in the Sierra Nevada mountains in honor of the All, taking place September 25th and 26th. Friday Eve (beginning at dusk): -opening ritual- ARNICA (Spain) VOICE OF EYE (Southwest U.S.A.) VELNIAS (Midwest U.S.A.) WOLFSKIN (Portugal) RUHR HUNTER (Northwest U.S.A.) Saturday Afternoon: NOVEMTHREE (Northwest U.S.A.) CHANGES (Southwest/Midwest U.S.A.) Saturday Eve (beginning at dusk): LUX INTERNA (Northwest U.S.A.) SERVILE SECT (Northwest U.S.A.) SERE (Northwest U.S.A.) HALO MANASH (Finland) C.O.T.A. (Southwest U.S.A.) FAUNA & CoRE (Northwest U.S.A.) -closing ritual- For more information or to purchase tickets, go to www.thefleshoflight.org And, we have 2 tickets to give away, these are 'camping passes', which means you can arrive friday, camp in those very beautiful woods, and attend ALL the performances, Friday night, Saturday night, and Saturday afternoon (which is not available to regular ticket holders). Each pass is a $66 value! Just email [email protected] with STELLA TIX in the subject line. And heck, even if you don't win, you should still probably go, it's gonna be pretty amazing. ________________ We're also presenting Root Strata's On Land festival, which features tons of amazing bands over two days (including nearly half of the aQ staff!!), we're also selling tickets, here's the lowdown: ________________ ON LAND FESTIVAL http://www.onlandfestival.com/ On Land September 19th & 20th San Francisco, CA Curated by Root Strata Sponsored by aQuarius recOrds Hosted by The Swedish American Hall & Cafe DuNord Tickets available at aQuarius recOrds and cafedunord.com LIMITED FESTIVAL PASSES available for $35! Available only by calling Cafe DuNord box office (mon-fri, 2pm-6pm: 415-861-5016) to purchase over the phone!! Sunday, September 20th The Swedish American Hall $20 Grouper Christina Carter Ilays Ahmed Barn Owl Sun Circle Common Eider, King Eider Brendon Murray Saturday, September 19th Cafe DuNord $10 Tarentel Keith Fullerton Whitman The Alps Ducktails Pete Swanson Joe Grimm Operative (Scott Goodwin) Saturday, September 19th The Swedish American Hall Early Show! $10 Starving Weirdos William Fowler Collins Metal Rouge Darwinsbitch Jim Haynes John Davis Danny Paul Grody ________________ Okay! Enough of the intro... Let's get to the list... ------------------------------ 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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So, we're looking forward to the shows, though a few of us might not make it to any of 'em on account of how so many other aQuarians are PLAYING at the festival and thus in some cases not available to work their regular shifts! Hope we can all make it to at least some of the fest, should be a lot of fun, great music goin' on for sure. If you haven't heard all about the festival yet, details are to be found at the end of the list. Ok, speaking of shows, let's get THIS show on the road. Lots of great stuff on this week's list. We've got 4 Records Of The Week to start with. They are: SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE x 2: Two reissues on cd and vinyl from this seminal '90s indie rock act, the second wave emo of their first couple albums Diary and LP2. V/A: SHADOW MUSIC OF THAILAND: Now on cd, one of our Sublime Frequencies faves, the twanging guitars of super enchanting groovy garage pop from the '60s Thai scene. YO LA TENGO: A new masterpiece from a band that has never disappointed us, the indie rock royalty of Hoboken New Jersey, YLT! Loads of Highlights as well, of course (including at least two others that came close to being Records Of The Week, except that Andee alone among us couldn't stand the singing, see if you can guess which two)... AMON DUUL II: A vinyl reissue of this crucial krautrock act's 1969 debut, almost up there with Yeti in our estimation. APATI: First record from Swedish depressive black metal trio, for fans of Lifelover wethink. ASCEND: Finally listing this weird heavy slab blackened funereal doom jazz from Southern Lord, featuring members of SUNNO))) and Eagle Twin. A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW: New album of lush swirling day dream shoegaze pop from this Pennsylvania (not Glasgow) band. BARN OWL: Back in stock, what might be the last copies of this latest cd-r from these local dronelords. BEATLES: Beatles For Sale, now reissued. Do we really need to tell you it's great?? They ALL are. This one just happens to be one of Andee's special faves. BIBLE OF THE DEVIL: Now on vinyl, one of the best unabashed rock/metal records of last year from these dual Flying V heshers. BIRDS OF AVALON: 2nd and more experimental/eclectic album by these pop smart guitar (and synth) rockers. BLACK JOKER: The -other- Skater chimes in with a vinyl-only solo album, Spencer Clark making rhythmic haze as Black Joker. BORIS: New 7" (first in a series) from the Japanese heavy rockers at whose amplifiers we all worship. BRAINBOMBS: Back in stock, at long last, the 2nd singles comp from these massively misanthropic, scuzzy Swedes! BRONZE: A 10" of rhythmic synthy postpunk from this exciting local combo! HENSON CARGILL: New on Omni, reissued country classic featuring songs about the Great Depression, so timely today. THE CLEAN: Huzzah! A new album from these NZ underground pop masters!! CLOAKED LIGHT: Oppressive ambience on a limited cassette from a mysterious group. DEVOID OF ALL MERCY: Limited lathe-cut 7" of creeped out blackness from this NZ void dweller. DODOS: Meric Long and Co.'s eagerly awaited new one continues their inexorable ascent to total indie rock rulership! DUNCAN / HAUSWOLFF: Finally back in stock, an eerie but beautiful collaboration from these two experimentalists. EMACIATOR: Another hypnotic noise cassette from this act, limited of course. EMERALDS: Latest vinyl-only full-length of awesome cosmic drone from the excellent Emeralds. EXPO 70: On both cd-r and cassette, another krauty space-out from one of the best in the biz. FLOWER MAN: Limited cd-r of enjoyable experimental electronic action. THE FRESH & ONLYS: Woodsist full-length, cd and vinyl, from the local garage pop sensations! GIRLS: Another local pop sensation, offers up their debut full-length. GRASS WIDOW: Captured Tracks 12" from these rustic twee pop purveyors. GREEN BLOSSOMS: Sparse pastoral bliss on Digitalis. GRIEF NO ABSOLUTION: 10"+7" vinyl only package of abstract black drone released by Flingco (Wrnlrd, Haptic, The Black Box...) HEALTH: Weirder and weirder, better and better, record #3 of fractured no wave new wave dancefloor destroying post punk! KHAN JAMAL: Porter reissue of '80s cosmic jazz from this '70s vet. LONESUMMER / MARSH: Split cassette featuring black metal weirdo Lonesummer and D-beat destroyer Marsh. LORD OF THE GRAVE: Trance-inducing Sabbathy sludge from this Sleep-like Swiss trio. LORD VICAR: Now on double vinyl, in deluxe packaging, with a photo book, this doom supergroup's fantastic debut album. MANTLES: LP-only, long awaited full length debut from these local druggy jangly psych popsters. MICHAEL NORTHAM: 10" of hypnotizing dronemusik from this wandering sound artist. MORDANT MUSIC / SHACKLETON / VINDICATRIX: Spacey dubstep darkness, a la Skull Disco, so amazing! NADJA: Elaborately packaged double disc of drone, meant to be played separately OR together! NONHORSE: A cd-r release of kaleidoscopic, corroded, cassette-sourced collage. THE NORTH SEA: Digitalis head honcho's latest chunk of crunch, on cassette only. YOKO ONO: Fantastic new album from the 76 year old artist/vocalist/composer, her band featuring among others Cornelius! OXBOW: First in a chronological Hydra Head reissue program of this band's essential early discography, the '89 debut of the mighty Oxbow!! PENS: Dizzying lo-fi garge pop from London, new on De Stijl. PENTEMPLE: Another Southern Lord supergroup we should have already listed, we have vinyl and cd, members of SUNNO))), Mayhem, Striborg, and more! PINK NOISE: f**ked up lo-fi soundz from this weirdo Canadian duo, LP-only on Kill Shaman. POLVO: Yay! They're back, and it's better than just another reunion record! Wow!! PULSE EMITTER x 2: Mediative Music cd-r vol. 3, AND Digitalis cd full-length, two fairly different discs from this analog synth wizard. SILVER PINES: New 4-song cassette (cassingle?) of druggy shoegazey Americana from this Texas band. SOCIAL JUNK: Mysterious looping mechanical soundscapes, a sprawl of clank and clatter and crunch. TAKEN BY TREES: 2nd album of bittersweet pop perfection, this time recorded in Pakistan with local guest musicians! TAMARU: Drones and tones from this Japanese experimental minimalist. 13TH CHIME: Obscure '80s postpunk band's best collected on this Sacred Bones LP release. 3 INCHES OF BLOOD: Shrieking and shredding, the latest extreme true metal triumph from this killer '80s influence band. UNREST: Now reissued on vinyl, Imperial f.f.r.r., the sweetest pop effort ever from this classic Teenbeat band. V/A A ORILLAS DEL MAGDALENA: Not a Mississippi Records release, but might as well be. 1950s-'70s Cumbia music collected on this cool LP-only compilation. V/A ELECTRIC ASYLUM VOL. 3: More "Rare British Acid Freakbeat" on this comp, such fuzzy, goofy, glammy, proggy, garagey good times! V/A HIGH ALL THE TIME VOL. 1: '60s psych pop singles, obscure and awesome, yet another great comp! V/A MARY ANNE HOBBS: WILD ANGELS: 3rd volume of dubstep and other treats from this UK DJ. V/A MILKY WAY: From the same studio as Dean Carter, more far out '60s rockabilly and garage pop weirdness. V/A RADIO SCENIC GLOW: A cd-r comp of warped lo-fi electronic esoterica, loaded with cool and obscure entries. V/A SIAMESE SOUL: THAI POP SPECTACULAR VOL.2 1960's-1980's: Another Sublime Freq. volume, could also have been Record Of The Week! VIVIAN GIRLS: More girl group meets blown out garage rock stomp, picking up where their last release left off! WOLD: Ltd. cassette from Canada's weirdest black metal combo. WOODS: Another sun soaked, acid bathed 7" dose of strummy pop from these East Coasters. ROBERT WYATT: OMG! Unreleased Wyatt from '81, amazing spontaneous compositions for a radio program, a brilliant mix of bizarre noise and gentle melodic pop! YO LA TENGO: Along with their new album (a Record Of The Week, above) we finally got copies of YLT's film score collection! Plus plenty of other goodies, including among 'em the new issue of The Wire, a bunch of other cool magazines too, the new ANVIL album, more metal, a super limited Stephen O'Malley cassette that's probably already gone, and some other stuff too limited for us to highlight, etc. etc. Also, as always, got some tix to give away, first off Kylesa and the Saviors, and Kowloon Walled City, who are having their record release party, here's the info: Whore for Satan presents Thursday Oct 1, 2009 Kylesa http://myspace.com/kylesa Saviours http://myspace.com/saviours666 Bison B.C. http://myspace.com/ Kowloon Walled City http://myspace.com/ plus DJ Badjew (Drunken Monkey Lounge) 7pm doors ALL AGES! $12/$15 DNA Lounge 375 Eleventh Street San Francisco, CA 94103 415-626-1409 (info) http://dnalounge.com We have 2 pairs of tix, just email [email protected] with the subject KYLESA TIX, and we'll pick two winners at random. __________ __________ We also have two pairs of tickets to giveaway to see Dead Meadow and guests: Mon. Sept. 28 at GAMH Dead Meadow Spindrift Howlin Rain Kymberli's Music Box DJs $15 Doors 7:30, Show 8 Same drill, just email [email protected] with the subject DEAD MEADOW TIX and we'll pick two winners at random. __________ __________ And we have 2 General Admission tickets to giveaway: 1 for Saturday and 1 for Sunday for the 3rd Annual Treasure Island Music Festival: San Francisco’s Indian summer is around the corner and with it brings the 3rd Annual Treasure Island Music Festival, the West Coast’s most anticipated boutique music festival. Set against panoramic views of the city by the bay, Treasure Island Music Festival is offering an electronic and dance centric lineup on Saturday, October 17th and an indie rock lineup on Sunday, October 18th. With two stages and no overlapping sets, fans can enjoy every note of every act. Saturday, October 17th, 2009 MGMT, MSTRKRFT, Girl Talk, Brazilian Girls, The Streets, Passion Pit, Dan Deacon, Murs, Crown City Rockers, The Limousines... and more! Sunday, October 18th, 2009 The Flaming Lips, The Decemberists, Beirut, Grizzly Bear, Yo La Tengo, The Walkmen, Bob Mould, Thao with The Get Down Stay Down, Vetiver, Sleepy Sun... and more! So to be entered in the drawing for tickets, send an email to [email protected], with the subject TREASURE TIX SAT or TREASURE TIX SUN (or both, but if you want a chance for both, send two different emails with two different subjects). We'll pick a winner at random for each day! __________ __________ And finally, a few more days to enter to win tickets to the Stella Natura festival: STELLA NATURA: Reaping the Flesh of Light A two-day gathering in the Sierra Nevada mountains in honor of the All, taking place September 25th and 26th. Friday Eve (beginning at dusk): -opening ritual- ARNICA (Spain) VOICE OF EYE (Southwest U.S.A.) VELNIAS (Midwest U.S.A.) WOLFSKIN (Portugal) RUHR HUNTER (Northwest U.S.A.) Saturday Afternoon: NOVEMTHREE (Northwest U.S.A.) CHANGES (Southwest/Midwest U.S.A.) Saturday Eve (beginning at dusk): LUX INTERNA (Northwest U.S.A.) SERVILE SECT (Northwest U.S.A.) SERE (Northwest U.S.A.) HALO MANASH (Finland) C.O.T.A. (Southwest U.S.A.) FAUNA & CoRE (Northwest U.S.A.) -closing ritual- For more information or to purchase tickets, go to www.thefleshoflight.org We have 2 tickets to give away, these are 'camping passes', which means you can arrive friday, camp in those very beautiful woods, and attend ALL the performances, Friday night, Saturday night, and Saturday afternoon (which is not available to regular ticket holders). Each pass is a $66 value! Just email [email protected] with STELLA TIX in the subject line. And heck, even if you don't win, you should still probably go, it's gonna be pretty amazing. And that's it for tickets, let's wrap it up and get to the sounds. Thanks as always, and enjoy this week's list! ------------------------------ 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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