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Beloved Customers and Friends:

Hello. Hope everybody had a fabulous Thanksgiving... and that the
rest of this holiday season (which appears to be proceeding apace)
goes well for you too. We were Thankful that it's this Friday that's
list day, and not last Friday when we were stuffed with turkey and
whatnot. Also thankful for all the great music we deal in, and the
great customers we deal with, both of which make being part of
Aquarius so worthwhile.

We should also mention what a blast our two recent instores were.
Those of you who made it down got to experience it first hand. The
Yahowha book signing was a blast. It was like a family reunion
(literally) with many of the Yahowha family members seeing each other
for the first time in decades. Lots of long beards, white robes and
good vibes. Christine even prepared some delicacies from the menu of
the original Source family restaurant.

And that same day Six Organs Of Admittance performed live and it was
fantastic. Dark and gorgeous, folky and dreamy. And Ben promises to
post the rules to his Aquarius New Arrivals Drinking Game on his
website sometime soon.

Two Records Of The Week this time. From France, the eagerly
anticipated debut full-length by Aluk Todolo, an amazing slab of post-
rock psychedelic black metal tinged krauty weirdness. The other, a
compellingly bittersweet, sad and gorgeous soundtrack from Sweden,
Erik Enocksson's score for a film called Farval Falkenberg.

And then the Highlights, no dearth of those:

Ala Muerte / Max Bondi: a 3" cd-r experimental split from the same
label as Aluk Todolo.
Art Fleury: reissue of radical avant-prog from 1980 Italy, sorta

Village of Savooga-ish.
Astro Can Caravan: Finland's answer to Ethiopiques.
Astro Jazkamer Hair Stylistics: a Japan/Norway noise summit.
Axolotl / Inca Ore: limited 7" split from two masters of soft noise.
Balroynigress: wonderful art-folk from Sweden, on the same label as
Erik Enocksson.
Birchville Cat Motel: NZ's BCM get riffy on this new triple cd-r set.
Blut Aus Nord: French black metal bizarros return.
Burial Chamber Trio: limited 10" vinyl from this subsonic, SUNNO)))
related super group.
Comet III: kosmiche space trip from Sicilian duo, heavy on the synths.
Loren Connors: dreamy guitar airs circa '92-'02 from this unique player.
dEADVERSE MASSIVE: killer experimental hip hop, beautiful picture
disc, Dalek meets Destructo Swarmbots and more...
Deathspell Omega: vinyl versions of two black metal faves.
Decimation Blvd.: limited 3" cd-r of creepy post industrial cinematic
soundscrape.
Expo 70 x 2: two more cd-rs from the "audio archives" of this krauty
spacedrone favorite.
Fleshpress: more far out dooooooom from Finland.
Genesis: Pretty pretty South American psych folk reissue.
Gultskra Artikler: Russian fairytale soundscapers new album for Miasmah.
Roy Harper: new deluxe remastered edition of his classic Stormcock!
Daniel Higgs: Appalachian shamanic raga bliss from this ex-Lungfsh
frontman.
Holmgang: Incredible depressive black buzz from this Make A Change
Kill Yourself side project.
Horna: Bathory worship from this Finnish true black metal horde.
Jasper TX: Another blissful disc of droning post rock ambience from
this AQ fave.
Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat: Two part song cycle, apocalyptic and
dark folk madness.
Pep Laguarda & Tapineria: Dreamy Spanish psychedelic folk from the
seventies.
Les Rallizes Denudes: Rare cd release compiling crucial seventies
tracks from this seminal Japanese rock combo.
Eric Malmberg: the new solo cd from the prog/folk/jazz organ player

of Sweden's Sagor & Swing.
Merrell, Baker And Jordan: limited aRCHIVE release from Nadja's Aidan
Baker and 2 pals.
Morning Recordings: Hushed dreamy intimate pop that has us all swooning.
New Thrill Parade: A total gothic mind f**k of heavy weirdness.
Planet-Y: An eighties guitar synth and a seventies synthesizer.
Spaced out weirdness. Features Yannni from Stinking Lizaveta.
Pluramon: Soft and shimmery shoegazey electronic pop dreaminess.
Martin Popoff: his biggest book yet, The Collectors Guide To Heavy
Metal Vol. 3, the '90s.
Donovan Quinn: Skygreen Leopards bard on his own channeling his inner
Dylan through a haze of freaked out forest folk.
Servile Sect: Buzzing blissed out alien black metal. Electronic
shoegaze meets buzzing grimness.
Skullflower: essential reissue of one of the best and heaviest
Skullflower slabs EVER, IIIrd Gatekeeper.
Striborg: Reissue of this Tasmanian misanthropic rain forest black
metal classic. With three bonus tracks and all new artwork.
Trad Gras Och Stenar: dvd documentary following these AQ fave Swedish
psych vets on tour 2002-2005.
Tron: not available for mailorder... but come in and play!
Turbonegro x 2: reissues of two of our faves from the notorious
Norwegian rock n' rollers.
Up-Tight: limited aRCHIVE reissue of Tokyo psychster's 1999 debut +
bonus tracks.
V/A Art Of Field Recordings Vol 1: 4cd box set of early 20th c. folk
field recording treasures.
V/A Cris Et Chuchotements: A far out comp from this new French label,
all over the map, from hippie-psych to freaked out noise.
V/A People Take Warning: Murder ballads and disaster songs culled
from the early 1900s. Boxset with a gorgeous book and tons of photos
and liner notes.
V/A Post-Asiatic: Lost War Dream Music: Double disc comp of Eastern
influenced experimental music, Amps For Christ, Muslimgauze and loads
more.
Veee Deee: Americans in Japan making a big ol' freaked out post punk

psych rock noise.
Weedeater: Stoner sludge divinity from these drug rock legends. They
even do a Skynryd cover!

In addition to the highlighted titles, we also have a whole chunk of
other Turbonegro reissues (to get after you get the highlighted
ones), more black metal, more everything, just keep reading!

And don't forget to scope the "instock, not reviewed" section way at
the bottom, there might be some stuff you'd want to "Add to cart"
without waiting for our reviews, like the new Ethiopiques (Volume 22)
and the new Eccentric Soul (Outskirts Of Deep City).

And folks in SF, be sure to check out our pal Maria Forde's art
opening on Saturday (that's tomorrow!). More info at the end of the
list...

And finally, a note to mailorder customers hoping to get stuff by
Xmas: PLEASE GET YOUR ORDERS IN ASAP!!
Listing alternates wouldn't hurt... And maybe be willing to have
partial orders shipped, as some of the stuff we have listed on our
website is tough to get, maybe even more so during the holidays. But
we'll do the best we can. Thanks for being so understanding. And of
course HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

Now let's get to the music...

---------------------------------------------------------------

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.

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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avestin Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 18 2005 Status: Offline Points: 12625	Topic: Aquarius Records webstore Posted: December 01 2007 at 10:27
	An abbreviated version of their email update. For the full length update go to http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html : +O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+( O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O( Aquarius Records +O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+( New Arrivals #280 O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O( 30 November 2007 +O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+( Beloved Customers and Friends: Hello. Hope everybody had a fabulous Thanksgiving... and that the rest of this holiday season (which appears to be proceeding apace) goes well for you too. We were Thankful that it's this Friday that's list day, and not last Friday when we were stuffed with turkey and whatnot. Also thankful for all the great music we deal in, and the great customers we deal with, both of which make being part of Aquarius so worthwhile. We should also mention what a blast our two recent instores were. Those of you who made it down got to experience it first hand. The Yahowha book signing was a blast. It was like a family reunion (literally) with many of the Yahowha family members seeing each other for the first time in decades. Lots of long beards, white robes and good vibes. Christine even prepared some delicacies from the menu of the original Source family restaurant. And that same day Six Organs Of Admittance performed live and it was fantastic. Dark and gorgeous, folky and dreamy. And Ben promises to post the rules to his Aquarius New Arrivals Drinking Game on his website sometime soon. Two Records Of The Week this time. From France, the eagerly anticipated debut full-length by Aluk Todolo, an amazing slab of post- rock psychedelic black metal tinged krauty weirdness. The other, a compellingly bittersweet, sad and gorgeous soundtrack from Sweden, Erik Enocksson's score for a film called Farval Falkenberg. And then the Highlights, no dearth of those: Ala Muerte / Max Bondi: a 3" cd-r experimental split from the same label as Aluk Todolo. Art Fleury: reissue of radical avant-prog from 1980 Italy, sorta Village of Savooga-ish. Astro Can Caravan: Finland's answer to Ethiopiques. Astro Jazkamer Hair Stylistics: a Japan/Norway noise summit. Axolotl / Inca Ore: limited 7" split from two masters of soft noise. Balroynigress: wonderful art-folk from Sweden, on the same label as Erik Enocksson. Birchville Cat Motel: NZ's BCM get riffy on this new triple cd-r set. Blut Aus Nord: French black metal bizarros return. Burial Chamber Trio: limited 10" vinyl from this subsonic, SUNNO))) related super group. Comet III: kosmiche space trip from Sicilian duo, heavy on the synths. Loren Connors: dreamy guitar airs circa '92-'02 from this unique player. dEADVERSE MASSIVE: killer experimental hip hop, beautiful picture disc, Dalek meets Destructo Swarmbots and more... Deathspell Omega: vinyl versions of two black metal faves. Decimation Blvd.: limited 3" cd-r of creepy post industrial cinematic soundscrape. Expo 70 x 2: two more cd-rs from the "audio archives" of this krauty spacedrone favorite. Fleshpress: more far out dooooooom from Finland. Genesis: Pretty pretty South American psych folk reissue. Gultskra Artikler: Russian fairytale soundscapers new album for Miasmah. Roy Harper: new deluxe remastered edition of his classic Stormcock! Daniel Higgs: Appalachian shamanic raga bliss from this ex-Lungfsh frontman. Holmgang: Incredible depressive black buzz from this Make A Change Kill Yourself side project. Horna: Bathory worship from this Finnish true black metal horde. Jasper TX: Another blissful disc of droning post rock ambience from this AQ fave. Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat: Two part song cycle, apocalyptic and dark folk madness. Pep Laguarda & Tapineria: Dreamy Spanish psychedelic folk from the seventies. Les Rallizes Denudes: Rare cd release compiling crucial seventies tracks from this seminal Japanese rock combo. Eric Malmberg: the new solo cd from the prog/folk/jazz organ player of Sweden's Sagor & Swing. Merrell, Baker And Jordan: limited aRCHIVE release from Nadja's Aidan Baker and 2 pals. Morning Recordings: Hushed dreamy intimate pop that has us all swooning. New Thrill Parade: A total gothic mind f**k of heavy weirdness. Planet-Y: An eighties guitar synth and a seventies synthesizer. Spaced out weirdness. Features Yannni from Stinking Lizaveta. Pluramon: Soft and shimmery shoegazey electronic pop dreaminess. Martin Popoff: his biggest book yet, The Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal Vol. 3, the '90s. Donovan Quinn: Skygreen Leopards bard on his own channeling his inner Dylan through a haze of freaked out forest folk. Servile Sect: Buzzing blissed out alien black metal. Electronic shoegaze meets buzzing grimness. Skullflower: essential reissue of one of the best and heaviest Skullflower slabs EVER, IIIrd Gatekeeper. Striborg: Reissue of this Tasmanian misanthropic rain forest black metal classic. With three bonus tracks and all new artwork. Trad Gras Och Stenar: dvd documentary following these AQ fave Swedish psych vets on tour 2002-2005. Tron: not available for mailorder... but come in and play! Turbonegro x 2: reissues of two of our faves from the notorious Norwegian rock n' rollers. Up-Tight: limited aRCHIVE reissue of Tokyo psychster's 1999 debut + bonus tracks. V/A Art Of Field Recordings Vol 1: 4cd box set of early 20th c. folk field recording treasures. V/A Cris Et Chuchotements: A far out comp from this new French label, all over the map, from hippie-psych to freaked out noise. V/A People Take Warning: Murder ballads and disaster songs culled from the early 1900s. Boxset with a gorgeous book and tons of photos and liner notes. V/A Post-Asiatic: Lost War Dream Music: Double disc comp of Eastern influenced experimental music, Amps For Christ, Muslimgauze and loads more. Veee Deee: Americans in Japan making a big ol' freaked out post punk psych rock noise. Weedeater: Stoner sludge divinity from these drug rock legends. They even do a Skynryd cover! In addition to the highlighted titles, we also have a whole chunk of other Turbonegro reissues (to get after you get the highlighted ones), more black metal, more everything, just keep reading! And don't forget to scope the "instock, not reviewed" section way at the bottom, there might be some stuff you'd want to "Add to cart" without waiting for our reviews, like the new Ethiopiques (Volume 22) and the new Eccentric Soul (Outskirts Of Deep City). And folks in SF, be sure to check out our pal Maria Forde's art opening on Saturday (that's tomorrow!). More info at the end of the list... And finally, a note to mailorder customers hoping to get stuff by Xmas: PLEASE GET YOUR ORDERS IN ASAP!! Listing alternates wouldn't hurt... And maybe be willing to have partial orders shipped, as some of the stuff we have listed on our website is tough to get, maybe even more so during the holidays. But we'll do the best we can. Thanks for being so understanding. And of course HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!! Now let's get to the music... --------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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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avestin Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 18 2005 Status: Offline Points: 12625	Posted: December 15 2007 at 16:38
	[] <> <> [] <> <> [] <> <> [] <> <> Aquarius Records [] <> <> New Arrivals #281 [] <> <> 14 December 2007 [] <> <> [] <> <> [] <> <> Beloved Customers and Friends: Whew! One more New Arrivals list under our belts. Lots of great stuff this time of course, we'll get to all that in a minute. It's been crazy busy here lately (a good thing) what with the holiday season being in full swing and all, so first off -- Happy Holidays!! Merry Christmas!! Mailorder customers hoping to get stuff by Christmas, there's some important FYI's for you below, please read that section. Record Of The Week this week is one to start any krautrock lover drooling, a previously unissued live set from Neu!/Kraftwerk/Cluster related outfit Harmonia, the long-awaited Live 1974 set. Sooooo goood, gorgeously tranceworthy stuff, a precious addition to this band's classic but brief (two album) discography. And even if you've never heard Harmonia before, please do yourself a favor and go ahead and dive in here! And the Highlights, alphabetically go something like this: 3/4hasbeeneliminated: lavish wood-box packaging of latest from these Italian mystery-makers. A Place To Bury Strangers: noisy NYC shoegaze awesomeness. Ai Aso: fresh from her 7" split with Boris' Wata, a soothing solo cd from this Japanese singer. Audiopain: a lethal dose of modern blackened thrash from these Norwegian neck-wreckers. Bongzilla: 2-on-1 reissue of these sludge stoner faves first album and ep. Steven Brodsky's Octave Museum: almost-overlooked total pop gem from the Cave In frontman. Burning Saviours: third timelost album from these Swedish '70s style doom/prog/folk rockers. Sylvain Chauveau: delicate soft fragile frozen soundtrack sounds. Circle: limited new 2-song 7" from our favorite Finnish hypno rockers. Dave Clarke: this DJ hearts techno and so do we when he's spining these killers. Philip Cohran x 2: two reissues, one vinyl, one cd, of two albums from this '70s Sun Ra-ish jazzer. Richard Crandell: new Tzadik disc from the minimalist mbira master. Divanity: cd-r of Israeli doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom. Dukkha / Black Vomit: you loved Skultroll and Ice Bound Majesty, now here's these two! Fear Falls Burning: massive 5lp remixes box set featuring Birchville Cat Motel, Aidan Baker, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and others! Alastair Galbraith: the NZ bard is back with a disc of magical noise, folk, and pop experiments. Goat Witch: live cd of psychedelic mathrock ambient spaciness from down under. Harumi: East-meets-West on this sixties psych-pop reissue. Tim Hecker: 10" of gorgeously gauzy sonic soundscapes from this AQ fave. His Name Is Alive: Warn Defever & Co.'s surprising tribute to jazz saxophonist Marion Brown. Jeremy Jay: we've got a crush on this new singer whose pop music sounds soooo Factory records '80s. Jazzfinger: limited 8" SQUARE lathe cut from these English drone merchants. Kobayashi: 7" picture disc of wigged out grindcore. LSD-March: limited double cd of psychedelic experimentation from these Japanese heavies. Marblebog: Ambient black metal buzz from these Hungarian foresthearted faves. Meads Of Asphodel: 7" of punk covers from this bizarre black metal troupe. The Mile End Ladies String Auxiliary: tense chamber rock from Godspeed/Silver Mt. Zion members. Murmer: limited, lovingly packaged new disc of drones from this Jonathan Coleclough collaborator. Njiqahdda: double cd-r of insane unblack metal on EEE. Of: Jewelled Antler-er Loren Chasse's latest solo set of dreamlike drones. Yui Onodera: pump organ and field recordings meld on this dark and lovely drone disc. Korla Pandit: twofer reissue of B-3 exotica from the late great Korla Pandit. Pet Genius: Cave In frontman's surprising new act channels both the Beatles and QOTSA. Prurient: limited 8" SQUARE lathe cut from this noise fiend. Rastan: the other video game in the new "AQ arcade" gets its due. Michael Rother x 2: two of the Harmonia guitarists sublime solo efforts at last reissued. Shevalreq: like Xynfonica, but the black metal vocals are over synth JAZZ music this time... The Skull Defekts: a limited 3" cd-r on Kning from these Swedish repetitive noise rock artists. The Sound Projector: 16th issue of this UK must-read music review fanzine. The Story: 2nd lovely Brit folk-psych album from Forest's Martin Welham and Son. Striborg: reissue of two early, amazing demos by the "Jandek of black metal". Sun City Girls: cd reissue of supposed soundtrack featuring guests Eyvind Kang and The Ruins! Taj Mahal Travellers: back in print, the 2cd August 1974 set from these seminal '70s psych improvisors. The Telescopes: a 7"+cd-r from the veteran UK spacerocking shoegazers. V/A Black Mirror: amazing compilation of tracks from old 78 rpm records from around the world. V/A Box Of Dub 2: another Soul Jazz mix of hard hitting dubstep and pure spacey dub. V/A Eccentric Soul: The Outskirts Of Deep City: more obscure '70s funk/soul gems in this superfine series. V/A Pop Ambient 2008: Kompakt wows us again with this year's installment in their blissed out series. V/A (Daft Punk) Discovered: the sample sources that make Daft Punk so great. V/A No Skull Left Unturned: 3cds, 4 booklets, and more stuff from the Man Is The b***d archives. White Hills: 2nd actual cd album from these East Coast heavy space psych rockers. Wildildlife: Crucial Blast debut from these noise-rockin' SF weirdos, heavy and even kinda poppy! Wolfskull: evil cd-r of NZ droney murk. And we've got new tapes! Inca Ore / Grouper: noise/drone split from these two lady-led projects. V/A Matter 10.2007: new tape of the month comp from black metallers Amocoma & friends. SS Hell Camp: cassette release of super obscure, super cool exploito Nazi prison torture film soundtrack. But those highlights aren't the only things on this list we'd recommend. For instance, we've got a few copies back in stock of the first album from Circle stoner side project Pharaoh Overlord... and the issue of Wax Poetics... a new Nardwuar (double) DVD... two new EM Records reissues devoted to the steel drums jazz sound (!), a collaborative set by Cloudland Canyon and Lichens on the Holy Mountain label... a swk Sigur Ros double DVD... Patagonian wind recordings by Francisco Lopez... a new Growing 7"... a new quite excellent ep by the postpunk vets Wire... and lots more! And you'll notice one of our highlights is the new album Six, from Wilildlife, featuring our very own Matt. Well, if you're local, there's a record release show / party. It's December 19th, at the Elbo Room. Wilildlife will be tearing it up (obviously) along with guests Flood and Prizehog. And as we mentioned in our review, you gotta see them live if you can! So here's where things get complicated. Folks placing mailorders, and hoping to get their orders BEFORE Christmas, will most likely at this point have to spring for expedited shipping. Post list, there's always a bit of a backlog, so even if we have everything you ordered in stock, it still might take a couple days to get it in the post. Since Monday is the 17th, a mere 8 days before Christmas, with a weekend in there too, it seems like regular shipping won't get your your package until on or right after Christmas. So if you do need it quicker than that, let us know and we will do our very best. Overseas folks, it might be too late for you, but we're of course willing to try, it might end up being a little pricey though. Just let us know and we'll do what we can. The next list falls right after Christmas, and will most likely not be an ordinary list. Assuming we can all get our sh*t together, it will feature our BEST OF 2007 lists, and if we really manage to kick ass over the holidays, maybe a handful of new stuff reviewed as well. But we're not making any promises. We'll keep you posted for sure. And just 'cuz there's no list doesn't mean there's still not plenty of goodies to order!! Thanks everyone for another fantastic year. We know it's been said before, but it definitely bears repeating... WE LOVE YOU ALL!! Without you, we're nothing. Happy holidays. Be safe. Be happy. We'll be back in two weeks, as always! See you then. --------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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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Chris H Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: October 08 2006 Location: Charlotte, NC Status: Offline Points: 8191	Posted: December 15 2007 at 16:43
	Thanks for posting these Assaf, I get the emails but anybody that doesn't should check this store out right away. I buy about 80% of my music there!
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avestin Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 18 2005 Status: Offline Points: 12625	Posted: December 28 2007 at 22:30
	Aquarius Records ______\|_______\|_________ New Arrivals #282 and __________\|_______\|_____ AQ 2007 Employee Faves! ___\|_______\|____________ 28 December 2007 Beloved Customers and Friends: Greetings all! And happy new year! The next time you hear from us via the list, it will be 2008!! Hard to believe. Thanks to everyone for another fantastic year! So much great music, so many amazing customers, we feel so lucky, and honored to be your source for music big and small, loud and quiet, soft and heavy. Here's to another super rocking, kick ass year! 2007 was pretty intense. Lots of great things, and lots of sad things too. The most notable sad things being the loss of two people close to our hearts, who were huge parts of our lives and were as much a part of aQuarius as any one we can think of. One was Lance Hahn, leader of the band J-Church, who for years was a fixture at the AQ front counter, but also repeatedly whisked Andee away to drum for his band on multiple European and Japanese tours. A great friend and one of the nicest guys ever, he passed away earlier this year. He was only 40. And another taken from us way too young, was our pal Cayce Lindner, who spent more time in the store than most people who actually work here. Many of you might know him as the leader of Flying Canyon, but we knew him as one of the sweetest, most talented, and loving persons we have ever met. You may have noticed this list is half its normal size, that's because the second half of this week's list is our AQ 2007 staff favorites!!! Check 'em out. Lots of favorites you may have missed, compare them to your top tens, some lists are actual top 10's, some are top way-too-many's, but it was a great year for music, so what can you do?! Also, soon we'll be asking you to submit your lists, to be posted on the AQ site, and of course, we'll pick a couple lists at random and give away AQ gift certificates, so start working on those lists! But even with the list only half the length, it's PACKED with amazing stuff. Including our record of the week, the second solo lp and maybe most essential releases from Caetano Veloso, recorded while he was in prison, a Tropicalia classic!! And of course so so so many highlights: HIGHLIGHTS Acrimony : One of the best stoner doom space rock records ever, reissued! A Fashionable Disease: A 7" of f**ked up metallic noise freaked out mayhem. Angel Eyes: A new super long ep from one of our favorite metallic post rock outfits. Aidan Baker / Beta Cloud: AQ fave Aidan Baker teams up with Beta CLoud for some more gorgeous ambient shimmer. Bailter Space: Awesome compilation of classic proto-shoegaze heaviness from these NZ legends. Burmese - Monkeys Tear Man To Shreds... lp: An alternate version of the sludge grind tUMULt classic. Chaos Moon: Gorgeous, epic, black metal brilliance. Circle: A new live Circle!!! What more do you need to know? Climax Golden Twins: A super limited reissue of CGT's noisy and beautiful debut. Coffins / Otesanek: Killer tag team matchup, old school black thrash doom from Japan versus ultramega doom sludge from the US! Cover Story: From Wax Poetics, a gorgeous artbook packed with some of the most amazing record jacket artwork EVER. Daisies OST: Loved Valerie And Her Week Of Wonder? YOU NEED THIS. Another classic Czech new wave film's head spinning soundtrack. Ensepulchred: Keyboard heavy black buzz, like a black metal Goblin! Es - Sateenkaarisuudelma 2cd: These Finns' amazing double lp now available as a double cd. Yair Etziony: Gorgeous murky electronic shimmer, CHain Reaction meets Pop Ambient meets Boards Of Canada. Eyes Like Saucers: Ex-Urdog dude weaves trances like drones in the desert. Stephan Kasner - Works book: A book of artwork form this legendary artist, who has probably designed at least one record in your collection. Gwigwi Mrwebi: Lost classic from this UK based South African saxophonist. Playful bouncy kwela jazz. Lilypad - Twin Holes: Two 3" cd-r's of dreamy loner synth drift. CRAZY LIMITED! Longmont Potion Castle: The greatest prank phone caller of all time returns! Minoru Sato (m/s, SASW) + Asuna: Super minimal drone music made from chord organs and resonating glass tubes. Mordraaneth: Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg member goes solo! Caveman new age!! Murmur: An amazing acoustic drone record recorded in an old fermentation tank. Reverbb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bbbbbbbbbbbb... Nuit Noire: The only purveyors of "faerical blasting punk" return with a new disc, half new tracks, half life classics. Gram Parsons: Double disc of newly unearthed live tracks. So lovely. Prurient: Two masters of noise team up for some deep gritty dronemusic. Radiohead: The new record, finally available NOT as a bunch of ones and zeros. Skull Defekts: Brand new disc of cyclical percussive mesmer. Smohalla: Latest installment in the H.P Lovecraft 3" cd-r series. SUPER LIMITED. Sunn x 2: Two classic discs of dronedirgedoom get fancy Japanese reissues, with new artwork and both with bonus discs. Tulus: The band that would become aQ faves Khold, double disc collection, first two records, demos and even a Bowie cover! V/A David Shrigley's Worried Noodles: The legendary lyrics without songs, get the songs they so deserve. V/A Gold Record Studio: A brain bending collection of limited to one records recorded off the cuff at a flea market. So bizarre and wonderful. V/A John Barleycorn Reborn: Dark Britannica: Awesome compilation of modern British folk, modern folkies channeling the spirit of classic seventies UK folk. Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams: A return to form, from the Shaolin masters! Includes one of the jams of the year! Otomo Yoshihide: The Japanese master of turntables, guitars and anything else he touches, explores guitars and the amplifiers like no one else can And a handful of other new releases, which could have been highlights themselves. So check em out! And finally, before we get to the list, our pals in the band Middian, are getting sued, in what has to be one of the lamest lawsuits ever. By another band who barely exists. Read about it at the end of the list, and if you can, donate some money to help them with their legal fees. Their band rules, they're super nice, and stuff like this should never happen. So that's it. Have a happy and safe new year. Looking forward to another year of amazing music, with all of our amazing customers. WE LOVE YOU!! --------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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 Read the rest in the link - http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html
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	((+:+:+:+:+:+ ((+:+:+:+:+:+ Aquarius Records ((+:+:+:+:+:+ New Arrivals #283 ((+:+:+:+:+:+ January 11, 2008 ((+:+:+:+:+:+ Beloved Customers and Friends: Greetings and of course, Happy New Year! This first New Arrivals list of 2008 is, we think, a good one! Starting stuff off right with not one but two Circle releases, among other things. We'll get to those goodies in a minute. First though we hope everyone had fun, safe holidays. Those of us who didn't get away like Andee, whose mother and brother came for a visit, had a nice time here. Those of us who did go someplace had a fine Yule too, with no snowstorms trapping anybody in any airports or anything. Also we'd like to take this opportunity to officially welcome to the AQ-fold our latest employee, Michael, who hails from far-off Halifax. Canadian pop heaven, Sloan, Eric's Trip, Jale, Hardship Post, he's been regaling Andee with fantastic pop tales since he got here a few weeks ago, and if you've been in the store lately you've probably made his acquaintance (he's the perky fellow with the impressive mustache). He actually drummed in the Boredoms' 77 Boadrum with Andee, which is where they met and hit it off. I came to light that Michael was heading to SF and looking for a job and well, here we are! Mailorder customers will also get to interact with Michael too as he'll be helping out Christine and Cup in that department, among other duties. He's super nice and a great addition to our staff, we think you'll agree. Oh, and it's time for us to ask you to start sending in your 2007 Top Tens. You saw our staff faves for last year on the last list we sent out at the end of December, so now we want yours. Email 'em to store@aquariusrecords with the subject header "2007 Customer Faves", ok? They don't have to be just ten but if possible try to keep your lists from being TOO epic, as when we compile them later that will be a help. In the body of the email, please put your name, and then your list of '07 favorites. We'll put them all together on our website, hopefully quicker than we managed last year (like, before summer!). And as always, we'll be randomly picking 2 lucky contributors to recieve $25 AQ gift certificates. The deadline for entries is the end of January. Thanks! Another reminder, for Bay Area locals: the still-fairly-mysterious Jandek is playing in San Francisco tomorrow, Saturday January 12th, at the Swedish American Hall. Some tickets are still available at the door (we won't have any left here tomorrow though). One of those not to be missed experiences, we reckon. And another locals only note: there's a good chance we'll be closing early on Tuesday, January 15th, for some belated inventory action... so if you're planning on dropping by after 5pm that day, maybe call first to find out if we're open. Ok, on to the new arrivals summary... Two Records Of The Week this time. First, GERONIMO! From LA, this new band deals out heavy, noisy, rhythmic post-rock, not unlike Man Is The b****d doing This Heat covers... pretty incredible, in fact you might have noticed it was at the top of Andee's Top Ten for 2007, basically his Record of the Year. Some of the rest of us might just go ahead and put it on our top ten of 2008 since we're just listing now. Meanwhile, our second Record Of The Week is the latest from an old AQ fave, the always stellar minimalist "jazz" trance-inducers, Australia's The Necks. Exceedingly lovely and mesmeric this one. Moving on to the Highlights, what have we got? A lot! 5000 Fingers Of Dr. T: the soundtrack to this Seussian classic! Acre: some amazing blissed out"floor-core". Ashes: from Supernal, damaged black metal and droning black bliss! Aidan Baker: limited and lovely drones on the latest cd from AQ staple AB. Boredoms: live in "Sun Flancisco" import DVD + bonus 2 song "breakbeat" cd! Brandstifter: cd-r documenting the sounds of turntables and plastic angels! Andrew Chalk: more drones from the master! Circle "Telescope": sprawling double live cd from these Finnish hypnorockers! Circle "Tulikoria": now on ltd. edition vinyl with bonus 7"! Coconut: triple cd-r from this local DIY arty outfit, like Deerhoof meets Gastr Del Sol! Roger Doyle: brilliant experimental rumble from this untrendy composer. Drudkh: awesome foresty blackness from these Ukrainian metallers. Eldrig: shoegazing one-man black metal buzz from Portland. Ferrante and Teicher: cd reissue of two LPs of unique experimental exotica. Richard Francis: latest disc of gorgeous ultra minimalism from this drone sculptor / sound artist. Carlos Giffoni & Lasse Marhaug: a wickedly caustic and surprisingly listenable noise match up. Mathias Gottsche: More remarkable field recordings of bats on a super limited cd-r. Hoor-Paar-Kraat: another awesome chunk of abstract ambience, deep drones, and washed out noise rock from these aQ faves. Horna: a concept record about the black plague from these grim Finns, who have altered their sound to be ultra slow and drone-y. KTL: vinyl-only "Live in Krems" record from this black ambient SUNNO))) meets Mego supergroup! Lindstrom: 30 minute space disco ep feat. EYE (Boredoms) remix! Machinefabriek / Leo Fabriek: Two times the Fabriek, piano, guitar and banjo transformed into dreamy drones. Magik Markers: limited vinyl version of their Latitudes release. Dawn McCarthy And Bonny Prince Billy: Gorgeous demos from this dreamy duo. Nuit Noire / His Electro Blue Voice: faerical blasting punk from France versus Italian dark noisy new wave. Fricara Pacchu: 7" + 42pg. art booklet from Finnish freak making woozy trancey psych! Psychedelic Horsesht: with a name like that, you can't go wrong. Robedoor: more dark and droning crouched-on-the-floor-core from this pair of sonic warlocks. sht & Shine: super limited 7" from these nutty UK noisniks. Steven R. Smith: solo album from SRS (Thuja, Hala Strana) with singing! Snivelling shts: reissue of this little known but amazing snarky punk piss take. Starving Weirdos: a new, super limited cd from these Humboldt dronelords, darker, creepier and even more cinematic. Striborg: reissue of AQ fave Tasmanian rainforest black metaller's 2004 Spiritual Catharsis opus. Stroszek: melancholic acousticky post-metal brooding like a mix of Woven Hand and Katatonia. Times New Viking: ultra chaotic jangle pogo punk noise rock chaos on Siltbreeze. Tractor Pulling: another Circle-related release, a very metal 7" on the Ektro label. V/A Qbico V Unite: 11.5.2006, Dynamo Klubi: Circle side project Rakhim as well as fell forest folk Finns Lau Nau and Kuupuu, recorded live! Yoshi Wada: the latest reissue from EM, an overtone vocal drone classic from '82! Wormsblood: cd-r of confusional lo-fi wft? blackened metal. Wrathful Plague: an unblack hypno drone metal cd-r from E.E.E. Zeni Geva: essential reissue of Japanese doomy, dirgey, Swansy progcore classic from '90 w/ bonus trks! And of course, more. State of the art metal from Baroness. A handful of live cds from Japanese psych legends Les Rallizes Denudes. An Acid Mother Temple Alert by way of Croatia (Seven That Spells + Makoto Kawabata). A new issue of The Wire. Sw**k silvery vinyl version of the new Electric Wizard album (fyi, cd sold out, being repressed!). A Tussle remixes ep. And plenty more, read on... But before we get to the list, check out the latest episode on XLR8R TV,it's all about our pal John, and his amazing BUS / mobile showspace you've been hearing about. There's some footage from the Circle show, and lots from John who is such an amazing guy. Here's where you can watch it: http://www.xlr8r.com/tv/41 And if you want the embedding code to put it on Myspace pages or anything, all that info is here: http://revision3.com/xlr8rtv/thebus Spread the word. John's trying to raise money to repair the constantly vandalized bus, since he does all of the 120+ shows for free, out of the goodenss of his heart, and every little bit helps, and plus, that way, when your band, or your favorite band comes to the Bay Area, maybe you'll get to see them on the bus!!! OK. 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/cat/newest.html -- to read the New Arrivals list online where you can SEE COVER ART and HEAR SOUNDCLIPS we prepared for you. 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 The rest is at http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html
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	0====0 0============0 0====================0 0==== Aquarius Records ====0 0======== New Arrivals #284 ========0 0==== January 25 2008 ====0 0====================0 0============0 0====0 Beloved Customers and Friends: Rainy days here in San Francisco, which lend themselves to staying indoors and listening to MUSIC! Handy that since we had a list to do this week and there was lots of stuff to listen to, good stuff as usual. More on all that in a sec. We'll try to keep this intro brief anyway, as we're running a bit late tonight. Which is too bad, 'cause we're missing our coworker Matt's band Wildildlife playing at Gilman, also Cameron's band Hours Of Worship opening for the Gui Boratto show someplace in the city. Heck but it's raining anyway and we probably wouldn't have gone out. We being Andee and Allan who are trying to get this list finished up and sent out before 3am, if possible... It's gonna be close... A word to mailorder customers, some sad news for you all. Your beloved Christine, she of the AQ mailorder dept. whom you've been sending your emails to and fro, is moving on to another job. She's sad too, she'll miss you all, but career decisions must be made. Sadly AQ isn't in a position to pay quite as much as some larger, more corporate businesses... Thus she couldn't pass up the opportunity to take an interesting job at Apple, where we wish her the best of luck. Of course, many of you are acquainted with the other members of our mailorder staff who've been handling orders and emails too, namely Cup and Michael, and we're sure they'll be fine replacements for dear Christine in your lives. And if any of Christine's peeps were in the midst of personal correspondence with her and don't want to lose touch, here's an email where you can reach her to say ciao or whatever: [email protected]. And a word to locals (and those within driving distance, or who might be visiting): we've got an instore performance coming up from AQ fave James Blackshaw! He of the wonderful Fahey-esque new weird folk guitar playin'. Definitely one of the best, and one of our favorites. Tuesday, February 5th, 6pm. We'll send out a reminder closer to the date of course. All right, now to this list's music.... starting with three, count 'em three, Records Of The Week this week! One's sort of a Box Set Of The Week, or Book and Two CDs of the Week: the Victrola Favorites compilation on Dust-To-Digital, an incredible collection of old time 78 cuts from around that world, something that's sonically -and- visually gorgeous and fascinating. Writing a review almost seemed superfluous since WE all knew we wanted it just from laying eyes on the thing. Highly recommended. Then there's the limited edition Root Strata cd reissue of the previously vinyl only and out of print The Anchorite album by AQ fave Steven R. Smith (Thuja, Hala Strana, etc.). A dreamy dark soundworld made from instruments ethnic and invented. And also we've picked the latest from the Magnetic Fields as our third Record Of The Week. Distortion has been spinning non-stop in the store since it showed up. Another pop winner from Stephen Merrit! With three Records Of The Week, we're not stinting on the Highlights either. Here's the alphabetical rundown (psst Buddha Machine fans, don't miss the Tristan Perich item): Aan: PsuedoArcana cd-r from Finnish Uton-offshoot Aan, in the Taj Mahal Travellers tradition. Amber Asylum: haunting string-laden chamber music from SF's finest, on Paradigms. Amort: slow seeping miserablist doom merchant's latest cassette. Angelblood: female pagan metal no wave weirdness from, who else, Angelblood featuring folks from the mighty NNCK cult. Bad Statistics: from NZ, a mysterious LP only slab of extended dronerock doom improv. Aidan Baker: 3" cd-r of solo guitar from the prolific Canadian drone artiste. Cat Power: her second album of covers, with bonus disc. Core Of The Coalman: limited hand painted cassette release of corrosive drones. Aaron Dilloway: the ex-Wolf Eyes guy's new LP of grimey dirge via horns, metal, tape loops... Earth / Tribes Of Neurot: limited split 7", intended for attendees of these bands' New Years Eve show. Eldrig: f'ing epic black metal from Portland, record number two. The Habibiyya: cd reissue of this 1971 Eastern-influenced Sufi psych masterpiece. Jean-Luc Herelle: Jurassic Soundscapes. YES, field recordings of DINOSAURS!! Daniel Higgs: cd reish of previously cassette only steel string raw raga genius from this shamanic AQ fave. Kim Hiorthoy: new disc of idiosyncratic electronica from this distinctive Norwegian artist/designer. Giuseppe Ielasi: the Italian guitarists' latest lovely lowercase experiment in abstract dronological beauty. Ignatz: a super limited tape from these mysterious space folk drone devils. Illusion Of Safety: new record from this experimental legend. Takehisa Kosugi: Solo record from this legendary Taj Mahal Traveller. Gregg Kowalsky: SF electronic composer / musician reworks one of his pieces for live ensemble! featuring Fred Frith. gorgeous shimmering dronemusic. Little Skull: Collection of rare 7" tracks from this elusive NZ musician/artist. Luie Luie: bizarre one man band brilliance. Machinefabriek / Black To Comm: killer ambient drone matchup. Make A Change Kill Yourself: super deluxe, super limited 2LP version of this depressive black metal classic. Maninkari: double disc of chamber improv dark drone rhythmics from this French duo. Robert Martin: a haunting mysterious album of fractured outsider folk, lp only. Paul Metzger: extended ragadelic avant-banjo solos! Nagelfar: an old fave, the final album from the black metallers who spawned Ruins of Beverast. Necrofrost: numbered and limited vinyl edition of this damaged black metal gem. New York Noise book: awesome coffee table book from Soul Jazz documenting in photographs the same downtown NYC '70s/'80s scene they've been anthologizing on cd and lp... Danny O'Really: Weirdo outsider experimental guitar drones. Part Timer: Second record of gorgeous glistening glitch pop. Tristan Perich: in a jewel case, but NOT a cd, a self-contained hour of electronic music on a chip w/ battery and output jack. SO COOL!! The new Buddha Machine!!! The ultimate music geek gift! Plastic Crimewave Sound: formerly vinyl only, now on cd, a drugged out slab of amazing spacerock. The Reveries: Live record from past AQ record of the week honorees, another disc of lugubrious speaker-in-mouths slowmotion blues. Saviours: second album of raging metal from this guitar heavy San Francisco Sin Ropas: Dark country from these Red Red Meat and Califone folks. Sound Of Feeling: welcome cd reissue of influential avant jazz-pop vocal group's out there '60s output. Spektr: new ep from these French black metal weirdos, their best yet maybe! The Stargazers Assistant: blissed out ambient folk drone from this Guapo sideproject. Striborg: a DVD (!) from this rainforest dwelling outsider black metal genius. Take Up Serpents: limited hand painted cassette of ghettotechnoisewave... Times New Viking: their NEW album, more of the noisiest 'noise pop' ever. Troum: insanely limited, amazingly packaged double LP of dreamy drone from these faves! V/A How Low Can You Go: 'bout time we listed this old tymey string bass triple disc box set! V/A Wayfaring Strangers - Guitar Soli: awesome comp of obscure acoustic guitarists, wonderful stuff! V/A Ethiopiques 22: More Vintage Ethiopian classics from Alemayehu Eshete. Winters In Osaka: cd-r of rhythmic noise jams a long the same lines as recent aQ faves like Aluk Todolo and Geronimo. Xasthur: deluxe reissue of a black metal classic + bonus disc of demo tracks! Yellow Swans: cd-r reish of drifty droniness formerly on cassette. Yellow Swans & Burning Star Core: limited LP only collaboration of noisy psych sprawl. Zeni Geva: another old essential from these Japanese masters of heaviosity! And tons more. A new issue of '60s garage/psych/acidfolk/punk must- read magazine Ugly Things!!! A new issue of The Wire. Another Troum (a cd-r). Some cool reissues of heavy psych (The Human Beast), kraut- jazz (Wolfgang Dauner), and, on vinyl, homosexual psych-country (Peter Grudzien). The textural glitch rock of Angela Valid. A new Ulver. Live Japanese psych from Suishou No Fune. Robin Hitchcock reissues. A trove of Conspiracy label vinyl. And more more more... Before we get to the list, special thanks and lots of love to aQ pal Brett, who befriended Andee and Allan, and offered access to his awesome and kick ass home arcade. Many hours were spent playing tons of old favorites, Food Fight, Journey, Discs Of Tron, Star Wars, Robotron, Gorf, Quantum, Mad Planets, Q-Bert, Kick, Popeye and tons of pinball too!! We're really hooked now. And if anyone out there is interested in helping Andee open an arcade/bar definitely get in touch... Okay, enough. There's much music to dig, so dig we shall... --------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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 #285 [] <> <> 08 February 2008 [] <> <> [] <> <> [] <> <> Beloved Customers and Friends: Welcome to another AQ-list! Good stuff we hope you'll find as always. Three records of the week, a zillion highlights, and the remainder is pretty cool too. Meant to mention this last week: in case you've been wondering, no we didn't open up another shop over on Castro Street. Why would you think this? Well 'cause right now Gus Van Zandt is shooting a biopic about Harvey Milk (the tragically assassinated San Francisco supervisor / gay rights hero, not the band), starring Sean Penn. And back in the '70s, Aquarius was once located right next door to Harvey Milk's camera shop on Castro Street. So the movie folks have recreated the '70s Castro street scene, including creating a sorta "psychedelic" looking imaginary mock up of the Aquarius storefront in its old spot. Look for it in the film when it comes out, eventually. They even called us to see if we had an old sign they could use, we didn't, so they made their own. Reminds us that one of these days, we'd like to put together a page on our website getting in depth into Aquarius' lengthy history. Even some of us who have been here for over a decade have a lot to learn! Thanks to everyone who sent in their 2007 Top Tens before our Feb. 1st deadline. We'll be compiling them to put 'em up on our website soon (as quick as we can, seriously). And also randomly selecting our two gift certificate winners... but it's getting late now so we'll do it next week, ok? And also all you mailorder folks, thanks for bearing with us the last two weeks while we transitioned to a new mailorder team here at AQ. We're still playing catch up just a little bit but things ARE improving... we really appreciate everyone's patience, and your understanding of the fact that 'cause of the, ah, unique way we do things here at AQ (like, writing all these crazy reviews) we sometimes get a bit behind in some other areas. We know you wouldn't want us to put off doing a list just to answer your emails, or vice versa, so we try to do it all, but as you may or may not know, we are a pretty small operation. Getting bigger and better all the time though we hope, and we couldn't do it without you! Locals, we're having another instore performance this Sunday. SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! Please come down and check it out: two short sets beginning at 4pm Sunday February 10th by Jozef Van Wissem -- avantgarde classical lute (yes, lute!) improviser from Holland. Tetuzi Akiyama -- onkyo acoustic guitar experimentalist from Japan. anyone into the "wooden guitar" type of thing should dig this, we're pretty excited. Also thanks to everybody who showed up for the very well-attended and totally amazing instore performance that British 12-string guitar picker James Blackshaw graced us with this past Tuesday. We took some pictures and video, perhaps we'll get it up on our website one of these days... And thanks to AQ pal Kurt Wolff, who wrote up the instore, and said some awful sweet things about aQ. Check it out: http://music.download.com/8301-5_32-9866141-13.html Also, we're happy to be co-presenting the Huun Huur Tu show on February 26th at the Great American Music Hall. Huun Huur Tu are one of the most important groups from Tuva, and masters of throat singing, their music is haunting and mysterious, gorgeous and totally unique. We saw them the last time they were here and it was one of the best shows we had EVER seen. We're giving away two pairs of tickets, so if you want a chance at those tix, send an email to [email protected] with: HUUN HUUR TU TIX in the subject line, will pick out two names at random, each person will get a pair of tickets! Be sure to include your full name, email and phone number. As we said, three (3) Records Of The Week. One from a prevous ROTW honoree, Nada Surf. Awesome pop music, maybe the pop record of the year so far. Also, weirdo popster (and part of the Paw Tracks family) John Maus steps out with his amazing solo disc, another contender for pop record of the year, but WAY weirder. And thirdly, at long last a proper reissue of the hard-to-find debut Deadboy And The Elephantmen album, now credited to band leader Dax Riggs. And the zillion Highlights: Acid Mothers Temple x 2: a heavy duty new disc from the Japanese psychedelic templars -and- an expanded cd reissue of an old vinyl classic! Amesoeurs / Valfunde: Killer barely metal split from big time aQ faves and their weirder alter ego. Featuring folks from Alcest and Peste Noire! Angelic Process lp: finally on vinyl, long time AQ metallic bliss out dream doom fave from this now defunct doomic duo. Arcade Ambiance: a reconstructed "field recording" of a video arcade, circa 1981! Astral Social Club: number 15 in a series of glorious blown out spacey drone music from Neil Campbell's (ex-Vibracathedral Orchestra) new outfit. Aidan Baker: another super limited disc of understated beauty. Ben Baruch: first time on cd for these gorgeous religious tunes from this European Cantor, cinematic and dramatic, with plenty of that 78 record crackle we love. Birchville Cat Motel: a new single song epic, on the dreamy drone-y side. Super lovely. On Lasse Marhaug's Pica Disk label. Black Vomit / Rape Rack: cd-r split of True Sheffield Black Psychedelia! Bonny Prince Billy: a new live record, expensive import, but worth it! Brown Jenkins: some of the weirdest, murkiest, wooziest, droniest one man black metal you'll ever hear. From Texas! Gavin Bryars / Philip Jeck / Alter Ego: Bryars' classic piece gets reimagined with help from Jeck and his arsenal of crackling vinyl. Burmese / Cadaver Eyes: Local grindlords do battle with Israeli noise commandos. Everyone will be destroyed. Burning Witch: long out of print doom classics compiled and reissued, pre-Sunn 0))), pre-Khanate. Essential heaviness. Chessie: First record in seven years from this electronica shoegaze indie glitch duo. Daft Punk: Live record. If you weren't there, you'll at least know what it sounded like. Dead Raven Choir: doomic dirgey blackened covers of songs by Neko Case, Townes Van Zandt, Cole Porter, and more! Dengue Fever: killer Southeast Asian psych pop from these American indie rockers with Cambodian pop princess Chhom Nimol on vocals. Captivating! Earth pic disc: the last Earth record on fancy and of course super limited picture disc! Serge Gainsbourg: psychedelic Serge! essential. Mark Gergis + Alan Bishop - Sumatran Folk Cinema dvd: A whirlwind musical and visual tour from the Sublime Frequencies folks. Gist: dreamy indie pop from Young Marble Giants Glass Candy: amazing electronic pop, sassy, sultry, dark and cosmic. Gluttony: Black metal guitar synth madness, the JAZZ disc. WTF indeed!! Gnaw Their Tongues: brutal, industrial psychedelic, operatic, ambient black noise. So totally wacked and utterly amazing. Gown: Gwon is joined by Sunburned Hand Of The Man for a good old fashioned psych noise folk jam. Grey Daturas: lp only two song ep of blissy psychedelic drones from these Aussie noisemakers. Their loveliest yet. Guapo lp: classic modern UK prog, on vinyl for the first time, super deluxe import! Half Makeshift: doomic atmospheres of piano, glitch and drone, gorgeous! Hello Blue Roses: Destroyer side project, strange sweet soft rock. Hijokaidan: for Japanese noise fanatics, a live disc from one of your faves! Iron Lung: Modern power violence from this Northwestern guitar and drums duo. Jeremy Jay: brand new 7" from our favorite dour popster. Machinefabriek lp: a classic long time aQ fave on super deluxe vinyl. Gerard Manset: French psychedelic pop gem. Long overdue reissue. Hisham Mayet - Musical Brotherhoods From The Trans-Saharan Highway dvd: Mucca Pazza: bad ass, super fun marching band madness. Nadja x 2: one old classic on vinyl for the first time, and an out of print cd-r, reissued on cd from this bliss-doom duo. Orcrilim: multitracked black metallish minimalism from insane guitarist Mick Barr! Ozmadawn: modern krautdrone psychedelia, heavy and space-y and so awesome. Paavoharju lp: classic Finnish loveliness finally on vinyl. Peste Noire: double cassette box set, collecting all the old demos from these French black metal freeks. Primordial: epic Irish black metal brilliance, melodic and majestic! sht And Shine: A sprawling double lp from this multiple drummered, multipled bass-ed UK combo, weirder and more bizarrely varied than ever. Sightings: a much more polished and rhythm based offering from these avant noisemakers. Sound Dimension: collection of classics from Studi One's house band. Mitsuru Tabata: psychedelic solo set from Zeni Geva/Acid Mothers Temple guitarist! Torch Of War: Total and utter Trnsylvanian Hunger worship. Bjorn Torske: playful and smart electronic music from Norway. Tzesne: More dark and mysterious undersea drones from Mystery Sea. V/A Achtung: more surprisingly swinging grooves from '60s and '70s Germany! V/A Disco Not Disco 3: volume three in this series of killer left field disco and post punk dance music. V/A Nigeria Special: massive collection of modern highlife and African blues. V/A Rare Youth: killer bargain priced 2cd collection of Rhode Island noise rock, compiled by Geoff Mullen. Yamataka Eye: import disc of remixes by the Boredoms leader! And of course much more stuff on this list is cool too. In particular, check out the DVD section, 'cause in addtion to the two Sublime Freqencies films in the highlights, there's a couple other rad DVD releases this week. One's a brilliantly f*ked and funny fake drum instructional video from Fred Armisen. The other is a DVD+3"cd release from our heavy instrumental post rock pals Pelican, the 3" portion including their previously vinyl-only Pink Mammoth tracks! And then there's a new Kelly Stoltz, a new one from Dead Meadow, new Mars Volta, Witchcraft's The Alchemist finally on vinyl, a new Xiu Xiu, two Michael Rother reissues and more more more more!!! As always, it's getting really late, so we're gonna wrap this up. Thanks as always to everyone! Happy Valentines Day! 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/cat/newest.html -- to read the New Arrivals list online where you can SEE COVER ART and HEAR SOUNDCLIPS we prepared for you. 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 #286 =-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-= 22 February 2008 _-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_ Beloved Customers and Friends: Hola! It's been a bustlin' two weeks here at AQ since our last list. Lots of good music hitting the store, even today some big deliveries left us scrambling (with some success) to get even more new stuff reviewed for today's list. And we've got a fresh new employee helping us out. Say hi to Frank! Please don't get him confused with other relatively recent hire, Michael, 'cause they both sport handsome mustaches. What's less fun is that we suffered through a day or two of minor computer headaches that backed our mailorder processing up a bit (sorry), but we've caught up with that. Darn PCs. Making things much more cheerful was the latest in our recent string of cool instore performances. Last week we hosted the wonderfully poppy Oneone, featuring members of Deerhoof, Tenniscoats, and Coconut. Thanks to everyone who attended, it was a good crowd. Upcoming on the instore tip, Jeremy Jay (March 8th) and Nadja (March 22nd). We'll send out email reminders about those. And there are some future instores percolating that will blow minds. And in one case ear drums too probably. We don't want to say too much until things are more solid, but we can say that this is probably just the First Utterance you'll hear from us about one of them. And for the other, we of course hope attendees will shower the performers with Courtesy And Good Will. Ahem. Anyway, back to business. Thanks to Colin Chang for filming the awesome James Blackshaw instore. Have a peep here: Part 1 - http://ctc23.blip.tv/file/678252/ Part 2 - http://ctc23.blip.tv/file/678470/ Part 3 - http://ctc23.blip.tv/file/678502/ Part 4 - http://ctc23.blip.tv/file/678539/ Ok, let's talk Records Of The Week. There's two this time 'round. Cave: Killer spaced out, sweat soaked, dual drummered, kraut flecked, blown out basement hypnojams from this Warhammer 48K sideproject. An lp that comes with a companion cd with the whole record digitized for your iPodding convenience. The Goslings: Latest from these modern noise rock shoe gaze deconstructionists. As beautiful as it is brutal. And as usual, we've got another huge "Highlights" list. Lots of good stuff -- heck there's new records from Earth, Boris (a 7"), Fennesz (also a 7"), Thuja, Mountain Goats, and... Zarach'Baal'Tharagh!!! Among others. Hopefully this quick rundown of the more crucial list entries, with one-sentence descriptors, is helpful to you all, though of course reading the ENTIRE AQ-list, every word of all our reviews, eveything, is mandatory. You never know what you might miss! Plus you'll find some cool stuff in the non-highlighted section as well. So here are the highlights: AFCGT: The A Frames team up with the Climax Golden Twins, for some twisted noisy brilliance. Agitated Radio Pilot / The Nether Dawn: dreamy split cd-r by likeminded folks from NZ and Ireland. Ajilvsga: utterly limited cassette of drilling drone doom from Digitalis' Brad Rose. Angel: evocative desert dronescapes from Pan Sonic side project. Atlas Sound: indie pop meets analog soundscapery in this solo project from Deerhunter dude. B.Son: glacial rockin' from these German doomlords. Bachdenkel: reissue of darkly melodic 1970 psychprog cult classic. Bass Communion: cd + audio dvd of BASS drone nirvana, ultra limited. Belong: super limited all psych-pop covers 12" record by these lovely dronesters. Bixobal: 2nd issue of this very AQ-ish music zine with Sun City Girls/ Climax Golden Twins connections. Black Cobra: 2nd bestial onslaught from this now SF-based pummelling riff rock duo. Blue Sabbath / Black Cheer & Anakrid: limited tag team 12" from fellow caveman droners. Boris: kickass new (and limited, natch) 7" from everybody's favorite Japanese doompsych sensations. Brethren Of The Free Spirit: spiritual avantfolk bonding betwixt James Blackshaw (12 string gtr) and Jozef Van Wissem (lute). Brothers Of The Occult Sisterhood: cd-r of otherworldly free folk from Aussie bro/sis duo. Andrew Chalk & Daisuke Suzuki: Gorgeous collaboration from two master dronecrafters. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words: Another disc of deep dark mysterious drones from Mystery Sea. Earth: Brand new album of slow, low country dirges. The Elemental Chrysalis: Sprawling double disc of gorgeous forest folk from Fennesz: gorgeous guitar-based electronica from the master, on a Touch label 7". Forgotten Woods lp x 2: finally vinyl of these albums from these unusual black metallers triple cd collection. Richard Formby: Blissy krauty pop on this first proper release from this legendary producer. Ghost To Falco: Emotive dramatic dreaminess from this Northwestern combo. Gnaw Their Tongues: Ultra limited, second pressing just for AQ, of one of our new favorite band's latest salvo. Furious and filthy, doomy and destructive. Gris: One of our favorite new black metal discs. Epic classical tinged depressive blackened buzz. Growing: More divine spaced out free rock from these East Coast sonic explorers. Guapo: eleganty eerie prog/post rock bombast from AQ fave UK duo. Icon: '80s AOR-ish metal that Andee will fight you about. Inquisition: limited picture disc vinyl that's both nefarious and dismal. Terje Isungset: more music made entirely with cold, cold ice - and no it's not black metal. The Lumerians: 12" of local SF psych throb to give Wooden Shjips some competition. Mamaleek: Freaked out blissy, grindy metallic weirdness from right here in SF. Marblebog: A disc of gorgeous drifting krautrock ambience from these Hungarian heavies. Miles Devens: Basically a new Ignatz record under a different name. Whoo yeah! Monade: Stereolab side project returns. Monopoly Child Star Searchers: Spencer from the Skaters solo side project. Murky and mysterious and maybe the best thing he or they have done! Mountain Goats: New record from this perennial favorite. Smart and intense, catchy and smart. Nemeth: Dude from Radian gets all cinematic. Radar Brothers: Gorgeous Pink Floydian pop from these long time aQ faves. Siddhi: Sicilian space guitarist from kosmic voyagers Comet III voyages on his own cd-r release. Sloth: a full-length from these sample happy heavies. Sote: ltd. ed. wicked Warp-style electronica 12" with Middle Eastern influences. Soul Merchants: Archival recordings from these Denver psychedelic goths. Doomy and dramatic. Stephen O'Malley & Attila Csihar: Disc of creepy liturgical ambience from these two legends. From a Banks Violette art installation. Sunken: Dueling organs and then some, long warbly whirring dreamy dronescapes. Preston Swirnoff: Irwin's brother gives us some serious 21th century avant garde and experimental tape works. Tad: entertaining dvd documentary all about one of our Seattle grunge faves. Tenhornedbeast / Marzuraan: Math up of these two UK outfits, one dark and drone-y, the other blissy and metallic. Thuja: New full length vinyl only release collecting various live performances. Sublime. Uno Actu: Total freaked out acoustic black rituals from these genius Canadian weirdos. V/A Carolina Funk: this vintage funk comp is a crate diggers delight. V/A Dr. Boogie Presents: swell collection of boogie toons from rare old 78s. Death Ray Boogie! V/A Garden Of Forking Paths: Amazing comp of avant acoustic string work, featuring a bunch of aQ faves. V/A Tropicalia: Legendary comp available again! Veee Deee: Double 3"cd-r of freaked out psych from this guitar / drums duo. Wrnlrd: Some of the thickest, heaviest, buzziest, noise drenched blackness, the USBM world has so far offered. Xela: Ultra limited tape of gorgeous ambient doom creep. Zarach'Baal'Tharagh: The French master of bedroom black metal. f**ked up and damaged and dementedly brilliant. Also you'll find a new issue of The Wire, some extreme jazz improv from Rune Grammofon (Box) and PSF (Hideki Kondo), another Steve Reid/ Kieran Hebden jazz/electronica fusion, Japanese indie pop by way of Hapna from the Tenniscoats, all kinds of cool cassettes and now-on- vinyl items and more... What else should we be mentioning before letting you have at this week's reviews? Oh yeah, don't forget about the show by Tuvan throat singing group Huun Huur Tu that we're co-presenting this Tuesday, February 26th at the Great American Music Hall. We had two pairs of tickets to give away, the winners were Spencer Owen and Leslie Kleinberg. Congratulations! But just because you didn't win free tickets is no excuse to miss the show. It's bound to be amazing. Last time they were here, we were completely mesmerized by the power and beauty of their music. More info can be found at the end of the list. And speaking of winners, mailorder customers Kraig Keller and Denman Anderson were the two lucky recepients of $25 AQ gift certificates, randomly selected from the pool of peeps who sent in their 2007 Top Ten lists before our deadline last month. Thanks again to everybody who shared their lists (often with more than ten items, and often with interesting and/or entertaining commentary). You're all tops with us. You can view the collected 2007 Customer Top tens here: http://www.aquariusrecords.org/2007customerfaves.html. Check it out. Finally, if you're looking for something to read on the web, check out this link: http://www.lovemuzzle.org/#connors A pretty fun and fascinating interview with the members of Hammers Of Misfortune, and a bit with Andee discussing music and metal and other random stuff. And that's it. It's 3:00 am and we gotta get to bed. So enjoy the list. Thanks as always for reading all this stuff and buying your records at AQ. Don't know what we would do without you. Come visit us in person, buy some records, play some video games, order some records via the website, send us some emails, recommend some cool music, just come visit and hang out, otherwise you'll hear from us in a couple weeks with another killer list bursting at the seams with weird and wonderful sounds. We leave you know so you may dig in! While we head to bed. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........ --------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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 #287 .'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. March 07, 2008 '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.' Beloved Customers and Friends: Welcome once again to the latest installment in the continuing saga known as the Aquarius Records New Arrivals list. Our last list, a fortnight ago, got a tremendous response and we're hoping that you'll be just as excited with this one, there's definitely some treats on it. Before getting to the reviews, though, some other items. First off, if you're local, a reminder that we've got an instore performance Saturday at 1pm by K Records recording artist and young pop hearthrob Jeremy Jay. A bunch of you are probably at his show tonight (a bunch of AQ staffers are there right now, with just a skeleton crew here finishing up the list, namely Andee and Allan) but we're all looking forward to seeing him here at the store tomorrow. And speaking of instores, we'll also be hosting Nadja in a few weeks, March 22nd to be precise. With more excitement upcoming, as we hinted last time. It's been a busy couple weeks here as usual. Things are going good. Lots of cool new music kicking our asses. We're saddened however, by the loss of two cultural heroes: William F. Buckley Jr. and E. Gary Gygax, R.I.P. Neither of them have anything to do with music, but still a big deal. Well for Allan especially. He'd even recently started playing D&D again... Also, fans of noisemakers the Starving Weirdos should check out this interview with the band on Aq pal ROger's killer website: http://www.musiquemachine.com/articles/articles_template.php?id=126 Next week, Allan's off to SXSW in Austin, pretending he's on a business trip. Perhaps he'll see some shows or something to report on, next list. He hears there's this cool band called Wildildlife playing... The rest of us will be here minding the store and gathering up goodies for the next list. Ok, now down to business: The Record Of The Week. It's the long- awaited, third solo album from Scott Tuma, formerly of Souled American. And the man responsible for two of our favorite records of the last 5 or 6 years. This one is another fantastic disc of introspective abstract countrifed folk, but tweaked and twisted, washed out and weary, drone-y and delightful, a sound that is so completely his and his alone! Then, the usual avalanche of Highlights. Let's see: John Luther Adams: Another gorgeous chunk of modern composition from this Alaskan composer. Alter Ego: Fuzzy playful slightly fked electronic synth jams for fans of Justice and Basement Jaxx and other dancefloor madness. Arcade Ambiance: Cd-r of video arcade soundz circa '83: Burgertime, Dig Dug, Elevator Action, Galaga, Joust... Avsolutized: Insane Japanese black metal, buzzing and blasting with awesomely over the top operatic vocals. Bad Acid: Mind blowing collection of metal / stoner rock / prog, in the form of a 70 minute dvd, an 11 hour mp3 cd and a big ol' magazine! Beach House: More dreamy bliss from these aQ faves. Behmothaur: Second release from these Kiwi blacknoise ritualists. Limited and in super swk packaging. Sir Richard Bishop: An eye popping film from this Sun City Girl, with bonus cd of a formerly lp only disc long out of print! Boscoe: Another killer jazz funk reissue! Don Cherry: Awesome record from this jazz legend, another record that is not just jazz, but some modern world music. Gorgeous and mind blowing. Cindytalk x 2: These legendary gothic dark pop masterpieces available again for the first time in ages. Danava: Heavy and groovy and fuzzy and so kick ass! Long awaited new album. Roberta Flack: An old soul fave (Ms. Flack's debut) we want to give its due! Gargotheron: Damaged drone-y primitive raw black metal from ARIZONA!!! Killer packaging. GazHeart: ltd. Locust vinyl from David Nuss (NNCK) and artist Rita Ackerman (Angelblood). Graveyard: Swedish psych doom stoner Half Makeshift: One of our favorite abstract drone-crawl outfits offers up another disc of roiling black throb and shimmering minimal heaviness. Clutchy Hopkins: Killer instrumental funk jazz, perhaps the work of some mysterious cave dwelling crate digger??? Horseflesh: Incredibly dense and expansive buzzing synthscapes from this local outfit. I Shalt Become: Legendary USBM available on cd for the first time. Blissed out dour miserablism, doomy and dark and so beautiful. Imahori Tsuneo Yoshida Tatsuya: 2nd album of hyperprog genius from post-Ruins duo. Indian Jewelry: Old record from this current fave from back when they were sax flecked no-wave. Weird and wonderful. Groovy, funky but still noisy and heavy. Irr. App. (Ext.) / Panicsville: Killer split, one side from Nurse WIth Wound cohort Irr. App. (Ext.), the other werido noise makers Panicsville. A surprisingly good match. Jabladav x 2: One single drunken disc and one double cd-r new album, from Weakling obsessed black metal weirdo. Klimek: latest Kompakt blissout from our favorite Pop Ambient artist, in tribute to their favorites... Li Jianhong: ltd. aRCHIVE release of heavy Chinese psych-drone guitar, Feedbacker style. LSD-Pond: ltd. aRCHIVE release teaming LSD-march with Bardo Pond! Messiah Complex: Two disc sprawl of slow building electronic noise- drone, minimal with bits of explosive fury. Mystified: Another gorgeous disc of ultra minimal rumble and whir. Nargaroth: a weirdly introspective and Vietnam-obsessed DVD from this one-man black metal act. Natural Snow Buildings: You're heard ABOUT them, now's your chance to actually hear them. Gorgeous. Nekrasov: Australian black metal misanthropy with plenty of noise and drone tangled up in the buzz and blast. Njiqahdda: New album of blissed out krautrock flecked UN-black metal buzz. Ondo: Swedish dark ambient, electronic metallic meditations. Procer Veneficus: Santa Cruz based black metaller, reinterprets classical favorites and transforms them into gorgeous minimal dreamlike drones. Raveonettes: bubblegum + distortion = best yet from these occasional AQ pop faves. Renderizors: NZ downer drone indie psych by the Sandoz Lab Techs + The Renderers! Dax Riggs: Newest solo album from ex-Acid Bath / Deadboy And The Elephantmen singer. Seefeel: BACK IN STOCK! the deluxe reissue of Quique, a previous Record of the Week. Shocking Pinks: DFA + Flying Nun? Somnam: Goblinesque soundscapes from new Paradigms signing. Steel An' Skin: EM Records 3rd steel drum reissue, '70s UK reggae/dub/ disco + DVD! Sun City Girls: singles collection vol. 1, from the Torch Of The Mystics sessions! Nicholas Szczepanik x 2: aQ customer makes us proud with two discs of gorgeous sound manipulations and field recordings. tH.: Limited 3" cd-r of noisy buzz and brzzt! Tropes: Super dreamy disc from German soundscapers, on Paradigms. Twinsistermoon: Limited cd release of organic folky drone songsmithery. Ulaan Khol: first in a trilogy of heavy-drone-bliss outings by AQ fave Steven R. Smith. V/A Bippp: killer comp of French new wave synth action '77 - '85 + an Ed Banger bonus... V/A Messthetics #104: late '70s DIY arty post punk outta Wales, many a gem on here. V/A Obsession: excellent international psych/prog rarities collection. V/A Pop Made In France: '70s Gallic groove and psych pop comp. Valet: 2nd Kranky disc of synth psych pop drone from Portland noise- lady. Caetano Veloso: 1971 Tropicalia-in-exile album from the legendary Veloso reissued. Scott Walker 1,2,3 and 4: YES! Vinyl editions of these classics! Peter Wright: ltd. aRCHIVE release from a fave NZ dronester. Ya Ho Wa 13: domestic reissue of Penetration, the best album by Father Yod's psych crew. There's lots more beyond the highlights, we'd tell you more about them, but were trying to make it to bed before 4 am for the first time in, well, far too long. But it's all right there below this introduction. So read on and enjoy! There's much to dig as always. Hopefully we'll be asleep soon. And even more hopefully, maybe we'll see you tomorrow for the instore. Otherwise, in two weeks we will come to you again with the usual overload or aural delights... --------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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 #288 -----------------\|\|\| 21 March 2008 Beloved Customers and Friends: Greetings! Has it really been two weeks since our last list? Time flies when you're having fun, as some of us (Allan) sure did down in Texas at South by Southwest. He's more or less recovered now... had a blast, saw a lot of great music and soaked up some of the warm sunshine (it was 91 degrees in Austin last Friday!). Soaked up some beer too. The rest of us are jealous. But at least a bunch of us got to see the Boredoms' amazing show at the Fillmore this past Tuesday. Even Allan went, the incredible energy of the Boredoms three-drum-kit and seven-necked-guitar setup healing any excessive show-going burnout... So, here's Allan's brief SXSW report: First off, it was cool to meet so many folks who had nice things to say about Aquarius, thanks! Of course, Austin itself has some great record stores. I got to check out a fairly new one, End Of An Ear. Very cool shop. It's not far from the place I had the best lunch on my trip, at Torchy's Tacos (thanks to Brian Turner from WFMU for taking me there). As for bands I saw, well don't even get me started... any day you can see Enslaved at an outdoor party and then walk a few blocks to see The Homosexuals right afterwards, I'm happy. Some other highlights for me included Witch, Birds Of Avalon, and, at a backyard party, Israel's utterly insane Monotonics (where a goat tried to nibble on my pants during the drummer's crowd surfing drum solo). Also, AQ alumnus Matt was there with his band Wildildlife, we hung out a bunch but I didn't get to see them play unfortunately. However Matt and I did get to see Harvey Milk together, which is just about Matt's favorite band ever. He was losing his mind. And yeah, they were great. We all can't wait 'til they come out here!! Whew, well we've got a rockin' list this week we think. Check it out. First off, thee Records Of The Week are these two: Power Pill Fist: Black Moth Super Rainbow bass player gets all Atari 2600 on our asses and WE LOVE IT!! Leviathan: Latest and perhaps final release from this local USBM legend. And then the many magnificent Highlights: Ilyas Ahmed: Two long out of print cd-r's of delicate Appalachian ambience reissued as a 2cd. Ajilvsga: New tape of Digitalis doooooom. Axolotl x 3: Three new cd-rs from one of our favorite noisemakers on his new label. Barn Owl: Brand new tape of murky beauty from this SF psych drone folk combo. Black Moth Super Rainbow: Our favorite slab of bubbled gum electro synth pop dreaminess on vinyl. Scatch and sniff cover! Blue Sabbath Black Cheer: New vinyl brutality from these Northwestern doomlords. Their heaviest yet. Karl Bosmann: Gorgeously packaged lp of dark shimmering drones and dirgey doom. Cave: A recent record of the week back in print again!! Cavity: A decades old disc from these genius masters of sludge doom grind thrash heaviness reissued and revamped. John Coltrane: Reissue of one of the jazz giant's classics, Africa/ Brass. Julian Cope: The mindboggling Japrocksampler book finally reprinted. Crebain / Leviathan: This legendary split available on lp just one last time. Super limited AGAIN. Egypt: Groovy stoner doom from North Dakota. Nineties archival lp only release, incredible packaging. Encomiast: More blissed out loveliness and latest on Crucial Bliss. Fairport Convention x 2: Two legendary British folk essentials reissued and available again. fk Buttons: Super hyped band that actually deserves it. Boredoms meets Black Dice tripped out synth drone heaviness. Gang Wizard: Live disc of utter guitar drum battle chaos from this horde of noisy b***ds. Gareth Hardwick: Gorgeous disc of super minimal drones from this Machinefabriek collaborator. Clutchy Hopkins: Another killer disc of instrumental jazz funk from this mysterious recluse. Illusion Of Safety: Brand new release from this seminal outfit returning to life on the eve of their 25th anniversary. Iron Bitchface: First full length cd of Canadian techno grind black metal madness. Islaja: More fluttering dreamy dark Finnish beauty, performed live by the lovely Islaja. Rene Joly: Mysterious French prog pop genius, for fans of Gerald Manset and Antony. Manilla Road: True metal! Tales of Vikings in Mexico and other metal madness... The Mausoleums: Return of buzzy blissy super distorted blackmetal pop weirdos. SeanMcCann: Super limited tape of ultra distorted lo-fi crumbling freaked out ambient drone weirdness. Menace Ruine: Mysterious and hauntingly beautiful black experi-metal from Canada, on Alien8. Never Presence Forever / Ungeromimizu: Baffling split. Dark ambient on one side, screaming super distorted buzzing damage on the other. No Neck Blues Band: Killer live set from last years ATP. LP only. Ophiucus: Seventies French psych prog gem unearthed! Purient: Brandnew 7" of impossibly beautiful harsh noise from one of our favorite masters of modern noise. Reflector: Super heavy, dense, complex math rock. Vinyl only. Super limited. Reverend Bizarre: Two disc swan song from these now defunct Finnish lords of all that is doom. Scald: Scottish black metal noise rock terrorists. Killer packaging including a desecrated communion wafer! Unholy heaviness. Matt Shoemaker: 3" disc of sounds crafted from water and melting ice. Gorgeous and sublime. The Skull Defekts: Super limited cd-r from these rhythmic noisemakers, eschewing their usual M.O. for dark drones. Slaxxmaal: Incredible Norwegian crusty thrash punk grind madness. Sun Ra: Mind blowing two disc Disco 3000 reissue, Sun Ra with drum machines!!! V/A Don't Stop: Recording Tap: Rad eighties disco and proto hip-hop from this lost label. V/A Funky Nassau: Amazing comp of Jamaican infused disco, soul, new wave and funk. V/A I Don't Feel At Home...: Another Mississippi Records compilation back in print! V/A Life Is A Problem: Reissue of this amazing lp of gospel rarities from Mississippi Records. V/A Messthetics #105: Another killer comp of lost punk and new wave singles and indie pop singles, from Scotland, maybe the best yet. V/A Phantom Guitars: Compilation of early sixties surfy twang and instrumental guitar groove. Vhernen: Gorgeous cello and harp infused blackened doom from the Faroe Islands (!). Vincent Black Shadow: Serious rock and roll action, sweaty super distorted kick out the jams heaviness. Vordr: Latest record of furious thrashing noisy punky black metal buzz from these grim Finns. Witch: Second record from this star studded outfit, their stoney doomy groove revved up and punkier, but still killer. Wraiths: Lp reissue from these Scottish doomdrone, um, wraiths! Out of print cd-r available on lp for the first time. Yeti #5: Return of maybe the finest music and arts magazine going, comes with a cd packed with killer exclusives. Zombie Battle Axe: Creepy soundscapes of synths and field recordings, like a lost Argento soundtrack. Spooky!! And then there's quite a few other things elsewhere on the list that may prove of interest... vinyl hounds of the metallic persuasion, look out for LP versions of recent albums by Danava, Skeletonwitch, and Saviours... also vinyl for the recent Valet and more... Acid Mothers Temple fanatics, check the dvd section... for acidfolkfans, there's a disc of Tyrannosaurus Rex demos... plus a new issue of The Wire, a new album from Canuk faves Destroyer, and a surprising new Dirtbombs, amongst plenty more... (And fyi, there's some other vinyl goodies in stock but not reviewed this time 'round, that you might want to know about: reissues of XO and Figure 8 by Elliott Smith, and a 10" picture disc by The Sword... as always, worth looking through the extensive "instock, but not reviewed" section towards the end of this list.) Ok, on with the list itself in a sec, but before we wrap up this introduction, we should remind y'all to stop down tomorrow, Saturday March 22nd, at 4pm to see the mighty Canadian dronedoom lords Nadja perform an instore at AQ. And then, mark your calendars for next Wednesday, March 26th, 'cause we're gonna have warped pop magican John Maus down here at 6 o'clock pm doing an instore too! Both of 'em major AQ faves, so we're pretty excited. Two more items of business. First off, BORIS BORIS BORIS. No, not on this list. But soon, real soon, we'll have the Japanese import of their new cd Smile with the fancy pants Japanese packaging. And also a new 12" too. We know how excited some of you get about this band, so we'll probably send out a special email about 'em if we get them in before the next list. And, for those who are into Andee's label tUMULt, here's a link to click: http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/features.php? whichlh=77. It'll take you to an interview that Foxy Digitalis was kind enough to do with Andee about tUMULt. Okay. We're gonna try to get this wrapped up, and maybe get home before 2am (a record!!) especially since we have to be back here tomorrow for the Nadja instore. Woo hoo! See you there. And if not, it's only a couple weeks until list #289! ------------------------------ --------------------------------- 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. 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 #289 /\ \/ /\ \/ /\ \/ /\ \/ 04 April 2008 \/ /\ \/ /\ \/ /\ \/ /\ /\ \/ /\ \/ /\ \/ /\ \/ Beloved Customers and Friends: Hello hello hello. We're back. Another big ol' AQ New Arrivals list full of goodies. Among 'em... the new BORIS! Knew that would get yer attention most likely. Fancy Japanese import, amazing cd packaging. And a new Boris 12" too! But that's getting ahead of ourselves, you'll read about those items and more in due course. First off, though we'd like to say thanks to all who came by to our most recent instores... John Maus gave a great, sweaty performance, it was awesome. As was the glorious (and loud!) doomdrone bliss of Canadian duo Nadja. We were quite proud to host both, hope you didn't miss 'em. As we've hinted previously, we're getting some more, exciting instore action lined up, and can announce one of 'em now: on Monday, May 26th, Memorial Day at 5pm we're honored to present an instore performance by ultimate AQ faves and electronic krautrock legends, CLUSTER! Can't wait!! A brief note to mailorder customers, those who have Comcast email accounts specifically. If you're even reading this... 'cause it has come to our attention that for some mysterious reason, some (maybe all!) Comcast customers have been having trouble receiving our emails, like maybe they're getting stopped by some overzealous spam filter or something. Maybe check with your Comcast peeps and see what's up...! All right, now to the main event. Records Of The Week x 2: Joakim Skogsberg: Legendary, unique, obscure Swedish psych folk holy grail from '72 lovingly reissued!! Rod Modell: Echospace member's washed out Kompakt style minimal techno mixed with thick gristly Belong / Jeck / Hecker blurred dronescapes!! And quite a few Highlights, as usual: Alkerdeel: Limited cd-r resissue of this out of print tape from these Belgian noisemakers. Black psychedelic chaos noise drone damage! B.Baphomet: Black caustic dronedirge meets dreamy shimmery ambience. Erykah Badu: Killer new disc of modern yet timeless soul and R+B. J. Bannon: First solo single from Converge frontman, dark dreamy slowcore loveliness. Bardo Pond: Killer lp (and cd) collection of some of Bardo's favorite unreleased tracks! Sun baked druggy space rock bliss. Birchville Cat Motel: Latest from this legendary NZ soundscaper. Birchville Cat Motel / Tarentel / Charalambides: Killer triple 3" dvd-r documentary, with interviews and killer live footage. Birds Of Avalon: Classic rock power pop, new ep from these new aQ faves. Birigwa: Legendary seventies afro-jazz-blues-psych classic reissued! Bitter Bitter Weeks: Absolutely stellar, heartbreaking, practically perfect indie pop. Black Bug: Short and not so sweet, two furious and caustic overblown slabs of angry metallic stomping punk rock Rot Grrl buzz and snarl. Black Mountain: Second disc from these Northwestern droned and stoned drug rockers. And it's a good 'un. Black Oak Arkansas: Pre BOA, The Knowbody Else, groovy, sixties hippy psych from the band that would go on to immortalize the washboard as rock and roll instrument. COmes with a patch and a pin. James Blackshaw x 3: Three proper reissues of long out of print cd-r's from this UK master of the steel string guitar. Boredoms: Finally, Super Roots 9 available domestically, same great record, much nicer price! Boris x 2: Brand new album, super deluxe bath toy fuzzy fluffy packaging. AND a new remix electro/techno 12"! Burning Witch: The imported TRIPLE cd version of this vile and sick doooooom classic. Clark: Latest from this electronic wonder. Even more freaked out and kinetic than past records. Maybe our favorite so far... Cloaks: Second disc of swirling blurred piano driven ambient dronemusic. Coelacanth: Back in stock, this awesome disc of delicate mystery from the duo of Loren Chasse and our own Jim Haynes. Crystal Castles: Super hyped disc from these freaked out sugary electro dance punks. Der Blutharsch: Final record from this legendary militaristic folk ensemble, who seem to have traded their folk in for churning Loop like dirge Earth: Imported version of the latest album, with an extra bonus live disc. Fennesz / Jeck / Matthews: Gorgeous 7" of manipulated organ music, droney and dark, washed out and dreamy. First in a series. Forteresse: Latest from these French Canadian black metallers, with a new haunting dronier high end sound. Glorior Belli: Furious French black metal in the vein of Deathspell Omega. Gnarls Barkley: Long awaited new album from this dynamic duo, Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo, another classic? Gnaw Their Tongues: Another disc of suffocating black noise, disembodied free metal horror. Ultra limited cd-r (of course) Haare: Finnish alchemical power drone experimental noise. Super limited lp. Indian: Two out of print limited 12"s, compiled on one disc of incredibly heavy and fierce dooooooooooooooom. Millie Jackson: Legendary record from this soul legend. Jeremy Jay: Two of our favorite songs from the most recent ep, now on 7", from this AQ retro pop hearthrob. Jeffrey Lewis: Playful folky version of classic Crass tunes. Sound like it wouldn't work, but it does! Weird and wonderful. Lurker Of Chalice: The first and only album so far from Wrest / Leviathan's alter ego, finally reissued on digipack cd w/ bonus track from the vinyl version!! Machinefabriek: After a break, we're back to digging the deep dark sounds of Machinefabriek. This is a cd-r of collected soundtracks. So lovely. Junko Manuki: Newest in Tiliqua Records' series of unearthed Japanese erotic rarities. This one is as good as any of the others, although a bit more perverted, with plenty of spanking and whipping! Marzuraan: An archival trawl through the vaults of this amazing UK dirge drone noise rock ensemble, includes covers of Loop and Rollins Band! Nadja: Newest disc from this Canadian doombliss duo, more of that lurching slow motion blown out beautiful buzz... Seth Nehil & Jgrzinich: Manipulated field recordings from these two master sound manipulators. Nostradamos: Legendary greek seventies psychedelic gem reissued! Washington Phillips: Another Mississippi record release, 12 tracks from this legendary bluesman, whose instrument of choice is quite strange. Powers Court: Latest from this female fronted kick ass dark power metal trio! Prurient: CD+5" vinyl of beautiful crushing caustic noise from Prurient, who is fast becoming out favorite purveyor of noisemusic. shtmat / Ladyscraper: Grungecore! Two gabber jungle freeks rip apart Nirvana classics. Real flannel shirt sleeves! Elliott Smith x 2: Two of our favorite records, available on vinyl for the first time since they were released (and we've got the cds too!) Howard Stelzer: Awesome collection of experimental tape music, mature noise! Striborg: Final installment in a comprehensive reissue campaign, 2005 album Trepidation from this one man Tasmanian rain forest black metal band! The Stumps: New Zealand super group offers up another fantastic slab of sound, chaotic garage rock clatter meets weirdo drone meets gritty grimey drifty ambience. SUNNO))): Their 00Void album, Japanese reissue with a bonus disc containing the whole record remixed by Nurse With Wound! Tymah: Female fronted black metal buzz from the dark forests of Transylvania. V/A Bearded Ladies: Modern day fringe folk meets classic female folk. V/A Bollywood Steel Guitar: Lteast in the Sublime Frequencies series, amazing music from Bollywood musicals, all featuring the steel guitar! V/A An England Story: Massive collection of grime, dubstep, dancehall, garage, jungle and UK hip hop. Another winner from Soul Jazz. V/A Golden State Funk: Fanatastic compilation of classic undiscovered funk from right here!!! From back in the day! V/A Juche: Industrial darkwave comp all about some weird North Korean communist ideology/philosophy??? V/A Last Kind Words: Newest release from the seemingly infallible Mississippi Records. Old timey blues, cover art by Chris Johanson. V/A Nigeria Disco Funk Special: Another killer comp of, well, just like the titles says... Verdunkeln: Awesome gothy doomy avant black metal dirge from Germany. Some of the coolest weirdest stuff we've heard in ages. Woods Of Infinity: Dirgey, melancholy fked up black metal weirdness from this strange strange Swedish outfit. And plenty more, seriously you gotta read the whole dang list so you don't miss nothin'. Not to mention the end-of-this-list list of "Also New In Stock, Not Reviewed" items where you'll find such treats as another* new Sublime Frequencies release (Shadow Music Of Thailand, LP-only), a Japanese prog/psych summit (Tatsuya Yoshida + Keiji Haino), and the J2 disc, Justin Broadrick of Jesu teamed up with Jarboe from the Swans! Plus new Striborg, Dodos, A Silver Mt. Zion, and tons more we'll try to get to next time if we can!! That's it. Thanks as always to all our faithful loyal aQ customers. Have a great weekend. Enjoy the list, and all the crazy awesome sounds within! Until next time... --------------------------------------------------------------- And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch! --------------------------------------------------------------- As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html -- to read the New Arrivals list online where you can SEE COVER ART and HEAR SOUNDCLIPS we prepared for you. 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 #291 _________________\|_______\|______ 02 May 2008 Beloved Customers and Friends: Hey there everybody, welcome to another update, full of drone and pop and everything in between (or at the same time). Lots of great stuff, including, among other things, both Boris and Bill Cosby (no, not together). Hope you all have had a pleasant fortnight since our last list, we've been keeping busy as usual round these parts, enjoying music new and old but certainly NOT enjoying the behavior of a couple of our computers. This week we had to have the hard drive replaced in the iMac that Cup and Michael use to deal with mailorder, which got us about two days behind in responding with mailorder related emails, we're sorry about that!! Considering we're already not entirely where we want to be in terms of response-time, that didn't help. Fortunately, at least we were able to catch the problem in that computer before any data was lost. Then, the same day that got fixed, Allan's personal laptop up and died. Thus this list is short a couple of reviews he'd written but not yet saved into our database here at work... hopefully they'll be recovered (or he'll rewrite them...) in time for our next list. But we had fun this week too, on Wednesday ferinstance several AQ'ers having a blast at the Breeders show, while the same night a bunch of others of us here, along with AQ alums Kerry and Christine, went to the movies together, excited to see Harold And Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay!!! Which was pretty great, if you liked the first one (which we hope you did). Neil Patrick Harris on a unicorn, briliant. Ok, enough about movies, on with the music! Two Records Of The Week. One, a three-way split featuring two recent AQ faves and a related third party, it's Isengrind / Twinsistermoon / Natural Snow Buildings! The first proper cd release from this French duo, and each member's equally gorgeous solo project. Our second RotW is a bit of a no-brainer, the long-awaited, eagerly-anticipated new album from Portishead! Yep, it's good. And then let's have a look at the Highlights, as follow... Acid Mothers Temple: Kawabata & Co.'s HEAVIEST trip yet, like SUNNO))) + Amon Duul... ?? Ilyas Ahmed: Long time aQ fave releases his first proper full length after the recent double disc reissue. More drone drenched free folk mystery... Altar Shadows: Lithuanian black metal, weird and wonderful, heavy on the traditional Lithuanian Folk and the Speckledy Falcons! Astral Social Club: Brand new 7" / cd-r combo from this former Vibrcathedral noisemaker, now exploring club music, albeit filtered through drugged out space rock! Aidan Baker: A way sought after cd-r back in print one more time... Baker / Buckareff / Nadja: Three way split from Nadja and the two members on their own. First we've heard from Buckareff and it's fantastic! Barn Owl: Local boys keep getting better and better, darker and dronier. Black Boned Angel & Nadja: It had to happen, but who would have thought it would sound like this?! Not at all what you might have imagined. And we love it! Boris: their latest, Smile, domestic release with a bonus limited edition DVD and different art, mixes, etc. Bulbs: free jazz and techno too on this post-Jryk release featuring the fellow from Ball Lightning. Celestial Sea: Black metal dudes from Dormant and Caina team up for some blissy shimmery epic post rock. Chop Shop: A new addition to the pantheon of noisemakers. Buzzy intense tape based experiments as good as any noise we've heard. Cloudland Canyon: krautrockier than krautrock itself!! Bill Cosby: no, not comedy. 1971 jazz funk with Cosby on keyboards that's pretty badass. Cub x 3: a triple batch of reissued cuddlecore classics from our own Cup's old band Cub! John Davis: Another disc of sublime drones and field recordings from this local dronelord. Deadsea: Epic massive complex kick ass headbanging and hooky metal madness from these ex grinders... Edu-K: 12" of bouncin' Baile funk! Encomiast: A deeeeep dark ominous disc of glorious black drone. Ex-Cocaine / Yellow Swans: The Yellow Swans maybe no more, but they have a handful of releases coming out before they're gone for good. Here they team up with fellow noisniks Ex-Cocaine. Faust: A new live Faust record on Jussi from Circle's Ektro label! Fear Falls Burning: One of our favorite drone guitarists teams up with drummers for the first time, and the results are spectacular. Grey Daturas: return of our favorite down-under doom-bringers, their Neurot debut. Hellhammer: limited deluxe 2cd or 3lp release of early '80s demos from black/death/sludge metal pioneers. Terje Isungset: more unusual, beautiful music performed on instruments made of ICE! Jaldaboath: a 3" cd-r of Meads Of Asphodel related metal weirdness. Les Rallizes Denudes: repressed, one of the best available documents of the '70s Japanese psych legends. Lugubrum: black metal from the Belgian Congo??! Brendan Murray: one of our drone picks of the list. Monopoly Child Star Searchers: Spencer from the Skaters' new project, confusing and confounding and tripped out and beautiful. BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa: another drone essential this time 'round, beautifully packaged to boot. Otesanek / Loss / Orthodox / Mournful Congregation: 4-way DOOOOOM summit, very few in stock. Pyramids: Brand new double disc from this Texas band who blend black metal bliss and shoe gaze-y shimmer. Includes bonus discs with remixes by Jesu, Birchville, Blut Aus Nord, Plotkin and more... The Reveries: A new record of all Willie Nelson covers from one of the strangest coolest bands from the only band who play with speakers in their mouths. Super unique, and super lovely. Jack Rose: A brand new disc of neo Appalachia from one of the modern masters, includes the long out of print aRCHIVE release as a bonus disc! The Shining Path: 7" and cd-r combo from this drone-y space rock duo, live and blown out, includes cool live video footage as well. Nina Simone: the high priestess of soul, with her album, High Priestess of Soul, another oldie but a goodie. Skitliv: Attila (Mayhem, Burial Chamber Trio, SUNNO)))) + Maniac (Mayhem) + Current 93... oh yes. Skullfower: mayhem and chaos prevail on the harsh guitarscapes of Matthew Bower's new one! Sun Kil Moon: Mark Kozelek's latest may just be his finest collection of songs yet! Sun Ra: more spacey synth genius from Ra circa '77, the follow up to the great Disco 3000. Taiga Remains: Root Strata reissues the limited 3" cdrs of one of our fave drone units on a real regular cd. Tape: Hapna's expanded reissue of the delicate, abstract yet melodic soundworld known as Milieu. Thor: live in '85, the he-man of Metal ROCKS insanely on this classic reissued by Circle's Ektro label! V/A Nigeria Rock Special: third in the amazing series, full of funky '70s Afrodelic fuzz n' groove. V/A Sacrifice At The Altar: tribute to true kvlt black metal act Von! feat. Black Vomit, Enbilulugugal, etc. Von Himmel: metareverberant murky tripped out psych on cd-r from local krautrock lovin' groop. White Hills / Gnod: our fave NYC drugdronepsychspace combo teams up with mystery UK outfit Gnod. Plus other goodies including Alan Sparhawk's rockin' Retribution Gospel Choir, the Secret Chief's playing Masada with Zorn on board, a grime fix from Dizzee Rascal, a new issue of Wax Poetics, and lots more. Also, we have tickets to give away to some cool shows at the Great American Music Hall. First we have one pair of tickets to see Subtle, Facing New York and Clue to Kalo on Wed. May 7 Then we have two pairs of tickets to see The Fiery Furnaces and Grand Ole Party, on Thurs. May 29th. Just send an email to [email protected] with either FIERY FURNACES TIX or SUBTLE TIX as the subject. We'll pick the Subtle ticket winners right away since it's next week. The Fiery Furnaces you have a little more time. Both shows should be awesome! Finally, there's a new episode of XLR8R TV up, which features Bradford Cox from Atlas Sound and Deerhunter shopping and hanging out at aQ!! Check it out here: http://www.xlr8r.com/tv/57 That's it. Time for us to head home and get to bed. And time for you night owls to stay up all night reading this here list and listening to sound clips! Or maybe better to hit the hay and get up early and tackle it first thing in the morning. Either way, lots of good stuff to check out as always! So let's get on with it! 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/cat/newest.html -- to read the New Arrivals list online where you can SEE COVER ART and HEAR SOUNDCLIPS we prepared for you. 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 #292 ((+:+:+:+:+:+ May 16, 2008 ((+:+:+:+:+:+ Beloved Customers and Friends: Whew! If you live in San Francisco, we don't have to tell you it's been sunny and HOT here this week. Record breaking temperatures for this time of year, way up in the 90s. We're wilting as we write this. And the sun went down long ago! Of course, being SF, it'll probably get nice and cold and foggy again real soon. So we should try and enjoy this blast of summer-like weather while we can, though it did threaten to make Andee's computer at home overheat while he was trying to write reviews. He still got a bunch done though, as you will see... Whatever it's like where you are, though, we hope you're in the mood for some cool new music. Drones, black metal, unblack metal, jazz, indie-rock, psych, doom, grunge, we got all that and more this list. Lots and lots of good stuff. So, let's get on with it... 'Cause we're a little crazy from the heat, there's three Records Of The Week this week!!! First, the new one from Philip Jeck: a no brainer, maybe, since we love Jeck and his crackly, fuzzy turntable collages so much, but his new album is kinda different yet as amazing as ever. The we have Group Doueh. This long out of print vinyl only Sublime Frequencies release, one of the best in the series, finally available on cd!! And finally, 16-17: One of our favorite records EVER. The undisputed Gods of ultra extreme hardcore free jazz post punk whatthef*k! Remastered with new liner notes. And of course LOADS of highlights: Patrick Adams: anthology of disco jams from the master producer. Oren Ambarchi: AQ-fave Aussie experimentalist drops a 7" on the Touch label. Avarus: ltd. lp-only live release from these krautrockish Finns, freaky like German Oak! Grant Beran: cd-r of lo-fi buzzy rhythmic tracks sourced from beat up old records and junky turntables. Birchville Cat Motel: NZ dronemaster's latest LP, limited to 350, expensive, and worth it! Bixobal: issue #3 of this cool little improv/experimental/krautrock/etc. 'zine, always recommended. Black Mayonnaise: cd-r return of this band's blackend buzz and doomic dub, including Flaming Lips and Fipper covers! Boris / Merzbow: Rock Dream now on ultra deluxe triple LP vinyl!! Incredible packaging AND bonus track. Brown Jenkins: 2nd album of blurred buzzing black metal unlike any other. Constantines: exellent irony-free anthemic indie rock record from these Canadian craftsmen. Dead Man: Swedish hippy prog psych on the more melodic, gentle side of '70s stoner worship. Death Cab For Cutie: the major label debut from these ol' indie rock faves makes us feel as good as they ever did! Earles & Jensen: you can ALWAYS enjoy a good record of prank phone calls! Expo '70 / Rahdunes: Expo's Earthy-throb vs. Rahdunes folky spacey drift on this split 12"! Fear Falls Burning: the dronesters latest, now on vinyl, with bonus tracks. Flaskavsae: another UNblack metal cd-r gem, grim and bizarre. Maria Forde: one of our favorite local visual artists has a new issue of her 'zine, this time with cd-r hiphop mix! Four Tet: ep with the most minimal and repetitive sound we've heard from Four Tet yet! Dana Gillespie: rare orchestrated pop-psych treasure reissued, think Nancy Sinatra collaborating with The Free Design... The Gossip: sweat inducing, spirit invigorating live set from the punk/soul sensations. Bruce Haack: amazing unreleased 1978 album from the eccentric electronic pop composer, like an R-rated Electric Lucifer!! Hatewave: early demos from the tUMULt mathdeathmetal recording artists, ever weirder back then! Have A Nice Life: Sprawling double disc / book set of blissed out shoegaze metal doom gloom pop. Shoulda been ROTW! Heatdeath: This Midwestern duo offers up two sides of dense intricate tangled math metal free jazz weirdness. Super limited. High Mountain Tempel: Second disc of krautdrone mystery from this duo. The Julie Mittens: Dutch improv free rock power trio! Hell yeah! Kaleidoscope: Brand new issue of this awesome metal mag from the Circle Of Ouroborus dudes. Lots of aQ faves covered. Byard Lancaster: Unreleased live set from this under appreciated jazz legedn, with extra tracks and liner notes! Lento: Italian crushing post rock groove metal doomscapers first album and it's a doozy! Matmos: A new record from aQ pals Matmos, no strange recordings here, only SYNTHESIZERS. And lots of em! Menace Ruine: Early demo from this Canadian boy girl black metal bliss out duo. Motorpsycho: Finally we're convinced! Kick ass and ultra catchy Norwegian indie rock outift makes a record we can't stop listening to! Mudhoney: The godlike SUperfuzz Bigmuff gets reissued with a whole extra disc! And new liner notes, tons of photos and more more more. Njiqahdda: A super limited double disc from this mysterious UNblack metal outfit. Comes with candles AND incense. No Age: Finally a full length from these punky noise poppers! Offerblod: Swedish UNblack metal, churning murky blown out muddy black genius! Pale Hoarse: Spare stirring acoustic doom folk from this SF duo. Pita: An all time noise classic, long out of print, finally get reissued! The Puritan: Ex-Reverend Bizarre, lp only chunk of intense riffage, Killdozer goes doom? So awesome. Ruins Of Beverast: A deluxe and pricey vinyl version of the most recent album. PREORDER NOW!! Suishou No Fune: Sprawling double disc of Japanese downer drone-trance. Tamagawa: Mysterious and beautiful dronemusick, packaged in a do it yourself mini replica of a stage lamp. Tulus: The band that would be Khold, but then would be Tulus again. Awesome freaked out black metal brilliance. Tunnels: More divine Portland dronebliss dreaminess. Ufomammut: Brand new record from these druggy droney doomlords! Up-Tight: First dvd ever from these Japanese psych masters! Usputuspud: Our own Matt Rogers takes his harmonica out onto the dancefloor to create some spacey otherworldy 'disco'. V/A Museum Of Future Sound Vol. 2: Skweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! V/A Radio Myanmar: Latest from Sublime Frequencies' series of intercepted radio broadcasts. This time the focus is on Myanmar. V/A Dronevolk dvd: A gorgeous documentary about Ignatz, SIlvester Anfang, Bear Bones Lay Low and Kiss The Anus. Includes bonus MP3's! Yoshi Wada: Gorgeous ceremonial like drones from this sound sculptor and visual artist. Xexyz: The masters of NES-BM, Nintendo black metal, now on cd with bonus tracks and new artwork! Yelle: Breezy synth electro for all your summer dancefloor needs. Yoro Sidibe: The latest in he Yaala Yaala world music series. So moving and emotional and intense powerful and so so good. And of course, much much more. Anthony Braxton on laptop and giant sax, folk-blues from Tetuzi Akiyama, a new Nachtmystium ep, the sheer '80sishness of Cut Copy, etc. etc. and etc. And as we mentioned briefly above. We are listing the super deluxe double lp / 7" version of the most recent record from German black metallers Ruins Of Beverast. Tons of people have been emailing about it, and we will indeed be one of the only stores carrying it, BUT, because they are so expensive, and handmade, and of course because of the shtty dollar, and the outrageous shipping on these massive sets, the price is pretty high. SO if you want one you MUST preorder it. We will only order as many copies as we get actual preorders for. And we will take a $50 deposit, the rest payable when we ship. Check the review for all the details! Krautrock fans, don't forget about the Cluster shows happening 'round California (LA, Big Sur, Santa Cruz, SF) next weekend, as well as a CLUSTER AQ INSTORE! Details at the bottom of this list. Okay. We gotta get to bed. Must get some sleep. We have some BBQ-ing to do tomorrow, and some ping pong practice, since we've been challenged by Ritual coffee shop across the street! AND The Black Hole is playing tomorrow at the Castro Theater! Can't wait! That's it. Dig in. And STAY COOL! --------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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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	Greetings aQ faithful! We are honored to announce a very very rare instore performance from spaced out electronic ambient krautrock pioneers: CLUSTER!!! Performing right here in our little ol' shop!! It's on Monday, that's memorial day, the 26th of May. 5:00 pm. Don't miss this, a rare chance to see these legends up close, personal and intimate! They're playing a bunch of shows, Big Sur, Santa Cruz and at the Great American Music Hall here in SF. But this might be your only chance to sit on the floor, mere inches from the band, letting the sound wash over you, and most likely one of your only chances to say hi, shake hands and mingle with the band afterwards. Not sure what they'll be playing, but for those new to Cluster and who are curious, here's our review of the reissue of their classic Zuckerzeit album: Finally! We can't even begin to tell you how long we have been waiting to list this. Forever going in and out of print and when available it was always super expensive, Cluster's 1974 album Zuckerzeit has finally been given the proper and readily available reissue (Thanks Revisited!) it absolutely deserves. Probably our favorite Cluster album, it is most notably famous for helming their transition from concrete synth dronescapers to their more well known persona as crafters of pastorally cosmic electronica. Adding crisp and propulsive drum programming to their haunting synth melodies, Moebius and Roedelius split the composing duties with Moebius leaning to the more experimental while Roedelius provides the melodic sheen. Zuckerzeit hailed a new direction and focus in German music of the early seventies, with groups like Kraftwerk, and Neu moving through similar reshapes in sound. Obviously, Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin have spent some time absorbing this album. Timeless and classic, we cannot recommend this album enough! And our review of their reissued Sowiesoso album: This long awaited reissue of Cluster’s stellar 1976 recording, Sowiesoso (So Not So So) sees Roedelius and Moebius at their most collaborative and creative. Recorded after moving to the tiny village of Forst from West Berlin, the progressive evolution of Cluster’s solely improvised sound from free-form cavernous synth-scapes to percolating motorik pop had already been documented on their Zuckerzeit album from 1975. On Sowiesoso, that sound gets even more refined, with Moebius’s machinist currents of whirs and klangs jutting up against Roedelius’s serene Eastern pastoralism, resulting in a haunting mix of pensive ambient beauty that matches the idyllic countryside pictured on the front cover. So Recommended! Needless to say, this should be fantastic! Don't miss it!! See you there!! Lots of love from your devoted AQ staff -- Andee, Cup, Jim, Allan, Irwin, Scott, Lauren, Sally, Antaeus, Michael, Cameron, Frank and Jon
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	000000000~~~~~ Aquarius Records ~~~~~000 ~000000000~~~~~~~~~ New Arrivals #295 ~~~~000 ~~~~~~~000000000~~~~~~ June 27, 2008 ~~~~~~000 Beloved Customers and Friends: Apologies for the strangely formatted list we just sent out. You can read about our broken computer woes below, which is why we were trying to send the list remotely from the correct computer, but it went and jumbled it all up. Arggh. Well, really, you should be going to the website anyway, so you can see album covers and listen to sound samples, but in case you prefer the email version here you go. Should look normal. If not, we give up. We're going home and going to bed. Thanks as always. And again apologies for the double shot of New Arrivals... Geeze! Seems almost like THIS week's list is falling on a Friday The 13th. Last list, when it was that unlucky day, we didn't have nearly so many mishaps... Firstly, about a week ago, poor Irwin hurt his back (don't ask him how he did it) and was told to stay off his feet, so he hasn't been at work since then and he's one of our review writing powerhouses. Then, in a freak accident, Andee's desktop computer got knocked over, and has been out of commission ever since (whoops). Fortunately it's gonna get fixed up ok, but in the meantime, he's had no computer here to work on and he's one of our other reviewing powerhouses. And has spent more time running from computer store to computer store than writing reviews. So all that slowed us up a bit, and thus there's "only" 72 items on the list... but we did actually get a few cool things back in stock that had been gone for a while, so that bulked it up a bit, look out for those. Our Rastan arcade game is also out of order again... but that didn't really effect getting this list done. Also, since Andee is without computer, much of his day to day stuff is temporarily inaccessible. So if you're waiting for an email, or have PayPal business or anything like that (you know, anything that requires a computer), please be patient, we'll have that computer back and up and running by the middle of next week (barring any more mishaps), and we'll get caught up and sorted out as quick as we can. Another sad thing: we bid adieu to our beloved co-worker Lauren, whom you know if you ever shop here on Tuesday nights. She's been a loyal part-time AQ staffer for three years now, but finally came to the conclusion that working a double shift every week (she has another, full-time job as a speech pathologist) was a bit too much... we understand but are sorry to see her go. On top of all that, 'cause of working late (as usual) on the list tonight, Andee and Allan and the rest of the Friday night crew missed seeing a rare freakin' Liquorball live show at the Hemlock (with special guest Steve Mackay, saxophonist of Stooges Funhouse fame!). Argh. We also missed ex-AQer Matt's band Wildildlife who came down from Seattle to play the Edinburgh Castle tonight too. Double argh. Oh well there's always stuff going on list nights it seems, like Candlemass who we missed last time. Something about Friday nights... And since we sometimes like to give folks a glimpse of what really goes on around here, and what we're -really- listening to, once we finished writing reviews for the list, all we've been listening to is Polvo and Pitchblende!!! It hasn't been all disasters here though, there's been lots of rad music coming in as usual, and in terms of extra-curricular activities, last weekend a couple of us went camping, and new AQ-er Jon's band Barn Owl played with Earth down at Brookdale lodge, and Antaeus' band Lazer Sword got to rock some sort of travelling party bus... good times. Speaking of music, let's talk about this week's list, starting with the Records Of The Week... There's two of 'em, the latest ultra-o'd dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom offering from UK sublime sludge masters Moss, and a rad new Mary Ann Hobbs dubstep/grime comp too. Also, there's a new release on Andee's tUMULt label, the long-awaited domestic debut from PYHA, in the works forever, the buzzingest black metal EVER maybe, made by a 12-year old Korean kid!!!! Really. And then a bunch o' highlights, from the super poppy to the super noisy: Armanenschaft: raw primitive psychedelic winter black metal from ex-Rev. Bizarre doomster. Ateleia & Benjamin Curtis: almost pop ambient entry in TOE's new experimental guitar ltd. 12" series. Aufgehoben: abstract UK noise rockers lay waste to all on their new Holy Mountain album. Benga: dubstep with a little extra electro from one of the best. John Berbarian: two vinyl-only reissues of Middle Eastern oud action from '60s USA. James Blackshaw: awesome new album from AQ fave UK fingerpicker. Bones Of Seabirds: cd-r of free noise ambience a la Sunroof! Child Readers: magical new disc from Jewelled Antler's Loren Chasse and Jason Honea. Karen Dalton: long lost intimate and unearthly 1962 home recordings from this lovely folk lady. Ishibashi Eiko & Tatsuya Yoshida: Ruins drummer in a new duo going way prog and classical! Endless Blizzard: yes, it's a black metal band! and a good one. Endless Dismal Moan: also endless, also black metal, this time a killer Japanese outfit. Fen: definitely post-rock, maybe black metal too, and really really good. Ferial Confine: reissue of '80s Andrew Chalk project bridging noise and drone. Fifty Foot Hose: '60s SF psych classic, an old old AQ fave, reissued! Fjordne: latest Dynamophone cd-r is like a Japanese cousin of Oval's Diskont. Herbie Hancock, et. al.: Modern Jazz meets Jewish ritual on this reissued rare '68 side, Hear O Israel. Harvey Milk: now on vinyl via Chunklet, Pleaser and Live Pleaser from the mighty HM. Jim Haynes: gorgeous picture disc 12" from our own rusting, droning experimentalist Jim. Judy Henske & Jerry Yester: baroque folk-pop pomp-rock experimental electronic weirdness from the '60s. Thomas Leer: anthology of avant-garde techno-pop Robitussin robotics from '80s artiste. Light Of Shipwreck: textural rhythmic 3" cd-r drone-jam follow up to Crucial Bliss release. Lubomyr Melnyk: double cd-r blissout of "continuous" piano music from the master Melnyk. Notwist: A brand new record from long time aQ faves, dreamy electronic pop brilliance. Om: limited live vinyl-only document of mantric doom metal straight from the Holy Land. The Osmonds: proto metal novelty "Crazy Horses" and more bubblegum '70s psych & pop on this 2-on-1 cd reissue from, yes, The Osmonds. Pharaoh Overlord: back in print, this Circle side project's crucial NWOFHM headbanger, #4! Redd Kross: One of the best records from one of the best bands ever. Reissued and available for a limited time! Rogue Male: an '80s metal masterpiece that Andee and Allan would have liked to reissue! Sigur Ros: A new record and a whole new sound. Supergrass: UK powe pop combo are back, with a new harder sound and one of their best records yet! V/A Asian Flashback: Part of the Tokyo Flashback series, but now with groups from Korea and China as well! V/A IVG Vol 1: Another killer comp of French minimal/cold/new-wave and post-punk! V/A Living is Hard: West African Music in Britain: Another amazing and haunting collection of lost African music from Honest Jons. V/A Nigeria 70: Lagos Jump: A kick ass part two to one of the best African comps ever! Peter Walker: A new record of Flamenco music from this master of the acoustic guitar. Wrnlrd: More beautifully bizarre black metal from this mysterious Virginian. Vinyl only! Michael Yonkers: Freaked out guitar noise from this outsider garage psych legend. Also: archival Ya Ho Wha music from the Children Of The Sixth Root Race, a new issue of The Wire, Oxbow's Narcotic Story now on vinyl, another Sun Ra reissue, a charming (as always) new Jonathan Richman, new Silver Jews, a Low dvd documentary, and more!! Other notes: be sure to tune in (live on the air, or live over the internets) to KUSF 90.3 FM this Sunday at 10:30am to hear Andee's last ever (at least for a while) "Battleflutes And Sideways Skulls" show. Hopefully you've been listening every week anyway, but if not this is your last chance, 'cause he's retiring from the radio DJ game. At least, until we finally get an AQ podcast thing happening. He'll probably play a lot of grunge on Sunday, seeing as he's headed to Seattle in a few weeks for the big Sub Pop 20th Anniversary celebration. Green River reunion! The Fluid reunion! Red Red Meat reunion! Beachwood Sparks reunion! Les Thugs! Seaweed! The Vaselines first EVER show in the US, TAD'S NEW BAND! We haven't seen Andee this excited for a show since, well, since forever... And if anyone else is going and wants to hang out, or lives in Seattle and has some free time, drop us a line! Also, if you go to http://klaustotheedge.blogspot.com/ you'll find the fancy new blog for Allan and former AQ-er Alison's monthly prog/psych radio show on West Add Radio 93.7 FM, "Klaus To The Edge". The best way to listen is over the internet anyway, and rather than trying to dial it up every third Wednesday at 11pm, you might as well just check out the archived podcasts found here. Hmmm... gotta find the time, maybe we'll get around to making an AQ blog... or even a discussion board! Soon! We promise. Also, not to toot our own horn or anything, but not only did the SF Weekly recently vote us the best record store in SF (we're still blushing), in the new issue of Paste Magazine, we're included in the list of the 17 coolest record stores in the US! Wow! We're honored. Check it out here:: http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article/7609/the_record_store Also, Andee was interviewed for QRD webzine for an article on record stores, along with a bunch of other cool record folks. The main story is here: www.silbermedia.com/qrd And the link to Andee's interview is here: http://www.silbermedia.com/qrd/archives/38aquarius.html Okay, it's already 2:30 and we're still putting the finishing touches on the list. Hopefully by the time you get this we'll be in bed and sound asleep. As always, thanks for reading. Oh & everybody enjoy Pride weekend, whatever you're proud of! --------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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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	---000000000--- Aquarius Records ---000 -000000000------ New Arrivals #296 ---000 --000000000------- July 11, 2008 ---000 Beloved Customers and Friends: Wow, has it really been two whole weeks since our last New Arrivals list?! Well, uh, no not quite. Instead of the usual fortnight, it's only been thirteen days, 'cause we're sending this list out on Thursday rather than Friday (or, to be precise, our usual early a.m. Saturday morning). Why? Partly 'cause the music we wanted to tell you about this time 'round was SO GOOD we just couldn't contain ourselves, of course... but also for a more practical (impractical?) reason. As you might recall from list #295's intro, Andee here is all excited about attending the Sub Pop 20th Anniversary Fest up in Seattle and getting his grunge on. Well it was only on Tuesday of this week that he had the "horrible realization" that said festival was happenin' THIS coming weekend. He had his plane tickets and everything, but just hadn't really put 2 and 2 together on our calendar of when "list weeks" are. And to be fair, the rest of us sort of forgot as well. So, since Andee's pretty crucial to the whole New Arrivals list technical process, and since he's flying up to Seattle TONIGHT to party at the Space Needle, we decided we had better do the list a day (and then some) early. Whew. It was a close call, down to the wire, but we pulled it off. Andee probably wrote even more reviews than usual! And Allan's glad he didn't have to figure out all the list-computer-stuff on Friday by himself (the other option). So, you're not going crazy, it's not Saturday morning (or Monday morning, when some of you who get email at work probably see our lists) yet, it's Thursday evening! All right. Records Of The Week are... Burning Star Core: Second BSC record to receive ROTW honors, a gorgeous drifty droney krauty masterpiece of violin and more! Fricara Pacchu: Gloriously distortion-drenched DIY 4-track instrumental rhythmic psychedelia from Finland. A unanimous store fave for sure!! And, then, if the Pyha from last time wasn't enough, and the Varghkoghargasmal from the list before that, there's -another- cd NEW ON tUMULt!! Like A Kind Of Matador: Pummeling doom prog from the UK, huge riffs, pounding drums, fluttering flute, wheezing accordions, and angelic female vocals. Like Boris+Guapo+BardoPond. Plus the usual plethora of HIGHLIGHTS... AER: Latest in the ltd. edition Touch 7" series, field recording and drones from artist Jon Wozencroft. Aidan Baker: Another disc from Mr. Baker, this time a gorgeous Necks-y jazzy drift. Excellent. Robbie Basho: Amazing live archival release from the Takoma guitar soli legend. Blarke Bayer / Black Widow: Slightly jazzy super low end drone experiment from Grey Dats related duo. The Better Beatles: Believe it or not... outsider new/no wave Beatles 'tribute' from Nebraska, circa 1981. Boris: Eagerly awaited vinyl version of their latest, Smile, on Southern Lord! The Cool Kids: The '80s pop revival, hip hop version! Toumani Diabate: Simply stunning sparse and majestic sounds from this super talented kora player! DJ Scotch Egg: Another blast of freaky 8-bit jams from this purveyor of blown out video game gabber. Eat Skull: The New Wave Of shtGAZE! Eden Express: Summertime bliss from Holy Mountain, psych gets out of the forest and onto the beach. Flying Lotus: Instrumental hiphop + spiritual Afro-jazz and psychedelic soul from Alice Coltrane's nephew. Gilberto Gil: Essential Tropicalia reissue, Gil's best by far! Grails: Way out of print psych covers cd now available on vinyl! Health: Demented Dancefloor remixes of these aggro art punks. Heavy Winged: Lp / cd combo of big droned out repetitive psych rock bliss rock heaviness. Hercules And Love Affair: The new Disco sensation, featuring diva vocals from Antony (of & the Johsons). Hisato Higuchi: Slo-mo melody and melancholia for solo guitar, both loud and noisy and spare and still. Howlin' Magic: Blown out lo-fi, sci-fi psych guitar excess from this one man band! Hum Of The Druid: An lp only release of massive churning lowend speaker damaging dronemusik. Jasper TX: Brand new full length of dark droning beauty. July: Deluxe reissue of this wonderful UK sixties psych-pop gem! Ariel Kalma: Minimalist '70s sax-psych explorations reissued! King Khan: Blazing garage rock with Stax soul mojo. Koss: Japanese elemental pop ambient techno drone bliss n' glitch, so good. Byard Lancaster: Lost jazz classic reissued. FLUTE FLUTE FLUTE! Wild and free and melodic and so great. Leviathan: Long out of print lp, now available on cd! Wrest's ambient record! Lightning Swords Of Death: Thrashing furious blackened buzz from LA. Jean-Pierre Massiera x 2: Freaky French-Canadian psych and disco productions unearthed, LP only for now. Melvins: NEW MELVINS!! Heavy and catchy and creepy as ever, classic rock for weirdos. Mudhoney: 20 years on and these guys can still peel paint and kick your teeth in. Nekrasov: Noise drenched black metal from the other side of the globe. SUper limited version while they last. Ondo: Crushing black ambience and deep dark dronemusic on Paradigms. Orient Express: An awesome Middle Eastern psych-pop gem! Pelt: Another disc of deep sonorous minimalism and heart of the sun ur-drone. Liz Phair: Legendary nineties indie rock classic reissued with extra tracks and a dvd documentary. Pinch: Incredible double disc of groovy stuttery bass heavy dubstep. Quiet Village: Dreamy sample heavy exotica, like Les Baxter meets DJ Shadow. Rosetta: Possibly the heaviest and most complex and forward thinking of the metallic post rock crowd. Rudimentary Peni: Legendary UK crust punks return with their first disc in 4 years! Sebadoh: Bubble And Scrape, another Sebadoh classic gets the deluxe reissue treatment. Simulacra: Deep dark blackened drones, super limited, gorgeous packaging. Steinski: Massive collection of singles and rare tracks from this proto hip-hop legend. Twink: More toy piano mania, playful and cute, fun and sunshiney, perfect for summer... Urthona: Glorious shoegazing freeform rural-psych-noise-guitar-drone on Julian Cope's Head Heritage label! Sir Victor Uwaifo: Another awesome disc of unearthed Nigerian music, this time from the Guitar-Boy Superstar. V/A Basic Channel 2: Some of the most perfect techno EVER. Rare 12" tracks finally on cd! V/A Eccentric Soul: Tragar & Note Labels: Another killer reissue on Numero Group! Venetian Snares: Another disc of twisted rhythms and head spinning drill and bass madness. VSS: One of the greatest records EVER finally reissued. Manic new wave post hardcore whatthef*k! The Wandering Midget: Classic doom from Finland, with a totally over the top vocalist and KILLER riffs. Wold: Moosejaw duo unveil they're latest and noisiest black metal masterpiece yet. Woods Family Creeps: Fractured lo-fi pop genius! And more more more. Finally before we get to the list, there's a few special events n' things that we should mention, that locals ought to know about: Our Pals MATMOS are doing a special live performance for Irwin's radio show "Sleeves on Hearts" tomorrow morning, Friday July 11th, at 11am. Tune into KUSF 90.3fm, or got to www.kusf.org to listen online. Also available at itunes...radio..public...kusf That's in anticipation of the show the next evening, KUSF & KFJC co-presenting MATMOS & WOBBLY at the Great American Music Hall, Saturday July 12th! Also on Saturday, little girls will be rockin' the Bottom Of The Hill in the afternoon. Former AQ-er Sally has been volunteering to teach drums at the first ever Bay Area Girls Rock Camp!! The girls learn their instruments in the mornings and then spend the afternoons in workshops and mostly practicing with their bands (they form the first day of camp) to write one original song that each band will perform on Saturday, July 12th, 3pm (doors at 2) at Bottom of the Hill! $10-$15 sliding scale. All ages (of course). Here's some more info about the camp: http://www.bayareagirlsrockcamp.org/ And here's a link to buy tickets to the show: http://www.bottomofthehill.com/calendar.html And then next week, the Mission Creek Music Festival gets under way. Among the many cool shows, our own Jim Haynes will be performing at something called Collision, on Thursday, July 17th. Also appearing on the bill: Sokai Stilhed and darwinsbitch. it's at New Langton Arts, 1246 Folsom Street (between 8th and 9th streets). Doors at 7:30pm, performances at 8pm. $12-$15 sliding scale. For more information on this and other performances at the Mission Creek Music Festival: http://www.mcmf.org Also, later this month, get ready, HARVEY MILK is confirmed for an AQ instore performance!!!! Monday July 28th, at 6pm. Don't miss it. Guaranteed to be our heaviest instore ever... unless we convince them to perform acoustically, which would be rad too!! And also don't miss their show at the Great American Music Hall the night before, Sunday the 27th. And finally, it's official, another Boredoms multiple drummer blow out. This one on the very mystical date of 8.8.08, with 88 drummers this time. Andee and Michael will be doing it again, as will a whole bunch of Bay Area drummers. And West Coasters rejoice! This time it's happening in L.A. More info soon. But as any of you who made it to the 7.7.07 blowout, it will be awesome! Ok, that's about it. On with the list, and enjoy your Friday!!! Andee's off to the airport. And will be sure to report back on his weekend of grunge! --------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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 #297 <><><><><> <><><><><> July 25, 2008 <><><> <><><><><> Beloved Customers and Friends: It used to be that we ended each New Arrivals list with a quote, something we found in a magazine (usually The Wire) or online or something. But also sometimes it was just something funny somebody around here happened to say. Well Andee just made an observation that struck us as good list-quote material, to wit: "The list would be a whole lot easier without pants." We think he meant, he'd like to be able to work on it from home... we think... Anyway, here we are again with a new New Arrivals list! Yay. Let's get right to it, though Andee and Allan have two words for anyone who wonders what they did last weekend: CALIFORNIA EXTREME! They (along with Andee's lady friend Heather) made their first visit to the annual video arcade and pinball game expo in San Jose last Saturday, it was awesome!! We recommend checking it out next year. There were, like, 400 vintage games there, stuff we'd totally forgotten about or never ever before seen (including some one of a kind prototypes). Ok, ok, on with the list... Three, count 'em, three Records Of The Week this week! Quest For Blood: freaked out free jazz flute meets Japanese folk ritual and blasting black metal... Circle's label Ektro put it out, but Andee's jealous tUMULt didn't get to do it! Pumice: the damaged distorted drone pop of NZ's Stefan Neville keeps getting better and better, this one blew us away. Paavoharju: the fantastical fairytale forest-folk-pop of Finland's finest is simply delicious. And a whole bunch of Highlights... Absolut Null Punkt: Live electro-industrial improv on the edge of noise from two Japanese heavyweights. Oren Ambarchi: The guitar drone experimentalist's entry in the Table of the Elements ltd. 12" series. Banks Bailey / Darren Tate / Ian Holloway: Ltd. cd-r of droning crackling ambience from Tate and friends. The Believer: The 2008 Music Issue including a US Black Metal forum and Souled American appreciation!! Archie Bell & The Drells: Reissue of the rad 1968 album with funky hit "Tighten Up" and others. Jorge Ben: A swell 1969 psychedelic samba album reissued. Blevin Blectum: New solo disc of experimental electronica from ex-Blectum From Blechdom Blevin. Blue Mountain: Long overdue reissue from this legendary No Depression band w/ bonus tracks! The Bug: Kevin Martin's dancehall dubsteb juggernaut returns! Continuum: Finally repressed, 1st time at AQ, volume 1 of this Fear Falls Burning/Bass Communion collab. Daturah: More moody post-rock instrumentals from these Mogwai-ish, Godspeed-y Germans. Dead Can Dance: The first (and our favorite) album from this classic 4AD act reissued! Kevin Drumm: Hypnotic hellishness on 2 discs, wherein feedback disease dissolves into ambient prettiness. Emeralds: Dense drone space synth bliss out from this Midwestern trio! Expo '70 / Be Invisible Now!: Split cd-r from modern US and Italian krautdrone space rockers. Ben Frost: A mind blowing record of dark metallic electronic brooding weirdness. Not new, but definitely a new favorite. Futurians: Super limited lathe cut, of hiss soaked sludgey in-the-red garage stomp from New Zealand. Gilberto Gil: Another amazing reissue from this Brazilian Tropicalia psych legend. Gridlink: New band from Discordance Axis' Jon Chang. 11 songs. 12 minutes. Devastating metallic art grind nearly as good as the late great DA. John Hill: Legendary lost spoken word spiritual free jazz space rock buried treasure. Extremely freaked outsider I Shalt Become: First record in a decade from this Midwestern horde. Blissed out fuzzy gauzy blackened doom bliss. Grim but so pretty. Khan: Spaced out 1972 prog reish, featuring future Gong-er Steve Hillage on guitar. Krallice: Members of Orthrelm/Octis/Ocrilm, Behold... The Arctopus, and Bloody Panda get very black metal indeed. Masonna: Second volume of super rare Japanese noise from the master! Monolake: Remastered reissue of this ol' opiated Chain Reaction classic! Motorspandex: 7" of bizarre Circle-related "New Wave Of Finnish Heavy Metal" action! Nachtmystium: Pink Floyd meets black metal on the latest from Chicago psychedelic BM outfit. Nadja x 2: A brand new release, and a past favorite now on vinyl. Massive metallic shoegaze bliss. Njiqahdda: First actual cd release from these unblack masters. More fractured blackened doomdrone metal mesmer. Orchestra Ethiopia - Ethiopiques 23: Latest in this kick ass series! 23 and not a bad one in the bunch. Pantaleimon: Sparse delicate hazy folk remixes from this Polaris: Most recent record from these UK math/post rockers. Channeling nineties, Ragga Twins: Essential collection of tracks from these legendary ragga jungle pioneers. Ravjunk: Double disc reissue of heavy Swedish underground progg-punk circa 1976-'77! Dag Rosenqvist & Rutger Zuydervelt: Jasper TX and Machinefabriek together again. 'Nuff said! Seconds In Formaldehyde: Gorgeous glimmering and shimmering guitar drones, recorded live, limited to 100 copies. Sic Alps: Local noisepoppers cover Throbing Gristle on this one sided limited colored vinyl 7". Skull Defekts: The Defekts go drone. And we mean dense black hole soul crushing buzzing drone. So great!Slough Feg: Finally on (limited ed.) vinyl, the San Fran majestic metal masters' Hardworlder opus! Smorzando: Easily the best chunk of blown out depressive black metal weirdness so far this year! Sparks: Brand new record from these art pop faves. Studio: Better late that never for this 2007 release of cosmic disco instrumentals from the Swedish duo. Stunt Rock: Incredible 10"/book, of utter despair and despondency, gorgeous and fked up and funny and depressing and super limited. Svarte Greiner: More doom folk. A crazy limited cassette on Digitalis. Torche: Recent aQ Record Of The Week now on vinyl. Deluxe diecut packaging, picture disc. Total mind blowing sludge pop genius! Piero Umiliani: Killer collection of essential Italian soundtracks from this legendary composer. Urfaust: The return of one of our favorite black metal band EVER. The songs of fked up fractured crooned blackened weirdness. Mika Vainio: Gorgeous single of super minimal glitched and crackled dronescapes. Dennis Wilson: Finally reissued, this lost lush pop classic from the Beach Boy least likely to... Tons of extras. Wolf Eyes / Sickness: Incredible noise collab, not noisy as much as droney and dark and sinisterly menacing. And more, more, more, including a new ish of The Wire, Atlas Sound now on vinyl, a lovely new Steel Pan release on EM, hairy hippie heaviness reissued from The Edgar Broughton Band, a new Neubauten, a reissue of Nick Lowe's first album, and ltd. 7" by Texan stoners Tia Caerra covering Lungfish! Among other goodies. Oh and also, among the reviews below, you'll find Allan delving deeply into Dynasty by Kiss.... Ok, before we get on with the list, a few extra items of news and suchlike. You know how we did our list on a Thursday the other week when Andee had to go up to see the Sub Pop festival? Well we're gonna being doing the next list (#298) a few days early as well, fyi. Probably Wednesday, August 6th, instead of that Friday. That's because Andee is going to be in LA that day, 8/8/08 to drum in another Boredrum extravaganza! We mentioned it last time, right? AQ mailorder staffer Michael will also be a participant, as will Cup's special friend and I Am Spoonbender partner Dustin. So the AQ mailorder staff will be taking a little Boredoms vacation for a day or two, but we'll do our best to not have that slow anything up much. And if you're in L.A. be sure to come out for the show. It's at the La Brea Tar Pits! The Boredoms! Tar Pits! Woo Hoo!!!! Speaking of Michael in mailorder, sadly we'll soon be saying adieu to him... he's moving with his girlfriend to Chicago. Andee will be returning to the mailorder desk for a while to help out, and Scott will be pitching in too, until we find a permanent replacement. It's been a blast working with Michael and we wish him luck out in Chicago, where he'll be working in public radio! You local types, there's some stuff going on the next few days you might want to know about. First off, tomorrow, Saturday the 26th, Aquarius is co-presenting a screening of ANVIL: THE STORY OF ANVIL, a really awesome documentary film being shown as part of the Jewish Film Festival. It's at the Castro Theatre, 10pm. We might have mentioned it on this list a few months ago when Andee, Allan and Cup got a chance to see it at a private showing. It's all about the seminal Canadian speed metal band Anvil, still trying to make it big today years and years after their 15 minutes back in the '80s... but you don't have to be a fan of Anvil or even metal to enjoy it. It's brutally funny (in a Spinal Tap sort of way) and also brutally depressing (likewise... 'cause it's real). Anyone in a band, successful or otherwise, will be able to relate to stuff in this movie. But ultimately it's really a touching story of two friends, the two main dudes in Anvil, who fight all the time but really love each other like brothers. We give it hella thumbs up and recommend you see it!! And yes, Anvil are Jewish, that's why it's in the festival. AND, we have three pairs of tickets to give away. First three emails to arrive here with the subject ANVIL TIX!!!! will get a pair. Email your 'entry' to [email protected]. They're actual tickets too, so you'll have to come by the shop and pick them up. Be sure to include your name and email and phone number. Oh and we almost forgot. Lipps and Robb From the band will be there in person along with the director for a Q&A after the film! Plus if you miss the SF screening, or just need to see it again, it'll be playing in the East Bay too. See the end of the list for more details. And in case you had forgotten, this weekend is all about: HARVEY MILK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Their first trip to the West coast EVER. Their first time playing in SF EVER! It's gonna be so amazing. DO NOT MISS IT!! You will regret it forever! Sunday night, at the Great American Music Hall!! With openers Wildildlife, newly relocated to Seattle but coming all the way down here to play this show! AND, we have FIVE PAIRS OF TICKETS to give away! Since the show is this weekend, this will not be a random drawing. The first 5 emails with the subject HARVEY MILK TIX will each receive a pair of free tickets. Sooooo, send your email to [email protected]. Subject line: HARVEY MILK TIX. Be sure to include your full name, your email and a telephone number just in case. First five win. And as if ONE Harvey Milk show wasn't enough, they'll also be performing live, right here at aQuarius recOrds, Monday, at 5:00 pm. They'll be vying to steal the crown for loudest instore ever, held for nearly the last decade by Alec Empire. We have a feeling it will be no contest. So don't miss that either. Bring your earplugs, and apologies to our neighbors... And more weekend stuff to do: former AQ staffer and forever awesome chick Sadie Shaw is having a photo show this weekend, exhibiting her glamor pics at The Knockout bar on Mission Street not far from aQ... but it's not just a photo show, it's also a Rock n Roll Dance Party... '60s soul and garage with performances by Ty Segall, DX the Funky Granpa, and a special live secret guest. That's at The Knockout, 3223 Mission St. (at 29th), starting at 8pm on Saturday, July 26th. $5 cover for the entertainment. We're sure it will be fun! Also, if you get a chance, be sure an check out this Striborg primmer and interview our pal Roger put together: http://www.musiquemachine.com/articles/articles_template.php?id=136 Finally, as many of you know, and as was mentioned above, I (Andee) was in Seattle a couple weekends back for the big Sub Pop 20th Anniversary celebration. It was a total blast. Saw Green River who are one of my all time favorite bands and completely destroyed. As did Mudhoney. Seaweed, The Fluid, Red Red Meat, Les Thugs, Eric's Trip, all amazing... There was barely a disappointment the whole weekend. It was WAY too hot, but thankfully there was shade, and that shade was often right over the pit! Also had a huge two story arcade right across the street from my hotel, got to meet Sub Pop head honcho Jon Poneman, wandered around Seattle, saw a comedy show with Patton Oswalt, David Cross, Eugene Mirman and Todd Phillips, got to meet up with our much missed former employee Matt, even managed to buy some records! HUGE thanks to the Sub Pop folks who made me feel at home, Dean, Dean, Chris, Jon and all the people I'm sure I'm forgetting. Will write up a much more detailed review of the trip and the shows once our blog is up and running. SOON! We promise. Jeez that was a long intro. But c'mon, Boredoms, Anvil, Harvey Milk, Striborg, Sub Pop... Anyway, the intro is finally finished. And I know we say this everytime, but holy cow, there's just so much amazing music this week, guess it's best to just get to it... --------------------------------------------------------------- And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch! --------------------------------------------------------------- As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html -- to read the New Arrivals list online where you can SEE COVER ART and HEAR SOUNDCLIPS we prepared for you. 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 #298 /\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/ August 06, 2008 \/\/\/\/\/ /\/\/\/\/\ /\/\/\/\/\ Beloved Customers and Friends: Wow, weird. It's a Wednesday! We warned everybody last time, right? We're doing the list a few days early this week 'cause Andee's gotta be in LA on the usual list-Friday for the big Boredoms 8/8/08 Boredrum deal. He's playing in it (drummer number 67) like he did last year in Brooklyn. Since Allan doesn't like to do the list without Andee (in fact, probably couldn't do the list without Andee), we moved it up. But managed to review quite a few of the many rad cds, lps, etc. that have shown up here recently... more on those in a sec. So, Andee's leaving tomorrow to drive down to LA, Cup's going along too 'cause her special friend and I Am Spoonbender bandmate Dustin is also playing at the LA event (he's drummer #63). And very recent AQ alum Michael is also gonna be there (drummer #21). They're definitely gonna have fun. Everybody else here wishes they coulda gone too. Since Andee and Cup will be away, Scott will be attending to your mailorder needs for the next few days. In the week-and-a-half since the last list, things have been hopping. Of course, there were the Harvey Milk shows, hopefully the locals among you came out to see 'em, at the Great American, or The Stork, or here at AQ... Yep, the (1/4th of) Harvey Milk instore the monday before last was fantastic, thanks again to Creston for being such a good sport. He played solo, acoustically, doing a bunch of Harvey Milk numbers, a Leonard Cohen song or two, and finishing up with a charming version of "Three Is A Magic Number", a song we all know and love from Schoolhouse Rocks!! Believe it or not. It was also cool to see our pal, former AQ staffer Matt, back in town with his band Wildildlife to open for Harvey Milk at the GAMH and Stork shows. We miss that guy. The Anvil: The Story Of Anvil documentary at the Castro, co-sponsored by AQ, was also a rousing success. However, Allan was flummoxed afterwards, when on the way out the door, some fellow audience-member happened to ask him about the Anvil t-shirt ("Too Heavy For Whimps!") Allan was wearing. When Allan explained that he'd picked up the shirt at show Anvil had played in San Francisco about ten years ago, the guy looked confused and said, "But they're not a real band, are they?" Somehow this dude had watched the entire movie, AND seen the actual Anvil band members appear on stage in person afterwards for a Q&A, and was still under the mistaken impression that he'd been watching a fictional "mockumentary" a la Spinal Tap! Part of his confusion may have been that Anvil's drummer is coincidentally enough named Robb Reiner, and the band visits the actual Stonehenge while on tour... seeming Spinal Tap references those! But Allan eventually convinced the guy that Anvil is actually a real band. Anyway, such a good movie, look out for it to go on a national "tour" with Anvil playing live after the screenings, that's the plan!! What else? Well pretty much everyone here saw the Dark Knight of course. And then there's music, right? We were listening to a lot of music... here's some of it... THREE Records Of The Week, just like last time!! As follows: Darkspace: Latest disc of blackened celestial genius, from this Swiss black metal trio, heavy and noisy, dense and weirdly psychedelic and completely overwhelming. Metal transformed into blown out frosty dronemusic, totally transcendent! John Cale & Terry Riley: John Cale! Terry Riley! Together!! Free rock meets modern minimalism, experimental jazz meets baroque pop, and somehow it all sounds incredible... reissued cd version of this 1971 classic. Corrupted: They're Japanese, they sing in Spanish, this is their debut, available again, and it still destroys all other slow and low ultra doooooooooooooooooom! And then a plethora of Highlights, of course: Abe Vigoda: Super charged angular punk a la fellow LA noisemakers No Age. Acre: A single massive, epic, layered drone spread out over two sides of an lp. Aemae / Arastoo: Two local artists team up for some gorgeous processed piano based modern minimalism. Ajilvsga: Latest tape from these dirgey droners, featuring Brad from Digitalis. Super limited! Alva Noto: Brand new disc of high concept robotic future funk, incredible collection of clipped skitter and thump. If only we were robots... Ashtorath: Last release on NOTHingness, like some fked up droney avant horror movie soundtrack. Creepy and intense! Bad Party: Grungy, crusty, snotty, new wave-y aggro garage stomp, Brainbombs meets Big Black meets the Stooges. Aidan Baker x 2: TWO cd reissues of long out of print cd-r's. You do probably need to buy them. Again. Bass Communion: Newest disc from this Porcupine Tree drone side project, equal part shimmering ambience, and crushing buzzing drone. Bipolaroid: Long awaited 2nd album from this Floyd meets Hawkwind druggy pop psych act from New Orleans! Bixobal: Newest issue of one of our favorite 'zines around! Jefre Cantu-Ledesma / Paul Clipson: Ultra limited dvd-r featuring a reworked version of an out of print cd-r set to a gorgeous super 8 film. Cold Sun: Legendary Texas psych gem finally reissued! Dwellers Of The Twilight: Blazing buzzing furious black metal from France. Empire Auriga: Super tripped out gloomy industrial blackend spaced out sort-of-metal. A huge favorite around here. Lawrence English: Killer drone record, newest release on Touch from this long time aQ favorite. Envy / Jesu: Japanese split, a whole new direction for Envy, more blissed out eighties shoegaze from Jesu. Exxasens: Awesome cd-r of super rocking mathy Spanish post rock. The Fun Years: Turntables and baritone guitar, think Philip Jeck meets Nadja, blissed out moody and beautiful. Ghast / Yoga: Killer split, Ghast from Canada, a sort of fractured doom, Yoga from Portland, a murky blurred blackened mystery. Gilberto Gil: Another reissue, another Tropicalia classic available again. Goldmund: Dark and delicate piano, intimate and so lovely. Half Makeshift: Deep dark blackened drone drenched doomscapes from this one man band. Heavy Winged: Super limited tour only cd-r of furious repetitive hypnotic far out modern psychrock. Hum Of The Druid / Fire In The Head: Two bands, both sides thick and heavy and corrosive and noisy and awesome! I Am Seamonster: Washed out gauzy buzzy drone music, a la Jeck or Fennesz. Limited to 100 copies and housed in a metal tin. Ryoji Ikeda: The Japanese master of austere clinical minimalism returns. Another disc of incredible sounds that test the limits of human hearing. Klabautamann: Mysterious convoluted melodic black metal featuring members of aQ faves Woburn House. Finally available again! Koenjihyakkei: New DVD from this incredible prog combo, featuring Yoshida of the Ruins. Late Young: Tantric new wavey, Swansy, Godfleshy, heavy and druggy and spacey. Josh Lay: Drummer from Cadaver In Drag, makes on of the best noisedrone records we've heard in ages. Lull & Beta Cloud: Mick Harris teams up with Beta Cloud for some seriously blackened deep ambience. Machinefabriek: Super limited cd-r of surprisingly heavy live performances from this prolific crafter of drones. Manbeard / Avarus: Finnish Forest Folk meets twisted folk cabaret from post Urdog outfit. Meneguar: Spacey, folky, fractured modern indie pop that harkens back to the nineties heyday! The ( ) Moppers: Minimal low end rhythmic explorations. Housed in super intense hand made collaged sleeves. WAY limited. Nadja: Finally, the latest disc from this dynamic and prolific duo, another gorgeous slab of blissed out heaviness. Nordvargr: Some of the most grim, abject black ambience ever from this ex-member of MZ412, with guest vocals from Leviathan's Wrest! Omake & Johnson: fked up warbly damaged experimentalism from Matt Shoemaker and partner. Padded Cell: Groovy, seventies style, sinister and stylish proggy funk from the UK. Pantaleimon: Gorgeous, dreamy, breathtaking loveliness, a big aQ favorite. Pillars Of Silence: Dreamy folky pop from right here in SF! Pole: First three seminal albums of blissed out minimal techno dub, reissued all together, with bonus tracks. Portal: Insane twisted and freakishly f**ked up death metal classic from down under now on vinyl! Terry Riley: Archival release of live Terry Riley solo organ bliss, Shri Camel era. Rogue Male: Second record from these Motorhead obsessed UK New Wave Of British Heavy Metallers. Sic Alps: Latest from these local noise poppers, noisy and sunny and hook filled. Like The Hollies on Siltbreeze. Sleepy Sun: Druggy bluesy psychedelia on 7" from Santa Cruz. Tape: Beautiful swirling synthy dreaminess from this Swedish trio. To Blacken The Pages: A fantastic collection of subtle guitar twang and smoldering black drone. Today Is The Day: Long overdue reissue from these masters of super intense mathy metallic mayhem. U.S. Christmas: Latest from Neurot Records, strangely named band that kick out the echoey psychedelic space rock jams. V/A Ed Rec Vol. III: The dancefloor destroyer of the year! V/A Resonant Embers: Excellent collection of modern minimal experimental music, featuring tons of aQ faves. V/A Victrola Favorites: This former Record of the Week finally available again!!!! V/A Well Hung: Killer collection of '70s Hungarian fuzzed out funk rock on Finders Keepers. Velnias: Epic classic raw black metal from Chicago, with hints of doom, post, and math rock. Heavy and intense. Ricardo Villalobos: Magma meets minimalist techno on this hypnotic 12"! Wereju: A gorgeous disc of fuzzy drone music from this doom metal side project. Limited and housed in a cool metal tin. Wormwood: Final farewell 7" from these North Western crusty metallic masters. Two killer songs, mind blowing packaging. The Wounded Kings: Classic modern doom metal for fans of Witchcraft and Electric Wizard! Zelienople: Super limited dvd-r, dreamy smoky post rock set to abstract film, gorgeous sounding, and fantastic looking. And lots more. Including the second installment of Allan's Kiss reviews project (this time: Music From The Elder!). Also, be sure to look at the special section we've put at the end of this week's list, that gives an inventory of all the goodies (books, box sets, etc.) we have behind/above the counter here at AQ... stuff that's easy to overlook in the store, being hard to see and half hidden sometimes. If you want one of those just copy, cut and paste it into the comments section. The used items are obviously the only copies we have, but if we run out of one of the other things you were hoping to grab, we can most likely order you another! Also, we're proud to co-present with KUSF, the return of the Dead C, performing live at the Great American Music Hall. Along with another aQ fave, Six Organs Of Admittance. It's not until October, but we figured we'd give you a good heads up, so you could plan accordingly. it's October 16th. At the Great American Music Hall. It's $20. Doors 7:30, Show 8. Another early one. Like the Harvey Milk show that loads of people almost missed cuz of the early showtime. And once again, we have free tickets to give away, 3 pairs! All you have to do is email [email protected] with the subject DEAD C TIX. we'll pick three lucky winners at random. Good luck! That's it, we gotta get to bed. Some of us have to drive to LA tomorrow. Enjoy the music. We'll have more for you in two short weeks.... --------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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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avestin Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 18 2005 Status: Offline Points: 12625	Posted: September 06 2008 at 13:38
	l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l Aquarius Records l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l New Arrivals #300 l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l 05 September 2008 l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l Beloved Customers and Friends: Wow. List 300. Who woulda thunk? That's a lot of lists. We'll pat ourselves on the back later, when we're actually sending this out at 3am... All we can think now is, thanks to anyone and everyone who's been reading our lists (and buying from us) for all these years and years. And those who maybe just recently discovered us, thanks for tuning in too! Onward to list 400! We did have some ideas for something different to do for this 300th list milestone... like trying to write 300 reviews this time... thank god we didn't do that! Eventually we did decide on a little something special, you'll have to read elsewhere further down in this week's list to find out what it's gonna be... Our Record Of The Week this week is from an old reliable: the ever-wonderful Expo '70, whose latest 2nd 'real' cd (after many cd-rs) is a limited edition release on the Beta-Lactam label. For those of you, like, us, who looooove guitardrone spaceout krauty cosmic heaviness n' bliss, Expo '70's Black Ohms is of course a must-have. (And there's -another- Expo '70 related release just below, in the Highlights!) Those Highlights... Asbestoscape: One of the best (and only) metalgaze-meets-jungle albums of the year, can't believe it's just a self-released cd-r. John Baker: Part two of this BBC Radiophonic Workshop composer's collected works. Matt Bauer: A haunting song cycle from this folk troubadour. Birchville Cat Motel: A triple cd-r of NZ drone overload genius, live! And limited. Birushanah: Japanese band combining doomic heaviness with wyrd folk, like Corrupted meets Ghost! The Black Angels: Super shoegazey druggy retro-psych-pop a la VU, Spacemen 3, and Wooden Shjips. Black Boned Angel: Ultra limited tour only cd-r from these AQ fave NZ doomdroners! Byetone: Raster-Noton electronica for Pan Sonic fans! Crossface / Schnauzer: A split 7" featuring what sounds like Fozzy The Bear fronted scuzzy metallic hardcore (that's the Schnauzer side). Crystal Stilts: Seductive stripped down psychedelic garagey post-punk from NYC. Andrew Raffo Dewar: Weird avant jazz with droney flutes, fantastic! Don Caballero: Thee instrumental mathrock masters 7th album - with some singing this time, too! Duchess Says: Mathy, new wave-y riot grrl disco prog??! We love it. Harry Pussy: Live and limited, a cd-r documenting the insanity of this seminal '90s noiserock band. Hi-God People / Zond: Sludgey noise drenched garage stomp meets abstract damaged free folk. High Mountain Tempel: Eastern tinged ur-drone ritual music from some lost land... Matt Hill / Duane Pitre / Justin Wright (Expo '70): Guitardronebliss from Expo '70s JW and cohorts, solo and together. Ian Holloway: A gorgeous disc of dronemusic from this new drone discovery. Irr. App. (Ext.): A live record from one of our favorite surrealist dada rock explorers. Isis: The fourth live vinyl volume, limited of course, from these postrock, metalcore heroes. Kawabata Makoto & Michishta Shinsuke: A Japanese underground psych summit, from the leaders of AMT and LSD-march! Neu! x 3: Three motorik krautrock essentials finally reissued again!! Cian Nugent: Takoma-ish folk raga from this brilliant young Irish guitarist. Omit: New double cd of skeletal drone and electronic rhythm from this NZ outsider experimental genius. Oxbow: Vinyl-only live release from these unique, angsty artrockers, one side stripped-down and acoustic, the other with guest including members of SUNNO))) and Jesu! Pram: These old faves at their most lust, vivid, and cinematic! Q65: A collection of freakbeat psych from this incredible '60s Dutch band, who should be at least as well known as the Pretty Things, if not the Stones! Replacements x 4: These old punk, pop faves reissued! Rocket From The Crypt: Raw garage punk from these seminal San Diego rockers practice space demos! Rodriguez: Fuzz-soul-psych from this Dylanesque Detroit singer/poet, a 1970 classic finally getting a deluxe domestic reissue! Skaters: Super limited vinyl, recorded in Mexico, the floorcore psychsters most dim and eerie set yet. Skin Horse: Mathy postrock slowcore ambience from these local heavies, self released limited cd-r edition. Sleestak: Record number two from this now defunct Man Is The b****d offshoot. They would transform into aQ faves Geronimo!! Stone Harbour: A holy grail of homemade basement psychedelia, circa '74, finally reissued! Terrorizer: The essential magazine of 'extreme' metal, which we'll be carrying regularly from now on, at last. Tussle: SF's rhythmic post-punkers get extra cosmic and spacier on their latest. V/A Cosmarama: Blow Your Cool 2: More awesome vintage prog-psych heaviness, compiled by Nick Saloman. V/A Swinging Mademoiselles Deux: Another great collection of female fronted French pop treats from the past. V/A Trogotronic: Heavy comp of bands like Geronimo using the latest in Trogotronic brand electronic noisemaking devices. Jozef Van Wissem: Glacially glorious avantgarde Renaissance lute playing here. Vulcans: Early '70s UK proggers made some amazing, sci-fi dub reggae, believe it or not! Wildildlife: These AQ-pals are even crazier and heavier LIVE, as on this ltd. edition live-at-WFMU cd-r. And loads more, as usual. Including, again, a Kiss album revisited. And a couple cool new Omni titles (Biff Rose and Hugo Montenegro). And some neat now-on-vinyl releases, a bunch of limited and out of print cd-r's, and, well yeah, lot lots more. To wrap up, on the occasion of this, our 300th list, need it be said, we REALLY appreciate every dollar you spend here, instead of someplace else. Thank you, 'cause it's how we can keep doing what we love to do... and what you hopefully like us to be doing too. And please please help spread the word. Tell your friends about our shop, forward other music obsessives our list, we may not always be the fastest, but we might be the friendliest, and we're quite possibly the most passionate, at least we try to be. And we want to stick around as long as folks still want to buy records and cds, cuz we can't imagine a world without record stores. We have lots of cool stuff coming up, soon we'll have some aQ blogs, a podcast, several long overdue upgrades to the aQ website, the first in a series of super kick ass, super limited custom artist designed aQ shirts, and a bunch more. Some big surprises too!!! Stay tuned... Also, we're super excited to announce an upcoming instore, September 24th, NY's space rock, drone rock outronauts White Hills will be performing a special blissed out set, just for the instore, so be sure not to miss that, we'll send out an announcement closer to the date. And... don't forget about the big Halloween show, Corrupted, here for the first time in 11 years, all the way from Japan, along with Ludicra and Asunder. We have free tickets to give away. To be put in the running, just email [email protected] with the subject line CORRUPTED TIX. We'll draw names at random before the next list. Finally, one of our all time favorite records, a 4 disc set in fact, which we've sold nearly 1000 copies of here at aQ, and which has been sadly out of print for ages, is available once again. THE CONET PROJECT, a collection of recordings of mysterious numbers stations broadcasts, has not been reissued, instead, it's now available as a free download here: http://irdial.hyperreal.org/the%20conet%20project/ Okay, that's it, enjoy the sounds, and again, thanks for sticking with us for 300 Lists! Here's to 300 more!!! --------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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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	+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+( O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O( Aquarius Records +O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+( New Arrivals #301 O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O( 19 September 2008 +O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+( Beloved Customers and Friends: Greetings! Back again with yet another list, and we modestly think, it's a doozy. First off, anyone who was bummed that our last list didn't have much in the way of the good ol' black metal on it (nothin' but one measly live Gorgoroth disc, believe it or not) will find we made up for that with a whole lotta evil, blackened treats this time 'round, including two Deathspell Omega documents, a new Striborg, THREE Dead Reptile Shrines and more. Also, we've got three killer Records of the Week this time. And the usual slew of limited cd-rs and cassettes and vinyls and stuff. Well, we'll save our breath for the highlights section immediately below... First, though, we'd better announce that we've got a cool event happenin' here at the store TOMORROW, local folks should come on down (well, you should come on down even if we weren't having an event) for the 3rd Annual KFJC Penny Pitch. What that means, one of our favorite radio stations, KFJC 98.7 is gonna be broadcasting all afternoon from the sidewalk outside of AQ!! It's the kickoff of their fundraising season. They did it here last year too and it was a blast. It's gonna be from 1pm to 6pm, with five KFJC DJs doing their shows, and tons of good food, giveaways and all sorts of other cool stuff. Should be super fun and festive. Also, today was the deadline for entries to the special, 'hidden' contest we had on list #300. We're giving away a $100 gift certificate, and the winner is... Mr. Barney Grubbs! Congratulations, Barney. And thanks to everyone else, who read list #300 closely enough to enter. We'll be doing other giveaways and stuff on a more regular basis, we'll keep you posted. And we have -another- set of contest winners to announce too: for the Corrupted ticket giveaway, our lucky winners are Eric Sculley, Daniel Taylor, Isaac Ontiveros! Congrats you three, see you at Slim's on Halloween, dooming out!! Didn't win? Well, we've got another ticket giveaway this list, for the Peter Hammill show at the Great American Music Hall on September 30th. Just email to [email protected] with "Peter Hammill Ticket Contest" in the subject line, we'll pick winners next Friday the 26th. We'll be giving away 2 pairs of tickets to see this rare Stateside solo show from the leader of one of our favorite '70s British prog rock bands, Van Der Graaf Generator, so good luck. Another show we should mention: AQ fave spacerockers White Hills from Brooklyn! Actually 2 shows. One a specially spaced-out, more mellow and ambient instore performance here at Aquarius on September 24th, that's next Wednesday, 6pm. The other, on Monday Sept. 29th, is at The Knockout bar on Mission Street. White Hills will be performing live n' loud, as part of the "Two Hours Of Krautrock II" video extravaganza being put on by WAR 93.7fm's Klaus To The Edge DJs - who are our Allan and former AQer Alison. We'll be screening a bunch of classic krautrock footage, high quality stuff from the likes of Lucifer's Friend, Can, Scorpions, Dies Irae, Seesselberg, Tangerine Dream, Kraan, Frumpy, and tons more. Please come check it out, it's gonna be rad! 10pm, $5, 3223 Mission St. One more show you need to save the date for: the FRISCO FREAKOUT! Saturday, October 11th. An all-day, all-night "psychedelic dance party" featuring a who's who of underground California psych rock: Earthless, Crystal Antlers, Wooden Shjips, the Bad Trips, Sleepy Sun, Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound, Greg Ashley, Ascended Master, Art Lessing and the Flower Vote. Wow! And it's all for a good cause, in benefit of Creativity Explored. All ages, 2pm, $15, at Thee Parkside. Don't miss it!! More info: www.myspace.com/friscofreakout or www.friscofreakout.com Ok, better get on with the list, we've been breaking our backs to get it done early tonight, 'cause Andee and Allan and Cameron and and bunch of our friends all have tickets to see the big CARCASS reunion show this evening!!! Heck probably every metalhead in San Francisco will be there. We sure don't want to miss it. The best death metal / grind / gore band EVER! And none of us had ever gotten a chance to see 'em before, didn't think we ever would. We are CHUFFED. Tell you all about it next time. So, those three Records Of The Week, they are... Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffalo: Mind blowing reissue of this '70 Japanese psychedelic artifact. Intense African drumming meets jazz meets acid rock proto metal prog. Possibly the reissue of the year! Darsombra: Second disc of brooding kraut flecked, spaced out blackened ambience, definitely for fans of Expo '70 and other dark droners... Woven Hand: Latest disc of apocalyptic bluegrass gothic folk from David Eugene Edwards, formerly of 16 Horsepower. The heaviest WH yet! And the many Highlights this list... Acid Mothers Temple: Brand new studio album from this, the latest incarnation of the ever shifting Japanese rock collective. Alps: Super limited vinyl version of the new album, Morricone twang meets krautrock groove meets new age shimmer. Anduin: Souvenir's Young America frontman makes his own dark and dreamy harmonica flecked drone disc. Arckanum: Brand new record of furious black metal from this Swedish legend, amazing production and new found groove... Mulatu Astatke: Stellar reissue for Ethiopian groove fans!! Hoyt Axton: UFOs, LSD, and country-folk, reissued from the guy that wrote "The Pusher". John Baker: A vinyl collection of the best tracks from the two cd volumes of recordings from this BBC Radiophonic Workshop legend. Blue Sabbath Black Cheer: Super limited two song 12" of nihilistic, doom drenched, black ambient anti-music. Calexico: Latest from these cinematic desert rockers, reviewed by ANDEE'S MOM!!!! Circle X: Amazing disc of fractured drum heavy, early eighties post punk, new (no) wave weirdness. The Comas: Fuzz drenched kick ass pop, like Flaming Lips crossed with Elephant 6, but crunchier and heavier. Common Eider, King Eider: Latest disc of ethereal folky drone from Rob Fisk, formerly of Deerhoof. Conifer: New disc of gorgeous metallic post rock, from one of our favorites, featuring a guest vocal cameo by Oxbow's Eugene Robinson. Edmond De Dyster: Second lp collecting the long lost unheard analog synthesizer recordings from this mysterious musical recluse. Dead Reptile Shrine x 3: THREE new tapes from these freaky Finnish black metal weirdos, two reissues and a BRAND NEW ALBUM. Deathspell Omega x 2: Long overdue reissues from these black metal legends, one disc of splits and comp tracks, one disc of totally unreleased material! Diplo: Bumpin' mega mix from DJ Diplo with Santogold on board!! Flying Lotus: Debut release of cosmic electronic hip hop from this bigtime aQ fave. Giant Sand: The return of one of our favorite bands ever (Calexico were once the GS rhythm section), dark and languorous desert twang. Godflesh: One of THE greatest extreme metal records ever, reissued on vinyl. Before Jesu, there was GODFLESH! Growing: Latest from this duo, another fantastic collection of looped repetitive trance inducing space rock, but minus the rock! Higuma: Super limited solo cd-r from one half of Barn Owl, a gorgeous collection of soft sweet vocals and smokey shimmery drones. Inca Ore / Grouper: Long out of print tape, finally available on lp, a lovely collection of washed out gauzy ambient folkmusic. Isolde: Ultra limited cd of super minimal drone / guitar music, featuring long time aQ fave Andrew Chalk. Amazing packaging! Jabaldav: Single disc version of the now out of print double cd-r boxset, total Weakling worship! Twisted Black Flag-ed black metal. Jacaszek: One of our new favorite drifting of to sleep records, somber, shimmery, minimal and lovely. Vikki Jackman: Gorgeous gauzy abstract piano music, released on Andrew Chalk's label and of course incredibly limited. Jesu: Finally on cd, the tracks from a recent vinyl only split, with two bonus remixes. More gorgeous washed out metallic bliss. Khold: The black metal Nirvana? These blackenedmastersof buzz and groove return with a record that almost sounds way more punk than metal. Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat: Brand new disc of apocalyptic folk, noisier and dronier and heavier and darker than previous releases. Lascoviec: CD reissue of two long out of print demos from this SF black metal horde, fuzzy, and buzzy, and washed out weird! Lucky Dragons: Head spinning disc of repetitive, looped, fractured beat flecked weirdness. Groovy, hypnotic, trippy, definitely hard to describe... Machinefabriek & Stepehn Vitiello: Collaboration between these two soundmakers, both using atypical instrumentation. Dark and drone-y. John Maus: This bizarre and warped outsider pop gem, finally available on vinyl. Nathaniel Mayer: Kick ass disc of modern greasy, stoned retro garage rock, fronted by a genuine old school soul singer. Metal Rouge: First proper cd release from this LA / NZ drone duo. Super limited, gorgeous packaging. Guitar and dulcimer and lots and lots of FX! MIJ: Fantastic and far out ESP reissue from the Yodeling Astrologer. As weird and wonderful as you might imagine. Milton Nascimento: One of the best psychedelic pop records ever from this legend. Noism: Absolutely insane hyperspeed programmed beat, grinding metal mash-up, a million beats per minute, guitars chopped into fragments. WOW. The North Sea: Two long tracks of thick corrosive drones from Digitalis head honcho. SUPER LIMITED cd-r. Linda Perhacs: This legendary folk masterpiece, reissued again with extra tracks! Peste Noire: Debut from these French black metal weirdos, heavy and pretty and seriously twisted. Features members of Alcest and Amesoeurs. Pocahaunted: Drones and dubbed outbeats and wordless vocal shimmer from this dynamic female soft-noise duo. Proscriptor: Latest solo disc from the drummer of Absu, tripped out eighties soundtrack music, and total Tangerine Dream / Goblin worship. Rodriguez: Now on limited ed. vinyl, the reissue of 1970 Dylanesque fuzz soul psych reviewed last time on cd. Sombres Forets: Disc number two from these Canadaian depressive black metal masters. Mournful, sorrowful, miserable, suicidal blackened beauty. Starving Weirdos: Super limited tape from these Humboldt noisemakers, some serious skronky jazz mixed in with the usual drone drenched ambience. Striborg: Newest and possibly weirdest release from long time aQ faves, rain forest black metal eccentric Sin-Nanna and his Striborg. Teenage Jesus And The Jerks: Lydia Lunch and her seminal band get the deluxe reissue treatment. Chrissy Zebby Tembo & Ngozi Family: Kick ass lo-fi '70s Afro fuzz rock reissue, maybe the best yet! Thou: First album from these super heavy slow motion heaviness from these doomlords, blown out and brutal, feedback drenched tarpit sludge! V/A Death Before Distemper Vol. 2: Rad DC Recordings disc of modern electro pop disco that sounds seriously vintage! V/A Okkulte Stimmen Mediale Musik: WEIRD box set, recordings of ghosts and possessions and exorcisms and speaking in tongues and EVP, oh my! Porter Wagoner: A kick ass reissue featuring two classics from this country legend. Weed: Long overdue reissue of this 1971 stoner kraut / prog classic. Young Widows: Bass heavy, sweaty, filthy, bloody, groovy noise rock, like old Nirvana mixed with Jesus Lizard. Or something equally kick ass. Plus a whole lot more, including an amazing and ridiculously comprehensive death metal book, the new issue of The Wire, the new Metallica (which we've rocked out to more than we'd like to admit), new David Grubbs, a John Darnielle novel about Black Sabbath's Master Of Reality, another fantastic Dr. Boogie collection, a new, poppy Negativland, a Ryoji Ikeda reissue, as well as the first review on the aQ list from Andee's Mom, hopefully not the last, and more more more... Plus as we mentioned before, we have some blog action happening. One of them is up and running. Hopefully it will be a good place to check between lists for new arrivals, super limited stuff that wouldn't normally make it to the list, as well as other cool aQ stuff. Check it out here: http://www.aquariusrecordsblog.blogspot.com And if we can get it together, we might even get a second blog up and running, one that's less business, and more fun and weird, with random stuff, show reviews, ramblings, or whatever, then again, who knows, maybe we'll just cram the two together. But for now check the link above every few days, and you're bound to discover plenty of new and exciting music and stuff... Okay, that should be it. Hopefully see you tomorrow at the KFJC Penny Pitch, or next week at the White Hills instore, or maybe.... ...tonight at CARCASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Okay, we gotta run, thanks as always, and as always, we hope you dig all these amazing 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. 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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