HANSON RECORDS



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Found a few copies of this Michigan NO WAVE / NOISE classic in the attic!!!! Contains tracks recorded 1993-1994 right before I joined the band for their final 7 inch and tour.

HANSON



Debut vinyl from California sound artist Tom Darksmith. Crude musique concrète made using tapes, voice, records, radio, guitar, drums, objects, domestic and field recordings. Assembled on cassette four track 2008-2009. A disturbing collection of sounds...lots of sounds...unknown sounds...I have no clue what is going on on this record....Tom says there is guitar, drums, etc on this...but I don't hear them...what I hear is: The sound of my neighbor weedwacking, the sound of being zipped into a suitcase then shipped via train, ghost voices roaming in sewers, the sound of riding in a helicopter with mid-grade noise reduction earmuffs on, a shitty metal door being locked on a crew of mumbling idiots...and every now and again...a garbage disposal....this is what I hear....no clue what you will hear. A total mystery of perfectly paced organization of dirt sound...not harsh...not mellow...just dirty, weird, and confusing...and to quote the sleevenotes of the first few QUEEN LP's....'No Synthesizers!'.

Recommended for fans of Yeast Culture, Agog, Joe Colley, Graham Lambkin, Jason Lescalleet, Hands To, etc... Limited to 300 copies with hand-stamped labels, heavy duty two color silkscreened sleeves with the classic 'Hanson Droll Flaps' featuring hilariously dark 'Mom Costume' artwork by the artist himself, Tom Darksmith.

First 30 mailorder copies come with a bonus 3 inch cdr and 11x17 poster.

mp3 samples: Shared Empty Spaces excerpt -- Everything Is Breaking

HOSPITAL PRODUCTIONS



'A reissue of an obscure tour only recording from 2005 brings to the light the flikering dance of Mr yeh and his dives into organic drone music. Unlike the majority of his electronic compositions inside the shadow reveals three textures brought to life with violin , chimes and bells that defy most of the contemporaries limitations to synth only exercises. Yeh prooves the heart of landscape oriented linear composition is only limited by the imaginations of the creators and brings warmth to an otherwise cold genre with the flame of inside the shadow. '---LABEL DESCRIPTION


'After developing his caling card on adult life and the eternal releases Carlos giffoni defines his signature with compositional electronic music. Melding the analog drone colliding tonality of the past expressions and intoducing minimalist sequencer details a pure electronic landscape is cultivated that nurtures the formation a man makes in stepping from the mysteries of youth into adulthood. '---LABEL DESCRIPTION


'ten years has passed. massive, textural, throbbing, destructive, electronic, feedback drenched, power electronics and industrial noise with heavily processed vocals and field recordings dealing with vulnerability. uses some of the thirteenth century love poems of the persian poet rumi as lyrics. originally created in 2000 on cd with armageddon label this was the first widely distributed prurient full length and appears on vinyl for the first time now.'---LABEL DESCRIPTION

MEXICAN SUMMER



Killer private press quaalude rock...not something I usually carry, but this one really struck me because of my love of music from movies like THE VAN and POM POM GIRLS... not too far out, but VERY stoned...some groovy synth lines...I dig it..thought a few of you may as well.---Aaron Dilloway

'The first of many reissues on the Mexican Summer slate brings forth a 1976 private press affair from Georgia’s Robert Lester Folsom, a high-quality and shimmering, unbuttoned-collar collection of marina rock and sunset ballads. Vaguely psychedelic and professionally rendered, this is a strong and consistent brace of soft rock, staid yet breezy, and one of the only MS releases you can likely share with your parents (or grandparents) without strange looks or much argument. When this van’s a rockin’, don’t bother knockin’!'---LABEL DESCRIPTION

Limited edition...comes with MP3 download code


AMAZING Double LP set of Bobby BeauSoleil's mid-60's psychedelic freak band THE ORKUSTRA. Really strange melodic, lo-fi smokey tunes. Comes in HEAVY DUTY Gatefold w/ 18 page booklet w/ liner notes and amazing paintings/photos. Limited to only 1000 copies!!! Comes with mp3 Download code as well. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

'I had recently arrived in San Francisco when, in the fall of 1965, I conceived of assembling what I described then as 'the first electrified symphony orchestra.' My 18th birthday had just passed and I possessed only modest abilities as a musician, but, being prone to such crazy notions, the concept seemed perfectly reasonable-this was the Haight-Ashbury of the mid-sixties, after all! A few months later a stable musical ensemble somewhat resembling my original conception had come into existence.

What I had imagined would be an 'orchestra' of a dozen-or-so musicians proved in practice to be unmanageable. Instead, a coalition of five instrumentalists from various musical traditions—rock, classical, jazz, folk and blues—emerged as the core group. For what was essentially a reconceived rock band, the instrumentation was extremely unusual, comprising some combination of violin, oboe, standup bass, guitar, bouzouki, flute, organ, drums and percussion. All of the melodic instruments were modified for electric amplification.

The Orkustra's brief day in the sun did not allow an opportunity to record a formal album. However, some recordings of the band's practice sessions and live performances were made. These precious few artifacts have been carefully restored and compiled by Mexican Summer into a comprehensive double LP album.'---Bobby BeauSoleil, Summer 2009


2 track white label promo 7 inch...300 copies only.