07 MARCH 2010
Fault of Flowers: Kimio Mizutani and Love Live Life + 1
NEW RELEASES
Hey everyone! The deluge shows no signs of slowing with a mass of great titles making it to VT this week. The new limited art edition CD-R from big VT faves Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides, All Cows Are Sacred, on House Of Alchemy is just fantastic. Also scored the latest batch from Ultra Eczema, with a killer retrospective LP from Euro madman/artists/synth loner Cassis Cornuta as well as a new LP from Noise Nomads, an art zine from Dennis Tyfus and a split 7” from Agathocles/Sissy Spacek. New Woodsist releases with a CD/LP from Moon Duo (Wooden Shjips offshoot), an LP from The Art Museums (Glenn Donaldson plays UK-styled art pop) and a 7” EP from Woods. Also got a limited to 100 copies cassette from Peaking Lights on Fuck It Tapes. Buncha limited to 50 copies 3” CD-Rs on new label La Station Radar from Astral Social Club, Early Hominids, Bird and Richard Youngs & Andrew Paine. Unbelievable LP reissue of a killer biker/psych/cult private press album by Circuit Rider. Fans of Fraction’s Moonblood album need to check this out. Wild psych jams from Tony Conrad/Jutta Koether/John Miller on From The Nursery. Attic Cassettes is back with a great run of cassettes from Mukas Mules, Olive Seed Cinema, Rubberfish and Kat Fitzgerald. New CD-Rs on Daniel Lopatin of Oneohtrix Point Never’s label, Upstairs, from Innercity, Manic Shooter, and Geoff Mullen & Keith Fullerton Whitman. New self-released cassette from Leslie Keffer & Scott Martin/Hobbledeions. Necessary reissue of classic Japanese underground LP, Love Live Life + 1’s Love Will Make A Better You featuring guitar god Kimio Mizutani on Phoenix Records. Also scored an LP reissue of Kimio Mizutani’s only date as leader, 1971’s A Path Through Haze, on Therapeutic Records. Limited one-sided LP from Bill Nace (Northampton Wools/Vampire Belt), Too Dead For Dreaming, on 8MM. Vinyl reissue of Bo Anders Persson & Solveig Bark’s ultra obscure 1970 LP Reportage: Spela Sjalv, a collection of field recordings, live jams, communal levitations and environmental sounds from the classic era of the Swedish underground. New Silvester Anfang 2 LP on Blackest Rainbow Recordings.
RESTOCKS
Flower Travellin' Band Satori LP on Phoenix Records.
RESERVES
It’s clear-out time again at VT. If you have items on reserve you need to have your stash paid for by March 14th otherwise they go back on the shelves. No exceptions!
TIP OF THE TONGUE
Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides
All Cows Are Sacred
House Of Alchemy No Cat
Art Edition CD-R
£9.99
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28 FEBRUARY 2010
Nudge Squidfish: The Brain Of The Fried circa 1985
NEW RELEASES
Hey everyone – Hypnagogic overload from Olde English Spelling Bee with a run of major H-Pop sides, including new UK underground group Forest Swords debut LP, the Rangers LP and a limited vinyl reissue of James Ferraro’s Last American Hero. All are recommended. New duo album from Marcia Bassett (Hototogisu/Zaimph et al) and Helena Espvall (Ghost/Espers) on Heavy Blossom. Limited Best Coast 7”, Sun Was High (So Was I), on Art Fag. Great 7” EP from Big Troubles (forthcoming LP on Olde English Spelling Bee) on Blackburn Recordings. Edition of 99 copies Burnt Hills LP, Herb Saint, on Flipped Out Records. Bunch of privately-pressed releases from Chris Brokaw (Come/Thurston Moore Group) including a CD, Canaris, a solo LP and a trio album, Wrekmeister Harmonies, all on his own Capitan Records. Fantastic Cold Cave/Prurient collaboration 12” EP on Hospital Productions. Cursillistas/Love Cult cassette on Blackest Rainbow Recordings. Long-awaited return of legendary NZ underground group The Garbage & The Flowers with a limited 7” on Skulltones. Split cassettes from Ghost Moth (w/Daniel Carter)/Bolide and Towering Breaker Quartet/Bad Orb on Archivo De Sangre De Dios. Ashley Paul (Aster et al) cassette on Wagtail. LP reissue of a classic Ohio-scene document, Nudge Squidfish’s 1985 album Twenty Thousand Leagues Under Nashville, with guest appearances by Tommy Jay and Mike Rep and songs by Jim Shepard, on Columbus Discount Records. Also got the Rot Shit 7” on the same label. Unbelievable 6xLP + DVD box set from LAFMS legends Smegma bundling their early singles, first two LPs, live tracks, oddities and more. On Vinyl On Demand. New Space Weather CD-R (Andrew Paine/Alistair Crosbie/Brian Lavelle) on Space Weather Recordings. New Japan-only studio album from Suishou No Fune on CD via There.
RESTOCKS
Bassholes LP on Columbus Discount Records. Richard Youngs’ classic Summer Wanderer LP on Gipsy Sphinx. Last copies of the Speed, Glue & Shinki LP. Mike Rep And The Quotas on Columbus Discount Records. The Oshiri Penpenz CD. The Orkustra 2xLP on Mexican Summer.
RESERVES
It’s clear-out time again at VT. If you have items on reserve you need to have your stash paid for by March 14th otherwise they go back on the shelves. No exceptions!
TIP OF THE TONGUE
Forest Swords
Dagger Paths
Olde English Spelling Bee OESB-48
LP
£15.99
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21 FEBRUARY 2010
Sudden Infant: Punk Rock Aktion
photo by: Martin Holtkamp
NEW RELEASES
Hey everyone – great to meet so many customers at the Jack Rose Memorial night in London last Tuesday, a very special night indeed. Came back to a pile of great new releases, premier amongst them being the fantastic vinyl edition (with wacked all-new artwork from Heath Moerland) of Heather Leigh’s Jailhouse Rock on Not Not Fun. Also got an excellent new split LP from Psychic Reality/LA Vampires (featuring Amanda from Pocahaunted) and a cassette from Japanese psych group Topping Bottoms on Not Not Fun. Finally caught up with the last batch of electronic/avant garde reissues from Creel Pone, with deluxe CD-Rs from Andre Almuro, Daniel Arfib, Rodolfo Caesar, Michael Czajkowski, Laszlo Dubrovay, Larus Halldor Grimsson/Thorsteinn Hauksson, Douglas Leedy, Gunter Maas, Giuliano Sorgini and Reinhold Weber. Got the new Jandek live album, Camber Sands Sunday, the last ever recording of the Smith/Youngs/Neilson trio on Corwood. New limited Astral Social Club (Neil Campbell) CD-R on Apollolaan Recordings. Killer vinyl + CD reissue of Bardo Pond’s classic Bufo Alvarius album on Fire Records. New LP and 7” from Blessure Grave on Release The Bats and a new CD from Dolphins Into The Future. Limited LP from Jerusalem & The Starbaskets on The Great Pop Supplement. Totally killing limited trio LP from Joe Morris/Ben Hall/Chris Riggs on Hall and Riggs’ new private imprint You Are Your Only Machine. Nmperign w/Jake Meginsky and Usurper (with guest Sticky Foster) LPs on Rel Records. Very limited and immediately out-of-print LP from Real Estate, Live On The Radio, on Underwater Peoples Records. Massive four LP retrospective from Joke Lanz’s Sudden Infant, My Life Is A Gunshot, on Hronir.
RESTOCKS
Alex Bleeker & The Freaks LP on Underwater Peoples Records. Bill Dixon/Aaron Siegel/Ben Hall LP on Brokenresearch. Last copies of the Explorers LP on Not Not Fun. Speed, Glue & Shinki, Far Out and Toshi Ichiyanagi/Michael Ranta/Takehisa Kosugi CDs and People and Far East Family Band LPs from Phoenix Records. Jandek What Was Out There Disappeared and Portland Thursday CDs. Aster LP on Rel Records.
TIP OF THE TONGUE
Heather Leigh
Jailhouse Rock
Not Not Fun No Cat
LP
£12.99
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