HACKER Demo (2019); Cassette
Punk/Hardcore/Melbourne, Cassette
Cassette release - recorded by HACKER. Demo 2019 - Recorded 16th Feb 2019 at Secret Location Rehearsals.
Recorded by Hacker on Birrarung Land.
IRON YOUTH (USA) - Demo 2012; Cassette
Hardcore/Punk, Cassette
Limited to 100 copies. White cassettes in clear cases with individually bleached paper. Lyrics and poster on insert.
ANDREW SHERWELL Approaching (2019) UK; Cassette
Electronic/Dark Ambient/Abstract/Experimental UK, Cassette
Pro-dubbed cassette with a solid white shell and full-colour artwork. Limited to 40 copies. Mastered by Stephan Mathieu.
"I would always wake with the taste of blood in my mouth and a pounding headache. I would be dehydrated and disorientated. Simultaneously elated and deflated. Every time. It would always start the same way too. My vision would judder as the world turned silver and white. Dizzy and staggering, my ears ringing, I felt I was being pulled through a wall. I could hear them calling, terrifying voices urging me on. When I learnt to let go, to accept, it got easier. And then everything would stop. What happened next is confused. It was at the time, even more so now. Trying to explain is like trying to recall a dream, vivid in the instance, but the moment you awake, confused and fleeting. It is difficult to believe it actually happened. But it did. So I will try. Clouds of smoke and incense cloaked them as they circled, swirling in their wake, their forms obscured. The voices were now a whisper, words in no language I recognised. But at the time, I felt their message. One minute urging and insistent, other times mocking and accusatory. Occasionally, they would pay me no attention. I would hear them scream at one another and only rarely glimpse them among the billowing clouds. I would feel alone and lost. The final time was different. I could hear many voices, far more than usual. They appeared to be singing. Slowly the voices rose to a crescendo and then fell away as a single voice took over. Clearer than normal yet still obscure, it filled me with a tranquillity and joy the like of which I had not known and which I still crave now. And then, for the first and final time, the being appeared. And I wept. I was still weeping when I awoke, shaking and bloody-mouthed. Grandfather was sitting in a chair that he had pulled up to the sofa where I was lying under a sweat-soaked blanket. He stared intently then lent back and smiled. “They have gone,” he said. “They won’t be back. Cherish the honour, boy.” He was right. And I do."
Words by Andrew Sherwell
SHALLOW/COLOSTOMY BAGUETTE? Shallow / Colostomy Baguette? (2014); Split Cassette
Noise/Electronic/Doom/Grind, Cassette
Side Shallow recorded live @ the Make It Up Club in Bar Open on 20/8/2013
Side Colostomy Baguette? recorded live @ the Slow Club upstairs in The Tote Hotel on 25/10/2013
Mastered on 15 & 18/11/2013 - Pressed in early 2014
IRON LUNG Mixtape 1 (2011) V/A; Cassette
Garage/Punk/Hardcore/Grind/Art/Noise, V/A compilation
20 track Various Artists compilation includes: Iron Lung, Total Control, Eddie Current Suppression Ring, Pig Heart Transplant, Big Crux......a bunch more. (2011)
JOHN COLTRANE A Love Supreme (Impulse! 1986); Cassette
Jazz/Coltrane/Avantgarde/Free Jazz/Legendary, Cassette
A Love Supreme was released by Impulse! Records in January 1965. It was one of Coltrane's bestselling albums and one of his most critically acclaimed. It is widely considered his masterpiece, as well as one of the greatest albums ever recorded. This is the 1986 cassette re-issue in excellent condition.
GLOBAL GENOCIDE DIVISION-1 (2019); Cassette
C20 + A5 print (Heavy card) re-press on Red J card - Limited to 20 copies. Powerviolence/Noise/Power Electronics
Pounding, violent electronics from Down Under. FTW! on "Under The Sign Records" (2019)
PUSSY GALORE Right Now (1987); Cassette
Garage Rock/Noise Rock/Punk Blues/Jon Spencer Cassette, Used (Fucking Minty condition! Near new...)
This second LP (Cassette) featured Julie Cafritz (Free Kitten), Neil Hagerty (Royal Trux) and Bob Bert (Sonic Youth) alongside Jon Spencer. This is the one to own if you want the 'full' PG experience, Right Now! is the sound of a deranged psychotic hopped up on reds trying to start a revolution via rock 'n' roll - only he can barely play and realized halfway through that he was what/who he was revolting against. The songs find Pussy Galore at their nihilistic peak - this is Maximum Clang Bang with a production style that fits like an assassin's glove. Much of the record is seemingly recorded using a dizzying mix of rehearsal cassettes with overdubs done in the studio, rough jump cuts between verses and choruses that go from 4-track sludge to 16-track, uh, 'clarity', not to mention the breakneck tempo screeches. Add to that the crazed, casual guitar tunings, the lack of not only bass guitar but of bass frequencies (save those emanating from Bob Bert's industrial junk drum kit) and, sometimes, I listen and think "How the fuck did this ever make it out of the practice room?". But then you add the magic that is rock 'n' roll to the above mess and suddenly what could have been hopelessly art school becomes a sleazy, perverted quagmire of three chord riffs, guitars as raging boners, Jagger lips and Mark E Smith assholisms.
ROCK STEADY CREW Ready for Battle (1984); Casette
Hip Hop/Breakdance/Four Elements/80's Cassette, Used
Classic debut album by arguably the most recognisable B-Boy / Breakdancing acts ever. Originally released in 1984, Ready For Battle contains the smash hit single '(Hey You) The Rock Steady Crew' - (UK #6) and follow-up electro B-Boy classics 'Uprock' and 'She's Fresh'.
Treasured 80's piece of Hip-Hop history in excellent used condition, somehow as rare as shit......