We are super excited to launch our very first release on Trash Cult Records: Affordable Repayments; Can't Win For Losing Some Days.
Took them long enough (well there was lockdown...), but moody punk rock outfit, Affordable Repayment’s first full album, “Can’t Win for Losing Some days” is set to be released early March 2023 via Trash Cult Records. To celebrate this, a string of shows will be announced so stay tuned.
A mash of old early post punk, an 80s, 90s cross over of indie rock with a hint of prog and stripped back psychedelia, the band employs simple formulas, wiry abrasiveness and leans to a sound vaguely reminiscent of Wipers meets early Sonic youth. Additionally tipping their hat to earlier sounding Hüsker Dü, B-52s, Wire, Pylon and Arcwelder.
Recorded at Sound Studios by Alex Bennett, the album was achieved via full analogue tape, 8 track, a recording that delivers a warmness and nostalgic quality of older style recordings which adds a level of colour and throws back to a more retro sound.
The band in this particular incarnation, consists of guitar, drums, bass, sax and synth. Wusty’s distinct guitar style focuses on building soundscapes and textures with rhythmic repetition. Harmonically complex riff structures and irregular chords create some interesting sonic elements- a prominent feature of Wusty’s ability to get the most out of a single guitar sound.
Providing rhythm, harmony and pulse, Liam’s drumming is purposely restrained, holding back to compliment the guitar tones, an offering of uncomplicated, precision drumming and fast fills from the human metronome. Similarly, driving, downstroke bass (by Prue) is warm, simple, stripped back and honest, relying on the organic tones of a custom-made valve amp for distortion.
Lending her immeasurable talent and punk sensibilities to this variation of the band, Jenny Diversion accentuates and enhances with turbulent saxophone and moody synth. Completing this recipe are brief, raspy, trenchant vocals with a lyrical content that is both indifferent and earnest, nonsensical and vulnerable, meaningful and meaningless.
Collectively this band achieves an album of simple structure and frenetic conclusions. Offering differing shades, a collection of contradictions with honest, repeated formulas that simultaneously reflect multiple feelings of nostalgia, moodiness, belligerence, absurdity and sublimeness.
Digital download available via bandcamp: https://trashcultrecords.bandcamp.com
Check out the video clip: https://youtu.be/x41J5QfrRvQ
DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND TICKETS TO AN AFTERNOON SHOW IS NOW AVAILABLE: Buddhist punks, Japanese trio Buddhadatta create a tribal rock sound using their own interpretation of harmonic overtones. Centred around active punk monk Vogli Bonze, the band also features the drummer from one of Japan's first punk bands, SS, Dr. Takami Isono.
We are incredibly privileged to have been included on Buddhadatta's Australian tour.
The devilishly handsome boys and local punk heroes, Harold Holt Search Party will also be along for the festivities.
This is going to be an awesome experience - not to be missed!
Buddhadatta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29YpqwtIfhk
Harold Holt Search Party: https://hhsp.bandcamp.com/album/footy
Tickets through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/arvo-gig-buddhadatta-harold-holt-search-party-saturday-1st-april-2023-tickets-547400097427
Five of Bendigo's finest STONER/DOOM bands (Cement Pig, Astrofuzz, Sleeping Giant, Saturnine and Dog) will be gathering to penetrate some eardrums at the church of TRASH CULT on March 4th...some long established heavies, through to some recent line-ups will be sharing the floor for the evening. Doors open at 6pm. This one is destined to be legendary!
Set times:
8pm Dog
8.45pm Sleeping Giant
9.30pm Astrofuzz
10.15pm Saturnine
11pm Cement Pig
Tickets through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/doom-cult-dog-sleeping-giant-astrofuzz-saturnine-and-cement-pig-tickets-545936680307
Buddhist punks, Japanese trio Buddhadatta create a tribal rock sound using their own interpretation of harmonic overtones. Centred around active punk monk Vogli Bonze, the band also features the drummer from one of Japan's first punk bands, SS, Dr. Takami Isono.
We are incredibly privileged to have been included on Buddhadatta's Australian tour.
The devilishly handsome boys and local punk heroes, Harold Holt Search Party will also be along for the festivities.
This is going to be an awesome experience - not to be missed!
Buddhadatta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29YpqwtIfhk
Harold Holt Search Party: https://hhsp.bandcamp.com/album/footy
Tickets through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/buddhadatta-harold-holt-search-party-saturday-1st-april-2023-tickets-540989543287
Skate, Skateboard, Art, Rare, Fine Art; Hardcover Book - New
Artisan United (skateboard illustration and fine art) - Complied by Jason C Arnold and Edited by Kevin Wilkins
Hardcover (debossed)
122 pages
16 Artist interviews
Featured Artists: Sean Cliver, Todd Bratrud, Philip Morgan, Marc Mckee, Thomas Campbell, Rob Mathieson, FOS, Mako, Jim Phillips, Chris Reed, Jason C Arnold, Yaia, George Yarnton, Pitchgrim, Benjamin Deberdt, Johnny "MOJO" Munnerlyn
Nasty, Disturbing, Violent, Serial Killer, True Crime, GJ Schaeffer; Paperback Book - New
25 years on, Florida's first serial killer GJ Schaefer returns with a new expanded volume of illustrated killer fiction, featuring the stories used to convict him of double murder in 1973. The ex-cop and serial killer was doing two life sentences for the murder of two teenage girls, when he himself murdered in 1995. Sondra London first published a collection of these stories in 1989, under the imprimatur of Media Queen. Feral House published Killer Fiction in 1997. Now comes the new expanded collection, that also includes the stories Schaefer wrote in prison for Sondra London. 73 illustrations include drawings by Schaefer seized by police in 1973 and used as evidence to convict him of murder; impressionistic sketches of Schaefer by Sondra London; and facsimiles of his handwritten statements. True-Crime Author Michael Newton: “Grabs the reader in a stranglehold & never lets go... smacks of a collaboration between Elmore Leonard & Jack the Ripper... an extended walk on the dark side with no holds barred... required reading for students of serial murder.” Time Magazine: “Incredible... real or imagined acts of murder, necrophilia, dismemberment & burial.” Miami Herald: “Lurid accounts of sex with cheap women followed by gruesome murder.” True Detective: “Depraved fantasizing from a horrendously vivid & morbid imagination.” Inside Detective: “Lurid & violent sex stories.” Robert Ressler: “Right on target to what happens in serial homicides.” State’s Atty. Rodney Smith: “Personally offensive.” State’s Atty. Robert Stone: “He’s a madman... he’s dangerous. If he gets out it’s like signing people’s death warrants.” Fla. Dept. of Corrections: “Graphic presentation of sexual behavior & graphic violence in violation of state law.” Fla. Bar: “Inappropriate in the hands of a prisoner.” Mike Gunderloy, Factsheet Five: “The most revolting book I’ve reviewed... the real thing.” John Wayne Gacy: "Schaefer’s writing is good. It’s graphic and keeps the reader wanting more. Even in fiction, it has to be done that way. You can tell he has done his research, but it almost reads like he has tried it all too. I can see how they used it against him. I know sometimes being honest is not always the best policy, as you can see how it worked against Schaefer." Lawrence 'Pliers' Bittaker: "Schaefer has a gift for creating a readable story. His subjects are predominantly morbid or bizarre. Whether that relates to his own interests, or he merely seeks to shock and offend, is unknown. Such (allegedly “fiction”) stories seem knowledgeable on the subject of murder, but they also indicate some exaggeration; whether his expressions are based on experience or simply fantasy, or a combination of both, only he knows for sure."Danny Rolling: "This guy has got real problems, doesn’t he? Schaefer’s twisted and delusioned writings left a bitter taste in my mouth. He boasts he is ‘The Greatest Killer of Women This Century.’ How could anyone blatantly brag about such a thing? ‘I loved killing whores.’ What an awful self-professed statement! This stuff is well-written puke. I can write better than Schaefer, period." William 'Catch-Me Killer' Heirens: "Schaefer can write, but I’m afraid he’s misusing his talent. I can see what he is trying to do – saturate the public with “kinky” fictionalized murder accounts to offset the writings that were used to convict him. But what Schaefer might be trying to do (if I’m correct) is very dangerous. A person could read one of his stories and come away with the conviction that he is a bad person, instead of an entertainer. Researchers who might peruse his work as a window to the criminal mind could be put off by his claim that it was all fiction."
Psychedelic, Drugs, Factual, Tripping, DMT, Psychoactive; Paperback Book - New
A clinical psychiatrist explores the effects of DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelics known.
• A behind-the-scenes look at the cutting edge of psychedelic research.
• Provides a unique scientific explanation for the phenomenon of alien abduction experiences.
From 1990 to 1995 Dr. Rick Strassman conducted U.S. Government-approved and funded clinical research at the University of New Mexico in which he injected sixty volunteers with DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelics known. His detailed account of those sessions is an extraordinarily riveting inquiry into the nature of the human mind and the therapeutic potential of psychedelics. DMT, a plant-derived chemical found in the psychedelic Amazon brew, ayahuasca, is also manufactured by the human brain. In Strassman's volunteers, it consistently produced near-death and mystical experiences. Many reported convincing encounters with intelligent nonhuman presences, aliens, angels, and spirits. Nearly all felt that the sessions were among the most profound experiences of their lives. Strassman's research connects DMT with the pineal gland, considered by Hindus to be the site of the seventh chakra and by Rene Descartes to be the seat of the soul. DMT: The Spirit Molecule makes the bold case that DMT, naturally released by the pineal gland, facilitates the soul's movement in and out of the body and is an integral part of the birth and death experiences, as well as the highest states of meditation and even sexual transcendence. Strassman also believes that "alien abduction experiences" are brought on by accidental releases of DMT. If used wisely, DMT could trigger a period of remarkable progress in the scientific exploration of the most mystical regions of the human mind and soul.
Disturbing, Nacho Cerda, Cult, Underground, Horror, Arthouse, RARE!, Collection; 3 Film DVD Box - Ex Used condition
Wonderful trilogy of short films on the theme of death from Spanish director Nacho Cerdà. Cerda's films here are striking and intense. Featuring magnificent cinematography, these films project the viewer, without any real dialogue, into the world of death. “Aftermath” is truly disturbing and sometimes unbearable, but Cerda manages to make a horrible moment (the necrophilic inclinations of a forensic doctor...) into a somewhat aesthetic moment... Those familiar with Cerda's work will want this. Rare find in Australia, this 3 film DVD box is a nice item indeed....
Pierre Henry, Musique Concrete, Avant-Garde, Noise, Experimental, Composition; DVD - New
An essential video to discover Pierre Henry's rich work through his words of the often rare and precious archives taken from the depth of a long career, from the composer's early days with Pierre Schaffer until the 2000s. Pierre Henry appears not only as the great musician we know, but also as a visual artist creating amazing reliefs paintings in which he reconverts elements detached from his old instruments, mixing consoles, etc., according to a very singular artistic approach. Henry is visited by the film team on the occasion of a house concert, so you get a kind of “home story” which, thanks to many insights into Henry's work, has been extremely interesting. There are also excerpts from several concerts and long interview passages. This is how the portrait of a mysterious, fascinating musician is created. In addition to the main film, the DVD also features a complete performance from 2005, the recording of a rehearsal (uncut, very interesting to see Henry adjusts to room acoustics) and a short film from the 1960s, in which Henry contributed music and image editing.
Tattoo, Crime, Home Made, DIY, Art, Underground, Self Published; Paperback Book - New
The Tattoo-Apprentice Guide is a simple no B.S. approach to learning the basics of the art of tattooing. Learning everything from ''How to build your own tattoo gun'' (i.e. prison style), to actual ''Slagin' and Bangin' '' on your clientele. Learn from the experts in prison whom have had years of experience in "prison ink." You'll learn how to make your own ink, how to make your own needles, how to tattoo, shading techniques, proper hygiene and after application care. Also included are numerous tattoo patterns of different styles and themes. This easy to understand guide will have you mastering the art of tattooing in no time. Be the envy of your friends and clients by making your own tattoo gun, ink, battery pack, and set up your own shop for a profitable income. This is the most inexpensive investment you can make if you are truly serious about the art of tattooing. - (From the book cover)
Straight Edge, Hardcore, Punk, Photography; Paperback Book - Ex Used condition
Out of Step: Faces of Straight Edge is the first book from photographer, Raymond McCrea Jones. The book consists of over 140 pages of beautiful black & white photographs featuring a wide representation of individuals who make up the current straight edge community. This book is a refreshing look at a scene that has slipped from its prominence of decades ago when the straight edge scene had figureheads like Minor Threat who coined the term of "straight edge" in the early 80's......