Ambient, Techno, Electronic, Noise, Experimental; Black Vinyl Edition LP - Ex Used condition
Nitrogen Narcosis marks the first full length and strongest statement in the Scuba Death repertoire after the privately issued, ruthless ‘Demon Seed’ twelve inch back in 2011. The album alternates between surprising lethargic dance inflections all nestled between 75 & 100 bpm, the normal resting heart rate for adults, and the more conceptual, numbness inducing pieces like "50-70 Meters" and "Nociception." Sequencing plays an integral role on Nitrogen Narcosis as the listener is suddenly thrust into the darkest reaches of the ocean after dark alley grooves are sucked into an aquatic abyss.
Dark Ambient, Experimental, Ambient, Germany; Double Vinyl LP (2010) RARE! - Ex Used condition
Transcendent dark ambient from sunny Germany. The Incarnation of the Solar Architects makes me feel as though I am a human-shaped pile of ash and dust that is being blown into the æther by cosmic winds. You know, like in 'Altered States'.....
Comedy, Cult, Terrible, Outsider, Rhino Records, Various Artists,1983; Vinyl LP with sick bag!! - Ex Used condition
There is perverse pleasure to be had in sampling the tasteless, inept, and bizarre, and it was with this fact in mind that Rhino Records unleashed The World's Worst Records, a compilation of abrasive novelty songs, demented outsider artists, and clumsy comedy. With liner notes by Dr. Demento and Rhino mainstays Barnes & Barnes and Wild Man Fischer on board, there's not much doubt as to the tone of the collection. The set list is skewed strongly toward silly, self-consciously dumb parody tunes that range from amusing (Ogden Edsl's wacky child-abuse singalong "Kinko the Clown") to obvious and unfunny ("I Wanna Be Your Dog" sung by some bad Three Stooges imitators). Should the "World's Worst Records" include songs like these that were specifically designed for such a list? For those who think not, there's the psychobilly classic "Paralyzed," a formless, atonal jumble of guitar, drum, and bugle from The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, a genuine eccentric who actually turned this wild, incredibly alive record into a hit for a short while in 1968. Blame it on the age of irony, or a desperate attempt to find unique sounds in an increasingly homogenous world, but there are those who find pleasure in the accidental, the broken, and the incorrect. 'The Rhino Brothers Presents The World's Worst Records' anticipated this trend several years in advance, proposing that "bad" was infinitely better than "boring," though their overdependence on prefab wackiness lessens the importance of the package.
Cannibal, Exploitation, Violent, Euro, Trash, Sleaze; DVD - New Sealed
"The genius of this film is impossible to put into words. There are times when the celestial bodies which rule our fates like the machined cogs of so many gears in an enormous and ethereal mechanism come together at one moment of perfect alignment to produce an event of such staggering proportions that it stands out like a beacon of what it means to be human. Such is the nature of this film. The script, acting, special effects, and the music - oh the music! - are all sublime. The direction is GENIUS. This, surely, is cinema at its very greatest." --- Ernesto Guerriero
Exploitation, Disturbing, Horror, Euro, Violent; DVD - New sealed
A couple of English tourists rent a boat to visit the fictitious island of Almanzora, just off the southern Spanish coast. When they arrive, they find the town deserted of adults, there's only children who don't speak but stare at them with eerie smiles. They soon discover that all the children of the island have been posessed by a mysterious force or madness which they can pass from one to another, and which makes them attack and murder their elders, who can't defend themselves because nobody dares to kill a child...
Gaspar Noe, Disturbing, Violent, Revenge; DVD - Used
'I Stand Alone' goes where few movies dare these days. It presents a portrait of hatred, disgust, despair and nihilism. Many would probably not like to face up to the fact that people like "The Butcher" exist in our society, but they do. By ignoring them we compound the problems they present and represent. Philippe Nahon plays a middle aged unemployed French butcher who is trapped in a loveless relationship with his pregnant girlfriend (Frankye Pain). She has some money and uses it as a power trip, promising to set him up with a new shop. When that doesn't eventuate he attacks her in a fit of rage, and leaves with a gun and three bullets. He heads back to Paris with no money and no prospects. As he sinks lower and lower into hopelessness his anger intensifies, and his mind races with fantasies of violence and revenge.
This is a confronting and profoundly disturbing movie, mainly because of it's realism and believability. While it certainly features some scenes of extreme violence, and one scene of explicit pornography (blurred in the print I watched), most of what makes it so powerful and horrible is the almost non-stop venomous monologues of "The Butcher". Director Gaspar Noe self consciously apes Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver' in several scenes, but this movie is a truly original vision. Highly recommended for movie buffs with strong stomachs, and the ability to deal with dark and troubling material.
Jesus Franco, Cult, Sleaze, Euro, Horror, Trash, Sexploitation; DVD - New Sealed)
After World War 2, Senior Japanese Officials and their followers were killed and buried together in China, after being defeated and forced to give in. The Japanese Evil People of Nine Chrysanthemum have sworn revenge and are secretly plotting against China after sealing the graves of the Officials. Before their conspiracy can come to an end, Chinese police Captain Li and Taoist master Mao Yuan Feng discover the conspiracy and kill some of the Japanese Evil People. The members who survived used then their blood to call them back from Hell and became Devil Masters. But before their Japanese Imperialist Agressive Ambition can succeed, Captain Li and Taoist Master Mao Yuan Feng kill them and defeat their plot of revenge for good.
Synth, Noise, Experimental, Wolf Eyes, Nate Young; Limited Edition Vinyl LP (500 copies) - Ex Used condition
This split LP is, fittingly enough, a co-release between the CIP label and Vertonen's own CIP imprint. Demons is the all-synth-playing duo of Wolf Eyes man Nate Young and Steven Kenney of Isis and Werewolves, and their side comes in the form of a live recording of a Chicago show from earlier this year. The sounds are brutal but highly sculpted oscillator articulations very much in keeping with the Merzbow/Carlos Giffoni analogue material that was circulating a month or so back. It's a hybrid of ferocious noise assaults and sci-fi LFO experiments. Very nice indeed. Over on the flipside Vertonen pushes the volume levels upward for some grittier sounds, which flail about the place admirably until the whole thing settles down into a solid drone signal, which reluctantly ebbs out to a close.....
Abstract, Industrial, Experimental, Electronic; Vinyl LP (1988)
Track A1 from the first Sleep Chamber album. (1984).
Track A2 from the first Sleep Chamber album. (1984).
Track A3 from the first Sleep Chamber album. (1984).
Track A4 unreleased Version rekorded for, but left off the first Sleep Chamber album. (1983).
Track B1 from "Musick For Mennequins". (1983).
Track B2 unreleased demo from "Submit To Desire". (1985).
Track B3 from "Musick For Mannequins". (1983).
Doom, Drone, Metal, Heavy, SunnO))), Pita, Stephen O'Malley, Peter Rehberg, Mego; 12" Vinyl EP (2007)
Peter Rehberg (aka Pita) and Stephen O'Malley (better known as one half of doom overlords Sunn O)))) have been pretty busy over the last couple of years. Not content with throwing down music for Giselle Vienne and Dennis Cooper's theatrical work 'Kindertotenlieder' they have managed to notch up two full albums and now this, the third in the series of blackened doom masterpieces. For me this is possibly the finest yet, moving ever closer to Rehberg's patented computer manipulations and further away from any comparisons that could be made to the rest of the scene. While '2' was an experiment into the annals of the black metal genre, with the howling spirit of Varg Vikernes somewhere in the mix, '3' edges closer to the doomy soundscapes of Svarte Greiner or the bass-heavy electronic compositions of Murcof. However where their contemporaries never manage to wrench themselves from a definite sense of structure Rehberg and O'Malley effortlessly create a soundtrack to pure hell which bears ever less relation to modern music as we know it. Sure there are synthesized blips and there's thick, pounding bass but this is closer to the wall-scraping soundtrack to The Ring, or the foley sound from Hostel... it's a frightening glorification of all things dark, all things evil, and in that is an absolute triumph. Computer music shouldn't be allowed to sound this menacing, this terrifying, but this duo rise to the challenge as if it was never an issue in the first place and have created a work that sounds like the future while paying close attention to gloomy times past. Coming with a stunning etching on the B-side and limited to only 2000 copies for the world this isn't going to last long, so doom fans hurry up, trust me this is an absolute classic release. Essential purchase!
Doom, Noise, Drone, Experimental, Guitar, Rock; Vinyl LP (2009) - Ex Used condition
Edition of 300 copies (sold out) with silkscreened cover. Available first for their performance at No Fun Fest in NYC.
The electric guitar is Davies and Bower’s shaking stick of predilection, and from the opening bars of side A, their twin axes are swinging and swirling in full force. A crunching single note like the start of a heavy metal riff gets warped and extended over and over, stretched out over a buzzing ocean of feedback and drone. It’s hard to tell where one guitar starts and the other ends, as is ever the case with Skullflower, they’re both simply locked in sync, screaming as one into the void. The riffs, if they can be called that, are circular, a constantly rotating miasma of saturation and noise whilst an overloaded synthesizer may or may not be anchoring the furore with a swirling drone. The album title suggests falling bombs and resultant chaos, and this motif is picked up later on side A with thumping chords that seem to burst against the seethe of drone like rockets crashing into buildings. On the second side, one of Bower or Davies (or both) transforms his or her guitar into an air-raid siren, great keening notes screaming outwards to warn of imminent danger and death.
