| ULTRA BONBON / GRAND LUNGS Bad Breath Bonbon Bruises, CS |
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| Part of Canadian label Bonbon Bruises' "Especially Garbled Cassettes" series, which sees scuzzy electronics dubbed onto equally scuzzy old tapes, Bad Breath is an appropriately-named assault of frazzled frequencies and scorched ciruit boards, all packaged in individually hand-made sleeves. |
| DANIEL VARRICHIO Daniel Varrichio The Rhizome Label, CD-R |
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| Live solo performance from Headdress member Daniel varrichio, recorded in May 2005.. |
| CAMERON WOOD Can One Destroy the Night with One's Mere Scorning? Winter Records, CD-R |
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| Like his untitled 3" CD-R on The Rhizome Label, the first track Can One Destroy the Night with One's Mere Scorning? is a fierce collection of deafening frequencies created through the wholly improper use of an electric guitar. Track two is the calm after the storm, a meditative drone that acts as a soothing balm after the violence of its predecessor. |
| CAMERON WOOD The Needle and the Damage Done Winter Records, CD-R |
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| Something of a tribute to Neil Young, The Needle and the Damage Done is a series of blues-inflected guitar pieces and dusty drones from Mt Gambier's Cameron Wood. There's definitely no 'Cinnamon Girl' or 'Heart of Gold' here - this album is more Dead Man than Harvest. |
| CAMERON WOOD Three Thoughts on C Tuning Winter Records, CD-R |
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| Talk about split personalities. The first two of the three untitled tracks on this CD-R are hazy explorations of the nether regions of blues, while the mammoth 25-minute closer is a dense, noisy descent into an ocean of ringing feedback. There's a melody in there somewhere (presumably in C), but it's buried so deep that it only surfaces occasionally before being subsumed by the layers of scree. |
| CAMERON WOOD Piano Winter Records, 3" CD-R |
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| Packaged in minimal canvas sleeves (perhaps as an invitation for the listener to create their own cover art), Piano is a single 15-minute track of (you guessed it) manipulated piano. Like our good friend Shoeb Ahmad, Wood here thrusts lone notes into a hissing sea of digital distortion, building a long, slow meditative drone from the results. This is digital minimalism at its finest. |
| CAMERON WOOD Untitled The Rhizome Label, 3" CD-R |
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| Limited 3" CD-R of saturated guitar noise, packaged in hand-painted sleeves. Long out of print. |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS Chinese Whispers Handclappin' Records, CD-R |
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| Excellent 16-track compilation from Handclappin' Records, featuring tracks from Kiosk, Frou-Frou Foxes, Naked on the Vague, Vincent Over the Sink and many, many more. |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, Vol. 1 sound&fury, CD |
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| Our first CD! Fifteen tracks, ranging from the spooky drone of Gareth Hardwick's 'Last Heights' to the sampled beats and layered cello of Raven's 'Amphorae'. There are also exclusive new tracks from Seaworthy, Jasper TX, Panoptique Electrical and Part Timer. Anonymeye gives us a taste of his forthcoming full-length The Disambiguation of Anonymeye (due out sometime next year on sound&fury), and Spartak offer a spliced-up edit of a track off Tales from the Colony Room. Limited to 500 copies, packaged in recycled card sleeves. |