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MONO
PAUSE / AAVIKKO EL
CEBO / OF STOMPING MEN 7" (CPA-020/Seeland 525)
Two like-minded purveyors of Muysic split a 7" single, each covering
one-another's tunes. Oakland's Mono Pause pulls a deconstructivist
take on "El Cebo" from Aavikko's Derek! LP, and Finland's
mind-bogging Aavikko boils "Of Stomping Men" (from
Mono Pause's Peeping Through the Listen Hole LP) down to a
previously-hidden essence. This is a co-release between EMR and the
Seeland label, released
to coincide with both bands' "Finland-Oakland International Cooperation
Tour" of July 2002.
$5.00
VARIOUS
ARTISTS LIVE FROM THE AFTERWORLD
2 LP SET (CPA-018)
The Heinz Club in Oakland hosted the East Bay's most revered live venue
from 1991-93, The Afterworld Lounge. This awesome commemorative double
LP compilation features many of the fine bands who played there
including THE THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282, RUINS, SUN CITY GIRLS,
THREE DAY STUBBLE, MECCA NORMAL, FIBULATOR, LITTLE MY, THE MOLECULES,
ROVA SAXOPHONE QUARTET/RUBBER CITY, PLUTO, SPLATTER TRIO, O-TYPE, C.C.C.C.,
STICKS AND STONES, BLOWJOB, CRAWLING WITH TARTS and more, all in otherwise
unreleased performances recorded live at the Afterworld! This is a limited-edition
item of 600 copies.
$14.00
(live excerpts of Fibulator, O-Type, and CCCC)
MONO PAUSE
PEEPING THROUGH
THE LISTEN HOLE LP (CPA-019)
New release by these eccentric purveyors of "situationist" improv-rock,
from jazz-death to binaural field recordings to Middle Eastern pop and
beyond in 37 minutes. Mono Pause features members of all sorts of (living
or dead) off-balance Bay Area ensembles, including Fibulator, Negativland,
Porest and others. Their LP debut presents 10 unclassifiable tunes,
original and originally purloined, lovingly rendered to virgin vinyl.
"(Mono Pause is) the best since...I dunno. Spy-fi." - Moe Staiano,
Moe!kestra
"One of the Bay Area's best-kept secrets" - SF Weekly
$11.00
FIBULATOR drankfromtheasphalt
LP (CPA-013)
Third and best release by this shimmering female vocal-driven combo.
In a netherworld between Henry Cow/Art Bears and Pylon there lived
this much-loved band who never got the national attention they deserved.
Moody, angular, exhilarating pop from a band whose members eventually
drifted into Grand National, Fuck, and Mono Pause. Each copy in unique
hand-painted sleeve.
VERY
FEW LEFT!
$9.00
FIBULATOR EVEN FROM HERE YOU LOOK
BIG LP (CPA-010)
Second release draws in part from their hard-to-find cassette-only
first album and adds a host of exhilarating tunes
for a strong vinyl debut. Silk screened sleeve, no two alike. (1992)
OUT OF STOCK FOREVER - for the last copies, try: http://www.subterranean.org/main/bigcat.html
LITTLE MY ALL
OF THE WATER 7" EP (CPA-016)
West Oakland's late, great power unit checks in with their final release
for Electro Motive. This extended-length 7" (almost 20 minutes worth!)
also features the return of original vocalist Nat Parsons through four
high-density tunes. Alternately jaunty and brooding crunchy rock from
one of the best-loved pop bands of the East Bay.
$4.50
LITTLE MY IT'S
FOOD AT BEST 10" EP (CPA-011)
The pivotal release by the tremendous trio in its best-known lineup, this
four-song EP became a critical favorite for its utterly original power-pop
craft. White-knuckle guitar and a throbbing rhythm section made Little
My's records and live performances unforgettable, and this extremely rich
production by Greg Freeman (Pell Mell) brings the hard edge to the fore
while allowing their finely-honed tunes to shine through. We even throw
in a duplicate vinyl disc with the wrong label on it for you to tack on
your wall. Or throw out.
$5.00
UBZUB FLUORESCENT
SUBCUTANEOUS ALIEN HUT 7" EP (CPA-012)
Their
first ever release, 4 great songs, versions unique to this 7". Weird
pop for worm people, recorded the day Waco's Branch Davidian compound
burned. Legend has it that members of Japan's
legendary Boredoms had a fistfight in a San Francisco record store over
the store's remaining copies of this record. VERY
FEW LEFT!
$4.50
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UBZUB ALIEN
MANNA FOR SLEEPING MONKEYS CD (CPA-017)
The first full-length release by the Bay Area's premiere costumed space
aliens! This well-armed band of musical earthworms has unleashed over
60 minutes of songs originally channeled by a group of sightless cave
animals deep within the pyrenees, recreated using 20th century recording
technology and wrapped in lovely cover art. The result is a tumultuous
tunefest with a decidedly pop bent and a smidgen of greasy grimy gopher
guts. Pulsating weirdness Ubu, Beefheart, and Residents fans should, and
do, love.
$11.00
MONO PAUSE SET
THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEAD OF THE DUCK CD-R (QUALIPY #3)
This amorphous bunch of ex-toy manufacturers, originally from River Falls,
Wisconsin, USA, checks in with a moody, entirely improvised debut full-length.
Guitars, dueling basses, horns, keys, toys, et al in a swirling spy-fi
soundscape. Features members of Fibulator and Ubzub in a very different
context. Originally issued on cassette, now with 35 new minutes of music!
$8.00
MONO PAUSE
HEARING
RADIO THROUGH YOUR TEETH C-60 CASSETTE (QUALIPY #4)
Live radio performance by this East Bay ensemble, improvised/composed
as a 4th of July fireworks simulcast for
Berkeley's KALX FM in 1994. Reagan's assassination attempt is revisited,
John Wayne's jingoistic rantings are
recontextualized, and police intervene in this collage of tape/sonic
manipulation and live instrumentation. Also
includes excerpts from a 1994 KUSF performance, and an all-new bonus
radio interception.
$5.00
THE TWELVE STEPPES DEEP NORTH
CD AND ACCOMPANYING MAGAZINE
(POREST SOUND #001)
A true story. Two brothers (the Twelve Steppes) made a pilgrimage to
a suburb of Detroit, Michigan to visit twisted family and eke out a
living in the dead of winter. From their experiences came this amazing
diary/rant/observation in sound and read-along magazine form. Cut-ups
and songs, intricately-designed with much use of "field recordings"
from the suburbs, as well as musical contributions by MONO PAUSE, TWISH,
and CLEM FORTUNA, make up a dadaist ethnographic commentary on middle-U.S.
society and culture, complete with regional meal recipes. A one of a
kind, uncomfortably funny project.
$11.00
O-TYPE MOMMY CD (CPA-014)
The mutant Siamese twins of legendary post (pre?) art-rock group MX-80
SOUND create gorgeous, thundering, uniquely cerebral music on their
second full-length release. Propelled by Bruce Anderson and Jim Hrabetin's
spiraling guitars, O-Type's highly cinematic soundscapes are a fascinating
counterpoint to their alter egos' more subdued delivery. Mostly instrumentals,
with a few grimly amusing vocal tunes. A must for fans of Ralph Records
era MX-80 in particular.
$11.00
THE NATIONAL HARDWOOD FLOOR ASSOCIATION
SAVAGE VIGILANCE FOR A RUG-FREE AMERICA
CD (CPA-005)
"Savage" is the operative word for perhaps the funniest crank-call collection
ever released. A Christian radio talk show in Portland, Oregon was relentlessly
pranked by a merry band of lunatics over a three-year period, and this
classic 1992 CD presents their hilarious disinformation campaign in
all its glory. From queries about finding a good Christian abortionist
to bizarre prayer healing requests, this amazing CD hits those bibles
below the belt! Accept no imitations!
CD
$10.00
LP edition OUT OF PRINT
SCREENBRED CASSETTE (CPA-008)
On their only full-length release, this amazing (now defunct) loop-and-sample
duo creates their tunes almost entirely from found sound, using varying
gradations of low-end consumer gear, tossing in a bit of their own instrumentation
for good measure, and coming up with little ditties that might be perfect
for mythical avant-garde AOR FM stations. An LP-length tape of quirky
tunes for cathode casualties who have a love of Negativland, Tape-beatles,
et al. A pre-lo-fi gem.
$5.00
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WET GATE
THE
PSYCHIC FLOCK NTSC VHS (CPA-V05)
First
video issue from the renowned "all-16mm-projector ensemble"
from the San Francisco Bay Area. Wet Gate creates dense, humorous
"live cinema" entirely from found-footage and hand-created
16mm film fragments and modified projectors. Optical soundtracks embedded
in the film provide the entirety of the expansive audio collage they
produce. "Cinema for the ear" as well as the eye. Read
more.
$17.00
SMOOTH
STONE DISTRIBUTION CORNER
The following items from other labels feature
Electro Motive Records/Qualipy artists,
or we just think you might enjoy them.
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 THE
WHITE RING HOMELAND SECURITY: IT'S IN YOUR HANDS VHS
Clever and sobering "info-tainment" tape from the award-winning
Gulf War Veterans performing/seminar group called The
White Ring. In the style of modern educational fare, this excellent
11-minute videotape offers a look at the U.S. Justice Dept.'s Operation
TIPS program and how it can be implemented to great effect in communities
everywhere. High production values, great music and a stirring sense
of patriotism are just a few reasons why we think this video is a
valuable asset for schools as well as individuals. And it's cheap,
too.
$12.00
PETROS DRECOJECAI
MISTAKEN RECEPTIONS CD-R
According to the liner notes, written in (intentionally?) broken English,
Petros Drecojecai was a would-be anthropologist visiting California
from Hungary in the mid 1990's. Drecojecai spent much of his spare
time in between conferences listening to and recording what he thought
were American talk radio programs, but were in fact cordless phone
transmissions of his neighbors that he was picking up. The excited
and naive Drecojecai sent a cassette back to his native Hungary for
his colleagues to listen to and now, years later, it has found its
way back to our fair state in it the form of a CD-R. From banal accounts
of toothaches to get-rich schemes involving putting things in one's
butt, there's a wealth of strange calls here that will satisfy both
the voyeur as well as the connoisseur of found sounds and field recordings.
Diet tips, sex tips, court tips, junkie poets, stripping, reading
the riot act to would be boyfriends, and much more. It's all you ever
/ never wanted to hear and more. (Petros Drecojecai Label / Hungarian
import CD-R)
$11.00
VARIOUS ARTISTS KNORMALITIES V.2 - EXCLAMATORIES!
7"
Second release from Dephine Knormal Musik is a limited, numbered grey
vinyl 7" with three otherwise unreleased tunes by Los Angeles' brilliant
guitar virtuoso NELS CLINE, Switzerland's ALBOTH! and
the Bay Area's massive MOE!KESTRA. The latter features
a 16-piece version of the band covering The Ex's "Godgloeiendeeteringklootzak"
in
an ear-splittingmega-rendition! (Dephine Knormal Musik)
$4.50
VARIOUS ARTISTS LULLABIES FOR TOYWAR
CD
From the Swiss art terrorists etoy
comes this great new compilation CD. In 1999, internet toy giant Etoys.com
sued etoy in an attempt to swindle
the group out of their domain name. The attempt failed...enormously...as
the corporate giant buckled under a maelstrom of grassroots support
for etoy. Groups as diverse as NEGATIVLAND, PEOPLE LIKE US/JET BLACK
HAIR PEOPLE/WOBBLY, MONO PAUSE, STEEV
HISE and others submitted otherwise unreleased tracks to this
CD to help defray the massive legal costs incurred in the lawsuit. Electro
Motive Records has a limited amount of this disc for sale. (etoy.com)
$13.00
PEOPLE LIKE US MEET THE JET BLACK HAIR PEOPLE ...IN
CONCERT! CD
Debut collaborative release from the UK's PEOPLE
LIKE US (aka Vicki Bennett) and the US's THE
JET BLACK HAIR PEOPLE (also of Mono Pause and Negativland) is a
hilarious CD recorded live in San Francisco in 1998. "Pleasant"
musical sounds collide head-on with re-formatted sermons, Slayer turns
to Mandarin pop music, and general plunderphonic madness ensues. Wobbly
guests on two tracks. Belgium import. (Audioview/Lowlands)
VERY FEW COPIES REMAIN.
$13.00
VARIOUS ARTISTS KNORMALITIES 7"
Fantastic extended-length compilation record featuring unreleased cuts
by RUINS, MONO PAUSE, FLYING
LUTTENBACHERS (free-jazz lineup), MELT-BANANA, MOLECULES,
VACUUM TREE HEAD and MOE! STAIANO. Heart-racing skronk, spy-fi rock,
out-jazz, everything! A limited, numbered edition of 1000 copies.
"My favorite on this record is Mono Pause with a quirky odd sound
that combines tribal percussion like early Swans with something that
reminds me of The Residents" - CAUTION Cyberzine (Dephine
Knormal Musik)
$4.50
VARIOUS ARTISTS EXTRACTED CELLULOID CD
The label which brought you the all-Beck mutation DECONSTRUCTING BECK
now presents this all-cinema compilation. 20 artists including WET
GATE, WOBBLY, BRAIN
SCIENCE and more take chainsaws to movies of all stripes, from
DR. STRANGELOVE and THE WIZARD OF OZ to TITANIC and recycled educational
films. A bracing, wildly varied collection of plunders in a plain white
wrapper. (Illegal Art/®tmark/Seeland)
$6.50
WOBBLY GREETINGS CD
Originally heard on Santa Barbara's KCSB FM, the duo known as Wobbly
performed marvelous live cutups and music with a sinister bent; swirling
sources and various instrumentation combine for a host of disquieting
tunes on their first CD release, edited from years of broadcasts. The
current Wobbly conspirator, Jon Leidecker, is a frequent guest of Negativland's
OVER THE EDGE radio program. (General Injectables and Signals, Inc.)
$11.00
RASCAL REPORTERS WE'RE GOD CD
Wafer Face continues their reissue series of ultra-rare Rascal Reporters
cassette-only releases with this 1980 gem, generously remastered with
various bonus tracks. More lovely and damaged analog compositions from
the two Steves (Gore and Kretzmer)...75 minutes of music. (Wafer
Face)
$11.00
RASCAL REPORTERS PURPLE ENTRAPMENT
CD
Peculiar pop ballyhoo from this prolific, legendary Michigan duo. Dark-edged
ditties in weird arrangements abound, fueled by their twisted personalities
and love for prog sounds. (Wafer
Face)
$11.00
(t)ENTATIVELY, a (c)ONVENIENCE USIC
- square root - 1 PICTURE DISC LP
Radio/cutup recontextualizations from this filmmaking/cassette underground
maven, chock-full of recycled vinyl sounds, appropriately inscribed
onto a deluxe picture disc LP and wrapped in a densely-layered
sleeve/poster with a pornographic surprise. Perhaps the last truly collectable
record of the 20th century. (Wafer
Face)
$12.00
DEADSECRATION mini-zine
What began as a series of internet pranks carried out on Grateful Dead
Usenet groups took a rather timely turn with Jerry's demise, and this
crass little magazine reprints all the classic moments from all sides
of the discussions. A hilarious and nasty document as anonymously compiled
by a recovering deadhead, featuring actual Dead bootleg tape fragments
in each copy! Try playing 'em to see what great show you got! (Another
Joe Reader)
$2.00
VARIOUS ARTISTS AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL DOUBLE CD
This great 2-CD set features an enormous, diverse collection of artists
all contributing songs and soundworks somehow relating to this Wonderful
Land. 39 contributors including LEE RANALDO, BORBETOMAGUS, MONO
PAUSE, THOMAS DIMUZIO, PHILIP
PERKINS, CRAWLING WITH TARTS, BLOWHOLE, AMK and tons more.
(RRRecords)
VERY FEW COPIES REMAIN.
$16.00
GRAMMA SHROLL C-45 CASSETTE
Geoff Soule of Fibulator and Fuck and Mono Pause brings us this fantastic
collection of 4-track tunes, minimal (yet over-the-top at the same time)
missives of guitar and shriek and unease. Also known as Twish, Soule
is a genuine renaissance man. (Gramma Shroll)
$4.50
LITTLE MY ASTHMA CASSETTE EP
Out-of-print, tape-only 2nd release from these Oakland popsters with
7 great tunes. We have remanufactured a handful of copies, dubbed directly
from the original master tape and packaged in their original lovely
cement truck sleeve art. Fresh out of the gate, Little My had their
craft down to a science.
$4.50
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