Isengrind - Modlitewnik LP (blackest rainbow 2010)

Debut vinyl release from Natural Snow Buildings' Solange Gularte's solo project, Isengrind. Modlitewnik continues Solange's fantasticly far out occult psych-folk-drone trip outs, 12 tracks across the length of this LP, considerably shorter pieces in comparison to her work with Mehdi in Natural Snow Buildings, Isengrind retains a certain amount of the sound of the duo, but it is a whole other beast, in many ways much stranger and darker, but still hauntingly beautiful with some fantastic blissed out vocal drones, dreamy guitars, and psyche soaked dark drone zones. Heavyweight vinyl, housed in a pro-printed full colour fold over sleeve with all 4 panels featuring stunning artwork by Solange, the inside of the cover is especially spectacular. blackest rainbow

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Various Artists - A Date WIth John Waters (New Line Records 2007)

History's already shown that the self-proclaimed master of "bad taste" has always had impeccably good taste, even at his most extreme. A large part of the reason that his aesthetic has had a real and unabated influence since the early 1970s is that there's nothing forced or ironic about his approach to film-making, including the soundtracks to his movies, which the director terms "little-known, weird vintage music." Waters says that the selections on A Date are "all romantic seduction music I would play if I had you over." Naturally, it's an off-kilter patchwork selection; most folks would not try to seduce someone with either an Ike & Tina Turner number or "Sometimes I Wish I Had a Gun," sung by Waters habitué Mink Stole. The collection is fun and veers from mellow crooners and hopped-up rhythm and blues to forgotten rocker hits from the '50s ("Tonight You Belong to Me" by Patience and Prudence) and '70s ("Jet Boy Jet Girl" by Elton Motello). If the collection sells well, the director promises to bring you Breaking Up with John Waters...

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Divine - Unforgettable Hits (Dance Street 2002)

Harris Glenn Milstead (October 19, 1945 – March 7, 1988) was an American singer and actor best known by his drag persona Divine. He starred in many of John Waters' films, including Mondo Trasho, Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Polyester, and Hairspray, as part of Waters' regular troupe of actors known as Dreamlanders. The New York Times said of Milstead's films in the 1980s, "Those who could get past the unremitting weirdness of Divine's performance discovered that the actor/actress had genuine talent, including a natural sense of comic timing and an uncanny gift for slapstick.

In the 1980s, Divine released several dance music records which were club music hits in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Divine's records comprised synth-heavy Hi-NRG music, most of it composed, created, performed, and produced by Bobby Orlando. In the United States, Divine's highest-charting songs were "Native Love", peaking at #21 on the Club Play Singles chart, and "Shoot Your Shot", which reached #39 among Club Play Singles. Divine's early UK releases on the Design Communications label included "Love Reaction" (which "borrowed" elements of New Order's big hit "Blue Monday") "Shake It Up", and "Shoot Your Shot". All of these releases were big gay club hits and minor mainstream chart hits. The Stock, Aitken & Waterman-produced song "You Think You're A Man" was Divine's most successful UK hit, reaching #16; the song was also a Top 10 hit in Australia, reaching #8 (Due in part to a popular promotional tour in that country which included an appearance on the popular Australian music show Countdown.) Among the material Divine released on the Proto label in the United Kingdom was "I'm So Beautiful" (the follow-up single to "You Think You're A Man"), "Walk Like A Man" and "Twistin' the Night Away". *wikipedia

DIVINE - "Unforgettable Hits" - Original Versions - (1982/1983)

1. Shoot Your Shot
2. Jungle Jezebel
3. Native Love
4. Love Reaction
5. Shout It Out
6. T-Shirts & Tight Blue Jeans
7. Psychedelic Shack
8. Shake It Up
9. Kick Your Butt
10. Alphabet Rap

DIVINE - "Unforgettable Hits" - The Remixes - (1996)

1. Shoot Your Shot (Jon Of The Pleased Wimmin remix)
2. Jungle Jezebel (Hyper Go-Go remix)
3. Native Love (Jon Of The Pleased Wimmin remix)
4. Love Reaction (Jon Of The Pleased Wimmin remix)
5. Shout It Out (Check Point Charlie remix)
6. T-Shirts & Tight Blue Jeans (Check Point Charlie remix)
7. Psychedelic Shack (Hybrid remix)
8. Shake It Up (Aquarius remix)
9. Kick Your Butt (Hybrid remix)
10. Alphabet Rap (Hyper Go-Go remix)
11. Native Love (Mark Moore remix)

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Faust & Nurse With Wound - DIsconnected (2007)

Two legendary entities from the experimental hinterlands unite for this challenging collaborative outing. Krautrock icons Faust team up with ferocious British electronics experts Nurse With Wound resulting in a line-up featuring Zappi Diermaier, Steven Stapleton, Jean-Herve Peron, Colin Potter and Amaury Cambuzat. Although the initial psychedelic benevolence of 'Lass Mich' is redolent of the Faust crew, it's not long before the far-flung concrète machinations of NWW take a stranglehold on the album's sonic make-up.

The album's title track is an unsettling drone piece, loaded with tension and a jarringly discordant conglomeration of organic and synthetic tones. After eight and a half minutes or so have expired you'll think you're listening to some sort of unholy, monastic chanting, but soon the comparatively soothing sounds of hand-played percussion establishes a welcoming rhythm, and the disjointed electroacoustic weirdness of 'Tu M'entends?' fires up.

Finally, closing piece 'It Will Take Time' evokes the disorientating wave systems of 'Disconnected' before gradually slipping into a kind of elongated gong resonance at the end. Compelling stuff from two remarkable groups.

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Gummo OST (1997)

Gummo is a 1997 American independent black comedy film written and directed by Harmony Korine. It was his directorial debut and has since become a cult film. The film stars Jacob Reynolds, Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell, Chloë Sevigny, Linda Manz and Max Perlich. Rather than following a linear plot, the film is a series of seemingly unrelated vignettes depicting the hopeless, nihilistic lives of the residents of a small Ohio town that had been previously stricken by a tornado. *wikipedia

Tracklist:

01. Absu - The Gold Torques Of Ulaid
02. Eyehategod - Serving Time In The Middle Of Nowhere
03. Electric Hellfire Club - D.W.S.O.B
04. Spazz - Gummo Love Theme
05. Bethlehem - Schuld Uns'res Knoch'rigen Faltpferd
06. Burzum - Rundgang Um Die Transzendentale Säule Der Singularität
07. Bathory - Equimanthorn
08. Dark Noerd - Smokin' Husks
09. Sleep - Dragonaut
10. Brujeria - Matando Gueros 97
11. Namamax - The Medicined Man
12. Nifelheim - Hellish Blasphemy
13. Mortician - Skin Peeler
14. Mystifier - Give The Human Devil His Due
15. Destroy All Monsters - Mom's And Dad's Pussy
16. Bethlehem - Verschierte Irrelgiositat
17. Mischa Maisky - Suite No.2 For Solo Cello In D Minor Prelude
18. Sleep - Some Grass
19. Rose Shepherd & Ellen M. Smith - Jesus Loves Me

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Ducktails - Landscapes LP (olde english spelling bee 2009)

If hypnagogic pop has been the sound of summer, then Ducktails have been the summery sound of summer. Landscapes is the third Ducktails release. Matthew Mondanile from New Jersey plays everything on Landscapes, guitars, synths, drum machines..., and adds occasional vocals to create these wonderful, sun-dappled landscapes. The end results betray influences ranging from 1970s German music (the synth melody of “Spring” hints at Kraftwerk’s “Neon Lights”, while “Landrunner” runs on Michael Rother-esque guitars) to surf pop (those hazy backing vocals recall the Beach Boys, while there is a big fuzzy surf guitar twang), but lo-fi (albeit much higher-fi than on Backyard). Even at its most languid, with Mondanile intoning like a stoned Thurston Moore with a duvet in his mouth on “Wishes”, it has a compelling charm: he has successfully created a sound world which sets him apart from his peers. With Autumn poised over the climactic toilet bowl, loosening its belt, I’d love to wrap myself in the thick, protective towelling of Ducktails for the next few months.* mapsadaisical

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Charles Manson - The love And Terror Cult (1968)

The love And Terror Cult is the debut album by Charles Manson, originally released by Awareness Records. Recorded on September 11,1967 and August 9, 1968 (overdubs), its distribution began during the Manson murder trial by Phil Kaufman who initially pressed a run of 2000 copies, that of which only 300 sold. He later approached ESP-Diskabout putting out the album in hopes for a wider circulation, which they agreed to.

The cover is a copy of the December 19, 1969 Time Life front cover, on which Manson had appeared, only with "LIFE" substituted with "LIE."

"Cease to Exist" had been previously recorded by the Beach Boysunder the name "Never Learn Not to Love," and it appears both on their1969album, 20/20, and as the B-side of the single of "Bluebirds over the Mountain." The single gives songwriting credit to Manson andDennis Wilson. Manson is not given co-writing credit on the album. It is worth pointing out that the Beach Boys's version includes such significant changes as the inclusion of a bridge that was not part of Manson's version, and the change of the line "Cease to exist" to "Cease to resist," which alters the meaning of the song... anyway i wanted to upload this record for a long long time...

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