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Fang Teng Lee 3 inch 3 inch cdr 2012/1967 new Gorgeous Hong Kong musical saw ep by Lee, nicknamed 'The Sound of Magic Saw'. Nothing else sounds like one, & Leee makes his swish, weep & swoon over feverish lounge organ....	-	$4.00 Add:
Desmond Briscoe/David Vorhaus Phase IV cdr cdr 2010/1974 new Brilliant insect movie soundtrack that has doom & gloom synthesizers burrowing slowly, sweetly, inevitably into the center of your head. Desmond Briscoe was the other guy who...	BWIE	$5.00 Add:
Dr. Winter The Songs of Food Safety cdr cdr 2010/2004 new Strongest stomachs only please! Hoary top 40 hits get irreparably mangled by cheap keyboard presets. But that's not enough, not when they could have their lyrics rewritten to...	BWIE	$5.00 Add:
Eugene C. Weinberg A Child's Cry: A Clue to Diagnosis cdr cdr 2007/1971 new Now here's a litmus test of your schadenfreude that's sick in many senses. Local boot of a record made by a South African doctor (who was presumably familiar with the charms of...	BWIE	$5.00 Add:
Gil Melle The Andromeda Strain Soundtrack cdr cdr 2006/1971 new This movie is a classic conspiracy/armageddon flick in the tradition of Heston's 'The Omega Man' or 'THX-1138'. Giant 70s computers loom and lights blink in color-coded rooms while...	BWIE	$5.00 Add:
Herschell Carrousel Factory Pressure Chest cdr cdr 2012 new Short but sweet field recording of a disused & neglected 19th century carousel just outside Buffalo, NY. Made by Neil Coletta, the onetime bass player in Exusamwa, who has a longstanding...	Peradam Age	$5.00 Add:
Meditative Sounds of Magnetic Resonance Imaging cdr cdr 2010 new That's right, 50 minutes of whumping, throbbing, vibrating, palpitations made by the medical industry's favorite expensive toy, currently starring in every doctor show on tv. MRIs turn...	BWIE	$5.00 Add:
The Early Hits of Kishore Kumar cdr cdr 2008/1966/1957-65 new Kishore's elder brothers were both Bollywood actors before him, and the trio starred in the Hindi answer to 'Duck Soup' ('Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi'), with Kishore in the lead....	BWIE	$5.00 Add:
Various Drinking Straw Music cdr cdr 2009/1997-2000 new Several not-so-well-known west coast improv players get together & blow, through straws of course. Sometimes they try to imitate Evan Parker (which, through a straw, sounds...	BWIE	$5.00 Add:
Various Family Dollar Halloween cdr cdr 2008/2005 new My favorite Halloween record is this lazy looper's delight. Retarded horror screaming, rooster crows, background grumbling, and a truly awful Boris Karloff impression by a gent who...	BWIE	$5.00 Add:
Wayne Carlton Elk Snuff cdr cdr 2008 new This particular cdr started life as an infomercial for a hunter's call that's meant to sound alternately like a fighting/wounded female elk or a small & lonely male elk. There are some...	BWIE	$5.00 Add:
Yvonne & Yvette The Siamese Twins 7 inch 7 inch 2010/196x new I've been digging through my magazine collection all week to try & re-read a little Nick Tosches article about Siamese Twins from awhile back. This single couldn't be more...	Norton	$5.00 Add:
Kenneth Higney I Wanna Be the King/Funky Kinky 7 inch 7 inch 2012/1980 new Now here's one of the reasons they call 'em real people. Aspiring country demo writer Higney, possessed of a spectacular unmelodicism already demonstrated on his classic 'Attic...	One Kind Favor	$5.50 Add:
Jandek Camber Sands Sunday cd cd 2009/2006 new Never thought I'd see it, but here she be: Corwood catalog number 800. Alex Neilson & Richard Youngs (who have turned themselves into a proper and properly matted Jandek backing band...	Corwood	$6.50 Add:
Jandek Hasselt Saturday cd cd 2009/2005 new A placid pool of not-quite dissonant, not-quite minimalist piano. The Corwood rep. is similarly delicate in his delivery, except that the lyrics sound like they were transcribed...	Corwood	$6.50 Add:
Jandek Not Hunting for Meaning cd cd 2009 new Solo & acoustic, just the way you'd want it. Starts out rather fast & could almost be mistaken for more typical acoustic guitar improv, with some especially caterwauling vocals too. But...	Corwood	$6.50 Add:
Jandek Ruins of Adventure cd cd 2007 new Bass & vocals solo from our wonderfully mysterious poet-pal in Houston. As Jandek records go, the bass is quite well recorded, so when those brutal high energy moments peak it really...	Corwood	$6.50 Add:
Jandek The Myth of Blue Icicles cd cd 2008 new What a grin! You can always count on a new surprise from Corwood headquarters, & here's the first in a long spell to feature a smile. Nothing like the anticipation for the impact of each...	Corwood	$6.50 Add:
Jandek What Was Out There Disappeared cd cd 2009 new Another solo acoustic studio album in the "classic" vein to round out the year. As always, teaser titles that're perfectly set to make fans itch like crazy ('Will There Be No More...	Corwood	$6.50 Add:
Kalin Twins When ep cd cd 2004/1958 new The great Kalin Twins really were twin brothers, and they had a rockabilly-pop crossover hit with their song "When". The brothers wanted to go upscale and do string-laden pop tunes,...	Magic	$6.50 Add:
Bollywood Argyles Vinda Loo 7 inch 7 inch 2012 new Ray Sharpe's 'Linda Lu' was produced by Lee Hazlewood & had Duane Eddy AND Al Casey on guitar. And the immortal 'Alley Oop', produced by Kim Fowley with Gary Paxton & Sandy Nelson...	Norton	$7.00 Add:
New Surfsiders Kokomo/Good Vibrations 7 inch 7 inch 2012 new Dead brilliant doo-wop singing which skewers these beloved songs by being decidedly off-key but right on pitch. If you've ever been standing in a line at a shitty pharmacy/convenience...	Norton	$7.00 Add:
New Surfsiders Smile Medley 7 inch 7 inch 2012 new Nothing but instant masterpieces from this band, and they only up the ante once again with this heartfelt tribute to 'Smile' era BB5. It actually takes a fair amount of musicality to...	Norton	$7.00 Add:
August Plinth Stater Hitler/Geronimo's Cadillac 2cdr 2cdr 2009/1973 new Think Rod McKuen's sexual subtexts are ho-hum? Jandek's grey-slices-of-life are too easygoing? Welcome to the ultra-creepy world of Plinth. New York poet who started publishing in...	BWIE	$8.00 Add:
Frank Heppinstall/Lonnie Sattin Sweetheart 7 inch 7 inch 2012/195x new Frank Heppinstall may not be famous (and he's definitely nobody) but his band swings hard & the crooning vocals are stellar. Smooth as Tex Williams during the verses, but with...	Jazzman	$8.00 Add:
Jimmy Nelson's Instant Ventriloquism lp lp 1964 VG+/M- Jimmy was the creator of the characters Farfel and Danny O'Day. He starred in some 1950's Nestle commericals & is well known, at least among those who think Trekkies live on the wild &...	Juro	$8.00 Add:
Thaddeus Martin Black Dick for President 2xcdr 2xcdr 2007/197x new Boston sports multiple local all-cdr labels of dubious legality. This particular one comes to us by way of a lovely fellow named George. It features what are obviously George's...	BWIE	$8.00 ... more info Darn, All Sold Out
Various Refined Lard cd cd 2012/1946-2011 new A Trunk records sampler that traipses through the wonders of several very square & campy worlds, now sadly lost to time. Lady torch singers, goofus humorists, creepy chanting...	Trunk	$8.00 Add:
Elsa Popping & Pixieland Band Delirium in Hi Fi lp lp 2006/1957 new Easy listening by Andre Popp with bright-as-balloons orchestral arrangements that rival Esquivel's sense of the absurd, but were made using the cutup techniques of Jean Jacques...	Columbia	$8.50 Add:
Philippe Arthuys Le Crabe Qui Jouait Avec La Mer cdr cdr 2005/1955 new Short (it was a ten inch originally) musique concrete parable for children in french. Weird sound effects, stultifying delivery. My french isn't great, but the story is by Rudyard...	Creel Pone	$8.50 Add:
Butch Willis & the Rocks Repeats cd cd 1994/1983-86 new Sporting a backup singer whose odd adam's apple noises effectively replicate the 13th Floor Elevators' jug sound, and plenty of drug damage to juice up his lyric delivery, Butch...	Teenbeat	$9.00 Add:
Butch Willis Etherocks cd cd 1995/1987-90 new Star of the Heavy Metal Parking Lot dvd, Butch may have an unconventional voice (slightly nasal, like his hero Mick Jagger), but his rock 'n' roll dream burns brighter than any...	Teenbeat	$9.00 Add:
Cecil Leuter Spectacular Stereo Sounds cdr cdr 2007/1971 new French library music gent whose real name was Roger Roger (why he wanted to change it, lord knows). 2nd only to Perry & Kingsley in the annals of bloop. Plops of synth, ridiculously...	Creel Pone	$9.00 Add:
Sandra Cross The MMs Bar Recordings cd cd 2011/2006-07 new Field recordings of menu annoucements made on trains running between London & Leicester. If you've ever ridden public transportation, you know that PA announcements are often an...	Trunk	$9.00 Add:
The Screamer Greatest Hits cd cd 2002/1979-93 new Self-documenting talk-radio prank caller from the Washington DC area, who once plagued the local AM station at all hours. During the 70s and 80s, talk radio hadn't yet split into...	Teenbeat	$9.00 Add:
Gert Wilden Schulmadchen cd cd 2009/1968-72 new Selection of yummy contributions to the long running German porn soundtrack series 'Schoolgirl Report'. Swank, brassy lounge & organ swish, with smartly stolen lines from the Dr....	Crippled Dick Hot Wax	$9.50 Add:
Rudy Ray Moore Eat Out More Often lp lp 2001/1970 new All his jive is strictly O-rig, jack- you hear sumbody else they's a goddamn copycat. Not Dolemite's first album (as is commonly thought), but definitely the manifesto at the start...	Kent	$9.50 Add:
Andre Popp and his Orchestra Presenting Popp lp lp 2009/1958 new Popp shows that even without the cut-n-paste tricks that he used for 'Delerium in Hi Fi', he could arrange for orchestra with extradimensional pep & verve that suited the swanky late...	Columbia	$10.00 Add:
Andres Lewin Space Electronics cdr cdr 2011/1977 new Andres Lewin Richter Ossiander, who sometimes drops a few of his names to fit on lp spines, went to school at Columbia for engineering & got sucked in to being an assistant to...	Creel Pone	$10.00 Add:
Di Jarrell April Orchestra Vol. 5 cdr cdr 2012/1976 new Mmmmmm, the yummy things an Italian can do when he gets his hands on a melody. Amedeo Tommasi (aka Di Jarrell) started as a jazz pianist, backing Chet Baker in 1961, and moved into...	Creel Pone	$10.00 Add:
Jandek Austin Sunday 2cd 2cd 2006/2005 new Janky's first homestate show. Electric bassist Juan Garcia and drummers Nick Hennies (Weird Weeds) and Chris Cogburn. Drums are very restrained & bass is pretty rock oriented- the...	Corwood	$10.00 Add:
Alan Silvestri/Eugene McDaniels The Mack lp lp 2011/1973 new Not the Willie Hutch songs that were well known at the time, but the other cues used in the movie. Silvestri did have funk chops once ('The Doberman Gang', 'CHiPs'), but once the 70s...	Producers Distribution Company	$10.50 Add:
Herbie Hancock The Spook Who Sat By The Door lp lp 2011/1973 new Herbie Hancock at his most nasty. Between the slightly lousy sound, the constantly knotting funk bass, a shitload of 70s Arp synth wacka-wacka slapped on top of everything, and the...	United Artists	$10.50 Add:
Mike Sammes Singers Hymns A Swinging lp lp 2009/196x new Mike Sammes singers, whose snow white vocal acrobatics graced many jingles in the UK, are here singing hymns in an ever so slightly jazzy & uptempo Swingle Singers style. Brisk but...	Davjon	$10.50 Add:
Rudy Ray Moore Dolemite lp lp 2010/1975 new Not Dolemite's comedy bits, but the wig-flippin' funk cues from the blaxploitation boom-mike-in-the-shot classic. Moore wrote all the songs, along with the script, & conducted the...	Generation International	$10.50 Add:
Various Gordon's War lp lp 2010/1973 new Blaxploitaton flick directed by actor Ossie Davis. Orchestral funk, mostly instros, & mostly by a studio band called Badder Than Evil. Takes a bit to get past the faux-classy wafting...	Buddah	$10.50 Add:
Bob Crewe Barbarella lp lp 2004/1968 new Excellent sci-fi psych & bubblegum sheen. Producer Bob Crewe had several charting acts running around at the time this was made: the Four Seasons, Mitch Ryder, & the Bob Crewe...	Dynovoice	$11.00 Add:
Dorothy Ashby Hip Harp lp lp 2010/1958 new Dot went to the same high school as Kenny Burell & Donald Byrd, had her own radio show & put on plays in Detroit with her husband/drummer. She's probably best known as a much-sampled...	Prestige	$11.00 Add:
Moondog Snaketime Series lp lp 2007/1956 new Also known as the 1st Prestige album. Moondog's japanese wife (whose real name was Mary, not Suzuko or Sakura), wooden triangle invention (called the 'Oo'), fugues/rounds, &...	Moondog	$11.00 Add:
Various Wild Style lp lp 2010/1983 new The movie mostly went unseen at the time, but this soundtrack is the source (not to mention the illustration) of the now-ubiquitous phrase/idea of two turntables and a microphone....	Animal	$11.00 Add: