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OSR3 Blanche Blanche Blanche – ‘Open Session Rock’ C42 $8
Blanche Blanche Blanche’s 6th album. 24 songs from Brattleboro VT
mixed with the dice at snake eyes.  LISTEN UP

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Blanche Blanche Blanche – ‘Wink With Both Eyes’ LP
Brattleboro VT prolific song writing duo Blanche Blanche Blanche’s second Night-People release shines even more then their excellent first cassette effort. Wink With Both Eyes is a distinct statement in the contemporary underground music environment. It is a distilled, unified, collection of songs compiled from the hundreds of songs BBB has created in the last couple of years. To add extra flavor to their weirdo synth pop songs on Wink With Both Eyes, BBB enlisted many of their Brattleboro music friends including shredders like King Tuff, Chris Weisman, and Graham Brooks. Band members Sarah Smith and Zach Phillips didn’t use any computers, samplers, drum machines or sequencers when they created Wink With Both Eyes sticking to their own unique processes of song craft. Retained from prior releases is the urgent jazzy retro synth feel, catchy monotone vocals and minimalist post punk references. BBB is a distinct creative team and this LP is there definitive statement thus far. Keep your eyes open for upcoming releases by BBB from our friends over at Feeding Tube Records and La Station Radar.

Peak Twins/Scott and Charlene’s Wedding split LP
Night-People presents a very fine split LP by little know Australian bands, Melbourne’s Peak Twins and Scott & Charlene’s Wedding who have recently relocated to NYC. This is a co-release with Aussie label Bed Room Suck our friends out of Brisbane and is the first in a string of co-released splits representing some of Australia’s best bands highlighting the distinct artistic atmopshere and friendships that have made Australian underground music so vibrant right now. Melbourne duo Peak Twins (who share members with Kitchen’s Floor, Bitch Prefect, Terrible Truths etc) ride the jams and compose their music with utmost attention to well played pop hooks, somber sublte psychedlics, and a general downer dissposition that never gets to heavy but lets the light shine through onto the 60’s psych pop flavored jangle and shamble of their great songs. Scott and Charlene’s Wedding (who share members with Panel of Judges) have a distinct punky jangly guitar pop aesthetic going that is distinctly Aussie and south hemipshere in its sound. They are good mates with rising indie rockers Twerps and have some shared influences but where Twerps keep it a bit more chill and mopey Scott and Charlene’s let the angst and grit stick out more. Perfect tunes for dreamy summertime days.

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Whitman – ‘Dust Unsettled: Ten Years Of Whitman’ CD
On April 20th, 2002, Whitman gave his first performance in a church in Highland, California. Wearing a flannel hunting jacket, a long black wig, and sunglasses he strummed a severely out of tune guitar with only three strings. It’s doubtful that anyone in the room would have imagined that ten years later, he would still be performing. But since then he has had 29 releases (not including compilation appearances), and toured extensively. His music has gone through many transformations over the years, but has never strayed from being brutally honest. This CD collects 17 songs from various split artist releases and compilations. It also contains several previously unreleased recordings. This is a limited edition, one time release of 200 glass mastered and pro-replicated CD’s (not CD-R’s) that come in full color jackets with artwork by Emma Backman.

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WaMü – ‘Viafuckt’ cassette
Viafuckt, a limited cassette release (150 copies) from improv punk band WaMu, is now available on Talking Helps Records! Clocking in just under 25 minutes, this is the debut release from the Seattle four-piece bent on aural destruction. Bringing spontaneity to sound, WaMu’s music straddles the fence of deliberation, leaving the listener always with the question: “Did they mean to do that?” The inception of the cacophony saw Eric Ostrowski, once half of the NW noise duo Noggin and accomplished solo violinist and filmmaker, joining forces with Garrett Kelly and Rachel LeBlanc, the masterminds behind Seattle’s self-declared worst band My Printer Broke,. Brittnie Fuller, and her unrelenting sax, joined shortly after to complete the band’s “shrillwave” sound. Viafuckt was recorded live at Hollow Earth Radio. The band has no written material, but nevertheless, a concept album has emerged from the rubble. These songs will rattle your bones with Seattle’s shitty Viaduct deconstruction, the cryptic death of Princess Diana, and the mythology of the goddess Artemis. Stuff that in your mugwort pipe and skronk it.

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The N.E.C. – ‘Six b/w Popsicle’ 7″
33 rpm, 7”, 100 black vinyl, screen printed art. Atlanta’s Natural Extension Concept (The N.E.C.) play dynamic, driving psychedelic rock on their latest single, the lead track of their forthcoming LP, Last Point of Radiation. “Six” is loud, focused, and noisy, as The N.E.C. pummel your ears with a relentless riff. Truly a monolithic sound, the band unify to drive their parts into oblivion. The exclusive B-side, “Popsicle,” yields burned-out sunshine pop, equal parts soul and debauchery. With this flip, The N.E.C. maintain soulful rhythms with a catchy anthem alongside their noisy lead cut. Screenprinted art ensures that each single is a unique artifact for the listener.

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DAVID KILGOUR  – ‘Here Come The Cars’ LP
A year after the Clean’s reunion LP Vehicle (also their first proper album ever) put them back on the international-pop radar in 1990, guitarist David Kilgour retreated with his new Revox tape machine (which he’d been singing about rapturously in his side-project Stephen and elsewhere: “Have you seen my new tape machine?!”) and cut his first solo album, Here Come the Cars, issued by Flying Nun in 1991. From the jarring cover image of David through to the last note, Here Come the Cars is a special pop album, even on a label that had no shortage of them. A sparkling gem cloaked in achingly atmospheric production (courtesy of Nick Roughan), Here Come the Cars has haunted us since its release — it’s just one of those albums that exists outside of time, the opening chords of the title track never fail to draw you out of the world you’re in and into its own magical space. The album was remastered and rereleased on CD by Flying Nun in 2004, but has never before been on vinyl — which De Stijl is happy to rectify here in 2012.

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Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore – ‘The Ecstatic Exchange’ C50
A rare chance to hear Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore reading (and accompanying himself on zither) from his classic collection of shamanic poetry ‘Dawn Visions’, originally published by City Lights back in 1964, when the author was in his early twenties. The poems were written during explorations of mind and space in Mexico and California. As Moore describes it, a period of “immersion on the ocean of poetic inspiration, my near drowning in a sudden flood of imagery and pushing further and further, almost under water in it, surfacing to sing.” From a similar well sprung The Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company, which Moore founded in 1966, blending Zen Buddhism, music and dance of eastern folk theatre and Antonin Artaud into higher dimensions, performing their plays at night, in an amphitheater in North Berkeley, by torchlight. In 1970 he renounced written poetry and became a sufi, traveling widely in Morocco, Spain, Algeria and Nigeria. Moore broke his silence in the early eighties and has since published numerous spiritually informed books, from which a couple recent poems are here included as well. 100 copies.

Den Stora Vilan – ‘LiveGrodor’ C40
We had been talking about this tape for a couple years now: a buncha killer livejams by the great Swedish band Den Stora Vilan (which supposedly translates something as ‘The Great Rest’). Long mellow West Coast influenced psych jams (think ‘American Beauty’ era Gratefuld Dead) meets Neil Young with a bit of Trad Gras Och Stenar thrown in. 200 copies.

Planets Around The Sun – ‘Ram of Heart and The Earthen Chariot’ C75
Planets Around The Sun have been pushing their chariot across the USA for close to a year now, exploring many inner and outer spaces inebriated with fluid acid folk/drone/psych improvisations. Prior to this indefinite tour, they collected these recordings made in various barns, on boats and in bedrooms. An epic collection by these traveling wizards who are also part of the extended Cursillistas, Herbcraft, Tempera, White Light etc. family. 70 copies.

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Cribshitter – ‘Mint Car’ cassette $7
We are releasing a limited-release (40 qty) cassette called Mint Car on May 1st. It contains 16 tracks of mostly new material with a few classic nuggets thrown in from our past two releases (Methlehem, Cry A Little Rainbow) based on what songs sounded best in our cassette testing facility: A white 1985 Pontiac Fiero. Among the new material you will hear anything from psych rock, pure country, dubstep, chill-blare, and even a few makeout tunes. Mint Car will be available on Cribshitter’s bandcamp page May 1st in bright orange cassette tape ($7), or digital download (for all the computer nerd-baits!).

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