NEW RELEASES - Feb 2013

NEW RELEASES

Prices include postage
All four of em postpaid - £15 UK, £18 Eur, £20 World 
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UN036 Fritz Welch & Duncan Bruce CDr (£4 UK, £5 Eur, £6.50 world)

Fritz Welch is a universal oddity, currently seeping ether paste from his Glasgow penthouse into the universal -  spraying muck over the soft handed GIO, dancing in Brazil, riding in cars in South Africa. Duncan Bruce, from my initial assessment, appears to be a resident of New Zealand, and has somehow located Mr Welch through the postal service to produce this disc of lost chatter and tinny scree. If I was writing in a magazine I’d say “singular”. Each sleeve is unique, hand stamped from a hand cut eraser.

UN037 Grant Smith and Greg Thomas CDr (£4 UK, £5 Eur, £6.50 world)

Endless corridors of mistrung violins, guitars played with traintrack teeth and it’s cold so you keep your coat on. Traditional instruments you may have heard of (violin and guitar, for the most part) being stretched to breaking point by hardy gents with no respect for your time. Electricity intervenes in the play like a weary ghost.

UN038 Sindre Bjerga "Smooth Operator" CDr (£4 UK, £5 Eur, £6.50 world)

Sindre Bjerga hails from the Northern Hemisphere, and each year on the same date he plays a live concert in Edinburgh. Every year, this falls on the same night as someone’s birthday, another concert or a prior engagement, and thus I have never seen him play live. I have, however, heard various recordings of his mind soup wildcard tonal interplay, of which this release is an example. Two long tracks, which might have been destined for an LP, except it’s all digital round here now, we’re entering the CD era…

UN039 Muscletusk "No Hink" 2CDr (£8 UK, £10 Eur, £12 World)

Follow up to LP “Ask The Universe”, with less fi as a result of being recorded underground and left to rot in the mice ridden vaults. Indeterminate timeframes collide under a haze of gristle. Rock band set up trying to erase itself. Peaks and troughs of red and yellow, bells and accelerator. Two discs worth, as intended as a premium slice. Here’s what someone said about another release: “Scattershot drum-powered metal guitars collide with washing machine electronics and manic wordless vocals that in the record’s quietest moments sound like some feral alien cave-creature’s mating call straight out of Quatermass” (Neil Cooper, The List). Plush coloured sleeves and grotty black and white inserts.

COMING NEXT: Chastity Potatoe, Marvo Men, Robert Ridley Shackleton, Dead Labour Process...

MANY NEWISH THINGS...

Been snoozing on a bunch of discs n tapes with my name on for a while now...Many VERY EXCITING releases to be snapped up for a pittance. Usual postage rates apply... Postage:
UK add 50p per CD
Eur £1 for 1st item, 50p each additional
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DEAD LABOUR PROCESS "SENTIMENT" CDR (Chocolate Monk) £4

Here's what Nyoukis has to say about it: "Edinburghs one man tape blub merchant presents recordings made in his home town and that of Offenbach, Germany. Warbling and clank are captured in loops. At one point there is some vague sense of a carnival tent in which the studying of stumps takes place and where bones tell tales. Croon dementia is set upon us, molecules warbled sideways, nausea. On the way out we get gnawing and gurgling camouflaged by mud, necks craned in formation. A goat haired bow and proclamations."


DEAD LABOUR PROCESS "RATS IN THE GRAVY OF KNOWLEDGE" CDR (PIFHO) £4

Long-form release of heavily milked recordings from across Europe in 2011, including some group drunk singalong jerk offs, 2 cover versions, various bumbling foibles and some personal 'issues' being worked out in public therapy. I will humbly give this my highest recommendation...


DEAD LABOUR PROCESS/KOMMISSAR HJULER UND FRAU "HAMBURG TAPES" (TOTAL VERMIN) £3

Recorded live in Hamburg, 2011. Two side long pieces for tapes, voice, biscuit tin, guitar and keyboard. Originally released on a DVD in an edition of about 2 copies or something, but to be honest there was nothing to see on it since we played in the dark! Much better in straight up audio and you can conjure up your own visuals. Here's what Arnot is saying: "Live hook-ups between Edinburgh's DLP, also to be found in noise rock shitkickers Muscletusk and certifiable droolers Brittle Hammer Trio, and Germany's Mr and Mrs Dada. They weave together an unremittingly strange noise, from sources familiar and unknown, simultaneously alien and as human as snot. As unhinged, confusing and ultimately beautiful as you could hope for.


BRITTLE HAMMER TRIO "OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS" CDR (Poot) £4

Debut release by the trio of Fritz Welch, Ali Robertson and Euan Currie. As much scrape, warble and tickle as you can shake a stinky duckcall at. Cover art by Fritz Welch.


BRITTLE HAMMER TRIO "COMMUNICATION METHODS" CDR (No label) £4

Special release for sale at Colour Out Of Space fest in Nov 2011. Recorded in my kitchen then fannied about by Fritz. This is in some ways a very broad concept album which has been continued in our recent live work, although this may be pushing it a bit...


VARIOUS ARTISTS "SONGS ABOUT DYING" CDR (Pjorn 72) £4

A various artists grouping of some disrepute...inc. Blood Stereo, UFO Antler Band, Nackt Insecten, Scrim, Jazzfinger, Culver, Wounded Knee, Fordell Research Unit and of course my good self. I guess most of these "songs" to touch on mortality, although perhaps Scrim's "Mangers and Bash" might require some explaining. Cover art by Karen Constance.

ALL RELEASES ARE IN VERY LIMITED QUANTITIES, SO DON'T SIT ABOUT STROKING YOUR TITTIES! Get to it...

NEW RELEASES - August 2011

NEW SHIZZLE! ALL WITH HANDPRINTED COVERS.

Postage:
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UN033 Lovely Honkey "The Destitute Homeless Form Part Of The Scenery" CDR £4
"Album of the year!" - Ali Robertson (Usurper)

Isolated by the brown water, Luke Poot's one fingered directions into 4am TV-land feel like they've only seen the light of day seeping through stained curtains, then been so freaked out he scuttled back under the bed to fumble out some of that "music" he heard the neighbours talking about through the walls...Now stop talking with your mouth full...



UN034 Core Of The Coalman "Precambrian Figures" CDR £4

Metaphysical slabs of composerly wisdom mangled by intermittent mad-scientist haphazard whims. Praha's wizard of the viola gives the horse hair a rest, instead focusing his mind's ears on the sounds of slow moving rocks, fixed point synth channelling and hands catching lead (half speed, naturally...). Includes intimate explanatory notes by the artiste.



UN035 Hunting, Shooting and Fishing "Buckshot/Quiverful" CDR £4

Hot new East/West Coast hook up (by way of the South) featuring a member of Helhesten. What starts out like a bunch of kids from Alan Bryant's bouncing little people planet soon disintegrates into grainy unthunk smog. Both epic and intimate, stand back and its a hobo flute on the mountaintop and strings picking out a half-forgotten childhood melody; look at the details and it's two soft lads in motheaten sweaters hunched over their busted instruments in a freezing room, twitching to keep warm.

MUSCLETUSK "ASK THE UNIVERSE" LP

OUT NOW>>>>

Muscletusk "Ask the Universe" LP
Braw Records

£12 p+p (UK)
Email about worldwide rates.
Paypal to: skidblue@gmail.com

"A relentlessly sludgy stew...Scattershot drum-powered metal guitars collide with washing machine electronics and manic wordless vocals that in the record’s quietest moments sound like some feral alien cave-creature’s mating call straight out of Quatermass. A perfect hallucinogenic Halloween accompaniment; this is an earth’s core horror movie soundtrack in waiting" - Neil Cooper, The List.

"It’s often easy to spot a Metal attitude lurking under the surface of a Noise group but, in the case of Edinburgh quartet Muscletusk, it breaks the surface like a particularly nasty zit. At heart, this is a heavy rock unit of guitars, drums and vocals, who have escaped the tyranny of the riff. On this debut vinyl release, drums clatter and thrash in a way that’s free-form yet devoid of jazz; guitars puke and churn extreme feedback and Industrial noise; wordless, abstracted vocals shriek and gibber. The resulting thuggish onslaught is bent into loops and swirling, queasy drones, several of which are stitched together here in a brutal, slightly nauseating collage. Taken in one go, it’s like drowning in a cement mixer" - Daniel Spicer

"From the darkest of scuzz-coated cellars comes the debut LP from Edinburgh’s finest proponents of creeping noise slime. If this retching onslaught was blasting out from under your neighbours’ door, you’d probably walk past shudde...ring and ready to invest in ear plugs. Opener “Rusted Horse” sets an immaculate tone, as decaying swathes of sickening electronics rush up to nauseous heights, complimented by hysterical chimp-like vocal chattering. Free drums skitter and scramble around somewhere down by the nether regions and, all in all, it makes for a pretty fantastic white-out. Six further pieces pursue this course before the final sputtering discharge of “Fingers Inside The Glove”. God knows what answer Muscletusk expects of the universe, but it could possibly be found by playing this LP at full volume while power drilling into your forehead in search of a third eye." - Euan Andrews, Rock-a-Rolla


Listen a little:::::::






Distros or whoever, please get in touch...

MUSCLETUSK UK TOUR!

Hi fudz

MUSCLETUSK are going on tour this week, ostensibly to promote our LP "Ask the Universe" on Braw Records. We won't actually have any copies as its delayed at the pressing plant, but should get em a couple days after we get back to begin shipping. We will be taking preorders at the gigs, so bring along 12 bones and you'll get one through yr letterbox! On all dates, you'll get the pleasure of hearing and seeing fellow Edinburgers SCRIM playing some tape and recorder wheeze.

LISTEN TO SOME SAMPLES FROM THE LP:





SEPTEMBER TOUR DATES

22nd Newcastle - Muscletusk, Scrim, Mechanical Children, Culver, Foot Hair - Northumberland Arms, Northumberland Street.

23rd Manchester - Muscletusk, Scrim, The Gamecock - The Engine House @ Islington Mill, James Street, Salford.

24th Brighton - Muscletusk, Scrim, Bolide, Teignmouth Electron- Cowley Club, 112 London Road

25th Nottingham - Muscletusk, Scrim, Morgan Caney, Modulator ESP - Chameleon Arts Cafe, 17 Angel Row.

26th Leeds - Muscletusk, Scrim, Mutant Ape, Castrato Attack Group - Cardigan Arms, Kirkstall Road.

ALL GIGS COST ROUND ABOUT £5, AND KICK OFF APPROX 7.30PM.

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RECENT THINGS, FREE FOR YOU

There has been so much weirdo shit happening in E'burgh recently that my fancy wee portable recorder has been ran clean out o' battteries. In thoroughly modern fashion, please stream and download many audio and visual delights hence...

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BRITTLE HAMMER TRIO - video AND audio from 14th June show with Spencer Clark & James Ferraro. Perfromance art extravaganza.




And here's the audio. Mind and crank it to hear those subtle pops and clicks that really make the whole "live experience" thing real...


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DEAD RIB STINK - live trio set from June 23rd at Canon's Gait, Edinburgh. Look out for more from this haphazard three way...




and while we're at it....Here's a solo Ash Reid aka Solipstink set from 22nd May 2010...



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MUSCLETUSK

We have an LP coming out soon on Braw Records. Here is a live set from the same date as the Solipstink set above...



And back in March, two Muscletusks collaborated with two Helhestens to form the controversially named MUSCLESTEN
Listen below.....




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Phew, almost there...

And further back, in February (I think) two Muscletusks collaborated with Marky Mark "Loose Cannon" Callan to perform under the name WinsorDamonBeast, which is usually the alter-ego of one of those Muscletusks, when in solo mode.
Got that? Here's the recording...

DEAD LABOUR PROCESS - WORLD TOUR!

Seen as this short jaunt has me playing a show in Toronto while I'm on holiday there, I thought I'd class it as a (caps lock on...) WORLD TOUR! I know that misses out a substantial portion of the world, and its pretty much only Prague, Germany and Belgium, but who knows, maybe more dates will get added due to phenomenal demand...Click on the abundant links below to get more info, kids...

Thurs July 15th: Toronto, Canada @ Teranga, w/ Bryan Ruryk, Kevin Crump, Safe

Monday August 2nd: Prague, Czech Republic @ K4 Students Club, Charles University, Celetná 20.

Tues August 3rd: Prague, Czech Republic @ Globe Bookstore, vocal/text set w/ Graeme Smith, Jorge Beohringer

Sat 7th August: Berlin, Germany @ Die Kunstapotheke, w/ Nude On Sand

Mon 9th August: Ghent, Belgium? Maybe just hanging out here and here

Tues 10th August: Brussels, Belgium – Radio Panik session 5-6pm, then gig at MicroMarche, doors 8pm.

Wed 11th August: Hamburg, Germany @ Horbar, w/ Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer (trio), Chad Popple?

Thurs 12th August: Offenbach, near Frankfurt, Germany @ Waggon

KI "STOPS DROPPING!" & IAIN CAMPBELL "ABSOLUTELY THE BEST ABBA SINCE ABBA"

Good day all,
Two new bangers up now, perfect for the BBQ summer that is upon us...

BOTH RELEASES POSTAGE PAID: £8 UK/ £9 EUROPE/ £10 WORLD
(or see P&P details below...)

UN031 KI - "Stops Dropping!" CDR £5
Degreaser for yr mossed up brain, live at the INSTAL 09 fest in Glasgow, Scotland. Trio of Tamio Shiraishi (on ear peircing sax/gibbering, of Fushitsusha), Mico (on wails, clatter, piano and huh??, member of No Neck Blues Band) and Fritz Welch (on gong, traps, Les Dawson lips and "vibes", member of Peeesseye/Brittle Hammer Trio etc etc). This was a total standout for me at a fest packed with utter lunacy. Getting up close and personal while Mico lost it with some cymbals crashing too near my little toes was a special moment. Comes in beautiful screenprinted sleeves, design by the Welch twins.



UN032 Iain Campbell - "Absolutely the best ABBA since ABBA" CDR £4
Potentially litigious smorgasboard, this ain't exactly Mamma Mia 2...Recordings from unknown sources, madly spliced chatter, gleaming feedback streams and all sorts of primal scrape. If you listen to it backwards those voices probably say something demonic. Listen to the sample, big cheese.



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OLDER RELEASES STILL AVAILABLE:

UN007 DEAD LABOUR PROCESS "EXAMINATIONS" CDR £4
UN011 THE SPEECH ORGANS - VARIOUS CDR £4
UN014 UFO ANTLER BAND CDR £4
UN015 DEAD LABOUR PROCESS “LONE THROAT” C30 (LAST COPY!!!) £3
UN016 DEAD LABOUR PROCESS “MECHANICAL RELATIONS” CASS (LAST COPY!!!) £3
UN025 PRECIOUS TROMBLEY "SIMPLE FIGHTING" C40 £3
UN027 FORDELL RESEARCH UNIT "HATER" CDR £4
UN028 FOSSILS "SUPER UNKNOWN/ZIPPER EXAM" C60 £3
UN029 DIOSPROJECT "EPHEMERAL WOMEN" C20 £3
UN030 DEAD LABOUR PROCESS/RETAIL UNIT "BEARERS OF BAD TIME" CDR £4

UNVERIFIED T-SHIRTS

Step out into the world of fashion with one of these limited edition, hand designed UNVERIFIED RECORDS t-shirts...
All are unique and sprayed with durable fabric paint. New colours and designs forthcoming...
PRICES: £7 UK/ £8 Europe/ £10 World
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Available:
Yellow w/ black & pink logo (M/L)
Red w/ black logo (M/L)
Light grey w/ black logo (M/L)
Blue w/ pink logo (M)
Blue w/ black logo (M)
"Carribean Joe" recycled t-shirt (backprint, as pictured) (M)
Navy blue w/ pink & dirty yellow recycled t-shirt (M)

NEW RELEASES JANUARY 2010

NEW JUNK FOR YR HEID...



UN027 Fordell Reseach Unit “Hater” CDR £4
From the misty hills of Oxgangs, more thousand-mile worrying from the pit of a bong. Gorgeous elongated drifting with a sharper tongue than most. None of that hippy shite here pal. SOLD OUT!



UN028 Fossils “Super Unknown/Zipper Exam” c60 £3
More Canadian weirdo sound. A full hour of far off clanking, ear ache and general lo tech wizardry. If side A is a reimagining of that Soundgarden record, it’s a pretty warped one. I swear I heard “Spoonman” in there somewhere…

SOLD OUT!


UN029 DIOS Project “Ephemeral Women” c20 £3
Starting with a teary playground recording and ending with some hazed-up fog stomp, Derrick Leach AKA DIOS Project gives you a quick once over with the contents of his toy box. The sound he done brewed makes me think of snow melting away and other rebirth/renewal metaphors.



UN030 Dead Labour Process/Retail Unit “Bearers of Bad Time” CDR £4
Myself and Mr. Sandy Milroy bring the bad vibes. DLP stuff is all entangled croaking, biscuit tin percussion and backward spooling. RU is the bleakest, sweatiest club you ever been in, on the wettest night of the most miserable day of your life. It may just be me but this whole disc just reeks of Thatcherite rain…





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Cheeeeeeeeers

Tramp Apples

Tramp Apples Vol 1 was a CD documenting a one off meeting between some backward goons in a dingy basement. The whole session was too much for 1 CD, so here's the part that never made it. Look out bucket drumming, stump handed guitar and group moaning.

Listen and download here>>>>

Oddities of the Lothians

Probably my favourite thing I've put out. Field recordings made in various locations around the Lothians, twisted and regurgitated. You can probably buy it some places still if you want a physical copy, but its up for free download elsewhere so fuck it, here you go....

Dead Labour Process "Lone Keys"

Very first release on Unverified, from Dec 07.
Solo single finger keyboard.
Download and listen to the whole damn thing right here>>>

New comps...

So fuds
I recently laid my hands on two comps I am tickled pink to be part of...
I have very limited copies of each, email if you want em. UNRECS at YAHOOdotCOM
3 pounds sterling each, plus p+p

here's the funk...

SERVANTS OF CULTURE, DRINKERS OF PEARLS Vol 1 (Total Vermin #30)
Cassette
Featuring: Dead Labour Process, Little Creatures..., Shareholder, Deepkiss 720, Plum Slate, Sindre Bjerga.

WINNERS DON'T SHIVER (Piped In From Head Office pifho009)
CDR
Featuring: Tim Le Breuilly, WinsorDamonBeast, Ali Robertson + Fordell Research Unit, Wounded Knee, Scrim, Dead Labour Process, King Rib, Retail Unit.
Excellent document of east-coast Scotland at its peak, I reckon...

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COLOUR OUT OF SPACE 09

As you would expect, the annual Chocolate Monk fest was a total treat for fans of weirdo sounds. Below you can watch some videos I shot at the fest, some more on youtube. Of course, I would recommend watching all 37mins of Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer. Enjoy...













As always...sounds for sale or trade...just scroll down...or go here...email: unrecsATyahooDOTcom
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BRITTLE HAMMER QUARTET

Fritz Welch, Ali Robertson, Malcy Duff & Euan Currie ( I was there i swear, just out of shot though...) live in Edinburgh, secret venue, 24th October 2009.

DEAD LABOUR PROCESS "DISGRACE"

New solo disc out on Thorngumbald's best (only???) record label...the mighty POOT. Recorded this summer, but perfect for the nights drawing in, rain and bitter reflection...mental bleakness filtered through idiot hands. Scraping, wailing, slobbering, rust and field recordings. Listen to the sound sample for a clip of all the tracks

1. To Rot by Inches
2. Human Ming
3. Scrunched Bangle
4. Skeletal Dogs Chew at Nothing
5. Nothing But Soap & Sun

ORDER INFO (inc P+P):
UK - £4.50
Europe - £5
US/World - £5.50

BRITTLE HAMMER TRIO video

From Glasgow DIY Fest, 25 Sep 09.
Ali Robertson, Fritz Welch, Euan Currie.
Idiot soundman can't work mics.

NEW BATCH OF RELEASES

Fresh sound for summer...

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UN021 Christopher Riggs "Amazed Nova" cass £3

Prolific guitar whizz Chris Riggs specialises in coaxing and battering all sorts of wrong sounds from his 6-string. If you have heard any of his other releases on labels like Hanson or his own Holy Cheever Church, you know to expect none of the usual twang or strum. Here, he paints a dense and detailed wall of bizarre tone, from ancient sounding music-box jitters to uncomfortable amp thud.

UN022 Pyroclastic Pontoon Quintet cass

SOLD OUT - GET IT HERE

UN023 Tuluum Shimmering "River Gods Strike Tuned Bronze Flowers" CDR

SOLD OUT - GET IT HERE

UN024 D.O-NEIMAGI-N.E/I-AMBNECESSNO "A No Place" CDR £4


Spit-close overloaded musings, backwardness, broken electrical clatter. A kind of musique concrete/cut-up/sound poetry symphony that is a pure treat. This is the first lengthy taste of his grim aesthetic available for pubic consumption. Glaswegian beauty like no other.


UN025 Precious Trombley "Simple Fighting" £3

If you search for these goofs on youtube, you'll see them jammin their thang on some Detroit street, looking like doobie-tooting youths who been spending too long trying to capture the cavemen-playing-free-jazz aesthetic which is so hot right now. On this tape they throw in some fizzling electronics and moaning trombone to the mix. Art by Knox Mitchell.

UN026 Elfenbeinturm "1982 - Pizza, Beer & Smokes" cass £3


A ritualistic lament for half-remembered smoked out youth. Datashock man Pascal Hector twists backed-up chatter, tape collage, analogue synth and primitive conga taps around themselves. Welcome to this guy's private universe, you'll like it.