no part of it

Thanks! I think I signed up for their email list. It is wild to see cassette labels get so much attention. I come from an experimental background, it's really a grind for a lot of labels, but labels releasing music on cassette, even fledgling nobodies, are getting quite a bit of attention. I'm fascinatingly jealous, but not so much that I won't pay attention.

I found this forum because an image search led me to a really great collage that was the cover art for an experimental cassette released in Portugal. I'm a little surprised at the amount of douchebaggery and shallow, mouth-breather, dude-bro etiquette. Honestly, I don't like to walk into someone's house and criticize, but why isn't anyone talking about rare records and why is the "top 10 desert island" list in the "Everything Else" forum? What the hell is wrong with you guys? This is about vinyl, right? I consider myself a serious collector. I thought I had found a haven for a second, but alas, it's the same morons, different avatars, apparently. If you motherfuckers want to drool over Blink 182 reissues, that is fine, but don't come on my thread trying to condescend to me about music. If you can't read between the lines and see that this is a thread for basically "sharing/showing off your knowledge of rare records" (that you don't own yet for various reasons), with a bit of a "wishful thinking" underpinning, that is your own problem. I can write at length about any one of the records I listed up there. Make yourself look stupid all you want. This isn't the special olympics, and I won't wait for you to catch up. If you don't have anything nice to say, go to another thread. We're all stocked up on assholes here.

Ah, you had me excited for a second. I thought you meant the Drew McDowall tape. I have been watching discogs for that. No, I'm sure the Iceage tape is good, (I mean that silver foil shit is expensive!) but I don't really do post-rock pr post-punk of any kind. I mean basically it's music from before I was 10 years old or contemporary experimental/noise. I don't do a whole lot of music music. But thanks

Innit though?!!! I'll take that album with the bonus track "Too Young" and I'll be all set. I like their other albums too, but not nearly as much.

I didn't realize it was you that put it in your top list. I don't knock it, I just think it's unusual. And that's fine. The way I think the world should work isn't happening, people are liking the Beatles over the Rolling Stones and I just think that's silly. No one has commented on my top list probably because they think it's unusual (or horrible). It was tough not to put the Rolling Stones in there. But if I did put the Stones on the list, it'd be "Metamorphosis", which is probably equally unusual to others. Compared to say "Exile on Main Street" or "Aftermath" or anything else. I love their early blues records, especially "Out of Our Heads", but Metamorphosis is like the perfect breakup album and not in a sad way : "I'd Rather Be Out With The Boys".... and so on.....

There are some good tracks on it, I just don't understand who it is a conceptual album. How "Back In The USSR" or "They Say It's Your Birthday" are part of some concept. I appreciate that they were inspired by John Cage and that, and that they were messing with reel to reels as they recorded, playing things backwards and whatnot. Hell, they were studying under the Maharashi at that time, and my meditation teacher was taught by a guy that was taught by him, so that's cool. I also tend to be a bit turned off by overtly political subject matter, so if that is in there somehow, it's even more reason that the White Album is not for me. "She's So Heavy" and "Why Dont' We Do It In The Road", and that one song, "I'm Lonely" etc are good, but goddamn I went through the whole thread this morning waiting for my coffee to kick in and listening to The Stooges, and I only saw one person put an album by The Stones in there. And it was Goats Head Soup! That's an odd one is all. I'm alone in this, but while I think the Rolling Stones are beyond great at just about everything they touched in the 60s, for my money the best album start to finish by them is "Metamorphosis", and I think that one was mainly out-takes, if I'm not mistaken.

I have a personal punk playlist ready to go, for anyone who happens to be interested (on spotify): https://open.spotify.com/user/arvofingers/playlist/2aZyUh9fUidA5gvq6HMNgf This is for my personal purposes and not "all time" this or "best" that. It's just what gets me back to the basics sometimes.

RAMONES - s/t Adicts - Sound of Music The Crucifucks - Our Will Be Done The Damned - Damned Damned Damned The Queers - Day Late and a Dollar Short The Casualties - For The Punx Black Flag - The First Four Years Rudimentary Peni - The EPs of RP (if I have to choose one, it'd be the Archaic EP) Blanks 77 - Tanked & Pogoed The Spits - 1st s/t Honorable Mentions: Subhumans - The Day The Country Died Anything by Chrome Stooges - Funhouse Beastie Boys - Aglio Y Olio The Oi Scouts - Boots For The Beatdown Plasmatics - Beyond The Valley of 1984 GG Allin - Public Animal #1

I'm on the same page. I'm new here, and I got kind of a backlash for doing a similar list in the vinyl section. It's about and pertaining to vinyl! Right?

I've never gotten into the Beatles, but I respect their songwriting. That said, The White Album has got to be one of the most over-rated albums I can think of. It's purportedly a concept album, but it sounds like a bunch of thrown together out-takes for the most part. I guess it inspired Charles Manson and Family, but .....

I also would have been keen to add Fats Waller, but since it was the 30s, all there is are greatest hits albums, basically, unless I wanted to bring a single 78 rpm record to the desert island.

Yeah, it would be hard for me to do without Black Sabbath, Maggot Brain, or Richard D James. Especially I Care Because You Do. I think SABOTAGE might be my desert island if it were on there, or the s/t, but I even like Technical Ecstasy. I'm not about to start a thread of albums I've listened to on repeat, but BS is on there.

Desert Island in no order: 1. Marilyn Manson - Anti Christ Superstar 2. David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World 3. COIL - Horse Rotorvator 4. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska 5. T. Rex - Slider 6. Foetus - Flow 7. Wendy Rene - After Laughter (2xLP on Light In The Attic) 8. Lee Hazlewood - Trouble Is A Lonesome Town 9. Nilsson Sings Newman 10. Ministry - With Sympathy It will be hard to do without The Stooges, The Ramones, early Nine Inch Nails, or Depeche Mode, but I'll get by.

Well, I specified vinyl on mine, I didn't think it was the wrong message board, although for the COIL album, the 3xLP goes for $1000, so I'd take the CD, even though this itself goes for $100. I didn't think it was necessarily just things I want to buy. I have a list of 140 items I want to buy, and I maintain it regularly. What I wanted to address in this list are things that are specialized, prohibitive, or just things I haven't gotten around to. I didn't think that has been covered elsewhere.

Hi. I'm new here. First time on a vinyl board of any kind. I searched, and didn't see any thread like this. A friend recently said he was going to buy me a certain record for Christmas, and I started discouraging it and suggesting other things instead. I figured this thread could be for people to think (absurdly) out loud, and show off their bad taste. Forgive me. Maybe people will provide me with more absurdly priced things to look at or other things we haven't gotten around to. 1. Foetus - DEAF! LP 2. Foetus - ACHE LP 3. Coil - Ape of Naples (3 LP set or CD) 4. Lee Hazlewood - Lee Hazlewoodism LP 5. Lee Hazlewood - 98% American Mom & Apple Pie 1929 Crash Band LP 6. Renaldo & The Loaf - Arabic Yodelling LP 7. Snakefinger - Greener Postures 8. The Manson Family Sings The Songs of Charles Manson LP 9. Ennio Morricone - The Thing OST LP 10. Jack Nitzsche - The Lonely Surfer 11. Andromeda Strain LP with Hexagon sleeve 12. Nurse with Wound - Surveillance Lounge 2xLP 13. Nightmare - Great Balls of Fire/Witch Woman 7" 14. Agony Bag - Rabies is a Killer 7" 15. The Five Blobs - The Blob 7" 16. Ron 'Pate's Debonairs - Raudelunas Pataphysical Revue LP 17. Hawkwind - Warrior On The Edge Of Time (LP, Album) 18. Les Rallizes Denudes - Heavier Than A Death In The Family 2xLP 19. Thomas Leer and Robert Rental - The Bridge LP 20. Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction, original banned cover LP 21. Peter Frohmader's Nekropolis* - Musik Aus Dem Schattenreich LP (1st edition has better cover art)

Wow. A lot of stuff that I have never heard of going on here. I was glad to get hold of a few things this summer, and I'd recommend them for those who are into soundtracks. Mitchell Froom - "The Key of Cool" LP This is not presented as a soundtrack, but in actuality it is made up of fuller versions of material from the soundtrack to Cafe Flesh, a somewhat surrealistic/futuristic X rated movie from the early 80s. Lots of synths and fake brass/synthetic upbeat jazz. Been wanting it for years. Disasterpeace - It Follows. Great synth soundtrack. The embodiment of everything I like about a synth soundtrack without sounding very convoluted. Glad I grabbed it for a reasonable price. Ennio Morricone - Excorcist II (essential) And I do want to mention, a highlight around this time last year was the reissue of "Surf Nazis Must Die" on cassette!

Drew McDowall - Collapse LP (excellent soundtracky modular work from former member of COIL) COIL - Astral Disaster LP (bootleg from Germany) COIL - Backwards 2xLP (came with a seriously creased gatefold, got a refund, confronted the label owner for ripping off distribution artists including myself, he pretends nothing happened, funny stuff). This should honestly be considered a bootleg, but they claim the people are getting paid, which I can only assume is Danny Hyde, the man who is credited on thi s release as having done a lot in the recordings, but is credited very little on the previous official release. Higly suspicious, but the material is more than solid, recorded at Trent Reznor's Nothing Studios. New York Dolls - s/t LP (reissue) Stooges - s/t (reissue) Lee Hazlewood - Rarities and Backsides 2xLP (this comes in a gatefold, and on the cover is Lee with a bunch of naked women wearing fake mustaches, the nudity is covered by an OBI strip, nice) Sly & The Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On Lp (This one doesn't have the title track for some reason, it's purportedly a live album, but doesn't sound too live at all, which is good to me) Pink Floyd - Ummagumma 2xLP (reissue) Trains in The Night LP (no artist, recordings of locomotives from the 60s, an Argo Transacoord recording). Soft Cell - Torch 12" (One of my favorites by Soft Cell is "Insecure Me", the B side) V/A - Doo Wop LP (Specialty Records, I bought this for Vernon Green's "Sweet Breeze" alone, but it also have a track or two that was one Lux and Ivy's Favorites, so it was a no-brainer for $4). Battle Trance - Palace of Wind LP (repetitive circular breathing from 4 tenor saxophones, amazing) Severed Heads - City Slab Horror LP (reissue) Renaldo & The Loaf - Songs for Swinging Larvae LP (Ralph Records) Peggy March - Hello Boys! LP (Her better German songs)

I'm getting an error page for this link. Curious what it says. If it gets pasted in this thread, that would probably be good. I also want to discourage people from working with United Records. First they tried to charge me a set-up fee for buying blank jackets. Then they sent me 5 test pressings with constant "electrostatic" noise over them, with a note saying "static is supposed to be there". Then they took several months to reply to me. Then when I expressed my dissatisfaction, and went to pay my balance, they arbitrarily tried to charge me an extra $100 for no reason. I asked to speak to a manager, and instead the representative, Matthew Fulper Smith, sent me to another representative, saying he was "changing positions within the company". The other representative told me that he was sorry for the mix up, and he will bring my plates to the front of the production line. Then when I called him again, he claimed he never said that. I got a refund for everything but the plating fee and went with Bill Smith Pressing, who were absolutely wonderful.

I just heard of this label when they did something with Drew McDowall. I met him at a show, and gave him a couple tapes. Much to my surprise, he said he'd send me tapes in return (!!!! but none ever arrived). I wish I had known about this label earlier. Want that tape.

The Manson Family Sings (probably a bootleg, but it's the only thing related to Manson that I not only don't find tedious, but absolutely love. I'd love to have a vinyl version some day)

Filth - Psychic Voyeur (industrial noise/power electronics) Twin Whips - s/t (dark ambient/industrial noise) zke - Death of Miriam (harsh/noisey/improv) BBJR/Boyle (ambient guitar stuff) Devin Dart - See You in Heaven "FLU+US" - A tape in part of a series featuring myself with Komissar Hjuler und Mama Baer, as well as John M. Bennett, C. Mehrl Bennett Sound4Sound - Making the Right Ear Jealous (punk with lead vocals by Adel Souto of 156, Feast of Hate and Fear zine) Regosphere - VHHEX (VHS limited to 50 copies)

NO PART OF IT label went two years selling only outside of the internet. Now back online and on bandcamp. New releases and some leftovers are here for cyber-impulse dating. WILT and ILLUSION OF SAFETY will have bandcamp albums up with us featuring bonus items soon. I ship in recycled mailers with crazy papers inside of them. http://www.discogs.com/seller/Arvo/profile https://soundcloud.com/nopartofit/blood-rhythms-side-b-excerpt https://soundcloud.com/nopartofit/blood-rhythms-side-a-excerpt I'd feel kinda dirty selling the hand-made copies of mine online (I have two left), but you can get them from Tedium House. http://www.tediumhouse.com/artists/blood-rhythms or Crucial Blast or Malignant Records should have some. BLOOD RHYTHMS Assembly LP Co-Released NO PART OF IT/RRRECORDS Directional recordings of Bruce Lamont (Yakuza, Corrections House), Dave Purdie (Silver Abuse, Satan 2000), Brian Klein (The Machinist), Andy Ortmann (Panicsville, Nihilist Records) and Arvo Zylo playing mostly untrained brass and woodwind together inside a meat locker, subsequently cut into hundreds of loops, layered, and transformed into a locomotive wind tunnel. Playable at all speeds (always a good sign). 180 gram vinyl. Unique, handmade covers from Ron Lessard and Arvo Zylo. Hand-stamped and –numbered inserts. Edition of 222.

NO PART OF IT label went two years selling only outside of the internet. Now back online and on bandcamp. New releases and some leftovers are here for cyber-impulse dating. WILT and ILLUSION OF SAFETY will have bandcamp albums up with us featuring bonus items soon. I ship in recycled mailers with crazy papers inside of them. This is my discogs seller page. http://www.discogs.com/seller/Arvo/profile https://soundcloud.com/nopartofit/fuck-01-from-sequencer-works-volume-two Sequencer Works Volume Two is co-released with 3 other labels, and seems to be the last release on the venerable C.I.P. label, which has now closed its door and shape-shifted into the extremely intimate and specialized BALLAST label. Also taking up the torch are RAINBOW BRIDGE, and FOREVER ESCAPING BOREDOM. The copies arrived today. This is technically a PRE ORDER, although I have the copies on hand and will ship immediately. The download will not be released until October 15, because I want to make sure the other labels have copies at that time. I will leave them to writing a descriptive scrawl on the nature of this material, I am no good at being poetic or even vaguely hyperbolic about my own work. I will just say, as I have said before, I had no idea about experimental music at this time, basically, and I thought what I was doing was totally ground-breaking. I usually tried to start making a song, but it often delineated into me messing with sounds, layering as much as I can, and just letting the machine do its work. The goal was to finish a piece not knowing how I made the sounds that happened. In that context, this is the most musical of the output, the least expansive and freeform. VOLUME THREE is already bubbling, and that will be my most insane material. I feel like every track on this one is very unique and still stands out compared to other instrumental/experimental music, certainly very few people write entire albums on a single sequencer alone, much less spend a decade or more messing with its character traits. The tape includes liner notes, a full color, two sided 4-panel j-card, a two color imprint on black cassettes. 60 minutes. https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/sequencer-works-volume-two https://soundcloud.com/nopartofit/arvo-zylo-bryan-lewis-saunders-excerpt-the-temple-of-paradise Bryan Lewis Saunders is a creative juggernaut. He's probably best known for his art book of daily self-portraits on various different mind-altering drugs, if not his huge collection of found photography, his aptitude for surrealistic visual art glossolalia and his "Stand Up Tragedy" Performance Art. He recorded 2 different dreams that took place at the same dream location. He has done dream recordings hundreds of times, including his multi-volume audio book "The Confessor". This was the only time he returned to the same location in his dream, so he put the two audio recordings together, because they also happened to have damn near the same length. Saunders had a severe lung infection at the time, so it's doubly weezy. I did what I could to honor this magical place "The Pleasure Tunnel / The Temple of Paradise", including recording myself reading the transcripts upon waking, and making a soundtrack to it. It comes on pro cassette with 2 colors on clear no liner shells, a full color, double sided 5 panel J card with dream transcript, liner notes from each artist, and is a c40 or so on Chrome tapes. Mastered by Zach Adams. At this time there are 4 copies remaining. Bandcamp download includes dream transcript text file and original recording of Bryan Lewis Saunders' two dream speeches fused together. In the process of digifying things that are still in print since the "off-the-grid" money order/xerox newsletter period for the label, there will be more from Illusion of Safety and WILT, among others, with bonus tracks and other items. https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/the-pleasure-tunnel-the-temple-of-paradise https://soundcloud.com/nopartofit/blood-rhythms-side-b-excerpt https://soundcloud.com/nopartofit/blood-rhythms-side-a-excerpt I'd feel kinda dirty selling these online, but you can get them from RRRECORDS.com if they still have some left, or Tedium House. http://www.tediumhouse.com/artists/blood-rhythms BLOOD RHYTHMS Assembly LP Co-Released NO PART OF IT/RRRECORDS Directional recordings of Bruce Lamont (Yakuza, Corrections House), Dave Purdie (Silver Abuse, Satan 2000), Brian Klein (The Machinist), Andy Ortmann (Panicsville, Nihilist Records) and Arvo Zylo playing mostly untrained brass and woodwind together inside a meat locker, subsequently cut into hundreds of loops, layered, and transformed into a locomotive wind tunnel. Playable at all speeds (always a good sign). 180 gram vinyl. Unique, handmade covers from Ron Lessard and Arvo Zylo. Hand-stamped and –numbered inserts. Edition of 222. There are some pro-CDRs available. I will need to allow 2 weeks for shipping, I'm currently restocking most of these. Some of these have hardly any representation online. $7 ppd, $17 ppd world. paypal- nopartofit at gmail dot com https://soundcloud.com/bzurke/surrender-remix-overview Illusion of Safety - Surrender Like the title suggests, Illusion of Safety ceased operation in October of 2014. This may very well be the last Illusion of Safety release barring archival material. Illusion of Safety, mainlined by Dan Burke but also having featured numerous luminaries such as Kevin Drumm, Jim O'Rourke, Thymme Jones, and so forth, IOS is widely credited for coming up with the "Industrial Ambient" location. Not to be limited, this project has covered so much ground in the experimental realm, it's hard to imagine a (sub) genre that doesn't have some roots in Illusion of Safety. IOS work in the post 2000s was heavily computer oriented, and then morphed in modular synths and guitar improv/drone, but upon my suggestion, this is a whole whirlwind of high speed cut-up, dark ambient, industrial rhythms, and proggy synth soundscapes. You may want to hold out for the bonus tracks on bandcamp, which will include the video version of this above "remix overview", but if you want it now, I'll be there. I have like 3 copies left of the pro-cassette version. I can get you a download code later. WILT - Nocturnal Requiem Another artist keeping a high mark for quality control, Wilt is the mainstay of James Keeler, who has worked in the realms of Death Industrial, Dark Ambient, Harsh Noise, Musique Concret and just pure full on HORROR ELECTRONICS. I think my first noise show was seeing WILT sitting at a table making Lustmordian/Art Zoyd style ambient musi to an amazing video montage of an abandoned factory, with close ups of oils spills and rust.... you get the picture, and playing a concrete block, as well as some sheet metal and small, rusted objects. WILT has always been an easy choice for me, because Keeler is also an excellent graphic artist. For this one, it's deeply engrossing dark ambient with a metallic sheen, augmented with some machine rhythms driving by in the distance. Dynamic sound spectrum, chip off the old block. Again, you may want to wait for the bandcamp to come, but if you want it now, I will get you a download code later. Arvo Zylo / Dental Work - Velcro Bismol https://soundcloud.com/nopartofit/05-velcro-bismol I am working entirely with a wide-ranging slew of sounds by Dental Work, from demented disco to coke snorting, all kinds of madness. The result is constantly compared to Nurse with Wound, and at other times, extremely harsh noise. Deep bass medleys, screwed dirge, splish splash tape loops. I did the cover art, and it was part of a series of collages I did for an art exhibition of the same name. All art is from collaged women's magazines. https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/velcro-bismol Death Factory / Arvo Zylo - WZRD Split There was a time when we thought that WZRD, a chicago freeform radio station staple since 1974, was going to be shut down and taken over by corporate dingleberries, and we put together this split of live performance on WZRD. Death Factory's piece is from 2009, with Mike on synth and guitar, and me on scrap metal scrape percussion. Death Factory has been active since 1988, released on Prison Tatt Records, No Visible Scars, At War With False Noise, etc. He has a true industrial touch that permeates everything he does, but this piece gets into some krautrock territory for sure. My side is from 2006. It is a rhythmic piece, and one of my few improvised pieces on my sequencer to be released. This one calls to mind (according to others), MB, Zoviet France, and NAMANAX. You can hear my side from a playlist on WM Berger's My Castle of Quiet here. https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/49350 https://soundcloud.com/soundgenetic/arvo-zylo-excerpt Arvo Zylo - Saint Street 80 minutes of mostly nuanced and animated harsh noise. There are a couple tracks that have rhythmic elements that would put them into another category, but still something that harsh addicts should like. Cut ups, repetitive porn loops, heavy feedback, drum machines from hell. Arvo Zylo - 333 https://soundcloud.com/nopartofit/333-excerpt-1 https://soundcloud.com/nopartofit/333-excerpt-2 This is material made entirely with a YAMAHA RM1X Sequencer. Not necessarily so much noise as it is destroyed presets, malfunctions, and taking an idea all the way through a natural course. There are over 700 copies in existence, I will keep it in print. I will share some notable quotes about the release: "...this recording feels like it had to be made, and it transcends its limited equipment resources as if the music couldn't be stopped." Scott Scholz/Words on Sound/KZUM's "Other Music Radio Show" "First, I was really focused on the intensely constructed sequenced structure - then, today, I was struck by the more organic components that seem to grow around the more rigid parts. It is an intense listen, for sure. " Mark Solotroff (Bloodyminded, Anatomy of Habit, Intrinsic Action) "A technicolor nightmare..." "...A cyber punk thrill ride" "...totally assaulting music without actually relinquishing the conventional rules of what music should be." Drew Dahle/Auxiliary OuT BLOG

NO PART OF IT label went two years selling only outside of the internet. Now back online and on bandcamp. New releases and some leftovers are here for cyber-impulse dating. WILT and ILLUSION OF SAFETY will have bandcamp albums up with us featuring bonus items soon. I ship in recycled mailers with crazy papers inside of them. I am not a thief and this is my discogs seller profile: http://www.discogs.com/seller/Arvo/profile https://soundcloud.com/nopartofit/fuck-01-from-sequencer-works-volume-two Sequencer Works Volume Two is co-released with 3 other labels, and seems to be the last release on the venerable C.I.P. label, which has now closed its door and shape-shifted into the extremely intimate and specialized BALLAST label. Also taking up the torch are RAINBOW BRIDGE, and FOREVER ESCAPING BOREDOM. The copies arrived today. This is technically a PRE ORDER, although I have the copies on hand and will ship immediately. The download will not be released until October 15, because I want to make sure the other labels have copies at that time. I will leave them to writing a descriptive scrawl on the nature of this material, I am no good at being poetic or even vaguely hyperbolic about my own work. I will just say, as I have said before, I had no idea about experimental music at this time, basically, and I thought what I was doing was totally ground-breaking. I usually tried to start making a song, but it often delineated into me messing with sounds, layering as much as I can, and just letting the machine do its work. The goal was to finish a piece not knowing how I made the sounds that happened. In that context, this is the most musical of the output, the least expansive and freeform. VOLUME THREE is already bubbling, and that will be my most insane material. I feel like every track on this one is very unique and still stands out compared to other instrumental/experimental music, certainly very few people write entire albums on a single sequencer alone, much less spend a decade or more messing with its character traits. The tape includes liner notes, a full color, two sided 4-panel j-card, a two color imprint on black cassettes. 60 minutes. https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/sequencer-works-volume-two https://soundcloud.com/nopartofit/arvo-zylo-bryan-lewis-saunders-excerpt-the-temple-of-paradise Bryan Lewis Saunders is a creative juggernaut. He's probably best known for his art book of daily self-portraits on various different mind-altering drugs, if not his huge collection of found photography, his aptitude for surrealistic visual art glossolalia and his "Stand Up Tragedy" Performance Art. He recorded 2 different dreams that took place at the same dream location. He has done dream recordings hundreds of times, including his multi-volume audio book "The Confessor". This was the only time he returned to the same location in his dream, so he put the two audio recordings together, because they also happened to have damn near the same length. Saunders had a severe lung infection at the time, so it's doubly weezy. I did what I could to honor this magical place "The Pleasure Tunnel / The Temple of Paradise", including recording myself reading the transcripts upon waking, and making a soundtrack to it. It comes on pro cassette with 2 colors on clear no liner shells, a full color, double sided 5 panel J card with dream transcript, liner notes from each artist, and is a c40 or so on Chrome tapes. Mastered by Zach Adams. At this time there are 4 copies remaining. Bandcamp download includes dream transcript text file and original recording of Bryan Lewis Saunders' two dream speeches fused together. In the process of digifying things that are still in print since the "off-the-grid" money order/xerox newsletter period for the label, there will be more from Illusion of Safety and WILT, among others, with bonus tracks and other items. https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/the-pleasure-tunnel-the-temple-of-paradise https://soundcloud.com/nopartofit/blood-rhythms-side-b-excerpt https://soundcloud.com/nopartofit/blood-rhythms-side-a-excerpt I'd feel kinda dirty selling these online, but you can get them from RRRECORDS.com if they still have some left, or Tedium House. http://www.tediumhouse.com/artists/blood-rhythms BLOOD RHYTHMS Assembly LP Co-Released NO PART OF IT/RRRECORDS Directional recordings of Bruce Lamont (Yakuza, Corrections House), Dave Purdie (Silver Abuse, Satan 2000), Brian Klein (The Machinist), Andy Ortmann (Panicsville, Nihilist Records) and Arvo Zylo playing mostly untrained brass and woodwind together inside a meat locker, subsequently cut into hundreds of loops, layered, and transformed into a locomotive wind tunnel. Playable at all speeds (always a good sign). 180 gram vinyl. Unique, handmade covers from Ron Lessard and Arvo Zylo. Hand-stamped and –numbered inserts. Edition of 222. There are some pro-CDRs available. I will need to allow 2 weeks for shipping, I'm currently restocking most of these. Some of these have hardly any representation online. $7 ppd, $17 ppd world. paypal- nopartofit at gmail dot com https://soundcloud.com/bzurke/surrender-remix-overview Illusion of Safety - Surrender Like the title suggests, Illusion of Safety ceased operation in October of 2014. This may very well be the last Illusion of Safety release barring archival material. Illusion of Safety, mainlined by Dan Burke but also having featured numerous luminaries such as Kevin Drumm, Jim O'Rourke, Thymme Jones, and so forth, IOS is widely credited for coming up with the "Industrial Ambient" location. Not to be limited, this project has covered so much ground in the experimental realm, it's hard to imagine a (sub) genre that doesn't have some roots in Illusion of Safety. IOS work in the post 2000s was heavily computer oriented, and then morphed in modular synths and guitar improv/drone, but upon my suggestion, this is a whole whirlwind of high speed cut-up, dark ambient, industrial rhythms, and proggy synth soundscapes. You may want to hold out for the bonus tracks on bandcamp, which will include the video version of this above "remix overview", but if you want it now, I'll be there. I have like 3 copies left of the pro-cassette version. I can get you a download code later. WILT - Nocturnal Requiem Another artist keeping a high mark for quality control, Wilt is the mainstay of James Keeler, who has worked in the realms of Death Industrial, Dark Ambient, Harsh Noise, Musique Concret and just pure full on HORROR ELECTRONICS. I think my first noise show was seeing WILT sitting at a table making Lustmordian/Art Zoyd style ambient musi to an amazing video montage of an abandoned factory, with close ups of oils spills and rust.... you get the picture, and playing a concrete block, as well as some sheet metal and small, rusted objects. WILT has always been an easy choice for me, because Keeler is also an excellent graphic artist. For this one, it's deeply engrossing dark ambient with a metallic sheen, augmented with some machine rhythms driving by in the distance. Dynamic sound spectrum, chip off the old block. Again, you may want to wait for the bandcamp to come, but if you want it now, I will get you a download code later. Arvo Zylo / Dental Work - Velcro Bismol https://heathenharvest.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/arvy-zylo-dental-work-velcro-bismol-main.png?w=600&h=300 https://soundcloud.com/nopartofit/05-velcro-bismol I am working entirely with a wide-ranging slew of sounds by Dental Work, from demented disco to coke snorting, all kinds of madness. The result is constantly compared to Nurse with Wound, and at other times, extremely harsh noise. Deep bass medleys, screwed dirge, splish splash tape loops. I did the cover art, and it was part of a series of collages I did for an art exhibition of the same name. All art is from collaged women's magazines. https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/velcro-bismol http://cdn.discogs.com/XCe9WERhe7ZMDpQyOafRiSs3ABA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-4369921-1363125180-7173.jpeg.jpg Death Factory / Arvo Zylo - WZRD Split There was a time when we thought that WZRD, a chicago freeform radio station staple since 1974, was going to be shut down and taken over by corporate dingleberries, and we put together this split of live performance on WZRD. Death Factory's piece is from 2009, with Mike on synth and guitar, and me on scrap metal scrape percussion. Death Factory has been active since 1988, released on Prison Tatt Records, No Visible Scars, At War With False Noise, etc. He has a true industrial touch that permeates everything he does, but this piece gets into some krautrock territory for sure. My side is from 2006. It is a rhythmic piece, and one of my few improvised pieces on my sequencer to be released. This one calls to mind (according to others), MB, Zoviet France, and NAMANAX. You can hear my side from a playlist on WM Berger's My Castle of Quiet here. https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/49350 http://cdn.discogs.com/S3QIVWd0egJOAwwmIbiN3rRST-A=/fit-in/400x397/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-2687929-1296596598.jpeg.jpg https://soundcloud.com/soundgenetic/arvo-zylo-excerpt Arvo Zylo - Saint Street 80 minutes of mostly nuanced and animated harsh noise. There are a couple tracks that have rhythmic elements that would put them into another category, but still something that harsh addicts should like. Cut ups, repetitive porn loops, heavy feedback, drum machines from hell. Arvo Zylo - 333 http://cdn.discogs.com/rikggGgGg7CPBf5YrTfK68CMGVQ=/fit-in/448x452/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-2673741-1355770066-2009.gif.jpg https://soundcloud.com/nopartofit/333-excerpt-1 https://soundcloud.com/nopartofit/333-excerpt-2 This is material made entirely with a YAMAHA RM1X Sequencer. Not necessarily so much noise as it is destroyed presets, malfunctions, and taking an idea all the way through a natural course. There are over 700 copies in existence, I will keep it in print. I will share some notable quotes about the release: "...this recording feels like it had to be made, and it transcends its limited equipment resources as if the music couldn't be stopped." Scott Scholz/Words on Sound/KZUM's "Other Music Radio Show" "First, I was really focused on the intensely constructed sequenced structure - then, today, I was struck by the more organic components that seem to grow around the more rigid parts. It is an intense listen, for sure. " Mark Solotroff (Bloodyminded, Anatomy of Habit, Intrinsic Action) "A technicolor nightmare..." "...A cyber punk thrill ride" "...totally assaulting music without actually relinquishing the conventional rules of what music should be." Drew Dahle/Auxiliary OuT BLOG