archive 17- LSD MARCH “LIVE”
Another one of those releases that had an
absurdly fast genesis. I was folding the Haino CD’s and
putting them in the sleeves feed by a steady soundtrax of Lez
rallizes Denudes boots when it hit me.. Damn this stuff is
amazing. With that thought progressed to emailing Shinsuke to
releases and live CD of burned up flamed out tunes. His
response was basically “ok I’ll send you a
master” and that was that. Single pressing of 500 with
some really wonderful graphic work from Joe Denardo of Growing.
Was the first release in some time to actually feature color
which was great to see and definitely a minimal cover feel
completely free of text adored with only the ever stretching
photo of Shinsuke in front of some monument?? I think it was in
euro somewhere??
The band sold copies of this release
during Euro dates early 2006. Mail-order copies sold in one day
which was surprisingly quick considering I didn’t think
the band was all that well known. Actually they blurred out of
here so fast I sort of fucked up and didn’t save one for
myself. A number of the mail-order copies did make their way
into distro’s and stores some of which may even still
have copies currently
Plotkin did mastering work which on this
project which his job was to make sure everything was ear
splitting loud, job well done! The tracks on this release are
from a variety of dates and the line-up differ slightly as
well.. all and all though it’s one of my fav releases for
design, and audio content
CURRENTLY SOLD OUT
archive 18 LSD
MARCH “EMPTY RUBIOUS RED”
So when I did the sales on the Earth Live
Hex I also did distro on a micro self released by LSD March
Called “empty rubious Red” Shinsuke had sent one of
these to me with the LSD March Live master. The record took me
by surprise as everything I had heard to date was fairly lo-fi
garage type psych work. This CD was totally different quiet
somber almost sad songs. The entire CD was nearly a solo effort
with Shinsuke playing almost everything on the disc minus drums
on two tracks. I inquired about getting copies of the Cd for
distro since I liked it so much and bought 50 copies. Of the
total pressing that Shinsuke said was only 200. Seemed like a
no brainer at that point to ask about doing the re-issue as I
thought the disc was too good to let slip away to be unheard.
We ended up doing 600 copies in re-issue with Joe Denardo using
graphic elements from the live CD for this layout. One of the
things I liked so much about the live disc and this one was the
disc face graphic work to show that off better we used an
acetate cover of a cloud so you could see more of this as the
focal image of swirling hair. The re-issue also contains an
extra take of the title trax and had some slight brushing up on
the mastering side from Mr. Plotkin once again.
This disc as it turns out was the first
non live CD for the label.
archive 19
PLOTKIN/ WYSKIDA “8
improvisations”
I had been keeping James fairly busy with
mastering jobs with the batch of releases that had come out
over the last 3-4 months, and I sort of had lost track to the
fact that James had a bunch of solo and collab. Work to his
credit. Anyway, I expressed interest in doing something with
him and asked what he had going on currently. He mentioned that
he had been jamming at the Khanate reh. space with Jim Wyskida
(khanate drummer) and that some of that stuff was really cool.
I was like “yeah sounds great I’d be into it”
and with that those two guys got on board and did some
recording work and within a month I had a disc to send out to
the pressing plant. Material has a big range from ambient sound
scapes, drones and even almost electric jazz work. The 70+ min
finished release was pretty diverse in style. One thing I think
that differentiates this release from other guitar drum improv.
works is the duo’s inherit background in heavy music.
Def. leads to a different vibe then other doodlers out there.
The layout is something we probably would
have handed off to SOMA but he was off on some massive tour
with earth and Sunno))) and James and I dove in and hacked out
a layout over the course of two week using the same format that
I’ve used with other releases. 2.5 panel job with hub on
the inside.. Sort of the label identity at this point. The
actually source images are photo’s I took at the Camden
aquarium when I visiting on a day trip with my daughter..
Rather funny I ended up with a release layout from that trip,
but whatever works I guess???
This release we ended up doing 1000
copies in an effort to keep something in print for longer then
a weekend. A response to some of the mild backlash from the
earth release being sold in 2 hours. Two different versions
exist one red and one blue. And yes is still have some in the shop. MP3 sample also in
shop
archive 20 GAPING
MAW “two improvisations”
coming soon to be released with Keiji Haino
Animama on May 27th yeah yeah more
improv stuff....Kurt Johnson most notable I suppose would be his stint as
the bassist for the Chicago based FLYING
LUTTENBACHERS. Anyway Kurt is a
fellow haino’phile and someone I’ve corresponded
with over the years. He bought one of the Haino double discs
from me and when I shipped in his package I threw in the
Dikeman CD, as I knew he circulated a little amongst some of
the folks on that disc. Kurt emailed back and mentioned that he
had played some gigs with Tatsuya Nakatani and that he’d
send them out for me to check out. Cool, totally liked Tatsuya
percussion work on the handful of discs I have of him. Mail
comes like a week or so later I drop the disc in the tray and
wholly shit this infernal racket comes slamming out the
speakers fantastic I thought sounds like the whole damn band
kicked down a flight of stairs over and over. I was def.
expecting some light noodling or polite improv. Work but I
suppose with Kurt’s background I should have known
better. After a few listens I pitched him on the idea and we
squared away the details and we had a release!! Here’s
the line-up
KURT JOHNSON-
bass guitar, double bass, electronics
KYLE BRUCKMANN-
minimoog, electronics, suona
TATSUYA NAKATANI- drums percussion
Def. a low-end thundering herd monster of
a release. Kind of old material that had been kicking around
awhile. Two different live sets one from late 01, the other
from 02, but I think it’s cool they get to see the light
of day.
Layout is a graphic design adapted by Chris Alpino of some paintings from Lisa Mordhorts stretched over my standard 2.5 panel
sleeve, with disc attached via hub on the inside.
Finished print work actually has the pics
on the far left on the inside not the right side as in
the layout..top panel the front cover.
