Limited edition CD-R run of what was originally a cassette-only release from this new project launched by Spencer Clark of The Skaters/Vodka Soap et al. This is an intense non-stop hypno-ritual that combines flashes of circular keyboard motion, huffing, hyper-ventilating vocals, almost Terry Riley/The Gift style narcotic minimalist architectures and an endlessly deep, brain-dazzling atmosphere that is pure smoke and mirrors. No matter how many players bite Spencer Clark and James Ferraro's collective ass, there is still no one who sounds remotely like them. So welcome to Pacific City. Recommended.

Massive limited edition LP on NNCK’s imprint documenting a series of recordings from this ambitious American/European big band that unites Dave Nuss of The No-Neck Blues Band with Spencer Clark and James Ferraro of The Skaters alongside Jan Anderzen of Kemialliset Ystavat, Jonna from Kuupuu, Stellar Om Source, Mik Quantius from Embryo and Tiitus Petajaniemi and Jari Koho of Uton/Keijo. The whole entourage toured through Europe in the spring of 2007 and this LP collects the best of the jams. Three long tracks and one fragment, including two pieces recorded at VPRO Radio. The sound takes off from the kind of free goof blueprint of The Godz, with a lots of percussion and odd rhythmic dunting while The Skaters work lush keyboard parts and a wall of ululating vocal drone deep into the backdrop. Quantius supplies vocals that are somewhere between Don Van Vliet and Alan Bishop and the whole thing proceeds into this kind of weird ethno-zone where fragmented world rhythms and sounds are twisted to dark, psychotropic ends. But the real gravy is the side long fourth track, the most convincing update of the monochord bass/drum confusion of Skip Spence’s “Grey/Afro” ever improvised in real time, combining sublime vocal highs with a hypnotic bottom end. Highly recommended.

Pro-printed/pro-burned limited to only 150 copies album from James Ferraro. Feed Me is set in a world where slimers feed on the dark sexual energies of the pick-up underworld and the endlessly modified bodies of transgendered strippers function as a metaphor for the immanentizing of the eschaton. Or is it just Ghostbusters with the horn?  Either way, Feed Me features some of his most fully formed ‘songs’ with a euphoric teenage appeal, vocals that sound like a 1980s children’s choir, and thick beams of guitar and keyboard melodies. It’s all cut-up with the kind of musclehead/slimer commentary that runs through much of Ferraro’s back catalogue, perfectly balanced between dystopian critique and utopian celebration. Titles include ‘My Parents Think I’m Turning Into A Cockroach’, ‘TV Dinner Underneath A Full Moon’, ‘Zit T.V. Goes To Hell’ and ‘She’s A Little Hot Pinball Machine’. A major side from James. 12 tracks, 60 minutes.

Pro-printed/pro-burned limited to only 150 copies album from James – here appearing as Jim – Ferraro. Features specially commissioned airbrush artwork. On Air feels like a luminous update of Ferraro’s early Lamborghini Crystal sides, with the atmosphere of a shortwave broadcast from a parallel universe where arpeggiated synths  function as transports to a future that feels like a lonely technicolour version of the past. Deep space morse code patterns orbit bursts of triumphal garage band guitar, simple euphoric melodies that feel like the soundtrack to your adolescence are re-imagined as a series of psychedelic instants, smears of DJ voiceovers are beamed straight from Venus... On Air is the perfect trip into Ferraro’s Multitopia. Also features an insane cover version of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” which sits nicely alongside Mama Baer and Kommissar Hjuler’s version.  Titles include ‘Pleiadian Channel Surfer #1’, ‘Remote Control Under The Couch’ and ‘Heaven’s Bathroom’. 14 tracks, 60 minutes.

Deluxe vinyl edition of what was originally a self-released CD-R from James Ferraro complete with reworked and re-recorded material and specially commissioned airbrush artwork. On Air feels like a luminous update of Ferraro’s early Lamborghini Crystal sides, with the atmosphere of a shortwave broadcast from a parallel universe where arpeggiated synths function as transports to a future that feels like a lonely technicolour version of the past. Deep space morse code patterns orbit bursts of triumphal garage band guitar, simple euphoric melodies that feel like the soundtrack to your adolescence are re-imagined as a series of psychedelic instants, smears of DJ voiceovers are beamed straight from Venus... On Air is the perfect trip into Ferraro’s Multitopia. Also features an insane cover version of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” which sits nicely alongside Mama Baer and Kommissar Hjuler’s version.  Titles include ‘Pleiadian Channel Surfer #1’, ‘Remote Control Under The Couch’ and ‘Heaven’s Bathroom’. Recommended. 

Stunning new album from Spencer Clark (The Skaters et al), the final instalment in his ‘Romance Audio Trilogy’ that included Bamboo For Two and Make Mine Macaw: Spencer’s recent work has been heavily influenced by artist/occultists Kenneth Grant and Austin Osman Spare, positing alternate atavistic zones accessed via communion with regressed animal spirits that function as portals to visions of primal/universal consciousness  as communicated via sentient codes. The Garnet Toucan is as heady a piece of ritual/meditative music as anything from Angus MacLise in the way that it encodes deeply personal symbols w/accruing/repetitive layers of meaning and non-sense while generating the kind of hypnotic reveries that allow subconscious personas to take over. The music here has little parallel but there are nods to Sun Ra’s wiggier cosmo-keyboard fantasias, the more cosmic early Skaters sides, extremely primitive keyboard-led slow-mo dub settings, the kind of Industrial de-programming exotica fantasised by Throbbing Gristle, even the world galaxy visions of Alice Coltrane albeit with a heady/drugged basement/ritual vibe or the haunted soul of the most spooked Ethiopiques sides, all cut with slowed-down nightmare vox ala Basil Kirchin. The perfect spin for the liminal hours of the a.m. A stunning, magical package, very highly recommended!

Excellent step into mutant pop from Sam Meringue (Matrix Metals/Lamborghini Crystal/Flashback Repository et al) that works as the perfect fluorescent compliment to James Ferraro’s Night Dolls... LP, extending H-Pop formulas into hallucinatory MTV zones. 

New UK-only 7” from Sam Meringue’s (Lamborghini Crystal/Matrix Metals/Explorers et al) Outer Limits Recordings persona with an A-side that hymns TV hypnosis with a mutant guitar-led pop song that kinda parallels James Ferraro’s work circa Night Dolls In Hairspray and a cover of The Sweethearts’ “Burnin Through The Night” on the flip. 

“Debut 4-song 7" by Brooklyn via L.A. mystery popsters with connections to Raw Thrills, Insted, Outer Limits Recordings, James Ferraro, & Luke Perry.... features Basement Jaxx/Michael Jackson/Sparks pop aspirations filtered through a Haunted Graffiti homemade aesthetic...” – OESB.