Solo vocal/tape/electronic meditation on personal space invasion and psychedelic applications of hyper-ventilation from Chris Habib, film-maker (he shot the No Fun DVD) and Sonic Youth associate.

Live archival find, newly released on Chocolate Monk, from the duo of Neil Campbell and John Clyde-Evans (now Tirath Singh Nirmala). An atmospheric punk-primitive ritual with slow flashing beams of cello and violin ala early Theatre Of Eternal Music boots combining in charcoal clusters of electric DNA. Campbell on cello and tapes, Clyde-Evans on violin, tape and voice. Features the ghost presence of Sticky Foster and art by Karen Constance.

Brand new big-band line-up release from Blood Stereo, recorded live in Leeds in April 2005. The duo of Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance are joined by Julian Bradley, Neil Campbell and Sticky Foster for an Ur-primitive UK underground freak-out that jams signals with electro-flesh conceptions that are as occult as Heathen Erath-era Throbbing Gristle and as ecstatically damaged as anything from the tongue of yr favourite dope-dosing guru. A whole mess of smeared vocals, slow helium of electronics, loops, reeds and - crucially - plenty of doof. Killer.

Brand new solo album from Greg Kelley of Boston duo Nmperign. Massively downer atmosphere with obsessive/intimate diaristic dialogue, totally blasted drone vacuums, distant sound events and a slow blur of heavily sedated instrumental activity. "Another exercise in failure. Spring 2003: With assistance from Vic Rawlings, I fill my room at Club Awesome in Somerville MA w/ electric keyboards, synth, a small organ and set them all for drone. A radio plays static. Record to MD, output MD through my stereo for low feedback. An electric fan is aimed at the microphone for the distorted vintage 78 effect (rpm, not the year). Vic bowed a single cello note at some point and a cymbal was scraped. The intent: record in mono for 2 hours, communicate with the dead. After 1 hour, I couldn't take it any more. My intended "Two hours as..." is now "One hour as..." I fussed over it for a while. It's kind of boring. I like boring, but... Late Winter 2004: I must do something with this recording. I decide to look backwards into the archives... January 8, 2000: I send out a call to arms: Meet me at Twisted Village Records, Cambridge MA at 8pm. It's Scelsi's birthday and we will play a memorial drone for him. The call was met by Oliver Alden, Mike Bullock, James Baumgartner, Seth Cluett, James Coleman, David Dougan, David Gross, Tatsuya Nakatani, Howard Stelzer, Bhob Rainey, Vic Rawlings. Some automatic instruments played themselves. Others may have been there, but I don't remember. And you can't really hear them anyway. Back to Late Winter 2004: I record a new track onto my 4 track in my bedroom in Allston MA. Trumpet and radio static. (DJ Screw's ghost inhabited my 4 track near the end of this track.) Then I record a burning guitar solo for the end of my new and improved "One hour as..." The mono drone, the Scelsi tribute band, the trumpet/radio track and the HOTT guitar track are all mixed down from 4 track to MD under the influence of Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout. A vocal intro and headphone feedback interruptions are then added. The task is complete. It's a bloodbath. What have I done?" - Greg Kelley.

Necessary document of Dylan Nyoukis’s recent tape/sound poetry innovations, with punk epiglottal torture and clots of vocal vibration channelled into sick loops of phlegm, text and tourettes. Singular work that should appeal to fans of Junko, Chopin and Dilloway. First track recorded live at The Engine Room, Brighton (first ever solo gig) March 4th 2006 with two microphones and two reel-to-reels. Second piece for voice, reel-to-reel and oscillator. One dead-tone interlude.

Black pro-Satan tongue poetry and electronics from this NY-based duo that features Jaime Fennelly and Fritz Welch of east coast free/improv casualties PSI/Pee-ess-eye. If you dig the more oracular/Sun City Girls/avant inspired moves of that ensemble then camp the fuck down.

One track each from Courtis of Reynols and Nyoukis of Blood Stereo/Decaer Pinga et al coupled with a live duo bomb hitting the red in Brighton, July 16th 2006. Courtis track is all slowed-down barbiturate piano/guitar sonority clank while Nyoukis presents "Spiritual Mould", a minimal piece for single suspended tones that sounds like a symphony for telephone exchange tones and melting circuit boards. Live set is more Neanderthal piano/chains/vox improv clank.

Barely-identifiable future/primitive space jams from Karen Constance (Blood Stereo et al) and reclusive Finnish savant Reijo that work slow take-offs of bubbling analogue interference and low-level acoustic vibration into brain-gripping mongoloid sound forms. Sounds like pretty much nothing else, highly recommended.

"Minn Minn Lights is Daniel Meyer Gr_nvold, Eirik Renton and Oivind Koppand Eriksen from Oslo. The trio squeeze out intricate improvisations with feedback, drones, bells, tapes, electronics etc. Exotic Nordic larvae for yr nostrils." - Dylan Nyoukis.

More classically disobedient femme-fronted avant noise, diaristic footnotes, giggling fits, hysterical tirades, straight-to-tape vocal tones , primitive instruments, usurped nursery rhyme melodies and general audio exotica in a post Suckdog/Drugs Are Nice style from Baltimore’s Ms. Mountain.

“Snowed in for more than a month, the mysterious Mankato crew took it upon their boney shoulders to create some new 'ditch music'. Back at their smoked out shrine they spun out dense sanctuary vibes. Huffing lik pagans on gas they doled out cough syrup against stagger guitar styles, turntable/cassette crunk, violin and electronic lament flutter and thats just the first 10 minutes of this 70+ minute heathen trek.” – Dylan Nyoukis.

”I know you kids are down with the importance of cleansing ones pallet, so at this time of year when your head is recovering from all the Festivus festering I'd like to point you in the direction of the all new release from Manpack Variant, the drunken toddler child of one Jaime Fennely (Peesseye, pee in my face with surgery, Phantom Limb & Bison) and some slackjaw called Chris Peck. A true dip into the slimey-yet-wonderous tank of "Man, I'd love to see the movie that was meant to be the soundtrack for." Enginered by audio wizard and Sun City 'resident' Scott Colburn. Now take your instruments and your chorus and stick them where the light don't bite, baby.” – Dylan Nyoukis.

“New hydroponic sketches of freakdom from Sheffield that should satisfy those of you with that roaring appetite for freedumb jams and methnic drone-outs. I hear delerious barkings of glue factory workers, the hanging heaviness of the local nut houses 'drum and squal' therapy sessions, pockmarked harmonium hymns to Harry Pussy, and whole bunch of giblets that I can't quite put my fingers in, but it sure does make one of my eyes twitch, so I say let the sweltering fog descend, we don't need no torch.” – Dylan Nyoukis.

“Kouns is a delerious spirit, from pig iron country, OH, USA. He grabbed my lapels once, wild-eyed. All wine reek and holy smoke, just started yelling at me “I got something for you, brotherman, Its a 40 minute modern liturgical, transcendental death jazz composition.” uh-huh.. “It compares the insects process too mankinds development, dig?.” ummm.. “I Think a wiry cat like you might just beable to handle the juices.” O..K... He proceeded to press a master tape into my trembling mit. And so here it is, one mans vision.” – Dylan Nyoukis.

“This is artist formerly known as Charles/Charred Balls. As you would expect from a Gastric Female Reflex refugee, this thing is all over the place -subdued tape collage, opiate flavoured 'songs', the amazing stuttering hands of a sauced up organist, it's all here bubbling along in one big baffling stew. Hell, it could easily be some grubby outtakes from a Puzzle Punks session. Actually it reminds me of something Charlie Ward (Stomach Ache CEO) would have once slurped on, now wheres my spoon?” – Dylan Nyoukis.

Environmental sound, dogs barking, harsh noise, spliced tape compositions and classic audio surrealism with a cracked Euro madman edge: “So you were too gassed and passed on his “Murder At Maybeck Manor” disk on Dolor Del Estamago (Stomach Ache)? That don't surprise me one jot, so we are giving you a chance of sweet intoxicating redemption. Bite the hand, bozo. Jorge Boehringer was once some yankee man about town on the Left Coast, but he made haste and headed east and now resides in the Czech Republic, where he spends his nights handing out confusion orders to the aural senses of the locals. Even the most orthodox bubbleheads praise his soothing balm for bandaged brains. Pragues famous automated pickle jars vibrate to the heavy viola and electronic sounds of this fruity lugnut. He turns the snot smeared sky red. Feel his algebra chafe your mind.” – Dylan Nyoukis.

“DRAHIEM: MONSTER OF THE MIDWEST:Things ive seen Charlie do live: +Play in a dress and record 90 sec loops over and over of vomiting due to a weekend diet of pretzel sticks dipped in premium gasoline (when it was stupid expensive, like you know, three years ago)  +Take on a whole fleet of Michigan Militia dudes at a small bar in Gaylord Michigan for thinking his Manifesto was some Pro-government tome  +Give blood only to have it returned a month later due to "pure red-cell inactivity"  +Throw a half full bottle of After the Hunt High Life at a cop only to realize he owed said cop a master tape going on three years now.  So here is a Chocolate Monk Drahiem experience? As i write this in a dreary Albany Comfort Inn at dusk and hear these horrible sounds = I dont wanna move or open the blinds (mainly cause me & the princess are comatose from parent paid el-massive late lunch at the Cheesecake Factory) cause the soundtrick from this CD makes me think if i open the door to room 216 upper floor we will be launched into a world full of terrible static insects buzzing around scraping wings on salt-dried frozen concrete waiting to lure every ear into a pool of electro-muge. No way hose'. We gotta pool date with Tovah 's sister and her husband to be in an hour and no way if some CD sound is funna gonna stop that swim double date. So until that time comes, we are locked in room 216, waiting. But its like Charlie D is here with us, the determined master fried-mind of electronic frustration, putting his camo boots on to the march of slimes on his own time. He is to Michigan what Clifford Brown was to Max Roach = i guess!  This here CD by CD on CM willR.ock R.ipp and R.oll Y.r W.orld, Who else can be labelmates with the almighty Piss in My Face With Surgery? Slam this silver-recorded-silver bottom recordable cd into yr monster truck, roll over to Corner Brewery, Dour and Drahiem will be there sitting in the corner, most likely in silence, but a MASSIVE WEIRDO SOUND ABSTRACTION  party awaits, soon.” - John Olson

“Some archival recordings from this annoyingly reclusive duo from Edinburgh. You may well know Rhian (aka CKDH) from doing time in Giant Tank, jamming with Kuupuu, looking fierce in The Barbarians, and she was recently seen performing as part of Smegma at the Smell in LA. Dora Doll was a founding numbnut of Prick Decay/Decaer Pinga, has performed in Smell & Quim and terrorized many a young man at 'noise' shows in her time. “Spirit & Spector” is a miasma of electrical smoke, the sound of wheezing subterranean light bulbs & a bucket load of mechanical schlub worms all wrapped up in the collapsing essence of muscled women. It all sounds broken to me, but hey you don't need no opulence, pauper.” – Dylan Nyoukis.

“Noise cutups by nameless & mute Scumbag Tapes guy, who year after year turns up people, references & objects that no one's ever heard of and then leaves them around the postal system like wreckage. I picture a mincing little oily-haired troll whose fingernails are way too long. He scuttles & picks over the wetlands of Minneapolis. Old tin cans are turned over to reveal forgotten tv & movie samples, which he speeds up, slows down & embalms with bedroom electronics & guitar skritch. Fractured farts, chickens getting strangled, his own pussface and ingrown toes. Guy doesn't make any typical moves, which is great, but the down side is that this will give you his pimples if you touch it.” - Angela Sawyer, Weirdo Records

“Like a glassy larval eel sliding out of the Bay Area comes the garbled tape mangler Loachfillet, master of memory evaporation, woozy electronics & heavy thought digestion. This one time member of Pod Blotz, Diatric Puds & The Blobbettes, Mummers (Etpe) and Pigs In The Ground now blasts out beyond crude deflation techniques into giddy tonal flow, rebirthing musique snobbery onto a grimy cave floor. This disk will leave all you dweebs weeping like salesmen at an earlobe seminar. Starts off on a west coast wild weirdy vibe then ends on a tribes folk suspended above the listener in aquatic globs of transparent jelly style. A glazed eyed chicken tickler with enough avant-huff for the most adventurous listener.” – Dylan Nyoukis.

"Some sonic events do not qualify as “music” no matter how hard you shake them. That’s my feeling, anyway, and if it’s not yrs then I suggest that it will be once you’ve been subjected to the sound of this new release by Vom Grill.
The name itself is a trick, since the sounds are generated solely by the evil Belgian, Dennissssss Tyfusssssss. But naturally no one would even consider buying this things it it had Dennissssss’ name prominently attached, so they invented a fucking soubriquet for him – Vom Grill. What the fuck is that supposed to be? The name of Richard Meltzer’s new coffeeshop? Yeah, well – not hardly. This particular Vom Grill abortion is a three track plunge into all that is annoying about Belgian food. The first course is like a melange of simpering, whining children, smeared with mayonnaise, croaking that they only want a peanut. It goes on for less than five minutes, but it feels like a week. The second track is Tyfusssss’ ignorant attempt to “just take a break, people.” He tries to calm the kids down by playing xylophone notes on his own rib cage, but he’s too fucking fat to pull it off, so he whistles mock-xylo notes while the kids fiddle around with some sort of pudding make from bread crumbs and gristle. Great. The final track is the sound of Vom being submerged in a vat of Belgian ale, bobbing to the surface with all his little electric thistles spinning while he burps for help. Like he really fucking wants it. In my day if someone was heard uttering this sort of nonsense we’d shove a little broom up his and/or her ass and make him and/or her wear a rubber glove on his and/or her head. What does Nyoukis do? He actually releases the shit. These laddies richly deserve each others’ company. What the fuck did we do to rate similarly shoddy treatment? Waiter? My check." - Byron Coley

“We had big plans me and Ms Chen, she came armed with her beast of a cello, bows strung with the finest Lhasa Apso hair and a case full of electronics. I brought scruffy violin and box full of junk and springs, but as the night progressed something took hold of us both, and it was decided at the last moment that this should be a straight up vocal duet. Sometimes slurping and delirium can hit the spot.” – Dylan Nyoukis.

Archival muck documenting Fritz Welch and John Seden trying to extend the secretions. “I met John Seden at art school in Chicago in '87. We bonded instantly on weird art, The Residents, Shockabilly and Herschell Gordon Lewis films. We hung out briefly until i dropped out and moved back to Texas. Soon after, i moved to NYC and he formed Repulse Kava. We hung out whenever possible and collaborated on fucked-up videos, collages and music whenever we got together. 'Can Your Guinea Do The Dog?' was recorded in John's dank and mystical basement in 1995. As always we just plugged in whatever was to hand and folded reality a few times. But on this occasion it included a recording of my girlfriend's deceased guinea pig and john's dog got involved for zoomorphic balance. I listened to a cassette of this jam for years until i realized that it had the strong smelling odor of a Chocolate Monk release cuz it was a meeting of the minds, as well as the pelvis - the guinea was Priscilla, and the dog was Elvis!” -Fritz Welch. 

Excellent collection of stray homemade DIY electronics, tape work and brutal turntablism from one of the central players in the Los Angeles Free Music Society cabal, Mr Rick Potts: the presence of Dennis Duck and the use of staggered beats and squelchy vinyl rips inevitably brings to mind aspects of Duck’s classic 1977 side, Dennis Duck Goes Disco but when the hysteric Game Boy and Electribe beats subside the recording enters a weird nocturnal zone that sounds at points like the theremin duo that Chris Corsano never cut. Elsewhere there’s a piece inspired by the player-piano music of Conlon Nancarrow that comes over as closer to early Moondog, settings for garbled passages from The Bible, compositions for turntables that dunt records back and forth and a closing midi music piece that Tori Kudo of Maher Shalal Hash Baz described as sounding “like a Chinese gangster movie soundtrack”. A fascinating and wide-ranging set from this consistently innovative sound-thinker. 

Live recording from the duo of Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance in a hand-numbered run of only 54 copies: recorded in London in June 2012, Don’t Chase That Whisper is a very minimal, dark work from the pair that marries ticker-tape textures and paranoiac low-level circuitry with a gradual unfolding of blunt tape work. There’s a level of restraint here that is fairly high-wire, with long passages of single-texture tension giving way to slow metallic drones and unidentifiable insect noise before the slowed-down vocals and gloopy F/X push it into an almost Oliveros style deep listening environment. A great one from these two. 

New set of advanced string strategies and tape eviscerations from this electro-acoustic composer: Boehringer plays viola in a wild, destructive style crossing the kinda scrabbly free improvisations of a Malcolm Goldstein or even an Ornette Coleman with a power-sawing style that could almost be Henry Flynt. Fans of Iancu Dumitrescu will appreciate the tactile string strategies and the levels of percussive twonk. A great one from CM. 

New UK underground moves from the duo of Jon Marshall (The Hunter Gracchus/Le Drapeau Noir et al) and Joe Murray (Posset): using Dictaphones, harmonica reeds, harmonium, sheng and vocals the pair flit between mangled tonsils, nagging lo-fi drone hypnotics, deconstructed concrete and weird Industrial fourth world concepts that come over like an ethno-forged Yeast Culture. 

Volume five in Chocolate Monk’s on-going “Well Spliced Breath” series from Fritz Welch (Ki/Pee In My Face With Surgery/Peeesseye et al): this is a weird, fragmentary recording, culled from jarring cut-ups, found sound, comic book collage techniques, and a disorientating laminal approach to taped sound-on-sound, combining diaristic documentation with low-level improvised music blats in a way that almost reconciles Smegma’s hands-on public information skits with the eerie patchwork style of the early HNAS records. Hand-numbered edition of 60 copies. 

New album from these Portland heads featuring the sounds of metal frames, huge bongs of percussion and the slow drip of creative juices in way that sounds a little like HNAS circa their early underground/sewer rituals, Z-EV’s forest of tones, or even Jac Berrocal and Nurse With Wound at their most goofily fucked. Line-up here features Derek Monypeny (Sir Richard Bishop et al), Cody Brant, Pat Maher and Lala Rivera.

Hand-numbered edition of 50 copies split cassette from Dylan Nyoukis (Blood Stereo et al) and Sami Pekkola (Mohel/Taco Bells et al): Dylan’s side is an extremely intimate/up-close unadorned straight to tape improvisation for fleshy mouth sounds and radical meat poetry while Pekkola saws right through a saxophone using nothing but his teeth over on the flip in the kind of wild, disassembling style of Mats Gustafsson.