Browse by Label: FUSETRON

Artist:	YOUNGS, RICHARD
Title:	171 Used Train Tickets
Label:	FUSETRON
Format:	10"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	FUSE 029EP

"The Old Angel, Nottingham, 1990. It was the A-Band's third live show and we were calling ourselves Advent for the evening in honour of a local record shop who -- judging by their filing system -- thought they were stocking an album entitled 'Richard Youngs' by Advent rather than Advent by Richard Youngs. For reasons that escape me now, I'd hoarded 171 used train tickets. It felt like a cool idea to read them out. So I did. Not in the privacy of my own home, but to an audience. They seemed to enjoy it. As soon as I'd finished, the A-Band struck up and a good time was had by all." -- Richard Youngs.

Artist:	SHIRAISHI & SEAN MEEHAN, TAMIO
Title:	In the City
Label:	FUSETRON
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	FUSE 030LP

"Each summer Tamio Shiraishi & Sean Meehan pair up for a series of outdoor concerts in New York City always in a different location, the concerts explore unwatched and unconsidered sites of the city. (This LP) is the first release of this summer tradition. 12" vinyl with a B-sided etching by Knickerbocker." - Sean Meehan. Meehan has collaborated with Sachiko M, Mamoru Fujieda, Michihiro Sato, Edwin Torres, Muigel Algarin, Greg Kelley, Ami Yoshida, Taku Sugimoto, Toshimaru Nakamura, Tetzui Akiyama, Kiyoharu Kuwayama and many others. Tamio Shiraishi has been performing since the late 1970s, including playing drums and synthesizer in an early incarnation of Fushitsusha. He's currently living in NYC and occasionally collaborates with the No Neck Blues Band.

Artist:	GANG GANG DANCE
Title:	Gang Gang Dance
Label:	FUSETRON
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	FUSE 032CD

Features Tim DeWit (ex-Cranium, Ssab Songs, Angelblood, White Magic, Neil Michael Hagerty, Cass McCombs), Brain DeGraw (ex-Cranium, Ssab Songs, Angelblood), Liz Bougatsos (Actress, Angelblood), Josh Diamond (Ssab Songs), and Nathan Maddox. "Gang Gang Dance are a group composed of well-known entities (in and around NYC in particular) but have left a sporadic, almost shadowy, impression upon people nonetheless. The opening female vocal ululations soon enough refract electronically, and the summoned whalesong dimension spires into an urgent metempsychotic groove. Coming as they do from different angles, its safe to assume there is humanity to the postproduction approach on here. Indeed the first side in its totality achieves a narrative facility which, when sized up against the nature of its parts, could remind one of a more quietly-alloyed Chrome. It does not end there, in fact there is something of a sense of unfinished business, and the second side strikes off with a snapping dream of desert suspense. Mechanic industry rises up here too though, marking yet another salient entre into the crafted spuriousness GGD seek to espouse. An open drone fills for much of the half, accumulating a lyric denouement that possesses overtures toward melody and texture but less toward propulsive mien."

Artist:	GANG GANG DANCE
Title:	Gang Gang Dance
Label:	FUSETRON
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	FUSE 032LP

Features Tim DeWit (ex-Cranium, Ssab Songs, Angelblood, White Magic, Neil Michael Hagerty, Cass McCombs), Brain DeGraw (ex-Cranium, Ssab Songs, Angelblood), Liz Bougatsos (Actress, Angelblood), Josh Diamond (Ssab Songs), and Nathan Maddox. "Gang Gang Dance are a group composed of well-known entities (in and around NYC in particular) but have left a sporadic, almost shadowy, impression upon people nonetheless. Various members play/have played in various other bands. They'll surface to play a clutch of shows, most all well-attended, only to disappear again (as regards to any kind of reliable congregation). Oh, and there's also been no record to speak of, save a 100-copy CD, more or less fleetingly manifested for an art event with probably somewhere that amount of attendees. Anyways, now we have a document, albeit LP only, and thankfully definitely a good one. The opening female vocal ululations soon enough refract electronically, and the summoned whalesong dimension spires into an urgent metempsychotic groove. Coming as they do from different angles, its safe to assume there is humanity to the postproduction approach on here. Indeed the first side in its totality achieves a narrative facility which, when sized up against the nature of its parts, could remind one of a more quietly-alloyed Chrome. It does not end there, in fact there is something of a sense of unfinished business, and the second side strikes off with a snapping dream of desert suspense. Mechanic industry rises up here too though, marking yet another salient entre into the crafted spuriousness GGD seek to espouse. An open drone fills for much of the half, accumulating a lyric denouement that possesses overtures toward melody and texture but less toward propulsive mien." Deluxe full color gatefold sleeve.

Artist:	EXCEPTER
Title:	Vacation/Forget Me
Label:	FUSETRON
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	FUSE 033LP

"For the second time in a row now, one of Brooklyn's grandest experimental entourages have presented us with a sonic totem whose jaunty and bright packaging belie an almost certain palpable sense of unease. Here Excepter have perhaps crafted a treatise on nothing less than the uncomfortable aspects of having to leave ones home. Or they may well have been channeling the soundtrack to a particularly bizarre road trip I once went on involving an Indian burial ground, a cross eyed woman Xeroxing chain letters at a supermarket, and an extremely sadistic alligator farm outside of Hot Springs, Arkansas where I witnessed a stuffed Fiji Merman. Unease indeed. But of course, like on any worthy and good vacation, once you've become used to new unsettling sensations like foot blisters and sunburn you realize how sublime the landscape is. And sublimity is what Excepter trades in spades."

Artist:	STORM BUGS
Title:	Up the Middle Down the Sides
Label:	FUSETRON
Format:	LP
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	FUSE 036LP

"After some twenty years in the wilderness when Storm Bugs were known only to a handful of aficionados, the DIY electronic duo were rediscovered in 2000 when they were included on the deliciously dodgy but possibly seminal bootleg LP I Hate the Pop Group. A CD of the Bugs finer moments followed shortly after on the reactivated Snatch Tapes label. Another review suggested that.. 'they were spiritual forefathers to Oval and today's Clicks & Cuts generation'. Fusetron are pleased to present a further installment of Storm Bugs material from 1978-82 entitled Up the Middle Down the Sides. The LP delves deep into the Snatch Tapes sound banks to produced two continuous collaged sides of often-spontaneous sonic experimentation. The Storm Bugs are Philip Sanderson and Steven Ball (with special guest David Jackman of Organum on the track In The Naked Girls Majesty)."

Artist:	YOUNGS & ANDREW PAINE, RICHARD
Title:	Mauve Dawn
Label:	FUSETRON
Format:	LP
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	FUSE 037LP

"For the past eight years Andrew Paine and Richard Youngs have met on almost every Sunday and recorded music. Mauve Dawn is the result of ten meetings during 2004. Its nine tracks feature processed epinette des vosges, glockenspiel, vintage keyboards and guitars, alongside granularly-synthesized household objects hacked together with resonated voices and filtered bells in a stereo field heavy on ring modulation. One part of the Mauve trilogy, this is an instrumental album of classic length."

Artist:	EXCEPTER
Title:	KA
Label:	FUSETRON
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	FUSE 038CD

CD compiling the previous 2 Fusetron vinyl-only releases. "Excepter is the new group spearheaded by J F Ryan, former electric tree-branch swinger for the No-Neck Blues Band. Using a mutating system of synchronized electronics engineered to ensure live sequencing, Excepter seeks to carry freestyle composition from the tip of the tongue on down to the ones and zeros. All tracks on this LP were performed and mixed live to stereo. Digital editing was only used to arrange the phantasmagoric second side, a tribute to HP Lovecraft's novella Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath. Excepter also marks the singing debut of dancer/choreographer Caitlin Cook. Guaranteed to make you dream in color." Also includes the Vacation 12".

Artist:	EXCEPTER
Title:	Self Destruction
Label:	FUSETRON
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	FUSE 041CD

"Self Destruction was recorded in the winter of 2004 and mixed, edited and reprocessed mostly in the winter of 2005. Self Destruction is the first Excepter record to be feature multi-track recording and overdubbing. Outside of Dan Houglands drum programming and a few vision directives from producer John Fell Ryan, the playing is entirely improvised by the group. Self Destruction is also the first Excepter record to prominently feature the polyphonic synthesizer playing of Nathan Corbin. The husband-wife duo of Caitlin Cook and Calder Martin make the final statement on the album as they take sole vocal duties on the last track, 'Your House.' This recording has been edited short for maximum sonic impact on vinyl."

Artist:	HURRAY
Title:	Dreams, Not Soft Illusion
Label:	FUSETRON
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	FUSE 042LP

"Hurray is Zak Prekop, Josh Brand, Pete Mandradjieff & Rich Aldrich. They hail from the hidden sectors of New York City. This is their first full length recording and is a must for fans of ambiguous, anomalous, and unobtrusive sound creation whose mystery is not invoked by hyperbole, pseudo-mythology or fake histories, but by giving full allowance to otherness and seeking beauty by allowing it to happen, which often means allowing it not to happen. Mishandled guitars, unknown electronics, amplified percussives and various layers of buzz coagulate and dissipate in measured restraint. I hesitate to use blighted terms like 'lowercase' music, as Hurray shies not from some harsher territories and melodic (if emaciated and ghostly) material sometimes drifts into consciousness; two things I think of as contrasting w/ the more didactic, 'European' music associated w/ said term. So, I'll avoid terminology and just say I'm very glad to know this record." -- Greg Kelley

Artist:	EXCEPTER
Title:	Alternation
Label:	FUSETRON
Format:	2LP
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	FUSE 045LP

Double LP in heavy duty, full color gatefold jacket. "Half-recorded in one blizzard, and completed by the next, Alternation is a years-in-the-making, tossed-off-in-a-moment exploration of the difference between Excepter live on stage and Excepter alone at home and the goal to eradicate the distinction between the two. Double the length and twice the depth of past Excepter releases, Alternation is Excepter looking both ways, a geometric expansion around all the territories marked so far in their brief discography: the primal death trips of Ka, the noise pop tropics of Vacation, the long drone goodnight of Throne, the cool electro doom of Self Destruction and the blasted steam cycle of Sunbomber."

Artist:	BLUES CONTROL
Title:	Puff
Label:	FUSETRON
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	FUSE 047CD

"...the music of Blues Control, as evidenced on this record, is a master work explodin'. It germinates absolutely from the bowels of the blues but erupts via a postmodern portal; there are gorgeous sheens of rust that fissure throughout, harmonicas smoke in the distance, guitars splatter, keyboards ooze white hot neo-psychedelic lava, in the end, like the music emitted from Apollo's lyre, it is a devastatingly wondrous experience. And as much as I hear the (non-specific) PSF or Akiyama buzz, to me Blues Control seem beget from the prominent clang & snarl of Dead C, who was beget by This Heat, who was beget by Faust, from whose seed it all originated. And that's nothin' to sneeze about, unless you are allergic to greatness. A CD on Holy Mountain is next. I know it's early, but Puff seems a shoe-in for one of the year's best." --Siltblog. "Puff is the work of two modern Gris Gris chefs, and the most righteously authentic stoner gumbo this side of Twin Infinitives or Jungle Rot. Glittery framed sunglasses and doper's remorse. The finest racket of 2007 so far." --James Jackson Toth/Wooden Wand

Artist:	SALVATORE, K.
Title:	Ashmadai
Label:	FUSETRON
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	FUSE 048LP

"Two adepts of the sonic arts return with a morality play in four sides. Gone are the appeals to the winged serpent, the tree of life, or other past luminaries; these days they can be seen in consort with only one: Ashmadai. It is said that Ashmadai is not to be feared. When you say to it: 'In truth thou art Ashmadai,' it will give you a wonderful ring. It will teach you geometry, arithmetic, astronomy and mechanics. When questioned, it answers truthfully. Released on two twelve inch 45 RPM platters -- wide grooves for maximum impact to the ear." Latest from this mysterious NNCK offshoot.

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Artist:	SIGHTINGS
Title:	End Times
Label:	FUSETRON
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	FUSE 044CD