Browse by Label: OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE

Artist:	MOUTHUS/COUSINS OF REGGAE
Title:	Split LP
Label:	OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	OESB 006LP

2005 release, last copies. "A side each of fertile noise-rot from Montreal's Cousins of Reggae and Brooklyn's Mouthus. Soundly rejected by Discovery Channel, the Cousins' five-track suite about the Hudson Bay follows up their limited and hard-to-find debut LP (on Ohnonoise) and a recent CD-R on Mouthus's Our Mouth imprint. They set sail with some hyperactive stompers and narcoleptic stumblers intent on capsizing all vessels in their path before coming under attack by a squadron of pissed off jet-skiers. On the flip are two massive Mouthus jams ? 'New Drugz' and 'Better Than Facemask' which perfectly capture a day spent peaking on mescaline at the Daytona 500. Limited edition of 500 with unique handpainted covers and full-color inserts."

Artist:	EUBANKS/J.P. JENKINS, BRYAN
Title:	Multi-Key Coming/DCW #8/Rough Metaphors
Label:	OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	OESB 008LP

"Bryan Eubanks (of GOD) delivers a throbbing wall of distressed electronics that is 'indeed heavy at intervals but also makes a cognitive transparent treatment' according to the cryptic liner notes. To further quote the liner notes: '...this music is a tool for is is sunk that in a different interpellation than overleving neccasitates.' What? For his side, J.P. Jenkins (of Ghosting, Portland Bike Ensemble) layers acoustic guitars in a psychedelic, personal style that's more intuitive and exploratory than technically inclined. His unique approach completely sidesteps any of the current neo-folk/fingerpicking trends and goes for something far more organic and amorphous."

Artist:	PUSSYGUTT & STORY OF RATS
Title:	Sea of Sand
Label:	OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Format:	2LP
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	OESB 009LP

"'Pussygut' is an old western slang term for the violin or fiddle -- as the strings used to be made from cat intestines. Pussygutt is the duo of Blake Green and Brittany McConnell from Boise, Idaho. They have created a distinctive flavor of outsider 'doom' with unique instrumentation that coincidentally features LOTS of violin (Brittany is a classically-trained violinist), along with synths, gongs, bowed cymbals, crystal goblets, organ, drums, clay pots, forest sounds, ducks, various electronics, tons of feedback and humming bass-amp, and as if all that's not enough, there's a secret weapon up their collective sleeve -- the TRACTOR!! The group holed up for nine months in their studio experimenting and composing the four side-long pieces for this double album. They are joined on Sea of Sand by Seattle's Garek Druss (of A Story of Rats and Ear Venom) as collaborator/3rd member. Garek contributed his experiments with field recordings, repetition, electronics, and sound-collage to the proceedings.The music? Extremely HEAVY. Deeply WEIRD. A friend of the band coined the term 'soundtrack ficianarcoleptics' to describe who this album will most appeal to and indeed, the entire album is largely cinematic in its approach. The 'riffs' & drums mostly stay hidden in their caves, venturing outside on a few brief excursions to catch some moonlight and provide punctuation to the drones and other assimilated madness. Limited edition of 550 hand-assembled copies."

Artist:	SQUIM
Title:	Zephyrus
Label:	OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	OESB 011LP

"Squim, aka Chris Phillips, is an obsessive recordist living in Portland, Oregon. In the '90s, he was very active in the underground mail art and tape trading scene -- running the Circle X label out of Salt Lake City and releasing several well-received cassettes on the Bobby J. label. This album will be his debut on the vinyl format and was chosen as being the standout from among a half dozen other unreleased albums of recent recordings. On Zephyrus, Squim blends repeating melodic motifs with his meticulously collaged noise/dronescapes. This is a limited edition release of 350 copies -- each cover is a unique color monoprint, hand-printed by Squim and spraymounted, back covers are a photocopy paste-on."

Artist:	ROBEDOOR
Title:	Shapeshifter Slave
Label:	OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	OESB 013LP

"Shapeshifters are messengers and imitators of the gods. Shapeshifters can be divine or human. Crossing boundaries between sacred and evil, they often bring messages, power or punishment from the gods. Shapeshifting is used to gain access to the tower. They are able to turn any situation around. Nothing is too much or too little. The shapeshifter can invert a life-threatening situation into one where he triumphs. This form of shapeshifting is most commonly painless but can be traumatic if the change was unintentional; clothing is rarely lost in this process. Edited, assembled, and mastered with assistance from Pete Swanson of the Yellow Swans. Ectoplasmic cover art conjured by France's Parisse Bruno. Pro-printed black and white covers and insert." Limited edition of 425 copies....last copies!

Artist:	COHEN, ALICE
Title:	Walking Up Walls
Label:	OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Format:	LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OESB 016LP

"Walking Up Walls is the second solo album from long-time musician and visual artist Alice Cohen. In contrast to her previous studio efforts, these are raw home recordings with an intensely personal vibe. The sixteen short song-sketches alternate between densely layered shoegaze burners and shimmering, ethereal drifters. Exploring shadowy corners and using the musical equivalent of automatic writing -- this was considered to be a sonic diary and not originally intended for release. For reference points think Pink Opaque-era Cocteau Twins filtered through the early '90s lens of New Zealanders like Alastair Galbraith & Sandra Bell."

Artist:	SKY JUICE
Title:	Hard To Kill
Label:	OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	OESB 017LP

"Vinyl debut from the legendary/mythical Sky Juice twins. The brothers Sky Juice Jones and Sky Juice Jackson are musical telepaths and simply have no fear, riding the groove as long as it takes to navigate the back alleys of Cleveland's most dangerous neighborhoods. Severely mangled guitar gunk astral-projected from deep inside the twisted lobes of Lambsbread's Zac Davis. Unavoidable private press vibe, with mumbled cliff's edge moan and groan vocals, drums courtesy of the Corwood session-player circa Electric End, and guitar rave-ups that share a tattered couch with The Index, Raven, Low End Lars, and Vulcan. Limited & numbered edition of 300. Paste-on covers. Photocopy collage inserts. Ohio bummer."

Artist:	FLASHBACK REPOSITORY
Title:	Flashback Repository
Label:	OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Format:	LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OESB 030LP

"Remastered issue of an obscure tape from the mysterious Outer Limits Collective (Wingdings/Explorers/Matrix Metals/Foxy Baby/Yoga/90210/etc). Limited to 425 copies in pro-printed duo-tone sleeves with a 5-page essay booklet." "The flashback repository is a storehouse of collective waste consciousness from all beings of the universe, i.e. all unfiltered myth & material of the human/alien/animal mind, laying dormant in a hidden dimension resembling a disposal area or transfer station somewhere within our spectral plane. A vast depot for all universal race memory that passes beyond our mortal earthly cognition and subconscious apparatus. This reposited latent substance is available to all organisms within our particular sphere, all beings earthy and paranormal. The recordings here represent the three main stages of unconscious withdrawal: 'Glimpse', 'Recurrence', and 'Manifestation' - they are a blue print of sorts. There may be a possibility of the retrieval of materials - the recycling of this substance alongside the development of individual real-time understanding of eternal materials and impressions that are constantly escaping our sensory grip. The repository shows itself as what appears to be part of an undivided whole, a section manifested in our dimensional field through thin channels of emotion & vibration. These phenomena are the result of direct brain-repository contact, a glimpse into the infinite plenitude of energy and data housed by the repository. With each glimpse, each peek through these looking-glass channels, the mind gains a deeper insight into the potentials hibernating within the data-pool and the particular characteristics and movements of the repository. It is important to note that the usage of the word 'flashback' connotes not only the re-collection or re-existence of memory and dream data from the past, but also the future. For instance one can 'flash forward' just as easily and achieve the desired results." -- Outer Limits Inc.

Artist:	FERRARO, JAMES
Title:	K2 - Chameleon Ballet
Label:	OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	OESB 031LP

"'In Chameleon Ballet, I wanted to create a work of magic that simulates a dream atmosphere of post-industrial landscapes, with the waking memory of a romantic alien encounter occurring in the dream. Dedicated to the mystery of night and the magic of dreams' --James Ferraro. 'Debut limited edition album by this new sci-fi synth project by James Ferraro of The Skaters et al., with 1980s minimal wave moves bisected by the kinda keyboard patterns you might've found on an Edgar Froese solo album or post-Body Love Klaus Schulze, then exploded with barbarous invocations, syruped-vocals and some black drone atmospherics. Or, as the cover art suggests, urban landscapes as visioned by showroom dummies illuminated under 3 a.m. neon. Another killer.' --David Keenan. Remastered and expanded version of the CD-R release on New Age Discs -- this has an additional previously-unreleased track. Limited edition of 425 copies. Black & white printed covers." Last copies.

Artist:	FERRARO, JAMES
Title:	Multitopia
Label:	OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	OESB 032LP

"New album from James Ferraro of The Skaters/Lamborghini Crystal et al., the first run ever presented under his own name. 'Multitopia is our reality system,' James writes in the liner notes. 'A post-9/11 reality technology in between the frames of data reception. A cross wire into 'new head' and necessary evolution upon the impact of the towers.' It feels like a major work from James, the first fully-conceived album to go beyond his initial brain-fried 1980s nightmare culture documentation, reconciling both dystopian and utopian mindsets in a vision of Pan as Multitopia. Body modification, the blurring of sexual persona (via cracked images of James on the back with a modified pair of breasts chilling next to an arcade game) and cyborg intelligences are all recurrent tropes in James' work, but here he explodes them all, with some of the most aggressively-nuanced keyboard and drum work of his entire career, kicking off with a full kit sound that sits somewhere between industrial steel drums and Kaoss pads, then building to an evocative peak that then dissolves into wave after wave of fluxing keyboard drone and oddly-looped vocal fragments. The gravity of the music is truly omnivorous, devouring drone, punk, new wave, industrial and minimal synth modes and spitting them back out as intensely detailed black and white visions of the future-now. James somehow manages to interweave vacuous TV announcements and cheap anchor man quips alongside the lucid, microtone-rich keyboard work, situating the whole deal in a virtual, godless netherworld with each track a further descent into hell. It is both beautiful and horrifying. A major work from James -- no one is doing anything remotely like him. Highly recommended.' -- David Keenan. Remastered version of the CD-R release on New Age Discs. Limited edition of 425 copies. Color printed covers. Dedicated to Zac Davis." Last copies.

Artist:	SKY JUICE
Title:	Above The Law
Label:	OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Format:	LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OESB 034LP

"Above the Law is a 1988 action film directed by Andrew Zachariah Davis, probably best-known for being the film debut of Steven Seagal. This tribute album features the full Sky Juice rock band lineup of S.J. Jackson, S.J. Jones, Stoney Freeman, & Zac Davis and was recorded between 2004 and 2008 in various Ohio/Michigan/Massachusetts basements. Except for 'Electric Engram,' which is excerpted from an infamous/aborted live radio broadcast on Chicago's legendary dance station WGCI. Song titles: 'Asleep For Daze,' 'Fractality,' 'Slimescape' (for James Ferraro), 'Prostration,' 'Pressure Cook,' 'Plan Of Attack' (for Elisa Ambroglio), 'Recent Fog,' 'Pushcart,' 'Empty Grave,' 'Womb Blizzard,' 'Stable Current,' 'Laid Out,' 'Wall Of Mice,' 'Suction Vent,' 'Scrape Grate,' 'Electric Engram,' 'Brain Wash.' Limited pressing of 375 copies, paste-on covers, xeroxed collage insert."

Artist:	MCCLURE, BRUCE
Title:	Vouchsafe Me More Soundpicture - Fain Make Glories
Label:	OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Format:	LP
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	OESB 036LP

"Bruce McClure is well known on the international experimental film circuit for his unique projector performances that utilize film loops & modified 16mm projectors. But there is also an equally innovative sound element to his work and he has been embraced by the experimental music community as well. Bruce performed at the Chocolate Monk curated 'Colour Out of Space' festival in 2008 and was chosen as an opening act for Throbbing Gristle's reunion tour in the spring of 2009. During McClure's performances the optical sound signals from each projector are fed through banks of guitar pedals, manipulated live, and played at extremely high volumes through the p.a. system. The different loops phase in and out of each other resulting in what could be described as a power electronics version of the early tape experiments of Steve Reich and Terry Riley, while sparser sections have an off-kilter minimal techno feel reminiscent of Plastikman and the early works of Thomas Brinkmann. This album features four excerpts from a professionally recorded performance in early 2009 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN. Edition of 375 copies in heavy duty covers silkscreened by Monoroid."

Artist:	PIGEONS
Title:	Si Faustine
Label:	OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Format:	LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OESB 047LP

"Pigeons is the psychedelic pop project of married couple Wednesday Knudsen and Clark Griffin. They met in Seattle and, while living there, were part of The Sea Donkeys -- a shambling anti-folk collective of freaks which also featured Hisham Mayet of the Sublime Frequencies label. The Sea Donkeys released an LP on the Sun City Girl's Abduction label in 2005. Pigeons formed later that same year when Wednesday and Clark relocated to New York. After releasing a string of micro-run cassettes and lathe-cut vinyls that explored noise and free jazz modes they turned their energies towards writing structured songs. The first widely available release of their song-oriented material was the 'Virgin Spectacle' lp that came out on Black Dirt in 2008. That was followed by a 7" single on Soft Abuse in 2009. Si Faustine is their second album and, like Virgin Spectacle, was recorded at Jason Meagher's Black Dirt Studio. Also featured on the album are contributions from Carter Thornton (Enos Slaughter, Gnaw, Zashiki-Warashi, Izititiz), Jason Meagher (NNCK, D. Charles Speer, Coach Fingers), and Rene Blume-Meagher. Pigeons are currently living in Paris, France. Housed in full-color 'tip-on' style jackets featuring artwork by Melodie Provenzano and also includes an mp3 download coupon."

Artist:	BIG TROUBLES
Title:	Worry
Label:	OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	OESB 050LP

"The very premise of this musical -- executives borrowing an apartment to cheat on their wives -- makes this show entertainment for grown-ups. If you're cool with your older children being exposed to infidelity to the nth degree, they will likely enjoy the wit of the dialogue and the bouncy score. But take note: there is a suicide attempt and a drunk scene -- not exactly fare for young ones. Debut LP by Ridgewood, NJ shoegazers Big Troubles. It's pretty good. Parental advisory stickers not included." With glossy full-color insert and download coupon.
"This immense new album from Big Troubles follows on from a great four-song EP for the Olde English Spelling Bee singles club, featuring the New Jersey fuzz-pop project bejewelled with pop hooks and spurts of brain-scorching noise. There's an abundance of blistering C86-style pop nuggets on here, from the distortion-surfing 'Bite Yr Tongue' to the euphorically hooked-up 'Freudian Slips'. There's an overwhelmingly fizzy, treble-some recording style here which imbues the whole thing with a hazy, nostalgic quality that reminds us of everything from My Bloody Valentine to The Jesus and Mary Chain to Dinosaur Jr at their very peak -- making for one of the standout lo-fi pop records of the year bar none. Very highly recommended." -- Boomkat

Artist:	OUTER LIMITS RECORDINGS
Title:	I Need My T.V.
Label:	OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Format:	7"
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	OESB 710EP

"The A-side 'I Need My T.V.' is a Squeeze-meets-XTC vibed track that will appeal to fans of the Rangers, as it sounds like a half-remembered lost classic from an '80s infomercial beamed onto a thrift-store VHS. 'Burnin' Through The Nite' is performed by OLR's The Sweethearts (a collaboration with Zak Mering of Greatest Hits/Raw Thrills) and rides its nocturnal groove all the way to #17 of DJ TONY FRANKEL'S NIGHT BURNER HIT CHART (circa 1972)."

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Artist:	STARVING WEIRDOS
Title:	Blue Herons
Label:	OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Format:	LP
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	OESB 010LP

Artist:	COUSINS OF REGGAE
Title:	Methridge
Label:	OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Format:	LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OESB 012LP

Artist:	PORTLAND BIKE ENSEMBLE
Title:	Live In Japan
Label:	OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	OESB 021LP

Artist:	LAMBSBREAD
Title:	Could You Be Loved?
Label:	OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Format:	LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OESB 023LP

Artist:	GREATEST HITS
Title:	Danse Pop
Label:	OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Format:	7"
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	OESB 702EP

Artist:	DUCKTAILS
Title:	Hamilton Road
Label:	OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Format:	7"
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	OESB 706EP