Browse by Label: ASPHODEL

Artist:	VA
Title:	The Throne Of Drones
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 0952CD

First in a trilogy of CDs in the Asphodel Sombient Collection, as currated by Haut Numon. Featuring tracks by the likes of: Robert Rich, Ray Guillette, Steve Roach, Iso Ambient Orchestra, Xopher Davidson, Vidna Obmana, Gregory Lenczycki, Jeff Greinke, Rhythm & Noise, Biosphere, David Darling, Maryanne Amacher & Naut Humon. "Portrays a nocturnal, less blissful approach to the 'chill out' underworld. This somber bearing on the outskirts of ambient noir inhabits the haunted interzone between classical electronic plunderphonics and the desolate, environmental tundras of isolationism."

Artist:	RHYTHM & NOISE
Title:	Chasm's Accord
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 0965CD

"The influential Rhythm & Noise finally returns with a retrospective anthology spanning over twenty years that is based on their pivotal and highly sought after Ralph Records albums of the period -- Chasm's Accord and Contents Under Notice, both of which have been unavailable for many years. This collection highlights the electronic industrialized and ambient beginnings of the band from 1972 to the 1980s. Featuring Naut Humon, Rex Probe, Z'ev and vocal contributions from Diamanda Galas and Ricky Williams. Contains previously unreleased tracks and new mixes."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Storm Of Drones
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	3CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 0966CD

Third volume completing the Sombient Trilogy is a massive 3CD set. New additions to the roster include: Robert Normandeau, Denis Smalley, Francis Dhomont, Patrick Ascione, Stephane Roy, Paul Dolden, Alan Lamb, Stuart Dempster, Ellen Fullman, DJ Spooky, David Kwan, Voice of Eye and more. "This is not Eno style ambient. This is not musical soma. The latent potential of motion, the ability to establish a recombinant zone of expression -- these are the values that this anthology reflects: memory set adrift on the imploded dreams of our media, the accelerated pain of a world where 'the natural' has been replaced by the synthetic pleasures we like to call 'man-made.' Consider the sound of the informational rain -- the fallout of the sounds our world generates in its mad pursuit of hyper-accelerated cultural evolution. We inhabit a realm of speed, cybernetic collective recollection, and the disembodied advance of past retro-relevant imagery -- values become blurs. Ambient music in this realm becomes the dromological equivalent of consciousness forced through the strange cipher of the prosthetic linkage of man and machine. Call this music of the electron a fluid dialectics of culture: thesis, antithesis, synthesis, and now, prosthesis." --Paul Miller's liner notes.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Incursions in Illbient
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 0968CD

"Illustrates the underground urban ambient subculture from NYC. Four main practitioners of this constantly evolving scene are included: DJ Spooky, Subdub, Byzar and We (featuring DJ Olive and Lloop). Each contingent contributes almost 20 minutes apiece for a maximum length opus impact. These unreleased studio sessions probe the dubbed-out depths of a post-crooklyn bughouse in downtown Manhattan. Tracks specially recorded for this album." A massive, moment-defining compilation that might someday be referred to in historic No New York-like terms.

Artist:	WE
Title:	As Is
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 0971CD

Another staggering record of genre-morphing sound from the US label of the moment."We have three characters (DJ Olive, Lloops, and Once 11) interacting simultaneously. This aspect of multi-interrelations within the DJ construct not only has more faces to show the world, but there are also more points of view in introspection. Consequently, As Is, their first album as collaborators, yields a mysterious dichotomy, one of minimalism (everybody at peace) and ridiculous complexity (turmoil!). In sound they balance placid, bell-like keyboards against frenetic drum patterns, languid, deep, ascending tones with indecisive beats: are We hyper jungly? are We Jazz? are We drum and bass? are We hip hop? Ultimately, As Is resolves itself as muscles when being massaged -- after being pummeled and pummeled, somehow you're strangely relaxed halfway into it, anyway." [o/p on LP]

Artist:	BYZAR
Title:	Gaiatronyk
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 0973CD

"Byzar's constantly changing collective environment coalesces once again to generate this new full length recording, Gaiatronyk. As a group, their method involves feeding a number of instruments: violin, guitars, bass, turntables and more into a series of electronic envelopes and channels. They add a range of beats, from pingy bells to low stutters, and unintelligible voices, singing and speaking, floating in and out of the mix. Gaiatronyk takes approximately half of it's material from their sprawling, dense live performances and half from more tense studio work. Overall, their music has a strange looseness to the collage, a flow from which subtle beats rise and fall from the complex map of the other sounds and instruments. Articulated, but barely so, verging on ambient, yet not wholly there, either. Byzar (pronounced 'bizarre') take pleasure in stripping meanings and context from articulated sounds, concepts, and language. In their linguistic excursions (the misspellings, newly minted words, etc.) and music they try to avoid any connotations that produce concrete feelings, preferring to cultivate aesthetics that are anti-asthetic; that are elusive, fleeting and amorphous."

Artist:	XIAO-FEN, MIN
Title:	Spring, River, Flower, Moon, Night
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 0974CD

American debut by this Chinese pipa player, known for her associations with Carl Stone & John Zorn, who also has a duet with Derek Bailey forthcoming on Tzadik. A beautiful, intense sounding album. "The pipa, a long, four-stringed Chinese lute, produces sounds that are most akin to a deep ukelule or banjo, but with an Eastern scale. To give a Western equivalent in cultural importance, the pipa is the guitar of China. In skill, Min would be that country's Hendrix, or maybe more aptly, Fahey. Hitting those four strings with an intense lightness and complexity, she is incredibly skillful and quick, playing not so much a sequence of individual notes but a flurry, a blur of sound. This album is entirely traditional Chinese repertoire from Dynastic court/palace and folk idioms, dating as far back as 200 BC. For as old as some of these pieces are, it is remarkable from a Western perspective, that these are famous, popular pieces everyone in China knows. The songs on this album have themes of loss and longing, of the deep, painful forms of nostalgia as well as the melancholy of beauty and hope, performed with exceptional virtuosity."

Artist:	XENAKIS, IANNIS
Title:	Kraanerg
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 0975CD

"In honor of Greek composer Iannis Xenakis' 75th birthday, Asphodel is releasing a new recording of the rarely performed 'Kraanerg', one of Xenakis' longest electroacoustic compositions. Inspired by the world's population explosion and the increasing acceleration of the advances in technology during the 50s, 'Kraanerg' is a swirling, overwhelming epic of turmoil, force and a myriad of different sounds, a piece both musically and conceptually relevant today. An electroacoustic work, meaning the acoustic sounds of an orchestra with electronics, Xenakis went far beyond that simple definition. Kraanerg sets a small orchestra to playing their instruments in unexpected ways, clusters and combinations. Strings are bent, beaten, and plucked, rather than bowed, horns growl and breathe as much as blast. A thundering quadraphonic tape looms over and laps under the orchestra, but the tape itself, recorded 30 years ago, is made of another orchestra's similar motions, then changed and manipulated electronically. It sends the echo of time bounding into the now, bridging a 30 year gap with sounds alone, yet acquiring no typical patina of age in the process. An almost cynical recording, Kraanerg resembles nothing so much as the science fiction works of J.G. Ballard turned into notes. This recording is from a live performance at Cooper Union on 11/19/96, of the ST-X Ensemble under the direction of Charles Zachary Bornstein, with DJ Spooky as the electronic technician."

Artist:	X-ECUTIONERS
Title:	X-pressions
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 0977CD

Known as the X-men on their debut EP (ASPH 107), they changed their name to X-ecutioners for this full length. "This small crew of DJs from Brooklyn have established themselves among the absolute best DJ crews in the world. What the X-Men are setting forth to prove on X-pressions, is that DJs aren't just guys who tweak the sounds in the background -- they're legit musicians -- creating worlds of sound with the hand, the eye, the vinyl groove. Rob Swift, Mista Sinista, Roc Raida, and Total Eclipse construct beats from tiny fragments of sound, send those beats over -- spinning, cutting, beat-juggling, scratching endlessly to create complex landscapes of sharp-edged sounds. X-pressions proves to be the first single-group release of the next generation of turntablists -- continuing on the traditions of Bambaataa, Kool Herc, and Grandmaster Flash, while adding their stunning new techniques and modern perspectives tot his relatively young (20-year old) genre."

Artist:	DHOMONT, FRANCIS
Title:	Frankenstein Symphony
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 0978CD

Dhomont is one of the key historical figures in the INA GRM electroacoustic scene; the main document of his work to date is a double CD overview on INA in association with Empreintes Digitales in Montreal (Mouvances/Metaphores). This new release is a hi-fidelity speaker-ripping college of sound that Dhomont has put together utilizing material from composers such as Christian Calon, Yves Daoust, St�phane Roy, Robert Normandeau and many others. It's as energetic and forceful and disruptive as anything to emerge from the this scene in years and highly recommended to anyone remotely interested in this stuff. "A hybrid thing in four movements, made of cut-up pieces, pasted, assembled, sowed parts that are alike and contrasted, and that I have named for obvious reasons, the Frankenstein Symphony: an unusual electroacoustic adventure. Armed with a scalpel and a splicing (operational) block, I sampled several morphological organs from the works of 22 composers and friends (many of whom were students of mine), and with their imprudent blessings, brought to life this acousmatic monster which I hold particular close to my heart. The elements were chosen amongst the works according to their typo-morphological affinities or contrasts, and with formal considerations in mind. Though I often allowed myself to play layering games, mixing works together, never did I use filtering, internal editing, transpositions or processing on the sounds...In the end, this is only a game, with no other goal than to bring to light how astonishingly rich acousmatic music can be." --Francis Dhomont.

Artist:	LANGHEINRICH, ULF
Title:	Degrees Of Amnesia
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 0981CD

Latest in this label's Sombient series. "The career of Ulf Langheinrich is best known for his internationally acclaimed work in the two-man group Granular Synthesis. The project, which began in 1991 with these two self-proclaimed 'media terrorists', does more in the way of a performance than it does to define the men involved... On the eve of his first solo release, Degrees of Amnesia, Langheinrich has an understanding of his work and the life that brought him to it, that is unparalleled. Degrees of Amnesia is a work composed to retain intense psychological power over time, it's density being the key element. Every sound, particularly those that are formed in repetitious patterns (from the sound of breath, to drops of water, to the pounding of industrial machinery) became influential and important in Langheinrich's early life. In describing Degrees he refers to his work as a painter: 'In painting I just added very thin coats of paint until the square was almost gray, huge paintings of insistent noise, not made with simple mixed paint but with layers of colour, very rich, very purist, very monotonous in the end."

Artist:	BADAWI
Title:	The Heretic of Ether
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 0992CD

"Badawi's debut full length release on Asphodel. The Heretic of Ether debuts Badawi's first recorded performance on entirely acoustic, original Middle Eastern instruments (Zarb, Riq, Daf, Darabuka, Dumbek, frame drums, Santur). At 24 years of age, Badawi has made a landmark recording for the World music genre. A new name has been established in this scene which will be known for years to come. Raz Mesinai (Badawi) is well known, as well, for his work with NYC's Sub Dub,whose Asphodel release, Dancehall Malfunction, established a strong presence in NYC's "illbient" scene."

Artist:	WE
Title:	The Square Root of Minus One
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 0994CD

"Second full length album (first was 1997's As Is) from Once11, Lloop, and Olive after a bunch of individual projects & collaborations (EBN E SYNC, Olive's ongoing duo w/William Hooker, etc...), remixes (Arto Lindsay, Medeski Martin & Wood, Tipsy), and a DJ Tool edition (the ever-so-nifty Antenna Tool & Die Sessions picture-disc LP). Guest appearances by Liminal's Danny Blume, Eyvind Kang, Gen Ken, and Raz Mesinai (Badawi) widen the pallette. Pushing the drum n' bass envelope far enough to shelter cracked DSP, abstract sound-research/concrete, world beat/deep dub, and points in-between categorization. The freshest hyper-breakbeat-related-audio we're going to hear for some time. Solid." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	TIPSY MEETS WE
Title:	Grossenhosen mit Mr. Excitement
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	12"
Price:	$6.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 105EP

Two tracks from Tipsy's debut album, remixed by We. "One side: Lloop from We remixes the teutonic strains of 'Grossenhosen' by shifting the beats backwards and forwards, sending springy coils of sound spiraling off into the distance, and bringing it back down to the ground with a chaotic jungle beat. Other side: DJ Olive (also from We) sets forth a remix of 'Mr. Excitement' that smooths out the frenetic melodies into a softer ambient sound, and, with a a subtle pitch and tempo variation, turns Tipsy into woozy."

Artist:	DJ SPOOKY
Title:	Synthetic Fury
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$5.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 110CD

28-minute EP, released as a link between his Asphodel debut Songs Of A Dead Dreamer and the forthcoming Riddim Warfare album, due out on Outpost/Geffen. The title track is a collaborative effort between Spooky and Panacea (Chrome). "Sounds like your entire record collection floating down the East River -- dub plates, old sitar recordings, drum and bass rollers, and serial composition albums bobbing up to the surface only to get sucked back into the murk."

Artist:	NORDINE, KEN
Title:	A Transparent Mask
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 2004CD

"You may not know Ken Nordine by name or face, but you'll almost certainly recognize his voice. Nordine's rich, deep baritone has graced numerous radio and TV ads since he got his start in radio in the '5Os, but it's best served by the 'word jazz' he's recorded sporadically over the years, which marries free-flowing spoken word poetry with jazzy instrumental backdrops. On his latest full-length, backed by a four-piece band featuring former Flecktones keyboardist Howard Levy, Nordine sounds so damn hepcat cool it's like he never left the beatnik era -- just time-warped straight from an Allen Ginsberg reading of Howl into a poetry slam at the Nuyorican Cafe."

Artist:	VA
Title:	RE/SEARCH: Incredibly Strange Music Vol 2
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 0951CD

Asphodel is a SF-based label with an impressive array of releases. This first CD was issued in association with Re/Search's 2nd volume of Incredibly Strange Music. "...features Moog, instructional, outer space, latin, religious, spooky and just plain bizarre tunes..the cream of the quirk." With: Hot Butter, Bob McFadden & Dor, Lucia Pamela, Ken Nordine, Billy Mure, Myrtle K. Hilo, Russ Garcia, Del Close & John Brent, Jean Jacques Perrey, Eden Ahbez, Harry Breuer, Marcy, Lex Baxter & Rusty Warren.

Artist:	SINGLE CELL ORCHESTRA
Title:
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 0962CD

Second full length album by SF's Miguel Angelo Fierro. His first, the acclaimed Dead Vent 7 (released in 1995 on Jonah Sharp's now defunct Reflective label), was a massive rant of conceptual acid-techno ambience. This one new is somewhat less bewildering, much lusher & atmospheric affair. Once it settles in there's a crystalline fracture readily apparent. "Compiled over the last 3 years, this album takes the listener through shimmering thematic terrain, in the spirit of Single Cell Orchestra's cult classic 'Transmit Liberation'. In contrast to the dark, brooding sci-fi concept of Dead Vent 7, this album brings to light a side of Fierro which is emotive, engaging and a little bit more vulnerable. Sweeping strings and catchy melodies and strongly supported by Miguel's dense hypnotic rhythms."

Artist:	WORLD STANDARD
Title:	Country Gazette
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 0982CD

A project by the co-founder of Yello Magic Orchestra, Harumoni Hosono. "Welcome to the virtual country. This album no less reflects the inner space of a hobo easy rider than the outer space surrounding him. So it reminds me of a film by Monte Hellman, The Shooting, which is regarded as one of the strangest Western Movies in the late 60's. Like this film, Country Gazette will take us to nowhere on the banjo sound. We can hear varioUs intoxicated ambient sounds of a banjo (country gadget) from this disc. This record owes a lot to the Stereolab series of the Vanguard label and is especially inspired by John Fahey. He composed many requiems (great collage sounds) for his fans. Country Gazette is also a requiem, for all kinds of 20th century popular music." --Mikado Koyanagi. "Absolutely great. Love the production, the original pieces for banjo and guitar (and atmospheric vocals). It's played with a light touch, it's loose and airy, and aesthetically very pleasing to these ears. The six minutes or so of almost inaudible distant thunder sounds followed by the weirdly vocalized cowboy poem (written by Hank Williams?!) is shocking. Buried in the mix are samples of 'Coffee Blues,' from Mississippi John Hurt's live double album on Vanguard, and Fahey's 'The Singing Bridge of Memphis Tennessee' from The Yellow Princess -- which itself utilized samples of a Ragtime Henry Thomas' 78 ('Quill Blues' I think)." -- Glenn Jones.

Artist:	INVISIBL SKRATCH PIKLZ
Title:	Vs. Da Klams uv Deth
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	12"
Price:	$6.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 106EP

Repressed. "The name of the band is of course the Invisbl Skratch Piklz, the legendary crew featuring Q-Bert, Mix Master Mike and Shortkut. Listening to their groundbreaking debut 12", 1997's Invisbl Skratch Piklz vs. Da Klamz Uv Deth, is like breakdancing in a tornado. In terms of sampling, this record is to Sean 'Puffy' Combs what Public Enemy was to Lou Rawls, not to mention musical ground zero for the scratching revolution that took over hip-hop in the late 1990s. Beat, melody, rhyme, rhythm, and time are totally skewed as the Piklz cut and scratch records with such unknowable, deconstructive skiIl that grooving (even listening) becomes painful. A truly virtuostic recording by three remarkable artists at the beginning of their recording careers."

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	Atlas Eclipticalis & Winter Music/103
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	4CD
Price:	$31.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 2000CD

Two live, unedited performances of Cage's orchestral music: "At last Eclipticalis With Winter Music" (recorded 5/19/93, performed by The Orchestra of the SEM Ensemble, conducted by Petr Kotick, piano by David Tudor) and "103" (recorded 11/21/98, performed by the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Petr Kotik)." Kotik and Cage met for the first time in May, 1964, performing a 3-hour, six percussion version of Atlas Eclipticalis. Kotik's association with Cage continued until the composer's death in 1992." John Cage: "We've now played the Winter Music a number of times. I haven't kept count. When we first played it, the silences seemed very long and the sounds seemed really separated in space, not obstructing one another."

Artist:	MARCLAY/OTOMO YOSHIHIDE, CHRISTIAN
Title:	Moving Parts
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 2001CD

"Christian Marclay is well known for using damaged & re-assembled recordings to create his music. He has put out many solo recordings over the years. Otomo Yoshihide is one of Japan's best known experimental musicians today. He led the experimental band Ground Zero in the 80s and has played with Fred Frith, John Rose, Jim O'Rourke, Carl Stone & Bob Ostertag. The two create an intense, noisy tapestry of sound, encompassing a wide range of sources -- from the baroque-sounding flute and harpsichord snippet that opens the CD to squalls of Hendrix-flavored guitar, opera, flamenco, movie soundtrack music, and purely electronic sound. Marclay firmly favors the analog, intentionally letting his records get scratched and even gluing pieces of vinyl together, while Yoshihide employs mainly digital methods. The combination is potent and compelling. Unlike a lot of the people identified with turntablist world, they never go for laughs with sharply contrasting stylistic juxtapositions or the ironic use of spoken-word records. Sometimes the source materials are pummeled and entirely reshaped, and other times a melodic quotation will stand out untreated; the results are at times reminiscent of Stockhausen's 'Hymnen' or Eric Salzman's 'Nude Paper Sermon.'"

Artist:	TIPSY
Title:	Uh-Oh!
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 2003CD

"'What do you get when you bring together the seemingly disparate worlds of experimental noise and instrumental pop music, seasoned with a healthy dose of humour, an appreciation of all things bizarre, and a tongue in cheek sense of irony?' The answer is San Francisco's notorious duo Tipsy, consolidating the quirky talents of Dave Gardner and Tim Digullia who deliver their heady cocktail of lounge music, thematic sounds and exotica. Following their critically acclaimed 1996 debut: Trip Tease, Tipsy's sophomore release is as captivating as ever, actively illustrating the duo's eclectic musical influences and evoking imagery with their charmingly surreal and highly individual style intact. Tipsy have accumulated support from all corners. From cutting-edge radio shows to film and television producers, their sound is strikingly different yet accessible and contagious."

Artist:	XENAKIS, IANNIS
Title:	Persepolis Plus Remixes Vol. 1
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	2CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 2005CD

"In 1971, former Iranian dictator Muhammad Reza Shah hosted a lavish and highly choreographed event amidst the ruins of the ancient Persian capital of Persepolis in order to celebrate the 2500th anniversary of Iran's founding by Cyrus The Great. This commemoration of modern lran's beginnings was part of the Shah's own struggle with the country's increasingly politicized Shi'ite Muslim Clerics, led by the late Ayatollah Khomeini, to secularize Iran. Declaring himself to be heir to Cyrus' legacy, the Shah presided over a cast of 6,200 vintage Persian costume-wearing vassals in an outlandish ceremony affirming the Shah's own interpretation of Iranian history, one which paid little deference to Islam. The third annual Shiraz arts festIval was held that same year at Persepolis. In keeping with the 2500th national anniversary celebrations, the Shah commissioned Greek composer and computer music pioneer lannis Xenakis (1922-2001) to write a piece of music exalting ancient Persia's aristocratic pre-Islamic religious culture. Selecting Xenakis to author such a work could not have been more symbolically appropriate. A central figure in the development of computer composition, this half-blind former architect, WWII resistance fighter and associate of Le Corbusier evolved a new approach to music, most notably one that employed mathematical probability functions as a compositional methodology. Titled Persepolis, in honor of the location in which it was to be performed, Xenakis composed a fifty-six minute, eight-track tape piece of musique concrete for the occasion. A noisy, apocalyptIc-sounding work distinguished by rising waves of intensity, Persepolis' debut must have been quite an experience for those lucky enough to be in attendance. Persepolis takes on an even greater significance when listened to as a musical work whose purpose was to serve a failed secularist ideology overtaken less than a decade later by a fundamentalist Islamic revolution. In light of the events that have consumed the world since September 11th 2001, the notion that a radical composer would align himself with a political figure like the Shah shows how very few places such a brilliant artist could go to receive support for their work. Creative modernism is left with choosing between authoritarianism and religion. Hence the inclusion of a second disc of remixes in this edition of Persepolis. Disc 2 of this recording contains nine remixes of Persepolis by an international cast of avant-garde musicians, transforming Xenakis' original work in entirely distinct contexts, imbuing it with compellingly new meanings. Otomo Yoshihide, Merzbow, Ryoji Ikeda, and Construction Kit contribute Japanese readings, while Spanish artist Francisco Lopez, Polish musician Zbignlew Karkowski and German Ulf Langheinrich bring the so-called noise from Europe. Americans Antimatter and Laminar round the global aspect of this collection out by providing their own compelling takes on the original. Despite their distinctiveness, what unites all of these remixes is a shared sense that all great works of art can transcend the contexts in which they were first conceived in order to explore, and perhaps fulfill their greater purpose."

Artist:	TIPSY
Title:	Tipsy Remix Party
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 2006CD

"San Francisco's Tipsy are an anomaly in the world of electronica. Master synthesists of exotica, lounge, country and found sound, over the course of two full-lengths and twice as many EPs, Tipsy have delighted listeners with their highly ironic take on musical history. Frequently tagged as the members of the nebulous 'Space Age Bachelor' pad genre in the tradition of Jean-Jacques Perry and Gershon Kingsley, Tipsy take the best aspects of crate-digging sampledelica and turn it into their own unique musical idiom. Curated by Dave Gardner, Remix Party! transcends the cliche of simply being a remix album, moving into territory traditionally reserved for tribute records and scene documentaries. Moving from Russia to Japan, Austria, Switzerland, the UK and America, the remarkable geographic spread of Tipsy translators attests to the creeping influence of the Tipsy phenomena worldwide. Featuring consistently up beat, humorous and memorable contributions by the likes of Matmos, the High Llamas, People Like Us, Messerchups, Optiganally Yours, and World Standard, Tipsy Remix Party! is the ideal lifestyle accoutrement for the Barbarella-worshipping computer science major in you."

Artist:	MIX MASTER MIKE
Title:	Return Of Eye Of The Cyclops
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 2008CD

"This newly compiled release, showcases 17 tracks of the famed and acclaimed Beastie Boys DJ into one full-length recording. Return features works recorded before and after 1999's seminal Anti-Theft Device. Wave-twisting bass, mind-warping scratches, and off-the-cuff compositions flavor the journey as Mike skillfully guides us though his cut-up world of ambient, electro, jazz, and B-movie soundtracks to the outer limits of abstract hip hop. Out-of-print 12"s Valuemeal and Suprize Package provide rare tracks and remixes not available on Mike's full length releases. The 2001 Bammie award winning classic EP, Eye of the Cyclops, provides more 11 tracks to round out this essential piece."

Artist:	DJ SPOOKY
Title:	Songs Of A Dead Dreamer
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 2009CD

The 2002 edition of DJ Spooky's legendary Songs of a Dead Dreamer, featuring 2 bonus tracks previously available only on the Japanese edition. "Abstract junglist, former leader of the Illbient movement, culture critic or just plain organized noise progenitor: there's no denying New Yorker DJ Spooky's immense influence on the American experimental electronic scene. 1996's groundbreaking Songs of a Dead Dreamer is the first full-length testament to his position. Spooky proclaims himself a 'music futurist,' given how fear reaching Dead Dreamer's influence continues to be six years after its initial release, its clear Spooky was on to something. For anyone interested in contemporary IDM, from Berlin PowerBook dub to Kid606's groovy electropunk, Dead Dreamer is an ambient classic which deserves a space in your collectIon."

Artist:	ANTIMATTER
Title:	antimatter vs. antimatter
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 2010CD

"The debut Asphodel full-length of Bay Area sound artist, Xenakis remixer and Mixmaster Mike engineer mixture 151, AKA antimatter. Featuring seventeen tracks of classic Powerbook based-DSP interpretations of selections from antimatter's own discography, antimatter vs antimatter is both a career overview and a remix record. Incorporating elements of musique concrete, sampled loops and haunting guitar drones, antimatter vs antimatter's eclectic sound sources and spacious arrangements will appeal to fans of Christian Fennesz and Einsturzende Neubauten alike. Previous full-lengths include 2002's pulsating wave and drone collaboration with Polish sound artists Zbigniew Karkowski, Function Generator, on Portugal's SIRR imprint, 1999's Transfixion on Artifact Records, as well as various compilation appearances."

Artist:	TONE, YASUNAO
Title:	Yasunao Tone
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 2011CD

"Yasunao Tone's near-half century's worth of work links contemporary electronic music with the historical avant-garde. One of the founding members of Japan's Fluxus Movement and an early associate of Yoko Ono and the late John Cage, 67 year-old New York resident Yasunao Tone has been composing experimental sound pieces since the early 1960s. A member of Japan's first computer art group, Team Random, who programmed Univac mainframes to perform Tone's own compositions, Tone has maintained a lifelong fascination with manipulating technology for his own musical ends. Tone's first composition using CD players, the appropriately titled Music for 2 CD Players, made its NEA-sponsored debut in 1982. Not long thereafter, Tone began composing pieces based on overriding the error-correction systems of consumer CD players in order to generate new strings of random digital sound. A pioneer in the use of prepared CDs, Tone first scratched his own self-described 'wounded' scotch tape and pinhole-punctured compact disc in 1985. With previous works performed by John Cage, commissions on behalf of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, installations at 1990's Venice Biennale, and 1993's Whitney Biennale, and releases on the Lovely Music (Musica Iconologos) and Tzadik labels (Solo For Wounded CD), Tone makes his Asphodel debut with this new full-length recording of intensely visceral, conceptual noise."

Artist:	BROKER/DEALER
Title:	Initial Public Offering
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 2014CD

"Equipped with an array of samplers, sequencers and vintage synthesizers, San Francisco wunderkinds Broker/Dealer make catchy minimal electronic music equally suited for the den or the dancefloor. Simultaneously channeling the aquatic dub of Berlin's Chain Reaction label and the genre-defining minimal techno of the Kompakt imprint, on their debut full-length, Initial Public Offering, B/D evoke the sounds of futuristic 70s disco maven Georgio Moroder and the proto-synth pop of early Art of Noise. Featuring subterranean basslines, ambient synth pads, dubby beats and interlocking pop melodies, Broker/Dealer's porous, punchy tracks and classy melodic nuances have been eliciting comparisons to the likes of early Mouse on Mars, Frankie Knuckles and Thomas Brinkmann since the release of their first 12" on the well respected Cologne label, Traum Schallplatten, home to B/D heroes Akufen, Miss Dinkt and Phillipe Cam."

Artist:	NORDINE, KEN
Title:	Wink
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 2015CD

"A world where windshield wipers fall in love and some people making a business out of licking lampshades may sound like something Ken Nordine imagined, but his 1967 album Twink was actually Nordine reading a little-known Beat Generation classic somebody else wrote. Robert Shure wrote the strange little poems, first published in 1957 by City Lights Books. Nordine, whose own cult classic, Word Jazz, was also first released in 1957, stumbled across the tiny gem years later, but instantly recognized a kindred spirit. 'Two voices, one head,' he said. 'I knew it was going to be perfect.' He recorded the dialogue, talking to himself from opposite sides of the stereo spectrum, one voice recorded dry, the other drenched in echo. The album was released in 1967 while he was signed with Phillips Records. Over the years, the originality and imagination of Nordine's anomalous creations has become ever more evident. What once was viewed -- with some beneficence -- as a quirky, if entertaining, irrelevance now is more commonly accorded the status of a timeless classic."

Artist:	USER, THE
Title:	Abandon
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 2016CD

"Abandon is a composition written for the abandoned Silo #5 grain elevator in the Port of Montr�al's Quai des Ecluses. It's a piece of music which employs no musical instruments other than the building itself, to which [The User] gave the name 'Silophone.' This instrument incorporates the astounding acoustics of a series of grain storage cylinders, which possess a stunningly beautiful echo and a reverberation time of up to twenty seconds. The Silophone instrument is unique in that it is almost always played at a distance, using telecommunications technologies such as the internet or telephone."

Artist:	LAMINAR
Title:	Nozzle
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 2017CD

"Nozzle is Laminar's first full-length recording for Asphodel. A dense, explorative and compelling collection of contemporary DSP-concr�te composed in the tradition of Xenakis' stochastic compositional methodology, Nozzle's star ting point is the investigation of nonstandard synthesis routines for creating music. As a whole, Nozzle is based on iterative functional synthesis and asynchronous granular synthesis, which involves developing musical structures by manipulating interactions at the sound-particle level. The sound textures of Nozzle move from order to disorder to outright chaotic, all the while blurring the fundamental separation of sound and structure. Periods of stability are frequently interrupted by sudden and erratic events. The musical results are hectic, explosive sound gestures alternating with dense states of slack which express the fundamental physicality of sound."

Artist:	RHYTHM & SOUND
Title:	W/ The Artists
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 2018CD

US licenses of Burial Mix European releases. "Over the course of the past decade, Berlin producers Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald forged a new musical idiom under the moniker Rhythm and Sound. Fusing minimal electronics with the richest and most spacial of dub arrangements, Ernestus and von Oswald found a new middle ground between Detroit techno and 70s roots reggae. Rhythm and Sound have since influenced a generation of club and dub producers in Germany and beyond. Rhythm and Sound's W/ The Artists is a compilation of reggae oriented tunes issued over the past three years through such imprints as von Oswald and Ernestus' own highly regarded Basic Channel label. Recorded in Berlin, New York and Jamaica, W/ The Artists features vocal performances by living reggae legends such as Cornel Campbell, Paul Saint Hilaire, Shalom, The Chosen Brothers, Love Joy, Jennifer Lara and Jah Batta."

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Remix Collection
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 2020CD

"A veritable who's who of contemporary electro and minimal techno, Remix Collection gathers together Allien's interpretations of Goldenboy with Miss Kittin, Gold Chains, Barbara Morgenstern, Sascha Funke and Neulander amongst eleven outstanding tracks. Ellen Allien's artistic development is largely defined by one circumstance: her engagement with 'music of the future', i.e . techno and the historical after-effects of the year 1989. Allien witnessed the changes created by the end of the Cold War and Germany's reunification, particularly the impact that it had on the culture and geography of her newly expanded hometown of Berlin. Her music remains indelibly marked by this experience."

Artist:	FIRES WERE SHOT
Title:	Solace
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 2022CD

"Fires Were Shot are an experimental guitar duo hailing from Austin, Texas. At once contemplative, haunting and disheveled, the band's second release, Solace, continues to set for th the abyssal, effected acoustic guitar sounds found on their debut release, Form the Hearth, self-released on the band's own Its Only Me imprint in 1998. Solace is a collection of complex emotions, warm guitar tones, and sculpted noise. Each genre-defying song contains image-evoking soundscapes, guitar melodies, and has the gritty quality of spontaneous performance. This is not drone, electronic, or ambient; it is very analog, very experimental, and extremely cinematic, evoking the arid geography of the band's southwest Texas home. Featuring the talents of guitarists John Wilkins and Clay Walton, Fires Were Shot have been compared to everyone

Artist:	VA
Title:	Asphodelic
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 0991CD

Artist:	MIXMASTER MIKE
Title:	Eve Of The Cyclops
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	12"
Price:	$6.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 124EP

Artist:	SAKAMOTO, RYUICHI
Title:	Love Is The Devil
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 0987CD

Artist:	SWIFT, ROB
Title:	The Ablist
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 0993CD

Artist:	CRUMAR, PHIL
Title:	As It Goes
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$5.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 125CD

Artist:	ALLIES, THE
Title:	D-Day
Label:	ASPHODEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	ASPH 126CD