Browse by Label: CAR PARK RECORDS

Artist:	TAKAHASHI, SO
Title:	Nubus
Label:	CAR PARK RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	CRPK 003CD

"Hailing from Yokohama, Japan, but currently living in New York, So has been making music in his home studio for over 4 years now. Utilizing his collection of vintage Roland drum machines, some guitars, a Theremin, and sounds from his kitchen and fax machine, so has constructed in Nubus a new audio plateaux resting somewhere in between ambient melodicism and structured noise. So is continually trying to reconcile his love of club music with more 'non-body' musics. While his first CD is specifically aimed at the dancefloor, Nubus seeks out an area somewhere just outside the club after closing. Here one can hear traces of Cologne (Studio 1), structured noise (a la Ryoji Ikeda), and Japanese pop. There are other musical dichotomies that are constantly being negotiated as well: 'order vs. chaos', 'pop vs. un-pop', 'mechanics vs. organics'. In the end, So demonstrates how futile these dichotomies ultimately are at the end of the millennium, and brings us to a greater understanding and appreciation of music through music."

Artist:	MARUMARI
Title:	The Wolves Hollow
Label:	CAR PARK RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	CRPK 004CD

"With this, Marumari's third full length (and their second for Carpark) we find our young space traveler in a state of transition. The first half of the record emerges from the interests on Marumari's Ballad of the Round Ball, where strange, decontextualized tones integrated freshly with space-age melodies and glitchy robust beats. The second half of The Wolves Hollow finds Marumari pursuing different ideas. Here he is less concerned with the song and more concerned with layers (I hate to use the work tracks). Listened to as a whole, it is a masterful statement sure to please all those in tune with the future."

Artist:	MANDELL, JAKE
Title:	Love Songs For Machines
Label:	CAR PARK RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	CRPK 008CD

"Once set in motion, these songs express what words cannot: the ineffable sensations accorded to desire and attachment. Much has been said about the dehumanizing aspects of computer technology. Jake Mandell revises these luddite notions and claims the computer as the 20th century humanizer par excellence. Love Songs... leaves no computer music movement untouched. From the poppy new waveness of New Order and early Human League, to the unique timbres and rhythms can only be achieved with late 20th century computer software, this CD brings the last 50 years of computer music history together into one very bold emotional statement."

Artist:	MARUMARI
Title:	Supermogadon
Label:	CAR PARK RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	CRPK 009CD

"Carpark is pleased to present the 4th full length recording from Marumari (his 3rd for Carpark) entitled Supermogadon. The continuing effects of interstellar space travel combined with extended stays in New England have created even more musical building blocks for our young space traveler to work with. Dare we call Supermogadon more 'mature' even though Marumari is ageless? Our boy has taken elements of smooth jazz, 80s alternative rock, and 70s American radio hits and given them a more playful digital interpretation. Sadly for marketing departments around the world, this is dance music that fits no currently existing dance genre."

Artist:	MARUMARI
Title:	The Remixes
Label:	CAR PARK RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	CRPK 014CD

"In the works for many years, meticulously prepared and fine-tuned by Marumari's friends, Carpark presents the much-anticipated Marumari remix CD. The list of remixers reads like a who's who of Marumari's IM buddy list: Electric Company (tigerbeat6), Robert Lippok (from To Rococo Rot), Casino vs. Japan (wobblyhead, city centre offices, and future carpark recording artist), Lackluster (defocus), Cex (tigerbeat6), Greg Davis (darpark), L'usine (isophlux, hymen), Octopus Inc. (kracfive), Stars As Eyes (tigerbeat6), and Colongib (kracfive), The CD also includes the ever-popular 'baby m' music video (which made its way onto MTV2 last year), a short video piece about Marumari's dog bacon (with remixed audio by miami's o9), and mp3s from Vim, Kettel (planet-mu), Multiplex, Buddy System, Phluidbox, Yuppster (8 bit peoples), Proem (merck), Thug (defocus), and Atomly (atomiq)."

Artist:	NORIHIDE, OGURUSU
Title:	Humour
Label:	CAR PARK RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	CRPK 015CD

"Humour, Ogurusu's debut for Carpark, blends aspects of pop, techno, and Japanese folk using an array of instruments like guitar, bass, keyboard, powerbook, recorder and percussion. Bundling the two self-released EPs Study and I, Humour takes in an astonishing range of sound, from the intimate acoustic guitar solo of the first track (simply titled '0:52') to the purely digital abstractions of the fifth ('5:20'), Ogurusu shows he is one of the leading purveyors of minimal pop. Listening to Humour conjures up comparisons to such seemingly disparate artists as the Beatles, Brian Eno, Jorge Ben, and Taylor Deupree."

Artist:	SIGNER
Title:	Low Light Dreams
Label:	CAR PARK RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	CRPK 020CD

"First forward-thinking musicians began experimenting with electronic instruments, then some abandoned the traditional band setup (and the band) entirely for the computer. It's a trend that has been observed by New Zealand native Bevan Smith (aka Signer) for many years. Abandoning his indie rock past and embracing the burgeoning 'electronic' scene of the mid 90s, Bevan created many gorgeous IDM and ambient techno records as Aspen and Signer. Yet after a while he felt constrained by the digital music making process. It had become as formulaic as the indie rock he abandoned in the 90s. It was time once again for something new. Low Light Dreams explores a sound that Bevan himself calls 'nu-indie': incorporating elements from first-wave post-rockers like Seefeel, dub-influenced techno, and some of the more blissed-out items from the Kranky Records' catalog."

Artist:	KIT CLAYTON VS. SAFETY SCISSORS
Title:	Ping Pong
Label:	CAR PARK RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	CRPK 022CD

"Playfulness. competition. innocence. cruelty. excitement. anxiety. ping. pong. A fast-paced volley of broken thoughts and insecurities, this story charts the wavering desires of two petty humans trying desperately to conform to an indiscoverable standard. In this fruitless effort they travel through wildly divergent territories of the familiar and inaccessible with rapid bursts of alternating comfort and confusion. Ripe with the melodrama and intrigue of our exceedingly product-focused lives, reality TV has never been so compelling. Exhilaratingly brisk, charmingly raw, and unquestionably musical, the Ping Pong EP fills us with hope for the new world we've already forgotten."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Wanna Buy A Craprak?
Label:	CAR PARK RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	CRPK 023CD

"Wanna buy a Craprak? A unique multimedia CD sampler selling at a special low price, that will make everyone's wallet very happy. Wanna buy a Craprak? contains 13 audio tracks and 4 videos from all of your favorite Carpark artists (such as Marumari, Greg Davis, Kit Clayton, Safety Scissors, Kid 606, Dinky Ogurusu Norihide, and Signer). Many of the tracks are taken from future and past Carpark releases, some are exclusive (Lake Mandell, Freescha, Takagi Masakatsu, Hrvatski, and 242phots)."

Artist:	SIGNER
Title:	The New Face of Smiling
Label:	CAR PARK RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	CRPK 027CD

"In 2002, we called it 'Nu-Indie'. That pissed people off (who knew?). At the time, New Zealand's Bevan Smith successfully married the digital and analog worlds with Signer's Low Light Dreams. Now the honeymoon is over and this couple is in it for the long haul. No longer are the two distinct; they have become one. Bevan spent some time listening to his favorite indie slow-jams (Joy Division, My Bloody Valentine, Laughingstock-era Talk Talk et.al) and decided he should make the first proper fuzzed-out pop gem of the 21st century. Signer's The New Face of Smiling chews on all of Bevan's experience in indie bands and electronica and spits them back out into something brand new yet somehow familiar. Those with a sense of humor can call it 'Nu-Gazing'."

Artist:	MONTAG
Title:	Alone, Not Alone
Label:	CAR PARK RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	CRPK 028CD

"Montreal's Montag (aka Antoine Bedard) got lonely making music by himself. After working all alone on his first record for France's Gooom Disques (M83, Cyann & Ben), Antoine decided it was time to share his knowledge of arrangement and orchestration by enlisting the help of friends such as James Cargill of Broadcast (Warp Records, Drag City), Amy Millan from Stars and Broken Social Scene (Arts & Crafts), and Sixtoo (Ninja Tune, Anticon). With its strings, horns, wind instruments, layered vocals and analog synths, Montag's Alone, Not Alone has a lush sophisticated sound that helps redefine classic electric pop."

Artist:	OVER THE ATLANTIC
Title:	Junica
Label:	CAR PARK RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	CRPK 034CD

"Over The Atlantic are the latest slightly older than teenage pop sensations from (actually) Over the Pacific -- New Zealand, that is. The electric guitar/laptop duo consists of Bevan Smith, who honed his guitar and production chops as Carpark artist Signer (as well as other projects on his Involve record label) and Nik Brinkman, who's been perfecting his telecaster windmill in numerous indie bands since he was a wee lad. Their debut release Junica is the Breakfast Club soundtrack for the post-Breakfast Club generation. Or a digitally-enhanced version of classic New Zealand pop (a la Flying Nun era) with a '90s English twist. Either way, Over The Atlantic have poignantly integrated heart-wrenching melodies, danceable beats, and electronic harmonies into songs about breaking up, coming together, looking at the stars, and hanging out on Myspace."

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Artist:	DINKY
Title:	Black Cabaret
Label:	CAR PARK RECORDS
Format:	2LP
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	CRPK 024LP