Browse by Label: SOCIAL REGISTRY

Artist:	ICEWATER SCANDAL
Title:	No Handle
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 004CD

"Gathering moss is not for Icewater Scandal; they are constantly percolating with ideas. They take what they have accomplished before redefining it and then heading for new horizons. Their first album travels over new territory from their debut EP released under the AM Radio moniker. Though still filtered through their concept of taking 60's experimental music a la the Dream Syndicate et al, and merging that with the elan of 80's indie rock; No Handle is at times more muscular and other times more cerebral, without losing any flair. Part of this can be attributed to their producer Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. Recorded and mixed at SY's studio, Echo Canyon, there has been great care in getting the sound just right. Recorded, mixed and mastered all on analog equipment was a decision that allowed no ones and zeros to come between what was played and how the band wanted it heard."

Artist:	PAINTING SOLDIERS
Title:	Horizon Falls
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 005EP

"From The Social Registry's new 12" EP series (strictly limited to 600 copies and packaged in identical metallic blue jackets): Andrea Hansen, though a member of the angular, surging rock group Icewater Scandal, has so much she wants to do that it cannot be contained within just one group. From her fertile mind and nimble fingers comes Painting Soldiers. Most of her work was recorded in a small one room apartment, on a lonely block above a gun shop, with just her guitar and a four-track recorder (and the occasional helping hand from various friends.) Andrea has been able to unleash her talent and imagination that is clear and unadorned with post production by Lee Ranaldo. From the gentle rollicking of 'Heaven And Mars' to the stormy psychedelic 'Mighty Fumble' this EP stands by itself. This debut 12" is sure to transport the listener into an existence that transcends the common and everyday."

Artist:	HALL OF FAME
Title:	Paradise Now
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 006CD

"Hall Of Fame is a trio out of NYC comprised of Samara Lubelski, Dan Brown & Theo Angel. Paradise Now is their fourth full length album since their inception in 1995. Though hinted at on their previous Siltbreeze effort; this record is not a departure from their trademark psychedelic excursions but an evolution from their bedroom recordings, allowing their sound to be captured in a more fully realized dynamic staging. Recorded over a year at the famed Rare Book Room in Brooklyn where Samara moonlights as an engineer allowed the trio to take their compositions further into the ether. Carefully sculpting not only the inherent energies of the compositions but also drawing every audible element into the fold whether it be a slow drawn violin scrap, fluttering percussion or the slow echo of a vintage Ampeg Amplifier. This record exemplifies the kind of precision and subtle craftsmanship that exemplifies the honing of their abilities and the furthering of their artistic vision."

Artist:	GHOST EXITS
Title:	Cincinnati Riot Blues
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 007EP

"We are proud to present the debut offering from NYC two piece Ghost Exits; a four song 12" EP. Ghost Exits have seen incarnations as a free jazz combo & rock band but it was late in 2001 when the current incarnation began to take shape. Trading in their drums & guitars for a sequencer and some out-moded analog synths Christopher Exit & Ivan Sunshine began looking to the British post-punk aesthetic and early 80s hip-hop for inspiration to create a new starting point from which to deliver their sound. Fast forward two years and you find the fully realized sound of Ghost Exits taking shape as they created a new beast to be reckoned with. It didn't take long for the rest of the NYC population to catch up with these two; and it wasn't long before they began landing shows with the likes of !!!, ESG, James Chance & The Warlocks."

Artist:	ARTANKER CONVOY
Title:	Ocean Parkway
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 009EP

"The Social Registry 12" series continues with this silk and flame infected barnstormer from Artanker Convoy. This four track EP is sure to get feet moving and hips gyrating with their catchy and irresistible flow (people who have tried resisting have ended up in traction or worse). But this EP is not only for the floor-cutting set. It is layered with a multitude of different influences and experience (soul jazz, krautrock, bossanova, bubblegum pop to name a few) that set this group apart from the typical club ravers, they compose pieces that allow them to really stretch out and continue to evolve the more they play them. You can sit back and just enjoy this, but your body might have different ideas. Organic Grooves remixes one of the pieces shooting AT into an even higher orbit."

Artist:	ELECTROPUTAS
Title:	3
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 013CD

"The third installment from NYC's noise-mavens Electroputas is upon us and it is a heavy affair. Hand woven to thick analog tape over six months at the Junkyard Studio compound with Sean Maffucci of Icewater Scandal behind the board, this record opens up the stride of this criminally under exposed outfit. The sprawling results at times brings to mind such notable luminaries as Can, Chrome, Lightning Bolt or the more musical ramblings of Ciccone Youth. With this record the trio has managed to take their unrelenting live sound into a wholly new direction."

Artist:	WEBB, TK
Title:	KCK
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 015CD

"TK Webb plays an average of three shows a week in New York City reanimating elements of the blues to create a truly modern music. KCK, his second record, is a collection of eight songs that attempt to render the psychic landscape of a section of Kansas City, Kansas near where TK was born. While many people today frolic in the pastoral fields of psychedelic-folk-love, TK's music mines darker and deeper places. The resulting music is all at once psychedelic, musical and narrative; providing the listener with a multilayered experience that is both dark and celebratory and which may be a perfect definition of the blues."

Artist:	LUBELSKI, SAMARA
Title:	The Fleeting Skies
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 017CD

"The first proper solo adventure from Samara Lubelksi. Though she is most often recognized as a member of Hall Of Fame Samara also done time in The Sonora Pine, Tower Recordings, Metabolismis, Jackie O-Motherfucker & Salmon Skin and has also played alongside Tony Conrad & Tara Jane O'Neil. On these recordings Samara is joined by an array of friends & compatriots who help bring these ten folk/pop songs to perfectly arranged heights."

Artist:	GANG GANG DANCE
Title:	Hillulah
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 018CD

"Gang Gang Dance is a musical vehicle without brakes, constantly innovating and dropping material out the rear. Hillelah documents a period in which Gang Gang moved from city streets to multilane highways and down back roads. These four tracks are culled from live sets and practice sessions to give you just a taste of what was happening during this period between GGD recording sessions. Plus this enhanced CD puts one into their world with two very diverse performances."

Artist:	GANG GANG DANCE
Title:	God's Money
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 019CD

"Gang Gang Dance's second full length release entitled God's Money. Recorded over the course of a year at Junkyard Audio Salvage the band utilized whatever means were available to them: drums of all shapes, sizes and circuits, various keyboards and synthesizers, midi-triggering guitar scenarios, vocals reconfigured via guitar effect pedal and even the occasional aluminum chair. Blending hypnotic rhythms into a highly structured compositional style or soaring in the lofty heights of practiced improvisation, this recording follows in the footsteps of their other output marking new ground for the band."

Artist:	TELEPATHE
Title:	Sinister Militia
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 028EP

"Telepathe is a fluid band that ebbs and flows through genres of music all the while creating their own brand of dancey mysteriousness. Led by Busy Ganges and Melissa Lavaudais the group takes their eerie textural music and interweaves this with a rhythmic pattern that pulls you into their sound tapestry. The Sinister Militia 12" brings the listener into their creation. Tyler of !!! remixed Sinister Militia and accentuates all of the elements that make Telepathe the unique band they are. The eeriness and the beats are present in a more raucous splashy display."

Artist:	ARTANKER CONVOY
Title:	Cozy Endings
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 029CD

"Cozy Endings captures the finest moments so far of a two year experiment between the psychedelic rock group ARTANKER CONVOY, art/video collective MUX, and modern dancer Nicole Wolcott. This CD/DVD set offers the seeker the rare opportunity to catch a glimpse of the aural and visual experience that have only been available to live audiences in limited locations. Artanker Convoy generates the sound: alien waves punctuated by sly rhythms that accommodate a crowd whether it is dancing, watching the visuals or relaxing. MUX brings to bear the combined visual acumen of choreographers, lighting specialists and video artists to create an ethereal landscape through which the band dissolves and dancers flow through."

Artist:	GANG GANG DANCE
Title:	Rawwar EP
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	CD EP
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 030CD

"Rawwar is the first glimpse of exactly what the band have been up to over this prolific year. Clocking in at just over twenty minutes and sprawled across three tracks, the release plays like a Gang Gang Dance sampler of sorts; a taster for what is to come. Rawwar opens with 'Nicoman': a live favorite from the last few years which has been refined in the studio. Bombastic and dance-oriented, it blends the band's affection for musical styles, propelling the listener through four minutes of audible tribal chaos, while at the same time demonstrating GGD's talent for pop melody. 'Oxygen Demo Riddim' finds the band improvising and building musical ideas into a dreamy hypnotic instrumental interlude. The final, almost cinematic track is a studio composition entitled, 'The Earthquake That Frees Prisoners' which unfolds over ten minutes. This was painstakingly assembled in the studio and incorporates conversational dialog from their deceased band member, Nathan Maddox interwoven into the band's compositional structure."

Artist:	GANG GANG DANCE
Title:	Retina Riddim
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 033CD

"In advance of Gang Gang Dance's upcoming studio full-length, The Social Registry are proud to present the band's first-ever DVD release, Retina Riddim. This film was made by Gang Gang Dance member, and visual artist, Brian DeGraw. Retina Riddim is by no means a tour film, documentary, live video, or anything as remotely stringent. Included on the DVD is a fan film, GGDbyOP, shot and edited on the road by Oliver Payne, a friend of the band's. As an added bonus Retina Riddim also contains an audio CD cut together by DeGraw specifically for this release, and a fold-out poster designed by Mr. DeGraw. Retina Riddim is both a document of Gang Gang Dance's progress over the past few years, and a look forward to the direction they are moving in."

Artist:	CHRISTY & EMILY
Title:	Gueen's Heaed
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 045CD

"Take a crafty pop music guitarist who knows how to come up with hooks and have them team up with a trained avant-garde classical musician and you get The Velvet Underground. Move that same combo from the Lower East Side across the river to northwest Brooklyn and tack on 40 years and you get Christy & Emily. This duo present their version of this mixture of elements with their debut LP Gueen's Head. An octet of pieces that explore modern classical techniques grafted with pop songs. This alchemy produces a string of highly catchy ascetic tunes combined with undercurrents of discordance and dissonance. Add to this lyrics that take from the history of pop and modernist mid-20th century poetry."

Artist:	BONES, MIKE
Title:	The Sky Behind The Sea
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 046CD

"Mike Bones is New Jersey-born songwriter Mike Strallow, who lives and works in New York City. Of his pseudonym, Strallow offers: 'Bones is a nickname a friend gave to me when I was a kid. Making records as Mike Bones removes my voice from the song, at least in my own mind and leaves a song's meaning and intention ambiguous. I don't have to show my cards.' Although Bones has been writing songs for years, worked as a guitar player for The Mighty Flashlight, Damon McMahon, and Lizzie Trulie, and is a member of cult favorites Soldiers of Fortune (a band featuring members of Oneida, Home, and Oakley Hall), The Sky Behind The Sea marks his debut solo recording."

Artist:	METABOLISMUS
Title:	The Social Club No. 7
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	7"
Price:	$6.00
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 052EP

"The Metabolismus collective has been making music since the mid-1980s, self-releasing most of their early material on cassette and vinyl LPs. The band comes from the town of Stuttgart, Germany and creates music that is rooted in the rich tradition of German experimental bands such as Can, Amon Duul, Popul Voh and Kraftwerk with touchstones in rock, folk and electronic music. With this release they are joined by Samara Lubelski and provide two beautiful tracks of arboreal shimmer with glimpses of soft '60s psychedelic sheen."

Artist:	GROWING
Title:	The Social Club No. 8
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	7"
Price:	$6.00
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 058EP

"Marking their recent addition to The Social Registry's roster, Olympia-via-Brooklyn's Growing present their first contribution to the label with this installment in our ongoing 7" series. Consisting of members Joe Denardo and Kevin Doria, Growing's already-legendary status among ambient and noise-rock circles has solidified their reputation. The two songs found on this 7" represent the best of the band, spotlighting their uncanny ability to extract alien and ethereal sounds from the now-traditional format of the electric guitar."

Artist:	SIAN ALICE GROUP
Title:	The Dusk Line
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 063CD

"The Dusk Line EP is comprised of four songs recorded during work on Sian Alice Group's debut album 59.59 in the summer of 2007. For this release, they opted to work on a smaller scale, stripping their sound down to just layered grand piano and voice. Featuring contributions from just two members of the group, Rupert Clervaux and vocalist Sian Ahern, The Dusk Line is an exercise in restraint. It was recorded at London's The Garden, utilizing layered piano parts all performed by Clervaux. Sian Alice Group have become known for their sweeping, orchestrated aesthetic, but The Dusk Line distills their sound to its core."

Artist:	GROWING
Title:	All The Way
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 065CD

"All The Way, the debut full-length from Growing on The Social Registry, concludes an epic trip. Through six tracks Kevin Doria and Joe DeNardo complete the conceptual arc initiated on their 2006 album Color Wheel. If we still bought into genres, we would say that this record finally achieves a perfect balance of noise and pop, yet what we can say is that you'll potentially hum melodies long after your headphones are out. Recorded by Barry London at his Ocropolis Studio during the 2007-2008 winter, All The Way sounds like some sort of frozen urban chaos taking place at a superclub on another planet."

Artist:	I.U.D.
Title:	The Proper Sex
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 069LP

"The Social Registry is proud to break your bones with I.U.D. -- Lizzi Bougatsos of Gang Gang Dance's (vocals, percussion) new project. Teaming with Sadie Laska of Growing and Extreme Violence (the duo is known here as Mr. Egglesby and Lil' Pickle -- they have different names for each release), The Proper Sex is a downright brutal industrial clusterfuck that's sure to fog the glasses of experimental music nerds and provide the catalyst for many a record store argument. Put The Boredoms, Einst�rzende Neubauten, Meat Beat Manifesto, Tribe 8, Front 242 and some black metal tropes in a blender and then serve chilled at a party hosted by hyper-feminist vampires and you're getting close to the sound on this one. Recorded at Vacation Island Studios by Matt Boyton AKA Professor Funkenstein, The Proper Sex is creepy, relentless and (most of all) extremely fascinating. It's a varied listen that reflects its influences and cover art -- which mimics Sparks -- to a stunning effect. Like Gang Gang Dance, these rhythms are already cemented in a listener's head. It's just that this journey might be a descent into the inferno rather than up to the heavens." Includes poster of a naked horse-woman.

Artist:	ZS
Title:	Music Of The Modern White
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	LP
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 071LP

"For the next step forward in an already-busy year, The Social Registry is proud to present Music Of The Modern White -- our first release by Zs (a veteran trio that mixes just about every genre imaginable into an altermodern pastiche of the most epic, beautiful and aggressive proportions you're likely to hear in 2009). We're talking no wave, prog rock, free jazz, noise, academic drone, funk, minimal, industrial and ambient with the studio trickery of a Brian Wilson that adds both narcotics and New York street life to his rap sheet. Featuring Sam Hillmer (tenor sax), Ben Greenberg (electric guitar) and Ian Antonio (drum set), we're truly honored to release this 12'' and remain certain that Zs have found a perfect home for their unique, utterly physical excursions on TSR."

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Artist:	KID KISHORE
Title:	The Social Club No. 9
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	7"
Price:	$6.00
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 057EP

Artist:	PSYCHIC ILLS
Title:	Mirror Eye
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 066CD