LVD 000
format: cd-r
Recorded in the fall of 1996 on a reel to reel machine, using primarily shortwave radio and a simple analog keyboard, WWS is an early glimpse of what would evolve into Yermo during the next two years.
LVD 001 & LVD 002
format: cd-r
MCMS: Festum Asinorum (deleted, then reissued on Celebrate Psi Phenomena)
Excerpts from both of these releases appear on MCMS: 1997-2000
LVD 003
format: cd-r
First Yermo release--tape loops, samples and primitive electronics.
(Irrlicht Verfallen reissued on LVD 004)
LVD 008
format: cd-r
Quartet that includes Campbell Kneale as well as Stefan Neville of Pumice. With live drone and drum improv of the highest order, Ohm create a wistfully psychedelic feel.
LVD 006/7
format: 2 cd-r
Duo of Kneale and Eso Steel's Richard Francis offering an epic double CD-R compilation. Lovely drones and soundscapes with occasional bouts of abrasiveness and industrial/mechanical percussive repetitions.
format: cd-r
LVD 012
[deleted]
format: cd-r
LVD 010
format: cd-r
First outing by Furisubi (Kris Lapke)
Think: The Drift
Matt Silcock's freak-rock band from the late 90's.
LVD 014
format: cd-r
Krautrock like treatment of Black Sabbath covers, turning Snowblind into a 30 minute meditation on the possibilities of metal.
LVD 013
format: cd-r
Pulsing loops of electrical hums, timestretched drones, and peripheral buzzings build into kinetic motifs of gritty distortions, that nevertheless maintain an overall hypnotic sensibility.
LVD 017
format cd-r
A unique glimpse into the mid-90's underground improv scene in Lincoln Nebraska, spear-headed by Matt Silcock.
format: cd-r
LVD 016 [deleted]
LVD 029 [deleted]
LVD 021
format: cd-r
Minneapolis Guitar quartet with Jesse Petersen, Matt St-Germain, Erik Wivinus & Josh Wodarz
LVD 018/19
format: 2 cd-r
Terrifyingly intense document possessed of an ambitious grandeur that rivals Cecil Taylor's various European orchestras. This is a vital Hooker release even if it's only on CD-R.
LVD 024
format: cd-r
Gorgeous ambient drone with organic textures and more than a hint of melodicism.
LVD 022
format cd-4
40 minute barely fluctuating drone constructed from guitars tapes, radios, synthesizers and vacuum cleaners! This is some gorgeous deep listening: layers and layers of fuzz and hum transport the listener to another plane. Otherworldly and transcendental supreme drone. Perfect.
LVD 030
format: cd-r
Japanese romantic psych-rock band featuring the Keiji Haino-esque guitar storms of ex-Fushitsusha man Maki, combined with the haunting, sad female vocals of the band's namesake Shizuka.
LVD 026/27/28 format: 3 cd-r
Birchville Cat Motel, Ben Spiers, MCMS, Sunship, Witcyst, Small Blue Torch, AC Deth, 010010, No Logic Noise Farm, Ohm, Atari Super Predator, Dr. Gretchen's Musical Weightlifting Program, Jeff Henderson, Cowcatcher, Eso Steel, Pumice, Hataitai Bowling Club, Lugosi, Morepork, Seht, Pimmon, 1/3 Octave Band, Armpit, Airport.
LVD 032
format: cd-r
Polish-exile-now-Texan records bizarre and harrowing eastern European folk musings. Not much like anything else. Ever.
LVD 031
format: cd-r
Four-piece band hailing from Omaha; the album being a constantly evolving composition with some beautiful violin staggered alongside washes of guitar, bass, and synth.
LVD 034
format: cd-r
Hour long exploration of solo piano improvisation. Accomplished yet childlike, in mood resting somewhere between Jandek's output and Patty Water's devistating first album for ESP. Gorgeous melancholy emptiness!
LVD 033
format: CD
'Soupy' psychedelic improv featuring Mukai from Che-Shizu and Yamamoto from the Boredoms. Includes extensive liner notes from the band and Alan Cummings.
(split w/ Hospital Productions)
LVD 036
format: cd-r
Essentially three EPs by the respective artists.
LVD 035
format: CD
Rhode Island locales sounding like a Lightning Bolt 78 played at 16rpm or a smacked out James Brown jamming with the Starfuckers or better yet ESP weirdos Cromagnon trying to cover This Heat.
(split w/ Hospital Productions)
LVD 038
format: cd-r
73 minute collection of improvisations that sometimes fit clearly within the NZ free-noise camp, while at other times leaning closer to pastoral guitar exporations and occasional experimentations with saxaphone.
LVD 037
format: cd-r
Bob Marsh's ensemble is joined here by Carol Genetti, producing one of the most heavy 'free jazz' recordings this side of Alan Silva's Celestial Communication Orchestra.
LVD 040
format cd-r
Furisubi (momentarily a duo) strip the sound down to just guitar and organ create some super analog and super low-fi drift and bliss.
LVD 039
format: cd-r
Psychedelic free-form improvisations by now legendary Jewelled Antler super-group, Thuja.
LVD 042
format: cd-r
Electric guitars
Kawabata and collaborator Miyamoto Naoaki (MNS) dial up the feedback, noise, and distortion on this one. A bliss-out trip only for those who like their dreams cranked to 11.
LVD 041
format: CD
Glenn Donaldson's solo work hits an amazing high watermark (now followed by the equally stunning Ivytree CD); beautiful folk and psychedelic washes mesh to create what may be one of the best things yet out of the Jewelled Antler camp.
LVD 044
format: cd-r
70+ minute track recorded for a gallery in New Zealand; starts off with a lush soundscape of chimes and bells and electronic buzz before it dissipates into a vast expanse of hum and skronk and reverb and lots and lots of S P A C E. Very musique concrete.
LVD 043
format: cd-r
Noisy, droney, damaged, beyond-psychedelic, not-really-rock primal stomp territory explored by few others; recorded live at the Fusa Auditorium in Buenos Aires, September 20th 2001.
Cancelled split LP featuring material that has now shown up in various forms on releases by the respective artists.
LVD 045/46
format: 2 CD
Thuja, Reynols, Charalambides, Omit, Birdtree, Fursaxa, Birchville Cat Motel, Karma, Pelt, Iditarod, Kemialliset Ystavat, SubArachnoid Space, Avarus, MCMS, Drona Parva, Karl Precoda & Mike Gangloff, Miminokoto, Pylon, Sandoz Lab Technicians, Black Forest / Black Sea, and Peter Wright.
LVD 053/54
format: CD
Beautiful Speck Triumph
Kneale may have sealed BCM's fate with an all but unbeatably perfect two plus hours of divine Ur-drone.
LVD 049
format: CD
Darker, and warmer than the Iditarod; the folky overtones have been replaced by a much wider and more complex musical vocabulary that spreads its wings to include free improvisation, field recordings, chamber music, ghostly atmospherics, psychedelia, drone, pop, early Brian Eno, ancient Euro folk roots, and much more.
LVD 072/73/74
format: 3 CD
Collects the original volume I&II, the unreleased volume III and an hour and 15 minutes of additional material. The most organic and certainly cosmic minimalism I've yet to hear!
LVD 112
$10.00
Circle cultivate yet another new sound...something resembling 'In a silent way' or other fusion efforts. It is not drone nor retro-metal. In spirit, Tower retains the groove of Prospekt while gurgling along in a wash of vibes and chimes. A highly addictive but gentle album. Dig it!
LVD 092
$10.00
With a modified electric church organ and some field recordings, mudboy creates shimmering waves somewhere between Steve Reich/Brian Eno and the Bulb Records universe.