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First Utterance (LP)
German unofficial re-issue on BEO of the superlative 1971 eerie progressive/experimental folk masterpiece and a big influence on the freak folk of the last 30 years. NWW list.
Gravest Gravy
Recorded at Ardent Studios in October 1977 as part of the sessions that birthed Gravest Hits, the tracks on Gravest Gravy were contained on seven 1/4 inch reels. The tapes were transferred by Brian Kehew, the tracks were selected for inclusion by Henry Rollins, engineered by Ian MacKaye and Don Zientara at Inner Ear Studios and mastered by Pete Lyman at Infrasonic Sound.
Originators of a mutant and primal, stripped-down sound with its roots in the primordial soup of Rock 'n Roll - The Cramps cra…
Blue Whale (LP)
Original French edition on Byg of the first progressive jazz-rock fusion album by British drummer's band.
Zeer Oude Klanken En Heel Nieuwe Geluiden (LP)
2002 re-issue on Grey Past Records of an obscure privately released Dutch LP from 1973 with a psychelic odd mix of experimental guitar work-outs and blues-rock. With insert.
Alchemy (LP)
1974 re-press on Harvest of one of the most original and beautiful debut albums ever, with its alchemic mix of avant-garde folk, psych-raga, and chamber rock, originally released in 1969. Essential and on the NWW list
Sonic Portation
2008 release ** Picking up where they left off 33 years ago with the accidental death of leader Father Yod, three remaining members of Yahowa 13 create a reunion album in the spirit of the original ensemble in Sonic Portation. True, Father Yod's unique vocal stylings are missing, which may be taken as a crucial omission or with a sense of considerable relief. What's left is a rhythm section consisting of Djin Aquarian, Octavius Aquarian, and Sunflower Aquarian, playing guitar, bass, and drums in…
Lærvarium
1997 release ** This is an all-instrumental affair with classic thrash serving as the binding link throughout, but there are other elements that have been thrown in like doom, the second major ingredient, death and even power metal. Although thrash seems like the prevalent genre, there are times when its presence is disputable like on the contrasting doom/proto-death carnival "Snuff Movie", or on "El Canto Del Chivo" which develops as vintage doom until a brutal deathy break arrives splitting th…
Big Beat From Badsville
Dangerous, bizarre, but most of all cool, The Cramps one again prove themselves as leaders in skull-fracturing rock ʼnʼ roll, delving even deeper into a wicked netherworld where few have dared to tread. They are the architects of a sound that has spawned an entire subversive subculture. Originally released in 1997, Big Beat From Badsville is a haul-ass, careening monster of a record featuring more songs of mutilation, shape-shifting, psycho frenzies and she-devil-worship. The four rare bonus tra…
Stay Sick!
Sex-classic Stay Sick! was originally released in 1990 and features more of the dark side of rockabilly in a jugular vein. The opener, a hopped-up cover of obscure Sun Records tune “Bop Pills,” proves that rumors of amphetamine usage by the original Memphis rockabilly cats was not exaggerated, and sets the pace for the rest of the album.
Hog-wild covers of “Shortninʼ Bread” and “Muleskinner Blues” probably have the original writers dancing on their graves, and The Cramps’ version of the perverse…
What You See... Is What You Are (LP)
1978 split LP on Deptford Fun City with live recordings by one of the most seminal and experimental punk bands shared with the Gong-related raw space-rock prychedelic group.
Little Flecks Of Foam Around Barking (2LP)
Generous 2LP set of exquisite psych pop by members of the Deep Freeze Mice, the Jung Analysts and the Loch Ness Monster, and featuring R. Stevie Moore, privately released on Egg Plant in 1989.
Fade Out (LP)
Original UK edition on Chapter 22 of the landmark second album released in 1988, a fuzzed-out psychedelic/shoegaze masterpiece.
Fade Out (LP)
Original US edition on Rough Trade of the landmark second album released in 1988, a fuzzed-out psychedelic/shoegaze masterpiece.
Peter Sellers Meets Syd Barrett (tape + fanzine)
Very rare 1986 cassette on Crazy Mannequin accompanied by an A4 xeroxed booklet, with Milano's prime neo-psychedelic band playing a hommage to Pink Floyd's founder.
Brian Jones Died For Your Sins (tape + fanzine)
Rare 1986 cassette-only compilation on Crazy Mannequin accompanied by an A4 xeroxed booklet, featuring Peter Sellers and other very obscure Italian new wave / psych / garage bands - Bad Medicine, Acid Flowers, Human Jukebox, Screamin' M.C., This Gun For Hire, Falling Spikes - playing hommages to the Rolling Stones martyr.
There's No Rock'N'Roll Singer Without A Spanish Knife (LP)
1988 debut album by Peter Sellers & The Hollywood Party's singer Stefano Ghittoni neo-psych solo project on Crazy Mannequin.
Lucifer's Friends (LP)
1988 compilation on Peter Sellers & The Hollywood Party's label Crazy Mannequin featuring severeal Italian and British post-punk / neo-psych band including Swell Maps' Nikki Sudden's Jacobites plus The Acid Flowers, The Jazz Butcher, Kim Squad And Dinah Shore Headbangers, The Falling Spikes, King Holiday And The Shadowmen, Diggers Maze, Hitchcock's Scream, Degenerazione Musicale, Sir Chime And The Lovers, Membranes, Pinky Silence And The Mad Horses, Bad Medicine, Jacobites, Last Train From Drug …
Psychedelic Jungle (LP)
Original 1981 Dutch edition with orange innersleeve of the marvellous second album by the unparalleled rock'n'bones band.
Static Disposal
Rare 2002 re-issue on Anopheles limited to 1000 copies on green clear vinyl and including a previously unreleased demo of noise/punk classic by obscure Oklahoma band appearing on the NWW list. With insert.
Gremlins Have Pictures (LP)
Original UK edition on Demon Records of the 13th Floor Elevator's singer's 1986 album collecting acid rockers, acoustic ballads and assorted oddities recorded between 1975 and 1982.