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all prices have postage included. if you're ordering from outside
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Andy Dixon 2008
SPECIAL
Andy's and some of his friends worked super duper hard throughout 2007 on many projects, all of which seem to be coming out at the same time. So why not order it all together, you know what I mean?
1) Andy Dixon - The Mice Of Mt. Career CD
2) Andy Dixon / Montag split 7"
3) Andy Dixon - Weird Weight book
4) Winning - Could We Believe In Magic? CD
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Andy Dixon
Weird Weight
Book
100pg, full color, 6.5" x 8.5" perfect bound book of Andy Dixon's visual art. There is something otherworldly to Andy Dixon's unique visual genius that thrives in mystery. It's equal parts punk rock, art school experimentation, graffiti, typographic maverick and childlike dreamscapes. It's like Basquiat and Twombly in a punk rock duel. Andy's work is notable for his exposure of process. He often highlights mistakes, typos and breaks in form. But he marries this with an almost effortless sense of composition and typography. |
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Andy Dixon / Montag
Split 7"
ACHE038
Along with the release of his official ‘debut solo album, The Mice Of Mt. Career, comes this split 7” with fellow solo artist and close friend, Montag (CARPARK RECORDS).
Side A is a song composed by both artists via internet ‘ping pong’ titled Husbands. Side B has an exclusive song by each artist. Full free download, too. Bam.
LIMTED to 300! With hand made packaging. Hand numbered, as well.
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Winning
Could We Believe in Magic?
ACHE037
Vancouver trio, Winning’s sophomore full length is as dour and uncomfortable as it is playful. It’s a paradigm sprouted from the seed of improvisation, but nurtured from a dark and claustrophobic sentiment. Structurally, Could We Believe In Magic? has it’s hands in a variety of extremes. It runs the gamut, from an apparent abandonment of traditional tempo and structure, to, at least comparatively, more conventional composition. |
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Andy Dixon
The Mice Of Mt. Career
ACHE036
Mt. Career billows with a concentration of thick pop, live instrumentation, and multi-cultural musical references. It runs the gamut of emotion, from bitter sweet hooks to murky, claustrophobic dirges. Andy’s voice, guitar playing, and songwriting burst with a fresh, vibrant energy. There is a distinct but modest feeling of ‘finding his place’ living between the sounds of Mt. Career. |
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Bulbs / Wobbly
Split 7"
ACHE035
Wobbly paves a wiggly road, teeming with wet noodle guitar waver, elastic drums, and the type of vocal manipulation that evokes DAT POLITICS references, while Bulbs, a two piece of live-processed guitar and drums (although you’d never guess it), assemble a marvelously composed mélange of harmonious static. |
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Baby Control
Best War
ACHE033
A head-spinning mix of Sonic Youth
noise, punk furocity, and blues swagger, all the while never straying
too far from the realm of pop. A gorgeously flawed declaration from
a band with a sharp, acidic purpose. Members of The Red
Light Sting and North Of America.
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Gorge
Trio / Uske Orchestra
Split 7"
ACHE031
A collision of a hundred simultaneous
ideas, Belgium’s Uske Orchestra steamrolls through an unsettling
cartoon landscape while the Bay Area's Gorge Trio (Containing members
of Deerhoof and The Flying Luttenbachers) elaborates on their distinctive
concoction of syncopated free-jazz rumble and indy melody. |
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Secret Mommy
Plays
ACHE030
An electronic album made entirely out of organic acoustic
instrumentation. "The
result is a glitch noise album awash in humanity. Fingerpicked guitar
licks are bent and twisted around violin, brass and woodwind samples
and then layered over human voices, and the syncopated, digital
clicks and pops that populate the landscape of Andy’s earlier records.
Dixon’s meticulous attention to detail shines on every song, and
he’s able to scientifically dissect tracks without losing the improvisational
feel of the original recordings.
...I
feel like I could go on about this record forever, but I’m already
over my word count. I think Plays is a masterpiece." - Streethawk
LP on double 12" 45! with Silk screened gate fold! Thanks to the
fine folk at
Reluctant
Recordings |
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Winning
This is an Ad for Cigarettes
ACHE028
Andy Dixon (Secret Mommy, The Red Light Sting, Ache Records), Paul
Patko (The Winks, The Red Light Sting) and Jack Duckworth’s (Primes,
Radio Berlin) most recent outing. This is An Ad For Cigarettes,
Winning’s debut release, is an anomaly. Depending on your perspective,
it’s either a deliberate, meditated attack on rock and punk culture,
or an homage and extension of it. The chaotic and seemingly careless
execution would suggest the former, while the deep, brooding melodies
would imply the latter.
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The
Winks
Birthday Party
ACHE032
An elegant blend of modern fervor with an old-world charm, Birthday
Party glistens with a timeless yet quirky pop panache. Primarily
cello, mandolin, vocals, and percussion, The Winks are entirely
void of any of the instruments traditionally used within rock music.
Yet the structure, song writing, and execution suggests a contemporary
and pop spirit, rich with “hooks”.
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Of / Greg Davis
split 7"
ACHE028
Volume 5 of our Div/orce series unfolds to reveal reflections of
pictorial solitude and subtle melodic deep woods groan. Both camps
find sturdy route in field recording acousticism, and these tracks
illustrate the meditative nature of these artists. Water trickles,
harps swell, and winds howl, while traditional instruments contemplate
their natural surroundings.
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Div/orce 7" Series Subscription
Special!
With only three 7"s left in
the nine part Div/orce series, I'm now offering a subscription for
the remaining records.
Ordering this subscription will
mean that when each record is released, it'll be mailed out to you
right away. Just to clarify, though - this subscription is not the
ONLY way to get these remaining 7"s - they will still be for
sale individually as they are released.
Although I can't tell you what all
the remaining 7"s are (It's a surprise!), I can tell you that
the first seven in the series have all been outstanding:
Hella / Four Tet
Matmos / Die Monitr Batss
Sightings / Hrvatski
Kid Commando / Kid606
Greg Davis / Of
Gorge Trio / Uske Orchestra
Bulbs / Wobbly
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2UP
Teenage Mondo Trash
ACHE027
This Japanese duo juxtapose stripped down instrumentation (guitar
and drums), with vigorous song structure, polyrhythmic splatter,
and artful overload, resulting in a form of punk rock which has
been buried under a decade of shameless ‘punk’ marketing techniques,
and manufactured music.
Roaring through sixteen jagged, misshapen
pieces of art punk in less then 30 minutes, Tokyo’s 2UP sweat and
wiggle wildly. Teenage Mondo Trash will bring to mind the lost art
of punk-house energy and screwball spirit. |
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Jab Mica Och El
ABC Hej I'm Cola
ACHE026
Modern electronic manipulation coalesces with robust and celebratory
cartoon melodies. The outcome is a thick, playful and joyous mess
of elastic brass, stuttering woodwind, and squelch percussion, evoking
a childhood innocence, which will leech the cynicism from every
listener, inevitably conjuring smiles he or she had long forgotten.
Vinyl version limited to 500!
w/ hand silk screened covers. |
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V/A Project Bicycle
ACHE025
The concept is simple: Give a handful
of today's most progressive sound designers only one sample to work
with. They are able to manipulate this sample in any way they choose,
but their entire song most be composed entirely from the single
sound byte.
Featuring: Aelters, Greg Davis,
DJ Elephant Power, Jason Forrest, Jab Mica Och El, Romanhead, Secret
Mommy, Sun Ok Papi K.O., TU M', Uské Niko, and Wobbly
Vinyl version limited
to 500!
Pressed on Green w/ hand silk screened covers |
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Rauhan Orkesteri / Lauhkeat Lampaat
Sylissain oot
ACHE024
Ten pieces of free-improv-folk-jazz
from Finland, with a distinctive foundation of playful vigor and
heartening spirit. It’s an organic improv session that breathes
countryside air, sensing the grass between its toes.
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Kid Commando / Kid606
split 7"
ACHE023
Volume Four of our DIV/ORCE series!
A new song by both artists - the last one ever written by Kid Commando.
Limited to 1000! |
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Secret Mommy
Very Rec
ACHE022
Composed of field recordings of
recreational activities, Very Rec is a polyrhythmic, visceral
celebration of sporadic delight. A cut n’ paste exploration of activity
and movement, obscured by mild absurdism.
"At what he's doing, Dixon
is probably one the finest in the world" - Lefthip
Vinyl version limited
to 500!
Pressed on Orange
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Konono N°1
Congotronics
ACHE021
DIY amplified, used car part percussion
& distorted thumb piano trance from Kinshasa, Africa.
"This could be one of the unexpected
successes of the year." - The Guardian
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Sightings
/ Hrvatski
Div/orce Vol 3
ACHE019
"Div/orce is a seven-inch series
devoted to exploring the similarities between underground electronica
and noise rock through direct juxtaposition. The series's third
volume offers proof that drum 'n' bass and droning noise rock are
kissing cousins." - Splendid
Limited to 1000!
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Death From Above 1979
You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
ACHE018
Powerful noise-pop from this Canadian
duo.
"When the lists come in to close
the year out, You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine will stand as a landmark.
Highly recommended." - Stylus
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Piers
Whyte
Self Titled
ACHE017
Field Recording / Noise / Ambient
melodies.
"A debut of intensely noisy but
always beautiful orderly chaos offering an exciting reminder that
glitch’s picture hasn’t yet completely degraded to white noise."
- Exclaim
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Matmos
/ Die Monitr Batss
Div/orce Vol 2
ACHE016
The second volume of our split 7"s
dedicated to the demise of trivial genrefication features SF's academic
sampling duo, Matmos, and free-art noise ensemble, Die Monitr Batss.
Limited to 1000!
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Flössin
Lead Singer
ACHE015
Free improv noise blanketing warm
melodies from Zach Hill (HELLA), Christopher Willits, and Miguel
Depedro (KID606).
"This group has tightly fused
the elements of improv, noise, and drone, into a deliciously deceptive
package that sounds so gosh darn good." - Brainwashed
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Secret Mommy
Hawaii 5.0
ACHE014
Five songs themed around the tropics.
Recordings of ice on glass, tropical birds and even the sound of
Mr Mommy devouring a pineapple all become the pieces of this ADD
anti-techno puzzle.
"Familiar, found, arcane, and personal
sound sources are craftily sliced, diced, cut 'n' pasted, dropped,
rewound, twisted, broken, and distorted into sonic narratives."
- Georgia Straight
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Hella / Four Tet SOLD OUT
Div/orce Vol 1
ACHE013
The first of our Div/orce series
finds math / noise / improv duo Hella teamed up with UK's beat hound
/ melody genious, Four Tet.
"Nothing, not even Sir Isaac Newton's
immutable laws, can explain the cumbrous air that hangs heavy over
this first entry in Ache Records' Divorce Series of seven-inch splits.”
- Splendid
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Secret
Mommy
Mammal Class
ACHE012
"Eclectic, strange and above
all, fun, Secret Mommy condenses modern music into tracks that glide
effortlessly from ...Entroducing-style sampled beats to outright
polyphonic warfare, wherein Secret Mommy (Andy Dixon of The Red
Light Sting) deploys the most unusual of weaponry: samples of Pink,
Mary J. Blige, elephants, Shania Twain, frogs, pigs, mouth harps,
acoustic guitars, French educational records... " - Splendid
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Kid Commando
Holy Kid Commando
ACHE011
Chaotic free-art trio bash relentlessly
on their instruments. The impression here is that Kid Commando had
once played coherent rock, until they lost control of their limbs.
"It's a magnetizing half-hour of
friction that becomes more accessible and alluring after every nine-track
loop, the tracks forging ahead like a child's arm outside a car
window." - Miami New Times
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Death From Above 1979
Heads Up
ACHE009
The debut of this now gigantic duo.
These first 6 songs are the grittiest, loudest DFA79 songs ever
recorded.
""This shit is raw! So
distorted you'll think someone poured a cup of grit inside your
CD player. DFA manage to sound both melodic and harsh at the same
time, kicking out a decidedly rough set of punk jams that kick and
scream like a toddler having a tantrum." - Fracture
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Femme Fatale
As You Sow, So Shall You Reap
ACHE008
Solo project of Jesse F Keeler (DFA79).
Thrashing, messy hardcore peaking in volume constantly.
""Fast, rhythmic and suitably
frenzied, these pieces are old school all the way, and could have
been recorded in 1985" - Splendid
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J.C.
A Nation Turns It's Back And Gags
ACHE007
Artfull hip-hop with lyrics that
are political, personal, and poetic. Seriously out-there - even
for us! Heartfelt and real.
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The Epidemic
I Am Compltley Oprationa l
ACHE005
Solemn and puzzling solo record by
Andy Dixon (later becoming Secret Mommy).
"It's very engrossing, slightly
confusing, and, ultimately, utterly creative. Vocal harmonies are
delicate and slight, but beautiful; guitar lines blend together,
playfully, then dissapear; electronic pulses, beeps, whistles, and
howls come in, go out, feedback, and otherwise convolute, but never
in a distracting way." - Brainwashed
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Radio
Berlin
The Selection Drone
ACHE004
Radio Berlin's sophomore release.
80's inspired melancholy art-pop.
With a spacious, cold and murky
sound that draws on classic Goth checkpoints like The Cure’s Pornography
(1982, Elektra), and the Joy Division catalog, The Selection Drone
is set to tickle your spooky-bone with first-class style. - Aversion.com
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Hot
Hot Heat / The Red Light Sting
Split
ACHE002
The birthplace of the now art-pop
icons, Hot Hot Heat. Also the beginning of art-damaged hardcore
kids, The Red Light Sting
"Both bands are heavy-handed
with the old school keyboards and bass and come off with a bit of
a creepy edge at times." - Discorder
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Secret Mommy / Winning
Plays / This Is An Ad For Cigarettes
Japanese CD
Powershovel Audio
The craziest release ever!
Powershovel Audio in Japan released 2 ache releases on one double
CD! It includes a bonus track for each (the Secret Mommy bonus is a
Winning remix) and alternate artwork. Nutso!
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Secret Mommy
The Wisdom EP
Sublight Records
An EP created entirely from sounds
recorded when Mr. Mommy was having his wisdom teeth extracted. A
baffling contrast of absurdity and melody. Featuring remixes by
Kit Clayton, Sun O.K. Papi KO, and Piers Whyte!
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Secret Mommy
Mammal Class
Orthlorng Musork
The CD Version of the LP released
on Ache
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Secret Mommy
Babies That Hunt
Orthlorng Musork
Secret Mommy's debut. Extra noisy,
extra playful, extra perplexing electronic fun.
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The
Epidemic
Now Museum, Now You Don't
Ohev
"Andy Dixon, the fellow behind
this metaphorical meeting, has created 1) an electronic album that's
as mashy as Autechre but as pastoral as Aphex Twin and 2) an indie
rock album that comes across as po-mo as Joan of Arc but as sincere
as Bright Eyes." - Pop Matters
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