Secret Mommy Quintet / Basketball
Split 7"
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Secret Mommy's debut release as a 5 piece band: less digital mayhem, more pop gem with the main attention on Andy’s vocal & guitar-work. On the other side is Basketball’s debut. A three-piece of heavy percussion and bent electronics. They pluck from the world countless geographical influences, from Tome’s vocals in his native tongue, Croatian, to the Iranian scales, to the gypsy-esque spirit.

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.

Andy Dixon / Montag
Split 7"
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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.

Winning
Could We Believe in Magic?
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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.

Andy Dixon
The Mice Of Mt. Career
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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

Bulbs / Wobbly
Split 7"
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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.

Baby Control
Best War
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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.

Donwload comes with a BONUS UNRELEASED EP!

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Gorge Trio / Uske Orchestra
Split 7"
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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.

Secret Mommy
Plays
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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

Winning
This is an Ad for Cigarettes
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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.

The Winks
Birthday Party
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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”.

Of / Greg Davis
split 7"
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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.

2UP
Teenage Mondo Trash
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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.

Jab Mica Och El
ABC Hej I'm Cola
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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.

V/A Project Bicycle
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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

Rauhan Orkesteri / Lauhkeat Lampaat
Sylissain oot
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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.

Kid Commando / Kid606
split 7"
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Volume Four of our DIV/ORCE series! A new song by both artists - the last one ever written by Kid Commando.

Limited to 1000!
 

Secret Mommy
Very Rec
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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

Konono N°1
Congotronics
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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
 

Sightings / Hrvatski
Div/orce Vol 3
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"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!

Death From Above 1979
You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
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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

Piers Whyte
Self Titled
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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

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!

Flössin
Lead Singer
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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

Secret Mommy
Hawaii 5.0
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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

Hella / Four Tet SOLD OUT
Div/orce Vol 1
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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

Secret Mommy
Mammal Class
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"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

Kid Commando
Holy Kid Commando
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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

Death From Above 1979
Heads Up
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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

Femme Fatale
As You Sow, So Shall You Reap
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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

J.C.
A Nation Turns It's Back And Gags
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Artfull hip-hop with lyrics that are political, personal, and poetic. Seriously out-there - even for us! Heartfelt and real.

The Epidemic
I Am Compltley Oprationa l
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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

Radio Berlin
The Selection Drone
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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

d.b.s.
Forget Everything You Know
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d.b.s.' last recording before breaking up in 2000! It's long been out of print, but with the miracle of the MP3 it is now available for download!

Hot Hot Heat / The Red Light Sting
Split
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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

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!

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!

Secret Mommy
Mammal Class
Orthlorng Musork

The CD Version of the LP released on Ache

Secret Mommy
Babies That Hunt
Orthlorng Musork

Secret Mommy's debut. Extra noisy, extra playful, extra perplexing electronic fun.

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

The Epidemic / Remeses III
Split
Wakusei

2 songs by the Epidemic created during the Now Museum session - a song made out of a phone and a Billy Bragg cover.

d.b.s.
Some Boys Got It, Most Men Don't
New Disorder

d.b.s. last full length. Released on New Disorder Records in San Francisco. 12 songs.

d.b.s.
If Life Were a Result We'd All be Dead
Crap

A 9 song album released on Crap Records. A bit of a frankenstien, recorded in a few different places, then remixed, rerecorded vocals, reoverdubbed guitars. Arguably d.b.s.' strongest release since it captures them at a sort of pinacle... (at least I think so)