BIM Fall 06 Sampler. (out of print)
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L.A.K.E. tape ep. One of the most charming bands in the USA, this is their sophomore release and their Brown Interiour debut. Lush homemade production, comes with hand-colored cover art with track listing, 20 minutes.
Airplanes "American Sweat" is an indie rock oddyssey recorded live to half inch tape in a big old church. If you used to have long hair or own flannel and like to drive an old gas guzzler this is the tape for you. Photocopy on colored paper with track listing, 60 minutes.
Ashley Eriksson "Seasonal Music" is the first recording Ms. Eriksson has released with us, and it's a doozy. Her melodies fall on your ears like snowflakes on a warm day. Features full color cover and symbolic track listing, 46 minutes.
Skrill Meadow "Sheep Creek": This instrumental record was recorded at the same time as "Hilarious Truck Lines" and features layered dreamscapes of guitar swells, chimes, found recordings, live-rock-gone-noise and slowed down dance music. Full color printed cover, 60 minutes.
Lindsay Schief/Eli Moore split cassette: two members of L.A.K.E. play a handful of terriffic pop songs. Lindsay Schief brings an acoustic dance song and a few psychedelic folk numbers that warm the soul. Eli Moore's smooth delivery of his trademark classic pop sound will keep you on the edge of your seat as you cruise the coast this summer. A tape that you just keep on flipping over again and again. Full color cover art with typed track listing, 20 minutes.
Hairspray or no? "Chicken Patterns": electroaccoustic music from Lancaster, CA. Recordings from India and front yards in the desert played from a tape recorder into a computer into another tape recorder. Melodic, arhythmic and adventurous. Cloth packaging when available, 46 minutes.
Skrill Meadow "Hilarious Truck Lines": Solo project from Mark Morrison 5 years in the making. Rock and roll, dream style, tweelectro folk, dance music or whatever else. Full color photo collage cover, 60 minutes.
Live Active Cultures "The Aboriginal Is The Original": Indigenous suburban hobo punk, the real folk blues, the kind that melts your face. Featuring free vocalism, inverted harmonica playing and songs you shan't forget. Includes bonus album "Red Culture in your Room" on opposite side. Full color handmade novelty packaging varies, track listing and lyrics included upon request, 75 minutes. Also available on Stereo 8.
Dylan Shearer "Dairy Dawn": lo-fi bedroom folk-punk from Shearer's youth. typewriter on wallpaper, 60 minutes.
Dylan Shearer "Carousel To A Door" Rich, wide music with delicately crafted lyrics and soaring melodies that really stick. Whimsical, yet very realistic. Shake them keys. Improvised artwork, 60 minutes.
-a "Mattress Sound": Pretty, sleepy drone-pop tunes recorded on a tascam 4 track, some with singing and some without. Epic in its own way. 60 minutes long with a nice track listing!
The Simurgh "Live Visions Thro' Space": Freestyle improv lounge thrash psych group therapy session site recordings from a handheld cassette recorder. Full color cover art, 60 minutes.
Robert "Bae Bee": Free metal that transcends time in no time flat. One of the best live bands in the Pacific Northwest. 20 minutes.
Fisher J. Price "Computron": 4-track and live ghetto blaster recordings of dance jams performed on cheap electronics for children purchased at thrift stores. Includes "American Way," a song recorded on-site at the thrift store of the same name in Lancaster, CA. Full color cover with tracklisting, 46 minutes.
Part Dog EP: Plunk rock. Electric Banjo, thunderous drums, squealing horns and snarling vocals. Part dog never performs the same song twice.
Ashley Eriksson "Decarnarnation": this tape will make you shuffle your feet, change outfits, and whistle tunes throughout your day. it has been proven. this is ashley from L.A.K.E.'s sophomore release on brown interiour and it's an instant classic, as they say. find out what's going on!
Ninja Face EP: Adult and child collide in this creative folk/punk/experiemental group that sings about everything from ethics to killer whales. Full color cover, 20 minutes.
Hayseed Boys/-a "Beach Album/Move Mumble": the beach album is a study in mimimalism and musique concrete, perhaps. basic music by water and people, in that order. / move mumble is a collection of some of -a's instrumental music. more drone for your tired eyes. on the whole,
a very pretty album, if i do say so myself, and slow and drowsy as a slug's dream. on the beach.
Skrill Meadow "Personal Robot": archadic country and western influenced lazer rap and punk electro noise from the land of joshua trees. it will make you want to shoot beams from your wonderful, wonderful eyes. 60 minutes, black and blue on white cover art with track listing.
Skrill Meadow "Challenger": this is a very lo-fi album comprised of a handful of country/folk covers, some original lazer rap songs, some full-on noise, and sick, sick beats. very similar to what one would experience at a live skrill meadow performance, had you attended one in recent years. 60 minutes, b&w/highlighter xerox art with no tracklisting to speak of.
Disturbulenced "Expose(d)": Unabashedly bashin' skater music like a blender full of stones and nails, and somebody inside of it trying to communicate. Features an anonymous cast of scientists/jazz producing this impossible grindcore/metal/psych/noise. Photocopy on colored paper with tracklisting, program repeats on opposite side, 6 minutes
Joseba Irazoki "Dosi": our beloved neighbor from the Basque country delivers a unique collection of songs featuring Joseba's multi-tasking approach to various stringed instruments. far from incedental, this is the new soundtrack to your new moment. embrace its warmth. 47 minutes, b&w insert.
The Amazing and Incredible Randy "Songs of Death and Dismay": Classic country revolvalists singing originals your bourbon-soaked grandpappy would howl to and doing seldom-covered country and folk oldies that will bring a tear to your beer. Black and white photo xerox with tracklisting, 20 minutes.
WALK "The First Version Two": Smart, anthemic and youthful rock from the Los Angeles band who never runs. Poignant and dismal like a a cherry bomb for your walkman. No one will be late for the big time. Full color fold-out cover with lyric sheet insert, 23 minutes.
FRESHZZZZ! Summer 2007 Mixtape: Features new or rare music from L.A.K.E., R. Stevie Moore, Calvin Johnson, Live Active Cultures, Karl Blau, Cains and Abels, Ashley & Eli and loads more. Get em while we still got 'em! Letterpressed cover with folded track list insert, comes on a recycled cassette, 90 minutes.****only a few left****
#bear "1": Destructo no-fi dance punk from olympia. Super heavy music played on big pile of drums and an electric three-weedwhacker-string-fretless-cigar-box-bass. Hand drawn case with duct tape track listing, 13 minutes.
#bear "2": like before but so much more, still just 13 minutes!
Art Dog "p": chein neuvaux, features blarinet pitch-sifted poems and a harmonic ghetto blaster that doubles as a musical time machine. gorgeous and kind of makes you wonder. handmade tie dye cover art, 20 minutes.
Ruth Allison/The Boy Who Could Fly "Grungey Hymns"
Contemporary humanyms from Utah grace this split and your ears will be lifted to new heights. You might even sing along! xerox cover art, 46 minutes.
718: Ben Kamen/-a "Dreams/Sketches For Imperfect" Handmade watercolor cover art, 46 minutes.
Hayseed Boys "stray noodle cassette": ambient honky tonk and moments of silence sandwiched by lo-fi low volume beats and conversation. letterpressed cover, 60 minutes.
Peanut Butter Solution "Unrequited Luv": A very serious record, really, is what you can expect from this beautifully crafted work of luv. letterpressed cover, 60 minutes.
Peanut Butter Solution "Little Bouncy Babies With Super Ice Cream and Chips and Salsa": It's like the time when Prince took LDS and made a soundtrack for his dog food infomercial, using his music to sell dog food. Or was that just a dream? color photocopy cover, 60 minutes
Skrill Meadow "Hazmat Candlesmoke": Golden hip hop and funk polk tells stories on the first ever Skrilly M release not counting the other tapes that had some of the same songs that came out weeks earlier. Do not eat. color photocopy cover, 60 minutes
The Grunt People "Meatewater": The kind of classic rock album that is a gift that keeps on giving. this seminal mojave desert group laid the groundwork for a generation and we are proud to offer this fine 1992 reissue. xerox on colored paper cover, 60 minutes.
Hey Buddy! "mert": matthew topartzer at his best. color photocopy, 60 minutes.