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VARIOUS ARTISTS  LIVE FROM THE AFTERWORLD  2 LP SET (CPA-018)
The Heinz Club in Oakland hosted the East Bay's most revered live venue from 1991-93, The Afterworld Lounge. This awesome commemorative double LP compilation features many of the fine bands who played there including THE THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282, RUINS, SUN CITY GIRLS, THREE DAY STUBBLE, MECCA NORMAL, FIBULATOR, LITTLE MY, THE MOLECULES, ROVA SAXOPHONE QUARTET/RUBBER CITY, PLUTO, SPLATTER TRIO, O-TYPE, C.C.C.C., STICKS AND STONES, BLOWJOB, CRAWLING WITH TARTS and more, all in otherwise unreleased performances recorded live at the Afterworld! This is a limited-edition item of 600 copies.
$14.00 ($23.00 International Orders)

MONO PAUSE  PEEPING THROUGH THE LISTEN HOLE  LP (CPA-019)
1999 issue by these eccentric purveyors of "situationist" music; improv-rock to binaural field recordings to Middle Eastern pop and beyond in 37 minutes. Mono Pause features members of all sorts of (living or dead) off-balance Bay Area ensembles, including Fibulator, Negativland, Porest and others. Their LP debut presents 10 unclassifiable tunes, original and originally purloined, lovingly rendered to virgin vinyl.
"(Mono Pause is) the best since...I dunno. Spy-fi."  - Moe Staiano, Moe!kestra
"One of the Bay Area's best-kept secrets" - SF Weekly
$11.00 ($20.00 International Orders)



FIBULATOR  drankfromtheasphalt  LP  (CPA-013)
Third and best release by this shimmering female vocal-driven combo. In a netherworld between Henry Cow/Art Bears and Pylon there lived this much-loved band who never got the national attention they deserved. Moody, angular, exhilarating pop from a band whose members eventually drifted into Grand National, Fuck, and Mono Pause. Each copy in unique hand-painted sleeve.
SOLD OUT

FIBULATOR  EVEN FROM HERE YOU LOOK BIG  LP (CPA-010)
Second release draws in part from their hard-to-find cassette-only first album and adds a host of exhilarating tunes for a strong vinyl debut. Silk screened sleeve, no two alike. (1992)
SOLD OUT - for the last copies, try: http://www.subterranean.org/main/bigcat.html

LITTLE MY  ALL OF THE WATER   7" EP (CPA-016)
West Oakland's late, great power unit checks in with their final release for Electro Motive. This extended-length 7" (almost 20 minutes worth!) also features the return of original vocalist Nat Parsons through four high-density tunes. Alternately jaunty and brooding crunchy rock from one of the best-loved pop bands of the East Bay.
$5.00

LITTLE MY  IT'S FOOD AT BEST  10" EP (CPA-011)
The pivotal release by the tremendous trio in its best-known lineup, this four-song EP became a critical favorite for its utterly original power-pop craft. White-knuckle guitar and a throbbing rhythm section made Little My's records and live performances unforgettable, and this extremely rich production by Greg Freeman (Pell Mell) brings the hard edge to the fore while allowing their finely-honed tunes to shine through. We might even throw in a duplicate vinyl disc with the wrong label on it for you to tack on your wall. Or throw out.
$6.00

UBZUB  FLUORESCENT SUBCUTANEOUS ALIEN HUT  7" EP (CPA-012)
Their first ever release, 4 great songs, versions unique to this 7".  Weird pop for worm people, recorded the day Waco's Branch Davidian compound burned. Legend has it that members of Japan's legendary Boredoms had a fistfight in a San Francisco record store over the store's remaining copies of this record.
SOLD OUT

NEUNG PHAK (MONO PAUSE) CD
Bay Area musico-pranktitioners Mono Pause have spent more than a decade in a host of different guises, from right-wing, pro-war Operation Desert Storm vets to an unclassifiable improv combo playing to a room of blind listeners, so they appear just as comfortable with this ethnographic pop exercise known as Neung Phak. This CD is a non-stop barrage of Thai, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Taiwanese and West Oaklandese cover songs (and like-minded originals) which has climbed college radio charts as it leaves heads too busy bopping around to its catchy tunes to be scratched in confusion. Both current-ish Southeast Asian pop hits and morlam country styles bump up against each other in a host of languages and dialects, and the result is an upbeat and danceable pop record on one hand, and a severe blurring of nationalities on the other. There's even a "secret" guest appearance by Sun City Girls' Alan Bishop.[Abduction Records]
$10.00 ($15.00 International Orders)



POREST PRUDE JUICE FOR THE HERITAGE SWINGER CD (CPA-022/SEELAND 528)
Critically-acclaimed debut release from Bay Area cutup/sonic solutionist Porest (also known as Mark Gergis of Mono Pause), co-released with the Seeland label. Porest manages to breathe new life into the sometimes-stale "plunderphonics" genre (can something so intrinsically part of current popular culture really be called a genre?) by presenting this extremely entertaining 40-minute menu of 19 very different pieces. Sampled from sources as diverse as 16mm educational films with phony Scandinavian narrators (for the hilarious "Fist Dumplings"), Gergis' own field recordings from the Middle East and elsewhere, intercepted radio transmissions, instrumentation and much more, Prude Juice for the Heritage Swinger adds up to a very unique and endlessly repeatable album. [Seeland]
$10.00 ($15.00 International Orders)





VARIOUS ARTISTS AZADI! 2-CD SET (FM-01/CPA-021)
A co-issue with San Francisco's Fire Museum Records label, this mammoth and eccentric two-disc set is a benefit compilation for RAWA, Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, featuring generally exclusive tracks from such performers and groups as Deerhoof, Mono Pause, David Slusser, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, bran(...)pos, Zeek Sheck, Spezza Rotto, Faun Fables, Miya Masaoka, and bazillions more. Also includes rare cuts by Meena, RAWA's founder (who was assassinated in 1987 by the Afghan KGB), and legendary Afghan singer Merman Parvin. 36 tracks in all across two CDs. Click here to see the full track listing.
$11 ($16 International Orders)
proceeds benefit the continuing works of RAWA





UBZUB  ALIEN MANNA FOR SLEEPING MONKEYS  CD (CPA-017)
The first full-length release by the Bay Area's premiere costumed space aliens! This well-armed band of musical earthworms has unleashed over 60 minutes of songs originally channeled by a group of sightless cave animals deep within the pyrenees, recreated using 20th century recording technology and wrapped in lovely cover art. The result is a tumultuous tunefest with a decidedly pop bent and a smidgen of greasy grimy gopher guts. Pulsating weirdness Ubu, Beefheart, and Residents fans should, and do, love.
$10.00 ($15 International Orders)





MONO PAUSE  SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEAD OF THE DUCK  CD-R (QUALIPY #3)
This amorphous bunch of ex-toy manufacturers, originally from River Falls, Wisconsin, USA, checks in with a moody, entirely improvised debut full-length. Guitars, dueling basses, horns, keys, toys, et al in a swirling spy-fi soundscape. Features members of Fibulator and Ubzub in a very different context. Originally issued on cassette, now with 35 new minutes of music!
$6.00 ($11.00 International Orders)





MONO PAUSE  HEARING RADIO THROUGH YOUR TEETH  CD-R (QUALIPY #4)
Live radio performance by this East Bay ensemble, improvised/composed as a 4th of July fireworks simulcast for Berkeley's KALX FM in 1994. Reagan's assassination attempt is revisited, John Wayne's jingoistic rantings are recontextualized, and police intervene in this collage of tape/sonic manipulation and live instrumentation. Also includes excerpts from a 1994 KUSF performance, and an all-new bonus radio interception. Naive soundscapes in stereo.
(Originally released on cassette, now sold out... we have remastered onto CD-R, which comes with the original sleeve.)
$6.00 ($11.00 International Orders)






THE TWELVE STEPPES  DEEP NORTH   CD AND ACCOMPANYING MAGAZINE
(POREST SOUND #001)
A true story. Two brothers (the Twelve Steppes) made a pilgrimage to a suburb of Detroit, Michigan to visit twisted family and eke out a living in the dead of winter. From their experiences came this amazing diary/rant/observation in sound and read-along magazine form. Cut-ups and songs, intricately-designed with much use of "field recordings" from the suburbs, as well as musical contributions by MONO PAUSE, TWISH, and CLEM FORTUNA, make up a dadaist ethnographic commentary on middle-U.S. society and culture, complete with regional meal recipes. A one of a kind, uncomfortably funny project.
SOLD OUT - WE'LL TRY TO OBTAIN MORE IN FUTURE