Two new drops to start the year off right, one from LA’s Net Shaker and one from the Dutch Smalts. Check out descriptions and some sample below. Both are strange pop experiments in their own right, Smalts hovering somewhere between the Residents and Bjork and Net Shaker lingering about Throbbing Gristle and Negativeland. Cools stuff!

Net Shaker – I’m So Cold LP

Net Shaker’s sound would easily accompany Ridley Scott’s vision of a futuristic Lost Angeles in Blade Runner, which is appropriate since that’s where they are from. Their sound is murky, pounding, and ethereal at times. Their future-electronic industrial pounding is produced by only two members, Erik Frydenborg and Ernest Gibson on this, their debut LP. Drum machines, pounding rhythms, and whispering vocals round out the album. Mastered by Daniel Dudes Haworth. Includes printed LP sleeve with oddball artwork. Beware: this will blow out your speakers. Samples!

BUY IT HERE

Smalts – Bronze Age Nursery Rhyme LP + Blowpipe Sample MP3 Dowload

Smalts are a group of folks from the Netherlands that have been producing weird and off-kilter pop music since 1982. They also happen to run the blowpipe label, which produces a wide variety of outer-pop and synth-pop in Europe. This fancy LP contains 11 never before released Smalts originals and includes a nice sampler of the Blowpipe label with an additional 12 tracks of synth-pop oddities. Welcome the Smalts to their first US release out now on Kill Shaman. Samples!

BUY IT HERE!

Sale Still Ongoing!

LOTS OF STUFF MORE THAN 50% OFF.

Check out the extreme markdowns in the KS distro store. Most 7″s are $3.50, CDs are $5, and LP’s are $7. Some markdowns on KS stuff too. Tons of imports (Australia, Belgium, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Italy, France), lots of genres (punk, garage, noise, “other”).

We have to make room for the Smalts and Net Shaker LP’s and our storage space is completely out of room. Most of this stuff is selling at cost or even at a loss, but whatever. No one ever said we were good businessmen.

SMALTS – BRONZE AGE NURSERY RHYME LP + MP3 DOWNLOAD

Smalts are a group of folks from the Netherlands that have been producing weird and off-kilter pop music since 1982. They also happen to run the blowpipe label, which produces a wide variety of outer-pop and synth-pop in Europe. This fancy LP will include a nice MP3 download sampler of the Blowpipe label. Check out a Smalts sample below and their awesome LP artwork. Due out in November.

NET SHAKER -

Net Shaker are a SOCAL band of strangers that make strage music. Frightening, spacious, calming, and rhythmic, Net Shaker are favorited by many avant record stores and local weirdos. Check out a track below from their last album, “Church on Time”. New jams will be out in early 2013.

Kill Shaman is proud to announce the release of AXIS:SOVA’s debut full-length, “Weight of a Color”. Seven tracks of mid-western stoner gaze psych junk with a twist. Check out the tracks below for a sample. Rightly recorded in the summer months and now released under the same season, AXIS:SOVA’s Weight Of A Color tilts from the AXIS: as a phased haze of moon­craze. It’s music to move you in the waning hours of a muggy evening, in the slowness of the heat you want to beat; all the while raising hell, looking at you, looking at yourself through the eyes of the other. Our peripheries are perceived in the bright­nite sky by optic and aural energies outside the lines of universal confines. These caustic plumes waft between bits of oxygen and methane, finding spots inside your brain; honestly, how else would you expect the best end (of the world) to sound? These energies will run amok between your ears just as they do outside the confining lines. Pass the beer bong, play the song. Buy it here.

Subtle Beer Bong Chicks:

Caustic Plume:

KSR54: CRASH NORMAL “YOUR BODY GOT A LAND” LP

We like the number 2… Paris’ Crash Normal are somewhere between garage-punk and electro trash. They are a duo. These guys drop the sound of rusty nails and hit the audience like rain. Echos and reverbs fight, the drum machine gets killed by the fuzz pedal. Low frequencies slither around you like a snake. No bass player. Only two guitars to fill the space left in the room. Real drums win the battle over drum machines in the end. They’ve shared the bill with Sic alps, The Intelligence, Alan Vega, Ty Segall, The Mayyors, The Spits, Kid congo, Davila 666, BBQ, Wounded Lion, Human Eyes, the Cave, and Crystal Stilts. Euro customers can pick this up from Born Bad Records. Check out a sample track here. Click the image above to purchase.

KSR53: YVES/SON/ACE “UNSUNG” 7″

Yves/Son/Ace is the solo project of Matthew Ford (Factums, Love Tan, Evening Meetings). He makes apocalyptic pop music with fuzzy, gnarled, overblown, and mangled instruments. Noises range from guitars and pianos to hammers and mallets. Industrial garage pop… or something. 6-song 7″ EP with high-quality jackets, black sleeves, and some tits. Highly recommend. Check out a sample track here. Click the image above to purchase.

KSR51: THE DREAMS “MORBIDO” LP / MP3

We’re proud to announce the repress of the debut LP from France’s The Dreams. Members of Le Grande Tripple Alliance, The Dreams are two-piece jungle/tropicalia/reggae/glue wave band from France that play a spaced out, psychedelic mix of dub, reggae, post-punk, and French garage rock. It’s impossible to pin down or classify, but you’ll dance like your inner-stoner was set free into a tropical tiki party where the punks are all hanging out with the masters of reggae and dub, and everyone’s having a good time. Their first LP, “Morbido”, contains an amazing mix of feeling and aesthetics that will instantly appeal to fans of early Rough Trade records, Trojan box sets, or modern Glue Wave French punks. Mastered by Seb Normal of the Normals/The Feeling of Love. Limited to 300 copies on black vinyl. Click the image above to purchase.

New distro We’ve added a lot of new distro since our last update. Here’s a quick recap:

LP’s:

• Black Mamba Beat “S/T” LP- Long awaited debut full length for this London-based South African trio, featuring mr Stix of Black Time fame.
• Bobsleigh Baby “S/T” LP – My Bloody Valentine meets Country Teasers, with a touch of Morriconesque atmospheres, by 2 guys and 2 gals based in Rome, Italy.
• Capputtini ‘i lignu “S/T” LP – For those who have been wondering what the fuzz on this French Sicilian duo was all about, now it’s the time to fully satisfy your unquenchable desire for raucous, primitive, traditional-yet-hypnotic “blues with a twist”.
• Destination Lonely “Kiss or Kicks” LP – Destination Lonely is a new French all-star band from Bordeaux, Perpignan and Paris/Québec with Marco and Vince from The Fatals, Complications or Bobpopkiller back together with the help from the Polar Strong and Hoodlum drummer.
• Intellectuals “In the Middle of Darkwhere” LP – The fourth LP by one of the longest-living punk bands in Rome. This one is the darkest, as the title suggests; an ode to the political and cultural decadence currently swallowing the Mediterranean.
• Intellectuals “In the Middle of Darkwhere” LP – The fourth LP by one of the longest-living punk bands in Rome. This one is the darkest, as the title suggests; an ode to the political and cultural decadence currently swallowing the Mediterranean.

7″s:

• Inutile “Please Tease” 7″ – Inutile, french for useless, heads from portland and it is made of two people and a fistful of machines, cogs, and buttons.

-Crabby

Sorry it’s been so long, we’ve been really busy. Anyhow, we’ve got a couple of quick things to announce, most importantly a tour from our favorite Frenchmen and a ton of stuff sent off to the pressing plant. So here we go…

The Feeling of Love on Tour of the US!

Our favorite Frenchies are here in the US touring down the West Coast. They started a few days ago, but here’s the remainder of their awesome trip:

Feb 29th in Sacramento @ Bows & Arrows*
March 1st in San Francisco @ TBA*
March 2d in SF @ Great American Music All
March 3d in L.A. @ Troubadour
March 4th in San Diego @ Casbah
March 5th in L.A. @ Pehrspace*
March 6th in L.A. @Burger records instore*
March 7th in Isla Vista @ Biko Garage*
March 8th OFF
March 09th in Davis @ Davis Bike Collective*
March 10th in Oakland @ 1234GO!*

* denotes a show with Delacave, Seb Normal’s other band. The show at Pehrspace in LA is with Merx, a new band with members of The Pope, Bipolar Bear, ex-Spits, etc. It’s a gothic enthusiasts wet dream.

If you go see The Feeling of Love, this is pretty much what you’re in for:

The FEELING OF LOVE live aux Romains 03-02-2012 part 2/2 from Nic Normal on Vimeo.

New Stuff at the Presses!

So the last time we released a record was in October or something, and it was that awesome Branko 7″ with all those tracks and digital downloads and all of that awesome jazz. Well, it’s been a while so we figured we’d do 3 things at once. Here’s what we’ve got coming up along with a little soundcloud action so you folks can give it a preview:

Yves Son Ace “Unsung” 7″

This is a new 7″ from our pal Matthew Ford’s Yves Son Ace. Matthew is a Seattle maystay and has been in Love Tan, Factums, and the new Evening Meetings (with some A-Frames and Lights folks…). This is a sweet little 5-song 7″ that will rock your socks off with weird, noisy, catchy-ass punk that you would expect from such a man. Limited to 500 copies on black vinyl and out soon. Here’s a quick sample of “This Song Won’t Make me Rich”:

Crash Normal “Your Body Got a Land” LP

I’m not sure why we love the French so much. Maybe because we love their country, their food, their culture, and their women. But really, we just like their jams. Crash Normal have always been on our radar and have always been the nicest of people, so we decided to press their latest LP, “You Body Got a Land”. This one even has a sweet A-Frames cover of “Electric Eye”. It’s everything you’d expect from Crash Normal and more; great post-punk, angular riffage. Raging synths that cut like razorblades. Pop hooks make you bang your head. It’s all good. 300 copies on black vinyl, being pressed in the EU by Born Bad. Check out “Moon Food”:

The Dreams “Morbido” LP

And last but not least, we have a repress of the sold out Dreams “Morbido” LP. We’ll be repressing 300 copies on black vinyl, but half will go to Europe and half will remain in the US. If you missed out on this the first time, you better pick this up again since it will be the last pressing we do for this record before it gets vaulted forever and ever… Here’s the Dream’s “Satan” from Morbido:

The image above says it all. We’ve released a brand new 7″ from a relatively unknown Swedish band, Branko! This instrumental trio plays fuzzed out afro-beat garage space odyssey sickness. Branko bring us a brand new slab of wax with 8 tracks of rock a la Link Wray on a 33RPM 7″. The 7″ includes a digital download card for an additional 9 tracks that are not on the 7″ and are equally impressive (17 tracks in total). Branko play blown out guitars, keyboards, and drums with sprinklings of the Ventures, Troggs, and Link Wray with a punk instrumental spin. Strange sci-fi samples litter the tracks of fuzzy greatness. We haven’t heard anything like this… ever. Hear some tracks from the record on our Soundcloud below.

BRANKO! by bryan-levine

Submissions is the recording project of two LA mainstays, Bobb Bruno (Goliath Bird Eater, Best Coast) and Paul Kneejie (The Pope, Bipolar Bear, Hiking). Drawing heavily on early industrial and Godflesh influence, Submissions bring back the rumble and doom that has been gone for so long. This is an extremely limited cd that will only be available through Kill Shaman Records store. Limited to 100 copies, professionally printed and replicated… gotta get this one. Hear some tracks for the record below:

Latest tracks by submissions

New Distro

We’ve added a lot of new distro since our last update. Here’s a quick recap:

LP’s:

• Ale Mania “A, Who Sings That Beat?” LP – Ale Mania’s debut LP. Pretty stellar guitars/keyboards/junk piles. Recommended.
• Demon’s Claws “Lost in Desert Part Deux” LP – Great LP from these weirdo garage rockers. Already sold out elsewhere, I believe.
• Muscle Drum “Fog Hag” LP – SOOOOO recommended. This is a side project of Bronze members. Insanely good. One of our favorites in a  long time.
• The Pink Noise “Gilded Flowers” LP – Another great LP from our friend to the North. Destructive, dirty, and sinful synth-punk.
• V/A “Under the Covers, Volume 2″ LP – Brilliant LP with tons of bands covering Nerves (and other) tracks. Some heavy hitters on this one…
• V/A “WIZZZ!” Volume 1 LP – I was really excited to get this since I loved vol 2 so much. Class 60′s French psychedelia and pop. Long out of print, recently repressed. These have slightly bent corners.
• Yussuf Jerusalem “Blast from the Past” LP – What can I say. These guys are unpredictable. Goes from garagey to metal in 2 seconds. Love.

7″s:

• Aluminum Knot Eye “Lemon Sessions Singles Club” 7″ – A new slab from Wisconsin’s longest running weird punk group.
• Blowtops “Lemon Sessions Singles Club” 7″ – A band so good Jay Reatard (RIP) not only recorded them, he covered them.
• Gaz Gaz “S/T” 7″ – Here’s a new band from Perpignan (South of France) with SONIC CHICKEN FOUR, LIMINANAS members
• Pope Anything “Witch Tits” 7″ – Quick hit 7″ from awesome punk band Pope Anything. Released on Volar records and is on some snazzy blue-clear vinyl.
• Unnatural Helpers “Lemon Sessions Singles Club” 7″ – Great 7″ from these Seattle noisy popsters.

Other Stuff

So here’s our usual other stuff section. If you’ve made it this far, you are indeed a loyal and humane buddy. Thank you. Anyhow, we have some great stuff coming up soon including some records from Yves Son Ace (Factums, Love Tan member), Crash Normal (Parisian punks), and many, many other surprises. Also, get your hands on one of those copies of The Dreams “Morbido” LP. We’re running somewhat short.

Lastly, we’ll be “out of the office” for the next two weeks. Feel free to place order and we’ll ship them immediately after returning from our glorious conquest of foreign lands. Thanks for being patient.

We’re proud to announce the release of the debut LP from France’s The Dreams. Members of Le Grande Tripple Alliance, The Dreams are two-piece jungle/tropicalia/reggae/glue wave band from France that play a spaced out, psychedelic mix of dub, reggae, post-punk, and French garage rock. It’s impossible to pin down or classify, but you’ll dance like your inner-stoner was set free into a tropical tiki party where the punks are all hanging out with the masters of reggae and dub, and everyone’s having a good time. Their first LP, “Morbido”, contains an amazing mix of feeling and aesthetics that will instantly appeal to fans of early Rough Trade records, Trojan box sets, or modern Glue Wave French punks. Mastered by Seb Normal of the Normals/The Feeling of Love. Limited to 500 copies on black vinyl.

Click the image above or here to get it now. Check out the video below for the track “Milk by Myself”:

New Distro

A few new distro items in here again. Check them out below:

• Bipolar Bear “Harlem Pripyat” 12″ LP – This sold out Mexican Summer release is back in stock in the KS store. It’s their best release yet.
• These are Powers “Tarotarot” LP – Got a few of these LP’s in from our friends at Deleted Art. I heard this was a Liars side-project or something.

Beko

So it’s been a while (again) since we’ve posted, but we have some pretty cool updates for you. First off, we wanted to announce that one of our favorite labels, Beko Digital Singles, has put out a pretty sweet compilation called “This is What LA Doesn’t Sound Like” that includes a bunch of Kill Shaman bands, friends, and side projects. “This is What LA Doesn’t Sound Like” includes tracks from Night Control, Healthcare (members of Turrks and Night Control), Ger^^an, German Army, and Hiking (ex-Bad Dudes, Turrks, and Silver Daggers guys). Check out the compilation and download it for FREE here. While you’re there, check out some older stuff they did with Night Control, The Feeling of Love, The Dreams, Turrks, etc.

The Dreams

The new LP from the Dreams titled “Morbido” should be here next week. The Dreams are two-piece jungle/tropicalia/reggae/glue wave band from France that play a spaced out, psychedelic mix of dub, reggae, post-punk, and French garage rock. It’s impossible to pin down or classify, but you’ll dance like your inner-stoner was set free into a tropical tiki party where the punks are all hanging out with the masters of reggae and dub, but everyone’s having a good time. Their first LP, “Morbido”, contains an amazing mix of feeling and aesthetics that will instantly appeal to fans of early Rough Trade records, Trojan box sets, or modern Glue Wave French punks. Mastered by Seb Normal of the Normals/The Feeling of Love. Check out the video below for the track “Milk by Myself”:

New Distro

Lastly, there’s a ton of new stuff we put into the distro store recently. Lots of great stuff from Canada, France, the good ‘ol US, and all over the place. Here’s a solid list:

• J.C. Satan / Vermillion Sands “Split” 7″ – Great 7″ imported from France’s Nasty product. Perfect split between these two awesome rippers, both bands cover Black Sabbath.
• Sharp Ends “Sharp Ends” 7″ – Newest 7″ from our favorite Canadian cold-wavers, imported from Canada. As solid as anything they’ve ever done.
• The Feeling of Love “Young Jesus” 7″ – Great old 7″ from Nasty product in France with TFOL doing a dirty version of “Young Jesus” plus one other jam.
• V/A “Bloodstains Across Alberta” 7″ – Great comp featuring 10 of Alberta’s best. Topless Mongos, Myelin Sheaths, Tension Slips, The Moby Dicks, Grown-Ups, Famines, Fist City, Radians, The Throwaways, Outdoor Miners all limited to 300 copies.
• V/A “Bloodstains Across British Columbia” 7″ – Same schtick as above, except B.C. u Sensae, White Lung, Role Mach, Ahna, Shearing Pinx, Shipyards, Needles//Pins, B-Lines, Manic Attracts, Timecopz, Indian Wars, Yung Mums, Student/Teacher all do a 1-minute jam to fill up this 7″.
• Cop City / Chill Pillars “Held Hostage on Planet Chill” LP – Newest LP from Florida’s Dying, filled with great lo-fi punk from this weird-o named band. Really good.
• The Pupils “S/T” LP – Great debut LP from this snotty Parisian punk band that sounds like they came straight out of ’77.

Thanks again for reading,

Crabby

The Rebel / Bomber Jackets “Split” 7″

A brand new split release between Ben Wallers (Country Teasers) The Rebel and James Pheromoans’ (Pheromoans) Bomber Jackets. Limited to 300 copies and released as a split release between Kill Shaman and Savoury Days (UK), we have less than 100 copies here in the US after the bands got their share, we split the rest with Savoury Days, then sent a bunch out for radio and stuff. Each band gives out 2 tracks of epic post-whatever weirdness. If you’re a fan of the output from any of the people involved in this thing, this is a must have.

Buy it HERE.

The Feeling of Love “Dissolve Me” LP

The Feeling of Love’s 3rd album, their second for Kill Shaman, “Dissolve Me” picks up right where “OK Judge Revival” left off. it’s got a great Velvets sheen, but with some trace-like psychedelia and caveman head-bangers. If you liked “OK Judge Revival”, this will blow your socks off. Eleven tracks of pure, unadulterated garage-psych-kraut beauty. Catchy, repetitive, and sure to be on heavy rotation. Please note that this LP will not ship until next week!

Buy it HERE.

Distro Updates

And from last time, we’ve added some new records in the distro store:

• Hiking “Trenches / Bikini Atol” 7″ – A new 7″ from members of Bad Dudes, Turrks (fka Bipolar Bear), and Silver Daggers. Pretty good 90′s style post-punk that will make you wish you were 17 again. Imported from X-Mist in Germany.
• Jack of Heart “The Wedding” 7″ – Imported from New Zealand with a bunch of other stuff on Perpetrator Records. Really good, lo-fi garage stuff here.
• James Arthur “Manhunt” 7″ – Ex-Necessary Evils front-man makes a pretty garage banging single of solo stuff. Again, imported from New Zealand on Perpetrator Records
• Ladies Night “Hell on the Phone” 7″ – Awesome, trash skronk punk garage from Vancouver. Imported from New Zealand on Perpetrator Records
• Lot Lizards “Leave Me Alone (I’ve Got a Bomb)” 7″ – Ex-Black Time members and some other folk bashing out two-piece brutality. Imported from New Zealand on Perpetrator Records.
• Movie Star Junkies “Flamingos” 7″ – A great companion to the “In a Night Like This” 10″ we did. Italy’s leaders of vaudeville post-punk Moriconne shit. Imported from New Zealand on Perpetrator Records.
• Original Three “I Rock, I Ran” 7″ – A little side project from some members of Black Lips. Pretty cool Memphis madness. Imported from New Zealand on Perpetrator Records.
• Skip Jensen “Out on the Horizon” 7″ – Mr. Skip Jenson, formerly of Demon’s Claws continues to belt out great, experimental solo stuff. This one’s a doozy. Also on Perpetrator.
• Estrogen Highs “Friends and Relatives” LP – This is a great new LP from EH, so different than their last few. Great, lo-fi garage rock stuff here. Don’t miss it.
• Holy Cobras “Forever” LP – New LP from Toronto weirdos Holy Cobras. Cool kraut/space/punk shit. Imported from Telephone Explosion in Canada.
• Mueran Humanos “Mueran Humanos” LP – This is some of the coolest stuff I’ve heard in a while. Great gothic synth pop stuff from these crazy Spanish folk. Brilliant and one of the freshest things I’ve heard in ages. On Blind Prophet Records.
• YOU. “Demonstration” LP – Another great LP of minimal synth experimentation. Again, highly recommended from the folks at Blind Prophet Records.

Up Next!

Up next, we’ve gor a great LP from France’s The Dreams coming out, titled “Morbido”. The album is full of crazy minimal synth reggae tracks that make you want to dance awkwardly and smoke a big doober. After that comes a great record from Sweden’s BRANKO! They sound like the Ventures gone punk. Amazing. Come back soon, ya hear!

-Crabby Levine