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 CONSPIRACY RECORDS 10-year anniversary 12LP boxset

This is an amazing collection that sucks to part with, but I need money. This is in near-mint condition - a beautiful package. Every record looks and sounds amazing, and the box itself is gorgeous. Pictures will follow, but plenty of info on the whole thing can be gotten at http://www.conspiracyrecords.com/store/store_detail.php?id=4341. There were only 150 copies of these made as boxsets, so very hard to find. The records inside were mostly limited to between 220 and 500 copies each.

Shipping is only $30 US for anywhere in the world... it's a heavy package, and that's a discounted amount. I haven't seen one of these on Ebay before, so get in quick. I will send an invoice to the winner - Please pay within a day or two and I'll get it sent out (packaged well!) as soon as Paypal payment clears.

Some info on the records inside:

MONNO
'Error' LP
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The vinyl version of the MONNO Error CD we released last february. The Lp comes in a screenprinted sleeve designed by Dennis Tyfus (other than the artwork he designed for the CD - which comes in a 28 page booklet). Everybody will know how much we actualy love the band, we've been raving about them and their latest album to everyone who talked to us for more than 2 minutes.

HORNS
'Horns, Halos & Mobile Phones' LP
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Horns is a new band of local rock icons Mauro Pawlowski, Tim Vanhamel and Luuk Cox. Horns is the first recording by Tim Vanhamel and Mauro Pawlowski after their band Evil Superstars broke up in 1998. Mauro has been involved in numerous bands and projects such as Somnabula, Monguito, Mauro and the Grooms, Mitsoobishy Jacson, Club Moral, Shadowgraphic City and currently dEUS and the Love Substitutes. You can check Mauro Pawlowski's projects, music and artistic views here : www.mauroworld.com , http://www.myspace.com/mauropawlowski. Tim started Millionaire and has toured with Eagles of Death Metal throughout the United States. http://www.millionaire-theband.com/ Luuk Cox is an outstanding drummer who played with Buscemi and Shameboy. http://www.shameboy.com/ Mauro described his new project band HORNS as follows:"Wild and free improvisations. 78 bpm wounded prog from hell's children's corner. An encyclopedia of fatal mistakes crammed into a power ballad's intro. Or something". While Tim Vanhamel himself said "it's dirty avantnoiseambientbitchesbrew"... funny descriptions for a record outta space....in the best Acid Mother Temple tradition

The artwork is by Jella Crama (www.jellecrama.tk) and the sleeves are all screenprinted and handmade by the man. As usual we press LP's on 180 gram vinyl.

FEAR FALLS BURNING + NADJA
'We have departed the circle blissfully' LP
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NADJA, The Toronto based duo of Aidan Baker (guitars, vocals, flute, piano, drum machines) and Leah Buckareff (bass and vocals) are an "atmospheric doom" band whose slow moving, heavy and heavily distorted music definitely shares something with the likes of early Earth. Their gauzy, droney, doom-spelled-backwards music has a warm, melodic underpinning and it didnt come as a surprise Dirk from Fear Falls Burning proposed us to record a record with them. Fear Falls Burning and previously Vidna Obmana have an impressive discography of guitar oriented drifting ambient. Fear falls Burning has been moving gracefully from drone drenched space rock to minimal rumble and whir and together with Nadja they recorded 'We have departed the circle blissfully' an epic record of slow growing, pulsing guitars, so incredibly thick and dense it sort of resonates right through your ears, through your whole body and into your soul. Nadja previously released on Nothingness Records, Foreshadow productions, Deserted Factory, Crucial Blast records, Alien8 records, Profound Lore records. Fear Falls Burning previously released records on Tonefloat, Small Voices, Acrolepsy, Ikon records, Die Stadt, and will have a DVD out on Soleilmoon later this year. Sleeve desihned by Seldon Hunt.

GOSLINGS
'Between The Dead' LP
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My friend Carlo from the audiobot label kindly introduced me to this obscure LA band, he believed I might like it, and right he was. We at the Conspiracy office were all pretty much blown away by their self released cd and decided to offer them to release their debut full length on vinyl. We definately couldn't describe this record any better than the fine folks at Aquarius Records out of San Francisco '...ultra blown out and super distorted, sheets of crumbling high end and maybe the harshest crunchiest guitar sound we've heard in forever, but the Goslings take this white hot heaviness, this blown out brutality and somehow make it pretty, lovely, gorgeous even. Drifting female vocals and sweet sweet melodies are buried beneath a dumptruck of fuzz, like the a Mazzy Star record, covered by the Melvins, recorded by Merzbow or Masonna. Every track is hiding a secret center, a streak of lush melodicism that sound like bits of My Bloody Valentine, Jesus And Mary Chain, and huge slabs of warm and wonderful dream pop, all roughed up and dipped in tar and rolled in dirt and sent staggering through a minefield of razor sharp guitars, pounding Teutonic drums, all tangled up into a machinelike throb, trudging relentlessly at a snails pace, a head crushing plod wrapped in barbed wire riffs and a thick haze of violent whir, but still you can see a little glimmer, a shiny little wink from within the massively suffocating clouds of drum dirt and guitar grime, all tape hiss and recording grit and musical chaos, a glowing orb of crystalline shimmer, buried and barely visible, almost like someone was tossing bright shiny pop hooks into a pit filled with snakes and nails and used syringes and garbage and soiled diapers and rocks and dead animals. So is this the most gorgeous ugly record ever? The ugliest lovely record ever? The harshest, sludgiest pop record ever? The loveliest harsh noise-sludge record ever? Maybe all of the above. So good! ' www.aquariusrecords.org

SKULL DEFEKTS
'Magnetic Skulls & Intense Sound Stimulations' LP
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The A side is a side long drift through a wondrous world of noise and noises, atmosphere and ambience. A heady ambient buzz, disrupted by little whorls of distorted crumble, endlessly shimmering, the sound twisting and mutating, changing color and texture, sometimes sounding blissful and serene, but just as quickly becoming damaged and dangerous. An epic exploration of a multi-layered glacial drift, not so much 'noise' as noisy in parts, not so much brutal as intense and dark. Side B is split into three tracks, the first features a simple cavemen pound, around which swirl and streak stretched out sheets of grinding guitar noise and abstract sonic fields. A slowly shifting soundscapes of layer after layer of buzzing fuzzed out noises. And again, not 'noise' just dreamily noisy. The second track is the most Wolf Eyes sounding, although it's a much more blissed out spaced out version, not so aggressive, a roiling landscape of damaged electronics, abused guitars, and abstract percussion, all twisted into a slithering sonic beast. The final track is the most mellow, but even then, the sound is harrowing and ominous, the perfect blend of low end buzz and rumble, and coruscating upper register psych guitar shimmer. Very hypnotic and leaves us wanting to hear a LOT more from these guys. www.aquariusrecords.org Sleeve designed by Lieven Seghers

WHITEHORSE
'Flames To Light The Way / Everything Ablaze' onesided LP
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Is there no end to the doom and sludge in sight? We sure as hell hope not! Austalia's Whitehorse deliver stripped-down, interminably repetitive, ultimate heavy, Massively loud HUGE slabs of downtuned guitars , and bass so low it seems to loosen the earth's crust around you. This is a 12" featuring one long track. The riffing is simplistic, primitive and primal ; the vocals are blistered screams Vast space sustains out between each chord of the riffs, feedback swells and whines, and the acidic vocals belt out a tortured wail swimming in a tar pit. This is a one sided LP¨with screenprint on Side B.

Artwork by Brent Stegeman

CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS
's/t' LP
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Climax Golden Twins is a Seattle, WA based experimental collage outfit originally consisting of Rob Millis and Jeffery Taylor, then picking up Scott Colburn in 1996. The group's earliest material was recorded in 1993 but wasn't released until their 1996 album Imperial Household Orchestra. In 1994 they started Fire Breathing Turtle to distribute their work along with audio exotica, especially their ongoing "Victrola Favorites," complations of rare 78s from around the world. With numerous tapes, CDRs, mini-CDs, singles, side and solo projects, audiophile records and other aural collectables, being a CGT fan is no simple, or inexpensive, task. Early CGT albums Climax Golden Hiss (1995) and Imperial Houshold Orchestra (1996) offer a glimpse into their unique world of lo-fi collage -- organic, acoustic instruments mix with found sounds, electronics, and clips of sampled exotica. Their fascination with bygone days of phonography begins here, and their quirky sense of humor is already present as well. Locations (1998) focuses on voice and found sound. Dream Cut Short In The Mysterious Clouds (Anomalous, 2000), is a studio album that returns to their earlier formula with random noise-punk interludes, dreamy scapes and acoustics mixed with field recordings. Also in 2000 was the album known as "TheRock Album" (Fire Breathing Turtle), a critically acclaimed tongue and cheek foray into the rock mindset, with a nod to prog rock and the math rockers who loved it. Session 9 arrived in 2001 and is one of CGT's many music for film projects, a weird, haunted mix of non-objective soundscaping. Lovely (Anomalous, 2002) reworked older material. Highly Bred and Sweetly Tempered appeared in 2004 and contains a collection of samples from eerie 78s, found speech, excellent Godspeed You Black Emperor style apocalyptic post-rock and shimmery guitar tracks. Member Rob Millis put out Leaf Music Drunks Distant Drums - Recordings from Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Myanmar also in 2004. Scott Colburn owns and engineers at Seattle's Gravelvoice Studios and Jeffery Taylor owns and runs Seattle's Wall of Sound record store. The band shares a special kinship with one of the city's most famous cult bands -- The Sun City Girls and have worked since their inception to support the American experimental music underground.

GINNUNGAGAP
'Crashed Like Wretched Moth' LP
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GINNUNGAGAP has released a handful of records over the last few years, all of them featuring various lineups. 'Crashed Like Wretched Moth' however is a solo composition by Stephen O'Malley on piano. One laid back, outer space, droney, dreamy and so hypnotic track of over 17 minutes long, originally recorded as a soundtrack for the Exhibition of Stephen O'Malley and Seldon Hunt at the Domino Festival in Brussels in April 2006, where it played during the entire week of the expo. The B side of this 180gr solid white wax LP has a beautiful silver silkscreened drawing of SELDON HUNT (silkscreenprint by www.jellecrama.tk ) All vinyls come in high quality full colour sleeves, art again by Seldon Hunt, who focused more on Photography this time, perfectly catching the entire atmosphere of this album. Pressing Limited to 500 copies.

SHIT AND SHINE
Toilet Door Tits / The Biggest Cock In Christendom LP
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A brand new Shit and Shine record. Two tracks here, over 30 minutes of sonic dirge! I recently read the fantastic Aquarius.org review for their recently released new CD on Riot Season, and I laughed out loud with their description. English not being my mothertongue there's simply no way i can put it more right on the dot than this: ... caustic freaked out psych-noise , channeling their energy into blissed out sort-of krautrocky grooves, albeit still drenched in thick grinding crumbling grit with the needle ALL the way in the red. In fact -most- of the tracks here are some sort of hypnotic stripped down rhythm, just completely damaged and dinged up and pelted with thick slabs of hissy fuzz. Vocals struggly desperately to be heard, even the drums keep getting sucked under the massive swells of acidic sound, swirls of buzzing glitch and super blown out melodies are all draped over the endlessly propulsive rhythms, as they struggle to keep moving forward with layer after layer after layer of dense prickly buzz and drone piled atop them. A gloriously cacophonous caterwaul of rhythmic chaos. Imagine the Psychic Paramount filtered through a Merzbow production and mastered by Masonna, pressed onto a lathe cut, then played a thousand times until the grooves all began to run together, then play it on a turntable made from an old microwave using a rusty nail as a stylus, and broadcast it through the blown out speakers in that junked car that's been sitting in your neighbor's yard for the last ten years. The record THAT sound, and broadcast it through a HUGE tuba shaped loud speaker with your head stuck all the way into the horn. Kinda like that. Imagine some Aufgehoben No Process, some Laddio Bolocko, some Wolf Eyes, some Butthole Surfers, even some Whitehouse and eighties no wave, but mix in a serious dose of Can and Faust and then douse it in thick swaths of noise, freeze it and shatter it into a million pieces. Now buy the record and have your brain fried!

PHARAOH OVERLORD
4 LP
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Circle members Lehtisalo, Westerlund and Lepp?nen formed this art-damaged, ambient stoner-rock project in 2000. Pharaoh Overlord are Finland's finest retro-metal activists and this, clearly, is their 4th record. For #4, they've replaced their '70s sludge riffs with '80s metal mojo, all while maintaining their vintage Kraut-prog cool. By the first 30 seconds of album opener 'Now We Know' you'll know what to expect riffage of the highest order. Chugging like a freight train full of weighty steel over a rickety bridge! The LP is limited to 270 copies

WOLF EYES / GREY DATURAS
'Black Plague' LP
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Originally released on CD by Heathen Skulls in Australia, this is the vinyl edition limited to a mere 270 copies. Both sides of the Split 12" give fans of both bands a rare opportunity to hear the harsh diversity of their polar opposite, take on modern noise. Though both bands couldn't be any more different, there seems to be an underlying similarity between the two. It's as if they're speaking the same language, but just communicating different ideas. Wolf Eyes present the five-part "Post Civilization Muzak" an excellent series of fully-destroyed fuzz/drum barrages that feels like the apex of their post-Burned Mind nailed-to-the-sky form while Daturas are on more elegiac, bliss-fixated form, with thin smears of fuzz guitar stretched to horizon-spanning epics. It is difficult to categorise the sound of Grey Daturas from Melbourne, Australia, however, they are best described as an improvisational, instrumental, noise-rock trio. Since their earliest shows in 2001 the band has been celebrated as one of the loudest and most uncompromising live acts in their homeland. As for influences, they couldn't be any more varied and include The Stooges, Earth, John Coltrane, Cluster, John Cage, Darkthrone and d.n.a.

TIM HECKER
'Harmony In Ultraviolet' LP
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The last LP in our anniversary series, available now in an edition of 270.

Harmony in Ultraviolet is Tim Hecker's sixth album. It is a continuation of Hecker's interest in spectral communications, noise, impressionist musics, thresholds of listening pleasure/pain, and the limits of digital composition. This album is a significant development of his song-craft, challenging the usefulness of descriptors such as ambient, drone, metal, noise and even electronic music. If references are necessary it could be described as a sonata for the elements, songs of crackling embers, tidal pools, spruce skylines and autumn winds. Gerhard Richter's abstract paintings are also a fair orientation. Materially speaking, it is a record of whirring drones, whispering fissures, dense disintegrating chords, late-night noise and truth-telling harmonics. Yet this record follows no overarching process, no underlying narrative. It is both a homage for the Italian partigiani and also not at all. It is songs about ghost writing and midnight whispers but then again it isn't. In many ways this album can be viewed as a work of total destruction, embracing indeterminacy as an aesthetic ideal.

SIDE A:
1. Rainbow Blood
2. Stags, Aircraft, Kings and Secretaries
3. Palimpsest I
4. Chimeras
5. Dungeoneering
6. Palimpsest II
7. Spring Heeled Jack Flies Tonight

SIDE B:
8. Harmony in Blue I
9. Harmony in Blue II
10. Harmony in Blue III
11. Harmony in Blue IIII
12. Radio Spiricom
13. Whitecaps of White Noise I

And we have the aquarius.org review once again, they are probably the best reviewers in the world! Imagine the most beautiful music in the world. Then with an old thrift store camera, take a super grainy snapshot of that music. Fold up the photo and place it in an envelope and mail it to an address that no longer exists. 20 years later, happen upon an old abandoned post office, and discover that letter unopened, but browned with age, remove the photo and place it in your pocket. Lose those pants on a camping trip, only to discover them the next summer, all wadded up in a corner, sprinkled with a years worth of dust and cobwebs. Wash the pants, and only afterwards discover the photo. Prop in up in the window of the cabin to dry, where it sits soaking up the sun for the whole summer. Right before you leave, grab the photo of the most beautiful music in the world and place it in your book to mark your place. Place the book back on your shelf and forget all about it. Move several times over the course of the next several years, finally unpacking a dusty old trunk filled with books. Leaf through several of them, when suddenly the most beautiful music in the world flutters to the floor, dusty and tattered, worn and nearly transparent. Finally, tear it up into tiny pieces and drop them one by one into the speaker of an antique victrola, wind it up and what comes out will be Tim Hecker's Harmony In Ultraviolet.

We often reference Hecker when reviewing records by other practitioners of a similar soundmaking process, but there's something so pure and organic about the way Hecker composes and creates, how he deftly assembles and degrades his sounds and songs and melodies. Managing to sound modern but antiquated at the same time, viewing the world through sleep filled eyes, everything soft and fuzzy, sometimes intense and ominous, sometimes even dark and downright scary, but always suffused with a shimmering radiant warmth, making all of his sounds glow from within. Each song a weather worn snapshot, frayed and dusty, comfortable and lived in sounding. It's a music that requires close listening, a subtly immersive sound, but once inside it, once the sound is all around you, only then can you pick out all of the details, hear the hidden melodies, only then can you let go, and get completely lost in Hecker's gorgeous world of mysterious sound. Some of the most beautiful music in the world indeed.