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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: record labels place your 2018 releases...HERE!

« on: December 09, 2017, 05:31:33 PM »

Bitter Lake Recordings

C. Memi - Heavenly Peace 12" (out on 2/14)
C. Memi + Neo Matisse - No Chocolate 7" (will confirm release date soon, but maybe a month after Heavenly Peace)

+ a few things that are (to me) SUPER cool, but I can't announce just yet

Katorga Works

Vexx - Wild Hunt 12" (waiting on artwork lol)
Big City 1st LP (members of Rational Animals, Hank Wood and the Hammerheads)
Casanovas In Heat LP (waiting on artwork lol)

not sure about anything else or if the label will continue after that!

Good to see Katorga is coming back for at least a few releases next year! Definitely will be a bummer to see it go if that's the case.

That's nice to hear . I have spoken to a few people about a few things I'd be really into doing and if they come together then I'll keep it going, but I'm just not nearly as involved or as in tune as I used to be (I don't book 100+ shows a year anymore, just 2-3, for example). I'm turning into an old man record archivist 

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: record labels place your 2018 releases...HERE!

« on: December 09, 2017, 12:54:12 PM »

Next year on DOOMTOWN:

NUCLEAR SPRING - Discography CS (very soon)

LOL I don't know why this is funny to me. They had such a following in Europe, but NO ONE cared around here (NYC). Best people, though.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: New Kaleidoscope 7" Promo Track Up

« on: December 09, 2017, 12:52:12 PM »

Such a return to form. Listening to this whole 7" and it's probably their best stuff!

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: record labels place your 2018 releases...HERE!

« on: December 09, 2017, 12:51:44 PM »

Bitter Lake Recordings

C. Memi - Heavenly Peace 12" (out on 2/14)
C. Memi + Neo Matisse - No Chocolate 7" (will confirm release date soon, but maybe a month after Heavenly Peace)

+ a few things that are (to me) SUPER cool, but I can't announce just yet

Katorga Works

Vexx - Wild Hunt 12" (waiting on artwork lol)
Big City 1st LP (members of Rational Animals, Hank Wood and the Hammerheads)
Casanovas In Heat LP (waiting on artwork lol)

not sure about anything else or if the label will continue after that!

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: New Kaleidoscope 7" Promo Track Up

« on: December 07, 2017, 07:30:41 PM »

FUEGO

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: NYC 12/16 Inmates, Vile Gash, Bad Noids, Pobreza Mental, Sister Anne

« on: November 29, 2017, 01:59:50 PM »

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Katorga Works + Bitter Lake Recordings News/Updates

« on: November 21, 2017, 11:21:20 AM »

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/11/21/c-memi-bitter-lake-recordings-feature/

I sound so terrible in this, at least in the beginning, but the rest of it is well worth reading!

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Katorga Works + Bitter Lake Recordings News/Updates

« on: November 15, 2017, 11:43:42 AM »

Today is as good as any to "officially" announce the second release on Bitter Lake Recordings, the C. Memi - Heavenly Peace 12"



Originally released as an almost-eighteen minute 7" in 1983, Heavenly Peace was the lone solo release of C. Memi, previously the leader of Osaka new wavers Neo Matisse. That band was known for their frenetic, punky new wave single "No Chocolate" in 1980, which was described in the Hijokaidan Story by Toshiji Mikawa as the band "who gave us that famous 'No Chocolate' single.? After Neo Matisse disbanded on amicable terms in 1981, drummer Jun Iwasaki compelled Memi to record a solo album for his fledgling label, Fairy Records. Jun lent Memi his 8-track recorder and she set to work on what would become the only release for both Memi and Fairy.

This resulting 1983 private press 7" EP is a more stated affair than "No Chocolate," with Memi (playing every instrument) tackling a more minimal synth sound over a fairly disparate palette of songs ranging from droning, abstract pieces to (typical of this era in Japanese pop music) '80s emulation of '60s French Chanson pop. Most impressive of all, however, is the ethereal title track "Heavenly Peace (Unga No Suimon Akete)," a song so beautiful, its swathes of cleansing, oceanic synths and the luminous, firework-like synth pop perfection stands as one of our favorite songs of its kind from all of Japan.

In Japanese society, it has become tradition for women to give presents and chocolate to men on Valentine's Day. Just years before, Memi boldly declared "No chocolate!," but with Heavenly Peace, originally released on Valentine's Day in 1983, Memi is captured on the cover by photographer Kiyotoshi Takashima (with the cover art laid out by artist Yasuhito Nagahara) bearing a most thoughtful gift: this masterful record. The canal gates open once more and, on the 35th anniversary of the original release of Heavenly Peace, we lovingly welcome you to the enchantingly sentimental world of C. Memi.

Listen here: https://bitterlakerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/heavenly-peace-12

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / NYC 12/16 Inmates, Vile Gash, Bad Noids, Pobreza Mental, Sister Anne

« on: November 06, 2017, 11:14:14 AM »

NYC 12/16

INMATES (first NYC show in over three years from these Cleveland hardcore punk legends)
https://youtu.be/vmKbeZnECkE
https://youtu.be/Jzo2lKc0IqA

VILE GASH (the return of one of the finest USHC bands of contemporary times, originally of Columbus, OH. Their long-awaited LP forthcoming soon on Youth Attack)
https://youtu.be/iMU3bsjWQmU
https://youtu.be/mpg_HxwnpEE

BAD NOIDS (Cleveland?s own take on the Fulbright Scholarship, hardcore punk done like no other)
https://feelitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/its-a-doggie-bag-world
https://katorgaworks.bandcamp.com/album/everything-from-soup-to-dessert-lp

POBREZA MENTAL (new NYC hardcore punk. their demo is one of the most, dare I say, FUEGO of the year)
https://pobrezamental.bandcamp.com/releases

SISTER ANNE (don?t give a damn about evolution. NYC punk. JJ Doll + Vexx + Carla?s angelic voice)

@ Brooklyn Bazaar
150 Greenpoint Ave
Brooklyn, NY
8pm, $15, *All Ages (under 17 with parent or legal guardian)
Advanced tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inmates-vile-gash-bad-noids-pobreza-mental-sister-anne-tickets-39604410859
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/224669374738084/

Flyer forthcoming!

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Katorga Works + Bitter Lake Recordings News/Updates

« on: October 11, 2017, 07:23:02 AM »

lol I laughed

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Katorga Works + Bitter Lake Recordings News/Updates

« on: October 10, 2017, 03:47:30 PM »

LOL I saw the write up. You're very welcome haha

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Katorga Works + Bitter Lake Recordings News/Updates

« on: October 10, 2017, 12:16:15 PM »

Here are some places you can get the Dendo Marionette LP very soon:

Japan

Punk and Destroy/Mouse Records (obviously)
Record Shop Base
Record Boy
Record Shop Misery
Big Love
Revenge Records
Jet Set
Record Shop Nat
Record Shop Knox
Record Shop Answer
Record Shop File-Under
Record Shop Vortex
Forever Records
Timebomb Records
Dig Dig Records

US

Material World Records (obviously)
Light in the Attic
Sorry State
Dark Entries
Sacred Bones
End of an Ear Records
Blackwater Records
Hausfrau Records
State Laughter
Velted Regnub
Feel It!
The Church of American Damage

Canada

Faith/Void

Europe

La Vida Es Un Mus


There might be more, especially in Japan (I gotta get a final list), but that's a good guide for where you can grab Dendo Marionette!

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Katorga Works + Bitter Lake Recordings News/Updates

« on: October 05, 2017, 08:02:15 PM »

This doesn't technically come out until noon tomorrow, but I threw it up on the Material World website like a bad boy:

http://shop.materialworldrecords.com/bitter-lake-recordings-dendo-marionette-lp.html

As there were only 200 copies available for North America, I believe wholesale copies are totally out and we only have a not-very-large ammount available for mailorder, so act...fast?

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Wireheads (AUS) final single NPR premiere, pre-order for USA & RoW, ships 20/10

« on: October 05, 2017, 08:02:02 PM »

Posting to say an Aussie was in my shop today wearing a Wireheads shirt

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Katorga Works + Bitter Lake Recordings News/Updates

« on: September 28, 2017, 11:18:34 AM »

Greetings! Announcing that not only are you now able to stream the full Dendo Marionette album a week before physical and digital release, but we've included a preorder bundle for those who want to buy not only the physical LP, but a t-shirt of the front cover, as well! Details can be found here:

https://bitterlakerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/-
https://bitterlakerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/-
https://bitterlakerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/-

Thanks! Very excited for the release next Friday.