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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: The Pink Noise - House of Cards

« on: July 15, 2018, 01:14:06 PM »

Perhaps needless to say, but this shit is limited as all get out.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / The Pink Noise - House of Cards

« on: July 15, 2018, 01:09:23 PM »

Hey everyone,

The Pink Noise are back with a full band LP on Winnipeg's Sounds Escaping. We just completed a Canadian tour to support.

You can listen to the album here:

https://thepinknoise.bandcamp.com/


You can read a review on http://www.yellowgreenred.com/

And you can buy at Florida's Dying:


https://floridasdying.com/collections/synth-noise/products/pink-noise-house-of-cards-lp?variant=12207610134596

Thanks

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

« on: January 16, 2018, 05:35:44 AM »

There will be a new Pink Noise LP this year, if you can believe that. Album was recorded 3 years ago and features the full rock band version of the project, which is active again, but more in line with earlier solo material and geographically scattered.

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Music Shit / Re: Problematic reissues that have been awaited for aeons..

« on: January 16, 2018, 05:30:06 AM »

Recent NSRD compilation was a delight. Would like to see more of that material.

Same for vinyl versions of of early oughts' Amps for Christ following Circuits and Plains of Alluvial five or so years ago.

...And more Japanese ambient and left field pop following recent reissues for Hiroshi Yoshimura, Yasuaki Shimizu (and Mariah), Midori Takada, etc. All over the map here, but I'm thinking of Satoshi Ashikawa, Haruomi Hosano's Muji soundtrack, Mkwaju Ensemble, etc. etc. And of course would like to see the Dip in the Pool material get reissued.

That's what springs to mind. +1 to Homosexuals. Sara Goes Pop material is due after Amos & Sara reissues.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: The Latest Scam: HD vinyl

« on: March 17, 2016, 04:18:37 AM »

This is so that dumb shits can buy the Beatles box set again.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: SUBNORMAL GIRLS - diy postpunk 1979-83

« on: March 13, 2016, 07:06:04 AM »

LOLO

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Non-Music Shit / Re: getting ear unblocked

« on: February 26, 2016, 05:28:23 AM »

This thread has really made me want to get a good, thorough ear douching.

Yeah! So, what, one just goes to a regular doctor and says, "suck it out, good sir?" I haven't been to a doctor in 10 years.

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: RICHARD PAPIERCUTS - AUSTIN , TX - 2/6/16 BEERLAND (James Arthur's Manhunt)

« on: February 06, 2016, 10:12:35 AM »

Come to CANADA

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Longmont Potion Castle, Vol. 12

« on: January 22, 2016, 02:28:17 PM »

The only acceptable thing to listen to during long drives on tour. Love the man

In my previous band that actually went on tours, we had a problem with listening to LPC on the road. A couple of us enjoyed it to a point that our constant scream laughing would disturb the main driver so much that he said we couldn't listen to it anymore.

Also, a potentially dangerous choice when the driver has tears in his eyes and needs to pull over. SO stoked for this. My girlfriend and I are going out of town for the weekend and we are gonna burn this for the drive. Maybe I'll drive off a cliff!

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Non-Music Shit / Re: New postage rates

« on: January 13, 2016, 08:13:18 AM »

Well said. I'm pretty much done/defeated. A few more obligations to meet, then we'll see.

I also feel obliged to add the Victim Party LP to your list of legit good 2015 Canadian albums released outside the grant system.

Funny (or unfortunate) that you should say that as I've been meaning to get in touch ever since Paul at Samo told me you had a great system worked out to get records to the EU on the cheap. Based on that, and your killer reissue projects, I got the sense you were doing pretty well. Perhaps we ought to revive that ill-fated discussion about a consortium, but there aren't many of us left at this point, are there? And this general sense of defeat doesn't really inspire one to take on more work, does it? Perhaps this is something to discuss via PM or email if you're interested.

And yes to The Victim Party, which I guess I thought was a 2014 release. I would like to pick up the LP!

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Pheromoans - I'm On Nights (Alter)

« on: January 12, 2016, 08:07:13 AM »

ONE OF THE BEST BANDS IN THE WORLD

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Non-Music Shit / Re: New postage rates

« on: January 12, 2016, 08:00:47 AM »

Well, I guess that's good to hear. Most of us running these little labels are losing money hand over fist. I can't speak for other fledgling labels, but any break from that pattern may cause me mental distress. Come to think of it, I can't recall the last European order I had. It's been many months.

Which is why I no longer run a label. About half of my orders had been overseas, when that dried up, it pretty much ended things. Also when Europeans stopped buying, it decreased online chatter about the records, which felt like it made it harder to get the records to distros because you have no reviews or anything to use to push stuff.

Canadian Postage rates and our shitty dollar more or less killed off the Canadian independent record label years ago. I'm still going, as are a few stalwarts, but I cannot say for how long. Remember that we are required to manufacture in the States and ship back to Canada before we start selling! With those costs we can only mark up a dollar or two before scaring off the buyer! Then it's another $10-$12 CDN to ship an LP (whether to my next door neighbour, across the country, or to Texas) so we are asking a customer to pay about $24 CDN for an LP. Average Canadian income is about 45k before taxes (and supplemental healthcare, union dues, pension plans, etc.), then skew down for the punk rock demographic, and you can imagine how many can comfortably afford to support the music they are into as opposed to illegally downloading or free streaming.

It's equally insane to imagine a Canadian ordering records from the States, even if 2015 was an absolutely incredible year for music! I recently blew a huge wad to pick up some of the stuff I had to have, but I was forced to go through Revolver and ship to a friend in the USA, where I will eventually pick up, in order to save as much as possible. It's about $15 USD to ship a single LP from the US to Canada, so it would cost around $40 CDN to order a single $15 USD record from the States!

One thing I don't understand is American buyers' disinterest in a Canadian label like mine. An LP plus shipping to the States works out to about $17 USD, which I can't imagine is much different than the same from a US distro. Even if half of that is going to Canada Post, I sure could use the other half. Buy two LPs from me and you're in discount territory! And yet sales are minimal. Emails to US distros go unanswered. I wonder if the same is true for the other few respectable Canadian record labels. There are Canadian labels that seem to do well, but they are supported entirely by a grant system couched in neoliberal croneyism and statist supplication. They release utter garbage and sell about as much as I do, excepting the odd outlier. If this is the future of music I'm getting into video games.

Of the few hundred Canadian albums released in 2015, its possible that about 15 are any good. About half of those did it outside of the grant system and we released about half of those. If you want to buy some of them please go to http://psychichandshake.bigcartel.com/. If you are interested in wholesale drop me a line at graeme@psychichandshake.com.

And just so this isn't a wholly self-interested affair, if you are interested in other good Canadian albums from 2015 checkout releases by Drainolith, Gashrat, Soupcans, Matana Roberts, Slim Twig, US Girls, Sheer Agony, Young Guv, Weather Station, Faith Healer, and Fist City.
 

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Mein Kampf (post office related)

« on: January 11, 2016, 07:10:30 AM »

I'm not sure where you live, but I would say that it's generally a good thing they aren't leaving your packages on the door step. I was able to cultivate good relationships with many Canada Post folks at my old place in Montreal (w/ bottles of wine in advance of Christmas and St-Jean-Baptiste Day, as IANMF suggests), but that became difficult over the last 4 years, as the Conservative government was gutting Canada Post: new mail person every month, no job security or decent wage or reason for them to do a decent job. Fortunately, our front door was entirely wood, and I was able to cut out a mail slot big enough for a mailer holding up to 5-6 LPs.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: SUBNORMAL GIRLS - diy postpunk 1979-83

« on: January 06, 2016, 06:34:22 AM »

OK...

I know where this comes from.
All I'll say is that it's too bad doing this (even if it's a solid compilation) as a bootleg when some info and contacts for some artist are available if you ask to your friends... friends who (as you know) reissued some of the featured artists legally, doing a very serious work on those with stories, history and a lot of music.

... Just saying.

Hear, hear.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: This Heat.......... Full Discography Reissue

« on: November 19, 2015, 02:45:47 PM »

Where in the flippity floppity flip is my Lifetones reissue?!