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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / TEST PRESSES--D. Unit, Digital Leather, Lenguas Largas, etc.

« on: May 08, 2011, 07:37:14 PM »

So I figured I might as well offer some super-limited test presses here in an effort to raise funds and all that.  If you've already got an order you're waiting on and would like to add one or more of these, please drop me a line at volarrecords@gmail.com, and the same goes if you'd like more than one of these.  Only one copy of each per person, prices are below.  All copies hand-labeled and numbered.  First come, first serve, please email me to make sure there are copies left.  This offer only exists for TermBo folks, and the only other way to get one is from the bands themselves.  Thanks!

Destruction Unit--Sonoran LP--5 copies--$20 PPD each.

Digital Leather--Infinite Sun mini-LP--10 copies--$18 PPD

Lenguas Largas--Ese Culito 12"--10 copies--$15 PPD

Ale Mania--A, Who Sings That Beat? LP--10 copies--$20 PPD

Tropical Popsicle "Beach With No Footprints" 7"--10 copies $9 PPD

You can listen to stuff here--

http://soundcloud.com/volar-records/sets/destruction-unit-sonoran-lp

http://soundcloud.com/volar-records/sets/volar-releases


And find more info here:

www.volarrecords.blogspo t.com

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Soft Pack, White Fence, Audacity, TJ Panthers, Ale Mania, Dunes, etc.

« on: May 08, 2011, 07:28:44 PM »

http://volarrecords.blogspot.com/2011/05/soft-pack-curated-vicevitamin-water.html

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: VOLAR IN JUNE--Digital Leather 12", Lenguas Largas 12", Ale Mania LP, Trop Pop 7

« on: May 08, 2011, 05:57:39 PM »

"1000 Times" live by Digital Leather all the back in 2009.  The recorded version is on Infinite Sun...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4-_gEdq8Ro&feature=related

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: new issue of MRR! John Morton/White Fence/Destroy All Movies/more!

« on: May 08, 2011, 05:42:05 PM »

Awesome, gonna have to pick this up!  Uzi Rash LP on Volar in Aug/Sept!  Layla, did Audacity ever get their interview figured out?

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Destruction Unit 'Sonoran' LP(Wongs/Reatards/Tokyo Electron/Earthmen&Strangers)

« on: May 05, 2011, 05:10:44 PM »

DU on one of my favorite sites, 20 Jazz Funk Greats.

http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2011/05/the-galaxy-of-the-slow-build/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%2020JazzFunkGreats%20(20%20jazz%20funk%20greats)

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Destruction Unit 'Sonoran' LP(Wongs/Reatards/Tokyo Electron/Earthmen&Strangers)

« on: May 05, 2011, 03:01:49 PM »

Here's a nice article in the Phoenix New Times with Ryan.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2011-05-05/music/destruction-unit-former-reatard-grows-up-and-spaces-out/

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Destruction Unit 'Sonoran' LP(Wongs/Reatards/Tokyo Electron/Earthmen&Strangers)

« on: May 04, 2011, 03:25:55 PM »

We have seven copies of the test press left for TermBo members, $20 directly to volarrecords@gmail.com.  Thanks!

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: LISTEN--Destruction Unit 'Sonoran' LP (Wongs/Reatards/etc.)

« on: April 30, 2011, 04:35:17 AM »

Ryan handed me another finished record tonight, and it rules.  Maybe a double-LP soon, maybe two separate LPs, we'll see.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: LISTEN--Destruction Unit 'Sonoran' LP (Wongs/Reatards/etc.)

« on: April 29, 2011, 07:06:39 PM »

DU already has another record just about in the can that I'll be putting out in July.  I've heard five tracks so far, and it totally kills.  Going to meet up with him in about 20 minutes.  I hope he doesn't make me take mushrooms with him, but I will take him to the tranny bar down the street from our show.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: LISTEN--Destruction Unit 'Sonoran' LP (Wongs/Reatards/etc.)

« on: April 28, 2011, 05:00:42 PM »

can't wait to get one



also, for those interested (ie no one)

http://cityslaang.com/nihilism/
members of D.UNIT

Rad!

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: VOLAR IN JUNE--Digital Leather 12", Lenguas Largas 12", Ale Mania LP, Trop Pop 7

« on: April 28, 2011, 05:00:19 PM »

4 or 5 months on the Ale Mania pre-order too?

Sorry, yeah.  That record was off at the plant and ready to come out early March, but the band decided they wanted more time for us all to promote it and everything.  I had a bunch of test presses made to carry them through their shows until the real release (and because I was antsy to at least make sure some of them got out into the world), so if anyone here pre-ordered that record and would like a test press instead of the official LP in June, I might be able to oblige you.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: LISTEN/WATCH Nerves trib. ft. Hunx/Grass Widow/Mantles/Pizzas/Davila/White Wires

« on: April 27, 2011, 02:28:13 PM »

For a very short time, you can order the LP for $13 PPD.  Please email me at volarrecords@gmail.com.  Thanks!

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Destruction Unit 'Sonoran' LP(Wongs/Reatards/Tokyo Electron/Earthmen&Strangers)

« on: April 27, 2011, 01:28:08 PM »

I'll have these in the next few days, but for now, you can listen to the entire record here:

http://soundcloud.com/volar-records/sets/destruction-unit-sonoran-lp

Also, for TermBo only, I'm offering 10 limited hand-numbered test pressings of the record.  You can paypal $20 PPD directly to volarrecords@gmail.com.  The band will have 30 copies to sell at their shows in San Diego this weekend, and that'll be it.

http://www.volarrecords.blogspot.com

In the punk-rock prime of his youth, Ryan Rousseau (aka Elvis Wong) saw himself cutting his teeth as the drummer for the Wongs, eventually hooking up with Jay Reatard to play in the Reatards, and dividing his time between the former band in Arizona and the latter in Memphis. Ryan soon recorded the first Destruction Unit 7?, a blistering slab of synth-punk, which eventually led Ryan to Tuscon?s drony, synth-heavy Digital Leather. Ryan in turn filled in from time to time on drums for Jay and Alix?s Angry Angles, and eventually found himself recording two more LPs under the Destruction Unit moniker with help from Jay and Alicja starting up the southwestern punk act Tokyo Electron, and exploring his more melodic, post-punk roots with Earthmen and Strangers. After the death of Jay Reatard in early 2010, Ryan resurrected Destruction Unit, this time emphasizing more psych/kraut/desert rock influences on their first LP, Eclipse, in FDH Records. For their second LP, Sonoran, due out in April from Volar Records, the group has almost completely stripped away whatever synth-punk leanings they were holding on to, creating a purely ?desert-at-night? psych/kraut/space-rock album best enjoyed on the long nightly drives through the barren wastelands of the Southwest.

Destruction Unit will be here in San Diego this weekend to play two shows, Friday
at the Tin Can Ale House with Tar Halos (members of Riververb, Sugarrush Railroad) and Shiva Trash (members of the Sess) and DJ Ryan Hand, and Saturday at Til-Two with Ale Mania and Stalins of Sound and DJ Tyrone. They'll also be playing May 7th at the Palo Verde Lounge in Phoenix, Az with Lenguas Largas (look for the upcoming 12" on Volar in June), Nihilism, Far Corners, and DJ Horsepussy.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: VOLAR IN JUNE--Digital Leather 12", Lenguas Largas 12", Ale Mania LP, Trop Pop 7

« on: April 27, 2011, 01:06:39 PM »

So it this Digital Leather LP the same one that I preordered on kickstarter a year ago? I just want to make sure I dont miss this if its not that one.

It is, yeah.  Shawn and I are figuring special packaging and stuff for everyone.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: VOLAR IN JUNE--Digital Leather 12", Lenguas Largas 12", Ale Mania LP, Trop Pop 7

« on: April 27, 2011, 12:40:13 PM »

I've updated the post with an offer for a $40 PPD pack of all four June releases.