Novak
Dumb Records: 1977-1979
OR-18 / ATH-01
The Bay Area punk scene really started to energize in early ’77, when bands like Crime, the Nuns, the Mutants, and the Avengers started drawing rabid fans to legendary venue Mabuhay Gardens. Novak was a Mills College grad student with a background in avant-garde composition—he’d worked with Robert Moog and John Cage as an undergrad—and access to a 12-track recording studio.
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Small Town Country, Vol. 1
UNKNOWN PRIVATE PRESS 45s
OR-15
The songs that make up this unprecedented album were gathered and compiled by Austin based musician and record collector Jason Chronis. He visited countless small towns across Texas and beyond, in search of anything and everything that might be etched on vinyl. From mountains of material, he chose these fourteen forgotten odes and put them […]
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Wolf Eyes
Slicer
OR-14
Coming just months after Dread (Wolf Eyes’ first LP as a trio), Slicer was released on cassette in an edition of 50 in 2001. From start to finish, it’s a full-fledged sonic experience. Deep stuttering bass, high streams of electronics, rugged tape manipulation, horns, glass – this recording contains an enormous spectrum of sound. Mastering […]
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William Leavitt
Warp Engines
OR-12
This soundtrack for William Leavitt’s sculptural installation Warp Engines (2009) combines cello, played arco and pizzicato, with audio clips from sound effects libraries. As early as 1970, when he created a soundtrack for the installation Forest Sound, Leavitt had the desire to introduce the possibility of mood and atmosphere to the installation with the addition […]
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Nicodemus and Matchez
Toxic Crunch
OR-11
Nicodemus and Matchez are Detroit’s undisputed masters of biker-synth-folk-psych and Toxic Crunch is perhaps their definitive recording. Released in 1999 on cassette on their own Zedikiah label, the legendary duo is in fine form – Matchez’ classic Rat Bros studio production sounds like no other and St. Nic’s gravelly pipes rival Dr. John and Beefheart […]
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Tim Heidecker
Titanic and Other Songs
OR-10
After reading that Bob Dylan’s forthcoming album, Tempest, will include a 14-minute song about the Titanic, comedian Tim Heidecker set out to record an equally epic song about the ship, to “see if I could beat the master to it.” The rhyming ballad begins in 1912 and ends in the present day with James Cameron’s decision […]
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Allen Ruppersberg
No Time Left To Start Again
The B and D of R ‘n' R
- 7LP Complete Set
- Signed and Numbered (Edition of 50)
- $300.00
Allen Ruppersberg’s project subjectively explores the documentary history of Post-War American popular music and music graphics. With album covers designed by the artist, each record features tracks culled from 78 and 45 rpm records found in flea markets, antique malls, and junk shops.
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Allen Ruppersberg
No Time Left To Start Again
The B and D of R ‘n’ R
Volume 1 (Urban)
OR-2
The first installment of Allen Ruppersberg’s project that subjectively explores the documentary history of Post-War American popular music and music graphics. With album covers designed by the artist, each record features tracks culled from 78 and 45 rpm records found in flea markets, antique malls, and junk shops. Vol. 1 (dedicated to Little Richard) centers on R&B.
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Allen Ruppersberg
No Time Left To Start Again
The B and D of R ‘n’ R
Volume 2 (Rural)
OR-3
The second installment of Allen Ruppersberg’s project that subjectively explores the documentary history of Post-War American popular music and music graphics. With album covers designed by the artist, each record features tracks culled from 78 and 45 rpm records found in flea markets, antique malls, and junk shops. Vol. 2 focuses on country and folk songs…in other words, the combination […]
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Allen Ruppersberg
No Time Left To Start Again
The B and D of R ‘n’ R
Volume 3 (Home)
OR-4
The third installment of Allen Ruppersberg’s project that subjectively explores the documentary history of Post-War American popular music and music graphics. With album covers designed by the artist, each record features tracks culled from 78 and 45 rpm records found in flea markets, antique malls, and junk shops. Vol. 3 features a combination of plantation, jubilee, or dixie-themed songs, hillbilly […]
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Allen Ruppersberg
No Time Left To Start Again
The B and D of R ‘n’ R
Volume 4 (Church)
OR-5
The fourth installment of Allen Ruppersberg’s project that subjectively explores the documentary history of Post-War American popular music and music graphics. With album covers designed by the artist, each record features tracks culled from 78 and 45 rpm records found in flea markets, antique malls, and junk shops. Vol. 4 features both white and black gospel and hymns, black spirituals, […]
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Allen Ruppersberg
No Time Left To Start Again
The B and D of R ‘n’ R
Volume 5 (Poetry)
OR-6
The fifth installment of Allen Ruppersberg’s project that subjectively explores the documentary history of Post-War American popular music and music graphics. With album covers designed by the artist, each record features tracks culled from 78 and 45 rpm records found in flea markets, antique malls, and junk shops. Vol. 5 is a double LP with gatefold sleeve. The first record […]
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Allen Ruppersberg
No Time Left To Start Again
The B and D of R ‘n’ R
Volume 6 (Fun)
OR-7
The sixth installment of Allen Ruppersberg’s project that subjectively explores the documentary history of Post-War American popular music and music graphics. With album covers designed by the artist, each record features tracks culled from 78 and 45 rpm records found in flea markets, antique malls, and junk shops. Vol 6. is R&B as it becomes R’n’R.
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Allen Ruppersberg
No Time Left To Start Again
The B and D of R ‘n’ R
Volume 7 (Everything Else)
OR-8
The seventh installment of Allen Ruppersberg’s project that subjectively explores the documentary history of Post-War American popular music and music graphics. With album covers designed by the artist, each record features tracks culled from 78 and 45 rpm records found in flea markets, antique malls, and junk shops. Vol. 7 includes a little bit of everything: after hours, pop, boogie-woogie, […]
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Allen Ruppersberg
Art, and Therefore, Ourselves
Songs, Recipes, and the Old People
OR-ART
This vinyl LP was created as a soundtrack to The Never-Ending Book, Part II, a large-scale installation that includes thousands of xeroxed images from the artist’s book collection, installed in a stage-like environment made of theatrical props and mural-sized posters. The LP includes old songs and hymns, spoken word recordings, recipes read by poet Bill […]
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Terry Allen
Bottom of the World
- LP Unsigned: $22.50 / Signed: $30.00
- CD Unsigned: $15.00 / Signed: $20.00
“Of all the radical twists on Texas tradition spawned by musical Lubbock — from Buddy Holly through the Flatlanders and the Maines family — perhaps no artist is more radical than Terry Allen. Or more of a visionary. (This album) is Allen’s most intimate and incantatory to date, one that sneaks beneath the listener’s skin […]
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Terry Allen
Ghost Ship Rodez
A Radio Play
In Ghost Ship Rodez Terry Allen pursues a fictional investigation of what may have happened in the mind of French artist, playwright and actor Antonin Artaud during a 17-day journey restrained in the dark hold of the freighter Washington in 1937, and later, in various mental institutions. While living in France, Artaud had obtained a […]
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Terry Allen
Live at Al's Grand Hotel
OR-1
Four years before the release of his celebrated country concept album, Juarez, Terry Allen was invited by his friend Allen Ruppersberg to perform at the opening night of Al’s Grand Hotel, an installation/exhibition where Ruppersberg converted a two-story craftsman house in Hollywood into a fully functioning hotel with seven themed guest rooms. Terry Allen set […]
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