― NickB (NickB), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago) link
Charalambides, Market SquareThe Dead C., Trapdoor Fucking ExitThe Dead C., Harsh 70's RealityHarry Pussy, s/tAlan Licht, Sink the Aging ProcessSandoz Lab Technicians, s/tThe Shadow Ring, “Tiny Creatures” b/w “Harlequin: darkest part of the sky”The Shadow Ring, Put the Music in Its CoffinTard and Furthered comp.Temple of Bon Matin, s/tThe Tower Recordings, Furniture Music for Evening Shuttlesthe two Angus MacLise CDs (co-released with Quakebasket)
Destroy:
Fucking over Angus MacLise's widow.
― hstencil, Friday, 26 March 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago) link
x-post!
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link
― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Friday, 26 March 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Friday, 26 March 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago) link
Put The Music In Its Coffin. The one with 'Horse Meat Cakes'!
Was listening to Ashtray Navigations last night. Half of that record is awesome (track two I think?), half of it is, err, not. Kind of like the noisy codas at the end of Sonic Youth songs stretched out to infinity.
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:17 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Friday, 26 March 2004 18:18 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago) link
Charalambides, Market SquareThe Dead C., Trapdoor Fucking ExitThe Shadow Ring, “Tiny Creatures” b/w “Harlequin: darkest part of the sky”
taken from hstencil's list...these 3 releases like totally messed up my worldview in 1996 or so.
Tom Lax emailed me a year or so ago because he wanted to hear the Desperate Bicycles again and heard I'd sent a CD to someone. He was like, "my name is Tom, I used to run a label" and I was like "I know damn well who you are."
Shortly after a friend of mine who's somewhat inside, with some connections to Table of the Elements and Smells Like amongst others told me the Angus story and it sounds pretty sketchy, but what I got was all hearsay.
In any case, I think Siltbreeze's stopping had something to do with a deal with Matador or Revolver, which was it? Moving onto the next level but not being able to function. Like how many copies of the Dead C's Whitehouse CD were floating around, and wasn't the next Dead C's record put in Whitehouse digipacks with a new cover glued on top?
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Mike Seghini (Brainwash), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago) link
Hmmm .. destroy that Sam Esh lp, I guess. ALso Un didn't do much for me.
Monkey 101 were great! I wish they had found a way to release more than the two singles.
Yeah, the Dead C's Repent live thing was made with leftover White House sleeves.
Anybody else attend the 2-day Siltbreeze fest in Philly back in the early 90s? Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Bruce Cole, GBV, Strapping Field Hands, Harry Pussy, Bassholes, Charalambides ... Good times.
― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Friday, 26 March 2004 18:58 (twenty years ago) link
Awesome Label.
― ddb, Friday, 26 March 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago) link
That Philly festival sounds superb!
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:02 (twenty years ago) link
haha my copy of 'repent' is the whitehouse digipack with a photocopied cover glued.
'Repent' is an astonishing release, and easily up there with 'trapadoor...' and 'harsh...'
The timing of this thread is pretty good bcz i got a few CDRs, just this morning, of a couple more dead C releases on siltbreeze.
Love harry pussy and we've had a thread on them.
Didn't know the bassholes put out a rec on there, I have the one that came out on revenant (there was a thread on 'em recently just in case anyone missed it).
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:02 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:04 (twenty years ago) link
Oh and ddb reminds me, ALan Licht played at that show as well (basically turned on his guitar, set it against his amp, and sat on the stage smoking and manipulating an effects pedal - reproduced the Sink the Aging Process record, essentially)
― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:12 (twenty years ago) link
Speaking of Jim Shephard. Anyone know who ran Ropeburn or what happened to that label?
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago) link
It's a Rex Garvin & The Mighty Gravers cover.
Yo La Tengo recorded their version backed by The Pussywillows (April March's old band).
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:20 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago) link
I knew the guy -- Doug Zimmerman was his name. He was a clerk at a record store in South Bend adjacent to the Notre Dame campus called Tracks. In the late '80s/early '90s he and his father opened what is now a small chain of huge record stores in the SB area called Orbit Music, and I think that's what took over his life, along with having a family. I think there was a second release on the label but I'm drawing a blank right now.
― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 26 March 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago) link
Another question: what was the connection (if any) to Public Pop Can? That Halo Of Flies album is a fine, fine thing.
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 26 March 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 26 March 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 26 March 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago) link
God how could I forget that Renderers CD?? Baked Bean Teeth you should punch me the next time I see you. That's a great record.
Didn't Byron have some involvement w/ Pubic Pop Can?
Re: TL's writing - Siltbreeze itself actually started out as a fanzine. Anybody ever read it? I think a friend of mine had a couple copies but I can't remember anything about it.
― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 26 March 2004 20:32 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 26 March 2004 20:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 26 March 2004 20:41 (twenty years ago) link
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Friday, 26 March 2004 20:57 (twenty years ago) link
here's a pretty decent disco graphy:
http://gravediggervideo.com/siltbreeze.html
m.
― msp, Friday, 26 March 2004 21:35 (twenty years ago) link
Rob, I have a few issues of Siltbreeze sitting in my 'zine boxes in the basement. My most vivid memories of these are the naked black chicks on the front, and an Amphetamine Reptile ad that displayed an impressive anger toward Mike McGonigal.
― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 26 March 2004 22:42 (twenty years ago) link
Sam Esh was cool too! What are yall crazy??!?
If i had to 'destroy' any, I'd say that Alan Licht LP is a real snoozer, and the Ashtrav Nav LP was not Phil's best. Ashtabula blah (tho all Fieldhands = classic). Other than that, though, Dead C, Tower Recordings, Shadow Ring...c'mon!!! Those are some of the best bands ever!!
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 26 March 2004 22:43 (twenty years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 26 March 2004 22:48 (twenty years ago) link
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Friday, 26 March 2004 23:40 (twenty years ago) link
What exactly was with all the McGonigal haters back in those days? I seem to remember Albini being snarky towards him in FE for some reason (it was pretty hard to get a handle on US fanzine politics from where I was sat). Chemical Imbalance turned me on to a big bunch of amazing things - Slovenly, Mofungo, Ut and I don't know what. Oh and loads of books and comics and stuff. Gorgeous artwork too.
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 26 March 2004 23:48 (twenty years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 26 March 2004 23:50 (twenty years ago) link
Dunno what was up with the FE/CI beef. Narcissism of small differences? Yetimike himself was posting here for a few weeks, but he seems to have disappeared lately. Good autobiographical piece by him here:
http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0052/arts-mcgonigal.shtml
― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:13 (twenty years ago) link
"In the limited "black bag" edition of Big Black's infamous Headache record, underground guru/scribe Byron Coley wrote a short story in which a character named Mike McGonigal is birthed through the butt of the barber from Mayberry: "There's an art fag sticking out of your keister." This is, in retrospect, the highest compliment I have ever been paid. My agenda was far more gay-, art-, and women-friendly than the prevailing coolster ethos of the day. "
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:20 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:26 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:40 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:53 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 27 March 2004 01:02 (twenty years ago) link
Also great memories of the Siltbreeze fest at Khyber... Slave Apartments, Screaming MeeMees, GBV played and all these drunken bighaired Philly club peops spilled into the Khyber just hopping from bar to bar just as Harry Pussy came on. Weird crowds at shows in Philly, which made shows like this even more fun.
― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Saturday, 27 March 2004 06:20 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link
i think it has more to do with tom wanting to explore his cooking more professionally. im serious! he's just as good at making food as he is putting out awesome records.
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link
oh and btw, 3 beads of sweat are still stocking a bit of the old stiltbreeze catelogue, now that they've gone belly up.. the renderers next album is gonna be on that apparently..
― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link
(x-post)
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link
(wd be curious to see a track listing to your tape, ian...)
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 27 March 2010 09:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh man this Fabulous Diamonds album (the new one). Totally feeling this right now.
― van smack, Monday, 28 June 2010 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.messandnoise.com/images/3012020/440x440-c.jpeg
― van smack, Monday, 28 June 2010 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry I don't think this new one is on siltbreeze btw. still very good!
― van smack, Monday, 28 June 2010 02:18 (thirteen years ago) link
it is in the US at least! can't wait for it.
― jonathan - stl, Monday, 28 June 2010 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Can anyone here tell me if Fabulous Diamonds' Los Angeles show is still going ahead? Echo Curio (where it is supposed to be) got shut down by LAPD.
― ralph NAGLer (admrl), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't know, but if you go, please check out my friends Pigeons! They are doing the whole tour with fab diamonds.
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes, I read about Pigeons. I want to go.
― ralph NAGLer (admrl), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Both bands will be performing down here at UCI on Friday as well...
http://acrobaticseveryday.com/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I know about that but working that night
― ralph NAGLer (admrl), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Protest. Point out this is more important.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyway an e-mail went out from Metal Rouge saying the Echo Curio show is in fact on -- so go!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 November 2010 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link
just discovered siltbreeze through shadow ring
dead c and charalambides, very fine music.
― jumpskins, Thursday, 18 November 2010 08:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey ian, got a hold of Pigeons/Fabulous Diamonds earlier -- Clark's a friendly guy!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 November 2010 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
And I can further report that both bands are all great folks, and put on good live shows too. Do what I did and give 'em a place to stay when they pass through your town. (In fact, anyone in Phoenix reading this thread? They're heading there now.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 November 2010 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Clark & Wednesday are super sweet folks. I might start playing drums for that band when they get back. </braggin>
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Saturday, 20 November 2010 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha yes they were talking about trying to persuade you to do just that.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 November 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
tom of siltbreeze playing some cool punk 7"s on wfmu
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/41892
― flopson, Friday, 23 September 2011 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
Sex Pistols I Wanna Be Me 7" EMI Boys Boys Control Tower 7" Pass Chain Gang Cannibal Hymn 7" Kapitalist The Sillies Is There Lunch After Death? 7" Nebula The Mockers Murder on Manners Street 7" Mock The Dishrags Past Is Past 7" Modern Eternal Scream Action In My Life 7" Eternal Boywonders He Man Various: Rough Cuts Zblock Mary and the Immaculates Trip To Jonestown 7" (split w/Borbetomagus) Concordant Radio Free Europe It Likes You 7" Mig German Shepherds Booty Jones 7" M&S Valeska Wascsalon Berlin 7" Marat Eiyo Boys Asia In Japan 7" Darkside Records They Must Be Russians Nagasaki's Children 7" Self-Released Furious Pig June 3, 1981 7" Vanity Mindless Delta Children Go Go Dancer PVC Apron Various: Terse sampler 7" Terse Real Traitors Blackmailing You 7" EMI Custon Six Impossible Things Summer on the Nullabor 7" Sausage High Thirties Piano Outer Date World 7" Self-Released Pere Ubu Street Waves 7" Hearpen Chi-Pig Bountiful Living 7" Chi-Pig Fred Cass and His Fabulous Cassettes At the Weekend Missing In the Eighties 7" Self-ReleasedRitchie Venus and the Blue Beetles Candy 7" Onset Offset Crossfire Melanie 7" Brave The Rat Race Kid You're Being Hi-jacked 7" Texas-Record Wild Man Fischer Monkeys Vs. Donkeys 7" ATC Mikey Wild Stuff My Bunny 7" Self-Released Vast Majority Throwdown 7" Self-Released Clak Ne Haluu/Kangastus 7" Self-Released The Bizarros Laser Boys 7" Clone Grauzone I'm Tanz Mit Dem Tod 7" Off Course Smiley Arisen 7" Bizart Tch Tch Tch Doing Very Little 7" Self-Released NG LS Disco Ugomeku Ego 7" Unbalance Tuxedomoon Pinheads OTM 7" Time Release Men In Black S & M Bar 7" Lectric Eye The Monochrome Set Strange Boutique 7" Dindisc The Swingers Distortion 7" Ripper Alms For Children Failsafe 7" Self-Released Charles S. Russell All Tomorrow's Parties 7" Jargon The Very Things The Gong Man 7" Corpus Christi Die Name Schallplatte 7" Moderne Musik Quite Ridiculous Nonsense Identity Crisis 7" Self Released Crazy Hearts L-I-G-H-T 7" R Mutants Schoolteacher 7" Rox Bloated Toads Victim Happy Home 7" The End Horrible Nurds Personal Relationships 7" Half Wombat Oxy & the Morons The Good Life 7" Music For the Deaf Mad Tea Party In a Tea Bag 7" Vanity
― flopson, Friday, 23 September 2011 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
wow that's great... only heard of like 15 of those bands!
― sleeve, Friday, 23 September 2011 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
srsly!
― 69, Friday, 23 September 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
nice, thank you
― Takeshi Kitteno (admrl), Friday, 23 September 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
kind of a sleeper rather than a LOL but think this would be a good ILM board descrip
― 347.239.9791 stench hotline (schlump), Saturday, 24 September 2011 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
this guy has the best taste in music & the best record collection ever
― flopson, Saturday, 24 September 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
o ya and the best record label
― flopson, Saturday, 24 September 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
he's a good cook too!
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 24 September 2011 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
Ha I've only heard a few of those as well. I've got that Radio Free Europe single but that's about it. Would like to hear that mix, is it live or can you download it?
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 24 September 2011 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
punk, sheesh. imo siltbreeze was a better label before the re-boot, when they released more abstract and psychedelic music. but srsly i have no room for complaint--put out records by pretty much all my fave bands of the nineties.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 24 September 2011 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
The kitchens floor album they're putting out next week is a corker
― manatee is forever (electricsound), Saturday, 24 September 2011 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
oh, i'd be psyched to hear that. i liked their first record.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 24 September 2011 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
ian i think you would like this radio set, its not _that_ punk really
― flopson, Saturday, 24 September 2011 08:40 (twelve years ago) link
I am enjoying the Circle Pit album way too much.
Also there's a new Mount Carmel?
― Big Drug Dan (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 3 March 2012 07:06 (twelve years ago) link
Mount Carmel release is solid.
― winnebago taco, Saturday, 3 March 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
Guy who runs this label is a dick.
But: Beyond The Implode 7" by a continent.
― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Sunday, 4 March 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
why do you say that?
― flopson, Sunday, 4 March 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
actually he's super cool and friendly
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 4 March 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
Dunno a lot about him, but I used to enjoy reading his record reviews in Opprobrium zine.
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Sunday, 4 March 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
does he write siltblog? i've always wondered about that
― flopson, Sunday, 4 March 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
Apparently so! Haven't actually seen that blog until now.
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Sunday, 4 March 2012 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
it's really good, really crazy writing style. think i've bought like everything recommended on it since i've started reading
― flopson, Monday, 5 March 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
Bruise Constellation? Or is there something new?
― dmr, Monday, 5 March 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
must be the old one as the new CP will be on hardly art
― some crap (electricsound), Monday, 5 March 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
==NEXT UP==
50 Skidillion Watts Best Of Lists.
― heavymeddle, Monday, 5 March 2012 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
Bruise Constellation?
That's the one. I'm always behind with this label! Can't wait to hear the new CP.
― Big Drug Dan (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 07:25 (twelve years ago) link
rest in peace malcolm "mac" sutherland, tom's 2nd in command, and the heart and soul of 90's siltbreeze action. i saw him almost every day in the 90's and he always made me smile. he was funny and cranky and one of a kind. i worked right below siltbreeze HQ for years and i always liked getting a visit from mac or his roommate ellen. troo philly peeps!
― scott seward, Saturday, 26 January 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
Tom Lax paying his annual visit to Briant Turner's show on WFMU, currently in progress until 3 PM EST:
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/57032
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
a great volume of excellent releases have come out on this label in the last yr or so
https://siltbreeze.bandcamp.com/
― Hinklepicker, Monday, 25 September 2023 20:16 (six months ago) link
^ they're selling a reissue of the second mahogany brain record for $13 !
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 04:47 (six months ago) link
holy shit @ the yuzo iwata record
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 04:57 (six months ago) link
used to have all those axemen lps. good band
― flopson, Thursday, 28 September 2023 03:26 (six months ago) link