| Myo - "Light" Myo is Cory O'Brien, an improviser who works with plexiglass, dry ice, and computer. 'Light' is a collection of live and studio recordings that focus on very active sounds in a minimal framework. Light was created with free software, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Sampling+ License. Art is by Aghost. |
| Caustic Castle - "Static Attack" Caustic Castle is Kenneth Yates, also of the improvised noise duo's Harm Stryker (w/ Constant Mauk) & Insects With Tits (w/ Chefkirk) and an organizer with the HzCollective [ http://hzcollective.blogspot.com ]. Kenneth Yates utilizes the no-input mixing technique coupled with live processing using the on-board mixer EQ's, various filters, effects pedals and aux-sends to re-route the paths in which the feedback loops interact... |
| Goem | FDW - Live @ Warehouse - Frans de Waard Live recording of Goem|FDW from September 8, 2007 at the Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music in Washington DC. Ultra minimal techno with subtle electronic textures. |
| Safe - Public Domain - Tyler Higgens and Dave Vosh Safe is a new collaboration between Tyler Higgins and Dave Vosh. Using electronics, acoustic instruments, and modular synthesizer, they build slowly evolving complex layers of sound. Dave Vosh has been experimenting with electronic music since the early 70's, releasing a few collaborations in the tape underground. This project with Tyler is among the first things he'??s done since escaping the basement last year... |
| Cheapmachines - Convergence - Cheapmachines Philip Julian has been an active part of the experimental music underground since the late 1990's recording various works under the name Cheapmachines which operates at the interface between noise electronics, generative software, field recordings, tape music and long-form drones. Contact microphones, amplified metal objects, domestic radio receivers, instrument effects pedals, environmental/found sounds, tape loops, damaged electrical devices, analogue synthesizers, turntables & prepared vinyl,... |
| Northern Machine - Live at Sonic Circuits - Northern Machine This recording documents Northern Machine's live Performance on October 7, 2006 at the Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music in Washington DC. Northern Machine are Pat Gillis: synths, organ, effects. Bill Warford: Bass guitar, psaltry, bowls, effects. http://www.hc3music.com/nm.htm |
| TuNsuNri - "Bi Saiakera EP" - TuNsuNri Field recordings and radio static collide and meld into this beautiful ep of dynamic sounds and hinted melodies. Perfomed at Errenteria and Sopela between september of 2006 and march of 2007. Original sound sources: Radio and environmental recordings done in Oiartzun, Artikutza, Erenozu, Goizueta, Sopela, Errenteria and Bilbao. Thanks to Miguel A. Garcia "Xedh" and Zeromoon. Recommended to be listened with headphones... |
| Michael Gendreau - Live at Sonic Circuits DC 2006 - Michael Gendreau Michael Gendreau was born in California (1961). A musician since age 6, Gendreau went along to work with several group organizations, culminating in Crawling With Tarts (1983-1998), and using this group as a medium (along with the various uses made of it by co-founder Suzanne Dycus) for work in elementalism, attention to temporal and environmental persistence, and eventually, applications of parataxis... |
| Live at Sonic Circuits DC 2006 - If, Bwana If, Bwana is the spawn of the godfather of the 1980's independent hometaping network, Al Margolis. This track is his live performance at the 2006 Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music which took place in Washington, DC. Minimal yet dense drones of a menancing and etheral nature for intense yet scary listening. |
| Undisturbed - RDK RDKfs Undisturbed e.p. blends traditionally inspired spacemusic and seventies synth textures with lightly sprinkled circuit bent sounds. Three long form excursions are separated by three shorter ones. From the floating ambient of Undisturbed to the gKlaus Schultz dry-humping Wendy Carlosh vibe of the closing track Ying Ling, RDK cover a lot of ground in 26 minutes. Fyrall del Rey features the Ciat-Lonbarde Fyrall instrument playing lead over David Rickert and Davis Whitefs slowly cascadi... |
| Diensteingang - das naturhistorische museum der klaNnge Rinus Van Alebeek & Tibor Macek's latest outing under the nom de plume das naturhistorische museum der klaNnge is an excusion to places unknown, where pigs fly and ice cream is just around the corner. Field recordings, snatches of dialogue, random singing, and a little pig combine to make a true hero sandwich. |
| Psicotruchas Around the World - Earzumba/Paulo Beto/Eloi Silverstre The ever so active Christian Dergarabedian, aka C.D., aka Earzumba dug up an old recording of him and two boys from Brazil, of whom I never heard: Paulo Beto, of the electronic bossa-nova project Anvil FX and Eloi Silvestre, who builds his own instruments from the trash. Together they operate analogue synths, laptop, tapes, radio and percussion. The recording is from 2002, but sounds still like a very fresh thing... |
| Dead Violets - Organ Grinder - Dead Violets Dead Violets is Jeff Surak of Violet and Thomas Ekelund of Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words doing free form noise and drones. This 3 track ep is a mashup of subterranean pulses, electro-acoustic static, and damaged electronics. more info: http://www.zeromoon.com/violet/ http://www.deadwords.org |
| Ubeboet - Red and Black Remixes - Ubeboet Ubeboet (m.a.tolosa) invited 4 artists to remix his excellent album "black and red" which was released by earlabs in 2005. The original work featured field recordings, radio and turntables. Here each artist-Asher, Arturas Bumsteinas, Mathieu Ruhlman, Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words-picked one track and deconstructed it to create a new work. m.a.tolosa also runs the fine con-v label. |
| Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Scars/Shards - Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words All source sounds recorded on a Sanyo M-5799 micro cassette recorder between the 10th and 14th of October, 2005. Edited and processed on the 13th and 14th of October 2005. Dedicated to the shards and the scars you left behind. www.deadwords.org |
| CD-R - Hide and Seek - CD-R CD-R is a young Moscow project by Nikita Golyshev. Use of old soviet synths and effects combined with modern techniques and laptop makes an interesting combination of different styles of noise music - "fusion noise." Noisey, fractured soundscapes transform into broken rythms and melodys. This is the second release by CD-R for zeromoon |
| Normal Music - Generic - Normal Music Yet another release by this mysterious project. Dark beats, drones, clicks&cunts. |
| Dead+Hurt - Optotron EP - Dead+Hurt GLITCH PUNK LIVES! Two masters of drone pop and glitchcore join forces in this no holds barred demonstration of swedish glitch punk. Thomas Eklund (aka Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words) and Jonas Lindgren (Critikal, The Hurt I Feel Is My Hurt) mix up field recordings and electronics into this rhythmic outing with badasss 'tude. |
| Sumerki Project - Salve - Sumerki Project Sumerki Project - Salve This group, headed by Jevgeni Zolotorevski, from Tallinn, Estonia. Sumerki create modern electro pop with a dark experimental edge. 1. Salve 2. Requiem for Ilja Redikson 3. Dusha Velichit 4. Coda Jevgeni Zolotorevski - analogue keyboards, sound effects, declamation Anna Docenko - humming, Russian Orthodox singing, electric organ Damian Skowron - Gregorian singing Virsik - chewing cat sounds Mihhail Yasinover - electric guitar Nastya Pechegina - crying child sounds |
| Visteclaro - 12 hE`lices - Visteclaro visteclaro - "12 hE`lices" This duo from Argentina creates free music that isn't afraid to chart its own course while avoiding the cliches that hinder improvised music. Humor+textures+dada. Just beautiful. recorded: june 2005. recording, mixing, mastering: 0.104166666666666666666666666666667 days. time: 42:55 leandro barzabal:electric guitar, PU, steel pipe, contact mic, vocals, motor1. yagui quintero: corno, trumpet, flutes, quena, harmonics, contact mic, bucket... |
| Tube Alloys - Tube Alloys Music labels are bombarded by demos, more than they possibly can ever listen to. Sometimes a few demos rise above the onslaught and demonstrate originality and hold your attention. But a small label can't release everything on a CD. So what does one do with the good music that one gets and can't afford to release? Tube Alloys is a project by Zan Hoffman (zh27.org) and Jeff Surak that combines, smelts, and delivers a new work derived from the best parts of some very good demos... |
| Kotra - Volt (Fire II) - Kotra Kotra, aka Dmytro Fedorenko, explores extreme audio terroritory. Or should one say audio terror? With this EP he presents 5 tracks of intense, minimal frequencies. The emphasis here is on testing your pain threshhold. Also doubles as a sonic enema. Not responsible for hearing damage or blown speakers. Visit kotra's site for info on his excellent CD "Dissilient" and other fine releases. http://www.kotra.org.ua |
| Reche+Ubeboet - coll.01 - Reche+Ubeboet This is a collaboration between Pablo Reche (Buenos Aires) and Ubeboet (Madrid) and was recorded in 2004-2005. Not your typical boring ambient sounds, Reche+Ubeboet prove to be masters of the drone genre presenting three tracks filled with suspense and tension. |
| Kapotte Muziek - An Apology is Necessary - Kapotte Muziek This anthology covers the first three years of the legendary Dutch project Kapotte Muziek, created by Frans De Waard. "Yes it is. You are about to hear and view material that was released by Kapotte Muziek in 1988. It was an anthology of works from the first three and half years of existence. A lifetime it seemed back then, a mere drop in time when I look back on it now. I compiled this tape in 1988 for the US branche of my label Korm Plastics, run by Jeff Surak, who was the driving force behind... |
| R.R. Habarc - Nem Itt, Nem Most - R.R. Habarc R.R. Habarc is based in Budapest, Hungary and created this audio score for Gyula ValkoL and ALkos BaLnki's live mud painting project. Nem Itt, Nem Most (Not Here, Not now) contains only electronically made sounds and uses only one stereo channel. Pulsing electronics and subsonic surreal drones are the focus of this work. |
| Gintas K - Taip Taip - Gintas K Gintas K (Kraptavicius ) born in 1969 . Since 1994 participating in Lithuanian experimental music scene on various projects . Gintas K was core member of the first Lithuanian industrial electronic music band Modus which one finished existence on 1998 . From 1997 to 2000 worked on radio station Kapsai as alternative radio show The Ways and Mistaken Pathways editor . He became known for his sound actions, theatrical performances and conceptual art in the manner of Fluxus... |
| Violet+Bertrand Denzler - The Long March - Violet+Bertrand Denzler Four compositions for alto sax, autoharp, prepared record player and sampler. Free music, lowercase reflections, and all out noise using extended performance techniques. |
| Zavoloka - I - Kateryna Zavoloka Kateryna Zavoloka hails from Kiev and here she dishes up some sweet tracks comprised of rich and abstract analogue/digital noise, melodies and idm like drums. http://www.zavoloka.com |
| Violet+Das Torpedoes - 36 - Violet+Das Torpedoes Live in concert collaboration between Violet and Das Torpedoes using prepared record players, answering machine, microcassette recorder, and sampler. Psychotronic rhythms + loops and lofi abrasive textures. Recorded live at the Galaxy Hut, Arlington, Virginia. |
| Arturas Bumsteinas - Placido - Arturas Bumsteinas Arturas Bumsteinas is a digital media artist from Vilnius, Lithuania. He has released several works in MP3 and CDR format, and performs frequently in various countries of Europe. Placido explores a number of approaches to digital music: at times abstract, other times the source material floats to the surface, only to shatter into a million fragments. "at the same time when i was editing these tracks Laura was sitting by the warm stove and doing some needlecraft... |
| Various Artists - Zeromoon Sampler III: An Explanation of Difficult Music - various artists This compilation is an overview of zeromoon; from glitch-punk, abstract noise, minimal techno, psychedelic drones, ambient, post rock and beyond. Tracks by Dead+Hurt (Sweden), Origami Subtropika (Puerto Rico), Michael Gendreau (USA), Critikal (Sweden+Ukraine+USA), v.+Ultra Milkmaids (USA+France), Normal Music (Sweden+USA), Violet+Bertrand Denzler (USA+France), Vultrapia (USA+France+Estonia), The Musique Concrete Ensemble (USA), Our Last Hope Lost Hope (Sweden). |
| Andrey Kiritchenko interprets Second Violin - VE.COND.SIO.LIN - Andrey Kiritchenko Andrey Kiritchenko (www.nexsound.org) is well known from his CD releases on Zeromoon, Adnauseum, and his own Nexsound imprint. Here he remixes a track from Second Violin's "Victoria", which was a live improvisation between Zan Hoffman on prepared drawer (a dresser drawer with wires and strings attached and filled with trash) and Jeff Surak on prepared violin (as depicted on the release cover). You can hear the original acoustic improv here: http://www.archive.org/details-db.php?mediatype=audio&i... |
| CD-R - Concentration - CD-R CD-R is the noisey future of russian youth. With their ep "Concentration" the listener is submerged in a nocturnal corridor of machine hum with the only respite being a blast of radio static and lofi noise played at over saturated levels. Then CD-R goes beneath audible levels to further destroy your subconscious mind. A pleasant operation is guaranteed. "Project CD-R started in December 2002(Moscow) by Nikita Golyshev and Stas Bobkin... |
| Critikal - STATE - Kiritchenko-Lindgren-Surak Critikal is comprised of Andrey Kiritchenko (nexsound.org), Jonas Lindgren (glitchpunkyouth.com), and Jeff Surak (zeromoon.com). The trio presents 8 tracks of electro-acoustic drones akin to the more surreal work of Nurse With Wound. This album was recorded in 2002. |
| Rinus Van Alebeek - Now You Know The Truth About Bamboo - Rinus Van Alebeek Rinus Van Alebeek reports in from his global wanderings with a collection of field recordings organized into "pop" tunes. Recorded in Spain, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy and Louisville, Kentucky. Track 14 includes Rinus listing the track titles and explaining each track. |
| Volga - Kiasma - Volga Successfully combining experimental electronics with contemporary dance rhythms and original Russian folklore, Volga is a unique project on the Moscow music scene. Pagan psychodelia, shamanism, authentic melodies and lyrics from ancient Russian texts (12th-19th centuries) are mixed with urban aesthetics and contemporary video art to make up the essential components of Volga performances. Volga tours frequently in Russia and abroad and has participated in various international music festivals... |
| Violet Shifts - Resita Mold [zero009r] - Violet Shifts Violet Shifts - Resita MoldA collaboration by Jeff Surak and Frans De Waard resulted in this exercise for acoustic drones using autoharp and guitar. A clear ringing sound with pulses and humming. Hypnotic. This includes a bonus track not available on the original 20 3" release. |
| Cornucopia interprets Mystery Hearsay - 'Mezcla Cuerpo Misterios y Rumores' [zero011r] - Cornucopia Puerto Rican duo Cornucopia present their psychedilic noise collage based on Mystery Hearsay's 3 albums on zeromoon. A heavy swirling bombast of sound yet very listenable. http://www.fukkgod.org/cornucopia/ http://www.mysteryhearsay.com/ |
| Ellende - The Proof Is In The Pudding [zero012] - Ellende Ellende - "The Proof is in the Pudding" Drones, vocal murmerings, and a heavy does of strangeness comprise this ep from this Tokoyo based group. Sort of dark ambient, but a bit too weird. |
| Frans De Waard - 8 Lines [zero010] - Frans De Waard Frans De Waard - "Eight Lines" Empty voice mail messages received as audio files via email are the source material for this new ep. Static, beeps, and slowed down voices. Unsettling and full of apprehension. |
| Various - Swamp - Compilation with X-Ray Pop, Smersh, Shmuzorft, Zan Hoffman [zero149a] - zeromoon Originally released on cassette by Watergate Tapes in 1986. X-Ray Pop dishes up french electro pop, Smersh are the bastard children of Cabaret Voltaire's Nag Nag Nag, Shmuzorft are the dutch Van Der Veen brothers crunning out crunching noise and Zan Hoffman was and is the lengendary sonic explorer. |
| New Carrollton & Stolen Government Binder Clip - Minor Admittance [zero148a] - New Carrollton & Stolen Government Binder Clip Live performance recorded March 8, 1988 in Arlington, Virginia at the Lee Community Center. Both bands were billed to play separately but decided to play simultaneously instead. Opening were 2 teenage punk bands, as the show was a benefit for the community center, whereas both NC and moreso SGBC were older than the 300 punk kids in attendance, and their usual old long hair psycho fans had a difficult time getting in... |
| V. - Live At La Casa [zero146a] - v. Live recording by V. at La Casa, Washington DC. Part of the 10 city-10 day tour with Ultra Milkmaids and Cornucopia. Drums, hurdy gurdy, and tapes. Textual dark noise. |
| V. - Live At Deadtech [zero147a] - v. Live recording of V. at Deadtech, Chicago. The last show of the 10 city-10 day tour with Ultra Milkmaids and Cornucopia. Drums, autoharp, and electronics make a pretty noisey and textual set. |
| -1348- & John Hudak - The Idiot [zero145a] - -1348- & John Hudak Soundtrack for an imaginary film. Originally released on Watergate Tapes in 1987. Drones, noise and field recordings. |
| -1348- & John Hudak - Tacitus Journey [zero144a] - -1348- & John Hudak Second part of 2 collaboration. Cinematic drones and field recordings. Originally released by Watergate Tapes in 1988. |
| New Carrollton - Lust for Life [zero142a] - New Carrollton A series of bizarre live performances by New Carrollton with a little bit of studio nonsense thrown in the mix. Samplers, homemade instruments, tapes, and vinyl abuse add up to an hour of weirdness. Originally released by Watergate Tapes in 1989. Lust for Dupont - Performed live 9/2/88 outdoors in Dupont Circle, Washington DC. Lust for Fairfax - Live television appearance, recorded 6/26/88 Lust for Terry - Studio 3/89 and Live 4/2/89 |
| No Unauthorized - Invasion [zero141a] - No Unauthorized Originally released in 1987 on Watergate Tapes, this 8 song album by No Unauthorized is one of this french band's best releases. Landmark indie french electro pop from the hometaper underground. Catherine-Vocals, percussion, synthesizer Christian-drums, drum machine, bass, percussion, synthesizer Marc-Guitar, bass Michel-Synthesizers, tapes, guitar, ambiance, electronic devices Veronique-Vocals, percussion |
| V. - Pa USA-TurneLe 2002 [zero124v] - v. The Locus of Assemblage (UK) released this live document of v.'s tour of the US of A of March 2002. Uncomplicated grey industrial music with faltering drum patterns, drones, hums and skips. A constantly shifting performance with good clean live sound that hasn't lost any of it's sonic muscle. Tracklist: Marionetteater med Heroinoffer Harboll i Badkar Puertorikansk Lerhydda SoNtebroNd |
| V. - stYe [zero122v] - V. Claustrophobic free music interspersed with densely textured electronic compositions. Hurdy gurdy, homemades, bass, guitar, drums + electronics. Recorded from 2001-2002, this material formed the basis for the collaboration material given to the Ultra Milkmaids for the tracks they created for Drone+Unease. Released on Public Eyesore. The v. album that most people just can't grasp. Tracklist*: verify lunacy you're errors before hjungle waxing stupor you're debris endure beasts rescure urgent... |
| Violet - Let the Sunshine In [zero003] - Violet Violet's first release "Let the Sunshine In" is a surreal and warm holiday of sound. Using a record player, guitar, autoharp and tape nothing really sounds like it is. Strange and dark. "Violet, one of the formations that remixed and reconstructed a track by Andrey Kiritchenko, released a 3 " CD on the same label, being Zeromoon. This 3" subtitled Music for record player, guitar, autoharp, tape features four tracks... |
| Mystery Hearsay - Feed-X [zero138a] - Mystery Hearsay First installment in the Mystery Hearsay trilogy for zeromoon. Psychedelic noise, harsh swirling collages of sound over flow on this disk assembled by MC Ladno. |
| Mystery Hearsay - Honey Anvil Syrup [zero139a] - Mystery Hearsay The second part of the Mystery Hearsay trilogy for zeromoon. The beat is ferocious, the guitars seering, this is old school post industrial beats at its heaviest and finest. Heavy mixing and editing by MC Ladno. |
| Mystery Hearsay - Flesh Dwarf [zero140a] - Mystery Hearsay The final installment in the Mystery Hearsay trilogy for zeromoon, is a work that borders on dark ambient, but with none of the cliches or meandering exercises. Assembled by MC Ladno. |
| Various Artists - Raped By 4 Valentines Day - Compilation With Controlled Bleeding, F/i, 37 Pink [zero135a] - Controlled Bleeding, F/i, 37 Pink Cassette compilation originally released by Watergate Tapes in 1985 featured three leading hometaper/experimental artists of the day: Controlled Bleeding, F/i, 37 Pink. |
| VZL - ZRX [zero136a] - VZL VZL was a one off live in the studio collaboration between V., Zanstones and Lampshade. Each person was supposed to create their own mix of the session, resulting in four different interpretations. Only two were completed. This is the Zanstones mix, which is pretty close to a linear interpretation-the jam as it happened. Compare it with the JRX version which is a radical deconstruction of the material. |
| v.+Zanstones - NOW! [zero137a] - v.+Zanstones This is a concert recording took place in Now Music and Fashions in Arlington, VA on May 2001. Zanstones and v. each performed a set then collaborated for a third joint set. Found sounds, percussion, homemades, record player abuse plus extra noise. |
| V. - Extant [zero128v] - v. A collection of various tracks, from eps, splits and compilations that never came out. |
| V. - la55 [zero121v] - v. V.'s attempt to record an album of unlistenable music, that somehow ended up being, well, the opposite. Still filled with moments at their attempt to play something like rock with drums and guitar but they are way off the mark. Spastic improv falls into ambient abstractive beauty. |
| V. - Armenia [zero127v] - v. Three tracks recorded for a split cdr with Ecuador's noise king, Armenia. V. played drums, autoharp, and record players for a sonic assault on the mind. |
| Various Artists - Pandora's Wooden Bucket - International Experimental Electronic Music Compilation [zero134a] - various artists Pandora's Wooden Bucket was originally released as a 2xc90 set in 1989 on Watergate Tapes. On each side were two groups from a particular country exploring a particular theme. Netherlands - Death: Death Pact, Odal France - Sex: Vox Populi!, No Unauthorized Italy - Revolution: F.A.R., Lyke Wake Germany - Sleep: Cinema Verite, Die Rache |
| Various Artists - Blind Date - Compilation Of Random Collaborations [zero133a] - various artists This compilation was intended to be a 60 minute cassette with 8 pairs of randomly matched artists creating 2 collaborative tracks each. The project never came to fruitation, with only half of the invited artists ever completing their tracks, thus the compilation was never released. Here are the extant tracks only recently made available. |
| Various Artists - Ice - Compilation Of Canadian Experimental Electronic Artists [zero132a] - zeromoon This was compilation was part of a projected series of thematic country compilations. "Ice" features music by Catharsist, Esruk, and Cultic Script. Tracks call to mind frozen barren landscapes inhabited by strange polar creatures. Originally released on cassette by Watergate Tapes in 1988. |
| V. - LLE ' nipbuillapan hinpia [zero125v] - v. V.'s proclivity for absurd titles at full tilt on this album. LLE ' nipbuillapan hinpia features dark rhythmic exercises interspursed with short blasts of textured noise all culled from percussion, prepared violin, hurdy gurdy, tapes, and knives. |
| V. - pbpagarol fiancees [zero123v] - v. Material featured on this recording extracted and decomposed from previous v... releases and unreleased sources. Extreme glitch noise concrete. A classic album by v.Originally released by Staalplaat's Bake Records imprint and 2 separate editions by zeromoon. All out of print. |
| V. - chgt of x(or blue [zero126v] - v. The first release by v., now a duet. Wide ranging material, every piece different from each other. Noise, rhythmic, free, musique concrete, ReR, melodic and atonal all at once. |
| V. - awrkid [zero120v] - v. One of the most popular albums by V. covers a wide terrritory of sounds and styles from ambient glitch, free improv noise, and ambient field recordings. Using a wide array of instruments from hurdy gurdy, drums, samplers, tape, and found objects, v. creates a potent mix.This release was originally made for the Black Orchid label as cassette release. However 2 CDR editions were released by Zeromoon, the first 20 in a deluxe canvas and wooden cover, the second 100 copies in the standard Zeromoon v... |
| New Carrollton - If He's an Ass Here, He Won't Be a Horse There [zero131a] - New Carrollton The only "studio" recording by 2nd period of New Carrollton where everything was not just a live recording session. Heavily under the influence of Nurse With Wound at the time, NC assembled this strange album that was released as a 90 minute cassette tape by Watergate Tapes in 1986. It was later reissued as a 60 minute cdr by Staalplaat's Bake Records imprint. Editing the original tape to 60 minutes was easy to do, since the original release included intentional filler material, to confuse the l... |
| New Carrollton - Satie [zero130a] - New Carrolltton Satie was originally released bt Watergate Tapes in 1987 as a 90 minute cassette. It features two live performances, the first being at the East Side Club (now defunkt) in Washington DC. The last 2 tracks are from a radio performance on WMUC-FM 88.1 College Park, MD from July 1987. In between these tracks are several rehearsal recordings made a week before the East side club appreance. The instrumentation was prepared acoustic guitar, casio, modified tape deck, tapes, pocket knife, pencil sharpe... |
| Sovmestnoye Predpriyatiye - 4/4 [zero119a] - Sovmestnoye Predpriyatiye Sovmestnoye Predpriyatiye was a Moscow, Russia collective of junk improvisors, who made music with household objects and cheap electronics (when they could get their hands on it). The quartet played a few concerts in Moscow before dissolving in 1995. Free musique concrete. |
| -1348- - Diary of the Plague Years [zero103a] - -1348- This is collection of tracks spanning the life span of -1348- from 1983 to 1991 and was released on Staalplaat's Bake Records imprint. It includes the best tracks from several cassette only releases by Watergate Tapes. The music ranges from harsh noise to surrealist compositions. |
| New Carrollton - Split [zero113a] - New Carrollton Two long works from New Carrollton which comprise their final recordings. "Greenline Symphony" was recorded in the studio as a duo. "Anacostia" was recorded live as different duo on WMUC-FM 88.1 in College Park, MD. Longform semi industrial compositions-the first for homemade cello and percussion and sampler, the second for homemace cello, radio, horn, and 4 samplers, each sampler resampling the instruments and each other. |
| New Carrollton - Static [zero112a] - New Carrollton Two live radio shows by New Carrollton on WMUC-FM 88.1, College Park, MD (University of Maryland). Recorded on May 6, 1988 and July 8, 1989. Strange industrial ambient using homemade instruments and electronics. |
| New Carrollton - That Was Really Great [zero111a] - New Carrollton This is a collection of odds and ends and rareties. Live bits, compilation tracks, alternate versions, lost works scanning almost the entire lifespan (1986-1991) of the infamous Washington DC area agricultural band (as in pre-industrial). |
| Zanoisect - Museum Of Frenzy [zero110a] - Zanoisect Museum of Frenzy was recorded at various museums of the Smithsonian Institution using three cheap low quality portable tape recorders-one cheap "boombox" and 2 dictaphones. Zan and Jeff each recorded the environment. when they each had thirty minutes they switched tapes, and played back what was recorded and that was re-recorded onto one of the tapedecks. they walked around and played the tapes, waved them around, played with the volume, cover the speakers with their hands, changed the playback ... |
| VZL - JRX [zero109a] - VZL VZL was a one-off live studio collaboration between v., Zan Hoffman and Lampshade. Instead of releasing one mix of the recording, it was decided that each participant would do their own mix, creating 4 separate interpretations. Only the first 2 mixes were ever completed. This is the second version, a radical deconstruction of the material by Jeff Surak (v.). The instruments were bass guitar, drums, home instruments, type writer, toaster, and sampler. |
| Second Violin - Hospital Fugue Of Mad Nurse [zero106a] - Second Violin Second Violin started in 2001 by jeff surak and zan hoffman, adam bohman, and rinus van alebeek. specializing in free improv, voices, random texts, stream of consciousness, noise collages with acoustic instruments and environmental recordings. First release by adam bohman, jeff surak, & zan hoffman. mutant improvised/collages/constructs using deranged string instruments and vocal banter. twisted and dark... |
| Second Violin - Victoria [zero107a] - Second Violin Free noise music improvisition of a surrealist nature mark the second album by Second Violin, recorded mostly live in Louisville, Kentucky during a 4 hour performance by Rinus Van Alebeek (vocals, feedback), Zan Hoffman (drawer, sampler) and Jeff Surak (prepared violin). Adam Bohman returns for a short appearance on one track. The second half is a live duet between Zan Hoffman and Jeff Surak on prepared violin and drawer. |
| -1348- - Crystal Night [zero102a] - -1348- Three long pieces made with bass guitar, balalaika, home-made metal banjo, scratchy record and found tapes. Originally released as a C60 in 1988 on the Korm Plastics label in an edition of 1x3x4x8 copies. Re-released by Korm Plastic on CDR in 1999. |
| -1348- - Six Girls In Search of a Heaven [zero105a] - -1348- Six Girls was originally released in 1988 by Watergate Tapes as a 60 minute cassette. It was re-released as a CDR by Staalplaat's Bake Records imprint in 2000. It was remastered from a third generation tape copy, thus restoring the intended poor quality of this recording. Things that appear to be loops, but not quite, are actually tracks composed of infinite micro changes in tempo and timbre. |
| -1348- - Enthusiasm [zero104a] - -1348- This 1987 recording by -1348- was an indirect homage to Dziga Vertov. Recorded with the utmost minimal setup-just a casio sk-1 and Boss sampler delay pedal straight to cassette deck. The original 90 minute tape was edited down to 60 minutes and re-released by Staalplaat's Bake Records imprint in 1999. Lofi industrial loops and rhythms. |
| -1348- & Stolen Government Binder Clip - Enmarge [zero101a] - -1348- & Stolen Government Binder Clip This legendary concert collaboration between two of Washington DC's infamous experimental projects was never properly released, although a few cassette copies did circulate across the globe, it is being presented here for the first time in its entirety. Recorded live on April 1 (Fool's Day) 1987 at Enmarge, in Adams Morgan, Washington DC. Whacked out electronic rhythms, turntable abuse, hawaiian guitar, freaked out science teacher vocals, and acid electronics... |
| Rinus Van Alebeek - Kulissen Abriss [zero008r] - Rinus Van Alebeek Snippets of everyday life with a strange and weird warmth. Beyond field recordings, Rinus punches holes through the fabric of time. Recorded in in Berlin, Dresden, and Wuppertal, Germany. Rinus is an itinerant writer-sound collector, currently residing in Italy in a small village with no phone nor internet. |
| Various Artists - Zeromoon Sampler [zero004r] - various zeromoon artists Nine tracks in 6 minutes, this business card sampler gives a quick overview of zeromoon artists. Tracks by v., Critikal, Second Violin, Pleasure Girls, Normal Music (remixed by Violet), v.+Sumerki, Normal Music, TheMCE (remixed by Andrey Kiritchenko), and Violet. Please visit the zeromoon label website for more information. |
| Violet - Green [zero005r] - Violet Green is a 40 minute live recording for sine wave, guitar, and record player. Despite a minimal setup the sound is thick and dense revealing furious activity buried beneath the loud drones. Please visit the zeromoon label website for more information. |
| Normal Music - Brev [zero006r] - Normal Music Normal Music have a very nice take on glitch, as evidenced on Brev (Zero Moon 3" CD), their way of subverting the autonomy of beat regularity, as well as their approach to the dubly layering of various analogue and digital noises, put them far ahead of a largely sleepy herd. The basics here get so cracked at times that I imagine this'd be capable of breaking people's bones on the dance floor if played at the right time and volume... |
| Violet - Sometimes in The Quietest of Moments... [zero002r] - Violet Violet's "Sometimes in The Quietest of Moments the Pipes Don't Fit and the Bathtub Makes you Scream and the Toaster Wants Your Blood" is a remix of the MiniDisk release by Sweden's WNQST//LNGRN - "Sometimes in the Same Night That's Everywhere The Same Right Now & Forevermore" - a 2 hour+ drone fest, condensed into 9 tracks on one 3" cdr. Drones, abrasive skips, and minimalism. Limited edition of 23 copies long out of print... |