More sounds on the TRHP Muxtape .
Thor's Rubber Hammer Productions puts out limited edition releases. There's really no sound agenda here, so what gets released is entirely up to Thor's whimsy, which can include avant-jazz, noise, drone, ambient, psych-rock/folk, fingerstyle guitar music, bizarre black metal, and other sonic goods.
Questions? thorsrubberhammer [at] gmail [dot] com.
Orders outside USA/Canada, please add $3 for shipping.
UP NEXT
Gay Africa- Pizzaze! CDR EP (members of Dark Meat)
Coming up, y'know, someday:
Owl Xounds- LP (co-release with a bunch of labels)
Smokedog- ifeelalrightifeelaright: an Introduction to Smokedog CDR
Pterodactyl Wingspan/Sweet Teeth- split CDR (members of Dark Meat)
RELEASES
[TRHP16]
Long Legged Woman- "Something is Pressing Against It from the Inside" b/w "Scalpels in the Sky" 7" vinyl
"Something is Pressing" marks the official introduction of the four-man Long Legged Woman. A lot has changed in just two years with the band recording everything from swampy blooze-rock and tape collage-noise to ghostly psych-folk. And now the band has moved from its home in Athens, Georgia to San Francisco. The A-side is almost like something out of the early SST Records catalog, a mid-tempo trash-punk anthem with a busted-teeth smile. The psych-pop dirge on the B-side was originally released on a CDR already out of print, and for all intents and purposes, is the prettiest song Long Legged Woman's ever written. Live photo collage by Alex Cargile. Pressed on random-colored marble vinyl.
Edition of 300.
OUT MID-MAY
[TRHP14]
Totally Dad- New Black Draughms CDR
Some seriously blown-out blues, deranged scuzz-rock and destroyed improv from Brooklyn’s Totally Dad. Listening to New Black Draughms' sewage-clogged rawk, you get the impression that an instrument is beaten senseless every time a song ends, and by the close of the album, there's just nothing left. CDR housed in an oversize white envelope.
Edition of 100.
OUT MID-MAY
[TRHP13]
Chartreuse- No More Paths to Sounder Sleep CS
We can't wait. No More Paths will come out on a real-deal CD this summer, but so many people have e-mailed that TRHP’s gonna go ahead and offer 15 of the 50 copies that Drew Smith (Chartreuse) himself dubbed onto cassette. (Note: This is the unmastered version, but there's a great gritty and muddled quality that makes it distinct from the final product.) Organ drones seep through the earth as if heard by a tape recorder buried underground. Guitar melodies are weighed down by the murky and melancholic bliss of strings and loops swarming the headphones. No More Paths to Sounder Sleep is a trance-inducing soundtrack to the end of the night.
Edition of 50 (We only have 15!)
OUT MID-MAY
[TRHP15]
nicolasTone- I'M TONE DEAF (musicpourlessourds) 3" CDR
Electro-acoustic French musician Nicolas LaFerrerie offers one of his most obliterating pieces yet on I’M TONE DEAF. While split into ten tracks, it's a fully-realized 20-minute work that pulses heavy electronic beats alongside manipulated audio and cut-up fire-jazz sax squawks and battling "war drums." LaFarrerie intersperses bouts of terrifying noise with ambient clicks and whirrs as if preparing for the next onslaught. 3" CDR comes housed in a long, gray gatefold envelope tied with string.
Edition of 100.
OUT MID-MAY
[TRHP12]
The Green Knight- The Eternal OM CS
Bong-hit noise scrapple from Jeff Rahuba (Long Legged Woman) and Doug Patterson (Better People). Abrasive tape manipulations fall down the stairs in paranoid murmurs. A longing for times past when majik and pagan rites were employed in direct communion with the forces of nature. This is folk music, a lament. First cassette for Thor's Rubber Hammer!
Edition of 100
$5 PPD.
[TRHP13]
Chartreuse- No More Paths to Sounder Sleep CD/CS
Organ drones seep through the earth as if heard by a tape recorder buried underground. Guitar melodies are weighed down by the murky and melancholic bliss of strings and loops swarming the headphones. No More Paths to Sounder Sleep is a trance-inducing soundtrack to the end of the night. Artist-edition is a hand-stamped, stenciled and stickered arigato pak, and includes a bonus 3" CDR (200 copies). Regular edition is on digipak and does not include the bonus 3". All artwork by Lars Gotrich.(This release has been postponed until June 2008. Will be released on a real-deal CD.)
