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The Bastion Mews "live at the vernal equinox" cdr rundownsun No. 1 second pressing of The Bastion Mews "live at the vernal equinox" cdr: Recorded at Vancouver's Blim on Sunday March 20th 2005. The Bastion Mews are the totally blissed-out free/acid folk project of Sam Macklin (connect_icut) and Larissa Loyva (p:ano) with ongoing assistance from Josh Rose (The Countless Jibes, superpower) and Brady Cranfield (The Book of Lists, Secret 3). The set is 26 minutes of ether-tapping, portal-opening, spirit-channelling, drone-bliss-psych-acid-atmospheric storm-cloud-brewing ambience you couldn't cut with a sacrificial knife! The discs are hand-stamped, high quality cdr's, and come hand-packed in beautifully silk-screened recycled tie-sealed envelopes, with an authentic cut-n-paste insert!(originally released in edition of 20 on friends of david tibet records fdt 01) SOLD OUT!!!
THEE HOLEE SEE "sunburned sand psalm" 3" cdr rundownsun No. 2
"...recorded on a beach somewhere between bong-hits and tan sessions by a couple of sun worshiping beach-rats... they sent me the tapes packed in fucking sand (seriously!) so i thought i'd honor them with some special packaging... needs to be seen to be believed... totally 100 % sanctified by the church of weird!"
-----josh
Thee Holee See are Sunshine Beausoleil, and Bobby Radcliffe-Hearst Jr. they live on a beach near the see....
L E V IA TH A NS "live in the cave in yr. skull" c60 rundownsun No. 3
almost 60 minutes of extreme MOANIN', DRONIN', knuckle-draggin'-caveman-feedback whorship! from your favourite mysterious, masked miltants! fucked-up as usual. packed in a sweet molded plastic snap case, with various external detritus. super limited quantaties. e-mail
[email protected] to get your copy now! only 5 BUCKS!!! also ask about a few one-of-a-kind shirts still kicking around from the most recent LEVIATHANS shows. lookout for lots of future action from the LEVIATHANS camp. SORRY ALL SOLD OUT!!!
HATES HAUNTS "herman head/black mold grotesquerie" cdr rundownsun No. 4 just barely in time for halloween: ultra limited/ultra curde, horrorsound-tapeloop-weirdo electronics with moaning! 2 tracks of total scum-gutter creep n' crawl! SOLD OUT.
The Christa Min "The Devil And Tex Watson" 7" rundownsun No. 5
"Lessee...walking down Robson...hot summer day. Never go near that street usually, but woke up in some dude's penthouse near Hooter's. I woke up, grabbed a shirt off the floor and put it on...and some sunglasses...and a leftover Heneiken from the fridge. Tiptoed out, stepping over the sleeping bodies on the floor. Now I'm outside in the part of town that most needs a firebombing....and the sun is so...fucking...bright! Still stoned...no cash in pocket. Had enough money for a dollar store keyring that reads "Take me to Yr Dealer" with a drawing of an Alien smoking a joint. Bought it and immediately afterwards wished I bought a hot dog instead. Hot dogs. Swamps. Tex Watson. To my right there's an Asian businessman eating a hot dog. Drank the Heinenken down in one long drink. My mind's in the everglades. My mind's on Tex and Squeaky and Susan and Krenwinkel and dunebuggies and Ed Sanders and the Fugs...and that fucker Bugliosi...swamps. Swamps can hold you under. Until you can't breathe. Wouldn't want to fall into one...but I did. So hot! The sun is on it's way out, but not soon enough. Gotta shield...myself. "
packaged in 2 piece, silk screened millboard cover. art by nicholas bragg. xerox insert. $5.00 + postage
THE RITA "maillart extended" c30 rundownsun No. 6
UNCOMPROMISING. UNFLINCHING. UNCHANGING.
A PURITY STATEMENT. AN IDEOLOGY.
A WAY OF LIFE.
clocking in at just over 30 minutes "MAILLART EXTENDED" is the ultimate raising of the stakes. no dynamic, no progression, just a relentless flood of near physical lead and concrete noise. no air. no space. no spazz. possibly some of The Rita's most brutal, and challenging work to date. limited edition. hand numbered. leaderless c30 cassette allows for instant start and infinite play*. xerox labels, xerox/hand painted acetate cover, handmade, hand-stamped "obi" strip. SOLD OUT!
Sick Buildings "SCRAP" recycled cassette rundownsun No. 7
two early recordings from sick buildings! side a is all icy, slow-tape-blizzard, and thick-mollasses-ooze, while a huge propeller churns away somehwere in the distance. side b obliterates with heavy layers of blownout contact mic crunch and rumble. spray painted recycled tape, bolted to painted metal, with xerox labels, and paste on art. SOLD OUT.
Sick Buildings "Thoughtography Document" c20 rundownsun No. 8
inspired by the inexplicable and certainly forgotten psychic phenomena of Ted Serios, "Document" is a sonic thoughtograph of unsettling and uncanny atmospheres: metal scrapings, blank tape manipulations, buried voice, radio hiss, and subsonic rumbles. hand stamped labels, with stamped catalogue tag, in envelope. SOLD OUT.
Pulse Emitter "Fall" c30 rundownsun No. 9
ominous. dark-cloud-doom-drones gather and give way to cold harsh winds of static. dread sets in. paralysis by fear. the deafening hum subsides, the frantic chatter of the final moments breaks through. the last transmission, the last sound before the fall. edition of 100. offset and screen printed 2 panel covers on heavy paper. xerox insert. xerox labels. high-bias tapes. SOLD OUT.
Kevin Shields "Monkeys Have No Hair" c30 rundownsun No. 11
KS brings you another tangled web of feedback, and shriek vocals! totally messed up and messy. chaotic spazz channeled through some serious power-electronics-hatred come SoCal-hardcore-anguish! total fuckin' punk rock noise. edition of 100. stenciled and spray-painted cases. xerox labels. xerox insert. high-bias tapes. sick surprise in every one! $6.00 ALMOST GONE!
Bees of Deseret "delay rite of the acieed godz" cdr rundownsun No. 12
DUMB! sloppy 'n' crude, heavy-psych jamz from a couple of high-school drop-outs (no joke these guys spent most of grade 11 huffing paint, and listening to rudimentary peni, not that any of that stuck). total CHROME worship, total lack of ability. some shorter "songs", and one long spaced out drone epic! no drums here, just guitars(maybe a little keyboard, and a tape loop???) and pedals, the way the good lord intended. ever read the book of mormon? that joseph guy was on a serious trip. edition of 25. handmade digipack style cd case. colour artwork. xerox paste-on insert. spray painted cdr. SOLD OUT!
Hates Haunts "s/t" cdr(re-issue) rundownsun No. 13
second short run of this soon to be classic rundownsun cd. originally released in an edition of 10 for hallowe'en 2005, sold out immediately! two long tracks of ultra slow burn, crumbling-tape-loop horror sounds, and crude lo-fi creep 'n' crawl. recorded live to tape after a little ouija session late devils night 2005. the moaning on the first track is rumoured to be a spirit channeled by the renownd weird-o sunshine beausoleil!!! total bone-chillin', chain-rattlin', dog bark, screamer! sure to upset your cat. handmade digipack style cd case. xerox paste on artwork and insert. spray painted and stamped cdr. SOLD OUT.
Roxanne Jean Polise "Pine Apparition" c20 rundownsun No. 14
primitive, minimal, and brutal. 'pine apparition' is what can only be described as an electrified pre-historic soundscape. shimmering crystalline beauty collides head on with thick organic muck. crisp tones, and pristine electric crackle are obliterated by pulsating ooze and monstrous crunchy burl! it's like listening to geological birthing pains. a master at the top of his game. artwork by RJP printed in black on heavy grey paper. hand numbered 2-panel insert. spray painted high-bias cassette. SOLD OUT.
Green Mist "Drinkin' Lighter Fuel" c30 rundownsun No. 16
there's something wrong with your tape deck dude! total cassette tape-melt-down! high-volume walkman abuse and gross, vomit electronics from ex-cunuck dallas K! absolutely disgusting puke-noise, barf-tape hiss, and sputter. following up two nasty cds for UK label chocolate monk. this shit empties a room like an unpleasant odor.
'if i were in a green mist, i'd want a fucking gas mask' - LL
hand numbered and stamped, colour printed, chipboard covers. crummy xeroxed insert. spray painted cases. spray painted high-bias tapes. edition of 100. SOLD OUT!
whalley "untitled" c30 rundownsun No. 17
huge machines deep below the earth turn and grind. the chitter of a 19th century indian counting house drowns in the din of a passing funeral procession. tibetan horns sink in the white fog of a marrakech opium den. 6 or 7 brief studies in heavy atmosphere and bummed-out smokey-haze. a mixture of 'impossible' field recordings, shitty electronics, harmonium, accordion and missing time. spray painted high bias tapes. offset printed and silk screened covers on recycled paper. numbered edition of 50. SOLD OUT.
Flatgrey "s/t" c30 rundownsun No. 18
this is it, the very first label release (i think?) for long running cult-underground harsh noise/power electronics/drone artist flatgrey! so before i write some copy about how fucking rad THIS tape is i'd like to say a few things about the artist and his work. flatgrey is one of the most powerful, and versatile noise artists i've ever had the privileged of knowing, promoting and playing with. live his performances have always been focused and compelling, controlled and powerful. his numerous self-released cd's have always been killer. one often drastically different from the last, but always a treat. after years of playing live in and around vancouver, and well over a dozen self-released cds it's time this dude SOLD SOME FUCKING PRODUCT! contact him for a list of available self-released material
[email protected] . but seriously someone should put out this guys LP(trash ritual take note). flatgrey is dedication! flatgrey is obsession! flatgrey is hungry! as for the tape... side a is all blistering, face-melting, sheets of white-hot noise swirling in a perpetually escalating shit-storm of a harsh noise whirlwind. side b is less harsh but a no less engulfing turbine-drone, piecing, jet-engine noise blast. only for the heads. silk screened cassette cases. hand stamped and wax sealed bands. spray painted and labeled high-bias tapes. 1st edition of 50. SOLD OUT.
black jesus and the cosmic prayer "my mind is a fruit farm" cdr rundownsun No. 19
indefinitely shelved cdr version of this obscure, criminally under-distributed, spacey, neu-cosmiche cassette originally released on blakk wainbow records a few years back. the light has come. ultra-minimal electronic waves lap at polished shores of crystalline drone. a curling fog of ritual noise and distant voices smokes your soul out of your skull, set free to cruise the inner-spaceways. cosmic devotional music. possibly one of the most striking and fully realized albums i have had the pleasure of releasing. edition of 50 copies. screen-printed high quality cdr, packaged in a screen-printed, hand-made digipack-style case with paste-on insert. $10usd + shipping.
BT.HN. "black mirrors and dark planet alignment" one sided LP rundownsun No. 20
over a year in the making, and well worth the wait. BT.HN. (LA BETE HUMAINE) brings you to a place where profane ritual meets barbaric violence! domineering waves of crushing bass and crackling electronics bury slithering spoken rites, and crest in thundering commands. a steady, measured rumble peppered with heavily effected vocals breaks into volatile metal abuse. vocals shift from paced incantation to frantic possession! similar to the abrasive works of TAINT, ATRAX MORGUE and IUGULA-THOR, but underpinned by a raw, ritualistic violence.
2-sided black and white offset-printed cover on heavy paper. one-sided 12" 33rpm vinyl record with silk-screened b-side. housed in a crystal-clear, heavy polyvinyl sleeve. featuring art and layout from the artist. $12.00 usd + postage. wholesale available.
sick buildings "cave dwellers society" c15 rundownsun No. 21
piercing frequencies in dead air. subterranean scuttering, metal scrapes, gross mouth sounds, and ritual moans. dank, dark and depressing. it's warm deep within the caves where the society dwells. this signals the end of the old path. spray painted high bias tapes. xerox artwork on heavy paper. numbered edition of 50. SOLD OUT!
wapstan "of zero and the void" c30 rundownsun No. 24
no howling abyss. no death-silent vacuum. just the ever present anti-presence of 60 cycles. hardly above perception. life between high voltage power lines. you're living it every day. no sounds, just pure, harnessed electricity. from canada's reigning underground drone lord. spray painted high bias tapes. xeroxed and hand inked artwork on recycled paper. numbered edition of 100. $6.00usd + shipping
black air "plague ritual" one sided 12" rundownsun No. 25 (co-released with militant walls, iatrogenesis and dada drumming records)
DISCLAIMER: if you're looking for dynamics, variation, or any other facets of musicality this is not the record for you. period.
a pure and focused collaboration from OSCILLATING INNARDS, PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT, and THE RITA. to call this recording 'brutal', 'unforgiving', or 'punishing', would only belittle the finesse, poise, and obsession with which it was executed."
if only you could realize you listen to noise because it roars like a jet engine or rips like a dragster" - c
RUNDOWNSUN exclusive special edition includes one sided 12" LP with silk screened b-side, silk screened cover on heavy paper, and high quality glossy black and white 11"x17" poster of album art and label info(not shown) SOLD OUT
IN FLUX / thee holee see split c40 rundownsun No.26
first new recordings from these 2 mysterious outfits in almost 2 years!IN FLUX set off in a shambolic observance of ominous tidal noise! high priestess and cohorts lead an obscured ceremony of occult tongues and oblique sonics, breaking into a crushing, rhythmic trance, and concluding with a spellbinding ecstatic mass in a fog of horns, pulsating electronics and voices.
beausoleil and r-h jr. return with a spirit-channeling effort in subtle, swirling frequency shifts. drawing their power from medium beausoleil's haunting channeled voices, thee holee see conjure a cloud heady and feverish, yet icy-clear, moody and manipulative. the new spiritualist revival. a summons from the sea. this is no windham-hill. this is the real new age. colour offset-printing on heavy colour paper. spray-painted high bias cassette. xeroxinsert. hand numbered edition of 50. SOLD OUT.
stegm "grim housekeeper" 2xc20 rundownsun No. 28
with cold, calculated precision, 'grim housekeeper' marks the triumphant return of canadian noise legend ryan bloomer(flatline construct, trauma tone) as stegm. best known for staggering collaborations with dominick fernow of prurient, and various releases on fernows hospital productions label, stegm produces a unique variety of heavy, synthetic, industrial/power electronics. the four tracks of 'grim housekeeper' constitute a spiral of chaotic descent, self-control, self-possession, disassociation and ambiguity. with a precise hand bloomer constructs harsh, angular environments from scathing electronics, and subsonic bass. sounds are organized to a geometry all his own--possessed, only to crumble in a bass-quake of stomach quivering self-doubt. unsettling, instrumental power electronics. 50 copies in special packaging. 50 in silk-screened 5" boxes. wrapped in butchers paper, and sealed with a sticker. 2 spray-painted and labeled high bias cassettes. xerox insert. hand numbered edition of 100. SOLD OUT.
taskmaster "get dead" c30 rundownsun No.29
a hissing, spiting, white noise sandstorm with bass like a dirty drag though the mud. rushing-water sound for restroom line-ups. edition of 100. offset-printed 3 panel j-card. xerox insert. spray-painted high bias cassette. $6.00usd + shipping
Flatgrey "xxxxxx" one sided LP rundownsun No. 30
long-awaited vinyl debut from vancouver underground noise legend flatgrey.industrial noise. harsh, industrial noise. pure sound. mechanical, electrical, valve and tube. scrounged, rescued and resurrected. filtered through obsession. menacing roars of bass pushed along grinding mechanics, like millions of rows of pneumatic teeth. heaving, gnashing. compressor hiss, and blast furnace tongue. incendiary atmosphere, superheated, and forced through junked magnets and shredded cones. a nameless exercise.
1-sided gold offset-printing on heavy black paper. one-sided 12" 33rpm vinyl record with silk-screened b-side. housed in a crystal-clear, heavy polyvinyl sleeve.featuring art and layout from the artist. $12.00 usd + postage. wholesale available.
werewolf jerusalem "surrounded by fangs" c26 rundownsun No.31
new material from the legendary richard ramirez. a stripped frame of narrow sounds forced from discrete locales, and oblique devices. organized into sonic terraces; plateaus of hiss and crackle abruptly transition. 2 tracks of dense static and drainpipe howl that exemplify richards meticulous, source-driven investigations of textured sound. edition of 100. offset-printed 2 panel j-card. spray-painted high bias cassette. $6.00usd + shipping
emaciator "habit" c20 rundownsun No. 34
rundownsun is proud to announce yet another master work of jon borges'(pedestrian deposit, black air, knives) minimal and highly finessed noise/power electronics project emaciator. with heavy references to the early '80's european industrial scene, most notably the BROKEN FLAG label, emaciator walks a path quite divergent from borges' previous work. discarding the progressive, heavily edited, harsh-blast approach, in favour of steady throbbing drones, controlled feedback, and sickly vocals. self-described as the antithesis of pedestrian deposit, emaciator's focus is regression, degradation, and waste. human waste... habit, vice. inevitable conclusion. final solution. turn back the hands. silver offset-printing on heavy colour paper. xerox labled, high bias cassette. hand numbered edition of 100. SOLD OUT
black leather jesus "wild" c34 rundownsun No. 36
consistently active since 1989 black leather jesus should need no introduction. their debut for rundownsun offers a focused, three-round burst of pure, speaker-shredding distortion. convulsive emissions, and aggressive blasts in an ecstatic/chaotic convergence. explosive. concussive bombast, screeching feedback, and heavy electronics from this truly seminal american noise unit. edition of 100. offset-printed 2 panel j-card. xerox labeled high bias cassette. dipped in rubber with stamped catalog tag. $8.00usd + shipping
eli bornowsky "untitled" c40 rundownsun No. 37
first available recordings of vancouver visual artist eli bornowsky's tape, and electronic compositions. the first time i became aware of eli was when i was participating in The Western Front Gallery's open call for new musical works. i was lucky enough to catch eli in performance with sam mckinlay of THE RITA, and christian nicolay of THE REV. my face was thoroughly melted. i soon after attended a solo performance of eli's at the now defunct Blim gallery in downtown vancouver. i was immediately confronted with something quite different from the collaborative performance. humoristic juxtaposition, kitsch-culture/noise-culture referencing, caustic frequencies, concrete technique, primitive fourtrack manipulations, and effects pedal tweakings all expertly executed in a mesmerizing albeit abrasive 15 minuets. from those experiences and other like them eli was immediately at the top of my list of artists to approach when i started rundownsun. 2 years on and a release has finally materialized. like his visual art eli's sound work "address[es] perception in a formal psychedelia". total rainbow electronics. colour xerox artwork by eli bornowsky. spray-painted high bias cassette. $6.00usd + shipping
comedy "untitled" c30 rundownsun No. 42
30 minutes of personal references, inside jokes, and obscure concepts. extremely limited and only available at LEADERLESS: contemporary cassette culture on now at printed matter NYC. offset-printed 3 panel j-card. spray-painted high-bias cassette. limited copies available direct from rundownsun. $6.00usd +postage
tunnel canary 'jihad' / 'live at the ECCA 1980' LIMITED EDITION 2LP rundownsun No. 44 / No. 49
Available for pre-order now: the limited edition(less than 200 copies!) 2LP version of TUNNEL CANARY's long delayed vinyl debut.
Formed nearly 30 years ago at the height of Vancouver BC's early punk scene, amidst Canadian HARDCORE progenitors like D.O.A. and SUBHUMANS, TUNNEL CANARY emerged with a sound more in common with the then still incubating UK POWER ELECTRONICS scene and a militant attitude/lifestyle more in-line with straight edge hardcore or east-asian asceticism.
Influenced by avant-garde guitarists Fred Frith and Keith Rowe, contempory electronic composers like TUDOR, STOCKHAUSEN, and CAGE, and NO WAVE bands like MARS and DNA, TUNNEL CANARY produced a volatile and often violent mix of pure-noise, synthesizer music, free-improv, and confrontational performance art. Centered around the chaotic guitar antics and synth compositions of guitarist Aleh Kaheen(now: Nathan Holiday) coupled with the accusatory and often absolutely-hysterical caterwauling of vocalist Ebra Ziron, and supported by the tasteful and powerful bass punctuations of David Sheftel, TUNNEL CANARY’s unique sound sits somewhere in the spheres of POST-INDUSTRIAL, PROTO-POWER-ELECTRONICS, and NOISE.
This 2LP set represents the definitive TUNNEL CANARY document&183; Culled from material recorded between 1980 and 1983 representing the bands most prolific and powerful period. Included on the first LP is the bands sole released work ‘JIHAD’. Edited and re-named “Erdang†and released on the cassette compilation “Stitching Small Tears†in 1981; here ‘JIHAD’ has been restored to its complete length and original title. Flip of ‘JIHAD’ is a recording of TUNNEL CANARY’s extravagant multi-media live performance of ‘BEAUTY SECRETS’ from 1983. LP number two is a raucous performance from 1980 recorded at the Emily Carr Center for the Arts.
American Noise Legend, and early TC ally GX JUPITTER LARSEN remembers the TUNNEL CANARY live experience:
“A Tunnel Canary show had layer after layer of racket fragments bouncing somewhere between the back of your teeth and your inner ear. They were the classical complaint against calm, and the archetypal battle against boredom. They made you realize there was more to punk than just safety pins and leather. I remember seeing them open up for a William Burroughs reading in 1981. They blew the PA in seconds! Nathan I know doesn’t care much for that one, but I remember Burroughs telling me how he loved it. We all loved it. Tunnel Canary was a wake-up call for those of us fortunate enough to catch them live in those early days. When we heard them we heard the future, and the future was going to be loud!â€
Absolutely no expense has been spared in the manufacturing of this record: expertly mastered by Joshua Stevenson (magneticring, samara lubelski band, caste-exotic archives, etc). Cut twice for quality assurance. Imported black paper poly-lined inner-sleeves. Quality offset printed, double-sided, 2-panel heavy cardstock covers. A HUGE 25.5" x 34" offset printed poster! And a beautiful vinyl-ink screen-print on the b-side of the live LP.
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