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About Me

Dead Accents is the big tent name of projects Demian Johnston and Shane Mehling will be releasing together. It's the name of the second official Hemingway release, and will be used for all independently released Hemingway material as well as any other projects deemed suitable. Please feel free to send what ever demos you would like. Just remember, we specialize in small run, hand made cassettes, cdrs, dvds and vinyl. We do it for the love and the mayhem.

Info at www.deadaccentsmusic.blogspot.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/9/2007
Band Members: Demian Johnston and Shane Mehling are the two villains in charge.
Influences: well... not really influences but just so you know all mp3s in the player are samples. Some tracks are over an hour long for we just give you a little at a time. hugs.
Sounds Like: Noise, Drone, Black Metal, horribly offensive punk rock from the eighties, less offensive folk music, slightly more offensive country music, super lo-fi nonsense and live recordings...

The catalog is as follows:

(((ALL RELEASES FOR SALE HERE)))

-DA 001 Hemingway "A Kid Named Junk Drawer" cassette. Limited to 16 numbered copies. A 26 minute piece wrapped in matte finished hot glue, spray paint and vellum belly bands. SOLD OUT

-DA 002 Hemingway "The Calling The Waiter On The Phone Joke" Limited to 23 numbered copies. Wrapped in various papers and propaganda this 40 minute long piece is really going to hurt you. SOLD OUT

-DA 003 Demian Johnston "Sounds From Home" Cassette. Limited to 16 numbered copies and originally sold at the Anne Bonny in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. On this tape is one long manipulation of family audio recordings. Xylene transfered printing on chip board with hand drawn individual elements to every cover. dated. Part of the Monocol "FORT" art show/installation at the Anne Bonny . SOLD OUT

-DA 004 Hemingway "the landlord, dr. islam" 3" cdr. Live performance from the 414 House in Seattle, WA and new track. Fabric covered cdrs, hand stamped glassine envelopes, bits of silver paint and some toner helped put these together. Limited to 34 numbered copies. SOLD OUT

-DA 005 Demian Johnston "a fortress at terra sea" cdr. Five tracks of guitar and vocal chaos. die cut cardstock, vellum, and rag paper obi strips limited to 40 numbered copies. SOLD OUT.

-DA 005.5 Demian Johnston "a fortress at terra sea" cs. Same music as the cdr but with an additional 13 minute piece from the handmade "06.11.2008" cdr (edition of 6. long gone.) and with new minimal artwork. lucky. vellum printed and folded into cases. All cassettes include a tiny original photo from somewhere in North America. Edition of 30 numbered copies. Available at Hemingway shows and on ETSY. $7 plus shipping.

-DA 008 Hemingway "the mountain has arrived" cdr. One thirty minute piece played in one take by Shane and Demian with contact mics, guitar and care. made from vellum, cardstock and a 100 year old wood block print. Limited to fifty copies and available here or from the Esty store. SOLD OUT.

-DA 009 The Insect Explosion "difficulty without direction" cs. Ten tracks clocking in at forty seven minutes of hypnotic and horrifying noise rock from the UK. Limited to 50 copies and available from the Etsy store (www.deadaccents.etsy.com). $5.50 plus shipping.

-DA 010 Sparkle Girl "Blind Sunfucked Eye" cs16. Two totally punishing tracks of tape destruction and hell. Packaged in reclaimed anti static bags with screenprinted j cards and vellum inserts. Limited to 50 copies and available on either Etsy (www.deadaccents.etsy.com) or from the Dead Accents blog (www.deadaccentsmusic.blogspot.com). $6.50 plus shipping.

-DA 010.5 Sparkle Girl/Hemingway split cdr. A full length release and a split release with Broken Press (www.brokenpressdesign.com) that is limited to 100 copies. Hand screened and designed by Andrew Crawshaw. One epic and harsh track from Sparkle Girl and five more varied and vaguely punk tracks from hemingway. Available from the bands live and a few will be available on Dead Accents (www.deadaccentsmusic.blogspot.com) etsy store (www.deadaccents.etsy.com). $10 plus shipping.

-DA 011 Demian Johnston "Coal Lung" cdr. Two new heavy guitar tracks from Mr. Johnston. Made from recycled art prints and vellum. Limited to 13 copies and sold at his in store at Dissonant Plane (www.dissonantplane.com) recently. SOLD OUT.

-DA 012 Shining Ones "Motions in Light" cdr. First release for Seattle's Shining Ones. With guitars by Dan LaRochelle of Lesbian, Drums by Andrew Crawshaw of Broken Press Design and Vocals and Manipulations by Demian Johnston. Packaged in screen printed obi strips and sleeves and limited to 100 copies. $6.00 plus shipping.

-DA 015 Demian Johnston "forever" cs. Thirty minutes of quiet minimal drone and guitar layers. Limited to 50 copies and available on the Etsy store (www.deadaccents.etsy.com). $6.50 plus shipping.

Coming Soon:

DA 006 Mamiffer/Oakeater Split cs box ltd 30 copies (Arriving Early 2009)
DA 007 A Death Cinematic/Hemingway split cdr ltd 200 copies (Arriving Early 2009)
DA 013 Wooden Teeth/Demian Johnston split cdr ltd 150 copies (Future)
DA 014 Kenji Siratori vs. Hemingway 2xcdr ltd 200 copies (Future)
DA 016 Demian Johnston "still" cdr ltd 50 copies (May 2009)
DA 017 Ground Tissues 2x3"cdr ltd 50 copies (Future)
DA 018 Hemingway/Pastor Tonal split cdr ltd 150 copies (Future)
DA 019 Shining Ones cdr ltd 150 copies (Future)
DA 020 The Tin Noses Shop cdr ltd 30 copies (Future)
DA 021 The Tin Noses Shop/Demian Johnston 2xbiz cdr ltd 50 copies (Future)
DA 022 Everlovely Lightningheart cs ltd 100 copies
DA 023 Blowupnihilist "TBA" cdr ltd 150 copies

plus more from Blowupnihilist, The Tin Noses Shop, The Jew Hooves, Hemingway, S.C.A.B.Y., Demian Johnston, Sleuty, Blacked Skinned, Matt Hartman and many more small run releases. Feel free to contact with links, demos, etc. Email for address.
Record Label: yes.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Hemingway track.

Go to Hemingway's page and check out Frank Apple. The first demo for the upcoming full length on another label besides our own... It's really awesome.
Posted by on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:47:00 GMT

Update 12/2007

he end of the year is almost here and our first few months of being a label have been going great. Thanks to everyone that has taken the time to listen to what we have been working on. We will have ...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:43:00 GMT

DA 003

DA 003 is a cassette release of 16 numbered copies. It is about 19 minutes of manipulated home audio recordings. This is going to sold at the Anne Bonny on capitol hill in Seattle for the month of S...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:31:00 GMT

update for august.

A couple new releases in the very very near future. I am already in the process of assembling Dead Accents 002. It is a forty minute track of pure horror and bliss. You will love it (you better). Ther...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:23:00 GMT

DA 001

Our first release is a twenty six minute noise/guitar piece called "A Kid Named Junk Drawer". The packaging is above, and they are available for $6 and limited to only 16 numbered copies. All copies a...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:20:00 GMT