Spin-17

Spin-17 mixes improvisation with experimental composition. Since it was found in 1997, Spin-17 has performed the NYC venues(Tonic, Knitting Factory,Roulette, CBGB's ) as well as the three U.S. tours. In 2005, Spin-17 started producing a monthly concert series at 226 East 2nd St ..5D, the "226 Series/The Foundry". Each month in an intimate setting sound artists presents new works designed for small spaces and concentrated listening.
Spin-17 has performed with Donald Miller, Sabir Mateen, Daniel Carter, Matthew Heyner, Samara Lubelski, Blaise Siwula, Jeffrey H Shurdut, the Gold Sparkle Band, Matthew Sullivan, Toshi Makihara and Michael Evans as well as the late European bassist Peter Kowald.
New Releases

Motoko Shimizu
Jennie & Me

Solo Turntable compositions for young and fun people - appropriate for the beach, cocktail parties, crime scenes, giant squid sightings and much more. The 5-foot woman strikes again with her sidekick turntable Jennie - phono needles everywhere beware!
1. 31.5Hz
2. Which hand is more important?
3. Martian VS Sputnik
4. High Fidelity Simplified mp3 sample
5. Sgt. Kabukiwoman
6. This is the way we play records on Friday morning mp3 sample
7. Non-breakable Micro-Groove mp3 sample
Quodlibet Recordings CDR Series 2006 QLCDR-03
Ultra-limited edition in clear poly-keeper.
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Rust Ionics
moving/pictures (LP)
Ed Chang - sax
Doug Theriault - guitar
Adam Kriney - drums

Limited to 311 copies in clear blue vinyl with clear plastic sticker packaging

This skronk throwdown occurred in Brooklyn April 2005, this was the first meeting between the members of noise-attack duo Dual and the leader of the Colour Sounds/Owl Sounds freak-psych army. So intense the metal plates were damaged during pressing. Last Exit meets up with the Ruins to gang up on Painkiller. Turn it up to 10 and throw away the knob..
SAMPLE mp3

A Quodlibet/Colour Sounds/Outer Limits split release.
QLLP-01 / CSR018 / OL05
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Han Degc
"metal"

Han Degc
"metal"
This is one of Han’s laptop experiments in chopping up and recombining thrash/death metal samples into a superfast superchaotic brain-melting stew. This uses uncleared, copyrighted samples (not that you'd recognize them at this point) so you won’t be seeing this at Tower Records anytime soon….This is only available as a freebie when you order $15 worth of stuff from our website, so I don’t actually “make money” from “stealing” other people’s “music”...“yo.”

banana bam bam / gerbil mountain / war iron hand pus / blud nutz corporate body / buzzsaw threnody / gall / biohazardous blitz buffet / metal fun gear / liver buster / night of the yellow ochre worm
Quodlibet Recordings CDR Series 2006 QLCDR-04
These are also extremely limited to 45 units, and come in a round metal case with printed metallic disc art and a piece of the computer the music was created on.
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Elephant Calls (Utech Records 2006)
Ravi Padmanabha - tabla, percussion
Ed Chang - acoustic guitar

Limited edition of 200 in cardboard packaging. Ed uses an acoustic guitar with a tuning which took days to develop. Ravi plays tablas and a percussion array with which you could probably make very many tasty meals. All acoustic, in large part minimal and meditative, this is from yoga to yogurt to yog-sothoth.

Tracks: 1.Uhtan 2.Avatar 3.Elephant Calls 4.Ivory Asuras 5.Prana of Sati 6.Hanuman Calls
SAMPLE mp3
Available from Utech Records and Quodlibet.
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Ed Chang
"my first saxophone"
Solo saxophone improvisations. Chang's first and only full-length solo sax testament on the very first sax he ever played.
Alto Sax (1-4), Prepared Alto Sax (5-7).
Recorded June 28, 2006/Nov 7, 2005 @ The Foundry
Ultra-limited edition in clear blue poly-keeper.
SAMPLE mp3
Quodlibet Recordings CDR Series 2006 QLCDR-02
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Agents at Midnight (New Full-length CD!)
Ed Chang : saxophone.
Ed Howard : electronics, harmonica.
The full-length debut of noise-jazz duo Agents At Midnight, and a real pro-pressed CD in an edition of 500 copies, the first in 5 years! Meticulously constructed from hours and hours of recording sessions, this album is a distillation of all the many sounds and styles explored by this duo. Rumbling bassy drones, unflinchingly ear-piercing examinations of feedback tones, dizzyingly fast sample-based pieces, musique concrete-inspired collage. And on all of it, sax and electronics flow subtly into one another, bleeding over until the authorship of sounds is often uncertain. Agents At Midnight inhabits a weird hybrid territory somewhere between abstract modern improv, harsh noise, and free jazz, sometimes blending these styles, sometimes veering between them.
1.Terrible Meditation II (9:39)
2.This Is Your Brain On (8:47) MP3 Excerpt 2.34MB
3.The Dread At the Back of Your Throat (8:25) MP3 Excerpt 1.92MB
4.Ghost Packets (7:35)
5.Arse Cracked (14:25)
6.Damaged Symphony For Karl Stockhausen (18:38)
Limited 500.
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Co-released with Fargone Records .
RELEASED May 23, 2006.
DUAL
PYROCLASTICS
Doug Theriault - Guitar / Ed Chang - Laptop Electronics
Doug Theriault and Ed Chang atom-smash supersonic guitar frequencies with laptop-generated blender blast-beats to create 16 non-stop ear-pummeling electro-noise action tracks. Improv, destroyed. This is Dual at their most-focused, and most-insane...
SAMPLE mp3
Quodlibet Recordings CDR Series 2006 QLCDR-01
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