PERMANENT RECORDS IS A RECORD LABEL AS WELL AS A RECORD SHOP/COMMUNITY SPACE. TO DATE WE HAVE RELEASED 2 VINYL RECORDS.
OUR FIRST RELEASE IS WARHAMMER 48K "AN ETHEREAL ORACLE" (PERM001).
IT IS AVAILABLE NOW ON 180 GRAM VIRGIN VINYL IN A LIMITED EDITION DELUXE GATEFOLD SLEEVE WITH A FOUR PANEL FOLD OUT INSERT. $14.99. PERMANENT RECORDS’ SECOND RELEASE IS A LP/CD COMBO BY CAVE CALLED "HUNT LIKE DEVIL/JAMZ" (PERM002). ALSO $14.99. WE’RE TAKING ORDERS (PERMANENTRECORDSCHICAGO.COM) NOW AND WE’RE SHIPPING NOW ($3 EXTRA FOR SHIPPING WITHIN THE CONTINENTAL US). FOR YOU LOCAL CHICAGOANS WE WILL HAVE IT IN STOCK. WE ALSO ACCEPT PAYPAL, MONEY ORDERS, CASH, AND CREDIT CARDS OVER THE PHONE. YOU CAN LISTEN TO A COUPLE OF TRACKS OFF OF "AN ETHEREAL ORACLE" OVER AT MYSPACE.COM/WARHAMMER48K AND A FEW CUTS FROM "HUNT LIKE DEVIL/JAMZ" BY CAVE AT MYSPACE.COM/REALREELPRO. PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR MIND BLOWN! DROP US A LINE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ORDER AND/OR IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THE LABEL.
REVIEW OF WARHAMMER 48K’S "AN ETHEREAL ORACLE"from the Chicago Journal article written by Josh Zanger:
"An Ethereal Oracle itself is very much worth documenting. Many different rock subgenre styles (sludge rock, post-hardcore, experimental/angular indie rock) seem to stick out during the course of nine tracks and 45 minutes, with plausible comparisons being drawn to Shellac, Bastro, The Paper Chase, and Melvins. Although complimentary, such recommended-if-you-like lists tend to come up short with fully describing what Warhammer 48k is about.The record gets underway with "Track One," a distorted radio transmission that sets a primal, experimental/psychedelic tone and shows that the band is more about making a rounded, theme-oriented album than throwing together nine of their hardest hitters. That said, An Ethereal Oracle is the combination of three main aggressive aspects-a thunderous yet sludgy sound, drawn-out psychedelic inventiveness, and full-throttle electric bass-driven post-punk jam outs. For an exemplary sample of all of the above, "Track Six" (clever, eh) features snare-rim clicks, throat-searing screams, and the catchiest bass line this side of Chic’s "Good Times."And while this album most likely won’t overwhelm the MTV masses, it is a perfectly consistent and powerful record that any nascent label would love to call their maiden release."
REVIEW OF CAVE’S "HUNT LIKE DEVIL/JAMZ"
FROM AQUARIUS RECORDS:
"At first glance, it might be difficult to know what this record is all about. The sleeve is just a photo of trees and leaves, a dense overgrown forest. Pull out the cd, that too is cryptic, just some random letters on the disc, the sleeve, an old crinkled photo from some seventies porn mag of a topless cowgirl with a gun in her mouth. There’s an insert, with a bunch of strange shapes, the word CAVE right at the top. But we know what it is. We’ve been waiting for this disc for ages. The debut recording from, wait for it... CAVE! Who just so happen to be the spacerock krautrock dronerock riff heavy jam band side project of one Warhammer 48K, who were already spacey and krauty and droney to begin with, so needless to say this is some seriously kick ass, aQ freakout worthy shit.
For the attention span impaired, howabout some Hawkwind, Can, Circle, Lightning Bolt, Pharaoh Overlord? Sounds good huh? Well, it’s easy to hear bits and pieces of all of those bands in the sound of Cave, a dual drummer-ed riff heavy psych rock, that takes single riffs and hammers at them, pounding and pummeling, repetitive and mesmerizing, a sort of kraut flecked hypnorock, but with all sorts of strange twists and turns, bizarre arrangements, baffling breakdowns, but woven into longform jams that should have anyone into the above mentioned bands frothing at the mouth.
The opening track is a gorgeous little tangle of minor key melodies, looped and repeated, over a tense distant drone, thick swaths of keyboard whir over soft tangles of acoustic guitar and space-y backwards guitar swoops, but then the opening riff of the second track kicks in, and it’s all fuzzy and feral, the greatest riff Pharoah Overlord never wrote, and they just hang on it, way longer than any normal band would, FOREVER, before the drums kick in, and they’re off, a relentless and hooky groove, with brief blasts of super dynamic chaos, before slipping right back into it. Keyboards lay still more hypnotic melodies over the top, vocals, when there are any, are shouted way down in the mix, or are wordless falsetto la-la-la’s, adding more texture and sonic complexity than anything. The dual drummers mix it up spitting out occasional tribal squalls, sometimes thick swirls of staticky fuzz wash over the proceedings, but their propulsive fortitude never falters. The first two tracks would almost be enough. Nearly 12 minutes of heavy freaked out space jam nirvana. You can practically feel the walls heaving and the sweat dripping through the speakers. You’ll probably need a lie down afterwards. But there’s no time, cuz hell, there’s 6 more tracks to dig through. The sound is punk rock, lo-fi, but lush and epic, damaged and delirious, like garage rockers raised on Magma and Faust, there’s plenty of Neu! in there, Stereolab too then, but it’s way heavier than that, the guitars crunchy and thick, occasionally opening up into wailing psychrock blowouts, the drums getting more and more distorted and frenzied. Imagine an amphetamine fueled Circle or Can, but via the basement, the sound a sweat soaked drug drenched mostly instrumental kraut groove. Mathy, murky, like the fucked up younger brother of Yes, a Neanderthal krautrock, laced with awesome grinding space rock riffage, blown out squalls of ur-psych, flurries of percussive splatter, chanting cult vocals, bits of what the fuck vocoder (!), but for all the weirdness, the core sound of Cave is THE RIFF. Whether it’s a warbly synth, or a superdistorted guitar, or tra-la-la vocals, they all align themselves with that riff, the mission, to entrance, to ensorcel, a heaving, pulsing, throbbing mass, the sound magnetic and irresistible. Endless jams that aren’t really, but feel like they should be. Like they are anyway. Transcending the laws of time and space, dragging us kicking and screaming, bouncing and bobbing, into some blissed out basement at the end of the universe, where we subsist of nothing but riffs, drums and FX. We never want to leave.
Killer packaging, it’s an lp AND a cd, same music on both, fold over full color sleeve, full color one sided cd sleeve (all described above) and a full color thick cardstock insert. And of course, limited, only 500 copies!"
DISTRIBUTED EXCLUSIVELY BY SOUTHERN RECORDS.
