Hey some pretty good scam on the walls and filed into the bins this week, ready for your filthy paws to grope on ‘em like a slutty prom date.
Couple of HAUTE new jams in from NNA Tapes who recently stepped away from the safety of their namesake’s medium to produce a handfull of 7″s and full length vinyls. We’ve stocked the Coppertone 7″ for a few weeks now–if you missed Sasha playing in our neighbor’s basement a few years back, then you missed a breath of strange metallic air–and the other day Co La and Nate Young wax appeared. Young’s LP, which is the 2nd “Regression” entitled “Stay Asleep”, steps back from the showiness of his most famous project, the everyman’s noise band Wolf Eyes, to reveal an understatedly brooding work. Never fully aggressive, this LP creeps along at strange intervals, with spartan synth lines hinting at a discomfort you are nearly frightened of. The Co La rec, on the other hand, while maintaining some of the distance oft found in experimental music, is a much more inviting piece. Integrating plain dance beats, ‘world’ flavoured samples, and textural rhythms to create what NNA calls Neo-Exotica. I’d say that perhaps this ground was well covered in a more flair oriented manner in the late 90s with kitsch curators like DJ Me DJ You, and that to really feel this album, you should put on your ‘tropical’ goggles and get down with the minimalism. Taken out of the label’s perspective, and even away from contemporary trends, “Daydream Repetition” holds more similarities with distinct rhythmic styles of dub, minimal techno and stripped house. With the exception of tracks 2 and 3, which are echo chambered bangers, the bulk the album is slow-burning Zone music; put your head in the memories of chill-out rooms from 1990s raves and you wouldn’t be too far off.
Turning the page into territory where you’d be damned to hear any synth, Sorry State records are in! HC, punk and their various permutations on 12″ and 7″ vinyl. A few highlights include Kansas City’s Dark Ages’ full length, two 7″ collections from Double Negative and the new rockin’ Brain F/=.
A few other unrelated rockers have made their presence known about the store: reissues from noise-rock jerkoffs Pissed Jeans and Detroit’s fall-apart punk outfit Tyvek. We want to also mention that Heavy Times LP on HoZac and the new Spits (again), because we think you want your next party to play it eight times in a row. That’ll get the beer spewing.
Hospital Productions just released a two cassette mammoth compilation entitled “White Eye Of Winter Watching“, which hearkens back to certain influential tape collections of aggression Fernow did belove while in a sick bed fever dream. This 300th release on HP boasts a stellar line-up of over 30 essential acts such as Ramleh, Genocide Organ, Smell & Quim, Consumer Electronics and The Haters and, would make the perfect gift for your discerning noise purveyor. Hey, creeps like prezzies, too!
Continuuing the line of lavish sets, Light In The Attic takes their turn at impressing our pants off with Wheedle’s Groove: Seattle’s Finest in Funk and Soul 1965- 1979. Check out this item’s swagger: Ten 7″ records, one CD, a download card for ALL tracks, a full color deluxe box with magnetic closure, and a 96 page booklet. Gah! It’s enough to make you forget that you’re here for the music! Hopefully, you’ll take it off display long enough to get those 45s spinning and treat your ears to some previously rare, and collectors only groove.
Also, you should know that LITA also reissued two country favorites from The Louvin Brothers. Right now, you can get both in one CD package for less than 20 bucks!
There will be some more reconfigurations of the floorplan soon. We gotta make way for the dozens of boxes containing black metal and reggae–yeah, disparate pairing, but that’s how we like things! (And no kidding, there are over a dozen boxes of each genre, we’re fucking drowning over here!) Currently, entering some of these BM cassettes is slow going, but we’ve got a new shelf up just for them so give us a moment and we’ll appease your fiending soon. Also, the shelf under the main 7″s will have to do for the boxes of dub and reggae 45s. Once unboxed, we’re gonna throw em down, unsorted, unalphabetized, so diggers, get ready.
A few more recent releases worth mentioning before we go: Frank Alpine s/t (Wierd)–this gets a lot of instore play, so feel free to come down and check it out; new jams from Sublime Frequency, Leviathan, M83, Boris, Home-Tapes, Atlas Moth, Pre and a goofily titled concept 7″ called Black Face featuring Black Flag’s Chuck Dukowski + Oxbow’s Eugene Robinson.
All of these items can be yours! Just click on the Shop tab at the top of apoprecords.com, also the most recently entered items are listed on that main shop page, so you can browse what’s fresh!
And don’t forget: We’re throwing a glutfest tomorrow night for Apop Movie Nights, and the following day, with a little help from the hair of the dog that bit us, we’re holding a sale on everything in the shop for Black Friday!
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