ARCHEOPTERYX "10 Years of Friendship" 10" - $6
2-piece from the SF Bay Area featuring 13 tracks of intense rhythm driven math/spazztunes in the vein of Lightning Bolt or Hella. Recorded by Judah Nagler of the Velvet Teen and his brother Ephraim.
> myspace.com/archeopteryx

ASSACRE "Fantastic Illusions Worth Dying For" CDR - $6.66
one man fantasy/extreme/homo metal sound collage futuristic spazzfest from Austin, TX
> www.assacre.com
> myspace.com/assacre

AUNT'S ANALOG "Joy" CDR - $5
ecstatic paranormal composed in the early bits of sunrise hypernoise from Austin TX
> myspace.com/auntsanalog
> instinctorecords.com

CRY BLOOD APACHE "Performing Diversion Acrobatics" CD - $6
15 tracks of hypnotic echo dream pop songs, definitely from the future (aka Austin, TX).
> myspace.com/crybloodapache
> www.geocities.com/blackkwainbow/

EXTREME ANIMALS "Music, the Great Communicator" CDR - $6
Extreme Animals are the neopolitan ice cream of neoclassical Neo from the Matrix dance music band. Featuring our friends from the super art cuties Paper Rad. Comes with free alien hacky sack.
> paperrad.org/extreme
> rf-da.com

FORTRESS OF AMPLITUDE "Loom of Doom" CDR - $6
Two songs, 48 minutes. This is a totally epic atmospheric lofi nightmarish minimal haunted house of a CD that sounds like Sesame Street entering a mysterious vortex of light and sound. Featuring Dave from the Paper Rad art ant hill.
> rf-da.com/fortress.html

FUTURISTIC PUKE "License to Grind" CDR - $6
Tom from myspace describes these guys as "A robotic dolphin puking the alphabet through a dead body." Awthum thinks they're brilliant. Limited copies!
> myspace.com/futuristicpuke

GYM MAT NAP "Convulsion" 3" CDR - $5
mashed up electronic bits of historical partakings into the destroyed beautiful human psyche, from Denton TX
> myspace.com/gymmatnap
> instinctorecords.com

KNIFE PARTY "???" CDR - $6
"the uber national house band to the black magic castle on ghostweed mountain. based in the crystal citadel knows as austin texas as an unknown subterrainian subterfuge of the above ground regime of cybernetic orcs..."
> www.totallywreck.com
> myspace.com/totallywreck

LOMA PRIETA "Our LP is your EP" 12" - $6
10 minutes of "deerhoof but brutal" explosive jams on a one sided 12"
> myspace.com/lomaprieta

MAVIS CONCAVE "Ghost Life" CDR - $6
hyper gabber/speed noise futuristic ecstasy from Cincinnatti, OH - all live recordings
> myspace.com/mavisconcave

MOOTHART "The Worst Vice is Advice" CD - $10
screamy pound your fist into the dancefloor hypercore from Salem OR
> www.moothartxcore.com
> myspace.com/moothart

NARWHALZ "The Church of the Pom Wizzard" CDR - $6
seriously rad video game cutups & Saturday morning cartoon doom jams. Rad handmade fuzzy cover (complete w/ googly eyes)
> myspace.com/narwhalsofsound
> www.dotcomandshit.org

NARWHALZ "A Static Rainbow: Blue " tape - $4
eat this tape for breakfast with a side of french fries, tin foil, and mystic tree bark for a fun cutenoise 8bit adventure you will sure not 4get
> myspace.com/narwhalsofsound
> www.dotcomandshit.org

NARWHALZ "Mt. Hater Free Zone" tape - $4
exploding reality 8bit fruit zombies of sound and light from Richmond, VA
> myspace.com/narwhalsofsound
> www.dotcomandshit.org

THE POPE "I Fucking Hate These Right Wing Mother Fuckers" live CDR - $5
Intense rock session by this brutal tag-team recorded live in a mosque for Blackk Wainbow! Artwork done by The Pope themselves, featuring the coming of the anti-christ in child form. Limited to 17 copies!
> www.geocities.com/blackkwainbow/

RF-DA "Cheer Up!" mix CDR - $6
Have you ever dreamed about jamming all over Shaq? About catching that pass to score the winning touch down? Future-sent RF-DA brings you "Cheer Up!" to provide a soundtrack for your next all night electrolyte mosh fest. I joined the cheerleading team just tog et a free copy of this record.
> rf-da.com

SEAN "Singers ruin perfectly good bands" CD - $8
spazzy drums & synth grindcore duo from Seattle
> myspace.com/seangrindcore

SET ON WHORE "Classic Whore / The Black Prom " double CDR - $11
Amazing double CDR set from Texas noise avant garde fun factor SET ON WHORE. Comes with hand spraypainted art, pornographic interior. And oh yes, this was created in very limited copies. Grab quickly.
> myspace.com/setonwhore

SPARKLE GIRL "The Organization of Appearances" 3" mini-CDR - $3
This 3 INCH CDR is limited to 20 copies.  Folded paper inserts printed with black text question the meaning and value of artistic works, their legitimacy, and their power to produce recognition of their own quality.  This is deep, fuzzed out, subliminal swamp sonography.  Simon and G. get screwed and chopped.  Schopenhauer speaks.  Lies pile up like snowdrifts. Hand-numbered, homemade-an impudent vintage.
> myspace.com/sparklegirlnoise

SPARKLE GIRL/LIQUEFIED "Will Kill For Change" split CDR - $4
This is noise speciality servants Sparkle Girl's CDR split with Seattles's enigmatic yet infamous free jazz/noise freakout ensemble the Liquefied. "Will Kill For Change" is limited to 100 copies in collage-art sleeves designed by artist Nate Lincoln.  Nate Lincoln uses and endorses Laser Sauce.
> myspace.com/sparklegirlnoise

STEERS "SteerS" CDR - $6
Austin, TX's favorite genre bending unpredictably heavy noise rock that will make you punch yourself in the eyeballz
> myspace.com/steers

WEIRDING WAY "Panspermia" CD - $7
Arrakeen sci-fi grind from Las Vegas
> myspace.com/weirdingway

WIZARD "Summerallion 2k6" zine - $5
rad comics and drawings by superstar bro Brian from Narwhalz fame!! Hand silkscreened cover and limited copies made!
> myspace.com/narwhalsofsound
> www.dotcomandshit.org

THE ZANZIBAR SNAILS "Introdewcing..." CDR - $6 NEW!
limited edition CDR from these Denton, TX drone kings, featuring beautiful moody moments of free jazz and wobbling, wibbling, wozzling slam dunks of droney goodness. Recorded live at Counter Culture Vintage in Dallas, TX. Rad hand printed artwork.
> myspace.com/zanzibarsnails

ZOM ZOMS "One Brain" CD - $8
hyper-bizarro synth zolo rock from Austin, TX
> www.tubezomzoms.com
> myspace.com/zomzoms

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