MT500001 - Talibam! / Le Harmacy - Split C30 - $5.00
NYC FREEFUCKNOISEJAZZZ - ITALY FREEFUCKNOISEJAZZZ
LIMITED 79 COPIES
REVIEW FROM BALTIMORE CITY PAPER: MICHAEL BYRNE - WWW.CITYPAPER.COM
Talibam! gave the world, like, a gazillion recordings in 2007, which is kind of par for the course for anything in the swelling little world of free-jazz-punk-deconstruct, the whatever and what have you music-y noise of sweat and basement anarchy. The only reason we catch most of this kind of stuff now is the CD-R, the technological enabler of the 25-run album pressing. The only reason we caught any of it then were tapes: A dual-deck with high-speed dubbing, and you too can make all of your friends' ears bleed.
So, it's fitting that Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Talibam!'s gazillionth release this year--the inaugural release of MT6 records tape-only offshoot, MT5 (natch?)--comes to us in a format that only about a third of us can actually play. And in fine Talibam! form--something like a rabid Don Caballero or circa-Homeboy Hella--it's filled with music significantly less than a third of us will actually want to listen to. And that significantly insignificant portion of the music-listening universe had best lube up its ears.
It's short and hard, some 15 minutes of cutting-room leftovers from last spring's stellar Ordination of the Globetrotting Conscripts, the duo's first "proper" (read: large run, real label, non-CD-R) release. Drums hit arrhythmically like the first drops of a rainstorm on a tin roof, slowed to half-speed and miked closely enough to tell just which drops are splashing and which are crashing; synths chase around in pitched squeals and organ-toned arpeggios. It all swirls around like that, eventually finding intermittent "grooves," where Kevin Shea's drums catch a beat and Matt Mottel's keys decide to play along. That is, until the Talibam! fellas get impatient and chase off for a few minutes into panicked megaracket. The flip is from one of Talibam!'s brothers-in-spirit, Italy's Le Harmacy, dishing another 15 or so minutes of megaracket littered with impressive full-stops, teases of tribalism, brown-note bass throbs, and various sounds your computer would make OD'ing on coke. And, of course, there's plenty of tape hiss to go around, too.
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MT500002 - PALM TREES CASSETTE DUO / LEGLESS - Split C30 - $5.00
Virginia mutated tapes, junkpile electronics, guitar abuse member of Headmolt/Ratward
Baltimore Street Noise - ex New Flesh
LIMITED 66 COPIES
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MT500003 - ARKLIGHT / A.P.E. - Split C30 - $5.00
Ny Long Island noise psyche out!!
Baltimore Vagabond experimental noise
LIMITED 44 COPIES
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MT500004 - CHEIF POKAWA "Take the Hose" - C32 - $5.00
Longtime MT6 Member Chief Pokawa keeps trying to go more and more unknown and underground by moving to MT5 for this release. This Cassette features
10 songs from one man's mind, recorded at TZ2udio. Containing the Hit Single "I'M BAKED"!!!
LIMITED 45 COPIES
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MT500006 - The Wire Orchestra "MT6 Island" - C32 - $5.00
Newagehillbilly and Bdoptical took a boat to Hart Miller Island in Middle River Md. They brought along a Tape Recorder, a broken Acoustic Guitar, lots of beer, and some
food. Along the way they met a raccoon, recorded waves, and slept in a tent. Pretty amusing recordings honestly....
LIMITED 20 COPIES
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