'A' Recordings

Angeline King and Derek See began The Bang Girl Group Revue (hereafter The Bang for short) in 2009, driven by their love of 1960's soul, girl group and beat music and style. The group became an immediate success on the live circuit with their reinvention of little known soul/ beat gems and a handful of original tunes, written in the style of the 1960's.

While The Bang went through several early lineup changes (one of which was captured on the debut 45 RPM single "Another Notch On His belt" which quickly sold out), it gelled beautifully for the recording of their debut LP, "Soul Shangri-La". The album was recorded at a private all analog studio in the San Francisco bay area, and the group is proud of the fact that there is no digital processing of any sort used on the album. While The Bang would never deny that their music is based firmly in the 1960's, they have seen firsthand through live performance that it is a sound that spans generations and appeals to not only those who lived through the era and mod revivalists but also those in their teens and twenties who may be getting a first taste of the soul of this music.

The Bang made a conscious decision to record our album using not only the technology of the era that their music is drawn from but also, more importantly, recorded it in a way that shows the strengths of the band. The ladies' vocals were all tracked together; the three of them gathered around two microphones (whoever was lead singer had her own mic while the backings where sang into the same mic). This is the way it was done, and it presents not only a complete performance but also the natural blend of the group. There are points where Angeline and Tisha Joy's harmonies are so close they sound as though they are one voice overdubbed!

The music performed by the gentlemen was recorded by the band, together, in the same room. Nothing compares to the passion and heart that a group of musicians create when they are in the same room, making eye contact, watching physical communication. This is the root of the "magic" of the old recordings, and The Bang captures the heart and soul of the era with just enough of a contemporary edge.

Tracklisting:
1. Another Notch On His belt 
2. Losing Control 
3. No Matter What You Do 
4. Make It For The Door 
5. Let Me Down Easy 
6. Love's Gone Bad 
7. Drink In Hand 
8. Not Your Fool 
9. In The Basement 
10. You Got My Love 
11.  You Better Watch Out 
12. I'm A Good Woman 
13. Needle In A Haystack 
14. Hold On

This comes for the first time on 180grm black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve. Re-mastered for a vinyl release . 

This 15 track compilation spans the years 1995 ' 2004 featuring key tracks from all their albums as well and live recordings and many unreleased tracks. Volume 2 will be released in early 2014 . The album is seen as a classic Brian Jonestown Massacre release the CD was originally released in 1997.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre is a psychedelic rock band originally from San Francisco, California, led by guitarist/singer Anton Newcombe. Originally Newcombe was heavily influenced by The Rolling Stones' psychedelic phase - the name comes from Stones guitarist Brian Jones combined with a reference to cult leader Jim Jones, but his work in the 2000s has expanded into aesthetic dimensions approximating the UK Shoegazing genre of the 1990s and incorporating influences from world music, especially Middle Eastern and Brazilian music.

Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. All Around You (Intro)
2. Who?
3. When Jokers Attack
4. Servo 

Side B:
1. Open Heart Surgery
2. If Love Is the Drug
3. It Girl
4. Sailor 

SIDE C:
1. Anenome
2. Wisdom
3. Just for Today   

SIDE D:
1. Stars
2. Vacuum Boots
3. Prozac vs. Heroin
4. She's Gone

Both CD & Vinyl are limited to 2,000 worldwide & are individually hand numbered from 1 to 2000 .

This EP contains one track from the seminal Aufheben (Viholliseni Maala) , the other 3 tracks are exclusive to this release.

Revolution Number Zero makes an appearance in a different version from the one available on the 8MM label's compilation , Viholliseni Maala ( in the land of my enemy ) is a different version and with vocals performed (in English) by Matt Hollywood & Don't Say A Thing has never been heard before.
 
Tracklisting:
1. Viholliseni Maala
2. Revolution Number Zero
3. Viholliseni Maala (In The Land Of My Enemy)
4. Don't Say A Thing

Double 10, one 10 is Daylgo Pink the other 10 is Dayglo Yellow. This is a Mini LP  

Weird Owl formed in Brooklyn, NY in 2004 and has released two full-length LPs as well as several EPs. Their presence and longevity in the New York psych scene has garnered international attention and they have shared stages with bands such as White Hills, NAAM, La Otracina, Hopewell, Earthless, Sleepy Sun, Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound, Quest for Fire, Spindrift and The Black Angels, including at the 2011 Austin Psych Fest.

Healing proves that Weird Owl to be a constantly evolving musical entity, striving to present itself in a continually fresh light. The fuzzed-out guitar tones that were once synonymous with the band have fallen into the background, and a more ambient, textured sound found its place in the forefront. Recorded and mixed by Jeffrey Berner (NAAM, Heliotropes, La Otracina) at Galuminum Foil Studio in Brooklyn in April and May of 2013, Weird Owl's new musical direction revealed itself as an exciting and unique mind blast.

Tracklisting:
1. Change Your Mind
2. Stars on a Coffin Lid
3. Seventh of Seven Sundays (777)
4. Master of the Mysteries5. Healing

The Brian Jonestown Massacre Singles Collection 1992 - 2011.

This double CD features 14 tracks that have not been available on CD before. Features two tracks from the band's alter ego Acid recorded in 1993 & also the unreleased Convertible & Their Majesties 2nd Request (Enrique's Dream).

Also included is 2011's single only release Illuminomi & There's A War Going On . Comes with a 24 page booklet featuring the front & backs of all the  original covers. Originally Newcombe was heavily influenced by The Rolling Stones' psychedelic phase - the name comes from Stones guitarist Brian Jones combined with a reference to cult leader Jim Jones, but his work in the 2000s has expanded into aesthetic dimensions approximating the UK Shoegazing genre of the 1990s and incorporating influences from world music, especially Middle Eastern and Brazilian music.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre has been somewhat of a musical commune for many respected musicians over the years, a band from the 1990's that has spurned other great bands ever since. Black Rebel  Motorcycle Club, The Warlocks, The Silver Rockets, The Black Angels, The Ravenettes, The Dilettantes (to name a few) are all part of this musical family tree. Indeed, this is a band that has witnessed many incarnations, since its inception in San  Francisco in 1992.

Tracklisting:
CD 1:
1. She Made Me
2. Evergreen
3. Convertible
4. Their Majesties 2nd Request (Enrique's Dream)
5. Hide & Seek
6. Methodrone (Live at the Compound)
7. Cold To The Touch
8. Anemone 
9. Never Ever 
10. Feelers
11. Not If You Were The Last Dandy On Earth

CD 2:
12. This Is Why You Love Me
13. Lantern
14.  Malela
15. If Love Is The Drug Then I Want To OD
16. When Jokers Attack
17. Prozac vs Heroin
18. Nailing Honey To The Bee
19. Illuminomi
20. There's A War Going On

Bonus Tracks:
21. Thoughts Of You (by Acid)
22. Never Ever  (by Acid)

Available on white vinyl , all tracks are exclusive & unreleased .

The 8MM Bar was founded by Alex Olli Konuk and Louis Trumpbour in 2002 and quickly developed a reputation as a meeting place for musicians from all over the world.

8MM Musik, the music label, was founded to nurture a niche music scene in Berlin, as well as to take advantage of 8MM's reputation abroad to promote German, and particularly Berlin based bands internationally.

Case in point, this record is being released worldwide in cooperation with Anton Newcombe's UK based 'a' Recordings. .

This is 8MM Musik's second compilation which contains exclusive tracks from the Brian Jonestown Massacre , Camera , Kadavar & many more.

Tracklisting:
1. Camera ' Meteor
2. Kadavar ' Tomorrow's Dead
3. Jack November ' Pennyroyal Tea
4. The Third Sound ' For A While
5. The Blue Angel Lounge ' In Times
6. Snøffeltøffs ' I Don't Know (Where You've Been Going)
7. Sun And The Wolf ' All We Need
8. The Brian Jonestown Massacre ' Revolution Number Zero
9. Mystical Communication Service ' Big Black Bear
10. The Suns Of Thyme ' Cataclysm
11. The Kitchenmen feat. Fredovitch ' Welcome To Your Lands

The vinyl comes in a gatefold 180 grm format.The conception that became The Third Sound was first formed when former Singapore Sling and Hudson Wayne member Hákon Aðalsteinsson left his home of Iceland and music collective Vebeth to the contrasting rooftops of Rome.

Drawing from his roots of shoegaze neo-psychedelia he made slight of hand gestures towards country, blues and Kraut and recorded his first album with 60's aficionado Francesco D'Onofrio.

Returning home he finished the album with guitar prodigy Hallberg Daði Hallergsson (Jakobinarina), and began experimenting with new mixing techniques being inspired by a theory known as The Third Sound.

To materialize the band that would explore this concept, he moved to Berlin to form an internationally diverse five piece band hailing from as far as France, Sweden, Venezuela, New York and Australia idyllically representing the new eclectic Berlin sound.

Sharing the stage with Anton Newcombe (Brian Jonestown Massacre) as well as Kid Congo in their first few shows

Tracklisting:
1. At Heaven's Gate
2. Gloria
3. The Third Sound
4. Re-elevation
5. Love/Perfected By Death
6. Long Way From Home
7. J.S.D.
8. In My Dreams
9. Going Down
10. Further Down

For fans of Lee Hazlewood, Roy Orbison, Hank Williams, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Jesus & Mary Chain, & Spiritualized

Gunman and the Holy Ghost  is another music project created by Hákon Aðalsteinsson (The Third Sound).  The songs were written in Berlin during the coldest months of the winter then recorded and mixed next spring time. Now available on 180 gram vinyl.

From a review by JJ Baker: When I started listening to Gunman & The Holy Ghost it actually made me laugh. Such misery! This is melancholy with gristle! This album is barefaced in it's misery-it doesn't resist it, it uses it.

Song titles like I Don't Believe In Love Anymore and Oh Lord, Let Me Die In Pain are pretty good indication of what we're in for here, though there's great variation on this deliciously dark album. Opener The Eight To Five Train To Nothing snared me right in the lip and I was willfully dragged up through that ink black water and onto the good ship Gunman.

A relatively upbeat tune, it has some sad, sad lyrics:I would want you here but you're nowhere near so I just keep steaming on; Into the wilderness and unhappiness right back where I came from Lines like this are so damn dark, they bring a smile to my face¦

Tracklisting:
1. The Eight To Five Train To Nothing
2. Oh Lord, Let me Die In Pain
3. Lonely
4. I Don't Believe In Love Anymore
5. Jesus Why Can't I Walk With You?
6. Like A Soldier...
7. A Way Back From Civilization
8. Outlaw's Shout
9. Now It's Too Late
10. Dream Of A Highway

The Altered Hours exist in a swirl of the psychedelic and hypnotic.

Sweet Jelly Roll EP, recorded in Autumn 2012 with Fabien Leseure in Berlin, at Anton Newcombe's (Brian Jonestown Massacre). Their debut release Downstream was recorded in a reclaimed government building housing the band's Cracks in the Light Studio and was released independently.

2012 has seen The Altered Hours play some wonderful stages and festivals across Europe including Electric Picnic, Liverpool Psych Fest,Germany and the UK & they have more European dates to be confirmed for a 2013 European Tour.Club.

Tracklisting:
1. Sweet Jelly Roll 
2. Smoke Your Eyes 
3. Everyone Is Inside

10 available on white vinyl.

This 7 track mini album release runs over 27 minutes Alex Zhang Hungtai AKA Dirty Beaches started off as a one man band in 2005, Montreal and has since released a dozen releases on various independent labels.

A trans-pacific nomad and genre hopping sound smith, his past releases include: drone instrumentals, films scores, and his fascination with dissecting popular american music like blues, rockabilly, soul, RNB, and hip hop, often rendering them to the point where its no longer recognizable.

His latest release WATERPARK is a film score written for Director Evan Prosofsky's same titled film, and explores the neutral element of sound in a massive indoor water park located in west Edmonton Mall, in the province of Alberta. A vacation home to countless stranded Canadians with no vacation in sight.

The instrumentation of oscillators, heavily reverberated strings, mellotron/chamberlain, and experimental electric guitar sets the mood for this bizarre plastic tropical paradise thats within a shopping mall.

Tracklisting:
1. Water Park Theme (Take 2) 
2. Floating Underwater Watching Waves 
3. Phases 
4. Canadian Prairies 
5. Like The Wind
6. Good Bye Edmonton 
7. Water Park Theme (Reprise)

Available on yellow vinyl in deluxe packaging!!

The first track of this 12 comes from Tim Burgess' (Charlatans) limited edition  Record Store Day Album Oh No I Love You More.

The B side White - Cool Minds Breezy Feelings & the radio edit of the same track are exclusive to this release .

Tim Burgess met Anton Newcombe (The Brian Jonestown Massacre) in the late 90's while they were both DJing around LA , the remix was done by Anton in Berlin . Please note the A side runs at 45rpm & the B side runs at 33rpm for the optimum aural quality. 

Tracklisting:
1. The Doors Of Then - I Am Yours I Am You
2. White - Cool Minds Breezy Feelings (Full Length)
3. White - Cool Minds Breezy Feelings (Radio Edit)

Originally released on vinyl in 1997 now reissued on a recordings Anton Newcombe's own record label.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre is a psychedelic rock band originally from San Francisco, California, led by guitarist/singer Anton Newcombe. Since 1995 The Brian Jonestown Massacre has released numerous albums, first for Bomp! Records, the label which gave them their start,and later for TVT and Tee Pee. BJM has been essential in the development of the modern U.S. garage scene, and many LA and SF musicians got their start playing with Newcombe, including Peter Hayes of The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

Originally Newcombe was heavily influenced by The Rolling Stones' psychedelic phase - the name comes from Stones guitarist Brian Jones combined with a reference to cult leader Jim Jones, but his work in the 2000s has expanded into aesthetic dimensions approximating the UK Shoegazing genre of the 1990s and incorporating influences from world music, especially Middle Eastern and Brazilian music.

Tracklisting:
1. LOVE
2. Nothing To Lose
3. Summer
4. Ive Been Waiting
5. The Devil May Care (Mom & Dad Don't)
6. I've Been Waiting (Demo)