9 Beet Stretch

In case all the drone records you've been purchasing here at Aquarius aren't quite enough, you can always tune into this: http://www.park.nl/park_cms/public/index.php?thisarticle=118! It's a internet audio stream of Beethoven's 9th Symphony stretched, without pitch distortion, to 24 hours duration, basically turning it into a gorgeous "pop ambient" drone. It's been streaming on continuous loop since May of 2005... One of the best drone pieces ever!

New Arrivals list #305

Has been uploaded / emailed out. For the next two weeks you can find it here if you haven't seen it already.

The 2 Records Of The Week, this week:
Ursula Bogner "Recordings 1969-1988" (Faitiche) cd/lp $19.98/$19.98
Hadn't ever heard of her before either, but as soon as we heard her lovingly packaged Recordings 1969-1988, we were smitten, fascinated by the secret sonic life of a mother and housewife, and entranced by her homebrewed hobbyist minimal analog electronic music that's so wonderfully playful and dreamy. Wow. And even if the compelling story of Ursula Bogner were not true (if, say, this was an elaborate hoax perpetrated by Jan Jelinek) we'd still love the music...
Tobacco "Fucked Up Friends" (Anticon) cd/lp $14.98/$14.98
Fuzzed out swap meet synths and vocodered '80 vocals in a WTF? electro pop concoction with guest rapping from Aesop Rock! In heavy rotation here at AQ...

Also, there's a new tUMULt release on this week's list:
The Memories Attack "s/t" (tUMULt/Noyes) cd $13.98
Nope, it's not any sort of black metal, not this time. This one's for the pop lovers out there, it's an album from a Canadian indie noise pop duo featuring one of the dudes from Eric's Trip.

Something to do next Wednesday nite (if you're in SF)

Our friend Ms. Maiko over at Alternative Tentacles passed this along... Ian Svenonius (Make Up, Scene Creamers, Nation Of Ulysses) interviews Richard and Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls, and Jello Biafra, for a taping of Ian's show on Vice's VBS.tv, this coming Wednesday 11/19, 6:30pm at Cobb's Comedy Club in North Beach. It's free to attend but you gotta RSVP at http://www.viceland.com/softfocussf if you want to go. Could be pretty interestin'!

Thanks for the plug!

This interview with the former music director at KFJC makes a nice mention of Aquarius, and also our pals at one of our other favorite radio stations, WFMU.

Oh and speaking of plugs, did you see our top ten sales chart in Rolling Stone magazine recently? It was in the one with AC/DC on the cover. Cute picture of Scott's band The Alps in there too...

Midweek new arrivals roundup

These are some of the interesting items to have shown up here since last Friday's list...

Asva "Futurists Against The Ocean" (Southern) lp $23.00
Azrael Rising "s/t" (Primitive Reaction) cd ep $10.98
Bass Communion "II/III" (Beta-lactam Ring) 2cd $19.98
Bixobal "Number 5 October 2008" (Ri Be Xibalba) magazine $2.00
Blood Of The Black Owl "A Feral Spirit" (Aurora Borealis) lp $17.98
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore "Dolores" (Ipecac) cd $15.98
CSS "Move (Remixes)" (Sub Pop) 12" $4.98
Free Blood "The Singles" (Rong / DFA) cd $14.98
Low "Santa's Coming Over" (Sub Pop) 7" $4.98
Lucky Dragons "Dark Falcon" (Marriage) lp $15.98
Lucky Dragons "Dream Island Laughing Language" (Marriage) lp $16.98
Brother Jack McDuff "Gin & Orange" (Dusty Groove) cd $14.98
Megadeth "Rust In Peace" (Capitol) lp $22.00
Megapuss "Surfing" (Vapor) cd $15.98
Metallica "...And Justice For All" (Warner Bros) 2lp $25.00
No Age "Teen Creeps" (Sub Pop) 7" $3.98
Pelican / These Arms Are Snakes "Gold Diggers / Pink Mammoth" (Hydra Head) 10" $14.98
Piano Magic "Dark Horses" (MMM) cd $14.98
Pig Heart Transplant "Hope You Enjoy Heaven" (Sweatlung) cd $10.98
Rahdunes "Musick" (Sweatlung) cd $10.98
Reverend Bizarre "Dark World / Deceiver" (Primitive Reaction) 7" $9.98
Thou "The Retaliation of the Immutable Force of Nature" (Gilead Media) 12" $12.98
Tipsy "Buzzz" (Ipecac) cd $15.98
v/a "Titan: It's All Pop!" (Numero Group) 2cd $26.00

Both the Blood Of The Black Owl and the Pelican/These Arms Are Snakes split we will be getting in on cd, soon, too.

So, it seems we won't be moving Aquarius to Canada anytime soon, after all

New Arrivals list #304

Haven't blogged much this week, sorry, that's 'cause we were busy working on the latest New Arrivals list, which you'll find here. Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!

The four Records Of The Week, this week:
Nahvalr "s/t" (Enemies List) cd $13.98
Buzz upon buzz upon buzz. The first "open source" black metal record, from the same guys behind the blissed out blackened gloom metal of Have A Nice Life!
Fripp & Eno "(No Pussyfooting)" (DGM) 2cd $16.98
Fripp & Eno "Evening Star" (DGM) cd $15.98
Two crucial legendary albums by Fripp & Eno, remastered and reissued, sounding as good as ever, with a whole bonus disc on No Pussyfooting, ready to be worshipped by a new generation of listeners into the likes of Expo '70 and Growing.
Gore "Hart Gore/Mean Man's Dream" (Southern Lord) 2cd $17.98
Finally reissued together on two cds, two of THE most awesome records ever of groundbreaking minimal metallic crunch from this legendary Dutch trio.


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