People Like Us

Welcome Abroad - CD / download

"Welcome Abroad is the soundtrack to a dream - overlaying a cabaret with the circus, a music hall with the radio, a nightclub with the movies. Finely tuned sounds from the collective unconscious, fitted together with care and clarity and skill, producing a hallucinatory landscape that shifts and slides, shimmering with each new sample. Julie Andrews duets with Jim Morrison? Damn." -Steinski

Junk Culture

Summer Friends - CD / download

2nd release from Junk Culture, who will be touring with Girl Talk from NYC to Las Vegas (Feb. 24-Mar. 25). Deepak Mantena developed the sound for his newest release, Summer Friends, from a lifetime collection of sounds he'd captured on a handheld recorder. Drawing on inspiration he found in the vibrant harmonies, psychedelic noises and dance rhythms that saturated his environment, he created alluring melodies using guitar, keyboard, and percussion and topped them off with choruses of his own explosive vocals.

Bad Speler

Jesus and Santa and
all that shit present :
The Christmix A BADHEIM
STEAMSPELER PRODUCTION - download

mixtapes so far in this 100% live (no edits!) series by Darren Keen...
•"Big Smaller Presents : GOOD SPEAKER"
•"Bill$ Gate and His Michael Soft Umpire Present: The Babble iFad"
•"Jesus and Santa and all that shit present : The Christmix A BADHEIM STEAMSPELER PRODUCTION"

People Like Us & Wobbly

Music For The Fire - CD / download

The fruit of many years of work, this album began as People Like Us & Wobbly collected and collaged their way through various depictions of misfired communications and heartbreak sourced from popular culture for a series of live improvisations. Music For The Fire is a plunderphonic concept album depicting the lifespan of a relationship, as told through samples of hundreds of different songs and voices who had no idea they were all telling the same story until they were all spliced together.

Okapi

Love Him - CD / download

On Love Him, Italian turntablist and sampling artist, Okapi (Filippo Paolini), masterfully conducts a plundered symphony of more than 100 elements to celebrate the notorious Kyrgyz composer Aldo Kapi (1896-1952). Somewhere in between record digging, electro-acoustic tomfoolerly and slot-machine soundcards, lies the break-NOT-core, bubble-gum experimentalism of this new full-length from Italy's own "Daft Giraffe."

Junk Culture

West Coast - CD / download

A new project by Deepak Mantena, who was recently signed to Illegal Art. On West Coast, Deepak's samples are all run through a handheld recorder that gives his constructions a gritty lo-fi loop-based sound, mixing fractured vocals, pop hooks, and an overall euphoric warmth.

The Bran Flakes

I Have Hands - CD / download

Formed in 1992 amidst tape and zine trading scenes, The Bran Flakes already have seven releases of zany mashups and poppy audio collages that are more likely to cop a riff from Evel Knievel than anything on the current radio dial. Six years since their last release, they return with the absurdly entertaining I Have Hands.

Girl Talk

Feed The Animals - CD / download

Pittsburgh artist Gregg Gillis (aka Girl Talk) has scrupulously created music from samples for over eight years. His fourth album, Feed the Animals, continues his sonic evolution towards his party-infested live shows. With hours of material collected from two years of live shows, Gillis meticulously edited together a seamless album that combines 300+ samples.

Steinski

What Does It All Mean? - 2CD / download

Steve Stein is one of the most influential producers in hiphop, sampling, and cut & paste. Known simply as Steinski, his legendary mixes with Double Dee, “The Lessons,” are cited as definitive influences by DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist and Fatboy Slim, among others. What Does It All Mean?: 1983-2006 Retrospective is the first and only official Steinski collection.

Oh Astro

Champions of Wonder - CD / download

"In true Illegal Art fashion, Jane Dowe and Hank Hofler’s first full-length as Oh Astro is comprised almost solely of sampled material. Champions of Wonder is an experimental conglomeration of glitchy techno, ambient, and broken-beat, all layered with distorted vocals that offset the album’s poppier moments with ghostly eeriness." -XLR8R

Realistic

Perpetual Memory Loss - CD / download

Realistic's third album, Perpetual Memory Loss, features sixteen tracks of intricate sample-based compositions - a beautifully sophisticated celebration of found sound, recorded media, technology, and electronic composition. Slices of field recordings mesh with surreal electronic melodies, which creates enjoyably odd multi-layered musical fun. Realistic is the guise of sound collage artist James Towning, by day a Brooklyn-based motion-graphics designer.

Steev Hise

On The Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juarez - DVD / download

On The Edge is a documentary covering the brutal murders of hundreds of poor young women in the border town of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, murders that have been repeatedly ignored and unresolved by police and governments since 1993, despite the continued and persistent efforts of family members and activists to obtain justice for the victims.

Girl Talk

Night Ripper - CD / download

Girl Talk's 3rd album. It bangs as a continuous mix packed with wildly disparate Top 40 genres and eras. Hip hop hits, soft rock radio standards, party classics, grunge masterpieces, R&B singles, glossy club-shakers, and rock anthems are all layered and pieced meticulously together into one non-stop celebration of pop and excess.

Vinyl versions: 180 gram double LP in deluxe gatefold packaging.

P. Miles Bryson

Megalomaniac
Decorators Quarterly - CD

P. Miles carves out an addictive mix where the songs are both altered and preserved. In the end the listener is left with a dizzying yet amazingly friendly collage that merges fascism with interior decorating.

Girl Talk

Unstoppable - CD

Classic Girl Talk, from 2004! Cuts up endless top 40 sources at a breakneck pace to create the perfect A.D.D. club mix. This is the jump off!

B'O'K'

Afraid of Enduring Freedom - CD

A 'War on Terrorism' Documentary by B'O'K

1 a) Footage Louder than a Bomb b) Hunt Down and Punish c) I'm Afraid
2 a) Polite Means b) I'm Quite Afraid
3 a) Too Much Anthrax b) Escape from New York
4 a) The Judgment of Lesser Nations b) I'm Rather Afraid c) What's Been Going on?
5 a) I'm Very Afraid b) The Opposite of Peace c) Oilfinger
6 a) I'm Extremely Afraid b) Terror and Suicide c) To Carry On

Girl Talk

Secret Diary - CD

The debut Girl Talk album from 2002! Glitchy!! Imagine The Jackson 5 riding pink unicorns on digital heroin through a rainbow of pure emotion. Your CD player is not skipping!

Corporal Blossom

Mutated Christmas - CD / download

Armed with 100s of recordings taken from file sharing, thrift store vinyl, and other sources, several artists were enlisted to remix and reassemble classic Christmas songs. The project was conceived by New York artist Corporal Blossom and also contains material from other underground musicians such as DJ Olive, Fognode, No-L, Mom and Daddy, Lustmord, Grassy Knoll, Lovecraft Technologies, and more.

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