stephen david heitkotter - heitkotter - time lag - lp - 25$
fully licensed legit deluxe reissue of this completely unique slab of outsider private press psychedelia. long whispered about by the most inner circle of obsessive psych collectors, but up till now heard only by a lucky few. a true legend for sure, and rightfully so, as the bizarre story surrounding the lp is nearly as twisted as the music itself. ex-road runners drummer stephen david heitkotter recorded and pressed the lp in california sometime before 1971 as a demo only edition of no more then two dozen copies in blank white covers, then distributed it only to a handful of local san joaquin radio stations before the pressing plant destroyed the masters due to non-payment. within months of his failed attempt at radio stardom stephen was committed to the state mental ward, and that was that... but what an album he left behind... deeply damaged outsider/real people westcoast basement loner acid-garage-blues from a genuinely insane person, recorded at the very edge of oblivion. the sound of a last gasp at the teetering edge of the darkest void. a murky disjointed trip wobbling between acid-scorched un-reality and pure all-encompasing blankness... full electric band setting, but whether this was a purely solo endeavor or an actual band recording will remain a mystery forever. those close to stephen at the time swear he was already too far gone to assemble even a jam session, so the solo theory seems likely, making the musical deconstruction meltdown that much more disturbing. semi-tight playing disintegrates into meandering sonic smear at every turn, then somehow resolidifies and churns onward while bent deadpan vocals funnel garbled surrealisms from nowhere to nowhere. the scarily hyper-real yet ultra-weird otherworldly presence is as thick as it comes, and only enhanced by the raw/crude/muffled recording fidelity... not recommended for the weak of heart... co-released with earmonger records. mastered from the best possible original copy and pressed on 180gm audiophile vinyl. exact reproduction labels, including some wild hand embellishment from the man himself. heavy blank white 60s style art paper covers with hand stamped title. heavy insert with extensive liner notes. one time vinyl only limited edition of 1000 copies. no cd, no repress.-timelag
visitations - visitations - time lag - red records - 2xlp - 35$
another in our RED RECORDS series. this one is especially close to my heart. a deluxe vinyl version of the band’s mega-limited private press cdr debut from about 5 years back... recorded & self released at the very inception of the band, this was an out-of-nowhere 77 minute mind-blower. elements of their more distilled untitled time-lag lp are present in new-born form, but overall this is a far wider ranging & raw trip... a home recorded mix of roughhewed songs & spontaneous improvisation melding together primitive bedroom acidfolk, fuzzy sci-fi psych-outs, bent occult trance ritual, fake xian folk, loose cosmic jamming, spooked drones, pagan mysteries, and some stuff thats just pretty much beyond words... the whole trip is totally psychedelic, deeply textured, dripping vibes, wide-eyed, and more than anything else wickedly fun. one of those rare documents of a young band unselfconsciously doing their thing, and ‘their thing’ pretty much rules... absolutely zero info as always, but this time you get a few rather amusing band photos for extra charm. pressed on two slabs of 180gm bright red vinyl & packaged in an ultra-minimal heavy art paper gatefold cover with raised plastic ink screen printed cover text, paste-on interior polaroid photo sticker, stamped & hand numbered spine. printed & hand stamped labels. plus each copy is enclosed in a two-tone stitched synthetic felt (made from 100% recycled plastic bottles) envelope pouch in various color combinations, hand assembled one at a time by my mom (thanx mom!) limited & numbered edition of 266 copies.
comes in felt sleeve - brown and yellow or pink and tan
wovoka -I&II - time lag - red records - 2xlp - 36S
deluxe double vinyl reissue of the first two long gone & very limited private press cdrs from john kevin francis joseph under the wovoka guise. part one hits a wonderful hazy sunbaked acoustic back porch acid folk raga zone. primitive, stripped down, smoked out, laid back, but fully intense. part two takes the acoustic guitar / dulcimer / vocal / echo acid raga themes of part one and launches them ever skyward with the addition of fuzzy serpentine electric guitar runs, zoned hand percussion, creaking cello, and subtle electrified bass. devotional heart songs, thick smoke spirals, and sweaty wide eyelids all the way folks... pressed on double 180gm bright red vinyl, with printed & hand stamped labels. packaged in a heavy 60s style custom cream art paper gatefold cover, with full color photo two layer paste-on front, screen printed interior, hand stamped back, and hand stamped & numbered spine. limited edition of 233 copies.
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lula cortes -rosa de sangue- time lag - cd - 15$
deluxe first ever reissue of this brazilian private press monster rarity. originally custom pressed in 1980, ‘rosa de sangue’ is the closing chapter of the amazing recife psychedelic movement that flourished & centered around the work of lula cortes, beginning in 1973 with the release of satwa, and the creation of ‘abracadabra’, lula’s loose art/music/design collective. leading up to 1980 lula had produced & privately released satwa in 1973 (brazil’s first private press lp) as well as marconi notaro’s ‘no sub reino dos metazoarios’ lp that same year (featuring the recording debut of ze ramalho). he then started the legendary but incredibly short lived ‘solar’ label, releasing only two albums: 1975’s ‘paebiru’ double album, and a year later the lone album by flaviola. as if that wasn’t enough, he was also heavily involved in other productions and performed on many seminal albums coming out of the region, including many collaborations with alceu valenca... by the close of the 70s the heavily utilized rozemblit recording studio / pressing plant had been destroyed by repeated floods, abracadabra had run its course, and along with lula’s marriage, the solar label was no more. so ‘rosa de sangue’ was conceived as a bookend & tribute to this closing era; as lula himself states “i want to close all of this with a golden key”... and a golden key it is. entering a small local studio with a head full of songs and his freshly road tested ‘mountains band’, lula created an album simply overflowing with ideas. along with his power trio backing, he was further assisted by many old friends dropping in, including, among many others : alceu valenca, flaviola, ze de flauta & paulo rafael. with hints of the past era and of things to come, it is a truly wild audio experience, covering many styles & moods. from crazed ethno folkrock, to magical, gentle, jungle folk psych zones, to hard hitting, coke dusted fuzz rock, to insane mutant disco dance floor groove, to tweaked americana, to acid vocal raga trance, and way beyond... all throughout lula’s beautiful tricordio work pins things down, and for the first time he is the main vocalist (this is, after all, his first “solo” album!) his is a smoke & booze steeped voice darting between crazed abandon, deep sadness, and glowing soulful humor. when things are mellow, you could easily imagine you’re hearing an outtake from marconi notaro or paebiru, but the next moment you’re dropped into a raging street party or dimly lit booze drenched bar scene vibe... frenzied guitars all over, including some tough fuzz, as well as powerful rolling bass groove, soaring violin, moog weirdness, dusted backup vocals, and great drum kit / regional percussion interplay. psychedelic at heart, but brimming with flashes of tropicalia, punk, prog, and pure hot blooded rock & roll... a bizarre & amazing album. but of course, the story doesn’t end there... at some point while the album was being recorded & pressed lula signed a major label contact which would produce 1981’s far tamer ‘o gosto novo da vida’ lp. when his new label got wind of ‘rosa de sangue’s eminent release, they were displeased to say the least. as soon as the pressing was complete, the entire small edition was seized & destroyed, making this album by far brazil’s rarest. so rare, in fact, that even among the most hardcore brazilian collectors the original lp is often only rumored to exist, often cited as ‘unreleased’... a few copies did however survive, and now, 29 years later, the world can finally hear this “golden key” from a truly visionary artist... packaged in a heavy vintage style cover with exact reproduction original artwork, including the huge full color, double sided, foldout poster insert, plus an extra insert featuring new liner notes from lula cortes as well as translated song titles. 180gm audiophile virgin vinyl pressing with exact repro label art. limited edition one time pressing of 1000 copies.
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silvercords - divergence eye - time lag records -cdr -11$
sweet danish drone psych degeneration from sara & nicolas of the mighty family underground. im pretty sure these sweeties made this album by burying all their synths, pedals and microphones deep underground in the woods, then recorded everything rusting, rotting, and writhing with insects for hundreds of years while the forest turned into some fucking industrial complex overhead... then they compressed those thousands of hours of tape into 46 minutes and sent it to us with a picture of a dolphin. really. i think... tri-fold heavy black art paper cover with b&w and color paste-on art. hand stamped cover & disc. numbered/limited edition of 123 copies.
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GHQ - cosmology of eye - time lag
records - cd - 9$
LP sold out at label
cd
digital version. packaged in a miniature tri-fold version of the lp cover, with photo insert and woven japanese inner sleeves. limited edition of 1000 copies.(time-lag)
zelienople - enemy chorus - time lag records -cdr - 11$
chicago reverb dripping song stretchers with much overlap into the lovely 'good stuff house' project. something like acid folk being played back at half speed from a cavern in the desert… a gentle sound wash of acoustic strumming, tranced vocals, buried percussion, and harmonica shivers floating on layers and layers of echo & drone, but with enough pop sense to keep it a 'song'… two looong tracks. packaged in a thick tri-fold moss green art board cover with full color paste-on art & full color insert, stamping, green top disc, etc. numbered edition of 140 copies. the last time-lag cdr!
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