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All of the orders received thus far have been sent out, less the last four or so that will be in the mail tomorrow morning. I’m be back next Monday. Any orders that come in the interim will be sent out on Tuesday. Thanks for all the support.
Images and samples are on the releases page, and all three are up in the shop!
sorry for the crappy pics. i promise these both look better than they look here.
The wereju discs are all assembled. The Hoor-paar-Kraat and Men Scryfa discs will soon follow. I’m hoping to have all of these ready for release next weekend.
Degenerate is a new cdr series on small doses. The plan is to focus on harsh noise and PE. The concept is pretty simple: 3″ cdrs with photocopied covers in editions of 33 copies. They will be released in batches of 3 and sold by the label only as a batch. Each artist involved will provide a cd master and art for the front and back cover. To reproduce the art I will try to find the crappiest photocopier I can locate. (I think I have one in mind.) I will make a master of the cover. That master will be the first of the edition. The master will be copied. That copy will be the second of the edition. The copy will then be copied, creating the third cover, and so on down the line. Thus, the cover of the last of the edition will be a 33rd generation photocopy, and depending on the art, it may be completely illegible. Each cdr will include a numbered insert (#1 being the master cover and #33 being the last copied cover) with the artist and label information.
As mentioned, small doses will only be selling these as a complete batch of three. They will be priced at $10 plus a bit for postage. After artist copies of the releases are taken out of the edition, there will be an even more limited number of the releases available from the label. They will be available in the small doses shop, but will only be announced through the small doses mailing list. I recommend you sign up if this series interests you, as I don’t expect the editions to last long. You can sign up for the email list by going to: http://www.small-doses.com/newsblog/ and entering your email address in the red google groups box on the right side. I expect the first batch to drop in the next two weeks. Here is a list of the artists that have agreed to participate thus far:
baculum
bob bellerue
chefkirk
cookie
d/a a/d
dour
droughter
flea apparitions
iamseamonster
is
mystified
richard ramirez
suburbia melting
teeth collection
vestigial limb
wether
i guess it must have disappeared after i updated the site. It’s back now. join the email list by entering your address in the red box on the lower right of this page.
I think this is the biggest update small doses has had yet.
first, i’ve got three new releases to offer:
abbs/brown/hardy/jewell: live at the marquise dance hall cdr
last summer, i was out visiting a friend in brooklyn. We were out roming around and we popped into this odd record/book store. we were looking through the record bins and heard some pretty incredible sounds coming from the back of the store. we went back there, and found these four guys playing some of the most incredible music I’ve ever heard. Tom Abbs on Contrabass, Mike Brown on Contrabass, Lathan Hardy on saxophone, and Ryan Jewell on percussion. i’m not sure I’ve seen musicians so in sync with one another before. the show was amazing. this is a recording of that that performance. if you are into free jazz and improv, you’ll likely want to check this out. 67 minutes across four tracks. edition of 88 packaged in a custom cut folded, card with insert. click the link above for images and samples.
nicholas szepanik: a stillness rarely seen 3″ cdr
This is a new 21 minute composition from Nicholas. He never does the same thing twice, so it’s not very surprising to say that this is completely different from the previous release on Small Doses, Astilbe Rubra. It’s a very quiet, contemplative, and, at times, heartbreaking piece of music. Edition of 139 with a front cover photo by Rob Dobi. click the link above for images and samples.
krzysztof: jajouka cdr
five tracks of incredible sinewave generator improvisations. no computers. no editing. it’s pretty amazing stuff by Mike Karnowski, who often works under the name Potpie - with several releases on Backporch Revolution and his own Ixnay Records imprint. He took inspiration from the likes of Jajouka, Konono #1, and Terry Riley and churned out some complex and mesmerizing work. One one hand the music sounds incredibly modern, but if I was told this stuff was created by some tweaked out evil genius decades ago, I would certainly believe it. Numbered edition of 68 copies. click the link above for images and samples.
Lots of new distro Items:
SALE on distro items - prices reduced on all of the following titles(there are single copies of some of these, I don’t expect them to last.):
there’s a third release being added to this batch - Kryzysztof’s Jajouka cdr. I lust got the art and a sample uploaded. Take a look.
All three new releases will be available in the shop in the next day or two.
The release pages for the new Nicholas Szczepanik 3″ and Abbs/Brown/Hardy/Jewell discs are up. Take a look. These should be available in the shop by the end of the week.
dosetwentyone abbs/brown/hardy/jewell: live at marquise dance hall
dosetwentysix nicholas szczepanik: a stillness rarely seen
