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albums  
From Bone To Satellite

title: From Bone To Satellite
format: CD/2LP
label: Temporary Residence Limited
catalogue #: TRR23
release date: 1999

tracklisting (CD):
01: Steede Bonnet (12:00)
02: When We Almost Killed Ourselves (12:21)
03: Ursa Minor, Ursa Major (17:46)
04: For Carl Sagan (20:57)
05: Strange Attractors (10:53)

notes:
The title is a reference to the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The working title was Our Blessed Land of Mimes and Burnt Out Stars.
The vinyl version features two additional tracks on side 4, before and after "Strange Attractors".
Scratched into the vinyl is "the rivers do not fill the sea..." (side 1) "...but return to their secret source" (side 3).
"For Carl Sagan" appears in the film The Weather Underground.

The Order Of Things

title: The Order Of Things
format: CD/2LP
label: Neurot Recordings (CD) / Static Caravan (2LP)
catalogue #: NR010
release date: 7 August 2001

tracklisting:
01: Adonai (11:00)
02: Popul Vuh (6:46)
03: [untitled] (1:17)
04: Ghosty Head (12:18)
05: Death in the Mind of the Living (13:57)
06: Pneuma (2:35)
07: Blessed|Cursed (8:28)

notes:
The working title of the album was Songs for an Unborn Son.
The untitled track features a sample of Indian television.
"Ghosty Head" is a Rickie Lee Jones cover.

Mort Aux Vaches

title: Mort Aux Vaches
format: CD
label: Staalplaat/Mort Aux Vaches
release date: 2002
quantity: 1000

tracklisting:
01: Adonai (10:26)
02: Steede Bonnet (13:13)
03: When No One's Listening (9:30)
04: For Carl Sagan (18:11)

notes:
Commissioned by VPRO Radio 5 (De Avonden).
Recorded 18 April 2000.
Issued in a hand-numbered edition of 1000.
The packaging consists of a sheet of vinyl that folds around the disc, which is held in place by a plastic fastener.

Ephemera | Singles 99-2000

title: Ephemera | Singles 99-2000
format: CD
label: Temporary Residence Limited
catalogue #: TRR46
release date: 4 June 2002

tracklisting:
01: The Waltz (15:13)
02: Looking for Things (15:08)
03: Two Sides of Myself, Part One (6:24)
04: Two Sides of Myself, Part Two (6:18)
05: Searching for Things (24:22)

notes:
Track 1 was originally released on the Travels in Constants, Volume Three EP.
Tracks 2 and 5 were originally released on the Looking for Things, Searching for Things 12".
Tracks 3 and 4 were originally released on the Two Sides of Myself 7".

We Move Through Weather

title: We Move Through Weather
format: CD/2LP
label: Temporary Residence Limited
catalogue #: TRR67
release date: 2 November 2004

tracklisting:
01: Hello! We Move Through Weather (8:04)
02: Elephant Shoes (2:12)
03: Get Away From Me You Clouds Of Doom (16:47)
04: Klankity-Klank (1:18)
05: Bump Past, Cut Up Through Windows (4:30)
06: Everywhere The Damn Echo (6:07)
07: A Cloud No Bigger Than A Man's Hand (15:06)
08: We're The Only Ghosts Here (3:55)

notes:
"Get Away From Me You Clouds of Doom" and "We're The Only Ghosts Here" appear in The Vice Guide to Travel.

Live Edits: Natoma

title: Live Edits: Natoma
format: CD
label: Root Strata
catalogue #: RS-11
release date: 2006
quantity: 500

tracklisting:
01: Untitled (0:18)
02: Untitled (7:34)
03: Untitled (15:26)
04: Untitled (0:25)
05: Untitled (9:28)
06: Untitled (9:26)

notes:
The album consists of a combination of performance and practice recordings for a show that took place on 7 January 2005, at a loft on Natoma Street in San Francico.
There are eleven different color combinations of the hand-screened packaging.

Ghetto Beats on the Surface of the Sun, Volume 1

title: Ghetto Beats on the Surface of the Sun, Volume 1
format: 12"
label: The Music Fellowship
catalogue #: MF21
release date: 2006
quantity: 800

tracklisting:
side 1:
01: Everybody Fucks With Somebody
02: All Things Vibrations

side 2:
03: Dreamtigers
04: Ghost Trees
05: Le Trash Can
06: Ghetto Ghosts

Ghetto Beats on the Surface of the Sun, Volume 2

title: Ghetto Beats on the Surface of the Sun, Volume 2
format: 12"
label: The Music Fellowship
catalogue #: MF22
release date: 2006
quantity: 800

tracklisting:
side 1:
01: Sun Place
02: Donkey-Bunny

side 2:
03: Tied to a Tree in a Jungle of Mystery
04: Cosmic Dust

 

 

title: Ghetto Beats on the Surface of the Sun, Volume 3
format: 12"
label: The Music Fellowship
catalogue #: MF23
release date: 2006
quantity: 800

tracklisting:
side 1:
01: Stellar Envelope
02: A Crystal The Size Of Our Moon In The Heart Of A Pulsating White Dwarf
03: Mirrors, Gardens
04: As Quiet As Silentifically Possible

side 2:
05: Warm Glass
06: Fever Sleep
07: Sleep Map
08: Whistle In The Wires

 

 

title: Ghetto Beats on the Surface of the Sun, Volume 4
format: 12"
label: The Music Fellowship
catalogue #: MF24
release date: 2006
quantity: 800

tracklisting:
side 1:
01: Somebody Fucks With Everybody

side 2:
02: Where Time Forgot
03: Isalais Delay
04: You Do This. I'll Do That.
05: Lake Light

 

Ghetto Beats on the Surface of the Sun

title: Ghetto Beats on the Surface of the Sun
format: CD
label: Temporary Residence Limited
catalogue #: TRR102
release date: July 2007

tracklisting:
disc one:
01: Everybody Fucks With Somebody
02: All Things Vibrations
03: Dreamtigers
04: Ghost Trees
05: Le Trash Can
06: Ghetto Ghosts
07: Sun Place
08: Donkey-Bunny
09: Tied To A Tree In A Jungle Of Mystery
10: Cosmic Dust

disc two:
01: Stellar Envelope
02: A Crystal The Size Of Our Moon In The Heart Of A Pulsating White Dwarf
03: Mirrors, Gardens
04: As Quiet As Silentifically Possible
05: Warm Glass
06: Fever Sleep
07: Sleep Map
08: Whistle In The Wires
09: Somebody Fucks With Everybody
10: Where Time Forgot
11: Isalais Delay
12: You Do This. I'll Do That.
13: Lake Light

notes:
Issued in a numbered edition of 3000, this release compiles the four-volume series of the same name released on vinyl in 2006 by Music Fellowship.

eps  
Tarentel

title: Tarentel
format: CD
label: Temporary Residence Limited
catalogue #: TRR15
release date: 1998
quantity: 1000 grey sleeve, 1000 maroon sleeve

tracklisting:
01: [untitled] (10:53)
02: [untitled] (8:30)
[silence] (2:34)
[remix of track 2] (6:41)

notes:
Initially available in a grey sleeve, two later pressings were issued in maroon and white sleeves.
Remix by Lilienthal.
Track 2 appears on the skateboard DVD Logic 9.

When We Almost Killed Ourselves

title: When We Almost Killed Ourselves
format: 8"
label: Temporary Residence Limited
catalogue #: TRR21
release date: 1999
quantity: 200

tracklisting:
side a: When We Almost Killed Ourselves
side b: [untitled]

notes:
Issued in a numbered, limited edition of 200, the clear vinyl was hand-lathed in New Zealand by Peter King.
The packaging is a piece of wood with a peg in the center, which holds the record.
The title track appears in a longer version on From Bone To Satellite.

title: Travels in Constants, Volume Three
format: CD
label: Temporary Residence Limited
catlogue #: TRR13
release date: 1999
quantity: 500

tracklisting:
01: The Waltz (15:22)
02: Welcome (27:45)

notes:
This EP is part of a 24-volume, subscription-only series.
"The Waltz" is also available on Ephemera | Singles 99-2000.

Looking For Things, Searching For Things

title: Looking For Things, Searching For Things
format: 12"
label: Resonant
catalogue #: resonant 02
release date: 26 June 2000
quantity: 1100 black vinyl, 500 orange vinyl

tracklisting:
side a: Looking For Things
side b: Searching For Things

notes:
The title is a reference to the Terrence Malick film Days of Heaven.
The EP was initially scheduled to be called The Meridian Web.
Stamped into the vinyl is "FIND THE DISTANT MAN..." (side a) "...WAVING HIS SPOON" (side b)
Both songs are also available on Ephemera | Singles 99-2000.

Fear Of Bridges

title: Fear Of Bridges
format: CD
label: Three Lobed Recordings
catalogue #: TLR 007
release date: 2 July 2002
quantity: 700

tracklisting:
01: untitled (0:39)
02: untitled (7:25)
03: untitled (0:59)
04: untitled (8:37)
05: untitled (3:03)
06: untitled (1:23)

notes:
This EP is part of the eight-volume subscription-only Purposeful Availment series.
Tracks 2 and 4 were recorded live in Connecticut during the band's 2000 US tour.

Latency

title: Latency
format: 12"
label: Bottrop-Boy
catalogue #: EN/OF 014
release date: 2003
quantity: 100

tracklisting:
side a: Latency A
side b: Latency B

notes:
This EP is the fourteenth in a series that combines a 12" with an original piece of artwork by a contemporary visual artist. Signed, numbered and dated prints of Jonathan Monk's photograph "Every Scratch Tells A Story" (2003; 30 x 30 cm; edition of 100, plus 20 a.p.) accompany the record.

Paper White

title: Paper White
format: CD
label: Temporary Residence Limited
catalogue #: TRR76
release date: 1 March 2005

tracklisting:
01: Isalais Straight (9:04)
02: Open Letter To Hummingbirds (5:53)
03: Golden State Overnight (4:56)
04: Paper White (4:32)

notes:
"Isalais Straight" was the first thing recorded during the We Move Through Weather sessions.
This EP was released with companion EP Big Black Square as a single disc in Japan by Human Highway Records.

Big Black Square

title: Big Black Square
format: CD
label: Temporary Residence Limited
catalogue #: TRR77
release date: 1 March 2005

tracklisting:
01: Big Black Square (43:42)

notes:
"Big Black Square" was the last thing recorded during the We Move Through Weather sessions.
This EP was released with companion EP Paper White as a single disc in Japan by Human Highway Records.

Ghost Weight

title: Ghost Weight
format: CD
label: Acuarela
catalogue #: Nois 043
release date: 2005

tracklisting:
01: Natoma (0:42)
02: Ghost Weight (11:18)
03: Holy Throbs Of Silence (3:41)
04: Every Possibilty the Next Thing to a Certainty (12:34)

Home Ruckus

title: Home Ruckus
format: 12"
label: Root Strata
catalogue #: RS-05
release date: 2005
quantity: 500

tracklisting:
01: Untitled (3:52)
02: Untitled (2:42)
03: Untitled (3:36)
04: Untitled (4:41)
05: Untitled (2:39)
06: Untitled (1:51)
07: Untitled (2:51)
08: Untitled (1:41)
09: Untitled (5:16)

notes:
Each copy of the record has a unique sleeve created from a combination of spray paint and screen printing.

singles  
Two Sides of Myself

title: Two Sides of Myself
format: 7"
label: Static Caravan
catalogue #: van14
release date: 2000
quantity: 500

tracklisting:
side a: Two Sides of Myself, Part 1
side b: Two Sides of Myself, Part 2

notes:
Both songs are also available on Ephemera | Singles 99-2000.

Tarentel/Rothko Split

title: Split 7" with Rothko
format: 7"
label: Jonathon Whiskey
catalogue #: Carol Whiskey 09
release date: 2000
quantity: 250

tracklisting:
side a: Tarentel "it's in you right now, just get still, think about it, I am light filled"
side aa: Rothko "exits into open spaces..."

notes:
The Tarentel track was recorded live at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, 1 October 1999.

Tarentel/Lilienthal Split

title: Split 7" with Lilienthal
format: 7"
label: Awkward Silence
catalogue #: awkward 04
release date: 24 July 2000
quantity: 1000

tracklisting:
side a: Tarentel "Sets And Rises"
side b: Lilienthal "Rises And Sets"

Home Ruckus: Double-Sided Air

title: Home Ruckus: Double-Sided Air
format: 7"
label: Type
catalogue #: T7PE011
release date: Spring 2007

tracklisting:
side a:
side b:

compilations  
Looking for the Perfect Glass

title: Looking for the Perfect Glass: U.S. Pop Life Vol. 11 California Post Punk
format: CD
label: Contact Records
catalogue #: CR-019
release date: 2001

tracklisting:
01: !!! "Intensify" (6:57)
02: The Locust "Priest with the sexually transmitted disease, get out of my bed" (0:42)
03: Camera Obscura "Twenty-five Diamonds" (4:07)
04: Imajinary Friends "With Love" (3:11)
05: OCS "Widowspanker" (2:31)
06: Get Hustle "Bloo Boo" (1:54)
07: Aspect of Physics "Contact" (6:36)
08: Go Go Go Airheart "For Your Will" (4:06)
09: Timonium "On Tenter Hooks" (4:02)
10: Her Space Holiday "Adagio" (4:31)
11: Sunday's Best "The Hardest Part" (3:32)
12: Church Steps "Cal/Kearny" (5:00)
13: Tristeza "Are We People" (4:04)
14: Rumah Sakit + Dilute "Night Ascends and Descends the Confines of the City" (6:58)
15: Out Hud "Hung like a Wolf" (4:02)
16: Tarentel "Superman is a Damn Fool" (10:42)

Tonalism

title: Tonalism
format:
CD
label: Pehr
catalogue #: pehr014
release date: 2001
quantity: 500

tracklisting:
01: DNTEL "Open the Window and Let Me In" (4:22)
02: Timonium "Pepperdine Suite" (2:58)
03: Nautical Movements "Spatial Floating Device" (8:55)
04: Meerschaum "Ballerine" (5:25)
05: Tarentel "Steede Bonnet (Flood Remix)" (6:00)
06: Crownery "All Music is the Same" (1:45)
07: Languis "Paragram" (3:01)
08: Eucalyptus "Refractions" (5:59)
09: Anstey Station "Inevitable Plastic 45's" (5:37)
10: Sore & Steal "Echoes from a Retromingent Planet" (3:58)

notes:
The tracks all run together, forming, in essence, one song with ten parts.
"Flood Remix" by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, who said this about it: "I did that remix on a four track with a reel to reel tape machine. I recorded and made loops out of the original song, as well as played the theme on a keyboard. I think a sample from a cassette I had of Voodoo music also worked itself into the track."
The packaging features random colored paint chips glued to the sleeve.

45 Seconds Of:

title: 45 Seconds Of:
format: CD
label: Simballrec
catalogue #: simballrec07
release date: January 2003

tracklisting:
92. Tarentel "The Holiday Song"

notes:
The compilation features 99 tracks by 84 artists - each exactly 45 seconds in length - with no space between songs. Artists include: Chicks On Speed, DJ Spooky, DNTEL, Electric Company, Figurine, Hood, Jan Jelinek, John Tejada, Kim Cascone, Lali Puna, Lusine, Martin Rev, Mum, OST, Safety Scissors, Silver Apples, Solvent, Sutekh, Sybarite, and more.
This song should not be confused with "Blessed|Cursed," which had the working title "The Holiday Song."

Frisco Styles

title: Frisco Styles
format: 2CD
label: Jack Hanley Gallery, Deitch Projects, Now Rainbow Records
catalogue #:
release date: 2003

tracklisting:
Disc 1
01: Shotwell "Patriot"
02: Coachwhips "Prisoner 119"
03: Chimney Lions "The Fuck (Speakers Version)"
04: Touched By A Janitor "Output Negative Space"
05: Onion Flavord Rings "Positively Treat Street"
06: Kung Fu USA "Smack Dab"
07: Nam "Gimme Gimme Octopus"
08: Caesura "Hammer"
09: Mr. and Mr. Evil "Ballad Of Big Lurch"
10: Hello Noisy "Peace...(?)"
11: Tarentel "Latency"
12: Uber Murder "Skatman"
13: Condor "Go No Dull"
14: Veronica Lipgloss and the Evil Eyes "Bleed To The Beat"
15: The Boy Explodes "Slovanian Halls"
16: Total Shutdown "The Pond"
17: Dynatsty "Lonliness"
18: Track Star "The One We Play (The Way We Play It)"
19: The Quails "Moregender"
20: Troll "Onibaba"
21: Erase Errata "Let's Be Active"
22: Tension "Flat Rejection"
23: Little Fuzzy
24: Songs For Emma "Price They Pay"
25: Virginia Dare "Artificin"

Disc 2
01: Aerosol Species "Sugartart"
02: Zmrzlina "Confection"
03: Aislers Set "Emotional Levy"
04: Wondering Stars "When I Am Sad"
05: Hall Flowers "Century"
06: Tommy Guerrero "Verb Up"
07: Vetiver "Busted"
08: Nate Denvers Neck "I'm Too Afraid To Kill You"
09: Goth Hick "Drinking From The Fountain"
10: Broken Horse "Redirection"
11: Enablers "A Not So Pretty Sight In Steinbeck Country"
12: Sonny Smith "Milk Cow"
13: Virgil Shaw "Sing Me Back Home"
14: Peggy Honeywell "Drama King"
15: Hello Donkey "Ice Castles (If I Could Trade My Soul For Eyes For Her)"
16: The Helen Lundy Trio "The Sphere"
17: Mesh "Summer Sun"
18: Mutilated Mannequins "Unnatural Disaster"
19: Crack We Are Rock "Colonial House"
20: Zeigenbock Kopf "Sex...Etc."
21: Tussle "Eye Contact"
22: The Deep Throats "Last Request"
23: Allergic To Bullshit "Cards, Palm, Water"

notes:
The Tarentel track is an edit of the b-side of the Latency 12" EP.

For Jonathan

title: For Jonathan
format: CD
label: The Great Vitamin Mystery
catalogue #: TGVM06
release date: 2 March 2004

tracklisting:
Disc 1
01: Tommy Guerrero "Fade Away" (3:16)
02: Unwed Sailor "Shadows" (7:16)
03: Your Friend "I Accept, I Decline" (7:07)
04: Mikael Jorgensen "Jonathan" (7:16)
05: Her Space Holiday "Losing A Friend" (7:28)
06: Ativin "Wings For Trees" (8:17)
07: Muscle Beach "For Jonathan" (7:11)
08: The Potomac Accord "For Jonathan" (7:28)
09: Darin Gray & Dan Burton "For Jonathan" (7:01)
Film: Chris Bennett "For Jonathan"

Disc 2
01: Tarentel "Wheel Within A Wheel" (7:30)
02: Early Day Miners "For Jonathan" (7:07)
03: The Album Leaf "Jonathan's Song" (6:45)
04: Dave Fischoff "For Jonathan" (7:24)
05: RCBNNN w/ The Mann "Long Greasy Hair" (7:30)
06: Wow & Flutter "Blue 5" (7:34)
07: Psalmanazar "Schoolbuses That Run Only At Night" (7:03)
08: Moonpony "For Jonathan" (7:16)
09: Jessica Bailiff "Figure Eight" (7:00)

notes:
This compilation was created as a requiem for Jonathan Hicks (1977-2000), a close friend of filmmaker Chris Bennett. Hicks died of cancer at age 23. Proceeds from sales of the CD will be donated in Hicks' honor to the Children's Inn in Bethesda, MD.

Thank You

title: Thank You
format:
CD
label: Temporary Residence Limited
catalogue #: TRR50
release date: 6 May 2004

tracklisting:
01: Fridge "Five Combs"
02: Howard Hello "The One"
03: Kilowatthours w/ JDV "Jignauseum"
04: Tarentel "Bell Jar"
05: Rumah Sakit "I Can't See Anything When I Close My Eyes (Live)"
06: Explosions In The Sky"The Long Spring"
07: Kammerflimmer Kollektief "Eiderdaunen (Version)"
08: Sybarite "Killing the Moonshine (Version)"
09: Parlour"Landlaked"
10: Halifax Pier"And California"
11: Sonna "The Closer"

Neurot Recordings I

title: Neurot Recordings I
format:
CD+DVD
label: Neurot Recordings
catalogue #: NR032CD
release date: 15 June 2004

CD
01: Neurosis "Burn"
02: Oxbow "Time's Up, Sailor Man"
03: Grails "Reprieve"
04: Enablers "Pauly's Days In Cinema"
05: Sabers "Lion Pose"
06: Lotus Eaters "Untitled II"
07: Steve Von Till "Breathe"
08: Isis "Celestial (Signal Fills The Void)"
09: Zeni Geva "Tyrranicide"
10: Culper Ring "TRK3_4:38"
11: Tarantula Hawk "Untitled"
12: Blood & Time "A Silver Ocean Storm"
13: Neurosis & Jarboe "His Last Words"

DVD
01: Neurosis "Stones From The Sky"
02: Tribes Of Neurot "Duality I"
03: Bee & Flower "I Know Your Name"
04: Tarentel "Put It On The Ground"
05: Tribes Of Neurot "Cairn"
06: Oxbow "Music For Adults" excerpt
07: VHK (Galloping Coroners) "With My Ancestors"
08: VHK (Galloping Coroners) "Battle Of The Huns"
09: KK Null "Atomic Flash" *
10: House Of Low Culture "On The Upswing" *
11: Vitriol "Rectificando" *
12: Physics "Level 4" *
13: Amber Asylum "Riviera" *
14: Scott Kelly "I Don't Feel You Anymore" *
* Audio Only

notes:
The Tarentel track is accompanied by a film by Paul Clipson.

Acuarela Songs 3

title: Acuarela Songs 3
format: 2CD
label: Acuarela
catalogue #: nois 1043
release date: 2004

tracklisting:
Disc 1
01: Piano Magic "Theory Of Ghosts" (4:19)
02: Berg Sans Nipple "10,000 Houses Shining Along Your Road" (3:20)
03: Tex La Homa "When I Come Around" (3:05)
04: Girls in Hawaii "Short Song For A Short Mind" (2:32)
05: Julie Doiron "Better Now" (3:19)
06: June Panic "Everyone Is Saying 'Hello' Again" (4:47)
07: Chris Brokaw "On A Great Lake" (1:16)
08: Lowlights "Everything To Me" (6:06)
09: Jr "Los Pies Congelados" (2:38)
10: Rivulets "Waited For You" (3:39)
11: Anari "Muga Kanta" (4:34)
12: The Somnambulants "Water Color" (4:44)
13: Tara Jane O'Neil & Kristina "Enter This House" (2:40)
14: Arbol "Summer and You" (4:41)
15: Early Day Miners "T.C. Steele" (5:21)

Disc 2
01: The Decemberists "The Kingdom of Spain - V. Oak St. Bldg" (3:32)
02: MiZtUrA "Gizon Arrunt Bat" (5:53)
03: Burd Early "Screening (Director's Cut)" (2:45)
04: Mines "The Greatest Acuarela Of All Time" (4:39)
05: Old Jerusalem "Each One As Lovers" (3:41)
06: Loud "Grandes Ocasiones" (3:55)
07: Maquiladora "Untitled (Watercolor #2)" (5:32)
08:Destroyer "Song for Acuarela" (3:45)
09: The King Cobra "A Charm Against Unlucky Marks" (2:07)
10: The Impossible Shapes "Song For Acuarela" (4:49)
11: Tarentel "Yangtze" (4:47)
12: Colch-on "Boundless Watercolored" (5:00)
13: Ant "All These Impossible Pictures I Paint In My Head" (2:50)
14: Lorna "...And the Only Shape He Saw Was Of The Sun" (4:41)