...Just before the end of the year

2 killer full-lengths, for greeks mainly, will shortly be available at phasejunk.com. Hit that refresh butt'n...

TOP-13 of 2011

OWL HEAD WOODEN MAN - Night Music (Don't Trust the Ruin)
JULIA HOLTER - Tragedy (Leaving Records)
ANGELS IN AMERICA - Narrow Road to the Interior (Ehse Records)
OPERA MORT - Des Machines Dans Les Yeux (Bimbo Tower Records)
BERN PORTER & MARK MELNICOVE - Music for Children of All Ages Vol.1 (Turned Word)
DIRTY BEACHES - Badlands (Zoo Music)
TEARIST - Living: 2009-Present (Thin Wrist Recordings)
WEYES BLOOD & THE DARK JUICES - The Outside Room (Not Not Fun)
THE DREAMS - Morbido (Kill Shaman)
ACID BABY JESUS - LP (Slovenly)
THE MEN - Leave Home (Sacred Bones)
PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT - Laced (Fat Cat)
FASENUOVA - A la Quinta Hoguera (Discos Humeantes)

A non-silent night

beaTol & The Eagol (album launch at Phase!, copies will be available!)
Betty Loop Loop (our favorite chic chick)
Flesh Candy (newly Dutch immigrant blues)

FUCKING TONIGHT!

Doubleganger at FMA

Doubleganger

Dead Gum – Doubleganger – dttr 031 CD-R -

Dead Gum is the solo project of Panagiotis Spoulos (other projects of his include: Reverse mouth, Wham Jah, Postblue, and running Phase! Records), from Athens, Greece. This past summer we toured with Dead Gum in Greece and we were blown away every night. Doubleganger is quite a journey, the constant thread seems to be loner style electric guitar that feels like the end of it all … quite, desolate, brutal, noisy, and 100% sincere. Handmade screen printed Art work by Colleen Kinsella (10 songs – 38 minutes)

**Cassette of this one soon

Order here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/88201352/dead-gum-doubleganger-dttr-031-cd-r

Tonight

Vocal weirdness night

Saturday 26 November at KNOT:

Phil Minton & Dylan Nyoukis
Smack Music 7 & Dead Gum
Old Fashioned All Stars

(PHR-85) PUTSUM - Masque of the Red Death 3"CDR

Debut release from Athens' most prolific black metal / spoof performance solo project, Putsum. This release is a recording from northern Greece earlier in 2011, in the day of "Annunciation" 2011. Negative low frequency drone at the gates of a minimal hell.
Edition of 60 copies w/ screenprinted covers, rubberstamped discs + die-cut skull sticker. Extra limited first run of magenta print (instead of blood red) on the first 10 or so.

Buy here

Store page up and running at last

http://www.phasejunk.com

Record hunters of the zombie world unite

WHAM JAH at Yuria 2011 @ Vinyl Microstore (Didotou 34, Exarchia).
Friday 18 November at 21:00
FREE! (to put it more correctly, please buy something either from us or VM)

"Zombie Rock" tape will be available!

The skull of love

Browsing Ann Lee's website, i've found this book released by Slow Toe Publications in 2006, available as a PDF for free download. Enjoy!

THE SKULL OF LOVE
Texts by Devendra Banhart, Tom Greenwood, Ann Lee, John Moloney, Lee Ranaldo, Panagiotis Spoulos + Matthew Wascovich.
Cover art by Dennis Tyfus

Slow Toe Publications link here.

[PHN-06] Dead Gum - Ghost Wise

More like a song, "Ghost Wise" is a 20-minute piece, Dead Gum conceived and performed for the official premiere of "Vounorila" film at the 2011 Athens International Film Festival. This recording comes from the rehearsal, the night before.

Get it here:
http://www.archive.org/details/phn-06DeadGum-GhostWise

Formatology

An awesome DIY exhibit called "Formatology" takes place in Jerusalem these coming days, gathering weird and off-beat handmade covers from limited edition releases from around the globe. Phase! is participating w/ the re-issue of Placenta Popeye's "Yellow Tape" (as "Yellow CDR"). Curated by the ever-active dudes from Heart&Crossbone.

Another one shares the buzz

Check Heraklis, a new label from Athens, GR. Started off w/ two awesome releases, one split 7" between Astro + Georgios Karamanolakis and a compilation tape from last year's ASKT Festival participants (Plink, Georgios Karamanolakis, Adam_is, Mecha/Orga, Analog Suicide, Goosli Noise + Dead Gum). Endorse.

Fall sweat

Friday 21 October at Knot Gallery:

Wand.andPrincess
Manic Strip Teachers
Otomo Hava

Starts at 21:00
knotarts.blogspot.com/



















FREAK OUT IN KYPSELI!!!
2-day fest at Dimotiki Agora Kypselis (Fok. Negri 42)

Friday 21 October
Χίλντα Παπαδημητρίου (21.00)
MicroondaS (22.00)
XYSM (23.00)
The Callas (00.00)

Saturday 22 October
Θωμάς Τσαλαπάτης (21.00)
Bruised Lee (21.30)
Wham Jah (22.30)
MicroondaS (23.30)
The Velvoids (00.00)



















Also, flea market at No Central (Protogenous 8, Psyri) on Saturday 22 Oct. Phase! will be sharing a bench w/ Mephisto Printing Co.

VNORL

Official world premiere of "Vounorila", Tuesday 20 September 2011 at Astor Hollywood, during the Athens International Film Festival 2011. 21:00 sharp. Special live performance by Dead Gum.

Vounorila trailer 2011 from ORILA on Vimeo.

(PHR-84) BETTY LOOP LOOP / ΑΓΓΕΛΟΣ ΚΥΡΙΟΥ / ΚΤΙΡΙΑ ΤΗ ΝΥΧΤΑ Split 2xCS

This double cassette set surely is an original early 10's Athens' artefact. Two solo projects, Angelos Kyriou & Ktiria ti Nyxta (Buildings at Night), completely diffrent from what we've heard till the negative urban space has thrown them up, they redefined music with greek lyrics. Angelos' side offers a typical example of his spastic, obsessed, sincere miniature song-marathon collage while Ktiria delivers a thunderstorm cut-up of -sometimes bootleg- recordings of friends' conversations blended w/ the signature hi-pitch electronic mayhem. The two 5-minute sides sound like a dream radio station. The one we've all wished to exist, the one we're pretty sure will never happen.
Betty Loop Loop takes all over the second 36-minute tape and all of her gig highlights are present with further more self-exploration / experimentation. She's nothing more than the two above mentioned guys together. Literally. She's more than just beautiful...
Released in a double cassette jewel case w/ full color artwork and tape labels. Edition of 80 copies.

Below is some Betty Loop Loop action at ElCulture rooftop, downtown Athens, May 2011:


And here's a video of excerpts of solo sets, live in Thessaloniki, amazingly shot by Alex:

Koko by the beach

Living legends

(PHR-83) BIG BLOOD & THE WICKED HEX LP

A stunning new album including 5 long jams (23 minutes each side) which balance perfectly between the homey "Strange Maine" sound, the collage aesthetic of "The Grove" and the extraordinary singer/songwriter approach as heard on "Dead Songs". If it wasn't released by Phase!, it would certainly top a position in the 2011 TOP-13 albums!
Comes in an edition of 350 copies w/ 2-color awesome screenprinted jacket + insert.

Here's the album's opening track, "Run", performed live in Thessaloniki:



buy a copy at phasejunk.com

Big Blood in Greece

Friday 1 July: Athens @ Six D.O.G.S. w/ Betty Loop Loop (Angelos Kyriou + Ktiria ti Nyxta)
Sunday 3 July: Xanthi @ Folk Art Museum w/ Dead Gum
Monday 4 July: Thessaloniki @ Fuzz Bar w/ Dead Gum

also: Colleen Kinsella solo art exhibition "Leviathan Song"
Athens, Six D.O.G.S. Gallery Space (1-8 July)

(PHR-82) Wham Jah - Untitled CDR

Recorded live at their rehearsal space, this CDR was released in a micro-pressing to support the rooftop event where Wham Jah partied along w/ Xysm + Bruised Lee. No further copies left, so it's now available as a free download through Phase! Records Net Junk @ Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/phr-82WhamJah-UntitledCdr

or MediaFire, if you prefer:
http://www.mediafire.com/?7gbsulg4h9w44pz

4 ways to jump off a rooftop

Live Party at Aspra Spitia (21 May 2011)

FULL VERSION (beautifully shot by Kika):

Northern action

This coming Friday, 25 March, Phase! party at Coo Bar (Vasileos Irakleiou 4) in Thessaloniki w/
Wham Jah
Adam_is
BeaTol, Kostadis και το Τελώνειο

Starts at 21:00, dj-set afterwards and it's FREE, so buy yourself a t-shirt.


















Some more Wham Jah action also in Athens, on Wednesday 30 March at Knot:
PAS (Post Abortion Stress, NY)
Bruised Lee (Kraut Beauties, GR)
Wham Jah (Hippy Shakes, GR)

Shows start at 20:30, entrance fee of 8 euros.

(PHR-81) DJ MISTAKES - S/T 1-sided LP

“DJ mistakes are two exercise bicycle driven turntables fabricated and ridden by Casey Farnum and Elliot Hess. This project re-introduces spontaneity into the DJ experience and asks how production and industry have assembled to create a listening experience quite different from the hand-cranked turntables it was initially borne from. With a shrug to the practice of crystallizing performances and their reception through vinyl and the audiophile entertainment- center this project re-introduces human touch into the listening experience. It looks back nostalgically to a time when gears and bicycles were the stuff of aural and physical revolutions. Yet it also seeks a contemporary framework in the DJ era where cutting and mixing revolutionized production making it both unpredictable and live. Bikes, turntables, gongs, a mixer, records, and a microphone all mash in this recording live from the Chicken Hut and 1086 Broadway, Brooklyn NY 2006-7.” Phil Schapp, 2011

Limited numbered edition of 200 copies on 1-sided 12”LP, offset covers on metallic paper + inners.

Here's a wicked DJ Mistakes performance at the University of Iowa:



And here's another one from WFMU:



If you're in Athens, you are encouraged to get your copy + support A Strange Attractor, Kaplanon + Vinyl Microstore record stores.

Some Postblue nostalgia

POSTBLUE (1999-2004)

Brave drums

First Wham Jah live action this Friday. Free Entrance.
BRAVE DRUMS FESTIVAL

Freebie: FAKE MIXTAPE 1

Phase! presents: FAKE MIXTAPE 1 (For Sophie, 1985)
50 minutes, mixed. Ideal for greek post-slacker parties and lonely teenagers w/ the urge to search themselves and destroy things w/ tears in their eyes.

BIG STAR - For You /// THE FLAMING LIPS - Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles /// SEBADOH - Pink Moon /// MANIC STREET PREACHERS - Found that Soul /// WIPERS - Potential Suicide /// YYY - Miles Away /// SIX BY SEVEN - European Me /// SUPERGRASS - Richard III /// ASH - Innocent Smile /// GIRLS AGAINST BOYS - Bulletproof Cupid /// HOLE - Dicknail /// SONIC YOUTH - Mildred Pierce /// BUTTHOLE SURFERS - Cherub

http://rapidshare.com/files/443768302/Phase__presents_Fake_Mixtape_1__For_Sophie__1985_.rar

PHASE! Discography 2002 - 2010

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Here's a complete list of all Phase! releases from the very beginning till the end of '00s, since the new myspace layout sucks and cannot host the list there. So, here it is:

PHR-80 SLICING GRANDPA - "The Abstracticator" CDR
PHR-79 ARKLIGHT / DEAD GUM Split C60
PHR-78 COCKS OF THE DEAD - "Blowskull Tape 2" C20
PHR-77 WHAM JAH - "Wham Jazz" CDR
PHR-76 DEAD GUM - "Lost Decade" CDR
PHR-75 Η ΜΑΝΑ ΣΟΥ ΕΙΝΑΙ Ο ΠΑΤΕΡΑΣ ΣΟΥ - "Είσαι η Αδερφή Σου" ZINE + CDR
PHR-74 ARKLIGHT - "Caution Tape" CDR
PHR-73 LUNAR MIASMA - "Circle Ray" CDR
PHR-72 REVERSE MOUTH - "Savage Queen" C30
PHR-71 PUSSY PATROL - "Very First Show au Gambetta" CDR
PHR-70 DEAD GUM - "Fake World" C30
PHR-69 CAKES OF LIGHT / GHOST ORCHESTRA - "Anthem for the People" CDR
PHR-68 REVERSE MOUTH "Counting Broken Pieces Of Glass" 3''CDR
PHR-67 PANAGIOTIS SPOULOS - "Body Pose" C20
PHR-66 PINK BUFFALO - "The Transparent Column" C42
PHR-65 SHEIK ANORAK - "Week EP" C15
PHR-64 TOWERING HEROIC DUDES - "Oceans" CDR
PHR-63 KATCHMARE - "Daath" C60
PHR-62 THE COUNTLET - "Mesopotamia Blues From The Armless Men" CDR
PHR-61 PANAGIOTIS SPOULOS - "Crate Of Bogus Aurora" CDR
PHR-60 SLICING GRANDPA - "Lauxapalooza" CDR
PHR-59 REVERSE MOUTH - "Brussels / Tienen" C20
PHR-58 EMBARKER - "Needlebank" C16
PHR-57 REVERSE MOUTH - "Pearl Hidden In Pigslot" CDR
PHR-56 ANTLER PISS - "Body Jar" C20
PHR-55 COW / HUMAN ADULT BAND Split C16
PHR-54 SINDRE BJERGA & BEN MORRIS - "Auto Immune Drone Syndrome" CDR
PHR-53 LAMPS - "Live" 1-sided C60
PHR-52 PLACENTA POPEYE / REVERSE MOUTH - "Baby Blues Kids" Split 7" (co-released w/ Absurd + Tanzprocesz)
PHR-51 RAFAEL FLORES & MICHAEL THOMAS JACKSON - "El Sonore De La Pelicula Defeto" 2 x 3''CDR
PHR-50 BIG BLOOD - "The Grove" C46
PHR-49 GANG WIZARD - "The Stolen Groceries" 3"CDR
PHR-48 GRANDMA FREEDOM - "The 1967 Parties" CDR
PHR-47 DAVID PAYNE / PANAGIOTIS SPOULOS Split C30
PHR-46 PLACENTA POPEYE - "Yellow" CDR
PHR-45 BLASTOCYST / REVERSE MOUTH Split LP
PHR-44 (((vluba))) - "Dies Mies Jeschet Boenedoesef Douvema Enitemaus" CDR
PHR-43 POSTBLUE - "Hunger EP" CDR
PHR-42 DEAD TRAVELLER - "Never A Dull Moment" CDR
PHR-41 REVERSE MOUTH - "Gay Control Icon" 3''CDR
PHR-40 FOSSILS - "Zoo Diaries" C30
PHR-39 BLASTOCYST - "True Tales For A New American Century" CDR
PHR-38 REVERSE MOUTH / SLASHER RISK Split C40
PHR-37 COCKS OF THE DEAD - "Blowskull Tape 1" C20
PHR-36 PANAGIOTIS SPOULOS - "Torpor" CDR
PHR-35 REVERSE MOUTH - "We Rub Our Hands With A Tendency To Start Fires"
PHR-34 PLACENTA POPEYE - "S/T" CDR
PHR-33 REVERSE MOUTH - "The Bible Eater" C20
PHR-32 PARANOIA BIRTHDAY - "Eadd Si Esro Xla Otn" CDR
PHR-31 DONNA PARKER - "Black Black Heart" 3"CDR
PHR-30 THE LEGEND! vs SHADY LADIES / SHADY LADIES vs THE LEGEND! - "Primary Music" CDR
PHR-29 REVERSE MOUTH - "A Child, A Dwarf, A Sickness" CDR
PHR-28 FELINE GLAND - "Love Is The Antichrist" C20
PHR-27 THE WINSTON REDNECKS - "Bikini Plant & Orange Sky Juice" CDR
PHR-26 PANAGIOTIS SPOULOS - "Fat Layers Of The Ecstatic Sleep" Book + CDR
PHR-25 NOKALYPSE - "Between Trouble And Desire" CDR
PHR-24 SILENT FOETUS - "Fade To Black Chronicles" 3"CDR
PHR-23 SCHROEDINGER'S CUT - "Bowed Insides" 3"CDR
PHR-22 HOWLIN' GHOST PROLETARIANS - "The Singer" CDR (co-released w/ Absurd)
PHR-21 FELINE GLAND - "Saturday Night Diarrhea" CDR
PHR-20 SLAP COMBAT - "Eradicated Eye" CDR
PHR-19 AUX - "Naux Play (For Billy Boy)" 3"CDR
PHR-18 PANAGIOTIS SPOULOS - "Footsteps (For Lee)" 1-sided C60
PHR-17 POSTBLUE - "New Shake" CDR
PHR-16 BRAIN PIE - "We, Friends Of Violence" CDR
PHR-15 OLD FASHIONED DONKEYS - "S/T" CDR (co-released w/ Editions_Zero)
PHR-14 PANAGIOTIS SPOULOS - "Sickend (A Blend)" CDR
PHR-13 NIGHTSHIFT - "1906 EP" CDR
PHR-12 COCKS OF THE DEAD - "S/T" CDR
PHR-11 THODORIS ZIOUTOS - "Feedbacking 2" 3"CDR (suspended)
PHR-10 POSTBLUE - "Naked Women Dance Alone" CDR
PHR-09 THODORIS ZIOUTOS - "Feedbacking 1" 3"CDR (suspended)
PHR-08 ROBERT PIOTROWICZ - "Path To The Death" CDR
PHR-07 CHEESE*SALAD & THE MOTHER OF GOD - "S/T" CDR / 1-sided C60
PHR-06 PANAGIOTIS SPOULOS - "Catshoukah EP" CDR
PHR-05 POSTBLUE - "Therapist Is The Rapist | 1999-2003: Selected Rotten Recordings" CDR
PHR-04 PANAGIOTIS SPOULOS - "Burden In My Dick" Enhanced CDR
PHR-03 SWEETOHM - "Pev" CDR
PHR-02 KOPSOKEFALI - "Uba" CDR
PHR-01 POSTBLUE - "B-Movie Anthem / Paralyzed" 7" (deleted)

PHN-05 ΤΟ ΔΥΟ ΕΥΡΩ - "Στο Ψαχνό" MP3
PHN-04 PANAGIOTIS SPOULOS - "Torn-A-Part" MP3
PHN-03 ADAM_IS - "Σφήκα" MP3
PHN-02 WASHING CASPER - "Documents (Early Zeros)" MP3
PHN-01 FRAGRANT FAMILY - "Live at DBA, Brooklyn" MP3

PHV-03 OLD FASHIONED DONKEYS - "Hammer the Donkey" VCD
PHV-02 ONE TIMES ONE - "S/T" VCD (deleted)
PHV-01 POSTBLUE - "Live Vol.1: Kozani University" VCD

PHRQ-03 ANALOGUE NOISE SOLO - "Fuck S.A.T.O. From Now On" 3"CDR
PHRQ-02 WASHING CASPER - "Live At The Small Music Theatre" CDR
PHRQ-01 ANALOGUE NOISE SOLO - "The Ear Punishment EP" CDR

absurd41 POSTBLUE - "The Hot Hot Ice Bound" 3"CDR (co-released w/ Phase!, no cat. number) CDR