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Last copies from Ace’s personal archives, from an edition of 500.

"Recorded in 1982 at the band's final sessions, this two-song single finds the singer sounding less like The Fugs and more like The Mentors' El Duce, and the band in a less offensive and more serious mood.... Still, the title track is exquisite, with a bass line stolen from Vince Guaraldi's 'Linus & Lucy,' some of the queasiest tremelo-bar-damaged guitarwork on record, and a scraggly sick sound that may not be pretty but sure is interesting! High-speed high-end guitar diddling is also featured in perhaps the artiest (and most Captain Beefheart-esque) track the band ever recorded."--Mark Prindle

These copies are not in Mint condition, but they are all in excellent condition, never been played, and include an insert with photo and lyrics.

Two previously unreleased tracks from the first album sessions.

The Ace & Duce/Transparency label has released a CD documenting Ace’s noise music historical past.

This compilation is pompously titled “Artificial Artist” and features several recordings of improvisational tweedlings from the years 1981-1987 for no particular reason, and features such luminaries as Dr. Odd, Ju Suk Reet Meate and Oblivia from Smegma, Phil Irwin and Marla Vee of Rancid Vat, M.T. Lubotamy & the Spudbub of the Child Molesters and the notorious Allergy Three, as well as John Paul Bormann, Donald Byrnes (South Pasadena Free Music Ensemble alumni), Karen Fowler, and Anne Harney. This threatens to be the first of several CDs from the archives of field recordings and not-so-field recordings from the Ace & Duce vaults.

Random Selections with Ace Farren Ford (Ace & Duce Records, July 2012) is a numbered limited edition 7"  EP featuring Bruce Litz, Diane Patrizzi Intergarlictic, Rick Potts, As-Is & Fried Turkey. Hand made art on label, signed by Ford. Released to coincide with the Ace solo show at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA. Edition of 200.

One of three in a series of deluxe packaged reissues of extremely rare and unreleased material from LAFMS. Each comes in a heavy duty full color gatefold 7” jacket, with inserts, etc., numbered and limited to 700 copies each: “state of the art packaging quality and attention to detail.” “Airway started in 1977 as a plot by Joe Potts to subliminally program audiences behind the cover of a chaotic wall of sound. To create the wash of ear-splitting noise, all of the instruments, Vetza’s vocals, and the subliminal implants are mixed together and processed through a daisy-chain of flangers, phase-shifters, delays and distortions. Then the super-charged signal is blasted through guitar amps carefully placed to maximize the ricochet of sound from wall to wall. Airway kicks the notion of ‘loud’ up to a whole new level.”

Includes a CD recording of Airway live at Beyond The Pink festival from 1998 with the LAFMS alumni, including Jerry Bishop, Don Bolles, Dennis Duck, John Duncan, Pierre Bamboo Dupuy, Ace Farren Ford, Kevin Laffey, Mike Kelley, Don Lewis, Fredrik Nilsen, Rick Potts, Joe Potts, Tom Recchion, Melinda Ring, Captain Alan Schuck, Richard Snyder, Vetza, Liz Young. Also includes a reproduction Airway 7” from 1977 (with separate sleeve) and a CD-ROM movie of “Airway at Beyond The Pink” and “Mother/Daughter”, plus Airway documentation (flyers, ephemera, etc.) in PDF format.

LP version of the now out of print CD reissue of this scarce LAFMS title, limited to 500 copies, and with a portfolio of Airway gig flyer reproductions. This album was originally recorded and released in 1978; Airway was a group featuring Joe Potts, Chip Chapman, Rick Potts, Dennis Duck, Juan Gomez and Tom Recchion. Live At LACE was later included in the out of print 10 CD LAFMS box “The Lowest Form of Music” from 1995, but this version has been remastered, using the original tapes for the LP. It is considered to exhibit a “pretty different feeling of sound” and features unique artwork that was only used on Japanese-export copies of the LP when it was first released. It is a crucial early-noise document from the LAFMS heyday.

Takuya Sakaguchi (LAFMS supporter in Japan since 1978) says about Airway:
“AIRWAY is a brainchild of Joe Potts. Here are COMMANDMENTS OF AIRWAY: AIRWAY is a hole through which our conscious passes. Sound of AIRWAY is not an object. Sound of AIRWAY has no fixed location. Sound of AIRWAY has no fixed meaning. Sound of AIRWAY has no dimensions. Meaning and dimensions of AIRWAY sound constantly change in relation to the universe inside and outside listeners. Sound of AIRWAY has no fixed time. The ‘flow of time’ in AIRWAY sound is psychological not physical. Sound of AIRWAY is a representation of the ‘whole’ of sound existing inside and outside us. Because all sound of AIRWAY is interrelated, there is no such thing as innovative sound at AIRWAY performance. Sound of AIRWAY is an unfolded manifestation of hidden (enfolded) universe, consisting of all sound which will ever exist and has ever consisted inside and outside us.

And about this LP:
“The monster is back in its original nature! Human synthesizers!! Hijokaidan in its early days was heavily under its influence. Definitely a must for everyone in this era!”

Sealed archival copies of this out of print LP by the art-rock-punk ensemble Bpeople from Los Angeles. Bpeople, who existed between 1978 and 1982, featured LAFMSers Tom Recchion and Fredrik Nilsen, and also featured Alex Gibson and Pat Delaney (formerly of the Deadbeats). Originally formed in 1978 as Curtain with future Swans leader Mike Gira, the band quickly changed their name to Little Cripples, then to Strict IDs, and finally settled on Bpeople in 1979.  They played tons of shows and had the privilege of playing with many of the leading art-rock, punk rock, and post-rock musicians and groups of the day: Captain Beefheart, B-52’s, Gang of Four, Suicide, New Order, DNA, Cabaret Voltaire, Dead Kennedys, DOA, Sleepers, Middle Class, and the Germs among others and formed the core of the legendary ASB, a loose affiliation of like-minded Los Angeles bands that included Human Hands, Monitor, and NON. Little know factoid: They were tapped to open for Joy Division in 1980 before Ian Curtis committed suicide on the eve of that bands US tour.

“Petrified Conditions—a full album of original recordings (some, but not all, previously issued on Bpeople EP and other vinyl) remixed in 1984-'85 by Alex Gibson and Paul B. Cutler—is a…convincing introduction to Bpeople's artsy sophistication. The sonic and stylistic variety is impressive, and Gibson's songwriting displays structural abilities far beyond the punk club milieu in which the band existed. A worthwhile archaeological find.”—Trouser Press

Now out of stock, last remaining copies.

Available on gatefold double LP or CD.

“Dennis Duck Goes Disco” was originally released in September 1977 as LAFMS 2425 in a limited edition of 20 cassettes, individually signed and numbered. This exacting CD reissue features a great booklet with new liner notes by Dennis, and design by longtime friend Tom Recchion. The album was made entirely with a phonograph and records, utilizing skipping and pitch changes for most of the effects.

Duck is perhaps best loved for his tenure with Smegma and The Doo-Dooettes but he is also known as a drummer for The Dream Syndicate and Human Hands as well as working with Stillife, Paul Is Dead, and The Square Haircuts among others. However, “Dennis Duck Goes Disco” may well prove to be his most historically potent release. Recorded using nothing but turntables and vinyl, Duck uses his skills as a free drummer to manipulate stuck grooves, needle blats, analogue static and scratched discs into melodic/percussive assemblages that cross that daffy early-LAFMS style with very psychedelic miniatures, Industrial tone-poems, computerised number stations threat and funny vocal skits. Aspects of both Christian Marclay and Emil Beaulieau are flashed on here and there but overall this feels very much like a record made by a drummer using records. Anyone intent on chasing down the various manifestations of the legendary LAFMS movement will want to spend extended time in here. Reissue artwork and packaging by Tom Recchion. “DDGD is probably the LAFMS release I listened to the most.”--Ace Farren Ford

Recorded in Ann Arbor circa 1975, this vinyl album features Jeff Fields, Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Kalle Nemvalts, John Reed and Jim Shaw. Edition of 500.

Featuring recordings from concerts in Tokyo, Osaka, Rotterdam, Vienna, and Los Angeles. With special guest musicians: Scanner, Charlemagne Palestine, and Violent Onsen Geisha.

Group improvisations intended to accompany a film on the Viking space probe in 1975. Includes the original Doo-Dooettes lineup; Dennis Duck, Juan Gomez, Fredrik Nilsen, Tom Recchion, Harold Schroeder. The package includes a 7”  with a Doo-Dooettes version of Faust’s “Picnic On A Frozen River” recorded in 1978, a CD of “Think Space”, plus three inserts.

The 7” tracks recorded live at “Synthetic Eligunts”, a fashion show hosted by Kee Ran Sala, January 17, 1978 in Pasadena, California. One side of the 7” is 45 rpm, while the other is 33 rpm. CD tracks were recorded at 35 S. Raymond, Pasadena, on August 8 & 9, 1976. These improvisations were created originally for a film by video art pioneer David Em, while he was doing his residency at JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratories) in Pasadena, about the Viking Space Probe to Mars. The film was never completed. Hand numbered edition of 700 copies.
 

Extended Organ is a “supergroup” of experimental sound artists whose members are culled from the ranks of the. The four members of Extended Organ have been improvising with sound for over three decades and although they have played together in various configurations in the past, this CD marks the first time the quartet ever played together as a total entity. The foursome all have active and well established careers on their own: Paul McCarthy is a world-renowned art superstar. His work in Extended Organ consists of free form vocal/lyrical improvisations that play off the instrumental improvisations of the other three members while at the simultaneously setting a mood, telling a story and responding to the general ambiance of the performance situation. Fredrik Nilsen is a founder of the LAFMS and a noted photographer. Nilsen conceptually founded Extended Organ in which he plays prepared acoustic guitar and both an antique analog organ and a modern digital keyboard, all in an especially unorthodox style. Fredrik’s approach spins equally from gothic horror movie soundtracks. Joe Potts is a founder of the LAFMS and mastermind of Airway, which has been called “the gnarliest noise band of all time”. Potts is omnipresent on his chopped optigans--instruments he crafts from dismantled 70s optical samplers. With up to 64 simultaneous samples per instrument, the chopped optigan is the ultimate drone machine. Tom Recchion is a founder of the LAFMS, a Grammy winner art director, and member of the Doo-Dooettes, The Rodney Forest, and Bpeople. Recchion uses Kurzweil, guitar, radio, CDs, etc. to accent the other instruments as well add the occasional lush crescendo. Tom also acted as producer on the record and mixed and processed the sound of the entire ensemble live during the recording. Three years in the making, XOXO is creepy and wonderful.

"Extended Organ, appropriately enough, have their roots in the LAFMS, the foursome having performed over many years in many different combinations, but never in this incarnation. Who are they all then? Well, there's artist Paul McCarthy, whose FXed vocals give Mike Patton (in Fantomas mode) a run for his money in the scary, splatter movie stakes; and Fredrik Nilsen, an LAFMS founder, specialist in prepared guitar and dildo, apparently. Then there's Joe Potts, inventor of the chopped optigan, instruments cannibalised from 70s optical samplers. And last but not least, another LAFMS founder, and Nilsen's compadre in the Doo-Dooettes, Tom Recchion. Recchion was most recently heard as one of the contributors to David Toop's spoken word collection Hot Pants Idol (his was the best piece on the album, imho), and previously on the extraordinary Chaotica (also on Birdman), an album of exotica cut-ups whose end results way outstrip its methodology. So there's about a century's worth of radical music history between these guys, and, boy, does it show. XOXO's press release describes it as three years in the making, and at once it sounds like that and an afternoon's work. For this is radically Free music, which has its roots in improv but eschews any music-making dogma. EO will grab a cornball pop riff as soon as they'll turn in a psych-organ solo. Or scream a lot. Or drone eerily for an hour or so (subjective time). Actually, this music genuinely comes closer than any I've heard to the sounds of my recurring infant nightmare (it involved swimming pools and hands, I seem to recall, but let's not go there... ), but don't let that put you off. This is masterful stuff, a sound world rendered as physical as any can be. Great start to the year, I reckon."--Simon Hopkins, sonomu.net

A 2-CD collection of Shaw/Kelley Duets from the early Destroy All Monsters period. Primarily featuring Shaw on guitar and Kelley on percussion, these extended improvisations also incorporate tape loops, tape collage, and primitive electronics.