Catalog

PBK & Josh Lay - Self-Titled (pro-duplicated cdr) $10.00

Only eight copies of this title available through us! Josh Lay combines his horror-noise approach with PBK's psychedelic synth improvisation into a deep, forbidding soundscape. $10 each postpaid in the USA. International customers pay normal shipping rates.

NoiseAmbient Remake/Remodel Cassette Series

This series of cassettes are dubbed over commercial music releases, same as RRR's "Recycled" series. These are high quality cassettes, they're not faded, all are from new and previously unplayed stock, so the dubs are excellent. The sound is dubbed directly from the digital source. Created in the spirit of classic punk DIY ethic, the tapes are created entirely at home, all covers printed in strict b&w and hand cut, flaws are the norm. Each cassette is created "on-demand" in an edition of 50 copies. Remake/Remodel is about reclaiming technology and materials that have been declared obsolete by the profiteers of mass production and refashioning those remnants into something personal and unique.



PBK - Cornwall Spectre/Holloway Reservoir Creeps (cassette) $6.00

Second installment of PBK's trilogy of noise dedications to his hometown of Flint, Michigan. This tape features two distinctly different compositions. Side one, "Cornwall Spectre", is a long, noise-drone track that was originally created for Neil McIntee's art exhibit in the UK in 2010 and commemorates the haunted Cornwall Building in Flint. The second track, "Holloway Reservoir Creeps" is built from shortwave radio noise merging with media voice clips towards a sickening conclusion.

A: PBK - Cornwall Spectre (19:48)
B: PBK - Holloway Reservoir Creeps (20:51)

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PBK Vs Wolfy138 - Deus Ex Machina (cassette) $6.00

"Deus Ex Machina" began in 2004 as the noise project of poet, Rudy Espinoza, aka Wolfy138. Espinoza created some tracks at that time using cd's, records, tapes, and shortwave radio. Brashly recorded with a dense, overloaded sound and purposely wide stereo separation, these sound sources languished until PBK rediscovered them in 2010. The project became a collaboration with PBK remixing four of the tracks, adding turntable noise and various atmospherics. The first finished composition was heard on the "Fenton Road Beast" album (Banned Productions, 2011). The three remaining tracks are available here. Impossible to accurately characterize the sound: driving, intense, manic, at times rhythmic, somewhere between power electronics and old school industrial experimentation with some reappropriated sounds you might even recognize.

A: PBK & Wolfy138 - Deus Ex Machina I (16:41)
B1: PBK & Wolfy138 - Deus Ex Machina II (10:53)
B2: PBK & Wolfy138 - Deus Ex Machina III (7:17)

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PBK Asian Noise Collaborations, Vol. One (cassette) $6.00

In 2010, PBK solicited contributions from several notable young Asian composers, with the intent of exploring the noise experimentalism going on in Asian countries specifically outside of Japan. "Asian Noise Collaborations, Volume One" has PBK collaborating with Dickson Dee and Orgasm Denial, both from Hong Kong, and Random Emotionally Deformed from Singapore. Wide range of ideas here from cinematic soundscape approach to heavy noise and montage techniques with the results both varied and cohesive.

A1: PBK/Dickson Dee - Untitled (14:46)
A2: PBK/Orgasm Denial - Untitled (10:16)
B1: PBK/ R.E.D. - Untitled (13:50)
B2: PBK/R.E.D. - Untitled (10:10)

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CD'S

Damned Head-Into My Head CDR 2011 (NoiseAmbient) $6.00

PBK and Ernest C. Carter have been collaborating under a number of names since the late 90's. After Carter's return from a 10 year hiatus in Canada, the pair reunited seeking a new sound that would be a noise tribute to such free jazz duos as Brotzmann/Benink and Taylor/Oxley. After performing at the International Noise Conference in 2010, these tracks were gathered from various live improv sessions and "Into My Head" was created. Damned Head combines PBK's expansive, psychedelic synth noise with Carter's heavily effected distorto-rhythms and seeks a new paradigm for the freenoise genre.

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PBK-2Experiences Paris 1996 CDR 2011 (NoiseAmbient)
$10.00

Fold-out insert is a reproduction of the original event concert poster.

New release documents the 1996 PBK concert at the 2nd Experiences Festival in Paris, France. This event also featured Con Demek, Shimpflucche Gruppe and Toy Bizarre. The audience excitement can be heard throughout the nearly hour-long performance and the inclusion of Artemis K to the lineup created a great dynamic. As an audience member yells out at the end "Fuck the silence!" Lightscribe CDR in a slimline DVD case with inserts. Limited edition of 100.

2Experiences Excerpt by Noiseambient

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PBK-Under My Breath CD, 2009 (Waystyx)
$8.00 (new-sealed)
Import CD limited edition of 500 copies. Guests: Nocturnal Emissions, Wolf Eyes, Brume, Aube, John Wiggins, Tore H. Boe, Artificial Memory Trace, Dale Lloyd, and C. Reider.

REVIEWS: "PBK reveals dark inner leanings of his shrouded mind with Under My Breath, a full-length CD of extremely varied noises – rattlings, phased drones, heavy throbs and gas jets, layers, distorted voices, digital delay, angelic choirs and mangled synthesizers. Not a single track passes by without conveying certain grisly and creepy sensations of imminent death or disaster, while the lyrical track titles allude to bones, skin, meat, children, fire, air and all the matter in the cosmos refracted through this grim prophet's all-seeing eye. His mystic messages are so secret they are printed backwards on the inside of the front cover, but can be read by positioning the silver CD so it acts as a mirror. Cover is also die-cut with small rectangular holes, allowing us to peer into PBK's fevered brain as if through the bars of a prison or a sewer grating. 'I lived beyond extinction so far', he claims, and who dare gainsay that outlandish boast!" (The Sound Projector)

"...An amassment of pitiless images and unhealthy deformations of reality, the ears hit from every side. The effects are sweet sometimes, nearly disastrous for the psyche elsewhere. It almost looks like a nuclear war fought by human amoebae has suddenly started without us realizing (the record is aptly described as “an abstract contemplation on post 9/11 paranoia in the US”). The apparently unrealistic solutions that PBK chooses when he decides to make a statement systematically manage to find a way to sound logic, extremely efficient on the mind, gifted with a sort of surrealist attractiveness which is exactly what has distinguished him from many miserable imitators over the decades. In its own unique genre, an excellent album." (Touching Extremes)

PBK Air Brings Sound & Soul Excerpt by Noiseambient

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PBK & Telepherique-Noise-Ambient Connection CD, 2008 (Monochrome Vision) $7.00 (new - not sealed)
PBK and Telepherique join forces for this release of unclassifiable abstract sound-sculptures on the Russian label, Monochrome Vision. Both artists use samples, synthetic sound sources and sequencing to create an unsettling atmosphere of structured electronic patterns ranging from intense rhythmic work to strange psychedelic "out-of-body" soundscapes. Titles such as "Ecosystem Interrupt", "Sun Continue To Shine" and "Seen Through Cloud Cover" offer a glimpse into a future world of unpredictable ecological impact. Released in a limited edition of 500 copies.

Russia's Monochrome Vision specializes in new works of old masters from the good old industrial music scene, and as such they have quite a strong catalogue. I gather PBK and Telepherique are the best known, simply because they have been going since many years under the same name. Reading their discographies is like a who's who of industrial music and a catalogue of label names. Their music, solo or in collaboration, doesn't sound like industrial music these days, nor true noise, but highly atmospheric, moody and dark. 'Noise ambient' is indeed a fine term for such music. Ambient industrial the fanzines read in the late 80s. They plough their way through the extensive use of analogue and digital keyboards, playing stretched and sustaining sounds, with small rhythmical loops underpinning these desolate fields. Minimalist drone scapes and rusty samples. It seems as if not much water has passed under the bridge. No extended laptop techniques, over use of plug ins, and everything might be retro for these boys, but its executed with great and style here. (Vital Weekly)

PBK Telepherique Ecosystem Interrupt Excerpt by Noiseambient
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Government Alpha/PBK-Auditory Hallucination Of Drowsy Afternoon CD, 2007 (Xerxes) $8.00 (new - in plastic sleeve) PBK collaboration with Japan's Government Alpha. All sound material recorded during improvised sessions while on the 2004 U.S. "Family Reunion" tour. Mixes PBK's turntablist improvisation with Govt. Alpha's unique approach to the Japanoise aesthetic. This one runs the gamut from power electronics to avant space rock to electroacoustic junk sessions. Beautiful full color artwork collages by Yasutoshi Yoshida.

Govt. Alpha and PBK utilise every weapon available in their respective considerable arsenals, distorting, twisting, abusing, transmuting, fragmenting, rending, torturing, compressing, flaying, and finally leaving the ragged remains for dead, lying in a pool of blood, piss and excrement; pulling out the sound of those squealing, screeching microseconds before impact and stretching it past anything it was ever meant to endure. This is a battery of intense magnitude and constancy, never letting up, never allowing for however brief a time any form of respite or relief, it just keeps coming on relentlessly and determinedly. Finally we have the closing track, ‘Fuscous Sun’, almost a mirror image of the opener, time and the temporal membranes de-shattering to mend themselves and restore the rule of reality, albeit a fractured one, full of hurt, pain and devastation, a reality unlooked-for. As I have often said, the best music, of whatever colour, has the capacity to inspire, to conjure images and to spark off mental chain-reactions. As fanciful (or as some would say irrelevant) as the foregoing might appear, nevertheless this is what ripped through my mind as I was listening to it. Whatever the original intentions of the creators may have been, I can unequivocally attest to the power and might of this fine collaborative effort, bringing with it the hope that these two might venture to grace us with more of their nuclear vision sometime in the future. (Heathen Harvest)

02 Space-Time Snowslide by Noiseambient

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TAPES

PBK - Descent 1988 c-60 ($6.00)

First PBK solo release! Dramatic atmospheric space-drone with plenty of analog synthesizer, via Dave Prescott, who once ran the Generations Unlimited label, releasing works by Conrad Schnitzler, Morphogenesis, etc. Prescott owned one of the largest modular synths ever assembled and puts it to striking use on this tape. Combined with PBK's Moogs, loops and drones, and howls of anguish provided by the irrepressible Minóy, all echoing around in the strange space of a Radio Shack mixer's spring reverb. Reissue limited to 100 copies.

Pbk descent side a excerpt by Noiseambient
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Minóy / PBK - Cloisters 1987 c-60 ($6.00)

First Minóy/PBK release after the experiment of Disco Splendor. Features a Minóy mix, including many of his trademarks: howling, anguished vocals, the bizarre remaking of song standards (a tortured electronic version of 'Me & My Shadow') and a strange, echoing sound courtesy running the entire mix through the Rat Shack mixer's spring reverb!

PBK Minoy cloisters excerpt by Noiseambient
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Minóy / PBK - Chansons Mystiques 1988 c-60 ($6.00)

Minóy/PBK release from early 1988. Minimalist rhythms looping and keyboard organ lines warping through a watery echo chamber with glitched shortwave radio noise and Minóy vox.

Minoy PBK Chansons Mystiques Excerpt by Noiseambient
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Disco Splendor - Heteroglossia 1987 c-60 ($6.00)

Disco Splendor was an experiment in absurdist noise. PBK & Minóy, searching for the most irreverential noise music, unconcerned with aesthetic value, stumble upon something greater than the sum of it's parts.

Disco Splendor Dangling Scrotum Girls Excerpt by Noiseambient
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Disco Splendor - The Odor Of Patriarchy 1987 c-60 ($6.00)

Includes excerpts from the infamous Cal State concert where PBK & Minóy were shut down by the campus crusaders for allegedly performing a satanic ritual! Noise/drone via shortwave, synth and random electronics.

Disco Splendor Odor Of Patriarchy Side B excerpt by Noiseambient
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Disco Splendor - Correct Music 1988 c-90 ($6.00)

Aimless synth textures and arpeggiations create patterns that gyrate continuously and with little change. A Dada minimalist masterpiece of early noise banality.

Disco splendor correct music a side excerpt by Noiseambient
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Disco Splendor - The Politics Of Aggression 1988 c-60 ($6.00)

Monster noise feedback/drone album here, with Minóy vox, feedback squealing, heavy electronics and atmospheric textures.

Disco Splendor Politics Of Agression Side A Excerpt by Noiseambient
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Disco Splendor - New Wage 1988 c-60 ($6.00)

Epic montage of shortwave radio juxtaposition and crackling lo-fi noise.

Disco Splendor-New Wage Side A Excerpt by Noiseambient
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