"Two very active modern electronic musicians who enjoy 20th century analog equipment deliver a document of mind expanding electronics with very different approaches. Giffoni's track 'Techno' is full of layered and perfectly synched synthetic rhythms matched with some very adhesive evolving sounds; Creating something that somehow ends up being a homage to both early techno and harsh Japanese electronics. Whitman's track is a beautiful exploration of synthetic tonality and space, like a sudden massage to several areas of the brain one by one but also all at once with a little spice of musique concrete . Both of these recordings share an expansive and psychedelic nature, as well as a nod to the past while moving into the future. Artwork by Maya Miller."

-No Fun Productions

Tracks:

Side A: Carlos Giffoni
-Techno

Side B: Keith Fullerton Whitman
-070207

-Limited to 400 Copies

"Debut CD from Brooklyn musician and film maker Sarah Lipstate. Red Rainbows is full of growing tonal drones that evoke visions of menacing multicolored skies alongside tracks full of beautiful minimalistic structures that shoot straight for the heart. Sarah uses double-neck guitar and various electronics to create breathtaking atmospheres with an intensity that works on both a cognitive and emotional level. These tracks are either really beautiful or really dirty when the time is right, which is the key here. Sarah knows what she is doing and when to do it. This is an essential initial document from one of the new artists bending abstract sound into meaningful structures. Includes a collaboration with Carlos Giffoni. This is an enhanced CD and includes the short film 'Interior Variations'. Artwork by Caroline Contillo. "

-No Fun Productions

Tracks:

-Rainbows
-Brilliant Colors
-St. Powers
-Tunnels
-Bends

-Enhanced CD includes the short film 'Interior Variations'.

"Recorded live at No Fun Fest 2008. White Out(Tom Surgal and Lin Culbertson) are true pursuers of the mythical everlasting improvisational fire. With a style thats both oblique and right to the point Tom's dynamic poly-rhythmic percussion and Lin's dynamic electronics and voice are augmented in this scorching live recording by C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) on violin and Carlos Giffoni on analog synth. This was their first collaboration and is full of amazing interplay that covers a wide spectrum of sound, From other-world evolving sounds to furious free improvisation to thick layers of dense drones, this is a totally bombastic and essential document of ageless modern improvisation."

-No Fun Productions

Tracks:

Side A.
-Turbulent Flow

Side B.
-The Junkman's Obligato

-Limited to 350 Copies

"When spinning this dark velvet cloak a door opens to clouds of smoke shooting out the windows sills of the shell of old library like ink plumes while smokes leaps like black cats between the curtains. Stone and concrete crumble and fill the air with gray gas showering the the maze of shrubs in the courtyard with a dark veil of soot. Marcia Bassett has tread the waters of noise pysch drone and continues to defy the categories. a dark psychadelic guitar wash peaks its head out of the smoldering coals that could have been released on the mighty slaughter productions death industrial temple from Italy.Further morbidity croaks from the slicing vocals of a distraught entity being ripped from one dimension to the other... and rather enjoying her ordeal. Light the candles and burn the incense....Limited to 300 copies."

-No Fun Productions

Tracks:

A1. Great Are The Riches Hidden In Tribulation
A2. Of Hildegardes

B1. As Well In Death

-Limited to 300 Copies

"From the bowels of the southern hemisphere, guitar /electronics noise signor Marco Fusinato gives us the full F/A-18 squadron attack. One side is an inferno of mangled guitar spit, relentlessly speeding and colliding with all in its path. The flipside features a giant monochord stuck and struggling to escape from the shards of the volatile overload. Recorded live, then spliced/mixed/mastered by Oren Ambarchi. Cover artwork by Australian colonial convict/forgerer/artist Joseph Lycett. And now… everything’s wrong."

-No Fun Productions

Tracks:

Side A.
-Untitled

Side B.
-Untitled

-Limited to 300 Copies

"Astromero is the psychedelic synth / noise project of Japanese pioneer Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro,CCCC), and LA's Damion Romero (Speculum Fight). Side A is a live show in San Francisco, a total scorcher with an immense level of energy where shifting walls of synthetic sound produced by Hasegawa are complemented by the signature rumbling low end frequencies coming from Damion's custom electronics. Side B is a new studio track, full of brain melting tones and showing the more compositional side of this sick ongoing collaboration."

-No Fun Productions

Tracks:

Side A.
-Live in San Francisco

Side B.
-The Dust Coma

-Limited to 350 Copies

"This is shining and pure electronic music. Adult Life continues Carlos Giffoni's work in slow-building drones but he also imbues these new compositions with subtle structure,melodic sequences and blind-siding rhythmic pulses which recall the many pioneers of electronic composition, among them Cluster, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, and Tangerine Dream.The caustic melding of foreboding abstraction and lively pulse raises Adult Life to a paradigm of the breathing and the immaculate, a strange set of dichotomies finding a shocking common ground. Original Illustrations for this full length by Megan Ellis."

-No Fun Productions

Tracks:

01. The Endless Mirror (9:12)
02. Comfort And Pleasure (9:26)
03. A Son With No Father (9:22)
04. This Is How You Pull The Trigger (9:53)
05. A Permanent Choice (12:52)

"The fusion of metal, noise rock, free jazz, industrial, and harsh electronics that makes up The Certainty of Swarms is the rare kind of heterogeneous concoction that is carefully matured, but never lost in pedestrian calculation. A blistering onslaught of metallic-fused noise-murk, Swarms is considered by the band to be one of their most complete statements to date, an aptly blindsiding and developed work drawing from all quarters of their craft."

-No Fun Productions

LP VERSION!

Tracks:

Side A.
-Strict (3:51)
-Intrinsic To The Execution (7:56)
-Paralysis Simulacrum (5:14)

Side B.
-Mangled Earth (8:47)
-On A Hinge (8:30)
-Freezing Alone (5:20)

-Limited to 350 Copies

"The fusion of metal, noise rock, free jazz, industrial, and harsh electronics that makes up The Certainty of Swarms is the rare kind of heterogeneous concoction that is carefully matured, but never lost in pedestrian calculation. A blistering onslaught of metallic-fused noise-murk, Swarms is considered by the band to be one of their most complete statements to date, an aptly blindsiding and developed work drawing from all quarters of their craft."

-No Fun Productions

Tracks:

Side A.
-Strict (3:51)
-Intrinsic To The Execution (7:56)
-Paralysis Simulacrum (5:14)

Side B.
-Mangled Earth (8:47)
-On A Hinge (8:30)
-Freezing Alone (5:20)

-Limited to 350 Copies

"The ongoing study and execution of harsh noise by driven artists constantly reinstates the medium via different techniques, concepts, and different artist amalgamations for a collaborative work. For myself, working with the different 'warbling' and generative moving lines of modular synth from Carlos Giffoni offered me a chance to investigate many different 'spaces' of tone and line manipulation. The examination and crossing of the different LINES slowly become their own parallel entity as the adjoined and wavy synth lines are further dirtied, cut repeatedly, and joined with the knife of 'gated' and cutting HN pedal work.To further manipulate and display the different lines and HN stylizations, Giffoni had the opportunity to heavily edit the textural work of THE RITA to exude the constantly moving and jutting sense of Giffoni's own pulsing and driving synth decay via the dirtied analog source material of THE RITA. Modular synth and pedal work have been long standing tools in the world of harsh noise, but not often are they crossed over with such investigative and crackling tendencies – a virtual criss-crossing of the different technical lines."

-Sam McKinlay(THE RITA)

Tracks:

A. Untitled

B. Untitled

C. Untitled

D. Untitled

-Limited to 300 Copies

"Sometimes sounds like borbetomagus playing in the middle of a storm, sometimes sounds like being in the middle of a bombing in Palestine. A Picture of this record should be next to every definition of Noise music. Lasse Marhaug plays in Jazkamer and has at least 300 other great projects solo and with other people. Dror Feiler served as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces, and refused to serve in the occupied territories in the early 70's. He is now a Swedish-Israeli musician and artist and has been living in Stockholm, Sweden since 1973. He is active as a composer of modern music and enjoys giving ear problems and headaches to classically trained musicians. The most brutal vinyl record you will hear this year. Limited to 300 copies."

-No Fun Productions

Tracks:

A. He-Male

B. No More Drama

-Limited to 300 Copies

"New solo LP of strange sounds, vocal improvisations, tape manipulations mangled strings and hiss drones from Dylan Nyoukis (Decaer Pinga,Blood Stereo) inside his wino lodge. Sounds like it was recorded in a 4 track in 1972 in an insane asylum, then puked over and thrown into the sea, then discovered recently and transfer directly to Vinyl via marine analog tape communication device (thats a compliment).Good one to buy if you are wondering what a naked Scotish man and his daughter look and sound like. Perfect combination of strange and amazing. Limited to 300 copies."

-No Fun Productions

Tracks:

A1. Damp Hallway & Counting
A2. Homebrewed Cloud
A3. Denies Indigo Owl
A4. Two Periods Of Strange Eating

B1. The Festering Lab
B2. To Polygamous Pond
B3. Wood Gin Sideline
B4. These Throats, Your Feathers

-Limited to 300 Copies

"Now Gods, Stand Up For Bastards/The Philosophik Mercury is a double-disc re-issue of two limited and long out-of-print works by this obscure enigma. Plunging straight into the chasm of ultra-minimalist abrasion and chaotic improv, these two records stand as unrelenting and engrossing epics of guitar feedback, disintegrating electronic sound, string-shredding violin abuse, and other facets of impassioned iconoclasm. Recommended for lovers of AMM, Henry Flynt, and Hijokaidan. A Handful of Dust are a group consisting of a core duo of Bruce Russell (The Dead C) and Alastair Galbraith. Formed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1990."

-No Fun Productions

Tracks:

DISC 1

01.The Book Nature: Chapter The First
02. Oration On The Dignity Of Man
03. The Expulsion Of The Triumphant Beast
04. The Lullian Art
05. The Book Nature: Chapter The Second
06. The Dark Lantern Of Reason

DISC 2

01. Fama Fraternitatis
02. God's Love To His People Israel

"A constantly shifting and engaging long-form piece of developed drone, foreboding melody, and harsh grit, Nothing Makes Any Sense finds Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Nels Cline (Nels Cline Singers, Wilco), and Alan Licht pushing their guitars into a cacophonous state that bears much influence from the post-jazz fields they've all cut their teeth in, but also bearing down a forceful brutality that has sometimes eluded their past material. While Carlos Giffoni uses his analog Synth mastery to adequately contend and mesh seamlessly with the trio of strings, letting his analog noise pulsate and pierce with its own sense of contained stampede."

-No Fun Productions

Tracks:

01. Nothing Makes Any Sense (53:03)

"A tale of lost love and desperation, this is Prurient's full length follow up to the acclaimed Pleasure Ground. And Still,Wanting takes the recent new direction of combining layered synth's and electronic loops with his usual poignant vocals to a whole new level of intensity. A new chapter in obsession with all that is mundane in our human life. The CD edition is limited to 1000 copies and comes with a Bonus 5" vinyl titled 'Shield' with tracks that won't be available anywhere else + 12 page full color booklet and lyrics printed inside the gatefold package."

-No Fun Productions

Tracks:

COMPACT DISC

01. Memory Repeating
02. Returning Truth
03. Subject
04. Lust End
05. Total Terrorism
06. Strict Ideas
07. Incense And Rubber

5" VINYL SINGLE

Side A. Shield (Prologue)
Side B. Shield (Epilogue)

"Sensitive/Lethal is Thurston Moore in deep basement cosmosis. Investigations into acoustic guitar as noise instrument as well as noise/amp discussion for a hopeful and bright blackness. Childhood dreams of noise essayed with photos of unsuspecting innocents running from noise weirdo (front cover) and texas blues albino drug zap (johnny winter – still alive and well detail – back cover). This is the story told in drone meditation and sweet slice."

-No Fun Productions

Tracks:

01. Sensitive
02. Lonesome
03. Lethal

"Consisting of Nate Young (of Wolf Eyes) and Steve Kenney, Demons explore near-epileptic and droning analog synth textures that elicit comfortable remembrances of electronic forefathers like Stockhausen and Cluster whilst simultaneously bludgeoning forward with the grating and scraping atonal complexities of Whitehouse and Throbbing Gristle. Having already rallied a fervorous flux of supporters with discomforting psychedelic multi-media performances and a slew of cryptic releases, Evocation is an appropriately elaborate and accomplished approximation of their shrewd identity and is their first full length CD release, with artwork by visual collaborator Alivia Zivich."

-No Fun Productions

Tracks:

01. Firewalk (8:54)
02. Grey Lady (12:17)
03. Pre-Existence (9:38)
04. Untitled (10:43)

"At this year's No Fun Fest, the legendary Japanese noise king Merzbow (Masami Akita) gave a blistering performance that stunningly brought together both his classic analog and recently-explored digital concerns. Keeping pace between two laptops and an amplified sheet-metal instrument, the walls of computerized droning distortion and psyched-out metallic scarping easily reminded those attending to the world of noise that even icons with twenty-plus year careers under their belts can still vivaciously channel the advancements they helped build as well as compose stunning untried sounds.Merzbow's set no doubt left longtime followers thoroughly fulfilled while those who've only heard the name thrown around in mythical regard were bound to have been left with a hearty appreciation of his genius."

-No Fun Productions

Tracks:

01. Live Destruction At No Fun 2007 (41:29)

"Five chapters of sound inspired by one of the most powerful and complex emotions of humankind. Arrogance is a departure from the digital machine insanity of his previous full length release, Welcome Home (Important Records), for a world of total analog electronics, primal energy, walls of monumental sound and precise attention to layers - creating massive slowly evolving structures that are both beautiful and terrifying. Arrogance is the first CD release on the No Fun Productions label. Recorded live with no overdubs in Brooklyn during a 12 month period by Carlos Giffoni and mastered by James Plotkin. Cover artwork by award winning artist/designer Megan Ellis."

-No Fun Productions

Tracks:

01. No More Air (8:53)
02. Wait For Me Dressed In One Color (8:03)
03. I Always Lie (16:25)
04. The Snake Rises (11:43)
05. A Proper End (4:13)