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In-print titles
[accepting pre-orders]
Versioning- Greater and Greater Certainties
CD
New release from Versioning; four new tracks combine simple lines of saxophones, flutes and clarinets paired with beats and abrasive modular synth textures, featuring additional remixes by Jetski, BAND, Dug Alcedo, Steve Hand (and a special edition featuring a bonus CDr with a remix by Laa Boal Dyn)
$10 shipped (standard edition).$20 (handmade boutique edition with bonus disc).
[accepting pre-orders]
Equal Opportunity Nihilists- Equal Opportunity Nihilists
2xCD+patch
All the hits on two discs! First physical solo full-length from Columbus, OH's prolific chaos musick veteran. More in drone/hnw territory this time, rather than the full on assault many fans may have come to expect. FFO: Hiroshi Hasegawa projects like Astro, C.C.C.C. or Astral Travelling Unity
$15 shipped.
令人愉快的金礦- 法輪大法
digital download
The Delightful Gold Mine continues to examine the intersection of meditation-based no-input mixer feedback alongside guitar noise drones. An amalgam of noise and new age music bursts forth in reaction to falun gong cult meditation beliefs, and power dynamics of rigid social control and religious corruption. FFO: Graham Lambkin, Harold Budd, Masonna.
$1+//limited edition download
令人愉快的金礦//Equal Opportunity Nihilists- Post-Apocalyptic Dreamhouse Vol. II
digital download
Three new pieces celebrating the unconquerable reclaiming force of nature after nearly 5 years of silence from this particular collaboration. Download features deluxe 12 page booklet and oversize digital print. All images were developed by Agreeable Goldmines in collaboration with DALL-E AI.
limited edition download
令人愉快的金礦- 冥想放大器
digital download
No-input mixer feedback; parameters modified based on meditation. The title translates as "meditation amplifier."
$1+//limited digital download
Son of Buzzi- Fluss
CD
Flowing psychedelic soli and location recordings from Swiss guitarist Sebastian Bischoff. FFO: early Six Organs of Admittance, Robbie Basho, Sir Richard Bishop solo.
$10 shipped
BAND- Skryer in the Spirit Visions
CD
Columbus, OH's enigmatic BAND in solo kosmische drone mode. FFO: Catherine Christer Hennix & Henry Flynt, fluxus.
$10 shipped.
Steve Hand- RIPs
CD
Muslimgauze-worship memorial drone housed in an oversized 7" jacket with paste-on covers in differing color combinations. FFO: Phill Niblock, Slomo, Ampbuzz.
$10 shipped.
Agreeable Goldmines//Equal Opportunity Nihilists- Post-Apocalyptic Dream House
LP
Split LP from members of North Star Eco-Crisis Management Unit. Blasted noise on one side and a gentle piano/tape/electronic noise piece on the flip. One time pressing. Only available here or directly from the artists. Screenprinted or paste-on covers. FFO: Incapacitants, Mahogany Brain (E.O.N. side) and Technical Space Composer's Crew (Holger Czukay), Graham Lambkin (A.G. side)
$25 shipped.
Past titles
fire is free no. xxv
Yasuyuki Uesugi- Daily Mutations in Genes Change My Spiritual World Little by Little
CDr
Damaged harsh noise wall from Hokkaido.
OOP
fire is free no. xxiv
Agreeable Goldmines- Black Meditation
CDr
Two pieces of tranced-out bowed guitar Takehisa Kosugi worship bookend a monolithic guitar drone.
OOP
fire is free no. xxiii
Agreeable Goldmines- Black Opals
CDr
New psychedelic folk noise guitar recordings punctuating two years of radio silence from Agreeable Goldmines. Recorded on a blues harp mic acquired by way of Sir Richard Bishop.
OOP
fire is free no. xxii
Agreeable Goldmines- Untitled No-Input Mixer Feedback MMXIX b/w Our Bodies are Merely Vessels which Conceal Our Heavenly Souls
digital download
Digital-only harsh noise pieces released to promote the then-forthcoming folk and drone recordings by Agreeable Goldmines.
OOP
fire is free no. xxi
Laa Boal Dyn vs. Versioning- Versioning Remixes
digital download
Digital-only EP of remixes of Versioning pieces by the reclusive Laa Boal Dyn whose work hovers between a disconcerting mix of hardcore techno, drone electronics and breakcore.
OOP
fire is free no. xix
Versioning//Blood Noize- Link Ambient or Games//Live MMXII-MMXVIII
10" lathe cut split picturedisc record
Three way lathe split insanity. Laa Boal Dyn makes a brief appearance with a Versioning drone edit, while Versioning and Blood Noize lay waste to your speakers and your brain with searing noise and hardcore.
OOP
fire is free no. xviii
fire is free no. xvii
North Star Eco-Crisis Management Unit- Live from Fish Hatchery Rd.
CDr
Seattle, WA recordings of Equal Opportunity Nihilists + Agreeable Goldmines duo. This edition features different track sequence and mixes than the digital version available under a different title from Equal Opportunity Nihilists.
OOP
fire is free no. xvi
Agreeable Goldmines & Laa Boal Dyn- Free Space Optical Communication No. 2
10" lathe cut picturedisc record + DVD
Laa Boal Dyn brings hard detroit 808 vibes while Agreeable Goldmines contributes an experimental DVD loop for visual accompaniment.
OOP
fire is free no. xv
Iehouah- Houseghost
CDr
Mangled anonymous guitar noise from Philadelphia, PA. Edition of 13 housed in paper bags with paste-on antique photograph covers.
OOP
fire is free no. xiv
Abgyhr- Practice Demonstration MMXVII.V.II
CDr
First physical document from Columbus, OH's psychedelic ambient free-folks Young Herkimer and A Beamed Gelling Rose. Edition of 13.
OOP
fire is free no. xiii
fire is free no. xi
Free Space Optical Communication No. 1
DVDr
New age crystal healing video accompanies a set by Agreeable Goldmines recorded at a house show above a funeral parlor in Columbus, OH.
OOP
fire is free no. x
Abgyhr- Practice and Live MMXVI
digital download
Practice recordings bookend a live set opening for Tom Carter at a Columbus, OH house show in the summer of MMXVI.
OOP
[no catalog number]
Dioses Serpientes Enroscados- Space-Time Crystal Motions
CDr
Trio recordings of the ever-popular guitar/hammered dulcimer/accordion configuration of Eoin Bell-Games, Jen Powers and Stephanie Dean. CDr of the band's first two performances (opening for Frank Hurricane and Circuit des Yeux) as recorded by Cabin Floor Esoterica's Jordan Spencer.
OOP
fire is free no. viii
Weekend Acid Dad- Weekend Acid Dub
digital download
Dubbed out in an echo chamber reverb delay tape manipulation drum and bass reggae noise. Second collection of recordings by these cavern-dwelling maniacs.
OOP
fire is free no. vii
Weekend Acid Dad- Weekend Acid Wow
digital download
Drum and bass/chopped and screwed dub reggae/delay/delay/noise guitar techno. UNDAM and Agreeable Goldmines duo recorded in the meat locker at MINT, Columbus,OH.
OOP
fire is free no. vi
Agreeable Goldmines- Dream Synthesis
Cassette
Second full-length of Agreeable Goldmines' lush electronic textures intermingling with organics and guitar noise.
OOP
fire is free no. v
A Beamed Gelling Rose- Every One of Us Has Got the Blues
CDr
Four pieces of psychedelic blues noise on CDr. In regard to the format, Time & Temperature said "What is this, 2006?"
OOP
fire is free no. iv
A Beamed Gelling Rose- Metempsychosis (Slow Loud and Bangin' Edition)
Cassette
Chopped and screwed version (with an alternate b-side and a secret DJ Screw megamix) of an acid-damaged guitar noise tape that was originally intended for release by Jen Powers' Sonnedecker Records, but never saw the light of day. This version persists, however.
OOP
fire is free no. iii
A Beamed Gelling Rose- Convivial Purl
CDr
Solo folk guitar noise. Edition of 13.
OOP
fire is free no. ii
Agreeable Goldmines- Untitled
CDr
Guitar, synth and vocal drones from Columbus, OH, August/September MMXIV.
OOP
fire is free no. i
[anonymous]- Untitled 2xCDr
2xCDr
Two pieces of anonymous Philadelphia basement noise, recorded 7 years apart, housed on two unlabeled CDr's to ensure random play sequence, in different foldover covers depicting nature overcoming human "progress."
OOP
get off social media and take back the internet. no copyright in mmxxii. no props to the culture cops.