Crawlspace Mailorder LATHE 8” Witcyst birchville cat motel pumice the dead c NZ
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Oct 5, 2012 Sold Date
Sep 28, 2012 Start Date
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Various- Mailorder 2 LATHE CUT 8” EP (Crawlspace Records)

Tremendously rare Crawlspace Records Mailorder 8" LATHE CUT EP sent to mailorder customers in 2002 as a thank you, this is a 3 song 8" EP featuring three of New Zealand's more interesting sound artists. I believe 20 to 30 were made.

8" is MINT- (I consider all new lathe discs as mint- because the nature of lathe discs is that some surface noise will be present, this is normal to the process of making the discs)/Cover is MINT-.

Tracks are:
1. Ultra Violet (1/2 Octave Band aka 1/3 Octave Band)
2. Mending Depression [With A Needle And A Thread] (Ben Spiers)

1. Untitled (Witcyst)


All three artists also recorded releases for Birchville Cat Motel's Campbell Kneale and his Celebrate Psi Phenomenon label.

These artists join an elite cadre of inventive sound artists from New Zealand's underground who have helped bring the nation an international profile in the avant garde world, artists including The Dead C., RST, Sandoz Lab Technicians, Thela, Parmentier, Rosy Parlane, Birchville Cat Motel, Pumice, CJA & Armpit, Peter Wright, Antony Milton, Gate, Rachel Shearer & Lovely Midget, Eso Steel, Greg Malcolm, Eye, White Saucer, Sam Hamilton, Tim Coster, Doramaar, Rain, Surface Of The Earth, K-Group, Three Forks, Ray Off, Rory Storm, Small Blue Torch and countless more.

Audiofoundation says of Ben Spiers:
Ben Spiers performs and records primarily as an improvising solo guitarist. Additionally, he is a member of the groups Empty Mirror, Seen Through, Glory Fckn Sun and Black Window, and has appeared on recordings by 1/3 Octave Band and Birchville Cat Motel. He also runs the Transient Recordings label

Big City says of Ben Spiers:
Ben Spiers is a highly productive Wellington based experimental musician. He is a member of Campbell Kneale’s Celebrate Psi Phenomenon collective, half of the duo Seen Through with Antony Milton, a member of recording/performing outfits Empty Mirror and Kaosphere Orchestra, an occassional member of Cave Of One, 1/3 Octave Band and Kneale’s Birchville Cat Motel, and has recorded as a duo with Bill Wood.

The Big City says of Witcyst:
Perhaps the most prolific artist new zealand has ever produced, Michael Veet Ruiliude has produced as Witcyst, or as an number of his other mysterious alias, Veetjist, M. W. Vit, Wytcystallio, Mxvxwx, Thighte Whistle, or a handful of groups – Falcoxi, Failian Falien, Naughty Pakehas, G.A.M etc etc the list goes on.

On his own Extemporanious and Lifespace labels there are over 600 documented Ruiliude recordings, and this number is growing daily, as he tends to release pretty much everything he records.

Purely a mail-order marvel, a witcyst package contains a bizarre array of musical snippets in any grab-bag stylistic approaches, and acompanied by various pieces of visual artwork. With all this activity, Ruiliude has also found time to collaborate with and contribute material with Clayton Noone and his Root Don Lonie For Cash label, whilst still maintaining a release schedule on his own labels of mammoth proportion.

Humbug says of Witcyst:
Michael Veet - potato farmer and "collagist of discarded rubbish as much as creator of more of the same....." one of the few REAL outsider geniuses of our time.

Here's an extract from a review of multiple Witcyst titles by Seymor Glass in Bananafish 15:
"Few possess the abilities to warrant releasing quadruple-CDs (yet it's a pity the incidence of vanity is inversely proportional); if anyone could get away with it at several-week intervals without adding an iota of distress to the world's reserves, it would be Witcyst. Hype? Bite Me. What these New Zealanders can do with a synthesizer and a few samples of balloon noise is enough to base a new civilization on, where intermission and curtain calls do not exist, where perpetual are the floor shows in which refuse and discarded leftovers combine into new, entropy-flummoxing worm-kings, where dependable sunspot fountains lick our faces when we sleep."

Byron Coley said of 1/3 Octave Band in Wire:
"If youve ever heard of New Zealand musician Bill Wood, chances are that it was related to his work with Campbell Kneales Birchville Cat Motel. But Bill has his own line of space rock/guitar drone/massive atmopsherics as well, and he records them as 1/3 Octave Band. Woods music is new to my ears but its highly impressive. He takes a very maxist approach to drones, filling the pulses of his endless frontiers with shifting arrays of instrumental intrigue and ominously pulsing lights.

Psuedoarcana said of 1/3 Octave Band :
String driven shiver floating in a lake of orchestral sheen. Hyper-kinetic drones fashioned from the slow moving gracefulness of supersonic spacejunk. Aimless grandeur.

Humbug said of 1/3 Octave Band's Sub Lumina:
Bill Woods 1/3 Octave Band has been quietly gaining momentum during the last few years, releasing a handful of beautiful CDRs on various labels and a 7? on Fusetron. “Sub Lumina” is an apt title for their first CD, offering four lengthy excursions with “Use”, a solo piece by Wood setting a stately tone for the album. The following two tracks add Jules Desmond and Ben Spiers for the full ensemble effect, which is translucent and not necessarily all that “full” after all; throughout the mood is introspective and subdued and nocturnal….they achieve an open ended environment of tempered cycling feedback, discrete percussion, chimes and incidental sounds. Think Peter Wright, Richard Francis or Birchville Cat Motel (to name-drop some fellow NZ artists). The wistful “Luminous” bookends the album as the 2nd solo piece.



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Media Mail To USA : $3.75
Air Mail To Canada : $6.25
Europe/Australia/NZ: $8.50
Asia: $8.50

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Western Europe: $23.00
Asia : $22.00
Australia: $21.00
New Zealand: $19.50

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