Mammatus - The Coast Explodes

Hailing from Santa Cruz County, California, these massive saturn rockers invites you to attend the most insane cosmic rock & roll party ever and get really baked on their thunderous licks of sun heat riffs that washes into darks & lights over the reminiscence of Sabbath, Hawkwind and other smokey heroes of the galaxy.

Mammatus - The Coast Explodes

Psychic Ills - Dins

Psychic Ills's first full length "Dins" takes the band well beyond their astounding live dynamic of circular rhythm and guitar theatrics. They seamlessly blend non-traditional instrumentation and studio improvisation with a surging rock dynamic into an incredibly heavy debut. Soon to be a staple for fans of Can, Terry Riley, 13th Floor Elevators, Red Crayola, and other forward thinking individuals. Watch for the slippery slopes.

Psychic Ills - Dins

Christine 23 Onna - Acid Eater

Led by Japanese synth master Maso Yamazaki of Masonna, et al. and aided by Fusao Toda of Angel in Heavy Syrup, this album is a monster Acid Fueled lounge party. Heavy on the bop and fuzzed out beyond belief, then twisted through a giant phaser and shaded envelope filters. Maso's skewed version of the swinging 60's on Acid Eater is far beyond anything that could be called retro or even campy. This is a rift in time, Maso's gone back and showed the LSD set how to really blow speakers and minds. Once again the Japanese remain the reigning kings of the psychedelic set and this along with any other Maso Yamazaki release is full testament to that claim. Crank this one up, the fuzz needs room to breathe.

Christine 23 Onna - Acid Eater

Bardo Pond - Amanita

Not changing all that much but whipping up just as compelling a mix of drone, volume, and blissout as before, on Amanita the now officially-a-quintet Bardo Pond cranked the amps, switched on the pedals, and spin-fly with 11 monster songs. Effortlessly combining psychedelic inspirations from Pink Floyd's original explorations to the more modern reachings into the beyond by My Bloody Valentine, it's a simply stunning way to begin an equally stunning album. Cool stuff.

Bardo Pond - Amanita

Wooden Shjips - Shrinking Moon For You

Wooden Shjips, a quartet from San Francisco heavily influenced by the experimentalism of psychedelia, classical minimalism, and garage rock excess, started as an experiment in rhythmic primitivism and group improvisation. Hypnotizing driving rhythms drone on and on while the fuzz of guitar, organ, and indecipherable vocals swirls around your head, and time passes ceaselessly while you don't have a care or clue. Next thing you know, you're already in wonderland.

Wooden Shjips - Shrinking Moon For You

Kinski/Acid Mothers Temple - Split EP

This is one of the best collaboration album ever. History:

"Kinski met Kawabata Makoto in 1999 when he was playing guitar in Mainliner. It was our first tour and, though the shows were small, we had a great time playing with them and quickly became friends.

Over the years we played with Kawabata's Acid Mothers Temple whenever they came through Seattle and toured the east coast with them in 2002.

In December of 2001, Kinski went to Japan to play six dates with Acid Mothers and one in Tokyo with High Rise. The shows were amazing. We also had several days off to wander around Japan and see the sights (and scour the record stores). We ate tons of seafood and drank a lot of shochu and beer. (Note: Cheap shochu leaves a truly stunning hangover.)

One night off in Nagoya we went to Hiroshi's flat (Acid Mothers' rhythm guitar and keyboardist) for nabe and drinks. We brought our guitars and pedals along and recorded before dinner. Kawabata, Hiroshi, Matthew and I played guitar, Lucy played bass and Dave played bongos. We jammed for an hour and then started cooking nabe, Yoko made tempura, and we all cracked open more beers.

It was a mindblowing 2 weeks.

Months and months later, I sat down with the tapes and began mixing what seemed to be the most interesting 10 minutes of the session, which became "It's Nice to Hear Your Voice." Kawabata wanted to overdub onto my mix (along with Tsuyama, Acid Mothers' bassist, who wasn't at the original sessions) and the result are "Planet Crazy Gold."

"Fell Asleep on Your Lawn" and "Virginal Plane 5:23" are new Kinski and Acid Mothers Temple tracks (respectively).

Chris Martin, July 2003" (taken from their site)

Kinski/Acid Mothers Temple - Split EP