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Psychofon update... 6.9.2024
Dear Psychofonists,
As we have previously announced, some new releases will be coming out on Psychofon Records. The release date and the sale start for all of them is Tuesday 10/1/2024 - 15:00 middle European time (09:00 AM EST-New York).
SHITTY BEDFORD - PR065
Straight from the dense woodlands of West Georgia
USA, Shitty Bedford presents 3 EP's from years past, available for the first time on CD from Psychofon Records. These recordings were made under a variety of circumstances and for multiple purposes: tests of newly made instruments, scores for never-to-be-made movies, notes-to-self and intended-to-be-digestible songs. Shitty is best known for his musical work with Ostrich Von Nipple and mulitple Atlanta-based groups including Dead Man's Underwear, Omelet and Goons of Waxing Gibbous. Shitty has written,directed, scored and produced a great number of theatrical bits and pieces with Hot Shit! Theater Company, including the Oh! Fearsome Head trilogy and the Bu?onicus series. He has designed masks and scenery for, and performed with Saints of an Unnamed Country and Immaterial Possession. His influences include the Marx Bros, Harry Partch, Fellini, John Lurie, Ernie Kovacs, Ennio Morricone, Harry Smith, Alfred Jarry, the Residents and Renaldo & The Loaf. He's honored and bewildered to get to share a record label with the last two.
THE RESIDENTS - PR066
At the same time comes an utterly unique new Record Object d’ Art, strictly limited to only 25 numbered copies from our cult group The Residents!. Dookietown, the new 6 track mini album from The Residents which will be official released at the beginning of November from our UK label friends Cherry Red is already casting its shadows and so we are pleased to be able to realize this unusual special edition as a kind of advertising for it. This time it is a specially made black magnet box, 36 x 36 x 15 cm, and contains an extraordinary 10“ record player object d‘ Art. It is a 10" dubplate that is permanently clued together to a mini USB record player. This record can only be played with this record player and can be connected directly to your music system or can be transferred to your computer with the free available Audacity music program. On the 10" there is a 4:23 min long track called Duck Sauce refried from the new Residents album Dookietown but this is a special exclusive remix created by the incomparable Ego Plum especially for this project.. The 25 owners of this rarity are then asked to distribute this remix for everyone on YouTube and the usual social media platforms so that all interested collectors, fans and lovers of the Residents can enjoy this extreme limited track…
Ego Plum is an American film composer, musician, multi- instrumentalist, record producer and performer. He is best known for his work on The Cuphead Show!, The Patrick Star Show, Kamp Koral, SpongeBob SquarePants, Jellystone!, Making Fiends and Harvey Beaks. Plum's earliest music influences trace back to the scores for Pee-Wee's Playhouse created by Mark Mothersbaugh, Danny Elfman, and The Residents.
But that’s not all...
VAL DENHAM - PR071
There's another new release from Psychofon. Val Denham's new CD, Polterzeitgeist is also coming out at the same time. Another masterpiece from Val Denham together with James Hardiman. You shouldn't miss this new album, its pretty cool.!
More information and of course pictures of the productions and all other information will soon be available on our website and the relevant social media platforms.
and NO.! we're not just doing these extremely limited editions in the future. This is the last one for now. The next releases will of course appear in a slightly higher edition of 200/300 copies.
Stay tuned…
Psychofon
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Psychofon update... 25.6.2024
PSYCHOFON'S SUMMER SALE 2024
our first Psychofon Summer-Archiv Sale is coming and we would like to briefly inform you about some details about it.
The Sale starts sunday, July 7 , 15:00 middle european time and includes some special price offers such as a Psychofon 10 x 7" box and two other CD bundles as well as a special Psychofon Archive Sale. These offers are valid from the beginning of July to mid-August.
We spared no effort and delved deep into the Psychofon archives and found some interesting collectibles that might interest you. Some of these releases are sold out or difficult to obtain.Here is your chance to complete or add some rare material to your collection.
We also found the last copies of the Residents Triple Trouble metal can collectors editions in the archive that we have kept for possible replacement purposes. These last collector's items can also be obtained as part of the summer sale via our website.
But we wouldn't be Psychofon if that were all. There's also something new...
It's snowing again in July as part of the Summer Sale..!
Since we keep getting requests from people who unfortunately dont get any of our special liquid-filled Eskimo Vinyl Edition. They ask if we could make a record like that again… but we don't do anything the same way twice so we couldn't fulfill this wish.
But now…we have decided to create one last specially filled edition of the Eskimo Album. Good Luck this time !
It is indeed again a real Eye-catcher…
The Eskimo „Snow Landscape“ Edition, clear vinyl filled with fake snow. Limited to 25 numbered copies.!
PSYCHOFON'S ARCHIV SALE
You can find these offers on our website at the top of the main menu under Archive Sale.This option will then start at the same time as the Summer Sale, July 7.24 and will only be visible then, not before.!
All prices are fixed prices. All offers are only available once.
Please notice...the Archiv Sale is a private sale.!
If you are interested, please contact us at Info@psychofonrecords.com after the sale starts.
First come, first served
More and detailed infos,photos and stuff soon here and on the social media platforms.
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Psychofon update...1.6.2024
Now the time has finally come and we are pleased to announce the next two releases on Psychofon.
The PRE-SALE starts on Saturday June 8th, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. Central European Time! The official STREET DAY is July 7th, 2024.
LAURENT PERNICE,JACQUES BARBERI, DOMINIQUE BEVEN - NINE TALES OF THE WINDS - CD - PR062
At the very beginning, in 2018, there was Le Corps Utopique, commissioned music for a choreographic piece by the company Anima Motrix. Two atypical musicians explored the infinite facets of wind instruments from (almost) every country: launeddas, hulusi, granna, launeddas, cromorne, khen... These rare-sounding instruments played by Dominique Beven were mixed, amalgamated and metamorphosed by the electronics of Laurent Pernice, a composer from the French industrial scene of the 90s (Nox). A CD was released the following year by the Italian label ADN. The idea then emerged of bringing this project to the stage. The two invited Laurent Pernice's long-time partner, the writer and musician Jacques Barbéri, who, as part of the group Palo Alto, plays a Tibetan rhadong, a hunting horn, a genetically modified sax and an alto clarinet. Nothing but wind instruments... also electronically manipulated. The symbiosis was there for all to see.
Invited by AMI (Support for innovative music) to play at the Jest festival in Marseille in September 2022, rehearsals got underway. Everything was recorded on multitrack, including the concert. Hours and hours of improvisation, research and sonic experimentation that would require several weeks of editing and mixing. Laurent Pernice will produce the present CD. The German label Psychofon Records, which released the split vinyl Palo Alto/Ptôse Phantom Cosmonauts in 2017, is responsible for its publication.
The whole of this album was recorded in virtually live conditions, rather than using rerecording, with the help of musician and sound engineer Nicolas Dick (Kill The Thrill). The loops, created live by Laurent Pernice, as well as the echo and reverberation effects, often very present, helped to create a very
special sound, both lively and hypnotic, sometimes bordering on saturation. Perhaps the best way to describe this unidentified sound object is to consult the attached diagram. It is also advisable to listen to it at a fairly high
volume to fully grasp its infinite ramifications...
Video...https://youtu.be/ZN_pO5N0rkU
CHARLES BOBUCK 12" - CLANK,CLANK CLANK - PR063
Our label friend Walter had already released this work with Bobuck in 2017 as a CD on Klanggalerie and now we are very happy to be able to release this mini album for the first time on vinyl for our audiophile lovers among you. This single-sided 180g vinyl will be available in two different versions. In black and clear vinyl. Both versions are limited to just 95 pieces and hand-numbered.
The black vinyl edition is a so-called single-sided pseudo picture disc and the clear vinyl version has hand lino prints on the blank side. Both versions come with a double-sided printed insert.
Story...
"In the midst of writing music for The Ghost Of Hope back in 2014, Charles Bobuck had what he thought was a musical ephiphany, The Residents were very focused on their 40th Anniversary and he felt that a Special 40th anniversary Album should be released. The Train wreck album seemed fine but very removed from the anniversary celebration.
So he proposed an album about the Meet the Residents Album from 1974. It would be new material but include versions of the Songs from Meet The Residents cobbled out of samples taken directly from the original recordings. It would be autographical. It would include stories and memories from making the recording forty years earlier.
The idea was received with Little interest. In response, he decided to record some demos to show what the new arrangements could sound like.
Still, the idea did not catch on, and neither did The Ghost of Hope which was shelved due to the touring schedule, so Bobuck started working on What Was Left Of Grandpa and the Demos were filed away.
Three years later, 2017, Hardy Fox and Walter Robotka were figuring out the Hacienda Bridge newsletter schedule and subjects. They wanted to do an issue on robots, AI, computer music - that kind of thing. Walter asked Charles Bobuck if he had any music that would fit into that theme for a CD to go with the issue.
He remembered that he had the demo redo's of Meet the Residents that used a lot of hi-tech Computer driven splicing.
Hardy and Walter agreed the demos should be released. After a bit of reworking, they were fashioned into an EP CD called Clank, Clank, Clank.
IT IS THE SOUND THAT ROBOTS MAKE WHEN THEY DANCE
Charles Bobuck
We also have a few of the Commercial Album Radio Ads CDs left from the PR064 Andrew Hook Commercial Book, which we are now selling separately and at the same time as the two new products.
A special Psychofon archive and leftover SUMMER SALE is planned for July.
There will be some interesting bundle offers and other cool stuff. We need space...!
More on this soon here and of course, as always, on Meta and other social networks.
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Psychofon update…14.3.24
For your information.
The individual book orders will go out to you tomorrow on March 15th, 2024. Of course, you will then receive an email as always. Those who have ordered the book and CD package will have to be patient, we are still waiting for the CD. The expected release date has not yet been set, but we hope it will be at the end of March.
There will be something new from us soon. The first will be a live CD, PR062 by Laurent Pernice, Jaques Barberi, Dominique Beven. The title is Nine tales of the winds…
After that comes a limited single-sided 12" version of Charles Bobuck, Clank,Clank,Clank, PR063 in black and clear vinyl.
We'll keep you updated…
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Psychofon Update...17.2.24
ANDREW HOOK COMMERCIAL BOOK
A few years ago, award-nominated writer, Andrew Hook, wrote “O For Obscurity, Or, The Story Of N”, the definitive biography of The Mysterious N Senada, the Bavarian musician who influenced the early music of The Residents, drawn from material discovered in the band’s archives long after Senada’s death. Now – with the full approval of the band – Hook’s eleventh published short story collection, “Commercial Book”, will shortly be available from Psychofon Records.
As most people reading this will be fully aware, in 1980 The Residents released “Commercial Album”, a collection of 40 songs each of exactly one minute in duration. Using these songs as the springboard for fiction, Andrew Hook’s “Commercial Book” presents 40 stories each of exactly 1000 words in length, therefore emulating the restriction which The Residents placed on their songwriting. With each story taking its title from each song and inspired by the music and lyrics, “Commercial Book” is a weird, alter-trip into the depths of the original record, a collaboration wholly in the spirit of The Residents and fully endorsed by them.
The first hundred hand-numbered books come again in special Psychofon packaging with the complete Commercial Album Radio Ads CD that was intended for Ralph Records promotion in 1980 as a bonus. You can then read Andrew's stories while listening to the corresponding tracks. Cool.!?
The book is available both as a special edition with the CD and of course also individually. More information soon on our website and on Meta and other social networks. The pre-sale starts Wednesday 2/21/24. The official release date is not yet fixed, probably at the end of March.More Infos and pics coming soon.
This is an Eyeball Museum / Psychofon Records Production.
With little to no exception, The Residents found the stories to be absolutely delightful.
- Homer Flynn, President, The Cryptic Corporation
They may be miniatures, but Andrew Hook’s globe-spanning, genre-hopping tales conjure entire worlds within 1000 words. His lonely, haunted characters are immersed in dreams and steeped in film and music. ‘Commercial Book’ is another essential collection from one of our most gifted storytellers.
- Tim Major, author of Jekyll & Hyde: Consulting DetectivesA dissonance of the near sinister thrums inside each beautiful tale- Eugen Bacon, twice World Fantasy Award finalist and British Fantasy Award winner.
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The Pre-Sale for the ESKIMO Album - PR057, Commercial Album PR058 and for the ETHNO CHIP 7" - PR061 starts 10/1/23 at 3 PM middle European time. !!! - The official release date is the 10/25/23 -
ESKIMO ALBUM- PR057 -
Part 6 of the Classic Series.
Limited to only 200 hand numbered copies.
This wonderful 180g clear blue vinyl edition also comes in a full glossy gatefold cover with an insert and special gimmick...
and mmmhhh... of course that's not all.
Eskimo is one of our favorite records by the Residents and we couldn't resist creating various great small editions for the 50th anniversary of the Residents.
DELUXE 50th ANNI - LIQUID VINYL BOX SET -
This is a box set with a Screen print on the Box and includes a glossy foldout cover with a LIQUID FILLED RECORD in two colours, clear and blue plus inserts and a gimmick. Limited to just 25 hand numbered copies.!!!
DELUXE 50th ANNI - LIQUID VINYL FUR SET -
This version comes in a beautyful Fur sack with an Eskimo logo embroidery patch. This variation is also a LIQUID FILLED RECORD but this version has two colors, blue and white. Also in an edition of only 25 copies. !!!
The cover is modeled on a kind of a snow globe and again something different than the other Eskimo Cover before…
COMMERCIAL ALBUM - PR058 -
Part 7 of the Classic Series.
The last of the Classic Series. Limited to only 200 hand numbered copies.
The Commercial album, like some of the previous collectibles, comes also in a full glossy gatefold sleeve. This variant comes as a 180g, 7 colored splatter !!! version and here too there is an insert and of course a gimmick.
Both LPs, ESKIMO and the Commercial Album will probably be released in OCTOBER this year.
Ok, I think that's enough infos at the moment to make your mouth water..there will be more information about our wonderful new issues soon.
Stay tuned….
Psychofon
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ETHNO CHIP - 7" - PR061
While we do the rest of the work on the Residents Classic series, let's take a little trip to another series we're working on from time to time.
"Forgotten Pearls" is a series of 7" singles that began with our PR018 production, Mariola Brillowska/Felix Kubin, Morgenröte/Aus Gold modelliert die Nacht.
We are very happy that after more than 40 years it works with a re-release of a 7" that was always very close to my heart.
At the beginning of the 80s there was a radio DJ, Tommy Rinnstein, who was on RADIO BREMEN here in Germany. did his Best of the Rest show. All this was at the beginning of the so-called cassette scene. Well, we were recording these shows and Tommy played a piece by a German group to his listeners at the time, whose name we didn't really understand because of Tommy's mumbling, so I wrote it down how it sounded. F No Ship.
Well, of course that was total nonsense and that's why I've never been able to find out anything about this group. BUT....now I finally know the name of this group and what the song is.
The single was first released in Berlin in 1981 on the Fabrikneu label.
At that time, this label belonged to Claudia Skoda, known as a west-berlin avant-garde fashion designer and icon of the Berlin underground scene active since the 70s in Berlin and New York.
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Soooo... the wait for the next parts of our wonderful The Residents Classic Series will soon be over.
The PRE - SALE for Part 4 - PR055 - Duck Stab / Buster & Glen and Part 5 - PR056 - Not Available starts on Saturday 7/1/23 at 14:00 CET.
The official release date is 7/29/23. !
DUCK STAB/ BUSTER & GLEN - PR055
Limited to only 200 hand numbered copies
The 2 x 12", 180g black vinyl records comes in a clear plastic sleeve.
Yes, Duck and Buster separately on one side of the12" records.
( small reminiscence to the original idea of the Residents to release these two projects a separate Ep's )
Well...the two unrecorded sides of the 2 x 12" records are match decorated with a great chemical etched graphic.!
NOT AVAILABLE - PR056
Like the other albums in the series, the Not Available Collectors Edition is also limited to 200 copies.
By the way...all the Collectors Not Available records are suitable for black light..!!
The Collectors Edition comes again in a gatefold cover with the obligatory Classic Series motif bag. Does anyone remember that the original cover was supposed to be black.. since this record was not supposed to be released.
Well, that's why this edition is now in a black bag.
As already briefly mentioned, there will be a super rare neon blacklight box set variation of the Not Available in an edition of only 25 pieces. At the moment we are still working intensively on some parts, so we can't show you any pictures of the end product yet.
Stay tuned...
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Well I think you're all eagerly awaiting more information regarding the next releases of our Classic Series from the Residents.
Here is a small overview of the remaining parts of the series.
Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
50th Anniversary Collector's Edition. Part 4 of our special The Residents Classic Series is expected to be out at the end of July. The PRE-SALE for this will then start together with Part 5, Not Available of the series, at the END OF JUNE.
We will of course announce everything in good time on our website and of course here on Facebook/Meta as usual.
DUCK/BUSTER - PR055
Limited to only 200 hand numbered copies.
The two 180g black vinyl records are housed in a clear plastic sleeve. Yes, you read that right...Duck and Buster separately on one side of the 12" records. (Small reminiscence to the original idea of the Residents to release these two projects as separate EP's) Well... the two unrecorded sides of the black vinyl records are each decorated with a great chemical etched graphic.! Pictures and more information will come as soon as possible.
NOT AVAILABLE - PR056
Limited to only 200 hand numbered copies.
The 180g ultra clear vinyl plus three different NEON colors, orange,yellow and green are blacklight capable and the LP comes in a full glossy gatefold cover plus insert and gimmick.
There are no pictures from this record either. As soon as we receive the records we will show them to you.
But, of course, that's not all, otherwise we wouldn't be Psychofon Records. As always, there is something more special. There will be a very limited edition NEON BLACKLIGHT BOX SET in an edition of only 25 hand numbered copies.!
More infos soon…
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FILM & VIDEO RETROSPECTIVE PACKAGE
We have found a few copies of our very rare Residents Film & Video Retrospective "welcome" packages from the exhibition at the Art Museum Bremerhaven on 6/6/2009 in our archive.
The packages were given away for free to the first 300 visitors of the exhibition. The package includes a lenticular card and on the back sticks a CD with the Knife Fight track from the Whatever happened to Vileness Fats album plus a program guide to the long night of the culture.
This is your chance to get one of the extremely rare packs...
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50 YEARS OF THE RESIDENTS
Half a century of Eyeball Exellence... just unbelievable.!!!
Psychofon celebrates this memorable 50th anniversary with the release of the RESIDENTS - CLASSIC - SERIES as a limited Collectors Edition.
Mastered from the original tapes..!
Strictly limited to only 200 hand-numbered copies and eatch record come in a differently colored bag printed with the Residents Classic Series Logo.
MEET THE RESIDENTS - PR052
Strong transparent orange vinyl meets black vinyl. The 180g pressing comes in a special cut out cover plus gimmick.!
THIRD REICH 'N ROLL - PR053
Very special 180g vinyl variant. Side A, splatter, Side B has colored dots.
Holding it in front of a light source creates a third beautiful colored style. Comes in a glossy foldout cover with the original swastika Cover art plus gimmick.!
FINGERPRINCE - PR054
Flashy 3 color 180g vinyl. Neon pink, violett, ultra clear.
The Fingerprince LP comes in a cool glossy foldout cover, inserts plus a special " Tourniquet Of Roses" bonus.
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The OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE of the MEET THE RESIDENTS is sunday, January 29th, 2023.
The OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE for THIRD REICH 'N ROLL
is 2/25/23 and for FINGERPRINCE, late March.
We will be offering a BUNDLE purchase option for our loyal customers who want to order all three editions. That saves you a lot of money.!
We will then send these bundle orders out at the end of March as soon as everything is ready. Of course, you can also order the records individually...
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Val Denham - Black Trees - CD - PR060
The next release is another little jewel from Val Denham.
Official release date - 12/24/22
OUT NOW.!
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Ostrich Von Nipple - exploids infinity - CD - PR059
The new CD album by OVN with guest musician Nolan Cook.
Another fantastic puzzel in the kaleidoscopic OVN cosmos.!
NEW VIDEO BY POXODD
Artist Poxodd and her husband Brenden both enjoy the pastime of editing obscure films and footage into music videos. So far they have created over 20 videos for their YouTube channel Lightly Carnaged
(located here):
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK6v_8-6KYLb7i5s516Z-DA.
When they came across the 1928 Dadaist short film Ghosts Before Breakfast, it struck them as
interesting music video material. But what song? With Ostrich Von Nipple's latest release being freshly
in mind, they listened to the album while watching the film to see if they could find a fit. Threnody in
Three stood out as a song that would work perfectly. They decided to make a contest of it where they
separately do their own edits and mutually decide who's is best once finished. When they were finding it
too hard to decide the winner, out of curiosity they made a version with both edits side by side. They
decided this version was clearly the best and it is what we present to you now.
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The Residents - Triple Trouble - LP - PR051
3 new LP versions from the new THE RESIDENTS Soundtrack Album TRIPLE TROUBLE. Seven Collaged Suites of Brand-New Music, Film Dialogue and on or two familiar themes.
Produced by the Residents and Eric Drew Feldman.
The so called "Die Hard " Edition is Sold Out.! also our black Vinyl quota.
But... a few of our wonderful Zoetrope Picture Disc are still on the shelf.
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Eyeball-Museum
The Eyeball Museum finally gets its own website in the near future.
It will take some time but we will of course inform you about the progress here.
