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NP040 Talk Normal - S/T C20 $5

Talk Normal is a new 2 piece from Brooklyn NY consisting of members Andrya Ambro and Sarah Register. Disjointed angular structures contrast dense waves of percussion, found sounds, and melodic vocals, totally minimal and maximal all at once. Ridding out post punk creep jams and collage numbers reminiscent of This Heat,Talk Normal is a fresh one, lacking any kind of easy pigeon holing bullshit. This is really considered stuff. Very recommended. Art by SDREED. MYSPACE

NP050 Teeth Mountain - S/T C41 $5

Teeth Mountain are a heavy hitting drone and percussion unit from Baltimore. On this tape of hard hitting jams dense walls of cello, guitar, electronics and feedback glide along with an upbeat wave of percussion and drum pummel, a sound that would seem to fill the loftiest of churches, temples or gymnasiums. Featuring a revolving cast of Baltimore's finest, Teeth Mountain collage together some of there best live spills on this cassette of epic endless burners. Art by SDREED. MYSPACE

NP0 Ryan Garbes - quarter size book

New 24 page book with text and images, silkscreend covers, click cover image for a spread from book

NP044 Drip House - 2 C12

Second installment in the Drip House cassette series, more Krauty, droney, sonic-goo from Drip Daren Ho, even heavier then before, ultra limited and gone before it even touched the Night-People website. Possible collective reissue on the horizon after more of these come out?

NP042 Drip House - 1 C12

Daren Ho, Raccoo-oo-oon member, general shredder, presents his first solo release Drip House 1. Textural ambient drone scape, with pulsing backdrops, synth layers, deep vocal swells, this one recalls so many great moments of Kraut Electronic Cyborg Bliss but does it all in its own way, trance vibrations for the digital age. Artwork by Drip. (This is an ultra limited tour tape, so limited to mail order only in very sparse quantity so act fast.)

NP040 Trash Dog - Wasted Gift C32 $5

The name says it all, annihilated, fucked up, hardcore damage from Witcher, Drip, and Garbage, Iowa City underground punk filth. Manic deranged vocals over primitive punk trash. Includes special bonus addition of the ultra limited and out of print Garbage Eater cass. Killer Double sided fold out cover and mini zine artwork by Ryan Garbes.

NP039 Social Junk - Champs 08 C41 $5

Met this group of West Virginians down in Miami at INC back in Feb. I was instantly siked on there sound and live show. Total wreckage, throwing drums around the room, yelling into broken mics, four track warble, guitar feedback, totally unhinged damage but focused and intense. Comparisons to Sword Heaven, Savage Republic, The Dead C, etc. might be accurate but overall Social Junk is really hard to pin down. Haunted electronics, floating on an endless barrage of pissed vocals and repetitive drum jams. Silkscreened Artwork by SDREED. Social Junk full length LP coming soon on Not Not Fun. MYSPACE

NP038 Ryan Garbes - Shit Education C32 $5

Garbes is back at it, blown over saturated tape punk psychosis, harsh head psych fusion rippers, another slab of destroyed rock greatness. This one even more catchy then the last. Like listening to your guts fall out on the floor while some rockers annihilate a house party in the background. Totally a sound of its own, influenced by all the greats with deluxe double sided silkscreened fold out covers by the man himself. MYSPACE

NP036 Wet Hair - Irifi C20 $5

Wet Hair is the new solo outing of Raccoo-oo-oon member Shawn Reed. Cult vibe organ drone, slowed down tape hiss percussion warble, and chanted vocal bathed in echo, provide the basics for Irifi, a lone march across a desert, these are droney reverberations tinted with pop influence cloaked in the dark , music for vampires. Recorded by Ryan Garbes for maximal blow out. Expect more from this quickly evolving project soon. Artwork by SDReed.

NP035 Ryan Garbes - Book $4

Ryan Garbes' first DIY book on Night People. Detailed description coming soon. Samples images: 1 and 2.

NP034 Evan Miller - S/T C16 $5

Miller is back at it with a new tape for Night-People. This one cuts real deep, Miller at his most epic. The A side starts things up with deep echo's swimming around cut up tape manipulations, leading into chambers of drone with Miller's characteristic tonal vocals transitioning into a kind of finger picked sentimental raga. The B side offers up a real burner, perhaps Millers best straight acoustic number, a real beautiful complex side that plays between minimalistic somber portions and upbeat workouts. Artwork by SDReed.

NP033 Raccoo-oo-oon - Mythos Folkways Vol. IV, Future Vision C40

New live Raccoo-oo-oon document, recorded one early Jan. winter afternoon at the Cave of Spirits in Iowa City by Ryan Garbes to stereo cassette deck. A side is groovy future fusion scramble, melodic vocal chants rolling over tight percussion flows that ride like kenetic energy blasting into the atmosphere. B side is blown out guitar burners giving way to dark night ride vibes. In general think about starring out of your sunglasses at the end of the world and thinking this is alright. Artwork by SDReed and RGarbes.

NP032 Koi Pond - Volcano C61

Koi Pond is a three piece from NYC made up of some generally awesome dudes. Erik Roper plays bass and is a legendary artist/illustrator who does work for numerous bands, labels and publications such as Arthur, Southern Lord etc. while also playing in other bands such as Under Satans Sun and Mattalama. Pete Vogal plays synth while also jamming in Bow Ribbons, and designs arwork for clothes, David Aron plays drums, is the perpetrator for Little Cakes Gallery, used to skateboard alot, makes rad visual artwork, and jams in USUN with Mark Borthwick and Hisham Bharoocha. Despite these dudes epic resumes, Koi Pond is epic all on its own. Volcano is all about cosmic grooves, deep often minimal, endless repetitions that slowly evolve into more psyched out blissed out trances. Roper and Arons tight rhythmic foundations create the perfect backdrop for Vogal's synth improvisations. This is a meditative listen that never gets old, it just keeps grooving on and on forever. Like Neu covering Dark Magus in a Tibetan Monastery. Artwork by Dave Aron, printing by SDReed. See http://www.myspace.com/koipond3.

NP031 Pocahaunted - Beast That You Are C30

This Los Angeles based duo needs no introduction, emails have been flowing in about this tape before Night People even had them assembled. Psychedelic sisters of an ancient Californian apocalypse, Pocahuanted call out some hazy echoes over the valley on this tape of blown out guitar jamming, pre-american vocal serenity, and saxophone wash and skronk (provided by Andy Spore). Another killer outing from this prolific left coast institution. Artwork by SDReed.

NP029 Subterranean League C15

This one is total damage, psychic vampires spinning around on their heads slathering a bunch of gross cut up pedal wreckage out of maxed out PA's. SL comes straight out of Iowa City's most moist basement corners, anonymous, cult vibe, Asian twins, ready for wreckage. Dynamic, fast, psychedelic harshness, for underground lurking and poisonous raptures of the heart. Re-release of ultra limited Eager Mother cass. Silkscreened artwork by SDReed.

NP028 Changeling - Beyond the Edge of Dreams C32

Changeling is Roy Tatum, LA based multi-instrumentalist and Buried Valley Cass. Label head, who has spent time in such groups as Black Monk and Quintana Roo, while periodically providing drum duties for other LA bands. Changeling is focused around lush ambient guitar drones that provide a lot of layered feeling in their presence. "Beyond the Edge of Dreams" has a lot of duality and contrasts in its sounds. Moving from beautiful cascades that evoke ecstatic ponderance and a life spent looking to distant peaks or shores breaks way into persistent smothering washes of synth like uneasiness leaving this listener feeling quite isolated. Either way, this is a rich listen, cinematic and airy, like early Popul Vuh at its most sorrowful. Silkscreened artwork by SDReed.

NP027 Cooper Jones/Cars - Split C61

This split cassette captures just a little slice of the Manchester/Nottingham/Sheffield area young improv scene. Got the pleasure of meeting and performing on the same bill with some of these folks back in March and recognized right away that something interesting was brewing there. Total duo action going on with this release, Sophie and Kelly kick out some epic intricate folky guitar action as Cooper Jones, and on the flip side Patrick and Pascal break on some sprawling percussion and drum storms as Cars. Lots of movement here, this is a long document, capturing the flow of what these two groups do. Silkscreened artwork by Ryan Garbage.

NP026 Nimby - S/T C22

Nimby is Brenden O'Keefe, Iowa City long time resident, local train hopping ripper, and general super enthusiastic supporter of the local weirdo scene. Nimby as a project is focused around a home made Tupperware trash bin synth drum kit with some pedals to back it up. This is Nimby's fist release, and features big damaged beats, blasted vocals, and a whole slew of destroyed loops and distortion, totally killer. silkscreened artwork by SDReed.

NP024 Binges - Flame of the Millenium CD-R

Finally a release on Night-People from Raccoo-oo-oon tour mates and Chicago's best basement improv unit Binges. Killer drums, percussion, electronics, saxophone, guitar, and bass from these two dudes Chris and Anthony. Binges are ultra focused and tight, Chris glides around on his kit with supreme precision with Anythony juggles a bunch of loops, noises, and instruments all at once. One of the most solid and exciting underground bands around right now. Artwork by the band printing by SDRreed.

NP021 The Holy Weave of the Cosmic Dream Vol. II - Drawings by Shawn Reed $4

New drawings by Shawn released this summer just in time for Raccoo-oo-oon's U.S. touring action. Back in print now, with new covers and a few extra pages added. Expect a full color book by Shawn not to far off in the future provided by the fine folks over at Not Not Fun.

NP014 Heart of Bees $1

HEART OF BEES #6 & #7 New serialized publication featuring xerox image work by Andy Spore. All issues released as NP014 on a quasi-monthly basis.

NP025 Youth of the Beast - Son Sigil C10

Description coming soon.

NP023 Pukers - Dead Dog C23 $NO LONGER AVAILABLE

New Iowa City hardrock duo Pukers resurrect Yoko Ono and John Bonham only to literally kill them once more. Distorted drums and fucking distorted vocals battle to occupy the same oversaturated space on 1/4 inch tape. The result: catchy tunes, pumping beats, wounded crooning, and a little guest guitar and harmonica to boot. Produced by the golden child: Ryan Garbage. Real deal shit.

NP022 Chris Cooper Bill Nace Duo - I'm Fucking in a Sitting Room (For Nmperign) C37

Bill Nace (Vampire Belt, X.O.4 etc.) and Chris Cooper (Fat Worm of Error etc.) kick it real dense and noisy on this cassette of Buddies guitar duo action. The Night-People crew got a chance to check these dudes out live in London back in March and where totally inspired and impressed by their feedback-drenched pedal fest, string shredding, approach to complex noise composition, and creation. All sorts of tools are used, all sorts of sounds are generated, but what really makes it stick is the variety and the rhythmic patterns that prevail from quiet to loud throughout. Dynamic, tense, and tenuous guitar slaying.

NP020 Black Vatican - Zed Omega C38

Black Vatican is Andy Roche and Owen Gardner, two dudes who grew up in Iowa and live in Chicago and Baltimore respectively. Black Vatican jam out some killer tracks on Zed Omega traveling the distance between blown out psych pop, junk garage rock, spaced out synth, and weirdo falsetto harmonies. Zed Omega is a catchy, but destroyed album falling someplace between art pop appropriation and science fiction exploration feeling familiar and classic despite all its noise and weirdness.

NP019 Evan Miller/Twelve Canons Split C38

On Evan Miller's second release for Night People, he brings out some intimate low key stunners that don't lack on the details and bring out just as much contemplation in the listener while feeling just a little sad in their tune. Iowa City's long time dark folk ramblers Twelve Canons change things up a bit by moving into some lighter territory, referencing the same kind of slightly sad, ecstatic, but light and airy tunes Evan creats on this release. Perfect late night summer time jams.

NP018 Ryan Garbes - Endless Bummer C17

New garbage from the young musical genious Ryan Garbes (perhaps best known for his drum and percussion contributions to Raccoo-oo-oon). Side A revels in redlined blown out drumming, finding eventual accompaniment from a drunken slide guitar fury, resulting in what can be properly described as the fucked blues. Side B brings together the holy trinity of drums, guitar and more guitar into a kind of distorted raga with each element taking turns, trading fours, evoking an eternity of summer fun in the mouth of inevitable oblivion. Sleeve and label screenprinted by Ryan.

NP017 Hell & Bunny w/ Mike Khoury - Restitution C26

The percussion and cello masters who make up 2/3 of Graveyards infamy collaborate with violinist Mike Khoury to bring about a sparse and intriguing listen. Droning strings offset by bursting rolls and plucks set the framework for two improvisations perfectly evoking a mood of sinister desolation. Each side rolls on with an uncomfortable unpredictability until climaxing in the death of the composition, leaving the listener unsettled yet oddly pleased.

NP016 Blue Shift C20 $NO LONGER AVAILABLE

Providence's own Cybele Collins brings a maelstrom of solo improvisations shredding the strings of her violin furiously, building dense walls that crest only to reveal quiet beautiful melodies underneath. Filled out with loose poignant drumming, and housed in dense drawings by the artist, the tape is made up of many short songs, always changing, never dwelling too long on any given theme. The result: a catchy and complex release, that over time one comes to realize has been created with the utmost love and care.

NP013 Raccoo-oo-oon - Mythos Folkways Vol. 3: Divination Night C46 $NO LONGER AVAILABLE

New improvisational album cassette release for Raccoo-oo-oon Euro tour. Vinyl pressing available late April from Woodsist.

NP012 Raccoo-oo-oon - Behold Secret Kingdom CDR $NO LONGER AVAILABLE

New studio full-length CDR release for Raccoo-oo-oon Euro tour. CD pressing on Release the Bats and vinyl pressing care of Night People & Not Not Fun all coming in late April.

NP011 Time Life - Gripstone C22 $NO LONGER AVAILABLE

Lucas Non-Horse Crane and Heidi Diehl of the Vanishing Voice have been hashing out some new sounds as the duo Time Life. Heidi�s operatic vocals creep over her guiding repetitive guitar lines, as Lucas builds and pushes to the surface his tape manipulations and altered beats. Sonically realized infinite refracting light, a new set of sounds from two of NYC�s best.

NP010- Evan Miller- three spells for six string guitar C23 $NO LONGER AVAILABLE

Evan Miller is an Iowa City 6-string slinger who grew up in dusty Oklahoma. Over the last couple years he has devoted himself to the craft of his instrument, honing his songwriting and perfecting his playing. He's studied the greats and shows it on this release, with a nod and an ode to the late great John Fahey. Evan toils in the dirt of rural Americana and blues, but keeps his sound fresh and original at the surface. This cassette is just a glimpse of what Evan has up his sleeve, and with his mesmerizing live show and flawless playing, he's just getting started.

NP009 Mef Teef - Implied Brain-Flex C20 $NO LONGER AVAILABLE

Debut transmission from this Iowa City based Free Music group. Rolling piano lines and crisp rhythmic drumming hold the backdrop for trumpet and saxophone spazz and howl. Before you know it everything breaks down into mush before instantly reforming into perfect hard-bop catchiness, swing cheesiness, or carnivalesque creepiness� but only for a measure� and then who knows what comes next.

NP008 Tent City - Cascade Trinkets CDR $NO LONGER AVAILABLE

Tent City are a band of Arizona desert punks, who create organic improvised sets and compositions. Cascade trinkets breaths out some Don Cherry like world jazz fusion, while remaining folky, focused and tight. These 3 tracks move along smooth with a meaty percussive underbelly, and melodic sax lines that bring everything present into focus, reflecting the kind of beautifully dry and sandy cactus country you would envision Tent City living in. Gilgongorecords.com/tentcity

NP007 Flak Mask - Uncle Henry's Ecco Duplex C30 $NO LONGER AVAILABLE

A half hour of new music from this New Orleans based duo featuring members of Impractical Cockpit. Combining impoverished electronics and deconstructed analog instrumentation, grating rhythms meet soothing echos in these long-burning trance-inducers that always leave you wondering, what am I actually listening to here? (For more music by Flak Mask contact: Trd Wrd; PO Box 52096; New Orleans, LA 70152)

NP006 Dan Friel - Obsoleter C20 $NO LONGER AVAILABLE

Obsoleter features the solo work of Dan Friel from Brooklyn's Parts and Labor. Fuzzy beats, distorted synth washes, and catchy keyboard riffs deconstructed into very active evolved compositions that will make you feel perfect about zoning out to these upbeat jams. Silkscreened artwork by Shawn Reed. www.partsandlabor.net.

NP005 Youth of the Beast - White Cat C30 $NO LONGER AVAILABLE!

Andy Spore of Raccoo-oo-oon sings, drums, and screeches, stacking sounds up to their breaking point, calling all youth to follow down the black magic trail.

NP004 Raccoo-oo-oon - Death at Prospect Peak (May Tour 2006) C40 $NO LONGER AVAILABLE

Tour-only cassette tape for the May 2006 tour. One side is three new jams recorded in the Cave of Spirits. The other side is a live set in Madison, Wisconsin on April 8th, 2006

NP003 Native Resolutions DVD-R $NO LONGER AVAILABLE

A collection of short videos, films, and animated works by Andy Spore and Shawn Reed of Raccoo-oo-oon along with various Raccoo-oo-oon documentation. Screenshots here.

NP002 Holy Weave of the Cosmic Dream - Drawings by Shawn Reed. $NO LONGER AVAILABLE

A 44-page self-assembled book of new illustrations by Shawn Reed. This was released in conjunction with his Holy Weave of the Cosmic Dream solo art exhibition at the HaNNa Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. View pages here and here. Images from the exhibition here.

NP001 Raccoo-oo-oon - Is Night People C40 $NO LONGER AVAILABLE

Raccoo-oo-oon's first audio output, recorded in November 2005. 250 copies made. Mastered version available on CD through Release the Bats.

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	NP040 Talk Normal - S/T C20 $5 Talk Normal is a new 2 piece from Brooklyn NY consisting of members Andrya Ambro and Sarah Register. Disjointed angular structures contrast dense waves of percussion, found sounds, and melodic vocals, totally minimal and maximal all at once. Ridding out post punk creep jams and collage numbers reminiscent of This Heat,Talk Normal is a fresh one, lacking any kind of easy pigeon holing bullshit. This is really considered stuff. Very recommended. Art by SDREED. MYSPACE
	NP050 Teeth Mountain - S/T C41 $5 Teeth Mountain are a heavy hitting drone and percussion unit from Baltimore. On this tape of hard hitting jams dense walls of cello, guitar, electronics and feedback glide along with an upbeat wave of percussion and drum pummel, a sound that would seem to fill the loftiest of churches, temples or gymnasiums. Featuring a revolving cast of Baltimore's finest, Teeth Mountain collage together some of there best live spills on this cassette of epic endless burners. Art by SDREED. MYSPACE
	NP0 Ryan Garbes - quarter size book New 24 page book with text and images, silkscreend covers, click cover image for a spread from book
	NP044 Drip House - 2 C12 Second installment in the Drip House cassette series, more Krauty, droney, sonic-goo from Drip Daren Ho, even heavier then before, ultra limited and gone before it even touched the Night-People website. Possible collective reissue on the horizon after more of these come out?
	NP042 Drip House - 1 C12 Daren Ho, Raccoo-oo-oon member, general shredder, presents his first solo release Drip House 1. Textural ambient drone scape, with pulsing backdrops, synth layers, deep vocal swells, this one recalls so many great moments of Kraut Electronic Cyborg Bliss but does it all in its own way, trance vibrations for the digital age. Artwork by Drip. (This is an ultra limited tour tape, so limited to mail order only in very sparse quantity so act fast.)
	NP040 Trash Dog - Wasted Gift C32 $5 The name says it all, annihilated, fucked up, hardcore damage from Witcher, Drip, and Garbage, Iowa City underground punk filth. Manic deranged vocals over primitive punk trash. Includes special bonus addition of the ultra limited and out of print Garbage Eater cass. Killer Double sided fold out cover and mini zine artwork by Ryan Garbes.
	NP039 Social Junk - Champs 08 C41 $5 Met this group of West Virginians down in Miami at INC back in Feb. I was instantly siked on there sound and live show. Total wreckage, throwing drums around the room, yelling into broken mics, four track warble, guitar feedback, totally unhinged damage but focused and intense. Comparisons to Sword Heaven, Savage Republic, The Dead C, etc. might be accurate but overall Social Junk is really hard to pin down. Haunted electronics, floating on an endless barrage of pissed vocals and repetitive drum jams. Silkscreened Artwork by SDREED. Social Junk full length LP coming soon on Not Not Fun. MYSPACE
	NP038 Ryan Garbes - Shit Education C32 $5 Garbes is back at it, blown over saturated tape punk psychosis, harsh head psych fusion rippers, another slab of destroyed rock greatness. This one even more catchy then the last. Like listening to your guts fall out on the floor while some rockers annihilate a house party in the background. Totally a sound of its own, influenced by all the greats with deluxe double sided silkscreened fold out covers by the man himself. MYSPACE
	NP036 Wet Hair - Irifi C20 $5 Wet Hair is the new solo outing of Raccoo-oo-oon member Shawn Reed. Cult vibe organ drone, slowed down tape hiss percussion warble, and chanted vocal bathed in echo, provide the basics for Irifi, a lone march across a desert, these are droney reverberations tinted with pop influence cloaked in the dark , music for vampires. Recorded by Ryan Garbes for maximal blow out. Expect more from this quickly evolving project soon. Artwork by SDReed.
	NP035 Ryan Garbes - Book $4 Ryan Garbes' first DIY book on Night People. Detailed description coming soon. Samples images: 1 and 2.
	NP034 Evan Miller - S/T C16 $5 Miller is back at it with a new tape for Night-People. This one cuts real deep, Miller at his most epic. The A side starts things up with deep echo's swimming around cut up tape manipulations, leading into chambers of drone with Miller's characteristic tonal vocals transitioning into a kind of finger picked sentimental raga. The B side offers up a real burner, perhaps Millers best straight acoustic number, a real beautiful complex side that plays between minimalistic somber portions and upbeat workouts. Artwork by SDReed.
	NP033 Raccoo-oo-oon - Mythos Folkways Vol. IV, Future Vision C40 New live Raccoo-oo-oon document, recorded one early Jan. winter afternoon at the Cave of Spirits in Iowa City by Ryan Garbes to stereo cassette deck. A side is groovy future fusion scramble, melodic vocal chants rolling over tight percussion flows that ride like kenetic energy blasting into the atmosphere. B side is blown out guitar burners giving way to dark night ride vibes. In general think about starring out of your sunglasses at the end of the world and thinking this is alright. Artwork by SDReed and RGarbes.
	NP032 Koi Pond - Volcano C61 Koi Pond is a three piece from NYC made up of some generally awesome dudes. Erik Roper plays bass and is a legendary artist/illustrator who does work for numerous bands, labels and publications such as Arthur, Southern Lord etc. while also playing in other bands such as Under Satans Sun and Mattalama. Pete Vogal plays synth while also jamming in Bow Ribbons, and designs arwork for clothes, David Aron plays drums, is the perpetrator for Little Cakes Gallery, used to skateboard alot, makes rad visual artwork, and jams in USUN with Mark Borthwick and Hisham Bharoocha. Despite these dudes epic resumes, Koi Pond is epic all on its own. Volcano is all about cosmic grooves, deep often minimal, endless repetitions that slowly evolve into more psyched out blissed out trances. Roper and Arons tight rhythmic foundations create the perfect backdrop for Vogal's synth improvisations. This is a meditative listen that never gets old, it just keeps grooving on and on forever. Like Neu covering Dark Magus in a Tibetan Monastery. Artwork by Dave Aron, printing by SDReed. See http://www.myspace.com/koipond3.
	NP031 Pocahaunted - Beast That You Are C30 This Los Angeles based duo needs no introduction, emails have been flowing in about this tape before Night People even had them assembled. Psychedelic sisters of an ancient Californian apocalypse, Pocahuanted call out some hazy echoes over the valley on this tape of blown out guitar jamming, pre-american vocal serenity, and saxophone wash and skronk (provided by Andy Spore). Another killer outing from this prolific left coast institution. Artwork by SDReed.
	NP029 Subterranean League C15 This one is total damage, psychic vampires spinning around on their heads slathering a bunch of gross cut up pedal wreckage out of maxed out PA's. SL comes straight out of Iowa City's most moist basement corners, anonymous, cult vibe, Asian twins, ready for wreckage. Dynamic, fast, psychedelic harshness, for underground lurking and poisonous raptures of the heart. Re-release of ultra limited Eager Mother cass. Silkscreened artwork by SDReed.
	NP028 Changeling - Beyond the Edge of Dreams C32 Changeling is Roy Tatum, LA based multi-instrumentalist and Buried Valley Cass. Label head, who has spent time in such groups as Black Monk and Quintana Roo, while periodically providing drum duties for other LA bands. Changeling is focused around lush ambient guitar drones that provide a lot of layered feeling in their presence. "Beyond the Edge of Dreams" has a lot of duality and contrasts in its sounds. Moving from beautiful cascades that evoke ecstatic ponderance and a life spent looking to distant peaks or shores breaks way into persistent smothering washes of synth like uneasiness leaving this listener feeling quite isolated. Either way, this is a rich listen, cinematic and airy, like early Popul Vuh at its most sorrowful. Silkscreened artwork by SDReed.
	NP027 Cooper Jones/Cars - Split C61 This split cassette captures just a little slice of the Manchester/Nottingham/Sheffield area young improv scene. Got the pleasure of meeting and performing on the same bill with some of these folks back in March and recognized right away that something interesting was brewing there. Total duo action going on with this release, Sophie and Kelly kick out some epic intricate folky guitar action as Cooper Jones, and on the flip side Patrick and Pascal break on some sprawling percussion and drum storms as Cars. Lots of movement here, this is a long document, capturing the flow of what these two groups do. Silkscreened artwork by Ryan Garbage.
	NP026 Nimby - S/T C22 Nimby is Brenden O'Keefe, Iowa City long time resident, local train hopping ripper, and general super enthusiastic supporter of the local weirdo scene. Nimby as a project is focused around a home made Tupperware trash bin synth drum kit with some pedals to back it up. This is Nimby's fist release, and features big damaged beats, blasted vocals, and a whole slew of destroyed loops and distortion, totally killer. silkscreened artwork by SDReed.
	NP024 Binges - Flame of the Millenium CD-R Finally a release on Night-People from Raccoo-oo-oon tour mates and Chicago's best basement improv unit Binges. Killer drums, percussion, electronics, saxophone, guitar, and bass from these two dudes Chris and Anthony. Binges are ultra focused and tight, Chris glides around on his kit with supreme precision with Anythony juggles a bunch of loops, noises, and instruments all at once. One of the most solid and exciting underground bands around right now. Artwork by the band printing by SDRreed.
	NP021 The Holy Weave of the Cosmic Dream Vol. II - Drawings by Shawn Reed $4 New drawings by Shawn released this summer just in time for Raccoo-oo-oon's U.S. touring action. Back in print now, with new covers and a few extra pages added. Expect a full color book by Shawn not to far off in the future provided by the fine folks over at Not Not Fun.
	NP014 Heart of Bees $1 HEART OF BEES #6 & #7 New serialized publication featuring xerox image work by Andy Spore. All issues released as NP014 on a quasi-monthly basis.
	NP025 Youth of the Beast - Son Sigil C10 Description coming soon.
	NP023 Pukers - Dead Dog C23 $NO LONGER AVAILABLE New Iowa City hardrock duo Pukers resurrect Yoko Ono and John Bonham only to literally kill them once more. Distorted drums and fucking distorted vocals battle to occupy the same oversaturated space on 1/4 inch tape. The result: catchy tunes, pumping beats, wounded crooning, and a little guest guitar and harmonica to boot. Produced by the golden child: Ryan Garbage. Real deal shit.
	NP022 Chris Cooper Bill Nace Duo - I'm Fucking in a Sitting Room (For Nmperign) C37 Bill Nace (Vampire Belt, X.O.4 etc.) and Chris Cooper (Fat Worm of Error etc.) kick it real dense and noisy on this cassette of Buddies guitar duo action. The Night-People crew got a chance to check these dudes out live in London back in March and where totally inspired and impressed by their feedback-drenched pedal fest, string shredding, approach to complex noise composition, and creation. All sorts of tools are used, all sorts of sounds are generated, but what really makes it stick is the variety and the rhythmic patterns that prevail from quiet to loud throughout. Dynamic, tense, and tenuous guitar slaying.
	NP020 Black Vatican - Zed Omega C38 Black Vatican is Andy Roche and Owen Gardner, two dudes who grew up in Iowa and live in Chicago and Baltimore respectively. Black Vatican jam out some killer tracks on Zed Omega traveling the distance between blown out psych pop, junk garage rock, spaced out synth, and weirdo falsetto harmonies. Zed Omega is a catchy, but destroyed album falling someplace between art pop appropriation and science fiction exploration feeling familiar and classic despite all its noise and weirdness.
	NP019 Evan Miller/Twelve Canons Split C38 On Evan Miller's second release for Night People, he brings out some intimate low key stunners that don't lack on the details and bring out just as much contemplation in the listener while feeling just a little sad in their tune. Iowa City's long time dark folk ramblers Twelve Canons change things up a bit by moving into some lighter territory, referencing the same kind of slightly sad, ecstatic, but light and airy tunes Evan creats on this release. Perfect late night summer time jams.
	NP018 Ryan Garbes - Endless Bummer C17 New garbage from the young musical genious Ryan Garbes (perhaps best known for his drum and percussion contributions to Raccoo-oo-oon). Side A revels in redlined blown out drumming, finding eventual accompaniment from a drunken slide guitar fury, resulting in what can be properly described as the fucked blues. Side B brings together the holy trinity of drums, guitar and more guitar into a kind of distorted raga with each element taking turns, trading fours, evoking an eternity of summer fun in the mouth of inevitable oblivion. Sleeve and label screenprinted by Ryan.
	NP017 Hell & Bunny w/ Mike Khoury - Restitution C26 The percussion and cello masters who make up 2/3 of Graveyards infamy collaborate with violinist Mike Khoury to bring about a sparse and intriguing listen. Droning strings offset by bursting rolls and plucks set the framework for two improvisations perfectly evoking a mood of sinister desolation. Each side rolls on with an uncomfortable unpredictability until climaxing in the death of the composition, leaving the listener unsettled yet oddly pleased.
	NP016 Blue Shift C20 $NO LONGER AVAILABLE Providence's own Cybele Collins brings a maelstrom of solo improvisations shredding the strings of her violin furiously, building dense walls that crest only to reveal quiet beautiful melodies underneath. Filled out with loose poignant drumming, and housed in dense drawings by the artist, the tape is made up of many short songs, always changing, never dwelling too long on any given theme. The result: a catchy and complex release, that over time one comes to realize has been created with the utmost love and care.
	NP013 Raccoo-oo-oon - Mythos Folkways Vol. 3: Divination Night C46 $NO LONGER AVAILABLE New improvisational album cassette release for Raccoo-oo-oon Euro tour. Vinyl pressing available late April from Woodsist.
	NP012 Raccoo-oo-oon - Behold Secret Kingdom CDR $NO LONGER AVAILABLE New studio full-length CDR release for Raccoo-oo-oon Euro tour. CD pressing on Release the Bats and vinyl pressing care of Night People & Not Not Fun all coming in late April.
	NP011 Time Life - Gripstone C22 $NO LONGER AVAILABLE Lucas Non-Horse Crane and Heidi Diehl of the Vanishing Voice have been hashing out some new sounds as the duo Time Life. Heidi�s operatic vocals creep over her guiding repetitive guitar lines, as Lucas builds and pushes to the surface his tape manipulations and altered beats. Sonically realized infinite refracting light, a new set of sounds from two of NYC�s best.
	NP010- Evan Miller- three spells for six string guitar C23 $NO LONGER AVAILABLE Evan Miller is an Iowa City 6-string slinger who grew up in dusty Oklahoma. Over the last couple years he has devoted himself to the craft of his instrument, honing his songwriting and perfecting his playing. He's studied the greats and shows it on this release, with a nod and an ode to the late great John Fahey. Evan toils in the dirt of rural Americana and blues, but keeps his sound fresh and original at the surface. This cassette is just a glimpse of what Evan has up his sleeve, and with his mesmerizing live show and flawless playing, he's just getting started.
	NP009 Mef Teef - Implied Brain-Flex C20 $NO LONGER AVAILABLE Debut transmission from this Iowa City based Free Music group. Rolling piano lines and crisp rhythmic drumming hold the backdrop for trumpet and saxophone spazz and howl. Before you know it everything breaks down into mush before instantly reforming into perfect hard-bop catchiness, swing cheesiness, or carnivalesque creepiness� but only for a measure� and then who knows what comes next.
	NP008 Tent City - Cascade Trinkets CDR $NO LONGER AVAILABLE Tent City are a band of Arizona desert punks, who create organic improvised sets and compositions. Cascade trinkets breaths out some Don Cherry like world jazz fusion, while remaining folky, focused and tight. These 3 tracks move along smooth with a meaty percussive underbelly, and melodic sax lines that bring everything present into focus, reflecting the kind of beautifully dry and sandy cactus country you would envision Tent City living in. Gilgongorecords.com/tentcity
	NP007 Flak Mask - Uncle Henry's Ecco Duplex C30 $NO LONGER AVAILABLE A half hour of new music from this New Orleans based duo featuring members of Impractical Cockpit. Combining impoverished electronics and deconstructed analog instrumentation, grating rhythms meet soothing echos in these long-burning trance-inducers that always leave you wondering, what am I actually listening to here? (For more music by Flak Mask contact: Trd Wrd; PO Box 52096; New Orleans, LA 70152)
	NP006 Dan Friel - Obsoleter C20 $NO LONGER AVAILABLE Obsoleter features the solo work of Dan Friel from Brooklyn's Parts and Labor. Fuzzy beats, distorted synth washes, and catchy keyboard riffs deconstructed into very active evolved compositions that will make you feel perfect about zoning out to these upbeat jams. Silkscreened artwork by Shawn Reed. www.partsandlabor.net.
	NP005 Youth of the Beast - White Cat C30 $NO LONGER AVAILABLE! Andy Spore of Raccoo-oo-oon sings, drums, and screeches, stacking sounds up to their breaking point, calling all youth to follow down the black magic trail.
	NP004 Raccoo-oo-oon - Death at Prospect Peak (May Tour 2006) C40 $NO LONGER AVAILABLE Tour-only cassette tape for the May 2006 tour. One side is three new jams recorded in the Cave of Spirits. The other side is a live set in Madison, Wisconsin on April 8th, 2006
	NP003 Native Resolutions DVD-R $NO LONGER AVAILABLE A collection of short videos, films, and animated works by Andy Spore and Shawn Reed of Raccoo-oo-oon along with various Raccoo-oo-oon documentation. Screenshots here.
	NP002 Holy Weave of the Cosmic Dream - Drawings by Shawn Reed. $NO LONGER AVAILABLE A 44-page self-assembled book of new illustrations by Shawn Reed. This was released in conjunction with his Holy Weave of the Cosmic Dream solo art exhibition at the HaNNa Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. View pages here and here. Images from the exhibition here.
	NP001 Raccoo-oo-oon - Is Night People C40 $NO LONGER AVAILABLE Raccoo-oo-oon's first audio output, recorded in November 2005. 250 copies made. Mastered version available on CD through Release the Bats.