Fine Art Prints
Utech Records has allied with Circle-9 and Stephen Kasner to offer a set of limited edition fine art prints. Each print will be based on the original cover art Kasner has created for the URSK series. The paintings will be reproduced by Circle-9 as 18"x18" giclee prints on Hahnemuhle 308gsm photo rag paper, limited to a single edition of 35 signed and numbered pieces. The prints will be available from Utech Records, Circle-9 and Stephen Kasner. If interested please contact for availability.

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Utech Records T-shirtaa$17
Justin Bartlett, revered artist and kreator of sublime menace, has graced Utech Records with a new illustration for label shirts. Bartlett's dark genius is unrivaled and this raven piece stands testament in its composition and technique. The illustration is complex and the print work is beautiful. Charcoal ink on black shirt. Sizes L and XL. Please specify when ordering.

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Stephen Kasner "Works: 1993-2006" Scapegoat, Clothbound Editionaa$41
Works: 1993-2006 is an extensive compendium of the paintings, drawings, photographs and prints of a contemporary artist whose symbols translate into a stellar vocabulary depicting strife of the human animal against the austerity of nature. Covering thirteen years of artistic development and exploration, Stephen Kasner: Works offers a comprehensive collection of Kasner’s organic depictions of figures and animals, birds and flowers, landscapes and interiors, co-mingling in bursts of self-discovery. Dreamlike and vast, these vistas interpret human emotion and psychological struggle in tandem with the harshness of nature and how combinations of delights and disasters affect our personalities, striving toward relief and a yearning for euphoria. Working primarily in oil on canvas and paper, the works compiled in this thirteen year retrospective cover Kasner’s sketches, studies, figurative works, full-scale works, photography and printmaking, the latter of which lies predominantly unexhibited and unpublished to date. Stephen Kasner: Works is a comprehensive look at the paintings and images of ethereal works in flux, ever pulsating and growing. Included are texts and quotes by a stunning array of individuals, both at the forefront and underbelly of literary and art worlds. The book also chronicles Kasner’s extensive group of music-related art, having collaborated with numerous bands worldwide, interpreting their sounds into images. Foreword by Dwid Hellion. Introduction by Douglas Max Utter. 160 pages, 10.5" x 10.5"
For orders outside North America contact for shipping rates.

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Oaken Throneaa$7
Silver/black cover, offset pages, 7" x 7"
Following issues in stock. Please specifiy when ordering.
OT3 Ancestral Fog, Averse Sefira, Bolt Thrower, Bunkur, Eternal Majesty, Malhkebre, Ofermod, Ondskapt, Otesanek, Xasthur. LAST COPIES.
OT4 Animus, Black Boned Angel, Celestiial, Graves At Sea, L'Acephale, Nachtmystium, Temple of Baal, Thralldom, Villains, Vorkreist, Withered and Wolves In The Throne Room.
OT5 w/cd. Acrimonious, Adorior, Archgoat, Asunder, Blacklodge, Caina, Coffins, Cult of Daath, Dapnom, Harvey Milk, Moss, Necromorbus (of Necromorbus Studios and Chaos Omen), Portal and Wold.

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Skullflower "Pure Imperial Reform" Turgid Animal, CDaa$17
Recorded last year live on an Antwerpen radio station comes a new guitar wall composition from Matthew Bower and Lee Stokoe. Edition of 1000 copies with artwork desinged by MB himself.

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Thorns Ltd "0.0 Santa Fe" TWR Tapes, 2xCASSaa$21
Thorns Ltd is the experimental/drone/art-circuit offshot of the legendary black metal band Thorns. Thorns Ltd consists of core-members Snorre Ruch and Jon Wesseltoft.
In 2006 Thorns Ltd participated in the sixth Santa Fe Bienniale with the piece 0.0. A non-linear generative sound piece composed for a 5.1 surround set up and played back in an almost blackend out room to enhance the listening experience. These tapes represents a frozen glimpse of the insallation in a two hour composit form. "0.0 Santa Fe" will appeal to fans of dense/heavy/drone soundscapes, but the classic characteristic Norwegian black metal guitar-sound that Snorre Ruch helped create shines through on many passages.
This is a pro-duplicated double cassette limited to 100 numbered copies. There will be no future reissues on other formats. Each copy has an individual cover image. Graphic design by Håvard Gjelseth.

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Klangmutationen "Liturgie" Dream Sheep, cdraa$11
One of the most outstanding/uncompromising jazz collectives circulating right now is Klangmutationen. Coming from the Eastern side of the world, they suddenly remind us of noise legends such as Masayuki Takayanagi, Kaoru Abe and Kousokuya. But you should consider them an exception because they come from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Liturgie is a black ritual devoted to schizophrenia and otherworldly meditation. It is a burning candle for Shiva. Edition of 150. These are from the first pressing. Sold out at source.

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Klangmutationen "Weisse Messe" Holy Mountain, LPaa$17
Klangmutationen is composed of individuals who are quite possibly the only figures within Malaysiai's recent history of underground experimental/avant rock music if there even was one. The word "Klangmutationen" means "sound mutations" or "sound changes." Klangmutationen marries the heavier and primitive side of Krautrock with the relentless ferocity of avant jazz. Other influential elements are the countless avant jazz/rock outfits who have surfaced throughout the decades-- particularly jazz ensembles with loud electric guitars-- Last Exit, New Direction Unit, the Blue Humans (and the Arthur Doyle Quartet feat. Rudolph Grey), Music Revelation Ensemble, Tony Williams Lifetime, Moderne Nordeuropaische Dorfmusik, Blauer Hirsch, The Giancarlo Nicolai Trio, Ray Russell, Derek Bailey's Arcana, Sprawl.

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Daniel Menche "Body Melt" Important, LPaa$17
Body Melt is limited to 500 copies on LP. This is the companion release to Glass Forest. The LP comes packaged in staggeringly unique artwork by Emily Hyde. Recorded in the Summer of 2007, Body Melt is a molting and simmering display of furious Hammond organs & Native American drums. Menche manages to merge together the powerfully fuzzed-out organ drones along with hypnotically crushing and frenzied drums in a manner that is his alone. Body Melt sits perfectly throned on this limited LP release. White vinyl.

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Sachiko "You Never Atone For..." There/Musik Atlack, CDaa$16
First solo cd from Sachiko of Japanese psych rockers Overhang Party and all-female tone/float duo Vava Kitora as well as ex-Kousokuya. First few tracks combine a totally beautiful smoke of high wordless vocals with a sponge of star-scattered tones and a depth-of-field you could free-float in for days. Later tracks flit between ferocious loops of Junko/Waters-style vocal hysteria and dynamic electronic noise and still pools of purple trance before the last track blows the whole album to a single feather. Impossibly beautiful and one of the best albums to come out of the Japanese underground. Comes in a gorgeous full-color cover with obi and jewel case.

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Sachiko "With Lament" Sloow Tapes, CASSaa$13
New album by one of Japan’s key players in the psychedelic underground. Sachiko was also a member of legendary bands such as Overhang Party and Kousokuya among others. ‘With Lament’ finds itself in the lost worlds of eerie devotional chants drowned in eternal reflections of kaleidoscopic electronic powers. Paste-on cover and silkscreened insert.
This is the closest she has yet come to cutting a full set of choral/early/devotional vocal settings, albeit dosed with hallucinatory levels of F/X and positioned on the lip of the most beautifully smudged void of sound-on-sound your ears ever curled round. If you dig the sounds of Grouper/US Girls/Inca Ore et al but have a more classically-bent psychedelic taste and worship at the feet of Japanese underground gods like Shizuka, Nijiumu, Toho Sara, Angel’n Heavy Syrup et al then this is the bomb you set out for.

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Majutsu no Niwa "At the End of Summer" Musik Atlach, CDaa$19
Majutsu no Niwa is the new psychedelic rock band which Rinji Fukuoka of Overhang Party which stopped the activity at the beginning of 2008 leads. This album extracted from live show in this year have variety, from deep song and more vivid rock instrumental to heavy feedback drone.

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V/A "Four Dimensions Twist, Part 2" Rouman Records, CDaa$13
Four-way split of obscure Japanese acid folk. Artists are Yamaguchi Takanobu, Eddie Marcon, Jugz and Suzuki Junzo.

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Miminokoto "Live Performance 2007" Plunk's Plan, cdraa$11
Self-released live cdr. Suzuki Junzo, Takuya Nishimura, Tabata Mitsuru, Shimura Koji. Two of three songs written by the late Jutok Kaneko (Kousokuya).

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Orthodox "Amanecer en Puerta Oscura" Alone, CDaa$17
Orthodox’ second album Amanecer en Puerta Oscura, gives a new perspective to the music they create towards many different directions. Comparing with their monolithic album debut, Amanecer en Puerta Oscura comes like a trip crossing through different steps where jazz influences, progressive sounds of King Crimson or the crushing and free forms experiences from Black Flag, and at the same time not forgetting the true and pure metal roots from the band and the Andalusian cultural origins. The result is a liturgic music with obsesive repetitions, minimalism, feedback, distortion and endless drones creating a primitive feeling that leads to trance and remains as a perfect soundtrack for every dark point of christianism: opression, sin, suffering, guilt and pain. The use of new instrumentation showins influences from John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Morricone, Ligeti and religious music. For a band like Orthodox, always looking for new and diverse forms of music expressions, Amanecer en Puerta Oscura is the logical evolution after their high critical acclaim and recognition with their debut album Gran Poder.