Art by John Olson

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All art is signed and dated. All originals, no copies. All for vous.

Email:

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to hold/ reserve and get shipping info.

Paypal only to email address.

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NEW AMERICAN TAPES INZANITY: HALF NELSON BASKET CASE DOGS INZANE FROM DECK WASH AAAAARRGHHH!!!!

2011-01-28T12:32:00.001-08:00

NEW INZANITY:

AM-890 Half Nelson "Elegy For Weedwhacker & Peaceful Reeds" onesided LP / Man, one of my first jobs as a rat kid was "assistant manager" for LAWN CARE PLUS. My older crew tried they hand a running a Junior in High School Lawn Business, it was kool but gnarly. Raking, mowing over animals and insects, crazy old ladies and lonely rich housewife's, fights with other lawn crews: was a crazy job. We had a friend crew-er that ate a fish outta a small pond that we would illegally dump grass at went totally insane, still to the present last I heard....BUT: On the ruff days when my old skate partner-cum-young entrepreneur Erik had an axe to grind, it was young zone who got "the signal" to just weed whack, aka THE WORST part of the job. The other muggers would be living easy behind they self-propelled mowers, grinning wide. Being the weed whacked means you are doing the 1: lowest job 2: gotta sweep up 3: SUX. The motion Erik would give would be a strong glare, a point, then a weed whacking motion, all silent over the din of the summer bugs and rev'in motors. Ugh. BUT: Good news, that image is NEARLY erased from me rat nugget from this RAW platter au' excellence from young guns HALF NELSON, with they mind freezing basement MONSTERPIECE debut twelve incher for reeds & weed destroyer. A nasty adventure in true git and tape splatter all with the dribbling granite sound desire of damp dusty Joe Hammer Sq. Pitts Youth. Killer first vinyl installment from Mike S & Alex, split LP with other Steeler City thump/thug/basement assaulter Free Clinic soon. Numbered Edition of 100 with handmade art, playable at any speed. $13

AM-891 Miles of Birth "Free Day Vol. 1" cd / OMG! New Years was a hoot hoot at DJ Lonely hearts'. Partied ALL NIGHT in the cove. Was a blast. Woke up the next morn, hit up the Stony Creek for bfast, came home. Set up again and jammed ALL AFTERNOON. Evening Miles, The Conn Artist, and Ziljohn in Comfort zone style. Had Steve Perry napping and watching the brothers focus down on some OUTER LIMIT SOUNDS. Took a break, hit up Circle K for some chips and Tall Boys and when black into the VOID. Killer. Packed up again and went to the Magic Stick for Moon Pool & Dead Machines Randy jammer. Was a killer day of SOUND. More volumes coming of the PILZ styled sound unit. B & W covers. Numbered edition of 40. $6

AM-892 Speacil Speacker "Rap Of Ibogaine & Suet" c90 New weirdo homemade electronics unit. We got a COLONY of squirrels in our black yard. They always creeping and scurrying EVERYWHERE. Freaks our special kitty friends out BIG TIME. Me & Tovinator got a suet square in the big tree for all the birds hanging out, woke up one morn, made coffee and the visual for it was a massive SUET SQUIRREL showdown. Was intense. Imagine them rascals freaking out and mangling some raw homemade oscillators. AND add to that a horrible misspelling of a Church Rap(p) event = Speacil Speacker live between yr. Ears. Color covers, numbered edition. $6

AM-893 The Basket Case "Word To The Reacher Vol 1" cd Whoa!!? Unearthed material from the massive collection of living room / empty art hall practice tapes of the amazing trio of Lisa Colwell on bass & electronics, the amazing Geoff Walker on trumpet, percussion, voice and electronics, and Oldzone on reeds, metal, tapes. All recorded SOMEWHERE in an empty CAID in '98 in the days before we had young 'uns shoving our gear/merch onto the sidewalks of Rosa Parks cause "we were taking too long to load out." Geeesh. Anyway, long tracks to guide yr afternoons into a strange place. B & W art, numbered edition of 50. $6

AM-894 The Basket Case "Word To The Reacher Vol 2" cd Follow up to above. A soundtrick to an inside closet world of inzanity. B & W art, numbered edition of 50 $6.

AM-896 VA "I Drink Deck Wash" 3d set WARNING: TOTAL INZANITY ALERT!
Everyday when I park the Blues Hawk in our Marigree garage I see a big ol' mean jug of DECK WASH staring right at me. Apparently our neighbors feed a dish of it to they dog and now it BARKS ALL THE TIME. Endless, always. Its a cute lil bugger but its nugget/brain is ON FIRE FROMT DECK WARSH. From the sleeplessness from this constant howling and growling at NOTHING from the DECK WARSH dog, I complied this over the late night months: Complete CRAZED COMP of all over tracks of homemade slow motion CHAOS SUPREME!! Peep the line up:
Disc One:
1: Dead Machines
2: Spykes
3: New Device (connelly secret solo, only gig)
4: Scorpion Lollipop (khrust & olzone, post Sonic Youth UBER WASTED house gig)
5: Anti Intelligence
Disc Two:
1: SS Helltrain (evening miles only gig)
2: The Finals (the most unmellow ambiance EVER, recorded/captured)
3: Steel Forest
4: SS Helltrain
5: Tovah D Day
Disc Three:
1: Miles Of Birth
2: Basket Case
3: Speacil Speacker
4: The Finals
5: Stare Case
6: Coors / Cs Yeh (euro soundczech goofin')
7: Speacil Speacker
Three cds. Color cover, with poster...crazy. All over the map homemade inzanity. Edition of 50, numbered. $20

AM-897 Half Case "Joe Hammer Nights" cd. Recent Joe Hammer Sq. Pre gig jamming chaos with Half Nelson and Stare Case from the last tour. Me & Natas showed up early and set up, jammed, the Half Nelson boyz did the same and we cut loose together in the basement for a while two dudes watched. Heres the evidence & Nelsons gig from that show. Half Case only means you gotta glare at the cheap mugs who always grip them cans but dont show up stacked! B & W cover edition of 50. $6

Heres some left overs from the last Stare Case "Actin Bad Tour" = tapes and cds are $6 each.

AM LOCAL WAR-16 The Spykes "Soundtrack to Improper Hearings 1" c90
AM LOCAL WAR-17 The Spykes "Soundtrack to Improper Hearings 2" c90
AM LOCAL WAR-18 The Spykes "Soundtrack to Improper Hearings 3" c90
AM LOCAL WAR-19 The Spykes "Soundtrack to Improper Hearings 4" c90
AM LOCAL WAR -20 Stare Case "Afternoon Core 1" c90
AM LOCAL WAR -21 Stare Case "Afternoon Core 2" c90
AM UPSET PRISONERS-L= Stare Case "Ash From The Burning Log Coated Tape Heads in Half Speed Vol 1"cd
AM UPSET PRISONERS-M= Stare Case "Ash From The Burning Log Coated Tape Heads in Half Speed Vol 2"cd

all prices postpaid in the US. No need to E-mail to hold but overseas players E-mail for postage quote.
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NEXT: AM-895 Spykes "No One Writes To The Colonel" onesided double groove LP, Thames 7", Tyfuss & Dog Dick goofin strong lps, more.....

GIGS:
JAN 30th BIRTH REFUSAL @CRAZY ANDREW K'S BIRTHDAY PARTY + MORE
FEB 11th STARE CASE w/ hordes, others MACS LANSING MI

WOLF EYES "MARCH OF THE TYRANTS TOUR MIDWEST"
Thurs Feb 17th Mickey's Madison WI
with DJ Aaron Coyes
riday Feb 18th Mike Mildew's Rehearsal Spot Milwaukee WI
W/ Bloodyminded
Saturday Feb 19th Abbey Pub Chicago
Frontier + Wolf Eyes + Envenomist + BLOODYMINDED
+ Plague Bringer @ The Abbey Pub, Chicago, IL
- Event Links:
Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/2cvkugo

SUNDAY MARCH 13th CHIPS FACTORY DETROIT
WOLF EYES + APE TECHNOLOGY
XBRAINX
RAFAEL TORAL

tons more gigs !~ STAY SLAY INZANE!!!

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HOW TO ORDER:

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All art is signed and dated. All originals, no copies. All for vous.

Email:

ameritapes@aol.com

to hold/ reserve and get shipping info.

Paypal only to email address.

V: untitled 28 x 28 inches framed mixed media on canvas = $200 = SOLD

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U: untitled 23 x 29 inches framed mixed media on canvas = $160 / SOLD

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AMERICAN TAPES UPDATE! ENTRY LEVEL MUSICIANS WITH BOILING BRAINS!!! INZANITY!!! AAAARRRGHHHH!!!!

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WARNING WARNING: MASSIVE WAVE OF INZANITY: WARNING!!!!! : AIR IS LIQUID INFECTION: WARNING:

AM-850 Sexual Assault Rife one-sided LP Rolling early to a gig can be problematic or amazing or a weirdo combo of both. The boyz rolled WAAAY to early to gig in Richmond VA only to get chased outta a strange bar (and sure enuff: same thing happened at the gig later at a piece of shit bar we jammed), but sometimes, rolling early into a city can be mindwrecking:
In Philly, some years ago, we rolled in hyper early and found (and waited in the van until it opened) a killer mega-bowl complex and posted up for HOURS. Brew flowing, pins knockin, no one there but the crew. RULED. After a way too long stretch of horrible double digit bowling, I wandered outside and called my main homebox PUCK to see if there was anything to peep before we roll onward to the R N R business hours. Puck thought for a second and said:
"Ya'll already busted that cheesesteak local spot...so...if you feel up to something REALLY intense...naw...forget about it..."
"Naw man, f-that- what is it?"
"Well, I had a super heavy sess there, if you feel up to the internal challenge: its right by the bowling alley- hit up JONATHAN & SUZIE's PSYCHIC SHACK"
Blown away by the prospects, I hung up, put out my cigarette on the bottom of my Red Wings, straightened up my coat and walked two blocks to the spot.
After finding it easily enuff, I rolled into the lobby and was first shocked by the decor on the walls: intense blood-sex-soaked paintings of zombies and horrible gore all done with the perfection of a pro graphic artist. Whoa! What did PUCK roll me to? Is he getting me black for the time I spilled pink clothes dye on his fav jersey? This place is too strange. I rang the bell, signed in on the sheet, and waited in silence in an empty lobby staring at a painting of a zombie chewing an ear of a bikinied lady. Tired from the brew session at the bowling alley and arm aching from trying to get the ball speed cam up to 87 mph on the lanes, I dosed off.
Feeling a slight nudge on my elbow I perked up and met JONATHAN, a huge welcoming dude with long blond hair and a SWANS "MONEY" tour long sleeve shirt and followed him into the reading room. I was ah...psyched!! I came into the small black room, shook hands with SUZIE, who was decked out a TG shirt, also long sleeve and was ready for the reading...
The magical couple stared at me for what seemed like 15 minutes and then nodded to each other and said, almost in unison:
"I see you are from Michigan, and therefore are probably uncomfortable with a very personal reading."
"Ah, right on." I said, thinking to myself that Puck had found a player a PERFECT spot.
After another stretch of awkward but easy silence Suzie said:
"Well, you have a gig tonight, how about a glimpse into the future, not you, but what the world be like in say 10,000 years?"
"Man, whoa, hit me up!!!!"
"First, put both yr finger tips into this small pot and close yr eyes. There will be no words spoken but you feel the future, good or bad..."
Feeling the energy for a new situation and also the coming excitement of telling Puck/the boys about my PSYCHIC SHACK experience, I rolled up my sleeve, and put my fingers into the warm oily magic liquid and sneaked off...
What happened next or rather what I experienced just can be put into INZANE words. The future was: INTENSE.... fully of evil machines grinding onward on terror business, clangs disappearing into space, huge planets full of strange sounds delay into the deep atmosphere. It was strange, horrible, and super ace all at the same time. Man was I stoked.
So I walked out with Suzie and Jonathan, mind blown/shown by the future, ready for the present and ready to thank the crub outta my main man PUCK for the psychic tip. As I was walking out the door, Suzie says,
"Wait I forgot something... Here is a box of 100 records that was the soundtrack to that evil future.... we had em pressed while you were out cold, live at that studio that did the CRUDE PA comps...."
"OMG- no way...the sounds...were...too much.... and on wax????"
Jonathan says, firmly: "Yeah man, and jamm it at any speed, I know yr crew digs that...slower the better...cant be slow enuff....." And then stared at the floor.......
"Well, we know NONE of yr crew will believe you so here is some proof to show em...."
So here it is. TRUE STORY, yo. THE FUTURE...10,000 yrs from now.... SEXUAL ASSAULT RIFLE. ON WAX. Edition 100, handmade covers, numbered. $15

AM-855 V/A "Sunday Matinee @ The Frying Pan" one-sided LP w/Connelly & The Machines, Body Morph, Hive Mind, Dog Lady & Drainolith / So the other day, me and my lab buddy supreme Scott were knee f'in deep in trying to find out if a huge craggly motor was delta or wye three phase connected, and needless to say, was NOT having luck. It was a one of them RAW bologna built motors that has wire numbers, but its pointless cause its all on its own weirdo system. Whatever. So as usual, we shot the shit.
"What’s up this weekend man?"
"Not much, got a killer afternoon gig at the spot on Sunday...."
"What’s a gig?"
"Ah.... I’m having some of my weirdo friends over to make ah.... music...."
"You make music?"
"Sure"
"Would you ever play a 'gig' for the troops?"
"We should get black to that motor...I think I know the lead wires now..."
"Well, I can’t come over, I gotta fix my tires on my hunting jeep, but you know what would rule Olson?"
"What’s that?"
"If you would press that jammer on wax, mix all the tracks together into one inzane mess and sent it to Smith out west to press...."
"Man, you might be on to something"
"Make it one long one-sider with a lock groove, I mean shit...that’s how I remember gigs anyway.... and just use a flyer for the cover!!!"
"My man!!!"
So I took Scott's advice. Took the killer matinee jam, got out the scalpel, mixed everything together seamless inzane style, book ended it with an EVIL Hive Mind loop and boosh!!!! Pressed gig memory!!!! So it's just like a gig, except you don’t have KNOX MITCHELL's dad dropping you off or Collino spilling brews everywhere or your secret recipe INZANE CHILLI remains burning up in the bottoms of an empty crock pot. Oddly, not a peep of crew-audience noise to be found. Dog Lady played acoustic string scrape, Dan Body jammed reed universe from the uneven side (and then BLASTED Disclose and Firmeza 10 in the jamm room), Drainolith is my main man Alex K from Montreal and kept it uber real with amazing synth scramble, live from yep, THE BASEMENT. Greh said he did a cover of THE SHINING but I’ve never seen that mini-series. Dead Machines and Connelly jammed magical pixie flutes, infected metal scrape and vocals from an eerie afternoon lagoon. Like an endless gig, ...you gotta SIT THRU THE WHOLE THING...in one inzane memory blurr surpreme....Record ends with an EVIL Hive Mind lock groover, endless...party.... forever.... Was a blast, more of this style to come. And BYOB!!! There are three party stores right in the hood, duh!!! 2pm SHARP!!!> Edition of 100 in handmade recycled sleeves, numbered. $15

AM-856 Invasion Status & Body Morph "Horns of Slow Internal Kaos"Split c90 / Haunted Dan, what a weirdo. One grey afternoon on a heavy porch session of jammin 45's and killin tall boys, High Def Haunted Dan pulls a tape outta the couch and says:
"Shit- Forgot about this one: Couple days ago when I thought I was feeling better after a heavy flu period, late at night after watching the entire first session of DAMAGES, it was four in the morn and I tried jammin solo sax while listening to Queen's soundtrack to Flash Gordon on headphones. It turned out super weird...its only one side, so pass it along to that Invasion Status dude next time you see him in Farwell to bust the other side..."
So I jammed the tape, you cant hear the Flash Gordon creepin through, or can you hear Khrust telling him to STOP and throwing a months worth of Jimmy Johns wrappers at him, but its totally weirdo flu-infect reed lonely sprawl howl....amazing...late night, reeds, alone, sick...damages...weird. The Invasion Status side has more diff reeds creeping thru but fuck, who can tell...a flowing miasma of acoustic reed feedblack spare shriek.... strange and creeping. I asked that dude to do a gig but he says he only plays for insects, cats and passing cars. Whatever dude, just asking...Color Covers. Numbered edition of 30. $7

AM-859 Lady Spyke (Dog Lady + Spykes) "Transfused By Pool Water" cd / It was a normal Saturday, got up at 8 a.m., tooled around, popped on me sweat pants and Deathbag workout shirt, czeched the Fitness USA website to make sure it wasn’t shut down again for another maniac attack of some old freaker geezer leaving deer intestines in a gym locker for three days on some uber-vile payback scheme... Headed out the door at 11 a.m., stopped by the coin car wash for a quick vac-thru on the blueshawk and got an URGENT text message from homebox collino;
"ZONE: IN THE BACK YARD: HAVE TO JAM FAST: GONNA HURL"
What??? What day is this? Shit: The Lady Dog was up in this for the afternoon. So, hurriedly: finished vac. job. Busted home to only find a paler Collino gasping in the driveway, shaking. ....Turns out him and the maniac youth crew (Khrust, Haunted Dan, and some dude who is always trying to prove how weird he is) went to a monster truck show in Redford the prior night, and Collino, already tanked from a heavy karaoke session, got into a MASSIVE ashtray eating contest with some goons from Port Huron and, from the mouth of Collino.
"Dunno Man....I asked some rotten chicken meat that was festering in a ashtray that I didn’t see and I feel like my stomach is made of sweet & sour lake oil...lets jam quick so I can go home and die in peace.... ugghhhh...."
So we rolled in, had a super queasy sweat pants and hand-over-mouth-to-stop-puke violin & tapes session live in the Inzane Studios. Was super slow and gross, like watching the unedited birth cut from Rosemary's Baby, the part where the devil baby comes out in what looks like a mane of Hardees garage. Killer session, poor Collino. Dude bounced ASAP. Can’t blame him. Color covers. Edition of 50. $7

AM-860 Graveyards "Relocated Cooling Towers" one-sided LP / What is up with the mail these days? Sometimes you get the weirdest things. Are "Dog Missing" flyers illegal now? Seems like it, cause just the other Tuesday I lurched out to check the daily box to see if my new copies of DIRGE or EVIL MINDED shown up yet, and there was this lone LP resting there. Had a post it note stuck to it that read:
"PLEASE HELP: OUR CREATURE THING HAS VANISHED. WE SUSPECT THE WORST. WE CANNOT GIVE DETAILS ON THE THINGS/ANIMAL OR HAVE ANY PICTURES< BUT WE DO HAVE RECORDINGS OF IT IN "ACTION". PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS RECORD (at any speed) AND CALL 237 - 4568 IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON OUR MISSING CREATURE. AND RETURN MY STAMPS- THANKS- YR NEIGHBORHOOD LOOSE ANIMAL CULTURE CENTER"
Shaking my head, thinking how I just got a killer local platter to add to the animal sounds/droll Yankee/ chooltch industry recordings sections and put the record on.
Well, it seems like they are never gonna find this thing cause it SOUNDS like a super shy version of that horrible creature in the twilight zone flick that tries to scare the passengers and eat the plane. But this "Thing" hangs out in empty hangers and lightly scrapes its torn and rotten fingernails across HUGE rusty industrial size fans at 3am in a creaking wet unlit corner. Who would want this in their house? Sounds from this animal are rare, seems like this LP has like three light rustlings and the THING is gonzo, moved on...just like a ghost trace of it... good luck to them.
After jamming the "MISSING CREATURE" lp on every speed my numark can handle, I IM chatted fellow animal sound lp vet DILLOWAY and told him about the new local style missing thing section, and he said energetically:
"Dude, you should quick like go around the neighborhood and grip all those lps and put em out, don’t get busted say it's...I dunno... GRAVEYARDS or something..."
FUCK!!! Killer idea. So here it is - all the LPs from District 176 Howard St./Frandor with NO INFO and a crude handmade painted sleeve like from the hairy mitts of the said MISSING ANIMAL itself. If you find this THING.... shit, record it and do a FOLLOW UP. And leave it in yr NEIGHBORS mailbox. UUUGGHHHHHHHH. Title taken from a super tuff blueprint question from my Blueprint Reading 112 class last fall. Edition of 100. Inzane handpainted recycled covers, each one uber-unique. $15 MISSING!!! THING!!! RECORDED!!!

AM-861 Birth Refusal "Summer Acoustic" cd / Connelly & Oldzone Refusal Unit: Two complete gigs from the mid summer tour with Uneven Universe, Evenings & Hive Mind. All acoustic, no amps, no electricity, nothing. Horrible scrape, empty litter containers with glass, bottle caps, metal, reeds, acoustic clutter supreme. One set from Gabe's killer Toledo Den of Death, the other from the amazing GOOD STYLE shop in Madison. Killer tour, ended in the woods jammin THE CHIEFTANS x 2 45s on 3rpm. Summer simmer acoustic. Racket to rocket to uncharted ear trails. Color Covers. $7

AM-862 V/A "ELI the ICE man" W/ Full Scales, Spykes & Pool Water / Is the Voltages Leads in Inductance or Induction leads Current in Capacitance??? Huh? Always forget this easy breeze system code to know which is leading in the Induct/Capt current game...Yeah: three tracks of attack:
Full Scales: Live at Aries assault party from last Pan gig in April last year. Mega Hammond organ live in the basement.
Spykes: Terrible tones tacked onto a tapestry of mangled inzanity thru a crazed mental plane. Horrible.
Pool Water: Dog Lady, Connelly, Zone Force- live in the Comfort zone and on a trial leading to hiding places. Violin, flute, guitar = mixed together for an uncomfortable loose skin dangling in the dry wind.
Three long tracks of ZEAL-ish style. Triple ack attack. Cover covers, numbered: $7

AM-863 Spykes "Resting Houses: Live" 2 c90, 2 cd, poster boxset / Recent winter recordings from this long time psycho sound project. Uncensored home terror, tons of instruments, daily style lurking, afternoon electronics. Like Hendrix's LORD OF THE STRINGS bootleg double lp, pressing with Elmer’s glue, recut, played backwards on one of those expensive Numark DJ turntables to an audience of static lint. Sprawling set of language INZANITY. Like doing FEEBLACK homework on tablets made of hardened salt. Handmade electronics, instruments that worked for minutes, dying things, things that should be exterminated, tones drenched in the saliva of 10000000 yrs of sewn mouths. Sci-Fi from an imploding 2D sound world. Packaged in a handpainted recycled box, numbered edition of 30. $25

AM-871 National Memory Day "Air As Liquid Infection" c90 / After a debut of two tapes packaged in the most horrible doll imaginable, this new returns with more lurking tape sound and creeping low electronics. Name taken from a committee in Lansing that meets once a month, goes over complex mathematics and historical dates, and then re-meets three weeks later to see what stuck in the minds of the troupe. After a common agreement is met on what important aspects are collectively remembered, the group makes new math and new histories based on what is NOT remembered. Super weird crew; way underground but catching members by the day. Its like they are recreating a new reality based on the murk of forgotten details. Apparently they are having a gig in May, cant wait. Color Covers in Inzane colored slipcase style edition of 30. $7

AM-872 VA "Mixed Above Emotions" C90 w/ Dwelling Unit, Madness, Influx, Immune Future Problems, First Responder, Cripple Crime's Triangle / Massive new comp of all short tracks of all sorts of styles. Weirdo flow, new blood, all heated and raw. Mysterious Island swamped and flanked in all sides by a tidal wave of consuming statics. More to come from each of these creatures, stirring and pacing in a sound cell waiting and plotting to bust out. Color covers, slip case. $7

AMERICANT TAPES SHIRT:
SPYKES SHIRT:
you know the drill, tell me your size and color shirt you want and you get a custom classic AT logo or new CRAZED SPYKES design screen printed on a patch and hand sewn onto yr shirt of choice. Look S.H.A.R.P!!!! = $15

All Prices Postpaid in the US. Email for overseas postage quote. No kneed to email to reserve items.
Paypal only! to:
ameritapes@aol.com

next: VOM GRILL lp, DOG DICK lp, other gooferz.....

STAY/SLAY/PAR-TY = INZANE!!!!

20 NEW PAINTINGS! NOV-EARLY DEC 2009!

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Here are 20 new mixed media works from nov-early dec 2009. Email:

ameritapes@aol.com

to reserve. In the US, shipping is $6, overseas $12. Paypal only! INZANITY CONTINUES!

20: Mixed Media on Canvas Framed = SOLD

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18.5 x 24 inches, blond wood frame = $70

19: Mixed Media on Paper = SOLD

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11 x 18 inches = $20

18: Mixed Media on Cardboard = SOLD

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13 x 14 inches = $25

17: Mixed Media on Paper = SOLD

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16 x 14 inches = $25

16: Mixed Media on Paper = SOLD

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12 x 18 inches = $25

15: Mixed Media on Paper

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12 x 18 inches = $25

14: Mixed Media on Paper = SOLD

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11 x 18 inches = $25

13: Mixed Media on Paper = SOLD

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8 x 13 inches = $15

12: Mixed Media on Paper = SOLD

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17 x 14 inches = $25

11: Mixed Media on Paper = SOLD

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14 x 14.5 inches = $25

10: Mixed Media on Paper = SOLD

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15 x 14 inches = $25

9: Mixed Media on Paper = SOLD

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19 x 12 inches = $25

8: Mixed Media on Paper = SOLD

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19 x 12 inches = $25

7: Mixed Media on Paper = SOLD

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19 x 12 inches = $25

6: Mixed Media on Paper = SOLD

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19 x 12 inches = $25

5: Mixed Media on Paper = SOLD

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18 x 11 inches = $25

4: Mixed Media on Paper = SOLD

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18 x 12 inches = $25

3: Mixed Media on Cardboard = SOLD

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13x 14 inches = $30

2: Mixed Media on Cardboard = SOLD

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13 x 15.5 inches = $30

1: Mixed Media on Cardboard = SOLD

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12 x 15 inches = $30

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Paintings for sale. Paypal only. Email:
ameritapes@aol.com
for reservation and US/Overseas shipping information
For Shirts/ please include size and color of the shirt you want.

J) Mixed Media Collage on canvas. Framed 24.5 x 18.5 inches $110 = SOLD

K) Mixed Media Collage on canvas. Framed 20 x 16.5 inches $90 = SOLD

GRAVEYARDS SHIRT DESIGN = any size and color of shirt, with this image hand sewn on on the front center. $15 post paid US/ $23 world.

AMERICAN TAPES SHIRT DESIGN = any size and color of shirt, with this image hand sewn on on the front center. $15 post paid US/ $23 world.

JOHN OLSON AUGUST PAINTINGS 2009

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Paintings for sale. Paypal only. Email:
ameritapes@aol.com
for reservation and US/Overseas shipping infomation.

A) Mixed Media Collage on canvas. Framed 20 x 16.5 inches $90 = SOLD

B) Mixed Media Collage on canvas. Framed 18.5 x 24.5 inches $110 = SOLD

C) Mixed Media Collage on cardboard. Unframed 20 x 20 inches $45 = SOLD

D) Mixed Media Collage on paper. Unframed 18 x 18.5 inches $40 = SOLD

E) Mixed Media Collage on paper. Unframed 11 x 13.5 inches $25 = SOLD

F) Mixed Media Collage on paper. Unframed 10.5 x 11.5 inches $25 = SOLD

G) Mixed Media Collage on paper. Unframed 11.5 x 18 inches $25 = SOLD

H) Mixed Media Collage on paper. Unframed 10.5 x 11.5 inches $25 = SOLD

I) Mixed Media Collage on paper. Unframed 10.5 x 11.5 inches $25 = SOLD

New American Tapes coming up soon

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New AT coming around Halloween Season= with new ear-quagmire from LOST ANCHOR, GENERAL ASSUANCE, ENCOUNTER GROUP, Strangled Pairs 10 "Spyked Stelzer", SP 11 "Mick "vagabond" Travis & Spykes, SP 12 "WOZ & COORZ", Infertile Fidelities 3 with Caves, Bottom Feeder, Stoning, Invasion Status, Uneven Dead, Zoo Trip, Body Morph, EMPTY SET, TRAUMA series VOl 1. others, and new Lps by UNEVEN UNIVERSE "exit human" and the AM 799 "NO STATE NO SOUND" comp lp with one minute of silence from:
NO FUCKER
IRON LUNG
HIVE MIND
ALISHA WARNING
BODY MORPH
HELLFIRE HOLLY
BIRTH REFUSAL
THE HAUNTING
16 BITCH PILE UP
SICK LLAMA
AC & KHURST
DAMION ROMERO
HAIR POLICE
+others!!!!

And a TOVINATER update with new solo material and the TOVAHAUNTED collab lp....

stay slay TUNED!!! Have a killer LABOR DAY

Untitled 17 = SOLD

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Untitled 16 = SOLD

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Untitled 15 = SOLD

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Untitled 14 = SOLD

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Untitled 13 = SOLD

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Untitled 12 = SOLD

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Untitled 11 = SOLD

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Untitled 10 = SOLD

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Untitled 9 = SOLD

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Untitled 8 = SOLD

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Untitled 7 = SOLD

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For price information or more information on canvas size, e-mail ameritapes@aol.com

Untitled 6 = SOLD

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Untitled 5 = SOLD

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Untitled 4 = SOLD

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Untitled 3 = SOLD

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Untitled 2 = SOLD

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Untitled 1 = SOLD

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E-mail ameritapes@aol.com
for price and art information.

Untitled H - SOLD

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John Olson, collage on framed canvas, 16 inches by 20 inches, 2008

Untitled G - SOLD

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John Olson, collage on framed canvas, 16 inches by 20 inches, 2008
e-mail ameritapes@aol.com for price information

Untitled F - SOLD

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John Olson, collage on framed canvas, 16 inches by 20 inches, 2008
SOLD

Untitled E - SOLD

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John Olson, collage on framed canvas, 16 inches by 20 inches, 2008
SOLD

Untitled D - SOLD

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John Olson, collage on framed canvas, 18 inches by 24 inches, 2008
e-mail ameritapes@aol.com for price information

Untitled C - SOLD

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John Olson, collage on canvas, 14 inches by 10 inches, 2008
SOLD

Untitled B - SOLD

2008-07-14T16:54:00.000-07:00

John Olson, collage on paper, 24 inches by 17.5 inches, 2008
e-mail ameritapes@aol.com for price information

Untitled A - SOLD

2008-07-14T16:42:00.000-07:00

John Olson, collage on paper, 30 inches by 20 inches, 2008
SOLD

New American Tapes Inzanity

2008-07-14T16:37:00.000-07:00

AM-666 Sixes 3c30 boxset / Whoa..here is it is after a demonic wait...AM 666/what better to bust it with than with that Hellfire Wildman SIXES AKA AJ AKA RJ AKA Ryan from SF, Crash Worship, Death Throes, Man Slaughter, etc. Mammoth 3 cassette set of the classic Sixes gnarl, grind. Electronic mayhem comes close to the Mongol finesse of his Electric Heavyland label LP. Six sides of manhandled scatter and brass tax choke attack. Packaged in a handpainted case with poster. Limited to 66. $20

AM-730 General Assurance "Abundancia En Su Vida" c90/New duo of weirdo kids Rick P. & Tom A. from Fowlerville Michigan, a town so small they have their own zip code..... Totally weirdo soundscape of keys & mutant electronics. Imagine Cleveland superstars -in- the-making FRAGMENTS trying to make a soundtrack for a whale blubber factory covered in creeping cosmic black slime.... and you would be in the neighborhood of this outsider noise world. A head scratcher for real homey. Color Covers. $8

AM-735 Handicapper Horns "Sax in the City= One" one-sided LP/ BLACK TO ATTACK!!! Old solo reed project now a fleshed out band with Thrasher Slowson and Sara O'keffe from ARA (whose LP on WHAT THE?? is a stone ruler of sweetnezz) on tenor and alto saxes, bass and regular clarinets and mangled electronics. Debut platter after a handful of gigs in the Natti, Lexington and No Fun 08. Drifting and subterranean noisez that attach on your brain and plant seeds of slow motion anti-body lurking sound creatures inside the shadowz of your skull. Warning: Cemented Freeze Zone. #'erd Edition of 100, paste on sleeves of inzane art. $13

AM-745 Dead Comet Alive "Universe for One" one-sided LP/ Old AT group, first leap into the wax world. DCA is a long-standing ??? electronics??? and ???? home jamming loner sound unit and here's two pieces of other worldly echoing empty universe tone twisters to inhabit a table-for-one ear vacation to the lurking parts of your daily experience. Sounds like having a huge unknown gnawing entity chase you inside a huge unknown sound world, at any speed. Super weird, not Demoon Skirt weird but more...internal noize stylez. Numbered Edition of 100, crazy inzane sleeve paste on. $13

AM-751 The Dead Machines "Zanti Misfit Style" CD/ New jamm from the Olsonz crude sound HQ'erz. This is made right after spending a late night trying to step on/sqwash all the gnarl faced horror ant creatures from The Outer Limits, the ZANTI MISFITS..swear those buggers are the scariest things EVER!!!. A human face on any animal is a spine-tingler but a bunch of spider ants from outer space? NO THANK YOU. Here is the soundtrack to ant-human fight. Five bug faced tracks-over forty minutes of audio grime crawl. New LP on "Big Baller" Mike Pollard's Arbor records soon!! Color covers. $10

AM-757 "Strangled Pairs" Vol. Nine/"Outer Space" (emeralds john & spyked john) CD/ The last time a mug was in Cleveland going to see the amazing KUOLEMA with the local crew, the after gig 3am session landed us at Big John Jr's apartment. The homeboy was jamming a bunch of Emeralds outtakes where they were so brain transported on _ _ _ _ that nothing sequenced up or matched or went in the forward direction. It was pretty amazing to see the jamm components of a massive unit scrambled beyond working order. After that, Big JohnJr played some Lilypad and Outerspace solo pieces that were SUPER weird, like radio ad cut ups, metal cups clinking around, planes taking off, etc. It was REALLY STRANGE. So as me and the DilloDad were stumbling out to the truck, B. John JR. hands me a STACK of the works-in-progress CDs we have been jamming and says "shit man...just take it...get em outta here..." So here is the FIRST in the Big John and Big John, Jr. Collab...total Outerspace/homespun fruit loop electronic squall. Definite headphone other world negative universe upside down town Lilypad soundtrackz....definately more on the way.........Emeralds (and Fragments) were amazing at the AM 800 party this last July Fourth. Rulin' tymez. Color Covers $10

AM-760 Tovah D. Day/ Invasion Status "Soundtrack For an Actual Size Gachnar" split c90/ The Tovinater solo in a long involved electronic mangle & tape warble suite on side one and side Two has a brand new group from Ovid Elsie Michigan doing what sounds like a two clarinets inside the brain of a giant hollow sleeping creature. Killer split, new sounds, old minds, ancient machines, hidden paths. Color covers. $8

AM-761 Pink Chunk Jazz Band/The Graveyards split c90/ Second split of the set. Pink Chunk Jazz Band returns with two pieces of cardboard drums, plate, high hat, and reeds in non-synch homemade style. Non sense in a-non sense jazz kitchen setting. The Grave side is a unique long duo jam with no percussion, Hell Hall jammin soprano sax, tapes and feedblack and Thrasher Slowson on Bass Clarinet and pattern electronics. Very twisting and strange, like one long bad-news speech stretched out to a 40 min negative space on opposite day study. Definite Quarter Speed influence. Color Covers. $8

AM-762 Paradox #9 art zine booklet + CD/ Latest installment of this long running art/eyeball static zine tribute to the Boston punk art zine of the 80'z. This one is special from the others in that its 10 loose B & W drawings/collage scrawl housed in a thick folder with paste on cover and a General Assurance CD of audio accompaniment. A full inzane experience/ attack!!! $15

AM-763 Awkward Squad "Solo Performance for Oil, Violin, and Arm" 2 CD/ Another new-ish unit from a solo electronic artist in Cadallic Michigan, Brad McNeil. He has done a handful of other AT releases in very small editions but this is the first one thats really available. Sprawling homemade raw electronic sound scape style, but with killer flow and Language-esque hypnotic control/path jammin. Imagine if Nerve Noise Net played reeds but switched to homespun electronics once the pause button was hit? Huh? More comin as this fella seems to be on the non-stop audio war route. Color covers by INZANE. $15

AM-764 Wasteland Jazz Unit "Solar Static Coves" CD/ YES!!!! Killer Natti Art Damage crew of John Rich on clarinet and Jon Lorenz on saxophone. Total basement squall attack style, scatter jazz top volume raw quarter speed on speed sound approach. Three tracks here, all stokers. Seen these mugs live? Rippin....like a jazz version of DECLINO or something.... Future is bright for these hard driving reed biting duo basement monsterz but bright aint really the word here...more like LOUD. Reed loud...me favorite sound...Probably the WORST first date music out there...THANK GAWD. Color covers, crazy. $10

AM-775 DS Hastings & DL Savings Time "95 Flashblack Attack"one-sided LP/ Last but no least. Oldest recording here, 13 years!!!. DS Hastings man...what can you say? Well,...how about:
A: Fresh
B: Old School
C: Waaay Underground
IF you heard his totally obscure output on S.F.C.R in France or Square D recordings from Detroit all before 1995 then you know Hastings has his pulse on some raw, environmental, weirdo, static, fluxus style non-sound. Its like what Captain Crunch listens to before Tony The Tiger walks the plank into a boiling sea of washing-machine chewing sharks. Dude is a HUUGE influence from his like three releases. But you aint gonna see him around live anytime soon......underground..... SO: the record....some label...I forget who/what was gonna do an OG 7" Waaay black in 1995 between DS and DL Savings Time...it never saw light....UNTIL GNAW!!! Here is the original recordings and two new Collab tracks. This thing is as raw as chewing on a thirty foot tree with cement teeth while wearing a basement rug as a crotch-cloth. The DL Savings Time track for the 7"is an early reel to reel tape cut up of crude electronics and a crazed instructor yelling at a class, the Hastings track sounds like what the amazing TOM GRIMLEY covered in the basement of the COCK PIT when he took a bunch of broken glass and let it spin in a dryer whilst the crew stage dived off said appliance. Really strange. The new Collab tracks sound like amplified LICE. Just too stoked on this platter. Grip this mug and grin ear to blown out ear for WEAKZ!!!!
Inzane art, numbered edition of 100. $13

All prices postpaid in the US. No need to reserve items but E-mail for overseas postage quote.
PAYPAL ONLY!!!! to:
ameritapes@aol.com

AM ECONO 7" series: I have very few of these...they were the earlier releases with pasted on art and CD but those are long gone...for the last stragglerz/these have new inzane art sleeves , colored vinyl and are $5 each:
Thin Ensemble (90's Lansing Free Unit)
Kill Devil Hills (fag heath & hell hall)
Casket Sinkers (coorz & dillo)
AM-500 various (the 7" from am 500 set= waves, dm, graves, birth ref)
Boy Dept. Boyz coorz & heath)
Birth Refusal (coorz & connelly)

AMERICAN TAPES ART SITE:
next couple days the AT paintings site will be up.... Pics of paintings for sale. It will be linked to:
www.americantapes.net
this will be updated regularly with new paintings/ E-mail for info, prices, etc............

STAY SLAY INZANE!!! FOREVER!!!