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Laboratory Standard Recordings was realized by Cain Blanchard and Matt Silvey in the small college town of Cookeville, TN, in or around the year 1999.
Now operating in the foothills of the Smokies, Lab Standard continues to use its powers for awesome.
Ear candy for aural adventurers
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LSR RELEASES
LSR-001 Joshua Falken Trio The Kittyhawk Hoax EP
Three piece rock recorded in '99 - out of print
LSR-002 Midway s/t cd-r
Solo guitar explorations. Bedroom ambience - out of print
LSR-003 Double Muslims Errors of Menace +2 7" ... $5.00
guitar/cello/drums sturm und drang. debut release from this knoxville trio. lovely silkscreened, letterpressed, & wax sealed package. 300 pressed, numbered.
LSR-004 Lay All Over It Never Too Fat to Fly 7"... $5.00
spectral folk tunes, half sung recitations, and meditative improvisations. Lay All Over It augment their upright bass/drum core with tenor sax on these two takes on an old family tune.
LSR-005 Mountains of Moss / New Madrid Split 7"... $5.00
Mountains of Moss -> solo guitar/fiddle/vocal bliss from Knoxville's Adam Ewing. Hauntingly beautiful.
New Madrid -> A long night in slow motion, cornered by folk, blues, and 'ludes. Members of Picks & Lighters, Black Sarah, Maxi & The Pads... guitar, drums, organ, basssszzzzz....
Beautiful handmade letterpress covers, 333 numbered copies. Don't hesitate.
DISTRIBUTED GOODIES
New Madrid- Operation Aquarius cd-r...$5.00
2007 sessions from which the Mountains of Moss split (LSR-005) was culled. Moves from heartworn laments to full on drone psyche dirges. Includes a Buffy St. Marie cover as well as reworked tunes from the Basement Tapes, Pics & Lighters, & Steve Pritchard.
New Madrid- Live at the Pilot Light dvd-r...$5.00
NM sets aside the fiddles and cranks up the volume for this summer '08 outing featuring their otherwise as of yet undocumented 3 guitar "rawk" line-up. New Madrid's two chord burners and boogie vamps prove once again that yes, God does reside in the backbeat.
Various- Music to Steal To (Whisk-Hutzel) lp...$10
Knoxville's Whisk-Hutzel Records celebrates their 150th(!!) release with a nice comp highlighting the Rock corners of their byzantine discography. The perfect soundtrack to your next kegger. Includes tracks from: Black Sarah, The Cheat, Girl Party, Divorce, Jose P. Orchestra, Fecal Japan, Lobster Lobster Lobster, The Dirty Knees, Speed Shifter, Fistful of Crows, George Miller, & Damn Creeps. On purple vinyl w/ one-of-a-kind, handmade poster, dude.
Bright Shuttle Anthems cd-r... $7.00
tantric basement jams from this underground guitar/drum duo. Clean and beautiful.
Bright Shuttle Rises All Ships cd-r... $7.00
more nicotene & caffeine dreams. a third ghost brings his toys to the haunt. boo.
Picks & Lighters TVA/Starvation 12" LP... $12.00
Two long sides of beautiful, awkward living room decorations. Ear Pills. Hand-carbonized cover, 200 pressed. So good.
Picks & Lighters s/t cd (Ecstatic Yod)... $8.00
1999 recording unearthed and re-released on Ecstatic Yod! Cain’s pick for essential P&L listening. Read Dusted or Digitalis if you like.
Picks & Lighters Honeymoon in the Projects cd-r... $7.00
cd-r reissue of the 4th cassette release, 1997. Fantastico.
Picks & Lighters Morning Sickness cd-r... $7.00
cd-r reissue of the first cassette release from 1996. Matt’s pick for Belle of the Ball.
Psychic Baos Trouts cd-r... $6.00
9 tracks of mind bending sonic mayhem and XXX electric action from Whisk-Hutzel Records founder Will Fist. Limited and packed with real Chinese sandpaper from real China.
The Hosemobile The Grease Factory b/w Sesto 7"... $3.00
Prog-metal riffage. 2 songs recorded by Albini in ‘98.
Noisufusion Collected Works 1992-2004 cd-r... $6.00
small town kids who probably didn’t know how out of step they were when they concocted this sonic amalgamation that falls somewhere between early SST and early ECM. Could have only happened before the internet.
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