{"title":"Label: Death Is Not The End","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-system","title":"The System","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4267251765\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-system\"\u003eThe System by Stanford Shirley\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e333 reissues a massive sought-after and obscure Jazzbo-produced 45 from Stanford Shirley. The System was recorded at Harry J's studio and released in 1987 on the late Linval Carter's Ujama label. Though one of the lesser known cuts from Jazzbo's late 80s production stable, it is surely up there with one of the best. Killer archetypal digi business.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7\" pressed on black vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMassive sought-after and obscure Jazzbo-produced 45 from Stanford Shirley\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecorded at Harry J's studio and released in 1987 on the late Linval Carter's Ujama label\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]333LP014[[Artist]]Stanford Shirley","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"The System \/ Album \/ 7\" Black","offer_id":47042884436213,"sku":"333LP014","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580817463.jpg?v=1757981656"},{"product_id":"metallic-k-o","title":"Metallic K.O","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003cp\u003eCrass, conceited, vulgar and unpleasant. Also quite unique. DINTE drops a cassette reissue of Iggy and The Stooges chaotic Metallic KO LP, recorded live at Detroit's Michigan Palace between 1973 \u0026amp; 1974 - documenting the band's death throes during what would be their last performances for 30+ years. Remastered by Sterling Roswell of Spacemen 3 and officially licensed from Skydog Records\/Jungle Records.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Metallic K.O. is the only rock album I know where you can actually hear hurled beer bottles breaking against guitar strings.\" — Lester Bangs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Something we should get straight from the start: measured by any normal criteria 'Metallic KO' is one hell of a long way from being a good rock'n'roll record, let alone a great one.\" — Giovanni Dadomo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCassette reissue of Iggy and The Stooges chaotic Metallic KO LP\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecorded live at Detroit's Michigan Palace between 1973 \u0026amp; 1974\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRemastered by Sterling Roswell of Spacemen 3 and officially licensed from Skydog Records\/Jungle Records\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]DEATH115[[Artist]]Iggy \u0026amp; The Stooges","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Metallic K.O \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47042884501749,"sku":"DEATH115","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580857988.jpg?v=1757978120"},{"product_id":"all-bad-boy-all-good-girl-manchester-street-soul-soundtapes-1988-1996","title":"All Bad Boy \u0026 All Good Girl: Manchester Street Soul Soundtapes, 1988-1996","description":"\u003cp\u003e[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mixtape pulling together extracts from soundsystem tapes out of Manchester's storied street soul scene of the late 1980s to mid-1990s. Featuring DIY cassette recordings of sounds such as Broadway, Stereo Dan \u0026amp; Soul Control playing live at dances and blues parties in south \u0026amp; central Manchester from 1988 through to 1996.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[[Selling Points]]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable on LP\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDIY cassette recordings of sounds such as Broadway, Stereo Dan \u0026amp; Soul Control playing live at dances and blues parties in south \u0026amp; central Manchester\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecorded from 1988 through 1996\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[[Catalog Number]]DEATH032LP[[Artist]]Death Is Not The End\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"All Bad Boy \u0026 All Good Girl: Manchester Street Soul Soundtapes, 1988-1996 \/ Album \/ LP Black","offer_id":47042884534517,"sku":"DEATH032LP","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580826694.jpg?v=1757978378"},{"product_id":"london-pirate-radio-adverts-1984-1993-vol-1","title":"London Pirate Radio Adverts 1984-1993, Vol. 1","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1572180677\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/london-pirate-radio-adverts-1984-1993-vol-1\"\u003eLondon Pirate Radio Adverts 1984​-​1993, Vol. 1 by Death Is Not The End\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first volume in a two-part collection of pirate radio adverts \u0026amp; idents, taken from recordings of London stations between 1984 \u0026amp; 1993.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Guardian: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2021\/feb\/16\/save-and-rave-how-pirate-radio-adverts-capture-a-lost-britain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThom Yorke BBC 6 Music mix: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m000rwsq\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe New Yorker: https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/goings-on-about-town\/night-life\/london-pirate-radio-adverts-1984-1993-vol-1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFeature on BBC Radio 4's Today programme: https:\/\/ra.co\/news\/74664\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable on clear vinyl or cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCollection of pirate radio advent and idents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTracks taken from recordings of London stations between 1984 \u0026amp; 1993\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]DEATH039LP[[Artist]]Death Is Not The End","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"London Pirate Radio Adverts 1984-1993, Vol. 1 \/ Album \/ LP Clear","offer_id":47042884567285,"sku":"DEATH039LP","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"London Pirate Radio Adverts 1984-1993, Vol. 1 \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47043111682293,"sku":"DEATH039RP","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580763289_6734b3bc-7da1-4c9c-b3b3-7b854a2a5917.jpg?v=1757980134"},{"product_id":"elders-of-the-begena-the-harp-of-david-in-ethiopia","title":"Elders of the Begena: The Harp of David in Ethiopia","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2724105592\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/elders-of-the-begena-the-harp-of-david-in-ethiopia\"\u003eElders of the Begena: The Harp of David in Ethiopia by Various Artists\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Begena is one of those rare musical instruments of the world that has survived for more than 5800 years. What is fascinating about it is not only its age but the fact that both its manufacture and the purpose for which it is being played have never changed during all these years. It is still made of wood and animal products, such as the intestine of the sheep for the strings, the leather that covers the sound box. It is used for praying, for praising God and for meditation, just as it was in the olden days and it has survived until the present day. During the time of the Derg regime, after the overthrow of the emperor Haile Selassie, it was no longer considered important. As for the Begena, which used to be broadcasted through the radio during the fasting season, all this was stopped. At that time I was a teacher at the music school, the only music school in the country, and because I did not get the necessary support to develop it I had to stop, because I was not allowed to teach. And so we could say that it did become a disappearing popular art. But not anymore, especially in the past 15, 16 years it has revived. There are many Begena players, mostly youngsters, of whom I have taught more than 500 students. Still there are some Begena makers, who make the instrument for new students. What is interesting about this instrument is that the music, or the tone that comes out of this instrument, has a special power to make people to concentrate, to keep quiet, to be carried away in thoughts, thinking of what is said. This is a special quality. You don't have to be an Ethiopian, anybody can listen to it, automatically it will make him keep quiet and concentrate.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e- Alemu Aga (taken from an interview with Pit Budde for WDR Radio, Cologne, 2008)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded by Pit Budde in Addis Ababa, 1999 \u0026amp; 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIssued under license from Laika Records, Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable on 2LP or cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecorded by Pit Budde in Addis Ababa, 1999 \u0026amp; 2008\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHighlights the Begena, one of the rare musical instruments of the world that has survived for more than 5800 years\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]DEATH114LP[[Artist]]Various Artists","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Elders of the Begena: The Harp of David in Ethiopia \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47042884632821,"sku":"DEATH114","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Elders of the Begena: The Harp of David in Ethiopia \/ Album \/ 2LP Black","offer_id":47042884600053,"sku":"DEATH114LP","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/eldersps.jpg?v=1758563864"},{"product_id":"underloop","title":"Underloop","description":"\u003cp\u003e[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter following Luke Blair's work for approaching two decades from his 2007 debut as Lukid on Actress' Werk Discs, we're humbled to present a new album on Death Is Not The End. Following relatively hot on the heels of 2023's Tilt (his first in 11 years, not counting his work with Jackson Bailey under the Rezzett guise) Underloop brings Blair's innate knack for building loops and sound structures further to the surface, while allowing his ear for emotional expression to be dialled up a notch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose fortunate enough to be familiar with Lukid's work as a DJ will be aware of how distinct his ability is to seamlessly disappear into loop-based abstraction and back again seemingly without blinking, and often Underloop feels much like a collection of the sludgey interludes and foggy sketches that underpin his sets. Blending apparently ramshackle melodies and textures and pulling them together into an undeniable whole, Blair's tendency for pairing the simple and the indescribable with an understated vigour is fully on show here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[[Selling Points]]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable on \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eClear Cloudy Transparent vinyl or \u003c\/span\u003ecassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll tracks written and produced by Luke Blair\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMastered by Giuseppe Ielasi\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[[Catalog Number]]DEATH105[[Artist]]Lukid\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Underloop \/ Album \/ LP Clear Cloudy Transparent","offer_id":47095936188661,"sku":"DEATH105LP","price":29.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Underloop \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47042884698357,"sku":"DEATH105","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580851658.jpg?v=1760033100"},{"product_id":"first-blues","title":"First Blues","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2100159153\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/first-blues\"\u003eFirst Blues by Allen Ginsberg\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Rags, Ballads \u0026amp; Harmonium Songs. Chanteys, Come-All-Ye's, Aborigine Song Sticks. Gospel, Improvisations, Renaissance Lyrics, Blake Hymns, Bluegrass, Hillbilly Riffs, Country \u0026amp; Western, 50's R\u0026amp;B, Dirty Dozens \u0026amp; New Wave.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAllen Ginsberg's recorded opus gets its first ever full vinyl reissue. Containing studio-recorded performances that he wrote, performed and taped in sessions taking place over a decade between 1971 and 1981 - featuring Bob Dylan, Arthur Russell, Anne Waldman, David Mansfield, Perry Robinson, David Amram and many other friends and contemporaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA selection of what were arguably \"demos\" for this record were originally recorded by the legendary Harry Smith at his apartment in the Chelsea Hotel in the early 70s, later appearing on Folkways as First Blues: Rags, Ballads \u0026amp; Harmonium Songs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIssued under license from the Allen Ginsberg Estate. All songs written by Allen Ginsberg and published by May King Poetry Music administered in North America by Music of Virtual and for the Rest of the World by BMG Rights Mgt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFirst ever full vinyl reissue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGatefold double LP w\/ photography by Robert Frank\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable on 2LP and cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContaining studio-recorded performances that Allen Ginsberg wrote, performed and taped in sessions taking place over a decade between 1971 and 1981\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFeaturing Bob Dylan, Arthur Russell, Anne Waldman, David Mansfield, Perry Robinson, David Amram and many other friends and contemporaries\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]DEATH089LP[[Artist]]Allen Ginsberg","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"First Blues \/ Album \/ 2LP Black","offer_id":47042884763893,"sku":"DEATH089LP","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"First Blues \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47042884796661,"sku":"DEATH089","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580843240.jpg?v=1757978570"},{"product_id":"freedom","title":"Freedom","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4043193243\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/freedom\"\u003eFreedom by Cooly\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRare as hen's teeth digital dancehall from out of late 80s\/early 90s NYC, via Cooly aka Koolindian aka Super Cat's cousin Andrew Maragh, originally released on his own Mad Indian Records - reissued here for Death Is Not The End sub-label 333.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMaragh sang in church choirs and on soundsystems in Jamaica before moving to New York in the 1980s where he quickly became involved on the underground music circuit, taking inspiration from his cousin the legendary Super Cat. \"Freedom\" was penned while he was incarcerated, and details the unfairness of the judicial system at that time, alongside the heartfelt need to \"hustle everyday to make ends meet, whether that's picking up scrap metal or cutting lawns or voicing dubplates, whatever you do to make a dollar\", says Maragh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHaving bought an Ampex tape in Manhattan, Maragh headed over to the legendary Philip Smart's HC\u0026amp;F studio on Long Island with the intention of laying down his lyrics on the version to Dennis Brown's \"Children of Israel\". After hearing the song however, Smart went ahead and built this one-away \"Freedom\" rhythm on the spot. The track was then carried to Count Shelly's Super Power Records where it was then pressed \u0026amp; distributed as the first and only release on the Mad Indian label around the turn of 1989\/1990.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReissue of the late foundation deejay U-Roy's The Seven Gold\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOriginally released on Cooly's own Mad Indian Records\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMusic by Cooly, cousin of legendary Jamaican deejay Super Cat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]333LP013[[Artist]]Cooly","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Freedom \/ Album \/ 12\" Black","offer_id":47042884829429,"sku":"333LP013","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580817180.jpg?v=1757980743"},{"product_id":"the-world-is-but-a-place-of-survival-ethiopian-begena-songs","title":"The World Is But a Place of Survival: Ethiopian Begena Songs","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=277404371\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-world-is-but-a-place-of-survival-begena-songs-from-ethiopia\"\u003eThe World Is But a Place of Survival: Begena Songs from Ethiopia by Various Artists\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe begena is a large ten-stringed lyre which is part of the traditional Amharic heritage of Ethiopia. The Amharas, who have long formed the politically and culturally dominant people of Ethiopia, mainly inhabit the central and northern part of the country. In the majority, they follow the monophysite Orthodox Tewahido Church established in the early fourth century AD.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMusic plays a very important part in the life of the church. Most of the liturgy is sung and, contrary to secular music, it is accompanied by percussion instruments only. The begena occupies a special place because it is the one melodic instrument exclusively dedicated to the spiritual repertory. Because of its mythical origin, it is highly respected. Tradition holds that the begena was given to king David by God, and brought to Ethiopia by Menelik I, together with the Ark of the Covenant. It has always been the instrument of kings and nobles. Played by pious men and women of letters, it never became widespread. But it never disappeared either, not even under the Derg regime (1974-1991) which had banned the instrument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmong Amhara string instruments, the begena is the most carefully crafted, especially with regard to the ornately sculpted crossbar. Its ten gut strings are cleaned and twisted several times. The characteristic buzzing timbre equalled by no other Amhara instrument is due to the enzirotch, that is, small bits of leather placed between each string and the bridge. This plays an important part in the sound production by creating a brief contact between the string and the upper rim of the bridge, thus modifying the vibrating properties of the string. In this manner, the spectrum of the sound is considerably enhanced (up to over 10 kHz).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe begena is a very powerful instrument, it keeps the devil thirty steps away, and its presence in the home wards off malicious spirits. Priests and preachers recommend its presence, especially during Lent (Fassika Tsom) when the Orthodox Amharas ponder their sins and repent. Because of its spiritual import, the begena generates intense emotion. According to some musicians, playing the begena brings them into direct contact with God or the Virgin Mary. The religious role of the begena is underscored by the shape of the instrument, each part symbolises an important element of the faith. The crossbar for instance, which reaches across the entire width of the instrument, represents God who is above all things. The belly which \"gives birth\" to the sound represents the Virgin Mary, and the ten strings recall the Ten Commandments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded by Stéphanie Weisser in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 2002-December 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMastered by Renaud Millet-Lacombe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIssued under license from VDE-Gallo, Switzerland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable on LP or cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecorded by Stéphanie Weisser in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 2002-December 2005\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMastered by Renaud Millet-Lacombe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]DEATH090LP[[Artist]]Various Artists","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"The World Is But a Place of Survival: Ethiopian Begena Songs \/ Album \/ 2LP Black","offer_id":47042885026037,"sku":"DEATH090LP","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"The World Is But a Place of Survival: Ethiopian Begena Songs \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47042885058805,"sku":"DEATH090","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580844728.jpg?v=1757977625"},{"product_id":"we-need-some-satisfaction","title":"We Need Some Satisfaction","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3245900200\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/we-need-some-satisfaction\"\u003eWe Need Some Satisfaction by Glen Hutchinson\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing the Nairobi Sisters 45 in 2023 and Revolutionaries LP in 2024, 333 is back for 2025 with another rare mid-1970s cut out of Winston Jones' Flatbush-based Flames label catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is issued here under license from Jones, aka the original singer and composer of Stop That Train with the Spanish Town Skabeats aka The Spanishtonians. Making the move from JA to NYC in the early 1970s he established and ran the state-side Flames label, nursing it into a key imprint in Brooklyn's reggae scene from the mid-1970s until the early 1990s. This in-demand roots cut recorded in Carnasie in the mid 70s, features a stellar horn section in combination with urgent, soul-inflected vocals from Glen Hutchinson. Backed with a killer stripped-back dub from Flames' Brooklyn based in-house band Rough Riders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7\" pressed on black vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRare mid-1970s cut out of Winston Jones' Flatbush-based Flames label catalogue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn-demand roots cut recorded in Carnasie in the mid 70s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]333LP024[[Artist]]Glen Hutchinson","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"We Need Some Satisfaction \/ Album \/ 7\" Black","offer_id":47042885124341,"sku":"333LP024","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580844292_44bd7ca4-16bd-46d1-9884-f1903eaceccc.jpg?v=1757982215"},{"product_id":"brooklyn-pirates-neighbourhoods-in-the-sky-2014-2021","title":"Brooklyn Pirates: Neighbourhoods in the Sky, 2014-2021","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1807903707\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/brooklyn-pirates-neighbourhoods-in-the-sky-2014-2021\"\u003eBrooklyn Pirates: Neighbourhoods in the Sky, 2014-2021 by Death Is Not The End\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLimited vinyl run for Death Is Not The End's late 2021 tape Brooklyn Pirates: Neighbourhoods in the Sky, 2014-2021, delving into the archives of radio archivist David Goren.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Goren is a radio producer and audio archivist based in Brooklyn, NY. For several years he's researched New York City's pirate radio community, producing \"New York City's Pirates of the Air\" for the BBC World Service \u0026amp; \"Outlaws of the Airwaves: The Rise of Pirate Radio Station WBAD\" for KCRW's Lost Notes podcast. More recently, Goren has been cataloguing his meandering across his local pirate radio frequencies via the Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map (BPRSM) - tracing the lingering connections between unlicensed radio broadcasting and Brooklyn's local neighbourhood culture in the digital age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBrooklyn Pirates: Neighbourhoods in the Sky, 2014-2021 pulls together a clutch of cut-up recordings captured by David on the BPRSM, traversing the dial across raucous soca jams \u0026amp; kompas, through to Grenadian election news, Haitian funeral announcements and ads for Jamaican patty shops \u0026amp; spiritual healers - plus broadcasts from Turkish, and Orthodox \u0026amp; Sephardic Jewish pirate stations to boot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCovering a period between the mid-2010s right up to earlier this year, the B side in particular captures the uniquely idiosyncratic and hyper-local reactions of the Brooklyn pirates to the global disintegration of the early 2020s - the coronavirus pandemic, George Floyd, the US election and more - acting as a vital document of social history demonstrating the value of DIY community broadcasts during a period of worldwide lockdowns and the wholesale breakdown of politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable on LP or cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLimited vinyl run for Death Is Not The End's late 2021 tape Brooklyn Pirates: Neighbourhoods in the Sky, 2014-2021\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDelves into the archives of radio producer and audio archivist David Goren\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]DEATH052LP[[Artist]]Death Is Not The End","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Brooklyn Pirates: Neighbourhoods in the Sky, 2014-2021 \/ Album \/ LP Black","offer_id":47042885222645,"sku":"DEATH052LP","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Brooklyn Pirates: Neighbourhoods in the Sky, 2014-2021 \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47042885255413,"sku":"DEATH052","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580858015.jpg?v=1757977033"},{"product_id":"meditation-in-dub","title":"Meditation in Dub","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=596856462\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/meditation-in-dub\"\u003eMeditation in Dub by The Revolutionaries\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeath Is Not The End's 333 series is back with another dig into the catalogue of the NYC-based Flames label on this reissue of a highly coveted Revolutionaries LP, Meditation in Dub.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of reggae music's most famed session bands, The Revolutionaries were an often r\/evolving cast of some of the finest session musicians on the island during the roots and early dancehall periods of the mid\/late 1970s and early 1980s. These would include Earl 'Wire' Lindo, Radcliffe 'Dougie' Bryan, Ansell Collins, Bobby Kalphat, Lloyd Parks, Uziah 'Sticky' Thompson, Bongo Herman, Stanley Bryan, Bo Peep, Eric 'Bingy Bunny' Lamont, Errol 'Tarzan' Nelson, Skully Simms, Robbie Lyn, Mikey 'Mao' Chung amongst many others. The enduring core of the group, however, was undoubtedly in the coming together of the legendary rhythm section of drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare - with the formation of The Revolutionaries marking the first time that this often unparalleled duo worked together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe group laid down these rhythm tracks at their base at the storied Channel One recording studio, Maxfield Avenue, Kingston sometime in the mid 1970s - under the arrangement of one of reggae music's great undersung figures, Ossie Hibbert. Early in 1975 Ossie was to move to Maxfield Avenue just as Jo Jo \u0026amp; Ernest Hookim's studio was starting up. A well-respected session musician himself through the late 1960s and early 70s (he played keys for Bunny 'Striker' Lee and Keith Hudson and would also form part of another foundational session band, The Soul Syndicate) he was initially summoned by Jo Jo to be a band member for The Revolutationaries but quickly assumed the role of producer, engineer and talent scout for the studio, responsible for selecting the artists to bring into the studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese tracks were recorded by Hibbert around this time for Winston Jones, the original singer and composer of Stop That Train (later made world-famous by Keith \u0026amp; Tex's version) with his Spanishtonians for Prince Buster's label in the early 1960s. Jones had moved from JA to NYC in the early 1970s where he established and ran the Flames label. The imprint would go on to form a core part of Brooklyn's reggae scene from the mid-1970s until the early 1990s, though Jones often employed the use of Channel One, Hibbert and The Revolutionaries back home in the recording of rhythm tracks for his productions. Thus the Meditation in Dub LP is essentially formed of stellar dub versions to many of the early Flames labels 45s, produced and released by Jones throughout the mid to late 1970s, including crucial takes on a great many popular rhythms of that period. One of any self-respecting dub LP collectors' holy grails, with originals going for up to £400, it is issued here under license from the now Texas-based Jones with the kind assistance of RB at DKR in sourcing the audio for this new cut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7\" pressed on black vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne of reggae music's most famed session bands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLegendary rhythm section of drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIssued here under license from the now Texas-based Winston Jones with the assistance of RB at DKR in sourcing the audio for this new cut\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]333LP011[[Artist]]The Revolutionaries","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Meditation in Dub \/ Album \/ LP Black","offer_id":47042885189877,"sku":"333LP011","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580826120.jpg?v=1757981292"},{"product_id":"the-seven-gold","title":"The Seven Gold","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2419728120\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-seven-gold\"\u003eThe Seven Gold by U-Roy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe late foundation deejay U-Roy recorded The Seven Gold at Michael Carroll's Creative Sounds Studio in Kingston (with assistance from engineer, and singer \u0026amp; producer in his own right, Paul Davidson) for Prince Jazzbo's Ujama imprint - with the LP then seeing the light of day on the label in 1987, and now a reissue on Death Is Not The End sub-label 333.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt features the late, great Ewart Beckford appearing on a range of killer Jazzbo-produced late-80s digitap rhythms - from the inspired Replay version on 'Holo Gow', to the updated digital take on the Heavenless rhythm on 'Jah Jah Call You' and his take on Horace Ferguson's Sensi Addict in 'Musikal Addick'. The bulk of these rhythm tracks were performed by revered multi-instrumentalist Tyrone Downie (a long-time member of Bob Marley \u0026amp; The Wailers since the mid 70s) alongside Tony \"Asher\" Brissett - another massively undersung session musician perhaps most notable for laying down the initial Sleng Teng rhythm track for Jammys in 1984.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReissue of the late foundation deejay U-Roy's The Seven Gold\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecorded at Michael Carroll's Creative Sounds Studio in Kingston\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFeatures the late, great Ewart Beckford\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]333LP015[[Artist]]U-Roy","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"The Seven Gold \/ Album \/ LP Black","offer_id":47042885386485,"sku":"333LP015","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580822832.jpg?v=1757980648"},{"product_id":"london-pirate-radio-adverts-1984-1993-vol-2","title":"London Pirate Radio Adverts 1984-1993, Vol. 2","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3063521264\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/london-pirate-radio-adverts-1984-1993-vol-2\"\u003eLondon Pirate Radio Adverts 1984​​-​​1993, Vol. 2 by Death Is Not The End\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe second volume in a two-part collection of pirate radio adverts \u0026amp; idents, taken from recordings of London stations between 1984 \u0026amp; 1993.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Guardian: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2021\/feb\/16\/save-and-rave-how-pirate-radio-adverts-capture-a-lost-britain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThom Yorke BBC 6 Music mix: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m000rwsq\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe New Yorker: https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/goings-on-about-town\/night-life\/london-pirate-radio-adverts-1984-1993-vol-1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFeature on BBC Radio 4's Today programme: https:\/\/ra.co\/news\/74664\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable on clear vinyl or cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCollection of pirate radio advent and idents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTracks taken from recordings of London stations between 1984 \u0026amp; 1993\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]DEATH040LP[[Artist]]Death Is Not The End","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"London Pirate Radio Adverts 1984-1993, Vol. 2 \/ Album \/ LP Clear","offer_id":47042885419253,"sku":"DEATH040LP","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"London Pirate Radio Adverts 1984-1993, Vol. 2 \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47042913566965,"sku":"DEATH040RP","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580852549.jpg?v=1757980166"},{"product_id":"ghetto-children","title":"Ghetto Children","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1593574900\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/ghetto-children\"\u003eGhetto Children by Dessus\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeath Is Not The End's 333 sub-label digs out a synth-heavy early 80s disco\/punk-inflected reggae 45 from short-lived Birmingham group Dessus - produced by British-Cypriot Kim Nicoloau and originally pressed in extremely limited numbers in 1981.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally formed around 1976 under the initial name Odessus, Dessus spent the late 70s performing a selection of reggae covers and original compositions in venues across the UK, though mostly in the West Midlands area, with a stint supporting local group Steel Pulse on tour. Meeting the band in a chip shop on Soho Road, Birmingham, British Cypriot record producer Kim Nicoloau asked to sit in on a rehearsal and subsequently booked them in for a session at engineer Gary Lucas' Spaceward Studios in Cambridge. 4 tracks in total were laid down over a 2 day period in early December 1980, with Ghetto Children and b-side Dessus Jammin' eventually seeing release shortly after on an extremely limited pressing on Ellie Jay Records (a short lived outfit that provided cheap P\u0026amp;D deals for jobbing bands and producers). The single became a BBC radio \"Hit Pick\" and recevied a fair amount of airplay, yet no further material from the group ever saw the light of day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSynth-heavy early 80s disco\/punk-inflected reggae\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOriginally pressed in extremely limited numbers in 1981\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProduced by British-Cypriot Kim Nicoloau\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]333LP006[[Artist]]Dessus","brand":"333 Music Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Ghetto Children \/ Album \/ 7\" Black","offer_id":47042885484789,"sku":"333LP006","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580801929_b1b743f2-a468-435f-aa97-371bd8e5f6e3.jpg?v=1757981023"},{"product_id":"waste-time-in-babylon","title":"Waste Time in Babylon","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1927253651\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/waste-time-in-babylon\"\u003eWaste Time in Babylon by Dennis Walks\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFoundation reggae artist Dennis Walks' much in demand Waste Time in Babylon becomes the latest 1980s digital masterpiece to be reissued on 45 from Death Is Not The End's 333 series. Produced by Prince Jazzbo for his Ujama label in 1987, the singer who first came through voicing tracks for producers Harry Mudie and Joe Gibbs in the early 1970s lends his vocals to the \"Racecourse Rock\" rhythm played here by the legendary keyboardist Winston Wright.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7\" pressed on black vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMusic by foundation reggae artist Dennis Walks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProduced by Prince Jazzbo for his Ujama label in 1987\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFeatures legendary keyboardist Winston Wright\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]333LP017[[Artist]]Dennis Walks","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Waste Time in Babylon \/ Album \/ 7\" Black","offer_id":47042885517557,"sku":"333LP017","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580830301.jpg?v=1757981538"},{"product_id":"more-rags-ballads-and-blues-1971-1985","title":"More Rags, Ballads, and Blues 1971-1985","description":"\u003cp\u003e[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2441232810\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/more-rags-ballads-and-blues-1971-1985\"\u003eMore Rags, Ballads, and Blues 1971-1985 by Allen Ginsberg\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA collection of outtakes from the First Blues sessions along with other tracks, live recordings \u0026amp; rehearsal cuts including Bob Dylan and\/or Arthur Russell and a cameo by Don Cherry on kazoo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrack 1 taken from rehearsal tapes December 9th 1975: Allen Ginsberg (Vocals) accompanied by the Blues\/Sholle Band.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracks 2-4 taken from the Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Electric Music Poetry Improvised sessions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracks 5-8 taken from the First Blues Hammond sessions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrack 9-10: recorded live at Gerdes Folk City, June 16th 1984: Allen Ginsberg (Vocals), Don Cherry (Kazoo), Peter Orlovsky (Banjo + Lead Vocal on \"Feed Them the Raspberries to Grow\"), Steven Taylor (Guitar) \u0026amp; Mark Kramer (Bass).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrack 11: Session at Bob Dylan's Santa Monica Studio, February 23rd 1982: Allen Ginsberg (Vocals), Bob Dylan (Bass), David Mansfield (Mandolin, Guitar), Steven Taylor (Steel String Acoustic Guitar) \u0026amp; Arthur Rosato (Drums).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIssued under license from the Allen Ginsberg Estate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[[Selling Points]]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA collection of outtakes from the First Blues sessions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes more tracks, live recordings \u0026amp; rehearsal cuts including Bob Dylan and\/or Arthur Russell and a cameo by Don Cherry on kazoo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIssued under license from the Allen Ginsberg Estate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[[Catalog Number]]DEATH117[[Artist]]Allen Ginsberg\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"More Rags, Ballads, and Blues 1971-1985 \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47092023853301,"sku":"DEATH117","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/4059251700876_0b840a95-e73c-4fa9-bdd2-ba97f15799d9.jpg?v=1759528368"},{"product_id":"reminiscences-of-raktako-huayno-guitar-from-cuzco-and-ayacucho-1930-1940","title":"Reminiscences of Raktako: Huayno Guitar from Cuzco and Ayacucho, 1930-1940","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4098080003\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/reminiscences-of-raktako-huayno-guitar-from-cuzco-and-ayacucho-1930-1940\"\u003eReminiscences of Raktako:  Huayno Guitar from Cuzco and Ayacucho, 1930-1940 by Alberto Juscamaita Gastelú\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHuayno has its roots in the Andes during the colonial era, when indigenous peoples began to blend their music with influences brought by European settlers. During this process the Spanish guitar naturally became very prevalent, incorporating the tunings, finger-style and rhythms of the traditional Andean harp along with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe late Alberto Juscamaita Gastelú, known as Raktako, was a renowned guitarist, composer and mentor to generations of guitarists from his home in Ayacucho, southern Peruvian Andes. His unique style also blended techniques from the Spanish lute and other instruments brought by colonisers, such as the violin and accordion. For over a century, Raktako preserved Ayacucho's musical traditions and the Andean guitar form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2022, the last disciple of Raktako, Gustavo Yashimura, shared with Sound of the Andes' Hánkel Bellido a series of astonishing home recordings made by Raktako between approximately 1930 and 1940. These recordings, made with the sparsest of equipment, had never been published before and represent an invaluable cultural treasure. The guitarist, who lived for over 100 years and passed away in 2023, had been largely forgotten until recently, when the Ministry of Culture of Peru officially recognised him as Meritorious Personality of Culture. His legacy, which includes a profound influence on Peruvian music, especially the Ayacucho guitar tradition, is finally being acknowledged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable on cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNever been published before and representative of an invaluable cultural treasure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMusic by the late Alberto Juscamaita Gastelú, known as Raktako, who was a renowned guitarist, composer and mentor to generations of guitarists from his home in Ayacucho, southern Peruvian Andes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]DEATH109[[Artist]]Alberto Juscamaita Gastelú","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Reminiscences of Raktako: Huayno Guitar from Cuzco and Ayacucho, 1930-1940 \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47092023951605,"sku":"DEATH109","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580852921.jpg?v=1759529631"},{"product_id":"wet-lands-dry-me","title":"Wet Lands Dry Me","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2656823356\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/wet-lands-dry-me\"\u003eWet Lands Dry Me by Family Ravine\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eK.W. 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Cahill records and plays electric guitars, lap steel, melodica and karimbas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]DEATH111[[Artist]]Family Ravine","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Wet Lands Dry Me \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47092023984373,"sku":"DEATH111","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580855830.jpg?v=1759529843"},{"product_id":"selected-improvisations-from-golha-pt-i","title":"Selected Improvisations from Golha, Pt. 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Known as Piano-ye Sonnati, this technique allowed Mahjubi to express the unique ornamental and monophonic nature of Persian classical music on this western instrument - mimicking the tar, setar \u0026amp; santur and extracting sounds from the piano which are still unprecedented to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn active performer and composer from a young age, Mahjubi made his most notable mark as key contributor and soloist for the Golha (Flowers of Persian Song and Poetry) radio programmes. These seminal broadcasts platformed an encyclopaedic wealth of traditional Persian classical music and poetry on Iranian national radio between 1956 until the revolution in 1979.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePresented here is a collection of Morteza Mahjubi's stunningly virtuosic improvised pieces broadcast on Golha between the programme's inception until Mahjubi's death in 1965 - mostly solo, though at times peppered with tombak, violin \u0026amp; some segments of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe vast collection of Golha radio programmes was put together thanks to the incredible work of Jane Lewisohn \u0026amp; the Golha Project as part of the British Library's Endangered Archives programme, comprising 1,578 radio programs consisting of approximately 847 hours of broadcasts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[[Selling Points]]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable on vinyl or cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCollection of stunning Persian-tuned piano pieces cut from Iranian national radio broadcasts made for the Golha programmes between 1956 \u0026amp; 1965\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePut together thanks to the incredible work of Jane Lewisohn \u0026amp; the Golha Project as part of the British Library's Endangered Archives programme\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[[Catalog Number]]DEATH048LP[[Artist]]Morteza Mahjubi\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Selected Improvisations from Golha, Pt. 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Kicking off with this recent special Skateland Soundtapes, 1980-1986 - comprising a selection of clips from sessions held at Halfway Tree, Kingston's most storied roller skating rink during the dancehall era's golden period of the early to mid\/late 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAudio sourced with the indefatigable efforts of the Who Cork The Dance crew - big thanks going out to Jayman, Ruff House, Keimo, Omar, Gee Wizz and the one Jah Humble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable on cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelection of clips from sessions held at Halfway Tree, Kingston's most storied roller skating rink during the dancehall era's golden period of the early to mid\/late 1980s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOriginally broadcast on NTS Radio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]DEATH075[[Artist]]Death Is Not The End","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Skateland Soundtapes \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47098090356981,"sku":"DEATH075","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580823785.jpg?v=1759940478"},{"product_id":"bristol-pirates","title":"Bristol Pirates","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2557072332\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/bristol-pirates\"\u003eBristol Pirates by Death Is Not The End\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeath Is Not The End's contribution to the Blowing Up The Workshop mix series, subsequently given a cassette release on the label in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A trip across the frequencies of Bristol's pirate radio stations via cut-ups of broadcasts, taken from the late 1980s to the early 2000s ~ also a love-letter to my childhood, an audio document of the years I spent growing up in the city.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable on cassette or LP\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA trip across the frequencies of Bristol's pirate radio stations via cut-ups of broadcasts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTaken from the late 1980s to the early 2000s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]DEATH031[[Artist]]Death Is Not The End","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Bristol Pirates \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47098090422517,"sku":"DEATH031","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Bristol Pirates \/ Album \/ LP Black","offer_id":47098090455285,"sku":"DEATH031LP","price":29.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580718401.jpg?v=1759940692"},{"product_id":"stars-from-another-sky-pt-1-film-songs-from-the-subcontinent-before-the-world-was-torn-asunder-1932-1939","title":"Stars from Another Sky Pt. 1: Film Songs from the Subcontinent Before the World Was Torn Asunder, 1932-1939","description":"\u003cp\u003e[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3386849005\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/stars-from-another-sky-pt-1-film-songs-from-the-subcontinent-before-the-world-was-torn-asunder-1932-1939\"\u003eStars from Another Sky Pt. 1: Film Songs from the Subcontinent Before the World Was Torn Asunder, 1932-1939 by Various Artists\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"It may surprise some that, after two decades of silent films, when Alam Ara broke the silence in 1931, it and every South Asian talkie that followed was what we in the West think of as a \"musical.\" Music had been integral to the culture's staged drama going back to the Gupta Dynasty — sometime between the 4 th and 6 th Century CE. Since its inception, South Asian cinema drew heavily from Marathi, Parsi, and Bengali musical theatre and silent film screenings were often accompanied by live music to mimic a live staged experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen sound films arrived, actors with serious singing skills became the next wave of stars. Songs were performed live while shooting, with musicians hidden off-camera, to the side or sometimes even in trees. Playback singing — the practice of dubbing a real singer's voice over a lip-syncing actor — didn't become standard until the 1940s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThus, the biggest stars of the 1930s were also the greatest singers, with some, like Govindrao Tembe and Pankaj Mullick, excelling as both composers and vocalists. None, however, were more beloved than K.L. Saigal, whose emotional, untrained crooning captivated audiences across the subcontinent. Saigal's voice inspired a young Lata Mangeshkar, who vowed to become India's greatest filmi singer to win his heart. Sadly, Saigal grew increasingly addicted to alcohol, unable to perform without it, and passed away at age 42, seven months before the Partition. Lata never married.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection features some of the earliest songs from South Asian cinema, sourced from CDs and LPs found in Jackson Heights, Queens, Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn, Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, and Oak Tree Road in Iselin, New Jersey — areas home to vibrant immigrant communities. South Asian immigration to New York and New Jersey surged after the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which lifted non-European quotas. By the 1990s and 2000s, the region's Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi media outlets flourished, especially in Jackson Heights, where such stores outnumbered the total number of regular record shops throughout the five boroughs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe nascent period of sound film featured a limited palette of musical styles, predominantly Marathi Bhagveet, like the Ghazal, but with greater flexibility of subject matter and rhythm, and Rabindra Sangeet, the approximately 2,000 songs and poems composed by Bengali Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. But there was some evolution as well, with the success of South Asian cinema's first woman composer, the classically trained Saraswati Devi, and the introduction of Western instruments including the piano and Hawaiian guitar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile much of the music was dark and brooding, perhaps exemplified best by Devika Rani's interpretation of Saraswati Devi's \"Udi Hawa Mein\" from 1936's Achhut Kannya (Untouchable Maiden), there were moments of brightness, such as R.C. Boral's \"Lachhmi Murat Daras Dikhaye\" sung by Kanan Devi in Street Singer, an otherwise thoroughly depressing film from 1938 that cemented Devi's and co-star K.L. Saigal's superstardom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis selection was chosen to emphasise a range of expressivity, instrumentation and style achieved even within the decade's relatively limited scope, setting the listener up for the relative explosion of possibility in the 1940s, to be covered in the next installment of this series.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Gary Sullivan (Bodega Pop) [[Selling Points]]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable on cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFeatures some of the earliest songs from South Asian cinema\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSourced from CDs and LPs found in Jackson Heights, Queens, Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn, Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, and Oak Tree Road in Iselin, New Jersey\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSongs performed live while shooting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[[Catalog Number]]DEATH103[[Artist]]Various Artists\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Stars from Another Sky Pt. 1: Film Songs from the Subcontinent Before the World Was Torn Asunder, 1932-1939 \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47098090520821,"sku":"DEATH103","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580848856.jpg?v=1759883695"},{"product_id":"stars-from-another-sky-pt-2-film-songs-from-the-subcontinent-before-the-world-was-torn-asunder-1940-1947","title":"Stars from Another Sky Pt. 2: Film Songs from the Subcontinent Before the World Was Torn Asunder, 1940-1947","description":"\u003cp\u003e[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=202045096\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/stars-from-another-sky-pt-2-film-songs-from-the-subcontinent-before-the-world-was-torn-asunder-1940-1947\"\u003eStars from Another Sky Pt. 2: Film Songs from the Subcontinent Before the World Was Torn Asunder, 1940-1947 by Various Artists\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs the 1940s began, South Asian cinema entered a transformative phase. Playback singing, still a new idea in the previous decade, quickly became standard practice. Actors no longer had to sing, and singers no longer had to act, opening the door to a wave of dedicated vocal talent that redefined the sound of the industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVoices like Noor Jehan, Shamshad Begum, and Suraiya rose to prominence, becoming household names across the subcontinent. Behind them, composers like Naushad, Anil Biswas, and Ghulam Haider were expanding the sonic palette of film music, blending ragas with Western orchestration, folk tunes with jazz-era instrumentation. Harmoniums, sarangis, violins, accordions, and clarinets filled out increasingly complex arrangements, while ghazals and qawwalis continued to influence mood and structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough the post-Partition years are often considered to be Bollywood’s “Golden Age,” thanks to filmmakers like Raj Kapoor, Bimal Roy, and Guru Dutt, the music started its peak just before the divide. By 1947, Naushad and others were producing some of the most emotionally rich and musically intricate work in the industry’s history, compositions that would prove challenging to surpass in the decades that followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet this high point came during a time of immense upheaval. The Second World War, the Bengal famine, and the crumbling of colonial rule all loomed large. Film songs often reflected the uncertainty, sometimes mournful, sometimes romantic, sometimes defiant. And when the Partition finally came, it fractured the world that had created this music. Artists became refugees, studios were split, and careers were thrown into flux. Noor Jehan, who would go on to become Pakistan’s most iconic singer, recorded many of her most beloved songs in Bombay. Khursheed, another major star, faded from public life after migrating. K.L. Saigal, a towering figure of the 1930s and '40s, died in Lahore just months before the split.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection spans those final years before Partition, a time of creative flowering and looming catastrophe. Like Part 1, these songs were sourced from immigrant-run music shops in New York and New Jersey. They are fragments of a vanishing world, each one a snapshot of the art, longing, and resilience that defined this extraordinary era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Gary Sullivan (Bodega Pop)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[[Selling Points]]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable on cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSongs sourced from immigrant-run music shops in New York and New Jersey\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFragments of a vanishing world, each one a snapshot of the art, longing, and resilience that defined an extraordinary era\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[[Catalog Number]]DEATH107[[Artist]]Various Artists\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Stars from Another Sky Pt. 2: Film Songs from the Subcontinent Before the World Was Torn Asunder, 1940-1947 \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47098090586357,"sku":"DEATH107","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580850972.jpg?v=1759883912"},{"product_id":"your-kisses-are-like-roses-fado-recordings-1914-1936","title":"Your Kisses Are Like Roses: Fado Recordings, 1914-1936","description":"\u003cp\u003e[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe definition of the word 'fado' is technically 'fate', though the Portuguese meaning bound up with this term is more complex. The music itself can be fairly closely compared with that of Greek rebetika - also the American blues or the original working-class tango music of Argentina and Uruguay - and similarly takes it's common subject matter from the various cruel realities of the world. Though perhaps what distinguishes fado in character is it's often poised acceptance of the pains of life rather than protestation or resistance - as writer Paul Vernon says \"It speaks with a quiet dignity born of the realisation that any mortal desire or plan is at risk of destruction by powers beyond individual control.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeath Is Not The End compile here a spine-tingling collection of fado recordings, taken from records issued in the mid 1910s through to the 1930s. The fado's Lisbon and Coimbra variants are presented here by some of the music's earliest recorded stars - spanning a time period leading up to the emergence of the fado's all-conquering star, Amália Rodrigues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[[Selling Points]]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable on black vinyl LP and cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpine-tingling collection of fado recordings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTaken from records issued in the mid 1910s through to the 1930s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[[Catalog Number]]DEATH076[[Artist]]Various Artists\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Your Kisses Are Like Roses: Fado Recordings, 1914-1936 \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47098090684661,"sku":"DEATH076","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Your Kisses Are Like Roses: Fado Recordings, 1914-1936 \/ Album \/ LP Black","offer_id":47560460402933,"sku":"DEATH076LP","price":29.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580824645.jpg?v=1759941540"},{"product_id":"wishing-on-a-star","title":"Wishing on a Star","description":"\u003cp\u003e[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStraight digi-lovers cover fire from Kim Mulligan on DINTE's sub-label 333, courtesy of Winston Jones’ Brooklyn-based Flames stable. Taking on the Rose Royce classic in Phillip Smart’s legendary Long Island studio during the latter part of the 1980s, with deft flourishes from NY reggae scene stalwarts Computer Paul \u0026amp; Danny Marshall. 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This edition focuses in on late 1990s and early 00s hip-hop \u0026amp; rnb from across Southeastern Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"While on a work trip to Chicago in the mid-2000s, I was craving a bowl of pho. A bit of sleuthing led me to hop on the red line “L” up to Argyle Street, ground zero of Chicago’s Little Saigon. In the 1960s, Chicago restaurateur Jimmy Wong invested in property on Argyle Street with a vision to build the city’s new Chinatown, a kind of mall with pagodas, trees, and reflecting pools. In 1971, the Hip Sing Association, a labor\/criminal organization, established itself in the area, and along with Wong, they bought up 80% of the buildings on a three-block stretch of the street. Wong reportedly broke both hips in an accident, leaving his dream to wither; in 1979, Charlie Soo of the Asian American Small Business Association brought it back to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSoo expanded the area into a vibrant mix of Chinese, Vietnamese, and other Southeast Asian businesses, pushing for renovations, including an Argyle station facelift and the Taste of Argyle festival. At the time I exited the station and crossed the street to get a better look at a shop with a poster for A Vertical Ray of the Sun in the window, the area was home to some 37,000 Vietnamese residents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOpening the door, I was gobsmacked by a cavernous Southeast Asian media store, bigger than any I’d been to in Dallas, Montreal, New York, or Seattle. I spent some time at the bins, pulling out collections by some of my then-favorite singers — Giao Linh, Khánh Ly, Phương Dung — before approaching the register to ask the young woman behind the counter if the they carried any Vietnamese rap. It was a longshot, I knew, but if such a thing existed on physical media and anyone carried it, it would be this place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘Have you heard Vietnamese rap?’ she replied, her tone of voice and facial expression betraying a comically exaggerated level of distaste. I admitted my ignorance but assured her that I had long cultivated a high threshold for cheesy pop music of all kinds and genuinely tended to like hip hop from around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe rolled her eyes and pointed to an area I had missed. I walked toward a far corner of the store and knelt over a small box on the floor sparsely populated with CDs, VCDs, and cassettes. I pulled out half a dozen Vietnamese hip hop compilations and a strange-looking CD with a cavalcade of odd typefaces in a queasy multitude of colors: THAILAND RAP HIT, it boasted, with 泰國 “燒香\" 勁歌金曲 below it. The information on the back provided an address in Kuala Lumpur and the titles in Thai and English translation. The first track included three simplified Chinese characters after the English-language version of the title, “The Chinese Association”: 自己人.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWTF was going on here? Walking back to the register, I waved the CD, asking “What’s up with this one?” She gave me a look. I placed it on the counter so she could bask in the cover’s full glory. She shrugged. “I’m guessing it’s Thai rap?” She looked disappointed in me when I said I’d take it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt turned out to be a Malaysian pressing of half-Chinese Thai hip hop artist Joey Boy’s third album, Fun Fun Fun from 1996, and it completely changed my sense what the genre could sound like. The rapper’s self-assured, effortless, silly-but-cool rapid-fire delivery weaved in and out of the most bizarre, antic beats I’d ever heard. The six Vietnamese hip hop CDs were a mixed bag, mostly “serious” sounding mimicry of US rapping over predictable production, but the highs were very high. When I got home and listened to it all, I made a point to find as much hip hop from this part of the world as I could.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe tracks collected here provide a limited but potent reflection of the two-decade ascendency and ultimate world-takeover of hip hop, as it displaced rock and its endless variants for millions of listeners. This not a fair and balanced overview of regional production: I’ve only included tracks from Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Nor is this a biggest or most important artists collection; instead, I’ve tried to recapture the pure visceral thrill of that first time I heard Joey Boy, choosing bangers that sound like nothing else, from nowhere else.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e—Gary Sullivan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable only on cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCurated by cult WFMU show and blog Bodega Pop - aka Gary Sullivan's long-running project rooted in a passion for digging for music in bodegas and cell-phone stores across NYC's boroughs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes hip hop tracks from Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]DEATH098[[Artist]]Various Artists","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Straight Outta Tenggara: Southeast Asian Hip-Hop, 1990s-2000s \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47098090848501,"sku":"DEATH098","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580847347.jpg?v=1759884810"},{"product_id":"begging-the-moon-phleng-thai-sakon-luk-krung-1945-1960","title":"Begging the Moon: Phleng Thai Sakon \u0026 Luk Krung, 1945-1960","description":"\u003cp\u003e[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBegging the Moon is a collection focused upon an early-to-mid 20th century style of Thai popular song, commonly named Phleng Thai sakon (meaning \"song which is both Thai and universal\"). With recordings taken from the end of WWII until the start of the 1960s, many of these tracks may also be referred to as Luk krung (meaning \"child of the city\") a more urbanised style of popular song that is in contrast to the Thai country music known as Luk thung (\"child of the field\").\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing the Thai cultural revolution of the 1930s and the following reign of west-leaning premier Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Thai culture began to adopt more and more western influences - with Thai traditional and classical music starting to incorporate western notation and particularly Jazz-orientated themes. Thai folk melodies were also adapted to create \"ramwong\" - a merging of popular western dance music styles such as the tango or rumba, spear-headed at the time by the pioneering Suntaraporn band.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the years following the end of WWII, the Phleng Thai sakon began to gradually develop sub-genres such as phleng talad (market songs) or phleng chiwit (life songs) focused on rural topics, and sung with rural accents. A little while later this would lead to a formal demarcation in the music - with the polished and western ballad-orientated music known as Luk krung, and the more traditional\/country style now dubbed Luk thung. The gap between the two would then widen, both musically and culturally, right up to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe recordings compiled here can broadly be categorised as being in the former Luk krung style, though some tracks may touch on rural subjects and motifs. However that is not to say they are overpowered by western musical influence - many of these tracks display potent aspects of traditional Thai music within their beguiling and romantic arrangements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThanks to Peter Doolan\/Monrakplengthai.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[[Selling Points]]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable on vinyl or cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCollection focused upon an early-to-mid 20th century style of Thai popular song, commonly named Phleng Thai sakon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTracks displaying potent aspects of traditional Thai music within their beguiling and romantic arrangements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[[Catalog Number]]DEATH063[[Artist]]Various Artists\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Begging the Moon: Phleng Thai Sakon \u0026 Luk Krung, 1945-1960 \/ Album \/ LP Black","offer_id":47296192348405,"sku":"DEATH063LP","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Begging the Moon: Phleng Thai Sakon \u0026 Luk Krung, 1945-1960 \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47098091012341,"sku":"DEATH063","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580794276.jpg?v=1759942669"},{"product_id":"debemos-apoyar-lo-que-es-nuestro-punk-sudamericano-1981-1990","title":"¡Debemos Apoyar Lo Que Es Nuestro! 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Punk Sudamericano, 1981-1990 \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47098091077877,"sku":"DEATH086","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580838055.jpg?v=1759943010"},{"product_id":"let-me-perish-without-return-lament-and-longing-from-the-fading-russian-empire-1889-1917","title":"Let Me Perish Without Return: Lament and Longing from the Fading Russian Empire, 1889-1917","description":"\u003cp\u003e[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeath Is Not The End collaborate with Bodega Pop, Gary Sullivan's cult WFMU show and blog rooted in a passion for digging for music in bodegas and cell-phone stores across NYC's boroughs. Let Me Perish Without Return focuses in on early recordings found in Russian neighborhoods in Brooklyn \u0026amp; Queens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"At the turn of the last century, the Russian Empire stood at a crossroads, caught between the weight of its imperial past and the promise of a radically altered future. Recorded during a period of profound cultural transformation and unrest, the music collected here offers a haunting glimpse into that fragile moment in history. From playful and satirical melodies that were musichall staples to heartbreaking ballads reflecting the despair of those exiled to Siberian penal colonies, these songs provided both refuge and a reflection of the deep suffering experienced by many living under the regime. More than entertainment, they formed essential strands in the Russian cultural fabric of the time—songs sung in drawing rooms and taverns and on street corners and prison grounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI found this music in several gift and media stores in Forest Hills, Queens, and the Brighton Beach and Gravesend neighborhoods of Brooklyn. These and a few other communities are home to more than half a million people of Russian background currently living in New York City, many of them refugees. Back in the aughts and teens, when I was collecting music from New York's innumerable immigrant-run stores, I would always wonder why this music, why here, and why now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe CDs immigrants stocked on their New York shelves in the 2000s and 2010s was a tiny fraction of what was available in their home countries. The Russians were in the minority of those who consistently carried compilations of early 20th century recordings—the Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, and Turkish shopkeepers were the only others I remember off the top of my head as being particularly dedicated to this period of their musical history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat was the appeal of such old music? First-generation Russian New Yorkers might have experienced in it a reflection of their own feelings of displacement and uncertainty. The deep sorrow and yearning expressed in these songs may have resonated with their own senses of loss while offering comfort in the form of shared emotional experience. Perhaps it was a way to keep some cultural memory alive in something they knew had once accompanied their elders and ancestors through times of hardship and change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is the appeal of such old music for us, today?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-- Gary Sullivan (Bodega Pop)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[[Selling Points]]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable on cassette and LP\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEarly recordings found in Russian neighborhoods in Brooklyn \u0026amp; Queens\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecordings sourced by Gary Sullivan of Bodega Pop from several gift and media stores in Forest Hills, Queens, and the Brighton Beach and Gravesend neighborhoods of Brooklyn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[[Catalog Number]]DEATH097[[Artist]]Various Artists\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Let Me Perish Without Return: Lament and Longing from the Fading Russian Empire, 1889-1917 \/ Album \/ LP Black","offer_id":48133558960373,"sku":"DEATH097LP","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Let Me Perish Without Return: Lament and Longing from the Fading Russian Empire, 1889-1917 \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47098091143413,"sku":"DEATH097","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580846142.jpg?v=1759943085"},{"product_id":"kirkfield-non","title":"Kirkfield Non","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2484102749\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/kirkfield-non\"\u003eKirkfield Non by East of the Valley Blues\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEast of the Valley Blues is Kevin and Patrick Cahill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded and mixed by KC in Kirkfield and Toronto, ON, January-February 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMixed and mastered by James A Toth in Toronto. Artwork by Ryan Waldron.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable on cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecorded and mixed by KC in Kirkfield and Toronto, ON, January-February 2020\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMixed and mastered by James A Toth in Toronto\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]DEATH041[[Artist]]East of the Valley Blues","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Kirkfield Non \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47098091176181,"sku":"DEATH041","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580763159.jpg?v=1759946589"},{"product_id":"ever-since-weve-known-it-more-north-carolina-mountain-singing","title":"Ever Since We've Known It: More North Carolina Mountain Singing","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3589106969\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/ever-since-weve-known-it-more-north-carolina-mountain-singing\"\u003eEver Since We've Known It: More North Carolina Mountain Singing by Various Artists\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFolklorist Derek Piotr continues to excavate North Carolina mountain songs, presenting an assortment of archival recordings taking in Child Ballads, bawdy songs, play-party tunes, and old-time family singing - with a further focus on overlooked star Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill, of Elk Park, NC.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTracks 1 and 9 recorded by Herbert Halpert near Morganton, North Carolina, April 19, 1939.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 recorded by Herbert Halpert in Elk Park, North Carolina, April 12, 1939.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrack 4 recorded by Marshall Ward in Banner Elk, ca. 1979, transferred from analogue tape by Derek Piotr.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCurated by Derek Piotr.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhotograph of Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill courtesy of Elizabeth Gwyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable on cassette or CD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCurated by Derek Piotr\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAssortment of archival recordings taking in Child Ballads, bawdy songs, play-party tunes, and old-time family singing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]DEATH051[[Artist]]Various Artists","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Ever Since We've Known It: More North Carolina Mountain Singing \/ Album \/ CD","offer_id":47098091241717,"sku":"DEATH051CD","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ever Since We've Known It: More North Carolina Mountain Singing \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47098091208949,"sku":"DEATH051","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580777569.jpg?v=1759946952"},{"product_id":"making-records-home-recordings-c-1890-1920","title":"Making Records: Home Recordings c. 1890-1920","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003cp\u003eA collection of DIY home recordings, transferred from blank and repurposed brown and black wax cylinders, dating back to the early years of widespread phonographic technology, between the late 1800s and early 1900s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Cylinder phonographs first entered the parlor in the late 1890s and stayed until displaced by newer technologies in the 1920s. They brought professional entertainers into our homes and let us command their performances at will. They also gave us the power to record. For the first time in human history we could take sonic selfies, audio snapshots with friends, and aural portraits of loved ones. Our phonographs captured the sounds of everyday life, both silly and serious: the baby’s squalling, Johnny’s naughty joke, Grandma’s favorite hymn as only she could sing it, our letters to loved ones in foreign lands or 100 years in the future. In our own homes we spoke unfettered by commercial concerns or ethnographers’ expectations. Our phonographs observed who we were and what we valued without interference or judgement.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e– David Giovannoni\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCover image text excerpt taken from How to Make Records at Home with an Edison Phonograph, 1910.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRecordings courtesy of The David Giovannoni's Collection of home cylinder recordings housed at the University of California, Santa Barbara cylinder audio archive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable on cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCollection of DIY home recordings transferred from blank and repurposed brown and black wax cylinders, dating back to the early years of widespread phonographic technology between the late 1800s and early 1900s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecordings courtesy of The David Giovannoni's Collection of home cylinder recordings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]DEATH080[[Artist]]Various Artists","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Making Records: Home Recordings c. 1890-1920 \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47098091307253,"sku":"DEATH080","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580833128.jpg?v=1759947039"},{"product_id":"lamkin-versions-variants-across-the-northern-hemisphere","title":"Lamkin: Versions \u0026 Variants Across the Northern Hemisphere","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3320837290\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/lamkin-versions-variants-across-the-northern-hemisphere\"\u003eLamkin: Versions \u0026amp; Variants Across the Northern Hemisphere by Various Artists\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFolklorist Derek Piotr teams with Death is Not the End for a third outing, this time plumbing the depths of every archive from West Virginia University to the British Library in search of versions of the ballad Lamkin. Following the template set by Charlie Seeger with his seminal Barbara Allen compilation, Piotr's collection outs versions of the bloody ballad from the last ninety years; most of these renditions haven't been heard by anyone but their original recordists for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCurated and edited by Derek Piotr.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Serenity\" portrait of Lily Delorme courtesy of the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSpecial thanks to: Duke University and Ed Proffitt, West Virginia University and John Cuthbert, Indiana University and the Archives of Traditional Music, Middlebury College and the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection, Memorial University of Newfoundland Folk and Language Archives and Pauline Cox, Nova Scotia Archives and the Helen Creighton Collection, University College of Dublin, The Library of Congress and Allina Migoni, Bobby McMillon, Sarah Bryan, Laura McCarthy, Jonathan Roper, Peggy Seeger, Lorna Morris Cyr, Kurt, Mark, and Steve Zembsch, Genevieve Lehr, Luke Owen, and the entire Bare clan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable on cassette or CD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCurated and edited by Derek Piotr\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMost of these renditions haven't been heard by anyone but their original recordists for decades\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]DEATH054[[Artist]]Various Artists","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Lamkin: Versions \u0026 Variants Across the Northern Hemisphere \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":47098091340021,"sku":"DEATH054","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Lamkin: Versions \u0026 Variants Across the Northern Hemisphere \/ Album \/ CD","offer_id":47098091372789,"sku":"DEATH054CD","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580780415_4a38be8e-9b49-477f-aff2-54b7eef2980c.jpg?v=1760032863"},{"product_id":"wounds-of-love-khmer-oldies-vol-1","title":"Wounds of Love: Khmer Oldies, Vol 1","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=409001249\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/wounds-of-love-khmer-oldies-vol-1\"\u003eWounds of Love: Khmer Oldies, Vol. 1 by Various Artists\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the late 1950s onwards a music scene developed around Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh, inspired by the prevalence of imported rock \u0026amp; pop records arriving in the country from US \u0026amp; UK and also chanson and bolero records from France \u0026amp; Latin America. 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To read it now is to encounter a perspective that resists tidy narratives of influence or origin, despite its title and what he claims to do. 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Hit by a cornucopia of slot machine tones, triggering aleatorically and coalescing into shimmering masses, I was struck by the need to return and record the sounds that so entranced me. It wouldn't prove to be easy—casino security is intense—and due to the clandestine nature of the operation, my recording techniques were by no means sophisticated. Equipped with nothing but an Olympus LS-11 recorder's internal microphone stashed in a sweaty coat pocket, I allowed the lure of the zone to guide me through a series of ambling recording sessions, the best of which are included here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI learned a lot about casino sonics in the process: game designers, for example, once tuned all their machines to the key of C major in order to optimize harmonic cohesion (strict adherence to the key is no more but C still dominates the game floor); one team of designers, the story goes, even spent a month perfecting a single 'ding' sound on one machine. In the interest of preserving the true ambient sounds of the casino these recordings are untreated, but lost in the sea of chance I did exert some affirmative control by means of meandering intent and my actual playing of the machines. And by participating in the games myself I got a taste of the financially debilitating consequences that accompany the enchantment of video gambling. The cassette in your hands represents my endeavor to bring you the zone experience without the harsh comedown of its unfortunate reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e—Adrian Rew\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable only on cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecorded on an Olympus LS-11 recorder's internal microphone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMusic from gambling halls and casinos in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]DEATH125[[Artist]]Adrian Rew","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Slot Machine Music, Vol. 1 \u0026 2: Field Recordings from Middle American Casinos \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":48203730813173,"sku":"DEATH125","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580872721.jpg?v=1779913685"}],"url":"https:\/\/lightintheattic.net\/collections\/death-is-not-the-end\/b2b.oembed","provider":"Light in the Attic","version":"1.0","type":"link"}