December 2012 X-Mist Distribution Catalog

Primal Industrial Blues, nihilist Punk, minimalist Noise-Rock. Recorded by Don Zientara at Inner Ear Studio, DC. Cover-artwork by Asa Osbourne (LUNGFISH, ZOMES). LP-vinyl, glossy full-color cover, insert with lyrics. Full album by this furious duo from Harrisonsburg, Virginia. And it is another challenging masterpiece! Minimal and nightmarish sounds, mixed up with alienated references of blues and rock patterns. Rough and nihilistic, sick sounds for the very few who did not become mad of this world.
Think of Sam McPheeters meeting Killdozer after a Wolf Eyes concert. Or Black Flag meets Merzbow. Chrome meets Flipper. Black Humor meets Young Gods. Cramps meet Shorty. Dan Melchior meets Savage Republic. Urinals meet Throbbing Gristle. Arab on Radar meet Abner Jay. No Trend meet Ty Segall? Who knows.
Or just citing MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL: You haven't heard anything that sounds like BUCK GOOTER in a long time!
Whatever. It is nothing less than outstanding contemporary music.
Release-Date: December 2012

First release by this new band from Los Angeles, with 2 exclusive songs recorded at Big Fish Studios, San Diego. Features ex- and current members of the BAD DUDES, BIPOLAR BEAR aka TURRKS, and SILVER DAGGERS. Maybe they sound anything like these, or maybe not... Our initial thought was it sounds like "STEEL POLE BATH TUB meets LES SAVY FAV". Someone else said it's like "a LES SAVY FAV song interpreted by KARP". And another one claimed it's reminiscent of SUPERCONDUCTOR (as on "Hit Songs For Girls"). If you're unfamiliar with any of these references, then you may think as well of something like being stuck in between DEERHOOF and DEERHUNTER...
Limited edition of 500 copies on vinyl, with a free mp3-download included!
Release date 31.03.2011

The 3rd album by TEN VOLT SHOCK features 9 new tracks (with a full playing-time of 31 minutes). More or less in the same style as already known and loved, but with more thoroughly song-structures and better production. A totally frenetic, full-blasting and blazing, and crushingly tight sound! Think of something like “BIG BLACK/RAPEMAN meeting with the HOT SNAKES”... This may sound like being too much of a compliment, but we can’t think of anything less than that. Details: Limited first edition of 500 copies on pure black 180g-vinyl, including the CD-version of the album packed inside as well! Comes in 3-color silkscreened cardboard-sleeves, including insert!

The sophomore album by TELEMARK! 11 tracks of SMART german Post-Whatever-Punk, with misanthropic lyrics, in a better-than-ever-before sound! 
Das nunmehr dritte Album von Telemark. Mit altbewährter Schubkraft und neu gewonnener Transparenz kommt INFORMAT zum Punkt. Entschlackte Völlerei!
Entstanden sind so 11 treibende Postpunk-was-auch-immer- Perlen, die mit rockender Noise-Schlagseite äußerst druckvoll und knackig daherkommen. Neu im Telemark-Vehikel ist der vereinzelt eingesetzte Synthie, der dem Ganzen klanglich entgegenzuhalten weiß. Doch keine Angst, wir befinden uns hier nicht im New-Wave-Retro-Wahn, vielmehr lärmt sich der MS20-Sound im Hier und Jetzt ab.
INFORMAT rockt gewaltig und macht darüber hinaus noch Laune, denn mit den (durchwegs deutschen) Texten bekommt man noch das humorvoll intelligente Sahnehäubchen obendrauf! Hier wird nicht vorgegaukelt, Dein bester Freund sein zu wollen.
Schuhe an und mitgewippt!
Für Schubladenfreunde: KURT, TREND, TEN VOLT SHOCK, OMA HANS, HOT SNAKES...

This 12" contains the songs "We Want Royals" and "Rat", both previously released on the Split-7" with the POPULAR SHAPES - but completely remixed and remastered with a way better sound (since the band was not happy with the sound on the 7"...)!!! Well, since the 7" was limited to 500 copies and is totally sold-out by now, this makes surely sense! On the backside you’ll get 4 "real" remix-versions: "Black Cat" and "Tricks On Dancing" (from the "La Guard" LP) as BAM BAM BABYLON BAJASCH-remixes, also then "Black Cat" and "Royals" as ENDO-remix-versions! The cover comes with an extra-screenprint on front- and backside, and this record is limited as well to 500 copies!!!

The first full album by this great band from Duisburg/Germany!!! Features 9 new tracks, picking up just where they had left off with their amazing debut Mini-LP (self- released back in 2002)! Amazing Noise-HC-Punk, that rocks like hell. File next to bands like KURT and ENIAC - with an additional Punk-approach as bands like DACKELBLUT or MONORCHID!

The vinyl-reissue of their fantastic debut-album again! Originally released in 2000 on THIN THE HERD RECORDS, and sold-out since then (being only available as a CD on LOAD RECORDS)! A split-release by X-MIST and THE COMPANY WITH THE GOLDEN ARM, packed in fine silkscreened covers!!!

The debut-album by Freiburg's finest rockers, including Frank of KURT... and since it's always difficult to describe your own records, let's quote a fine review from the USA:
"Layers of noise flesh out the trebly bass and drums bones of this german noise-hardcore band - while the throaty, semi-distorted screams and harmonic feedback from KURT vocalist/guitarist Frank adds the epidermis. So sure, this sounds a bit like KURT; but its brutality hits like a hammer instead of a midnight intruder though!"
This LP is packaged in a truely amazing screenprinted-cover, that unfolds to a fantastically great-looking poster! Split-release by X-MIST and CHRISTOPHERS RECORDS

The 2nd full album by these guys from Hamburg/Germany! With a better sound than ever before, full-on energetic and kicking, but with more though-out production and filled with catchy hooks! Even the hardcore-nerds of Heartattack fanzine liked their sound (quote: "Moving forward all the time, like a tractor in heat, this really ROCKS!") To me it sounds like the drive and power of KURT meeting the songwriting of LES SAVY FAV - and a combination of two of my favorite bands, what more could we ask for?
The 12" was released on NOVA RECORDINGS containing 8 songs, while the CD released on X-MIST, features as bonus two more tracks taken from their SOLD-OUT single, but as remastered versions!

The YELLOW PRESS from San Francisco formed in early 2003, featuring ex-members of TORCHES TO ROME and HOUSEBOY, and with a mixed bag of hardcore and new wave influences, banged their way into every warehouse-space and art gallery in the city, while touring extensively and releasing two CDep's on their own label SILVER SKATE RECORDINGS.
Not since Brooklyn introduced LIARS or LES SAVY FAV have so many kids caught on word-of-mouth to how ridiculously fun a YELLOW PRESS live-performance can be. Built around a solid rhythm-section and grounded in a grumbling bass that might actually get physical, the boys add a swirling keyboard and stabbing guitar lines to create short, punchy songs without the gimmicks employed by most post-punk bands today. Danceable and melodic, yet wholly unique in style and approach!
The YELLOW PRESS are YéYé-Punk!!
This 12", a split-release by CHRISTOPHERS RECORDS and X-MIST, contains all 9 songs from both their (now sold-out!) CDep's, for the first time & exclusively available on vinyl!

Debut by new german band (from Trier and Cologne) with 4 songs that sound like... well, maybe like LES SAVY FAV as on their 7"s, and with an organ added? Or like the PANTHERS, but less noisey and more melodic? Something like this - but whatever, definitely as cool as the band-name (and we think the name is pretty cool!). Features ex-members of the OLIVER TWIST, PHILLIPPE and MARV & THE ALABAMA MURDER.

The 2nd LP by the amazing VAZ! In case you did not know, it's the new band of guitarist/bassist Apollo Liftoff and monstrous drummer Dionysius Powerdown, former members of the legendary AMREP-band HAMMERHEAD! Their first album "Demonstrations In Micronesia" was one of the greatest things in Noise-Rock in years (and that's NOT ONLY our opinion!), and this 2nd album was released in the USA on GOLD STANDARD LABORATORIES, while we are happy to have a Vinyl-Only release for Europe on our label here!

Features 2 songs each by both these New-York-Now-Wave bands! More of the hectic & spastic Neo-Punk blasts by the SECONDS, and the EX MODELS sounding like "the missing link" between the JESUS LIZARD and ARAB ON RADAR! Originally released as a CD on MY PAL GOD RECORDS, now put onto vinyl exclusively by X-MIST!

Originally released a a CD-Only on 5 RUE CHRISTINE, we are happy and proud having released this wonderful record on vinyl! The SECONDS are a threepiece-band from New York City, being on the forefront of the Neo-No-Wave/Post-Punk scene, along with bands like RADIO 4, LIARS or EX MODELS - and actually guitarist Zach is now in the EX MODELS as well, while drummer Brian is also a member of the YEAH YEAH YEAHS! Their incredibly tight and frenetic proto-punk, with buzzsaw-like guitars, a punching bass and pounding drums, reminds of the GANG OF FOUR, Richard Hell, DEVO and MINUTEMEN all put into a blender - and their cover-version of MADONNA's "Burning Up" is simply awesome!

KURT are back, and they're better than ever! Their 3rd full album was exceeding the highest of our expectations! This LP finally captures their sound at its full potential: Razor-sharp guitars, a thundering bass and full-on driving drums, all totally tight and compact, and at the same time clear and crisp! All of the reations we ever got on this record, were exclusively like "Wow! Great! Amazing!" - So you can be sure that this is a record you don't want to miss out!

Great new Noise-Hardcore-Punk band from Germany, incl. Frank of KURT on guitars and vocals... so similarities to KURT are undeniable - but TEN VOLT SHOCK have a straighter and more "punk-sounding" style! The 3Song-7" (with special spray-painted covers) is SOLD-OUT!!! But the CD-version features additionally the songs from their split-7" with NEIGHBOUR ROSICKY (on KOPIST-PLATTEN) plus 5 previously unreleased tracks!

Since both, their CLASSIC first LP and "Schesaplana" the 2nd LP, had been sold-out for quite some time on vinyl, we thought it was about time repressing both... And actually we have now decided to make it as a Double-LP-Package!

The 2nd full album by this highly underrated hardcore-band from New York (feat. ex-members of CITIZENS ARREST)! Psychotic, heavy and mind-boggling! CD-version contains the songs off the "Superstar Chop 7" (XM-044) as bonus-tracks!

Southgerman Noise-Rockers, influenced by the likes of SHELLAC and JESUS LIZARD! Members of this band formed later on BHANG DEXTRO, and are now active in ARE WE ELECTRIC?

Finally a re-release of the classic first album by one of the most important and most controversial german Hardcore-Punk bands of the 90s!!! Originally released in 1994, having been out of print for almost 10 years now, and being a highly sought-after collectors item since then, this piece of history is now, due to popular demand, finally available again! Remastered (but not remixed!) for maximum listening pleasure – with the LP including the same huge-sized insert as with the original!

Limited edition 2x7" set, pressed on marble-colored vinyls, and packed into a 20-page comicbook sleeve! Features exclusively recorded interpretations of AC/DC songs by PRE ("Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"), YOWIE ("Dundertruck"), COLOSSAMITE ("Anti-Christ Devil Child"), and with "Have A Drink On Me" the last recording ever by legendary Touch&Go artists MULE!

Featuring AC/DC-cover-versions by DENISON KIMBALL TRIO, ZEEK SHECK, MOUNT SHASTA and KILLDOZER! The first two installments of this series, Double-7” "SIDES 1-4" resp. "SIDES 5&6" 7"Single are COMPLETELY sold-out!!!

LIMITED vinyl-reissue of Chicago Noise-Rock CLASSIC! 200 handnumbered copies, with silkscreened cardboard-covers! Originally released in 1994, and sold-out since more than a decade. The first album by BIG'N, a band delivering some of the most intense and psychotically deranged Noise-Rock ever. A true masterpiece, with 10 tracks recorded by Steve Albini. For fans of SHELLAC, JESUS LIZARD, SHORTY, U.S.MAPLE or BIG'N themselves!

Limited edition LP-repress of Chicago Noise-Rock CLASSIC from 1993, pre-U.S.MAPLE! 213 handnumbered copies on pure black vinyl, remastered, insert included, with individually silkscreened covers, each one colored uniquely different!
The first and only full album by legendary Chicago noise rock band SHORTY, who broke up in 1994, and two of the members (Al Johnson and Mark Shippy) then forming U.S. MAPLE... A rhythm-section blowing you against the wall, a guitar shredding you into pieces, and a singer that howls and growns in your face like an over-the-top maniac.
10 killer tracks, recorded by Steve Albini, released in 1993, and being completely sold-out since more than a decade now! Undoubtedly and critically-acclaimed one of the BEST Noise Rock albums EVER! File under: Chicago, Noise Rock, Skin Graft, U.S.Maple, Shellac

5 songs by this northgerman band playing anthemic indie-rock a la MOVING TARGETS! released in 1992

Indie-/Alternative-Rock from Germany, actually produced at Butch Vig's(!) SMART STUDIOS in Madison/Wisconsin back in 1992!