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           1019 records - drone and shitgaze tapes,
                       assembled with love in santa cruz, ca

   all in stock 1019 tapes are $4 shppd USA, $5 int'l (except where noted)

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 #23 Palm Yard - Craft Night
    c37 gold tape limited to 100, j-card & notes in black plastic case

 "gbv, neil, wipers, motown, shopper's corner, tacos moreno,
  mostly midtown santa cruz though,fuzz pop, baseball, $1.99 lemonade,
  de la hacienda, seventies california, CLOWNING ON BITCHES band.
 we will play in your living room.
   the red room asked us to turn our amps down.
    we played an american apparel and were paid in girl jeans."
 Craft Night is 11 tracks of pure analog fuzz bliss,
 recorded by plmyrd in santa cruz and oakland in 9 months.

 stream/download craft night for free at bandcamp

 

plmyrdcrftnght

           
  #38 c.p. willsea - no time for all time/xmas music
  c46 limited to 8, painted tape in sewn national geographic case
  "recordings from december 09, one side is a live capture
  of several tape decks processing glockenspiel a la Alvin Lucier,
  the other side is some laptop and four-track collages that were made christmas eve."
    IN STOCK MP3try-before-you-buy

 

 #36 verrinnt / c.p. willsea - radio split
 c92 limited to 12, jewel case with beatles song book j-card
   the result of a days worth of playing with loop tapes and delay pedals.
   side B features the break through track and technique "plucking",
   whereby a loop about the length of a string pluck is played and looped over itself forever.
  IN STOCK MP3try-before-you-buy

 

  #34 instagon - double '07
   c60 limited to 20, notes and art on folder paper case, secured with sticker
   2 sides of live improvisations from 2007, bits of psychedelic,
    prog, and stoner rock all weaved into a rich noisy tapestry
    IN STOCK MP3try-before-you-buy

 

 

   #33 old and gray - little creatures/think
  c10 limited to 50, jewel case with re-used j-card
   Dark yet hopeful post-industrial songs,
   written and recorded by Mike of Room For A Ghost.
   Sounds like Reznor with more happy and less angsty.
     IN STOCK MP3try-before-you-buy

 

  #32 nicoclash - crahnk for prahnk
   c10 limited to 12, painted envelope and art
   bedroom pop from Madrid with a heavy noise slant
   IN STOCK MP3try-before-you-buy

 

 

 

   #31 atomizador - repulsivo
  c20 limited to 24, sewn paper cases with notes
  A collection of live recordings from Madrid:
   tape loops, prepared cassettes, and massive vocal drones
   IN STOCK MP3try-before-you-buy

 

 

  #30 verrinnt - verrinnt
   c20 limited to 20, notes and art on folded paper case, secured with paper clip
  Recorded entirely onto an 8-track machine, as opposed to the usual macbook internal mic rig.
  On this tape the acoustic drones actually start to resemble real songs, but as
   soon as the desire for drums or vocals manifests itself the music falls to pieces and starts over.
  IN STOCK MP3try-before-you-buy

 

  #29 the cryogenic strawberries - the awful gas that deforms you
  c20 limited to 24, notes and art on folded paper case, secured with rubber band
   "A Devo inspired Orwellian Mock-Opera about Nuclear Holocaust. Never released,
  still not finished but I'm releasing it anyway. Sounds good, basicly it's
  just a concept album about nuclear war."
   IN STOCK mp3try-before-you-buy

 

   
  #28 wolf crystal - wolf keys
  c30, limited to 12, painted tape with unique photo in jewel case
   keyboards and pedals with tapes of medical terminology. scott crystal appears courtesy of wolf schaus
   massive drones, casio riffage, and barbie karaoke machine feedback tricks 
 IN STOCK mp3downloadfree

 

 #27 surplus audio supply - demos...
   c15 limited to 15, sewn painted paper cases
    SAS has been "working on an album" for over a year. the result is a collection of false starts
 and half baked band gimmicks;everything from 8-bit new age to now-sound post-punk was attempted
              and failed. these 15 minutes chronicle the demise of the "band".
      IN STOCK MP3try-before-you-buy

 

    #26 frostbitter - bloody embassy
  c20, limited to 20, xeroxed art sewn into a case with velcro
"This tape is kind of like a wall of synth, the fat pulsing layers of oscillators are synced up to bring out
subtle melodic and rhythmic pulses within what seems to be a static sound. If you listen very closely it
begins sounding like techno, but back away and it's all texture and timbre."
 IN STOCK mp3downloadfree

 

    #24 wolf crystal - wolf fucker
  c92, limited to 16, national geographic pages sewn into cases with velcro, includes liner notes
 guitar, electronic drums, and headphone mics, wolfpunk for crystalstoners
 side a is an example of wolf crystal angry time. side b is a more relaxed version of wolf crystal angry time
 IN STOCK mp3downloadfree

 


    #22 julia la dense - new york is for artists
  c92, limited to 20, pages from a disney book smeared with paint and sewn, with liner notes
 "It's like a collage but made of sound, or possibly a new method of DJing that serves no purpose. A long tape of detournement and found sounds,
 interpreted through microphones in couches and thoroughly processed. Julia La Dense makes music to get lost and confused in."
 IN STOCK mp3downloadfree

 

 

    #21 cool band now - better ingredients, better pizza, cool band now/logan bean the e.p.
  c62, limited to 24, sewn a4 page with liner notes printed on the inside, secured with velcro
 "Two CBN releases in one, this is the kind of band where the song and genre change every two minutes and yet there is this weird coherency to everything
that makes it an instant classic. We only had 15 minutes of sound for the B side so I put Logan Bean in reverse and tacked that onto the end. The flow
is incredible. Get a six pack and sit down with this tape and finish those beers before the cassette runs out, it'slike synching dark side with wizard of oz."
IN STOCK mp3downloadfree

 

    #20 ingredients: - live in Big Sur, 5/27/09
  c15, limited to 12, national geographic pages sewn and velcroed, with liner notes
 acoustic guitar, bowed saw, and a creek, recorded at Fernwood Resort.
 i would like to think that we were opening for animal collective. we did have a small audience of hipsters for a time.
 IN STOCK mp3downloadfree

 

 

    #19 wolf crystal - shit week
  c5, limited to 12, sewn photocopies with liner notes
 shit week? wolf crystal. unleash everything on drums and guitar pedals.
 two tracks, short and to the point
 IN STOCK mp3downloadfree


    #18 c.p. willsea - phase recordings
  c20, limited to 6, tape comes in a jewel case with notes, wrapped in a piece of paper smeared in tempera, taped shut
  4 layers of heavy repetitive reverbed bass riffs, overlapping and phasing in and out of sync with each other
 low drones and weird overtones
 IN STOCK mp3downloadfree

 



    #15 the mystery train / mouse heaven split
  c15, limited to 62, painted tape in sewn photocopy cases with liner notes on the inside
 The Mystery Train makes western punk rock music in Minnesota, Mouse Heaven makes western post-punk chamber music in California.
 Side A is fast and blown out, side B is slow and warbly. it all just works together somehow.
 IN STOCK mp3downloadfree

 

 

   #14 arnau sala - hermafrodites
  c10, limited to 25, sewn photocopy case with notes on the outside and a shard of vinyl
 Arnau Sala makes innovative experimental music in Barcelona. The A side features sputtering and hypnotic clicks, interspersed with touches of filtering, resonance, and light washes of sound.
 The B side is the exact opposite: the calm, machine like quality of the first half is replaced by a harsh stampede of static and engines, tamed by filters and eq.
 IN STOCK mp3downloadfree

 


    #13 verrinnt - the pros and cons of cloudy sunsets
  c20, limited to 24, jewel case with liner notes taped to the outside and j-card
 "these songs all started with brief, but intense bursts of inspiration, and were then quickly abandoned.
 months later I decided to 'finish them'. I left them all as they were."
 IN STOCK mp3downloadfree


    #12 wolf crystal - wolf crystal island
  c62, limited to 12, sheets from a disney book turned into cassette sleeves, spray painted, with notes written poorly on the outside
 wolf crystal island is a magical, magical place, where there are only bass guitars and boss pedals.
 gerardo from wolfabout appears courtesy of roundcrystal.
 IN STOCK mp3downloadfree

 

 

     #9 wayne shredsky - wayne shredzky

  c30, limited to 24, jewel case with j-card, re-issue of the original 1982 classic
 Wayne Shredsky is a stoner metal band composed of athletes from the 1980 Russian Olympic sand hockey team,
 wayne shredzky is anger over denial of their thirst for american blood by peanut king jim carter's refusal to battle moscow games.
 IN STOCK mp3downloadfree



    #8 surplus audio supply - sas ep
  c30, limited to 12, painted tape with liner note card and mini-posted in hand sewn and painted case
 "surplus audio supply is generally described as "really bass heavy". side a is electronic post-punk,
 side b is a mix of glitchy gameboy songs from that one month where I got really into crystal castles."
 IN STOCK mp3downloadfree

 

 

 

 

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    #17 verrinnt - divisible by seven/an illegible primer
  c30, limited to 15, tape is wrapped in the liner notes, and secured with a sewn band of paper and velcro
 hazy phasing, floating slabs of sound, recorded on a macbook through the internal mic
 originally released on mediafire, re-released by 1019
 SOLD OUT mp3downloadfree


    #16 wolf crystal - 8/29/09
  c20, limited to 6, encased in several layers of packaging tape, with notes written on bits of a map
 wtf wolf crystal opened for jeff the brotherhood and ty segall
 2 guitars, 2 practice amps, one captive audience waiting for a PA to show up. This is a wolf crystal live show.
 SOLD OUT mp3downloadfree

 

    #11 verrinnt / wolf crystal split
  c30,limited to 9, comes wrapped in double sided liner note a4 page
 nylon guitar and laptop and bass through dictaphone mic and broken headphones and delay pedals into barbie karaoke machine.
 taylor adam holmes was playing some ocarina on the verrinnt side
 SOLD OUT mp3downloadfree



    #10 wolf crystal - wolf crystal
  c30, limited to 12, comes in a used crystal wolf jewel case with notes and art glued to a recycled crystal wolf j-card
 wolf crystal is a band comprised of former members of crystal wolf.
 crystal wolf was a critically acclaimed cult goth band based in aptos in 1987. r.i.p.
 SOLD OUT mp3downloadfree

 

 

    #7 palm yard - between a rock and ernies liquors
  c5, limited to 100, recycled pabst blue ribbon cases with photo and liner notes glued on
 this song is about as heavy as a band called "palm yard" can get.
 side a was inspired by starsircleanatomy, side b was not written by palm yard
 SOLD OUT mp3downloadfree

 

 

    #6 palm yard / verrinnt - split
  c30, limited to 75, painted tape in jewel case with fold out insert
 Palm Yard is a lo-fi shitgaze band and Verrinnt is a lo-fi folkgaze band. They lived across the street from each other,
 recording demos through the internal mic on garageband. It was a pretty sweet year.
 SOLD OUT mp3downloadfree

 

    #5 young fiction / surplus audio supply split ep
  c30, limited to 24, fold out j-card in jewel case
 pretty ambience and spastic prettiness, young fiction favors looped guitar swells and the "reverse" button,
 sas prefers sequencers and bass guitar through guitar amps. both think the casio sk series and cats are pretty cool
 SOLD OUT mp3downloadfree


    #4 zachary james watkins / c.p. willsea split drone
  c30, limited to 25, fold out j-card in jewel case
 over 90 minutes of dense, collaborative, improvisational drones, recorded in a shed and then
 mixed, filtered, edited, and processed individually into two 15 minute long pieces.
  
 SOLD OUT mp3downloadfree

 

    #3 surplus audio supply / sad dads gone bad split ep
  c30, limited to 25, fold out j-card in jewel case with 1019 card
 electronics layered with four tracks. spazzy anti-pop, heavy bass music. sad dads was kind of ahead of it's time,
 and the sas side kind of need someone screaming on it, but this remains a document of and testament to technological frustration and four-track cassette decks.
 SOLD OUT mp3downloadfree


    #2 anomie - d.,.b
  c62, limited to 25, fold out j-card in jewel case
 Hours worth of four track guitar noise tapes, hacked apart with a beat slicer, and re-sequenced into post-something music.
 This was the first release made at 1019, originally on c90s purchased from rite aid...re-issued properly on 1019rex.
 SOLD OUT mp3downloadfree


   #1 c.p. willsea - 4/4
  c62, limited to 50, fold out j-card in jewel case with unique photograph and negative
 Organic, dense, flowing drones, created with an array of hand built
 cigar box guitars and a case of 100 answering machine cassette loops.
 SOLD OUT mp3downloadfree






 







 













 











 







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Artists

anomie [Santa Cruz, CA]{electronic, post-rock, noise}

Arnau Sala [Barcelona, Spain]{noise, experimental, machines}

Atomizador [Barcelona, Spain]{tape loops, drone, screaming}

Cool Band Now [Santa Cruz, CA]{beer, lo-fi, four track}

c.p. willsea [Santa Cruz, CA]{tape loops, phasing, film soundtracks}

Frostbitter [Barcelona, Spain]{synthesizers, noise, wall of sound}

Hermit Convention [Santa Cruz, CA]{bass riffs, looping pedal, GBV}

Instagon [Sacramento, CA]{experimental, improv, noise}

Julia La Dense [Cincinnati, Ohio]{detournement, society, noise}

Mouse Heaven [Oakland, CA]{post-punk, goth, western}

New Bengal Spice [Santa Cruz, CA]{hip-hop beats, 90s guitar rock, field recordings}

Nicoclash [Madrid, Spain]{bedroom pop, noise, electronic}

Old And Gray [San Francisco, CA]{industrial, hi-fi, dark but hopeful}

Palm Yard [Oakland, CA]{shitgaze, indie, pop}

Sad Dads Gone Bad [Santa Cruz, CA]{electronic, spazz, anti-pop}

Surplus Audio Supply [Santa Cruz, CA]{electronic, post-punk, bass}

The Cryogenic Strawberries [Huxley, Iowa]{psychedelic, experimental, bedroom pop}

The Groggs [Santa Cruz, CA]{garage, rock, soul}

The Mystery Train [St. Paul, MN]{indie, western, punk}

Tyred Eyes [Göteborg, Sweden]{garage, punk, aggressive}

Verrinnt [Oakland, CA]{acoustic, experimental, phasing}

Wayne Shredsky [Moscow, Russia]{weed, metal, drone}

Wolf Crystal [Santa Cruz, CA]{delay, distortion, improvisation}

Young Fiction [Santa Cruz, CA]{ambient, casio SK, loop pedals}

Zachary James Watkins [Santa Cruz, CA]{granular, just intonation, super collider}