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IV 001 E.E.E.A.2 LAVENDER TATOOER "The Lavender Tattooer" is Madalyn Merkey's debut cassette and the Irma Vep Tapes Manifesto - a critical statement concerning new female sound, a prime slice of self-released loner pop in radical hommage to Frank Tashlin's masterpiece Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin films "Hollywood or Bust" and "Artists Models." Madalyn cuts up Tashlin's work and chats over the results- it's a girl in the '50s walking home from the pictures, it's a tribute to Black Dice in a poodle skirt, and it's definitely a waterlogged girl group cut as heard from underneath a smoky bridge. There’s a part in "Artists & Models” where Shirley MacLaine belts out the torch song “Innamorata” all Jerry Lewis can do in response is toss himself down the stairs repeatedly. The version of "Innamorata” on here definitely throws you too- only this times it’s up the stairs; the stuttering horn sample could be from DJ Premier, while the choral sample recalls switching on your best gal’s radio set and hearing J.Ferraro’s “Marble Surf" or Penderecki’'s soundtrack for "“Je t’aime Je t’aime”." Definite goosebump material!! Recommended for those who dig the female titans of today - U.S. Girls, Circuits des Yeux, Alice Cohen, Inca Ore, Zola Jesus, et cetera - although what Madalyn is doing is singular in her own way. Recorded live - - no kidding!!- - in Madalyn Merkey’s very own bathroom in May 2009. A remarkable release and the first of a brilliant body of work. OUT OF STOCK

IV 002 GODDESS OF THE HORIZON MADALYN MERKEY "The Goddess of the Horizon" is Madalyn Merkey's second release and it's kind of a companion piece to her "Lavender Tattooer" but definitely sounds totally unlike her previous tape. This one is really vveird! On Goddess, homegirl busts out the lopsided tape loop rhythms, gloopy drum machine work, and alien dubstep. Sounds alternatively like Joe Meek instrumentals fed through a woodchipper and new age training video music. The swirlier, drone-heavy ballet moments remind me of Francis Seyrig's score for "Last Year at Marienbad" as performed by a 12-year old boy during a thunderstorm. An extraordinary, zoned-out expression, lunar landing. Includes beautiful fold-out artwork of trance-inducing staircases to accompany your ascent. Audio Excerpts: WFMU Archive [1] Brian Turner - June 9, 2009 [2] Brian Turner - June 23, 2009 [3] Scott Williams - June 18, 2009 Ship To: US $6.00 Canada Mexico $7.50 WORLD $8.50

IV 003 TALKING HEADS KOMMISSAR HJULER UND FRAU If you’re not yet acquainted with the German performance duo Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer, please consider this your sacred chance. For years these two have been self-releasing some of the most bravely out there tape music existent in this galaxy while constantly blurring the lines between fetishized art object and fetishized musical object. Most biographies of the duo restate the same factoids, so I’ll be brief: the Kommissar is a real-life uniformed police officer by day married to one Mama Baer and together they produce private press records, sculptures, DVDs, CD-Rs, paintings, and scads of other pieces from their home in Flensburg. Intermittently their music can switch from sounding like classic European musique concréte sides to field recordings to text-based performance to Burroughs-like cut-ups to Teutonic shouting to deconstructed cover versions to outright sexual groans, slurps, and noises - and this tape has all of that and much more! This year has seen the releases of an amazing CD compiling some of their single-digit edition releases, one hell of a sold-out split tape with Thurston Moore on Goaty Tapes, and a freshly pressed Mama Baer solo LP (featuring her mindblowing cover of Madonna’s “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina” – NOT to be missed dudes!!!) all of which have helped to make Kommissar Hjuler und Frau’s music more available in North America. So there couldn’t be a more appropriate time to release “Talking Heads” and continue their ongoing story. The A-side opens with “HeranfÃhrung," an intimate candlelight recording of Mama Baer sweetly humming a lullaby that slowly begins to echo and follow its own lead like a cat lightly playing with its tail, eventually interrupted by harsh breathing exercises and blown-out vocal loops, all riding on a low-end wall of electronic bloops from another room. How these guys even record this stuff, I’ll never know. Next track “Ischgl” is all vocal burble, tape noise flapping in the wind, a deep, deeeeep example of great noise music through sheer vocal bombardment, both beautiful, harsh, endlessly effective. The B-side is what really threw us for a loop though (and will make many of you positively giddy) – total Jandekian destroyed electric blues (think “Interstellar Discussion” level) with stream-of-consciousness vocals that are super moving and deeply emotional – totally Christina Carter league!! The poetry they deliver here conveys a certain sense of being domestic, yet rebellious, that you don’t really get from experimental music these daze. Every time I hear it, it gets to me – this here tape’s one of the great poems I’ve read this year! A-side is classic musique concréte; B-side is amazing private press loner blues - an inspiring mix of beautiful subdued vocal performance mixed with classic harsh tape noise – totally recommended for fans of music and the 21st century. Ship To: US $6.00 Canada Mexico $7.50 WORLD $8.50

IV 004 TRAPPED IN FANTASY BERMUDA LINK fully engulfed by the smooth waves and the synthesized shaded of elements. "Trapped in Fantasy" is the elaborate ore of positive sounds created by Josh Burke and Jeff Astin. Cover art features a fold out black and white image of Midnight Star Media Headquarters Ship To: USA $6.00 Canada Mexico $7.50 WORLD $8.50