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blueberry honey 019 is
CAVE BEARS: GET OUT OF THE HOUSE Two complete shows recorded in 2009. "Another total tantrum from one of the valley's latest and tastiest. CAVE BEARS are a what we call a nervous breakthrough, cooked. They are constant hustlers in the desperate theater of sound destruction. Much appreciation for their 'limits' endlessly expanding, as it helps 'ours' do the same. Don't blame them, blame your folks".
-- spirit of orr
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WAX:
CAVE BEARS: CRAWL SPACE 7"
"This is mostly a conceptual single about a crawlspace. I can imagine they rehearse in someone's attic or basement and there it was...that creepy tiny door that leads to the crawlspace. Or the pull down rickety ladder in the ceiling. That abandoned place in the house where you can't even really store things, it's just an empty area where all kinds of things/people could live. It's inherently scary....it's exactly what you've been looking for for years... it's completely insane...a suburban wasteland masterpiece".
- -7inches.blogspot.com complete review
feedingtuberecords.com
PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPINGartwork by Matthew Thurber
"This here is one of the oddest LP's you're bound to find anywhere no matter what planet you're from. The first side consists of Id M Theft Able who combines the high art of musique concrete with the low art of primitive children's songs. His side starts off with a, most likely, found recording of kids singing B-I-N-G-O with odd backwards tape noodling and a deep slow voice creeping in to make sure things start off with a weird vibe. Seconds into B-I-N-G-O things shift into some heavy musique concrete physically whipping back and forth between harsh contact mic scrapes, vocal madness, bleeps and bloops, and the sound of coins dropping. The rest of Id M Theft Able's side goes back and forth between the harsh musique concrete sounds and the odd, short songs that are reminiscent to a kid playing with a springy door stop and singing songs in a weird monster voice. Brilliant stuff!!
Side B is still bizarrely weird but in more of a punk rock fashion. Cave Bears do their best to do the worst rendition of The Germs "Forming" you will ever hear with one track called "Germicide." This one is a complete mess of drums, guitar, and mumbling vocals that never really seem to come together but never really try either. This makes for one of the most awkward punk recordings you'll ever hear. It's like your listening to some junior high punk kids playing their first show to two neighborhood girls in the basement of their stepfather's house. Wouldn't have it any other way!! Great stuff through and through"!
9/10 -- Foxy Digitalis
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serf 09 is
CAVE BEARS: SOLAR ILLNESS A one hour video document of three live performances in Maine: the old Cop-Donut-Porn routine at Strange Maine filmed by Brendan Evans, fantastic starship travel fueled by blood at Frantasia Festival filmed and chopped by Skot "Id M" Spear, and a ritual involving the placement of cooked eggs. Also included: computer wizard garbage! The first run of ten is sold out, but somebody will be putting this out in a larger run soon.
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teen action 024 is
AL QAEDA / CAVE BEARS split tape With two of the most prolific and consistently interesting bands in the American underground, this shit is almost too awesome. Hard to believe it's all contained within the time of a Mr. Belvedre episode. But both these bands have a habit of warping time and space to transport the listener to places they never imagined. No wonder Al Qaeda and Cave Bears both have constantly undulating memberships that have included everyone from Mike Watt (AQ) to Dead and Skunks (CB).
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seminal issues 01 is
CAVE BEARS: CHAIN OF SKULLS VOMITING SKULLS VOMITING FEAR OF AN OWLBOLWEEVILVULVA The first release from new imprint FRIGHT NIGHT MUSIC: the cassette to end all and any cassettes with skulls vomiting rainbow blood on the cover.
One of the nicest looking cassettes I have ever seen'd in this land of color xerography, the medieval Panter makes me caw and guffaw. The music and voices seemed to me like trying to summon the vanished facial types with huge noses and painful crows feet that once haunted the corners of straw-floored inns clearing mugs off tables for tips. once they tried to set the innkeeper on fire. Giant-nosed bumpkins that walked through the stables crying because they fell in love with the horse. Screaming and gnashing alcoholic 40 year old men tantalized by witches bathing and in the night in the pus waters that they believed to see in a puddle on the floor. - -Matthew Thurber
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scotch tapes 65 is
CAVE BEARS: LIVE AT THE WHISKY 1977 A companion piece to the abject rock of the "Germicide" record, featuring recordings of Grecian Urns and Les Des Gustor trying, failing and ultimately succeeding at being a "real band". One sided C90 b/w spoken words by Danny Cruz as B-Side.
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yod tapes 19 is
CAVE BEARS: HORRIBBLE and USELESS Been cooking with a wooden spoon, now have a taste. Bee's eyes in full-color! 100 of first print have flown from our coop, reissue coming soon with better sound and new art. C31
The entity that is the Cave Bears has been around for quite a while now, with a constantly rotating cast and a discography just as equal in variety, ranging from slowed down drone to acoustic boogaloo. This is, by far, my favorite release of theirs to date, and probably the closest representation of their typical live show. I put that word in quotes because when you go to see them, you never really know what youre going to get. I hesitate to use the word destructive, but I think I'm okay with the word messy. I've seen them do everything from smash lightbulbs, pour mud across the floor, wear costumes made out of (operating) electric fans and (full) watering cans, and even bang on buckets while suspended upside-down from a tree while another member threw fireworks. So yeah, they're a little all over the place, but they also have a general set-up of guitars and drums that they use more regularly, so even when it does lean towards being improvisational, you can usually tell its them. There's actually a surprising amount of differentiating composition on this tape, but its entirely cohesive. Cut-ups and samples flow freely and intermingle with original work very suitingly, foreign musicals laced through shrieking howls, guitar warbles, and a variety of squawking brass and harmonica. All of this is even edited at times, chopped & screwed on analog reels, still not upsetting the rhythm. Theres a large section of instrumentation that gets a little too calamitous for a little too long on side two, but thats barely a beef, like a nuttier No-Neck Blues Band (bear in mind, I'm also notorious for preferring everything ultra-short). A solid starter for anyone looking to get into this band, or to prep them for their upcoming split LP with Id M Theft Able (who we all obviously cant get enough of around here).
- -Sam Gas Can for Cassette Gods
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serf 8 is
ASSBURGERS: BIG NOAH TIME Broken amps, horrible rapping, the same song over and over & guitars on the brink are just some of the oddities enclosed. Side B is a different band, probably Taco Mountain Time. C32
The cassette is revived these days, and seeing that makes someone like me, who started out with cassettes in 1980, quite happy again. Well, that is, most of the times. The tape I have before me also recalls all those tapes that where just very hard to understand - both in a musical context as well as what is scribbled on the cover. I have to wait until day light to actually write out the band name, title perhaps, but listening to it right now, I must say that this is probably the right medium for the music. This is what one could call free music. Vocals (?), obscure things on instruments (?), metal percussion perhaps, keyboard (?) all taped to a portable cassette machine of which the batteries are about gone. On side A that is. On the B-side suddenly a much more coherent. Still pretty lo-fi in approach, but electronic, almost song like with vocals that try to make a coherent lyric. The tape has lots of weirdness, which reminded me of say Costes, Suckdog and Psychodrama, all without the dramatic pathos of all three. Or perhaps its just not present on these recordings and perhaps they are documents of some piss, shit and hate action. I don't know. This cassette proves the liveliness of the medium, even when its not entirely my cup of tea.
- -Frans deWaart for Vital Weekly
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serf 7 is
CAVE BEARS: CANNONBALL HOLO-CAST Transgressive anyone? This was our best tape for a while, but I think it has finally been surpased. It's still a really nice overview of where we were at around the time we moved from New Orleans to Massachusetts. Packed with enough demented hollering, feedback and undesirable music to justify a much longer tape, or shorter... Boy did we drink from the wrong log this time. Very special music indeed. Filled out with covers of Italian gore themes, moments of prolonged silence vintage radio selections and a collaboration with the legendary DEAD AND SKUNKS. C96
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serf 6 is
CAVE BEARS: GEEN TEETS I would like to return this dog. This dog is not what I wanted ... Its face keeps melting .... Yes, while I am asleep. .... No, I would not like another dog. This tape veers more to the musical side of CB: wasted rockabilly, Bob Dylan covers backwards and a long psychedelic horror jam from the earliest archives. C32
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serf 4 is
BURNING TRI-PYRAMID PRISM which is a tie-dyed tape a hippie would like. selected cave bears stomp slowed down to point ninety nine percent. no human hands showing. great for falling asleep while driving. C90
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serf 3 is
JUST DADS: CTHULU LOVETAPE//CAVE BEARS: JUMP TO YOUR WATERTOWER. all the worst cave bears performances and songs. "just dads": new orleans kindergartener screech tunes about dads and things dads like like sawhorses and stabbing mom. bside is live at no audience, vermont, with "jump to your bed" and lefty frizzell. C60
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serf 2 is
CAVE BEARS: JAZZ HANDS. preprogrammed tour through selected unpresent environments. focused on cave bears' peripheral players to the exclusion of the core. imagine if someone took a head-to-toe cylindrical chunk out the middle of your body. 30 minutes b/w khmer hits of the nineteensixties.
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