Edition of 200

Below PDX Mix-Tape #1
Various Portland Area Artists
CASSETTE 54 min
BELOWPDX028 $7

Fifteen of my favorite Portland area sound wranglers on 12 tracks. A pudgy dollop of diversity, my friends are so talented and I wanna show Ôem off. We're talking harsh noise, blissful sentiment, weirdo pop, tape collage and a little bit in between the sheets discomfort. I've listened to this so many times and I still haven't gotten sick of it.

Special offer: If you prefer the ease of listening to mp3s on your ipods, buy this tape and make a note that you'd like a digital version as well and I'll send you a zip folder with the audio as one long high quality (320) mp3. You'll still get the tape as it's the way this audio is meant to be heard.

first pressing: 500

Boss of Goth
(2:25) 3.3 mb

Senator's Stance
(3:20) 4.5 mb

Argumentix
Boss of Goth
CD 60 min
BELOWPDX10 $7

This is the first album I wish to be remembered by. Recorded through a bleak year of my life, 2006, Boss of Goth is an album of power-mourning, demon-fighting and vengeance-fucking. Trapped inside despair over the death of true love, childhood, and joy, I have always clung voraciously to a promise of a better tomorrow. I finished this album in March of 2007 and held on to it until now to make sure I would still love it enough to make 500 of them.

Boss of Goth includes industrial punk and pop style songs with occasional fleeting dance beats and bursts of harsh noise. Vocals are the central focus, creating sweet pop ballads and lurking creep-stalker punk melt-downs. A variety of microphone processing accompanying sequencers, drum machines, and tons and tons of manipulated cassette tapes. Twisted collage journeys and quick punches to the throat. A fitting comparison perhaps: To Live and Shave in LA meets Nine Inch Nails, with the spirits of Edward Ka-Spel, Suckdog, and bedroom four track. Includes 6 songs that have appeared regularly in live performances. Oh yeah, and I play piano on the last track.

Album includes two hidden bonus tracks. The first a live performance caught at the end of my "temper tantrum approach" to harsh noise performance. The second is Dragging an Ox Through Water (aka Brian Mumford) singing a cover of my song "Save Life's Golden Receipt in Case Refund Needed." Both were recorded at Someday Lounge by Ryan Olson.

CD comes with a 12 page booklet with lyrics. Cover art by Brian Mumford. .

Edition of 36

Untitled 1
(5:26) 12.4 mb

Noise Divorce
CASSETTE 40 min
BELOWPDX024 $7

Noise Divorce (was) James Squeaky and Keira communicating aggression through playing music together. Brutal tape collage, electronics, samplers, a Springtar (instrument by Daryl Groetsch/Pulse Emitter) and vocals. Recorded on the side when in Industrial Noise 4-piece band Animal Writes together. This is bleak depression.

Limited Edition: 72

Edit Sample
(2.19) 3.1 mb

Kitty Midwife + Lala
four inch giggle
3" CDR 15 min
BELOWPDX13 $7

Mostly micro-cassette recorder (circuit-altered and otherwise) processed samples journey almost linear down waterslides of churning meows, alternating creeping and whipping against ribbed oscillations. When the kittens are at play, the orchestras can often fill with delay.. You won’t find much delay and reverb here. You will have a numbing sensation in your cheek from listening to this. Your head will feel all fuzzy until your brain drains. Kitty Midwife is also in Animal Writes and she is hard at work on a full-length recording for Below PDX. .

Gross candle wax covered cases. They smell slightly intense.

first pressing: 100

Incessant Arousal
(1:02) 1.4 mb

Leaky Plug Voltage to Noggin
(4:13) 5.7 mb

Soup Purse
CDR 49 min
BELOWPDX07 $6

Creep into the murky methodical mayhem of Soup Purse’s electronic effacing slips into subliminal sorcery. Todd Dickerson wrestling with new technology from Peter B’s secret ciat-lombarde laboratory. Cocolase processing Science-Fiction inspired playful keyboard emissions. Constantly churning and shifting, perfect for short attention spans and or for your pet monkey’s walkman on his first trip to the moon. Todd also plays keyboards/narrates the journeys of Space Hawk and The Dendrites. He has a shrewd opinion about just about all topics and sometimes he’s one of the funniest people I know.

Mastered by Pete Swanson (Jyrk/Yellow Swans). Hand acrylic painted directly on jewel case by Todd.

Argumentix + Mattress
Echo Scratch Finale
CDR 39 min
Oms-B Records $5

A collaboration of Rex Marshall's project "Mattress" and James Squeaky aka "Argumentix."

There are only a few lonely/mixed up/slightly bent survivors who remember that time. They speak in poems; disconnect and strange. They don't talk about bombs or blitz, they talk about the beginning of the end and the end of the end. There is a guy who lives under the Big Hill, he says, "We got down to the finale of the end, the last chorus for the short dance that kept echoing down the hall. Even when the place was on fire, fireworks smiling all over the place and sparks like tears raining on the wood shingles, we clapped.

Point Line Plane
CD 45 min
Sincere Brutality / Xeroid Records $10

This really wonderful band called Point Line Plane let me put out their debut album and its so fantastically brillant. Two piece (drum and keyboards) with spazzy screamy vocals. Very solid. Beautiful artwork by E*Rock. Point Line Plane is now on Skin Graft Records. Drummer Nate Carson plays with SUNN0))) sometimes and Keyboards/vocals Josh Blanchard is also in Plants now and hosts the monthly Church of Psychedelia.

Bitter Resistant
Offset Print book - 4 x 5.5" - 16 Pages
Written + Illustrated by James Squeaky $4
Chain to Sun Publishing

Published by Chain to Sun, Bitter Resistant is James Squeaky's reluctant dedication to declaring optimism in the face of despair. Heavily illustrated short story based on a song by Argumentix. Offset printed at Pinball Publishing in Portland. James first official written release not self-published.

pressing: 250

Edition of 48

Soup Purse edit
(3:35) 4.5 mb

Argumentix / Soup Purse
True Guru Electronics Volume One
CASSETTE 28 min
BELOWPDX030 $7

Cults destroy families and brains for the profit of their infallible leaders. Human slaves, rise up and destroy your masters! Live free or opt out completely. Manipulation by criminals intent on genocide for their own praise.

It just so happens that Below PDX recording artists, Soup Purse and Argumentix both wrote long pieces denouncing their most despised cult leaders. Both fairly harsh pieces with vocals. Cocolase, feedback, tape manipulation, synth, vocals, and beats make this quite a journey. Collected together here for Volume One of the True Guru Electronics series. Below PDX doesn't necessarily intent do release volume two so feel free to keep the name going to expose these jerks.

Edition of 36

Volume 4
(3:51) 8.7 mb

PORTLAND
Volumes 3 - 5
CASSETTE 20 min
BELOWPDX026 $7

Urban Portland-centric field-recordings manipulated and processed by James Squeaky (Argumentix). Mixer feedback, crackle, angry homeless, and razzle-dazzle. Listen to it on headphones while walking around the city or at a crowded party for enhanced enjoyment.

Limited Edition for July/Aug 08 tour: 51

Low Voltage edit
(3:21) 4.5 mb

Argumentix
Low Voltage
CASSETTE 28 min
BELOWPDX029 $7

Just in time for the Argumentix Midwest/East Coast Summer 08 tour, this is a cassette of primarily songs that we'll be playing on tour. A side features seven hot Industrial Noise electronics and tenor sax hits and the B side is the 14 minute title track that has been wowing Portland audiences since Hando joined. Very limited edition, offering only a few for sale before we hit the road. Get the tape and learn the words to the songs so you can sing along!

Tell Me if You Think this is an Appropriate Question.
Book - 2.75" x 2.83" - 52 Pages
Life in the Pre-Apocalypse $4

"Life is a leisurely stroll towards death"

"Her eyes clanked my thoughts and sent a secret seizure to my brain"

My favorite quotes from that zine. It's like a noise version of pocket Zen or Tao Te Ching... (Jared Alienated Hominid)

Basically its a little book I made to accompany my art show at Half and Half in Portland, April 2008. Inspiration. Humor. Truths. Lies. Book comes in a little envelope.

pressing: 200

limited edition 100 only

WIDOW MASTERS
(3:47) 5.2 mb

CLOSELAND
(2:32) 3.4 mb

Argumentix + Ghost to Falco
Widow Masters
CDR 41 min
BELOWPDX09 $6

We first found these two soldiers experimenting with extreme art punk hardcore band Alarmist. These days find the two bare souls strutting their solo projects, but this collaboration doesn’t sound too much like either while retaining some familiar elements (argumentix vocals/sample/loops and ghosttofalco guitar, synth, vocals). There’s real bells, there’s a song composed, practiced and recorded over 2 hours and the rest is improvised. James Squeaky (ARG) and Eric Crespo (GTF) are very close friends and this CD is a great exploration of the love and intimacy that they share, totally without boundaries of self-consciousness.

In jewel cases with stencil spray paint on case with art by Eric Crespo.

first pressing: 100

second pressing: 100

eldorado
(4:10) 5.7 mb

Mattress
Eldorado
5"CDR 21 min
BELOWPDX03 $7

Mattress may bring images of discarded furniture, caked and reeking of dead skin and matted clumps of hair. From the lip-chapping desert air, a deep bold voice collides against ancient rock walls, stabbing icicles in the rubbery flesh of cacti while oozing sinister intentions across lizard flesh. Mattress is what Suicide's first album would have sounded as a blues band: confrontational, sinister and somehow still dancy. Like more recent era Nick Cave low dark vocals meets old era Smog, pop with a lonely bedroom recorded desperation. Rex Marshall is a one-man rhythm ace of prison water torture repetitive beats and slippery casio keyboard progressions.

Child Pornography/ Sex with Girls
Split 7"
Hello Asshole $7

Two bands with naughty names on a record label with a naughty name. This record is totally innapropriate and may get banned from places with any degree of decency. Two songs from my old band and two songs from Child Pornography (from Riverside, CA) just in time for our California tour toget-her. On the Sex with Girls side, there is "Big Mac Heartattack" and "Hit Factory." Child Pornography's jams are "Take Control" and "Kill for Rock n Roll".

If you are drunk or on drugs, than please don't listen to this because its about purity and sober-living.