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TUNNEL CANARY 'JIHAD' / 'LIVE AT THE ECCA 1980(WINTERKILL)' LIMITED EDITION 2LP rundownsun No. 44 / No. 49

Available for pre-order now: the limited edition(less than 200 copies!) 2LP version of TUNNEL CANARY's long delayed vinyl debut.

Formed nearly 30 years ago at the height of Vancouver BC's early punk scene, amidst Canadian HARDCORE progenitors like D.O.A. and SUBHUMANS, TUNNEL CANARY emerged with a sound more in common with the then still incubating UK POWER ELECTRONICS scene and a militant attitude/lifestyle more in-line with straight edge hardcore or east-asian asceticism.

Influenced by avant-garde guitarists Fred Frith and Keith Rowe, contempory electronic composers like TUDOR, STOCKHAUSEN, and CAGE, and NO WAVE bands like MARS and DNA, TUNNEL CANARY produced a volatile and often violent mix of pure-noise, synthesizer music, free-improv, and confrontational performance art. Centered around the chaotic guitar antics and synth compositions of guitarist Aleh Kaheen(now: Nathan Holiday) coupled with the accusatory and often absolutely-hysterical caterwauling of vocalist Ebra Ziron, and supported by the tasteful and powerful bass punctuations of David Sheftel, TUNNEL CANARY’s unique sound sits somewhere in the spheres of POST-INDUSTRIAL, PROTO-POWER-ELECTRONICS, and NOISE.

This 2LP set represents the definitive TUNNEL CANARY Document. Culled from material recorded between 1980 and 1983 representing the bands most prolific and powerful period. Included on the first LP is the bands sole released work ‘JIHAD’. Edited and re-named “Erdang” and released on the cassette compilation “Stitching Small Tears” in 1981; here ‘JIHAD’ has been restored to its complete length and original title. Flip of ‘JIHAD’ is a recording of TUNNEL CANARY’s extravagant multi-media live performance of ‘BEAUTY SECRETS’ from 1983. LP number two is a raucous performance from 1980 recorded at the Emily Carr Center for the Arts.

American Noise Legend, and early TC ally GX JUPITTER LARSEN remembers the TUNNEL CANARY live experience:

“A Tunnel Canary show had layer after layer
of racket fragments bouncing somewhere between the
back of your teeth and your inner ear. They were the
classical complaint against calm, and the archetypal
battle against boredom. They made you realize there
was more to punk than just safety pins and leather.
I remember seeing them open up for a William Burroughs
reading in 1981. They blew the PA in seconds! Nathan I
know doesn’t care much for that one, but I remember
Burroughs telling me how he loved it. We all loved it.
Tunnel Canary was a wake-up call for those of us
fortunate enough to catch them live in those early
days. When we heard them we heard the future, and the
future was going to be loud!”

Absolutely no expense has been spared in the manufacturing of this record: expertly mastered by Joshua Stevenson (magneticring, samara lubelski band, caste-exotic archives, etc). Cut twice for quality assurance. Imported black paper poly-lined inner-sleeves. Quality offset printed, double-sided, 2-panel heavy cardstock covers. A HUGE 25.5" x 34" offset printed poster! And a beautiful vinyl-ink screen-print on the b-side of the live LP.

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shipping: 2nd-3rd week of MAY 2008

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$25.00 usd + postage

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The Christa Min "The Devil And Tex Watson" 7" rundownsun No. 5

"Lessee...walking down Robson...hot summer day. Never go near that street usually, but woke up in some dude's penthouse near Hooter's. I woke up, grabbed a shirt off the floor and put it on...and some sunglasses...and a leftover Heneiken from the fridge. Tiptoed out, stepping over the sleeping bodies on the floor. Now I'm outside in the part of town that most needs a firebombing....and the sun is so...fucking...bright! Still stoned...no cash in pocket. Had enough money for a dollar store keyring that reads "Take me to Yr Dealer" with a drawing of an Alien smoking a joint. Bought it and immediately afterwards wished I bought a hot dog instead. Hot dogs. Swamps. Tex Watson. To my right there's an Asian businessman eating a hot dog. Drank the Heinenken down in one long drink. My mind's in the everglades. My mind's on Tex and Squeaky and Susan and Krenwinkel and dunebuggies and Ed Sanders and the Fugs...and that fucker Bugliosi...swamps. Swamps can hold you under. Until you can't breathe. Wouldn't want to fall into one...but I did. So hot! The sun is on it's way out, but not soon enough. Gotta shield...myself. "

packaged in 2 piece, silk screened millboard cover. art by nicholas bragg. xerox insert. $5.00 + postage


Kevin Shields "Monkeys Have No Hair" c30 rundownsun No. 11

KS brings you another tangled web of feedback, and shriek vocals! totally messed up and messy. chaotic spazz channeled through some serious power-electronics-hatred come SoCal-hardcore-anguish! total fuckin' punk rock noise. edition of 100. stenciled and spray-painted cases. xerox labels. xerox insert. high-bias tapes. sick surprise in every one! $6.00 + shipping ALMOST GONE!


black jesus and the cosmic prayer "my mind is a fruit farm" cdr rundownsun No. 19

indefinitely shelved cdr version of this obscure, criminally under-distributed, spacey, neu-cosmiche cassette originally released on blakk wainbow records a few years back. the light has come. ultra-minimal electronic waves lap at polished shores of crystalline drone. a curling fog of ritual noise and distant voices smokes your soul out of your skull, set free to cruise the inner-spaceways. cosmic devotional music. possibly one of the most striking and fully realized albums i have had the pleasure of releasing. edition of 50 copies. screen-printed high quality cdr, packaged in a screen-printed, hand-made digipack-style case with paste-on insert. $10usd + shipping.


BT.HN. "black mirrors and dark planet alignment" one sided LP rundownsun No. 20

over a year in the making, and well worth the wait. BT.HN. (LA BETE HUMAINE) brings you to a place where profane ritual meets barbaric violence! domineering waves of crushing bass and crackling electronics bury slithering spoken rites, and crest in thundering commands. a steady, measured rumble peppered with heavily effected vocals breaks into volatile metal abuse. vocals shift from paced incantation to frantic possession! similar to the abrasive works of TAINT, ATRAX MORGUE and IUGULA-THOR, but underpinned by a raw, ritualistic violence.

2-sided black and white offset-printed cover on heavy paper. one-sided 12" 33rpm vinyl record with silk-screened b-side. housed in a crystal-clear, heavy polyvinyl sleeve. featuring art and layout from the artist. $12.00 usd + postage.


wapstan "of zero and the void" c30 rundownsun No. 24

no howling abyss. no death-silent vacuum. just the ever present anti-presence of 60 cycles. hardly above perception. life between high voltage power lines. you're living it every day. no sounds, just pure, harnessed electricity. from canada's reigning underground drone lord. spray painted high bias tapes. xeroxed and hand inked artwork on recycled paper. numbered edition of 100. $6.00 +shipping


taskmaster "get dead" c30 rundownsun No.29

a hissing, spiting, white noise sandstorm with bass like a dirty drag though the mud. rushing-water sound for restroom line-ups. edition of 100. offset-printed 3 panel j-card. xerox insert. spray-painted high bias cassette. $6.00usd + shipping


Flatgrey "xxxxxx" one sided LP rundownsun No. 30

long-awaited vinyl debut from vancouver underground noise legend flatgrey.industrial noise. harsh, industrial noise. pure sound. mechanical, electrical, valve and tube. scrounged, rescued and resurrected. filtered through obsession. menacing roars of bass pushed along grinding mechanics, like millions of rows of pneumatic teeth. heaving, gnashing. compressor hiss, and blast furnace tongue. incendiary atmosphere, superheated, and forced through junked magnets and shredded cones. a nameless exercise.

1-sided gold offset-printing on heavy black paper. one-sided 12" 33rpm vinyl record with silk-screened b-side. housed in a crystal-clear, heavy polyvinyl sleeve.featuring art and layout from the artist. $12.00 usd + postage.


werewolf jerusalem "surrounded by fangs" c26 rundownsun No.31

new material from the legendary richard ramirez. a stripped frame of narrow sounds forced from discrete locales, and oblique devices. organized into sonic terraces; plateaus of hiss and crackle abruptly transition. 2 tracks of dense static and drainpipe howl that exemplify richards meticulous, source-driven investigations of textured sound. edition of 100. offset-printed 2 panel j-card. spray-painted high bias cassette. $6.00usd + shipping


black leather jesus "wild" c34 rundownsun No. 36

consistently active since 1989 black leather jesus should need no introduction. their debut for rundownsun offers a focused, three-round burst of pure, speaker-shredding distortion. convulsive emissions, and aggressive blasts in an ecstatic/chaotic convergence. explosive. concussive bombast, screeching feedback, and heavy electronics from this truly seminal american noise unit. edition of 100. offset-printed 2 panel j-card. xerox labeled high bias cassette. dipped in rubber with stamped catalog tag. $8.00usd + shipping


eli bornowsky "untitled" c40 rundownsun No. 37

first available recordings of vancouver visual artist eli bornowsky's tape, and electronic compositions. the first time i became aware of eli was when i was participating in The Western Front Gallery's open call for new musical works. i was lucky enough to catch eli in performance with sam mckinlay of THE RITA, and christian nicolay of THE REV. my face was thoroughly melted. i soon after attended a solo performance of eli's at the now defunct Blim gallery in downtown vancouver. i was immediately confronted with something quite different from the collaborative performance. humoristic juxtaposition, kitsch-culture/noise-culture referencing, caustic frequencies, concrete technique, primitive fourtrack manipulations, and effects pedal tweakings all expertly executed in a mesmerizing albeit abrasive 15 minutes. from those experiences and others like them eli was immediately at the top of my list of artists to approach when i started rundownsun. 2 years on and a release has finally materialized. like his visual art eli's sound work "address[es] perception in a formal psychedelia". total rainbow electronics. colour xerox artwork by eli bornowsky. spray-painted high bias cassette. $6.00usd + shipping


comedy "untitled" c30 rundownsun No. 42

30 minutes of personal references, inside jokes, and obscure concepts. extremely limited and only available at LEADERLESS: contemporary cassette culture on now at printed matter NYC. offset-printed 3 panel j-card. spray-painted high-bias cassette.

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pulse emitter "progression to desolation" LP black horizons $12.00us + shipping

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sick llama "born again to die" LP hanson $15.00usd + shipping

prurient "s/t" LP hanson $15.00usd + shipping

stegm "sugar shower" LP (RED or BLACK vinyl) freak animal $25.00usd + shipping

pedestrian deposit "vestige" LP hospital $15.00usd + shipping

shearing pinx "caves" 7" dnt $4.00 usd + shipping

shearing pinx "poison hands" 2x3" not not fun $10.00usd + shipping

shearing pinx "work ethic" 5"cdr isolated now waves $5.00usd + shipping

influx "cryptic cloak" 5"cdr jyrk $5.00usd + shipping

the barracks of afghanistan "color" RRR $3.00+ shipping

haemorrhaging fetus / ferveur noire / sick buildings "the dense gravel of the riverbed" 5" pro-cdr militant walls $8.00usd. postage paid.

pearl drills "s/t" c30 hanson $6.00usd + shipping

dylan nyoukis "dadgum my bubblegum" c30 hanson $6.00usd +shipping

speculum fight "lost live 2" c30 hanson $6.00usd + shipping

damion romero "missing link" c30 hanson $6.00usd + shipping

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we're having a garage sale here at rundownsun/Hostile Office Ambience. lots of long out of print releases, electronics, and a few other obscurities up for grabs. please check out the list of stuff that needs to go! HERE

another fine review from the folks at CASSETTE GODS, this time for the most recent offering from WEREWOLF JERUSALEM released on rundownsun in june.

don't miss the return of cult HARSH NOISE artist RICHARD RAMIREZ to vancouver, canada as WEREWOLF JERUSALEM.

excellent, albeit short reveiw of the recent TASKMASTER cassette on rundownsun HERE

Now Available From the Rundownsun Distro

PULSE EMITTER "Progression to Desolation" LP BLACK HORIZON

full-length LP debut(?) for this long-running, cult, modular synth tweaker from portland. highly reccomended!!!

$12.00usd + shipping

SUTCLIFFE JUGEND "Transgression" LP(white) DOGMA CHASE

new LP on deluxe japanese label from the same folks who run MOLEHILL DISTRIBUTION. a notably less ROCK outing then the recent "THIS IS THE TRUTH". fasioning a more classic POWER ELECTRONICS and NOISE sound from their usual tools, this is still the newly re-invented SJ.

$25.00usd + shipping. limited quantaties.