Trash Aesthetic is a new label with a very unique and egalitarian method of distributing music. TAR will release, in editions of 2-3 copies each, ANY material we receive. Of these copies, 1 will be given to the artist, and the other 1 or 2 will be sold through the label. The idea of Trash Aesthetic, in part, is to totally short-circuit the collector impulse in experimental music, and to encourage true experimentation on the part of the listener. Many artists featured on Trash Aesthetic will be unknown and possibly unreleased elsewhere, and the idea of this label is to provide a forum for these musicians to make a one-on-one connection with a listener. The affordable price of TAR releases will hopefully encourage some chance-taking from listeners, exploring previously unheard sounds in the form of a totally unique art object. All TAR releases are $4, or $18 for any 5. (Customers not in the US, add a dollar per title, or $4 for 5 titles.) Those interested should e-mail me a list of titles (and preferably alternates as well, due to the extremely limited nature of these titles) before placing a payment via PayPal, check, or money order. No one may order more than 5 titles at a time.
All Trash Aesthetic titles are CD-Rs packaged in a plain white paperboard sleeve with black lettering detailing the artist name, album title, and catalog number. All sleeves are also hand-numbered to indicate the edition number.
Nothing currently. Sorry.
TAR-026 Cementimental Badly Recorded Transpose Jams (ltd-2) web/email
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TAR-027 Damno Te Burning Rome (ltd-2) web/email
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TAR-028 Offensive Orange More Mugshots (ltd-3) web/email
Outtakes from this harsh noise outfit's MUGSHOTS release.
TAR-029 David Payne Feedback #1 (ltd-3) email
Solo feedback studies from this Offensive Orange member.
TAR-030 Anal Panzerfaust/Elvis Presler Tribute To Luciano Pavarotti (ltd-2) email/email
Massively silly noise collage, a collaboration this time around.
TAR-031 Schwarzmetal Metallick Purity (ltd-2)
Full-on noisy metal energy.
TAR-032 XEDH Astreunuchen (ltd-2) email
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TAR-033 XEDH Untitled [Subway] (ltd-2) email
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TAR-034 HarS Live Chronicles v. IV (ltd-3) web/email
Another volume of great live electro-acoustics.
TAR-035 John Clair Scraps (ltd-3) email
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TAR-036 Alastair Wilson British Shoe Corporation, Volume One (ltd-2) email
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TAR-037 The Seven Arts glitch001 (ltd-4) web/email
A series of glitch/feedback pieces intended as raw materials for live performance; listen as music, or use it for your own reconstructions.
TAR-038 Abstract Entity Dangerous Radioactive Aircraft (ltd-2) email
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TAR-039 JPX Over Pop's Dead Body, We Sing Hallelujahs (ltd-3)
Chopped and mangled exuberant pop madness.
Anyone who's interested in having their music released on Trash Aesthetic, simply send your demo (preferably in CDR format) to the address below. Please, don't send MP3s in e-mail attachments (though links to MP3s are fine), and ask before sending other formats. With your demo, include your address, web/email, artist name, album title, song titles, and any other (very short) info you want included.
Ed Howard
112 Ambrose Avenue
Malverne, NY 11565
See the list of deleted titles that are no longer available.