 Jane Jerardi and Ginger Wagg"Facade" - facade $11.5ppd Buy Here Façade is a multimedia dance-theater work by collaborators Jane Jerardi and Ginger Wagg. Façade incorporates dance, projected video images, and original sound provided by Tristana Fiscella and Rebecca Mills of (at the time of this performance) The Caution Curves. This dvd is a vital document in the creative avant-dance work in and around |
 Little Women"teeth" - scd002 $11ppd Buy Here Brooklyn quartet Little Women formed two years ago to create music that blurs the line between structure and spontaneity. The group’s sound distilled from a broad range of influences that stretch from classic Chicago free jazz thru pop music, punk rock, math metal, and harsh noise. Little Women never stop pushing into new sonic territory: splitting overtones to create ghost notes, violently disassembling their instruments onstage, and attacking written and improvised material with equal ferocity. During performances band members often experience side-effects more commonly associated with prescription drugs such as nausea, dizziness, and internal bleeding. |
 Extra Life"2 Song EP" - scdr43 $5ppd Buy Here The out-of-print Extra Life “2 Song EP” cdr is now back in
print with new art and packaging on Sockets. Extra Life (ex-ZS, Little Women, |
 FFFFs"Friends" - scdr41 $7ppd Buy Here "Friends" is the second full-length album from FFFFs. A different, more updated sound finds FFFFs incorporating field recordings to the subtle melodies and sound textures. |
 ManyHillsMassive"New Summer" - scdr40 $8ppd Buy Here “New Summer” collects the musings and music of Bob Doto (of SPRCSS) through his ManyHillsMassive project. Following the two initial zines by ManyHillsMassive Publications (found here), “New Summer” emerges as a dub-text/aural-crust mini-zine with four blistering, focused noise compositions on a 3” mini-cdr. Well worth the wait and just in time for the this new summer. |
 DJ KC"Broken KC: Volume 1" - scdr39 $5ppd Buy Here DJ KC is off to Nepal and India for the next 7 months. But he's left us with an amazing mix of broken beats and funk to tide us over until he gets back. This one will keep the party going. |
 Chris Lynn"Audio Landscapes" - scdr38 $7ppd Buy Here Chris Lynn is a local-DC artist creating compelling and beautiful experimental films. For his first Sockets release, Chris presents various field recordings from his films as well as other edited and remixed sound pieces on "Audible Landscapes." The tracks that make up this collection encapsulate the everyday subtlety of sound. It's damn good. |
 Chic Nerve"Hectic Tenuous" - scdr37 $6ppd Buy Here Rebecca Mills with her laptop and other noisemaking implements, as well as occasional collaborators of the human persuasion. |
 MOTH"The Pollen Path" - scdr36 $7ppd Buy Here The second cdr from MOTH (Sam Hillmer and Ben Gerstein) is a subtle and amazing collection of live recordings. "The Pollen Path" incorporates field recordings and the natural improvisational language Hillmer and Gerstein have built in previous MOTH shows and releases. |
 (The) Plums"(the plums) split release" - scdr35 $7ppd Buy Here (The) Plums seethe from the Arlington basement to release their first Sockets cd-r. "Split Release" captures this DC stalwart at one of its many live shows, mastered for maximum freakrock effect. Driving, heavy, and the soundtrack to a city completely devoid of comparable outfits. |
 Church Clothes"Lazy Illumination" - scdr34 $6ppd Buy Here "Lazy Illumination" is an enveloping composition that slowly unfolds into a meditative, reflective pool of sound. Featuring Aaron Leitko on laptop, this project is the first proper release by the Church Clothes project. |
 Slim Castle"Four Walls" - sdcr33 $5ppd Buy Here Slim Castle hones the synth/guitar/sizzled beat stylings first brought to you by "Siege of His Sand City." Concept cassette utilizing core elements and notes forming the "voodoo mortar," this is the shape of Slim to come. Look out for more |
 Zs"Four Systems" - scdr32 $6ppd Buy Here This is a full-length realization of "Four Systems" - a cover of Earle Brown's "Folio and Four Systems". An edited version of this is to be found on a Tzadik compilation. Very limited quantity of these left since Zs just took them on tour! |
 Plain Lace"Enemy Tones" - scdr31 $5ppd Buy Here 30 minute cassette from Plain Lace (ex-Navies). This one makes the blood boil. "Enemy Tones" clamours and shakes with what Lace calls gutter guitar music. |
 MOTH"Live in DC/NY" - scdr30 $7ppd Buy Here Sam Hilmer (of Zs) and Ben Gerstein (Ben Gerstein Collective) form the tenor sax/trombone duo M.O.T.H. This collection of recordings from live shows in DC and NYC is subtle, stripped down improv. With the eight tracks on this sockets release, Ben and Sam explore the deep currents of a new language in improvisation. |
 Slim Castle"The Castle out in Harsh West Texas" - scdr29 $10ppd Buy Here The Castle out in Harsh West Texas is the second Sockets release from Slim Castle. We are releasing a limited, signed and numbered first edition of 40 copies with hand-crafted cases by the artist. A lot of them are inside scooped-out hardcover books, like how they used to hide guns in movies. The sound of this one is all texture fetish, syncopated sandpaper. Its scratchier, dustier than the last Slim Castle release. A sun-scorched landscape dotted with sportscar carcasses. Bouquets of bleached longhorns. Desert light spilling through the shotgun-perforated door of a Pontiac. Harsh sounds from a west Texas dream. |
 FFFFs"I Can Hear Summer Coming" - scdr28 $6ppd Buy Here Seven friends remixed an FFFFs song called "I Can Hear Summer Coming". The remix EP features Chris Grier, Slim Castle, Person, Ocupational Athlete, A Wolf Spit Rips Evergreen, Church Clothes and Layne Garrett. Summer has past. |
 Harm Stryker"Class Consciousness" - scdr27 $7ppd Buy Here Harm Stryker's beautiful noise is proudly displayed in the new Sockets release entitled "Class Consciousness". The sleeves were beautifully hand-screened by the band. Emerging from the 804Noise collective in Richmond, Harm Stryker layer experimental textures and noise in a refreshing mix, making them a standout from the rest of the so-called noise bands. Check them out on the web. They've got plenty of other releases with various labels. |
 The Caution Curves"A Little Hungry" - scd001 $13ppd Buy Here This is the first LP by Caution Curves which is comprised of three DC area musicians - Tristana Fiscella, Amanda Huron and Rebecca Mills. Collectively the three create a sound completely their own and make all the boys trying their hands at experimental music look like posers. |
 Kohoutek"Hair on the Sidewalk" - scdr25 $9ppd Buy Here Kohoutek's a live experience and this cd-r + dvd-r captures them in that context with an amazing show and video in Philadelphia this past year. This comes with amazing, original cover art by Scott Allison and features video by Jim Brophy. Sweet. Pick it up, only 50 copies. |
 Rivers in Fields"501(C)3 EP" - scdr23 $6ppd Buy Here One of the very few bands that rock these days. That's not easy and is, quite frankly, an anomoly in DC. The live show is ear splittingly wonderful and this EP does not disappoint. Recognize and pony up. |
 Audio Zine 3"Curated by Rebecca Mills" - scdr22 $8ppd Buy Here From Rebecca: "SCDR22 represents a few of my favorite experimental and/or uncategorizeable artists. The majority are based in Washington, DC and its environs, where I have made my home for quite a long time now. I've always been most drawn to people who are not only making interesting and challenging music, but who work to maintain cohesive communities as well. These are the people who are part of that community, and who help to make this area fertile ground for creative risk-taking." |
 Layne Garrett"...The Lost Spaces Reconstructed..." - scdr21 $9ppd Buy Here This is a double cd-r release by Layne Garrett. The first disk contains original compositions that evoke both pop sensibility and acoustic experimentation. The second disk finds Layne experimenting with percussion. This disk is not to be slept on - includes original photo collage unique to each cd and also includes hand-screened cardboard cases by Layne himself. |
 Noriaki Watanabe"Computer Music" + "Live @ the Stone and Bonus" - scdr20 $8ppd Buy Here This is a double cd-r release by Noriaki Watanabe (Na). Sockets is excited to release Noriaki's wonderful collection of new pieces that explore space and texture. The release features original art by Noriaki. The first CD includes all of the sounds with his laptop running so it overloaded and made errors and skips. The second CD is a document of his show with Seattle's cellist, Brent Arnold (known with his trio with Wally Shoup as well as Seatte's indie rock bands such as Built to Spill) at the Stone, a curator-run venue for experimental music in New York, that John Zorn opened about a year ago. |
 Na"Red Square" + "Na DVD (Part I)" - scdr19 $8ppd Buy Here This is a cd-r + dvd-r release that documents Na live. The cd-r is a live recording of Na at the University of Washington's Red Square and the dvd-r is live footage of Na. |
 Martin McCavitt"Marxophone" - scdr18 $8ppd Buy Here Marty McCavitt's zither music is here. This LP includes studio and live recordings. Music for the mind on any day. |
 Tone Ghosting"Castle Changes EP" - scdr16 $7ppd Buy Here Tone Ghosting is Jeff Bagato from Washington D.C. who also performs as Dj Panic in the duo collaboration with Violet called VioletPanic. Jeff also organizes monthly experimental and noise events at GWU called The Electric Possible. Tone Ghosting incorporates pecuiliar vocal treatments with improvised scratching techniques using a hacksaw in frenetic live dubs. |
 Hand Fed Babies"Live_2006" - scdr15 $6ppd Buy Here Hugh McElroy (ex-Black Eyes, Equinox, Sentai) and Sean Peoples (FFFFs, Big Cats) making some art-dub-beat-chant racket. Only 100 made. |
 Slim Castle"Siege of His Sand City" - scdr14 $8ppd Buy Here Slim Castle's "Siege of His Sand City" - Sprawling and lush guitar, atmospheric electronics and genre-bending sound that's accessible. This is Slim Castle's first LP issued with beautiful art. Music and art by Luke Wyatt. |
 Myo"Atari Sky" - scdr13 $7ppd Buy Here Myo's "Atari Sky" is a journey into sound as repetition and texture. The cd-r features Seth Adelsberger's artwork. Each release was hand-screened by Seth and Sockets will only carry 50 copies. |
 FFFFs"Cracked" - scdr12 $7ppd Buy Here Loop textures with a little beat to boot. Tape loops, found sound recordings and kalimba in an ambient context. |
 Audio Zine 2"" - scdr11 $8ppd Buy Here Featuring the sounds of Chris Grier, Guy Picciotto and Eddie Janney, Slim Castle, Echolalia, Occupational Athlete, Radel Esca, Layne Garrett, Aaron Leitko, Dan Caldas, Justin Moyer, Rivers in Fields, Jonathan Morris, Carolina Mayorga, Gnome Hobo, Stereo Moon, Insect Factory and McCavitt|Jones |
 The Cutest Puppy in the World"Finfolk" - scdr10 $7ppd Buy Here Improv folk with broken strings, horns, keys and two of the nicest guys you'll meet. |