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LIST (for descriptions scroll down)

New Grenada: Parting Shots (Enhanced CD Album - Asaurus) - £5

Pants Yell!: Recent Drama (CD Album- Asaurus) - £5

Pants Yell!: Allison Stratton (CD Album- Soft Abuse) - £8

Mathletes: Jest & Earnest - £5 (Double CDr - Asaurus)

The Capstan Shafts - Her Versus The Sad Cold Eventually (CDr - Asaurus) - £3

V/a: For Whom The Casio Tolls (CDr -Asaurus) - £4

V/a: Clouds and Balloons vol.1 (CDr Asaurus) - £3

V/a: Candycore! (Cdr - Asaurus) - £3

V/a: Asaurus summer sampler 2005 (CDr Asaurus) - £3

Diskettes: S/t (CDr album - Asaurus) - £5

The Rough Bunnies: Mit Weisse Westen Dreck Am Stecken (12" album - Yspilanti) - £9

Pete Green: Everything I Do Is Gonna be Sparkly (7"-Atomic Beat) - £3

Pocketbooks: Cross The Line (7"- Atomic Beat) - £3

MJ Hibbett and the Validators: The Lesson Of The Smiths/The Gay Train (cdep -Artists Against Success) - £5

MJ Hibbett and the Validators: We Validate! (CD album - Artists Against Success) - £10

Maria: OH Victoria! (7" w/ poster - Yay! records) - £3

Maria: Friends Forever (7" w/ different poster - Yay! records) - £3

Catwalk: Shiny Girl (7" w/ poster - Yay! records) £3

Pam & Teri: Lucy (7" w/ poster - Yay! records) £3

YAY! RECORDS ZINE - w/ 1-sided 5" by Maria - £3

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If you've not come across Asaurus yet you've really been missing out. they're knack for unearthing pop gems, and placing them in all their rough-diamond glory in hand-crafted sleeves is a thing of beauty.

"Strange, bouncy bumble-poprock like your neighbor's kid running amuck in a local music shop." - Palebear.com

"The album may be a bit too ambitious and developed for fans of super modest lo fi home recordings and too cheeky and post-modernly self aware for more mainstream tastes." http://sctas.com/

"Big wads of fun." aidabet.com

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"..a prefect example of lo-fi indie-pop with the sharp & clever lyrics, tight vocals complete with a catchy, poppy sound." indie-mp3.co.uk

"The songs on this second album of theirs are easily their best yet.." indiepages.com

"..glistening pop perfection of every single song still still sounds fresh, time after time after time and that's the mark of an unbeatable album." Scatterbrain.com

"[Pants Yell!] write simple 2-3 minute pop songs, but they do it so remarkably well that you can picture Stuart Murdoch or Stephen Merritt saying "I wish I had written that song"." onechord.net

"Alison Statton comes to us courtesy of the Soft Abuse label and gets better with repeated spins. In fact the last four tracks on the album are so good I can't stop playing them over and over. The band displays a charming perfection of the soft indie-pop dynamic with subtle, clever, lyrics and hooks aplenty. Having seen them play at Cake Shop a few weeks back only confirmed my adoration. If that's not enough, Boston-area experimentalist Greg Kelley offers up some primo Tijuana brass style trumpet playing on a few tracks just for kicks. Winter's coming, so here's the cuddle music for all the cutesters out there. You can thank me later. " thefader.com

Compared to The Go-Betweens, The Aisler Set, Orange Juice, Lucksmiths, B&S..

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"[Joe Mathlete's] penchant for pop, clever lyrics, humor and an appropriate degree of experimentation will remind you of everything you love about indie rock." splendidmagazine.com

"Quaint Brilliance" 30music.com

Comparisons to Daniel Johnston and They Might Be Giants, but by a guy who offered Conner Oberst out for a Rhyme Battle (that song's on the frist cd of this album)

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"The first time I heard the Capstan Shafts, I found myself muttering a phrase that hasn't passed my lips in a long, long time: "How can this be so good?" pitchforkmedia.com

the mountain goats are sometimes mentioned in writing about The Capstan Shafts, but more commonly are the words "prolific" and "awesome"

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The challenge: Record a song using only battery-powered kiddie keyboards and your voice. Millions tried, but only seventeen survived. This is their story.

"a brilliant effort from some guys who know the true meaning of arcade pop." phonynowhere.blogspot.com

Features Eliot The Letter Ostrich, New Granada, This Bank Holiday..

[FULL LISTING: Patterns in Paris - I Spy / The Art Form Unknown - Values Monetary / The I Love Ryans - Witch Dr / The New Sound of My Bossa Nova - A Story / Colin Clary - Remember in November / Megamoog - Goodbye / New Grenada - Lightning Parade / Elliott the Letter Ostrich - Kennedy Wears a Colostomy Bag... / Seiss - If We Are Holding Hands How Can I Touch Myself? / The Original Beekeepers - Nina / Dentist Dispense - All Girls are Lesbians / The Bad Spellers - White Day / The Goslings - Panopticon / Super Famicom - Wishes Dangling on Dead Desires / This Bank Holiday - She's Spiritual, But Not Religious / Andrew Octopus - Soapbubble Revolution / Young Model - Battle for C64 (Atari Sucks) ]

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Asaurus issue (2004) of a pop compilation originally on Me No Know Records featuring The Escargo-Go's, The 32-bit Handhelds, Big Game Hunting, The Arcade Fire, Elliot The Letter Ostrich..

[FULL LISTING: The Artist Formerly Unknown (feat. Emilliene) – How Are You? / The Broken Hearts Club – Abbotsford and Flemington / The Arcade Fire – No Cars Go / Elliott the Letter Ostrich – Jethro's Stolen Wheels / The Galactic Heroes – Tweedles / Melamine – A Dock Rat Now / Professor Pez – Never Got It / Paper Tiger – Mars in May / The Measles – Rebekah Elmaloglou / The French Horns – 45 / Bad Flirt – Boxing Astoria / Awesome Animal Ambulance – Operation Kitty / Seasick Crocodile – Treetop Love / This Bank Holiday – He Prefers the Movie Novelization / Sinkcharmer – Nothing To Me / Teradactyl – 110% / The 32-bit Handhelds – Woodchuck to Grey Squirrel / The Escargo-go's – The Life of a Total Square / The Fresas – The Dance / The Solvents – Dancing on my Debts / Big Game Hunting – Ready or Not / The Operators – What the Mailman doesn't Bring / Sarah Plain and Tall – Winter Song / The Protean Self – Tag, I'm it]

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Asaurus CDr reissue (2004) of a Gutless Ezine 2001 Cassette, dedicated to sweeties. Features Saturday Looks Good To Me, Smitten Kitten, The Gutless Wonders..

[FULL LISTING: The Pop Project - Candy Song / The Magic Tennies - Charleston Chew / Laura Watling - Jamie Jujubee / Geoff Pickering - Love is Sweet, But Candy is... / Smitten Kitten - Hey Mr. Owl / My Place in Space - Robots Don't Eat Candy / Chariots of Tuna - Chocolate & Soda / Curse of the J - Blowpop / Dipstick & Eggnog - Strategic Candy (Take 10) / The Gutless Wonders - Arms Up for Candy / Winnebago - Pixie Stix, Pop Rocks, & Dr. Pepper / Dick Richards - Don't Take Candy From Strangers / Action Tiger - Zagnut / Seasick Crocodile - Pass the Now & Later / Christmas Ape - ...Goes to Hershey Park / Jeff Piquerink - Gum / Daft Pop - Sugarcoat It / The Boys Star Library - Melonhead / Jason Morphew - Candy / Moods for Moderns - Candy Apples / Saturday Looks Good To Me - Last Night I Fell Asleep On Your Floor]

V/a: Asaurus summer sampler 2005 (CDr Asaurus) - £3

23 tracks by 23 bands, featuring: New Grenada, Elliot The Letter Ostrich. The Mathletes, Pants Yell!, The Goslings, The Capstan Shafts, The Diskettes, The 32-bit Handhelds, Ponies In The Surf...

[FULL LISTING New Grenada - Nerd Alert / Colin Clary - The Engine Light's Always On / Elliott the Letter Ostrich - My Baroness / The Mathletes - Harry the Hornless Unicorn / Winter Vacation - The Greenest Age / The Pizazz - Cult Classic / Ponies In The Surf - White Caribou / Patrick Porter - Slow Torpedo / Sinkcharmer - California's Gone / Quiet Bears - Creatures / Pants Yell! - New 4 / The Goslings - Statuette / The Capstan Shafts - Little Burst of Sunshine / The Diskettes - Pop Pop Beat / Gabriel Joel - Wright's Creek / The 32-Bit Handhelds - Don't Feel 0000ff / When I Know You Will Too - step11 / Black Spartacus - O.T.T. (Train Song) / This Bank Holiday - Rad Flush / 3ColorNegative - All We Have / Wally Pear - For Crystal / Mathematics - Phantomology / Rusty Tomaski - The Beauty of Billy (Part 2)]
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Seriously one of the greatest indiepop bands I've been lucky enough to experience, it's brutally simple, sparkly-eyed wonderful perfect pop music.

"This band is like the sunshine and bubblegum version of The Halo Benders" saidthegramophone.com

"The duo's minimal but criminally catchy acoustic guitar accompaniments, bossa nova finger snaps, fifties girl-group chirps and amateur but head-over-heels-enthusiastic singing sound as if it all should be dusted off from an old cassette tape once used by a vacationing, wide-eyed aunt-and-uncle pair who liked to send their relatives short musical documents." splendedezine.com

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(Ltd 200 - i think this is not available anywhere else in the uk?)

Rough bunnies will be your new favourite band. They're from Sweden but this record is out on Ypsilanti Records from somewhere (Michigan?) in the US. The record is adorable bedroom-pop sort of like Moldy Peaches at their most tender, it could be enjoyed by anyway, especially fans of Jens Lekman. On the internet people tend to mention Shonen knife and the vaselines around the same time as this band (along with the moldy peaches), but really, it's not quiet right. This band is basically what made me think I should start a Distro.

"I thought "A Smile And A Ribbon" were as Indie as it could possibly get - obviously i was WRONG!!!" MJ Hibbett
"The purity of these songs gives you the same fresh feeling that, usually, only the spring is able to deliver." SongsIWish.com

"The Bunnies are a band that touch outsider hearts with pure black and white gold." Tangents.co.uk

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(ltd hand no. 400)

Trad. one-man and a guitar indiepop, beatifully crafted by the lovely, lovely Pete Green an the new yet fantabulous Atomic Beat Records. This beautiful vinyl is accompanied by the infamous insert entitled "The Periodic Table of Sparkly"

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(ltd hand no. 400)

"Boy/girl vocals, glockenspiels and handclaps, matched with breathtaking lyrics betraying their love for the wonders of everyday life." that quote is from atomicbeatrecords.co.uk, they speak the truth. The problem with this record is you may never get to the b-side because the temptation is so great to just put the needle back to the start... This time Atomic Beat have included the lyrics as an insert.

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MJ Hibbett and the Validators: The Lesson Of The Smiths/The Gay Train (cdep -Artists Against Success) - £5

Mark Hibbett (Official Nicest Man In Pop) and his band are fighting the good fight, and this is a call to arms. They are the antidote to everything cynical and dull that popular/trendy acts are made from. These are songs that ensure a grin so wide on the listener's face that their fist is raised into the air, clenched in defiance of jaded, boring, rock n roll music continuously touted as "relevant". Few bands can make people sing and dance and cry in one set, but in this conflict, The Validators are armed with honesty and joy. If you can't enjoy these records I suggest you ask yourself "What DOES make me happy?"

The double 'A' sided "single" is in fact 7 tracks, plus the video for "The Gay Train", and an entire "Live In Leicester" Album as the Multimedia bonuses. The Album also features Multimedia bonuses including demo versions of songs, lyrics, and stories about the songs.

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YAY! Records Releases

all of these are limited to 250 copies except "oh victoria" which was a pressing of 1000, and the zine, which is limited to 300

Maria - "Oh Victoria!" 7" (comes w/ poster) £3

Maria "Friends Forever" 7" (comes w/ poster) £3

Maria are from Oxnard, California and they make breezy, shambly, twee pop in a lamentful kind of way. sometimes a boy sings, sometimes a girl, sometimes both. it's exactly whant you'd want from a swedish pop band, or perhaps a genuine c86 band, but um, they're amrican :-)

Catwalk - "Shiny Girl" 7" (comes w/ poser) £3

Great Californian pop with more of a swagger than their labelmates- musically they've got the upbeat C68 thing going. at times they remind me a little of half man half biscuit but with a completely different vocal style.

Pam & Teri - "Lucy" 7" (comes w/ poster) £3

California twins who sing songs about their cat (lucy)! It's very simple and sweet, but also haunting- with just vocals and keyboard.

ever seen a 1-sided 5" record? me either til now! It's a nice little zine mostly about how frustrated the people of Oxnard, CA are with the apathy of their town. some interviews, and of course, the Maria record which is a little noisier than their 7" and sounds great.