Shiny... Pretty.... Distracting.... You slowly let your braking foot go slack. T-boned at a red light. In the basement, lit only by the flicker of terror alert levels from coast to coast, we have been busy, folks. New Releases --------------------- Specs One : The Long Awaited Mega EP. Release date: Sept 20, 2005. No ice, no lifestylin', no ballin', no frontin', no blabbing on and on about how real we are, no long lists of who we roll with, just droppin' tracks. The Long Awaited Mega EP is the lead tine in a multi-pronged sneak attack: Seattle's legend, Specs One on wax. Stay tuned to http://www.soultheftrecords.com for preorder information. This record is limited to 500 copies worldwide. 6 songs, plus beats. We all wasted no time in sitting down to talk about what the next moves will be. It'll be obvious when the smoke clears. soultheft: Precision Weapon 12". Release date: Sept 20, 2005 After lulling everyone into a bass-laden snooze with 2003's SUB:spect EP, soultheft rolls the live grenade under your couch to deliver two new tracks: Precision Weapon b/w Click-Clack Jacka. The first is the bassy head-nod affair you have been expecting, while the b-side is an attempt to get you up and moving. Can it overcome the gravity of TV? Send us your money to find out. IED: Improvised Explosive Devices ------------------------------------------- Lots pending. Another collaboration with Specs One. Sure. Start the rumor mill. Any guesses? soultheft: after ... sound 12". The plangent one ventures into glitch and tiny-ness. E.Greenwalt: Spontaneous Human Combustion: A case history. Greenwalt's first book - "poems, everybody." The guy's been around forever just waiting for the world to end. Getting with these ruminations is where we all need to be. soultheft records is very excited to be a part of this. Doug Nufer: The River Boys b/w Mudflat Man. Two complete novels, bringing back the old "Ace Double" style. Unlike the hacks we find sleeping under the desks at the offices of soultheft records, this guy's a professional. You may know of him from his Autonomedia novel, "Negativeland" (2004) and others. Two great stories in a great package. nov23: Someday... A real rain... Final recording and mixing is underway for an early 2006 release. E.Greenwalt and P.Petrocelli of Black Noise Cannon have been working hard at getting this done and the results are very beautiful. Black Noise Cannon: new full-length recording to start before year's end. Shows between now and then and beyond. soultheft design: more and more projects happening. Check http://www.soultheftrecords.com/gallery.html for samples of our work. Local telephone poles, too. We're looking for more work, so please contact soultheft@soultheftrecords.com for very reasonable rates (if any rates at all). Posters, handbills, CD / record package design, business cards, wedding invitations, forged signatures, whatever you can dream up. If it can be done with the tools we have, we'll find a way to birth it. Waypoints on the Path to Healing ---------------------------------------------- Friday, September 2 @ Chop Suey (Seattle) Black Noise Cannon with guests: Grievous, Last Second Left, Slave Traitor 9pm, $6, 21+ Black Noise Cannon is the headliner - they get to stretch out. Not to be missed. As a reminder, Slave Traitor has old members of Medlar Doss - the young members are too smart for that shit. This will be a fantastic bill. http://www.chopsuey.com and http://www.blacknoisecannon.com for more info. Friday, September 9 @ Hell's Kitchen (Tacoma) Severus, Gargantula, Grievous, and Black Noise Cannon Black Noise Cannon's introduction to Tacoma. They're in the opening slot. Get there early. It will be worth the trip. http://www.hellskitchenonline.com and http://www.blacknoisecannon.com for more info. BREAKING NEWS: These two Black Noise Cannon shows will be have to hold you for a while, as Phil Petrocelli (drums) has been asked to do a tour of Europe with The Living Jarboe. Tell your friends, if you have any. Phil, albeit reluctantly, calls us the f-word, but not many others. Tour dates are available at: myspace.com/jarboeliving and www.thelivingjarboe.com Signals Amongst the Noise ------------------------------------- Dalek: Absence, Neurosis: Times of Grace, Diamanda Galas: La Serpenta Canta & Defixiones, TheLivingJarboe.com, A New Kind of Science (Wolfram), Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (McCluhan), dafont.com, myspace.com/blacknoisecannon, kj.xstepdesigns.com, Stanton Moore, The Police, KRS-One, myspace.com/specsone, Ziggy Stardust, Danger Doom, Little People Postering Company, Corrupted, Project Groundation, Don Carlos and the Congos, Ari Up, On-U Sound, Twilight Circus Sound System, PiL, Slits, and many others. Thanks for reading.