Artist: The North Sea
Title: Crystal Lake/Emerald Eyes

Catalog Number: KC10
Format: 7"

Coming soon!



Artist: Sissy Spacek
Title: Gutter Splint

Catalog Number: KC09
Format: 1-sided 7"
$6 North America / $8 World
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22 songs in three and a half minutes. Edition of 184, mastered at 45 RPM for maximum fidelity/enjoyment, broken-photocopier packaging. Charlie Mumma, Drums / Corydon Ronnau, Vocals / John Wiese, Electronics. Recorded PDX/LA November 2008.

myspace.com/ssississpssk





Artist: Robedoor
Title: Pagan Drugs

Catalog Number: KC08
Format: 7"
$7 North America / $9 World
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Pair of dungeon bummers recorded in the trio formation at the same east L.A. hillside studio where the Raiders LP/CS was tracked. Deeper into the isolation, down to the resin, a long lost walk through dog alley. Written/taped/mixed from Feb-April 2009.

Edition of 538: 433 black vinyl, 100 white vinyl, 5 black/white marble. Includes MP3 download card (192 kbps).

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Artist: Fossils
Title: Young Guns

Catalog Number: KC07
Format: 1-sided LP
$16 US / $19 Canada / $22 World
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Hailing from Hamilton, Ontario, the free improv freak unit Fossils have unleashed about a billion limited-run releases documenting their weird journey since 2005. Built on mystery, busted electronics, internal machine feedback, treated tapes & amplified junk, Fossils paint abstract new visions on steel cave walls. The 2009 Fossils players include David Payne, Steve Smith (thousand year frog), Daniel Farr (the living stump) & featuring the saxophone stylings of Rob Michalchuk (poor little music label). Young Guns was recorded sometime 2008 at mjc hq.

Ketchup Cavern's first jazz record. Numbered edition of 119, color paste-on/screenprinted artwork, handmade sleeve. No computers used in production or design. Mastered from cassette for maximum audio fidelity.

Artwork. Production, in progress. Record Number one.

myspace.com/fossilstrio

Thurston Moore in Exclaim: And one of my favourite Canadian bands is called Fossils; check them out.



Artist: Aidan Baker
Title: Candescence

Catalog Number: KC06
Format: LP
mp3

Edition of 500, clear vinyl. Includes download card.

aidanbaker.org

Coming soon!



Artist: Aidan Baker & Jacob Thiesen
Title: A Bout De Souffle

Catalog Number: KC05
Format: LP
mp3

Edition of 500. Includes download card.

aidanbaker.org

Coming soon!



Artist: Machinefabriek
Title: Huiswerk

Catalog Number: KC04
Format: 7"
$8 North America / $10 World
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The same day I bought a second-hand Boss Dr. Sampler I connected my guitar to it and recorded the basic material for these two 4-minute tracks. Less drone, more composed. A bit like my Huis EP I guess, that's (partly) why the title hints to that. It's Machinefabriek's more playful side.

Limited to 500 copies (381 on black vinyl, 119 on color*), packaged in a full color offset-printed glue pocket sleeve designed by Rutger.

*Vinyl color breakdown:
  • purple: 64
  • grey: 30
  • pink: 22
  • white: 3
All orders get colored vinyl until we run out.

Related links: machinefabriek.nu, myspace.com/machinefabriek.



Artist: Flatgrey / The Rita / Sick Buildings / Taskmaster
Title: Vancouver

Catalog Number: KC03
Format: 2X7"
$15 North America / $18 World
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A compilation of noise and experimental composition from 4 Vancouver artists: Flatgrey, The Rita, Sick Buildings and Taskmaster. This release highlights some of the key players in Vancouver's harsh noise/anti-music community. Each artist involved has one side to unleash a torrent of harsh noise/cassette collage/overloaded distortion/mechanical grinding. Mastered at 45 rpm for maximum sound quality, pressed on red vinyl in an edition of 300 copies, packaged in a b&w offset-printed sleeve featuring a photo of the parties involved at the corner of Hastings and Main.

MP3 sample is 15 seconds from each side with 1 second of silence in between.



Artist: Lasse Marhaug
Title: If The Revolution Could Start Right Now

Catalog Number: KC02
Format: 1-sided 7"
$6 North America / $8 World
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Lasse Marhaug has a discography as long as your arm and a list of previous collaborators that would scare the pants off us if they were all in the same room, but that wouldn't matter if he didn't drop the heavy jams. And Ketchup Cavern number 2 is the heaviest yet! This is a physical record, instead of someone twisting knobs it sounds like someone slapping you around and yelling in your ear for five minutes and five seconds. Total radness!

1-sided 7" record, limited to 248 numbered copies, b&w cover.

Related links: lassemarhaug.no, picadisk.com, jazzkammer.com.




Artist: Seagull
Title: The Conqueror Worm

Catalog Number: KC01
Format: 1-sided 7"
$6 North America / $8 World
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Debut release on newly formed Ketchup Cavern label, first vinyl release by Vancouver experimental musician Michael Piercey AKA Seagull after numerous self-released cassettes/CDRs. Performed using homemade noise generators and a gang of distortion pedals, The Conqueror Worm features 5 minutes of poorly-recorded static, roaring distortion (and some mysterious crackle added by the pressing plant). Guaranteed to confuse your neighbors.

1-sided 7" record, limited to 180 numbered copies, b&w cover.





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