TUMBLE CAT POOF POOFY POOF "Werewolf Story (plus Five More)"
(YCA 7 | 05/05 | 40 mins/ 1 cass in dual cass. case w/ thirty-seven drawings wrapped in brown felt | $9 | out of print)
On a frigid February night, at the intimate hearth of the Schoolhouse in Hadley, with the aid of a tom drum, accordion, drum machine, boomboxes, & his voice, Tumble Cat Poof Poofy Poof told the Werewolf Story. This precious singular event was documented in stereo & reproduced for your pleasure on side one of this cassette. Thirty-seven baseball-card-sized drawings are provided to help you re-create the tale. Side two includes five more stories which unfold, in real time, somewhere betweenf the fastmoving chrome particles of this release & the playhead of your cassette deck. This release is deep, fuzzy, & cockle-warming.
FAT WORM OF ERROR "NZZNZZZZNNZNZNNNN"(YCD 9 | 07/04 | 36 mins/ CDR | color copy+security envelope collage cover in bag | $6 | in stock )
FWOE's third official release, Twelve fresh tracks of digitalized jams, soupy fedback beats, tapey absurdity.& re-orchestrated versions of their tunes severely abused in the studio. When the 'darkness' comes, we'll be looking for our checkbooks & of course, we'll be out of envelopes.
OXBOW MEADS (YCA 6 | 05/04 | 15 mins/ clear blue cass | silkscreen/inkjet cassingle cover | $5 | out of print)
debut Yeay! solo cassingle by Fat Worm guitarist Tim Sheldon.. a silty but viscous piece comprised of fastmoving underwater debris, environmental recordings, finger-twinkle guitar, squash flutes and gargantuan gong squiggles all following the twisted flowpath of connecticut river through our neighborhood floodplain, the Oxbow Meadows. very dense and incredibly satisfying, i find a new thing in this upon every listen.
GUTTERS self-titled 1992 demotape reissue ( YCD 8 | 04/04 | 22mins/CDR | photocopycard+jewelcase | $6 | in stock)
Yeay! is proud to reissue this enduring chunk of dribbling flaccidity from these virtually forgotten Western Mass superzeros. Absurdly wimpy dirges illustrate scenes involving pee jars, ninjas, depression, medication, & pornos. somebody once suggested they felt like Flipper with a broken drum machine, more lithium, less heroin. six, uh, seven songs, plus all of the fine interview material from the original tape..
BOMP TEB "Touble in the miks"
(YCA 5 | 02/04 | 50mins/cass | photocopy collage cover | $5 | out of print)
Teejay Kayleen on the reels slug on as fumble-finger'd fader klutz smashing this collage of orginal material and tapes swiped from the likes of: Anthro Rex, Phloyd's Rice Ensemble, Noise Nomads, Tarantism, BenGeorge7, Nautical Almanac/Kites, Occasional Detroit, & Dr. Doo. hyperactive mixtape, many changing beats/noises, not boring.
BROMP TREB BERSERKER REF "Fight Cassingle"(YCA 4 | 02/04 | 47mins/REDcass | 4 color silkscreen cover | $5 | out of print)
ultimate masculine exercise in hiphop monotony: 1 tapeloop. 2 mics. many percieved duels. All FIGHT. one side studio, one side live. two men enter, one man leave. side one also features vocal edit!
DARK INSIDE THE SUN "See the Darkness Shine"
(YCA 3| 12/03 | 40mins/Cass | b/w photocopy cover | $5 | out of print)
Steve's 2nd tape with us, only months after his 1st, captures the wonderful
crash-bang energy of his electric sets recorded live to 4-track, with
minimal bits of post-tweaking. How he makes total aggro-feedback &
sweet sentimentality mesh together with such grace is beyond us, but here
it is & its goooood..
DARK INSIDE THE SUN "So that i may not die, while i am still alive"
(YCA 2 | 10/03 | 40mins/Cass |2 color photocopy/marker cover | $5 | out of print)
DITS debut, a set of raw, lo-fi, live recordings -two electric performances, and several intimate, hushed and tense songs recorded in his van. sweet & unsettling perfect rainy-day headphone music or in chorus with the 65mph hum of the open road.
FAT WORM OF ERROR summer mixtape 2003
(YCA 1 | 7/03 | 40mins/Cass | spraypainted case /photocopy | $5 | out of print)
a kinky continuous loop of this band in their most defribulated and deconstructed - a few songs & a wealth of treatments of 4 track fragments, digital scrubbery, tape collage, & eeew! improvisation. totally gay package is hand spray-painted in their infamous paranoid googly-eyed motif. we shit you not, you'll dance "the popcorn."
"Bromp Treb Poo Samurai Versus Kung Fu Battle Grip #2"
(YCD 6 | 08/02 | 12mins/CDR | b/w photocopy in bag | $4 | out of stock)
A mix & battle spaz spaz return 4 track volleyball. Wicked short
tracks & ground-chucked remixes amidst the toy plastic disaster
of hanatarash orientalism. Every sophomoric effort should be scatalogical
too.
BROMP TREB SOUNDSYSTEM "Summertime Attack Module #1"
(YCD 5 | 06/02 | 15mins/CDR | b/w photocopy in bag | $4 | few left)
Bromp Treb's debut release came nearly a year or so after the project
performed as a live karaoke act for songs that didn't exist. Tightly
mixed 4track + tape loop 'funky' drum and bass. crooked dub thunder
and scree in brief spurts with remixes. pretty catchy for instrumentals.
TUMBLE CAT POOF POOFY POOF "live at the Schoolhouse"
(YCD 4/BWR 21 | 10/02 | 20mins/Cass | photocopy sticker cover | $4 | out of stock)
split release with Breaking World Records, Tumblecat's debut is a polaroid of boombox decay & precision warm fuzziness. Recorded live to tape at BWR's homey Schoolhouse HQ, and wrapped in transformers comicbook pages. Enitre release available as free MP3 download at Puzzling Music Archive!
MR. KAYLEEN "Impy Go Himpy"
(YCD 3 | 02 | 45mins/CDR | photocopy on pink paper | $4 | out of stock)
Kayleen's old improv shit collection, fun mix of experiments, lotsa collaborations
MR. KAYLEEN "Mr. Kayleen's Bloat-Free Moments"
(YCD 2 | 02 | 45mins/CDR | color photocopy cover | $4 | out of stock)
Kayleen's 10 year anniversary of being a home-taper, a sort of "best of" collection of songs.
MR. KAYLEEN "Primetime for the Goodlife"
(YCD 1 | 02 | 50mins/CDR reissue of 1998 cassette | color photocopy cover | $4 | out of stock)
mr. kayleen's last full-length solo release, CDR reissue of 1998 tape -songs, soundscapes, improvisations, & meditations on work, nature, & power or something.
LAMPSTAND / GOOBERSLABGIANTS "Lost the Scene" / "finally come to light"
(1998 | 45mins/cass | b/w photocopy cover | $4 | out of stock)
Post mortem collection of unreleased material by these two pittsfiled bands from the early 90's.
MR. K. LEAN'S "ruff ass kutz"
(1997 | 50mins/cass | b/w photocopy cover | $4 | out of stock)
odds and ends from k's sporadic but continuing love/necessity to record throughout the mid 90's.. originally part of a split w/ K-LEANFAFNIRMACHINE "six instantses" tape.
K-LEANFAFNIRMACHINE "six instantses"
(1997 | 15mins/cass | b/w photocopy cover | $4 | out of stock)
plinky improvisations for cello & bass recorded on 2 track open reel. originally released as split w/ mr. k-lean's "Ruff Ass Kutz". . .
MR. K. LEAN "a menu for the doomsday dinnerparty"
(1995 | 50mins/cass | b/w photocopy on yellow paper | $4 | out of stock)
a really dumb set of jerky acoustic songs with stupid lyrics. the "haiku hellfire" short-song-cycle & a set of fake rap songs.. kayleen's first time ever using a four track with wimpy results. . .
THE BEAT MACHINE "the Beat Machine"
(1994 | 30mins/cass | b/w photocopy cover | $4 | out of stock)
...and so begins Mugy's finest group of releases on his own RUBIX BOMB label - link & chronology to come. ...
IMMATURE MORONS "Better Late than Never"
(1994ish | 50mins/cass | b/w photocopy cover | $4 | out of stock)
rough recordings made during a ridiculous post-split reunion.... one of the earliest bands to start Yeay! Cassettes, yet somehow never ever managed to get their shit together to put any of their music out - here are their songs, tighter than they ever were when they were together, in tune, in time, & dumb! "endless cycle" "date rape" a cover of Spaztic Anarchists' "i'm trying to piss off the neighbors" & all the other hits. . . reviewed in the Berkshire Eagle!
RETARDIS
(1993 | 50mins/cass | b/w photocopy cover | $4 | out of stock)
Pre-Beat Machine, graduating from Lampstand & highschool. .. .
DELUGE CONCENTRATE
(1993 | 90mins/cass | b/w photocopy cover w/ 8.5x11 lyriczine thing | $4 | out of stock)
k-lean's second solo cassette, a sprawling 90 minute soundscape of songs, noises, drones, & silly ideas recorded over the course of 1 year. .. all lo-fi, tape-to-tape overdubbing with two cassette decks & a radio shack 4 channel mixer .... i stillenjoy this to this day.
A-ARON "File"
(1992ish | 60mins/cass | b/w photocopy cover | $4 | out of stock)
A-ARON's only release to my knowledge... sweet, intense jiggly acoustic pop songs for angsty teenagers - great tunes recorded lo-fi 4 track stylee with pots n pans percussion by his little bro & other hinsdale neighborhood crew-mates. . . includes an early recording of a-aron singing a lvin spoonful song w/ his cool uncle - groovy. big bad groovy dude. . .
DAVE "Wicked Personal Experience"
(1992 | 60mins/cass | b/w photocopy cover | $4 | out of stock)
Dave's late-career opus includes more skit/read stories along with some of his great songs. this tape made it to Dr. Demento's desk, with a review & everything!
LAMPSTAND "Pididdle King"
(11/92 | 20mins/cass | b/w photocopy cover | $4 | out of stock)
Lampstand's crowning achievement of dorky jerky keyboard-fueled punk rock. . .10 songs in almost 15 minutes - fun fun fun. . . their insspirations may or ma not have ever come thru: dead milkmen, minutemen, devo, madness. . . dork dork dork. .
BAD ART "songs composed by Mugy"
(1992 | 60mins/cass | b/w photocopy cover | $4 | out of stock)
Mugy's third solo release. . inspired in equal parts by the cramps & karlheinz stockhausen. truly retarded & wonderful attempts at making high-concept 'modern' compositions in his basement alongside murky repetetive rock songs with out-of tune guitars.
LINOLEUM SCROUNGE
(12/91 | 40mins/cass | b/w photocopy cover | $4 | out of stock)
K-lean's first solo tape, bad 'folk' songs using the chords people use to learn to play the guitar. songs for ukulele. and even some weird, noisy improvised recordings, as well as his first attempts to make multi-layered overdubbed tapes.
MUGY & THE IMAGINARY BAND " "
(8/6/91 | 30mins/cass | b/w photocopy cover | $4 | out of stock)
one of Mugy's earliest attempts at the solo-one-man-band thing that he would go on to perfect with the Beat Machine. . . fun muddy tapes of dancing dinos.
ATARI "Destroy the Krylons"
(4/91 | 30mins/cass | b/w photocopy cover | $4 | out of stock)
before the immature morons split, three of their members got together with a kid they met in art class who wrote the best damn song about Pittsfield they'd ever heard - with a lineup no different from that of the Doors or Booker T & the MGs, they jammed out a pretty ineptly funky ska/punk/pop sound & recorded & released this little tape under a temporary name Atari which would quickly change into Lampstand. . .. this was to be Yeay! "Records'" first release.
