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District of Noise Vol. 5 CD Compilation

The 5th installment of our series highlighting experimental music from Washington DC.

  1. Amptext - A Likely Story
  2. The Anthony Pirog Ensemble - 100
  3. BLK w/BEAR - Stars Fell on Alabama
  4. Borris Bobby Jr. - Game 2
  5. Colla Parte - Tenebrae (excerpt)
  6. Fast Forty - Class Warfare Is Confusion
  7. Janel Leppin - Suite of Silence - Smear, Control, Censor
  8. Jeff Carey - 3e2
  9. Layne Garrett - who sleeps below me propels my dream
  10. Lost Civilizations experimental music project - Live at Dynasty Ethiopian Restaurant
  11. Mercury Fools the Alchemist - Radio Free Gliese 677Cc (excerpt)
  12. Slut Walk - Miami Vice
  13. Catoctin - Beach Blanket Bombscare
  14. Violet - Thresh, Holding. (held version)
  15. Cory O’Brien - Prelude to Denser Materials #2
  16. safe - moonlight mix
  17. TL0741 - You Are Not Their Concern
  18. Troglobite w/ Amma House - Blank Tape Interlude
  19. Tag Cloud - Ominous Green Energy
  20. Sansyou - Laurentian Latitudes

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District of Noise Vol.4

District of Noise Vol.4 Vinyl

District of Noise Vol.4 is the fourth installment of this popular series of albums documenting experimental audio activity in and around Washington DC. Released in conjunction with the 2011 Sonic Circuits Festival pressed on 180 gram vinyl. Release date: September 13, 2025

District of Noise Vol.4 - 11x20 second fragments

$20 + postage



District of Noise Vol.3

District of Noise Vol.3 Vinyl

Sonic Circuits presents District of Noise Volume 3. In celebration of the 2010 festival of out-there sounds, Sonic Circuits has compiled the third edition of this series featuring experimental music of all sorts from the Washington, DC area. Volume 3 comes in two parts; a vinyl LP of 100 locked grooves created by 20 DC area artists, and a companion CD compilation of 21 tracks, many of which use material from the LP as starting points for their compositions.

LP artists include BLK W/ BEAR, Blue Sausage Infant, Bushmeat, Borborites, Cash Slave Clique, DC Tunnel Collaborative, Fast Forty, Gestures, Janel & Anthony, Jeff Carey, Leo Svirsky, Many Spaceships' Solar Jaunt, Mercury Fools the Alchemist, Nine Strings Trio, Pilesar, RDK, Sean Peoples, TL0741, Tone Ghosting, Violet.

District of Noise Vol.3 10x30 second locked grooves

$15 + postage



District of Noise Vol.3 CD

  1. Borborites - Salviating Gob On Eunuch Horn
  2. Tl0741 - Dear Ms. April Damon Headcrash
  3. Burntsystems - Crunchieloppedloopsah
  4. Bushmeat & Friends - Sooner Or Later
  5. Sean Peoples - Alton
  6. BLK W/ Bear - Watch Me Pull A Rabbit Outta Your Name
  7. Mercury Fools The Alchemist - Phaedrus In The Ozarks
  8. Nine Strings Trio - Tesseract Four Remix
  9. Pilesar - Drastic Measures
  10. Blue Sausage Infant - Sodom Is Risen
  11. Many Spaceships - Tiger Pterodactyl
  12. Tone Ghosting - Radar Kinder (Excerpt)
  13. Makioki Sisters - \ /
  14. Gum Yummy - Superbuckingswirl
  15. Baby Killer Estelle - How To Build A Body Without Organs
  16. Dragonfly In Captivity - Get Me The Fuck Out Of This Tupperware, Please
  17. Janel & Anthony & Violet - Twilight Of Steam
  18. Bastard Squid Implant - Burning House Collapsing
  19. Tag Cloud - Residual
  20. Fast Forty - The End Of Space
  21. RDK - The Twonkey

District of Noise Vol.3 - 21x20 second fragments

$10 + postage



District of Noise Vol.2

District of Noise Vol.2

District of Noise Vol.2 is the second installment of this popular series of CDs documenting experimental audio activity in and around Washington DC.

  1. Jeff Carey – databurst0
  2. TL0741 – SILK PJS
  3. Nine Strings - The Ladder of Metals
  4. Dave Vosh – Electron Flux (For Janis)
  5. Nicholas Szczepanik – Phyllotaxis
  6. Sean Peoples – Planting Trees on Hills
  7. Insect Factory – you’re tougher than you think
  8. Soft Pieces – Rise of the Usurper
  9. Blue Sausage Infant – Flight of the Solstice Queens
  10. Pilesar – Save Village from evil spirit
  11. Bushmeat and Gut Head – Dosimeter/Dance of Organless Bodies
  12. RDK – Gaia Hypothesis
  13. Kuschty Rye Ergot – The Night Country
  14. Second Land – low push
  15. Twenty First Century Ensemble – Excerpt from Bluroom session
  16. Fast Forty – No Negation
  17. Canid – Juvenalia
  18. Chris Grier – soudai gomi
  19. VLT_BLK – 8D38C9_000000_21-0377
  20. Myo – lets see you transform outta this one mother fucker

District of Noise Vol. 2 20x20 second fragments

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District of Noise Vol.1

District of Noise Vol.1

New disc of molten silvery plastic containing 17 of Washington DC’s best, brightest, and unable to categorize masters of music from beyond the fringe.

  1. Blk W/ Bear - Long Division_03 D_U4_R4
  2. Blue Sausage Infant - Nectar Of The Dogs
  3. Cash Slave Clique - Sonicervex
  4. Caution Curves - Prenetic Wiles
  5. Echolalia - Falling Out
  6. Janel & Anthony - Improvisation 61
  7. T.A. Zook - Snaefellsjokul
  8. Mind over Matter Music over Mind - The Banjo Lesson
  9. Northern Machin - Paisley Curdler
  10. RDK - Spectro Chrome
  11. Corpus Callosum - Theta
  12. Cutest Puppy in the World - That
  13. Tone Ghosting - Amaxama: Visitation
  14. Myo - Shit Idk.. "Pidgin's"
  15. Barsky/Allison - 08.24.08
  16. Twilight Memories of the Three Suns - Rotten Flesh And Rotten Stone
  17. Violet - Highlights Of Familiar Music (Dub Version)

District of Noise Vol.1 17x20 second fragments

$10 + postage