Re-issue of the famous 1996 3-CD box, slimmed down to a simple but lovely 3-CD set of material by the original line-up of Destroy All Monsters, consisting of Niagara, Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, and Jim Shaw. "Out of the gloomy basements of Ann Arbor Michigan flowed the horrid strains of a music never before heard. Experience it in all of its musty glory. Yes, Destroy All Monsters rises again", according to Mike Kelley's announcement of this edition, and: "the 3-CD set that introduced the world to pre-punk DAM." Joint release of Cary Loren's The End Is Here and Mike Kelley's Compound Annex labels, 2009.

"Grow Live Monsters" is a selection of 8mm, super-8, and 16 mm film phantasies from the period 1971-76. While still at high school Cary Loren started a correspondence with underground filmmaker, actor, and performance artist Jack Smith, which led to a meeting in the summer of 1973. Shortly after that the artists' band Destroy All Monsters was formed by Mike Kelley. Jim Shaw, Cary Loren, and Niagara. Most films on this DVD revolve around this group of friends and the music they produced in basements and during live performances. The soundtrack is a mixture of vintage Destroy All Monsters and samples and recordings that reflect Smith's love of exotica.

DVD also features:
CARY LOREN - SHAKE A LIZARD TAIL OR RUST BELT RUMP
MONSTERS REDUX (concert takes, memorabilia, photos
DAM INVADES SEATTLE (Seattle 2000 concert)
HOMETOWN HORRORS (band pics and production stills)

On this DVD Cary Loren compiles rare footage of the legendary MC5 dating from the late 60s. The footage was shot by Leni Sinclair, then wife of The MC5's manager John Sinclair. Loren manages to turn this unique footage into a high-energy, psychedelic work of art itself. The DVD contains a lot of material that has not been seen before and combines it with live audio recordings of the period.

Recorded by DESTROY ALL MONSTERS in Detroit at Time Stereo studios. The disc contains a voice track by Sun Ra remixed from orginal tapes, samples supplied for the group by Japanese noise artist Violent Onsen Geisha (Nakahara) and the 18 minute Mike Kelley UFO rant 'Dexter 1966'. Special packaging of the CD includes a band edited UFO newspaper: SWAMP GAS GAZETTE, with various UFO articles, UFO religions, and rants mixed with descriptions of LSD trips, illustrated with cosmic blob images. This project draws its inspiration from the great Dexter, Michigan UFO chase of 1966, the rise of garage band rock, and the Boo-Hoo bible. Also available a limited edition (250, Boxed, with sticker and alien) in the US: follow the 'US ORDERS' link.

NIGHTCRAWLERZ was formed by Cary Loren and Barry Roth in Detroit in the late 70s. Loren, a founding member of DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, apprenticed in 1973 with New-York underground film-maker Jack Smith. Roth, a fine-art photographer, studied in the early 70s under poet Robert Creeley. The literary theorist manual THE THIRD MIND by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin published in 1978 influenced their sound/lit collaboration. The NIGHTCRAWLERZ project covered 10 years and included video, drawing, sculpture, photography, magazine and sound projects. The present 2 CD set collects 146 minutes of poetry/sound collage across 90 tracks. Special appearances by techno/godfather dj ELECTRIFYIN' MOJO and correspondence/pop artist RAY JOHNSON are included. Also available a signed edition limited to 100 copies, boxed, incl. NC Booklet & plastic worms: follow the 'US ORDERS' link.

PEYOTEMIND is a project that began while researching the MUSIC IS REVOLUTION CD (see End Is Here #10). A 1963 student notebook written by John Sinclair and an essay written while under the influence of peyote. This work became the main 33 minute title track for the PEYOTEMIND CD, an improvisation recorded by MONSTER ISLAND with vocals added later by the author JOHN SINCLAIR. An early and important contribution to psychedelic culture, PEYOTEMIND was recorded in Detroit in one take in the fall of 2000.
Also included are two other Monster Island improvisations GANGES DAWN and ETERNAL NOW - a 20 minute hommage to Detroit native Alice Coltrane. The last track is Sinclair's infamous poem MONK IN ORBIT drawn from his expanded BOOK OF MONK project begun in 1985. This track was recorded live at the Detroit Contemporary Gallery with John Sinclair on vocals and special guest Len Bukowski on bass clarinet - a wild ride on the other side of darkness.

Also available at Sea Urchin Editions is the book REALIZATIONS OF PEYOTEMIND AND AFTER, written by John Sinclair. The book and CD are also both available in a limited and signed edition for 25 Euro.

DREAM TIGER is a 13 song CD album by the Detroit area group MONSTER ISLAND. This is their first album since the 1996 LP recording FROM THE MICHIGAN FLOOR on Ecstatic peace/father Yod. Principal artists are Cary Loren (Destroy All Monsters), Warn Defever (His name Is Alive), Erika Hoffman (x-Godzuki) and Matt Smith (Outrageous Cherry, Volebeats). MONSTER ISLAND is an acid/folk project that began in 1995. DREAM TIGER features a mixture of ethnic folk instruments (Oud, Sitar, Tanpura, harmonium, Shakuhachi, Djembe, Gamelon Gendèr and African percussion) mixed with traditional (Guitars, bass, Violin, Cello, Flute, Drums) and novelty sounds (Chinese organ, Water harp, Mini-moog, Toy piano, Gongs). Several area guest artists also appear including Otto Kontrol. All songs were recorded in the summer of 2000 and mixed by Warn Defever.

MUSIC IS REVOLUTION is a beautiful CD that has been released by BookBeat Gallery/The End Is Here Docusound, which are run by Cary Loren from Detroit. You may know Cary as an artist, as one of the founding member of the influential artists' band DESTROY ALL MONSTERS (together with Niagara, Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw) and as leader of MONSTER ISLAND. Cary has researched and documented for some time the all too often overlooked history of Detroit's radical, psychedelic and high-energy movement of the late sixties and early seventies. The CD MUSIC IS REVOLUTION is a truly wonderful document of a period that saw a unique and powerful mix of music, art, graphic design and political activism.

PRESS RELEASE:
"MUSIC IS REVOLUTION is a 72 minute spoken word audio CD that tells the history of the radical politics of the late 1960's through the voices of the radical left. The CD was compiled from original source material in the archives of the John and Leni Sinclair library at the Bently Historical Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was edited from over 50 hours of taped conversations and interviews.
Both John and Leni Sinclair were founders of the Detroit Artist Workshop and the White Panther Party, from which sprang forth bands such as the MC5 and the Stooges. John Sinclair became the first manager of the MC5 which became the mouthpiece of his "Rock and Revolution" platform. Included on the CD is the infamous "Weather Report and Declaration of War" by Weathermen founder Bernardine Dohrn, a jailhouse interview with Black Panther founder Bobby Seale, Zenta religious ramblings by MC5 announcer and spiritual leader J.C. Crawford, the revolutionary band THE UP on health food and Yin-Yang, WABX free-form radio pioneer air-aces, Joseph Jarman of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and many others... There are also actual meetings and political discussions of the White Panther Party and later Rainbow People's Party Central Planning committee. The CD charts the turbulent mixture of culture and politics in the late 1960's from its working class origins in Detroit, when John Sinclair first crossed the wires of rock 'n roll, avant-garde jazz and the politics of revolution.
A 16 page photo booklet is included with many excerpts from the visual and written material in the library. The booklet contains Gary Grimshaw art, MC5 photos, early MC5 rock flyer-art -- underground advertisements and excerpts from the radical press. 30 track listings cover about 72 minutes."

Full length CD released on Sympathy For The record Industry in 1996. 15 song selections from the 1996 DAM reunion tour. Of original line-up: Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Jim Shaw and Niagara. Contains early work redone (You Can't Kill Kill, That's My Ideal, Take Me With You, TH Queen, I Love You But You're Dead) plus added newer work arranged for their first reunion tour. Long full length (over 60 minutes) re-released 1998 now on the band's label The End Is Here / Compound Annex #06.

45 minute one track produced from 1973-1995 CD, stereo sound collage by Destroy All Monsters, mixed with random radio noise, Japanese noise samples (Violent Onsen Geisha, Otomo Yoshihide), old DAM riffs and spine-tingling artwork. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies, with artwork by DAM.
This audio CD is also an interactive CD-ROM playable on the computer with random artwork and texts by artist Dennis Summers.

68 minute remix of the Backyard Monster Tube cassette release from 1995 with a 22 minute track recorded live in Tokyo at the DEEP Gallery, 1996. CD in a 3 colour folder, packaged in plastic resealing 'virtual jap-pack' Time Stereo packaging - one of the best DAM recordings, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, edition of 1000.