American poet, percussionist, calligrapher, actor, occultist and publisher Angus MacLise (1938-1979) counts as one of the central figures of the ‘counterculture’ of the 1960s and 1970s. MacLise was a member of La Monte Young’s The Theatre of Eternal Music, contributed to the early Fluxus newspaper VTre, founded the Dead Language Press together with his friend Piero Heliczer (in some of whose films he appeared), was the Velvet Underground’s first…
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…
A set of 20 vinyl stickers and one White Panther Party button, designed by Destroy All Monsters and produced for the Whitney Biennial 2002. Limited edition of 300…
Sinclair Beiles was born in Kampala, Uganda in 1930, the only child of Jewish South African parents of Russian descent. The family moved back to Johannesburg when young Sinclair was six years old. There he studied at Wits University before starting a wandering existence in the early 1950s. Beiles…
Les Champs Magnetiques was written long before any surrealist manifesto had been published, and is regarded as the birth of surrealism. The book is the first experiment with ‘écriture automatique’, a literary technique derived from free association in psychoanalysis. The result is an enchanting and evocative collection of prose and poetry. written as in…