Charnel Music

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Charnel Music is an independent record label devoted to putting out eclectic and improvisational music. The label was formed in 1988 by Mason Jones as "Charnel House" [1] and had initially released works by his band Trance. The label's name later changed to "Charnel Music," [1] and went on to release music by acts such as Melt Banana, Merzbow, and The Pain Teens.

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Mason Jones is a San Francisco-based guitarist, graphic designer, music journalist, audio engineer and independent record label owner. He is best recognized as a founding member of the psychedelic rock act SubArachnoid Space and for the music released under his monikers, such as Dada Fish, Numinous Eye and Trance. In 1988 he founded the music label Charnel Music which specialized in psychedelic, experimental and noise music.

History

Charnel's first release was Trance's Fatal Blow on cassette. More cassettes releases from Trance as well as other local San Francisco groups followed. The label focused on other projects after the release of the Arrhythmia CD compilation in 1990. [1]

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Charnel had two sub-labels. The first was Document and Eyewitness, whose sole release was P. Children's Documentation 1987-1992. The other was Circular Reasoning, which was formed in 1995 and put out albums such as Tel Basta's Lickerish and Bohemian Special by The Gay Barbarians and/or the Jaurwars.

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Charnel ceased their operations in 1999 and was briefly resurrected in 2007 for the CDR releases of Mason Jones' Unreleased Themes For Caged Heat 3000 and Numinous Eyes' The Farthest Thing. [1] The label is currently on an indefinite hiatus. [2]

List of releases

Compact Disc

No.YearArtistTitle
11990Various artistsArrhythmia
21991 Trance Automatism
3 Crash Worship ¡Espontaneo!
41992Various artistsDead Tech 3: New Japanese Music
5Various artistsDocumentation 1987-1992
6 KK Null & Jim O'Rourke New Kind of Water
71993Various artistsArrhythmia II
8 Flying Testicle Space Desia
9Various artistsLand of the Rising Noise
101994 Crash Worship Triple Mania II
11 Gravitar Chinga su Corazon
12RuinzhatovaRuins-Hatoba
13HybrydsThe Rhythm of the Ritual
14Torture ChorusIn the Land of Lullabye
15Allegory Chapel Ltd.When Angels Fall
161995 Trance Augury
17 Gravitar Gravitaativarravitar
181996 Aube + Cock E.S.P. Maschinenwerk
19 Mainliner Mellow Out
20Various artistsArrhythmia III
211997C.O.T.A.Ta'Wil
221996 SubArachnoid Space Delicate Membrane
231997Various artistsLand of the Rising Noise Vol. 2
24 Gravitar Now the Road of Knives
25 Mainliner Mainliner Sonic
26KaduraFrom the Depths of the Other Space
27 Walking Timebombs Walking Timebombs
28Onna-KodomoSyuuka
29 Vas Deferens Organization Sweat Your Cheeses, But Not in My Salad
301998 Fushitsusha Gold Blood
31 Mason Jones International Incident
32 Pain Teens Pain Teens
331999Various artistsLand of the Rising Noise Vol. 2

Cassette

No.YearArtistTitle
11988 Dada Fish Means By No Means
2 Trance Fatal Blow
31989 Trance Abyss
4 Trance The Beaten Track
5Formula 409Cleanses Your Palate
6 Survival Research Laboratories Illusions of Shameless Abundance
71990 Trance Purity
8 Trance Mesmerism
9Grae.ComMedia Sickness
101994 Crash Worship Triple Mania II

7" vinyl

No.YearArtistTitle
11992 Hijokaidan & Trance & Allegory Chapel Ltd.Means By No Means
21993 Trance Guitar Noise EP
31994 Crash Worship !Pyru!
4 Gravitar Evil Monkey Boy
5 Melt-Banana Hedgehog
61996 SubArachnoid Space Char-Broiled Wonderland

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