Learn to listen to th' strangest music --it is sometimes sublime.
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Last Updated:
11.7.24
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Shows:
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 8pm
Bill Nace
Apologist
Christian Mirande
Ankylosaurus
@ Soupcon Gallery
25 Bridge St
Lambertville, NJ
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Brian Eno Cover!
Tape comp with Human Adult Band's Brian Eno cover
DOT DASH SOUNDS VOL. 1
Live on WFMU!
Download for free & stream
HUMAN ADULT BAND live set as aired on WFMU's 'What Was Music?' on December 13, 2017
Live on WKDU!
Download & stream
HUMAN ADULT BAND 'Fever & Squall: Live at WKDU' as aired on WKDU's 'Sonic Rendezvous' on December 18, 2019
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CONTACT, ORDER & PAYMENT:
We're looking forward to hearing from you! Contact HUMAN ADULT BAND / d.i.h.d. records: dihdrecords@gmail.com
EXCESS POSTAGE (sometimes worked into our 'postage paid' prices) WILL BE REFUNDED
Don't use paypal or email? Snail mail letters, money orders and/or well concealed cash to:
dihd records
P.O. Box 610
Lambertville, NJ
08530-0610 USA
Earth
-All Orders Include Free Stuff- Human Adult Band & related pins, stickers, ephemera & art scraps.
-International Orders-
International fans, feel free to order now. We will contact you about additional shipping costs outside of the U.S.A.
EUROPEAN customers, check out Phase! Records (Greece) and Hyster Tapes (Finland) These fantastic Euro labels carry HUMAN ADULT BAND and other weird stuff, so you can save on shipping.
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Also if you are a BROKE BOHEMIAN in th' U.S. and have access to a record, tape or CD player but no money for our recordings, contact us. We will probably send you free music. Really, we will.
BACK IN STOCK!
Human Adult Band
'Slog Quest Crosstime'
(Feeding Tube Recs)
LP (color sleeve, insert & download code) Human Adult Band's 2022 LP. Studio recording of noisy meditative long form dirges, short noise-pop territory songs & death rock spaces. Telepathic jamming. Thick & heavy.
$25 (postage paid in the U.S.) Also available here:
Forced Exposure
Feeding Tube Records Bandcamp
In Byron Coley's words:
'Slog Quest Crosstime' one sheet
Human Adult Band
'The Movers Brought Rainbows'
(Spleen Coffin Tapes)
Cassette (Paste on art. Stamped shells.)
"Long-running Jersey outfit Human Adult Band come to us after dropping a sickening array of no-fi noise rock and damaged art punk tapes and records upon the public. And yet, The Movers Brought Rainbows is probably their most abstract and alien work to date. While the guitar/bass/drums/voice formation is still the genesis of these recordings, at its core feedback and reverb are the star players here. Source sessions recorded at various locations are unapologetically run through the ringer, subjected to tortuous electronic post processing, and what reaches your ears is an almost atmospheric level of abstraction as echoing drums, voices, amplifier feedback, and electronics are all mashed up and smeared together." - Spleen Coffin.
$10 (postage paid in the U.S.) European Distro for this item: Sound Ohm
West Jersey Airport / Exhibit: A /
Sweet Pith / Relief
"LAM Benefit: Live in Lambertville"
(Unchanged Mind tapes)
Cassette (color j card, Rhomdamine Red shell)
Field recordings of 4 artists/groups during a NJ river town porch fest. West Jersey Airport is a heavy psych / proto-grunge trio w/ members of Human Adult Band. Exhbit: A is an electronics and static guitar no wave band with orgins in the original NYC no wave scene. Sweet Pith is a sonically morphing duo/group usually featuring experimental jaw harp but this time accopanying abstract lyrics and minimalist guitar performed by the duo's other regular member. Relief is a noise-synth project by Unchanged Mind Recs label head, whom did a lot of work on Adult Band's latest 'Movers' material. The money from this tape goes to "help put on more and more diverse live music in the area."
$15 (postage paid in the U.S.)
REYNOLS
"Live in Argentina Vol 3"
(d.i.h.d. recs)
Cassette(50 Made) plus Large Photo & Xerox Art (19 made)
The third volume of the 'Live in Argentina' cassette series now available in USA. Recorded back in 1998 in Buenos Aires, this lost tape documents in all its full lo-fi glory how Reynols sounded at the very end of the last century. Released as part of Reynols 30th Anniversary Exhibition '23 in Flemington, NJ. Cassette, photo & xerox art options availble. Not available for streaming or download.
Get the tape &/or art $10-$20
ANKYLOSAURUS / JOE+N
"Willfully Ceased to Exist"
(Carbon Records)
Split CD or Download (full color slim eco-case)
T of Human Adult Band, playing solo bass drone metal under th' solo moniker, Ankylosaurus and Joe Carbon of Pengo, playing primitive gtr, violin and drums under th' solo moniker Joe+N. Thick slabs of bass noise and amp worship from Ankylosaurus. Phaser virtigo and Tony Conrad influenced jams from Joe+N. This split is akin to a close-up photograph of a lungfish mistaken for a distant moon's surface. These recordings share th' same power cosmic as wielded by th' sky-rider of the spaceways.
Stream and purchase Split CD or download here: Carbon Records
or get it directly from us.
$10(postage paid in the U.S.) Ankylosaurus 'Neo-Luddit Time Travel Night' live set here: Carbon Records youtube
Human Adult Band
"Weird Mirror"
(Nostorca Tapes)
Cassette Tape (w/ download)
(Stamped liners/pleasant smell)
New Jersey basement gunk slingers get wild and free. Bass noise eulogy, bookstore backroom skree stomp destruction, weird moaning, amp sitting corner staring mold rock. Order tape direct from us:
$10 (postage paid in the U.S.) Stream & downloads here: Nostorca Tapes
Human Adult Band
"Sonic Enlightenment"
(Third Uncle Records)
LP (w/ download code)
(Color vinyl)
The A side of this strange 2018 LP is a 14 minute jammer take of 'Easton Ave Laundromat' featuring a 7 piece Adult Band. The track features bass thru a smooth Franken Ampeg B-15 flip top, a few gnarly guitars, ice age flute, lap steel & two drummers (King Darves is back in th' band!) The B-Side features get-on-the-freak-bus noise rock odds and ends captured on tape from 2011-2015. Side B includes an instrumental tribute to our favorite Florida skuzz-bonk scene. "Human Adult Band is the type of outfit that still gets me excited about delightfully odd music...distinct blend of no wave, experimental noise & fearless originality." explains Rich Quinlan of Jersey Beat. "Don't let anyone tell you that New Jersey ain't freaky" -Matt Korvette. "No investment in musical history, or markets, or the pleasure of the listener. It's only interested in pursuing the compulsions of it's own weirdness" -Jonathan Shaw, Dusted.
$20 (postage paid in U.S.A.)
Download here:
Sonic Enlightenment album download
Human Adult Band
"Crude Peace Sign" T-Shirt
Human Adult Band 'Crude Peace Sign' logo and bandname on front and classic dihd records logo on back. White ink on black tee-shirt. Professionally screen printed by fellow rockers at New Planet Screen Printing. Pls specify small, medium, large, extra large or double extra large.
$20 (postage paid in U.S.A.) Human Adult Band
'Hearing Damage Sessions'
(Heat Retention/Third Uncle Records)
LP
(download code included/hand silk screened jackets)
"New Jersey's finest, Human Adult Band, unleashes a brilliant new 9 song LP with sludgy, propulsive noise oozing from every track" writes Jason Henn of Honey Radar. Rock-a-Rolla Magazine(UK) exclaims,
"[These are] some seriously ugly tunes." Terrascope explains "volume should be set to eleven...come to love everything about its chaotic, scuzzy charms."
$12 (postage paid in U.S.A.)
Download here:
Hearing Damage Sessions Album Download
Buckets & Battereis
's/t'
(d.i.h.d. Records)
7" record
(handmade & recycled jacket with paste-on art)
Last small box of these were discovered under a pile of cardboard in West NJ. This is the first vinyl ever put out by the d.i.h.d. crew circa 2003. Field recordings of our freak folk street performing band touring New England; letting the street sounds orchestrate our moves. Includes rarely distributed track notes by band member.
$10 (postage paid in U.S.A.)
ALMOST ANY OUT-OF-PRINT ITEM
(d.i.h.d. Records etc)
CD-r or tape
(handmade-to-order)
Almost any Human Adult Band or related project that is now out-of-print can be ordered and we will reproduce it with our archive of master recordings and art masters. There will be some variation from the original but saticfaction is guaranteed. The price is $25 because these are made-to-order tapes and CD-rs. It takes more time and effort to scour the archives and reproduce these. Please specify title you want and format (tape or CD-r). We will make the thing you ordered in an interesting and idiocyncratic way. We get creative with these.
$25 (postage paid in U.S.A.)
Items Available Elsewhere...
HUMAN ADULT BAND
"Trash Pickin' & Stained Pocket Tee"
(Already Dead Recs)
Cassette. Color j-card w/ download
Mysterious sludge-noise rock collective Human Adult Band return to Already Dead with 'Trash Pickin' & Stained Pocket Tee', a 10 year anniversary cassette reissue of the band's legendary 'Trash Pickin'' 7" with a slew of extras, including demos, rehearsals and a full live set captured in Providence, RI.
$8+shipping
Download / order from label here:
Already Dead Tapes
HUMAN ADULT BAND
"3.12.22-7.12.22"
(Hyster Tapes)
Cassette (Made in Finland on recycled tapes)
"there is automatic writing and then there is automatic rock. this is the latter with healthy doses of free noise, slow doom dirge jams, strange snippets of scuzz and a degenerating 5 sec tape loop to end it all. a glorious, 120% analogue, over the top lo-fi production."
Get the tape from Euro Label here:
Hyster Tapes
HUMAN ADULT BAND
"Last'd"
(Polyhedron Choir Records)
Lathe cut 7" record or Download (Made in New Zealand/slimey green translucent record)
Approx 13 min of glorious noisy one-mic-recorded jams by Human Adult Band. Released in New Zealand, a place duly represented in our collections. Newly captured on Jimi Hendrix's birthday in late 2022. Guest Guitarist, Jeff Schroeck, who's traveled the nation playing punk stages everywhere. If you prowled NJ in the early aughts, you were likely to catch him charming the 'Parlor' basement crowd on Friday nights or as a member of the house band at the old Asbury Lanes. Quite a ripper.
Get the lathe, download and stream here: Polyhedron Choir Records
NOTE: Lathes need to be played a couple times to bed in. May also need to adjust tone arm / anti-skating a bit.
Human Adult Band
'Samantha' (Third Uncle Records)
7" Record
(download code included)
Th' A side is the heavy and wobbling 'Samantha' jam. Backed with 'Samantha' Song Poem by seminal outsider proto-punk rocker, Jad Fair, of Half Japanese. "[It's] such a corker" exclaims Byron Coley in WIRE Magazine. 'Recommended for sure' by Animal Psi Blog. Order here: Samantha Single
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Out-of-print stuff:
Human Adult Band 'Waxy Gibby'
2023 Noise-Sludge Tape
Human Adult Band / d.i.h.d. recs
Many releases from one of our in-house labels: Trash Pickin, Happy Horrordays, Worms on the Brain, My Little Piece of Heaven, Human Adults Quit, live archives etc.
Human Adult Band
"Castle Armadillo"
Cassette of Lo-No-Fi 2013 Recordings
After th' Fall "Totally Tired (of Chirstmas)"
Christmas Parody song of a The Fall classic.
Human Adult Band "Beyond the Time Barrier Travelers"
2 Show (2005 & 2019) live tape on Already Dead Tapes
Human Adult Band (featuring Wendy J. Hyatt)
I Don't Wanna Know / Take It Off
Human Adult Band / Big Blood
Ain't No Hallowed Ground / Half-Light Blues
Human Adult Band "T Penn Collections"
A compilation of old & new & splinter groups
Human Adult Band "Mugwort & Sage"
Mugwort & Sage EP (3/4th of EP on youtube)
Pots & Powercells and thee Yets "Spirits"
Jams by two HAB-related New Weird Jerseyana bands (on Apple Music).
Pots & Powercells "Pots Rolling"
One jam on a 'Omega Sound Fix' compilation.
Summer Dresses "In Bed Early"
2012 live set tape on Already Dead Tapes
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Interviews & Media w/ Human Adult Band:
WFMU BEWARE OF TH' BLOG (2011)
T Penn (of Adult Band) on WPRB 'Wheelhouse': interview and guest DJin'(2015)
Amplitude Equals One Over Frequency Squared(2015)
T Penn (of Adult Band) interviewed about pop-punk days on 'This Was The Scene' Podcast (2019)
Human Adult Band Special on Transmitter Down Radio Show (UK). Band selections and 'Slog Quest Crosstime' tracks. (2022)
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Coming Soon-ish:
- Human Adult Band & West Jersey Airport
New records, cds and tapes on Skell Tapes (NY), Already Dead Tapes (L.A.), Mechanical Presence(Philly), Third Uncle Recs (Indianapolis)and others. High tide, my friends. - more pickled eggs
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Other Human Adult Band / d.i.h.d. links:
Insta
Discogs
Tape Pencil Blog
Soundcloud
Hub City Noise Blog
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See you in th' tapers' pit.