Dial Records

Mike Donovan founded Dial Records in 1998 as an outlet to release the work from a motley assortment of San Francisco musicians. The broad collection of sounds on Dial ranges from the alien electronica of O.S.T. to the Big Black guitar attacks of Hot Fucking Jets to the dissonant anti-pop of Iran. Dial's eccentricities also carry over onto their preferred format -- the super-limited-edition hand lathe-cut vinyl 10-inch record.

Blectum from Blechdom
Blectum from Blechdom is San Francisco's purposefully androgynous duo that painfully (and successfully) straddles the expansive gulf between the technocratic aesthetics of electronic music and the art school scruff of indie punk.

Bad Music and Buttprints
The Messy Jesse Fiesta - 2000
De Snaunted Haus - 2000
Snauses and Mallards - 2000


OST
Not all West Coast tweekers get their rocks off by raving at Full Moon Parties or grooving to the latest tech-house number. O.S.T. -- aka Chris Douglas -- prefers to keep his trips (and likewise his electronics) within rather dark and abstract realms.

Fashion for Passion
Is Mallachd Gluasad-Inntinn


Rook Vallade
Rook Vallade is one of the rotating pseudonyms for San Francicso's electronic butcher Chris Douglas, who also records as O.S.T. and plays in The Church Steps. A more caustic version of Aphex Twin's electronic dadaism, Rook Vallade specializes in metallic tones and distorted beats that create very dark and alienating works of electronic music.

Rook Vallarde