Helicopter
Label owned by John Wiese, an artist and composer from Los Angeles, California. His ongoing projects include LHD and Sissy Spacek, with plenty of freelance work with many artists as diverse as Sunn O))), Wolf Eyes, Merzbow, Dave Phillips, Smegma, Kevin Drumm, Cattle Decapitation, and C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core). He has toured extensively throughout the world, covering Europe, Scandinavia and Australia as a member of Sunn O))), the UK as part of the Free Noise tour (a tentet including Evan Parker, C. Spencer Yeh, Yellow Swans, etc.), the United States alongside Wolf Eyes, and recently performed in the 52nd Venice Biennale with artist Nico Vascellari.
Sissy Spacek
* 20th anniversary edition of Sissy Spacek's first album, first ever LP edition * Helicopter presents the first LP edition of Sissy Spacek by Sissy Spacek . Frantic, violent, destroyed music.
"Probably the world’s first plunderphonic grindcore record…
Entropic
* 2020 Stock * On the verge of their 40th and in the midst of their 20th anniversaries, respectively, Hijokaidan and Sissy Spacek merge in Tokyo for their first collaboration, featuring Jojo Hiroshige, Junko, T. Mikawa, Charlie Mumma, Futoshi Okano, …
Multifactorial Dynamic Pathways
* 2020 Stock * Helicopter presents Multifactorial Dynamic Pathways by The Haters and Sissy Spacek. Performer – Charlie Mumma, GX Jupitter-Larsen, John Wiese.
Live At Super Deluxe / Tokyo
* 2020 Stock. Digipack CD * Helicopter presents Live At Super Deluxe by Hair Stylistics, Pain Jerk, and John Wiese. Recorded live 27 September 2018 at Super Deluxe, Tokyo, Japan.
Live at Akihabara Club Goodman / Tokyo
* 2020 Stock. 6-Panel Digipack CD * Helicopter presents Live At Akihabara Club Goodman / Tokyo by Toshiji Mikawa, John Wiese, and Seiichi Yamamoto. Recorded 24 September 2018 at Akihabara Club Goodman, Tokyo, Japan.
In Mono
* Deluxe digipak pressing for 2020! * Burning in hell with no relief. Nearly two full hours of scorched audio and blistering paralysis recorded in Los Angeles between 2002 and 2007 by the double flamethrower unit of Phil Blankenship and John Wiese. C…
Even Still
* Deluxe digipak reissue for 2020! * Two-and-a-half hours covering the complete LHD vinyl discography recorded between 2002 and 2007 by the double flamethrower unit of Phil Blankenship and John Wiese. Pure West Coast destruction, maximum density and …
Night of the bloody tapes
* Deluxe, limited edition 6-panel digipak reissue of the defining The Cherry Point document * A Troniks / Helicopter co-release, 2020. Night of the Bloody Tapes by The Cherry Point provides a shattering drive-in experience of unrelenting horror & har…
Featureless Thermal Equilibrium
Helicopter presents Featureless Thermal Equilibrium by Sissy Spacek. New and revelatory full length album with a trio line-up of Charlie Mumma, Jay Randall, and John Wiese. A world of mesmerizing evocations and alternating realms. An unceasing kingdo…
Chapter Eleven
Wow! **4xCD, over 4 hours of music. Co-Released by Hanson Records and Helicopter** Easily one of the most essential releases of this year, Hanson and Helicopter Records stunning 4 CD box set, reissuing Robert Turman’s visionary 1988 release, Chapter …
L/L
Recorded on Sissy Spacek’s ensemble tour in January 2018, combining sets from Louisville with Tim Barnes, Bret Barry, and Margo Morley and Lexington with Robert Beatty.
Pitched Intervention
Recorded in Los Angeles in February 2018 and consists of two sessions with Don Bolles (The Germs, Ariel Pink) and Mitchell Brown (Gasp), and one session with Mitchell Brown and Joseph Hammer (Solid Eye, Joe & Joe, LAFMS).
First Four
Sissy Spacek's long out-of-print "Sissy Spacek" (Nuform 2001), "Remote Whale Control" (Gameboy 2003), "Scissors" (Misanthropic Agenda 2002), "Devils Cone and Palm" (Misanthropic Agenda 2006), plus the exclusive full-length Coast To Coast. The DVD …
Dash/Anti-clockwise
Scathing sound by John Wiese and Corydon Ronnau, joined by Lasse Marhaug and Will Strangeland of Tearist and Sivler Daggers, cautiously partitioned into short bursts of truly obliterated hardcore. Ruptured and bleeding out, heavily. Seventeen bonus t…
Tiny Red Tables b/w Big American Hole
Last copy available "at one point during the free noise tour evan parker pulled out a little black notebook and read back to us all the names of weird bands we'd been discussing. really funny / embarrassing coming from the mouth of e.p.we played at t…
New York-Atlanta
Two best sets from 2007 tour by developing audio partnership, direct soundboard recording. Steel string binds knobs, vocal cries machine code, fuzz and foil avalanche, fireworks and drought. Epic movements in entirety, minimal editing meddling. Words…
California Ax
Up to this point Sissy Spacek have only released 4 proper albums, all of which could probably be squeezed together onto one cd. What we have in this release is 4 new full length albums recorded throughout 2007. Tinsel Dripping Ink (disk 1) is 26 trac…