Aaron Dilloway is a luminary in avant-garde music circles, famous (if that’s the right word) for his time spent in the revered noise group Wolf Eyes. But in Oberlin, Ohio, he’s probably best known as the proprietor of a small but beloved brick-and-mortar called Hanson Records. In a certain light, Hanson is a community concern, catering to the wide-ranging tastes of a college town with a highly regarded, experimentally inclined conservatory. But the store, which started in 1994 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as a label and mail-order distributor dedicated to Dilloway’s own releases and those by fellow travelers, is known around the world as a source for awesomely obscure and utterly subversive music.
