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#1
NEW RELEASES ANNOUNCEMENTS / Re: U T O N - NEW RELEASES
Last post by mag-maa - July 26, 2024, 11:59:12 PM
actually pre-UTON (before the needful transformation):
kongkong - Smash Hits for Social Misfits

available now digitally https://uton.bandcamp.com/album/smash-hits-for-social-misfits?from=com-nr
free download codes available, check the page for more info.

Recorded in 2001, with 4*track cassette recorder. All material previously unreleased.
Experimental free noise, from drone to harsh and a lot between...18 tracks, 42 minutes



#2
GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Slogun.
Last post by prolapsedlielack - July 26, 2024, 11:02:19 PM
coming back to this thread to say, I'm sad more live material from Slogun isn't out there too much. the tracks included on the Sickness split and "I Travel" are stunning, especially knowing for the most part all his lyrics during these were made up on the spot. Of course they're taken from preexisting tracks sometimes, but the adlibbing ties the manic state together.
#3
GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: YLEINEN NOISE FIILISTELY S...
Last post by Atrophist - July 26, 2024, 10:41:52 PM
Se oli semmoinen random romua & rompetta lähes täynnä ollut työmaakoppi. Sopivan karu ympäristö :D

AA-Jannen haastis oli myös siellä.
#4
GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: YLEINEN NOISE FIILISTELY S...
Last post by Commander15 - July 26, 2024, 09:00:24 PM
Heh, eräästä paikallisesta anniskeluravintolasta oli revitty kaikki Rääseikkö-julisteet veke. Noise näemmä herättää suuria tunteita!

Quote from: Atrophist on July 26, 2024, 07:07:06 PM
Quote from: piisti on July 18, 2024, 10:02:03 PMOnko kyse vain vahvistusharhasta vai onko näin, että noisen parissa puuhailee yllättävän monta säännöllistä meditaatioharjoitusta tekevää ja/tai buddhalaisuudesta kiinnostunutta henkilöä? Toi on lainaus näin tänää.
 Itse en näe hiljaisuuteen/ääneen keskittymisen olevan kovinkaan kaukana toisistaan. Itse kokenut keskittymällä hyvinkin samanlaista tyhjyyteen sekä täyttymykseen. Toisin sanoen olen saanut meditaatiosta/joogasta/mantraamisesta samantapaista mielentilaa kuin vääntämällä potikoita. Tämmöst kelaa tänään. Mut siis selkee korrelaatio ainaki tääl

Itsellä oli myös n. 2 minuuttia kestänyt tällainenkin vaihe nuorena. Ainakin siihen aikaan vielä monet tuntuivat suhtautuvan "itämaisiin filosofioihin" hieman kuin marketin irtokarkkihyllyyn -- poimitaan sitä miltä itsestä tuntuu kivalta ja muu jätetään huomiotta. Siinä meni hieman maku hommasta ja ylipäätään päädyin toteamaan että ei itseään voi löytää mistään muualta kuin sieltä missä jo sattuu olemaan.

Quote from: mag-maa on July 26, 2024, 09:41:25 AM
Quote from: Kuollutmato on July 24, 2024, 11:44:01 PMEtenkin harmittaa Atrophist / Jannen osalta paremman mikin nauhoitteen mönkään meno. Dokkarissa on käytössä kameran mikin audio joka on selkeästi huonompi kuin ulkoinen mikki joka oli käytössä.

en huomannut katsoessa mitään erityistä, meni sukkana läpi soundit. voi tosin johtua siitäkin, että olen altistanut korvani lofi-taajuuksille (tai nofi?) ehkä turhankin tarmokkaasti.

En kyllä itsekään huomannut yhtään mitään eroa. Ja vaikka olisikin ollut niin en kyllä sitä minään erytyisen pahana puutteena osaisi pitää.

Aivan hyvin toi sun haastattelupätkä toimi ääniraidan puolesta. Kuvauslokaatio oli ehkä aavistuksen klaustrofobinen suhteessa moneen muuhun haastatteluun, mutta toimi kyllä hyvin.
#5
GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Live show reports / commen...
Last post by drinkmaaan - July 26, 2024, 07:30:16 PM
I've uploaded a few sets from the recent Ramleh/The New Blockaders shows.

#6
GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Using social media (as art...
Last post by Balor/SS1535 - July 26, 2024, 07:28:07 PM
Quote from: BlackCavendish on July 26, 2024, 01:23:19 PM
Quote from: Balor/SS1535 on July 26, 2024, 01:00:16 AMIt's really amazing to hear that you have found success in advertising through groups.  It seems that a lot of Facebook groups for noise, industrial, and related genres just are not that good.  Noise Listening Now is great and seems to be well-moderated, as do a few band-specific ones (Coil and Current 93 come to mind).  Most others, however, just seem to be endless spam from people promoting their typically nothing-projects.

Our fanzine is dedicated to industrial/neofolk and related, and it's only in Italian... it's a fairly defined niche and not too big/chaotic.

But for example, a couple of years ago we reprinted an old book from 1946 and advertised it in a couple of Facebook groups dedicated to that type of uchronic/dystopian literature. We found a few interested people who didn't know us.
Besides the book, some of them also bought the back issues of the zine.
They had never heard of it and I'm pretty sure that without social networks this would still be the case.

So, sometimes it works. But I'm not sure it's always worth keeping up with social networks, it's time consuming.
I guess it depends on a case by case basis.

I guess the narrower your focus, the better your reach will be, in a sort of paradoxical way!  Advertising something physical must also help to draw more attention on pages where so much else are Bandcamp links or whatever.
#7
GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: YLEINEN NOISE FIILISTELY S...
Last post by Atrophist - July 26, 2024, 07:07:06 PM
Quote from: piisti on July 18, 2024, 10:02:03 PMOnko kyse vain vahvistusharhasta vai onko näin, että noisen parissa puuhailee yllättävän monta säännöllistä meditaatioharjoitusta tekevää ja/tai buddhalaisuudesta kiinnostunutta henkilöä? Toi on lainaus näin tänää.
 Itse en näe hiljaisuuteen/ääneen keskittymisen olevan kovinkaan kaukana toisistaan. Itse kokenut keskittymällä hyvinkin samanlaista tyhjyyteen sekä täyttymykseen. Toisin sanoen olen saanut meditaatiosta/joogasta/mantraamisesta samantapaista mielentilaa kuin vääntämällä potikoita. Tämmöst kelaa tänään. Mut siis selkee korrelaatio ainaki tääl

Itsellä oli myös n. 2 minuuttia kestänyt tällainenkin vaihe nuorena. Ainakin siihen aikaan vielä monet tuntuivat suhtautuvan "itämaisiin filosofioihin" hieman kuin marketin irtokarkkihyllyyn -- poimitaan sitä miltä itsestä tuntuu kivalta ja muu jätetään huomiotta. Siinä meni hieman maku hommasta ja ylipäätään päädyin toteamaan että ei itseään voi löytää mistään muualta kuin sieltä missä jo sattuu olemaan.

Quote from: mag-maa on July 26, 2024, 09:41:25 AM
Quote from: Kuollutmato on July 24, 2024, 11:44:01 PMEtenkin harmittaa Atrophist / Jannen osalta paremman mikin nauhoitteen mönkään meno. Dokkarissa on käytössä kameran mikin audio joka on selkeästi huonompi kuin ulkoinen mikki joka oli käytössä.

en huomannut katsoessa mitään erityistä, meni sukkana läpi soundit. voi tosin johtua siitäkin, että olen altistanut korvani lofi-taajuuksille (tai nofi?) ehkä turhankin tarmokkaasti.

En kyllä itsekään huomannut yhtään mitään eroa. Ja vaikka olisikin ollut niin en kyllä sitä minään erytyisen pahana puutteena osaisi pitää.
#8
GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: purpose of reviews
Last post by FreakAnimalFinland - July 26, 2024, 06:12:01 PM
I can't even estimate how many reviews I wrote since about '92. Back then, zine with reviews was almost like extension of writing letters. You'd be recommending stuff to people, and most stuff you could not know to exist unless someone mentioned it in zine. I have been burned out on writing reviews so many times. Never burned out on listening records, but that "obligation" to analyze can get old, if you just wanted to enjoy what you heard. Playlist comment is just perfect. No obligation to analyze, but you may still have handful of worst to say why this particular title got repeated plays etc. Even now, after repeated rotations of K.Mizutani "Cemetery" LP, I don't feel I want to analyze it, but I most definitely would want to recommend it to people. First, to mention it even exists. Second, that it is damn good. Third, possibly selfish reason to that I got couple copies still here... haha.. Barely business, just that perhaps some Finn don't have to pay international shipping for LP they want to check.
#9
CLASSIFIED ADS / Skeleton Dust new arrivals
Last post by whiteheatnoise - July 26, 2024, 05:56:55 PM
Going to try to post our new arrivals here for those that don't follow us on social media (you can still view the posts without an account). We are also working towards offering a non-Discogs solution for e-commerce sometime in the future, but that will have to come after our store moves locations in September. In the meantime, if you see anything we post on social media or on Discogs and prefer to buy it directly, please get in touch!

https://www.instagram.com/p/C9422Cipex8/?img_index=1

https://www.instagram.com/p/C9486XBplNq/?img_index=1
#10
GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Using social media (as art...
Last post by Into_The_Void - July 26, 2024, 05:42:55 PM
Instagram has become the reference Social Network for extreme music as well, which I find quite ridiculous if you ask me, but this is how it goes. For what concern me, I stay on Facebook mainly to see pictures / read some post-stuff of people I know. I used to hang out more often at shows and, especially when I moved to Berlin, Facebook was the key to being up to date with everything I wanted to follow. Nowadays I hang out way less, and at the same time there's way less interesting stuff around (at least for me), so I don't know if I am the one who didn't really keep the pace or if Facebook is slowly dying also as a tool to keep up with shows, etc.

Instagram became a crossway between a virtual, a bit scammy online shop with a lot of advertising (often undesired, maybe just because you named a product 2-3 times and the algorithm floods you with spammy "tailor-made" insertions) and a fucking vitrine of personal life. I use it 30% to stay updated on new releases, 20% to stay in touch with some contacts/friends and 50% to read news, and also this last point is slowly becoming a turbid stuff where is impossible to discern between useful news from the fakes, marginal or useless news, and mass distraction. Plus, you don't have the possibility to write properly and explicate the concepts, which is fundamental to discussing art, music, books, basically anything which requires a dive and some mental exercise, because it is simply not programmed for that, but to get "fast shots" of voyeurism instead. I've never tried Tiktok and other Social Networks because I am not really interested at all, and since when I back regularly on the boards, I am convinced that this is the most useful and suitable way to talk and interact with other people about underground music.