Favorite releases on the label? How did Trash Ritual meet its end? Seems as if there were many planned releases which never saw the light of day.
my favorites are
Mania - 1 Gun, 100 Graves
Ba. Ku. - Ritual Totemic Stone
Gelsomina – The Skulls Have Spoken
Cock Scene Investigators – Stolen Public Toilets
Bizarre Uproar / Macronympha
Ninth Massacre – 1992-1996
The Rita - The Tortured Ghosts Of Creeks And Rivers (looking for this LP if anyone is looking to sell)
Strict - Kiss 12" - A+ release of archived material from Strict. probably the most available of Strict's releases and but also one of the best.
Taetar - Absolut Nothing CD - amazing debut album of vicious and unsettling power electronics. essential.
The little what I know of Trash Ritual's end - or hiatus - was that "life" got in the way. Work and family type of things. After label stopped things, the guy has been still occasionally lurking in the skene. So not totally vanished.
I appreciate many releases of TR, but as label, it somehow managed to not be so impressive. I think main thing is that it lacks sort of own identity what makes the absolute best labels to stand out. At first TR seemed to be the label what follows other labels like shadow. If Hospital had tape of new interesting project, next one would come on TR. If Freak Animal would present some Finnish artist debut release, TR would be there one step behind offering next deal, heh... And of course one can't blame label for wanting to release good stuff, yet there is barely any discoveries or risks of putting out something what wasn't first popularized by other labels or having small pre-established audience for it. Perhaps more obscure reissues like Laxative Souls and Pimp-Aktion Slutgun is something that not many other would have rushed to put out.
But that said, I got a lot of TR titles and it's pretty neat document of 2006-2011 era noise stuff. So many artists overlap with other labels of the time that it covers quite nicely certain atmosphere of the era.
From the tapes i have -not many, 5-6 of them- i like Rulla and Karmanjakan Intonarumori most. I prefer Rulla's tape on HHR a little bit more but this is top material too. Karmanjakan's is the harshest and best i have listened from the project.
It's a label i am looking for many of its releases, some major wants like Mania, Alfarmania, Kakerlak to name a few, and even stuff that it's "unknown" to me, when buying something else from Discogs if seller has it on fair price i ll add it.
Strict, Macro reissue, B.U/Macro, Gilles De Rais Order/Mania, Slogun CD... I especially appreciated all the reissue CD of older obscure material.
Label owner is selling old stock on discogs currently - https://www.discogs.com/seller/trashritual/profile
Alfarmania "Kofotsrekyl" is my favourite out of the few I've heard, and it sure is fine. Love the album name as well, which translates to "crowbar recoil".
It's also my favourite Alfarmania release, although I haven't yet heard all of them ofcourse.