Somebody should give me a starting point.
Always wanted to listen to the meister's works but his discography is just huge.(hundreds of releases and monikers)
I would appreciate anything from Black Leather Jesus from Werewolf Jerusalem.
About 5 releases would be enough. I'll start from there.
Yeah, he's far too prolific and inconsistent for me to bother keeping up with. 3 highly recommended Werewolf Jerusalem releases though:
Black Chapel
Confessions Of A Sex Maniac
God Has Shot Himself
The only Black Leather Jesus I've heard that I would recommend is The Defining Love (Top/Bottom Exchange), nothing I've heard from the project is anything special though.
Last Rape - Maimed Left Arm is possibly the best Ramirez album I've heard though, strongly recommend that one. Turgid Animal did a budget CD re-issue of it.
BLJ's absolute best album in my opinion is Torture Machinist!!
I like the FOUKE stuff, have a pretty much complete collection but some holes by now i would imagine as i haven´t been keeping up....
Most of the stuff i´ve heard from R.R. have been good though, but i like the Sasquatch/Yeti imagery of FOUKE ("Legend of Boggy Creek" is somewhat of a favorite film as well).
Maybe a good place to start off is the "comp" LP with lots of his projects, "the machines will react", from what i remembered pretty solid one!
I also like his CRASH AT ANY SPEED project, good stuff!
Some of my favorite work from him is "I keep My Stuff Inside", which is why I asked for more and is found on the split with Alchemy of the 20th Century. Less noise. More industrial.
Tracking Device for solid instrumental power electronics.
WEREWOLF JERUSALEM - Confessions of a Sex Maniac
BLACK LEATHER JESUS - A.N.T.I.
RELEASE HELEN RYTKA - Huddersfield
RICHARD RAMIREZ - The Machines Will React ("A compilation of tracks from various projects featuring Richard Ramirez as core member.")
S.S. ELECTRONICS - Elements of Non Musical Taste
Richard Ramirez:
Past Buildings That Have Fallen
Varsity
Pleasure, Commerce & Disease (With Skin Crime)
Music For Morgues And New Buildings
Black Leather Jesus:
Bacteria Culture
Torture Machinist
Crash & Honor 1990 - 2002: Perversing The Church And Its Ant-Like Minister - Box
Decaying Behavior (With The Haters)
My personal favorite of all times remains "Torture Machinist". It was released by Chaotic Noise Productions as tape. Then years later I re-issued it as CDR and again several years later finally on real CD since I just thought it was so good, it can't be "just" tape or cdr. It is not as brutally harsh or in-your-face as some other Ramirez, but also this is effort of bigger line-up, not the man alone.
I still wish Ramirez would go for more demanding and complex work's a'la Tracking Device, I Keep My Stuff Inside and the split with Alchemy of the 20th Century. He can do much more than routine wall noise jobs, so it would be nice to hear more structure works. He still has his own primitive take on it, which often is lacking from guys who solely focus on structured material.
Does anyone keep up with EVERYTHING he's involved with?
I remember liking "I keep my stuff inside" LP (esp the artwork) but last listen, it wasn't what I remembered liking at all so I sold it.
agree a good start: torture machinist and I keep my stuff inside. both a mist have.
Does anyone have his present street address? PM me. I know he has a website and distro, but I want to be sure I have the current address. I have a 10-minute, unreleased track from the Alchemy of the 20th Century split sessions. I'd like to return those master cassettes to him.
I think the same old (parents) address works as always.
I don't know how anyone could keep up with everything he does. I don't really understand how you can have that many side projects and have them all be different enough from each other to justify them being separate projects. I remember reading about a label called Bored Bear (or something similar, it definitely had boar in the title) that were releasing the first releases from 12 brand new side projects from him.
I saw him recently in London under Werewolf Jerusalem and he was absolutely amazing. I don't keep up with the majority of his projects though. I'm not massively into wall noise and if I was I wouldn't have the money to keep track of everything.
Couple of different suggestions - the 4xcass "Detox" set on Phage Tapes under the Nurse Unit moniker is class, as is the 4x3" on Small Doses, a nice selection of cuts from Crash At Every Speed, One On Top Of The Other, An Innocent Young Throat Cutter and Savage Broadcast. Whilst I assume these are both more than likely sold out, they're both worthwhile if you can come across them.
Can't keep up with all of it and whether a new name for a new release is really necessary may be debatable but to be honest, I've not disliked anything I've heard from him and the multi-name thing doesn't really effect me any way.
I recall hearing a Black Leather Jesus track that was supposed to be for a bondage performance. Very interesting, it had a very closed-in breathing sound with a kind of ticking/thumping behind it that made one feel one was clamped up in a tight mask, unable to see properly. Would anyone know what album that was from?
Werewolf Jerusalem's "There Are Four Doors" is the first I heard from that project and one of the earlier "wall" albums I heard - still really like it and prefer to return to it for that kind of stark, minimal sound. But other WJ material I've heard just seems to stick too closely to the brief to be of further interest. I do like that the sounds are meant to be generated from old radios, though. Not that it makes that much of a difference in general, but it appeals to me.
Alchemy of the 20th Century Split was one of the first underground noise releases I heard. Still put it on quite often. An unreleased track from same session sounds interesting, the RR stuff on there is fantastic