Don't know exactly which section to put this, and what even talk about.
But lets start somehow.
I have deep passion towards old compilations. Especially vinyl and tapes. Many of compilations are great ways to get introduced to wide variety of sound, and in early days, I don't think so many of comps were very specialized. And even when it was about "noise", "industrial" or "power electronics", it could be almost anything. The choise of purchase could happen with good name, and just knowing couple names.
This is how I got V/A PROJECT ONE LP, on Produkt Korps 1987 UK. How can you go wrong with LP titled like that, on label with the essential k's! When you add line-up listing Z'EV, BOYD RICE, COIL, PORNOSECT, ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO, NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS........ it seems mandatory. But what makes this compilation special, is that it's hardly a "industrial" compilation. It has some of that, but also field recording, Noise, experimental, spoken word.... Including other names like Ron Briefel, Barry Anderson, Andrew Lewis, Robert Anton Wilson, etc. And every track is pretty much a surprice what it will present. Fucking great cutting on this one. Sound is really clear and sharp. But finally, what actually really stood out the most, is track by Kathy Acker. Over 11 minutes piece is simply spoken word of Empire of the Senseless book of hers recorded in studio in 1986. I knew nothing about her, but when listening this piece few times, I did some search, and the jewish lesbian feminist doesn't seem like that much connected to "noise" or "industrial", but this piece just reeks of emotional damage, bad father relationship, disappointment with male species,....... It's filled with incestuous blowjobs, dreams of fathers coprse,... bleak female voice reading the text, with little passion, but great tone. It's like Lydia Lunch without the nagging tone. It is different, but resembles the topic and approach. Less energy, less repetation. Just fucking perfect. When such a long track is placed between very good electro-acoustic fanfare of Barry Anderson from 1984 and AMAZING eerie drone ambient piece of Noctural Emissions from 1986, shifted into brutal lo-fi electro beats of EG from 1981, guaranteeing the utmost noisy damage and in end broken records and tapes of Boyd Rice........ You just wonder where the fuck are compilations like THIS in 2009 ???????? Where those who compile it, won't hastily throw in something easy, but possibly go through years of material to make something amazing. And not that this would be BEST compilation by any means. It may have weaknesses, but whatever those are, just make it stronger. Insert with lots of text of various obscurities of mafia, kennedy, klaus barbie, CIA, cocaine,...
And best thing probably is, that this doesn't cost almost anything. Check out discogs and original vinyl go from 15 to 45, but mostly priced around the range of normal new LP.
So, lets say, what to talk here if anything?
1) amazing diverse comps?
2) Possibility that Kathy Acker has more spoken word material available?
3) Something else?
Not very relevant. I just wanted to worship this particular compilation what made so many days feel better!
Feel free to continue if something to say, I'll adjust the topic later, hah.. Now to sleep for a while.
I was thinking, should I start topic for WARCOM MEDIA or just continue this?
Well, lets continue this. Maybe Warcom will get its own topic later on.
V/A MEN AMONG MICE CD
Warcom Media 1997, warcd 01
Brilliant. This label was always just... "beyond". Their aesthetic, their choise of artists. There is no other label to do it as they did. I recall there was interview in some issue of Degenerate?!? Well, it's been so many years that I keep forgetting who all have been featured. Anyways, when Warcom decided to stop, he simply sold major part of his own collection as well as got rid of all Warcom material. He announced that what isn't sold before deadline of closing label, rest will simply be thrown away. I bought maybe 20-30 per title, but I regret not buying more. I'm sure that some of the titles were thrown away significant quantities?
But lets get to business.
BOOK AND SWORD, the glory of Sarote Industries new fascist music with pretty dry drum machine beats, polyfonic tones and american national socialist speaches on top. Slow flanger. Some material referred to sound like Joy Division, but not this one.
2nd track is a manifest by JAMES MASON, conducted over the phone from prison. His views are mixture of apocalyptic visions of charles manson mixing with white power movement. Heavily involved in the American Nazi Party and the National Socialist Liberation Front. Eventually, he formed the Univeral Order. His journals were collected and published on Blood Axis' Storm label as book. 3 and half minutes of speak about values and role of men. Page of booklet includes pencil drawing submitted from Tom Metzger/WAR.
Next hits in CONTROL RESISTANCE. This is different from his perhaps most famous "Germ Warfare" 10" on Power & Steel, which was pure power electronics. This track "Crush/Automated Extermination (Zyklon B Mixture)" could be called some sort of industrial-metal. Its raw and nasty, but think something like Iugula-Thor "wheel of process" with 3rd reich domination with less musical Godflesh with robotic voices.
STREICHER delivers "Hatefuck Bloodoath" which is perhaps typical for his style, but always enjoyable!
Followed by nothing else by CHARLES MANSON with his "Convicts mind" acoustic guitar + vocals performance. Very good actually.
TAN TRICK from sweden is one of rare european contributions of this. Who is this? Simple meditation ambient muzak.
SOUL OF STEEL is project of Robert N. Taylor, also known from Changes. He looks like some sort of wizard in booklet image. Track is all about poetic manifestations, over silent keyboard music.
WARCOM is the owner of Warcom media, obviously. Strange electronic music making very little sense. With gruff vocals.
ROBERT X. PATRIOT is like strange experimental post punk. Drum machine beats, melodies, obscure vocals about upcoming victory. Just totally beyond.
COUP DE GRACE is pre- Blood Axis. Monk choirs, delay dominated drum machine beats and keyboard drones. Clumsy lo-fi old school industrial.
BOOK AND SWORD returns now with more joy division style song about natural selection.
RXP again with something you just need to experience, can't be really described.
Compilation what mixes noise, industrial, folk, spoken word, and various sounds of total bizarro-world. To be experienced. Just compilation unlike anything else!
Some of the Giorno Poetry system LPs could be here. Kathy Acker was on at least one of them.
http://www.ubu.com/sound/sam.html
I remember seeing Kathy Acker doing a reading in Berlin in the late eighties. The place was packed and some junkie/noise/performance band opened for her. When she came on stage she started with saying. "It is going to be a quite a lot of blood, sex and violence and if you can't handled it just leave now." She then read from her books for like 45 minutes. A very quite nice reading full of sex and violence. Great!
All the early Touch compilation tapes where a long the lines of you are talking about.
Tantrick was solo project of Carl Abrahamsson / White Stains.
RXP was great. I remember he had some kind of obsession with DEVO and that can never go wrong.
There was a second Warcom compilation that I haven't heard:
PLAN 8 FROM OUTER SPACE CD-R [Warcom Media] 14
(from 2000 comes in a cardboard slipcase with insert. CD-R has art professionally printed on disc. A ton of diverse tracks on here from popular to unknown artists including:Robert X., James Mason, Soul Of Steel, Charles Manson, Blut Kampf, The Black Sun, Goethec Ristallnach, rot.com, and many others. The Soul Of Steel track"Toons" is one of the most brilliant tracks I have ever heard! Soul Of Steel is Robert N. Taylor of cult folk band Changes fame! Not for the politically correct sheople. A classic piece of industrial music from one of the most infamous labels amongst the industrial/experimental underground. Extremely RARE and OOP! A must have gem for extreme music enthusiasts! "Unspeakable Horrors From Outer Space Paralyse The Dead And Resurrect The Living! Recorded in HELL-O-RAMA CAN YOU STAND IT?"- Five years in the making, "Plan 8 from Outer Space" presents something that is bizarre and strange as well as controversial. Featuring: rot.com, Phat Ryme, death.com, Gilda Ray, Sepp Himmel, Robert X. Cruciate, Conflagration, NWaCriiH, Solar Solidarity, The Black Sun, James Mason, Baby 63, Goethec Ristallnach, Hledjolf, Bee Be Queen, Soul of Steel, Y.T. Bone, Charles Manson, The Ready-Mix Squeak, Blut Kampf, Winter of the Wolf, Order and Progress, and Enstruction. A 74-minute cd- Extravaganza of Terror! In professional cardboard wallet.-)
I might still have those. It was little let down that label closed their discography with CDR. I didn't see any reason, since they made it professionally, and did lots of copies, like.. 500? So why CDR?
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on January 07, 2010, 01:20:59 PM
V/A MEN AMONG MICE CD
Warcom Media 1997, warcd 01
That is without doubt one of the CD´s which had lead me to obscure "industrial". Very important for myself in way of inspiration. I am really happy to own the original, which i bought from now defunct Artware.
Higly recommend, imho.
I second the 'Project One' LP. It was one of the first comps I got/heard when I first started getting into industrial, etc. Highly recommended. Totally unique, and yes, where are comps like this these days? It almost feels like something like this couldn't be done now?!
Yeah, I do wonder the same thing. I'm sure some label would do it. I mean, mix the genres. But does the material exists in a way that one comes across all the stuff? I can't say that I would have heard any spoken word artists to operate within noise/pe? But I'm quite sure there are endless amount of artists of various styles that could be related, but are kept separate artificially when "wrong" values are celebrated (for example militant purity what is qualified as "noise").
last track on Pundartugg is spoken word recording I did while sitting on the train down to vilnius with Harri. he had teamed up with a gypsy of the infamous Schwarz-clan (maybe you know about this in finland too?). guy was fresh out of jail and on his way to Uppsala from Saltvik prison in Härnösand (city above Sundsvall). Harri and the gypsy starts to engage in heavy drinking, while I sit and try get order on backing-tapes for concert. gypsy isnt aware of it but he is doing best effort on whole tape. they get drunker and drunker. he begins to talk and brag about his life behind bars, his relatives in finland (one who cut the throats of nine prison guards at age of 14 and later stabbed the judge in his trial with shank brought by his mother) etc... conclusion is that Harri is the true psychopath. when we have spent some hours on the train it is almost like being in Terror Express. Harri & Gypsy start to tear apart chairs in the wagon, threaten and humiliate passengers. personell on train comes to solve things but ends with them calling police if we don't get off the train. rest is history when we finally reach airport.... I was glad I captured it on tape.
V/A "BETHEL" tape
I recall it might have been some jap shop where I saw Bethel written in spine with Old English font, and wondered if they have demo of Finnish black metal band (pre-Devilry) for sale. Cover with skeletons on old school bicyckles and "french" looking moustaches, tall hats etc. Very artistic yet comical drawing indicated that not. There no other info. Open the box, see the obscure & impressive tracklisting so it is bought. That's what I think it was. Could have been from Modern Music?
DAVID JAY "The Gospel According To Fear" is reversed organs, resersed sounds, perhaps accordion? Gets more intense by the end, but mainly based on obscure melodies. PURE with the"No Future", is their old extremism. This particular track doesn't even yet take the full on PE approach, but is extremely coarse sound of yelling, smashing, crushing, guitar being slammed. It sounds more like Streicher's "bootkicking actions" type of noise. NURSE WITH WOUND "summertime belongs to me" proves how advanced his sound was when compared to lets say pure basement projects. Records, loops,... basically just musique concrete / found sounds collaged into strange anti-music. Spoken words that are very clear. Abrupt cut into next thing, which suddenly creates strange musical backbone into very well done queit electro-acoustics. Unfortunately, you have to really turn up volume after Pure track, when majority of this song is quiet. COIL continues. It's mid 80's in times of compiling this tape. What we have here is heavy sound of insects, mixed with downtempo electronic beats with slow chords of guitar. Track slowly drifts forward until heavy sounds of thunder comes in and track ends.
MEAT PUPPETS track is again such a track it indicates the early days of making comp taps. Probably no means to balance the channels? Sounds like reh room boom box recordings of noiserock-improv type of thing, where left channel has most of the sound, and right barely nothing. It sometimes sounds as if they'd want to do free-jazz, but can't. So it's like clumsy free-rock with pretty standard drum beats and guitarist and bass player just doing whatever unrelated to eachother. Not very good. Few pieces of vocals don't help. VIRGIN PRUNES starts with melancholic/nostalgic piano + whispering vocal piece. Sounds think, like captured from old radio. Very distant analogue synth noises keeps fading closer to be properly heard, while music goes forward. I do like this a lot. Virgin Prunes been doing stuff since late 70's, and as far as I know, the original intentions was the mix of some sort of Bowie meets DIY punk. Mixing performance, punk, surrealism and rock'n'roll show? Well, in this compilation, they fit in well after Coil, NWW and all that, but create really nice diversity and unexpected journey in sound.
On b-side follows two songs of YOU'VE GOT FOETUS ON YOUR BREATH. Piano Piece. It's exactly that. Sounds like electronic piano, though. No decay, very blunt and fast dying sound. It starts with pattern of 10 notes played about 0,5 seconds each. Soon 2nd piano track is added. It starts to remind of music of Phillip Glass. Adding some delay effect etc makes sound deeper. The Deum is this projects another track, and basically similar composition, but it's done with "glockenspiel" most likely, and slowly processing into most obsucre "industrial" ever heard. Loops of piano and "clockwork" melodies, with disturbing organs, sampled female voices, metal percussions, alarm signs. It sounds like soundtrack of some utmost surreal movie. I'm amazed.
You start to wonder how can THE ROMANS beat this. Well, it starts with echoing harmonic organ sounds. Slow feedbacks and whole things drenched in reverb. Harmonic melodies start to enter and foot pedal bassier tones. It's very "melodic" and calm, yet you can forget the cheesiest 80's synth muzak. It's still relatively dark and obscure. But what happens then, is that BOYD RICE comes with track "tourist trap" which is made out of couple syncronized tape loops crushing pretty harsh industrial rhythm. End of track loops changes and does almost the same, but with slightly more distortion yet underlying tonality is also clearer. Meditative noise loops.
DOO-DOOETTES does the "jesus theme" song, which is kind of ethno muzak with metal percussions, slap-bass and dull male repeating lines like "I'm walking on the water, singing on the wall, ....." just few slightly altered sentences.
23 SKIDOO finishes the comp with their style of sound, which mixes electronic music with ethnic tribal percussions, drums, very 80's effects, dull vocals.
I guess if you'd remove two last tracks and would have left the Boyd Rice the pleasure to conclude the compilation, it would be great. It still is very nice diverse comp you can't expect to hear anymore.
Eric Lunde is the man! "De Sade" is one of the best applications of "spoken word" in the industrial world, in my opinion. I'm inclined to release that on CD before I do the tape box (still in the works, but damn if mastering 18 hours of material isn't a lot of work! especially when you get to the end of an album and realize the master has problems and then you have to track down someone with a pristine quality original!).
Seriously... De Sade. And Expositions. Fuck!
MK9 Humanity - Apathy 7"
Spoken word with industrial sounds, one of my top-3 seven inches.
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'FEAR, POWER, GOD' LP
http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Birth-Of-Tragedy-Magazines-Fear-Power-God/master/147774
A1: Lydia Lunch - The Human Animal
A2: Matt Heckert - Untitled
A3: Lawrence Ferlinghetti - The Lord's Prayer
A4: Charles Manson - Prison Tape
A5: Mr. V.O. Real - Balls In The Great Meat Grinder
B1: Jello Biafra - Alien Orders
B2: Jello Biafra - Space Shuttle
B3: Allen Ginsberg - A Song
B4: Allen Ginsberg - Dream About William Carlos Williams
B5: Anton LaVey - Book IV
B6: Henry Rollins - L.A.
B7: Whipping Boy - The 3rd Secret
Download from this blog :
http://dualtrack.blogspot.com/2009/02/va-fear-power-god-1987.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/195121595/VA-FearPowerGod_1987.rar
Cassette version :
http://dualtrack.blogspot.com/2009/05/va-fear-power-god-1987-cassette.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/235436330/VA-BoT-Fear-Power-God-1987-Tape.rar
And not exactly along the lines of the thread, but here's a couple of serial killer themed favourites (I imagine most of you will already have 'Murder' anyway?)
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'DEATH DEALERS' LP
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Death-Dealers/release/1549748
A1: Eddie Noack - Dolores
A2: Ed Kemper - Interview
A3: Eddie Noack - Psycho
A4: Charles Manson - Interview
A5: Red River Dave - California Hippie Murders
A6: Ed Gein - Documentary Excerpt
A7: The Uncalled 4 - Grind Her Up
A8: Ottis Toole - Interview
B1: John Wayne Gacy - Interview
B2: The Mentally Ill - Gacy's Place
B3: The Bugs - Albert Albert
B4: Albert Desalvo - Police Press Conference
B5: Albert - Strangler In The Night
B6: Johnny Legend - The Tower
B7: Jeffrey Dahmer - Interview
Download from this blog :
http://gobacktogo.blogspot.com/2008/11/artist-various-artists-album-death.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/153119465/Various_Artists_-_Death_Dealers__Nightstalk-1_.rar
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'MURDER' 2 x 7"
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Murder/release/550505
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Murder/release/954225
A: Edmund Emil Kemper
B: Henry Lee Lucas
C: Theodore Robert Bundy
D: Kenneth Bianchi
Download from this blog :
http://mcdrunk.blogspot.com/2008/12/murder-double-7-single.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/176588017/Murder.rar
Just listened recent LP re-issue of Boyd Rice & Friends Hatesville!
Still very good. CD and LP re-packaged in color sleeves, expensive, but nice quality. Several classic pieces.
The Skullflower titles "Carved Into Roses" and "The Pirate Ship Of Reality Is Moving Out" are both taken from Kathy Acker's book Empire Of The Senseless.
There was a full spoken word album of her reading her late book Pussy King Of The Pirates on Codex and the UK post-punk band Mekons used some of this and her words on all interspersed songs for a mid-90s release - some pretty terrible music on there, and Acker had become much more pseudo-academic and highbrow in her writing.
Her most 'industrial' and extreme book is probably Blood And Guts In High School from the 70s. "Reeking of emotional damage" as Mikko says, there's non-stop incest, violence, self-harm, political extremism, crude drawings of cocks and cunts and it ends with a demented handwritten section and words in Arabic. It was banned in its German translation for supposedly being 'kinderporn'.
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on December 29, 2009, 11:02:16 PM
PROJECT ONE LP Kathy Acker. Over 11 minutes piece is simply spoken word of Empire of the Senseless book of hers recorded in studio in 1986. I knew nothing about her, but when listening this piece few times, I did some search, and the jewish lesbian feminist doesn't seem like that much connected to "noise" or "industrial", but this piece just reeks of emotional damage, bad father relationship, disappointment with male species,....... It's filled with incestuous blowjobs, dreams of fathers coprse,... bleak female voice reading the text, with little passion, but great tone. It's like Lydia Lunch without the nagging tone. It is different, but resembles the topic and approach. Less energy, less repetation. Just fucking perfect.
i just listened to it.... it was dissapointing. since you said 'emotional damage' i was expecting it to have her crying + screaming.
i hate her voice it's too old and mature and smart and does not get me excited.
Emotional damage, didn't refer to "scrEMO" genre type approach. It was about topics and the way it's dealt.
I think crying and screaming about long written piece would be most of all pretentious. It is old and mature, and writing about things long gone (?), so one shouldn't expect fresh hysteria what comes out of girls mouth when cock is removed from there.
I do like to listen also naggy bitching of Lydia L. Got pretty much all of her stuff I could get my hands on. But I'm pretty sure if someone did the same now in 2011, it just won't work out that well?
that MURDER 2x7" is a neat little thing. pointless, but fun release. the Kenneth Bianchi track is the best.
Saw Lydia Lunch last night doing new semi-improvised spoken word performance with kinda dark ambient style background music on tape and slide show - very intense stuff veering quickly between humour and horror, crescendos of hysteria reached saying she wanted to be fucked right now by returning Gulf war vets who've killed at least six Iraqis!
Got pretty much forced into meeting her by the promoter - call me shy but her reputation is intiimidating - offstage she's one of the friendliest, funniest and warmest people I've met in a long while. And still looking hot at past fifty.
Does Come Organization's Ripper Tape and Dennis Andrew Nilsen – LBC / ITV interviews fall into this category? I've been hunting those down for years and haven't came across any for sale for less than $100.00. Does anyone here own either of these?
+ all the Lebensborn M.O.I. tapes are of high interest to me. Anyone have any of these? Opinions?
I like Bryan Lewis Saunders a lot, very powerful delivery to match the very personal subject matter. Also he's amassing an increasingly impressive list of collaborators. His live performances are really not to be missed. Though his vocal delivery on the albums is intense seeing it live is one of the most gripping things I've witnessed in the past few years.
Don't know if this could be called spoken word but I've always loved the Jonathan Briley "Street Gods/Street Violence" track on God Bless America.
Also the Women of the SS "SS Bitch/SS Orgy" 7".
Quote from: rottingmouth on July 19, 2011, 09:13:57 PM
Also the Women of the SS "SS Bitch/SS Orgy" 7".
What's this like? I didn't know it was a "spoken word".
Quote from: RyanWreck on July 19, 2011, 09:37:04 PM
Quote from: rottingmouth on July 19, 2011, 09:13:57 PM
Also the Women of the SS "SS Bitch/SS Orgy" 7".
What's this like? I didn't know it was a "spoken word".
My favorite material of them personally. Two tracks using violin and synth as a backing track and vocals in the forefront. The subject matter is a woman being recruited into the SS and taking part in orgies etc.
spoken word/weird :
years ago found a cd "true crime : serial killers" in the sales bin @ Mediamarkt.....after searching the whole bin i found 12 volumes, all read by a certain Martin Fido http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Fido (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Fido), rather dry BBC-like lecturing but it did feature a lot of interesting facts & lesser known cases.....not a bad score at 1euro / cd lol
almost no info online : http://www.discogs.com/artist/Martin+Fido (http://www.discogs.com/artist/Martin+Fido)
the whole serie :
01 Serial Killers (Ted Bundy/Michele De Marco Lupo/Leonard Lake & Charles Ng)
02 Prostitute Killers (Joseph Connor/Harriet Buswell/Robert Hansen)
03 Poisoners (Christiana Edmunds/Dr Neill Cream/Mrs Merrifield)
04 Multiple Killers (Glennon Engleman/Roberts, Whitney & Duddy/Dr Marcel Petiot)
05 Wife Killers (Dr Clements/George Chapman/Herbert Bennett)
06 Child Murderers (Jeannie Donald/Alice Crimmins/Raymond Morris)
07 Sexual Serial Killers (The Hillside Stranglers/John Wayne Gacy/Jeffrey Dahmer)
08 Domestic Poisoners (Susan Barber/Mrs Bravo/Mrs Bartlett)
09 Mass Murderers In The Family (Thomas Cullen Davis/Jeffrey McDonald/George Joseph Smith)
10 The Body Snatchers (Burke & Hare/Bishop & Head/The Cook Family)
11 Family Murderers (Jeremy Bamber/Lizzie Borden/The Sidney Family)
12 The Cannibals (Ed Gein/Albert Fish/Gary Heidnik)
Bryan Lewis Saunders
I looked him up after coming across his name in a review of the Extreme Rituals event. Nothing I watched on youtube was very interesting to me. One thing he was ranting about animals feeling pain with every other word being 'shit'. Just seemed silly.
I think I have a dub of Come Org's Ripper tape which is nothing but radio or tv broadcasts about Sutcliffe.
The Murder 2x7" was originally to be only the killers with no background sounds & planned for a LP. I wrote some text for Lance Barton/Alamut but it all changed with Moynihan became involved. The text I did was just facts- he didn't want anything graphic/violent or Peter Sotos-like. I think it was Henry Lee Lucas I wrote something on.
Those Martin Fido tapes look good- there were a couple of true crime papberbacks that came with audio tapes. Seems like it was Shawcross & Lucas. I may still own them. The books are easy to find used but never with the tapes.
I love the Blaster Al Ackerman "I Am Drunk" LP Ehse put out a few years back, gets quite a lot of play
http://www.ehserecords.com/ehse002/
found a really strange LP a few years back titled "Inside SINA" (Society For Indecency to Naked Animals) which is a Hoax LP put out by Alan Abel the goal being a "crusade whose mission was to clothe all naked animals for the sake of decency. It was called S.I.N.A. or The Society for the Indecency to Naked Animals. The campaign slogan was "a nude horse is a rude horse." All pets should wear clothing any pet that stands higher than four inches or taller than six inches"
http://vimeo.com/19574111 (http://vimeo.com/19574111)
Personal favorite Bryan Lewis Saunders piece, with John Duncan background music. I remember this making my roommate cry in college when I first watched it.
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on January 07, 2010, 01:20:59 PMI was thinking, should I start topic for WARCOM MEDIA or just continue this?
Well, lets continue this. Maybe Warcom will get its own topic later on.
V/A MEN AMONG MICE CD
Warcom Media 1997, warcd 01
Brilliant. This label was always just... "beyond". Their aesthetic, their choise of artists. There is no other label to do it as they did. I recall there was interview in some issue of Degenerate?!? Well, it's been so many years that I keep forgetting who all have been featured. Anyways, when Warcom decided to stop, he simply sold major part of his own collection as well as got rid of all Warcom material. He announced that what isn't sold before deadline of closing label, rest will simply be thrown away. I bought maybe 20-30 per title, but I regret not buying more. I'm sure that some of the titles were thrown away significant quantities?
But lets get to business.
BOOK AND SWORD, the glory of Sarote Industries new fascist music with pretty dry drum machine beats, polyfonic tones and american national socialist speaches on top. Slow flanger. Some material referred to sound like Joy Division, but not this one.
2nd track is a manifest by JAMES MASON, conducted over the phone from prison. His views are mixture of apocalyptic visions of charles manson mixing with white power movement. Heavily involved in the American Nazi Party and the National Socialist Liberation Front. Eventually, he formed the Univeral Order. His journals were collected and published on Blood Axis' Storm label as book. 3 and half minutes of speak about values and role of men. Page of booklet includes pencil drawing submitted from Tom Metzger/WAR.
Next hits in CONTROL RESISTANCE. This is different from his perhaps most famous "Germ Warfare" 10" on Power & Steel, which was pure power electronics. This track "Crush/Automated Extermination (Zyklon B Mixture)" could be called some sort of industrial-metal. Its raw and nasty, but think something like Iugula-Thor "wheel of process" with 3rd reich domination with less musical Godflesh with robotic voices.
STREICHER delivers "Hatefuck Bloodoath" which is perhaps typical for his style, but always enjoyable!
Followed by nothing else by CHARLES MANSON with his "Convicts mind" acoustic guitar + vocals performance. Very good actually.
TAN TRICK from sweden is one of rare european contributions of this. Who is this? Simple meditation ambient muzak.
SOUL OF STEEL is project of Robert N. Taylor, also known from Changes. He looks like some sort of wizard in booklet image. Track is all about poetic manifestations, over silent keyboard music.
WARCOM is the owner of Warcom media, obviously. Strange electronic music making very little sense. With gruff vocals.
ROBERT X. PATRIOT is like strange experimental post punk. Drum machine beats, melodies, obscure vocals about upcoming victory. Just totally beyond.
COUP DE GRACE is pre- Blood Axis. Monk choirs, delay dominated drum machine beats and keyboard drones. Clumsy lo-fi old school industrial.
BOOK AND SWORD returns now with more joy division style song about natural selection.
RXP again with something you just need to experience, can't be really described.
Compilation what mixes noise, industrial, folk, spoken word, and various sounds of total bizarro-world. To be experienced. Just compilation unlike anything else!
This is another one of those compilations, which to me feels a bit unsung in my opinion. It's definitely got a diverse sound in regards to all of the different artists and genre style on this comp. It's definitely worth it alone for the Streicher track Hatefuck Bloodoath. In my opinion that is one of the best Streicher tracks in general.