As a newbie, I wondered if people could drop what they consider the 'essential' releases of 2021 so far... I'd prefer digital or cassette if possible. Let me know what I am missing and where I can rectify my mistake!
Thanks in advance!
So far for me:
Final Machine - Material Sound Archive Volume 3, 4, 5
Dave Phillips - To Death
Brandon Wald - Andromedan Transmission
Det Kätterska Förbund - Lidaverken Del I: Att i Vådeld Förgås
I'd second Dave Phillips, but he's been on a great roll for a while now.
Knurl - Narcosylate
not noise, but...
Lucas Alvarado - La Ausencia Como Lenguaje
Jim O'Rourke & Jos Smolders - Additive Inverse
Massimo Toniutti - Rot im Studio (dritte Sonate)
Dave Phillips - Disappear
Hecker - Synopsis Seriation
Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt - Lucy & Aaron
John Wiese - Magnetic Stencil/ 3
Evil Moisture & Expose Your Eyes - Avant Stupid
Not noise but some other experimental/dark ambient/drone/etc.:
Kheth Astron - Akratic Laya
Jean-Luc Guionnet & Will Guthrie - Electric Rag
Away & thisquietarmy - The Singularity, Phase II
Umpio - Kulotus 2xCD - another monster album by Umpio and a double one at that. Available online at https://umpio.bandcamp.com/album/kulotus (https://umpio.bandcamp.com/album/kulotus)
I also have really enjoyed the Proof Of The Shooting – Demonstrative Evidence compilation which is 4CDs of dense material. I'd say essential because it's really good and also really different than a lot of newer stuff I've heard. Which isn't shocking since it's 20+ year old material.
yea the Demonstrative Evidence box is great. John Briley 7xCD is awesome too, so well done!
I just saw Tesco put up preorders for a new Linekraft full length as well, that will be mandatory.
2021 is going hard like 2020 did. Surprised to see so few recommendations, and many reissues and "non-noise" things. Some new 2021 essentials off the top of my head, for my money at least:
JACKSON-PRATT - A Romantic Phenomenon CD (Troniks)
JASON CRUMER - Services Rendered 3LP/2CD (Breathing Problem Productions)
KJOSTAD - Warlord CD (New Forces)
V/A - Lacerations 2CD (White Centipede Noise / Troniks)
STAR - Yutris CS (I Am Elegant)
EMIL BEAULIEAU - Korm 88 CS (Adhuman)
Anything from APRAPAT
TOURETTE - Échancré CD (Flag Day Recordings)
SHREDDED NERVE - Fighting To Live CS (Dead Gods)
MO*TE - Throw A Stone CD (Absurd Exposition)
All plenty fresh, unique and interesting if you like noise.
Plenty of cool reissues again, but for new stuff (not repeating anything White Centipede already listed above):
Hugo Randulv – Radio Arktis - samlade ljud från den norra polcirkeln (Förlag För Fri Musik) LP
Charmaine Lee – KNVF (Erratum) LP
Altar Of Flies – Signaler (Chondritic Sound) CD
Sewer Election – Antarktis (Usagi) CD
Joe Colley – Trying to play Nothing (Meeuw Muzak) 7-inch
Testicle Hazard – Kiki & Kastor (Troniks / Helicopter) CD
Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt – Lucy & Aaron (Hanson) LP
No Artist – Health and Happiness in the 21st Century (Robert Fuchs) Cassette
Idea Fire Company - The New Line (Vocational Sound Company) LP
Plenty more but these came immediately to mind...
A few of my favourites are already covered, Warlord and Lucy&Aaron especially.
I bought the Warlord special edition boxed set and I really like the cassette tapes that accompany the CD.
I would add:
Blackcloudsummoner - Total fucking godhead
Su Souse Toulouse En Rouge - Will Rest When Dead
Scald Hymn - Instance of Home
Knifedoutofexistence - I find myself dwelling on the sick
Himukalt - Knifed through the spine
I listen to loads of different sounds so my list is probably not a good representation of noise in general.
There's been a tonne of great output this year, but using 'essential' as a grading rubric I think just in terms of what Linekraft offer with their latest LP "阿修羅 : Asura" will be a serious contender, although it's too early to tell. & as a heavy addition to their formidable back catalogue; this will likely be picked apart years down the track.
This seems to be the year of the box. The Briley box was great, Domaine Poétique box had some great material, there is a brand new Ramirez archive box out...
I especially liked two releases that were not really boxes but collections:
Ahlzagailzehguh - Enemy Of The Future 2xCD
Pedestrian Deposit - Nostalgia: 2000-06 3xCD
Hectic killer harsh noise. Both are a pleasure to listen through in one sitting even if they contain a lot of material.
Quote from: ConcreteMascara on September 17, 2021, 04:10:50 PM
Umpio - Kulotus 2xCD
Probably my favourite CD of the year so far.
Kjostad - Knuckle Gash 7" is another ripper.
Seconding recommendations for:
Sewer Election - Antarktis
Scald Hymn - Instance of Home
and I'll add:
Sunk Cost: Wave of Mutilation
A Fail Association: This Will Hurt You More Than It Will Hurt Me
Bastard Noise / Amps For Christ: The Crossroads of Agony / Cliff Parade
Scathing - Strawman Rising
Jason Crumer - Services Rendered
"not noise but":
Stockhausen Syndrome by Jack Callahan and Jeff Witscher is weird and funny and good
Himukalt – Dreaming Of A Dead Girl
Linekraft - Asura
Developer - Stand in My Shadow Forever
Knurl - Narcosylate
Umpio - Kulotus
Olympic Hopes - Luxor
Olympic Hopes - Amnesia
So far, only the new Linekraft. Still looking forward to few new outputs that I didn´t buy/listen to yet. Otherwise, I´m focusing myself more on old stuff I´m still missing (and re-presses) and slowly losing a lot of interest in the tons of new noise / industrial releases coming out now.
I check mostly Finnish stuff and one what I have recommend is;
Mogao - A Mass Meditation (FA 2021)
Pure, perfect balanced, pretty simply but totally harsh.
Album include four tracks which every has own spirit, but works alone also very well.
Like almost every year...far too many.
That's also why I reduced my buying of Noise a bit in the last couple months. Not that I like this, but there isn't simply an endless amount of money available. And I soon have to catch up with some records I really want.
But I'll start with:
Himukalt - Dreaming of a Dead Girl
Femeheim - Peinheil
Others will follow, maybe.
Hospital Prod Remorseless Greed VA arrived yesterday and it's got a hell of a track list. Package is absurd; coffee can size full wrap (interior!) and exterior of Egptian imagery loaded with "Cairene sand" - tapes are wrapped up in yellow plastic and twine with a poster. Contributors include Genocide Organ, Alberich, Geography of Hell, Ames Sanglantes, Opera for Infantry, Proiekt Hat, Prurient, Skin Crime, Thirdorgan, Smell and Quim, Masonna, Powdered Beatles, Survival Unit/Grey Wolves, Rogue State, Linekraft, Alchemy of the 20th Century, Yellow Gas Flames, Pale Newspaper & Oswald Resurrection. If this isn't essential then uh..not sure what is.
Also, I forgot about the Kazumoto Endo/Rorschach Collective split LP - Skeleton Dust have affordable copies in the US - looking forward to listening to this, going to add to the "tentatively essential" list ....
It's tough for me to narrow some of them down because I've been introduced to a lot of artists this year who also have put out several albums that I've enjoyed. Some highlights for me include:
Eyerolls - Burial Mound (https://eyerolls.bandcamp.com/album/burial-mound). One thing (out of many) that Eyerolls does is make music videos using Google's Deep Dream Generator (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZJBZ14sauE). You know that thing that generates weird AI images that fuck with your brain (https://deepdreamgenerator.com/) (like whatever this is (https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NINTCHDBPICT000485122030.jpg))? Burial Mound is nearly an audio equivalent: you can hear pieces and fragments of source sounds, but the processing turns it into something new. Though the comparison ends there: Eyerolls makes countless deliberate choices about how to twist sounds and where to place them, turning what could be dense, detailed textures into mind-melting fun.
Soloman Tump - The Tump Dump (https://solomantump.bandcamp.com/album/the-tump-dump-2). This collection of demos and experiments is full of aural gems. I'm really glad that he put this collection of tracks together because my ears simply love it.
head of goliath - consume all the nations (https://headofgoliath.bandcamp.com/album/consume-all-the-nations). Really nice minimal synth / noise / drone. Also has several tracks that make good use of my subwoofer. I wrote about it in more depth elsewhere online (https://www.noisewiki.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=11974#p11974), but you're better off listening to it now instead of reading further.
Scum Alice - Direction of Mold (https://natihilmadebymachines.bandcamp.com/album/direction-of-mold). This dark ambient project frequently paints harrowing pictures of sunbathed cells, tunnels, and voids. Much of it shows the listener a place of extreme isolation, taking them to its mind-breaking extremities. This is a project that has had a huge amount of output this year alone, so it's tough to simply choose one to talk about, but this would be a good starting place for anyone new to it.
Maraud - Word of Concrete (https://maraud.bandcamp.com/track/world-of-concrete). While not as direct or biting as 2020's Warrior Society (https://maraud.bandcamp.com/album/warrior-society), World of Concrete is a meditation on the enormous cement monoliths that we've been surrounded with in the current age, tapping into an inner place, and turning those pillars into dust. Quite a lot to accomplish in a mere 13 minutes, but it's good. This project really needs some more EPs or full albums.
I know there are more, but it's been a long year.
Seems to be harder to think about good new releases this year than last but these came to mind:
Linekraft - Asura LP
Lustmord/Karin Park 2LP
Sewer Election - Antarktis CD
Yana - Obitvs CS
Mogao full-length and songs on the Kolari comp.
Residual - Retrograde Future CS
Naxal Protocol - Fetishism of Repression CS
There's again lots of new stuff I haven't had enough time to delve into enough or get into.
I think its been a pretty good year so far.
I've been pretty obsessed with everything Gay Death has put out this year.
The new Koufar is fucking sweet, just got my copy this weekend.
I really loved the Burnt Feathers tape on No Rent.
The new Am Not 7 on Ant-Zen is another killer release from Tamon.
I thought Kevlar's new CD was their best yet.
A lot of great LPs on BPP.
I'm probably forgetting some stuff but still, a good year so far.
Quote from: Pigswill on November 06, 2021, 10:30:06 AMu
Soloman Tump - The Tump Dump (https://solomantump.bandcamp.com/album/the-tump-dump-2). This collection of demos and experiments is full of aural gems. I'm really glad that he put this collection of tracks together because my ears simply love it.
Thank you for listening and the kind words, it means a lot. First review that I've seen!
New stuff coming soon
Missing "III" tape - possibly best tape of 2021?
Mogao/Moozzhead tape - absolute harsh noise bliss
Smell & Quim "Bulls penis soup" CD - most demented and sleazy noise
Scathing "pale faced feeders" tape - No other reason, that tape just lured to flip and replay. Could name other US noise too, but this was recent of "wow, strong material!" -type of reactions.
CCCC test tube fantasy LP - very much awaited reissue!
I am pretty sure I like several items mentioned on this topic, but yet to hear latest Altar Of Flies, Linekraft I just got, the finn scene has been very strong and several releases that demand instant multiple plays.
My copies were sold out. I would guess that edition of 100 not that many came to EU.. Missing is not noise. Not in sense of harsh noise. It has couple bursts of harsh, literally just few seconds during entire 40+ mins. It is more like eerie and odd tape collage, tape manipulation. It is not like Sir Ashleigh Grove or Curfew Recordings. Pretty much not at all, but it still made me think about such things. Sometimes you get the "why I am even listening this" -feeling, and during doing so, material captures you and is puzzling. Not just energetic relief and fun blast, but something else.
Quote from: accidental on November 11, 2021, 11:11:32 AM
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on November 11, 2021, 09:56:28 AM
Missing is not noise. Not in sense of harsh noise.
That's likely why i became interested.
Can only agree on how great this tape is, and the label description (to which I indirectly contributed) reads: "Nothing else sounds like this, but if you need references think grimy 80s Italy meets Ultra." Sir Ashleigh Grove? Yeah, that fits too, and it doesn't at the same time. Definitely hard to pin down!
Quote from: accidental on November 10, 2021, 09:10:55 PM
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on November 10, 2021, 10:02:24 AM
Missing "III" tape - possibly best tape of 2021?
Any EU distro's carrying this?
I still have copies in stock, relatively cheap shipping to EU: https://www.screamandwrithe.com/product/cassettes/missing-cs/
Tinnitustimulus - Gascha-Muche
Black Leather Jesus - Hellbound (Deathbed Tapes)
Quote from: Eigen Bast on October 27, 2021, 10:07:30 PM
Hospital Prod Remorseless Greed VA arrived yesterday and it's got a hell of a track list. Package is absurd; coffee can size full wrap (interior!) and exterior of Egptian imagery loaded with "Cairene sand" - tapes are wrapped up in yellow plastic and twine with a poster. Contributors include Genocide Organ, Alberich, Geography of Hell, Ames Sanglantes, Opera for Infantry, Proiekt Hat, Prurient, Skin Crime, Thirdorgan, Smell and Quim, Masonna, Powdered Beatles, Survival Unit/Grey Wolves, Rogue State, Linekraft, Alchemy of the 20th Century, Yellow Gas Flames, Pale Newspaper & Oswald Resurrection. If this isn't essential then uh..not sure what is.
Yes, pretty essential, all right. Good tracks aplenty, but possibly the best one I've heard from Alberich after his decidedly underwhelming "Quantized Angel". Also, special mention to Smell & Quim, for lowering the tone - in a most excellent way, naturally!
Another one I really liked was the
Irrational Fear 7" by
Graustich - creeping and unpolished p.e., or maybe more what they used to call 'heavy electronics'. In any case, Graustich are getting better and better all the time.
For essential records...I just don't know, far too many and it's somehow different every day. But I think my favourite label of the year with all their releases is definitely Satatuhatta
Quote from: cr on December 24, 2021, 01:31:00 PM
But I think my favourite label of the year with all their releases is definitely Satatuhatta
Definitely a lot of good stuff coming from them. Latest batch is a great way to end the year.
Jackson-Pratt - A Romantic Phenomonon CD
Autoerotichrist - Bondage Morningstar 2xCS
Death Squad - Collected Documentation: 1997 North American Tour
Phocomelus - Deus Irae / Crippled Sex Object CD
Lovers - Equilizer Muzik CD-r
Scant - Prosopagnosia c-20
Death Dedication - Provider Replacement CD-r
Skin Crime - Tales From The Crypt 2xCS
Star - Yutris c-90
...
Straight Panic - 16 Shades of Black
Bonemagic - Meat Concrete
Leah P - Surviving the Familiar
Bullshit Market - Oklazona; The "Tusla" Tapes
CBN - Crimes Against White America
Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
Chuck Steak - 10 Horns Arise From 4 Hells
Scarlet Diva - I Enter The Room... That's When I Start To Exist For You
Black Leather Jesus & Xiu Xiu - Moira
She Walks Crooked - Her Whisper
Koufar - Minority Report II
Bazahadar - May the Red, White, and Blue Burn Forever
In no particular order...
Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt - Lucy & Aaron LP (Hanson Records)
Altar Of Flies - Signaler CD (Chondritic Sound)
Aprapat - Born Rare Cassette (Narcolepsia)
Enhet För Fri Musik - Ömhet & Skilsmässa LP (Discreet Music)
Jackson-Pratt - A Romantic Phenomenon CD (Troniks)
Joe Colley - Trying To Play Nothing 7" Meeuw Muzak)
Kevlar - Agitators Of The Mind CD (Unrest Productions)
No Dreams - Death Embodiment CDr (Small Mercies)
Spate - Neuter CDr (Robert Fuchs)
Wasteland Jazz Unit - Mind Obscured CD (Troniks)
Scant – Dissociative CD (Chondritic)
Here's my best of 2021 list... all genres considered but there is still a few noise/industrial offerings there
http://existest.org/ee_v3/?p=10276
Quote from: xdementia on January 05, 2022, 09:57:20 AM
Here's my best of 2021 list... all genres considered but there is still a few noise/industrial offerings there
http://existest.org/ee_v3/?p=10276
holy shit I didn't know that Private Archive album actually got released. Last I heard were rumors a few years ago that it was never coming out. and nice list, a lot of stuff on there I'll have to check out.