What are some favorites? Mine are as follows:
Lo-Fi Power Carnage - Probably one of the best harsh noise albums in existence, forever. Just pure static crunch and pulse with lots of rhythmic sections. This should appeal to any harsh head.
Maximum Dose - Basically the same formula, but more layering and a little more variation in sound. Probably used different configurations of his setup for each track, whereas LFPC sounds like the same one every time. Long compositions of churning, scraping industrial noise. Relentless. I have never heard another release that matches the fury of this, except for "Chronicle of Serial Murder" by Slogun.
Audiocide '95 - Basically continuing the saga but with some more evolutions, high-pitched noises coming though 200% more, and more chaotic structure. Although it's not quite on the level of "cut up" style artists, there's some chaos as well as control. A whole lot of Incapacitants-type feedback seems to dominate every release I've heard from this one onward, but still with the rumble and explosiveness heard in older stuff. A classic!
Repugnance isn't too bad, either.
so many top-notch here...some of personal choices:
- Lo-fi Power Carnage
- Tumours (MSNP)
- Metal Induced Orgasm (Self Abuse)
- Horrors Of The Human Body (Less Than Zero)
- Puke On My Corpse (Bloodlust!)
- Annihilition Devices (LTZ)
a good start would be the CDr called "Retrocuts" he did a while ago. As title suggest a recollection of tracks from his best tapes.
Gabriele is the greatest Italian noise artist!
All the stuff i listened to from his various projects is great.
Dead Body Love remains my favorite (classics apart i recommend his recent "Arabia Terra" CDr on Xerxes) but Discordance and Oleoresin Capsicum are top notch. The first is usually quite rare and maybe deserves some reissues, but the latter is easy to find.
I had the pleasure of doing various splits and collaborations with him: great guy to work with and a sincere noise maniac.
yes - one of, if not THE greatest as an influence for me personally.
I've talked about his work a lot, but again -
top 5 favorites:
LOW-FI POWER CARNAGE
EMETIC
TUMOURS
DESTRUCTION'S GEOMETRY
ANNIHILATION DEVICES
Check out his project Discordance, also some really great material!!!
Grace (12 Year's Old) B/W Child StewClassy.
Dead Body Love is perfection.
Quote from: tisbor on July 13, 2012, 12:17:12 AMa sincere noise maniac.
I remember how excited I was when DBL first assaulted the auditory passages (in my case via Metal-Induced Orgasm (1995)). In my excitement I may have gotten a bit carried away, pronouncing DBL heir apparent to the Merzbow throne; though, per the familiar narrative of such things, a similar title seems to have been retroactively bestowed – by The Rita anyway. It was less a sense of vision than one of crystallization. Much like The Rita's HNW, DBL represented a refining, or focusing, of a certain strain I enjoyed very much. A strain characterized by seemingly crowded surplus of sounds fighting against one another in a vain effort to be heard above the net flatulence. "Pure putrefying overbludgeon," or something to that effect, was one favored phrase. "Unrefined overkill" was another. Presented mainly against forces deemed hostile to what I knew and loved. What did I know and love? No more than something so devoid of any attempt at justification that even self-styled audiophiles in the experimental field hated the shit – the RAW FILTH – for its uncompromising lack of concession to higher-minded fidelity. DBL represented everything that not only People Who Don't Like Noise didn't like about Le Shit but what People Who Think They Like Noise But Actually Don't didn't. Or so I would like to have phantasized. One could go on to suggest that The Rita was a natural progression, a further refining and focusing, of the, um, overbludgered strain. And fortunately, one not quite so short-lived.
Much like a lot of their mid-90's contemporaries, DBL burnt themselves out in very short order. One could smell the beginnings of the ends in things like the Human/Machine collab with Thirdorgan – conceptually sound, but the worst I'd yet heard from either artist – and the higher-end but lower-impact Inhumanities (1997). If DBL were trying to re-fire their jets, it was with muted success. Sniffing another misfire, I gave Annihilation Devices Part 2 a miss... and then the project went on a fucking ten year hiatus. Before that happened, however, Horrors Of The Human Body came to pass.
Horrors Of The Human Body (1996) was the end of an era as far I'm concerned, the last truly great DBL released on Giuliani's own Less Than Zero. A denser, heavier DBL, less saturated but much more suffocating. Much more. As flatulence gives way to a smoother, nuanced, presentation, some of the irritated audiophile contingent might a last begin to grant DBL granules of grudging respect. But, in the dialect of my former excitement, fuck 'em. Save the DBL for those who give a shit. Or should I say, Le Shit.
Giuliani also deserves credit for time served as Less Than Zero, issuing top work from around the noiseworld. I think I've got every single LTZ – except, ha!, Annihilation Devices Part 2 - and they are all classics. Every single one. A particular favorite is the Original Soundtrack compilation, for which I'd like to wankerously quote my own review:
QuoteFor those BIG DUMMIES still confused about the differences between power electronics and noise, Less Than Zero have provided the ideal pedagogical case study. With enough Original Soundtracks going around, confusion will soon be a thing of the past. All budding musicologists should have one - a handy reference source perfect for category hounds in search of clarity. Finally. The dichotomy is made crystal clear over sixty minutes of scrupulously split sonics. Original Soundtrack divides into two distinct halves: Power Side and Ultra Side. Power Side is dominated by Americans and Italians. Five of the six Ultra Side contributors are Japanese. On one side we have bands like Murder Corporation, Atrax Morgue and Deathpile. On the other, bands like Thirdorgan, Building of Gel and Cock ESP. On one side, we have song titles like "Raped to Death", "Whore Trash" and "Blindfold". On the other, titles like "FGKYKFALHNGR", "Chris Masonobu and Nakamoto Cozy" and "I don't want to buy Samurai Bond." If you're still confused, I'm afraid you're a lost cause
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QuoteFor those BIG DUMMIES still confused about the differences between power electronics and noise, Less Than Zero have provided the ideal pedagogical case study. With enough Original Soundtracks going around, confusion will soon be a thing of the past. All budding musicologists should have one - a handy reference source perfect for category hounds in search of clarity. Finally. The dichotomy is made crystal clear over sixty minutes of scrupulously split sonics. Original Soundtrack divides into two distinct halves: Power Side and Ultra Side. Power Side is dominated by Americans and Italians. Five of the six Ultra Side contributors are Japanese. On one side we have bands like Murder Corporation, Atrax Morgue and Deathpile. On the other, bands like Thirdorgan, Building of Gel and Cock ESP. On one side, we have song titles like "Raped to Death", "Whore Trash" and "Blindfold". On the other, titles like "FGKYKFALHNGR", "Chris Masonobu and Nakamoto Cozy" and "I don't want to buy Samurai Bond." If you're still confused, I'm afraid you're a lost cause
that's a great review!
Thanks, though that was just the intro. Was too embarrassed to repost the the second half - which probably belongs in the "Noise and intoxication" thread - but, what the hey. I don't need much encouragement, so:
QuoteMark Solotroff has the Power first and executes a mostly powerless bumbling breather that bumps along a bubbling basin of brazen bass-tones. Murder Corporation opens up a few fluctuating frequencies, flittering freely from ski slop to razor glade in a way that could only be called "Deranged." Atrax Morgue consults the old classic, "How to Amuse Yourself in a Coffin," and spends the following few minutes - titled, appropriately enough, "Electrodeathexitement" - excitedly salivating all over his home away from home. Taint churns out a heavy mass of ruddy-cheeked, ironclad, trashcycle which seems somehow better-suited for Ultra Side. But that's OK. Noise-cum-PE can use a little ambiguity. Deathpile pokes about the "Killing Ground" for a while before succumbing to the usual urges and letting loose a few pelvically-preferential spewages in obsessively grim, oomph-laden, solidarity. Power outs with sniggering feedback-seething clunk-sputter courtesy of DBL PE alter-ego Discordance. Side Ultra explodes with the strategically-placed Pain Jerk, who promptly whips out his pinwheeling, rhythmic medley of blended contact thunkery, and sets about rendering the looped spaghetti-mess utterly incoherent. Building of Gel try their hand at spring-action disco bloop-squelch, as piles of hollowed-out tubular piping bounce unevenly along the perimeter. Cock ESP roughly rage at gawkily-diced Juntaro - that would be "Mr Masturbation" to you - and succeed in settling at least one score on who is and is not The Chef. Thirdorgan balances precariously between zippy fuzz-streak and smarmy suicide bombers smoking cigars in curbside vans. Kazumoto Endo appears to have temporarily confused himself with rustcovered Pain Jerk. Yes, there's plenty of scrap-metal to go around, but the two kings of arrhythmic waltz-crunch whirli will hear nothing of it: choked-back jackhammer-slam and yelping laser fight of shrill scree-burn. Incapacitants continue their pattern of riddling titles with stock tips. This isn't just noise. It's a capital gains bible. The noise? No self-respecting noiseperv would bother asking. Suffice to say, when Mikawa and pal say they don't want to buy Samurai Bond, they mean it. Noise doesn't get any more Ultra than that.
Apologies for that. No idea what I was smoking.
Frankly i can't complain about the second part either
Recently been making my way through Nechronology after being seriously impressed with Lo-Fi Power Carnage. More varied than I was expected but still displays an impressive command and control of crunchy noise textures. Would definitely pick up a second box of re-issues!
I was after it for almost 2 years, keep an eye on Discogs, got mine new for 55 euros.
DBL is in severe need of something like the Skin Crime "Case Studies" treatment. The Nechronology box just doesn't do the work justice in my opinion. I was stoked to get this box years ago, but for each original I track down and every reissue that has come out since then, it makes me realize how subpar the dubbing/mastering is on this box. Completely dull sounding and totally lacking the ripping crusty power of all his works. Desperate to hear the massive walls of "Annihilation Devices" in all their glory. Not to mention many other tapes not included in this box such as Unplugged, Metal Induced Orgasm and Panic System. Anyone else share my view on this box or is my copy a fluke, and anyone know the possibility of further reissues? Seems like Gabriele is still an easy contact.
From what I can tell in conversations with other people that own that box, all the dubs are sadly pretty lo-fi. Mine certainly is. I bought Nechronology when it came out, and I've since acquired original versions of some of the tapes, and the originals sound WAY better.
Quote from: dogcw on April 10, 2018, 09:55:10 PM
DBL is in severe need of something like the Skin Crime "Case Studies" treatment. ... Desperate to hear the massive walls of "Annihilation Devices" in all their glory. Not to mention many other tapes not included in this box such as Unplugged, Metal Induced Orgasm and Panic System. Anyone else share my view on this box or is my copy a fluke, and anyone know the possibility of further reissues? Seems like Gabriele is still an easy contact.
Was just talking to someone about this. Would love to get masters-quality reissues solo or in a box, and Metal Induced Orgasm would be a necessity!
I have literally avoided even looking up anything about this project before today, because every time I check out a hyped-up HN project I end up like the guy who came late to the party and the booze is all gone haha and lo and behold...
I want to hear "Tumours" so BADLY now AGH WHY
I think we are unanimously agreed a "Box Is Stupid"/"Case Studies" box would get absolutely hoovered by the folks on here.
I mention some of this list recently in an interview, but i think it's important to mention in this thread the other Italian projects' releases that are highly representative of the DBL technique if you're having trouble sourcing original DBL releases, but can find these masterworks:
IUGULA-THOR - Opera
MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA - 2nd Movement
BRUNO COSSANO - Live in Paris
BRUNO COSSANO - Saffo's Pleasures
Does anybody have files of Tumours or Puke On My Corpse? Please? Sorry I'm a grub, can't even finish a decent ranking list anymore...
P.S. Nechronology looks like a badly planned box set, but that Retrocuts CDr is the worst collection of tracks exclusively from his weakest tapes in my opinion.
does anyone have a copy of 'unplugged,' the DBL tape on deadline?
https://www.discogs.com/Dead-Body-Love-Unplugged/release/618696 (https://www.discogs.com/Dead-Body-Love-Unplugged/release/618696)
i have a copy of the reissue version, but the dub was of such a low quality that i re-mastered the tape myself to hear it more properly. it was enough for me to discern that the tape is one of his better works, alongside 'tumours,' 'emetic,' 'erase the body,' the a-side of 'crossfire' and several others ...
Tracked down a copy of Arabia Terra, super pleased about it as it's definitely in line with the quality of the classic 90s tapes.
Oleoresin Capsicum makes me laugh every time, that logo looks like a deli or some mom-n-pop restaurant hahaha.
Ok I really should've made that connection
Quote from: PedestrianOrgans on April 25, 2018, 08:36:09 PM
that Retrocuts CDr is the worst collection of tracks exclusively from his weakest tapes in my opinion.
Hold on a sec. Retrocuts has two cuts from what remains to this day one of my all-time faves:
Horrors Of The Human Body, including the lengthy opening track- which for me is a kind of study in perfecting the idea of "suffocating" electronics. Plus- and I'll need to refer back at some point to the original tape as its been a while- but I'm pretty sure I thought Stand In Blood, two cuts from which are featured, was also a pretty ace DBL offering. Which leads me to ask- is it the original cassettes that are so despised, or is the criticism based on the digital Retrocuts reissue- which I haven't heard but of whose quality I am quite skeptical. I once came across a rip of HOTHB and it was simply... a horrifically poor facscimile, imnsho.
"Horrors of the Human Body" is definitely solid noise, I just think it's not HIS best. I suppose it's a question of relativity, because you're right pretty much everything DBL is worth listening to immediately. I just think there's a lot missing from that particular compilation that could've been there, and my personal LEAST favorites were included, so.
However, I don't own an original of "Stand In Blood", so I'll admit my initial sentiments on it might be because of shit-quality rips.
Maximum Dose is my personal favorite
I'm all about Repugnance
Anyone got his contact?
DEAD BODY LOVE "Emetic" tape.
Labyrinth rec tape, 150 made back in 1996. Crunchy and loud noise ripper, never reissued. I have no recollection when I bought this, but it has again the Artware price stickers, so bought from Germany probably decade ago or more. Tape labels were still sealed, fuck.. Well. Perhaps my appreciation for strength of DBL is even bigger now that it was years ago. Totally excellent.
I don't think I could appreciate DBL to the degree it should be, back in mid 90's. It was always good, but I did not hear the usual and personal qualities of the noise back then. Now, compositional aspects, and most of all, texture and the details of saturation is one of those things one can't be 100% sure how it has been made. Emetic sounds like DBL usually does: Live noise. No overdubs, no editing. That's what I think. Most likely recorded on tape deck, but could be also analogue 4-tracker. Not much traces that multi-tracking would be used. It sounds more as if he would play all the sounds at once, in a way that they melt neatly together.
I would certainly like to see more DBL best titles to be reissued on CD, and perhaps also enough copies pressed that they would not run out instantly.
It's a very good time to revisit this project as a ton of reissues are finally happening, and all at the same time (New Wall Order?).
Here's a recap of everything that has happened in the past year, but mostly in the past two months:
- "Tumors" (reissued July 2022, CD, Input-Error)
- "Emetic" (reissued April 2023, LP, Phage Tapes)
- "Destruction's Geometry" (reissued May 2023, CD, Phage Tapes)
- "Prayers for the Sick" (reissued May 2023, CD, Tribe Tapes)
- "Stand in Blood" (TBA, announced via Instagram story in May 2023, CD, Input-Error)
- "Disasterland" (TBA, planned reissue confirmed by Crucial Blast via Discogs comment in May 2023, unknown format)
Quote from: Volcano Queen on May 25, 2023, 04:20:41 AMIt's a very good time to revisit this project as a ton of reissues are finally happening, and all at the same time (New Wall Order?).
Here's a recap of everything that has happened in the past year, but mostly in the past two months:
- "Tumors" (reissued July 2022, CD, Input-Error)
- "Emetic" (reissued April 2023, LP, Phage Tapes)
- "Destruction's Geometry" (reissued May 2023, CD, Phage Tapes)
- "Prayers for the Sick" (reissued May 2023, CD, Tribe Tapes)
- "Stand in Blood" (TBA, announced via Instagram story in May 2023, CD, Input-Error)
- "Disasterland" (TBA, planned reissue confirmed by Crucial Blast via Discogs comment in May 2023, unknown format)
These were a couple of others that came out and are unfortunately already out of print again:
- "Bacteria 2" (reissued 2021, Deadline Recordings/Room 2A)
- "Unplugged" (reissued 2021, Deadline Recordings/Room 2A)
Also, there is another title that Input Error is reissuing at the same time as Stand in Blood, but he posted it quickly and I can't recall what it is. Should be out soon. Exciting times to have all of these amazing reissues.
Quote from: Volcano Queen on May 25, 2023, 04:20:41 AM
It's a very good time to revisit this project as a ton of reissues are finally happening, and all at the same time (New Wall Order?).
Here's a recap of everything that has happened in the past year, but mostly in the past two months:
- "Tumors" (reissued July 2022, CD, Input-Error)
- "Emetic" (reissued April 2023, LP, Phage Tapes)
- "Destruction's Geometry" (reissued May 2023, CD, Phage Tapes)
- "Prayers for the Sick" (reissued May 2023, CD, Tribe Tapes)
- "Stand in Blood" (TBA, announced via Instagram story in May 2023, CD, Input-Error)
- "Disasterland" (TBA, planned reissue confirmed by Crucial Blast via Discogs comment in May 2023, unknown format)
We're reissuing both 'Stand In Blood' and 'Horrors of The Human Body' on CD. Should both be out mid/end of June.
got the Emetic LP, fucking stoked.
I've been loving the recent surge of reissues. So much excellent material
Quote from: blowfish on May 25, 2023, 03:19:57 PM
Quote from: Volcano Queen on May 25, 2023, 04:20:41 AM
It's a very good time to revisit this project as a ton of reissues are finally happening, and all at the same time (New Wall Order?).
Here's a recap of everything that has happened in the past year, but mostly in the past two months:
- "Tumors" (reissued July 2022, CD, Input-Error)
- "Emetic" (reissued April 2023, LP, Phage Tapes)
- "Destruction's Geometry" (reissued May 2023, CD, Phage Tapes)
- "Prayers for the Sick" (reissued May 2023, CD, Tribe Tapes)
- "Stand in Blood" (TBA, announced via Instagram story in May 2023, CD, Input-Error)
- "Disasterland" (TBA, planned reissue confirmed by Crucial Blast via Discogs comment in May 2023, unknown format)
We're reissuing both 'Stand In Blood' and 'Horrors of The Human Body' on CD. Should both be out mid/end of June.
Best possible scenario is having yet another title to add to the list. Cheers, you're doing important work!
Was playing the 2020 reissue of Low Fi Power Carnage today. Grant did a nice job remastering. Made it decently loud without adding distortion and making it sound harshed out. That's the way to do it...
Need all these recent reissues, I did get the Tumours disc from Input Error. Been digging that label's CDs.