Was just listening to Armour Group / Isomer split tape, "Desire To Fight".
First thoughts were that Armour Group gig I recently withnessed, seems like it was designed to be more hard hitting and song oriented material. Many of tapes, have much more "relaxed" feel. Perhaps adjective is wrong. Lets say, they don't feel urgency to kick in hard rhythm or vocal assault, but can spend long periods of time with fragments of news broadcasts and minimal noisy materials. Something what will barely qualify as "hit song", but generate totally different atmosphere. Not less of value, simply easy to observe why to make choise that this material ends up on tape, rather than proper album or live gig. Skill and sense of role / correct placement of material, good indeed!
Isomer, I said it before, but I can say it again. While many old timers of the genre have appeared to slip from good to not-so-good, it's good to see that this isn't only route to go. Not all projects go through slow phase of becoming less interesting and weaker, but for example Isomer. Of course he barely qualifies as veteran at this moment, but lets see... He has already passed his 15 year landmark. Debut full length on Tesco came dozen years ago.. But, I'd say it's fact that new stuff Isomer has come up with, is the most interesting! This tape probably topping again things I have previously heard! Naturally, tape format allows the sound some extra tasty saturation and dirt what may not be present if master files were put on CD? But that aside, material itself is good. Perhaps best suited to fans of more contemporary "power electronics". Not quite the trad. PE, but rather something lumped with IRM, Human Larvae, Prurient, etc etc. Just few names that barely are best to use as reference, but well known...
Anyway, why open topic for the split tape? Not sure when exactly I personally noticed, but Australia has been for years rather active place for many times of noise. There is long history in different types of industrial connected stuff. Within last few years, it seems as if there was still more and somehow different things happening? Several labels, obscure tape labels putting out raw noise and power electronics. Lots of live shows promoted quite constantly. It was already years ago, when KNIFE CULTURE compilation CD exposed me to countless formerly unheard Australian projects.
Also, Australia is home of at least 2-3 industrial/noise magazines too. Not bad.
New and old favorites? Thoughts in general?
only to add that seeing armour group and military position at ufoi (with isomer) were a highlight-usually enjoy new/lesser known bands,
making assumption/generalising, but most all of the 7 or so trapdoor tapes releases, show a good scene in aus
Old Aussie industrial that immediately comes to mind is Psy Phalanx & more obscure is the Servile Ghost Tapes label. I had a link to d/l two of the SGT releases but now I can't find it. The title of the blog is "Wet Dreams" but that isn't in the url.
I'd love to hear that the P.P. tapes are being compiled for a double-cd release....
Quote from: bitewerksMTB on May 27, 2017, 10:48:18 PM
Old Aussie industrial that immediately comes to mind is Psy Phalanx & more obscure is the Servile Ghost Tapes label. I had a link to d/l two of the SGT releases but now I can't find it. The title of the blog is "Wet Dreams" but that isn't in the url.
I'd love to hear that the P.P. tapes are being compiled for a double-cd release....
Have you checked soulseek re SGT releases? Lot's of old stuff there. You might find it.
On another note.... Down and Out + Overuse cadre is doing lot of interesting works these days. I like their take on things and the fact they don't follow any particular thread path even though paying homage to history at times. Unique artistic language and form.
bitewerksMTB....
Fast SS search turned up:
Medical Data - Perimeter / 26 Dec 1964.
Data may take some time to get in as the search engine is slow. Dwnlwding mentioned release now. Can email it you if you send your contact info via pm.
Oh, I already have it. I was going to post the link for others. I have tape copies, also. One looks like it may be original (yellowing j-card & cheap, old looking tape but no booklet) & the other is a copy on a chrome tape.
Quote from: bitewerksMTB on May 27, 2017, 11:20:53 PM
Oh, I already have it. I was going to post the link for others. I have tape copies, also. One looks like it may be original (yellowing j-card & cheap, old looking tape but no booklet) & the other is a copy on a chrome tape.
Ahhh... I see, was a tad bit fast there. Don't think I've heard anything from that branch, so curiously awaiting the dwnlwd as of now.
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On another note.... Down and Out + Overuse cadre is doing lot of interesting works these days. I like their take on things and the fact they don't follow any particular thread path even though paying homage to history at times. Unique artistic language and form.
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Yeah the folk behind Down and Out and Overuse are always doing interesting stuff - I reckon Fetish Ritual is one of the best (and grubbiest) Australian projects at the moment. Hobart, where they are, might be typical of the Australian approach - small but dedicated scenes with fluid movement between styles - noise and pe alongside metal, punk, sloppy rock and the more academic stuff. Seems to happen like that in Melbourne in particular, and to a lesser extent in Adelaide.
When it comes to older australian noise/industrial I guess one should mention Gum. The debut LP from 1987, entitled Vinyl (...), is pretty damn great. Turntable/loop mayhem.
Quote from: bitewerksMTB on May 27, 2017, 10:48:18 PM
Old Aussie industrial that immediately comes to mind is Psy Phalanx & more obscure is the Servile Ghost Tapes label. I had a link to d/l two of the SGT releases but now I can't find it. The title of the blog is "Wet Dreams" but that isn't in the url.
http://stahlfabrik.blogspot.ie/search/label/SERVILE%20GHOST%20TAPES (http://stahlfabrik.blogspot.ie/search/label/SERVILE%20GHOST%20TAPES)
Pretty sure Totenrune will be dropping some really good stuff in near future.
Quote from: vomitgore on May 30, 2017, 01:04:11 AM
Pretty sure Totenrune will be dropping some really good stuff in near future.
I think so, yeah. Karl's stuff has been great so far, and I'm happy to see someone pulling it back down into the gutter.
V.A. Death Pact International - Australian Units
CD from 2014 on L.White Records
with the following Australian bands:
Bonsai Kitten
Burden of Administration
Chrysalis
Die Like a God
Ebola Disco
Isomer
Michael J Ellingford
Screwtape
Streicher
also MSHING (runs the label TRAPDOOR Tapes)
Quote from: L.White on May 30, 2017, 11:49:43 AM
V.A. Death Pact International - Australian Units
CD from 2014 on L.White Records
with the following Australian bands:
Bonsai Kitten
Burden of Administration
Chrysalis
Die Like a God
Ebola Disco
Isomer
Michael J Ellingford
Screwtape
Streicher
also MSHING (runs the label TRAPDOOR Tapes)
Very happy to be involved with this release, mate - I often think we're about due for a volume 2!! Lots of good stuff happening here at the moment.
Quote from: bitewerksMTB on May 27, 2017, 10:48:18 PM
I'd love to hear that the P.P. tapes are being compiled for a double-cd release....
I hope the great Old Captain label will release something like this in the near future. Along with Thule Society and Nife Junger.
http://oleghkolyada.com/label/ (http://oleghkolyada.com/label/)
Already mentioned before with the Death Pact International CD, but I'd like to give them extra credit: Ebola Disco and Screwtape
Quote from: cr on June 02, 2017, 09:38:57 PM
Quote from: bitewerksMTB on May 27, 2017, 10:48:18 PM
I'd love to hear that the P.P. tapes are being compiled for a double-cd release....
I hope the great Old Captain label will release something like this in the near future. Along with Thule Society and Nife Junger.
http://oleghkolyada.com/label/ (http://oleghkolyada.com/label/)
Already mentioned before with the Death Pact International CD, but I'd like to give them extra credit: Ebola Disco and Screwtape
Noice! (as the Australians would say)
Haha, strange discovery: I have the Military Position - Anti-human tape for some time and remember listening to it once and that it wasn't too exciting. So didn't investigate any further then. After reading the reviews from UFOI IV festival and watching the clip on YT, I decided to give the tape another chance. But still, not much more interesting, I thought - apart from realizing that the vocals sounded very manly - and wasn't there a woman in the video!?
After comparing my tape with a couple of samples on YT it seems I got something else instead of the MP tape. Shit!
So if anyone wants to get rid of it - I could be the one who takes it.
Here's a new Aussie Noise/Experimental comp if anyone's keen.
Cheers!
https://ghostskull.bandcamp.com/album/hnm-records-australian-federal-records-presents-australianoise-experimental-sounds-from-australia
Quote from: cr on June 02, 2017, 09:38:57 PM
Quote from: bitewerksMTB on May 27, 2017, 10:48:18 PM
I'd love to hear that the P.P. tapes are being compiled for a double-cd release....
I hope the great Old Captain label will release something like this in the near future. Along with Thule Society and Nife Junger.
http://oleghkolyada.com/label/ (http://oleghkolyada.com/label/)
Already mentioned before with the Death Pact International CD, but I'd like to give them extra credit: Ebola Disco and Screwtape
Ebola Disco were/are the most uncompromising live pe act in Australia, at least while they were active. Sheer velocity, and usually no more than 10-15 minutes long. Also quite a bit of gallows humour that was lost on a lot of people. They did a cover of Donna Summers' I Feel Love and once managed to secure a live slot at one of Australia's biggest hippie festivals. They also travelled all the way to Hawaii just to play for 10 minutes. Old Captain recently re-released a back catalogue of their stuff which includes a lot of the live recordings - also includes their epic Flies for Friends track released as a 12" by Tesco b/w Rope Society.
For live stuff here, Dead Boomers are also fantastic - one of the best of the current crop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyAKjgjeOdM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyAKjgjeOdM). Anything that Mark Groves touches is gold in my opnion. His Von Einem stuff is outstanding.
Quote from: isomer
Anything that Mark Groves touches is gold in my opnion. His Von Einem stuff is outstanding.
YEP. Veered away from mentioning as, I suppose, it isn't strictly 'noise/industrial' but I love his work. Red Wine & Sugar is outstanding.
Quote from: Duncan on June 06, 2017, 12:57:55 PM
Quote from: isomer
Anything that Mark Groves touches is gold in my opnion. His Von Einem stuff is outstanding.
YEP. Veered away from mentioning as, I suppose, it isn't strictly 'noise/industrial' but I love his work. Red Wine & Sugar is outstanding.
Mark Groves made great things! I will release his first album as "Arum Lilies" on cd in july.
Track available here:
https://soundcloud.com/death-continues-records/arum-lilies-the-maniac
Quote from: Leatherface on June 06, 2017, 02:42:42 PM
Quote from: Duncan on June 06, 2017, 12:57:55 PM
Quote from: isomer
Anything that Mark Groves touches is gold in my opnion. His Von Einem stuff is outstanding.
YEP. Veered away from mentioning as, I suppose, it isn't strictly 'noise/industrial' but I love his work. Red Wine & Sugar is outstanding.
Mark Groves made great things! I will release his first album as "Arum Lilies" on cd in july.
Track available here:
https://soundcloud.com/death-continues-records/arum-lilies-the-maniac
Ah yes, looking forward to that! The building on that cover is an apartment block in Melbourne where nasty stuff has happened.
Von einem (edit: just noticed it's been mentioned already), Pleasure Bros are two which immediately come to mind.
Quote from: urall on June 07, 2017, 11:01:50 PM
Von einem (edit: just noticed it's been mentioned already), Pleasure Bros are two which immediately come to mind.
Both great. Love the vocal delivery from Von Einem.
There is a double cassette by a group called Trust (on Future Archaic...what ever happened to that label?) that is really excellent.
Quote from: BTR on June 09, 2017, 07:00:25 PM
Quote from: urall on June 07, 2017, 11:01:50 PM
Von einem (edit: just noticed it's been mentioned already), Pleasure Bros are two which immediately come to mind.
Both great. Love the vocal delivery from Von Einem.
There is a double cassette by a group called Trust (on Future Archaic...what ever happened to that label?) that is really excellent.
Label is no longer active
Rope Society, Screwtape, Streicher, Armour Group, Cock Safari, Psychward, Mshing, Blut, Sentenced For Life, Word of Life Church SS
Shortlived death industrial / power-electronics trio ETHIC CLEANSING which consisted of Screwtape and Ebola Disco.
NECKHOLD
Michael Ellingford is a vastly underappreciated/omitted Australian noise artist.
https://trianglerecords.bandcamp.com/album/deafault-nikita-division
Quote from: WCN on June 20, 2017, 12:13:06 AM
NECKHOLD
fuck yeah, i was lucky enough to see them play at Red Light District several times while they were living in Queens NY, and every time it was insane. hands down some of the best & most action packed
exciting live harsh noise i've ever heard. heavy energy with punishing execution. the unspoken communication between the two of them translated through live electronics was impressive to witness. where the Incapacitants revel in an ongoing trance of noise bliss, Neckhold's level of violence exploded so fiercely often sets were over in a matter of minutes and everything around them left a wreck.
they recorded and sent a master for an LP on Trash Ritual but soon after the label ceased activity and it was shelved. the brothers turner several times said they would mail it to me to release as a cassette on collapsed hole noise, along with new material, but nothing ever arrived. still hoping a package shows up at my door someday...
until then - if anyone has the Neckhold tapes on Sounddesign, Trapdoor, or Scumbag Relations for sale or trade in the US, drop me a PM! or anything not listed on discogs as well.
edit:
i'd also like to get ahold of this as well: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Scvm/release/2448538
"This compilation was released to document the unique and diverse wave of hardcore, grindcore and noisecore that came out of Australia between 2007 to 2008. Time for a bomgbong."
Quote from: collapsedhole on June 20, 2017, 04:24:37 PM
Quote from: WCN on June 20, 2017, 12:13:06 AM
NECKHOLD
they recorded and sent a master for an LP on Trash Ritual but soon after the label ceased activity and it was shelved. the brothers turner several times said they would mail it to me to release as a cassette on collapsed hole noise, along with new material, but nothing ever arrived. still hoping a package shows up at my door someday...
Give up hope on that package. Another Australian project that is no longer active. We pulled them out of inactivity to play a show in 2015 with Armour Group. The first live show they had done in several years. They have disappeared again and I don't hold much hope in seeing any live performances or recordings from them in the future.
Here is the documentation of the show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSWdtSafb4c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSWdtSafb4c)
^thanks for the vid. very different from the sets i witnessed... out of practice perhaps. all the sets i saw were like a mixture of GOAT & XOME... could've/should've/would've recorded them.
i'd love to pry that master off chris/TR, i think he even said he had the plates made. i'd release it, as a tribute if nothing more... i had a lot of great times hanging with those guys. lets do a Neckhold fan boxset, maybe they'll catch wind and re-appear with the killer unreleased material you know they're sitting on!
Does anybody know what happened to Mazurka Editions? All internet presence seems to have died...
Quote from: Potier on June 22, 2017, 08:44:53 PM
Does anybody know what happened to Mazurka Editions? All internet presence seems to have died...
Became Vienna Press.
https://vienna-press.tumblr.com
Quote from: Potier on June 22, 2017, 08:44:53 PM
Does anybody know what happened to Mazurka Editions? All internet presence seems to have died...
From a comment on Discogs: "Mazurka was finalised for both personal and aesthetic reasons. Please see Vienna Press if you are interested in current and future curatorial interests. Jarrod."
probably the least interesting of this entire thread
Quote from: absurdexposition on June 22, 2017, 08:52:28 PM
Quote from: Potier on June 22, 2017, 08:44:53 PM
Does anybody know what happened to Mazurka Editions? All internet presence seems to have died...
From a comment on Discogs: "Mazurka was finalised for both personal and aesthetic reasons. Please see Vienna Press if you are interested in current and future curatorial interests. Jarrod."
ZERO CABAL
Browning Mummery
Negative Reaction
Both should be reissued on CD or LP
Quote from: ImpulsyStetoskopu on June 24, 2017, 01:13:10 PM
Browning Mummery
Negative Reaction
Both should be reissued on CD or LP
Tesco re-released Browning Mummery's 1984 release Obiter Scripta as part of their Archaic Documents series, last year I think.
Quote from: apewrist on June 20, 2017, 09:09:02 AM
Michael Ellingford is a vastly underappreciated/omitted Australian noise artist.
https://trianglerecords.bandcamp.com/album/deafault-nikita-division
Very good live too - no pre-recorded stuff, very physical. He teaches sound production at uni so he really knows his stuff.
Quote from: isomer on June 28, 2017, 09:38:30 AM
Quote from: ImpulsyStetoskopu on June 24, 2017, 01:13:10 PM
Browning Mummery
Negative Reaction
Both should be reissued on CD or LP
Tesco re-released Browning Mummery's 1984 release Obiter Scripta as part of their Archaic Documents series, last year I think.
Yes, I know about that, but they (a band) issued more items which are worth to re-release.
Anyway there are many acts connected to Ollie Olsen also which should be reissued.
Quote from: trapdoortapes on June 23, 2017, 09:54:38 AM
probably the least interesting of this entire thread
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I didn't know that the intent of the thread was to be selective about what constitutes Australian noise. I also do not think that quoting "the dude" is offending anybody or starting shit - I also forgot that this is (apparently) serious business. I just felt that it would be a good idea to mention Mazurka in the context of this conversation since it was - after all - a label out of Australia. Von Einem had been mentioned before - there's a release by Mr. Groves on the imprint among a lot of other great material by artists from all over...
Quote from: Peterson on June 28, 2017, 10:28:18 PM
Good riddance!
Doesn't seem like there is much grief over the folding of ME...
So by all means carry on.
Quote from: Potier on June 30, 2017, 03:26:46 AM
I didn't know that the intent of the thread was to be selective about what constitutes Australian noise. I also do not think that quoting "the dude" is offending anybody or starting shit - I also forgot that this is (apparently) serious business. I just felt that it would be a good idea to mention Mazurka in the context of this conversation since it was - after all - a label out of Australia. Von Einem had been mentioned before - there's a release by Mr. Groves on the imprint among a lot of other great material by artists from all over...
Four of my projects were released on the label in the end - Von Einem, Dead Boomers, Dick Threats, and Red Wine and Sugar. Outside of the internationally based projects on the label, Jarrod released an abundance of diverse Australian action with a cohesive overarching character including Lucid Castration/Baader, Oranj Punjabi, Tailings, Teen Ax, Mitchell Brennan, Cock Safari, Enak, Cooper Bowman/Roman Nails/Kneeling Knave, Muura, Clinton Green & Andrew McIntosh, xNoBBQx, Smash Tennis, Dotåbåtå, and many others. As a resource documenting certain strains of activity over the last five years I think it's a very valid inclusion here. I'm aware not everyone on this board had positive interactions with the label, but from my standpoint the discography is interesting, gave me several lines on things to follow up on, and possessed a consistent visual character. It kind of shit me that its importance to sections of the local community may have been missed internationally at the time. There were a couple of bullshit dismissive reviews in Fördämning that reduced it to some Hospital Productions knock off - a pretty ignorant assessment from someone whose opinion I've come to value little over time.
Quote from: absoluten calfeutrail on July 04, 2017, 10:20:28 AM
Quote from: Potier on June 30, 2017, 03:26:46 AM
I didn't know that the intent of the thread was to be selective about what constitutes Australian noise. I also do not think that quoting "the dude" is offending anybody or starting shit - I also forgot that this is (apparently) serious business. I just felt that it would be a good idea to mention Mazurka in the context of this conversation since it was - after all - a label out of Australia. Von Einem had been mentioned before - there's a release by Mr. Groves on the imprint among a lot of other great material by artists from all over...
Four of my projects were released on the label in the end - Von Einem, Dead Boomers, Dick Threats, and Red Wine and Sugar. Outside of the internationally based projects on the label, Jarrod released an abundance of diverse Australian action with a cohesive overarching character including Lucid Castration/Baader, Oranj Punjabi, Tailings, Teen Ax, Mitchell Brennan, Cock Safari, Enak, Cooper Bowman/Roman Nails/Kneeling Knave, Muura, Clinton Green & Andrew McIntosh, xNoBBQx, Smash Tennis, Dotåbåtå, and many others. As a resource documenting certain strains of activity over the last five years I think it's a very valid inclusion here. I'm aware not everyone on this board had positive interactions with the label, but from my standpoint the discography is interesting, gave me several lines on things to follow up on, and possessed a consistent visual character. It kind of shit me that its importance to sections of the local community may have been missed internationally at the time. There were a couple of bullshit dismissive reviews in Fördämning that reduced it to some Hospital Productions knock off - a pretty ignorant assessment from someone whose opinion I've come to value little over time.
I never had any bad dealings with Mazurka, but that was just me buying the stuff. He released some real gems (yours included) and I particularly liked the presentation / aesthetic.
Recently i got the Armour Group Purge tape on Future Archaic. The channel levels are abit uneven, on the A side the right channel is significantly lower and on the B side it's reversed (left channel is lower). The quiet channel is not totally dead but it's bad enough that it take potential power away from the music. Power that i feel this tape need. Anyone else have this tape with the same problem? How's the sound on vinyl, does it also suffer from this?
Quote from: accidental on August 09, 2017, 10:11:49 AM
Recently i got the Armour Group Purge tape on Future Archaic. The channel levels are abit uneven, on the A side the right channel is significantly lower and on the B side it's reversed (left channel is lower). The quiet channel is not totally dead but it's bad enough that it take potential power away from the music. Power that i feel this tape need. Anyone else have this tape with the same problem? How's the sound on vinyl, does it also suffer from this?
No. Vinyl was mastered by James Plotkin and does not suffer the issues of Future Archaic's cassette duplication.
Loads of Australian experimental and noise titles added:
https://www.discogs.com/seller/analbroth666/profile
New releases from Trapdoor Tapes are available now!
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1817/29304557847_ddfe6929da.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LDxw6n)
Armour Group/Isomer's Desire To Fight
Flagellatio Orgasmus/Pain Appendix's Degenerate Elektroniks
Grim's Primary Pulse
Inflated Climax's S/T
Penis Skin Exhibition's S/T
School for Cadavers's Re Education
www.foundremains.com
There are heaps of good noise acts playing in Sydney right now.
Many slowly morphing from the punk scene, its common now to see a punk gig with a noise act playing
Sydney also played host to the Inner West Noise Fest in feb which saw 16 experimental/noise acts all on the same bill.
Government Alpha, Black leather Jesus, and Torturing Nurse have all done split releases with Sydney acts.
Soon a new worldwide LP comp is coming out on a Sydney label with THE HATERS, TORTURING NURSE, MILAT (SYDNEY) , BESPOKE DECAY (MELBOURNE) DYSTERHET (SYDNEY)
There is a new Australian/Indonesian noise comp out now too
Check out these Australian noise acts
MILAT the most brutal noise act out of Sydney
DYSTERHET harsh noise from Sydney
SCAB mysterious recording project from inner city of Sydney
DEATHSAW 2 homeless persons and their case workers..harsh junk noise
BESPOKE DECAY analog junk noise filth from Melbourne
OOILOU female fronted chaotic clarinet noise
BASS TRAITOR two bass players and laters of power electronics
Something tells me one wouldn't need to say his project is the most brutal one. If it was, then people would just know about it... So instead it seems it's more like the most hyped one.
Some links would have been appreciated, as Google wasn't very helpful for those band/project names.
Bespoke Decay sound good on their Bandcamp page; nice thick, gritty sound on "Meat is Gross".
Bass Traitor more like run-of-the-mill doomdrone kind of stuff, not my bag.
I'm just pleased to see more projects coming up from around here.
Gotta say, hella funny what a bunch of fakers Armour Group turned out to be. Between Harriet being a narcissistic psychopath (i.e. smashing Luke Holland's synth, driving her car into the back of his, the list goes on) and Luke Holland bootlegging Agonal Lust cassettes to support a drug habit, it looks like they burned out real quick.
Frankly that's about the best byline for a noise band you could write in 2019
"She smashed her car into his and destroyed his synth! He's bootlegging tapes to support a drug habit! Limited to 100 copies with rose tinted cassette shells and download card"
Quote from: HONOR_IS_KING! on May 05, 2019, 04:38:22 PM
Gotta say, hella funny what a bunch of fakers Armour Group turned out to be. Between Harriet being a narcissistic psychopath (i.e. smashing Luke Holland's synth, driving her car into the back of his, the list goes on) and Luke Holland bootlegging Agonal Lust cassettes to support a drug habit, it looks like they burned out real quick.
Not to mention that he has actually been ripping people off occasionally by not sending out orders and breaking contact. He got me for $80.
Might be an opportunity to mention my label Index Clean, though as a lurker around here I'm increasingly aware it may be of only peripheral interest. Not really three-hole balaclava territory, you know? I'm based in Melbourne, though I've started releasing material from O/S folk also. Did a recent batch of 3LPs and a compact disc. Samples and other information can be found here (https://index-clean.bandcamp.com/). I've learned through this process that attempting to sell vinyl to people overseas from Australia is a fraught proposition at best in 2019 - regardless I'll be continuing to release material (albeit on more postage-friendly formats) in the future.
Bespoke Decay is worth keeping an eye on, improving with every release. His collage works are quite good, too.
Quote from: absoluten calfeutrail on May 06, 2019, 04:10:13 AM
Might be an opportunity to mention my label Index Clean, though as a lurker around here I'm increasingly aware it may be of only peripheral interest. Not really three-hole balaclava territory, you know? I'm based in Melbourne, though I've started releasing material from O/S folk also. Did a recent batch of 3LPs and a compact disc. Samples and other information can be found here (https://index-clean.bandcamp.com/). I've learned through this process that attempting to sell vinyl to people overseas from Australia is a fraught proposition at best in 2019 - regardless I'll be continuing to release material (albeit on more postage-friendly formats) in the future.
Recently discovered your label via the Von Einem discography CD set. I'll check out the rest.
Quote from: HONOR_IS_KING! on May 05, 2019, 04:38:22 PM
Gotta say, hella funny what a bunch of fakers Armour Group turned out to be. Between Harriet being a narcissistic psychopath (i.e. smashing Luke Holland's synth, driving her car into the back of his, the list goes on) and Luke Holland bootlegging Agonal Lust cassettes to support a drug habit, it looks like they burned out real quick.
Yikes, hope both get help. In the meantime, Trapdoor Tapes is releasing a masonna/controlled death split tape soon according to Yamazaki himself. Maybe not completely burnt out yet..
Quote from: absoluten calfeutrail on May 06, 2019, 04:10:13 AM
Might be an opportunity to mention my label Index Clean, though as a lurker around here I'm increasingly aware it may be of only peripheral interest. Not really three-hole balaclava territory, you know? I'm based in Melbourne, though I've started releasing material from O/S folk also. Did a recent batch of 3LPs and a compact disc. Samples and other information can be found here (https://index-clean.bandcamp.com/). I've learned through this process that attempting to sell vinyl to people overseas from Australia is a fraught proposition at best in 2019 - regardless I'll be continuing to release material (albeit on more postage-friendly formats) in the future.
Thanks to Dan Gilmore at Careful Catalog, I'm able in the US to check out your work, Mark. I bought the Von Einem tapes, flipped, came back for a few tapes, and will be getting the three latest LP from CC come next paycheck. I'll also be sending you some money for the Absurd Cosmos Late Nite 2CD set. The tape "The White Drifters" has been in my tape deck non-stop for several weeks now.
For folks looking for comparisons, there's elements of PE/true-crime stuff here, but with a sound palette similar to the later Shadow Ring albums, and even Robert Ashley's operas (and pieces like "Purposeful Woman Slow Afternoon"). Also a lot of dry humor and outright absurdity. Grim, determined, absurdist, detached, and also attached. Fans of J. Peterson's releases *really* need to give Mark's projects Von Einem, Red Wine & Sugar, and Absurd Cosmos Late Nite a try.
Jesus, that's a huge compliment. Thanks. I strongly vouch for everything Index Clean has put out, especially Mark's projects. I'd go as far as to say those unfamiliar are straight up missing out. Goes way beyond music, genres, etc into audio art and storytelling territory.
Oh, and you might see something from yours truly in the future, but still tentative. ;)
Short plug - I've just listed a small amount of noise and industrial related tapes on Discogs. Check the classifieds post for a complete list
https://www.discogs.com/seller/StranglerFig/profile
http://www.special-interests.net/forum/index.php?topic=9802.0
Quote from: absoluten calfeutrail on May 06, 2019, 04:10:13 AM
Might be an opportunity to mention my label Index Clean, though as a lurker around here I'm increasingly aware it may be of only peripheral interest. Not really three-hole balaclava territory, you know? I'm based in Melbourne, though I've started releasing material from O/S folk also. Did a recent batch of 3LPs and a compact disc. Samples and other information can be found here (https://index-clean.bandcamp.com/). I've learned through this process that attempting to sell vinyl to people overseas from Australia is a fraught proposition at best in 2019 - regardless I'll be continuing to release material (albeit on more postage-friendly formats) in the future.
Came to Index Clean through the Von Einem collection, which is one of my favorite things I've heard as far as contemporary P.E. goes. Always keen to see what the label / you are up to. Got the Of Habit LP recently and really enjoyed it.
Quote from: eyesofsatan on May 07, 2019, 06:37:51 AM
Quote from: absoluten calfeutrail on May 06, 2019, 04:10:13 AM
Might be an opportunity to mention my label Index Clean, though as a lurker around here I'm increasingly aware it may be of only peripheral interest. Not really three-hole balaclava territory, you know? I'm based in Melbourne, though I've started releasing material from O/S folk also. Did a recent batch of 3LPs and a compact disc. Samples and other information can be found here (https://index-clean.bandcamp.com/). I've learned through this process that attempting to sell vinyl to people overseas from Australia is a fraught proposition at best in 2019 - regardless I'll be continuing to release material (albeit on more postage-friendly formats) in the future.
Came to Index Clean through the Von Einem collection, which is one of my favorite things I've heard as far as contemporary P.E. goes. Always keen to see what the label / you are up to. Got the Of Habit LP recently and really enjoyed it.
Try Arum Lilies, Von Einem's side-project:
https://soundcloud.com/death-continues-records/arum-lilies-the-maniac (https://soundcloud.com/death-continues-records/arum-lilies-the-maniac)
Quote from: Leatherface on May 07, 2019, 11:47:19 AM
Quote from: eyesofsatan on May 07, 2019, 06:37:51 AM
Quote from: absoluten calfeutrail on May 06, 2019, 04:10:13 AM
Might be an opportunity to mention my label Index Clean, though as a lurker around here I'm increasingly aware it may be of only peripheral interest. Not really three-hole balaclava territory, you know? I'm based in Melbourne, though I've started releasing material from O/S folk also. Did a recent batch of 3LPs and a compact disc. Samples and other information can be found here (https://index-clean.bandcamp.com/). I've learned through this process that attempting to sell vinyl to people overseas from Australia is a fraught proposition at best in 2019 - regardless I'll be continuing to release material (albeit on more postage-friendly formats) in the future.
Came to Index Clean through the Von Einem collection, which is one of my favorite things I've heard as far as contemporary P.E. goes. Always keen to see what the label / you are up to. Got the Of Habit LP recently and really enjoyed it.
Try Arum Lilies, Von Einem's side-project:
https://soundcloud.com/death-continues-records/arum-lilies-the-maniac (https://soundcloud.com/death-continues-records/arum-lilies-the-maniac)
Saw this earlier in the thread and checked it out, really good - will be gripping the CD.
I've got Index Clean 01 & 02 CDs still available. Anyone interested just shoot me DM or e-mail.
If anyone is interested in the live side of things, I've been doing a bit to record many of the demonstrations, gigs, whatever you want to call them in the Brisbane area as of late. The sound is pretty quiet so maybe turn up the volume.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmxntkUm0rFXYIx1g9J-ssg
YES! Thank-you for the video links Tristan !
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Here's the radio show with Pat O'Brien and Luke Holland:
https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/o-tomorrow/episodes/8856-o-tomorrow-28-august-2019
Quote from: isomer on May 30, 2017, 08:09:20 AM
Quote from: vomitgore on May 30, 2017, 01:04:11 AM
Pretty sure Totenrune will be dropping some really good stuff in near future.
I think so, yeah. Karl's stuff has been great so far, and I'm happy to see someone pulling it back down into the gutter.
I've had a few people ask about activity lately, there's a split 7" and 4 compilation tracks out before/around year's end on various labels and formats.
Essential Minerals, anyone? I've been jamming some of the youtube stuff all morning. Picks of the bunch I've found so far are CC, The Year of the Sex Olympics, Troth and and Faecal Flower.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV5aHeuMOaRVNbU3AwitB0g/videos
My favourite Essential Minerals release remains the LG self titled cassette from 2015:
http://essentialmineralstapes.bandcamp.com/album/untitled (http://essentialmineralstapes.bandcamp.com/album/untitled)
It's a shame the 2019 release Dysfunctional Aesthetics contains none of the damaged tape gunk of that glorious 2015 work. The Stasis Duo release from 2015 is really great too, and from the 2019 batch I like the Raum duo recording - especially the ultra spare B-side piece. Definitely one of the more interesting Australian labels currently - maybe a little indebted to Breakdance The Dawn?
Quote from: absoluten calfeutrail on April 09, 2020, 07:03:46 AM
Definitely one of the more interesting Australian labels currently - maybe a little indebted to Breakdance The Dawn?
It's come out of the same climate, and I believe there is a crossover between the persons responsible for releases on both labels. Saw LG live last year and thought the set dragged on a bit, but that may just be me. The Dysfunctional Aesthetics tape and this set were both a fair bit
clearer, pushing into the ethereal realm.
Raum I think are also one of those groups that translate better to a solo listening experience. Wasn't a fan of the couple of live sets I've seen, but the recorded material was a pleasure to hear.
A friend's project just got a nice pro tape reissue
https://nihilisticnoisepropaganda.bandcamp.com/album/a-chained-victim
Quote from: trapdoortapes on June 23, 2017, 09:54:38 AM
probably the least interesting of this entire thead
I second that
Quote from: FallOfNature on April 26, 2020, 10:12:43 AM
A friend's project just got a nice pro tape reissue
https://nihilisticnoisepropaganda.bandcamp.com/album/a-chained-victim
Thanks for the heads up, brought this and it's prime aussie noise.
It's got depth and grit.
They have another release up on Bandcamp.
Recommend.
Expect a split tape with myself soon. Just an EP, one track each. We had planned a collab but with a lot on the plate for both of us, that will have to come later.
Quote from: collapsedhole on June 20, 2017, 04:24:37 PM
Quote from: WCN on June 20, 2017, 12:13:06 AM
NECKHOLD
fuck yeah, i was lucky enough to see them play at Red Light District several times while they were living in Queens NY, and every time it was insane. hands down some of the best & most action packed exciting live harsh noise i've ever heard. heavy energy with punishing execution. the unspoken communication between the two of them translated through live electronics was impressive to witness. where the Incapacitants revel in an ongoing trance of noise bliss, Neckhold's level of violence exploded so fiercely often sets were over in a matter of minutes and everything around them left a wreck.
they recorded and sent a master for an LP on Trash Ritual but soon after the label ceased activity and it was shelved. the brothers turner several times said they would mail it to me to release as a cassette on collapsed hole noise, along with new material, but nothing ever arrived. still hoping a package shows up at my door someday...
until then - if anyone has the Neckhold tapes on Sounddesign, Trapdoor, or Scumbag Relations for sale or trade in the US, drop me a PM! or anything not listed on discogs as well.
edit:
i'd also like to get ahold of this as well: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Scvm/release/2448538
"This compilation was released to document the unique and diverse wave of hardcore, grindcore and noisecore that came out of Australia between 2007 to 2008. Time for a bomgbong."
I'm sure I've said it before, but one of my favorite harsh noise projects. Wish someone would get that unreleased material out. The email I found for them ushered no response.
Kurt Volentine is from Australia (80s tape loop/noise guy). Wish he could reissue some of that old stuff.
BLUNT FORCE HEAD TRAUMA
https://innercityuprising.bandcamp.com/album/retaliation
Some humble thoughts on the W.O.L.C. ᛋᛋ covenant as we approach the 10 year mark. *Orig. Lineup only*
https://www.discogs.com/lists/-%F0%9D%94%92%F0%9D%94%91%F0%9D%94%8F%E1%9B%89-%F0%9D%94%97%E2%84%9C%F0%9D%94%98%F0%9D%94%88-%F0%9D%94%9A%F0%9D%94%92%F0%9D%94%8F%E2%84%AD%E1%9B%8B%E1%9B%8B-/630837 (https://www.discogs.com/lists/-%F0%9D%94%92%F0%9D%94%91%F0%9D%94%8F%E1%9B%89-%F0%9D%94%97%E2%84%9C%F0%9D%94%98%F0%9D%94%88-%F0%9D%94%9A%F0%9D%94%92%F0%9D%94%8F%E2%84%AD%E1%9B%8B%E1%9B%8B-/630837)
AMEN.
I don´t know that much about Australian scene beside some of the major and most influencial acts (like SPK), but I would like to suggest the Fanaticism tapes, perhaps the most interesting death industrial (and the closest thing to the Nekrophile stuff) recently released which I´ve listened to. Here a link to their bandcamp: https://fanaticism.bandcamp.com/ (https://fanaticism.bandcamp.com/)
Quote from: Into_The_Void on December 21, 2020, 07:31:00 PM
I don´t know that much about Australian scene beside some of the major and most influencial acts (like SPK), but I would like to suggest the Fanaticism tapes, perhaps the most interesting death industrial (and the closest thing to the Nekrophile stuff) recently released which I´ve listened to. Here a link to their bandcamp: https://fanaticism.bandcamp.com/ (https://fanaticism.bandcamp.com/)
When seeing the title of this thread pop up tonight, I immediately thought that I should mention Fanaticism. Quality stuff, with a minimal and effective aesthetic. Dark and mysterious atmosphere all around, from the sounds and visual presentation, to the label simply emerging and anonymously releasing a hearty amount of C60's (I love em long) over the course of two years, and then vanishing once their work was done.
Thanks to your post, I was happy to take a look at their Bandcamp and find that a previously unreleased piece ('Kreuzigungsmesse') was posted last Christmas. Glory to the new born king!
If anyone has copies of the 'On Wretchedness and Sin' and/or 'Ordensstaat / Imperiale Theologie' tapes for sale or trade, please do get in touch with me.
TONE GENERATOR from SPK fame has a new full length coming out early next year!
Quote from: expectorant on December 22, 2020, 04:53:38 AM
Quote from: Into_The_Void on December 21, 2020, 07:31:00 PM
I don´t know that much about Australian scene beside some of the major and most influencial acts (like SPK), but I would like to suggest the Fanaticism tapes, perhaps the most interesting death industrial (and the closest thing to the Nekrophile stuff) recently released which I´ve listened to. Here a link to their bandcamp: https://fanaticism.bandcamp.com/ (https://fanaticism.bandcamp.com/)
When seeing the title of this thread pop up tonight, I immediately thought that I should mention Fanaticism. Quality stuff, with a minimal and effective aesthetic. Dark and mysterious atmosphere all around, from the sounds and visual presentation, to the label simply emerging and anonymously releasing a hearty amount of C60's (I love em long) over the course of two years, and then vanishing once their work was done.
Thanks to your post, I was happy to take a look at their Bandcamp and find that a previously unreleased piece ('Kreuzigungsmesse') was posted last Christmas. Glory to the new born king!
If anyone has copies of the 'On Wretchedness and Sin' and/or 'Ordensstaat / Imperiale Theologie' tapes for sale or trade, please do get in touch with me.
eheheh you´re more than welcome, yes their aesthetic is definitely one of the most interesting, and of course music-wise all the releases are great: low-fi, solemne yet raw, dissonant and utterly obscure ritual industrial veiled with noise. Yes the last release (you mean the 30 mins long digital only release, right?) is also very good.
https://night-science.blogspot.com/2021/01/death-dedication-necroecclesia.html?m=1 (https://night-science.blogspot.com/2021/01/death-dedication-necroecclesia.html?m=1)
Detailed review of a great recent release.
I'm just going through my SOLAR ANUS cassette collection now. A short-lived Australian NOISE /PE label. All cassettes obtained between 2009-2011.
Label founder Andrew McIntosh (Screwtape, The Scroungers, Ethic Cleansing) generally provides a heavy brooding warmth of noise to his releases, only problem is they don't go for long enough! Funny because I remember he felt the same way about a few of my early releases.
This is a pretty stunning body of work here, shame I kind of over-looked it when I was younger. Glad I held on to these.
Current playlist-
The Haters / Screwtape
Von Einem / Screwtape
Screwtape - Mars In Cancer
New 4 way split compilation of Aussie acts
https://innercityuprising.bandcamp.com/album/australian-noise-compilation-2x-cs
Down load it free
Would be quite interesting to speculate on Nife Junger as the 'first' power electronics project in the southern hemisphere, based on a quote from a Xane interview. What we know: Extreme label. Rec'd 1983-84/released 1985. Somewhat akin to "MB or the more subdued moments of Mauthausen Orthestra" (quote).
For sure, something of that is kindled in this work, but that comes to mind more as an afterthought. With that said, considering this tape Gallows of Lust as something separate from Steicher's output is quite an interesting mental exercise. As far as I could dig into the background, NiFe is the innermost layer of the earth's core. Jünger can mean a 'disciple'... Not sure if its unrelated or if we should leave it at that. Ultimately this leaves more questions then answers - maybe that's the way things should be.
And I would love to get a better look at that front cover one day, as it's completely perplexing. I've tried tilting this image on its side and turning it upside down but still don't have total clarity.
And what's with the B-side title "The Lethal Waxworks"? Curiously abstract, but I like it.
But to ponder that the first "power electronics" release down here is a 30min prolonged cranial drill operation of synth pulsations, leaves me somewhat dumbfounded. Totally isolated one-man manoeuvre, way off the beaten path. Am I in some alternate universe? Because this is one very warped progenitor for Antipodean power electronics. Not even sure if we can definitively call it that. But again, it sure is fascinating to speculate.
At this stage, it seems to have left just a small burr hole in history.
Some of my Solar Anus collection, hails downunder:
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Droll / Крот – split c20
Cretin Tapes, 2021
A split release of drone and concrète recorded in Tbilisi & Jakarta that is currently still available from the label and a couple more distros. Droll is on the drone-based side - with detail unfolding subtly, based around a tone that sounds like a slowed-down Georgian funeral chant. Not sure if that's the source, but it would make sense obviously. This side is slowly honing in on gradual shifts. Being his first release, one wonders whether Dross came into being during his journey to Georgia? ... & Крот, the mysterious ex-patriot project, has contributed a side that was recorded in Indonesia. Starting off with some kind of contact mic-focused scraping that is slowly enveloped by a more tape-loop based setting. The cassette releases of Крот, being longer than his 7", sort of remind me of Howard Stelzer - the kind of works that concretize a minute environment... Parts of the first LAE tape were recorded in Slavutych (a purpose-built village for Tchernobyl evacuees) and on the move throughout other parts of Ukraine. Крот on the longer cassette releases seems to usually be a grey-zone area of concrète sound-objects, something like an exploration of the environs of a stale couch in a room at the Poseidon Hotel (that was on the first LAE tape, "Посейдон Oтель"). Do time & place have anything to do with it? Environment and chance have everything to do with it.
Knowing nothing about either of these acts – all of that just written is pure conjecture. Still not sure where to place it or how to contextualize this one. The project can differ with each subsequent release - which is definitely a good thing for a project. One live Крот set I heard of a soundboard recording was total harsh noise indulgence; & the name itself comes from a drain cleaner brand involved in Krokodil injection. The cover has some kind of comic book image on the insert. By ingratiating themselves with the comic book panel, they have sort of become one with the strip. Did this tape come out before or after the visually-similar Крот t-shirt with the cartoon-ish Russian drain cleaner brand logo??? Much remains unanswered, but for those of us following the project (& the other Aust. experimental projects based in Tbilisi) this is a much welcomed new morsel from abroad.
Another forgotten underground label - https://soundcloud.com/virrash (https://soundcloud.com/virrash)
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Defektro's label & company, Lastgasp Art Laboratories, has not yet been mentioned. He's been selling his homemade electronics out of Sydney for a good long while now. There's a huge Defektro discography to wade through, and I am by no means done. Originating in Japan, his focus for at least the last 2 decades has been on producing a machinistic version of noise. One could name something such as Vivenza as a starting point for this sort of approach.
-The only release I physically own is the Hard Luck Heart 7". It goes for almost offensively cheap prices nowadays, despite a limited pressing of only 200 copies over a decade ago - but I will treasure my copy all the same. I might buy up all spare copies on the market and hoard them for ever... Beyond the excellent tracks (Industrial March / Survive / Sakura / Hard Luck Heart) there's some unintended eccentricities that really make it quite priceless... Logo is stylized as "Defektro Noise Army" (sign me up!) and there's a motorbike picture on the centre label, like some hooligan antisocial bōsōzoku bootboy.
-At the top of my most-wanted list is his first tape "Noise Bomb" from '98 (released in JPN.), with a J-card cover resembling a time bomb, track titles such as Sine Attack / Percussion Cap / Sabulite, and a cassette with a built-in flash LED, with a switch in the case to turn on the light. Clearly a faithful adherent to the original idea of industrial noise as warfare. One of the greats!
Some other favourite tracks:
-"Euthanasia" on Steinklang Ind. "Japanoise of Death" V/A compilation. Loop-based.
-"Tone Climber" on the Sklo/Slovak split. Self-explanatory.
-"Pressure Gauge" on the Fear Konstruktor split tape.
Quote from: morbid_dyspepsia on September 07, 2019, 11:07:11 AM
Here's the radio show with Pat O'Brien and Luke Holland:
https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/o-tomorrow/episodes/8856-o-tomorrow-28-august-2019
Just noticed that the disk jockey at 3RRR played an
Armour Group track, "Cruel", in the middle of the night. This track doesn't appear to have ever had a release. Very cool that it has only been aired publicly on this one occasion - I don't remember what it sounded like but I probably would have been listening in at the time.
Shout out to Overuse for their constant stream of fine quality imports.
It's hard to pick a favourite release from the Tasmanian camp, their noise tapes are always so low-profile and don't receive anywhere near the same exposure as their bands do. I hope the Isolationist – Boot Worship CS gets uploaded to YouTube someday... *hint hint*
CAVEMAN NOISE #5
Well not quite from here but close enough so I'll mention it. 2 countries, 1 Tasman. Is there really any thing separating the two lands apart?
I heard the editor works behind the counter at a smoke/vape shop... An environment truly befitting of a fanzine like this one...
I actually use this as a resource to look stuff up - that's how you know a rag is actually valuable in this day and age. It's worth holding onto so I don't forget half the stuff mentioned. The curation of items reviewed, and featured interviews, has a great consistency. The editor only really goes for demo tapes and items traded, rather then over-hyped pro-pressed releases. What can I say, it's just cool to get a photocopied fanzine from NZ that extolls the supremacy of a lathe cut from Macedonia (Fuck Yoga). Also got plenty of Atrocity Altar, Expansion Abyss, Manifest of Hate Creations, etc. with an unhealthy dose of filthy noise and p.e. thrown in... This man has his finger on the pulse of alot of what's happening, and he goes at covering it with a great obsessive enthusiasm. Definitely one I'll hold onto, just because the editor's zeal for all things underground makes it all stick together in a really unique manner that would look totally incoherent in the hands of anyone else but ed. Hairy Palm
The EBOLA DISCO / SCRUBBER – SPLIT 7" of late last year is really impressive. Is this a return to their beloved EMS AKS? The A-side's cut has some of the hallmarks from the Flies for Friends 12" in many ways. Basically, from the discography currently extant, there exists two sides to Ebola Disco: the live documents and the studio recordings. First thing I ever heard by them was the "Live in Preston" track on V/A - SCVM comp ca.2009... Has it really been over 10 years since that came out? Wow. Apart from a penchant for revisiting the classics, the studio recordings seem to have their own flavour. Rough and tumble approach, Just plug in and see what happens (Or, "turn on the oscillators and make certain patterns" was the description made in an interview videotaped and put on YouTube). Who else recalls "Flies for friends"? A superb and jarring start up that spreads out into a great immersive blizzard. I always thought it was great that Tesco chose to press that over anything more refined or polished... The sporadic L / R channel panning as first enjoyed on the 12" now makes a return on this 7". Total rush of knob twisting.
Once self-styled as 'feral lycanthropic disco', I also dig that this band have insisted on their own definition of being Power Electronics, throughout their many years operating as a unit.
Not sure what one can grasp from this interview other than a desire to be unpretentious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbVmHtliZ9Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbVmHtliZ9Q) oh, and of course a desire to put the POWER back in power electronics.
New lathe is a prime cut of their studio fuckery. And great to see a release in honour of the humble gas station. It has been a good year and this surely tops it off.
HOW ABOUT SOME FEMALE FRONTED POWER ELECTRONICS FROM SYDNEY AUSTRALIA
SCRUBBER
https://innercityuprising.bandcamp.com/album/id-rather-be-used-than-useless
Sharing this very based Isomer quote from 20 YEARS AGO:
Quote"Of all the peoples of the Balkans and of Europe at large since WW2, I don't think any have been demonised and ostracised to the extent the Serbs have, largely as a result of the work of public relations firms, the rivers of shit that came from the US and NATO, and the complicity and involvement of the Western media. So much of what filtered through to us was and still is tainted, and 'Star of Sarajevo' is a personal response to that."
This looks like a doozy
https://www.asrarlabel.net/shop/asrar-releases/asr316-leather-temple-aus-leather-temple-lp-html (https://www.asrarlabel.net/shop/asrar-releases/asr316-leather-temple-aus-leather-temple-lp-html)
QuoteASR316 Leather Temple (AUS) – Leather Temple LP
Debut full-length of this side project of MN (Carved Cross, Blackline, etc..).
Old School Noise Industrial for real connoisseurs.
Co-released with Overuse (Australia). Limited to 100 copies.
SPK
Browning Mummery
Streicher
Quote from: nezalezhnye on April 16, 2022, 10:09:11 PM
Sharing this very based Isomer quote from 20 YEARS AGO:
Quote"Of all the peoples of the Balkans and of Europe at large since WW2, I don't think any have been demonised and ostracised to the extent the Serbs have, largely as a result of the work of public relations firms, the rivers of shit that came from the US and NATO, and the complicity and involvement of the Western media. So much of what filtered through to us was and still is tainted, and 'Star of Sarajevo' is a personal response to that."
This prompted me to revisit Isomer's Nil By Mouth EP, which is probably my favourite release of Dave's but I don't see it spoken about near as much as the Tesco releases.
Plenty on discogs for a good price. Recommended!
Ice Age Productions latest compilation ft. 50+ Aus & NZ noise, industrial, experimental, outsider and psychedelic artists:
https://iceageproductions.bandcamp.com/album/the-final-transmission
A couple of interesting recent discoveries. For mine, Mesh's "Machine Dominate" sounds very much the essence of first wave Industrial, what with its use of primitive drum machine, samples and raw electronics (I'd agree somewhat with the comparison to Etat Brut), while Negative Reaction seems much more Throbbing Gristle inspired (very much "Hamburger Lady"/"Very Friendly"), with the final track, with its somewhat bluesy bass line and stream-of-consciousness spoken word is almost an accidental beat poetry piece.
Mesh - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqfnHSoNcqc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqfnHSoNcqc)
Negative Reaction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lOGQamBKgI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lOGQamBKgI)
Speaking for oldies from Australia :
Proclamation Plague . Who can resist this beauty ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts87FOLKNDU .
QuoteSources: Environmental, voice, loop, speed, feedback, amplification. No Synthesizers were used in the recording.
His Bandcamp page https://proclamationplague.bandcamp.com/album/music has a couple more old + some new. Discogs lists many more from the 80s. Who knows what diamonds are in there. I envy the guy who bought some of these tapes on good price some years ago. - He also has a FB page, and an email there. Just saying ...
Quote from: Andrew McIntosh on June 19, 2023, 12:44:21 PM
A couple of interesting recent discoveries. For mine, Mesh's "Machine Dominate" sounds very much the essence of first wave Industrial, what with its use of primitive drum machine, samples and raw electronics (I'd agree somewhat with the comparison to Etat Brut), while Negative Reaction seems much more Throbbing Gristle inspired (very much "Hamburger Lady"/"Very Friendly"), with the final track, with its somewhat bluesy bass line and stream-of-consciousness spoken word is almost an accidental beat poetry piece.
Mesh - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqfnHSoNcqc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqfnHSoNcqc)
Negative Reaction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lOGQamBKgI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lOGQamBKgI)
Both of these are great! I especially enjoyed Negative Reaction! Awesome stuff and the final track wraps it up perfectly!
AUSTRALIAS BIGGEST NOISE FESTIVAL IS ON
INNERWEST NOISEFEST 2
THE MOSHPIT
KING ST NEWTOWN
8TH JULY
12 ACTS
TICKETS ON THE DOOR
DOORS 1PM
LINE UP IN THE GIG SECTION
Sulphur Garden - Death Industrial/PE from Melbourne.
https://sulphurgarden.bandcamp.com/album/psychic-surgery
KK Null/Ebola Disco split 7" (Not Very Good Records)
The Ebola Disco side of this split 7" (a live cut from their Japan 2019 set) is all-out balls to the wall harshness; at points it does lapse into a pulse-like thump in the midst of so much else amassed. First at around 50 seconds in they rely on those pulsating patterns to just give everything else room to breathe & to build up for the surges of noise & squalling feedback to come in. That technique for sound construction works so well. It sounds totally mangled with the primitive noisecore-like grunted vocals. Sounds like the vocalist has contracted one of those mosquito-born viral infections like they have up there in far North Queensland... Their side becomes increasingly oppressive, poorly oxygenated until it expires... The KK Null side is insanely good, although not industrial / noise. Pressed by some Newcastle oldschool breakcore label last year. Definitely a 7" to add to the collection...
Quote from: no_baizuo_allowed on April 14, 2022, 11:26:23 AMThe EBOLA DISCO / SCRUBBER – SPLIT 7" of late last year is really impressive. Is this a return to their beloved EMS AKS? The A-side's cut has some of the hallmarks from the Flies for Friends 12" in many ways. Basically, from the discography currently extant, there exists two sides to Ebola Disco: the live documents and the studio recordings. Apart from a penchant for revisiting the classics, the studio recordings seem to have their own flavour. Rough and tumble approach, Just plug in and see what happens (Or, "turn on the oscillators and make certain patterns" was the description made in an interview videotaped and put on YouTube). Who else recalls "Flies for friends"? A superb and jarring start up that spreads out into a great immersive blizzard. I always thought it was great that Tesco chose to press that over anything more refined or polished... The sporadic L / R channel panning as first enjoyed on the 12" now makes a return on this 7". Total rush of knob twisting.
New lathe is a prime cut of their studio fuckery. And great to see a release in honour of the humble gas station. It has been a good year and this surely tops it off.
Yeah, I liked their side of that split 7". For most of the recordings (sans the cover versions), whether they be live or in studio: they've got a tried & tested formula which serves as a base for them to rework in each different release. Something akin to a rapid attack with overwhelming force concentration. Also really cool insert in this 7" from the pages of an old copy of Soldier Of Fortune magazine issue on foreign mercs.
I've got a nice looking box set coming in the mail real soon by Military Position. Thanks to ASRAR/Åon for putting that one together, as I've been wanting more of Harriet Kate Morgan's material for years now and now we've finally got a nice beautiful box set that has been created and really looking forward to this one! ASRAR/Åon did a great job with the Blackline boxset, so I'm sure the Military Position one will be equally as good!
Quote from: nezalezhnye on January 28, 2024, 04:36:43 PMKK Null/Ebola Disco split 7" (Not Very Good Records)
The Ebola Disco side of this split 7" (a live cut from their Japan 2019 set) is all-out balls to the wall harshness; at points it does lapse into a pulse-like thump in the midst of so much else amassed. First at around 50 seconds in they rely on those pulsating patterns to just give everything else room to breathe & to build up for the surges of noise & squalling feedback to come in. That technique for sound construction works so well. It sounds totally mangled with the primitive noisecore-like grunted vocals. Sounds like the vocalist has contracted one of those mosquito-born viral infections like they have up there in far North Queensland... Their side becomes increasingly oppressive, poorly oxygenated until it expires... The KK Null side is insanely good, although not industrial / noise. Pressed by some Newcastle oldschool breakcore label last year. Definitely a 7" to add to the collection...
Yep, while everyone is talking about EBOLA DISCO - I might as well mention the new split.
EBOLA DISCO / VAULT DEPROGRAMMER - Split Business Card 3'' CDr (Sweatlung)
Not every day you find a power electronics /noisecore split but this one matches up quite well. Vault Deprogrammer produce dynamic high-low cut-up stereo sound abuse. A fair amount of post-production pumped into hectic slices of noisecore power.
Ebola Disco provide a brooding, ferocious P.E. style cover of US 80's hardcore band AGENT ORANGE's "Bloodstains". If you know the original, you should appreciate this. The notes from the original are being played on an old synth through seemingly, layers of distortion and psychosis. Think S.P.K. meets 7MON but much more hateful which creates an atmosphere that is quite unique to E.D. Hail Far North Queensland Power Electronics !! 'Straya !!
Copies are pretty cheap and there's surely gotta still be a few left in stock - Support the underground !
https://vaultdeprogrammer.bandcamp.com/album/ebola-disco-vault-deprogrammer-split
Female fronted PE from Australia
SCRUBBER
https://innercityuprising.bandcamp.com/album/as-women-continue-to-die