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#1
Last post by Vrenndel - Today at 01:04:09 PM
French-speaking readers, here's something for you: RIP, by Gaet's & Julien Monier. Six volumes, the same story, from each character's point of view. Bleak, gory, filthy. Reading it again for the second time. I don't know if there has been an English translation of it. I hope there is. Everyone should read it. It's great.
#2
Last post by Vrenndel - Today at 01:00:12 PM
Just finished reading Price by Steve Tesich. Not as good as Karoo in my opinion.
Michel Houellebecq's The Elementary Particles is next.
#3
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Rituals Over Limburg IV.
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#4
Last post by SSRI - Today at 10:34:10 AM
Straight Arm Salute - Pelkkää vihaa CD
NS power electronics industrial. Straightforward and crude. What this loses in finesse is made up more than enough by its sheer sincerity and brutality. Not for the weak.
V/A - Beyond CD
Grunt is on fine form in their two-man line up here. Lengthy track with excellent sounds and vocals and good variation in structure. Power electronics prog song and this is no joke. Bizarre Uproar starts with cymbals and bass noise and slowly builds up. Not my favourite BU material overall but by the end gets massive and enjoyable.
I've never got much out of Deathkey and Caligula031 for some reason. I've found Deathkey to be more about the image than good noise. But here it works fine. Especially their second track Hammering Deatharm Of Swastika has nice mechanical industrial rhythms and strong vocals in addition to fantastic title. While I like Wertham a lot, I haven't got into C031 that much, which is weird because it's basically the same. These tracks are very good, though, especially the second one Caligula Omnia Vinxit. I'll have to give Caligula's other releases another chance.
#5
Last post by Minus1 - Today at 04:48:28 AM
Quote from: Minus1 on January 18, 2026, 04:35:45 AMMy maiden GO journey continues tonight with Operations With Contempt.
It's good to get a feel for where GO is at these days, before I go back in time.
Surely they are now a bunch of old c*nts? (I'm 64. I can say that.)
Again, I love the flow of this - the mood that is created and sustained. I get the feeling that "the album arc" is a big deal for these people.
I'm feeling TG 2nd Annual Report on steroids.
So many wonderful sounds and voice samples. I'm really impressed with how these are integrated with each other. I love the deep, layered production.
My youtube guy that I linked above felt that this started great, then floundered. I'm not feeling that.
The singing at the end of track 8 was...beautiful. 😍 Is that a national anthem? Protest song? I should probably know this. I loved the placement of it - ie It's location on the album.
I'm sure this album is "about something". 😂
I'm blasting this again as I type. I suppose it's about "our current times", innit? This is a bleak / depressing fucker (in a good way). 😂
I'm aware that this isn't topping a lot of G.O. lists, but if this uncompromising and intense (and even...beautiful?) work is what they are doing in 2025, 40 years into their existence, then I'm very impressed.
The end of track 8 still kicks my ass.
The 3 that I have so far has me thinking of these guys as more "Dark Ambient" than "Noise". (Is that a hot-take?) 😂 Labels labels labels...
#6
Keith Rowe/Toshimaru Nakamura - Weather Sky (Erstwhile)
An immensely important album to me, and I think the experimental scene as a whole, at the start of the 2000s. Belonging more to the Electro-acoustic Improvisation genre of the time. However, I think there is a lot of crossover appeal to noise here.
Toshimaru's contribution specifically on the no-input mixing board is particularly harsh. Not in regard to volume, but in the sheer intensity and clarity of the feedback frequencies he creates.
Extremely clean, precise, and cutting.
These old Rowe and Nakamura albums had propped back up in my thoughts recently, and I'm not exactly sure why, but I think I'm going to spend some time revisiting.
#7
Coming soon on Cranial Blast.
Niko Thomasson - Experiments And Harsh tape.
Some experimental type of noise/ambient material, has some left field types of approach. Pro tape coming soon!
www.cranialblast.com
#9
Last post by k.p.g - February 06, 2026, 10:01:25 PM
Spyked Fossils - Strangled Pairs (American Tapes)
Andrew Nolan - Museum Etiquette (Absurd Exposition)
Circle - Muurahaiset (Satatuhatta)
Shredded Nerve - Performer Death I (Dead Gods)
Shredded Nerve - Performer Death II (Dead Gods)
While I was feeling like total, rundown crap last night, I decided it would be a great time to maybe reorganize some of the tapes in my collection again. It's a good exercise in pairing things down, as you begin to see where your tastes lie over time. What tapes hold up better than you thought? What stuff reveals new sides of itself that you did not appreciate the first time? What records are you ready to just let go of?
In the first category, Circle & Spyked Fossils are the most appropriate. Both releases had some great atmospheres that I had forgotten. Found myself reacting pretty viscerally to their presence.
Andrew Nolan cassette was a pleasant surprise! I thought maybe my interest in the guy's work had dwindled as tastes change, but this is very solid field recording/industrial work! Plenty of pulsating rhythms to lock in with. It stays in the collection.
Shredded Nerve tapes, while certainly having some moments I could really sink my teeth into, were overall not his best efforts. Performer Death I holds up together than the second installment, but I think Justin had made releases of a similar style that I will keep in my collection over this one. I think maybe this is some of the final Shredded Nerve material I was regularly keeping up with as well. I still have yet to check out the last disc on Total Black. Maybe that will be an assignment for this weekend...
#10
Last post by OMM - February 06, 2026, 07:58:11 PM
Alfarmania, puce mary and Survival unit/the grey wolves gone!
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