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#41
GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REV...
Last post by k.p.g - October 27, 2025, 03:37:23 PM
HMO/Skin Crime - An Autopsy Performed Upon the Living (Self Abuse)
Decided to listen after commenting in the thread on Self Abuse.  This tape remains one of those "holy grail" sort of finds for me (anyone who wants to let a copy go, my DMs are open).  It's really not hard to see why.  This is a dark murk of synth, bizarre sample work & things that go *bump* in the night.  Being from the 90s too, it is interesting to see that these sorts of sounds that would go onto define late period Skin Crime were worked with so early on.  I usually assumed that this sort of approach was worked on mostly in the live arena leading up to the Hospital LP.  Guess not.  Great stuff.
#42
GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Self Abuse and related
Last post by k.p.g - October 27, 2025, 03:32:09 PM
Self Abuse is such an interesting label.

On one hand, it has a little bit of something for everyone; weird packaging, larger run classics and even hard-to-find gems of the entire artform. 
On the other, it has some of the most bizarre and frankly *awful* graphic design I have seen come from a label.  Things like font choices or image quality of cover art have been egregiously offputting.  And as previously mentioned, the label will just up and disappear for years on end.

Yet, this all makes sense in the context of Self Abuse and Pat O'Neil.  He could honestly wait another decade before reactivating the label and I am sure many of us would see what the big deal is.  How many other labels can say they hold that much goodwill and staying power over time?
#43
GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Self Abuse and related
Last post by k.p.g - October 27, 2025, 03:14:28 PM
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on October 26, 2025, 10:28:57 AMI storaged copies between .. something. Not next to digipak or something.

Yeah, this is where I messed up........ OOPS
#44
GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Most overkill / unnecessar...
Last post by lagrgal - October 27, 2025, 02:45:38 PM
Quote from: Cranial Blast on October 27, 2025, 03:55:00 AMIt comes packaged in two big pieces of slate with screws attaching it together
Sounds very much like some of the Knurl packages as well as Aube I think. Overall this type of packaging doesn't seem extremely scarce so I'd guess the defect was not caused by the packaging itself, perhaps the material had something to do with it? Maybe just a pressing error
#45
GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Neofolk
Last post by Phenol - October 27, 2025, 12:36:12 PM
Indeed. There were moments/single tracks that were great on the Birch Book albums, but nothing he did before or  after ever came close to the level of Hazel Steps. Those were good times for neofolk in general. Forseti's Windzeit came out just around the same time if memory serves me right.
#46
GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Most overkill / unnecessar...
Last post by Cranial Blast - October 27, 2025, 03:55:00 AM
I've always wanted to try to obtain a copy of Con-Dom's Control Domination CD released by Armed & Loaded Recordings. It comes packaged in two big pieces of slate with screws attaching it together. I've read via discogs that many of the CDs were defective for whatever reason. I don't know if it was something due to the rough nature of the packaging or what, but probably should get a proper reissue!
#47
GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REV...
Last post by Fistfuck Masonanie - October 26, 2025, 10:45:52 PM
Kyle Flanagan - Timpani CDr (Easyriders Noise)
Really nice drone/ambient experiments conducted by running an MS20 through concert timpanis. I really enjoyed this one. Unique frequencies with the natural reverberation of the drums bouncing the sounds around. Four variations on the theme and the entire release clocks in at just 20 minutes. Short, sweet, and all the fat trimmed. Have a feeling I'm going to be revisiting this one a bit. Very pleasant.


Kyle Flanagan - Purely Psychedelic Vol. 8 CDr (Self-released)
Latest release in the Purely Psychedelic series. More drone/ambient work from Kyle, but it's fairly active here. The first track sounds like magical nymphs fluttering around a moist, slime-filled cave with cavernous reverberations and deep guttural creature growls heard coming from the depths below. Strong release and might be one of my favorites in the series. I liked this quite a bit.
#48
GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: New interesting releases o...
Last post by absurdexposition - October 26, 2025, 08:27:02 PM

#49
GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Neofolk
Last post by absurdexposition - October 26, 2025, 08:21:26 PM
Quote from: Phenol on October 06, 2025, 11:58:30 AMI like IGR too, but think he became a bit boring after Hazel Steps... which is probably his best work.

Hazel Steps is incredible and is certainly his best by a mile. It's no wonder why there was a decade-long gap before the next album, hard to follow up an achievement like that.
#50
CLASSIFIED ADS / Re: SCREAM & WRITHE New & Used...
Last post by absurdexposition - October 26, 2025, 08:10:06 PM
New Arrivals 307: Absurd Exposition, Dada Drumming, Handmade Birds, Knife In The Toaster, Lake Shark Harsh Noise, New Forces, Noise Boys, No Rent Records, Old Europa Cafe, Phage Tapes, TH/FX Noise Devices, Urashima, White Centipede Noise

   1. Canada Post has shifted to rotating strikes. It's basically business as usual now. Lettermail is back on track, and new stock has started arriving after being stuck in limbo. Still waiting on several international packages, but they should be finding their way here soon enough.
   2. Shipping to USA continues to go smoothly. All packages are clearing with no additional duties/fees.
   3. For the gear heads, two items of interest in stock this week: the Pink and White Noise Generator DIY Kit from Knife In The Toaster, and The Rita's Cracked Pointe Shoe Noise Generator from TH/FX Noise Devices.
   4. Nearly 30 past Absurd Exposition titles have been made available again. These are either archive copies or new dubs making use of leftover covers, etc. Many of these are single quantity only. Some have been out of print for over a decade. New releases are being worked on, due out in the winter. This will be one of the last batches before Absurd Exposition ends and everything finally shifts to be under the Scream & Writhe banner.

New Arrivals

Absurd Exposition

    Andrew Nolan – Background Music CS
    Andrew Nolan – Museum Etiquette CS
    Arthur Canterbury – Talking To Dead People CS
    Breaking The Will – Rushing Wires CS
    BT. HN. – He Is Risen CS
    Flatgrey – Tombs CS
    Flatline Construct – They Think They've Found The Terror CS
    Griefer – Egress Report CS
    Hermit / chik white CS
    Jute – Simstim CS
    K.M. Toepfer – Undercut CS
    Kier-La Janisse / The Rita – Introduction And Immersion CS
    Limbs Bin – Pure Punishment CS
    Maussade – Mecaniques Sociales CS
    Misery Engine / Andrew Nolan CS
    MK9 – Contaminants CS
    Moisture Discipline – Snake Drilling CS
    Mot – Savage CS
    muttering / Murmur – Muted CS
    Pyrox – Intersect CS
    Six Brew Bantha – Live With Doom CS
    Slacking / Jute / Systems. / Toanche Dwelling – Quadrist 2CS
    Taskmaster CS
    The Nausea – Requiem Aeternam CS
    The Rita – Her Shell, The Chute CS
    Unexamine – Idol Violate CS
    Wood/Metal – Aversions CS

Dada Drumming

    A Fail Association – Illusions CS
    Kakerlak – Obdormition CD
    Kazumoto Endo – At The Controls CD
    Macronympha – Whorechestra 3CD
    Slave Labour – Vol. I and II 4CD Box

Handmade Birds

    The Rita – Nancy Weston (The Rack Sessions) CS
    The Rita – The Rack Extended Version CS

Knife In The Toaster / Noise Boys

    Pink and White Noise Generator DIY Kit

Lake Shark Harsh Noise

    Soft Fantasy – Secrets Unlocked Sour CS
    The Rita – KX 500 KX 500 CD
    The Rita – KX 500 KX 500 CS

New Forces

    C.C.C.C. – Test Tube Fantasy – Extended Edition LP
    Green Tea – Bending Your Sauna CD
    Primitive Isolation Tactics – All Pressures Past CS
    Richard Ramirez – Volume 1 5CD Box
    Shredded Nerve – Third Sign CD
    The Rita – Magazine 2CD
    Various – Early Kinky Works 1983-1988 2CD
    Various – Vigilant New Forces CD

No Rent Records

    Rocker #11
    Yan Jun – The Return of the Stupidity CS
    YÜ//F – Monolith CD

Old Europa Cafe

    The Rita / Caligula031 – Self Shop CD

Phage Tapes

    The Rita – Anna Kogler Found In The River CD
    The Rita – Leopard Skin 2CD
    The Rita – Macha Vs. Knife CD
    The Rita – O.C.D. Shin CD

TH/FX Noise Devices

    The Rita's Cracked Pointe Shoe Noise Generator

Urashima

    Atrax Morgue – Death-Orgasm Connector LP
    Atrax Morgue – Mechanic Asphyxia LP
    C.C.C.C. – Cosmic Coincidence Control Center LP + 7"
    Controlled Death – Ritualistic Mutilation In The Bloody Darkness 2LP
    Dead Body Love / Atrax Morgue LP
    Grim – Message LP
    Incapacitants – Feedback Of N.M.S. 2LP
    Incapacitants – Repo LP
    Kranivm – Post Fata Resurgam 2CD
    Merzbow – Animal Magnetism 2LP
    Merzbow – Cloud Cock OO Grand 2LP
    Merzbow – Mercurated 2LP
    Merzbow – Oersted 2LP
    Painjerk – Neurotten LP

White Centipede Noise

    Death Kneel – Absolute Earthbound Spirits CD
    Pain Appendix & Tantric Death – Satan's Imperials CD
    Spallmaker – 1984 CART PPG Detroit News Grand Prix 200 CD
    Wince – Self Titled + Vasovagal Syncope CD

Second Hand Arrivals

    Lust For Youth & Croatian Amor – Sister 7"
    Massimo Toniutti – Il Museo Selvatico 2LP
    Prurient – Cave Depression 3×7" Box
    Rudolf Eb.er – Nekromantische Musik und Riten CS
    Stabat Mors – Struktur Mit Dominante – Soniche Kritik Funktionalistischer Vernunft CD
    Staring Contest 7"
    Various – Herz Aus G.R.O.S.S. 4CS Box
    Various – Strain, Crack & Break: Music From The Nurse With Wound List Volume 1 (France) 2LP
    Wounded Son – Pain Is All I Have For You LP (test pressing)

Other Genres Used

    Aska / Hypothermia 7"
    Averse Sefira – Tetragrammatical Astygmata 2×10"
    Bestial Raids – Order Of Doom 7"
    Blasphemophagher / Necroholocaust – Triumph Of Abominations 7"
    Blutschwur – Reclaim The Fire LP
    Blutschwur – Those Of My Blood LP
    "Broken Music" Book + Flexi (Primary Information)
    Burning Apparition Of The Master – Burning Apparition Of The Master LP
    Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft – Das Ist DAF 5LP + 7" Box (NM/VG+)
    Entrancement – Morbid Reverie: Demo I & II LP
    Fever Nest – Torture Campaign LP
    Funeral Mist – Maranatha 2LP
    Goat Semen / Anal Vomit – Devotos Del Diablo 2LP (VG+/VG+)
    Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza – Azioni / Reazioni 1967-1969 5LP + DVD Box
    Iannis Xenakis: "Arts/Sciences: Alloys – The Thesis Defense of Iannis Xenakis" Book (sealed)
    Këkht Aräkh – Night & Love LP
    Morbosidad – Legiones Bestiales 7" (VG+/NM)
    "Pause" Book
    Richard Kostelanetz: "Text-Sound Texts" Book
    Ride For Revenge / Torturium 10"
    Terror Noxpheratur – Blood Beast LP (EX/EX)
    Watain – Casus Luciferi LP (VG+/EX)

Plus more general second hand books added regularly! – Have a look: https://screamandwrithe.com