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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REV...

Last post by prolapsedlielack - May 11, 2025, 02:32:01 AM

Prepping for New York in October and have been listening to Genocide Organ's newest album, "Operations With Contempt". I'm very late to the jump on this but WOW, this might be one of their best. From the opening sample to the chaos being stripped back slowly on the closer, this is essential GO and will probably be added to the canon of PE soon.

Besides that, Agonal Lust/Swollen Korps collab album "Charnel Dwelling". Three mad geniuses all contributing to one short but grim release. If only we could get our hands on the Amygdalotomy album James mentioned on his WCN interview...Rest In Power Jamie Van Blake.

#62

GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: DIY edits to others' album...

Last post by HateSermon - May 11, 2025, 01:21:56 AM

Years ago I thought about extending the ending to Deathkey's "BTS" track. Such an intense track and I really wanted like 30 seconds more of that loop. I never ended up doing it though.
Otherwise, I've only ever redubbed tapes. Nothing else.

#63

GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: DIY edits to others' album...

Last post by Goat93 - May 10, 2025, 09:58:55 PM

Actualy i do it every Day with all Music i listen to. I change the Bass to Zero and pitched up the Highs in my Soundsystem. So it sounds absolutely not like intended and a lot of People complain when they have to listen to the Music.

On the Commercial Side, Tons of "Rereleases" are remastered. Won't say its common in Noise, but its absolute common in Metal or general Commercial Music.

#64

GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: YLEINEN NOISE FIILISTELY S...

Last post by AKTI Records - May 10, 2025, 09:05:16 PM

Ei varsinaisesti "noise-noise", mutta löysin julkaisemattomia biisejä pari viime vuoden Sisarusten Toistuva Uni LP:n sessareista ja päätin tygittää nettiin. Aattelin ehkä tässä muutenkin latailla noita menneitä levyjä kuunneltavaksi sinne.

https://juhotoivonen.bandcamp.com/album/takaisin-riasento-enne

Back to "noisu et al", vittu tää on hyvä:
https://art-into-life.bandcamp.com/album/roadless-travel

Noita LAMFS liitännäisiä + kokoelmia ku jostain löytäisi lisää (toim.huom. take my money), Darker Scratcher löytyy, mutta muuten on hiljaista. Kuulin hetki sitten, että vallan mainio Dinosaurs With Horns kassu olis löytämässä itsensä tänä vuonna CD:lle... toivotaan toivotaan.

Tämä kans maistunu:
https://themarkharwood.bandcamp.com/album/a-perfect-punctual-paradise-under-my-own-name

Jotenkin todella... "unhinged", painostavia, hauskoja, kuumottavia raitoja. Oispa kaik' sound (f)art jotenkin näin järjetöntä. "I fooockin' looove the mid-day coffee!"

#65

NEW RELEASES ANNOUNCEMENTS / New Forces Update: Green Tea, ...

Last post by New Forces - May 10, 2025, 08:19:02 PM

2025 marks the fifteenth anniversary of New Forces. Thank you to everyone that has supported the label over the years. I have a few exciting things planned for this year, beginning with three new releases:

Green Tea - Bending Your Sauna CD
Shredded Nerve / Form Hunter CD
Action/Discipline - Out of Stasis Cassette
 

Green Tea - Bending Your Sauna CD


In 2022 New Forces received a pair of discs in the mail from Nick Forté (Rorschach, Raspberry Bulbs, Half Mortal) that contained the initial creative burst from his new project Green Tea. The albums were astonishingly well crafted and could hardly be considered "demos"; indeed, they felt like masterworks that emerged out of thin air, blending psychedelic harsh noise with ambient and new age music in a way that felt incredibly fresh and exciting. As the artist describes it, "I knew I was working on a new project when I began sessions for what would become Green Tea, but the focus was unclear at first. It seemed it would maybe be a dark ambient leaning project, but two tangents emerged; one more austere and darker and another somewhat surprising, a brighter strain that veered into what I was hearing as 'new age harsh noise.' I made many tracks and separated them into the two categories, and ultimately two albums; 'Snowblower' became the darker/austere record and 'Bending Your Sauna' the new age harsh noise album. Both records represent the genesis of Green Tea."

New Forces released one of those albums, "Snowblower," in 2023, and it quickly became a favorite for listeners attracted to Green Tea's unique approach, frequently cited as one of the better noise recordings in recent memory. The second of those two albums, "Bending Your Sauna," has been sealed away in temporary stasis, and is now ready to be enjoyed by all.
 

Shredded Nerve / Form Hunter CD


In the summer of 2023 Shredded Nerve and Form Hunter embarked on an East Coast tour that culminated at the Initial Shock festival in Montreal. This CD is a reissue of a limited edition tour cassette available at those shows, and also features a brand new track from each artist, totaling 4 tracks and more than 40 minutes of music. Psych-noise incantations colliding with metal junks avalanches that rip the forest to shreds. Smashing cassette players into oblivion with a baseball bat to the cheers of jubilant Canadians. And a border guard assuming (correctly) that someone in the car is using mind-altering substances.


Action/Discipline - Out Of Stasis Cassette


Action/Discipline (Stefan Aune & Brad Griggs) emerged from hibernation to perform at the Final Live Audio War festival in 2024. To celebrate, A/D released a limited edition cassette that featured four unreleased recordings that capture the projects approach, both live and in-studio, to high energy harsh noise. Out of Stasis includes a 2015 recording intended for an unrealized split tape, an unused compilation track, and two live recordings from Skeleton Dust Records HQ.

Order here: https://newforces.bigcartel.com
Order and Listen: https://newforces.bandcamp.com

#66

GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: DIY edits to others' album...

Last post by Stipsi - May 10, 2025, 08:13:11 PM

Never made something like that.

#67

GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: DIY edits to others' album...

Last post by SSRI - May 10, 2025, 07:43:28 PM

To me that sounds rather disrespectful towards the artist. On the other hand, if you do it for your own private listening I guess it's no big deal.

As for a/b markings etc, I've sometimes written them down on a piece of post-it sticker and put that on tape or vinyl. For other info like RPM you can just slip a piece of paper in the sleeve.

#68

GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / DIY edits to others' albums

Last post by DBL - May 10, 2025, 07:23:48 PM

The topic title is a little vague as I didn't know how to concisely sum up what I'm asking about. Some years ago I saw a post on a heavy metal forum where someone complained about an album he thought was great, but that had some minor sound issues or mastering errors. Or, well, not really errors, but things he didn't like. His solution was to make some minor remastering to it himself, and now he listens to this new DIY version instead of the original version. Maybe I'm just missing out on it, but this was perhaps the only time I have seen someone mention they're listening to a self-improved version of an album.

I've seen posts where people have improved lousily dubbed tapes by re-dubbing the material themselves, but I don't really consider that to be the same thing. Of course it's altering the release, but in all possibility it's more about making the release what it should've already been like, instead of making it what YOU like with some disregard to the artist's or publbisher's sentiments.

Of course, youtube mashups and other plain entertainment things are a chapter of their own that I'd prefer to disregard in this context, and focus on edits you make for your own enjoyment and not public amusement. Mixtapes too, as they're more about creating a new work instead of re-working an existing one. A while ago I read about a punk guy having made a mixtape of metal songs for gig trips, but he had carefully edited out all guitar solos, heheh. Maybe that would be an example of something in between.

So: have you customized or "improved" any albums you have obtained from some artist or label, and if yes, how?

This could be extended to the physical release as an object too, although I am more interested in the sound side of things. For example if you add rpm's, A/B-side markings or artist/title texts to records or tapes if they don't have them for them to be more convenient, or is there a worry about the release becoming either less authentic, or less re-sellable with additional markings. Temporarily storing a difficultly packed release is one thing, and visibly altering or destroying the original packaging is another - or if you're making a wholly new artwork or packaging to an already existing release just for your own pleasure.

#69

CLASSIFIED ADS / Re: Metal to the Core 1986 || ...

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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REV...

Last post by InspiratoryStridor. - May 10, 2025, 04:28:37 PM

Werewolf Jerusalem - God Has Shot Himself (No Holiday, reissue)
Merzbow & Total - Merzbow Mixed Total (No Holiday, reissue)

Two reissues from this label have come out, and I think it is fair to say that these are 2 fairly monolithic releases within the canon of each artist's respective discography...

Early Werewolf Jerusalem has always been my favorite project of Ramirez's and this album shows off exactly why.  It has crushing harsh tones in spades, but also has a very off-kilter sense of movement that is not often present in later works.  One minute, we could be listening to feedback roaring at the top of the mix, only to cut to what sounds like a loose cable buzz on loop.  It's fairly unpredictable and makes for quite the adventure.
As for Merzbow & Total, this finds guitar noise at its best.  Masami knows exactly how to utilize the sounds of Total guitar screech without it sounding like an elongated Swans interlude or something.  The darkness in track two was legitimately terrifying at times when driving to it at night.

Only complaint I really have with these reissues is that they are vinyl.  Call me a stick in the mud, but releases like these are better suited as CDs for different reasons.  Werewolf Jerusalem's record was originally issued as one long track.  It is a minor thing, but that clip down the middle of the original composition is a little bothersome.  As for Merzbow & Total, you have one track clocking in at 19 minutes, while another sits at a whopping 30.  Surely that means a bad cut of vinyl for that B-Side, yeah?  I appreciate the effort on No Holiday's part to make these easier to hear now though.  I would have never even know the latter existed without it.

I'll be grabbing those WJ reissues as soon as domestic connect S&W stocks them, but in the meantime while the second latest No Holidays batch sprung up at the distro I went for the Total reissue, not the Merzbow remix of Total. The elongated guitar screech of M Bower scratches a particular itch for me, and Merzbow another, so the remix project never really appealed to me. I'll probably check it out one of these days.