the very best of DANIEL MENCHE ?

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Recently been listening to "Wings on Fire" CD and "Flaming Tongues" CD. 
First one being good stuff. Massive, very electric droning stuff. But not very "relaxing", but has this kind of speedy percussive element to it...
Can be heard for free here:
https://danielmenche.bandcamp.com/album/wings-on-fire-2

Flaming Tongues CD in other hand was kind sucky. 70 minutes of percussion works, but for me very very dull...

I was just about to recommend raw early works found for free in his bandcamp, but seems like Zeno Marx did it just few message above! Essential!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

have a good 10" by him (Radiant Blood), morbid dissonant piano-work. good!

I wasn't thinking much of piano while listening the 10", but indeed it is one of the key elements in B-side, but on top of that crackling noise, drones, all sorts of goodies. A-side much more electronic, high power noise drone with multiple layers of harmonic noise. Great release and certainly worth to get! Recording 2002, release 2005 by Drone Records.

Someone uploaded a-side online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfseO7-WklQ

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Looking at Discogs for a timeline, I lost interest around the Field of Skin (1997) period.  Screaming Caress felt like a bridge between his early period and the next period.  It still had moments of that granular, organic, dense noise, but by Field of Skin (Rusty Ghosts, Scourge, Crawling Towards), the plasticity and sterility had taken over. 

I bought recently "Rusty Ghosts" 2x7" for two reasons.
1) 90's Menche
2) cheap as fuck.

I guess you can get this double 7" for 4 euros mint. Lots of copies for sale at discogs. I don't think it could be yet labeled totally to be sterile. Of course it's not as organic, as saturated, as hand made noisy feel like in his old days, but as name suggests.... Rusty Ghosts!! Sound may be drenched in reverb, but still with rusty and ghostly feel. Slow patterns of hiss, hum, clanging objects, slowly moving, growing, fading. Not entirely sure whether this should be 33 or 45rpm. Don't see it mentioned in cover, but due c. 4-5 mins tracks, have listened both speeds. I assume 45, but can't be 100% sure, hah..

If someone is buying stuff at discogs, and you see seller have this also available, I do recommend to grab it together with stuff you originally went looking for. Nice minimal, stylish packaging. Good sound on 7"s.

[anomalie]

Like Daniel Menche's stuff a lot.

Recommendation:

Daniel Menche - Beautiful Blood (Alien8 Recordings)
Daniel Menche ‎– Invoker (Antifrost)
Zbigniew Karkowski & Daniel Menche ‎– Unleash (Alien8 Recordings)
http://danielmenche.bandcamp.com/album/unleash DOWNLOAD FOR FREE!
Daniel Menche ‎– Terre Paroxysm (Utech Records)

[FreakAnimalFinland]

It seems like majority of message on this topic is from me, but well...
Have to still say that despite I'm quite lazy in using internet for music listening, and just happen to listen almost exclusively from physical albums, I have to say Menche bandcamp is good.  Amount of stuff has been increasing, and archive is pretty extensive now.

Due laying on bed in fever, wasn't in position to be turning sides of 7"s etc, so just playing stuff from his bandcamp. Earliers years -release from late 80's. Really nice stuff. Even if his physical releases are easy to find and often cheap, perhaps his "anti-stuff" stance (hah.. see interview in Personal Best), is best illustrated via online music?!

https://danielmenche.bandcamp.com/

[Baglady]

Always felt almost ashamed for not looking into his stuff. I have heard a thing or two, but the only Menche I have in my collection (as far as I know at least) is his contribution to Americanoise, and that's a good one.
Any tip on where to start? Any, for him, defining releases one should get?

[acsenger]

I've got maybe 7 CDs by him and I like them all basically. They're from the 2000s though, so they're usually heavy on percussive sounds and can sound a bit samey. My favourite would probably be Beast Resonator which, while percussive, is very well crafted.

[Zeno Marx]

Concussions...fantastically mesmerizing (at least today it is).  Disc 1 flew by in no time.  For those who enjoy finding field recordings of machines, industrial sounds, or repetition in the urban landscape, this should be on your radar.  A lot of this could be mistaken for construction sounds in the distance.

[impulse manslaughter]

I really like the Vulgar Scratch and Chrome Homicide 7"s . Also have that Rusty Ghost 2x7" and some CD's. Great artist and among the first that i discovered which makes these releases more special on a personal level.

[Decrepitude]

I've yet to get any Daniel Menche albums in my own collection but I get these phases when I'm so intrigued by his stuff that I listen to it a lot for a short while, a week or two maybe. I definitely need to get a few albums and delve deeper. But on these phases my go-to albums have been Face Of Vehemence, Furnace Fucker, Deluge & Sunder and Progeny Of Flies (With Andrew Liles). The field recordings he has on his bandcamp are really good too.

[NIT]

Saw him live about a year ago and found it a bit disappointing. I guess anyone can have an off night. After reading this thread I think I will look further into his recorded work.

[absurdexposition]

He played here about a year ago as well, but I found it to be great. Haven't had much interest in his recorded material but also haven't delved too far into it.

[shearling]

Legions in the walls is great

[Bleak Existence]

need to listen to that one

[FreakAnimalFinland]

I seem to be writing many messages of this topic... but what can you say? Menche keeps delivering!

DANIEL MENCHE "Primal Fictions" LP
Ferns
Info on the LP is minimal. All it has is artist and track names. Internet gives you details that it was recorded and mixed Fall and Winter of 2020. Field Recording, Strings , Oscillators, Noises, Artwork put together by Daniel Menche. Its two c. 20 minute long pieces and barely -NOISE-. It has some noises, like clanging metal objects, some restless moments of oscillations. Mostly this is very calm, highly textured, slowly moving and droning pieces. Really neat and well recorded sounds. Vinyl cut is good, so there doesn't seem to be significant surface noise or added distortion. All plays with really high fidelity sound. Almost orchestral soundscapes are total ear-candy, and despite I was going to say it relies far more into creation of texture than "composition" in musical sense, there is indeed carefully orchestrated way Primal Fiction starts, and how it flows forward.

I am guessing one can listen this at the Menche bandcamp or something, but for physical album listeners, Ferns LP edition is very much recommended!