Lackthrow - Release 2xCDR

[xdementia]

*purchase this from the shop*


Lackthrow is a name most unknown to noise fans of today but Andrew Powell has been active and creating noise under several different guises - twit/ch, Internal Empty, A Hymn For Her - since 1990. The project has been alive and hyperactive for many years and time has seen it take many forms from experimental surrealism, or harsh Masonna-influenced cut up noise, to power electronics and back again. Even spanning into weird ambience, synth-pop and cybergrind influences.
                   
With Lackthrow's Release Existence Establishment strives to present a cohesive collection of works from this underrated artist re-releasing a wealth of material, with the bulk of it having never formally seen the light of day before. Release is a 2 disc set spanning the outer reaches of sound, emotional noise, temper tantrums on tape, carefully edited blasts of noise, unadulterated improvisations, and enigmatic avant garde outings which are evidence of the spasms of an artist always on the edge yet never in the limelight and always searching for something unknown. Featuring material recorded between 1997 and 2009.
                       
Disc I:

               acoustic (recreation)
               once and lost (remix)
               chamber i
               you are the exception to no rule
               memories are ghosts
                    beka's secret (high less layer)
                    a warm comforting fist punching me in the gut [ Full Track ]
                    dust catcher (part 1)
                    make-believe(r)
                    PERIOD:golden
                    claw your way out (down the halls) tight mix [ Excerpt ]
                    the usual aberration
                    melpomene
                    intensely living impaired
                    delve (original version)
                    bunny in yellow field
                    starvation
                    you weren't buried deep enough (outro)
                    kimberly part 12
                    rachel [ Full Track ]
                    worldsend (lowloungmix)
                    your new life, my new death
                    kimberly part 7
                    home is not where the heart is
                    Part 35
                    and
                    blue dove
                    trans
                    lifted beyond the dpeths of her heart
                    ...like another hole in the head
                    it never passes quickly enough
                    pandemonium interior part 3

                    Disc II:
                    she loves me with vicious love
               everything to come is meaningless [ Full Track ]
                    blue part 5
                    slowandsteady (the totoise
                    kimderly part 19
                    i fall too far
                    no excuse for love
                    flower (grindthemicmix)
                    ravaged by time
                    SORES (exlusiveREDIT) [ Full Track ]
                    destroying sex 6
                    the blue dress (one)
                    misplaced
                    styx bouquet
                    permanently out of homeostasis
                    sexual disgust
                    sheseeksfalureforsustenance [ Excerpt ]
                    part 21
                    the language of mistakes
                    lacerated ego
                    sorrow and rage (entrance)
                    kimerly part 22
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                    - Strictly limited to 50 copies.
                    - Double CDR with printed artwork directly on disc.
                    - Two double sided 11x17" fold-out posters with lyrics and tracklisting full-color pro-printed.
                    - Packaged in a piece of tar-infused copper with disc protectors and full-color artwork.
                   

                   
STILL AVAILABLE:
Human Larvae - Home Is Where the Hurt Is CD
Xiphoid Dementia - Might is Blight CD
Stratvm Terror - This is My Own Hell CD
BT.HN & Sistrenatus - Exposing the Ribcage CD
Fire In The Head/Bereft - MA/PE/FU Vol. 1 LP
GM Electronics - Trashwalker CDR

...and check out the shop for a list of distro items!!![/list]

[xdementia]

First review!!!

First review!!!

From Black Audio webzine:

There is nothing more ludicrous than the packaging this 2CDr album provides.  Seven inches of tar painted copper plating that provided me with as much entertainment trying to take out the CDr's as much as it did actually listening to them; if nothing else it made me smile, cut fingers and all.

Andrew Powell's Lackthrow spews a staggering 54 tracks out over two discs.  With a visceral mash of power electronics and cold Industrial waste, that assaults the senses from every angle.  Much of this has been heard before and that by no means is an insult in a market as saturated as this project lingers within; if anything, Lackthrow holds its own well.

Let's be honest now; there aren't that many releases from the genre that can actually be termed 'good'.  I do raise my hand in admission that PE is one of my guilty pleasures, fully aware that the majority I play now and again is absolute hogwash, requiring little to no talent at all.  There are exceptions to the rule however, with Control and Slogun being a prime example of consummate professionalism, providing PE with a purpose and necessary soapbox, where the sounds on offer are clinically executed to devastating effect.

Lackthrow doesn't achieve the same heights as his peers.  Then again many artists of this ilk rarely do; what they do provide however, as in the case of Powell, is an essential insight into B division solidarity.