PURE (rrr sub-label)

[Confuzzled]

Good for Rrron!

[Zeno Marx]

The other day I was listening to Toy Bizarre cd and it definitely deserves to be mentioned. Not harsh but not that bizarre either, plenty good though and very much 90's experimental drone / ambient. Like listening to paintings!

Was listening to Tourette today, and some of the particulate sounds got me to thinking about other things, and Toy Bizarre popped to mind. Just searching for conversation about him, and Like listening to paintings! grabbed my attention. That's a great way to describe both Tourette and Toy Bizarre, though Tourette is far more consistent.  I see that someone on bandcamp described Tourette as "post-harsh noise", and while I get the gist, it's either lazy or just poorly informed about the history of noise. Plenty have gone noise in their electro-acoustic pursuits and vice versa.  Brume, Seth Nehil, MNortham, et al.  I'd put Green Tea in this camp.  When it's attempted, it usually exposes how extremely talented that person is. Not a lot of half-assers bothering to try it.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

I noticed ad on noise magazine of Emil's "Kill all... " being reissued as tape.

I do wonder how many of Pure series were made "artists edition". I have Ramleh editions. I got the original Pure in a way that there are printed inserts direct from RRR, but also Broken Flag editions. Söldnergeist I got also Art Konkrete version. I know bunch of others did special editions (MSBR...) but don't have those.

[accidental]

I noticed ad on noise magazine of Emil's "Kill all... " being reissued as tape.

I do wonder how many of Pure series were made "artists edition". I have Ramleh editions. I got the original Pure in a way that there are printed inserts direct from RRR, but also Broken Flag editions. Söldnergeist I got also Art Konkrete version. I know bunch of others did special editions (MSBR...) but don't have those.

To me some are unclear if they are SE or release on own label. Did Ramleh do special editions for their three?!

Discogs lists SE for:
SI
Aube
EM & Macro
R&G
VOG
Total
MSBR
Pain Jerk
AMK
Kizutani
Masonna
PBK /HT / AMK
Crawl U
K2
Toy B

Probably more were done as special ed? I have some of above.

Also the first 14 Pure CD can be numbered by their actual matrix (think discogs has errors), but also the OG master tapes which were actually numbered 1, 2, 3, etc

PURE 01   Emil Beaulieau   Memories ‎(CD) 1994?
PURE 02   Sudden Infant   Solothurn ◄ (3 versions)   1994?
PURE 03   Emil Beaulieau   Kill The All-Noise Japanese Artists ‎(CD)   1995
PURE 04   Emil Beaulieau   Dedicated To Charlie Ward ‎(CD) 1995
PURE 05   Emil Beaulieau   Dedicated To Masami Akita ‎(CD)   1995
PURE 06   Emil Beaulieau   Dedicated To Richard Rupenus ‎(CD)   1995
PURE 07   Aube   Purification To Numbness (Album) ◄   1994? old aube disco says November 94, but im not sure its correct? that disco was usually on point though
PURE 08   Incapacitants   Ministry Of Foolishness ◄ (2 versions)   1995 
PURE 09   Haters, The   Ordinarily Nowhere ‎(CD)   1995
PURE 10   Consumer Electronics   Teenage Nuremburg ‎(CD, Album)   1995
PURE 11   Ramleh   We Created It, Let's Take It Over Vol I ‎(CD)   1995
PURE 12   Ramleh   We Created It, Let's Take It Over Vol II ‎(CD)   1995
PURE 13   Ramleh   We Created It, Let's Take It Over Vol III ‎(CD)   1995
PURE 14   Evil Moisture & Macronympha   The Tentacles Of The Octopus Sometimes Compete Against Each Other ‎(CD)   1995

The first 7 was released at the same time i believe? (possibly a few out before the others), then 8-14, then 15-21....Every set of releases had unique Pure label insert connected to the series


PURE 49   Dead Body Love   Maximum Dose ◄ (2 versions)   1996

Some that never materilized like Borbetomagus x3, Atrax Morgue, Genital P-Orange, Pee 69 Deflower etc