SPITE (label)

[FreakAnimalFinland]

USA label active mostly late 90's very early 00's, but few things happened later. Some people appear to consider classic releases & cult label, while many appear to be completely clueless of its existence. Certainly in shadow of many early 90's labels.

So what did he do? For example:

SPITE01   Stimbox   Meltdown ‎(Cass, Ltd, C46)   1997         ▼
SPITE02   Humectant Interruption   Service And Whelping ‎(Cass, Ltd)   1997         ▼
Spite 3 ??
SPITE04   Richard Ramirez   Spread 'Em ‎(Cass, Ltd, Album, C46)   1998         ▼
SPITE05   Woe Is Me / D. Wright*   Emergency Procedures: Live / Orca Y Choronzon ‎(Cass, Ltd)   1998         ▼
SPITE06   Mlehst   Automatic Nonsense ‎(Cass, Ltd)   1997         ▼
SPITE07   Armenia   Putrified Lovers Purulent Honeymoon ‎(Cass, Ltd)   1997         ▼
08 ??
SPITE09   Dead Body Love   Volcano God ‎(Cass, Ltd)   1997         ▼
SPITE 10   Lasse Marhaug   Bullet In The Tape ‎(Cass, Ltd)   1998         ▼
SPITE11   Facialmess   Madcap Barely Smiles ‎(Cass, Ltd)   1997         ▼
SPITE12   MSBR   Final Harsh Work # 2 ‎(Cass, Ltd, C30)   1998         ▼
SPITE13   Mo・Te*   Taste Die Mad ‎(Cass, Ltd, Num, C46)   1998         ▼
Spite14   Amyl Migraine   A Vague Sing Song In My Ear; Very Painful And Crushing, But Only Half Intelligible ‎(Cass, C30)             SPITE15   Cock E.S.P. & Smell & Quim   Super Noise Penis ‎(7", Ltd)   1998         ▼
SPITE15   Cock E.S.P. / Humectant Interruption   Cock E.S.P. / Humectant Interruption ‎(Cass, Ltd, C30)   1998         ▼
SPITE16   Grunt   Europe After Storm ‎(Cass, Ltd, C30)   1998         ▼
SPITE17   Humectant Interruption   Live At RRR ‎(Cass, Ltd, C30)             ▼
SPITE19   Sukora   Feel ‎(Cass, Ltd)   1996         ▼
SPITE20   K2 / PD* / [ISOFC]*   Haiwian Eye Melt Down ‎(7", Ltd)   1999         ▼
SPITE21   Kapotte Muziek   Four Boxes ‎(Cass, Ltd, Album)   1998         ▼
SPITE22   D.L. Savings T.X., The*   Full Time Marina (1932) ‎(Cass, Ltd, C40)   1998         ▼
SPITE23   666 Volt Battery Noise   Another Weapon In The War Against Music ‎(Cass, Ltd, C46)             ▼
SPITE24   Incapacitants / Autoerotichrist   Funds Of Funds Of Funds / Landmine Contrivances ‎(7", Ltd)   1997         ▼
SPITE25   Expose Your Eyes   Oh Dear What Can Be The Matter Be? (A Tribute To Doris Mays And John Matthews) ‎(Cass)             ▼
SPITE26   Francois Douris   ne mets pas à l'épreuve le seigneur ton dies ‎(Cass)             ▼
SPITE27   Pain Jerk   Greater Curvature ‎(Cass, Ltd, C46)   1998         ▼
SPITE28   Dogliveroil   Nazis On Asses ‎(Cass, Ltd)   1998         ▼
Spite 28   To Live And Shave In L.A.   Vixens Of The Mortal Ring ‎(Cass, Ltd, C90)   1998         ▼
SPITE31   Crank Interruption / Humectant Sturgeon   Split ‎(Cass, Ltd)   1998         ▼
SPITE32   Tension Hook   Sounds Of Defection ‎(Cass, Ltd, C46)   1998         ▼
SPITE33   TAC   "if it fits....." ‎(Cass, Ltd, C46)   1998         ▼
SPITE35   Crank Sturgeon   A Butte For Huso ‎(4xCass, Ltd, C46)   2000         ▼
SPITE36   Smell & Quim   Pushy Gothic Gnome Versus Charity Techno Gnome ‎(Cass, Ltd, Num, C60 + Box)   1998         ▼
SPITE37   Smack Music 7   Exchange In An Earthworm ‎(Cass, Ltd, C20)             ▼
SPITE39   Coffee (2)   Xenakis Bubblegum ‎(Cass, Ltd, C20)             ▼
SPITE40   Rhuem   Solo Joint ‎(Cass, Ltd, C20)   1999         ▼
SPITE42   Rita, The   Crusty Etruscans ‎(Cass, Ltd)   1998         ▼
SPITE43   Thirdorgan vs. (ISOFC)*   Neon, Garbage & Worms ‎(Cass, Ltd, C46)   1998         ▼
SPITE44   One Dark Eye / Macronympha   Untitled ‎(Cass, Ltd, C30)   1998         ▼
SPITE45   Birchville Cat Motel   A Muslin Veil Of Bravery ‎(Cass, Ltd, Num, C36)   1999         ▼
SPITE46   Crack Fierce   Perspicacious Variance ‎(Cass, Ltd, C20)   1999         ▼
SPITE47   Wagstaff   Caught Between The Victim And The Angel ‎(Cass, Ltd, C90)   1999         ▼
SPITE48   MSBR   Final Harsh Work # 5 ‎(Cass, Ltd)   1999         ▼
SPITE49   John Hudak   Applause ‎(Cass, Ltd, C60)   1999         ▼
SPITE50   Taint   Victimology / Where Are The Whores? ‎(Lathe, 7", Ltd, Num)   1999         ▼
SPITE51   Government Alpha   Q ‎(Cass, Ltd, C46)   1999         ▼
SPITE52   K2   Facismusik ‎(Cass, Ltd, C46)   1999         ▼
SPITE53   AMK   Christdome ‎(Cass, Ltd, C60)   1999         ▼
SPITE55   Skin Crime   King Of The Deathmatch ‎(Cass, Ltd, C60)   1999         ▼
SPITE58   Sudden Infant   Where's Happy? ‎(Cass, C46)   1999         ▼
SPITE59   Reynols   Lo Cabachua Lo Come De Lo Conejo ‎(Cass)   1999         ▼
SPITE60   Tomasin*   Escalinado Oveja Lila Romantico II ‎(Cass)   1999         ▼
SPITE61   Coits   Desire Runs From Me / The Devil Has His Devil Day ‎(Cass, Ltd, C60)             ▼
SPITE63   Knurl   Plank ‎(Cass)   1999         ▼
SPITE64   Ceramic Hobs   Noisy Tape, Eleven Years In The Making ‎(Cass)             ▼
SPITE68   Bizarre Uproar   Antibliss 2 ‎(Cass, C30)   1999         ▼
SPITE69   Shite Girls, The / Expose Your Eyes   Spile ‎(Cass, Ltd, C40)             ▼
SPITE70   Jean Street   Untitled ‎(Cass)   2000         ▼
SPITE71   Sightings   Live ‎(Cass, Ltd)   2001         ▼
SPITE73   TV Pow   Unsupported Format ‎(Cass, Ltd, C73)   1999         ▼
SPITE74   Kevin Drumm   Impish Tyrant ‎(Cass, Ltd)   2004         ▼
SPITE76   Max Cloud*   Legs (Dub) ‎(7", S/Sided)   2002         ▼
SPITE77   Evil Moisture / Cock E.S.P.   Monsters Of Cock ‎(5", Ltd)   2000         ▼
SPITE78   Dylan Nyoukis   With Hicks In The Sudan ‎(Cass, Ltd, C30)             ▼
SPITE79   Old Bombs   The Silenium Bombs ‎(Cass, Album)   2000         ▼
SPITE81   Panicsville   Untitled ‎(Cass, Ltd)   2000         ▼
SPITE83   Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck / Beast People, The   Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck / The Beast People ‎(12")   2005         ▼
SPITE84   Wolf Eyes / Metalux   Untitled ‎(Cass)

Lots of stuff what I do have, but A LOT of stuff which I don't. Packaging was most often in small plastic bag, with xerox cover. In some releases, multiple inserts of artwork. Often releases appear to be 50 copies, so no wonder that it would slowly sink into oblivion. BUT, label with almost 100, most of all solid & label-profile contributing releases... shouldn't be forgotten.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Lets throw probably one of few things found at youtube (beside Grunt "europe after storm" originally Spite tape):

DEAD BODY LOVE "Vulcano god" (spite 09)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH4o5NA5pC4

[oppositional]

such an excellent label, with many classic titles (especially in the early catalog).

i've always hunted for that skin crime tape, but have never seen a copy for sale.

[HongKongGoolagong]

I have quite a few of these. One not listed is Xome - "Glue For The Masses" which I have in a fairly ridiculous double package with unplayable extra cassette and glue.

The Smell & Quim 'Pushy Gothic Gnome...' packages sent to Milovan were confiscated and destroyed by UK customs for having a pretty innocuous bondage photo inside the box - at the time S&Q must have been on some kind of unofficial watch list, the sleeves for the Self Abuse 'Piss With Drills...' 7" were also destroyed by customs for supposed obscenity.

Wish I had sold the rare Wolf Eyes & Metalux tape back in 2006 when some hipster would have given me silly cash for it.

[Dr Alex]

SPITE50   Taint   Victimology / Where Are The Whores? ‎(Lathe, 7", Ltd, Num)   1999

Cam someone share more info of this?
I have some rip of Taint 7" with title "Where Are The Whores".
Two tracks: 1. Melissa Ann Northrup / 2. Sara Ann Wood
Is that same release?? If not, please share some info about both releases.

[burdizzo]

The Smell & Quim 'Pushy Gothic Gnome...' packages sent to Milovan were confiscated and destroyed by UK customs for having a pretty innocuous bondage photo inside the box - at the time S&Q must have been on some kind of unofficial watch list, the sleeves for the Self Abuse 'Piss With Drills...' 7" were also destroyed by customs for supposed obscenity.

I can't remember where I got mine, but I'd say it was from the UK. Offal? Your man in Edinburgh, perhaps? Could've been Artware, either. Yes, the photo - you'd even struggle to describe it as 'bondage', but I suppose, technically it is! The tape was already limited to 50, so if a few were destroyed, then there can't be too many floating around. Some of the Spite releases were in big enough editions, though - up to 300 for some of them. I looked on discogs, and they can be got cheap enough.

[Steve]

Was this the label operated by the great bear Joel St Germain?
Vague & distant memory about this label, I think I submitted a track for a compilation release that never materialised but I could be confusing it with another NYC label ...

[CMSFoundation]

The scans of the Skin Crime tape on discogs is from my copy (taken from the old Dada Drumming sub-site for SPITE appreciation), so I can assure you that it did exist, and yes, it's very, very easy to poke yourself while handling it. I'm also sad to say that this criminally hard to find tape is one of the better Skin Crime tapes I've heard. Here's hoping for a reissue some day.

[CMSFoundation]

Was this the label operated by the great bear Joel St Germain?
Vague & distant memory about this label, I think I submitted a track for a compilation release that never materialised but I could be confusing it with another NYC label ...

One and the same. Joel St. Germain of New Hampshire, Grand Rapids, then New York, and now, I think, somewhere out in New Jersey...

That comp was almost finished a bunch of times, but I don't think it ever came to fruition. Uncertainty about the proper way to package it was, I think, the culprit.

[bitewerksMTB]

SPITE50   Taint   Victimology / Where Are The Whores? ‎(Lathe, 7", Ltd, Num)   1999

Cam someone share more info of this?
I have some rip of Taint 7" with title "Where Are The Whores".
Two tracks: 1. Melissa Ann Northrup / 2. Sara Ann Wood
Is that same release?? If not, please share some info about both releases.

Yeah, that sounds about right. I guess I intended "Victimology" as a sort of series or something. "Where are the whores?" is a quote, I think, from Kenneth McDuff who is the killer of M.A.N.

I did the art for the 7" sleeve but the shitty, larger cover was done by someone else.

[yosef666]

These releases are pretty hard to find. I think the only one I have from this label is the Taint 7". I've been looking for the Bizarre Uproar tape for ages with no luck.

Well, you're one up on me... I'm looking for both of those releases.

[Potier]

Thought I'd share this webfind here - bunch of reviews of SPITE-Releases written by Chris Sienko - sort of a label-feature from 2001.

http://www.blastitude.com/7/pg2.htm

[Bloated Slutbag]

Thought I'd share this webfind here - bunch of reviews of SPITE-Releases written by Chris Sienko - sort of a label-feature from 2001.

http://www.blastitude.com/7/pg2.htm

Hey, thanks for that. Never realized Tension Hook had released his Sounds of Defection. Haven't heard for ages but the brief review is adequate to the task of highlighting the more memorable ejaculations of the famed fubar'd stereo. Good tape, good project, shame Mr Matheson never kept it going.

I note also that Francois Douris takes SPITE26. Could this be the unknown tape - packaging for which is looong gone - I mention in the Ferial Confine and similar thread?

Listening to one F.Douris, tape with no cover, the inevitable fate of all special artwork releases. The aqua-blue side sounds like a field recording taken on a busy street corner, but with amplified noise – possibly the acoustics of the actual recording – almost completely submerging the concrete elements. The effect is that of said field recording being conducted in an heavily trafficked expressway tunnel, with what could be heavy machine noises fighting shudders of ill-tempered wind-swell. If someone told me this was an early Vivenza outing I'd readily believe it. The yellow side might be an out-take from his lp on RRRecords, but with much longer stretches of tape hiss punctuated with the occasional electronic fart.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

PAIN JERK "Greater Curvate" tape
1998 Pain Jerk is pretty flawless if you appreciate fast and dynamic harsh noise. This is less about loops and more of simply straight forward blasting of noise. There are few odd moments where behind layer of sharp noise is actually drum machine beat. Not like techno, but almost like marching drums! I recall talking with mr. Gomi when he said he tried to listen through his massive archives of mastertapes for potential CD box anthology, but concluded that all tapes include too many weak moments.
Of course one could admit that it's not all pure gold here. It appears like he did long studio-live session and then it was published as tape. Barely cut & edited. But this is also what makes tape very nice to listen to. It has its ups and downs which gives it very relaxed/natural flow. Not his best, but 90's Pain Jerk is 90's Pain Jerk! Never bad.