love 7"s. wish they were cheaper to make, and miss the long gone days of being able to pick up three 7"s for $10 instead of one.
sometimes i go on 7" binges and today this thread made break out some less listened to ones, played in this order...
hanged mans orgasm - frenzy - self abuse records / murder series, 1997
side a: feild recordings of sparse industrial atmosphere, then buzzing of flies and more layers of light surface noise build into thin but loud noise wall.
side b: slowly oscillating minimal synth tones, buzzing and layered with noise what sounds like rustling through woods.
small cruel party - seminal brainpan - dom america, 1995
side a: layered active high pitch feedback that almost sounds like someone going nuts on that annoying wind instrument kids play known as a "recorder" with a lower drone not far in the background. i like small cruel party but i do not like this.
side b is what makes this 7" worth owning. with source sound provided by runzelstirn and gurgelstock aka rudolf eber... crumply shuffling sound bounces around an ongoing stuttering off-beat loop while random taps, pops, scrapes, slaps, cracks, pulls, and buzzes appear and disappear until everything gradually comes to a total stop. good stuff.
daniel menche - rusty ghosts - 2x7", deubel, 1999
much like shorter takes on 'octobers larynx' style menche, i happen to really like that album so this 2x7" is great for me. would be even better if instead was expanded into 2x-lp companion album, but i guess that would really be a case of "too much of a good thing". all sides are cold, metallic, omminous droning industrial.
aaron dilloway - chain-balled - turgid animal, 2009
side a: mangled tapes ripped apart while a distressed tone and junks bang and fight their way into the mix
side b: contact mic fuckery while motors spin and click and metals clangle. track starts with a decent amount going on and gradually gets more minimal, until picking up again and kind of lingering on doing the same things that just stopped.
i tend to like dilloway's longer pieces better then his shorter ones, these seem like snippets and very may well have appeared in longer form elsewhere.
skin graft - dirge - mistake by the lake/sound design recording, 2009
side a: heavily distorted voice samples amongst deep synth buzz throbbing and microphone struggling to squeel out of the mix before coming to an abrupt end.
side b: dirty barely alive synth throb and what sounds like sharpening of knives and other sharp metals in butcher/autopsy room while more high end tension grows before coming to another aburpt end.
i really like skin grafts filthy, barely alive material more then his noisey stuff, this record lays somewhere in the middle. i think the reason i rarely play it is as like with dilloway, i prefer the longer works of this particular project.
thurston moore / john wiese - split - troniks, 2004
tm: says play at 45, but fuck i just can't do it... track is just so much better on 33! extended high pitched horror drone, life support machine beeping, torturous electronic looping, vocal bits. creepy.
jw: wiese has mastered his craft by now and rips a track of break-neck speed jerking glass smashing chunky harsh noise. goes through a lot of interesting sounds, very aggressive noise but i can't call it "violent".
the rita + prurient - women pissing - fusty cunt, 2013
side a: the rita noise w/ prurient screaming and letting the feedback fly, sounds like it was recorded when that was his main deal. good.
side b: the same, but different. if this was released in 2006 would've been hit e.p. of the year.....
then some blankenship appreciation...
the cherry point - superstar '84 - troniks, 2002
one side silent grooves, the other starts as white noise through a variety of distortions, with slower cuts then what we would later see from lhd but faster then left handed decision, and with more activity then straight HNW style TCP. midway through the track takes on a live feel with violent vocal outbursts and shifting rough electronics mixing with the static.
the cherry point + john wiese - pyramid suites - troniks, 2002
another one with silent grooves on one side. this time two tracks on a-side. first is obviously TCP with basic pedal driven static electronics, wiese follows with a lower volume assault wall of digital noise... tones grinding, stretching, wrapping, wanking, warbling and warping in that wiese way.
the cherry point / secret societ of the sonic six - split - troniks, 2003
side a: tcp again with stream of conciousness style pedal driven electronic nooise, this time with heavily distorted wicked vocals! first listened at 45 then realized it was 33, listened again, the only main difference vocals sound more sinister then maniacal.
side b: synth pop, done really badly. not sure if this is terrible on purpose or not. i get the impression phil knows these clowns from around LA and thought this 7" would be funny... i guess it is, though i don't like jokes.
lhd - asthma - one-sided 7" - helicopter, 2003
hard to believe this is 2003 when material is such leagues above the many other 7"s phil was involved in around the time. stylistically this track would fit perfect with lhd's "curtains" cd, but this is rare example of 1-sided 7" format working well. excellent sinister harsh noise track with well paced violent execution. some reverbated black metal-esque groaning in the background around the beginning and even though there are several change ups in the sound, the duo frequently let the noise ride itself out before moving on too quick. one of my favorite harsh noise 7"s!
lhd - veiled - one-sided 7" - helicopter, 2011
states recorded during first lhd sessions "around 2002". i guess that makes sense. this sounds like what lhd would later use as source material. wall of pedal noise with some other harsh electronics on top, which i guess is wiese. much less variation in sound and movement then asthma. not bad, but blankenship and wiese each have much stronger examples of harsh noise both seperately and together.
baby has had enough noise and gone down for a nap, time for some quieter sounds, think i'll put on the new lussuria lp - which is fantastic! but not a 7".
