Schräge Musik / AntiChildLeague "Eternity / III Me Me Me" 7"
Schräge Musik
Gothic feel over this industrial stuff, what occasionally come close to contemporary "power electronics". Heavy and dark soundscapes and vocals over it. Never aggressive or noisy, but no melody, subtle simple rhythm, etc. Schräge Musik is Patrick of Sixth Comm.
THOROFON / IDPA split 7"
State Art
First release by State Art label, and I assume also first Thorofon and first Idpa too. Noisy, commanding power electronics from Thorofon, who is still messy and raw compared to even first LP. Idpa delivers minimalist dark ambinet with slowly waving rhythm of bassy electronics. Idpa was mr. State Art's own project.
SMELL & QUIM / TAINT split 7"
Red Stream
S&Q starts with cut up of spoken word pieces and then progresses into drum machine/guitar junk and down-pitched shouting vocals. Nowhere near as good as S&Q is at their best, but something oddly bizarre in their approach captures me. You never know what to expect, even if releases would have been recorded in same era.
Taint starts with some acoustic junk sounds. Some metal, some appear more like bricks or stones?! Then hits in hard distorted harshness. Piercing feedback, and same rumble of manual noises continue below the fierce harsh noise. Some spoken word appears in end of song, but most of all it's brutal harsh noise. Despite all simplicity, still very tasty.
VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA "Balloon Collector in the wilderness" 7"
Japan Overseas
Nice cover art here. Music is pop music cut ups. Short cuts of song patterns, wrong speed, loops, scratching... Never very brutal noise. Few moments of distorted screamy voice and heavy metal riffing over dumb drum machine beats. In world of collage music / turntable mis-use, VOG perhaps isn't absolute top performer, but again, 7" works pretty well. I doubt I'd listen stuff like that from full length album too often...
AMPS FOR CHRIST / 1-EYED CYCLOPS split 7"
Empty Chairs
For some reason I like AFC quite a lot. Mix home jamming folk with experimental electronics, and generally its something I can't handle. This, especially opening track, has captured my brain quite well and I remember it well despite hearing song years ago.. This guy was the machine/electronic gardget builder for Man Is The Bastard/Bastard Noise. He uses some of the similar ones, but leans much more organic direction.
1EC from Italy is much less interesting. Kind of similar category of goofing around with guitar and rubbish, but short songs are nothing beyond the averge bedroom experiments with guitar, some toys and 4-tracker..
VICEKOPF "Principia Schizophonica" 7"
RRRecords
1990 recording of side project of Gregory Whitehead. Audio-poetry? Spoke-word cut up? Obscure, bizarre and weird is what it is. Especially 2nd track, "How To Pronounce "Prothesis"" is just oddities of speaking excercises etc. A-side is less interesting, although something dysfunctional and disturbing emerges through multilayering spoken fragments what repeat themselves.
BURNING STAR CORE "Body Blues" 7"
Hospital productions
Two very nice blurry drone tracks. Especially I like B-side, but nothing wrong with more bass loaded a-side either. Everything saturates into one warm analogue blurry sound, what includes plenty of elements and active sound fragments that create the final piece. I take this over digital and synthetic dark ambinet any time...
