N.A.O.S. "Iron Youth" 7"
Devilish Music Propaganda
Greek black metal fame with his martial/"neo classical" project on Membrum Debile Propaganda side label. Combine Mortiis, Blood Axis and Laibach and you got N.A.O.S., hah... So plenty of keyboard cheese, but also low-pitch male voice, proto-fascist/satanic lyrics and overall 90's industrial vibe. I remember I didn't care much for this when it came out, but now when I think how many of this type of bands are out there, it's decent for at least nostalgic reasons.
NULL "Heavy Water" 7"
Fourth Dimension Records
Especially Heavy Water pt 2 is very good. It has lots of pitch altered keyboard (?) tones and slowly drifting atmosphere. This is perhaps my favorite era of NULL. Not noise, but really pleasant droning electronics, guitar drone and such mixed together in with "hand made" feel to it. Not overtly dominated by gadgets.
PUTREFIER "Hyper Tension Classics" 2x7" lathe-cut
Birthbiter
I know this stuff has been reissued with stronger sound on 4xCD set on Harbinger, but what's the use of having original lathe-cut release if one wouldn't listen to it?! Came out in 1999, limited c. 50 copies. Kings Records plastic, so you know what you will get: Fairly flat sounding mid-frequency noise. No heavy bass. No crispy treble. This being the late 90's Putrefier, I think sound quality adds nice dirt to overall sound. His approach went from power electronics/industrial stuff to more harsh noise, but lacking the "american" heaviness or "Japanese" high energy blasting, and involving more of "electro-acoustic" type composition and sound recycling what makes things very distorted, but hardly ever LOUD. With restrictions of format, Putrefier performs well and it's good to listen also material which doesn't rely purely on maximum brutality.
