PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[ImpulsyStetoskopu]

TBC Chicago 2 (Wachsender Prozess 2007) CD-R

Today received in very huge parcel as effect of big deal trade. One of the first after listening and I must say this is very good work. It should be issued on CD or LP. One, very long (over 79 minutes) composition where were mixed harsh noise with tape loops and many turnbalism scratches, random collages and field recordings based on  rhythms of machines. Highly recommended.

[absurdexposition]

batch o' Phage stuff arrived the other day:

Barrikad - We Make Nihilists Smile Again CD (was tossed in for free and it was a great surprise)
The Cherry Point - Misery Guts CD
Minotaur - Obsession CD
Nyodene D - Caged Dog / Common Criminal 7"

tape deck is broken so that's all I've gotten to so far

other stuff:
Jason Lescalleet - The Pilgrim (masterpiece)
Jason Lescalleet - Music for Magnetic Tape
Atrax Morgue - Exterminate

[FiEND]

imho Experimental Products are rather good in the crap-filled seas of 'minimal wave'

I should've mentioned I haven't yet given enough time to CD2 of the Prototype... set, and I also have the Tracks to Glow in the Dark 2CD set which, again, I need to listen to more but so far I like it better than Prototype...

prototype is my favorite synth pop record ever. to each his own i suppose.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

ORGASMIC RESPONSE UNIT "Lesbian Hospital Orgasmic Response Unit"-2x tape
Phage
Solid harsh noise. Two quite short tapes.. would these be C-20? C-30? But each track has a difference. Especially vivid metal junk noise on 2nd tape. Neat silkscreen covers in oversized box. Hardly anything memorable, simply decent listening.

Baculum ‎– XXY tape
Phage
Didn't care much for this. C-20 is short enough to not consider it waste of time, but the lack of punch and lack of brutality is often worst qualities in "pedal noise". Yeah, distortion, yeah, feedbacks and fuzzy noises... but it never sounds LOUD or coming with proper pressure. Nice covers, though.

MB & MO "spiritual noises" CD
Old Europa Cafe
huh huh, what a turd. That was my first impression, but luckily it got better. ltd 300 copies digipak of "italian legends" is a selling point which hardly convinces me anymore. 5 tracks, three are waste of time and 1 nice and 1 good. Info says:
-Loops [Ancient Loops], Sounds [Modern Metals And Futuristic Waves] – M.B.*
-Mixed By [Final Sound Manipulation, Masterful Amalgam And Mixing] – Gianluca Favaron
-Synthesizer, Loops, Effects [Noise Effects] – M.O.*
Which makes me wonder... So, is this actually Gianluca Favaron (Lasik Surgery etc) record where MO and MB are the sources & sellingpoints? Noise sounds itself are most often weak. The keyboard loops and modern metals sound lame. Easily longest and the best track is the last one, where cosmic mellow synth droning is combined to static lo-fi noise. It is more of kraut/cosmic muzak than PE or industrial, but nevetheless it works the best. If you look for interesting and strong sounds, search elsewhere. If you have still been checking out what these guys have been doing, this ain't the worst choice.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

IRM "Oedipus Dethroned" CD
Cold Meat
Is it 12 years already?!? Fuck. I remember when it came, I thought after Red album this was just too nice. But hardly. It's IRM still taking the steps from "traditional" european industrial-pe type of stuff towards originality. Less experimental than what they are now. It's good listening.

Halthan "I'm your enemy" CD/tape
Filth & Violence
Listened this few times. I did listen it in advance and now when it was released. Halthan is one of those difficult things where I'm still on edge of what to think about it. While I appreciate his efforts in live theatrics which very few bother to do anymore, at the same time they have not been totally successful. His older cleaner stuff lacked some dirt, but then dirtier live stuff lacked the composition & distinctive sounds of old style. Now the new CD is closer to live stuff. Assisted by Bizarre Uproar, sonic quality is leaning A LOT to that direction. While it's welcome addition of rugged violence as opposed to software synth throbbing, perhaps noisiness hides the "euro pe" quality of Halthan little bit too much? It's not bad, but I have this gut feeling of Halthan being able to be much more than it has been so far. Maybe next?!? As band has political content, I hope clearer pronouncing for vocals. Not just aaarrggh!! aaarrggh!! aaarrg!!

[acsenger]

prototype is my favorite synth pop record ever. to each his own i suppose.

Today I listened to CD 1 of Tracks to Glow in the Dark and I liked it more than Prototype. I won't be listening to it a lot though.

[Peterson]

Amph "Rapport Om Blinda" C24 - Sprachlos Verlag

One word: beautiful. Industrial/noise/drone sounds executed with mystical perfection. Definitely some of the best stuff I've heard recently that uses many different "instruments" to achieve the sound.  File alongside One Dark Eye, Total, stuff of that nature. Better, in my opinion. Brings to mind images of some middle-eastern desert. Perhaps consumption of opiates in Muslim countries. Really, really looking forward to hearing "Oar Under Vatten" and the split with SSRI, ordered both today. I recommend buying all three at once, along with any SSRI you can find.

[STREETMEAT]

Amph "Rapport Om Blinda" C24 - Sprachlos Verlag

One word: beautiful. Industrial/noise/drone sounds executed with mystical perfection. Definitely some of the best stuff I've heard recently that uses many different "instruments" to achieve the sound.  File alongside One Dark Eye, Total, stuff of that nature. Better, in my opinion. Brings to mind images of some middle-eastern desert. Perhaps consumption of opiates in Muslim countries. Really, really looking forward to hearing "Oar Under Vatten" and the split with SSRI, ordered both today. I recommend buying all three at once, along with any SSRI you can find.

agreed. track on Nordöstra Malmö is great as well.

as for me:
herz jühning - miasma
maska genetik quarantine
kosmoloko
Silent Abuse 7"
Henrik Rylander -The Horror
Muslimgauze-Azzazin
Croatian Amor- The Mars Quarter
Croatian Amor- Brother, Sister
Repeater/PTM/Mountain of Piss/Gourmet Shit Scene split c90.
Antipakt-Fuck Them Where They Breath

[eyestrain]

Still digging through the Gaping Hole archive (http://gapinghole.snse.net).

Flowerday Girl On Film CS (Cathartic Process)
One of the only wall artists I really enjoy. Looking forward to hearing the new release.

Eric Lunde CandyhOle CD (Freak Animal)
Typically wonderful Lunde. Major repeat status.

Lech Jankowski Institue Benjamenta OST CD (Atelier Koninck)
Great mixture of choir, classical and (possible) improv.

Very disappointed with the new Aldebaran album. Last release was pure Corrupted forgery; this time, pure Mournful Congregation forgery.

Skin Crime/Pain Jerk Split 7" (Self Abuse)
Good ol Skin Crime. Pain Jerk track really stands out. Need to dig through some of his releases.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Flowerday Girl On Film CS (Cathartic Process)
One of the only wall artists I really enjoy. Looking forward to hearing the new release.

I wonder what quality makes it stand out? I do trust CP as label, since they have done good stuff - not to mention Clew Of Theseus have done good stuff. But can't see any value in Flowerday.

POLLUTIVE STATIC "Destructive Devices" tape
Savage Discharge
Compared to dullness of who-cares-hnw of for example Flowerday, Pollutive Static offers something which ain't THAT far away. Heavy, rumbling, strong, bassy pedal harsh noise - but in its most regular form in fine spirit of lets say old USA. There is no militant minimalism towards any specific idea. Not for stillness of hnw, not for fast cut-ups, not for lo-fi, not for metal junk smashing, etc etc.. Just regular back-to-basics harsh noise you could have expected from Deadline, MSNP, Self Abuse type of discographies. Plenty of activity, plenty of sound elements, but in simple no bullshit package.

BLACK LEATHER JESUS / SAVAGE DISCHARGE split tape
Savege Discharge
I may say it each time I talk about Ramirez, that his output is so uneven and incoherent, that there is small negative expectation in each new release. But I may have also said that the man in genius of some sort. Perhaps Pollutive Static above owes the most to Ramirez, and this BLJ recording is another case of simple back-to-basics regular harsh noise.
S.D. has slight more "technological" take on it, not bad either.

FLESH SPEAR "First Death" tape
Posh Isolation
Somewhere between noisecore and instrument disorder noise. Full band line-up, extremely brutal and chaotic sound quality. At its best it is with slow steady drum beat and everyone else going utterly mental on top of that.

ABUSE PATTERNS tape
Anabolic Dimensions
Huh! I hope more PE like this. I was not 100% convinced with the music itself. Or the kind of hardcore'ish vocals, but the packaging. I'm sure for some people it will be like collection of cliche's.. you know, ass-fucked teenager with text "WHORE" covering her eyes or such. Including transcribed interviews of victims of sexual abuse. Nevertheless, one can't deny the aesthetic beauty even if it would be utmost copy-cat. 24 pages zine + tape is packaged into silkscreened envelope. I assume C-30 pro-duplicated tapes. I don't know when before saw this much effort put by new (?) project? Musically there are elements of new school USA PE, older USA sound like I.Action and the more F&V type of approach. All they need is some more personal angle to sound and content, but it's great way to start.

[bogskaggmannen]

So what can be better listening than Daniel Menche / Kiyoshi Mizutani "Garden" CD on Auscultare when sitting on the butt for all day at work inside without any physical connection to the outside world? One 60-minute track with big possibility to get completely elsewhere in mind - just calm recording of singing insects with quite minimal editing and very few man-made sounds. Hard to tell how much is actually looped sounds as the sounds themselves often goes on total repeat, ha ha! I'm amazed how many insect-sounds actually reminds me of industrial rhythms.

Also playing DOROGA "II" TAPE on Obscurex - while the first minutes with looped saxophone sounds made me shrug the rest is well done organic ambient with lots of detail and half noisy clanks and rubbings. I must listen to the CD again but from what I remember this tape is even deeper venture beyond the sometimes a bit jazzy elements of (parts of) the CD? Sometimes there are sounds which I feel does not really make a good mix with the others but I respect the more improvised nature of the recordings, too much ambient today is done in computer with way too structured approach as result.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

EMIL BEAULIEAU "moonlight in vermont" CD
Hospital prod
Got the LP too, but due being mentioned in Emil topic, decided to give listen also to CD version. Unlike the Minutoli series which are my favorites, this has very crispy and high-definition clarity. It's full of very noisy and broken sounds, but with crystallic perfection nevetheless. Quite slow building album take time before going to full blasting complex noise. I believe it was mainly J.Lescalleet's work sampled for this? That man is genius as well.

GENOCIDE ORGAN "s/t" CD
Tesco
Heavier than ever re-mastering with bonus tracks. Like leichenlinie, I think this is among rare cases of benefitting from re-mastering? Noisy and brutal album and even if not all tracks are absolute masterpieces, the whole spirit and album in general is essential.

C. SPENCER YEH "1975"CD
Intransitive
Challenging album from Spencer. Each of the 11 tracks named pretty much on what it is: 1) drone 2) voice 3) drone 4) voice 5) drone 6) shrinkwrap from a solo saxophone cd 7) two guitars 8) two guitars 9) drone... etc   And when track is titled "shrinkwrap..." it is really Spencer just squeezing crackling piece of plastic via minimal processing. Drones appear to be organs or feedbacks, voice manipulations remind of some vintage experimental - Tudor or Cage type - more than noise. Plenty of air, very clean sound capturing the essense of each sound element - which are however disturbing and challenging listening. In later part of nearly hour long disc spencer makes it slightly more easier to digest - but basically combining ideas together.

[martialgodmask]

ABUSE PATTERNS tape
Anabolic Dimensions
Huh! I hope more PE like this. I was not 100% convinced with the music itself. Or the kind of hardcore'ish vocals, but the packaging. I'm sure for some people it will be like collection of cliche's.. you know, ass-fucked teenager with text "WHORE" covering her eyes or such. Including transcribed interviews of victims of sexual abuse. Nevertheless, one can't deny the aesthetic beauty even if it would be utmost copy-cat. 24 pages zine + tape is packaged into silkscreened envelope. I assume C-30 pro-duplicated tapes. I don't know when before saw this much effort put by new (?) project? Musically there are elements of new school USA PE, older USA sound like I.Action and the more F&V type of approach. All they need is some more personal angle to sound and content, but it's great way to start.

Agreed. My impression of it was that the sounds, whilst good enough, are not overly remarkable or unique, by which I mean it all serves its purpose but a bit more identity would be of benefit. However, coupled with the packaging, it's a very nice release and when both written and audio materials are experienced together, both become enhanced by one another. It's a slick little offering which works as a whole better than it does as individual elements, although the tape and the zine do have enjoyable merits of their own too.

[tiny_tove]

is abuse patterns available anywhere?
it's sold out at anabolic d.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

I would slightly doubt availability.. 100 copies was done, but not sure how many distributors got it? Probably most direct to customers? I sold all my copies.

Been listening to RAMLEH "Awake" box set. With 3 CD's straight, I guess I'll will listen something else in between. That not meaning there would be anything wrong with this. It could be actually among the very best Ramleh available! Fierce, simple, utterly violent sounds, perfect!