PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[bitewerksMTB]

Stabbed back in 2006. Damn, time sure flys. Seems like it was just a few years ago. So it was a few years before the stabbing that I met him which means it was probably twice that!

Still listening to the F&V vol. 3 comp, pretty much through most of s2. Solid all the way. Will be getting the "Sverige" comp LP hopefully late next wk...

[Zeno Marx]

I believe he [Jack Control] is still selling records to cover his medical bills.  Or was it to build a studio?  I see clusters of records go up for sale here and there.

[Black_Angkar]

He's been producing records, so I suppose either guess is valid. Anyway, I think that his both two major bands, Severed Head of State and World Burns To Death are among the best american hardcore acts ever, since Poison idea or something. I can't really pick my favorite, and they DO sound very similar at times but WBTD has a starker, bleaker view on humanity and politics which I think is amazing. And the idea of just doing typical "warpunk" but with much more intelligence. On the other hand, the Severed Head  album "Power Hazard" (their last?), is also an album I rate among the finest punk albums of the (last) decade.

[Zeno Marx]

I'm more of a Severed Head of State fan myself, but I do find myself thinking about the WBtD albums more than I thought I would.  They resonate higher than expected.  I like the guitar tone and feel a lot more with SHoS.  Anathema Device hit me hard when it was released.  I'm a huge Todd Burdette band fan, though.

EDIT:  I do think it was a crime the way SHoS employed Mieszko to basically revise those records collected on that discography CD.  I was also never a fan of Mieszko's signature sound.  For Nasum, it was fine.  I didn't like it applied anywhere else, though.

[Black_Angkar]

Anathema Device is probably one of the ten best american punk albums of all times, in my book. I still listen to it every now and then, pure brilliance. I do think SHoS is the better pick I think, but the first three WBTD-albums (and the 7"s) takes the misantrophic desperation to a whole new level, and Jack's vocals grow even stronger. The time I met Jack he said that he considered "The sucking of the missile cock" their "commercial album" to lure in the kids. Heh.

Actually never been a Nasum fan at all...

[FreakAnimalFinland]

M.O. "Bloodyminded" LP
Urashima
Very minimalistic noise-pe, ultra lo-fi, I like more the gloomy b-side! It appears quite quiet in LP, making surface sounds of vinyl well audible compared to hissy radio-noise type noise. No wonder when playtime of b-side is 30 minutes! But it's hard to complain of lower volume, when sound itself is everything else but aggressive. Just suffocating primitivism.

M.B. "Neuro Habitat" LP
Urashima
I must say I have always had mixed feelings of M.B. While there are few releases I really like. I think Menses or come org LP are my favorites, yet I have ended up having several dozens of MB releases which I hardly care for. Even praised albums like Symphony For Genocide, hardly lives up to expectations nowadays. "Neuro Habitat" is closer to what I appreciate. It has this "minimal synth" tonality/melodic patterns with cheap vintage sound, but layers of noise & tape manipulation on top. I guess the synth melody (read: playing something) has been popularized in noise again since mid 2000's or something. I'm sure thanks to post-Pleasureground Prurient. But to me it's almost always turn off to hear. Just like in this piece too. If one has no composition sense for melody or talent to improvise interesting structures, I think keyboard is one of the last instruments one should start to play. Although I enjoyed "Neuro Habitat", it basically reminded I should start getting rid of most of MB stuff and leave just couple carefully selected works that fits to my own tastes. This would be one of them.

Atrax Morgue "Esthetik of a Corpse" LP
Urashima
Brilliant!!! Some of the very best AM stuff, with over dozen shorter tracks instead of side long pieces. Vocals, throbbing synthesizers, morbid vocal effects. Simple, but not THAT simple as last AM recordings. Basically great mid 90's tape where his short song & vocal approach known from later days happens with nice analogue sound quality and more versatile use of electronics.

[Ashmonger]

Phaeton Dernière Danse & Le Syndicat - Téophanie A Visu (CD, Pure): I really don't know how to describe this CD, there's musical elements and various sounds. First time I listened, I didn't really like it, just listened to it again and I liked it better now. Seems it's a bit of a grower.

Creation Through Destruction/Black Leather Jesus (CD, TeRRoR): Good Harsh Noise from both, though you can hear that BLJ is a group and has a more 'organic' sound than CTD, which is more one-sided.

[ImpulsyStetoskopu]

Some the last arrives from today:

GRUNT - World Draped In A Camouflage (Freak Animal Records 2012) CD

Every next release is better and better. Progress and quality. Lack of words. I am very impressed. Rousing applause!

(PS. In my opinion the track number 5 from this CD has clippings, but maybe it was intended. I am curious others opinion)

BRETHREN - Alienated And Radicalized (Freak Animal Records 2012) CD

As above. In my opinion the best album in his discography. The highest recommendation.


ETAT BRUT - Mutations Et Protheses (Sub Rosa 2012) CD

Known from dubbed cassette. One of my favourite PE project from those years. Not so much aggresive vocals, some dreamy, but still very impressive, and unique. Classic release, without one word.


Jean DUBUFFET - Experiences De Jean Dubuffet II (Rumpsti Pumsti 2012) 2 x CD

Known from dubbed vinyls. Very good and wanted document. Not the best remastering, but still every lover noise music should know and have this one.

There are waiting for listening yet: BIZARRE UPROAR - Rape Africa (Freak Animal / Filth & Violence 2012) CD and GRUNT - Dance For Genocide (Freak Animal 2012) tape

[bitewerksMTB]

Listened to a bunch of Severed Head of State songs on youtube. May have to grab something from'em as prices on discogs are not too high. Also, discogs says Jackontroll does mastering for Enormous Door Studios which may be in his home (ED did the work on the Poison Idea reissues on TKO- my friend, the World Burns to Death bassist mentioned that awhile back).

[HONOR_IS_KING!]

Toilet Trades - S/T  CS
Incredibly too short, but the material on it is killer. Has a real ugly/droney vibe with what sounds like field recordings of sounds made in the bathroom. Hopefully there will be another release and it will be longer.

Content Nullity - Scorn of Totality CS
Unbelievably well composed and executed power electronics. Some of the most furious PE I've heard in some time. Two excellent tracks of anger driven perfection! Great packaging makes this tape all that much more worth it.

Mailbomb Solution/Compromised Position - "Comrades of Kaczynski"  CS
Primitive No Coast Power Electronics. Has a very grim, dense, left wing focus. The Compromised Position is the winner, but MBS still packs a punch with some excellent harsh noise on the second track of side A.

Gnawed/The Thin White Puke - Split CS
Two more No Coast PE/Industrial coming together for a split. Gnawed side opens up with a monstrous Industrial field recording manipulations of what sound like saw blades (artwork features sawblades on fire......) Just my guess but it makes for a great intro, as the second song captures Grant's classic sound. Big booms and aggressive vocals. TTWP usually gets downplayed because of his name, but I feel that Dan is a strong new comer to the Minnesota scene. First track opens up with a massive wall and a fairly bitter and ugly movie sample, which quickly escalates into a rhythmic, clanging industrial beat. Second track opens with ugly, cold drones. Muffled, angry vocals bleed in and out throughout the track. Quite the split showcasing why Minneapolis does it right.

Developer - AP-003 CS
Matthew killing it like always with pure maniacal, cut up, tape loop/cassette worship to the fullest. Loops fading in and out as quickly as they came. Bursts of peace and quiet. Very much like Dayton, Ohio and what its been putting out lately. Excellence.

Anal Barbara/Musta Oksennus - Split CS
Anal Barbara was not my cup of tea. Vocals were a little too goofy for me. The Musta Oksennus side though is exactly what I was hoping it to be. Chaotic noisecore that drifts in and out of mid-tempo punk. Fucking spot on! And the drums sound awesome!

Orgasmic Response Unit - Dissonant Love CS
The Tandy brothers at it again with pure unadulterated scrap metal/harsh noise worship. Fierce and uncompromising. Macronympha worship to the highest, yet still bringing their own sound and textures into play. Side A brings a much more fierce attack while Side B has more of a metal feel to it. Really disappointed that I never got to see them live before I moved out west. Long live Dayton, Ohio!

V/A - Arachnid Claims Its Prey: A Tribute To Atrax Morgue CS
Neat packaging and excellent artists to compliment this tribute. Well assembled and dubbed perfectly. Solid efforts on all parts, with some very interesting interpretations.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

GRUNT - World Draped In A Camouflage (Freak Animal Records 2012) CD
Every next release is better and better. Progress and quality. Lack of words. I am very impressed. Rousing applause!
(PS. In my opinion the track number 5 from this CD has clippings, but maybe it was intended. I am curious others opinion)

Broken sound is intended as there basic sound of track was recorded mono, on analogue tape. Dry and non effected sound creates some of these impurities, when "edits" are done live-in-studio. In digital form, material has never been put to maximum clipping levels.
In some early mix of album, there was few clippings, but with some technical computer lessons from mr. Umpio, it was solved..

[ConcreteMascara]

Edward Artemyev* ‎– Solaris, The Mirror, Stalker - really enjoying this, although not The Mirror pieces as much. I'd say it veers towards new age muzak at times, but given the historical context I don't think that's accurate. The music certainly works well outside the context of the films, though it really just makes me want to watch them.

Amph / SSRI - Split (cassette) - great shit. The covering around the tape case, I think it's that shit you put under rugs so they don't move?

Vatican Shadow - Jordanian Descent (cassette) - harder rhythms/beats on this one. I think the a-side really benefits from the playing time (15min) because it's allowed to shift and evolve naturally

Vatican Shadow - Ghosts of Chechnya (cassette) - the mellower side of VS.

Regis - In A Syrian Tongue (12") - techno :P

[Andrew McIntosh]

Toilet Trades - S/T  CS
Incredibly too short, but the material on it is killer. Has a real ugly/droney vibe with what sounds like field recordings of sounds made in the bathroom. Hopefully there will be another release and it will be longer.

Where might one find this?

[STREETMEAT]

Toilet Trades - S/T  CS
Incredibly too short, but the material on it is killer. Has a real ugly/droney vibe with what sounds like field recordings of sounds made in the bathroom. Hopefully there will be another release and it will be longer.

Where might one find this?

http://www.special-interests.net/forum/index.php?topic=2080.15

[mdtdeath]

Toilet Trades - S/T  CS
Incredibly too short, but the material on it is killer. Has a real ugly/droney vibe with what sounds like field recordings of sounds made in the bathroom. Hopefully there will be another release and it will be longer.

Where might one find this?

You can find it here http://santos-productions.blogspot.com ;)