PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[ARKHE]

IRM: ANTHOLOGY.
2cd in beautiful package gathering a huge pile of unreleased/compilation/split/EP/demo tracks from 1998-2008 on the first disc, and live cuts spanning from 2002-2011 on the second. Only listened to the first disc so far, a nice overview of IRM's history, from the dark electronic beats on the Green Tape demo to their early days as a power trio. Highly enjoyable. We'll see if the live tracks manage to convey the intensity of their performances... Either way, disc 1 clearly manages to portray why IRM is on top of the industrial food chain.

[acsenger]

Thomas Köner - Novaya Zemlya (CD, Touch, 2012)

I recently got my first high end audio equipment (it's probably in the lower categories of high end, to be precise) and I could not believe how fantastic this album sounded! It's a wonderful album of deep rumblings and some ambient parts. Maybe it uses actual field recordings from Novaya Zemlya (haven't read the booklet to find out). Pure, calm audio beauty. Listening to it, one can imagine vast snow-covered landscapes with no trace of human activities, or perhaps imagine what tectonic shifts might sound like...
I have to stress that without high end audio equipment this album wouldn't be half as good. I'm certainly glad I could finally afford a decent setup and encourage everyone to invest in one if they can and haven't already done so!
Gotta collect more Köner now...

[nowirehangers]

Disgust - Where Angels Fear To Tread (Cassette)
v/a - Rising From The Red Sand

[Jaakko V.]

V/A - No Borders, LP, Generations Unlimited

Rollkommando, Jörg Thomasius, Conrad Schnitzler, Gen Ken, David Prescott, Arcane Device, Stefan Tischler, Michael Chocholak, Charles Cohen, Morphogenesis, and Iancu Dumitrescu...

[Tenebracid]

borbetomagus - live in tokyo
han bennink - solo
john coltrane - interstellar space
ryke - resuscitation
militia - the black flag hoisted
master/slave relationship - soundtracks for black leather bondage
lee hazlewood & nancy sinatra - fairy tales & fantasies

[Baglady]

PARANOID TIME - Pregnant Nun - Tape
SQUAMATA - Cumshot Wounds - Tape
SKIN AREA - Rothko Field - CD
ALTAR OF FLIES / SEWER ELECTION - Split LP

Listening to some old and new favorites. New ones are Skin Area and Paranoid Time. The latest SA surprised me. Didn't know what to expect, but this still surprised me. Great album.
PT tape has been laying around here for years collecting dust, so finally. Great tape. Especially b-side. Full attack on all frequencies.

[HongKongGoolagong]

v/a - Rising From The Red Sand

I was 14 years old when I heard volumes one and two of this, 15 when I ordered the separately released later volumes three to five. One of the greatest unsung documents of the early 80s home taping/industrial/experimental scene there was. Not everything sounds great nowadays but the best of it...Sutcliffe Jugend at their most vicious on Slut Meat, an all time classic NWW track Strange Play of The Mouth, Legendary Pink Dots doing a wild Syd Barrett and TG crossover thing, Conrad Schnitzler, Merzbow and even some Section 25 outtakes. Really brilliant compilations. Thank you again Gary Levermore! Still have the originals.  

[Levas]

Domestic Belt Flagellation - Housing Estate Noise #1 - well, field recordings mostly. I think I've read that Andrew wrote how junk noise became new hnw or something like that. Somehow I see that the term field recordings is used more and more, and far too much perhaps. But well...

RVH - Vacuum Valediction - not a bad tape. Though why strange rules does them in such limited quantities, is still a question to me.

Richard Ramirez - Abrupt Decision - Quite average tape of Richard. Not bad, but there were things that irritated me.

Chernobyl Rose - Slavic Water Porn - Very nice murky and filthy record, ending in minutes of moaning.

Sex - Physical Gift - Good harsh noise

Hate Basement + Machismo - This is not a safe place - Hate Basement side is absolutely awesome. Pure angst. Machismo is slightly weaker, but all in all - good.

Deterge - Anacoluthon - interesting tape. but i'll have to relisten to it once more to understand it better.

[online prowler]

V/A - No Borders, LP, Generations Unlimited

Rollkommando, Jörg Thomasius, Conrad Schnitzler, Gen Ken, David Prescott, Arcane Device, Stefan Tischler, Michael Chocholak, Charles Cohen, Morphogenesis, and Iancu Dumitrescu...

Ill be sure to check this release out. Thanx

[Mikerdeath]

Koufar ‎– The Purity Of The Cedars

My most honest response to this material is that I am Very impressed. No surprise there.

"This is Lebanon not Disneyland"

[RyanWreck]

Hate Basement + Machismo - This is not a safe place - Hate Basement side is absolutely awesome. Pure angst. Machismo is slightly weaker, but all in all - good.

If I am not mistaken this tape is a collaboration of both artists. Mine melted before I got a chance to listen to it more than once.

[acsenger]

Negative Climax - Asura (tape, Dotsmark, 2012)

Ordered this after reading good reviews about it here and I certainly don't regret it. Sort of sounds like harsh ritual music due to the singing and the flutes; while it couldn't be a soundtrack, it evokes the atmosphere of a horror movie about the supernatural. Great listening.

[Scat-O-Logy]

Mine melted before I got a chance to listen to it more than once.

Must have been quite hot stuff then! :)

[Levas]

If I am not mistaken this tape is a collaboration of both artists. Mine melted before I got a chance to listen to it more than once.

hmm. it might be. though i think these two acts were separated on the insert. if this was a collaboration then side A is better than side B.

[whateverforever]

Sigrun Heid "werkmeister"