PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

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Levas

V/A - Venice of the North CS - very nice little tape. I've heard none of these acts before, but the gloomy industrial material is great

Pink Sexdeath - Origa CS - apart from the weird project title, harsh noise/pe in this tape is actually quite good.

Rough Sex Quartet - Autobiography of a seductress CS - decent HNW

VA - Tapeworks IV CS - Different compilation from the venice of the north. Leaning more towards experimental and not all material seemed suitable for my taste, but well.. half of it was good

Encephalophonic ‎– 疾患電子工学 CS - ah so google translates it to "disorders electronic engineering". Very good harsh noise tape. Material is not cut-up like in CD, but very enjoyable. cheers

Altar of Flies - Auditory Hallucinations CS - loops, weirder side of sounds etc. Reminding me of some of NWW material. It was quite good in fact.

Unclean - Manhood CS - it's really different from unclean/lapot split. absolutely. and it's good. good album. is it better than the split? Don't know. I would still choose the split material. and I was thinking that where Mikko would adore material, residing in the upper levels of the frequency scale, I usually have difficulties with that and would easily go for nice good old rumble in the lows in lofi or nofi sound. But this tape is good. Just like Knurl material where I don't miss lower end that much.

Ellende - Growing a beard, driving a bike with a naked girl on your lap does not make you a man CS - Damn if. After such a title I was expecting something far more brutal, yet it's rather dark, ambient-ish industrial. Discogs says it's Krautrock.. what's krautrock then?

Croatian Amor / Lust for youth - Pomegranate 2xCS - highly enjoyable. simple, nice melodies and innocence. I think this is the best from the latest batch for me

No Artist - The Curfew Recordings CD - This is so good after 30 years. Minimalism, field recordings, a little part of ordinary instruments etc. Perfect!

Ramleh - Live Valediction CD+DVD - Listened only to CD and didn't watch the whole DVD for didn't have time, but the CD was at first "damn this is good", then "damn this is bad" and then finally "ah, this must be quite decent material".

Deutche Christen / Corazzata Valdemonte - Super Soap - Thanks to Marco for recommendation. Apart from this being absolutely terrific in design with that soap (though I've received mine broken) etc, this is truly great in sounds too! Top notch Power electronics/death industrial for most of the part. There were some track or two that were quite weird improv stuff, but it's truly great!

Encephalophonic - Regressed Progress - this is absolutely worth every good word said here in forum or somewhere else. Top notch cut-up noise - highly dynamic, interesting and brutal.

Knurl ‎– Metasynogen
CS - it's Knurl. Harsh, no compromise noise attack. Not better than any other album and maybe a little something was missing that made it a little weaker than other output of his I've heard lately.

And two little shits that I've listened to lately

Rara Avis - Mutations / Multicellulars mutations 2xCD - some douchy improvisation with saxophone, clarinet, piano etc. If some disabled children would record such material, I would feel pity for them, but now I think it's higher class of art.

Satan's Revenge on Mankind - Goreblast
CD - This goregrind/pornogrind CD has so much of what is worst in the style that I didn't know it was possible to compile all that into one album. They did. After listening to this I've lost all interest in gore/pornogrind for a few months I think..


P-K

Quote from: online prowler on May 23, 2013, 02:12:26 AM
1997

breaks, jungle and narcotic dark ambient. Christoph de Babalon - If you're into it, i'm out of it



Full album stream:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAxm60KLhmk

Highly skilled work and execution. Gritty. Goes from meditative themes reminiscent of William Basinski's best work to unsettling trax with an undertone of imminent collapse or bad vibes. Classic.

classic dark breaks, milestone mho.

ImpulsyStetoskopu

#3257
Quote from: Levas on May 23, 2013, 10:33:57 AM
iss lower end that much.

Ellende - Growing a beard, driving a bike with a naked girl on your lap does not make you a man CS - Discogs says it's Krautrock.. what's krautrock then?

Krautrock has many faces. Besides guitar or folk psychedelia there is place for pure, minimal electronic music (so called kosmische musik). On this release ELLENDE used this style (what title suggests that) and this release is return to atmosphere of seventies, his childhood and growing fascination to this kind of music.

online prowler

Quote from: Zeno Marx on May 23, 2013, 04:59:00 AM
Quote from: online prowler on May 23, 2013, 02:12:26 AMWilliam Basinski's best work
is there such a thing?  (sorry, I could not help myself.  it's like an oxymoron or something.)

Hæ!Hæ! Point taken. Well, I am thinking about his disintegration loop series. Looking at the work itself, this is a very interesting project and sounds. 

ARKHE

Some recent spins:

SHIFT/HAL HUTCHINSON 10"
Cannot add much to what has been said, other than that this is one hell of an EP. The match of aggressive SHIFT vocals & pummeling synths vs. HH's raucous but refined metal junk noises is perfect. With the short playing time (20-25min) it never drags, either.

SHIFT - Hatet/Misären 7"
Perfect "celebration" of Malmö crime city in the middle of the vomitous ESC masturbation last week. Laserturken vs. Peter Mangs, thugs vs. racists. Musically I was a bit surprised as it (to me at least) reminds me more of early Shift releases - the split 7"s with Institut/Operativ Permanent from 2005-2006 for example - than a development from the latest releases. I'm not complaining. Very aggressive.

ARCKANUM - Fran Marder + Kostogher
Classic forest-worshipping troll music. Much better than the latest, Fenris Kindir.

HEINZ HOPF - Gothenburg
Harsh noise bliss. Nothing to add.

SÖLDNERGEIST - Global Media Control
Great sounds, but the Teutonic overconfidence in looped vocal samples gets to me. Let the cold monotonous pulses speak for themselves.

WHEN - Svartedauen
Obscure masterpiece. Much prefered to Pedersen's later pop ramblings (though he has done some remarkable material).

MAGMA - Köhntarkösz Anteria
Hallelujah!

Ashley Choke

Quote from: online prowler on May 23, 2013, 02:12:26 AM
1997

breaks, jungle and narcotic dark ambient. Christoph de Babalon - If you're into it, i'm out of it



Full album stream:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAxm60KLhmk

Highly skilled work and execution. Gritty. Goes from meditative themes reminiscent of William Basinski's best work to unsettling trax with an undertone of imminent collapse or bad vibes. Classic.

Oh man can't believe you mentioned this one. One of my alltime favorite records. From the drugged opener all the way thru!


FreakAnimalFinland

MANIA / SSRI split tape
Some message before criticized Mania / Custodian to be among less interesting Mania stuff, and this tape is good reminder about the level. I like it very much, and I always admire how Mania somehow sounds so much of itself. Even when style varies, overall atmosphere or sounds is very distinctive.
SSRI also very good. Rotten lo-fi noise rumbling. Not overtly "clumsy" like some of SSRI, but just suffocating noise.

JOHN MADIGAN MOLONEY "Dialectic Tzara" tape
One of the most unpractical special packagings... "Mutated packaging", yes, but... WTF !!?? LUCKILY some of copies was broken during shipping and I would take for myself one of the most destroyed copy just to avoid wasting much time. Noisy, spoken word or vocal noises, feedback, very very heavy and deep bass frequencies are possibly among the best things on the tape.

WILL OVER MATTER "Aino Kassinen / Ultra" tape
Not sure if this was the title, but it's 15 minutes short tape focusing on Finnish paranormal, packaged in glow in the dark space ship toy! Ltd 50 and apparently sold out now. Despite very pop culture kind of presentation, electronics operate on wastelands. Rotten oscillations and rhythms, lacking all the cool echoes or effects, focusing on blatant raw electronic signals. Great stuff.

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Dr Alex

Con-Dom ‎– This Sickness Faith tape
Con-Dom ‎– Dragged Into The Gutter tape
Con-Dom ‎– Even More Racial Hatred tape

No need to explain this great Con-Dom assaults!!

Scat-O-Logy

#3264
Jaakko Vanhala - Here Be Lions (HN release of 2013?)

The CD starts with a track Vanhala submitted for "Tapeworks Volume VI" compilation tape on Hästen & Korset and stands out as one of the fiercest tracks on that comp, mixing the finest elements of harsh noise with tape manipulations, exploiting acoustic sources and spaces, making the track stand out as one of the best harsh noise compositions I have heard to date. The track is followed by complete Here Be Lions tape, originally released on Sprachlos Verlag. Here Be Lions was the first Vanhala release I ever heard and at the time it didn't really impress me because the tape wasn't a match for Vanhala's dynamic compositions but luckily this CD covers up everything what the tape lacked, presenting the mightiness of Vanhala, not only as composer but also as sound artist. Next up is two new/previously unreleased tracks. The first one, Reality Shredder, has no info but it starts with instant mayhem and carries on in the same intense atmosphere as the previous tracks, definitely shredding my reality or at least my ears, hah. Once again, the sound is very dynamic, the mixing is perfect and the composition goes perfectly with the superb sound quality. Then it's time for the final track, Secret Dream, which is an instant harsh noise explosion employing all the elements of previous attacks plus noise electronics. Maybe this is Vanhala's vision of lullaby for goodnight?

I really don't know how to comment or "review" as massive release as this. When there is nothing to complain about, all I can do is praise and praise some more but like Mikko already mentioned, this represents possibly the best harsh noise CD ever released in North Europe and I couldn't agree more! The sound quality, the mixing, the compositions, everything flows in perfectly and the puzzle is complete. There's nothing to add. Jaakko Vanhala hasn't been praised for nothing. He's truly a master of harsh noise!

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FreakAnimalFinland

Maybe to add, that this is not "compilation" really... Just album. Part of it was issued before, but artists consider is album rather than compilation.

MANPIG -LP ! Power violence hardcore mayhem! Members known from INFEST, Neanderthal, etc. Originally recorded in studio 1992, but that material being lost, then rerecorded over the years. Excellent.
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Scat-O-Logy

#3266
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on May 26, 2013, 05:25:35 PM
Maybe to add, that this is not "compilation" really... Just album. Part of it was issued before, but artists consider is album rather than compilation.

If you refer to what I said when I was talking about 1st track, I actually meant it stands out as one of the fiercest tracks on the H&K comp. Maybe I should have put it like that.

EDIT: But to be perfectly honest with you, I still thought this is a compilation. Works perfectly well as album but since I have heard and already own over half of the material it's hard to see this as one.

Baglady

#3267
Blodvite Falskt Spektrum - Tape
Blodvite Dekonstruktioner - LP
Arv & Miljö Something released for Röset 2013 I guess... - Tape
Altar of Flies Rabbit Hole - LP
Sewer Election & Frederikke Hoffmeier Aska - LP

The latest AoF and some stuff I dragged home from the Röset event this weekend (looking forward to next year!). Haven't listened to these that much yet, obviously. The new Altar of Flies LP is rather mindblowing though, and the Arv & Miljö tape (wrapped in a catheter!) felt brilliant during yesterday's hungover coma.

audiodissection

Jaakko Vanhala - Here Be Lions - CD
Mo*Te - Litter - C10
Kazuma Kubota - Dis-Connected - CD
Maaaa - Sampo Distortion - CD
Kazumoto Endo + Kazuma Kubota - Gyoen Bedieningshendel - 7"
Pain Jerk - Autocatharsis - k7
Shift - Hatet / Misären - 7"
Being - Hunters Fingers - C20
Bizarre Uproar - Unsafe And Insane - CD
Consumer Electronics - Public Attack 3 - k7
Grunt - Perfect World - CD
Emil Beaulieau + Pain Jerk - Decollaboration - k7
TNB/The Haters/Vomir - Nichts Fur Niemand - 3"CDr

and...tons of DEATH SQUAD! 14 x CD reissues and that fucking "Intent" VHS are obsessing me

Ashmonger

Sewer Goddess - Mutilation Process (tape, Graceless Recordings): Similar in style to the live CD Malignant Records published. So good stuff, ominous as always. I find myself hoping they will release something in the style of the album and other older releases one day again though, liked that material just a bit more.

Reinforcement:Punishment/Moved Beyond Murder (tape, Graceless Recordings): RP is repetitive Harsh Noise with heavy use of samples, in the first track the same line is repeated over and over, a bit too much to my tastes, the noise itself sounds quite nice though. Moved Beyond Murder is PE, not really aggressive, rather minimal and ominous, not bad. Tape will have to be listened to a couple of times to get a good impression of it.

Dagger of Sacrifice - Demo 2003 (tape, Graceless Recordings): Black Funeral Doom. Don't know too much about this style, but it sounds pretty good to me. Liked the first track most.

Black Fucking Cancer - Summoning Aural Hell (tape, Graceless Recordings): Violent sounding Black Metal, with aggressive vocals, not just the screamy type, but just good mid range filthy vocals. Some noisy feedback parts in there too. Good stuff!

I'm setting up a small distro and have copies of all four of these releases available. "Official opening" of the distro will be soon, waiting on one more package to arrive.