Combative Alignment - The Ritez of Higher Communication 2003 - LOKI Foundation - what you'd expect from this label; martial ambient? a combination of things like Land:Fire, Ionosphere, Herbst9, Inade etc, but it also has maybe the feel of a subdued Apoptose - good quality, but not something that blew me away; doesn't make me want to hear more, but I'd listen to this album and not want for something else, too - poor pressing; lots of surface noise.
Ex.Order - Broadcast 23 2003 - LOKI Foundation - not all that different in tools than Combative Alignment, but the execution is more powerful, brooding, and engaging - flanged power-electronic vocals, throbbing electronics, repetitive rhythms - highly recommended.
The Cherry Point& The Rita - Breast Mutilation 2006 - one-sided LP - great texture(s).
LHD/Immaculate:Grotesque 2006 - Immaculate:Grotesque side only - don't know a lot about this project, but this side is impressive - again, great texture + sharp high end.
Inade - The Flood of White Light 1996 - brilliant - track 2 sounds like whales.
OKHA//Macronympha/Prurient 2005 - OKHA side has some top shelf crunch and wrinkle, but some of the knob twiddling and upper end squiggling unnecessarily complicates matters.
Macronympha - Melting Softly into Time 2005 - nice industrial noise.
Inade - Spring Equinox Tokyo 2006
Ex.Order - The infernal Age 1998 - LOKI Foundation - quality.
Ahlzagailzehguh - Black Destination 2004 - a great 40 or so minutes of great, changing textures and sounds, which isn't all that common from my experience with noise of the last several years; kind of an old, lost breed - I forget how good this is in-between listenings - deserves an untouched CD reissue for sure.
Haemorrhaging Fetus - Women 2009 - brilliant, devouring, engaging noise - an all-star.
Immaculate:Grotesque/A Fail Association - Virgin 2004 - if anyone else has used a wedding invitation as packaging, I haven't seen it; smart idea - Immaculate:Grotesque is fierce, and more importantly, bombastic; can practically feel the chards of decay penetrating - A Fail Association is inconsistent for my tastes; beginning and ending are weak; too busy and cluttered, but the middle ground gets there - just before the ending falls apart, he uses some good, out of the ordinary sounds that I like a lot; throbbing sirens or horns?
Immaculate:Grotesque - Wishing the Days Away 2005 - really like the simple graphic design - side A: campfire, overdriven, broken crackle; I like the sound of it, but I feel it could have benefited from speeding up the tape, seeking a more dense snapped forest and sharpened upper end -- side B: more of the same, but it feels more like the foundation for a great industrial piece; waiting to hear clanking chains and malleted sheet iron - something about the first 2/3s of this side makes me think of the Full Metal Jacket industrial theme.
Nocturnal Emissions - Tissue of Lies 1981 - some lesser tracks than others - musical experimental music like SPK and the period; sense of decay and artiness - not a phenomenal album, but interesting and worth more listens.
Paul Kelday - Centuries 1981 - darker and more ambient in vibe, but sci-fi, and even angelic, in sounds - travels wide and far; at one point I felt like I was listening to Genocide Organ - side 2 has some wonderful bubbling electronics and phasers.
Paul Kelday - Eschatus 1982 - another solid, if not great, listen.
Macronympha - Notes from Underground 1995 - side 1 is psychedelic, but unlike CCCC, Merzbow's Pulse Demon - starts off messy, but finds a nice flow - side 2: fractured pretty much covers it.
David Maranha - Antarctica 2010 - 60s feel hippie ensemble drone and meditation - side A is a droning track that sounds like Venus in Furs put through a La Monte Young/Charlemagne Palestine hourglass; be a great 12" B-side to Sweet Sister Ray - solid album and good listen, but as great as how this album would appear to be in words, there's a little something missing; maybe the robbery of modern recording or something; it has all the components and angles of something from the 60s, but it doesn't have the warmth that would transport you there.
Repulsion/Genocide - discography 2003 - mostly the The Stench of Burning Death demo (aka the WFBE demo) with "Crypt of Terror" over and over again - and the Excruciation 7" because it is underrated and "Helga" is good humor.
Dead - Les Stars Du Rock Porno 2004 - EP/demo/unreleased/radio collection - love heavy, groovy grind with gargled pudding vocals - material on the Dead/Regurgitate split is still the favorite.
IDX1274 - Live Aktions 2005 - spotty, but with some fine tracks - there's a rhythmic, high-pitched electronic sound on side B that I like the best from the tape, but I'm not sure which track has it.
Dajjal - Ur 2013 - GREAT material, but at this point, I should expect just that; one of my favorite newer artists - minus the metals and literal industrial elements, this reminds me in texture and vibe to early Einleitungszeit; has that orchestrated chaos component - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Tarab - Acquiescence 2011 - powerful tracks and the typical, great Tarab ear.
Hijokaidan & Miku Hatsune - Hatsune Kaidan 2013 - first two tracks or the pop; not my thing - the Hijokaidan tracks have some very high frequencies that are piercingly pleasant and give a quasi-atmospheric feel; brittle, quality noise for nearly 27 minutes.
Theta - His Eyes were Black and I Could See the Circuitry Beneath 2012 - this release continues to grow on me - at first, I thought it was maybe a bit too ambitious or busy, but it's just a quick traveler and not something that allows you to lose focus without missing part of the story (like being distracted for a moment while listening to a book on tape) - it's both noisy industrial at the forefront and ambient in the way it creates room atsmosphere and flows - does lose its way in the third quarter, but finds its way again as it turns the corner for the final stretch.
