PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[F_c_O]

-UNARM: myth and reality LP (Nippon noise crust with female vox)

Thanks for this. Amazing stuff. Just what I love about japanese hardcore like confuse and disclose and such.

[eyestrain]

Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore Piano Nights ([PIAS] Recordings): A return to form. Heavier on instrumentation versus "drone", but this is the shit I love from them. Many wonderful late nights ahead.
Der Akteur Rockery (Sound Of Pig): A blend of great old industrial sounds (think Hands To, Schimpfluch-Gruppe, even moments that reminded me of some classic PE, but slimmed down) mixed with a lot of voice sample experimentation and tape manipulation. A dedicated listen.
El-P Cancer 4 Cure (Fat Possum): Really loving El-P's work lately.
Kouhei Matsunaga Self VA. (Important): The man behind NHK'Koyxeи...contributions from Ralf Wehowsky, Leif Elggren, Sensational, Rashad Becker...as eclectic as you'd expect.
Muslimgauze Jebel Tariq (Staalplaat): Ace.
James Rushford & Oren Ambarchi Wreckage (Prisma): More reminiscent of the Manhunter collaboration with Joe Talia, but with Ambarchi's signature linearity put in the mix. The contribution of several other musicians makes this sort of like modern classical music as well. Like something you'd hear from Edition RZ.
V/A Let No One Judge You: Early Recordings From Iran, 1906-1933 (Honest Jon's): Just as it says it is. If you love this - you do.
Driss El Maloumi Makan (Contre Jour): Contemporary oud master. Beautiful album.

[Mikerdeath]

Black Witchery - Upheaval Of Satanic Might

I spent a lot of time thinking this band was not that good and then I listened to this album a few times and found something I really appreciate and identify with.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

TONGUE KNAX "Thee Grand Fidelity" tape
Second Sleep
Always good stuff this Tongue Knax. Can't go wrong buying his tape(s). High pitched electronics with bassy, rumbling noise as backbone. Quite stable, but almost small modulation of sound happening.

ONE DARK EYE "Manic Depression" CD
Ljud & Bild
Hmm... Not really re-issue, but re-edit of tape with same title. While original Manic Depression was C-60 with one track per side, this has 3 tracks that's about 30 mins, what is Dan Johansson editing "Manic Depression" and one more track pulled from ODE/Macronympha split tape. Should I complain about release not being 1:1 identical re-issue? This time: NOT. This is absolutely some of the best works I have been listening lately, and that's many times. I guess last week 5 times at least. Was thinking when should say something on "playlist" topic, but I guess now when thinking of filing this to CD shelves so I can move on to other things for a while. Just makes me wonder where is my "Manic Depression" tape...? Should check out what exactly is different.

7MON / NECROCANNIBALISTIC VOMITORITIUM -split 7"
Quite lazy noisecore is now standard of once so mighty Seven Minutes Of Nausea. Even if this is one of the better new 7mon things, it's... lazy, uninspired and barely listenable. I guess it's about the time to stop getting "everything". Unfortunately the split partner ain't much better. Bass+drums+vocals grindcore. Maybe last track is most intense NV stuff I have heard, but that's not enough..

[mdtdeath]

Water Torture - Water Torture

http://grindcorekaraoke.com/album/water-torture

[64]

V/A Eros (A Dear Girl Called Wendy): This will stay with me forever. Fucking classy comp.
V/A Bruitisme 1913-2013 (Influencing Machine): Most played album this year.

I actually think I've found my 'New Trinity' of noise compilations: these two + "Creative Destruction" from a couple of years ago. The 'Old Trinity' would be "Noise War", "Noise Forest" and "Americanoise". Maybe I'm just overexcited to finally hear some new material by Entre Vifs, though. :)

Regarding "The Dark Evolution of Electronics": I agree that the first volume is really good (and it features my favourite Merzbow track), but the second one is an utter disappointment in all aspects, from cheesy "goth" artwork to questionable selection of artists.

[ConcreteMascara]

High-Functioning Flesh - Demo Tape 2013 mp3 - throwback EBM/synth pop style stuff with Cronenberg themes. Nothing special but enjoyable. Reminds me of Hard Corps a lot.

Kommando RJF - Sweet Slow Suicide LP - good stuff, especially the track Bring Back Slavery

Anenzephalia - Kaltwelt LP - continues to grow on me

Skinny Puppy - Tin Omen 12"
Skinny Puppy - Testure 12"
Skinny Puppy - Tormentor 12" - really feeling Skinny Puppy these days for some reason

and as usual large doses of techno

[HOGRA]

Skinny Puppy - Tin Omen 12"
Skinny Puppy - Testure 12"
Skinny Puppy - Tormentor 12" - really feeling Skinny Puppy these days for some reason

Very nice! Love Skinny Puppy - the older the better!

[eyestrain]

Cédric Dambrain Subjective Slave (Roughledge): Just enjoying samples (http://www.roughledge.com/subjective-slave-release/) for the moment. Stellar stuff!
Miguel A. Ruiz Batan Bruits II (Nostalgie De La Boue): Freebie on bandcamp (http://nostalgiedelaboue.bandcamp.com/album/batan-bruits-ii). Late 80's synth work that encapsulates 50% of the going trends. Varied as hell. Pretty great album!
John Smith/Sean Dower/John Mylotte The Curfew Recordings (Harbinger Sound): Metgumbnerbone related project recorded in the mid 80's. Sounds like...yep!
Francisco Meirino Knowing More How Than Why (Untreated Recordings From On-Site Testimonials Archives) (Impulsive Habitat): Fantastic as usual.
Francisco Meirino The Back Of My Skull (Absence Of Wax): Ditto.
Kouhei Matsunaga/Niko Skorpio Split (Deserted Factory): Haven't gotten around to Niko's tracks more than once, but I wasn't feeling them too much. Kouhei is awesome as usual. Contributions from Greg Davis (!), Rudolf Eb.er, Raionbashi, Frans de Waard, Carlos Giffoni amongst many others.

[fin de siècle]

7MON / NECROCANNIBALISTIC VOMITORITIUM -split 7"
Quite lazy noisecore ...
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i stopped collecting 7MON after "Your Father Was A Poser... And What's About You??" ... I think "Thrashbora" flexi is still their best : )

[FreakAnimalFinland]

BORBETOMAGUS "Vole lotta love" LP
Huh?! This happened 2005! It's one of those gigs that still is talked about. Some may remember Grunt doing slightly obscene "Trite" video gig, or the Swedes doing solid harsh set, but for most it is without doubt BORBETOMAGUS. If still almost decade (fuck, how time flies!) later one is like "damn, that was good gig!", it must have been.
And as proof, this LP brings back fresh memories. It is edit of the set, but well done. About 40 minutes playtime, but gig itself was more than hour wasn't it? If counting encore. The gig was, and this LP is perhaps my favorite Borbetomagus. Sound quality is very good. It captures heaviness, ripping harsh power of amplifiers, screaming frenzy of audience, and when you hear the amount of clapping & cheering in end of LP, you realize audience was very impressed!
I think I still have mini-dv tape of video recording on this gig somewhere... at least most of it. Complete gig didn't fit on the tape. If you like loud and fierce harsh noise, this is absolute must. "jazz" and "free music" elements here are basically just about band using saxophones and guitar, but it all is crushed under massive amplifier and distortion power.
Finnish labels put this out. Neat silk screened covers too.

[ImpulsyStetoskopu]

BORBETOMAGUS "Vole lotta love" LP

Need to have it!!!

[andy vomit]

THE GREY WOLVES - Blood and Sand LP/CD
NAXAL PROTOCOL - The Guilty Should Get What They Deserve!
U-731 (UNITED FRONT) - By All Means...

i did guest vocals on the NP and U-731 albums, so i'm kinda biased i guess, but they're fucking good. 
the GW LP sounds great.  missed it the first time around...  glad to finally have a hard copy.

[Levas]

Gelsomina - Puthogenetics: Collection this is great starting from the cover and ending with last seconds of compilation. It was truly a great noise project.

Pain Jerk-Courtis - Pachinko Blast Anarchy - well, I don't remember when was the last time I listened to Pain Jerk, but this is quite decent disc.

Verde - Petoviha - for some reason this project really draws my attention all the time. It's jazz/experimental or something like that, but it is very well done and this album is not an exception.

VA - The End for Simulation of Pro-Creation - Grunt is great. Was wondering about Dorchester Library. They were good. Overall solid 4 way split.

Les Stagnateurs - Ex Pasimatymas - Lithuanian funk band. Finally started to understand what's funk all about.

P. Kerin - Arm's Length - nice packaging and good noise/pe

Mutant Ape/Wertham - long tracks from both of the artists and a couple shorter ones from Mutant Ape. What's weird is that these long tracks sounds best and doesn't loose it after 10 or 15 minutes.

Age Coin - Hard Knit part 1 and 2 - I'd say it's minimal techno, but I think it was described as sort of industrial so it's ok.

:m: ‎– La Nauseé - it's great and solid act! Most of the stuff I've heard is really great noise. This one's with neat packaging too.

Deterge - Gestation - it's good and solid PE. just the description of the box about many inserts and so on is slightly misleading, but overall - worth it.

Guilty C / .nyctalops. - audible plague menace - guilty c is not too interesting apart from a few parts sounds are lurking in one colored noise. and though I never got into .nyctalops. stuff, it is better on this CD.

[mdtdeath]

Kickback - No Surrender (i've to add something? :) )