PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[urall]

In anticipation of the upcoming Altar of Flies records i'm on a AOF trip at the moment. So much awesome material!
And when i'm not listening to AOF, i'm going through these https://www.youtube.com/user/VoyagerPWS/videos

[FreakAnimalFinland]

V/A "IL SIUM E IL VENCUL" LP
Sin Organization
Holy shit, this is awful stuff. I kind of like Tempesta Noire track what sounds kind of RAC ballad meets neo folk tune, but all sorts of goth/synth/dark pop whatever.... Not for me.

ASTRO / FAMILY BATTLE SNAKE split LP
Pan
FBS is not too good here. I think cutting itself might be surprisingly bad for being PAN release? Normally they are crystal clear and strong cuts. Now seems like all the high volume moments crackle and have kind of unwanted distortion. Who knows if that really is in the recording, but appears more like vinyl fails. Astro side is synth improvisation noise. Sometimes you hear like he goes to bad direction, and quickly corrents synth settings back.. heh.. But still kind of session where someone just checks out what machine can do. Successful to certain point. First I thought this was collaboration LP, but appears to be just split.

EVAN PARKER / JOHN WIESE "C-Section" LP
PAN
cutting here is very good. And perhaps this becomes among favorite "free jazzy" noise records of mine? Studio live collaboration mix of noise and saxophone noise, and one of the rare records I feel they blend well and contribute eachother! Recommended.

WHITEHOUSE "Birthdeath Experience" LP
Very Friendly/Cargo
Always classic stuff. So disturbing sounds and vocal styles it's hardly ever matched by bands of current age.

RAPOON "Ghosts From A Machine" 3xLP
Vinyl On Demand
early-mid 90's stuff from Zoviet France member doing ethnic ambinet / loop muzak. Bongo drums, afro & eastern vibes, most calm and slow paced stuff is the best. Faster and more loop dominated least exciting. All in all, pleasant listening, but just like Rapoon CD's, I can't really see myself returning to these too often.

[ConcreteMascara]

Arktau Eos ‎– Ai Ma Ra 2xCD - got this last August and according to iTunes I've played it over 200 times since then. I guess the number is highly bolstered by the fact that I listen to it before bed every night, but this just such a perfect album to me, especially the first disc. I've heard a lot of the Halo Manash and Arktau Eos material proceeding this which is really good, but the sound is generally a lot busier. here it's much closer to drone than ritual ambient or whatever Arktau Eos is normally referred to as. really I can't get enough of this album though. too me it's the sound of half sunken underground passages and crypts without any of the faux-macabre feeling in most dark ambient / drone stuff. just perfectly balanced organic sounds.

Dissecting Table / Sektor 304 - Utopia/Decay LP - still trying to wrap my head around the Dissecting Table stuff. Sektor 304 really grabs me though. the addition of Martin Bladh's vocals is very nice. I heard a lot less of the Godflesh influence and more pure industrial here. Very nice looking packaging to boot.

given that's its hot and sticky outside been feeling a lot of Japanese psych lately too.
White Heaven - Out CD
The Stars - Perfect Place to Hideaway CD
Boris - Smile 2xLP - pretty much my three favorite summer albums. Michio Kurihara shines on both releases. pretty much my favorite guitar player of all time.
Flower Travellin' Band - Made In Japan CD - Satori may get universal praise but I think this album is even better. like some amazing cross between Hendrix and Black Sabbath. I wish I knew about this band sooner.

[eyestrain]

EVAN PARKER / JOHN WIESE "C-Section" LP
PAN
cutting here is very good. And perhaps this becomes among favorite "free jazzy" noise records of mine? Studio live collaboration mix of noise and saxophone noise, and one of the rare records I feel they blend well and contribute eachother! Recommended.

Wiese really helps to make this an exciting album. I think if it were just Parker, I wouldn't want to hear more than a biz-card CDr's worth, haha.

Arktau Eos ‎– Ai Ma Ra 2xCD - got this last August and according to iTunes I've played it over 200 times since then. I guess the number is highly bolstered by the fact that I listen to it before bed every night, but this just such a perfect album to me, especially the first disc. I've heard a lot of the Halo Manash and Arktau Eos material proceeding this which is really good, but the sound is generally a lot busier. here it's much closer to drone than ritual ambient or whatever Arktau Eos is normally referred to as. really I can't get enough of this album though. too me it's the sound of half sunken underground passages and crypts without any of the faux-macabre feeling in most dark ambient / drone stuff. just perfectly balanced organic sounds.

Would have to agree with every word you said; the strongest release from Aural Hypnox! I'd call Halo Manash's Taiwaskivi a close runner up. There's a few jarring moments that keep it from being good bedtime music. Even after a few heavy sessions with liquid THC and inevitably falling asleep, I still woke up when that "wooden rattling" would happen - and probably one of the more interesting sounds on the whole disc.

N/A - Musica Moderna Showcase 25/11/11 (Musica Moderna): Was fortunate enough to receive this as a freebie from a Discogs seller. The title says it well enough... According to the Coda Lunga gallery's website, Carlos Casas, Stefano Pilia and Ottaven performed. I can easily hear Casas and Pilia, but Ottaven (seeing as he puts out quite a lot and its often very, very different) is a bit harder to pick up on. Also not sure if this is a mashup of previously recorded works, fresh recordings, a collaboration or just individual pieces. Field recordings, essentially untouched, are the red thread through both sides of the tape. The A-side nearly ends on a harsh drone that overpowers everything (Ottaven?) and the B-side is composed of nothing but water recordings. Each side is titled after a latitude and longitude coordinate; the first one being a shopping plaza (?) in China and the second one being on/in the Piave river (obviously) in Italy. Really great tape!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

THE RITA "Womens Vocals" LP
Urashima
Crackle studies like some of other recent stuff. Best track of LP is online too. Others have even less. Not for my taste.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsWcbYSHi0k

MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA "2nd movement" LP
Urashima
Perhaps the laziest and least exciting MO reissue? Quite dull noise tracks which appear often made with synth/delay kind of combo and other times perhaps just radio static?

MASKA GENETIK "Strada" LP
Galakt Horro
Good, but not among the best. Very much "GH" label spirit here. Beats, rhythms, rotten synths, vocals. Never too noisy, but barely dance record either.

BLOOD AXIS "Gospel Of Inhumanity" LP
Storm/Tesco
Much better than I remembered. Some hit songs here. Should put this on turntable more often!

M.B. "Regel" LP
Urashima
Due amount of shitty MB releases, I have started to build almost defence mechanism against listening any MB. But this is good. Can't deny it. More calm and gloomy industrial stuff, but aged well, still works!

[THE RITA HN]

MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA "2nd movement" LP
Urashima
Perhaps the laziest and least exciting MO reissue? Quite dull noise tracks which appear often made with synth/delay kind of combo and other times perhaps just radio static?

Knowing Mikko and his tastes, I can definitely understand his comments in regards to this recording, but personally I have been playing this vinyl version of MO's concentrated masterpiece on repeat since it arrived.  I LOST IT when I found out that Cristiano had a handle on re-issuing this.  Again, so fucking powerful that someone was laying down foundations for distortion obsession in 1983(!?).  There is Philip Corner in the late 60s, etc. but I like think this was one of the first times someone was already concentrating on further abstracting the burgeoning very early underground PE / HN movement.  I can only imagine what it would have been like personally as a kid to hear this in grade school.  A childhood best friend's brother who was a college DJ in the 80s made us a tape of Skinny Puppy, etc. when I was in grade five and we thought that was 'scary', 'harsh', etc.  I love to imagine how fucked up we'd be if he made us a mixed tape of Whitehouse, Ramleh, MO, etc. back then.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Lets say less exciting MO, but still certainly justifies the 3mm slice it takes from record shelves! It's true, 1983 - it's damn early to make such a noise walls. But as said, for my tastes, perhaps basically all MO hits harder.

Listened also GENOCIDE ORGAN "s/t" 2xLP (tesco) after those items, and safe to say best material today. Of course it's old stuff, and guaranteed industrial-noise injection straight into brain. Less "catchy" tracks and more blurry versions of some classics. One could say many tracks were later better versions on :REMEMBER: but they work here well. Some utterly intense vocals. Highlights could be tracks what are mostly known of this release and not re-recorded later on.

[Bleak Existence]

THE RITA - Eyeliner Into Nylon Back Seam (cd Sickcore)
no crackle studies here only pure perfect blown up HNW

[Andrew McIntosh]

Been listening to a lot of silence lately.

[urall]

Been listening to a lot of silence lately.

can you listen to silence ?

[Andrew McIntosh]

Can you not?

[FiEND]

Coil once released Bottled Silence. Think around 2000?

[eyestrain]

Been listening to a lot of silence lately.

After 20ish years of never not having music playing, this becomes more and more precious to me. But I still consume constantly:

Rudolf Eb.er - Brainnectar (Schimpfluch Associates): This is no quick flip through one of the Gruppe member's universes of quirkiness. It's self-indulgently long, for sure, but the song durations are always short enough - primarily 2 to 3 minutes. While containing many atmospheres; from Dave Phillips-like field recordings of jungle environs, to Senufo Ed. type drones, to super-imposed shamanistic percussion, the singular, paranoid and cavernous mood of this double disc never slackens, nor does it fall into any moments of Schimpfluch humor. The editing is perfect to the extreme. Any abrupt cuts, instead of opening the door up to criticism, leave you picking your jaw up off the floor. Disc two presents little in terms of freshness; a lot sounds from the first disc are utilized in new ways and the mood remains linear - this will be a pro for some and a con for others. Been years since I did this, but I watched this over Apocalypse Now with subtitles...I don't think there could possibly be a more complimentary alternate soundtrack. Rock solid album.

FWY! - Arcadia/Culver City EP (Moon Glyph/FWY!): Other than being more "accessible" than past efforts, Xavier has presented nothing new and I'm perfectly fine with that. These songs certainly stand more firmly in the kosmische and, also, mainstream landscapes than past efforts, yet it's perfect driving muzak still.

Spoils & Relics - Sins Of Omission (Harbinger Sound): Finally snagged this album. It's like the perfect symbiosis of Hands To and Nurse With Wound that maintains its own unique sonic sphere. Perplexing and utterly satisfying at the same time. Still, after hearing this, the interview from Fördämning remains to have no light shed on it haha.

The Haters - In The Shade Of Fire (Silent/Hanson): Sorta like finally deciding to dig into a work by Sudden Infant; I am left so pleased and giddy by this album that I just want to dig and dig and dig but I'm at a loss as to where to start. Anyway, this was a very nice follow up to Spoils & Relics. Each track treads a slightly different path: grating harsh noise, minimal contact mic work, more Hal Hutchinson style junk sessions and just about every type of beat-less material you could expect on an 80's/90's cassette comp. Loved every moment of it and can definitely see why Dilloway/Hanson would give this a repress.

[urall]

Can you not?

Well, silence, by definition, is the absence of sound. One can only listen to sound i'd imagine..?
You can hear nothing, that's something different.

anyway, i'll get me coat ;)

[FreakAnimalFinland]

TREPANERINGSRITUALEN "Perfection & Performance" LP
Cold Spring
Seems almost like pop album in a way. It's still rugged sound, but short songs with easy beats and vocals what often resemble rock kind of delivery. Dark hoarse voice, but very structured and rehearsed sounding. Listened this couple times and while I like it, it also leaves me wanting band to have some free flow in their stuff. Some noise that takes tracks beyond the song structure, evolves into something or operates more loosely. Maybe this is also non-musical element. That bands high effiency in making itself "product" starts to creep into experience of music. Photos of the artists, patches, back-patches, stickets, collectibles, sigils, facebook, instagram,.. ehm...

SEWER ELECTION "Nära" LP
Järtecknet
Also new Swedish stuff and spinned this couple times. A-side appears quite similar to his live gig in Finland. Piercing electronic drones and field recordings. Tape manipulation and extensive hiss. B-side has more variety and shorter pieces with distinctive sounds. Lots of air in the sound, never really noisy, but good stuff! As opposed to TREPANERINGSRITUALEN, minimalism of presentation starts to be lame in Järtecknet stuff. Big white surfaces. Some circles, couple numbers or like this LP. It has something, but that's almost nothing.

PSYCHIC TV / Z'EV "Atonal vol 1" LP
Atonal
1983 festival live recordings. Good, yet very usual stuff from both artists. Metal percussion works and old school industrial music.

DIE TÖDELICHE DORIS "Fallersleben" 12"
Vinyl On Demand
Lengthy linernotes explain some curious details of the material here. What I think it gives impression to be, is lost live gigs recovered by almost supernatural powers. What it sounds like, is early 80's live improvisations processed through modern computer effects. Not bad actually, but sometimes too obvious sounding.

HÄNGD "Med Repet Runt Halsen" tape
Järtecknet
This early labels release (#2) is good example how more civil swedes and Finnish brutes are not always that far apart. If this was released on F&V, it would most likely be seen as totally logical. Raw, fierce, noisy, but kind of tape-works/industrial music feel to it. Cheers for label replacing my copy this late. Just found out some weeks ago my copy was blank...