PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[online prowler]

Pain Nail - Magneettinen Kohtalo

... This is a highly articulated album. Very focused. Get the tape if its still available.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

lots of blank tapes and lots of booklets here, but ran out of "sealed plastic bags" what was perfect for this format. There are few left and will most likely have some copies in stock if someone needs it (distro or person).

[FreakAnimalFinland]

BROKEN LIGHTS "s/t" tape
BROKEN LIGHTS "Downfall" tape
Both very good, short, but good. Tape loop noisy, lo-fi music what has a notch more towards industrial feel than some other Swedes. Good sounds, good compositions. Tape on Posh Isolation ruled. So in other words, all releases appear to be gold.

V/A SUMMER SCUM HARSH NOISE tape
New Forces
Ahlzegailzehgun, Brad Griggs, Breaking The Will, Developer. Cut-up harsh noise is the name of the game, and they're all good. Perhaps one thing what contemporary cut-up noise starts to lack, is disctinctive own sounds. With modern tools, cutting & pasting short clips of sound and even managing some sort of coherency in doing that seems pretty easy, but to make good flow perhaps less so, and to not have distortion sounds what are pretty much exactly the same as others, perhaps biggest challenge? Thinking this, and the upcoming cut-up noise comp CD trailer, one wonders where is something like.. Macronympha or such with cut up done with raw rotten sounds. Not the hi-fi digital overload? Or who'd be as distinctive as K2 for example, who's work with metal junk you just recognize instantly. It's a good tape here, but also raises some questions about close sounds get when everybody appears to operate on for example exact same frequencies and timbre.

BRANDKOMMANDO "Two sides of violence" tape
Phage
Tape is half good, half not-so-good. Some tracks stand out as pretty decent "euro heavy electronics" kind of stuff, but others suffer from bad sounds, lazy vocals and dull compositions. Also using same sample as other bands on recent releases is quite turn off. Of course nobody can check out every release out there, what things has been used, but I know artist must have heard couple of years ago Brethren CD that includes same speach as this tape...

THE GOOD ANNA "Wolf Tickets" LP
Harbinger
Ltd 100 copies LP. Appears to be cheap at discogs. This probably belongs now to my favorite free percussion recordings. Not that it would be somehow revolutionary. Just that same old jazzy goofy free music chaos, but recorded at Leeds Holy Trinity Church gives it really good sound. Deep reverb sound. Also good usage of broken electronic sounds. I checked out who these guys are and appears only 1 CDR done besides this. Stuff found at youtube was nowhere near as good as this. Checking videos of percussionist Patrick Farmer delivered some more recent stuff, which wasn't bad at all.

LETTERA 22 "true form" LP
Wendy
Have had hard time to make up my mind about this LP. While it could be the best Lettera 22, it's most of all thanks to A-side. It seems like B-side is all the way downhill. Impact what album gives after great a-side, and then just less and less interesting (for whatever reason). Tried also listen B-side first and then A-side, and there is something kind of slow and lazy there. I like quality of noise sounds, but band at their best (Live?) is so good, then lesser just makes it much less interesting even if it would be above generic. Tasty harsh noise sounds and often far from utmost hi-fi.

INZEKT LP
Schimpfluch
1991 elektro-acoustic from whoeveritis that sounds like R&G and/or Sudden Infant would try to make electro-acoustic music, but instead of being professors of French university, they are surreounded by walkmen and broken electronics and perhaps some sorts of mental problems. Excellent LP.

DOGPOP "dogpop" LP
DOGPOP "Bleierne Zeiten" LP
Zaetraom
First releases 2003 and new one 2013. Between was one CD and CDR. I find it quite odd how I NEVER see mentioned this Anenzephalia related project. It is odd electronic music, certainly, but lets say if this was from Scandinavia, it would be all over hipster media most likely. Now filed under kraut, minimal elektroniks, angst-pop, NDW, and each song being quite different from another (especially first album being collected over many years of recordings), it seems very hard to really relate. I also must say that had barely recollections of how the 10+ years old debut sounded like, but returned to it now when got the new LP. Awful graphics on new LP. 

[Ernpe]

V/A SUMMER SCUM HARSH NOISE tape
New Forces
Ahlzegailzehgun, Brad Griggs, Breaking The Will, Developer. Cut-up harsh noise is the name of the game, and they're all good. Perhaps one thing what contemporary cut-up noise starts to lack, is disctinctive own sounds. With modern tools, cutting & pasting short clips of sound and even managing some sort of coherency in doing that seems pretty easy, but to make good flow perhaps less so, and to not have distortion sounds what are pretty much exactly the same as others, perhaps biggest challenge? Thinking this, and the upcoming cut-up noise comp CD trailer, one wonders where is something like.. Macronympha or such with cut up done with raw rotten sounds. Not the hi-fi digital overload? Or who'd be as distinctive as K2 for example, who's work with metal junk you just recognize instantly. It's a good tape here, but also raises some questions about close sounds get when everybody appears to operate on for example exact same frequencies and timbre.

I felt a bit disappointed that this was just C10 tape. Nevertheless, a-side is really good. On side B (BtW and Developer) there seems to be too much...change? There is industrial-kind of vibe for a moment...some synth, some rhythmic noise and of course cut-up noise. As composition, there's way too much things in way too little time.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

yep, there are changes in side, but mostly this quite common thing that first some quite object scratching, but as soon as noise hits in, the timbre of sound is just about the same. I think it has a lot to do with line-in recordings and computer mastering etc. Where many elements what used to give variation to "color of sound" resulted plenty of variation from project to another.

And yeah, I think C-10 is something what could be mentioned when advertising tape. I think C-20 is already ok, if not even ideal for some stuff. But C-10 where little blank is on each end of side is pretty dull for good noise you'd like to "sink in".

[New Forces]

Yes - I normally advertise the length of the tapes, not sure why I forgot this time, it wasn't intentional. I usually prefer c20, but personally I think c-10 is often okay for really cut-up noise, since the artists are covering so much ground in such a short amount of time. For example, some of the earlier Pedestrian Deposit c10's I think really work in that format.

To some extent I would agree with Ernpe, at least as far as Breaking The Will since that's my own project. The track is 2.5 minutes and moves through several different phases very quickly, and it might have been nice to draw them out further. That track emerges from the same sessions as my upcoming full-length CD on Terror, so those elements get fleshed out in greater length there, so maybe you'll enjoy it more in that context.

[ConcreteMascara]

Grunt - Petturien rooli CD, World Draped in a Camouflage CD -as far as I'm concerned Petturien Rooli is the best Grunt album to date. World Draped in a Camoflage is excellent, tracks like "Dance for the Genocide", "Fucked by Steel" and "March of the Titans" are top notch, but there's just something about Petturien Rooli that is so complete... but without question, both albums sound like Grunt and no one else.

Halo Manash - Language of Red Goats CD, Caickuwi Cauwas Walkeus CD, Taiwaskivi CD  and a bunch of other Aural Hypnox stuff. Picked up 11 or 12 CDs from AH last week and slowly going through them. So far these 3 have really grabbed me. Great for active listening and meditation.

[Ernpe]

Black Leather Jesus / Incapacitants - split cd: BLJ a bit unfocussed. Good sound, mutta at times falling into white noise. Volume on the record goes up and down, being even silent at moments, not sure if such dramatic change in volume actually serves a purpose. Not bad though. Incapacitants is made from live materials, I assume some extra editing has been made on studio. Really loud recording. Lots of air between the source and mics, still not leading into blurry or powerless sound. Moving very little and very slow, basicly the beginning and the end of the track are very similar, yet there is a bit this and a bit of that going so we don't speak a static wall here, not at all.


Jakob Ullmann - Fremde Zeut Addendum 4: Later addition disc to previously released set of three. Modern art music, solo for organ. Meant to be listened in silent volume, meaning the record has been mastered to extra low volume. I had to close the window to prevent sounds from the street and still cannot hear the music from trams passing by. If raising volume, the sound of my stereo system itself become irritating. Despise all this, very enjoyable album. Minimal to bone, hardly differs from noise-releated ambient records. Long sounds, moving just a few times in over hour long composition. Yet subtle enough to keep attention. Should revisit the previous three records shortly.

The Thing - Boot! Modern jazz. Sound comes more from rock than from jazz background but music and musicians are definitely grounded in jazz tradition. Distorted bass, distorted saxophone, brilliant drummer yet fairy laid-back atmosphere. Nice record, indeed.

Treriksröset - Sexregler cd: Heavy bass rumbling, higher pitched noise moving. Mixed very in-your-face, bass left on the background. Not much elements going on same time, album evolves slowly. Lofi suffocating distorted sound, reminding more of F&V-kind material than usual Tronics release.  In the beginning I enjoyd this quite a lot and the sound does stay good throughout the record but for 45 minutes there is very little to keep ones attention.

[New Forces]

H.C.O.D. - Coarse Defect (Fieldwork)
Aischrolatreia - Sentient Prison (Fieldwork)

Both of these Fieldwork artists are excellent, super lo-fi post-mortem electronics, primarily instrumental (although the Aischrolatreia has a few vocal elements). I will definitely be tracking down more Fieldwork tapes in the future.

Vasculae - No Resolve, In Theory, Listening from Another Room, Anxiety Blackout (All Self-Released)

Jon has released a flurry of new Vasculae tour tapes in the last few months, and they're all amazing. This is what a wall of noise should sound like.

Constrain - Zero Action

Another fine effort from Constrain, probably one of his best-looking tapes thanks to the Mazurka Editions deluxe layout treatment. I like how Kevin has been keeping things pretty raw and 90's Americanoise-sounding in texture, while incorporating some effects to give things a very slightly cut up and fast paced feel. This is similar to the great 2xCS on Compulsion Rites.

[SiClark]

H.C.O.D. - Coarse Defect (Fieldwork)
Aischrolatreia - Sentient Prison (Fieldwork)

Both of these Fieldwork artists are excellent, super lo-fi post-mortem electronics, primarily instrumental (although the Aischrolatreia has a few vocal elements). I will definitely be tracking down more Fieldwork tapes in the future.

I really like this label. Great noise and really nice design/collage work.

[Baglady]

BLÅDÅRE - Fjång av tvång CS (Styggelse)
Harsh industrial stuff here. Some vocals here and there, but mostly just loud throbbing heavy noise with feedback. Nothing complicated, but very effective. Lovely title as well, translates "Boner by force" or something like that.

BLOOD OV THEE CHRIST - Dokuments 1985-1989 CS (Styggelse)
Having only heard the Master Control CD and the S.I.C.K. tape of the '80s incarnation of B.O.T.C., my expectations proved a bit narrow. What you get is very diverse live and studio sessions, ranging from the more well known '80s style pe/industrial to weird spoken word/reading with odd percussion (actually made me think of Art Ensemble Of Chicago filtered through early Whitehouse or something....) and what could almost pass as noise rock (Harri style though...). Although rather incoherent at times, this is a fascinating glimpse into the '80s B.O.T.C. Makes me wonder how much stuff from this period of the project that lies forgotten on tape in damp basements, owned by (nowadays) middle age average Johns?

[FreakAnimalFinland]

FECAL FETAL "Shackles of euroboroi" tape
Supreme Analog Torture Records
Another oddity from Finland. Raw and rugged noise. Handful of misc releases out there, floppy discs, cdr, files,.. first tape here I assume? Especially a-side is pretty good noise. It's not harsh noise in ways like its done these days. It's not really PE either. Despite clumsy and amusing artwork/name etc, it's something one could think to be in line with 80's instrumental ultra primitive electronic noise, but despite rawness, obvious sound of cheap contemporary gadgets. Tape sounds better than this sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDpWY_r0Emc

SHITNOISE BASTARDS / NEKROKYRPÄ "Noise Vomit Feast" tape
Supreme Analog Torture Records
SB from Malaysia is some of the best noisecore recently. Mainly thanks to intensively fast drummer who blasts some sort of gravityblast close to old days of Anal Cunt or Exterminio Brutal etc. Noisy sound full of feedback and dirt.
Finnish Nekrokyrpä is like cyber-goregrind slipping too noisy for grindcore listeners, but barely "noisecore". Just formless and distorted.

ROTAT -tape
Deviants Clove
New Finnish noise project what mentioned its somewhere between Mania, Taint and Smell & Quim. And yes, the ultra heavy bass frequencies in metal junk noises do remind of technic refined by Mania and additional electronics, odd spoken pieces and perhaps very hand made noise sounds could be hint towards S&Q or even Onomatopoeia. However, soundwise I'd think to lump it together with atrocities like GOLDENROD. Utmost primitive hand made feel to noise sets it apart from A LOT of contemporary noise makers, and it's good fresh moment to hear such a rotten brutality.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

IRON CLAD tape
F&V
Finnish PE trio what doesn't bring much new to the game musically, but is pretty wild case anyways. If music itself is somewhere between Final Solution and Streicher with throaty and screamy vocals, lyrics are utterly blunt & in your face and also quite rare case to see member in bandphoto with B&H support division shirt, heh! Mix of sounds isn't as good as one would hope. Vocals are kind of separate from sounds and mixing together lo-fi and "hi-fi" sounds without making sounds blend together properly, result isn't best possible. Nevertheless, fans of provocative wp electronics will approve.

OBDUKTIO "Maksa" tape
Finnish crust/grind/groove rock DM whatever. Dubbing is pretty bad here. Lots of clicks, snaps, etc. Also recording feels like quiet and distant despite it's contemporary clean production. Not memorable tracks either. Just kind of generic music you hear nowadays.

ANTERO VIPUNEN "Nousu / Tuho" tape
Choise for name is quite bizarre. While it is part of the old carelian mythology, it's also famous book of games, riddles and amusing facts published back in 50's. To me it appeared almost as if someone would form band called Ujo Piimä, hehe...  Antero Vipunen has been topic in song of bands like SPEAR OF LONGINUS, but the bizarre humor of Finnish band makes it hard to consider it would belong strictly to lineage of black metal. In deed, Antero Vipunen nowadays seems to be noisecore, but these two recordings published on one tape are something different. While "nousu" sounds to me like it was something what developed to OKSENNUS project (worth to check out), "Tuho" is different. Nousu is mostly dis-harmonic, yet complex black metal what could be like mix between Oksennus and Dead Reptile Shine, but with lyrics what seems like absurd humor. Tuho side is like collages of oddities. Often songs appear to have nothing to do with eachother. sound collages, fun music, metal percussion and discordant guitars, electronic break-beats and then all the sudden back to band line-up. By any means, this is memorable or good in standards of usual music, but something weird lures me to listen material what is like scratch-book of miscallenous ideas that barely work.

[Andrew McIntosh]

I've been obsessively listening to Tao Point by Victor Nubla and Tibetan Red, and to the piece "Anti-time" by The Haters, for about a week now. Non-musical bare sound that changes subtly depending on volume.

[Bleak Existence]

Vomir - claustration
cult hnw boxset