PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[cr]

SHIFT "Ruminations" tape
Wow, I'd say this one even tops the amazing 'Altamont Rising' LP.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

SHIFT "Ruminations" tape
Wow, I'd say this one even tops the amazing 'Altamont Rising' LP.

Yeah, it could be best SHIFT release so far. It's always good to see bands going up to new strengths, instead of opposite. I would strongly recommend tape as edition is fairly small compared to album and I doubt it will be available for long time..

[FreakAnimalFinland]

BIZARRE UPROAR / LAST RAPE tape
F&V 10
One of the more rare old BU titles and perhaps would be worth of reissue. I recall this could have been made even less than 50?! Maybe...  It's collaboration, Bizarre Rape and Last Uproar sides are both good stuff. First side has much more familiarity to MASS session than anything else of BU. Harsh noise. Rugged, but textured noise wall. Other side is also noise, but separated to right & left channel where each project sound is quite clearly heard instead of mixing them together.

BIZARRE UPROAR "Likainen Ehtoollinen" tape
F&V 1
Very first, old tape edition. Not yet the typical F&V poly case, but otherwise set the standard pretty much as we know it today. Fierce, raw and brutal noise. Screaming voices, repeating loops, but also plenty of live junk, painfully high feedback etc. Ends to sound of marching boots. These early homedubbed tapes have quite suffocated sound. At the same time it is great and adds to repulsive feel, but I also recall CDR version had very ripping sound?

KEVLAR "Criteria" tape
Unrest
Holy shit! It was actually better than I expected. In live show, vocals are more dominating and up-front. But in recording its possible to hear very detailed layers of throbbing electronics. At the same time very well produced, but not sounding plastic. There is overdrive and saturation too, which immediately takes Kevlar few steps higher than many contemporary "heavy electronics" units. Not that there would be much to competition! Perhaps we'll see new wave of heavy and dense electronics instead of gutter filth...  Have to get the LP too..

[FreakAnimalFinland]

LOKE RAHBEK & PUCE MARY "The Female Form" LP
Posh Isolation
Pretty much 1+1=2 kind of release. You know what you're going to get, but it is very satisfactory result too! High pitched moments reveal some surface noise, but louder and thicker industrial tracks blast with strong & full sound.

REPTILE WORSHIP "behind the eye" tape
Very nice tape from some years back... It has many elements I like in noise. Experimental, hand made feel to it, but also repetition combined with conscious flow of track. Its clear material is composed. Put together with intent. Nice packaging too.

V/A "Jirai Wo Fundara Sayounara" tape
Vanilla Records 52
Obscure compilation tape originally put together by BLUE-ist in 1993, and reissued by Vanilla Records in 1995. Great tracks from Love & Sincerity, Colloid, Diesel Guitars, Shepherd Moon (slightly aged industrial a'la Dissecting Table / Vasilisk!) and Zsa Zsa Gabour and Honey Yamamoto & Polka Kings. Also several tracks of all sorts of japanese 90's prog/experimental and "indie pop" weirdness. Got copy of this already in mid 90's, but then found original sealed version from Japan in one of the trips there. It's weird to have 100% accurate memomy of several tracks so many years later!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

???? tape
Vanilla Records 33
Who know what this is? Doesn't appear on discogs, neither labels website has any list of their discography. Not that it would be crucial information, as this isn't even noise. 1993 release of Japanese project. Guitars and singing. Perhaps singer/songwriter stuff from amateur camp?

CAN'T "Wicked Witch" tape
irfp12
2005 tape of Jessica Rylan's work before starting to use her own name. It's not that long after she ceased to release material? I guess no new releases since 2007. Curiously, I do have lots of unreleased Rylan's live shows on video and audio, that was recorded on Yankee Know How tour. Including video interview, and more...  Will have to see if something could be done about it.. This tape, especially a-side, is very nice. It has all the poetry girl sort of feelings to it, but at the same time, something so different from most of noise/electronics out there. More beat oriented stuff of B-side is not as good as a-side, but works ok.

KLAUS H. HANSEN "Mindloop" tape
Raijaja Tapes 001
2011 isn't that far away, but seems like Klaus hasn't been doing much of noise anymore? That's unfortunate, as his style of being able to make all sounds so overdriven & rough, is quite admireable. Ashley C releases on Freak Animal naturally belong among my favorites (not to mention Forza Albino!), but as simple as repeating "ritual bell sound" here, just is somehow so beyond the usual, when it has saturated and blurry, distorted sound, which isn't result of "effects", but recording methods what transform fidelity into way tastier form that vast majority of recordings these days.

DOKUMENT #7: Swedish Experimental Soundtracks - tape
Private Edition
Name describes it accurately. Archive series of Private Edition offers bootleg of 50's and 60's experimental soundtrack stuff from Sweden. Experimental electronics. Interesting and tasty stuff.

[ANDROPHILIA]

???? tape
Vanilla Records 33
Who know what this is? Doesn't appear on discogs, neither labels website has any list of their discography. Not that it would be crucial information, as this isn't even noise. 1993 release of Japanese project. Guitars and singing. Perhaps singer/songwriter stuff from amateur camp?

there is a picture of this?

[FreakAnimalFinland]

I have tape, but don't have any place to upload pics really... All text is in japanese. Front has treated photo of xxx activity.

THE TERATOLOGIST "cabinet of curiosities II" tape
Cathartic Process
2nd tape of offers parts III and IV. Dark atmospheres exploring antiquarian anomolies. Not bad theme! Perhaps special packaging would do more justice for theme. Now it's one image on front cover and recording details inside J-card. Dark and gloomy ambient may be saying too little, as texture and details go far more than simple "droning". It does have the usual flaws what effect most of this type of music for me. Over use of reverb will drench most of sounds into less memorable blur. Achievements of crafting sounds is much less when buried in extensive echoes.

Sachiko "With Lament" tape
Sloow tapes
Not sure how many know her works? Sachiko was one member in Tangerine Dream Syndicate, which featured Kosakai from Incapacitants and had CD on Alchemy. And part of duo Vava Kitora together with Yama-Agako. A lot of Sachiko works is highly delay/reverb processed ethereal vocals. Whether words play key role, it's hard to say, but it works also as merely vocal-drone material. But this is not all just vocals. Overdriven droning electronics appear as well. This is the only tape release of her. Belgian label. Otherwise mostly CDs. C-50 length makes it pretty much like album, and there is clearly thought album wholeness, what goes forward. Starts with long vocal pieces and eventually side ends with electronics+vocals piece. On b-side things start to go heavier with more dense electronics, where layers of stuff slowly waves forward. Minimal input with vocals.

[Leatherface]

???? tape
Vanilla Records 33
Who know what this is? Doesn't appear on discogs, neither labels website has any list of their discography. Not that it would be crucial information, as this isn't even noise. 1993 release of Japanese project. Guitars and singing. Perhaps singer/songwriter stuff from amateur camp?

Keiko Fuji "Dark Pop" tape
(C-60 single-sided recording)

[Nil By Mouth]

I'm listening the Live CD of Snuff recently released. Probably is a well know news but my copy have 3 tracks instead of 2 http://www.discogs.com/Snuff-Live/release/6973338
What's the third track? The loop sound familiar to me..

[FreakAnimalFinland]

CURRENT WORMING "1" tape
dogmatics in outline 01
Based on brief sound samples I listened online, I wasn't quite sure do I need this for my own collection, but luckily I decided to listen tapes when they arrived. Canadian label, which seems highly influenced by scandinavian tape scene. If things in north europe has been blooming over demand, then more of the same needed? Be it F&V fanboys or Posh Isolation fanboys. Perhaps little more personality for design / presentation wouldn't hurt... Well, nevertheless: when I listen this tape, I can just conclude that it is pretty much exactly stuff I want to listen very often. Sort of Vivenza feel, or perhaps I should just say, pretty much exactly as ORQUERE! Repetation of malformed tape loop sound, that creates nice industrial clatter. Little random sound thrown in mix. Can't camplain! c. 25 minutes of solid material!

CURRENT WORMING "2" tape
dogmatics in outline 03
Second tape of project is less interesting. It's not bad, though. It is far less restricted by repeating patterns. Both sides have some distant lo-fi humming/hissing on background and free form lo-fi clatter on the top. Nothing is heavy or crushing. It's more of un-effected piezzo microphone rawness, with all the imperfections of live-session recording still there. I still like atmosphere very much. It's good companion for volume 1, just to show that project isn't merely one trick pony.

[bile]

Not too many releases that came out in 2015...but here are some miniature reviews of material I have been spending time with.

VAT "Broken Ankle/Cinderscab"

Tremendous Harsh Noise by the underrated American master, VAT. Sharp waves of white-hot noise with a perfect infusion of raw metallic abuse. The dynamics to this tape are crucial...when listening to VAT it is quite clear that he is an intelligent artist with an ear for atmosphere. At no point does the chaos become one-dimensional and lose a listeners attention. Highest recommendation!

Bizarre Uproar "Mass"

Expertly crafted Harsh Noise by the Power Electronics terror, Bizarre Uproar. This 10" has it all... feedback amidst blasts of distortion and crunching noise. Personally, I prefer the Power Electronics output (with my favorites being the "Liha-Evankeliumi" 3xCD and "Purification"), but for a standard Harsh Noise outing this still gets the job done.

[Zeno Marx]

Parade of the Lifeless - The Anatomy of a People's Bondage 2000 - Buffalo grind/pv - love it - obvious Assuck influence + power-violence song structures.
Avulsion - The Crimson Foliage Hit 1998 - a more crude version of Parade of the Lifeless - those Slavestate/Pneumatic Values guys laid the groundwork for that Buffalo grind signature.
Die Kreuzen - s/t 1984
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales + Emperor's Return 1984
Madball - Ball of Destruction 1989
Gulaab - Ritt Durch Den Hades 1979 - psychedelic folk - top shelf - should have been on Pilz.
Yen Pox - Between the Horizon and the Abyss 2015 - dark ambient/death industrial - best of 2015 list.
Nothing - The Spine Overshadowed by the Rope 2001

[coinbender]

Darksmith - Total Vacum
7 short tracks  , slowly evolving recordings ,  some melody  tips here and there . very nice

Enhet För Fri Musik ‎– Live Kommunhuset
i was expecting some weird ballads again but this is different
very c.c.c.c. oriented , trumpets ,some screaming  , lovely mess
cant wait to get the LP

[Dr Alex]

Sloth - It's Not Our Worst A.K.A. Progression? cd

Finally scored this one from Dom. I always liked these tracks. GREAT sludge!


Sloth - A Whole Other World Of Fun AKA 13 Songs 13 Samples cd

After 2 - 3 spins I still don't know what to think about this one. It's good but I still need to listen.


It's pity that Sloth stop making sludge...

[Vermin Marvin]

Sloth ist dangerous.

STRAIGHT ARM SALUTE "Aryan uprising" TAPE
Some rare spoken clips (heard that elsewhere..cant say i recognise them) and vocals that fit for the mood of release.. for fans of Der Blutharsch and Nazis this is white fist straight to face.

KÄYTÄNNÖN OHJEITA (Aryan betalamale productions 005)
Some guy handed small plastic bag to me on Steelfest festivals and before i even get one word out he was gone..
Noisecore. with some feedbackyspokeclippingdemo stuff with huorapaska anti-zog message and Beatles cover, well worth of it`s price.

GOREDOCTORE - Ylös ja alas golden fucks (Violent Journey Records)
Must say that this must be one of worst reheated bands i have heard.
Love 90`s 7"`s and songs on Älkää Välittäkö Paskapuheista! compilation but now they have added solos and heavymetallish shrieking and too polished sound to their fast "hc"punk with horrible results, new songs aren't worth of disappointment..avoid this.

BLACK STATE "We Hate Them" TAPE
Lovely slow n`Low rumbling and grinding with clear samples about english immigration. Maybe with less samples and longer pieces of noise would be easier to hear whats happening under that rumbling mat but anyways, me likes a lot.