PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

Started by GEWALTMONOPOL, December 15, 2009, 09:30:59 PM

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Ashmonger

Disgusting Sanctum - Stimulation From Assault/Nekrotik Aktion (2xC30, art edition, Black Psychosis): Great release. Again a great art edition. The filthy atmosphere of the booklet goes well with the music. The music itself is really good Death Industrial/Postmortem (is that a good way to describe it?) It does need some attention though, I noticed that when I started doing something else it went by a bit unnoticed, though when I did pay more attention again, it was clear that this is really good. That's typical for this kind of stuff, I guess, something you'll have less with more in your face kind of music/noise.

Lettera22 - General Tempo (LP, Second Sleep): More Lettera22, again good stuff, of course, but I feel like I was more impressed when I first heard the Lack of Attention CD & Physical Point 12" than with the later releases I heard (General Tempo & Subsequent Teeth). Not certain why, but when I first heard Lettera22 it was for me unlike any Harsh Noise I had heard before, so that might have something to do with it...

Military Position - Anti-Human (C22, Trapdoor Tapes): Nice tape, good female vocals, in various styles (spoken, effected...), rather 'soft' electronics for the most part, kind of a 'subdued' sound. Also a tape that needs some attention or has the risk of going by unnoticed.

Dr Alex

(re)Listening/reading Hour Of The Wolf comp and I'm impressed again like it's first time. All 4 artist deliver something special and beautiful in most unique way. I really HOPE for more releases like this one.

FreakAnimalFinland

This was thanks to Bladh. He had concept in mind, artists in mind, did the work and Freak Animal "only" published it. I think all artist on comp contributed some of their best works. Curious is that Danielsson track was submitted was mono track. Still sounds rather full with all the large stereo mixes.

Ättestupa "Vattnet Drog Sig Tillbaka, Stenarna Blev Synliga" LP
Järtecknet
It's hard to decide whether I like bands transformation or not. Lets explain. I like the album a lot. I listened it already few times. However, what originally got me into Ättestupa, is barely here. With guys, who have so many projects, utilizing methods and sounds quite close to eachother, what is it what makes this Ättestupa? If it was released under some other monicker, I guess it would fit as well. No more band style stuff. No melodic organs or such. More just lo-fi and humming sounds. Most I like b-side with focus on rotten violin drone sounds. Good album, but always kind of "is this Ättestupa?". Just like previous album seemed that it could have been almost any Ottoson project, hah.. Perhaps something changed? Old stuff was 2008-2010, then new stuff 2013 and 2015 releases. These two latter ones have certainly different atmosphere. Not bad at all. But different.
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Noiseape

-HADES MINING CO / CUM SOCK: split EP
(total lo fi noisecore destruction, just who i like it)
-PSODUKO: planetarisk sudoku LP
(imegin if Mahavishnu Orchestra went grindcore? that is how this sounds like, not as sci fi as CSMD, but pretty space indeed)
-FENSTER: emocean (soundtrack) LP
(not a fan of their previous output, but this soundtrack with its 70's space sounds is very nice. Logans Run, Buck Rogers and Space 1999 come to mind)
-NICO FIDENCO: ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST (soundtrack) 2xLP
(Another fine Nico Fidenco treasure, packed with synth drones, porno funk and jazzy vibes. Glad i picked this up and the movie itself is a classic vafe of mine)
-SEDEM MINUT STRACHU / PTAO: split EP
(more noisecore madness, after 27 years still my #1 type of music. Noisecore uber alles!!! Keep an eye out for SMS/CSMD: split EP)
-THE UNSANE: inverted crosses LP
(forgotten about punk dreched death/thrash holocaust, more the thrash end of the death spectrum i would say, fucn love it!)
-VOYAG3R: doom fortress LP
(3 piece prog-rock/metal/soundtrack type stuff that reminds me of a stripped down Goblin, nice vibes of cosmic radiation)
-ACTION BRONSON: mr. wonderful LP
(I was expecting something more hardcore and less funky, but after i few spins i got totally into it. Excellent new Bronson stuff)
-AGENT STEEL: skeptics apocalypse LP
(WOW!!! pure power/speedmetal heaven, to bad i lost my (long) hair years ago, uber classic metal battle!!)
-BLACK HOLE: land of mystery LP
(psychadelic doom metal with awesome creepy gothic/horror atmosphere. Could have been Mario Bava's house band)
-SOSPETTO: quattro specchi opachi 2xLP
(3rd album and another great one, sounds like 4 movie soundtracks rolled up in one trip, roll a joint and have a nice ride)




eyestrain

Throat "Manhole" LP (Kaos Kontrol): Ahh, that sweet noise rock tradition of the PNW, channeled by some Finnish gents. Nothing new, but it's the best treatment of this style since I heard Kittens. This is a little "darker" and more discordant, which is a wonderful thing. An excellent half-hour+ this Sunday morning with a little hair of the dog to ease my pains.

Death Squad "Porcelain Fuck Machine" CD (Autarkeia): Fucking brilliant album from Mr. MK9. Absolutely filthy and gritty and nothing like "Theological Genocide" or "Fucked In The USA", which are the only ones I've heard from the Death Squad days. This one's very heavy on the low-end. Maybe Michael's voice is hiding in the mix, but if so, it's so denatured that it's all part of the chaotic, thick and messy passing of sounds. Second track is a little more "contemporary"; things are more complex, stronger edits and a larger variety of sounds, but it's still deeply drenched in grit and reverb. This is right in line with Americanoise in 1995. Loved every second of it. Kudos to Autarkeia for putting out all the DS discs.

Everything by Arska & Hakkapeliitat... just amazing!

Bloated Slutbag

#5360
Lionel Marchetti & Seijiro Murayama – Hatali Atsalei (l'echange des yeux)
This I like. Deep, dark, bottomless plunge into the densely forested confines of a lush, ritual atmosphere. Huge and engulfing range and scope, a field of luxurious sonics just begging for a slow, sensual, sinking. The percussives of Seijiro Murayama are key- the key to an unsettling unsettlement of ponderous thud, tense quiver, scritchy insectile pincers insinuated in between cracks many and splendored. As a litany of overdramatic groaning, croaking voices enters the fray, one may be tempted to doubt the seriousness of the venture – is this to be ritual or a mockery thereof, and does it matter? Percussives plunk, clang and slither, voices hiss, screech and crack, feet scrape and scratch through mounds of leaves and dirt, a droning undertow threatens to overwhelm. At one point I think I'm listening to the concrete musical enlivening of over-encumbered drummer on the edge of insanity; at another the percussive enlivening of electro-acoustician in the thrall of faux ritual denouement. Into the third part of the main body and tension ratchets up considerably, dragging attention into ever deeper cesspools of psychoacoustic disruption, shrill droning layers converging upon the frayed nerve-receptacle. By this point my sense of balance is shattered, snapping, crackling, popping in an open fire pit, red hot coals zinging and rebounding off the gutteral lingua of submerged supplication. In the final movement the fire consumes all, shreds of piercing agitation discombobulating the droning liquid calm. Cough. One of the most successful collaborations I have ever encountered.

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Someone weaker than you should beat you and brag
And take you for a drag

FreakAnimalFinland

Quote from: eyestrain on October 04, 2015, 06:54:03 PM
Everything by Arska & Hakkapeliitat... just amazing!

tsiisus!

Death Squad discs are indeed good. Those who have only heard Theological Genocide or later works may be surprised by noisy, crushing heaviness of early works. Often brutal simple loops what makes it stand more to "industrial" than plain harsh noise. But really it's most of all just heavy punishing noise.

Been listening new ARMON KUILU LP test pressing. This long awaited follow-up to self titled 12" that came out many years ago. Some of the most greatest and innovative mixing of progressive music with wide variation of experimental sounds & soundscapes. Electronics, field recordings, electronic & acoustic instruments. Will be interesting to see reactions when this finally "hits the market" so to say, hah..
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Bloated Slutbag

Absolut Null Punkt - Metacompound
Absolute drums plonked, pinched, punched, pummelled, pounded and, generally, percussed. Seijiro Murayama kicks things off with some drums. This is followed by a considerable degree of drumming. After that, we hear a bunch of drums. Of Null? Nada. Or very little I'd say. Farts, blurts 'n blubbers, principally of the electro percusion, serving to underline the endless chattering ker-plunkt. This does not much resemble the ANP I remember, though if I recall correctly they were never all that memorable. Still if memory serves it would be the kind of thing I dig. Kinda Swans-ish slowmo gutteral thud and howl, no? Out comes my copy of Ultrasonic Action and yes there are resemblances.  ANP did excel at establishing a very particular kind of... grey-tinged... mind-numbing... feedback- drenched atmosphere. Fastforward several years to the 2006 recording date and Metacompound does very well in maintaining a consistently cold, if somewhat unhinged, atmos. The best bits are probably when the percussive theatrics settle down a bit, a Null-ified machine-drone gentrifying a full-throttled pattern of thud-a-thudthud. Metacompound JK is perhaps the most striking, working through at least three separate movements featuring what could almost stand in for horns, incessant honking threatening to suggest a legitimate Null presence at a distinct interval or two. Though it is the slower transitions that set the tone, opening up gaping spaces and generating moments of concentrated, if fleeting, scrutiny. This is no Broadrick tribute, though I'll admit I kept half expecting Mr Kishino to start yelling out the title in between abbreviated bouts of Japanese growl- no such luck? The closer opts for carefully spaced out bouts of pure wapping, only surging into climactic slobber toward the end. The closing twenty five seconds are approximately what I expected the disc to sound like and I'm still trying to decide if that is good or bad.
Someone weaker than you should beat you and brag
And take you for a drag

Zeno Marx

Yen Pox - Between the Horizon and the Abyss 2015 - this album continues to impress - best of 2015.
Seijaku - Last Live 2015 - one of my favorite Haino releases. Mitsuru Nasuno (bass) and Yoshimitsu Ichiraku (drums) are incredible. Totally different animal than Nasuno's other trio, Korekyojinn (possibly heard on Tzadik). Monster album. Highly recommended.  Best of 2015.
God Macabre - The Winterlong 1993 - Swedish death metal - decent, but it didn't smoke me like some Swedish death can - I'm torn on whether to love the deeper vocals or not.
Hijokaidan & Yoshihide Otomo - Noise Join Inn 2015 - decent album, and I like the krautrock album art.
The Chameleons - What does Anything Mean?  Basically 1985 - least favorite of their albums - production is shrill and grating.
The Chameleons - Strange Times 1986 - like all their albums, it's too long, but it's still a very good album - they couldn't write a pop song, which is why fewer people know about them, but they embody all the popular elements and come up with a thinkingman's version of 80s indie rock.
The Chameleons - Peel Sessions - good sessions.
28th Day - s/t 1985 - 80s indie with a more obvious 60's psych/pop sensibility - female vocals - good album.
Muslimgauze - Abu Nidal 1987 - still feel this and Coup D'Etat are at the top of that early work.
Muslimgauze - Iran 1988 - aging well.
Muslimgauze - Coup D'Etat 1987
Muslimgauze - Jazirat-Ul-Arab 1987
"the overindulgent machines were their children"
I only buy vinyl, d00ds.

bitewerksMTB

KOUFAR "lebanon for lebanese" LP Fusty Cunt- this flew under my radar until recently. very good industrial/PE. not so much of 'the usual PE sounds' but does have very aggressive vocals. I wish there had been a lyric sheet. recommended.

Also, been listening to Goatlord "Reflections of the Solstice" & ordered "Sodomize the Goat" 2LP. Tonight, I'll play "The Last Sodomy of Mary"...

Dr Alex

Survival Unit - Continuity cdr

I own this cdr for a long time but never pay a proper attention to this project. This is amazing old school sounding power electronics. Really good compositions, vocals and samples are also great. It's pity that this is released as cdr with digital printed artwork. I hope somebody will reissue this jewel on proper CD.

hkso

Quote from: Dr Alex on October 11, 2015, 12:06:44 PM
Survival Unit - Continuity cdr

I own this cdr for a long time but never pay a proper attention to this project. This is amazing old school sounding power electronics. Really good compositions, vocals and samples are also great. It's pity that this is released as cdr with digital printed artwork. I hope somebody will reissue this jewel on proper CD.

Not a bad idea with CD release but I guess there is little need for it as the LP was made in 500 copies and is still available for good price....

Zeno Marx

Jean-Luc Guionnet-Seijiro Murayama-Guilherme Rodrigues-Ernesto Rodrigues - Noite 2008 - 2 tracks; 73+ minutes - as reference, what you might hear from Iskra 1903 or an Evan Parker group improvisation - of this ilk, this might be one of the best I've heard; really worked for me - recommended.

Jean-Luc Guionnet & Edward Perraud - Heur 2002 - alto sax/drum duet - a single, 56-minute track - I didn't find it particularly interesting or of any surprise.
"the overindulgent machines were their children"
I only buy vinyl, d00ds.

Bloated Slutbag

#5368
Various – Hated Perversions
Taint. Grunt. Sick Seed. Spunk. Plenty to dislike in this assortment of hatefully crafted pervination. Take "Dedicated to Male Rape Group". I fucking hate this. Hell, it doesn't even sound like Taint, at least to start with. Stripped down, slow, labored breathing... inhale... exhale... inhale... fucked into fetal coma via piercing rips of staggered feedback, only ladling on heavier bowel-plugging layers toward the rather more tainted, utterly shredded, conclusion. I'll admit I haven't listened to too much Taint recently, but if anyone could suggest something along similar lines I'd, uh, most certainly not want to know. Others earmarked for particular loathing include the revolting toiletspherics of Sick Seed. This is just the worst, curdled drainbient flushed over repetitive rim-plonking and a condensed series of ill-considered vocals culminating with the ill-fitted invitation to "burn my balls", ill-propos of what could pass for massively overbilged out-take from Public Castration Is A Good Idea, as chucked down a deep and corroded pukehole to render the normally thunderous percussives a pathetic and tinny temperament- at which point we are hurled arsefirst into a second Seeding, retaining the bowel-flecked fumes but divested of plonkity rim-action and invested more securely in overbilge. Just when you think things couldn't sink any lower, out plop Bizarre Uproar, white-flecked strings of unutterably vicious hailings to the chief strained shrieked and spat onto the straight-ahead, if faintly metallic, roar of rough 'n cretinous din. The semi-autistic percussives of Dorchester Library are particularly worthy of contempt, like some arthritic drummer trying ineffectually to wap his way out through several turdloads worth of squealing TNB-grade scrapfilth, no doubt in the hope of incurring from one Mother Savage the administration of arse-thrashing so richly deserved. There are others on here equally unworthy of comment but I've about had it. Fetch the arse-thrashers. "Vogue Bambini" serves matter-of-fact Nicole 12 didactism overtop lurching, dictaphone-gone-to-shit, rhythm, successfully mimicking the sense of impending emesis creeping up my esophagus. Harsher on the ear than it appears and that's what you wanted, isn't it you filthy, fucking, little...  Take it. TAKE IT! Fuck, I fucking hate your hate your stupid ff—fff—fffffucking fffuck fuck you fucking- ergh, fuck yergh, shit ohfuck ohshit fuckfuck. fuck... fapfapfapfapfap.... ... Erm. Ah. Just a sec there. Who is...? Right. Okay now. I'm fine, really. Grunt. Okay, Grunt. Adman sloganeering confessional. Steady, grinding, analog sputter. Drizzled gutterturds lathered upon the frazzled knobslob. Dreadful, absolutely dreadful. But what else is to be expected? The only surprise is the outgoing missive, slow-dredged reverberance piled unto nauseum, unsurprising cybertronic vocaloids surging through the billowed heaps, heavy on the drama and heavy in general, all courtesy Control. Yes, Control. And just what does Control have to say for himself? "Suffocate And Silent". Thought so.
Someone weaker than you should beat you and brag
And take you for a drag