Been listening to a lot of "what is this..." type of finds from my own shelves, hah. It's the brutal reality of noise-hoarder who grew up with little or no money, drooling over Artware, Tesco, RRR, Anomalous etc catalogues. And when some of these big distros collapsed at some point, and places like Artware or Cold Spring sold their inventory dirt cheap, I ended up buying literally thousands of items. Now I feel should have bought more, since still feels like "missing so much", hah.. But then again, looking at boxes of hundreds of tapes and CD's never listened before (- that I can remember of at least) sometimes it makes one question whether it makes sense to buy more at all?!
MYSTIC MOOG ORCHESTRA CD
Odd noise CD from mid 90's. Couple guys blasting rather mediocre noise of moog lazer noises. It is basically obscurity of label and '94 CD release, that makes it fairly interesting title.
DISLOCATION "Out of memory" CDR
This is the reason why I do not like CDR. Fucking digital glitch noise starting to corrupt otherwise fine jap impro free noise sessions. 1996-1998 recordings edited to CDR nearly 20 years ago, now most of the disc unlistenable glitch.... pfff...
TIDAL "Golem and man" CDR
This works fine. And it is really pleasant droning minimal ambient done back in 2001-2002. Manifold release, in cloth sealed with wax seal and cdr between folded insert. I would probably include in my shelves unless it was CDR. Now, already heavily worn out in cardboard sleeve, it'll end up as freebie to some customer...
EVIL MOISTURE / HANATARASH "Fatanarchy on airtube" CD
This release looked so stupid, I filed it on shelves probably decade ago ...or when it came out? Now, first time opened from shrinkwrap and I can appreciate the hand made rawness of some stuff, but overall, the humor noise of this type doesn't resonate with my brain that much anymore.
NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS "Duty Experiment" CD
This, being total opposite. I don't remember when there was situation where lots of N.E. CD's were possible to grab for dirt cheap price. But I did. And have gone through them little by little. Some decent ambient type of stuff. Some utterly annoying techno one could not even listen through entirely. But things like this CD, makes it all worth searching. Early demo stuff, experiments, raw and fierce industrial-noise from 1980-1984. All brilliant, zero shitty tracks. As wholeness, maybe even better than VOD box set of early days.
V/A VIVA NEGATIVA - A tribute to blockaders vol II - Europe 2xCD
This is material from those VOD tribute boxes. Like all TNB remix/collab projects has been for many many years, it's hit & miss. In some ways, it is utterly useless material from certain names, but then again, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock track alone makes it worth to get this double CD! If couple tracks would have been rejected - or lets say, one CD instead of two, it could have been brilliant. And way better than many other TNB collaboration releases out there.
... still from pile grabbed from home was Freedom of Vacuum label's BELT CD... whatever this was. Still in shrinkwrap and Artware's 32 Deutsch Mark price tag on it, haha.. Pretty much every day been diggin up pile of CD's and always some nice surprises hidden among releases that has been sitting on shelves for good reason.
