OVMN / KADEF split C-90.
1996 harsh noise tape, USA + Ger.
VHS box with color graphics + multiple A4 size art prints. Unabomber and related stuff for Macro. Abstract art etc for Kadef.
It is long enough that could be two separate full albums. Both have differen type of artwork and also sound. OVMN is brilliant, crunchy harsh noise, all-on-red saturated stuff, but "compositionally" it could have been Macronympha and would be flawlessly what you think Macronympha to be. Same style slowly changing slabs of different types of harsh noise.
KADEF is one of those projects you don't hear anyone talk about, but I tend to name-drop it once in a while. German noise, often in weird packaging, ultra limited, handmade, very own style that would probably appeal now to guys who seek some less efx driven, less edited, more tape-deck home recording noise type of thing.
PBK "Life-Sense Revoked" CD
I like the most his 80's stuff, but this early 90's CD is really good one too. Some sources from AMK. Jarboe guests in couple songs doing vocals. These two things are oddity in mix. Especially Jarboe. You got so abstract sound manipulations, at the time quite hi-tech sampler work etc, and then all the sudden pieces of atmospheric music & singing, and back to noise. And when I say noise, it does get into loudness and hardness legit real deal noise. Some sounds are really nasty and damaging, in most positive meaning.
BOB MARINELLI "Confused & Isolated" tape
self released
When Hospital prod annouced doing Bob Marinelli CD, I was quite surprised. Mostly because I assume not that many remembered or even know who is Bob Marinelli, and I doubt before that CD happened, there was anyone saying "what we need in noise scene of 2022, is some Bob Marinelli reissues!".
When CD happened, I don't known if situation really changed, but what this guy did, was the kind of real deal 90's noise. Not the 90's noise most think 90's were, but the reality of getting tape and having no idea what there might be coming when you push the play. Occasionally some Deadline harsh noise or MSNP crunch, but besides that, there was so much what was the 90's.
I just finished listening this, what I assume is very first Marinelli tape. This was artists own version before Weird Vision label did the "label edition". That one is hard to get, but who knows how many of these cloth bag + couple folded inserts and artist signed tapes existed before that. Probably not many!
A-side has a lot of stuff that reminds of what Hospital CD was about. Makes me kind of think Monde Bruits, with fast paced electronic assault. Kind of same sound pallette, but always moving. It has other types of stuff too. B-side has moments when it makes me think Aube. It is not REALLY like that, but something about efx processed sound loops manually adjusted into noisy, but never TOTALLY harsh noise. It is all noise. But just not the crunchy distortion pedal oriented type.
Really good sounding chrome C-40, crispy and neat after all these years.
BAD SECTOR "Pressurized Music" tape
Original edition 1997, 3rd release, 2nd tape I guess!
I am not big fan of the beat oriented later stuff. Nor I am Bad Sector expert who could name when his work became like that, but these mid-late 90's works are great, while some of later stuff and withnessing him live, I could not handle the .... Beat shit haha.
He was advanced, hi-tech, but also very hands on -type approach to sounds in the 90s. Curiously Ampos cd issued multiple times, but this tape has only 2 tape editions.
