PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

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MT

#8715
Primitive Wings - Morphosis CD
After a some kind of hiatus, Vanhala returns, flying with primitive wings and delivering Morphosis CD. Morphosis consists of a myriad of sound sources and textures, while leaving plenty of space in the mix. It's not hyperpacked punchfest like Vanhala harsh noise was, quite the opposite. Familiar high quality production, with precisive sound placements and high detail to treatment of sounds.  Each sound has a valid reason for existing, it's not scattering sounds around just because. It's hard to describe per se how Morphosis sounds like, it has plenty of hiss and fizz, bursts of reptile like crackles, buzzes of insectoids. It's almost as if, you would be exploring a primal world, but from a strange perspective of sensing the whole of ecosystem at once. But at the same time the droning buzzes bring the feel of that failing factory type of feeling, so it's kind of an odd mix of both, this of course is up to the listener, as in this case is moi. Morphosis is a strong return, but what else did we even expect?


A.B.N.T.R - "Demo MMVIII" tape
This fellow, I guess, was one of those who came with a bang and left before the dust even settled. But it is a better tape than I even remembered, funnily though 75% of the tape is empty, there's only material on one side. And even from that one side only half is used, heh! But it is loud and active harsh noiz, things happen all the time. The extra songs are quite forgettable but I recommend to grab this if you ever run into it.


The New Boyfriends shirt
Pretty damn cool shirt! Aqua blueish/greenish/mintish with a perfect shot of the boys sitting in a garden swing after sauna, during deepest winter. Recommended from Satatuhatta shop, second run is now in preorder I think!

Bloated Slutbag

Quote from: MT on April 09, 2023, 09:05:33 PM
Primitive Wings - Morphosis CD
[...] Each sound has a valid reason for existing [..]

I think I've come back to this review twelve times now just for this comment, which still leaves me exhaling breathlessly. But I mean. Yes. Of course.

Now if you'll excuse me there's a comb about polywave with my name on it.

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more shirt reviews, please
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Zeno Marx

Tenzenmen – Quarrychase LP 1995

I believe there was a reissue cassette of 60 copies?  Of an LP that was originally 100 copies.  I don't get it.  There must have been a punk association with Very Good Records.  Rodel Records or TVG Records?  I don't know how else I would have ended up with this LP.  I remember really, really liking it at the time.  Memory fails, because I don't remember it being like this at all.  It's cut up and collage and tape manipulations.  It's good, and it was certainly worthy of a reissue.  Too bad it is such a small tape run though.
"the overindulgent machines were their children"
I only buy vinyl, d00ds.

ritualabuser


FreakAnimalFinland

Quote from: ritualabuser on April 11, 2023, 08:28:16 PM
Quote from: HateSermon on April 08, 2023, 10:24:17 PM
Kommando Skingraft is a different dude

Yes, and his previous project is well-worth checking out.
https://www.discogs.com/master/608485-Skin-Graft-Psychodelia

mr. Kommando Skingraft is one of those guys who has been around about as long time as I have. Our first collaboration is from.. 1995? He did also noise zine around that time, which included very rare, perhaps only Pain Jerk zine interview, plus lots of reviews my myself. Curiously I did find perhaps only existing copy of his collaboration tape  with member of Savage Gospel done back in 90's. No interviews or info exists of this guy, and he likes to keep it that way.
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Commander15

Sadio - Sophisticated Methods Of Torture cd

Wow, what an uppercut! Raw, brutish and coarse PE goodness that caught me by surprise. Acquired this in trade and it really blew my mind. Super seedy atmosphere combined with raw lo-fi studio live production really delivers. Brutish vocals, lots of analog delay oscillations, tormenting synths and ripping feedback - what's not to like? Perfect mixture of classic British PE impressions mixed with harsh noise and certain Finnish kovisnoise vibes.

Sadio - Questionable Pleasures cd

Another homerun but this time with finesse. Production quality is "cleaner" than in debut LP and the approach is almost as if it's more song-oriented? Overall feel is almost psychedelic due to even stronger presence of those analog delay oscillations and droning aspects of certain songs. Grower for sure, got to listen more to make final conclusions.

BlackCavendish

Pain Nail - Salainen Diktatuuri

Went looking for this particular album after watching the Nuori Veri interview on WCN podcast. Exactly the kind of stuff i like: a subtle touch of rhythm, haunting elements in the background, hypnotic loops and a good balance between noisier and atmopsheric parts.
Great old school industrial vibes in this one.

Fistfuck Masonanie

#8722
Quote from: Fistfuck Masonanie on March 04, 2023, 02:01:23 AM
Skin Graft – Final Judgment CD (White Centipede Noise)

Only just now getting around to listening to this CD. It has been sitting in my "to listen" pile since... JUNE 2022... shit. I knew this was going to be a really good album, but no clue what the hell took me so long. Well worth the wait though.

Next up on my neglected listening pile is the Worth Sacred Violence Noise CD.

Following up on this. Finally getting around to the Worth - Sacred Violence Noise reissue. Funny enough, I've already received and listened to Calypso and Hamper before throwing this on. Hamper is great and Calypso is very good but I need to spend more time with it, but today we are talking about Sacred Violence Noise.

Sacred Violence Noise is much different than I expected. A very dynamic affair with volume fluctuations and swings from loud harsh blasting to low-volume field and source recordings. Production is raw and minimal. The release was recorded and produced from a trip to Thailand and is very much shaped by very specific circumstances of the local environment and experiences. Sound sources consist of excerpts from a live performance given at The Museum of Contemporary Arts, the town bells, a communal loudspeaker, and recordings of the town's roosters if I've understood correctly.

Liner notes are extensive and contain details about the nature of the trip, philosophical and artistic concepts about communication, and violent grand gestures which result in generational global, political, and cultural shifts.

A very complex release. I think part of my initial hesitation in checking this out earlier was a quick sampling through the material when I first received it and it being vastly different than what I expected coming off of Oculus, Gone Down, or Roosting. Now that I've spent some time sitting with it, digesting, and absorbing the liner notes, it feels like a very personal release. I think it's going to warrant many spins to fully grasp and engage with the album further. Usually, the releases that generate this level of curiosity, intrigue, and questions warrant more attention and develop into our favorites over time.

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Baglady

ARKHE - Taurokhton C40 (Narcolepsia, 2023)
Funny how I have everything by Arkhe except my own split tape with the guy. Anyway... The first few releases from 2012 and onwards were quite allright, but with Downstream (2016) he took a turn in what has proved to be a direction full of strange surprises. More eccentric and more introvert at the same time, and with the course set for the outer rims of space, the themes and titles nodding towards mythology, sci-fi/fantasy novels and presumably things very personal. A wild mix draped in simple austere garment. Stripped down, with humming and idling synthezisers being the spine. Nothing strange about that, but it's the far reaching limbs here - dissonant choirs, drums, odd loops etc - which sets it apart. I struggle to come up with a description of what this industrial nugget sounds like. It is a logical extension of the great Deep In Sleep CD (2017), but goes off in many directions while somehow remains coherent. Things that come to mind: Stalker, Leichenlinie, Mnem, Klaus Schulze, Joseph Hammer - Roadless Travel, 2001: A Space Odyssey. What does one make of that? Brilliant one-of-a-kind industrial.

Léarch

#8724
Quote from: Fistfuck Masonanie on April 16, 2023, 02:11:30 AM
Quote from: Fistfuck Masonanie on March 04, 2023, 02:01:23 AM

Following up on this. Finally getting around to the Worth - Sacred Violence Noise reissue. Funny enough, I've already received and listened to Calypso and Hamper before throwing this on. Hamper is great and Calypso is very good but I need to spend more time with it, but today we are talking about Sacred Violence Noise.

Sacred Violence Noise is much different than I expected. A very dynamic affair with volume fluctuations and swings from loud harsh blasting to low-volume field and source recordings. Production is raw and minimal. The release was recorded and produced from a trip to Thailand and is very much shaped by very specific circumstances of the local environment and experiences. Sound sources consist of excerpts from a live performance given at The Museum of Contemporary Arts, the town bells, a communal loudspeaker, and recordings of the town's roosters if I've understood correctly.

Liner notes are extensive and contain details about the nature of the trip, philosophical and artistic concepts about communication, and violent grand gestures which result in generational global, political, and cultural shifts.

A very complex release. I think part of my initial hesitation in checking this out earlier was a quick sampling through the material when I first received it and it being vastly different than what I expected coming off of Oculus, Gone Down, or Roosting. Now that I've spent some time sitting with it, digesting, and absorbing the liner notes, it feels like a very personal release. I think it's going to warrant many spins to fully grasp and engage with the album further. Usually, the releases that generate this level of curiosity, intrigue, and questions warrant more attention and develop into our favorites over time.

Subscribe now for more of my reviews of last year's releases today!

Listening to the Chirping Head track on Bandcamp right now, nice stuff, thanks. How would you describe the previous albums like Oculus or Blood Possessed compared to that one? Field recordings generally tend to bore me a little bit, so I'd prefer to be sure in what I'm getting my head for a first contact... ;  )

Kovana: Club Catharsis
Waiting for the forthcoming Augmented Atrocity... An album I've been listening quite a lot by now. Well, I don't know much about the band's previous effort, need to check out what I can find, but that's the kind of powerful noise/PE blended with strong rythmics I enjoy. Just wished the vocals were a bit more put forward the mix and not so burried underneath.
"Are you lost? Yes."

"No hay banda. Il n'est pas de orchestra. This is all a tape recording. This...is...an illusion..."

Commander15

#8725
Putrefier - Cog Dominance CD

Recieved this via trade and oh my. Absolutely gorgeous record. This has this certain strong "old school" industrial-noise feel to it, well because it is old school industrial-noise record! Abundance of ideas and sounds are seamlessy mixed together and pretty bold flanger, delay and phaser abuse, or at least by modern "standards", are omnipresent here. Putrefier really wasn't afraid of using high frequencies or "weak" sounds, so there is this certain sense of power electronics embedded within. Physical sounds combined with damaged electronics work really well here. True grower.

KSNK - Murska CD

Wasn't expecting much because i haven't heard anything from KSNK prior to this album, but during the first run it quicly climbed into my personal top noise records of 2023 list.

There was Jeph Jerman and Vivenza mentioned in Murska's promotional text and they really are not far off as spiritual references for this album. It basically contains field recordings from stone pit / quarry of sorts. Clunky machines and soundscapes of some distant finnish stone pits. And here lies the real beef: it portrays the atmosphere and soundscapes of dusty Finnish small-scale heavy industry instead of clean, uniform and precise Middle European industrial complex. Broken rhythms and clattering sounds made by dusty machines and their loose parts, sounds of stone matter being reduced to a gravel. Tuesday mornings at the pit, foul tasting coffee and long cigarette breaks. No sudden screeches or loud sounds, no radical production tricks. Feels horrible to even write this, but it feels really soothing.

HateSermon

Infibulation - In Your Guts cassette. Self released, 2023

Short but rotten release. Good variety of sounds ranging from low rumbling to high pressure feedback moving in all sorts of directions that keeps both sides of the tape interesting and enjoyable to listen to. There's a certain sound quality that this guy achieves that really pleases the ear. Muddy and saturated but not at all in a bad way.
This is a project that I find to be pretty underrated. Most everything is self released with the exception of a couple tapes on Breathing Problem (one being a split with Interior One). Looking forward to whatever this guy puts out next.

North Central - K9 Frequencies cassette. Ominous Recordings, 2023

Often times when a project focuses on extreme subject matter, the release becomes more about the samples/art and less about the actual music. People creating something for shock value but the noise itself sucks. But I don't think this is the case here.
Musically it's a knock out. Blistering feedback and heavy blows of junk metal creating an overall bad vibe atmosphere reminding me of Taint at times. Sometimes showing restraint, sometimes full blast noise fuckery.  I'm pretty sure all tracks were recorded in the same session.
North Central presents some really inspiring sounds on this one, and if you can stomach the subject matter, it's worth tracking down a copy.

ConcreteMascara

Quote from: Baglady on April 20, 2023, 12:09:30 AM
ARKHE - Taurokhton C40 (Narcolepsia, 2023)
Funny how I have everything by Arkhe except my own split tape with the guy. Anyway... The first few releases from 2012 and onwards were quite allright, but with Downstream (2016) he took a turn in what has proved to be a direction full of strange surprises. More eccentric and more introvert at the same time, and with the course set for the outer rims of space, the themes and titles nodding towards mythology, sci-fi/fantasy novels and presumably things very personal. A wild mix draped in simple austere garment. Stripped down, with humming and idling synthezisers being the spine. Nothing strange about that, but it's the far reaching limbs here - dissonant choirs, drums, odd loops etc - which sets it apart. I struggle to come up with a description of what this industrial nugget sounds like. It is a logical extension of the great Deep In Sleep CD (2017), but goes off in many directions while somehow remains coherent. Things that come to mind: Stalker, Leichenlinie, Mnem, Klaus Schulze, Joseph Hammer - Roadless Travel, 2001: A Space Odyssey. What does one make of that? Brilliant one-of-a-kind industrial.

Thanks for the review, didnt even know this existed! Glad to see Andreas is still releasing music. A few months ago i revisited all the Pestdemon tapes and they're still extremely enjoyable. My Arkhe collection is much less complete. Need to pick this up and get to fixing the deficiency.
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Baglady

You're welcome! And well, he ran out of steam and inspiration for a while there, I believe. But apparently he found it again, and plenty of it. Amazing tape.

INCAPACITANTS - Lon Guy CD (Harbinger Sound, 2009)
Have really taken this album to heart the last few days. First half points to where they are now, in 2023, with lots of similarities with the split with Savage Gospel, Zouvneree, the LP on Total Black and Oxen Man's Uneasiness. Fathoms and fathoms deep psychedelic noise. The other half, two tracks of frenzied demented live banker action. Some charmingly tasteless add-on sounds in "After Drunken Interview". Absolute joy, hearing them do whatever the hell they wish with such conviction. And "Club 24 Forever", the pure live closing track, is noise perfection. Brittle firecracker textures, whimpers and howls, torrents and sprays of electric tones and oscillations. Just ecstatic turmoil!
Don't think I've ever seen this album mentioned, ever, except in clearance lists in the classifieds section. i kind of get that, considering 73 came right before it, being much more of a "classic" Incapacitants album whereas this is less coherent and goes off in different directions. But in hindsight, seeing where they've gone since sound wise, Lon Guy makes sense. But fuck, even without taking their progress in consideration: lovely album!

Need Reduction

#8729
REVIEW OF ODMOWA'S "FERTILE GROUNDS" COMPILATION BY FRANS DE WAARD (KAPOTTE MUZIEK) HERE:


"FERTILE GROUNDS (cassette compilation by Odmowa)

Someone went to great lengths to create a cassette compilation that looks and feels as if it was made in 1987 rather than in 2023. The credits are typed on a typewriter, the images are obscure, and it's Xeroxed like an old-fashioned item. The subtitle is 'a collection of impossible music', which is nice, but (without going into a discussion) what is impossible music anyway? Sixteen pieces of old and new music, including an old-fashioned 'Introduction' piece. The oldest is by Pseudo Code, from 1982, and If, Bwana, Big City Orchestra, Knurl, and Mhlest have pieces from 2022. As you can already see with these names, we are dealing with some old noise music. Add to this Kapotte Muziek, Anal Character, Smell & Quim, John Duncan M. Wrzosek, Humectant Interruption, Smersh, Bourbonese Qualk and Solomonoff & Von Hoffmannstahl, and you know the retro party is complete (oh, one track is 'interlude'). One could expect a lot of noise music, but that is not the case. Sure, there is some of that from the usual suspects, but the words 'electronic' and 'experimental' come to mind when hearing this. In that respect, this compilation is also a fine reminder of the ones from the 80s. A good compilation is not about just one genre, power electronics, for instance, but rather has a variety of styles, so that its easier to recognize who's doing what here. Certainly, with Bourbonese Qualk and Pseudo Code, recognizing is very easy, but also John Duncan and Big City Orchestra. A most enjoyable release indeed. No true fan of noise and related music should be without. (FdW)
––– Address: odmowa@protonmail.ch"

http://www.vitalweekly.net/1371.html