PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[morbid_dyspepsia]

V/A NOIZART II - Cassette Compilation (not on hand)

The first side, being the experimental side, on this is so fucking good. Ground breaking stuff. In total nice mix between outsider experimental and industrial noise on the A side and crust/ grind /noisecore on the B side. Seriously a must listen !!

ANYONE SELLING THIS TAPE GET IN TOUCH !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK5f_KOCnbw
https://www.discogs.com/release/2845000-Various-Noizart-2

[Fistfuck Masonanie]

Macronympha - Unreleased Material 92-93 c60 (Advaita Records)

Crazy to me that there was an unreleased Macro tape just sitting on the shelves of Nakajima Akifumi (Aube) all of these years. Extremely happy someone was able to recover and release the material! This represents an earlier period of the group. Recordings would have taken place sometime between or around Physical Chaos, Grey Wolves "Slash" collab, the Sudden Infant/Grey Wolves collab, the recently reissued Ultimate Vibrator, and Noise Terrorism.

So what's on the tape? All unreleased material, a mix of live material from a WRCT radio station show, and other live recordings in '92-'93. I'm curious how many shows Macro would have performed at WRCT because Insemination Bath - Radio For The People consists of live material from the same radio station, but apparently on a later date in Feb. 1994.

The tracks on side A are well edited, and maybe a little more polished than the sounds on Physical Chaos. First track is very sample heavy, much more so than any other release I can remember, but it works and the samples are solid. Mostly about drug use and depravity. The second track focuses more on metal junk abuse. Not overly harsh, more textural, a solid track. Third track is layered and speaker-panned electronics, feedback, and distortion.

Side B starts off with a track that relies on some built layers, almost psychedelic in some sense. Crumbly textures. These tracks sound like they may be the live material, more so than side A, but honestly, I'm not even sure. Everything is a little more crude and raw on side B. And that's not necessarily a criticism.

This isn't an "album" in the traditional sense I think, but more a collection of materials recorded at a specific point in time.

I really like the artwork. It's made up of multiple layers with some of the artwork printed directly onto the case, a transparent printed inner insert, and then the traditional j-card. Looks sharp!

Copies still available, check it out on Bandcamp: https://advaitarecords.bandcamp.com/album/unreleased-material-92-93

[Fistfuck Masonanie]

One Dark Eye – One Dark Eye c60 (Advaita Records)

Similar situation to the Macro tape reviewed above. Unreleased One Dark Eye material from the 90s found archived on the shelves of Nakajima Akifumi. Seems like the specific dates or even the year are unknown. Contributions from both Joe and Rodger.  

Very psychedelic. Undulating tones, active top layers of sound. To be honest, I'm very unfamiliar with One Dark Eye and only have the Transmissions Of Fistulae Auris tape so I can't compare it to the previous body of work. Parts of this sound like the soundtrack to 1950s or 60s sci-fi horror movies. I love it.

Slowly developing and gradually progressing sounds from outer space and other dimensions. A  current comparison brings to mind recent Skin Crime. Literary and cinematic storytelling through audio format. HP Lovecraft, Cthulu mythos, like segments that form bridges from our reality to more ancient beings.

Really enjoying this one.

Bandcamp: https://advaitarecords.bandcamp.com/album/one-dark-eye

[FreakAnimalFinland]

One Dark Eye – One Dark Eye c60 is really damn good! Multiple plays instantly and there is some unexplained quality that just makes it so good. Wouldn't mind CD reissue either. Even if I'm ok with tape, seems like little too good to be sold out instantly when it was finally found..

[Bloated Slutbag]

marginally modified repost from elsewhere

Quite the coup for Satatuhatta someone said. Or might say someone whose hopes and prayers for more in the coup de grâce persuasion went full fla...flabbaberblabberbagasted when this wee spot o primitivo snuck in on the quiet. Quiet the operative word, or one of em. A sort o craftily threaded documentarian approach as though to accompany David Richard Watson on deep dis-temperate sound recordist field trip, zooming up close and personal but at the same time well vested in a determinedly empirical remove, as would necessarily befit the craft, another operative word. Craftsperson craftily crafting crafted craftworks at the height of the handicraft. And right in there, in the hand, may well be the pinpoint at which spots of the primitive are to be sussed, a very steady and deliberate sort of hand to carefully set proceedings in motion, a single winged morphological transmogrification in the hand surely worth at least several stickied appendages in the bush, languorous beating pulsations only very occasionally the half of it, flush-faced flits of raw chiseled textures scoring deep into just the barest, faintest gasps at the most impermeable of interminable depths.

Howzabout a pretense at unpacking this last, or to anyhoos flop out reference to comments submitted for the aforelinked, among them,

I hesitate to call this harshnoise classic cause it probably only sneaks in on a technicality

A technicality perhaps to be expected from a prime instigator so steeped in deep sunk ambient roots, grittier snub-nosed abrasions nevertheless consistently bloodying subtle cross-hatched shoots through dewy patches of velveteen undergrowth, never quite to demure to more somnolent shimmery swathes, you say anchored in muffled glowing gleams of them Organs of Cortani I say naw too charburnt and bedraggled. Witness here the badly chafed mechanical protestations undermining warbly dirge-channeled sputter-bleat, red eyed radio beacons blearily scritching out miserablist dregs and drawls of back-channeled harmonic undertones. In a sense a channeling of the not quite broken spirit of beloved if badly broken-down machinery fruitlessly fighting its fubar'd on the fritz quintessence, tenderized with hot tenderlovin' attention to the infinitesimal, sneaking in on technicalities because that's what technicalities are for, said someone.

[NUDE_MAJA_GOYA]

Merzbow - Bluedelic+ CD スローダウンRECORDS
Great 1993 (think Metalvelodrome vibe) dense heavy psychedelic noise - released 2019, i only just heard it, might be a top 10 favorite... just nails it.  Constant movement, loops, swirling textures, metal objects ... perfect placement of metallic interactions and impacts with juicy bassy signals.  Tons of those searing hiss growl wah leans, always sounds cool. Feedback laced in and never pointless.  A really solid album, all 3 tracks.  The glitch looped momentum hyper texture surge at the end of track one leading into the gradually. building slamfest of track 2 rules.. blast it..  Track 3 has a buried melody like a mournful earthmover, youlll hear it, like sad construction equipment. sounds awesome (some psych or metal loop tape riff thru sexy filters?  alien enough to accept it).  So heavy.  Gets heavier.  Perfect Merztitle.  BLUEDELIC.  Intricate bursts but all feeling a tangible eruption vs edited... stereo use really makes it a thrashing structure.. and the heavy moments have a genuine punch.  Sweeping range of master harsh psychedelia.  Heavy death truckin.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

FACIALMESS "An Inbred hate" tape
Bloated Corpse prod
Like all his early stuff, I remain surprised stuff has not been reissued yet. Not sure if his anticopyright declaration is still valid, hah.. Really strong and crisp harsh blast... sometime '96? Happened to get most of his early tapes back then. There are couple moments of screams and couple pieces as if drum machine would be blasting, yet mostly the 96/97 harsh japanese noise spirit was well crafted by him. What it lacks in originality, it covers with sheer noise energy.

DIAGRAM: A "Compression and the process of turning red" tape
Sound Probe 03
Another label/artists I have quite many items and perhaps didn't appreciate them as high as they should have back when I got then, is Sound Probe stuff. Liki this Diagram-A tape, 3rd tape of label, solid harsh noise with neat less crunchy sound, kind of thinking USA's answer for earlier Solmania ja Yellow Cab.. Guitar noise and high pitched busy harshness, but not the MSNP / Deadline crunch really. It is loud and noisy, but even if tape title suggest absolute red-zone blast, it is dynamic and full of detail. Should really try to dig up all Sound Probe releases I have. Some are just odd sized, and placed in various places... Aube tape, Pain Jerk / ADW split, Bastard Noise / Diagram: A, bunch of others ..

[moozz]

Merzbow - Bluedelic+ CD スローダウンRECORDS
Great 1993 (think Metalvelodrome vibe) dense heavy psychedelic noise - released 2019, i only just heard it, might be a top 10 favorite... just nails it.  Constant movement, loops, swirling textures, metal objects ... perfect placement of metallic interactions and impacts with juicy bassy signals.  Tons of those searing hiss growl wah leans, always sounds cool. Feedback laced in and never pointless.  A really solid album, all 3 tracks.  The glitch looped momentum hyper texture surge at the end of track one leading into the gradually. building slamfest of track 2 rules.. blast it..  Track 3 has a buried melody like a mournful earthmover, youlll hear it, like sad construction equipment. sounds awesome (some psych or metal loop tape riff thru sexy filters?  alien enough to accept it).  So heavy.  Gets heavier.  Perfect Merztitle.  BLUEDELIC.  Intricate bursts but all feeling a tangible eruption vs edited... stereo use really makes it a thrashing structure.. and the heavy moments have a genuine punch.  Sweeping range of master harsh psychedelia.  Heavy death truckin.

If you enjoy that era of Merzbow and you're already diving into the archival material I would recommend the whole Metallic box. It contains Bluedelic+ and 5 other archival albums with material from 1993-1995. Fantastic boxset. If after that you're still craving for more archival material and do not hate 1996-1998 Merzbow I'd recommend the Green & Orange 6 CD set as well. After that those Slowdown archival discs/sets get into the laptop era which for me was a definite drop in quality.

[Strangecross]

Mutant Ape/Anal Mayonnaise - Split Tape 06
Really reveling at this MA material. while it remains mostly blasting static, that is 'bland' in the sense that there is not much shape, colors, crisp, crackle or crunch- it is molding and forming into something new and stays extremely intense and interesting. even when it seem loud already, twice I had to lower the volume when it suddenly starts cresting, in case of the neighboring apartments being disturbed. There is something that sets this apart from alot of harsh noise at the time like say Ahlzegailzeguh, though they are similar... both have a negative feeling always built into the sound... but MA more appropriate on this style of split, would be better to compare this to Filthy Turd.
Anal Mayonnaise is noise core... but so demented and brain damaged, even this loose term does not really seem to fit. The 'punk' extreme energy of the shrill vocals is really the only umbilical chord and here they will form into sounding like the MA side seamlessly, even a cover of a Sonic Disorder track is included.
Really, A favorite tape in my collection.

If anyone would like to sell me a copy of the Filthy Turd/Mutant ape tape with Nosferatu on the cover, please get in touch.

[Fistfuck Masonanie]

Interracial Sex – The Restraint Of Animals 2xC60 (Modern Decadence)

A massive two-hour release from the one and only Interracial Sex. This was culled from hours and hours of material and I believe in the works for a long time. The work is very raw, crude, harsh, and grimy. All of the base elements are here, and like most great artists, are somehow expertly crafted in a unique and personalized style. Very personal.

I like that this feels almost exploratory, however, not meandering. There is a sense of searching and experimentation, but not at all without direction. The artwork matches the mood very well. Audio documentation of a snuff film and exploitative visuals through speaker-melting feedback and crusty texture. I THINK this was recorded in a hotel/motel room which adds to the vibes/feel of the release. Very sleazy and feelings of sub-human debasement.

Real feel-bad sounds. No happiness or positive vibes here. Malaise, anxiety, and self-hatred on display. Razor-sharp and crunchy frequencies take center stage to craft true feelings of despair.

Random note: I listened to the tape version and some digital versions of tracks side by side and the tape saturation adds so much depth and fatness to the sound. I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir a bit here, but the tape version adds so much.

Highly recommended as is so much of the Interracial Sex discography.

[HateSermon]

Interracial Sex – The Restraint Of Animals 2xC60 (Modern Decadence)

Real feel-bad sounds. No happiness or positive vibes here. Malaise, anxiety, and self-hatred on display. Razor-sharp and crunchy frequencies take center stage to craft true feelings of despair.

Exactly what I want from a release. One of those things I regret not buying when I had the chance. Artwork looked great, too.

[morbid_dyspepsia]

It's an absolutely fuckin' amazing release.

[morbid_dyspepsia]

With track titles like "Don't You Ever Forget to Ruin Your Stags" like wtf is that (?!) Just really disturbing and grotesque. Shook me to my core from start to finish.

[MHK]

Nothing like a bit of the ol' filth & violence to get the summer started.

Bizarre SS CD
Follows much in the vein of earlier BizarreSSmania albums. Did this come out before or after Keith's death? Can't remember. Metal junk sounds in an early part are very much like Mania. There's just one long track that flows smoothly from start to end. There are no abrupt cuts like BSSM had here and there, but there's a similar sense of composition and attention to dynamics. This lacks the harshest of the harsh, but has no shortage of proper noise. Goes to death industrial territory on a couple of occasions and there's an overall sense of menacing darkness and EVIL. No idea if this is (easily) available anymore but I recommend everyone into well-crafted noise to get this.

Bizarre Uproar: Indoctrination of Fist & Cock CD
Rather sparse by BU standards. By which I mean that there's no heavy bass rumble that has been a constant of many of his albums. Metal junks and electronics, including the "chirping" kind of synths. Vocals are pretty much buried. Excellent album and a nice deviation from the expected. Or an emphasis of a different side of BU if you like.

[impulse manslaughter]

Played some recent arrivals last night:

Dressing - From the Body to the Door CD; one of the best new artists I heard. Mixture of junkyard rumblings and various other squealing or growling sounds. Not harsh but in line with most of the Satatuhatta catalog. I don't know if any digital editing was done but it has a nice analog and organic vibe. The tracks aren't composed but there's some nice tention building. Good job!

The Black Maghreb - How 7": reissue of a cassette from a few years ago. No background info. Apparently a 'mysterious Indonesian group' with a classic power electronics sound. The tracks are short, which I like. Not rushed but to the point, leaving you wanting more. Played this a couple of times in a row which is always a good sign. Mixture of samples, synths, drones and noise with some vocals buried in the mix. Comes with a bunch of inserts for context but it's unclear to me what the record is exactly about. Seems to be the typical problems-in-some-shithole-country theme, including a map of Africa with Boko Haram territory.

Sutcliffe Jügend - The Victim as Beauty CD: instead of ordering the new LP-boxes I decided to buy the only cd missing from my collection. Was rather expensive but oh well. I love the crude, earlier stuff and most of the later material but When Pornography Is No Longer Enough ‎and the XI 7" were always my favorite SJ-releases. I was expecting this to be even better as it's a total classic, but have to say it somehow leaves me a bit disappointed. Can't pinpoint why. Still a great and varied power electronic album and thematically perfect for a nice unsettling listening experience.

Genocide Organ / Prurient - Carte Blanche LP: I haven't bought any new Prurient for some time but have been faithfully buying whatever GO releases. Big fan of both though. I always thought the End of Autumn collaboration (Sutcliffe Jügend / Prurient) was nice but less than the sum of 2 great acts. This release is the opposite and delivers big time. The perfect blend of the best of both worlds. Nicely packaged LP and just a total victory.

Monde Bruits - Purgatory LP: I only have the Selected Noise Works CD but played that a lot over the years. One of the best dynamic harsh noise records ever in my book. Don't know why I never checked out the rest of his catalog. Sometimes just listening to one perfect album from an artist is enough to satisfy. Saw this Urashima LP and seemed like a good start to dig in a little deeper. Reissue of a 92 tape on GROSS. Played this one time so far and it didn't grab my by the throat as I expected but still a solid album from this harsh noise master. Love the package and the little interview that's included as insert.

Macronympha - Amplified Humans CD: Pummeling, aggressive harsh noise as expected. I especially like the mixture of sounds on the first track. Gets the blood pumping. On the second track, some of the transitions in sound are disrupting the flow for me and it's lacking depth in sound in general. Obviously worth buying for those like me, who missed the earlier editions.

Korpse Katatonik - Subklinikal Leukotomy LP: Another reissue of a classic 83 release that I never heard until now. Pre-Zero Kama Michael DeWitt, originally on Nekrophile Rekords. Zero Kama LP has been a favorite for years but I never really listened to most of the other related material. Not a big fan of huge vinyl boxes so I didn't order the Nekrophile set from Vinyl on Demand. It means this new LP is a welcome reissue for me. It's lacking the quality and sophistication of The Secret Eye Of L.A.Y.L.A.H. but overall a solid mix of eerie atmospheric pieces and primitive industrial. There's enough to be discovered here; loops, murky beats, noise, drones, vocals, etc. Some of the sound combinations are a bit weird at first but maybe that gives it an edge over contemporary acts. Reminded me of Club Moral sometimes, which is a good thing.