PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[k.p.g]

PBK - Warfare State (PBK Recordings)

First active noise listening after a particularly rough weekend.  This was a good one to ease me back into this practice, as well as easing into the world of PBK.  As I have stated before, his PURE disc is great, but that is a split/collab hodgepodge.  This is true PBK alone.

The A-Side sounds a lot like the construction happening outside my office building is being run through a couple effect racks; gnarly and hypnotic.

Really enjoy the weirder synth zones that Side B takes.  Excited to dig into more of his work.

[dodsxuegen]

Snuff "V"(CD, Filth And Violence)
CD arrived today, so this is the first time listening! I feel the approach is slightly different to "IV". High frequencies dominate the first two tracks with a constant texture going through the whole "Pressed Against Glass"-track. Really liking this so far!

[Phenol]

Listened to LJDLP - Aux Petits Enfants De France yesterday evening and my 5 year old son said it sounded like a mixture of the Donald Duck theme song and Harry Potter, haha, he's not completely wrong... NP Ex.Order - The Law of Heresy while working from home. All Ex.Order is good, this one is no exception. I like how it takes its time and is restrained yet not afraid to be noisy. The sound is very detailed and sculpted, but not too complex. Some parts are quite heavy and defined while others are more swirly and psychedelic giving some nice variation. Ex.Order really are masters of their craft which was evident already on this early material.

[k.p.g]

Empty Set - No Solution Set One (American Tapes)

An Olson one-off that has some of the best synth and turntable sounds from the man period.  On the other hand, it also has some of the most generic "mixer blip" sounds that crawls under your skin in the worst way possible.  It is the nature of ripping live for stuff like this to happen, but it just sucks when these moments take over some stellar looping.  Still, good way to start the morning.

[dodsxuegen]

Snuff - Anonymous/Male Supremacy/Dresden
Nice compilation, especially the song choice and the flow in the live track is amazing!

[k.p.g]

K2 - Autopsy Soundtrakks (Kinky Musik Institute)

I find myself becoming more partial to synth-driven K2 as the years go on.  Metal-bashing has its time and place, but I feel like this era of the project gave way to weirder sounds and ideas.  Even if this one has a bit more of your typical industrial pacing, the jabs of tape and drum machine make it extremely engaging.  Surprised this one has never received the reissue treatment; great stuff.

[BatteredStatesofEuphoria]

K2 - Autopsy Soundtrakks (Kinky Musik Institute)

I find myself becoming more partial to synth-driven K2 as the years go on.  Metal-bashing has its time and place, but I feel like this era of the project gave way to weirder sounds and ideas.  Even if this one has a bit more of your typical industrial pacing, the jabs of tape and drum machine make it extremely engaging.  Surprised this one has never received the reissue treatment; great stuff.

It hasn't been reissued by itself, but it is part of the Burst After Burst Urashima box.

[k.p.g]

Medical Data - Perimeter/26 Dec 1964 (Servile Ghost Tapes)

Taking a trip to the land down under this morning with what I would call a "phenomenal" tape.  There is a ton of dead air sound, tape mangling and crude oscillation to boot.  What keeps me so intrigued is the mystery around the project's creator, Thomas Sprague (aka Chris Wade).  Seems like he got into making things in 1984, and just dipped right after.  Any Ozzies in this form know what happened to him?  Would love to know.  This stuff is too good to be ignoring over 40 years later.

[SSRI]

RMSS - Lihasmuisti CD (Satatuhatta)
One 30+ minute long track with plenty of variation from drones to field recordings to all manners of chirp'n'clatter and noisy bursts. Never gets properly harsh though. It all flows nicely and there's real skill in editing and layering sounds.

Jim Haynes - Inconsequential CD (White Centipede Noise)
For whatever reason I expected something along the lines of Jeph Jerman or something. Maybe I got Haynes mixed with someone else? Anyways, no rustic stuff here but maybe something like Anenzephalia (sans vocals) meets Mika Vainio. No clean sound but rather rough all over. At near an hour's length maybe a bit too long for my taste. 15 minutes shorter would've made this more hard-hitting, now I felt my concentration wane towards the end. I still liked this quite a lot.

[k.p.g]

Wolf Eyes - Mugger (Hanson Records)

On the nastier side of the never-ending story that is Wolf Eyes.  So much filth and aggression tied into this one; can't help but feel miserable through it all.  While the band's reputation has not been that of "harsh noise" for many years now, releases like this can remind you that at one point in time, these Michigan boys could distort and feedback as well as anybody.  Repulsive stuff; I think I may throw Sandpapered Eyes on next to keep this wave going.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Jim Haynes - Inconsequential CD (White Centipede Noise)
For whatever reason I expected something along the lines of Jeph Jerman or something. Maybe I got Haynes mixed with someone else?

I may have said something about this, and my feeling very much the same, but also I think it must be the mastering that makes album too "hard" on certain frequencies. I know I made same mistake myself, but a lot of frequencies feel like boosted in a wrong way. Not being harsh in ear candy way, but more like "what the hell dude, don't ruin it" -type of mastering. Certain frequencies just drill your ear drum in bad way and I am quite sure that if one would hear unmastered original recording, it would be better.

[Manhog_84]

Macronympha - Relentless reissue was nice to see! I've had the cassette tape for some time and it's one of the go-to tapes by Macronympha, lots of distorted harsh noise calamity at it's finest! I'm curious as to why the CD didn't have a booklet, I'm guessing perhaps just was that limited to have any orginal art. I hope Tribe Tapes can and will do a CD reissue of Macronympha's Physical Chaos album. I think that's my favorite stuff by Macronympha, so a CD version would be great!

To try something different, we decided that the disc itself + jewel case should be the cover artwork. The original cassette via Art Konkret had a couple different cover designs, psychedelic / colorful patterns. Elements of these are used elsewhere in the packaging. It is not mentioned anywhere on the release page, but the CD is sent alongside an additional xeroxed insert. The idea is that it can be folded and used as an optional cover.

Interesting! I wondered that with the additional xeroxed insert, if that wasn't ment to potentially be part of the CD for some supplemental piece of art. Thanks for the low down on that and thanks for re-issuing this one too, definitely some solid Macronympha material!

What kind of insert was that? It was probably only for direct orders from label?

[Cranial Blast]

Macronympha - Relentless reissue was nice to see! I've had the cassette tape for some time and it's one of the go-to tapes by Macronympha, lots of distorted harsh noise calamity at it's finest! I'm curious as to why the CD didn't have a booklet, I'm guessing perhaps just was that limited to have any orginal art. I hope Tribe Tapes can and will do a CD reissue of Macronympha's Physical Chaos album. I think that's my favorite stuff by Macronympha, so a CD version would be great!

To try something different, we decided that the disc itself + jewel case should be the cover artwork. The original cassette via Art Konkret had a couple different cover designs, psychedelic / colorful patterns. Elements of these are used elsewhere in the packaging. It is not mentioned anywhere on the release page, but the CD is sent alongside an additional xeroxed insert. The idea is that it can be folded and used as an optional cover.

Interesting! I wondered that with the additional xeroxed insert, if that wasn't ment to potentially be part of the CD for some supplemental piece of art. Thanks for the low down on that and thanks for re-issuing this one too, definitely some solid Macronympha material!

What kind of insert was that? It was probably only for direct orders from label?

It was like this folded piece of paper and I can imagine maybe it was perhaps only distributed through the label directly. I can see about maybe 50% or more of the people who ordered it dismissing it as some promo paper thing or note about the release and it could simply be that for some people and dismissed as simply such or the individual could determine to be the "cover" certainly something unusual, but kind of different and neat too. I'm glad Tribe Tapes reissued this one.

[Cranial Blast]

Richard Ramirez - Tracking Device (Freak Animal)

This could be my favorite Richard Ramirez release yet! It's a bit different than his other releases or from what I've previously heard until now. Tracking Device sounds a bit more droning and industrial. The atmosphere sounds naturally ominous, gives off this almost dark ambient vibe at times. I think there was a thread about RR/BLJ where someone had mentioned wanting to hear more of this type of style by Richard. Tracking Device would definitely be that one!

[hoodphantom]

Richard Ramirez - Tracking Device (Freak Animal)

This could be my favorite Richard Ramirez release yet! It's a bit different than his other releases or from what I've previously heard until now. Tracking Device sounds a bit more droning and industrial. The atmosphere sounds naturally ominous, gives off this almost dark ambient vibe at times. I think there was a thread about RR/BLJ where someone had mentioned wanting to hear more of this type of style by Richard. Tracking Device would definitely be that one!

Tracking Device is more of a Rotten Piece album than it is a Ramirez album; the entire thing was mixed and edited by RP using RR's source sounds, hence why it's vastly different than anything else RR has done.