All these things found from shelves that are just semi-random things that are stuff that should be listened more, stuff that has not been listened and stuff that doesn't fit in other shelves.
Grabbed V/A "Noise Battle Royale" CDR, thinking what the hell is this?! 2003... it is very much possible never been listened before, but also possible it has. Who'd remember every CDR 20+ years ago. Hentai not bad, but not great. MSBR is great! Sickness also on his way for being master of cut up harsh noise. Seedmouth, he is generally good, but goofy pitched vocals here are just too amusing. Seen Seedmouth live once, Sickness of course, MSBR got to meet him 2005 just before he died. Enough reasons to keep CDR, besides, good noise!
CREPUSCULE "Music for decay" CD
Why own a CD? Could be many reasons. Why I have this Crepuscule CD on Tegal Rec? First of all, artist had tape on Slaughter productions. Tegal is label of Schloss Tegal. Plus, price sticker of Artware on plastic. Enough for me! I doubt I ever even listened this, just grabbed it out of these reasons and was intending to listen, but slim paper sleeve cd disappeared for decades.. hah. It is ok. Not phenomenal, but good experimental dark ambient/industrial/noisy blend. There has been number of occasions when I felt this is it, we're going to die. One was when Taint, myself, Schloss Tegal was in car with driver who made me and keith watch eachother and conclude, we might die tonight. Haha... it wasnt particularly funny, but wreckless driving to memorable level. So, Tegal records CD stays in shelves!
V/A "VII Congresso Post Industriale" CD. Not sure do I have all of compilations? Should have. OEC label been notable Italian guy doing things and this CD yet another documentation of festival with impressive line-up. I get asked to play at his events like 4 times a year for.. decade now, but yet to play in Italy. To play outside Finland is a bit.. not sure how much will be done.
Seen most of these guys, some several times, but I wouldn't mind seeing everybody again. It's funny listening Con-Dom road to total freedom, featuring G.O. Leader guest vocals. This track is such a classic, but majority of sound is taken from Odal tape. Making loop tape out of other artists loop and layering some flanger noise on top. Great success! Track ends with crowd singing "happy birthday" song. Hmmm.. When mr. Con-Dom turned 50, already long time ago, I was there at the "private" gig, but that was in the UK. Even played short set with Sickness gear, since I wasn't supposed to play, but Grey Wolves got too drunk to play, hah. Now latest 50 years birthday party was mr. Moozzhead last autumn, who paid Government Alpha to play in his party, plus Treriksröset and many others. Not bad. I guess soon a lot of guys turning 50, where are the upcoming noise parties/meetings?!
SLOGUN "Glory of Murder" CD
Found couple of Slogun 2006 reissue CDs from wrong place, still sealed. Mainly because I already heard the material back then, just took the reissues to have CD editions too. I can't find Sacrifice Unto me anywhere, otherwise complete set of discs. I am pretty sure I have it. Why not, since I distributed it back then. Due not having spine texts, plus, noise CD's piling up in various locations for years, in no particular order. In process of figuring out how to change the noise CD shelves to have room for all the stuff, hah..
Anyways, this Slogun CD is brilliant! He goes through various vocal styles. Distorted whispers, shouting, speaking. Double vocals. Nasty noise with decent variation. From static HWN hiss to oscillations, radio noise, crunchy rawness. I suppose I never really mention Glory of Murder CD when talking about best Slogun, but this album stands out due vocal variation. Often vocals being loud enough to suppress all the noise when vocals come.
ANENZEPHALIA day
Couple of days only Anenzephalia at home. Four different CD albums been spinning. At the same time it is no surprse, but it is curious how these albums seem to become more and more unique year after year. I remember when people, including perhaps myself, was not always 100% thrilled by new album, thinking he had done better before... but now every disc is pure gold!! Also the bleak and minimal ones. That quality of being almost quiet and often based on couple things, haunting and eerie waving tone and slow paced rhythmic element. Sometimes just hissing "grey sound" and synth pulse. Narration on top. And there is nothing quite like it done by new artists.
I did listen couple new tapes today with "synth tone + vocals" type of approach, but I would argue that easy access to synth have been counter productive for personality in noise/PE.
Or, that there would be a lot to be done with synths, but... isnt?
I remember when Anenzephalia played for the first time in Finland, and Kaltwelt had not yet come out. They played Bodies in Gold. I went to ask mr. Anenzephalia how did he do that track. He told there is a synthesizer that just makes that kind of sound. When album came out, I instantly recognized the track and was like "THIS was the track that they played in Turku!". It may be synth, but is it "just synth", since there is so much of utterly unmemorable synth sounds out there in the genre, yet Anenzephalia you tend to recognize instantly...
