PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[STREETMEAT]

IRM-Indications Of Nigredo

Genocide Organ-Under - Kontrakt

Genocide Organ-:Leichenlinie:

Control-Live At Troniksfest II

[bitewerksMTB]

PORTAL swarth 2LP- nice package but before 3rd side was done, I was bored. wish they'd throw in some contrasting sounds into the riffing & vocals. Probably will never give it another listen. really nice cover but looks like if you stuff the 2 rec's into it, you'll never get'em out!

[nyarluna]

Nicole 12 - Black Line

Massive sound, superior vocals, haunting treated samples.  Listened twice today already, will be keeping this at the top of the playlist for a while.

[RyanWreck]

Nicole 12 - Black Line

Massive sound, superior vocals, haunting treated samples.  Listened twice today already, will be keeping this at the top of the playlist for a while.

I've been meaning to give this a proper review. It's a great piece of P.E. and one of the "examples" that I exhibit to friends who don't listen to or understand Noise/P.E.

Today:

Crown of Cerberus - Awakening (Anabolic Dimensions, 2011) - Hail the crown! Tape loops decaying together en masse, really unique stuff. I haven't heard too much mangled tape loop action this well done in awhile. Most of the material I would even compare this too would be stuff from the late 80's, nothing from this decade really touches the same nerves. "Sea Leviathan" with it's very lo-fi beginning and wet, crumbling sounds is the stand out piece. "Songs of Glory and Might" is a sleepy, creeping meditation that feels like it will break apart or explode at any second, tension stringing you along. Good.

Pogrom - Live (Filth & Violence, 2011) - Pogrom has a stand out sound, definitely. It is a mixture of many sounds and I know it gets compared to Grunt most often and I can see that but Pogrom has a distinct difference in style, which is great because you don't want another Grunt worship tape. Loads of crude rumbling synth tones manipulated in a handful of different ways, broken back and forth through pedals until nothing is left. Drones underneath add dimension to the sound and dominating shouted vocals, sometimes also shaped and molded in a number of ways, echo out and hound at you through your speakers.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

CCCC "Early Works" 4xCD box
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Remaining 2 discs wait for near days!

Disc #3 follow equally strong. some good vocal shrieks and damn the 2nd track of disc again monstrous near half hour monolith!

Finally the 4th disc... Phantasmagoria tape is also live from CCCC, but the sound is far more noisier and harsh than previous 3 CD's. It's very sharp and clear and starts to step further from psychedelic into more distorted noise. 2nd track - is kind of out of place from the box. But the story is curious:
Back in '97 or so, I approach CCCC for making Alchemy of the 20th Century/Jalopaz/CCCC 3-way cd, which would stand as Freak Animal's debut CD release. Back in those days, making CD's wasn't as easy as it is now. So, I have 3 bands, 3 separate masters, on normal C-cassette as well as DAT tapes. It's either about sending these to pressing plant and getting charged shitloads for them to adjust final master and doing pressing... Or me taking train to next city to studio, which had this amazing brand new technology called CDR burner! Well... I go there, and he transfers Alchemy... stuff on DAT and gives all 3 dats to his subcontract guy who has the amazing CDR burner. Discs at the time cost 80 finnish markka each. Of course this c. 13 euro price doesn't seem THAT huge now, but it was totally beyond the expectations. Burning happened 1:1 speed and in other location, so I just left back home and waited pre-master CDR to arrive. When it arrives, Alchemy of the 20th Century tracks were all distorted. Everything had this overdrive blown up sound. Other 2 bands were perfect. I called studio and asked what the fuck? They said they will make new transfer and burn new disc. I get the new master some days later. Alchemy sounds just like it should. I listen like 3 minutes of other tracks and confirm it ok and rush master to post office and pressing.
After mailing out almost all copies, including free copies and the co-releasing labels copies, some weeks later I get letter from CCCC asking to stop selling CD since in middle of this long track one of the channels goes mute.. At that moment I no longer even have more than handful left... but fuck....   My utmost rookie mistake of not ACTUALLY listening the master through. Since the previous disc was just perfect from their part. I didn't think there could be any mistake. When you think why not listen entire 60 min disc - who's in such a hurry? This is what I ask myself.
Well, for more than decade I had the DAT master in my possession and when No Fun was making this box, I asked if he has any blank space there, why not throw this recording and finally publish it "as it was meant". So here we are. It's kind of out of place, being recorded possibly... 1996? At least released in 1997. CCCC reduced as duo and much more harsh and less psychedelic. It's good to see it out, and it's good that also last disc of box is full length. Not just one live set. But still.. slightly out of place in chronology.

[ImpulsyStetoskopu]

After mailing out almost all copies, including free copies and the co-releasing labels copies, some weeks later I get letter from CCCC asking to stop selling CD since in middle of this long track one of the channels goes mute.. At that moment I no longer even have more than handful left... but fuck....   My utmost rookie mistake of not ACTUALLY listening the master through. Since the previous disc was just perfect from their part. I didn't think there could be any mistake. When you think why not listen entire 60 min disc - who's in such a hurry? This is what I ask myself.

I have one of those copies. I bought it somewhere in early 2000s during an industrial festival in Poland. I remember my surprising at home when I heard this faded channel. And then I thought that it was  premeditated action:)

[Ashmonger]

Genocide Organ - Remember (2CD, Tesco Organisation): Just listened to the second CD. Again, good stuff, but some tracks I don't like, such as Painful Corpse.

Militia - Power! Propaganda! Production (CD, Neuropa): Well, this is a diverse album, that will need more listenings to fully sink. But there's definately good stuff on it. Some of these industrial rythms are really good! However, maybe it's me, but sometimes it gets an even exotic atmosphere. Not necessarily bad, but rather odd for an industrial act, if you ask me. The packaging looks good as well, but when I saw the digibox, I expected more than just a small poster and a 4-page booklet...

[Jarl]

Genocide Organ - Remember (2CD, Tesco Organisation): Just listened to the second CD. Again, good stuff, but some tracks I don't like, such as Painful Corpse.

Militia - Power! Propaganda! Production (CD, Neuropa): Well, this is a diverse album, that will need more listenings to fully sink. But there's definately good stuff on it. Some of these industrial rythms are really good! However, maybe it's me, but sometimes it gets an even exotic atmosphere. Not necessarily bad, but rather odd for an industrial act, if you ask me. The packaging looks good as well, but when I saw the digibox, I expected more than just a small poster and a 4-page booklet

I can't see or hear what's bad about Painful corpse, I think that track is brilliant.

[Ashmonger]

I can't see or hear what's bad about Painful corpse, I think that track is brilliant.

Well, I definately have to play it again, but I didn't like the beats in that track. It's not that I think beats in PE are bad, but I didn't like those beats in that track... But maybe some more turns might change my view.

[Levas]

Will over Matter - The Lust for Knowledge - Comparing with Might of the Planet Eater - this one's an excellent album. Truly interesting, original and more colorful than the aforementioned Might.. Weird industrial project and release, but I like what I hear very much.

[andy vomit]

LEVIATHAN - True Traitor, True Whore

[Levas]

Best from today:

Flesh Coffin - Devil Worship in the Slaughterhouse - What an excellent tape! Brutal and expresive junk abuse. Very very good.

Doroga – Ii - very interesting first side of the tape. The second one was slightly too long and/or nothing too good offered. Overall - very good impression.

Rather good from today:

Concrete Mascara - The Answer in the ashes - Rather good record, but somewhat lack of hooks that would make it VERY good. But enjoyable.

Cheapmahines - Kept: 1994-96 - Interesting record, but somehow I truly paid attention to it just in a couple of places. Most of the time the sound went somewhere through me.

ok-good from today:

Jeph Jerman - Ingress - Maybe after listening to noisier record it is quite difficult to transform your ears to listen to Jerman. but it is quite interesting. and i'll give it a couple more listens later on.

Filth - Winter Mind - Hm. Was expecting something more. Not a bad record, but the sound gets rather weak from time to time and there are those weird "jamming" places that were quite annoying

[Ashley Choke]

Got a bunch of Pure CD's fro Mattias/RTB that really took me by suprise

Le Syndicat - Corrumpate + Relikat & Schraguemusik
My first proper exposure to this legendary project. For some reason I always expected Le Syndicat to be too Industrial for my taste. But after first listen I totally dig these two. Really noisy and truly old school from a time where there was no distinct line between Noise, Industrial and PE. The way it should be

Dead Body Love - Maximum Dose
As with the aforementioned, my virginity with this project. I was always under the impression that DBL was pure Harsh Noise wheres this has plenty of almost PE/Industrial elements. Not quite sure what to make of it yet. The rhythmic feel sometimes gets to much, and reminds me of the heaps of mostly horrible Ant Zen cd's I dug as a teenager. Will have to give it a few more listens before passing judgement. And I need to get Lo Fi Power Carnage

[FreakAnimalFinland]

All old Le Syndicat is gold. All Pure discs worth getting.
DBL disc pretty much sums up his style. If you like it, you will like any old stuff basically.

I can't underline enough how great PURE/RRR series is. If you can get over the non-existent artwork/crappy packaging, the material itself is most often simply amazing. All Emil Beaulieau discs belong to his best. Incapacitants might be stronger than As Loud as Possible, Consumer Electronics is very rare case of his old stuff on CD. Haters CD is probably among my top-5 noise albums ever. Söldnergeist guaranteed german industrial. Le Syndicat, DMDN, Ramleh, etc.. brilliant old tapes.
PBK / Hands To / AMK genius collaboration! Pain Jerk CD is probably best pain jerk?! Masonna, MSBR, Violent Onsen Geisha, etc all are good. Some of them not their best, but not at worst either. And... and... oh, you simply can't go wrong. If you didn't like some particular disc, it's cheap enough to give to friend or whatever.

It's very often I return to this series, and I think should give playing next to Rend, Zone Nord, naj, AMK and few others which I have listened less than many others.

[Ashley Choke]

Couldn't aggree more. Consumer Electronics - Teenage Nuremberg : One of my all-time PE/Noise records