PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[Scat-O-Logy]

Atrax Morgue - Overcome

Funny thing actually. I purchased this about two or three months ago and when it arrived I put it straight away in my record shelf AND of course forgot it there. Today I was admiring some artworks of Atrax Morgue in Discogs and thought why the hell is this listed in my collection, checked my shelf and there it was. Now spinning and enjoying every tormented minute of it. A good piece wax.

Goes very well with my insomnia.

[RyanWreck]

Took Taint "B.A.T." in the car with me today and just recently HongKong sent me the pig ear and at lunch I hopped in my car, opened up the bag to pop the tape in and almost puked. The ear is double wrapped and separate from the tape but god damn is it pungent. This tape (and the ear) is, what, almost 20 years old? The sounds are fucking great on the other hand, especially the metal/junk work.

[bitewerksMTB]

HA! That's almost as good as the stories of people accidently cutting themselves on Victimology or Indecent Liberties. My B.A.T. is stored in a ziplock bag. It's turning into dust but I do not remember it smelling.

[P-K]

the Unclean cassette ......GOOD !

[RyanWreck]

F.E. Denning - Echoes of Sumeria (Posh Isolation, 2011) - Quality release. Muddy electronics with deep melodies. The piano work is delicate and quite "pretty" in contrast to the lo-fi recording quality and layered, crumbling noise.

City Bones - Dead Close (Ill-Cargo Records/Self Release, 2010) - Very repetitive raw Punk with a definite Brainbombs influence and a stomping Ildjarn type atmosphere. Really quite good and over looked by a lot of people probably because of the its timing and the fact it was on Youth Attack which tends to either grab people or turn them away. I think he is putting new stuff out soon so watch for it if you haven't heard any of his early material.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

WHITE BOSS "trash" tape
Steel Sadist Rebirth
Hmm... side one, doesn't seem to go nowhere. It is the utmost lo-fi tape decay manipulations. Sometimes I think of Eric Lunde or perhaps some latest works of mr. Klaus Hansen, yet I find myself thinking is THIS the best they could do? Flipping side, starts much better, and it IS better, yet always when you think it will start going somewhere, it hardly does. Bleak, miserable, primitive, brutally grainy and lo-fi. Kind of good because what it is, but not so good because what it could be. Lovers of utmost primitivism will get their kicks.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

INSURGENT "The 99 Names Of God" tape
Steel Sadist Rebirth
I guess it should be said that I ain't fan of "crackle studies". It's very very very few that actually have held any interest. It's like "glitch". Yeah, all those errors, inserting so much sound to input it actually becomes silence that just crackles and pops... but really come on!? It is just about equally crap as badly made HNW. This is mr. koufar's project, so I know he can do good stuff but it is not this...

I hope I started from wrong end of SSR releases, since two first tapes listened didn't appear worth putting out, but tapes do look nice. Full color covers, printed tape labels etc  At least one should trust Encephalophonic tape to be good!

[RyanWreck]

Speaking of which, if anyone wants that Insurgent after it sells out get in touch. I thought it was incredibly quiet and way too minimal for my tastes, even for wall. And I love most of the stuff Mack does. Crown of Cerberus is a much better project.

[heretogo]

Iron Fist Of The Sun - I will never have the right cd
Very strong effort. Sonics are loud & clear and there's definite power behind the delivery. For the most part I could do without the heavily effected vocals but I'm sure many will disagree. Somehow I seem to recall that the Danny La Rue Died In His Sleep tape sounded even more original (something about the sound...) but this one is also killer.

Polar Moldmentous - Forbidden Recitation tape
Rumble and screech, distant wailing. Some dissonant keyboard sounds. Not exactly static but doesn't move around much either. Nice & oppressive atmosphere with some almost sublime moments thrown in the midst. A nice one to wallow in.

[Scat-O-Logy]

Xenophobic Ejaculation Vala 2xCassette
This is an amazing release, from packing to sounds.

Xenophobic: The sound is not as stripped down as it used to be and the vocals aren't mixed as loud as in the earlier recordings, but are rather buried under the noise. Sounds to me that XE have had completely new direction and it's fucking good!

Ejaculation: Contains about 40 minutes worth of speech/spoken-word recordings from KKK meetings.

In my opinnion this is the strongest work of XE so far...

[RyanWreck]

I don't think you could necessarily label it as a "new direction" really since the "Vala (Oath)" and "Jugend" tracks were created in 2009 and 2010. Nonetheless this is a really good release. I can't wait for the box set for F&V #88.

[Scat-O-Logy]

I don't think you could necessarily label it as a "new direction" really since the "Vala (Oath)" and "Jugend" tracks were created in 2009 and 2010. Nonetheless this is a really good release. I can't wait for the box set for F&V #88.

Well I wasn't aware of the time periods when the tracks were created (even though I knew that the shorter version of Oath can be found from the 2xCS version of "White Power".), but still to me this sounds completely different than the previous XE recordings. The march song on the background and the smoothly mixed delay effected vocals created somewhat atmospheric "soundscape" in the first track and also the synth "melody" on Vala (Oath) is sort of new addition in the sound of XE.

The F&V #88 box set will kill!

[Scat-O-Logy]

The F&V #88 box set will kill!

i think this will be reissue of old material?

I'm not sure but I remember this mentioned somewhere (probably in the XE interview by Ryan). Nevertheless any XE release is a must buy, even if it would be a compilation. I have a feeling that the packaging will be phenomenal... we'll see...

[Scat-O-Logy]

The boxed set was mentioned in the interview in Exoteric #5. I thought that was the only XE interview, I didn't think Ryan had done one.

Oh, then I have mixed things up a little bit. I have that zine' but couldn't find mentioning of the box set as a result of quickly browsing through the interview, so I assumed that it was one made by Ryan.

[RyanWreck]

God Bless America comp by RRR. I usually just pop this in to listen to the Jonathan Briley and Master/Slave Relationship tracks. Someone put the Briley track on youtube so it is nice to not have to ff this tape to get there.