PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[RG]

Haven't been listening to much pe/industrial/noise lately

Finally got the new Ride for Revenge album in the mail this past weekend. I've only given it one spin so far and I really don't know what to think...The weirdness is still present but I'm not sure I'm on board with the inclusion of the "bestial" war metal sections. I can't fault them for taking the project in new directions and trying new things, but at first listen it just didn't seem to work that well. Rather than meshing with the material surrounding it, those passages stick out and clash with the established RfR "aura"...perhaps creating a new aura? I dunno, I might feel differently after more listens. Regardless of how I feel about it, I think it's safe to say that this is the most metal RfR material yet.

[Zeno Marx]

Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm of a Dying Sun (CD) - sublime

Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal (CD) - not my favorite DCD album but it's been growing on me lately

For those who thirst for more DCD-like music, give all things Azam Ali a listen.  The Vas - In the Garden of Souls and the acoustic disc from Niyaz - Nine Heavens are good places to start.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azam_Ali#Discography

and a great performance to watch:
http://fora.tv/2011/11/22/Azam_Ali_From_Night_to_the_Edge_of_Day

[Levas]

Cannot stop listening to Nylon Beat - Satasen Laina Cd for the third day in a row

[kettu]

skrewdriver:white rider found a rip of it finally
brother claude ely:satan get back
ru-486 iron empire tape
in slaughter natives:enter now the world

[Ernpe]

Veli-Matti O Äijälä 12" (Joteskii Groteskii 2011 or 2012)

One-sided 45 rpm 12" with four songs of minimal electronics. Scratches, crankling, minimal crude synth work and spoken word. Very little happening, very much repeating. Very unmodern and very amateurish. I guess those who like the most minimal parts of Will Over Matter will also enjoy this one, though the approach is rather experimental than 'occultist' - yet this is not arty at all either.

Nice package and moderate pricing makes this well worth checking out.

[Bleak Existence]

Whitehouse - Erector

[RyanWreck]

Pogrom - Multicultural Degeneration - Man am I glad this came out when it did. I haven't been listening to much P.E. or Noise lately, just stacks and stacks of Metal albums but this one brought me back in. There is a good deal of variation here. Some tracks are fairly minimal with a couple of layers of static and some concrete sounds of metal/junk ("Trash" being one of the best tracks here, "Order" is another more minimal one) and field recordings (?). Other tracks are filled to the brim with Power Electronics racket. "Escaping Annihilation" has frantic vocals shouting over waving feedback, droning static and walls of hiss, delivered quickly in just over 2 minutes. "White Cunts" reminds me of the new BU material a little bit; flanged vocals and completely filthy walls of noise that hold a lot of weight. Great effort from Lithuania.

Blodvite - Ett Frammande Land - Another amazing tape (2011 has started out great so far) that is another reminder of just why I listen to Noise. Dirty loop-based Noise from Denmark. The way this is all laid out, from the loops and the metal/junk to the droning synth rumbles, gives this one a cold, Industrial feel. Everything builds up slowly like little chapters to a larger story, delivered in a filthy yet organic way.

[nidding]

Blodvite - Ett Frammande Land - Another amazing tape (2011 has started out great so far) that is another reminder of just why I listen to Noise. Dirty loop-based Noise from Denmark. The way this is all laid out, from the loops and the metal/junk to the droning synth rumbles, gives this one a cold, Industrial feel. Everything builds up slowly like little chapters to a larger story, delivered in a filthy yet organic way.

Blodvite is Swedish. Really good tape though.

[RyanWreck]

Pussyfooter - Rwanda - Another solid release from Nordisk Klub. Repetitive Harsh Noise collapsing within walls of grating distortion with a solid amount of junk abuse. Not a whole lot of range on either side, usually everything moves slowly and continues on the same path for the entire track (both sides just under 10 minutes) but it is done in an enduring way, staying simple but very distinct and uniform all the way through and not becoming stagnant or boring at any point.

V/A - Axis Sally - Old-school compilation on Broken Flag that weaves P.E. and post-mortem Industrial through samples from speeches Hitler made, marching music and propaganda films, usually accompanied by some form of Noise as an undercurrent carrying the samples ahead. One of the standout tracks here is "Filthy Art" by Consumer Electronics. It is a short track that is under 2 minutes but being in between 2 speeches ("Propaganda" which is Hitler speaking while minimal Noise plays out on top of it, and "Hitler ist Deutschland" which is just a vocal sample of a speech) along with its up front Vocals that spill out over the very minimal, bouncy feedback and high-end static, it is hard not to suddenly have XE brought to mind. The other track I really enjoy is the Ramleh and S.P.I.T.E. collaboration track. 8 minutes of pure old school Industrial; crackling waves of static, high-end feedback, synth manipulation and dirty, buried vocals collaged together to create a song that seems to move forward in a very organic and settled way. This tape doesn't seem to get as much attention as the other comps on Broken Flag (i.e. White Power or Neuengamme) but I think it deserves more attention and a reissue would be incredible.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

SOUTH SATURN DELTA 'Experience The Concreteness' CD
Not THAT bad, but when you think of Masonna + Astro with drummer, and their "finest live shows 2003-2005", I would expect it to be better. From kind of routine guitar/synth with some masonna yells and free drumming, just easy spending time with, but from these guys, just about anything is better.

JAPANOISE OF DEATH II CD
This is actually better than volume one? Curiously it is also many of the younger bands who show their skills as opposed to older names and the ones you didn't expect so much, actually don't lose a bit for those you expected to kill instantly.
Solmania, KK Null and Astro for example hardly get you cheer of excitement. Hijokaidan, Incapacitants, Government Alpha do pretty good, but kind of their routine jobs - not the best ones. Dissecting Table with his harsh noise side stands out strong, like does Kazumoto Endo with his trademark fast cut high energy noise. From the veteran sector, also Nord can't fail. But when you really take the name of compilation and compare bands together, Mothra just kills, Montage crushes with dark slow noisy deadliness, Scremola is somewhat "digital", but when compared to the older names surrounding his track, he conquers. All stuff is new and exclusively - of course - how it should be. It might not rise up there on same level of Come Again II or Noise Forest or Extreme Music From Japan - but perhaps it's more of nostalgia and repeated listenings, but in the end, I do sense a lot of tracks with samey digital distortion removing kind of personal character what used to be in old comps. Still most definitely decent comp to get and listen to!

[STREETMEAT]

Ashley C. – Trancelike Existence
another great release from this project. title fits the material perfectly.

[Ashley Choke]

First time someone else did the artwork for one of my releases. Think it compliments the material and title perfectly. Recordings are all pretty old, and was expecting this to sound pretty dated. Final product arrived few weeks ago and actually enjoy it quite alot. All in all release turned out really well and holds up fine.

Couple of tapes on rotation that to me is the essence of true noise music.

Taimour Abdulwhahab - Untitled CS
Obscure underground noise from anonymous Swede. Great lofi room feel, sounds like a suidicebombed subway station. Minimal artwork, no info.

Hum Of The Druid - S/T CS
Superb crunchy noise. So good is quite unbelievable, last couple of months for me has me mostly 80s stuff, this turned me back on the current decade. This is for sure some of the best contemporary noise around.

[Niko]

Hal Hutchinson - Brutal Mechanics

Decent distorted junk metal assault, kind of what you can expect from him based on the few recent Hal Hutchinson releases.
Nothing surprising, just good harsh noise for fanatics.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

FREE SPEECH SERIES:

These were the L.White label 9  x 3"CD in glass frame series that came back in... 2005? Something like that. It seems weird that so limited (300?) discs are all in stock from label, despite it includes some really killer names.
Today went though 3 of them:

Grey Wolves - starts with song what is basically recycling old GW song, just adding little bonus sounds. Then moves to harder, simpler crushing noise loops, spoken processed vocals etc. Really good disc, much better than I remembered! "Sound of Free Speech" is just track of silence...

Sektio-B - they do what they are know to do. Heavy german industrial, with some militant beats, slow looped vocal samples and few layers of electronics. It's like cleaned up version of Genocide Organ & Rasthof Dachau works, with addition of Sektion-B trademark style of aggressive shouted vocals repeating some simple slogan or word, while taking turns with flanger/phaser malformed spoken vocals. I've said it many times, but I can still say it: They are good in what they do. But they recycle the very same idea from release to another, and makes me wonder should they rather split the vocal duties with more diversity? Not always having several tracks where vocal duties are shared with exact same idea.

Irikarah - two quite heavy duty industrial tracks, following the era of their later cd's, not so much the first two LP's. Last track is something what these days would make people's panties wet, who get their kicks of Cold Cave or such synth tone & drum machine bands...  Not his best, but not worst either. Very thick and heavy sound mixed very "upfront".

Still more to go: Slogun, Con-Dom/ACL, Rasthof Dachau, Strom.ec, Survival Unit, ....and Grunt!  It's has been very nice day to finally after many years give these releases some playtime.

[ironfistofthesun]

RBE box set
...old recordings from early tapes...2xlp 1 x 7" 1 x cd..zine postcards and badges . Primitive synth/ drum machine ...very well put together release, good documentation even though the music is a little "light" in places !   

Sutcliffe Jugend ..with extreme prejudice cd.
Not many talking about this so far?? Well im guessing it will have many running to pull the plug on their cd players. I dont mind it, there are a few tracks that i feel should not be included on this cd, and was a little perplexed to hear that SJ are using the "time stretched"  noise technique used in later period whitehouse! Overall though i did quite enjoy it! It certainly displays a wide range of recording elements and has been captured very professionally witch is always welcome! KT vocal delivery can be a bit too operatic at times!

Will over Matter
Lust for knowlege/ might of the planet eater cd/ 2 x cd's
Very ,very unusual !!! I had to play a few times just to get my head round these cd's just to process what I was hearing! A combo of well sequenced IDM'esq computer music with live feedback signal processing and well recorded vocals..The strangest point for me was the low quality of bit rate on the computer music, this combined with very, very good recorded acoustic material.
I only have one release by Ride for revenge and as i understand it its a solo project from one of its members?
Well it is 100% unique! Problem is with unique, it wont be for everyone, I however think its great and would file it next to other new weird-wave-fin-industrial.. Cloama/sick seed/haare !