PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[Steve]

Cheers - I will keep an eye (and ear) out. I've had a look and seen it for sale for £54! If you see it going a few quid cheaper, let me know ...

[FreakAnimalFinland]

SVERIGE compilation LP
very nice! Often rotten and concrete sounds, but also blends in good synth works. No harsh noise, no proto-PE type things, but very good overall feeling.

CHERRY POINT "misery guts" CD
solid 30 minute tape release re-issued. Not a bad choice. Sounds heavy and FULL sound.

KKTK 7"
I think the digital files I heard were more ripping and fatter sound, but from 7" some sonic decay is at the same time positive and negative. Can't fully decide whether I like more the original digital sound or the thinner vinyl sound. Harsh, very well done harsh noise where Tommi Keränen submitted source stuff for Kazuma Kubota to edit & compose. Think Kazumoto Endo, but better, hah!

[Jordan]

Cheers for the Destroy All Monsters information .. I shall investigate.

Steve, I also have that 7" on Cherry Red, and agree it is pretty bland. But that was the "rock" incarnation, recorded with ex members of MC5 and the Stooges, which is nothing at all like early Destroy All Monsters when they were really out there. That 3CD set is an excellent overview of those years. For an even better understanding of what they were about, I also recommend the Grow Live Monsters DVD which features two+ hours of arty 8 mm films that were an integral part of their concept.

I picked up the VHS of Grow Live Monsters years ago at this really shitty used record store in a mall frequented by the elderly for like, $2 or something. The VHS is 8mm material edited together with cheesy nineties video effects, is the DVD like that as well? Still, it should definitely be of some interest to people on this board.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

ENTRE VIFS "Heavy Duty" CD
huh... I know many labels wanted to put this out, but finally digipak cd of the legendary tape is done! With Le Syndicat connections, but more physical and metal junk oriented noise... simply brilliant!

GEOGRAPHY OF HELL "Sarajevo 1992" tape
Quite sinister sounding post-industrial ruggedness. At the same time rough sounds, but well composed, well executed, droning and dark noises.

BURRIED MACHINE "Aoral portion" tape
fuck! I had a feeling that Burried Machine was one more contemporary harsh noise unit which not much identity, but what the hell I have been listening before this?! Now it looks like I need to hunt down all the tapes I have been ignoring in past.... Anyone can tell if they are any good - compared to this?
This is clever tape noise manipulations, with reminding of older nastier side of Schimpfluch, but taking more "industrial" angle. Fast rewind, pause, cut-up, slowed down manipulations of very tasty and grim sounds.   

[ghoulson]

Mikko: Who did the Entre Vifs? I love that tape...

Recently on rotation here:
Ultra: Youthful Pleasures LP (Dom America)
Ultra: Spray / Death / Ultra LP (Dom America)
Rectifier: Atonement / Perversion of a Refined Nature 7" (Local Anesthetic Records)
Dusa: S/T tape (AKA07)
Aaron Dilloway: Chain Shot LP (Throne Heap)

[Eloy]

Who did the Entre Vifs? I love that tape...

Influencing Machine Records.

http://www.discogs.com/Entre-Vifs-Heavy-Duty/release/3690168

[SNR]

Halalnihil ‎– Freedom Destroyer - average noise though listenable. It would be worse without the funny part "Inhos uses Boss and Digitech pedals exclusively."

Silly. One of these days when noise "goes mainstream" we will see more of that. Digitech pedals are mostly really bad, IMHO, I don't know why on earth someone would wanna limit themselves to a company that's a laughing stock compared to others. Haha.

I am not limiting myself to any companies. The only reason why I wrote that, it's because on that record, I only used pedals from these two companies. Maybe if I just wrote the types of the pedals, etc:. it would be more "serious" but at the time, I thought it's boring to write it in that way, so thats why the "exclusively" thing. I don't even thought that somebody would give much attention to this line..

Noise will never goes mainstream because simply how it sounds, and the content. Digitech Death Metal and Digitech Synth Wah pedals - though these ones are not on Freedom Destroyer - are everything for me, but bad. Not that they are good sounding, but well-built.. hate those shit pedals, what goes wrong after a more stronger twisting. These ones are not. I know not that good Digitech pedals (like Hot Head, or the overdrive ones), but these two are perfect for me, and they have a very good price both new, and used condition.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

couple days listening to
V/A NOISE FOREST CD
It ain't maybe as good as line up suggests it could be, but still hold its strength year after year. Japanese noise 1991, CCCC, Merbow, Masonna, VOG, Incapacitants, etc etc...

MERZBOW "Ecobondage" CD
Haven't listened this for years.... FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Simply so good stuff. Blending his Batz Tou Tai era type of sound collage with upcoming hints of harshness, 66 minutes of pure bliss. You can make references to TNB type metal junk noise which ain't as much loud as they are just earsplittingly disturbing and Z'EV vibe rhythmic metal percussions on objects what have not only crushing noise junk sound, but do I dare to say ritual music type of tonality. Material goes beyond words. It ain't only noise, it ain't only free music/sound collage, just blends in diverse type of sounds. When you listen for example track 2 with LOUD volume and decent quality speakers - it operates on so many levels it makes me wonder where would be contemporary equivalents of this type of noise?! If they even exists?

[Hal Hutchinson]

ANTI-CIMEX : "...COUNTRY OF SWEDEN" CD + ' THE RECORDS 81-86 '

SIEGE : 'DROP DEAD' LP

THE GREY WOLVES : 'PURE HATRED' 2XLP

KING CRIMSON : VARIOUS LIVE BOOTLEG RECORDINGS FROM THE 80's

PIMP-AKTION-SLUTGUN : BODY SCRAP LP

APOCALYPSE NOW 2XLP SOUNDTRACK

[Matthias]

Goat - World Music LP (Rocket)
Marhaug & Johansson - Distort Orgasm CD (Ljud & Bild)
Steroid Maximus - Ectopia CD

[MT]

Iron Fist of The Sun - I Will Never Have The Right CD

What a brilliant album! Haven't heard such inspiring PE album since the latest STROM.ec CD on Malignant. Bizarre synth sounds, irregular patterns, violent vocal attacks and punishing noise. Totally uncomfortable sounds (No September!) at times, yet I keep listening. I am such a cunt for waiting so long to get this.

[Jarl]

couple days listening to
V/A NOISE FOREST CD
It ain't maybe as good as line up suggests it could be, but still hold its strength year after year. Japanese noise 1991, CCCC, Merbow, Masonna, VOG, Incapacitants, etc etc...

MERZBOW "Ecobondage" CD
Haven't listened this for years.... FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Simply so good stuff. Blending his Batz Tou Tai era type of sound collage with upcoming hints of harshness, 66 minutes of pure bliss. You can make references to TNB type metal junk noise which ain't as much loud as they are just earsplittingly disturbing and Z'EV vibe rhythmic metal percussions on objects what have not only crushing noise junk sound, but do I dare to say ritual music type of tonality. Material goes beyond words. It ain't only noise, it ain't only free music/sound collage, just blends in diverse type of sounds. When you listen for example track 2 with LOUD volume and decent quality speakers - it operates on so many levels it makes me wonder where would be contemporary equivalents of this type of noise?! If they even exists?

Oh,I traded the MERZBOW "Ecobondage cd around ten years ago,against a good trade (But anyway it was huge mistake of course) but I remember I really like this recording, it was something special. A lot of metalplates etc and junk sounds, but i was not as intense as Haters mid 90s material. And not as intense as the analogue datrecording cds in the mid 90s . And not as lofi with Loops as the Pornoise tapeboxet. Hopefully I can buy it back in the future,( I Ecobondage mean)  I think I really need to do that.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

MERZBOW "Great American Nude / Crash for hi-fi" CD
Used to consider this among the best harsh merzbows, but kind of letdown to listen it now. Early 90's USA tour of simple, to-the-point harsh noise blasting, but no way among the best.

BARRON BRADY CD's
Heard this english folk duo on one of those Cold Spring folk compilations and instantly felt like I need to get all the albums. I believe it has been years when I actually contacted directly some music band I know nothing of, and ask them if I could buy albums.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78BIwwKwnQM
but this kind of Wickerman vibe tune is the absolute best:
http://www.coldspring-cdr.co.uk/Samples/BarronBrady_EarthenKey.mp3
Unfortunately only less than 2 minute fragment of longer song.
There are some dark and melancholic tunes like Earthen Key, but also lots of joyful folk tunes of cider drinkin' apple harvesting, fishermen, farmers, whatever.  From those Cold Spring compilations Barron Brady stood out for their talent in playing guitar and staying in tune. Unlike many of the "neo folk" atrocities.
I don't have much folk in my collection. Pretty much pile of Fairport Convention and few comps...
recommendations of stuff in style of that Earthen Key song and for example FC's Reynardine track would be appreciated!
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3RMut_8IxQ  )

[Zeno Marx]

Rick Reed - Dark Skies at Noon 2005 - 3 tracks; 30, 18, 18 - the first track, the 30-minute track, is of the highest caliber ambient you'll find today - track 2 is minimalist electronic experimentalism that evolves into a throbbing drone - track 3 is falls between aquatic and sci-fi experimentalism/ambient.  Truly, and thoroughly, impressed.  Great label, too.  How is the 2LP he released last year?

[SKY BURIAL]

King Crimson, everything from In The Court of The Crimson King through Discipline + some newer stuff: Thrak, Power To Believe and The Construkction of Light