PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[SiClark]

It's a very nice little tape.

[mdtdeath]

It's a very nice little tape.

Thank you Si ;)

[Ashley Choke]

Regis - In A Syrian Tongue (12") - techno :P

The new Regis right? How does it compare to the earlier works? Just found Gymnastics in my local secondhand store. Great album

[ConcreteMascara]

Regis - In A Syrian Tongue (12") - techno :P

The new Regis right? How does it compare to the earlier works? Just found Gymnastics in my local secondhand store. Great album

Relatively new, it came out last year I believe. In comparison to Gymnastics it's quite different in execution, but enjoyable in the same way. Gymnastics being nothing but 4/4, dense, raw, hard as nails techno with a hint of acid, In A Syrian Tongue is much more polished. The sounds have more room to breathe and it's broken beat. And the songs are really songs, as opposed to 5 minute sections of what could be infinitely long pieces. At the same time its unmistakably Regis. This is the 3rd pressing of the 12" with the other 2 selling for like 20-30 euros right now.

[Mikerdeath]

Content Nullity - Scorn of Totality CS
Unbelievably well composed and executed power electronics. Some of the most furious PE I've heard in some time. Two excellent tracks of anger driven perfection! Great packaging makes this tape all that much more worth it.

I could not bust a groove to this tape as hard as I tried. Maybe a different release from this project would do it better. Taxi Driver samples were cool but left me wanting something more thought provoking. I was left feeling the same way about the sounds...

Edward Artemyev* ‎– Solaris, The Mirror, Stalker - really enjoying this, although not The Mirror pieces as much. I'd say it veers towards new age muzak at times, but given the historical context I don't think that's accurate. The music certainly works well outside the context of the films, though it really just makes me want to watch them.

Solaris and Stalker are excellent films, probably two of the best of the Genre of science fiction. The Book version of Solaris is also great. I would love to hear these soundtracks by themselves.

[Ashley Choke]

Regis - In A Syrian Tongue (12") - techno :P

The new Regis right? How does it compare to the earlier works? Just found Gymnastics in my local secondhand store. Great album

Relatively new, it came out last year I believe. In comparison to Gymnastics it's quite different in execution, but enjoyable in the same way. Gymnastics being nothing but 4/4, dense, raw, hard as nails techno with a hint of acid, In A Syrian Tongue is much more polished. The sounds have more room to breathe and it's broken beat. And the songs are really songs, as opposed to 5 minute sections of what could be infinitely long pieces. At the same time its unmistakably Regis. This is the 3rd pressing of the 12" with the other 2 selling for like 20-30 euros right now.

So by description and new-found rarity I guess Sandwellish?

[Human Larvae]

Cloama - Municipality of Marionettes
great lp on FA, lots of diversity and a great melancholic opener, very organic sounds.

Cloama - At the mountains of paranoia
again, good opening and closing tracks, but I can't really get into the songs in between. Kind of have the feeling that they don't go anywhere. More like a badly recorded guitar drone album. Pity

Cloama - Death Certificate
This 7" I really got into. Death Certificate is a catchy ass song!

Brighter Death Now/ Proiekt Hat - Destroy
Listened to this while trying to sleep in the car after a long night of whatever. Lots of warm bassy loops, will be giving this many more listens in the future.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

KARLHEIZ STOCKHAUSEN "Beton Studie / Zeitmass fur funf holzbläser / Klavierstuck XI" LP
Doxy
Starts with good experimental sound piece, yet most of the playingtime is just "regular" piano avantgarde.

KARLHEIZ STOCKHAUSEN "studie I / Studie II / Gesang der junglinge / Zyklus fur zwei schlagzeugern" LP
Doxy
This is really good one. A-side 1953 + 1954 and then two other pieces 1956 & 1960. I guess almost look-a-like LP was done previously by Deutsche Gramophon. Doxy edition looks more minimalistic = dull, but sounds good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA2JEcCMopE

PHILIP CORNER "Italian Air: Wind, Water & Metal" LP
Ricerca Sonora
Got some early recordings on CD from Corner, but got couple of recent LP's. It's funny that often you got this idea that you should do recording -- or find someonese else doing recording in very specific method. Something you haven't come across, but certainly realize it's so "normal" idea, it should be done. And this is one of those cases. So what it is, is Corner playing cymbals in environment. Basically field recording of harbor/beach somewhere in Italy, where you hear the water, boats, wind, and other sounds happening, while Corner plays his two cymbals. Very minimalistic, very little happening. But in other hand, so much happening! No effects, and I suspect no editing. I did plenty of this with Alchemy of the 21st Century project, yet only been planning to get electronic noise (or "PE") in similar setting. Where recording would capture unusual place and it's reaction to the sound, rather than some dull line-in / usual close-up speaker recording. We'll see.

[audiodissection]

Brethren "Alienated And Radicalized" CD

Mother of god. I had big hopes for this new album but it simply blown them all away. If fact it is still better!! 7 years have passed from previous CD on FA and all the wait has been worth. It's surprising how he can stay always at the top of the game when he set such a high standards with previous releases. "Alienated and Radicalized" has to be his best work to date.
This is an example of highly COMPOSED Power Electronics. Tracks have the structure of real typical songs but do not be fooled by this...they are harsh and noisy as fuck. "Clear" and loud production enhance full frequency spectrum with an amazing bottom end. Vocals cuts ruthlessly into the mix, widely moving from brutal in-your-face assault where each word is clearly audible to more suffocated ones to fit better into some more morbid parts, to heavly distorted, to more "quiet"and reflexive...but always with that typical Brethren-style you can recognize among thousands, which i love. Electronics is a killer mix of industrial military rhythms, harsh tones, heavy percussive sounds, "nasal"synth, feedbacks, samples. All the elements established them togheter so naturally and sapiently that may be even disorientating at first listen!!
37 minutes are enough to blown away all the contenders. Highlights are the opening track "Revolutionary Spirit" which annihilates with his upfront vocals and great lyrics that was already impressed in my mind after just a few listenings. "Stabilizer Of Last Resort" is already a fucking classic. "Dawn Of Deception" is my favourite of entire album..it starts with a great manipulated sample..then a fast pulsating synth and percussive electronics cut-in suddenly coupled with most brutal processed vocals, yet clearly audible. IMPRESSIVE. I can't image the disaster which is created when this track played live...The CD couldn't ending better than with the track "Mine Alone". An heavy distorted bass destroy you like a meatgrinder and again, great vocals and structure.
I can't recall such an enthusiasm for a PE release since the time of Grunt "Seer Of Decay", which was 2006. These are the stuffs which keep my love levels so high.

[audiodissection]

Grunt "Dance For The Genocide" C60

I feel every new Grunt like a celebration so i couldn't be happier to see this C60 out. This tape recollects 2 live performances (Helsinki and London) with similar tracklist. Vanhala assistance (in both shows i believe??) adds a bit more of multilayered sound but without sounding like a collaboration or such. Sound is very thick and brutal with that amazing feeling that is always present in both Grunt studio or live stuffs. Great tape saturation add so much to the whole. Favourite part is side B with live at Broken Flag festival. That arena-thypus coming from audience explains it better than my words...

[audiodissection]

Mauthausen Orchestra "Bloodyminded" LP

Another gem of finest old Power Electronics finally makes available again on deluxe LP format. This is one of my favourite along with Anal Perversion and Host Sodomy so it's nice to see it done with such professionality by this great italian label.
Technical and detailed descriptions can be basically read a few pages back on FA review.

Caligula031 "Slavetrade2000" CD 

What a disappointment! I purchased the CD version after reading very good words around and after listened to a sound sample taken from the album that was promising. Sadly that was the only decent track on the whole release. There's really nothing i like about this work except the aftermentioned track (or better the vocal part). Sound is loud but not in a good way. To my ears it's simply recorded at max becoming flat and irritating with almost no details or punch. Samples are ridicolous but i don't think that was the intent.

[Jaakko V.]

Edward Artemyev* ‎– Solaris, The Mirror, Stalker - really enjoying this, although not The Mirror pieces as much. I'd say it veers towards new age muzak at times, but given the historical context I don't think that's accurate. The music certainly works well outside the context of the films, though it really just makes me want to watch them.

Same here. Was given CDR burned copies by a friend who's a big SF fan a week ago. I think the Solaris soundtrack is arguably the best soundtrack to any movie, with possible contenders being Apocalypse Now by Bob Moog or perhaps The Godfather pt. II (don't know the composer's name).

To anyone into Artemyev's music and particularly those movies (Stalker, Solaris), I'd definitely recommend this excellent compilation:

Electroshock Presents: Electroacoustic Music Volume IV: Archive Tapes Synthesizer ANS 1964 – 1971. (check out that link)

Talked about this already in the Russian experimental music thread...

[Levas]

Lasse Marhaug / Dan Johansson - Distort Orgasm - very nice harsh noise cd

Orquere - Foundations - enjoyed it even more than the distort orgasm. recommended

Brighter Death Now - Innerwar - since i got it from tesco, i had to listen to it just for the sake of listening. not bad, but is is some sort of masterpiece?

Merzbow - Dead zone - i was just reading things about new merzbow and never listened. but this is such a nice package and such a difficult thing to listen... bad.

Cathal Rodgers - The walls have ears - decent drone.

Outermost / cudl 2 / life as - harsh noise. there are nice places, but there are also parts where it's very annoying.

[ImpulsyStetoskopu]

Brighter Death Now - Innerwar - since i got it from tesco, i had to listen to it just for the sake of listening. not bad, but is is some sort of masterpiece?

In my opinion this is Karmanik's the best release. If this project was called "important" in noise/industrial circle this item would be his main artistic manifest.

[Levas]

yeah. it might be. it's quite a long time since i listened to BDN so maybe that's why the reaction.

Now having a very difficult time listening to Thirdorgan / Phoresy split. from time to time i must switch to gigi d'agostino and see which one is more difficult to listen to. the split wins at the moment