PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[HongKongGoolagong]

Some live Pink Floyd CDs today;

Disc One of Ummagumma
"The Man & The Journey" bootleg
Famous '74 Shine On/Raving/Gotta Be Crazy boot now featured in 2cd WYWH reissue
The Wall live 'Anybody Out There 80/81' double CD

but really can't face listening to Delicate Sound of Thunder or Pulse - they make TG24 seem inviting.

[pontifx]

nyogthaeblisz today.

[Ashmonger]

nyogthaeblisz today.

Was thinking yesterday that I should play their LP again. Haven't done yet, but good reminder anyway.

Streetmeat - Nails (C20, Anabolic Dimensions): When I first heard the sample on the AD bandcamp, I really liked it, though it was only a one or two minute sample. I also got some other Streetmeat tapes (from his own label) and quite liked them. I have been listening to this tape several times now, but until now it doesn't do much for me... It's raw and definately not bad, but I would like it to have more vocals and more depth.

Being - Battery Cages III (C20, Skeleton Dust Recordings): This was not exactly what I expected, I expected really harshly distorted harsh noise and it's less distorted than I expected. This made it a bit difficult at first, since it all seemed a bit 'calm'. However, even though it will need some more spins, it has an interesting variety of sounds and the tracks have structure. So, while I expected more of a blast in the face it seems a slow burner (for me at least).

[FreakAnimalFinland]

HEINZ HOPF "Gothenburg" CD
pure harsh noise for pure harsh noise lovers. No innovation, no progress, but screeching dirty noise blasting at high volume.

VILE PLUMAGE "black tar jenny" 3"cdr
Obscure uk noise. Starts with almost ritualistic chanting & metal objects and progresses into hard electronic noise and contributions of regular instruments. Always fierce live recording feel to it. While it sounds like it could be something atmospheric and nice, it's not really. Beginning is like having metal bucket filled with water and every clang sounds like malformed by flanging effect - yet I believe it is purely acoustic. That's the sound I'm often doing while in sauna - thinking, where it could be used... Some chanting, which is less of tibetan monks, more of madmen in cave. And harsh electronic sounds sound almost like film projector through overdrive! Did I hear sax and other normal instruments playing later on. Too bad it's the usual poorly packaged cdr you can expect from this Leeds(?) based Turd. I like it.

[Half Aborted]

I love Heinz Hopf, like you say it's nothing innovative at all but very well executed and passionate harsh noise that is a joy to listen to.

Mr Turd has moved to sunny Stoke-On-Trent and teamed up with Andy Jarvis to make up Vile Plumage. Very good material I think. The older stuff was more maximalist sound collage stuff which was also very enjoyable but the new more focused direction is really quite impressive.

[HongKongGoolagong]

SUNROOF! - Peach Fuzzz 7", Slipstream CD-R, Delicate Autobahn Under Construction 2xCD, Reborn In Jets Of Rainbow Water LP, Bliss 2xCD, Cloudz CD, Panzer Division Lou Reed CD

I guess if you are going to listen to any of this music, it's best to listen to all of it. One or two notes for eight hours or so! Probably Matthew Bower's most mellow and musical project but still some harsh tones here in places, especially on the last title. The sound works almost like an art installation. You can wander round leaving this playing in the other room and now and again return to drop in, tune in and enjoy the tones, or maybe be bored and infuriated by it. This is on the edge of what can be considered music. Is it functional sound? Ritual music? An accompanying sound to hoovering your house? Cloudz is a standout title. Seems like he was teaching himself new computer programs for putting sound together and breaking all the rules as he was learning - very unusual textures and some gentle and tender fragile melody in there too. These are not records which get played often but very strange ones I am glad to own. Nice artwork on these records too.  

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Been mostly rotating lots of 7"s of variety of noise and music. Jackman 7" on Posh Isolation sounds now better than it did when it came out. Lasse Marhaug / Mats Gustafsson  split 7", mats not that special but Lasse's side gets multiple rotations immediately. Not as much harsh as it's just well done cut ups of noisy experimental sounds. Splatter Splitter 7" made of material what should be their demo of 1988. Never heard of it, and somehow tracks like "Hell hunts for muslims" or "Nuclear Bombings of Israel" sounds more of underground of 2008 than 1988... But anyways, extremely noisy and wild sounding mix of grind/punk/metal/noisecore. Most of all just distorted mess. Using Philip Glass piano piece as one of intros! Valium Kiharat 7" - as much as I tend to tell late 2000's punk is bullshit, if you can get over slightly too professional sound and god awful graphics, not bad after all. Even if firmly in tradition of Finnish hc/punk, some lyrics actually very good and songs have slightly more ambition than the basic 1+1=2 ysäri-crust.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

and what should/could have been 7", is the bonus CDR of HIJOKAIDAN what came with two latest CD's if ordered directly from Japanese label. I didn't, but still got it. That's ltd 300, inside plain white papersleeve with small sticker. One track with Mikawa + drummer, one track with Jojo + another guitarist. Very good tracks in stripped down elements captured with clear studio environment. Can't decide which track I like more. Drummer is somehow exceptionally tasty (compared to many too jazzy or too "rock" drummers).. but the guitar noise is also something so simple and so bare bones of string torture...  13 minutes in total. Could be a 7"!

[Ashmonger]

Intolitarian - Berserker Savagery (CD, Audial Decimation Records): Ah, as opposed to most noisecore this stuff (which isn't pure noisecore as far as I understand) does actually sound harsh to me. Is it good? I don't know, I really like the parts where there's only bass making noise, I do really like the very aggressive vocals. But I'm not too fond of the drums. As short as the youtube samples are, I've got the impression that the new stuff will be more interesting. It is an effective recording though, I listened to it this morning before leaving for work and for a couple of hours I had a feeling of disgust and feeling fucked up.

[online prowler]

Electronic Panorama: Paris, Tokyo, Utrecht, Warszawa (1970)

4xLP released by Philips in 1970.

Made public by Ubuweb. Highly recommend this über collection of contempoary composers. Mandatory.  

Alireza Maschayeki - Shur:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re5i6RPGLT8  

Ubuweb:
http://www.ubu.com/sound/electronic_panorama.html

[STREETMEAT]

FFH-Make Them Understand
great noise and vocals. alot better then past releases. also sounds great on vinyl!


Xenophobic Ejaculation-Live 15/12/2012 Night And Fog Over Finlandia
sounds is a little different then past releases but crude & in your face PE.

Ke/Hil - Lessons in brotherly hate
perfect live tape

[tiny_tove]

ke/hil - even better than I expected... after the anenzephalia tape, another classico from the Mannheim duo...
loved it from start to end.

new slogun Lp - can't recall the title now, a blow in the face

[online prowler]

Trepaneringsritualen
"Deathward, to the womb".

Tape from 2012. Shattered introspective reflections from TxRxP. Oppressive audial space, continually shrinking. Heavy emphasis on low and mid-level frequencies. Slow moving vectorized compositions. Detailed soundscape with left-to-rot buried shamanistic PE vox. At times remnant of Sarcófago vokills The Black Vomit era. Vertical, negative. For fans of power electronics, death industrial, drone, devotional music.

Sacrament & Crucifixion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2ATW0Edwec

[online prowler]

FFH-Make Them Understand
great noise and vocals. alot better then past releases. also sounds great on vinyl!

Xenophobic Ejaculation-Live 15/12/2012 Night And Fog Over Finlandia
sounds is a little different then past releases but crude & in your face PE.

Looking forward to listen to the new XE cassette. Awaiting copies. Was surprised about the new FFH LP. For once the hype actually lives up. Strong release. Interesting use of spoken word. Good to experience something different than the usual vomit the genre spew out.

Also looking forward to the new Shift and HH 10" soon to be announced. Teaser imaes look good//  

[Bleak Existence]

MUFF OBSESSION