PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[Mikerdeath]

Burzum - Fallen (Byelobog 2011)

At first I didn't quite know what to make of this. But on subsequent listens I realized the more I listened the more I liked it.
I understand it now and the more times I listen to it the more it fits with the old Burzum catalog.
Recommended.

[cr]

Played these records in the last couple weeks:

Con-Dom & Grey Wolves: Many are called but few get up
Prurient: Palm Tree Corpse
M.B.: Weltanschauung
M.B.: Regel
SK1005: Mannheim/Gothenburg 1992
Genocide Organ: KwaZulu-NaTaL
The Sodality: Orgies of Crime
The Sodality: Beyond unknown pleasures
Grim: The past is still in current use
Grunt: Europe after storm
Grunt: Ritual of mortality
Grunt: Long lasting happiness
Grunt: Terror & Degeneration
Sutcliffe Jugend: Blue Rabbit
Owl: Tapes 97-99
Mania: Ultra-negative
Fire in the Head: Confessions of a Narcissist
Pogrom: Multicultural Degeneration
U-731: By all means...
Umpio: Opium Electronix I-III
Whitehouse: Great white death
Whitehouse: Total sex
Caligula031: Bachelorette Party
Theologian: Some things have to be endured
Listened to this while browsing through Antoine D'Agata's Antibodies
Strom.ec: Neural Architect
Alfarmania: Skräcken
Returning quite often to this one, it's like standing kneedeep in a swamp.
Nurse with wound: Salt Mary Celeste
Perfect listening for a rainy and stormy Sunday afternoon. A slow and eerie journey on board of a ghost ship...

[tiny_tove]

CHANGES "A Ripple In Time" CD
For some reason, this has become my most ever listened Changes album. Listened it over and over and over again, home, car, work,.. hard to say is it best Changes by any means, but something here just captured my attention during last couple of weeks that it's been the most listened recording! Folk music, guitar + singing most of all.

big fan of changes and still gutted for missing their gig in Genoa this year.
they wrote some of my favourite songs ever_
- waiting for the fall
- icarus
- fire of life.
- universal soldier

and yes, a Ripple in time is a winner
etc.

[Zeno Marx]

Seth Nehil

Nehil and Grzinich have risen to the top out of that group of contemporaries.  Not much one for collaborations, but I'd like to see what they each could do with Hitoshi Kojo.

The only Changes I have in my shelf is Fire Of Life, which I really like. How's that material compared to the later stuff? Which albums are worth getting?

I don't think you can go wrong with any of the Changes releases.

[eyestrain]

Seth Nehil

Nehil and Grzinich have risen to the top out of that group of contemporaries.  Not much one for collaborations, but I'd like to see what they each could do with Hitoshi Kojo.

Spent the majority of my day cooking while streaming from Nehil's bandcamp. Spectacular stuff!!

Kassel Jaeger - Toxic Cosmopolitanism (Editions Mego): Nothing intense like some of his other LPs, but this is similarly pure gold. Mellow, mostly, electro-acoustic 'scapes. B-side stands out as being more "aggressive". Very highly recommended!

[Baglady]

Male Rape Group - On To '83 from the Broken Flag retrospective box.
Amazing how well this recording has stood the test of time. This and Le Syndicat are pretty much the only stuff in this huge compilation that I keep returning to. MRG deserves a proper rerelease on its own though. Anyone know if it has been or maybe even is in the works?

Golden Serenades / Testicle Hazard - Split - LP (Segerhuva)
A real gem in the brilliant Segerhuva catalouge. Rich and beautiful harsh stuff from Tommi and Lasse, and slower dragging muddy delirium delievered by the norwegian duo.

Macronympha - Crack - C62 (Mutter Wild)
Well, it's Macronympha. Always enjoyable, more or less. I tend to get a bit bored with harsh tapes of this length, but with a short break in the middle I'm all for it. Maybe not their finest moment, but when old MSNP tapes get rereleased I have no excuse not to pick it up and dig in.

[eyestrain]

Sewer Election - Listening To Josefin Hinders/To Drown (For Guitar And Bathroom Water) (Ljud & Bild Produktion): Excited to find a rip of this appear on Soulseek today! Dan is r-e-a-l-l-y getting a feel for using tape and recordings. This is way more dense and worthwhile than I would have expected; judging from the titles and the lathe-limitedness. And more exciting than the Ättestupa recordings that came out not too long ago. That album seemed like it was fusing in musical elements to make what actually shines on this lathe seem more accessible on the prior's case.
Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet - Photographs (Erstwhile): Mood, environment, time of day...all this stuff seems highly relevant to my enjoyment or displeasure with this release. Today - I thought this was the best thing I've heard in ages. Milling about the house, taking care of all our pets, making packages for the PO, finally tossing out the Christmas tree, cooking lunch, chatting on the phone, sweeping... This double disc was playing loud throughout all of this and it was just so entrancing. Want to test this in many more places - just wish it weren't so long to do that!
Jarrod Fowler - Percussion Ensemble (Senufo Editions): Really been intrigued by drums making noise lately. Added to the likes of Eli Keszler and Enrico Malatesta, this would be a devastating trio to witness live. This disc is mammoth! It starts there and slowly devolves. Great approach for a "style" that you'd predict would travel in the opposite direction.
Michael Muennich - Rugged (Fragment Factory): Way, way more intense, effected and in-your-face than the Abbitte tape I had heard recently. This deserves to be cranked up.
Jason Molina - Pyramid Electric Co. (Secretly Canadian): Requiescat In Pace.

[ConcreteMascara]

Vår ‎– No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers LP - wished i had picked this up sooner. enjoying this record immensely.
V/A - Killed By Deathrock Vol. 1 LP - good stuff
Croatian Amor - Mermaids of Jadransko cassette - I didn't love this cassette when it came out but it's grown on me.
V/A - Copper Roof Houses LP

Marissa Nadler - Little Helps LP
Marissa Nadler - July CD

[burdizzo]

CHANGES "A Ripple In Time" CD
For some reason, this has become my most ever listened Changes album. Listened it over and over and over again, home, car, work,.. hard to say is it best Changes by any means, but something here just captured my attention during last couple of weeks that it's been the most listened recording! Folk music, guitar + singing most of all.

big fan of changes and still gutted for missing their gig in Genoa this year.
they wrote some of my favourite songs ever_
- waiting for the fall
- icarus
- fire of life.
- universal soldier

and yes, a Ripple in time is a winner
etc.

Hmm. Maybe I'll give it a go - I did like 'Waiting for the Fall', and I loved the contributions to the Codreneau and David E Williams compilations. However, I have several other complations w/ them on it, and I must say, I can't even remember their tracks. Also, I thought their tracks on the split CD w/ Andrrew King were pretty lame - certainly in comparison w/ the King songs. Do ye reckon 'Ripples...' is the one to get, so?

[mdtdeath]

Bizarre Uproar - Rape Africa (CD)
A Happy Death / Shiver - Split (Tape)

[jadderly]

Blast: IIMB
Stratvm Terror: pariah demise
Orbital: in sides

[eyestrain]

Blast: IIMB

F-u-c-k, that album is awesome.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

RAXIL4 "untitled" tape
Beartown records
Been listening bunch of Beartown records tapes recently and this appears to be the best one of those. Standard, but well done droning electronics.

V/A NORDÖSTRA MALMÖ tape
Elbogen Fonogram
Perhaps c-30 ? Anyways, swedish projects including AMPH, ARKHE, MIRRORS ARE BLACK and such. AMPH is the best one of the comp, but overall very enjoyable tape!

NIDING "Plågor" tape
Posh Isolation
Mix sort of post-raw-BM and post-punkish dark slow material and you got like mix where not entirely sure whether lump this together with Hypothermia and LIK or Lust For Youth and Vår.. hah! Generally neat rugged sound and good riffs as well, yet slightly hard to relate to me, like most of those projects which bend BM traditions to slightly disturbing directions.

ANDREW COLTRANE "Crippled Autopsy" tape
WCN
Another good noise release on the label. First listening appeared to be muddy and lame, but then I realized there was actually slight technical flaw with tape. The pad, which is supposed to push magnetic tape against heads was slightly off-center, causing all high frequencies disapper. Little adjustment with knife and sound improved 100%. Re-listen and realize the muddy harsh junk was actually pretty fierce and brutal material.

ALTAR OF FLIES "Audiotory Hallucinations" tape
Hästen & Korset
Pretty much every AOF tape I have been listening, makes me wonder "why this is just (ltd 50 or so) tape?"
Perhaps it wasn't so consciously crafted to be album, but it feels shame it would disappear into hands of so few collectors. Analogue loops, noises, sound sculptures of finest quality.

BESTIALIZER "Atavistic Aggression" tape
Narcolepsia
And while A LOT of tapes I recently listened, have been so good, that they basically have topped many vinyl and CD releases, there has been some which are just fine, but don't awake feeling that "this should be on CD!". Bestializer tape is one of those. While I like many of the parts, composition or some specific sounds appear little bit missing focus. It's good tape to listen to, but falls into less memorable position, and perhaps just good reference point in development of projects discography, but unlikely any sort of classic. As small edition tape, still good for those looking for less "uptight" energy of tape industrial underground.

[Baglady]

I agree about Altar Of Flies tapes getting overlooked. Actually, I think Altar Of Flies in itself is an overlooked project. The upside is that his releases stay affordable. Great tape, that one! Kind of got lost in between those three amazing albums he did 2012-2013.

Sewer Election & Fredrikke Hoffmeier - Aska LP (Ideal)
Speaking of overlooked music. SE and Fredrikkes album from last year is such a fine piece of work. Dan being a well known veteran in the scene, and Fredrikke currently being (rightfully so) hyped at the moment, it's strange to notice how little attention this album has received.
Not an easy listen, this one. But when you do find the time and the right mood, it's very rewarding. Bleak and beautiful combination of tape manipulation, field recordings and static (sometimes VERY piercing) electronic sounds, with Fredrikkes sad mumbling being heard in the distance. One for the tired rainy spring mornings. Perfect.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

What others say "underrated", many others tend to say overrated, hah... Most often it seems like bands that person is listening are "underrated" and what others are listening, are overrated ;)
I think Altar Of Flies, now with doing gigs around world and multiple vinyl releases and such, is already pretty well received among listeners. It may not be about high priced rarities, but that's often reserved for titles with swastika & cock in cover.

CROWN OF CERBERUS "Her Everlasting Strength" tape
Terror
What the fuck? I was quite amazed that this is release of TERROR! What tape offers is, correct me if I'm wrong, reversed and slightly echoed songs of someone like ENYA or the usual "Celtic music new age versions"?! Some tracks appear to be actually build, being loops of such material, but very often it is simply ethereal female vocal focused new age-esque synth lines reversed without any actual manipulation. If it would be just couple intros, why not. But entire tape of that?
https://soundcloud.com/terrorlt/tr-31-crown-of-cerberus-her
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ_gZ-h2X9Y (reverse some of this..)
I can get it that this is tribute to artists grandmother and emotional release etc, but when it appears to be pretty much nothing but other artists songs reversed (which is like click of one button in editing program), I wonder point of neat pro-tape release?

LAPOT "Igneous Corrosion" tape
Obscurex
Tape that has some very good moments, but overall very very bleak and grey noise. Vocals on early part of first side stand out from piece otherwise not much to deliver. Second side has few very neat moments where feedback erupts loud and violent, and most likely fuzzy sound of scrap metal sounds fast and energy filled. Backbone of one dimensional electronic noise rumble is just slightly too dominating, and side long pieces feel much less interesting than these persons work with other projects. However, it does get better and better through-out the side. At some point feels like leaving out a-side, and just continue from level they reached onmiddle of b-side would have delivered good results.