PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[FreakAnimalFinland]

V/A "BELGRADE IS THE WORLD" tape
Posh Isolation
One of 2013 compilations, and really good one. Not much to add to comments on recent PI label stuff. Good mix of electronic music and noisier stuff.

XXXX / HALF MILE DOWN split tape
Untergeschoss
XXXX is perhaps best piece I have heard from them. Kind of The Haters minimalism teamed up with CCCC-ish electronic psychedelic noises. Some great moments when distant swirls of sounds emerges from wall of noise. HMD... not too good, I think.

WERTHAM "Lombroso" tape
Joy De Vivre
Short tape with 3 tracks. Heavy electronic drones, processed vocal assaults, I think b-side is much better than a-side.

SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS "gorgeous primitivism from quartz satellites" tape
Influencing Machine
First I really liked what there was. Fierce electronic noise chaos. But the more tape goes on, the more it appears to me like man trapped in the world of some sort of modular synthesis. Random electronic signalts that occasionally are good, but directionless moving towards next direction which will be either hit or miss. Too often miss.

[ANDROPHILIA]

Sick Seed  "The Most Hated Crime of Them All" song

i really appreciate admixture from obsessive loop from Diamanda Galas "Iron lady" and strong voices.
great

[FreakAnimalFinland]

ZYRTAX "Reflex Ultra" tape
very anonymous looking tape. Very simple j-card with only band name in front (with some graphics) and tape title in spine. I have at least one 7" release with some stuff from this Dutch Project. It kind of reminds me of what I used to do in early 90's. Not really musically, but... lets say, it appears like someone had bunch of short songs, no titles, no coherent idea what exactly to do, but just throwing all the stuff on tape and that's release. Lots of diversity in sound and style of songs. Sometimes kind of goofy experimental noise, sometimes dark sounding material exploring European heavy electronics atmosphere. While being very much hit & miss, it's also refreshing occasionally to see and hear stuff what isn't appearing as carefully planned and executed piece of art, but rather just random noise separated from currently sometimes too clearly defined sub-genre lines.

[Dr Alex]

Death Squad - Live At Leeds 4.15.00 cd
Death Squad - Fucked In The USA 3"cd
Death Squad - Out-Patient cd
Death Squad - Isolation As Intent cd
Death Squad - Theological Genocide cd
Death Squad - VX cd
Death Squad - Fuck You 2xcd
[can't get enough of Death Squad. One of the best pe/noise projects ever!]
Prurient - Point And Void cd
Sektor 304 - Engage... Forwards 7"
Slogun - Murder U.S.A. 2x7"
Slogun - Nov 16 2013 tape


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a lot Tangerine Dream and Brad Fiedel's OST for Terminator 2: Judgement Day

[Jaakko V.]

Orifice Training ‎– Bathroom Abuse, Blisters And Contusions (LP, Praxis Dr. Bearmann)

[eyestrain]

Wanda Group - A Slab About Being Held Captive (NNA Tapes): A wade through a cold, morbid psyche. Pretty dark output for something on NNA. Really enjoyable!!

Händer Som Vårdar - Depopulation (Obscurex): Doesn't wander too far from previous works, but this is easily the most rewarding listen yet. Another gem!

Stephen Cornford & Patrick Farmer - A Measure Of Ground (Consumer Waste): Jerman-esque abused acoustic sounds. Gem, again!

Kassel Jaeger's Toxic Cosmopolitanism is becoming my favorite album of the year. Man oh man.

And lots of repeats for SS Decontrol, Look Back And Laugh and Rotting Out. Spring is my favorite time for hardcore.

[Bleak Existence]

Bleak Existence - love earth hate people

[64]

Hvide Nætter - "Massernes Fremdrift" tape (Blodrøde Floder) - this sounds much more subtle and restrained that the live performance, but this is one of its strengths, actually. It's refreshing to hear music so clearly rooted in classic industrial but more delicate and laid-back, with extensive use of field recordings and quasi-ambient textures with some ritual undertones. Thought-out, well-composed and very well executed.

Sansernes Rus - "Retrospekt" tape (Blodrøde Floder) - side-project of JK from Hvide Nætter, this explores ambient territories with increased focus on both field recordings and more "traditional" soundscapes, occasionally rhythmic; however, not dismissing rougher sounds entirely, e.g. scraping metal in the third track where some vocals are also present. Perhaps I enjoyed this cassette a tiny little bit more than the previous one, but they're both really good.

[cr]

Playlist this weekend:
Canaan: Of prisoners, wandering souls and cruel fears
Concrete Mascara: The pursuit of hedonism in a police state
Amazing packaging, good sounds - great release!
Puce Mary: The Viewer
Whitehouse: Quality time
Händer Som Vårdar: Depopulation
Consumer Electronics: Sex Pig: USA Live
Propergol: Un Déchaînement De Violence / Cleanshaven
Hvide Nætter: Massernes Fremdrift
Mazakon Tactics: The entrancing Cage
Theta: Scire
Stemcell Research Project: Charnel Houses
Interracial Sex: Alternative Eugenics
Ramleh: Too many miles - Complete Singles 90-95

[eyestrain]

Helm - Shattered Miniatures (Ascetic House January Program): Tossing around a rip I found of this on Soulseek; sorry, couldn't be arsed with the whole buy-today! thing that was happening with these tapes. Anyway, I dig it. Younger has basically made his niche, and there's nothing new here really. You've got the wonky drumming from Silencer and the equally wonky synth from Impossible Symmetry, downer drone from Cryptography, tape playfulness from most of his discography and all that good shit. What is kinda new are the Troum-ish sounds found on "Dakhma" and "Gardens Of Solitude". I like those, but they're not as pleasing as his go-to palate.
Glenn Jones - The Wanting (Thrill Jockey): Perfect American Primitive guitarist. Sometimes he gets a little too straight-forward, but this recent LP was his best yet. I've been amping myself up for his new one that comes out soon.
Lungfish - Talking Songs For Walking (Dischord): Keeping it light-hearted. This was their best album. Feral Hymns, The Unanimous Hour and Sound In Time are eternally tied for second.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

sorry, couldn't be arsed with the whole buy-today! thing that was happening with these tapes. Anyway, I dig it. Younger has basically made his niche, and there's nothing new here really. You've got the wonky drumming from Silencer and the equally wonky synth from Impossible Symmetry, downer drone from Cryptography, tape playfulness from most of his discography and all that good shit. What is kinda new are the Troum-ish sounds found on "Dakhma" and "Gardens Of Solitude". I like those, but they're not as pleasing as his go-to palate

Missed this one. Would have liked to get it. Just got HELM LP in mail last week, but no time to listen it yet.
However, yesterday just arrived PUCE MARY "The Viewer" tape. It was purely luck I managed to order it. I clicked on SI forum, and while I don't watch classified section constantly, these happened to be topic visible on main menu saying "New Puce Mary tape". And luckily it was exactly the day when order could be placed. So, few months(?) later tape finally arrives and it's worth of wait. Really good one. Dirty sounding industrial music basically. Rhythm, metal percussion, vocals. No melody, no "song patterns" per se, but well done tracks of old style rugged industrial sound. There is new tape coming on Freak Animal this month, which is perhaps cleaner sound closer to LP, but this tape here is perhaps equally rough as Ultimate Hypocrisy. Lots of tape hiss!

[P-K]

Shift : altamont rising  lp    heavy HEAVY layered sound, vocals less buried...awesome.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Waiting for that one... Good to see Shift full length finally out!

NUSLUX "Repeat Master II" tape
Lal lal lal
60th release of the Finnish label that very rarely gets mentioned when talking of Finnish noise. Well, perhaps because it's more of the goofy weirdo art scene, but this tape isn't bad at all! Roland SH2000, spring reverb and two Repeat Master tape decks result at best rough tape decay filled electronics, but at worst keyboards playing nonsense patterns. But surprisingly, even then it works out fairly well. If you'd want the finnish version of new wave of USA noise a.k.a. hipster noise a.k.a. funny costume noise, this is it. Among the best things I have heard from this side of Finnish scene. I guess I should give it a try more often...

AARON DILLOWAY " Medicine Stunts " tape
Lal lal lal
Maybe to celebrate Dilloways Finnish gigs, this tape just came out. One can actually recognize moments very similar what he played last saturday in Helsinki, but never quite as noisy. Fucked up tape loops and sounds slowly flowing for looong length tape (c-70). Good stuff. One could actually compare sound style / quality a bit with above mentioned Nuslux. Or lets say other way round. I'm quite sure Dilloways approach may have been influence there.

V/A TAPEWORKS VI tape
Hästen & Korset
Another strong line-up. Winners here Daniel Fagerström and Jaakko Vanhala. Lots of other goodies too! But guess enough said about this series in previous posts!

UMPIO / TORTURING NURSE split tape
tenzenmen
I recall I heard this Umpio stuff from advance cdr what artist gave to me. Perhaps little more "distant" and live feel on the recording. Not his best by any means, but still decent harsh noise.
Torturing Nurse offers harsh noise and screaming. Not bad, but after SOOOOOO much of great tapes in recent weeks, this barely reaches on average...

[tiny_tove]

Shift : altamont rising  lp    heavy HEAVY layered sound, vocals less buried...awesome.

in heavy rotation

[Baglady]

There is new tape coming on Freak Animal this month, which is perhaps cleaner sound closer to LP, but this tape here is perhaps equally rough as Ultimate Hypocrisy. Lots of tape hiss!

Great news! Nice to see her getting released on other labels than PI so one can actually get them. Would be nice with a reissue of Success too. Already fetching 30-50 € I believe..