PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[eyestrain]

Need some Colley/Crawl Unit, Hands To etc.

Joe Colley
Anthem
Lonely Microphone

Crawl Unit
Stop Listening
Everyone Gets What They Deserve
The Future In Reverse

Hands To (first two are older-harsh, latter two are more Jerman-esque - almost, if not, pure field recordings)
Recesh
Oldage
Artiment
Nazha

[Baglady]

Need some Colley/Crawl Unit, Hands To etc.

Joe Colley
Anthem
Lonely Microphone

Crawl Unit
Stop Listening
Everyone Gets What They Deserve
The Future In Reverse

Hands To (first two are older-harsh, latter two are more Jerman-esque - almost, if not, pure field recordings)
Recesh
Oldage
Artiment
Nazha

Thanks for the guidance! I'll look into it!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Graveland ‎"Celtic Winter" Warheart ‎
Well, I love this album, but this "remaster" sucks.  This is basically unlistenable, not because the glitches are abrasive and loud, but because the whole time listening, you're waiting for another to happen and they happen pretty constantly.  Anyone else notice this? 

Yeah. Sucky lay-out, bad glitches. The "unreleased versions" hardly qualify as reason to purchase this one. I kind of doubt so many would buy it to listen, so not surprised nobody has mentioned the glitches. I only listened the supposedly unreleased versions and due these facts, wasn't interested in release. Most liner notes aren't too interesting either.

RU-486 "Filth Fantasies" tape
Violent Noise Atrocities 03
older stuff from this project, but not among oldest. Old stuff was bad, this was clear improvement. USA power electronics. Synth noise, feedback, screaming vocals of less-arty blunt lyrics. I think front cover is crappy. Backside has much more hands-on approach to it.

MURDEROUS VISION / NYODENE D "kirkebrennen" tape
Phage tapes
Two americans what I often associate with kind of "cinematic" approach of post-industrial noise/pe kind of things. Murderous Vision could be compared a bit to Ex.Order or such. Processed heavily flanged vocals over gloomy electronic soundscapes. ND more noisier stuff. Not bad, but neither among the best of either artists.

THE RITA "Koskimo House Post" tape
EST
One of the nice old EST label releases. Silkscreened wooden box, designed to be pretty compact and handy. Inside chrome tape and insert and high dose of harsh noise wall. I was more interested in A-side of tape. Either it simply is more wild and restless, but b-side does get into level of pretty basic HNW where.. well, nothing happens. It's actually very nice tape nevertheless, but I think beginning of tape offers more than the end.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

JESSICA RYLAN "Flight to the ivory tower" tape
Heavy tapes
goofy improvisations with self build electronics / analogue synths. Lo-fi mix, lots of surface noise, nearly glitchy. At the same time warm analogue approach and uncontrolled spontaneous feel, like someone just trying out what the hell comes out from unknown devices. Best material is at middle of b-side. There is something very weird and odd in Rylan's work, but I think her pic LP release on RRR is so good compared to anything else, that I suspect I don't need that much of other things beyond that...

[FreakAnimalFinland]

GOVERNMENT ALPHA "Butterly Effect" 2xtape
Dada Drumming
Govt Alpha has been hit & mist for many years. This double tape release from 2000 shows that it has been situation already almost 15 years ago. Live harsh noise blast in Xerxes studio is occasionally very very loud and tasty high energy blast. Then again, sound is lost into lazy drum machine beats or wanky software synth improvisations. Always distorted, but in those moments it feels really lazy. This could have been compressed into good 30 min tape. Now 2xC-47 is hit & miss.

ALFARMANIA "Disputation Betwyx The Body And Wormes" tape
Autarkeia
25 copies available separably out of 55 copies made in total. One sider, listened this therefore twice in row. Very lo-fi, very rotten sound. Some unpleasant distortion of high frequencies appear like levels hit over in bad way. It's decent listening, but not among my favorite Alfarmania stuff.

[Jaakko V.]

Puce Mary - The Great Panic

Jaw droppingly good. Best stuff I've heard from her this far. Like a mixture of some really good electroacoustics and industrial. Intense material, with not a single loose moment on the record. Quite strange and surprising sounds, and technically very impressive. But of course it is the tracks themselves that make it great.  She has managed to find this rather idiosyncratic sound of her own. Next level stuff...

[Ashmonger]

Puce Mary - The Great Panic (Freak Animal, tape): Listened twice in a row, which I normally never do, but let's be honest: it was mostly out of lazyness and not directly having an idea of what to listen next. However, listening this while reading stuff on the internet made it a bit difficult. The tape sounds more varied than the last one FA released, but after these first listens I feel like I liked the former more. So, I'll have to listen again and give it more attention, the attention it probably deserves.

Kinbakushi - Rope Master (Institute of Paraphilia Studies, tape): Wasn't too certain what to expect from noise with (rock)instruments. Didn't expect it to sound like noisecore, but overall to me it just sounded like well noise, but without being very harsh or intense. I don't always need noise to be intense or harsh, but this sounded rather boring to me. Not my cup of tea. Really nice pictures on the cover though.

[P-K]

the 4 Kurzwellen lp's (http://www.discogs.com/label/381888-Kurzwellen-2)

very dark 80ies industrial worship, analog synth & drummachines, distant vocals, one-take vibe, packaged in HUGE poster sleeves...not thàt original but just very good if you are into early Galakt H and Leichenschrei-era SPK.

[Andrew McIntosh]

Every now and then I go on a Bertoia bender.

[octis]

COMA DETOX - Concussed And Asphyxiated

http://www.terror.lt/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=255&cntnt01returnid=54

[Jaakko V.]

Puce Mary - The Great Panic (Freak Animal, tape): Listened twice in a row, which I normally never do, but let's be honest: it was mostly out of lazyness and not directly having an idea of what to listen next. However, listening this while reading stuff on the internet made it a bit difficult. The tape sounds more varied than the last one FA released, but after these first listens I feel like I liked the former more. So, I'll have to listen again and give it more attention, the attention it probably deserves.

I heard she's been recording in EMS lately, and since this at least sounds more technically elaborate, I was wondering if this is already the result of that..?

[re:evolution]

SHIFT "Altamont Rising" CD
(Cold Spring, 2014)
Received today, listened two times, it is just excellent!
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Anyone seen proper reviews of this album? Would be interesting to read. What I've heard from it hold potential venom power. Next on the purchase list.
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OK - here is a detailed review (in English!): http://noisereceptor.wordpress.com/2014/04/30/shift-altamont-rising/

I could save you the time in reading it though and just say to go buy it!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Puce Mary - The Great Panic (Freak Animal, tape): Listened twice in a row, which I normally never do, but let's be honest: it was mostly out of lazyness and not directly having an idea of what to listen next. However, listening this while reading stuff on the internet made it a bit difficult. The tape sounds more varied than the last one FA released, but after these first listens I feel like I liked the former more. So, I'll have to listen again and give it more attention, the attention it probably deserves.

I heard she's been recording in EMS lately, and since this at least sounds more technically elaborate, I was wondering if this is already the result of that..?

I think not. I think EMS stuff was done after this? But not 100% sure.

HAARE "A split second in eternity" tape
Cipher prod.
Neat special packaging, with perhaps slightly unnecessary, but nice looking patch for your drone capes. Usual Haare lo-fi layers of droning & clanging sounds and guitar feedback. I think B-side is better of these two with slow paced rhythm generated by electronic signal. Kind of makes me think of good companion for PEENEMUNDE 2nd CD. Less electric, less "mechanical", but something similar anyways.

BODY CARGO "Secret Domain" tape
Obscurex
This could be among very best of Body Cargo what I have heard? And I guess I have pretty much everything? Somehow sound appears to have little bit more clarity than usual, making small details of tracks stand out. Style of suffocating death-industrial kind of lo-fi rumbling & spoken word pieces, loops and industrial clatter remains quite same. One could be recommend this for those who like their industrial-noise slightly distant, lofi and rugged and painfully slow... Alfarmania, Proiet Hat, etc..

[Baglady]

The Great Panic is not from the EMS recordings. The sessions in EMS will be out later (another collab with Dan i hope/believe(?), and some solo stuff). From what I've heard she still has access to that studio, so maybe she will record even more? It will be very exciting to see what she has come up with.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

HALTHAN / BRANDKOMMANDO split tape
RONF
Halthan is among his best works here. Apart from live track. 3 tracks are rough, but "more Halthan" than the CD on F&V. It has lots of things going on. Vocals are better here. Samples work. It's still something that can be improved, but this goes fine in line with rough lo-fi old PE works. Grey Wolves tapes, old Con-Dom etc. Not so much of Germanic sound what I'd associate older Halthan? Live bonus track vocals are way too fast pace and bass riff barely manages to capture the mighty essence of No Remorse.
Brandkommando side is something where I can conclude that I like the songs, but sound makes me slightly uncomfortable. Too clean sound, yet still its somewhat good stuff. If this was properly amplified, I feel it could be amongst better Brandkommando stuff? People who like more clean & "mechanical" Steinklang stuff probably like this a lot.

DOKUMENT #2 - Doomsday Cults tape
Private Edition
Name says it all. Archive recordings of AUM, Jim Jones, Church Universal & Triumphant. Always fascinating, even if Shoko Asahara tunes here are very very cheesy Japanese keyboard & vocals pieces, heh..