PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[ANDROPHILIA]

XE: boxset

- knock knock,
- who is there?
- Police, mr Tiny_Tove, open the door and don't try to resist
- I have done noting, what do you want
- we have been informed you have purchased a certain boxset from Finland
- It is not true, they lie
(meanwhile he burns the boxset...)

beside jokes even better than expectations.
XE at its best and definitely the best WRATH relase so far.

unfortunately disintegrated from pre-order so not to be found :/

[octis]

Herukrat - Jerusalem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSmpWHWpBeA

[urall]

Dusa 'dusa' tape ...trademark tape cut&splice with folk songs, choir, classical, crackling vinyl etc etc....man, i could listen to this all day, from melancholic to orchestral madness. just insanely good.

got this tape in the mail yesterday, and listened to it this morning. i can only agree, excellent stuff!

Now playing C.Haxholm / TR Kirstein cs
I had to turn the volume way up to actually hear something in the beginning :D
Some humming, minimal field recordings, ... i'll give this a proper relisten with headphones next time.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

YELLOW TEARS "The Cult Of Yellow Tears" 7"+tape box
Hospital
2010 release, ltd 111 copies. I recall it was quite expensive already then, now I see someone asking €127.20 at discogs, hah. Wishful thinking! But in one hand, it is REALLY good release. Most of all its underwater sounds. Sometimes it sounds like group of fags doing brutal piss-drowning movie. One could think a bit of Dave Phillips or Rudolf Eb.Er, but without sounding like copycat. Very disgusting, very bizarre. Mix of noisy moments with experimental and innovative sound sculptures. Brilliant stuff. Possibly their best?! I think "Don't cry" 12" was phenomenalt too.

DISMEMBER "Skin her alive / Defective decay" pic 7", good classic swedish death metal from early moments of this cult band. They became quite weak later on, but still wimped out less than most others of their peers.

BOOTLEG BILL / EMPIRE FALLS split 7", BB does ramo-punk kind of stuff. Empire Falls this time catchy punkrock tune "the KKK took my baby away". Good split.

VERY FRIENDLY #1 w/ LASSE MARHAUG 7"
comic book of noise. With Lasses 7" recycling some of his teen years noise sounds. Technically simple cut-up-noise, but rough sources makes it very good.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

RUPTURE / SLAVESTATE split 7", fast era of Rupture and good aggressive blast from Slavestate.
RUPTURE / EXTORTION split 5", humor rock from Rupture and Extortion squeezes in 3 songs of hc/punk with aggressive screaming voice. Couple songs reach pretty close to power violence stop&go energy.

V/A TESTAMENT 5x7" BOX
RRRecords
I remember buying this very cheaply from recordstore in Brooklyn/NY. Thought I made great bargain deal, but seems like this killer 1991 compilation isn't that rare of wanted in first place. Now 9 copies for sale at discogs from 15 to 30 euro range.
Zbigniew Karkowski does really nice dense collage of experimental industrial sounds. Think of layering Bats Tou Tai era Merzbow and Vivenza over eachother and you got this noisy, but not distorted, dense sound cloud approaching, where a lot of things happen. Great stuff. I guess I should look into this guys work. Any recommendations?!?
Leif Elggren does some hummin ventilation, Kent Tankred has been during 1988 at EMS studio doing nice humming and echoing industrial clatter. Phauss work with loud phaser effect plagued percussion hasn't aged very well, but 2nd track with sound collage works much better. Rune Lindblad has 3 tracks spread over one side. Heavy breathing and brief sounds of tortured woman. Nice.
Jane Studer with musique concrete kind of stuff. Often one or two sounds at once, cut and assembled into very good results. Animals, nature sounds, but also loud noises what sounds like moving wooden furniture or something. Machines. Helicopters flying.  Agog does close to that, but noisier, more tape manipulation but none of the lazy looping, but just active. GUM is of course classic group. Turntables? Tapes? Reversed sounds. Noise, with good innovative touch. Basically not far what is now being done in tape manipulation obsessed scene, but perhaps even better? There is something about sound quality of pretty much every artist here, what sets them quite different from current sounds. Voice Crack does percussion and industrial noise sounds. Really well, I may add. As simple things as oil drum percussion (I assume) and pausebutton tape edits and little electronics create great results. Nachtluft and Appi  both ok, tape cut ups and experimental goofiness. Lieutenant Caramel much better than any of his recent stuff I have heard. No goofing around. Just good old fashioned experimental/industrial. Cranioclast finishes this great compilation with atmospheric percussive sounds. Odd surreal feel. I can understand in some ways why this item wouldn't be so "hot" for most listeners. Labor heavy listening of 10 sides of stuff, and material that isn't transgressive post-mortem, but slightly arty side of late 80's network. But get over it. Worth of purchase any time!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Sometimes thinking if I'm going through phase of noise mania, when so much stuff appears to be so good. But there is indeed crap too. Have chosen to ignore less interesting stuff from playlist comments.. But when something like Peter J Woods "Failure From Both Ends" 7" plays, I can't really ignore doing comment. It is just so bad, that I have hard time thinking why anyone would have pressed vinyl of it? One side is generic power electronics with worst low rate digital effects, and other side is perhaps most worthless recording what I have heard for long time. Sound of spoken word stuff is so shitty, its like conceptual art piece testing when labels have guts to say "hell no". Apparently not this label. Avoid at all cost.

[Baglady]

Thanks for the summary of the TESTAMENT box! I've wondered if it is any good considering how cheap it still is. Seems alot of RRR's older releases can still be found for reasonable prices.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

I think it's thanks to big editions most of all. RRR often pressed even 1000 or so. Thinking something like Bruitistes 2xLP is 1500 copies, and I recall same for Batz Tou Tai, but still quite pricey. But some other stuff, very good prices still today.

Few earlier this morning listened stuff I forgot to mention:

BLACK CILICE "Summoning The Night" LP
Altare
Portuguese raw bm. Ultra harsh sound, very linear and straight forward. One could perhaps compare melodic rawness to Vothana and such. 6 long songs. Vocals are distant howling what disappears in overall noisiness of stuff. I treat this almost as instrumental BM album. Good, but I think band works better on shorter format. Compliments for odd sized xerox pasted on generic LP sleeve. Not often such d.i.y. rubbish even in modern raw bm.

PIERRE HENRY "Malefices" LP
Finders Keepers
mr. Alfarmania recommended me this. Quite expensive soundtrack LP. It's experimental for sure, but more musical than his clearly musique concrete/electro acoustic albums. Perhaps less abstract work, but as various themes are quite short, it's very much puzzle like experience rather than long "abstract" pieces from older albums. Good stuff.

[Ashley Choke]

One of the best recollections of this kind of matter was seeing drunken vocalist of known PE group having piss soaked thong in his pocket. During live gig (where was not performing), taking them from pocket once in a while for extensive sniffing. Trophy received from shemale.  I recall this must be same gig where I was caught for wearing one, haha! Swedish army male thong/jockstrap bough from army surplus section. Baby blue color.

Hahaha classic night indeed!

[Jaakko V.]

PRURIENT "Palm Tree Corpse" LP
Tesco
re-issue of tape. And good one! I have this tape somewhere I think. Not sure if there was mastering done, but really sharp and violent. Maybe unusual feature is that vocals are almost completely clean. I mean, no loud delay effects or such. Of course there is distortion, but perhaps most of all wild overdrive from loud recording levels? Sometimes vocals crush entire dense noise layer away, like in Slogun "kill to forget". Everything here is very distorted, but at the same time all 6 tracks have distinctive style / approach. I think more Prurient tape reissues wouldn't hurt. Like said many times, often these beat the albums! This is Prurient at his most PE mode.

Just got this and got to agree, this one's really nice. What's up with the ltd 250? I have no realistic idea about how much Prurient is actually selling, but is it really so that there would be no more buyers for a Prurient LP on Tesco? I guess making 500 wouldn't cost that much more.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

I don't think 24 euro price itself is too bad. This is what many european vinyl releases do cost these days. But as there was no wholesale rate, just retail sale, those dealers who bought vinyl, often had to sell it for much higher price.
If release would have been available for wholesale rate - which is almost half price from this, I'm sure distributors would offer better prices.

It's hard to estimate Prurient potential. So much releases are sort of extremes: Either intentionally too small runs or in other hand huge amounts like 1000 copies, which seem to stay available for long long time. 500? Perhaps amount that would be doable, but not clutter any labels warehouse for years and years?

It's too bad that Hospital isn't dealing his own releases anymore. It has proven to be nightmare to even try order his stuff from official dealers. Wholesale prices are high, postage is extreme for smaller orders as distributor refuses to use other than courier services. I'd need to get few "Cocaine Death" LP's, but if official dealer won't reply simple questions, what to do? I'm always kind of amused when we live in times when everybody cries about bad sales and not enough orders coming in and still buying stuff is made unnecessarily difficult and hard.

[Bloated Slutbag]

(Tried to find a Toniutti thread, noticed that he is an oft-namechecked Special Interest, especially on the wings of the Broken Flag festival.)

Giancarlo Toniutti / Conrad Schnitzler - Кулáк (camma)
Giancarlo Toniutti, Andrew Chalk‎ - Tahta Tarla

Two Toniutti collabs sounding much like Toniutti. The former would be the bigger surprise, though not upon perusal all that much (surprising) given that Toniutti is the principle credited mixmeister. The Schnitzler reworking nevertheless a quite enjoyably wide-ranging exploration of all manner of meanderings, even getting a bit Schnitzlerian electro at intervals. I would characterize the compositional style as "false casualness", so seemingly carefree and at ease and yet thoroughly engaging for the duration; like some super-genius sound-manipulator under undue chemical influence lets loose his perv-visions upon whatever materials happen to take his fancy and you love the filthy slag all the more for it.

The latter, with Andrew Chalk, is more evenly divided, given that each individual contributor was given dibs on their respective final mixings. Toniutti sounds like he's dragging Chalkcorpse through an old abandoned sewage tunnel, not once pausing through all the bump 'n klunk 'n belch 'n groan. This is a sound I could listen to all day. And have done so. Repeatedly. The Chalk side tries to get a bit more ambient on the (recently deceased) ass, but to little avail. The same slow creeping drag through dirt-encrusted  crud-snuffle. This is a (dead-)end worthy of considerable exploration.

Andrew Chalk – East Of The Sun
The lengthy Winter Arc is as Andrew Chalk generally registers in the current brain. Very nice- floating, concrete, atmospherics, of the first order. But I was mainly reminded to check this out via the abovementioned Toniutti collab and via the thirteen-minute ditty, The Plain. Like gazing into the dying embers of a fire, the slow smoke-filled snuffle-crunch, plain hypnotizing, sedate, earthed. Did I menion my Tourette's? FUCK! (Dried up) Sticks and (rumpled) stones may break my (extended) bones but thi'shit forever floors me.

[Andrew McIntosh]

All hail Toniutti!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

POLLUTIVE STATIC / BLACK LEATHER JESUS split 7"
Phage
It's quite weird how generic harsh noise piece is from Hutchinson, when I mostly associate him with extremely good stuff! Not atrocious, but still barely anything compared what he does under his own name. BLJ is pretty good here. Listened it few times and I can basically just complain about this dull way of making 7"s. Track that is not made for 7" length, but some session abruptly cut from moment when maximum time to fit on side is over. Decent noise sounds. Clumsy "composition".

THE RITA / DEAD BODY COLLECTION split 7"
Peripheral
huh? The Rita has been on my playlist quite frequently lately, but god damn what a load of crap is pressed on this 7"?!? Most impotent fuzzy crackles I have heard for long time. With some many tasty stockings and high hells, I would hope sound to be like throbbing iron-hard erection. DBC is better. To half way of 7" it's almost ok, but in middle of 7" track reduces to become same shitty crackles as Rita side was. All tasty humming texture and such disappears and I can't understand why anyone would bother to listen stuff like this. After minutes of nonsense, kind of big muff reminding pedal is plugged on, and some grainy texture comes as absolutely necessary addition. I just wonder how this kind of stuff is associated with "walls"? Certainly it is flat. I guess these days one could perhaps talk about FLAT NOISE. Wall still constitutes necessity of firmness and magnitude. Usually fall is able to hold some quite massive structures together. This release is just flatness maximized.

UMPIO / RONSKIBIITTI split 7"
Neko
This as completely opposite. Of course it's normal harsh noise, not walls. But example when grain, texture, heaviness and all that is present, but also massive dose of powerful noise energy. Very good side from Umpio. Ronskibiitti is finnish hiphop project what has people from punk scene. No party rap, but nothing very innovative either. Or what do I know? Or care? Won't be listening that side ever again, I guess, hah.  As a bonus, there is 34 minute spray painted CDR, UMPIO "Karu IV" recorded 2008-2010. Always a thing what makes me think: why cheapest silver surface bulk cdr for THIS good stuff? Noise, that is harsh - but not only harsh. Monumental.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

SPOILS & RELICS "Turner" 7"
Harbinger
I recall Steve sent me this with postits label "You will hate this". Not at all. Nice odd sound collages made of found sounds, tapes, all sorts of junky rubbish. It calms down a bit in end of b-side and really nice stuff actually. Didn't get anything out of their interview on latest Fördämning zine, but luckily music speaks for itself.

ANTISEEN / NUNSLAUGHTER split 7"
HHR
I guess this is the latest Antiseen split 7"? I keep still hoarding Antiseen stuff that I don't have. Two good tracks. Nice sound, traditional never failing vocal performance. Two good Nunslaughter tracks too. Death Metal in known Nunslaughter style.

VIHARIKOS "Oravanpyörä" 7", pff.. Fight Records, Tampere hc/punk. Need to say more? For those who like the old Finnish hc sound probably like this, but while I do like the old sound to some extent, just something quite repulsive in these modern bands. Little bit too neat, little bit too funny, little bit too Tampere.

USKO "Kullankukkula/Liipola" 7", Lahti sludge. Pretty good twin-bass sludge, self financed single. I'd hope more nihilism, more hating humans, but musically does it decent.

NO COMMENT "Live" 7"
Deep Six
Not all live recordings are worth getting, for others than total fanboys of bands. Of course I'm fan of No Comment, but also this radio live quality is tight. They play songs really well, snare is perfectly audible here what makes big deal in tight power violence face smashing like this. First they play side one on 7", then next side. Radio host announces it. I guess there was short break between "sides". Recorded back in 1992, released probably half year ago? Essential addition for any collection of power violence hardcore. Neat fold-out poster cover too.