PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[online prowler]

VA - Hatred is nothing without action. Tape extension of concert weekend United Forces of Industrial. Hard, throbbing cock. Excellent and filthy compilation. 

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Couple days of metal and punk stuff, so no need for much comments..

ALTAR OF FLIES "Sacred Tails" 7"+cdr
A Dear Girl Called Wendy
7" not bad, some stuff almost crossing to harsh noise. But nowhere near his current best works. However, I feel CDR that has 28 minutes of bonus material, is actually better! Not sure how they made choise of what tracks are on vinyl and what CDR. Also surface noise on one side of 7" is pretty brutal... Can't say cutting would be too good on that.

[Levas]

Grunt ‎– Archive: 90's Tapes 10xCD - This is essential release. Though yesterday I've spent the whole day just spinning these discs and I'm not able to comment on any of these separately, but starting from the very first noise experiments to guitar stuff, to more of the "ordinary PE" material, these are very interesting sounds. One disc was not for my taste, perhaps it was the 4th or so with quite a lot of stuff dealing in upper frequency range, and this is just personal and subjective things. Other than that - it's a whole day, full of great sounds!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

V/A "AROUND THE DRAGON'S BrOKEN NECK HANGS THE MEDAL OF SAINT LAZARUS" 2xtape
Hospital productions 301
ALBERICH starts with two tracks of synth music. Less "heavy electronics" kind of stuff, more about just synth music. Not bad at all, though. Bus De La Lum I'm unfamiliar with. I assume Italian project, with overdriven keyboard noise. Some of the noise is good, but there is also element what sounds like skipping glitches of cdr master and overall "space synth" being distorted that isn't really interesting for me.
Contrepoison is horrible. Hard to imagine this is mr. Akitsa/Ames Sanglantes who joined the "synth-pop" trend. Third track reminds me more of some Galakt Horro stuff instead of bands like Lust For Youth, but still...
FFH offers pretty original stuff. Kind of power electronics, but not really. It has vocals, it has samples, but it remains relatively quiet and dramatic. Mostly based on lyrics. Good stuff!
Kama Rupa, what I knew was referred to esoteric music of Metgumbnerbone, LAShTAL and Zero Kama. Uh.. Maybe not. At least based on this. Synth pop is what it is. As ritualistic as pet shop boys. Lussuria was something I always thought was these other guys from USA. It always felt like too much of hi-tech synths and melodic elements. This track is not bad. Its cold voice, suffocating and bleak synth works. Works ok and becomes one of best on this comp!
Prurient offers c. 11 minutes piece. Perhaps some of the best synth works what I have heard of him. Not dance. Melodies are easy, but melancholic tone, some small vocal and rhythm contributions make it good track.
Vatican Shadow offers two tracks of experimental techno, if I may call it such. Not bad either. Just hardly my style of music.
All in all, compilation worth having (250x made), but depending on taste, has also several weaker moments...

[FreakAnimalFinland]

ANYTHING'S BETTER 4xtape
Posh Isolation 20
2010 and Posh Isolation was celebrating 20th release as massive box. Line-up is impressive, and also good document showing their diversity already then. One artist per side, over 4 x C-40.
RARE BLOOD is one member of Family Underground. Drone and guitar feedback/drone stuff. Its simply, but very good for me. Jonas Frederiksen in other hand is totally outside my interests. Melodic hippy-esque synth music. Nah...
Tuft Hunter is also Family Underground members. Quite dull electronic drone. Flat and without imagination. Christian Stadsgaard doing oscillation and droning works. Much better, but still not as good as he has been at best! Damien Dubrovnik side long piece. Droning, yet powerful. Distorted. Vocals. All usual elements of DD here, and as usual, it works out. Braces is perhaps the best on compilation? It's also droning, noisy, experiemental soundscapes. Title of piece is "electric sea", but instead of waves of mass, we have here lots of diversity, great flow of all sorts of sounds. Maybe about same could be said about L.R. Its not that it would be same, but simply lots of diversity here. Not linear piece. Little less interesting sounds, though. But among noisiest stuff on comp. Lots of rumbling harsh stuff. Ashley C recycles loops, but despite slow and decayed form, also loaded with electronic atmosphere.

[Levas]

L'Avenir - L'Avenir - I'm a sucker and I like goth synth pop or whatever. Good easy listening

Blitzkrieg Baby - Kid's World EP - Haven't heard about this project before so after first few minutes I was thinking that it will be another sort-of-martial record with poetry on top or something like that, but it turned out to be pretty good industrial sounds!

Rosen & Spyddet - Springet Som Symbol - synth. Not bad, not good.

Zero Figure - Bona Nox - some punk. Not much to remember

K2 - Musik Fur Enthauptung - Really good stuff of K2

Bizarre Uproar - Vihameditaatio - Different, weird, dark and suffocating

[urall]

I'm on a small Blood Stereo binge right now.

Blood Stereo - Your Snakelike King
Blood Stereo - Magnetic Headache
Blood Stereo - The Trachelin Huntiegowk

I got some older Blood Stereo laying around, but i never followed them with all their releases. Now that i'm catching up, i think this stuff is pure genius.
Compositions of tapeloops, bodysounds, field recordings, etc....  really good stuff.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

VANDAL X / GREY WOLVES "Faces of Death" tape
Strength Through Awareness Branch
Vandal X nothing special here. I think he has good stuff too. For example "Atrocity" tape? I recall so. This is very very simple noises. Some keyboards played through distortion. Some music box melodies through distortion. Little goofin' around with guitar. Always one thing at the time. One thing for one song. Listening music box version of Wagners Wedding March for such long periods of time... perhaps not so well spent time, hah!
Grey Wolves is actually joint live assault with Con-Dom. If you thought early Con-Dom live tapes are rugged and harsh - give this a try. Totally lacking ALL bass and mid frequencies. All you got here is ultra high pitched hiss, some distant vocals, some samples and Con-Dom's phaser electronics. It's painful to listen, even at low volumes. Absolute no brutality of force, only disturbing and painful frequencies what make material almost unbearable. That's achievement!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

WHITESWAN "Insatiable Lust" tape
Wrath
Ltd 50 copies edition on this curious UK label what doesn't seem to advertise his stuff?  There's Bizarre Uproar, Pogrom and now this Finnish power electronics newcomer, with his first official tape. Two 10 mins tracks. Both good, but very much the same. Release would benefit if tracks would be distinctively different. Vocals improved from previous promo/demo, overall style remains as live-on-tape recording of harsh and straight forward power electronics.

KINIT HER "The Poet & The blue flower" LP
avant!
Experimental neo-folk of some sort? Much more multi-layered, obscure and even ritualistic feel than vast majority of old style traditional neo folk bands. I'm still kind of half & half do I like this a lot, or is it somehow little too much...

[Andrew McIntosh]

Once again I'm listening to Z'ev and Oren Ambarchi's collaborative album "Spirit Transform Me". Not sure what kind of recording or engineering techniques were used to make this album, but it has a very deep, rich and direct sound that not only highlights the different elements but the characters of each element, while still maintaining a unity (mostly due to the interplay between the two artists). Dark, sometimes verging on menacing but mainly getting towards a different kind of darkness, and it has a musical quality that feels a lot like Scelsi (although not as sombre, certainly). A great album.

[Hakaristi]

WHITESWAN "Insatiable Lust" tape
Wrath
Ltd 50 copies edition on this curious UK label what doesn't seem to advertise his stuff?  There's Bizarre Uproar, Pogrom, Concrete Mascara and now this Finnish power electronics newcomer, with his first official tape.

How does one go about ordering a copy?

What's the Concrete Mascara release on Wrath, haven't come across this one....

[F_c_O]

WHITESWAN "Insatiable Lust" tape
Wrath
Ltd 50 copies edition on this curious UK label what doesn't seem to advertise his stuff?  There's Bizarre Uproar, Pogrom, Concrete Mascara and now this Finnish power electronics newcomer, with his first official tape.

How does one go about ordering a copy?

What's the Concrete Mascara release on Wrath, haven't come across this one....

Filth & Violence distributes WRATH releases, keep an eye on them, it should appear there soonish.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

I made mistake. Concrete Mascara is not on Wrath label, but another label who also had format of tape + BIG black envelope (A4 size) with stuff. I bought my copy from Filth & Violence. Haven't yet listened it, though, but it's been on pile of "to be listened soon" for some weeks... Maybe today! I had not heard it being out, but was browsing shelves as F&V headquarters and was amazed to see this one. I don't know if Wrath as some exclusive deals. Especially first two video releases were so small, but should try to ask him about possibility of carrying tape releases on FA too...

Whiteswan is very promising. I hope he keeps doing more stuff, and also experiment with possibilities sound. Of course in realm of PE that is. For example, from yesterdays playlist, his tape would be the most recommended one..

[Levas]

Chloroform Rapist - s/t - Compilation of varioust stuff. Quite good in fact.

Bigg Cityy Orchhestrr ‎– Impetuoso - I like this outsiderish project. So this is good material too

[fireblanket]

Whiteswan tape hasn't been released yet. Artist has copies though. Will be released soon, keep a look at F&V. Concrete Mascara tape is on a different label, not the same. Will post in F&V topic when released.