PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[Baglady]

V/A - Det Totala Raggarkriget TAPE (Chefsideologens Bolag)
Röset 2014 exclusive, but I guess there are some copies left, but from where I don't know. Really good contributions from all involved; Alfarmania, Broken Lights, Händer Som Vårdar and Treriksröset. Hard to describe the concept (raggare) of this compilation for people abroad, but well... Dangerous cars, grown men throwing beercans at police cars, chasing punks and so on. Loved the b-side as well. This one will stay in the deck for quite some time I think.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

CURRENT 93 "Moving Graves, Haunting Waves" CD
Coptic Cat
Since heard Muh Mur radio played song from this, and managed to buy copy, it's been on playlist. Epic and relaxing tracks that work for me best on moments when headphones listening while just about to fall sleep.

CULTES DES GHOULES "Spectres Over Transylvania" mCD
Garazel
Possibly currently best black-death for me. Rotten, grim, just right kind of speed. I consider CD version to be better than one sider 12" with 25 minute track cut on one side.

EMANATION "Under Magnetic Sleep" 12"
Black Mass
Experimental instrumental black metal. Some of the oddest drumming heard in BM for a while. Think of Dunkelheit kind of Burzum with broken beats and odd sounds, still far more being rooted to black metal than anything experimental.

PERISPIRIT "Spiritual Church Movement" LP
Digitalis
Bought this LP from discogs from same seller I got the C93 CD. Just to make purchase worth of time, so it wouldn't be just one CD, heh... I knew band from one very nice tape on Hospital and liked it a lot, and band was featured in Special Interests magazine #6 with interview. This LP follows quite well spirit of the tape. It's indeed "digital collage music". Lots of small details piled up and coming and going, and despite analogue and organic sound sources being vast, something about processing sounds is very digital. Even when pressed on LP. It isn't total turn-off since it's part of composition itself rather than quality of sounds. I think this is project to keep eye to!

[Baglady]

CULTES DES GHOULES "Spectres Over Transylvania" mCD
Garazel
Possibly currently best black-death for me. Rotten, grim, just right kind of speed. I consider CD version to be better than one sider 12" with 25 minute track cut on one side.

Definitely agree on that one. Thought Henbane was good, but the vocals were a bit too much there. But Spectres, just perfect. Hope they return to that sound on future releases.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

PGR "Silence" LP
Silent
Originally Poison Gas Research, then shortened to PGR. Debut LP released on bands own label. After this came releases on Banned Productions and RRR for example. It's one of those things what appear to be utterly un-sexy these days. You can find this 1985 LP release for something like 7 euros online, I guess. At the same time, it's really good works. Tape manipulation, percussive industrial, tape noises, ritual music with bells and small metal objects. While some stuff kind of remind early Laibach with actually played percussions instead of drum machines, b-side ends with stuff which could match Aural Hypnox kind of atmospheres, completed with neat sigils decorating the label artwork.

Sigillum S "Mutilated Terrorism" 12"
Minus Habens Records
I recall buying this from RRRecords when visiting store possibly sometime 2007 or so. I asked "when you got these", Ron looks at the cover and says "1989". HAHA!! I recall price was 8USD on RRR shop, and bought bunch of other titles like this. 45rpm ep with 3 tracks of mysterious industrial. First track of A-side good, B-side really nice old style ritual industrial. One track on b-side pretty bad and cheesy. But for prices like this, anytime worth the b-side, despite it perhaps is not for "noise fans", but those weird industrial, ritual music and dungeon keyboards.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

SUICIDE / LYDIA LUNCH split 10"
Blast First
Suicide side is 1976 demo version of track. 13 minutes piece which ain't even bad. But on other side, Lydia does cover version of song, and it's something one could perhaps expect it to sound like if Pharmakon would do this track as cover. Good!

TEST DEPT "Totality 1" 12"
KK records
Uh.... need to comment. Not sure why exactly I used to buy these Test Dept 12", when I know all techno stuff sucks ass. And it still does. But maybe listening full 12" once in a while is reminder to not purchase any further Test Dept stuff...

[FreakAnimalFinland]

NULL "Ultimate Material II" 2xLP
Dirter / 4th dimension
Great vinyl of Null from 1995. One side almost qualifies as "noise". Next side I'd rather link to Tangerine Dream kind of kraut-ish stuff. Another LP is guitar drone basically. All sides fit together nevertheless, seamless album.

Cranioclast "Lost In Karak" LP
CoC
Another cheap purchase done at RRR store years ago. 1988 release of German band & label. It's echoing and dark industrial-ambient of some sort. Perhaps little cheesy moments on b-side with piano experiments, but all in all, still effective and nice album what wouldn't perhaps stand out at all negatively on current line of releases of labels like Malignant or Cold Spring. Old age of album makes sure there are some more hand made characteristics than a lot of modern stuff of similar nature.
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFRz_22TupI

SUICIDE "Cheree" 12"
First Blast
Uh. 8usd purchase also from RRR. If that Suicide demo track from 1976 was pretty good, change the year to 1977 studio and oh my god what stuff I'm polluting my ears with!! I guess someone could say Lust For Your new album is just as cheesy as this. Maybe. Who knows. Luckily b-side has less poppy tracks. Harlem is actually quite intense. Although slightly annoying.

[Ritual]

V/A "Det totala raggarkriget", tape (Chefsideologens bolag/Raggartapes)
Great material from Alfarmania, Broken Lights, Händer Som Vårdar and Treriksröset, all of whom played live at Röset last weekend. The B-side is great fun, but I guess you'll need to know Swedish to fully appreciate it.

Alfarmania & Proiekt Hat "Astral slaktmask", tape (Chefsideologens bolag)
There hasn't been any releases from Alfarmania since the CD in 2012, but an appearance from Proiekt Hat is truly a rare thing. This tape is filled with murky, oppressive, ultra-negative industrial sounds. The start of the B-side brings a bit more noise, but for the most part this is quite sombre. Very, very good tape!

[eyestrain]

V/A "Det totala raggarkriget", tape (Chefsideologens bolag/Raggartapes)
The B-side is great fun, but I guess you'll need to know Swedish to fully appreciate it.

Like in the way that Baglady had mentioned it, "Dangerous cars, grown men throwing beercans at police cars, chasing punks and so on"?

Gene Pick - Lacing The Air (Vitrine): Modular synthesis is credited as a sound source and I was rather nervous at first. This isn't a dud that floats around in that netherworld though, at least not entirely. There's enough grit and filth to keep it fairly interesting - especially on the first side. Things get a little wonky later on. Excited to hear what's included on the split with Jason Crumer that Wendy Prodz has coming out.

Unica - Skeuomorphs (Presh): VERY good, Elisha Morningstar-like tape of tape collages, field recordings, and mic'd objects. Very menacing on the reverse. Short and utterly sweet.

Kiran Arora - Compassion Fatigue (Presh): Essentially, this is a nice 90's-style harsh noise release, but with separate recordings playing in each channel. Put on some headphones and put yourself to the test. Very good!

Mlehst - Horse Hair Whipps (Everything As Dung): Perfect. An immense undertaking at 160 minutes, but there's a healthy dose of variety that makes this easily appreciated in sessions. At $15ppd for Americans, you'd have to be a turd to pass on this.

Niyaz - Nine Heavens (Six Degrees): Following on ZenoManx's mentioning of this album, I streamed it during a long run today. Really a phenomenal piece of Iranian music and the only reason I can think that the average Dead Can Dance fan wouldn't be in to it, is simply the association. DCD has that goth/post-punk past that they wish to shake off, but can't due to a large metal-punk autistic fanbase. They also play big festivals with other trendy acts, while, for instance, Niyaz is playing a concert up in Connecticut in a few days at the "Transformational Healing & Expressive Arts Festival". The whole Reiki-guru association doesn't gel with a lot of folks, heh. Anyway, thanks for the mention, I really, really love this act's music!

[Ritual]

V/A "Det totala raggarkriget", tape (Chefsideologens bolag/Raggartapes)
The B-side is great fun, but I guess you'll need to know Swedish to fully appreciate it.

Like in the way that Baglady had mentioned it, "Dangerous cars, grown men throwing beercans at police cars, chasing punks and so on"?

The B-side seems to be a cut-up sound collage of among other things parts of some Swedish documentary about this subculture, with some sparse musical elements added here and there. The people talking (or shouting, sometimes) is an important part of it.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

BRIGHTER DEATH NOW "No Salvation / No Tomorrow" 10"
Anarchy+Violence
Two tracks of drum machine beats and sinister vocals. Not much innovations here, but BDN with its own nice style of Death Industrial.

MERZBOW "Red 2 Eyes" 10"
V2_archief
1995 era Merzbow. Studio live harsh noise improvisation I assume. Sometimes going just fine, sometimes a bit lazy and dragging. Not near as good as I remembered, but maybe currently high level of harsh noise just is competing hard with some of the old classics..

ANENZEPHALIA "Die Sender Müssen Schweigen!" 10"
Power & Steel
Possibli listened this last time 10 years ago?! Somehow not utterly remarkable release, but still, it stands out not only when compared to other bands but also within Anenzephalia discography! Listened now 3 times in row and it has very different and unique feel to it.

DAVID JACKMAN "Edge of Nothing" 10"
Die Standt
Label has significantly slowed down its pace during last years. Not much new things happening. But with such a massive back catalogue, its easy to retun to some older works. One good screeching drone track here.  Same 6:29 min long track on both sides. Kind of annoying thing to not even mother to put two sides of work, but he's known for all these 1 minute drone 7"s... Listened this probably 4 times in row, which is of course easy to do due short length..

[FreakAnimalFinland]

THE NEW BLOCKADERS "Schadenklang" LP
Hypnagogia
Jesus Christ!! Finally arrived this pre-ordered special edition LP. Took something like... 2 and half years? Probably. Long enough time to forget even when it was made. It's good LP. Quite linear with two long tracks. Rupenus, Hutchinson, Gillham trio doing what is known to be "TNB". Metal junk layers handled, but while it is good and enjoyable album, there is also something kind of modern here. Whether it is the pressure of compressing/mastering or capturing sounds, but quality of sound is slightly less tasty than on best of the old TNB. Also compositionally there is something less. As to compared sound, spinned then:

THE NEW BLOCKADERS "Simphonie In X Major" LP
Hypnagogia
1989 sound recordings mixed in 1991 by P.J. Coates, and yes. Indeed, one can compare the difference of dynamics, the subtle details of sound qualities and while one that listens it merely as noise that flows without much attention given, one could say that it's just about the same... But no. Not at all. While Schadenklang is good album, which nicely flows into your ear, Simphonie In X Major is GREAT album. Compositions that are not linear to something expected. Sounds what containt intense amount of detail and vast variation during each side. Brilliant album - and kind of shame that there isn't regular well done, unmodifier & unboosted CD available... Kind of must item for any noise collection!

[deathcamp]

THE NEW BLOCKADERS "Simphonie In X Major" LP
Brilliant album - and kind of shame that there isn't regular well done, unmodifier & unboosted CD available... Kind of must item for any noise collection!

Would be nice on Industrial Recollection ;)
Do you know if the tape version is decent?

[audiodissection]

yes, the tape is also great!

[Ritual]

Rupenus, Hutchinson, Gillham trio doing what is known to be "TNB".

Funny, someone edited away Hutchinson from the credits on both Discogs entries just today.

[deathcamp]

WERTHAM "Lombroso II" tape
Corrosive Art
Nice layout, tape with body print. Extremely dark atmospheres, the most brutal and claustrophobic Wertham release? Don't mind, play it loud!