PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[urall]

Jason Lescalleet - Much To My Demise (Kye)

Surprised to see no one mention it yet, would probably appeal to many on this board. Really blown away by this record. Can't stop playing the b side, really effective use of stops and starts, and general mastery of the tape machine.

Superb album that has gotten many, many plays here!!

i really need to catch up with Jason Lescalleet releases, i've always been a big fan.

[urall]

I'm always sad about having not more time to consciously listen all those great records I buy - but my work schedule doesn't really allow this. It's of course good to earn the money, so that I can effort the records, but otherwise it's all just a waste of time, one could use to listen to great music/watch an interesting film/read a book. - So what about you? How do you organize and arrange your leisure time? (Maybe a topic worth of it's own?)

I have the same problem: not nearly enough time to listen to the stuff I keep buying. I haven't been able to figure out a solution. I envy those on this forum who seem to have much more time to listen to music or read books than me.

Well, I am lucky that I get to listen to music pretty much all day at work, apart from attending meetings etc (it's an office job).  With headphones I can listen to 5-7 albums a day at work and of late have been listening to artists' entire discographies back to back.  I then probably get to listen to another 2-4 albums of an evening, but my home listening is more 'tailored' when my wife is at home, noting that it will be more ambient/ electronics/ rock stuff, rather than the agressive industrial or metal stuff.  On top of that I spend my time on public transport to/ from work reading books and listening to the music, as well as a bit more reading at home.  Also when I am out being active I have an ipod shuffle going.  All in all most of my waking hours involves music being listened to - sometimes intently, sometime background, but with all the listening I do it means with anything I end up reviewing, I will be listening to it a minimum of 5 times, and more than likely 10+ times.

yeah same here. My job is being a programmer which means headphones on all day when not in meetings. And my train ride is like an hour single way, so 2 hours on train reading books/zines and listening to music as well.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Finished 3x7" box set of S.P.K. Good stuff, but again, not as good as the live LP box. That is simply essential!

DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE / THE NEW BLOACKADERS  LP+7" set
Equation
Quite good, but pretty big part of album is electro-acoustic from "micro sound" perspective. Lots of small close-by-recordings, not very noisy stuff. 7" feels better than LP for some reason.

PRURIENT "Pleasure ground" LP
Load
So many times I have noticed to comment something that "sounds like Prurient pleasure ground", heh.. so it was about the time to remind myself what the album actually sounds like. And yes. It is what it is. I got this as tape version originally and I think this material works best on analogue format. CD is ok, but I think digital edge of sound gets better when saturated/softened by analogue format. Synth, tones, melodies, feedback, screams, etc... One thinks would many of projects today be what they are without this album or atleast this band...

KATAXU "Hunger of Elements" LP
OHTAR "When I cut the throat" LP
BARAD DUR "Dunkelheit" LP
all black metal from smaller, but somehow great bands. Kataxu for fans of first album era Emperor, but with more obscure feel. Ohtar for boneheaded extremists of black metal. Barad Dur for kind of "anonymous" forces of german black metal, which don't really stand apart from mass of bands, but somehow appeal me more than many big names of today. I remember I may have written some critical words to Barad Dur member years ago, hehe, but very vague recollections from days of total hate...

WHITE VOID "We're Falling" 12"
Posh Isolation
Post Punk whatever you call this. Occasionally compositions very very simple. I mean riffs themselves, more relying on effects, textures and overall mood. Sometimes more ambitious composition.

VENTA PROTESIX tape
A dear girl called wendy
Oh fuck, what a turd emerged from corners of noise I've done my best to block in my mind. Anime/hentai/computergame/4chan whatever noise from italy, that perhaps has some talent in cutting & editing, but jesus christ how shitty this "distorted nintendo game" sounds... I'm sure there is handful of people to worship this, though...

[Dr Alex]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YynXYnT02o0
This track made my day! I listen countless times today.
Anyone knows about this band??

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Whatever band made cover songs, but it's originally LAST RESORT song. Check the original version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnoGnJ7DQJg

[Dr Alex]

Whatever band made cover songs, but it's originally LAST RESORT song. Check the original version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnoGnJ7DQJg

Great one!! Thank you!

[Levas]

Eric Lunde - Colorade Terrain Investigation
Eric Lunde - XCHDC / TapeDeathCult

Good to know this artist better

Vinterriket - Wege in die Vergangenheit
Vinterriket - Lichtschleier

Fun to remember this project.

TOMB - Third Wave Holocaust

Decent industrial

[radokaz]

Whatever band made cover songs, but it's originally LAST RESORT song. Check the original version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnoGnJ7DQJg

Great one!! Thank you!

no, that stupid nazi video has the original music by Warzone

[XE]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQJ0MPl-mok
Charming version of S.G.W.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Whatever band made cover songs, but it's originally LAST RESORT song. Check the original version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnoGnJ7DQJg

Great one!! Thank you!

no, that stupid nazi video has the original music by Warzone

Seems to be so! I stand corrected.

AKITSA / PRURIENT split LP
Hospital
Neither of the band is at their best here. It's not that bad, but still kind of album would be unlikely choice to do if wanting to hear either of the band.

MUSHROOMS PATIENCE "From the mountain" LP
Hauruck
I recall cd and lp versions of the album were almost completely different? Some neofolk, but mostly odd experimental music. Nothing too amazing, but occasionally decent listening.

GRUNTSPLATTER "The Passions of a cripple" LP
Force of Nature
Gruntsplatter seems to be quite low profile unit these days. Several releases on his discography, but rarely see him mentioned? I guess his sound was not in right place right tape. Nowadays people who worship for example later days SHIFT could find this very good. Some highly distorted soundscapes, but still maintaining slow and heavy quality of industrial-esque feel. Slow but extreme vocal delivery as well. There is something in band, why it never makes total impact. Could it be presentation? I don't see much consitency in his releases in artwork and stuff like this LP is quite unpleasant...

V/A HATRED IS NOTHING WITHOUT ACTION tape
United Forces of Industrial
Very good compilation that has bands of this festival on one tape. Exclusive material, and very strong contributions from pretty much everybody who are occasionally hit & miss. Overall sound of the tape seems like it's mastered through one LOUD set up, or simply result of all-on-red dubbing of tape. Certain blown-up character of sound reminds of style how labels like MSNP wouldn't be shy about boosting release to be loud sounding. For me, stand out tracks are BLACK INSIGNIA's first track and HUMAN LARVAE just to mention two. Essential comp to grab to hear current forces in their active moment and without veils of nostalgia.

[ConcreteMascara]

V/A HATRED IS NOTHING WITHOUT ACTION tape
United Forces of Industrial
Very good compilation that has bands of this festival on one tape. Exclusive material, and very strong contributions from pretty much everybody who are occasionally hit & miss. Overall sound of the tape seems like it's mastered through one LOUD set up, or simply result of all-on-red dubbing of tape. Certain blown-up character of sound reminds of style how labels like MSNP wouldn't be shy about boosting release to be loud sounding. For me, stand out tracks are BLACK INSIGNIA's first track and HUMAN LARVAE just to mention two. Essential comp to grab to hear current forces in their active moment and without veils of nostalgia.

Only listened to the A-side of this myself, but that Human Larvae track is excellent. The synth line is so blown out and ripping. Reminds me a bit of early Genocide Organ. And the STAB Electronics track is one of the best I've heard from him.

listening to:
Musta Surma / Bloodhammer / Annihilatus - Christian Holocaust LP - didn't click with me so much last summer when i got it, but i pulled it out again over the weekend and having really been enjoying it. Musta Surma have that classic Finnish style, but Bloodhammer and Annihilatus bring forth much cruder material to get the head banging. great music for this ridiculous July heat.

Incriminated - The Promise of Worse to Come mp3s - Incriminated is a band that never clicked with me before, which surprises me because i like pretty much everything else Harold Mentor has done. decided to download some stuff i hadn't heard and give it another shot. this album really hits the mark for me, more so than their earlier stuff that i've heard. the monotonous tempos and vocals really make the RfR connection much more clear. glad i gave this band another listen!

[eyestrain]

Fejhed - Fejhed (Chondritic Sound): Surprised to have not seen this mentioned yet; Jesse from Hoax and Miss Puce Mary in collaboration. Unsurprisingly, there's a definite praise of the titans of German PE, although, this time, it isn't the most obvious references. I'd be so bold as to say that this is greater than either artist's regarded works. Good stuff!
Matteo Uggeri - Untitled Winter (Scissor Tail Editions): Varied, dense work that's somewhere between múm and Jeph Jerman.
Duane Pitre & Cory Allen - The Seeker And The Healer (Students Of Decay): I was expecting yet another Pitre-esque drone jaunt - never a bad thing - but, at least on the A-side, you get a hectic and tense assemblage of flute, piano, 49-stringed drone instrument from Allen, and Pitre's signature eastern-tinged drone. Lush, varied, and the perfect accompaniment to my day.
Matt Krefting - Lymph Est (Kye): Not much of a variation on Krefting's craft, but this is easily the most accomplished work I've heard from him yet. A flood of tape music and home recordings mingle together into an enigmatic and beautiful album.
Semilanceata - Til Fæmpte Likamans Træd (N/A): Utterly eclectic "folk music" (i.e., composed of acoustic guitar, hand percussion and harmonium) that is at least as weird as anything I could expect coming from the mind behind Wulkanaz.
raison d'être - Mise En Abyme (Transgredient): Easily the best work I've heard from Peter Andersson. Less industrial, more dismal and secular sacral muzak. Hangs on by a very fine thread without ever becoming boring or generic.
Matt Baldwin - Golden Twins (Sloow Tapes): Forever shedding his early skin of American primitive guitar, Baldwin is just getting weirder and (occasionally) better. A-side is comprised of a kosmiche jam that is nothing too unfamiliar for Baldwin listeners. B-side quickly descends into a beachland swash of distortion and echo. Hypnotic and instense. Can't say I'll come back often, but still rather enjoyable.
Maxwell August Croy & Sean McCann - I  (Students Of Decay): Gorgeous and engaging assemblage of koto and McCann's neoclassical composition. One of my favorite's of '14.

[Levas]

Eric Lunde - CandyhOle - good, but as with other releases, not shining through

Ethnic Acid - Power-Works 1986-88 - great double CD. Recommended

[FreakAnimalFinland]

I-C-K "Les Actions Rétro-Actives" LP
La Nouvelle Alliance
Nothing too special here. Retro industrial stuff from 2001-2006. Kind of good in occasion, but also lots of useless tracks. Got bunch of other stuff from project too, but never made big impact.

UN-KOMMUNITI "Black Dwarf Wreckordings" 4xLP
VOD
Got bunch of bootleg copies of various old tapes and well as the one and only 7" they did, but still having this kind of anthology of selected tracks from 1983-1985 works well! At best - or lets say, noisiest, it's not far from glory days of RAMLEH or such, but there is also plenty of tracks more based on industrial rhythms. Good stuff and one of the best VOD boxes, I guess!

[ImpulsyStetoskopu]

Some free time on vacation, so few, short impressions about the last monthly arrivals

VA: WE HATE YOU (A Small Tribute To Throbbing Gristle) (Jazzassin Records 1997) CD+7 "EP
I had it as copy on tape earlier and always I have wanted to possess original release.  Very good compilation release dedicated to glory of TG myth... Probably the best which I know.

Daniel MENCHE "Hymns For Sliced Velocities" (Tesco Organisation 1996) 12" EP 45 RPM
Good but nothing special. I know better his releases.

NO NECK BLUES BAND "Re: "Mr. A Fan..."" (Trade Mark Of Quality 1999) LP
A crap. This band has much more better releases. Don't buy it!

VA: INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC: WARSAW AUTUMN 1956-1981 (Polskie Nagrania Muza 1981) 10 x LP
Nothing on DISCOGS about this huge, massive LP box. Very rare but worth to have it. Academic, sometimes to much classic, but still important to understand the whole phenomenon of experimental music.

VA: SLAVE ANT RAID (Sound Of Pig 1984) cassette
Probably the first release on MARGOLIS' label. Many unknown for me artists... Mainly old school industrial, weird rock avantgarde in childish/absurdish style. Sometimes too primitive sound but still very good document of cassette culture.

MARS "Rehearsal Tapes And Alt-Takes NYC 1976-1978" (Anòmia 2013) 3 x cassette box
I didn't know this band and Spanish label before. Both highly recommended! It seems this band was a true pioneer of "no wave" genre... They used many industrial agents in their music though sometimes quality of sound isn't satisified. Anyway still worth have it!

VA: Baku: Symphony Of Sirens - Sound Experiments In The Russian Avant Garde (ReR Megacorp 2009) 2 x CD + book
Highly recommended release! Very good documentad in music and interesting texts and uknown photos. Shame not to have...

XEEROX "1979 - 1981 Recuerdo Espectral De Un Viejo Decorado Eléctrico" (Anòmia 2013) LP
I didn't know this band before. Interesting mix-up of industrial, punk rock and some experimental sounds. Worth have it!

PROBLEMIST "9 Times Sanity" (Sordide Sentimental 1984) LP
Classic. Finally as original release in my private collection. Memories have come back...

VA: CALIFORNIA (Troniks / RRRecords / Ground Fault Recordings 2006) 10 x LP
Unfortunately, this isn't good compilation. Most of recordings is piece of shit. Probably only GX Jupitter-Larsen's track defends itself... Not recommended!