PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[FreakAnimalFinland]

GUNK "Dust" tape
Gunk#1
Tape of finnish cellar junk from 2012. It's sort of lo-fi version of what they have done on LP's. Packaged in regular tape box, with xeroxed transparent film as J-card. More tape hiss, less aggressive junk than recent second album. But 4 guys in some cellar, carving sounds from physical objects. Occasionally this could pass as some of those rougher ritual noise things, where someone in sewers is using screeching bows and other objects. But no. Nice tape. Not a classic, but nice.

V/A CIVIC OCCULT BIOLOGY tape
Hospital Productions
Withdrawal Method, Covered In Sand, Laureate, Ahlzagailzehguh, Terrorism and Exploring Jezebel on this. Not sure exactly what each band is. Lots of side projects of someone. Not all of this tape is phenomenal or even that good, but it has good stuff. Ahlzagailzehguh might not be at his best here, but always delivers, nevertheless! Perhaps best stuff on compilation is project called: Terrorism. I see two tapes are done, one Hospital and Tour De Garde. One could think maybe this is either label boss secret side project or their collaboration? At least it sounds like mr. Fernow, if you ask me. And if it is, I wonder why not put it under Prurient as vocals, raw noises and being noise, but not the typical "pedal harsh noise", but something else..  work very well into that direction where Prurient has been. Exploring Jezebel is Fernow, and with beats and electronics, what could as well be under later days Prurient. Slow tempo, simple pulsating beat and high pitched electronic signals on top. But I guess many are happy to do low profile "secret" side projects when their main bands have too big discographies and too many expectations and attention, hah...

[sterilization]

Terrorism is a dude named Arthur Rizsk who plays in some terrible metal core band and also runs Solomon's Gate studio.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Cheers for info. This track was among highlights on tape for me.

[sterilization]

Agreed. I really enjoyed the noisecore style of the first cassette on hospital, but I might like the experimental style featured on the comp even more so. I have not yet heard the tape on tour de garde, but I hope it's more in line with the comp material.
I heard a rumor that he is also one half of endless humiliation along with Robert jurgenson of air conditioning, though I cannot say for certain.

[blackoperations]

have no fear! 'jebel tariq' is totally along the lines 'hand of fatima' which is possibly my favourite muslimgauze. similar instrumentation, drum patterns, bass, etc. certainly both of these would be in my top 5 favourite muslimgauze. the best track for me on 'hand of fatima' is the 2nd 'mint tea with gaddafi' - booming bass line and the whole thing just rolls like a constant loop with glitchy interruptions. absolutely love it.

Muslimgauze - Hand of Fatima 1999 - title track is mesmerizing.

Always found Jebel Tariq to be incredibly similar to this stylistically. My favorite of the two also, but only marginally. Very similar samples used. It's got that dub-heavy bass, spasmodic hand drums, raw chanting. This one has a lot more focus on flute (whatever the proper name of the instrument is...I don't know). Contains one of the best covers/inserts of any Muslimgauze I've ever seen. Also agree that "Hand of Fatima" is a killer track.

I will definitely give that a go.  I'm wary of anything post-1998 because of how truly awful it can be.  I need strong recommendations to move beyond there.  I'd prefer to leave my fascination intact, and with each dogshit release I hear, a little gets whittled away.

[Dr Alex]

John Wiese - Circle Snare cd (long long time this cd was on my shelf but I never listen to it until 2 days ago. This is amazing mixture of quiet noise and harsh (let's call it) cut-ups. Quite unusual for my ears but I like it. Anyone can spread more words about this?)
[FUCK no fun for putting cd in the plastic sleeves. Every goddamn cds from no fun that have is damaged because that fucking plastic sleeve!]

Viodre - Interpol Alchemi cd (same thing with John Wiese cd but this more common with my "musical taste". Now I know why Dom F. and other people glorify this album so much. Brilliant! p.s.best way to listen this during early morning with coffee. Do nothing except drinking coffee and listening)

V.A. - Hard Panning cd (I wasn't so much in cut-ups before I discover Kubota and Endo, of course. Sergi sent me this in his last package it's blown me away. Highlights are mentioned artists and unknown artist on the end of cd. Definitely a must have compilation!)

[Zeno Marx]

Zoviet France online edits:

"E18" 7:48 (2011) - sounds like the beginning of Kraftwerk's "Ruckzuck" crossed with a Konono N°1 edit - that description is better than the track actually is - OK, but not great.

"A Duck in the Tree 2013-11-23 this edition consists entirely of unreleased alternative versions and unused recordings from the album sessions 'The Tables are Turning' album" 59:44 - a little rough, and though edits, I expected it to flow more evenly - worth having and hearing - the type of manipulations you would expect to hear from them at this stage.
http://zovietfrance.podbean.com/e/a-duck-in-a-tree-2013-11-23-twice-turned/

"Live at Incubate, Poppodium 013, Tilburg 18.09.11 [SoundCloud release]" 59:00 - a high VBR bit rate - more of their contemporary manipulations, but more cohesive - at times, it felt like a very polished Hands To recording, which makes sense because, in ways, they do run parallel - in the final ten minutes, it also felt like the wartime field recordings you find on the Arsenije Jovanovic/Ivana Stefanovic split CD - a very nice listen and probably deserved an official release, but when considering their performances, that might often be the case, so who's going to make that call?

[RyanWreck]

V/A CIVIC OCCULT BIOLOGY tape
Hospital Productions
[snip]....Perhaps best stuff on compilation is project called: Terrorism. I see two tapes are done, one Hospital and Tour De Garde. One could think maybe this is either label boss secret side project or their collaboration? At least it sounds like mr. Fernow, if you ask me. And if it is, I wonder why not put it under Prurient as vocals, raw noises and being noise, but not the typical "pedal harsh noise", but something else..  work very well into that direction where Prurient has been....[snip]

Terrorism is a dude named Arthur Rizsk who plays in some terrible metal core band and also runs Solomon's Gate studio.

I assume that this is the same Terrorism who released the "Skyguide" tape? I remember that being totally Noisecore with some Black Metal underpinnings, and the TDG release sample I heard was also very Noisecore oriented. Is he just doing Harsh Noise now? Whatever the case it's awesome that they are still putting material out really underrated project.


*edit* Just heard that new track from the V/A and it sure is very different from the other material he has put out under the moniker (here is a track for "Skyguide" as a reference for those who hadn't heard the earlier stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdNmjbyHILE  ). The new track is a pretty nice piece of slowly building mid-range hiss, well placed samples and great whispered raspy vocals.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

great whispered raspy vocals.

Which made me think of Prurient... Gutter mid range hiss & whispered vocals.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

HAARE "Exogenesis (in two parts)" tape
Abgurd
Recorded back in 2008, released 2010.. or was it even then? I recall quite delayed. Haare in 2008 was very strong. Well, I guess he has always been! But has the pace been slowing down significantly? Or do I just feel like it. To me feels like its been pretty long since Freak Animal put out his stuff, and looking discogs, he has couple things out since? Muddy, lo-fi, gutter drone. Always great sound quality filled with atmosphere of raw tape deck recording, yet layered a bit to keep things interesting and always on the move. No loops, no quick edits etc. Just droning on slow pace and keeping its surprisingly "industrial" type of sound moving on.

SEWER ELECTION & PUCE MARY "Masks Are Aids" tape
Total Black
Good tape. When I think about what SE and PM has done on their solo works in recent times.. 1+1=2. That's about it. But despite pretty much zero surprises, fact that tape simply is good, it's good. Instant few times flipped sides and appreciated how well balance of rough processed field recordings work with more industrial-noise approach.

Liebestod  "Liebestod" tape
Jesse Sanes know from band called Hoax, which apparently is this... hmm.. youth attack kind of scene? I actually might have some of that stuff. This is kind of industrial-noise type of stuff what you could perhaps expect even from Puce Mary?!? It've good stuff to listen to, although all the metal junk sounds feels as if he uses very small objects with thin and tinny sound. But good stuff nevertheless! Would be interested to check out if he got anything else. I only noticed that he has done live gigs!? Anyone more familiar with project?

[DBL]

SEWER ELECTION & PUCE MARY "Masks Are Aids" tape
Total Black
Good tape. When I think about what SE and PM has done on their solo works in recent times.. 1+1=2. That's about it. But despite pretty much zero surprises, fact that tape simply is good, it's good. Instant few times flipped sides and appreciated how well balance of rough processed field recordings work with more industrial-noise approach.

Will Freak Animal be distributing this?

[sterilization]

Liebestod  "Liebestod" tape
Jesse Sanes know from band called Hoax, which apparently is this... hmm.. youth attack kind of scene? I actually might have some of that stuff. This is kind of industrial-noise type of stuff what you could perhaps expect even from Puce Mary?!? It've good stuff to listen to, although all the metal junk sounds feels as if he uses very small objects with thin and tinny sound. But good stuff nevertheless! Would be interested to check out if he got anything else. I only noticed that he has done live gigs!? Anyone more familiar with project?

I'm not a fan of his "real" band hoax, but I like this tape pretty well. As far as I know, this is his debut and only release under the name, but he does have another tape out from a project called fejhed (duo with puce mary, lol) that is really really good.

[metalpunk]

That SEWER ELECTION & PUCE MARY tape is true gem to my taste! Really good one!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

SEWER ELECTION & PUCE MARY "Masks Are Aids" tape distribution... not sure yet.

Gave Liebestod  "Liebestod" tape more time. It's good. Not phenomenal yet, perhaps most of all due tinny sounds of metal percussions, but most definitely worth to grab.

TRERIKSRÖSET "Heteronormativ musik" tape
Solid harsh noise attack in style of Treriksröset. Feels quite like live session with few cuts. Very direct and crunchy sound, which keeps things very simple and to the point.

V/A "NOISECORE PROLAPSE" tape
Untergeschoss
Noisecore attacks from Horsesextube, Funeral Mongoloids, Penis Geysir and most of all this long lost Finnish atrocity: Gore Angel demos from 1989!! I remember years ago when trying to track down earliest Finnish noisecore stuff, and while Aunt Mary had been doing stuff around those time, first demo was more hc/punk. Noisecore emerged in.. '91. Recall I was mentioned Kohina did their demos before Aunt Mary noisecore stuff, and then contacted Kohina member and he had long ago lost all his copies, but also confirmed that before Kohina there was Gore Angel and also mentioned some other project. Anyways, Gore Angel was two guys of Xysma, doing just utmost noisecore crap stuff, with two guys yelling and growing and sort of guitar noise on the back. One would assume it's tape deck with two mic inputs and that's probably it? By no means, we can call this spectacular moment in history on underground music, but those who like crap a'la Minch, Crawl Noise, and such will be entertained by youthful goofiness. That's basically true for entire tape, despite I assume instead of "youth", at least partly, this is work of grown up family men, HAHA!

V/A "UNTERGESCHOSS vol 2" tape
Untergeschoss
Decent comp tape. Noise, power electronics, lo-fi rhythms, keyboards+noise kind of stuff. For me, despite little louse live sound, Streetmeat is the winner here. Their track could have more ripping overall sound, but as it is, already good "trad" PE assault. It's strange compilation in a way that line-up appears so random. All sorts of different international projects/sideprojects/obscurities thrown together, including Slovakia noisecore. As it evades all thematic, geographic, stylistic expectations, it's "just a compilation". Good to have those things around too.

[cr]

PSYCHOSADIST: Crawlspace C20 (Hiisi Productions)
"Impressive debut release from a new deutsche pe/noise artist. Crawlspace is great mixture of noise and power electronics with all crushing sound and screaming vocals." - Label description.
Not much to add, but after the first listening session, I already like this one a lot. Highly recommended!