PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[Zeno Marx]

i never understood the hate for 'academic' avantgarde music, that the word is often used as an insult around here (and elsewhere in the 'underground scene').

You're correct.  This is indeed everywhere.  It goes as far as to stigmatize intelligence, education, and knowledge.  I've seen people go as far as advocating for kids dropping out of school.  In 2014, intelligence and education is not elitism.  Anyway...just a weird perspective and a foolish reaction to a situation.

[HONOR_IS_KING!]

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

Surprised that no one mentioned that he is the drummer for Endless Humiliation.

[RyanWreck]

i never understood the hate for 'academic' avantgarde music, that the word is often used as an insult around here (and elsewhere in the 'underground scene'). the academia / university studios were just the only ones back then who had the fundings and interest in electronic equipment and radical sonic experiments. before that it was all chamber music at rich people's homes or orchestras at concert halls. most of those 'academic' people and 'art fags' where in fact more 'punk' and subversive than most nowadays noise people. even if it was happening at (mostly) well-funded studios the work was actually sub-cultural and public presentations caused quite some trouble in the early days.

I can't speak for anyone else here but when I am talking about "artfags" I'm not at all talking about academics and intellectuals. I personally value intelligence as well as cultivated aesthetics and ideas. Rather, I'm talking about the phony intellectuals who think that their silly scribbling or collections of photos they put on tumblr make them artists. Those who don't really care about philosophy or art, who don't actually contribute anything or have anything important to say, the people who only care about being perceived as an intellectual or artist but don't want to do the actual work to be so. A good example of this type of popular false intellectualism would be this new crop of young "neo-Atheists" who think that because they don't believe in God that they now have a masters degree in biology, as if by simply preferring science and certain philosophies over religion makes them a scientist and philosopher. Or people who claim to "live the literary life" because they sit around without a job, drink fake Absinthe and write on their shitty blog, comparing themselves to a modern Oblomov.

[Zeno Marx]

A good example of this type of popular false intellectualism would be this new crop of young "neo-Atheists" who think that because they don't believe in God that they now have a masters degree in biology, as if by simply preferring science and certain philosophies over religion makes them a scientist and philosopher.

This would probably cover most of the fitness trade, particularly the crossfitters and the paleo dieters.  They're setting it all on edge.

[Andrew McIntosh]

It goes as far as to stigmatize intelligence, education, and knowledge.

I think that's taking it a bit too far, at least as far as the term "academic" is used around here. To me, it's an apt description for the kinds of music made by people from academic backgrounds. Some of it's good - I can and have listened to Mortal Feldman's music all day - but I don't see it as necessarily better than music from someone without that background.

The term "serious music" is a serious term, and I read this morning (well, this afternoon - I was on the cask last night) that they also use terms like "erudite music" and "legitimate music". There's a definite snobbery inherit in those terms, I feel.

It is definitely possible to over-think things, and when it comes to music I feel that's often a mistake.

[Levas]

Burial Hex / Crown Of Bone ‎– Burial Hex / Crown Of Bone - very nice tape. Still listening to the A side, but I like these massive drones and noises in the background with painful DSBM sort of vocals on top. Good stuff with the morning coffee.

[andy vomit]

ULTRA - Delirious Elaborations 4CD
prior to this, i only had the expanded "roman holiday" 2LP, so a lot of this is new to me... and it's great.  just buy it-- unless you own all the originals, there's nothing new here.  beautiful packaging with lots of attention to detail.  essential. 

[ANDROPHILIA]

I'm listening to the reprints of Kranium (Urashima). Project that I had not known at the time of slaughter prod. surprisingly reminds me of another old Italian project called Tombstone.
cool vintage ambient.

[m.]

some recent trades favourites:

Uncodified / Wertham - Vindicta I & II : Corrado is great in shaping sounds and Marco always delivers in vocals - concept- samples etc....
Alchemy of the 20th Century - Beauty Of Aesthetic Imperfection: this is simply amazing!
Caligula 01 / Le Cose Bianche - split cd: rough PE from both, good stuff.
Culver / Black Leather Cop - split tape : Culver is a long droning synth/organ track, quiet & psychedelic stuff. He has a very long discography: any recommendations? BLC is more noisy, with raw loops, field recordings etc.. both very good.

[J_D_H]

Culver / Black Leather Cop - split tape : Culver is a long droning synth/organ track, quiet & psychedelic stuff. He has a very long discography: any recommendations?

Can't really go wrong with Culver but here are some of my favourites:

Couple of great releases this year - Vampires of the Third Reich 3xCS and the Plague Hand 2xCS being the pick of the bunch for me - gorgeous lo fi walls with the occasional bit of acoustic guitar here and there.
Hand of Ice cdr on bass frequencies (2008 i think) - starts of with some finger picked guitar before morphing into a massive warm drone.
Black Acid Confession CS (2007) - dark, harsh and minimal low end wall.
The collabs with La Mancha Del Pecado are pretty tasty too - the At War With False Noise CS from earlier this year being the pick of the bunch for me.

[RyanWreck]

Civilian - Unclean - (True Force/Pain Electronics 2009) - Was listening to this today on my way home from work, got stuck behind an accident so I got to appreciate more than I thought. It sounds different to me now than it did before, when I did my previous review. I suppose this isn't really surprising. I get a 70's feeling from it all. The sex isn't the usual violent or perverse strain like with other similar material from Liver Mortis or Pleasure Fluids, it's just good old fashion sleaze, the violence is cocaine fueled. It's Jake VanDorn, backrooms of adult book stores, Liverpool Library Press incest story books, hairy chests, bikers, raunch, that type of thing. The samples of odd music in the backgrounds on Side B (i believe) spotlights this aesthetic even more in my head; listening to the crackling local radio station while cruising the bars in some shitty hispanic neighborhood in New York city. The drugged out pimp looking motherfucker on the cover art just adds to this.

[Scat-O-Logy]

Forward "Infinite Momentum, Infinite Tension" (Self-released, 20 copies)
Forward is one of the rare harsh noise projects that are almost static but still manages to keep me entertained throughout its full playtime. I'm totally amazed as to how far JCP has taken the idea of "Forward". It's like he worships and fetishizes the idea of slowly forward moving droney noise and the tension it brings. I like concept albums and when the concept and sounds meet, it's totally supreme combination. I think JCP has succeeded very well on that department.

Side B of my tape has very strange panning choices. At times one of the channels goes almost silent and then returns again. That could easily be due to the recording being mixed with "broken Tascam mixer" or simply intentional but I'm not sure...

Shame that I discovered JCP's material so late. I did check his sounds when he first started posting here and enjoyed what I heard but never went as far as buying something from him. In other words, need more Forward!

[tiny_tove]

Civilian - Unclean - (True Force/Pain Electronics 2009) - Was listening to this today on my way home from work, got stuck behind an accident so I got to appreciate more than I thought. It sounds different to me now than it did before, when I did my previous review. I suppose this isn't really surprising. I get a 70's feeling from it all. The sex isn't the usual violent or perverse strain like with other similar material from Liver Mortis or Pleasure Fluids, it's just good old fashion sleaze, the violence is cocaine fueled. It's Jake VanDorn, backrooms of adult book stores, Liverpool Library Press incest story books, hairy chests, bikers, raunch, that type of thing. The samples of odd music in the backgrounds on Side B (i believe) spotlights this aesthetic even more in my head; listening to the crackling local radio station while cruising the bars in some shitty hispanic neighborhood in New York city. The drugged out pimp looking motherfucker on the cover art just adds to this.

i want this!!!!

[TS]

Civilian - Unclean - (True Force/Pain Electronics 2009) - Was listening to this today on my way home from work, got stuck behind an accident so I got to appreciate more than I thought. It sounds different to me now than it did before, when I did my previous review. I suppose this isn't really surprising. I get a 70's feeling from it all. The sex isn't the usual violent or perverse strain like with other similar material from Liver Mortis or Pleasure Fluids, it's just good old fashion sleaze, the violence is cocaine fueled. It's Jake VanDorn, backrooms of adult book stores, Liverpool Library Press incest story books, hairy chests, bikers, raunch, that type of thing. The samples of odd music in the backgrounds on Side B (i believe) spotlights this aesthetic even more in my head; listening to the crackling local radio station while cruising the bars in some shitty hispanic neighborhood in New York city. The drugged out pimp looking motherfucker on the cover art just adds to this.

i want this!!!!

This tape is fucking killer.

[anomalie]

Stratvm Terror - Fixation (Old Europa Cafe)

Stratvm Terror - Genetic Implosion (Old Europa Cafe)

Yummy.

Heiko Laux - Fernweh (Kanzleramt)

Great "comeback" album.