PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[urall]

Paranoid - Destroy Future Less System 12": I haven't kept up with contemporary hardcore punk in a loooong time save for some Crossed Out worship PV, but this is just devastating - blown out Confuse style raw as shit hardcore played by three Swedes. Pretty incredible. I really need to start looking out for the rest of their stuff. Plus it comes with a cool poster!

Didn't hear this one yet, but i have a couple of their ep's which are great.
You might want to check out Infernoh, Effluxus, Sex Dwarf, Pig DNA, Kromosom, ... as well - these are some of my 'current' faves in the genre.

[eyestrain]

Sickness "Mudlark" (Self Abuse): Always was, probably always will be, my favorite Goudreau recording. Neurotic. Fuck life.

German Army "Kalash Tirich Mir" (Yerevan Tapes): My favorite yet. Too prolific to have heard it all, but this is the most post-punk, 80's euro-industrial sounding album yet. Highly recommended if GA has ever interested you.

[Major Carew]

Con-Dom - War and Ordnance :

The A side is good, the Con-Dom 'standards' as far as tracks go so you can't go wrong. The B side however just roars with bulldozing power,fucking excellent. Well recorded too.

[holy ghost]

Didn't hear this one yet, but i have a couple of their ep's which are great.
You might want to check out Infernoh, Effluxus, Sex Dwarf, Pig DNA, Kromosom, ... as well - these are some of my 'current' faves in the genre.

So far I've looked up Sex Dwarf and Pig DNA - both great! Thanks.

Reading Kim Gordon's biography right now - listened to Sonic Youth Daydream Nation. This record seriously sucks. I have a soft spot for SY but really at this point the SYR records, Washing Machine and some of the stuff of their later period records. Basically everything before Washing Machine is unbearable (IMO)

Anthony Braxton - For Trio - same composition, performed by different trios on side a and b. Totally out there, and great to see how each unit interprets the same material.

Nils Cline & Gregg Bendian - Interstellar Space Revisited - a co-worker lent me the CD, very fucking cool. Not as much of a shedfest as I would have imagined but really cool. I don't know much about this guys Cline but this rules.

The Rita - Sea Wolf Leviathan CS - grabbed this and a few other records direct from artist...great to get this but how to review? It's very harsh noise wall! No surprises here!!

[Zodiac]

Slogun / Sickness - Split CD

Well, both deliever the goods and i am sure that this is not the place where i have to praise this guys. Strong material from both. Point.

[Andrew McIntosh]

Coming from the same region I'm in, I'm sure I would have met this person at a gig at sometime. But for the life of me, right now I just don't know who this is. Anyway, this shit's great. Low fidelity, loud recorded, crude harsh fucking Noise. https://soundcloud.com/tttttttttlllllllll

[coinbender]

 Schakalens Bror ‎– Complete Open Ice Obliteration  c10
Schakalens Bror ‎– Vulkaniskt Helvete c10

excelent tapes, guitar driven harsh noise

[absoluten calfeutrail]

Been catching up on some vital 2014/5 action I missed. Insane postage and a brutal exchange rate for the Australian dollar means I'm waiting longer periods before committing to physical releases by mail-order these days. The days of taking a stab in the dark on an unfamiliar quantity are fading fast, as a disappointing outcome hurts more than ever. I'm finding that compilations are one way to work around this - while often solid in themselves, they can also reveal new avenues of investigation. Preview tracks on YouTube, Bandcamp and SoundCloud are also of great assistance.

Darksmith ‎'Everyone Is Welcome In My Room' cassette (Vitrine)
Exoteric Continent / Primorje split cassette (Second Sleep)
Kam Hassah 'Giardino' 2 x cassette (Second Sleep)
Kjostad ‎'Birchbark' cassette (Mazurka Editions)
Sadio 'Sophisticated Methods In Torture' cassette (Freak Animal)
Red Light S/T cassette (IOPS)
V/A Magnetic Detritus 2 x cassette (Imminent Frequencies)
V/A Map of the Interior cassette (Vitrine)
V/A Svensk Noise cassette (Forever United)

Otherwise 'Blackstar' has been on constant rotation - an absorbing work of death art.

[Bleak Existence]

The Rita  ‎–  Queen Sheets
i like the way he blend raw source with the static very much one of my favorite of is newer material

[Andrew McIntosh]

Armour Group's album "Purge" has finally been released (I can understand a delay in the release of a twelve inch vinyl album but delaying the download for the same reason?) and it's good. Leaning more to the sinister, Death Industrial side of things rather than a more rawkus Power Electronics, it's certainly carefully constructed, somewhat sparse and nicely recorded. My favourite track would be the longest one, "Conditioning", which has a simple rhythmic beat behind layers of droney static and hums. It's timed quite well and has a few somewhat acoustic sounding sounds thrown in at just the right time. Lyrically, the connection between lyrics and samples used across the album is such that this could almost be a conceptual album. Title tracks like "Strength", "Purge", "Shoot To Kill" are pretty much unpretentious and on-target. I'm only going by my first listen here, so I'm glad to hear I'm not going to be disappointed with this.

[Zeno Marx]

The Rita  ‎–  Queen Sheets
i like the way he blend raw source with the static very much one of my favorite of is newer material

Texture.  This release, to me, is entirely about texture.  I haven't felt that (to this degree and in this way specifically) since maybe Hum of the Druid - Raising the New Wing/Braided Industry (hope that's the LP.  It's been a while).  Admittedly, I haven't heard everything The Rita over the past few years, so maybe this is standard, great affair for him.  Re-affirms the belief that he is one of the most interesting, and significant, noise artist/experimenters working today.  Upper echelon.

[holy ghost]

Unsustainable Social Condition tapes: both of these (the S/T and collab with Ted Byrnes) are great. Sounds a little like Sissy Spacek at its absolute harshest and I dig that man. Really blown out, really harsh, really kind of sounds like what would happen if ou put your hand in a fucking meatgrinder.

Constrain/Wrong Hole 7" only had the Jane to play this once, really great after an initial listen. I need to go back and listen to the other Constrain material I have answered absorb this one a little more.

Coltrane - Interstellar Space. Finally found an LP of what might be one if my favorite records of all time. Essential listening for anyone who likes harsh things. The drumming is more notable than the sax, Rashied Ali is just hitting everything I want to hear when it comes to improvised music.

Cecil Taylor "The Eighth" I had to download this from what.cd as I've never been able to find a copy. Really great. I don't know if I know who the rhythm section is but the drummer is legit killer.

ELP: S/T can you even imagine what would happen if more of their stuff sounded like "The Barbarian"? Best song ever.

[AXNAAR]

ELP: S/T can you even imagine what would happen if more of their stuff sounded like "The Barbarian"? Best song ever.

Peak of their career 1st song on 1st album - never heard anything else from them that even comes close.

[holy ghost]

ELP: S/T can you even imagine what would happen if more of their stuff sounded like "The Barbarian"? Best song ever.

Peak of their career 1st song on 1st album - never heard anything else from them that even comes close.

Tarkus side 1, Fanfare for the Common Man, 1/3 of Brain Salad Surgery, a handful of other tracks. Such a great band but you could assembled DLP of everything essential.

[V.T.R]

Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Drawn Inward (ECM)

Freejazz from legendary ECM label. Pretty big band, but minimalistic approach focusing more on textures and creating weird sounds. Nice feeling of space and lot's of quiet parts. Some live electronics and sound processing too in this soup. Almost fell asleep while listening this and worked really well in this half conscious state.