PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[FreakAnimalFinland]

37 PINK "Corrective Justice" tape
Extreme
Obscure mid 80's postmortem. Very little information anywhere. I got this tape on Extreme label's pro-tape (white tape with bodyprints), but it seems like tape is little too short for the material. I know this tape also exists as Greyscale label version who's address is on cover. Well, minimal artwork on cover, hanged negro emerges when you fold J-card further. Rugged drum machine beats, raw electronics, overall somewhat structured songs. Not "PE", but this overall rough and fierce old school tape industrial.

THULE SOCIETY "Wiesthor" tape
Zero Cabal
I was recently mentioned there is one label planning for CD re-issue of this. Good! One of the many Ulex Xane's. B-side has fierce electronic signal that goes beyond irritating, but overall this is quite laid back and atmospheric recordings. Field recordings. Document sounds? Kind of sound collage for occult nazi mysticism.

SEX WHOLLY BELIEF / SEX HOLY DISBELIEF "inorganic" tape
Extreme
This is project of guy who runs Extreme label after Ulex. A-side is pretty minimal, but B-side gets really good. It's just couple droning electronic signals, pitching up and down, sometimes reminding even KK Null early 90's works, but from mid 80's tape-industrial perspective, hehe.. Hard to describe, but good stuff.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

ALTAR OF FLIES "The Creeping Unknown" tape
Hästen & Korset
I'm still waiting the latest LP to arrive here. Should be on it's way. Meanwhile, checking this tape from 2008, and question emerges: Why there isn't that many AOF reissues? Nobody asked? AOF doesn't want to do them? I can't be sure, but my assumption is that there could be people who'd like to hear these things. At least should be. AOF on this tape is without animal sounds. Without sounds of kids. Not any kind of "familyman locked in house" vibe (hehe...), but it sounds like walking on thin line of old school industrial noise vs. experimental music. Rough, oppressive, grim, but not aggressive. Experimental, but not goofy or that "playful". Great tape.

URE THRALL "It's All Yer' In" tape
Discorporeality
I have no memory traces how and when I have got this. Release dates back to 1995, but is collection of very earliest Ure Thrall stuff from 1985. All I have from him, at least what I can remember, is CD on Tesco. That CD was reissue as well, but 10 years later material. I remember it was ok, but perhaps more based on middle eastern terror themes than musical qualities? Well, that is 15 years ago, so don't remember that well. Perhaps time to dig that CD from shelves... Anyways, this tape, being so early works, is different. It makes me think now what Zeno Marx was talking on "economy / tapes" topic about recourcefullness. This guy, known also as member of Voice of Eye, seems not to have almost anything what would make possible to make music. On thanks list he thanks couple guys for helping out (with gear). Two tape decks and microcassette recorder in use, guy managed to pull sound quite well known from 80's tape industrial scene. Drum machine beats, blunt tape manipulations, odd noises, sound collages. Probably something recorded on microcassette walkman and then processed further. Or processed? With literally no equipment, one just had to have few ideas how to cope with the utmost minimalism. While this tape is certainly not any industrial classic, it is still exactly the kind of stuff I can listen pretty much all day everyday. As it somehow captures the essence of work based on decent ideas, rather than enabling abundance of possibilities.

[urall]

ALTAR OF FLIES "The Creeping Unknown" tape
Hästen & Korset
I'm still waiting the latest LP to arrive here. Should be on it's way. Meanwhile, checking this tape from 2008, and question emerges: Why there isn't that many AOF reissues? Nobody asked? AOF doesn't want to do them? I can't be sure, but my assumption is that there could be people who'd like to hear these things. At least should be. AOF on this tape is without animal sounds. Without sounds of kids. Not any kind of "familyman locked in house" vibe (hehe...), but it sounds like walking on thin line of old school industrial noise vs. experimental music. Rough, oppressive, grim, but not aggressive. Experimental, but not goofy or that "playful". Great tape.

Jup, listening now to the 'Emeriten' tape again which is from around the same release year i think, and it's so good it's a shame that this is ltd to 50 copies. I do however enjoy his "familyman locked in house" stuff as i can relate to that :D

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Well, as said, yet to hear bad AOF.. just so many animals/kids kind of things - at least it felt like it.

SUTCLIFFE JUGEND "Masks" CD
Old Europe Cafe
At first I was feeling like this would be really good. Electronics starts fine and vocals start pretty fierce distorted screams... but then, I just can't really get over how all the electronics lack punch. Distorted yes. Pretty good song structures/sound textures, but always like line-in fron digital multieffect to recorder. No punch, no saturation, no loudness. If one can get over that problem what has plagued most of SJ albums since late 90's, album could be promising. At least there are pretty damn grim typics such as "Safe Word Fails", "Weakling Child", "Lucky Too", etc..

Frakcja Supramuzyczna Galerii: "Nie-Galerii" ‎– Omniofonia 3xCD
Impulsy Stetoskopu
3 discs filled with 80's industrial / experimental recordings from Poland, revolving around guy called Alexander Sikora. First disc is best for me. Seems like best works he would do solo. The more people, the more it evolves into kind of improv. group feel. Lots of things happening, but not as dark and focused as his solo works. I think disc #1 alone makes this worth to have, but I'm not saying other discs would be bad. Just less noisy, less intense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN_CSXvyr5I

ECCLESIASTICAL SCAFFOLDING "A Book of Lies" tape
Extreme
1988 autralian obscurity. Occult sound collages. Not very noisy, but still it's good stuff to listen to. Partially re-issued on ltd 50 copies CDR back in 1999... Would be nice to see Extreme dig up their own archives, as there would be many great titles to put out on CD.

AUGUSTO KLAMM "Poisonous Fragrances" tape
1982-83 Belgian noise. Lots of short cuts, where best ones are almost like early brutal PE and some like Randy Yau who didn't have bright sound of distortion pedals. Lots of vocal noises, raw feedbacks and overall sound rubbish. Never very loud and definitely not aggressive. More like sonic rubbish. Few moments are really nice, overall 60 min tape perhaps doesn't hold its power in a way best tapes of era do.

[bitewerksMTB]

BLACK CHRISTMAS LP- creepy as hell! Perverted phone calls, grunting, screaming over Xmas carols, piano scraping. A must-own for anyone into musique concrete, cut-up, etc. This isn't the exact soundtrack for the film, the composer tracked down all of  his master tapes & re-assembled everything for the record. There are details heard here that could easily be missed during the film.

I've also listened to the latest batch of Freak Animal tapes this week. All good stuff!

[Zeno Marx]

URE THRALL Discorporeality

This guy and label fascinate me.  He's in that gray area between DIY, adolescent, tens of projects, quasi-noisecore/punk approach and the Anamolous/ND arena of experimentalism.  So there is no confusion, nothing I've heard from him is noisecore or punk, but the multiple names and monikers like Smooth Quality Excrement, along with basic cassette presentation, cause me to associate certain aspects with prolific 90's DIY culture.  There's a good balance there.  Most of his work is really good quality, which should be of no surprise because of the company he kept (and continues to keep).  I believe Anomalous Records was his main distro hub for Discorporeality.  I'm sorry I didn't buy all those tapes from Anomalous (very probably in my top 5 music consumer regrets of the 90s).

[holy ghost]

Jazkamer: Persona Non Grata / We Want Epic Drama / Cover by Hair Stylistics: I fuckin' love these monthly CDs. I didn't buy all of them at the time and I wish they did. The noisecore one is the best. I've got 6/12 and I gotta pick up the rest.

Hijokaidan: Polar Nights Live: Only one of four Hijokaidan CDs I own, this is my second favourite after King of Noise with the fucking awesome drums from Incapacitants dude. I love this set. Hijokaidan would be out to lunch to see live. Great variety in these tracks.

Puce Mary: Success: really great. Hadn't come back to this in about a year and it was really varied, definitely not boring. A little more minimal than I remember. Really looking forward to the new LP.

Khanate: Things Viral/Capture & Release: damn this was so ahead of its time. This is the most awful, dissonant, tortured doom of this century. So unique. Definitely unsettling. I got to see them live in 2002 and the more I think back the more I remember how great it was. This is the best thing O'Malley has ever played on? Most likely.

Albert Ayler: Prophecy: copped this recently on LP for really cheap to replace my cd copy, but also want the new double cd version. How do they get those ghost wails? This is a crucial date. Maybe more so than Spiritual Unity or Greenwich Village based solely on musicianship vs. historical importance.

Return to Forever: Where Have I known You Before: never picked this up before now. I love the Hymns album but just. Ever grabbed this one. It's piano bits are too mellow for me but the last track is a slow fucking sick burn. Great but fuck Scientology!

[cr]

SUTCLIFFE JUGEND "Masks" CD
Old Europe Cafe
At first I was feeling like this would be really good. Electronics starts fine and vocals start pretty fierce distorted screams... but then, I just can't really get over how all the electronics lack punch. Distorted yes. Pretty good song structures/sound textures, but always like line-in fron digital multieffect to recorder. No punch, no saturation, no loudness. If one can get over that problem what has plagued most of SJ albums since late 90's, album could be promising. At least there are pretty damn grim typics such as "Safe Word Fails", "Weakling Child", "Lucky", etc..

Yeah, album is OK, I like it, but definitely lacks some punch. For my taste, the other new one "The  Muse" on Death Continues Rec. is much better. It's more like Blue Rabbit, which I think is still the best of the newer SJ albums.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Seems like SJ been busy. Just couple days ago announced Offal CD/2LP coming next month on Cold Spring!

ECCLESTIASTICAL SCAFFOLDING "s/t" tape
Extreme
All works composed and recorded 1986-87. 10 songs in c. 45 minutes is pretty much sums vast majority of industrial of the era. Loud stuff. Percussive and eerie stuff. Atmospheric stuff. Few minutes long pieces where most tracks have their clear own identity what makes this very much like album that has very conscious form, instead of just few recent recordings thrown on sides.

V/A ULTRA VIOLENCE tape
Strength Through Awareness
Despite one couldn't point out exact hit songs, compilations like this appear to be gold from start to finish. While some bands seem to aim to sound "old power electronics", I don't think almost anyone really succeeds. When one has gone through tracks Amor Fati, Narzisse, Con-Dom, Face In The Crowd, Punishment Pigs, White Hands, No Lie G.I., Pax Romana, Nails ov Christ, Kapotte Muziek and The Blackshirt Orchestra, one can just conclude that in this 60 is summed up a lot of greatness of this era.

LE MONO "Withdrawing from the species" tape
Freedom in a vacuum
80's stuff, which is damn good. Even if gets very musical, it has firm stand in noisy industrial. Just before this, I was listening another Freedom In A Vacuum title. Black Crowd "A Murder of crows" tape was too much towards post-punk, so I was just hoping Le Mono isn't something like that. And no it wasn't. There is drum machine beats, loops, bass/guitar here and there, but also great experimental/ambient and at noisiest it reaches pretty intense levels.

ARE THE VULCANOES STILL ACTIVE? "Know Your Equal" tape
Truculent
Somehow very "Truculent" feel to this. Heavy as fuck, but also simple distorted harsh blasting. At the best it goes more into throbbing power electronics direction, but simplicity keeps it always more towards just noise works of this era. Mid 2000's heavy duty american noise.

FACTOR X "Love Hertz" tape
I don't know when I get over the confusion between NATIVE X and Factor X! When I first heard the one and only Native X track I remember, being the opening piece for Soundtrack For The End Of The World (Self Abuse), I've been looking for opportunity to score some more stuff of them. And it's been so many times when I thought I found it and listened and realized again confused these two projects, hah.... So, I guess I have like 5 Factor X releases I didn't intend to buy, but have done so. This Factor X tape comes from 1990. Probably minimal pressing. Not even listed at discogs. Handmade special package and tape filled with utmost sound rubbish where vocals, crap and pausebutton are the key elements I guess. There is one very very short moment when delay pedal/tape echo starts to blast, and sounds great, but it lasts like 2 seconds. Tape is one of those things that are hard to appreciate as "music" nor "entertainment", but certainly challenging difficult art. Not to be played often, but it serves its purpose.

[Theodore]

Atrax Morgue's Morder Machine Box came some days ago. Black box including 3 CDs, 1 DVD, 1 tape, 2 postcards. So far i have listened / watched the "new" material and the DVD. Reel I CD is good, very good. It kept me till the end twice, a 50 minutes track. Reel II tape too experimental for me, not what i wanted to listen, weak. DVD contains 4 live shows from 1995-2003 starting from 2003 and going backwards, 2 hours total. First and third are the best of them. First has the best quality in sound and video, powerful. Third has an early PE approach in sound and performance. The rest 2 CDs, the Morder Machine's reissues, i know, you know ...

Safe to say it's an excellent box. If i was greedy i would like it to include a bigger insert / poster. Let's say one with the picture of Happy Birthdeath's card sleeve [See Discogs, third image, down left] !

I wish for a Progetto Morte reissue next.

[cr]

Just listening to Sick Seed's "The Great Corrupter". It's been a while since I heard it the last time, but  damn, what a great, unique and varied record this is!

By the way, any new Sick Seed records in the making? Would be great!

[bile]

Scatmother"Purulent Sublimity" CD (FILTH&VIOLENCE)

Fantastic debut from this German Power Electronics project (thank you user MT for this correction..did not see this information on the liner notes...). Excellent display from F&V with this one...graphic artwork, heavy lyrical insert; the works. The disc holds seven brutal tracks of simple, violent Power Electronics. I am surprised I have not seen more excitement surrounding this release...it is phenomenal statement with a focused approach, concentrated dynamic, and the sounds are flawlessly executed. Minimal and bone dry. Proud vocal delivery with solid cadence. Great!

Interior One"180 Photographs of Women" CS (BREATHING PROBLEM PRODUCTIONS)

Dark tape from the new side project of Breathing Problem. This tape is exactly as it needed to be...a spectacular analysis of the Grim Sleeper case (suited with gruesome samples...a cinematic quality!). Electronically Interior One are malicious American Power Electronics in the vein of Taint, Strict, etc. Sadistic freak sound! Love it.

[Andrew McIntosh]

Scatmother"Purulent Sublimity" CD (FILTH&VIOLENCE)
I am surprised I have not seen more excitement surrounding this release...

It is a good release but I suppose it's one of those average PE releases that isn't anything new or particular in itself, just good solid material.

[MT]

Scatmother is a German project.

[bile]

Scatmother is a German project.

Thank you for the correction...I made an edit in my original post.

Caleb Douglas Hesse"S/T"CS (UNLIMITED DRIFT)

Great tape from Richard Ramirez...this being a one-off project covering child molester Caleb Douglas Hesse. Classic brutal Harsh Noise Wall but there are distinct moments that separate this release from the many other Ramirez related projects...a good bit of this tape handles unique textures and split-second cutting. Meditative walls that commit to a malicious pace. Recommended for wall fanatics and texture freaks alike.