DAGDA MOR "The Border of the Light" CD
Functional
Recent talk about DM made me to pick up this from shelves. I remembered it to be more "ambient". Or maybe ambient is wrong word, but this was far more aggressive and dark than I remembered. Of course we don't need copycats imitating themes what others felt personally to be inspiring and close to their own visions, but it is somehow odd that there wouldn't be much power electronics / industrial with this type of... lets say cultural / mythic approach.
V/A DEDICATION II CD
Artware
One of my all time favourite compilation CD's. Some say Dedication I LP was so much better, but I disagree. Of course, nothing wrong with first comp, but this is not only full of great noise / industrial, but also oddities add extra spice to it. Cement Women, Alan Lee, Miguel Ruiz, D.D.Dobson etc - would they be amazing separately, in full album format? Possibly, but now among already diverse line-up, they add further levels of innovations in sound.
S*CORE "Crime" CD
Daft Records
This appears to be the last S*Core album that came out before he disappeared. What a great piece of industrial-noise history. It is so beyond my understanding, how come his albums are always so cheap and easily available. Easily best Japanese industrial project of all times, and while you recognize S*Core's style, albums are not to be confused with eachother. Your Candle Has Died or Missing Volume is not the same as Crime. Great sounding, noisy, but not so much pedal oriented sound loops, well built textures of raw sonic industrial waste. Never careless and totally random, but never also cheesy and "musical".
BLOOD AXIS / LJDLP "Absinthia Taetra" CD
Athanor
This is easily my favorite from both. I'd hope B.A. to be this experimental more often, and LJDLP have same complexity and diversity what they have here or couple of the 10"s. During december and january, listened this probably dozen times.