Quote from: New Forces on October 09, 2020, 05:51:40 PM
Yes, please post good "Noise Now Playing" reviews here, I can't stand to be on Facebook!
V/A PROSTHETICS CDSpastik Kommunikations
I tend to like releases with "proper covers". It can be professional, or DIY handmade etc. Yet there is charm in some of the cheap sleeves too. This CD was probably like this most of all to be cheap to produce and light weight to carry on tour. Being tour release, I guess big part of pressing just disappeared somewhere in hand of people who are barely involved in "scene" now?
I am forever fanboy of
Death Squad, and
Radiosonde is great too. When
Chaper 23 played in Lahti/Finland, his synth burned due wrong voltage, and he just played SP-303 (or 202) with sounds he prepared during week stay in Finland.
N.F.H./Green Army Fraction CDCathartic Process
Not often in my cd player, but it is really good one. At least feels like it now. Bigger line-up scratching and banging. No G.A.F. Style post-industrial/pe type things at all. Experimental, organic sounds mixed with synthetic tones. Good.
Oro!Oro!"Prarastos Žiemos" CDAutarkeia
another ambient/drone project I always kept in stock at the distribution, but never really talked with anyone who has paid attention to it. Until now one friend said he was just listening same artists as I was! Simple, slowly shifting waves of harmonic drones. One of the examples, that when you have taken something for granted - like Autarkaia putting out golden disc CD's of ambient items... and suddenly label stops... and year later feeling there could be
more of this type of things!
Der Manrz CDR.
Monotype (Jap)
3 track cd ep from 2006. Imagine mr. Government Alpha and Montage playing massive heavy crushing "power electronics", which is like Control meets... well, Government Alpha?! Dark and heavy bass loaded synth tones, multilayered, structured, yet also angle of harsh noise on it. Almost 15 years ago edition of 70 was done, mr. Ground Fault has one available via discogs for cheap price...
Hazard "Lech" CDMalignant
1996 BJNilsen works. Now he tends to do stuff under other names, but this first Hazard is really nice "hands on approach" feeling post-industrial / dark ambient. Should probably take closer look to his more recent TAPE DECAY release on Narcolepsia! I recall listening, but no other recollections...
After someone posted on Facebook "Noise playing now" group about
naj, I digged up the original copy of the pure disc I have. Really good stuff. Vastly better than I remembered.
I recall asking RRRon years ago how did the naj and other discs sell. He just concluded that those bands you know, sells well, those you don't know or remember, don't sell that well. Hah.. well, that's logical, of course, but knowing how most of unknown non-name pure releases rule, one could recommend to grab any of the titles you know nothing of.
Another amusing fact is that Sudden Infant "solothurn" was not sent to be CD on Pure. Joke told once he sent master to be tape on RRR, and then a bit later received bunch of royalty CD's. When you listen the tape, it is good - but somehow obvious that it was meant to be two sides of tape. not a "proper album".
Historically, the old pressings are great, since if you bought them back when they originally came out, some inserts were included in some copies. Very first ones may have some individually designed inserts, all had catalogue of discs that were available and discs that were upcoming. It is interesting to see all those names of releases that never happened. I suppose some guys never sent the masters. Some may have been just rejected.
Eric La Casa. "Air.Ratio" cd Sounds as if Chop Shop rusty hum would be longer fragments than they tend to be. La Casa collected during 3 years, 30 cuts of mechanical air ventilation systems. Each piece is really good. Absolutely essential!
Seed Mouth "Titanic" CD from 1996. Longest one, the opening track, really nice ambient with industrial flavor to it. The noisier tracks not so amazing. Worth of money for the first track alone. And what a "classy" 90's design, haha! Should not laugh, since I did quite some releases back in 90's that are definitely not eyecandy now...
Illusion Of Safety – In Opposition To Our Acceleration CDI have been such a fan of Illusion Safety, that I may blindly buy their items. Trusting it would be good. But I am not such fan that anything they do, would appeal to me. This CD has been long in my shelves, but I had no recollections how it was. Probably because after this listening session will happen what happened last time I listened this. It will be filed back, with no intent to return anytime soon. It has some good stuff here, but while some of the sounds, layering and ideas are good, the sound itself is the computer era. Or not necessary even all computer. It is early 2000's live gigs collected on CD. Some gigs are better than the others. Some could have been rejected. Now that there are 70+ minutes of material, there would have been possible to be more picky.
Some tracks even glitchy, or having these imperfections that could be good if they were raw imperfections, but.... not on this one. Maybe one day this will click in positive way, so not getting rid of it yet...
Both Excellent cd's and compositionally totally opposite.
