PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Form Hunter "Wrecked" tape
I was saying earlier I have no Gracious Host label stuff other than tape I was recently sent. Nah, actually this tape is also on that label. When I got it, and who sent it to me, can't remember anymore, but it was among pile of tapes already on shelves I installed on wall while ago, so listened and appreciated, but perhaps couple years ago? Came out in 2019.
Now back in tape deck and I like it probably more now that I have gotten to really "know" what Form Hunter is about. Instead of just one more harsh noise tape, one can actually appreciate its approach in more detail.

Rusalka "Revisualizations" tape
New Forces
For me this sounds better than the much praised LP? Not saying one should not grab the LP, but if having possibility to pick either or, I'd recommend go for the tape! Faster paced, kind of more going on, it feels noisier, but also some almost heavy electronic type oscillation moments found on it. LP takes longer to get going. Of course if one seeks for more bleak and minimal, that is decent.


Sound of Hate series part 2, 6 and 8.

vol 2 has lots of goodies, but especially Intrinsic Action "First cold" track.. damn! Is it exclusive to this comp tape still today??? I think Solotroff could continue I.A. reissue series with some tasty compilation tracks!


vol 6  Japan comp. Known heroes and quite obscure names, goes down so smoothly... King Of Pigs (K.O.P.), who also did material under other names. Dozens of variations of initial. I usually associated it to be Kultur Operating Penis. 80's Japanese industrial-noise style.
Mackerel Can Molding Company was band featuring guy of N.P., who had tape on Masami's label already in 1985. He was also member in early Gerogerigegege recordings. 15 min track here! Seems that some pretty much unheard material exists out there.
While 1st side is the guys more associated with 80's scene, B-side of comp is solid assault of Thirdorgan, MSBR, Aube who dominated the 90's!

vol 8 UK comp. Out of all the good tracks, almost 10 minutes long The Grey Wolves live track is such a treat! Lots of acts rarely mentioned these days. Dachise, Abuse of Power, Hex Minora, and so on..

[Ashmonger]

CREDO - Triumphant Throes of Warfare tape
A continuation of Chad Davis' Torturecide project. More in common with the old German sound of Tesco and early Loki Found than it does the last Torturecide release. Solid tape of heavy electronics.

Just listened to this on YT, good stuff, especially the last track is really good. Any idea where this can be found? On discogs there was a link to a bandcamppage that was already deleted.

[Soloman Tump]

I have been absorbing the new Prurient album Creationist -  I paid for the digital files as importing a stack of tapes, books and vinyl at huge expense from across the pond is not a cost I can justify right now.  I shall most likely make my own 2CD package for this so I can keep a copy in the car.

This feels like a great follow up to Rainbow Mirror in terms of direction and scope - quite a focused band of sounds, loops and controlled chaos... pretty much what I have been trying to achieve with my own amateurish project but Prurient manages it with precision and balance (and the decades of practice helps too).  Yeah its noisy but its also pretty damn polished.  I shall get a lot of repeat listens from this album, as I still do with Rainbow Mirror, and I shall probably have more to say on it at a later date.  Favourite track so far is "Skyline Hunting Humans" as it encapsulates the dismal repetitive nature of what I try to create in a very neat package, and manages to progress to a few different places before bowing out.  A strong release IMO. 

[FallOfNature]

CREDO - Triumphant Throes of Warfare tape
A continuation of Chad Davis' Torturecide project. More in common with the old German sound of Tesco and early Loki Found than it does the last Torturecide release. Solid tape of heavy electronics.

Just listened to this on YT, good stuff, especially the last track is really good. Any idea where this can be found? On discogs there was a link to a bandcamppage that was already deleted.

Best to contact Chad directly. He's on fb, instagram etc...

[impulse manslaughter]

Walter Marchetti

After the Marchetti talk in this topic I went ahead and bought a copy of his 2nd LP that was missing from my collection. Long piano piece on side A and 2 electronic tracks on side B. The 2nd one from 1973 sounds like contemporary noise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ7xDaJfLZo

[FreakAnimalFinland]

That Taskmaster thing was bugging me. I -must- have some other Taskmaster than just the 12". Of course, this Taskmaster / Wince split tape, early WCN release.. Both good, Taskmaster very neat and Wince even better.

In morning, I listened couple of time The Rita Gamzatti (excuse multiple times linking, if interested, here a bit about it: https://special-interests.net/main/iconic-surfaces/  ). I was kind of amazed how in Taskmaster interview, it seemed as if the guys were cautious to even mention "HNW". As if it was some unwanted disease that just leaked out and turned disaster.. haha.. Well, that The Rita album is brilliant, and man must be hailed as one of most important noise artists of this millenium, no question about it.

Leichenhalle "Industrial armageddon - metal becomes flesh" tape. Late 90's Polish industrial-noise, power electronics type of thing. This is something that could/should be reissued. Who knows does anyone really want to hear it, but I feel this project at its best is no less than Söldnergeist, Dagda Mor or whatever happening some years before! I got to trust what I read, and it seems like people indeed are little touchy about even moderately spicy song titles these days. Some tapes of project, even if just tasty industrial noise, may have to remain in form of original tape editions...

What is turn off / dislike for me in "noise", is knowing that you should have it, but you can't find it, regardless of how much browsing your shit. Few times purchasing it again, just to realize "aahh, THAT one.." and realizing you missed it as was thinking packaging was different and just browsed over the item several times... You know, fucken' hell, is it possible that I would not have Ramleh "hole in the heart" 2xCD. I almost believed it, and it was miserable turn off for entire 2021

[Zeno Marx]

After the Marchetti talk in this topic I went ahead and bought a copy of his 2nd LP that was missing from my collection. Long piano piece on side A and 2 electronic tracks on side B. The 2nd one from 1973 sounds like contemporary noise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ7xDaJfLZo

A certain noteworthy user here talks well of that great track.  His piano work makes me want to get out Palestine's Strumming Music and Julius Eastman.  Any number of other piano pieces would work for that long meditation.

I pulled out Iancu Dumitrescu - Pierres Sacrées/Hazard and Tectonics this week, and it fits nicely with that contemporary sense of industrial via avant-garde.  Yeah, man...Ana-Maria Avram & Iancu Dumitrescu.  They know how to make dust fall from the rafters.

Leichenhalle "Industrial armageddon - metal becomes flesh" tape. Late 90's Polish industrial-noise, power electronics type of thing. This is something that could/should be reissued. Who knows does anyone really want to hear it, but I feel this project at its best is no less than Söldnergeist, Dagda Mor or whatever happening some years before! I got to trust what I read, and it seems like people indeed are little touchy about even moderately spicy song titles these days. Some tapes of project, even if just tasty industrial noise, may have to remain in form of original tape editions...

You can't talk like this without at least trying to reissue it, can you?  Never heard of it.  Sounds great.

[moozz]

Altar Of Flies - Återblick
I had not heard the Inblick and Överblick tapes before so this was 100% all new stuff for me. Fantastic release in every possible way: it looks good and it sounds great. I was under the impression that this was supposed to be a bit noisier AoF material but to my ears it sounds the same living/breathing organic material as before. Maybe with longer noisier parts? If this is not among the best releases this year then it is going to be one hell of a noise year!

Maranata - Dry Lungs
Never heard of this band before but if New Forces is putting it out it is most probably worth checking out. Noise with saxophone. John Zorn-ish sax strangulations on top of solid harsh noise. What's not to like?

Barstool Mountain - Birth Canal
Barely had time to hear the first tape before I received this. I'd say this is pretty close to what I imagined the Altar Of Flies 3xLP would have been when I though it was going to be harsher material. This is also very organic with plenty of dynamics, not just blown out rumbling. Great new project.

Knurl - Sensory Eradication
'90s Knurl! Alan Bloor has been releasing solid harsh noise as Knurl for over 25 years. There have been no periods when his material would have been somehow inferior or anything, it's always been good. This is an unreleased tape from 1998 and it's great that this was not left to gather dust in the Knurl archives. It is from the first 5 years of Knurl so maybe it is a bit more straightforward that some later Knurl but it is still a scorcher! Full blast harsh noise with no mercy or quiet moments to catch one's breath.

Aube - Flood-Gate
One of my all time favorite Aube releases (if not the best). Calming water ambience slowly builds up to thunderous waterfall noise. Perfect.

Merzbow/Pan Sonic - V
A live collaboration from 2002. This was not too long after Merzbow switched his godly analog noise machinery to a laptop. His laptop stuff is not always the best but here it works very well with the rhythmic clicks, noises and bleeps of Pan Sonic. It really feels like a combination of Pan Sonic and Merzbow. Lots of more quiet moments (like Merzbow had around that time, like on Puroland or Fantail) so it is not just total laptop noise with Pan Sonic trying to come through in the mix but a balanced whole.

[Baglady]

DANIEL MENCHE - Primal Fictions LP (Ferns, 2020)
Furnace Fucker and all that, excellent stuff. But to me he's better than ever nowadays, and has been for years. This LP is a cathedral of chiming tones, with vibrating drones of all sorts worming their way through its halls. At times almost threatening in atmosphere, but most of all beautiful throughout. The flipside, while keeping the cathedral-like resonance, has an air of nighttime desert. A powerfully amplified one that is.
There's alot going on at all times on this record. For the most part, that is a strength, with so many unexpected combinations of sounds colliding (amplified rubber band, field recordings, percussion etc next to metal chimes and whatnot), but there are moments when I feel it would have been even more majestic had he stripped off some layers and left just a couple dominate on their own. All in all though, what a great record!

And to my surprise I noticed that Ferns had slipped an older release into the jacket as a bonus (Again! Not the first time they've done that.):

DANIEL MENCHE - Blood Of The Land 3" CD (Ferns, 2010)
A massive wall of, well, wind! Rain on buckets, the occasional animal sound, dust and dirt. Not too far from what Romero did on Negative, in a way. "Storm recordings (...) mixed and mastered (...) in the analog domain", absolutely stunning stuff. Need to play this one real loud when I get the chance.
As for this being a freebie, heh... pressed in 500 copies in 2010. My memory isn't the best, but I have no recollections of 3" CDs in flimsy paper covers being all the rage back then. But I'm very glad to have this!

[pentd]

YKSI "Liberté! Liberté!" CDR

xlent and tasty noise project from sir uton. as already heard on satatuhatta release here we get more of fuzzed up tornado storm avalanche, not so heavy, but flying high in upper middle range ... lots goin on and never resting. sounds somehow like 90's noise tape. as with all things hirvonen, there is an underlying cosmic meditation undertone to this... heavy meditation?! haha

when this dude sleeps at all is a mystery to me: magma tones records, uton works, paintings, zine, now this yksi project, contributing to ikuisuus records....

https://magmatones.bandcamp.com/

[host body]

YKSI "Liberté! Liberté!" CDR

xlent and tasty noise project from sir uton. as already heard on satatuhatta release here we get more of fuzzed up tornado storm avalanche, not so heavy, but flying high in upper middle range ... lots goin on and never resting. sounds somehow like 90's noise tape. as with all things hirvonen, there is an underlying cosmic meditation undertone to this... heavy meditation?! haha

when this dude sleeps at all is a mystery to me: magma tones records, uton works, paintings, zine, now this yksi project, contributing to ikuisuus records....

https://magmatones.bandcamp.com/

first and only corona skeptic noise release i've seen around

[Euro Trash Bazooka]

I don't want to get into politics at all but with all due respect to Sir Yksi and because I am French, unless he's been living in France for the last 5 years (and that wouldn't even be enough to understand where all those movements are coming from), I find the use of such samples for what he intended to convey rather inappropriate and/or simplistic because there's such a deeper underlying context behind all those demonstrations.

[pentd]

o damn, i have no clue what samples are sayin, although i imagine it... language barrier 100%. but i think it just adds to the current tragicomedy thats goin on

[FreakAnimalFinland]

(...)I find the use of such samples for what he intended to convey rather inappropriate and/or simplistic because there's such a deeper underlying context behind all those demonstrations.

I wonder is there inappropriate in noise/industrial, that lives largely on idea of recontextualizing? I do not know what he intended to convey, as I don't think it is utterly clear in release? One can pick up any subject matter noise and conclude that those sounds are not used in line of where and how and why they originally appeared?

It is curious, though, that for example French demonstrations, very very very rarely make it to news in Finland. I do not know how it is in other countries, but it is curious change of media, that while in past tabloid had the daily poster of major headlines. Unless it is gold medal in olympics, it is likely that the "news headlines" of both daily papers of Finland with be 5 days a week, in style of "5 symptoms to notice upcoming health problem". No joke. There was study about journalists of current times, and excluding couple specialists, most journalists know only Finnish, Swedish and English language. Most of them have no ability to follow French, Germany etc happenings, unless there is international coverage on it. It is observed to change nature of news that we get. It is no wonder, how over here, we get more news about british royal family, and US royal family (K.West and such) than anything relevant.

Liberte?! what it could be about? Probably about anything when put into context of noise. Even if sound is from moment X, it could simply refer moment Y, where enough is enough, and you revolt against whatever seems to be constrainment. This is not even political discussion nor related to covid restrictions.

[ConcreteMascara]

Genocide Organ – Under - Kontrakt LP - Tesco Org, 2011 - it's been a while since I've listened to this. I can remember feeling somehow vaguely disappointed when I got when it was first released. But listening now, I have no fault to find. There's a nice balance between slightly more aggro tracks and slightly less and nothing goes on too long so it's an easy listen for a single sitting. There are some real highlights like "Forever Whore", "The Lord Is My Light", and "We Are Here to Have a Good Time", but nothing compares to b-side opener "I'm With You All Days". That one just fucking rips. Harsh synths combined with looped screaming samples. Yes please!

Encephalophonic – Regressed Progress CD - Audio Dissection, 2013 - the Encephalophonic album I reach for the most and also the one that makes me feel the worse. Very similar vibes to Taint, but with a harsh noise attack instead of Keith's scrap-noise-p.e.