PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[Stipsi]

Encephalophonic - X

I'm not the greatest fan of cut up noise, but he's objectively on another planet.
Probably the best harsh noise artist in Italy and not only.

[Zeno Marx]

I've been going back and forth between the Pariah Tapes and Pornoise 1 KG sets, and most of that back and forth is because it's been a real slog.  I was listening to the 1990-1996 unreleased tracks and CDs from the Merzbox, so I thought I'd hit up some early Incapacitants to break up the focus, but hit...a...wall (pun intended).  Pornoise turned into a tad of a burden as well. On many days, tracks like "New Karma" would encourage distraction with something else until the next 30-minute punisher exercise, but not on this day.  Just when I thought it was time to put both sets away, this track sucked me into its space, perfectly melding with where my head was at and how the day was feeling.  It might never happen again, though precedent can be a powerful thing with listening, but wowzer, was this ever the soundtrack for my world for nearly thirty-one minutes.

[Theodore]

Lee Counts - S.A.N.S. Sessions cassette on Austerity Measure (No Rent side-label) : Welcome to my basement ! I have a lot of junk here, tools, chains, saw wheel, black+deckers, sandpapers, everything we need for a metallurg party. - All live, you can hear them talking sometimes. Very acoustic sounds, for the most part. - Had drunk some beers yesterday and this tape was great fun. Was listening with a smile on my face. - On Discogs i saw there isnt any other release by the guy. I thought there definetely should be more, and asked myself do i want them like this -acoustic, improvised- or more 'composed' / processed ? A search today helped me answer. There is a new tape out : https://leecounts.bandcamp.com/album/lee-counts . I listened it on Bandcamp. It's fine but i go with S.A.N.S Sessions, anytime, no question. Still i found an artist that i will follow his work, for sure.

[[MBD]]

BØLTORN – Dødsverk

So this is a new project from Nordvargr along side a few others, with this release being their most current. Tesco gave it the LP treatment earlier this month.

If you like heavy and nasty European Industrial/Power Electronics with plenty of composition and a slight hint of the malice acts like Slogun do best, I highly recommend checking this out.

https://tescogermany.bandcamp.com/album/d-dsverk

[Bloated Slutbag]

I've been going back and forth between the Pariah Tapes and Pornoise 1 KG sets, and most of that back and forth is because it's been a real slog.  I was listening to the 1990-1996 unreleased tracks and CDs from the Merzbox, so I thought I'd hit up some early Incapacitants to break up the focus, but hit...a...wall (pun intended).  Pornoise turned into a tad of a burden as well. On many days, tracks like "New Karma" would encourage distraction with something else until the next 30-minute punisher exercise, but not on this day.  Just when I thought it was time to put both sets away, this track sucked me into its space, perfectly melding with where my head was at and how the day was feeling.  It might never happen again, though precedent can be a powerful thing with listening, but wowzer, was this ever the soundtrack for my world for nearly thirty-one minutes.

I think I had something approaching a very much same experience, years ago, actually not too too long after I'd first picked it (Pornoise) up. And I really want to say it was with New Karma.

That burden thing. It happens, with the boxset thingies in particular. (Damn you current era!) Punishment I read as the lag-time, emphasis on time, in seeking out the appropriate space, read: bliss. The New Karma moments didn't come so much then, but they do now, invariably late at night, sussed, half dead to the world, blissfully un-focused, emphasis on the un, more than willing and able to enter other worlds for multiples of hours straight.

[morbid_dyspepsia]

MEDITASI SAPI - demo (Flapping Abouts)

I received this tape in the mail along with the artists other project's tape EAT FLESH - which is more in the vein of traditional Australian grind/ noisecore; a lot like Warsore/ Disgorge, with a Warsore cover added. Anyway, it is not uncommon for anyone, globally, to give a shit about Australian noise for the most part (never have, never will) but this stuff is really great! Totally psyched-out loops, with hidden textures and hypnotic voices interfering and reoccurring. Being a fellow Novocastrian (from Newcastle) it is a similar style to that of COCK SAFARI who runs GROG PAPPY, but also reminds me a bit of YCLEPT DINMAKERS or the RADIO LOOP ORCHESTRA, and in my honest opinion it really gives tape loop masters like DILLOWAY a run for their money! Literally. And that coming from someone who's a big fan and listened to a lot of Aaron's music. It's just Un-marketed, unwanted, and therefore unheard, maybe that's part of the reason why it's been manufactured on recycled tapes, anyway, a quick google search and I'm sure you'll find it, or something decent that is related.

[Zeno Marx]

I've been going back and forth between the Pariah Tapes and Pornoise 1 KG sets, and most of that back and forth is because it's been a real slog.  I was listening to the 1990-1996 unreleased tracks and CDs from the Merzbox, so I thought I'd hit up some early Incapacitants to break up the focus, but hit...a...wall (pun intended).  Pornoise turned into a tad of a burden as well. On many days, tracks like "New Karma" would encourage distraction with something else until the next 30-minute punisher exercise, but not on this day.  Just when I thought it was time to put both sets away, this track sucked me into its space, perfectly melding with where my head was at and how the day was feeling.  It might never happen again, though precedent can be a powerful thing with listening, but wowzer, was this ever the soundtrack for my world for nearly thirty-one minutes.

I think I had something approaching a very much same experience, years ago, actually not too too long after I'd first picked it (Pornoise) up. And I really want to say it was with New Karma.

That burden thing. It happens, with the boxset thingies in particular. (Damn you current era!) Punishment I read as the lag-time, emphasis on time, in seeking out the appropriate space, read: bliss. The New Karma moments didn't come so much then, but they do now, invariably late at night, sussed, half dead to the world, blissfully un-focused, emphasis on the un, more than willing and able to enter other worlds for multiples of hours straight.

Agreed.  It's the dark side of the wonderful period of box sets.

[Phenol]

BØLTORN – Dødsverk

So this is a new project from Nordvargr along side a few others, with this release being their most current. Tesco gave it the LP treatment earlier this month.

If you like heavy and nasty European Industrial/Power Electronics with plenty of composition and a slight hint of the malice acts like Slogun do best, I highly recommend checking this out.

https://tescogermany.bandcamp.com/album/d-dsverk

Only listened on Spotify so far and enjoyed it a lot. It kind of reminds me of Memorandum, which is definitely not a bad thing! I would imagine that the vinyl format suits it quite well. I wish Nordvargr would focus more, though. He has so many projects and such a high output of varying quality (often good, never really bad, but a lot of nonessential stuff nontheless). Fewer releases but of consistently high calibre would be much preferred.

[NerveGas]

Smell & Quim - Spermathlon CS

Recent reissue on promising new label, ODMOWA. A-side is clunky, clanging, awkward tape abuse with some pervert samples. Certainly the "weird noise" to be expected. By no means bad, but the B-side really shines for me. Phaser, moans, and buried melodies. Wet, slithering, and droning quicksand darkness.

Hermit - Logic Bomb CS

I'm most familiar with Hermit on the 7" format, and so far I feel like that works best... but I'm digging through a stack of tapes currently with a few of his in it. Totally fried out, buzzing malfunctioning modem harshness, pained high end, and bass-y spurting delay. Quite varied and active at times, and settling into repetition at others. Even some strange mellow moments. While I'm far from having his entire discography, I do find myself returning to this project quite a bit regardless of some slightly tedious, forgettable, or goofy moments on releases like this (ie: slowed down hip-hop samples, synth lines, and obnoxious beeping loops).

B-Side is a live recording including feedback, deranged vocals, and guitar noise. Not without its primitive charm.

"No copyrights, no profit. Money is garbage. Burn the banks, churches, and schools. Human society must be destroyed."

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Piled up bunch of 3"CD(r)'s last night Started with
Murderous Vision "Buring the promised land" 3"cdr on Mouth Rec.
Damn! It is really good one, and surprising. I guess one must confess I have listened this when it came out, and in house full of noise, this slim and small item just gets buried somewhere. Now that I listen to it, I am wondering is there other MV that is almost closer to... like Grey Wolves type power electronics? Processed vocals, all sorts of sounds put together, at the same time aggressive, but also multilayered and atmospheric. Actually just couple weeks ago, I got one guy arrive my shop and he dropped big box of 2nd hand industrial CD's. I grabbed some MV I was missing and other c 20 year old discs.

MK9 "self medicated" 3"
published 20 years ago. Crystal clear electronics / synth sounds, and while one may appreciate MK9 at his spoken word/sample oriented approach, at this time, on this release, his instrumental electronic noise sound was very good. Not as harsh and in-your-face as Death Squad had been, but very good. Disc just ended, and got to put next few in rotation...

Daniel Menche "Blood of the land" 3"cd
is fairly recent.
Man is still master of his craft. I remember first getting his 12" on Tesco, back in the 90's, and already then he was described as some sort of sound master? Well, I guess he is. Rarely heard anything I did not like!

Slogun "nineteen sixty nine" biz card
I think I got all these private biz card cdrs he did. Some of them came when I was in NYC for couple of weeks, sleeping at floors of friends and spending days walking around with no direction, just trying to find interesting things in NYC. Some were found!

Cock E.S.P. "greates dicks 3" 3"cd
I always remember old interview where they said in early days, they wanted to make NOISE, but didn't know how it was made. Nobody told you need bunch of distortion pedals. So early works was not as harsh as for example this 3"CD is. Its funny, but harsh. I think it is very hard to understand in internat age, that there could be someone who likes noise, makes noise, but doesn't know what is "distortion pedal". When I started, I had no idea what is "analogue synth", nor I knew anyone who had distortion pedal, or what it was. It was of course lifetime ago, but interesting time to hear noise and have zero idea what was used to make it.

Sewer Goddess "eris sadisticum" 3"CDr
on Silken Tofu label. Makes me ask if S.G. Is still around, and is Silken Tofu still around? Both seemed to fade away some years ago...

[[MBD]]

Slacking - Cycling Through Bother & Bliss CDr

I bought this at Thousands Of Dead Gods over my recent NYC visit on a whim and I'm absolutely loving this!  Extremely varied harshness that can go from a collage of various field recordings with the occasional stringed synth on top, to all out hellish feedback, junk and everything loud the next.  An excellent edition to both the Pittsburgh noise crew and the Prose Nagge catalog.

Golden Purifier - Walpurgisopfer c70

Currently my new favorite project. P Kerin of Fieldwork returns with the sounds of the last stages of decay and entropy before nothing is left. This release is beyond bleak, beyond anything else in the U.S. scene at least and that makes it all the more special. The sequel to this tape was just released along with a split between Ferro Mortem and Pain Appendix. Order fast!!

https://fieldwork.storenvy.com/

[NerveGas]

Golden Purifier - Walpurgisopfer c70

Currently my new favorite project. P Kerin of Fieldwork returns with the sounds of the last stages of decay and entropy before nothing is left. This release is beyond bleak, beyond anything else in the U.S. scene at least and that makes it all the more special. The sequel to this tape was just released along with a split between Ferro Mortem and Pain Appendix. Order fast!!

https://fieldwork.storenvy.com/

Just picked this up as well. Fieldwork is doing great stuff. Excited to hear the newest Golden Purifier and agreed that Walpurgisopfer is a top notch release. Glad to see someone mention it.

[HateSermon]

Yeah I also picked up that one as well as the Legion V.K. Promo which I thought was really good. Excited to hear more from both projects.

[NerveGas]

Pyrox - Fragment

Relentless whirring and buzzing from Mr. Bloor. No surprise that this is high quality. Like the amplified sounds of the inside of an unforgiving, rusty, motor working itself to death. Varies from full rumble and low hum to hissing mids and highs, but the idea remains relatively the same throughout the first track. It's a good and effective idea though, so no complaints there whatsoever.  And tape is dubbed very loud! Second track begins more subtly with a slow, creeping build, but the same familiar harsh and meditative sound palette.  If Side A is a motor on its last legs, then Side B is the alarm signaling it's impending malfunction. Piercing. Next up is the Pyrox - Intersect tape on Absurd Exposition.

[Zeno Marx]

Converter - Exit Ritual 2003

I find this album to be confused.  It doesn't know what it wants to be.  If I haven't said it in the past (I think I have), this guy does death industrial as well as anyone who has ever done it.  It's too bad it wasn't his primary focus.  This album is loaded with quality death industrial, but it also has accessible, or poppy non-poppy, electronic tracks that interrupt it all.  I'm sure that could drive death industrialists a little batty, and I bet the rhythmic noise folk are fine with him limiting the death industrial tracks to the front and back.  Since I like his various styles, I don't mind his usual mixing at all.  It's the oddball tracks that throw me off here; with tones that hint at Roedelius meeting Konono No.1 for a pint.  That's a stretch, but they aren't his usual hard-hitting crunchers either.