Quote from: P A N I C on March 03, 2015, 09:27:10 PM
Flash is my favourite, with Flash for Rotten Limit as what I consider CCCC's breath-taking harsh noise epic right in the vein of Modern, Romance, relentless Incapacitants releases, etcetera. Totally fucking amazing.
Totally fucking right. The be all and end all, and, if the liners are correct, the sole work of Mr Hasegawa? This would then have been CCCC just before it mutated into solo unit Astro, but what a way to go. Seldom has Astro approached such scorcheries- on album. (Actually, at a good number of live Astro performances, those presented by yours soddly and thus to feature principally only the harshest of practitioners, Hasegawa has significantly upped the harshitudes, perhaps to keep in line with the general atmosphere of the evento.) "Flash for Rotten Limit" was recorded in 1996, also incidently the year which saw the release of "PT Team, what's that?" from Incapacitants' New Movements In CMPD. Definitely a lot of shared air between the two tracks, at least to these decidedly scorched earholes.
The lengthy title track from Rocket Shrine is another fave. A true scorcher. This was released in 1997, but as the whole group is credited I would guess the recording pre-dates Flash.
Recently, I've decided that LSD is also to be counted among the better offerings, thanks in no small part to repeated name checking from Zeno Marx. I think what always put me off was that lazer-like analog synth wave in one of the two tracks. Never liked that kind of shit. Still the sheer aural density of the album cannot be denied.
One more I often name check: Gnosis. I don't see it mentioned much, I assume it has never been reissued? The title seems a bit tongue-in-cheek as the recording sounds like some kind of mystical drone gone psychedelic scorch. This kind of sound I like very much, and seems so obvious that I would guess numerous artists have made attempts in the vein. Would very much like to hear any suggestions. (The only one off the top of my head, aside from a few Yamaakago live sets which were to the best of my knowledge never translated into release, would be Aube – The Four Shrines, in which Nakajima mixes source material from Mikawa/Incaps, Gomi/PJerk, and Ohno/Solmania. More Aube than any of his mix subjects, obviously, but achieves the expected scorching densities quite nicely.)
Last but certainly not least, the track on the Howard 31 comp (Artware). A good eight minutes worth of LSD-level richness, so easily worth the price of admission (actually some pretty solid contributions from a good few contributors...)
To the person inquiring after Community Center Cyber Crash, the principle weakness is that it tends to come off more as kind of rough industrial collage, not so much the harsh psych-purity to be found on later recordings. The principle strength is that it tends to come off more as kind of rough industrial collage, not so much the harsh psych-purity to be found on later recordings.
