THE DAY OF THE ANTLER "Veri tuli kuolema" tape
Äänipää records
Could it be possible that this would be the best TDOTA tape? He hasn't made bad release yet for sure, but while CD is very good and so is new tape on Satatuhatta, but either I am just dreaming, or it may be possible that there is the syndrome of public release that sets artists into certain mood, and opposed to that, small edition tape not meant for larger public has this somewhat relaxed feel, where there is nothing to really show. Perhaps tape for Satatuhatta was intentionally noisier to fit the "noise label" vibe? This tape has gloomy dark cosmic ambient-esque pieces, almost death industrial, there is noisy stuff, there is even more power electronics feel, including even screeched vocals that have not been so dominant in Antlers stuff. Tape also ends with almost Rapoon type of tribal etno industrial piece. Excellent tape that would be neat if someone could make available for larger public.
HAUDAT "Live on tape February 23" tape
Reh-place live recordings to rehearse for his upcoming gigs earlier this year. Good sound, broken noise, if you know what Haudat does, you got it right here and another example of tape that would be nice to be more than mini edition sold at those gigs he did.
NEANDERTAAL "Follicles" tape
One of the newer Finn harsh noise acts. He has the basics of noise all fine. You can certainly imagine the band shirt wearing shaker box shaking pedal guy doing that. Unfortunately there is some sort of effect that makes it wrong way rumbling and kind of snotty, perhaps reverb pedal or some sort of multi efx unit that can do that to sound. After the master level Finn noise acts, lack of own identity, idea and lacking production keeps it just among the basic "its ok" harsh noise tape.
