Non-music "industrial/noise-related" releases

Started by Peterson, February 19, 2018, 08:19:01 PM

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Theodore

Quote from: Force Neurotic on February 21, 2018, 03:51:39 PM
I've been looking for the Holy Family Parish "Man & Wife" cassette forever. I remember someone I'm not in touch with anymore sending me MP3s a few years ago, and from that I think it was a dialogue/interview sort of thing with some background drones/noises. Pretty stupid that I deleted it after only one listen, as I've never even come close to finding it again since, copy or files. This sort of weird, intimate stuff really intrigues me.

https://www.discogs.com/Holy-Family-Parish-Man-And-Wife-Husband-And-Wife/release/1633761

Can anyone shed some light on this? Care to sell a copy, rip one for me?

It's here for listening : https://holyfamilyparish.bandcamp.com/album/man-and-wife-husband-and-wife . But seems you don't remember it. Barely any interview and this on the very background !

Spastik Kommunikation's Evidence Series seems to fit in the topic, based on the descriptions -except Death Squad maybe- . I have only listened Mcveigh Unedited, so i am not sure about the others. https://www.discogs.com/label/829750-Evidence-Series . On an related note : Anyone has listened Death Squad's Cutting Myself Open ... ? Seems to fit too. Few words about it, i need.

Generally, not a fan of non-music / interview / dialogue material myself. Only for a reason. My english. I can understand only a part of what's said and natural daily speaking of native english language people and usually low fidelity, bad quality sound make it even harder. Otherwise, there are subjects very interesting that i wish i could understand english better or had a translation heh !
"ἀθάνατοι θνητοί, θνητοὶ ἀθάνατοι, ζῶντες τὸν ἐκείνων θάνατον, τὸν δὲ ἐκείνων βίον τεθνεῶτες"

collapsedhole

force, i really don't know much about the SATAN PLACE tape, i really want it though... someone should trade it to me, i'll even take a bootleg. i did lawn sprinklers at the old kasso house on long island, and am a fan of both satan & drugs, so it's right up my alley.

jim, fuck, now i really want to hear that slow death tape! speaking of hospital - i know you must be aware of the old "Hospital Garden" sub-label..... where you could buy 'releases' such as "4 twigs, 2 sticks, and 2 branches" or "6 pebbles, 1 rock, and 3 stones" or "glass of water" or "cup of earth + a worm (worm not guaranteed to be alive upon arrival"..... afterall, we are talking non-music right?

Duncan

#17
Been holding off adding to this thread because 'dark' material like this is really not my wheelhouse...but then 'Satan Place' got mentioned so I'm going for it.

I suppose I'm more interested in stuff that takes the form of audio curiosity, sound art or - as CMSFoundation once said to me - 'the inscrutable art object'.  The stuff I'll contribute to the conversation is only related to industrial and noise by a thin set of cultural relations but hopefully it'll be of some interest.

Right off the bat I'll recommend this album recently put out by Paradigm Discs.  
https://captain-maurice-seddon.bandcamp.com/releases

This is an LP of (mostly) phone calls and a few 'pottering about the house' recordings from the now deceased Captain Maurice Seddon.  Exactly who this guy was and what he did is a long and varied story but essentially this is a peek into the world of a true, old English eccentric.  The recordings are all taken from cassettes that one of his friends collected from the floor of his house after he died.  Apparently, being an old army signals guy with a serious aptitude for old electronics and machinery, Seddon modified his phone to operate like a 2 way radio, meaning people could only hear/speak in accordance with when he pushed a button to allow the signals through.  The recordings are all incredibly funny and charming as he speaks in such proper, formal tonalities while trying to arrange a dentist appointment or have a conversation with his long suffering sister, slipping in and out of german and english.  I don't know if there will be something lost in translation for those who aren't from or near England and kinda grown up with figures like this on the peripheries of tv and radio, but there is something very engaging about it in my opinion.  Since the label has released work by Daphne Oram, Burroughs, Adam Bohman, Trevor Wishart and more you definitely feel like this is being presented as a kind of ready made, audio art document.

Speaking of which, Adam Bohman's stuff definitely belongs in here too.  Of course you get lots of junk/broken instrument scraping improv on his records which is absolutely one of the key things he does and is known for but also there is a ton of ephemeral stuff in there from oddball domestic recordings, voice/spoken word experiments and most importantly his cassette postcards/diaries.  All of his albums - at least the ones on Paradigm Discs - come from him turning over a load of cassettes to the label and Clive picking the best parts.  I don't really think Bohman himself has any real interest or ear for making 'records' in that sense.  His cassettes are definitely things that must be heard and I know there are some floating about online..maybe on that SONM archive if it still exists...which are him just documenting his day trips out.  I've seen him break away from groups in person and make these things in real time which is a great thing to witness.  This one from Vitrine is a good indicator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7K-BTjWYi8  EDIT - Fucking hell, I'd never listened to this before but I realise he's talking about a gig I played at in this as I recognise the story and assume I'm the 'other person from Brighton playing solo'.  How nice.

Moving on, one of my absolute favourite things is when a band or artist known at least in part for making 'music' of some sort manage to get away with putting out whole releases of entirely found/non musical sound as legit parts of the catalogue.  Does it get ANY better than the mighty Gerogerigegege for this?  It's a really obvious thing to contribute here...most will be familiar with the pop music, gay porn sound track and just plain old jerking off/shitting recordings...but I find this contribution to the Yellow Power Scum compilation to be the best example of their true genius in this regard: audio from some TV show talking about the band with what is obviously a clip of them playing somewhere in the middle.  Best compilation track EVER. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xHwOEKL370

Not something I actually have myself or ever really cared about getting/listening to properly but Adrian Rew's LP on Hanson of slot machine field recordings is a great concept: https://soundcloud.com/hansonrecords/a1-01-3-31-2013-horseshoe-casino-cleveland-oh

I can't be fucked digging it up properly but the LP of RRRon, Mikko, Pete from Second Layer and whoever else inside their record stores was a master stroke and I was so glad when I finally just said 'fuck it' and bought the thing.

There are loads of things I'm definitely forgetting which I'll add later if I remember


PTM Jim

Yep, Slow Death is the Knights Of Timbre guy. He's one that I would say releases true noise. Everything is a very difficult listen.

I always wanted the Hospital Garden, but I was a little late on discovering it. Really proves why "Productions" is in the label name and so much more than a record label. Interesting stuff.

cr

Quote from: SILVUM on February 23, 2018, 09:15:22 PM
VA - Okkulte Stimmen - Mediale Musik: Recordings Of Unseen Intelligences 1905-2007 3xCD is essential.. possessed children, haunting phenomena, seances, trance speech.  One of the best things I own.

Ah yes, this is fantastic. Have it since it came out. Must be in some of my boxes, should search for it. Only thinking about the exorcism of Anneliese Michel or the Enfield Poltergeist children and some other recordings still gives me the creeps.


Just found those mentioned on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV1W3Q1aG8Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIA-vwS890s



Euro Trash Bazooka

Quote from: SILVUM on February 23, 2018, 09:15:22 PM

Conet Project: if you dont know, basicslly coded transmissions broadcast for military / spy operations, I love shortwave distortion and robotic women just saying numbers, so it is essential to me.


Yes! I love this stuff as well!
DROIT DIVIN: https://droitdivin1.bandcamp.com/

CRYPTOFASCISME / VIOLENT SHOGUN /
ETC: https://yesdivulgation.bandcamp.com/

HongKongGoolagong

#21
Every single Vagina Dentata Organ record fits right here. Not so much composition in any of them but a whole lot of attitude. One of the very best and a true legend.

Gabi Losoncy has two LPs out to date 'Security Besides Love' and 'HH' plus a plethora of CD-R, cassette and internet only releases. Taped conversations of people in distressing life situations, recordings of panic attacks, recordings of inhuman sounds of bus engines, security systems, tannoys. Much of this very cold, unsettling and without solace.

OKOK Society one of the most prolific yet ignored artists working has created innumerable recordings of distressed/distressing monologues, shortwave radio, found sounds and general wtf audio. Highly recommended.

MK9 primarily uses found material for his audio and has created phenomenal and devastating work over many years since the days when he operated as Death Squad. As genuine an artist as is living today.

impulse manslaughter

Quote from: SILVUM on February 24, 2018, 09:02:14 AM
That John Duncan tape where he's fucking that dead chick in Mexico.

Blind Date, the A side of the Pleasure Escape tape. I like it a lot and asked him if i could do a reissue but he doesn't want this available again..

aububs

wouldn't have been his last load tho

after you get yr balls snipped you still have bullets in the chamber

takes about 20 cums after the testicle massacre before yr shooting blanks

another approach would have been to get his balls snipped and then just keep fucking corpses until he was sterile

not to diminish his achievement

aububs

it has a high poetry regardless, that is for sure


Duncan

Unlikely anyone will ever hear this unless I rip it myself but Wrest - Lives At The CSV (Fuckin' Amateurs) is perfect: Our hero taping conversations at the Job Centre, talking to people about whitehouse and wolf eyes in a thick, north eastern drawl.  'Stabbed In The Face. You've gotta admit, that's a good song title' or words to that effect.  Made all the better by being a single sided LP.

https://www.discogs.com/Wrest-Live-At-The-CSV/release/2400723

ddmurph

Quote from: Duncan on February 23, 2018, 07:55:10 PM
Not something I actually have myself or ever really cared about getting/listening to properly but Adrian Rew's LP on Hanson of slot machine field recordings is a great concept: https://soundcloud.com/hansonrecords/a1-01-3-31-2013-horseshoe-casino-cleveland-oh

That Adrian Rew LP is great. It reminds me a lot of Solid Eye or Joe & Joe (LAFMS) for whatever reason ... same kind of enveloping, trance-like feeling. I tend to get sucked in listening to it, forgetting the context after a bit (but later being suddenly reminded by some change in sounds or background chatter or whatever). Also really looking forward to hearing that Captain Maurice Seddon LP.


Quote from: SILVUM on February 23, 2018, 09:15:22 PM
Conet Project

Okkulte Stimmen

Big fan of both of these here also.


My own interest in this sort of thing definitely veers far away from anything overtly "industrial". Give me an Elizabeth Clare Prophet or Saxon Gregory Productions over a Broken Flag Rockwell any day. Is there anything more perfect than that Seagal / Van Damme LP? Maybe this? ...

Quote from: Duncan on February 25, 2018, 04:34:24 PM
Unlikely anyone will ever hear this unless I rip it myself but Wrest - Lives At The CSV (Fuckin' Amateurs) is perfect: Our hero taping conversations at the Job Centre, talking to people about whitehouse and wolf eyes in a thick, north eastern drawl.  'Stabbed In The Face. You've gotta admit, that's a good song title' or words to that effect.  Made all the better by being a single sided LP.

https://www.discogs.com/Wrest-Live-At-The-CSV/release/2400723

Ha, I've got to hear this.

ddmurph

Quote from: HongKongGoolagong on February 24, 2018, 05:40:21 AM
Gabi Losoncy has two LPs out to date 'Security Besides Love' and 'HH' plus a plethora of CD-R, cassette and internet only releases. Taped conversations of people in distressing life situations, recordings of panic attacks, recordings of inhuman sounds of bus engines, security systems, tannoys. Much of this very cold, unsettling and without solace.

I keep getting drawn back to these two LPs. Baffling but totally engaging. Difficult listening in the best way. I don't even know why I find them particularly "difficult". I guess it's something about not being able to pigeonhole them. There are somewhat familiar elements for sure but, on a whole, they're unlike almost anything else I've heard ... "cold, unsettling and without solace" is a great description. Plus, what a great way for Kye to finish ... an LP of almost "nothing".


Never heard of OKOK Society but sounds intriguing. Any more info? The website linked on discogs (http://www.okok.org.uk/) looks like a rabbit hole ... there goes the next hour of my life.

HongKongGoolagong

Quote from: ddmurph on March 03, 2018, 01:07:46 PM
what a great way for Kye to finish ... an LP of almost "nothing".


Never heard of OKOK Society but sounds intriguing. Any more info? The website linked on discogs (http://www.okok.org.uk/) looks like a rabbit hole ... there goes the next hour of my life.


A very quiet air conditioning unit apparently on HH, which stands for Highly Hypnotizable.

Try http://mrmarkreeve.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/the-third-side-broadcasts-go-mp3_36.html for some OKOK