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Well, let's face it. We should all be proud of those splendid guardians of moral sensibility that demanded, nay insisted, that we should have a warning sign at our front door. If it wasn't for that one person then the jcard on this tape may well have brought down civilisation as we know it!
Now it all makes sense and we can accept our perverted outcast status for what it is ... a moral failing of everybody reading this but especially me. I have reflected and shall no doubt repent.
Anyway, I digress.
This is 26 minutes of brilliance from Patrick Yankee released on Dan Johansson's Harsh Head Rituals in 2007.
Mr. Inside found this many years ago, one of the nicest gifts he's ever given to me. It's a four-way split c90 featuring tracks by Sudden Infant and Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock representing Switzerland on one side, and Americans Daniel Menche and Small Cruel Party on the other. The insert includes some adorable portraits of all four participants by Joke Lanz, who issued the tape on his own Soja-Sauce Bolognese label in 1997. It comes stuck inside a crushed can, a packaging concept that seems to have inspired the USA side (maybe also the Swiss side, but I can't tell from the titles). Menche's furious fuzz is titled "Canquake", SCP's track is called "Can the Sound Can" (after SBOTHI, of course). Sudden Infant's track, "Les Schwab", may or may not be named after this guy. R&G's "Für Scheide, Schnecke Und Rassiermesser" translates to something I'd prefer not to type here.
On this release Beequeen are Freek Kinkelaar and Frans de Waard. You'll know Frans as a member of Kapotte Muziek and many other great things and he also started such great labels as Korm Plastics, Bake Records and My Own Little Label.
This is a CD released on Freek and Frans own Plinkity Plonk Records in 2003. It features Beequeen reworking material by Koji Tano's MSBR and vice versa.
[I've just realised that this is still for sale after 12 years. Astonishing! Where were you all? Anyway ... go and give Frans some love.]
Koji Tano is certainly best known for his work as his MSBR (Molten Salt Breeder Reactor). Probably less well known is his noise-work as Magmax. Given the Suicide-styled arcade game B-movie synth elements it won't surprise you to know that he took the name from a mid-80s Japanese side-scrolling shooter game. Remember those days when such games were the pinnacle of technology? Ah, sorry, I keep forgetting that you weren't born then. Anyway I was and I'm pretty sure that the anarcho-grindcore style vocals weren't part of the gameplay. This is an LP and 7" combo released on 220N in 1997 that still makes me smile every time I play it.
Three-way split CD of harsh noise from Japan by Koji Tano (both as MSBR and Magmax) and K2, released in 1999 by MSBR Records as a CD in a clear slimline jewel case.
All I know about The Black Museum is this tape. It's a sinister bugger that sometimes just seems to hover in the air before you realise that's it's been building up all around you. Trying to categorise this defeats the object and would interfere with my enjoyment of it. So I won't even bother.
Did you think the GROSS party was over? Not yet, it isn't! This double c10 is not only one of the best releases on the GROSS label, it's also one of the very best things Masonna ever committed to tape.
This is a mysterious C30 that appeared last year. There is no evidence of a label so I'm assuming it's self-released ... primarily because I'm hoping Tommy is still active in some capacity. Anyway, it's great.
Treriksröset and Blud Thirst are Tommy Carlsson (who also ran the mighty Segerhuva label) and Evan Pacewicz (who was also in Moth Drakula, Roman Torment and Wire Werewolves). This is a C10 released on Swampland in 2006 and is an odd but gratifying blast of noise/PE. Half way through the first side you get some kind of rock song and black metal in reverse...eh? Was that the plan? Don't know, don't care .....
"Protection" pares the group down to a trio sans Jesse Ward, but the squall remains the same. Issued as a CDR on Tigerasylum, a Brooklyn label with free-improv sympathies, in 2007.
Debut CDR from 2006 by a clearly Borbetomagus/Hijokaidan-inspired group of surly students from Berkeley School of Music, also the first release on band member Luke Moldof's Razors and Medicine label. By day, these guys studied free jazz and improvisation with Joe Maneri and Joe Morris; by night, they made ugly noise and released it on ugly CDRs. Two members of this band, Luke Moldof and Jesse Ward, would go on to form power electronics band Craniopagus. Later, Moldof's compositional brilliance would be made clear on solo recordings that came out under the name Stillbirth and in Perispirit, his unpredictable duo with Ricardo Donoso.
A loose song-like jam by Stefan Neville/Pumice (from New Zealand), joined by Mudboy and David Lifieri/Manbeard (from Providence, Rhode Island) on a tape released by Free Matter for the Blind in 2008.
Let's face it. Computers make you lazy. I've recently had to get myself a new one and have finally been able to consolidate loads of stuff scattered around various external drives. This is one such thing. I played it a couple of nights ago and couldn't understand why it has been so long. Oh yeah, computers make you lazy. I bought this from (the great) Dirter Promotions when it came out in 2004. The actual box set has been sitting on one of my shelves about four feet away from my left hand for years. Remembered but not played.
This incarnation of the UFO are Kawabata Makoto on guitar, Tsuyama Atsushi on bass, Hajime Koizumi on drums, Higashi Hiroshi on celestial synth with Cotton Casino handling the vocal duties on the first three discs.
If you already have this, go back and reacquaint yourself with an old friend. If you don't already have this, you are in for four hours of the kind of deliriously magnificent music that only exists in the collective mind of AMT.
I'm not really sure why Sewer Election is killing for so many European countries, but apparently he is. On this cassette, issued by Harsh Head Rituals in 2006, he defends pomme frites and wild fermented ales with a wall of harsh noise. Maybe DoD pedals keep the tourists out.
It's a good thing Germany has two Swedish guys killing in its name, because otherwise... um, hang on, maybe this doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Released as a one-sided tape in 2007 by Chefsideologens Bolag.
A one-time-only collaboration by David Jackman (Organum) and Christoph Heemann (HNAS, In Camera, Mirror, etc), released as a white-vinyl 7" on Robot Records in the US. There are instances in which I can understand and appreciate Jackman's predilection for short releases and brief statements. Many of his very short 7" records sound self-contained and complete. Other times, he sets a tone that I wish would grow and develop for a much longer amount of time than he's willing to give to it. "A Lump in Your Throat" is the latter case. It's really lovely music, but would be lovelier still if Heemann's gift for elongated elegance won out over Jackman's always-leave-'em-wanting-more brevity.
This is the released (I suppose you could call it the 2nd edition) of Macronympha's "Insane Torture Device" tape from 1991, rereleased in 2008 by Rodger Stella in a run of 30 cassettes.
This contains live versions of material (plus a random ten minutes of studio work) that featured on the Ninetythree tape released on Rodger Stella's Mutter Wild label three months prior to this one.
C62 released on Mother Savage Noise Productions in 2010 in an edition of 30.
2008 edition of what would have been Macronympha's debut cassette in 1991. For some reason, it was shelved and a completely different tape with the same title was released instead. I have no idea why, but if you do, then please let us know in the comments.
In the late 00's, Macronympha's Rodger Stella reissued some of his band's cassettes along with several outtakes and otherwise unreleased titles. This is Stella's 2008 reissue of a sixty-minute cassette, originally released on Mother Savage Noise Productions in 1995.
On this occasion, Jooklo are the duo of David Vanzan and Virginia Genta alongside the wonderful Metabolismus (Jeremie Sauvage, Joachim Schütz, Moritz Finkbeiner, Thilo Kuhn and Thomas Schätzl).
This is a c54 released on Troglosound in 2013 and is every bit as good as you would expect. Even if you already have no doubt...here's a wonderful live set that somebody has uploaded elsewhere:
Whilst, I'm here I have a confession to make (may Jonny Zchivago forgive me) ... I really love Crass! Stations Of The Crass, Penis Envy and Feeding Of The Five Thousand are great. I always imagined the collective rather romantically as the spearhead of the anarcho-syndicalist revolution and Dial Farm as the blueprint for modern living. However, the track "Do They Owe Us A Living?" from the 5000 EP always stuck in my throat.
The intention of the song always seemed clear and certainly it did amongst the plastic crusties and the plastic anarchos that I had the misfortune to spend a lot of time with at a thousand squat parties and demos. Do They Owe Us A Living? Put succinctly: of course they fucking don't! Nobody owes you anything at all! Do it your fucking self! People who believe in a system without government (or more correctly, a self-governing system of individuals) championing a sense of entitlement from The State? HHMMM!!!
Anyway, Metabolismus covered the song on their Mauser O.K. 7" (which I still haven't gotten around to picking up) and nail it! Again, somebody has uploaded the song just so that I can play it on rotation whenever I like ...
I've never inserted a recording device but I've often thought about it. Thankfully, Organs saved me the bodily trauma and yeah I imagined that this is how it would sound. Especially the bass heavy reverb ...
Organs were a brilliant but unfortunately brief recording arrangement between C. Spencer Yeh (of Burning Star Core, etc) and Ron Orovitz (aka Iovae). The pair recorded as Death Beam with Chris Roesing. I would assume it is equally great but unfortunately they have escaped me ...
Wonderful CDr that covers all of (the previously unidentified) ground between the cavernous recordings taken from inside an asteroid and belly-crawling insect colony crumbling glitchnoise.
International industrial compilation tape from 1987 on the Bande Blanche label with some fine noise by French duo Etant Donnes, a live howl by German band Sprung aus den Wolken (contemporaries of Einsturzende Neubauten), carnage by obscure artists like Op de Grace, Steve Rare, and Kriztof Kudla, and my favorite, several tracks of enthusiastic metal bashing by a group called Three Mad Dog.
A very long tape (c90!) by DDAA, a very theatrical band that sometimes resembled a French Residents and sometimes were simply inscrutable. "Nouvelles Contructions..." is mostly the latter. It's a single song with a seemingly omnipresent drum-machine pulse, and was used as the soundtrack to a video art piece. The tape comes with a booklet the contains images and info about the piece (in French) and was published on the Bande Blanche label in 1991.
Quite literally. The holy grail of vinyl manipulated on multiple turntables? Well, I'm a massive turntablist fanboy. This was made in 1985! It's a yes then ...
Single sided LP released on Recycled Records in 1985 and re-released on Locus Solus in 1999.
Seminal collection of Christian's earliest works consisting of home and live recordings using old vinyl, self-made instruments and anything up to eight manipulated turntables. These tracks were initially recorded between 1981 and 1989. They could quite easily have been made next year ...
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