Bleak Bliss: November 2016

Lysergic Scum - Battle Dose

More drawn out and spaced out improvised noise from Darren Wyngarde and Phil Todd released as a CDr on Darren's Voltagestress*r in 2005.

Battle Dose

Lysergic Scum - PCP Atrocities

More Filthy Turd Navigations. Off the cuff spontaneous carnage recorded just for us!

3" CDr released on the mighty Phil Todd's Memoirs Of An Aesthete in 2005.

PCP Atrocities

Lysergic Scum - Combat Strength

What happens when the guy from Cosmonauts Hail Satan and Mutant Turd collaborates with the guy from Ashtray Navigations? There will be feedback. Ignore the guy with the machine gun, some really obtuse phasing and flangers make an appearance about halfway through. Lysergic, indeed.

A CDr released on Voltagestress*r in 2004.

Get it!

Reptilian Sexual Predator - Vision

Apparently "Reptilian Sexual Predator is an American Power Electronics group". As far as I am aware, it's Joseph and Vanessa Gates (aka Peiiste etc). Whatever the truth of it (and don't forget, we live in a post-truth world so nothing really matters anymore) "Power Electronics" doesn't even come close. This swings from the truly sinister through beat heavy Smell & Quim territory to The Normal on a bad acid trip to a Teutonic P'Orridge finally making good dance music. No, don't run away! It's brilliant!

Get ready to channel your inner demons...

Double C60 released on Human Ignorance in 2012.

Sexual

Predator

Crucifix Eye / Wet Dream Asphyxiation - Split

Sebastien Dessauvage and Quentin Rhys sharing a C30 of hollowed out and crackling wall on Sounding Session in 2012.

Crucifix Eye / Wet Dream Asphyxiation

Crucifix Eye - Concrete

Sandblasting 3" CDr released on SSIP PISS in 2012.

Concrete

Karst / Wapstan - Split

How long it has been since I plastered some noise on these pages! Time to begin anew with some forgotten releases and random obscurities. This one is a split release between Karst aka George Proctor aka Mutant Ape (interested yet?) and Wapstan aka Martin Sasseville aka Grand Nord. The first part is a terrific hurricane of distortion, perhaps a little too granular to be truly HNW but whatever. The second is a much more menacing affair with tonal feedback swells.

A CDr released on Bris Cul in 2008.

Back To Work!!

Crucifix Eye / Glasgow Smile - Split

Split CDr from Sebastien Dessauvage and Zach Guttowsky released on Richard Ramirez's Deadline Recordings in 2012.

Crucifix Eye / Glasgow Smile

Magic Is Küntmaster - Virgin Ghost

Unsettling industrial horror songs by NYC performance artist Camilla Ha, released as an enhanced CD (with a video track on it) by Milkpal back in 2005. For fans of Metalux, SPK, Panicsville and being uncomfortable.

Magic Is Küntmaster - Virgin Ghost

Glasgow Smile - Dissector

More noise from Houston, Texas. This time from Zach Guttowsky on a CDr released on Parkbench Records in 2012.

Dissector

David Gilden - Depress-Regress

Blistering C64 released on Slaughter Productions in 1996.

Depress-Regress

Mikadoroid - Mikadoroid

A one-off collaboration between Texan noise legend David Gilden and Akihiro Shimizu (aka Thirdorgan).

Quality C62 released on Slaughter Productions in 1996.

Mikadoroid

Telepherique & One Dark Eye - Body Shop

Klaus Jochim and Joseph Roemer collaboration released as a CDr on Solipsism in 1997.

Body Shop

One Dark Eye - Transmissions Of Fistulae Auris

Originally a C60 on Mother Savage Noise Productions released in 1994 (and again in 2008). This was a welcome chance to hear some of Rodger Stella's earlier work.

Released on Mikko Aspa's brilliant Industrial Recollections in 2010.

Transmissions Of Fistulae Auris

One Dark Eye - Manic Depression

This shares a name with the tape released on Mother Savage Noise Productions in 1996. However, three of the tracks are reworked from that source with the track from the split tape with Macronympha (that was released on Spite in 1998) thrown in for good measure.

Released on Dan Johansson's Ljud & Bild Produktion in 2012.

Manic Depression

Various - MSNP

Oh, what a glorious tape! Macronympha, OVMN (Optimum Volume Maximum Noise), MXM (Joseph Roemer and Shohei Iwasaki with the latter being Monde Bruits), Rodger Stella's One Dark Eye and Slave Labor (David Gilden, Richard Ramirez and Joseph Roemer). Yeah bwoy as da yoot say.

C62 released on Mother Savage Noise Productions in 2010 in a probable edition of 30.

MSNP

Various - Underground Canada

Knurl, T.A.D.M., The Rita, Scissor, Tension Hook and Eleven (aka Joseph Roemer).

C62 originally released on Mother Savage Noise Productions in 1996 before it was reissued in 2014.

Oh Canada

Various - Underground USA

C94 that includes Bacillus, Strict, Armenia, Daylight Savings Time, Bob Marinelli and David Gilden's Depress / Regress.

Originally released on Mother Savage Noise Productions in 1996 before it was reissued in 2014.

Side Wall

Side Fence

Various - Americanoise

Originally released as a two hour tape on Mother Savage Noise Productions in 1995. Thankfully, Italy's Audio Dissection re-released this as a double CD in 2012.

Crank Sturgeon, Daniel Menche, Taint, Emil Beaulieau, Skin Crime, Macronympha, One Dark Eye, OVMN and many more ......

Noise

Noise

Scans

Various - Forced Womanhood

Immaculate:Grotesque, Black Leather Jesus, Mansfield Deathtrap, Survival Unit, Panicsville, Concrete Violin, V.D. (aka Keith Brewer & Chris Goudreau) and many more ...

Double C60 set released on Clay Ruby's 23 Productions in 2005.

Forced

Womanhood

Various - Introverted Formula

Four sides of brooding electronics with five artists covering four sides of vinyl.

Double LP released on Järtecknet in 2014.

Introverted Formula

Various - Nordöstra Malmö

Compilation of Swedish adventurers containing the work of Amph, Mirrors Are Black, Midhem Funeral Band, Teufelsdröckh and Andreas Johansson's Arkhe and Backasvinet projects.

C36 released on Elbogen Fonogram in 2012.

Nordöstra Malmö

Various - Svensk Noise

Unsurprisingly, this is a compilation of Swedish people creating noise. The familiar names are Sewer Election, Arv & Miljö, Backasvinet and Heinz Hopf. Amongst the people that I don't know is the gloriously named Spandex Haircut. Winner!

C74 released on Forever United in 2015. At the time of posting, the label has one copy left so go and grab it.

Svensk Noise

Various - Victoria

Caucasian Colony, LR, Ashley C, Alleypisser, Megan, Perpetrators, Seabrook Collapse, Sebastian Kruse, Damien Dubrovnik, Pisswhipp and the delightfully named Semi Detached Spankers.

Double C30 set released on Posh Isolation in 2011 in an edition of 50.

Victoria, Victoria...aahhh

Michael Johnsen - Live Electronic Sound Recorded 19 Sept 2007

Another self-released 3"CDr from Pittsburgh's Michael Johnsen.

Michael Johnsen - Live Electronic Sound Recorded 19 Sept 2007

Michael Johnsen - Live Electronic Sound Made By the Tuning & Spatial Manipulation of Two Closely Spaced Portable AM Radios Having Loopstick Antennae, the Resulting Signal Undergoing Mild Output Processing, Primarily Filtering & Gating

The title says it all, doesn't it? Pittsburgh's Michael Johnsen makes unstable music that reminds me of Lionel Marchetti, Jerome Noetinger, Jessica Rylan, Gert-Jan Prins, Nautical Almanac, all those artists who stradle the (imaginary) lines between free improvisation and gritty electronic noise. There's something personal and intimate about this spacious bleep, something inviting and warm. "Live Electronic Sound..." was self-released as a 3"CDr in 2007.

Michael Johnsen - Live Electronic Sound Made By The Tuning & Spatial Manipulation Of Two Closely Spaced Portable AM Radios Having Loopstick Antennae, the Resulting Signal Undergoing Mild Output Processing, Primarily Filtering & Gating

Cazzodio - Ad Negantem Usum Significationes

Slithering and suspicious electronic clank released on Eibon Records in 2000.

Cazzodio is the work of Piero Stanig. He is also half of Cazzokraft with Masahiko Okubo. I was going to post some Cazzokraft but Old Europa Cafe have recently reissued what I have ... so go there instead.

Ad Negantem Usum Significationes

Linekraft - The Man Who Was Plugged In

Masahiko Okubo chose his cover well. Then he sprayed the rolling harsh reality all over it. Nice!

CDr released on his own Three Plugs Records in 2008.

The Man Who Was Plugged In

Linekraft - Under The Architecture

Rhythmic harsh clatter and martial beats with one imaginary member of Test Dept. hammering the shit out of the machinery in the cover picture.

CDr released on Steinklang Industries in 2010.

Under The Architecture

Government Alpha + Linekraft - Gloomy Rust

The familiar delights of Yasutoshi Yoshida and the harsh cinematic metal clank of Masahiko Okubo.

CD released on Xerxes in 2010.

Gloomy Rust

Merzbow / Bastard Noise - Voice Pie / Untitled

Split release that came in vinyl on Relapse Records and CD on Release Entertainment both in 1996. The CD has three bonus tracks and this is the version that you have here. One of the bonus tracks is Masami Akita and Reiko Azuma ripping into Suicide's seminal Ghost Rider ... for about 12 minutes! Just brilliant ...

Voice Pie / Untitled

Bastard Noise / Government Alpha - The Relic

Split CDr that also has each playing the music of the other. Released on Xerxes in 1999.

The Relic

The Gerogerigegege & Bastard Noise - Ramones / New Toy For Children

7" released on Vis A Vis Audio Arts in Japan in 1996 with a Bastard Noise self-released version.

Ramones / New Toy For Children

Man Is The Bastard: Bastard Noise - Selected Pathways To Undisclosed Planets: Live

Series of live recordings created between 1996 and early 2000.

CD released on Manufracture in 2000.

Whilst I'm here, I seem to remember that the label was run by Eric Boros (aka Hermit). Anyway ... the label has put up a real treasure trove of releases on Free Music Archive and you need to check it out.

Selected Pathways To Undisclosed Planets: Live

Man Is The Bastard: Bastard Noise - Bastard Noise Hails The Finnish Sound Masters / The Symptoms Of A Failing Equilibrium

A CD full of collaborations with Bizarre Uproar, Woundead, Order., Junkdrome, Skin-Graft, All-Out and Grunt. Released on Mikko Aspa's Freak Animal Records in 1999.

Hail Bastards

Man Is The Bastard / Man Is The Bastard Noise - Nazi Drunks Fuck Off Live / Native American Life

Great sets of live recordings that show both aspects of the Bastard organism. I was going to split the tracks but didn't ...

LP (only) released in Japan on Vibrator Records in 1997.

Nazi's Just Fuck Right Off

Guilty Connector / Bastard Noise / MSBR - Split

CDr released on Koji Tano's MSBR Records in 2000. Nothing else needs saying.

Guilty Bastard Reactor

Bastard Noise and Guilty Connector - Decimation Cycle

Old school mail collaboration on this genius 7" jointly released on Utsu Tapes and Eric Wood's DP (aka Dead Pig Records) in 2002.

Decimation Cycle

Bastard Noise & Guilty Connector - Noise Plague

Live collaboration captured at 20,000V, Tokyo in 2000 and released on Troniks in 2004.

Noise Plague

Bastard Noise - Live In Japan

This version of Bastard Noise is John Wiese and Eric Wood. Hear the Roswell spaceships dissolve into insinuation.

CD released on John's Helicopter in 2003.

Live In Japan

Bastard Noise & Government Alpha - Radiation Snowfall

Another split release and we're back to the Wood / Wiese Bastard who have two tracks with another remixed by Kohei Nakagawa (aka Guilty Connector) and one remixed by S.Isabella and Mr Alpha himself.

CDr released on Xerxes in 2003.

Radiation Snowfall

Bastard Noise + Government Alpha - Resurrection

Eric Wood and Bill Nelson sharing a CD with Yasutoshi Yoshida. What's not to love?

CD jointly released on Thumbprint Press and Xerxes in 2006.

Resurrection

Government Alpha & Azoikum - Das Methadonprogram

Stefan Widmann and Yasutoshi Yoshida on a CD released on Multi National Disaster Records in 2005.

Das Methadonprogram

Azoikum - Cunt

Transgression used to disguise intent.

CD released on Phil Blankenship's Troniks in 2001.

Cunt

Azoikum - Tod

Does anybody else here hate the pigeonholing of noise?

Power Electronics vs Noise vs Harsh Noise vs Harsh Noise Wall vs Ambient vs Death Industrial (whatever any of those terms actually mean). Yeah, sometimes I fall into the trap and use them to steer people into a particular direction but ultimately "big deal".

Stefan Widmann is a completely different kettle of Chondrichthyes. The longer the track length, the deeper the exploration.

CDr released on the legendary Slaughter Productions in 2002.

Tod

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