Bleak Bliss

The Rita - The Nylons Of Laura Antonelli

2012-02-02T19:20:00.026Z

Sam McKinley presents his fascination with stockings and Italian actress Laura Antonelli. A proclivity that I have some sympathy with.

"Recorded live using various mic'd styles of women's nylon stockings. Methodical dwelling on the different densities of the nylons via classic harsh noise instrumentation. Stockings, eye liner, eye shadow, and mascara - the abstraction and deconstruction of the female form."

Eight C30 tapes released in 2009 in a tiny edition of 49 copies on the (very recently deceased) Utmarken label.

Thank you Utmarken!!!

Tapes 1-4
Tapes 5-8

I Think That I've Thought Enough!

2012-01-28T15:22:00.000Z

I've got to say that having two years of time and effort erased in one second broke my heart. I needed a bit of "me time" in order to (as Mutant Sounds so eloquently put it) lick my wounds.

If I'm a pirate...piracy is in really bad shape. The mission is the same. Songs from under the floorboards...music you would probably never have heard before...seriously limited releases that disappear into private collections, played once or twice and shelved forever...links to artists and labels...and some things that you will hate but may become your new favourite thing...or some things that will just irritate you!

If I ruled the world, this stuff would be pumped out to infants to raise them away from popular "culture".

Thanks to the people that felt strongly enough to post a comment of encouragement. Especially Aaron...that one meant a lot! Big love (as always) goes to David Payne for giving me the Über-supportive / optimistic shot in the arm that I really needed. There are others and you know who you are! And...the three people who joined after the blog was killed...how's that for hope over expectation!?!

In a few days, I'm planning a post that will probably dislocate the lower jaw of the noiseheads amongst us. At that point, the January 2012 and December 2011 posts will also be back up. Please understand the work that has already gone into posting what has been deleted. Requests for other re-ups from "anonymous" and "guest" are liable to be completely ignored. Get Engaged!

Even so, we live in uncertain times and I'm loathe to put too much time in when filehosts are likely to disappear one by one. The subtext is clear...there's an american election coming and the big-money backers are flexing their muscles. In doing so, they will take out people like us!

Either way...we start again...and again...and...

That's all folks?

2012-01-19T22:13:00.000Z

Yeah...Megaupload has been taken down!

Not convinced I can be arsed with reuploading everything and switching filehost and all that jazz!

I need a bit of time to think about this. If I don't come back...I hope you enjoyed the ride whilst it lasted!

God Bless America

Keiji Haino & Michihiro Sato - Tayutayuto Tadayoitamae Kono Furue

2012-01-16T16:03:00.001Z

P.S.F. Records release from 2004.

Tayutayuto Tadayoitamae Kono Furue

Keiji Haino, Mitsuru Nasuno, Tatsuya Yoshida & BusRatch - Live At Cafe Independants Friday 23.January.2004

2012-01-16T16:00:00.001Z

Self-explanatory release from 2004.

Live At Cafe Independants

Homeogryllus Japonicus Orchestra 2004

2012-01-16T15:52:00.001Z

Self-titled release recorded at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art on August 28, 2004. This recording features Mamoru Fujieda and Keiji Haino.

The Homeogryllus Japonicus of the title refers to the genus/species name of a cricket. There are 600 of these insects whose movements and noise are amplified and manipulated for the purpose of this recording.

There is a Volume 2 from 2005 featuring Fuyuki Yamakawa...just haven't found it yet.

Homeogryllus Japonicus

The Girl In The Wooden Horse Torture & Bachir Gemayel

2012-01-16T14:12:00.001Z

C20 on WGM Tapes from 2010.

TGITWHT is Richard Ramirez and Robert Newsome. Robert records as White Gimp Mask and appears alongside Richard in Black Leather Jesus, Four Flies and Viking Movement.

Split

Bachir Gemayel - Legacy

2012-01-16T14:01:00.001Z

Double cdr of harsh power electronics on Insurgent Records from 2008.

About all I know about this mystery man is that he is from Chicago and also records as Insurgent, Koufar and Waddiah Rabiah Chami.

Disc 1
Disc 2

Luasa Raelon / Envenomist

2012-01-16T08:53:00.001Z

Requested re-up from (unbelievably) 22 months ago. David was one of the first artists that I approached directly to post his OOP stuff...and he is a thoroughly nice man! Never did get that compilation list though.

In the words of the man himself..."David Reed has been producing heavy electronic music under various monikers since the year 2000. He currently records under three active solo projects, luasa raelon, brittle foundries and envenomist. Envenomist is sourced solely using synthesisers to produce a minimal industrial ambience heavily influenced by 80's Industrial acts and the European synth scene of the 70's. Luasa Raelon is a far-ranging death industrial/dark ambient project dealing with narrative themes and using whatever materials are at hand for sound and textures to create the requisite material. Brittle Foundries began as music concrete/academic project but has journeyed into territories of desolation and despair while retaining a subtle beauty. Also active in Nightmares with Jon Canady and Mark Solotroff. Past work with Starlight Fleecing, Rocco DiPietro, Larry Marotta, the Avant Collective, Jason Zeh, and Mike Shiflet."

All of this is OOP...David runs his own label (Snip-Snip Records) and you can buy the releases still available here and check out the latest news here . David has said he will give me a list of his personal favourite works/tracks to post as a compilation type thing. I have loads that is still in print (and therefore can't post) so have heard nearly everything...it would make for some fantastic listening!

Gotta admit I've never heard Brittle Foundries...or seen any for that matter...

Finally...SS Envenomind is a 3-way collab between the guys behind Spine Scavanger, Envenomist and Hive Mind, btw...

Luasa Raelon

2001 - Luasa Raelon - Combustion
2001 - Luasa Raelon - Detonator c60
2003 - Luasa Raelon - The Erebus And The Terror
2004 - Hive Mind & Luasa Raelon & Redrot - Industrial Isolation
2004 - Luasa Raelon - Avarice
2004 - Luasa Raelon & The Cherry Point - Split c20
2005 - Hive Mind & Luasa Raelon - Alabaster Catacombs 3''cdr
2005 - Luasa Raelon - Cephalomancy
2005 - Luasa Raelon & Hive Mind - Sea-Level Transmission
2007 - Hum Of The Druid & Luasa Raelon - Screaming Biology / Oceanic
2007 - Luasa Raelon - Into The Void

Envenomist

2005 - Wapstan & Envenomist - Split
2006 - Envenomist - Delving Glacial
2007 - Envemonist - Black Bile c30
2007 - Envenomist - Beholder 3''cdr
2007 - Envenomist - Weighted Ghost c30
2007 - Pulse Emitter & Envenomist - Split c45
2008 - Envenomist - Divine Intervention c30
2008 - SS Envenomind - Untitled c30
2009 - Envenomist & Hive Mind - Initiation Into Nothingness c40

Envenomist - Scorpian Gears

Taurpis Tula - Cadillac Sitting Like A Ton Of Lead

2012-01-14T18:37:00.001Z

LP released on Finnish label Ikuisuus.

By this time Taurpis Tula were joined by Alex Neilson (Directing Hand, ex-AshNav as well as being responsible for many many great releases as a contributor...check his work out!).

Cadillac Sitting Like A Ton Of Lead

Taurpis Tula - Caught In The Teeth Of It

2012-01-14T18:29:00.001Z

Cdr released on Volcanic Tongue in 2005.

Caught In The Teeth Of It

Taurpis Tula - Sparrows

2012-01-14T18:23:00.001Z

LP released on the pre-eminent Eclipse Records in 2004.

Taurpis Tula at this point were Heather Leigh (ex-Charalambides, Scorces, Jailbreak etc) with David Keenan who runs the ace Glasgow based shop/distro/label Volcanic Tongue.

Sparrows

The Vomit Arsonist & RU-486 - Tearing Flesh To Reveal Armor

2012-01-14T15:32:00.001Z

C10 on Destructive Industries from 2010.

Tearing Flesh To Reveal Armor

RU-486 - Filth Fantasies

2012-01-14T15:27:00.001Z

C10 released on Violent Noise Atrocities in 2008 before getting a limited reissue on Destructive Industries a couple of years later.

RU-486 is the work of the aforementioned Thomas Mortigan.

Filth Fantasies

Richard Ramirez & RU-486 - Untitled

2012-01-14T15:17:00.002Z

C30 released on Thomas Mortigan's excellent Destructive Industries label in 2008.

Untitled

Richard Ramirez - Trick

2012-01-14T15:10:00.001Z

C60 on Hospital Productions from way back in 1999 or 2000.

Trick

Kneale.Francis.Milton - Hiss Methodologies

2012-01-14T08:56:00.001Z

This time alongside fellow New Zealanders Richard Francis (Eso Steel, With Throats As Fine As Needles) and Antony Milton (Mrtyu, With Throats As Fine As Needles). Double cdr on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon from 2004.

"Recorded live-to-air at 3CR Melbourne and 2SER Sydney July 2004"

Disc 1
Disc 2

Kneale.Campbell.Todd - British Steel

2012-01-14T08:49:00.001Z

Campbell Kneale with Neil Campbell (Vibracathedral Orchestra, Astral Social Club, A Band...amongst many others) and Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations et al). Again on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon but in 2003 this time around.

"Recorded live in Leeds, 18th-20th Jan 2003"

British Steel

Kneale - Kuwayama - Under Nagoya

2012-01-14T08:42:00.001Z

Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel, Black Boned Angel, Our Love Will Destroy The World) alongside Kuwayama Kiyoharu. Released on Campbell's exquisite Celebrate Psi Phenomenon label in 2002.

"Recorded underneath Nagoya, Japan 17th December 2001"

Under Nagoya

Hair Stylistics / Yoshio Kuge / Atsuhiro Ito / ??? - Live:Album

2012-01-10T22:18:00.001Z

Another three cdr set from 2010 this time. Again three hours plus of mayhem!

Yoshio Kuge is the punk/underground drummer who has played with many Japanese underground groups including Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Masami Shinoda Unit and Les Rallizes Denudes amongst many others.

Atsuhiro Ito makes use of fluorescent lighting (which is also an element of his art installations) in the creation of an original musical device called the optron. He is also active in a number of musical outfits, one being Optrum, the explosively loud "extreme optical noise core band" consisting of Ito and drummer Yoichiro Shin.

Disc 1
Disc 2
Disc 3

And here is a short(ish) bit of live video which is a lot of fun:

Hijokaidan feat. Hair Stylistics - Live in Tokyo 2010

...and some audio...

Hijokaidan with Hair Stylistics - Live at Earthdom, Tokyo 2010.12.30

Hair Stylistics - Live!

2012-01-10T22:01:00.001Z

Three cdr set on his own Boid label from 2009. Over three hours of fun for everyone!

Disc 1
Disc 2
Disc 3

… And Shiva Came For Charlie

2012-01-09T20:46:00.002Z

LP released in 2008 in an edition of around 320 copies.

This was released to commemorate the deeply untimely passing of Charles Gocher Jr. on the 19th of February, 2007.

A fitting tribute for a cornerstone of the Sun City Girls and a loss to us all!

…And Shiva Came For Charlie

Fire In The Head - Reopening Wounds

2012-01-08T19:46:00.003Z

Dustin was after this one...so here it is...

C76 released on Thomas Mortigan's really great Destructive Industries label in 2010.

FITH were a fantastic and unique outfit and are sadly missed.

Reopening Wounds

Black Leather Jesus - Diseased Translation

2012-01-08T18:45:00.001Z

Requested re-up.

BLJ 7" from 2008 on AG82 Records. Ripped as 33rpm and 45rpm...you choose!

Diseased Translation [33rpm]

Diseased Translation [45rpm]

Musica Transonic - Works (?)

2011-12-30T16:52:00.001Z

You will know that Musica Transonic are Asahito Nanjo, Makoto Kawabata and Tatsuya Yoshida.

I've been tracking La Musica for years and years and it has driven me crazy!

One of my new year's resolutions is to give myself a break and stop trying to track all of this stuff down. These are all of the "works" Musica Transonic that I have alongside all of the other "unofficial" releases I have. They may form part of the Works boxset, but probably don't. They are not part of the other La Musica boxes that I have already posted.

Do What Thou Wilt!

Works 1: Freecore Hardsonic Live with Yamataka Eye

Works 2: Kali 1999

Works 3: Monster Improvisation

Works 5: Psychedelic Freedelic Sounds

Works 6: Freedelic Transonic

Works 7: Officium Defunctorum

Euro Rock Boogaloo

Euro Speed Freedelic Boogie

Musica Transonic & Yamataka Ai

Studio K7

Live @ Seikazoku, Nagoya, Japan. 30-04-1997

See you next year!

Jim O'Rourke - All Kinds Of People: Love Burt Bacharach

2011-12-25T13:21:00.002Z

...and when you are all bloated with egg nog...try this for dessert!

Jim with a range of Japanese artists covering Burt's classics!

You even get Masaya Nakahara (Hair Stylistics, Violent Onsen Geisha) handling vocals on track four.

The full list of contributors is here

All kinds of Burt remind me of you

Merry Christmas Wierdos!

Psychic TV - Dreams Less Sweet

2011-12-25T13:10:00.003Z

After Throbbing Gristle's mission ended, Genesis P-Orridge and Alternative TV's Alex Fergusson brought Psychic TV to the world.

In 1983, they released their second lp. The first edition came with a free 12".

One of the better reviews is here and deserves your indulgence. The album was recorded using Zuccarelli Holophonic technology which basically means that the sounds arrive at you from all angles and often the least expected. It lulls you into a (very) false sense of security just before it tips you headlong into a nightmare world. It deserves to be heard via headphones for the maximum impact (SERIOUSLY...DO IT).

Even the serene elements within the work are disarmingly subversive! Whilst "Always Is Always" is sung by an angelic choirboy, it is a song written by Charles Manson and was basically the Manson Family anthem...and if that isn't enough, the song dissolves into the rip of machine-gun fire. "White Nights" contains the lines "Santa Claus is checking his list, going over it twice, seeing who is naughty and who is nice" sung by Genesis at his innocent best. The lines are actually re-appropriated dialogue from the Reverand Jim Jones' so-called “death tapes”. The "Santa Claus" chorus was a rhyme used by Jones to teach children the value of paranoia.

The "Reverand" was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, which is best known for the November 18, 1978 mass suicide of 909 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana. Over 200 children were murdered at Jonestown, several of whom were forcefully made to ingest cyanide by adults. It adds a slightly different impact, let's say, to this superficially innocent song!

Even the beautiful cover alludes to a Prince Albert penile piercing...the messages are everywhere on this release...

It was quite simply unlike anything that I had heard before or have heard since. Psychic TV at their most magnificent, melancholic and malevolent best and it has lost none of its impact since its release almost 30 years ago!

Dreams Less Sweet

Dreams Less Sweet - Free 12"

Hans Reichel - Daxophone

2011-12-25T12:35:00.002Z

For some reason, I forgot the first of the 7"s from the TOTE series...

Beryllium

Thurston Moore - Starfield Wild / Earth/Amp

2011-12-19T18:38:00.002Z

Table Of The Elements is one of those labels whose product is both aesthetically astonishing and drop dead gorgeous! It was founded by American music producer and graphic designer Jeff Hunt in 1993. In a beautiful touch, the catalogue number of each release is composed of, in sequence, the atomic number of an element from the periodic table alongside its attendant symbol.

Here and below are 12 of the 7" vinyls released between 1993 and 1994. The cast list will give you all you need to know regarding the quality and aspiration of this unique label!

Sulphur

Loren Mazzacane - Five Points

2011-12-19T18:03:00.001Z

Phosphorus

Lee Ranaldo - Smoke Ring / Travis 4,5

2011-12-19T18:01:00.001Z

Silicon

Paul Panhuysen - The Galvano's

2011-12-19T18:00:00.001Z

Aluminium

Keiji Haino - Guitar Works I-VIII

2011-12-19T17:58:00.001Z

Magnesium

Derek Bailey - New Year Messages 1-4

2011-12-19T17:56:00.001Z

Sodium

Henry Kaiser - Delirium/Homesickness

2011-12-19T17:53:00.001Z

Neon

K.K. Null - Cryonics

2011-12-19T17:47:00.001Z

Fluorine

Hans Reichel - Variations On Jay

2011-12-19T17:41:00.000Z

Oxygen

Jim O'Rourke - Muni/Michel Piccoli

2011-12-19T17:39:00.001Z

Nitrogen

Davey Williams - Firing Up The Old Sikorsky/Requiem For Bosnia

2011-12-19T17:37:00.001Z

Carbon

Keith Rowe - City Music For Electric Guitar

2011-12-19T17:36:00.001Z

Boron

Makoto Kawabata - Musique Cosmique Electro-Acoustique

2011-12-17T15:52:00.001Z

Deep-space psychedelic electronics vinyl, released on Qbico in 2003.

Musique Cosmique Electro-Acoustique

Sun Kich - Lucky Mountain Hey!!!!!!!!!!

2011-12-17T15:25:00.001Z

Sun Kich were Seiichi Yamamoto and Tatsuya Yoshida and I think that it is the only release under that name.

Released on Japan Overseas in 1997.

Lucky Mountain Hey!!!!!!!!!!

Jon Rose & Otomo Yoshihide - Tatakiuri

2011-12-17T15:05:00.001Z

Inspired collaboration that covers just about every piece of ground you can think of! Bewildering, sublime and very funny at points.

Released on Japan's Creativeman Disc. in 1995.

Tatakiuri

Bongwater - Jimmy / Lesbians of Russia

2011-12-17T14:18:00.002Z

Shockabilly - The Ghost Of Shockabilly

2011-12-17T14:07:00.003Z

In 1982, Shockabilly was formed out of the ashes of Eugene Chadbourne's LSD Country & Western quintet The Chadbournes. When John Zorn and the late Tom Cora departed, they left a trio in their wake. Eugene Chadbourne, Kramer and David Licht carried on as the newly named Shockabilly.

Mark Kramer has appeared in some absolutely seminal outfits such as Half Japanese, B.A.L.L., Bongwater, Butthole Surfers and The Fugs. He also owned and operated the legendary and unique Shimmy Disc label. The label had such a singular take on the world that I would buy every new release without knowing what it was...just because it was a Shimmy release! They released Ruins "Stonehenge" onto an unsuspecting Western world ferchristssake! Some corporate shites took Shimmy Disc over in the '90's and (from memory) then went bust. I called it Karma at the time! Kramer has since set up Second Shimmy where he continues to release weird and wonderful music and has (re) remastered some of his work.

David Licht has also played in B.A.L.L., Bank Of Sodom, Bongwater and When People Were Shorter And Lived Near The Water.

This CD release on Shimmy Disc from 1989 compiles remastered versions of the first two lps "Earth Vs Shockabilly" and "Colossseum".

If you have never heard Shockabilly, you will have no reference points! Bizarre, inverted, twisted and exhilarating all the way down!

Ghost

Owl Xounds & Family Battle Snake - Split

2011-12-17T12:50:00.001Z

CDr released on Blackest Rainbow in 2007.

Family Battle Snake is Bill Kouligas' long-standing experimental project.

Owl Xounds & Family Battle Snake

Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy vs Datashock - Split

2011-12-17T12:39:00.001Z

C40 released on Meudiademorte in 2007.

Datashock are a "German neo-hippie-spook-folk collective with no fixed line-up, a policy, which suits their without-portfolio sound down to the ground. Datashock strays away from the instrumental template towards a more shamanic (and shambolic) conjuring of ancestral voices from an array of junk electronics, effects pedals and DIY tape manipulation rigs." Which makes for a neat fit on this tape.

Galaxy & Datashock

Owl Xounds - Stoned & Zoned

2011-12-17T12:30:00.001Z

2 x 3" cdrs released on Thor's Rubber Hammer Productions in 2007.

"As one of NYC’s most aggressive fire-jazz units, Owl Xounds continues to link ESP’Disk and the Misfits, but here also approaches beautiful noise on two 20+ minute pieces. Mainstays Adam Kriney (drums) and Gene Janas (upright bass) are augmented by Bonnie Kane on amplified flute and sax with electronics. Kane’s contributions bring the unit to its most psychedelic paramount, her feedback-sax worshipping at the gates of guitar gods like Les Rallizes Denudes and Blue Cheer, yet affectionately rooted in Albert Ayler. Kriney (La Otracina) moves the action forward, ravaging without destroying, and Janas (Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Bern Nix’s Sedition Ensemble) practically rips the strings off his bass, yet both know when to let textures form on their own."

Stoned & Zoned

Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy - Touch The Iceberg

2011-12-17T12:23:00.001Z

C44 released on Fuck It Tapes in 2007. Side A is a live recording at the Flywheel Arts Centre in Easthampton, MA in November 2006 which includes the aforementioned Moore brothers.

Kind of sounds like a ghost orchestra warming up in the basement beneath you and then decomposing from there. Which is a good thing.

Touch The Iceberg

Arrington de Dionyso & Owl Sounds - Cow On Mushrooms

2011-12-17T12:08:00.001Z

CDr released on Colour Sounds Recordings in 2005.

Arrington de Dionyso also appears in the excellent Old Time Relijun.

Don't have a pic of the cover but they appear in the jpeg with Gene and Thurston Moore who appear on the next tape.

Cow On Mushrooms

Vast Glory - Vast Glory

2011-12-17T11:53:00.001Z

C60 released on Lake Shark Harsh Noise this year.

Vast Glory

Filthy Turd - Schoolgirls In Chains

2011-12-17T11:47:00.001Z

CDr released on Cut Hands in 2007.

Schoolgirls In Chains

Filthy Turd & A.E. - Vicious Parallels Violent Structures

2011-12-17T11:43:00.001Z

CDr released on the sadly short-lived Militant Walls in 2006.

Vicious Parallels Violent Structures

Filthy Turd - Love Hotel

2011-12-17T11:41:00.001Z

CDr released on the mighty Turgid Animal in 2006.

Love Hotel

The Tubes - Live From The Can

2011-12-09T16:55:00.002Z

Nothing at all to do with the new wavey "White Punks On Dope" outfit (you'll be relieved to know).

This is another John Olson project on American Tapes (AM858) from early 2010...the first of the three Tubes releases so far. Three C90's packaged in a spraypainted tube or can (depending on what was lying around in the Olson household at the time) in an edition of 12!

The picture isn't of the release...it's one of John's artworks that he sells here.

Tape 1
Tape 2
Tape 3

Rangda - False Flag

2011-12-09T11:36:00.001Z

Sublime trio of Sir Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny (of Six Organs Of Admittance, Comets On Fire and many other wonderful ventures) on guitar and Chris Corsano on drums. Normally, you would be happy to know that these people were in the same country...but in the same band? It's like your wildest dreams coming true!

Released on Drag City in 2010.

False Flag

...and here's a bootleg of Rangda Live In Geneva if you are interested...

Pengo - Toads Tools Amongst The Tombstones

2011-12-09T10:02:00.004Z

New York's Pengo is John Schoen, Jason Finkbeiner and Nuuj who form a mighty three-headed avant/drone/noise/psych hydra. Every Pengo release that I have is bewilderingly different from the previous as they restlessly bring together many disparate strains of underground sounds to form a perplexing and at times alienating (but always rewarding) whole. At times, they have been compared to Sun Ra, AMM, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Throbbing Gristle, Suicide, NNCK and Les Rallizes Denudes. At the end of the day, Pengo are like Pengo and nobody out there is like Pengo!

On this LP, released on the awesome Qbico label in 2006, we see them sail off into acid-damaged shamanic Sundurned psychedelic territory. A great album from a really excellent outfit!

Toads Tools Amongst The Tombstones

Sudden Infant - Invocation Of The Aural Slave Gods

2011-12-09T09:43:00.002Z

Great CD released on Blossoming Noise in 2005. Contains a couple of inspired covers: Cabaret Voltaire's "Nag Nag Nag" and Roxy Music's "In Every Dream Home A Heartache". Excellent!

Invocation Of The Aural Slave Gods

Sudden Infant - ← Look Left

2011-12-09T09:36:00.001Z

3" CDr from your favourite Swiss noise experimenter. Released on Entr'acte in 2004.

← Look Left

Reynols - Bolas Tristes

2011-12-08T22:55:00.001Z

CDr released on Freedom From in 2001.

Bolas Tristes

Reynols - Blank Tapes Live In Malmö

2011-12-08T22:52:00.001Z

Live recording of a session on February 15th, 2003, at The Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden. Unleashed on the world by the Swedish label Komplott.

Blank Tapes Live In Malmö

Reynols - Blank Tapes

2011-12-08T22:46:00.001Z

CD released on Bernhard Günter's Trente Oiseaux label in 2000. The release comprises music made with analog & digital processings over selected blank tapes dating from 1978 to 1999. Apparently.

You should also check out the (now) netlabel site. There is an extremely impressive amount of quality material available for free download. You may also be able to cop a physical version of this as well.

Blank Tapes

Reynols - '-------'

2011-12-08T22:36:00.001Z

CD released in 1999 with the honours split between Phil Todd's (aka Ashtray Navigation's) sadly missed Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers & Mike Landucci's equally mourned Blackbean And Placenta Tape Club.

'-------'

Reynols - 10.000 Chickens Symphony

2011-12-08T22:29:00.001Z

"For their first 7", Reynols did field recordings of (at least) 10.000 chickens and effected them to create a deep-frequency drone with bits of chicken sounds in it for side 1. As a contrast, side 2 shows the more original face of the recordings, a storm of unbelievably high & shrieking sounds, which are at last also being manipulated to increase the astonishing orchestral noise the chickens produce."

This is a 7" released on Germany's Drone Records in two editions in 2000 and 2003 respectively. Chickens as source material...gotta be a pun in there somewhere!

10.000 Chickens Symphony

Hair Stylistics - Monthly Hair Stylistics Vol.10 - Singing For Justice

2011-12-07T16:35:00.001Z

Hair Stylistics is the noise project of Masaya Nakahara that has taken over from his Violent Onsen Geisha escapades. He is astonishingly prolific but his work is very difficult to source unless you are in Japan or speak the lingo. Every time he offers up wonderful work that displays a sense of humour that is sadly lacking in a typically ultra-serious genre.

The "Monthly Hair Stylistics" series of cdrs were released in a series of 12 (plus a 13th "Mystery Disc") during 2008 (and a little bit of 2009). I only have seven of the thirteen unfortunately. Would I be pissing in the wind in asking somebody out there to help fill in the gaps?

I have around another 50 Hair Stylistics releases that I may sprinkle around at some point.

Singing For Justice

Hair Stylistics - Monthly Hair Stylistics Vol.6 - Wild Hair Style

2011-12-07T16:21:00.004Z

Wild Hair Style

Hair Stylistics - Monthly Hair Stylistics Vol.5 - 30 Minute Panty People

2011-12-07T16:20:00.002Z

30 Minute Panty People

Hair Stylistics - Monthly Hair Stylistics Vol.4 - Electric Success In The Ghetto

2011-12-07T16:19:00.003Z

Electric Success In The Ghetto

Hair Stylistics - Monthly Hair Stylistics Vol.3 - Hard Märchen

2011-12-07T16:18:00.003Z

Hard Märchen

Hair Stylistics - Monthly Hair Stylistics Vol.2 - Gracia A La Viva

2011-12-07T16:17:00.001Z

Gracia A La Viva

Hair Stylistics - Monthly Hair Stylistics Vol.1 - Pop Bottakuri

2011-12-07T16:16:00.001Z

Pop Bottakuri

Absolut Null Punkt - Killsonic Action

2011-12-05T19:29:00.002Z

On this recording Absolut Null Punkt are Asami Hayashi on bass, Seijiro Murayama on drums with the guitar and vocal duties covered by Kazuyuki Kishino. You should know the latter as K.K. Null and Null and as a member of Zeni Geva, Senssurround Orchestra and a former member of YBO². Seijiro Murayama was the original drummer with Fushitsusha.

This 1988 lp captures a live performance at CBGB in Kyoto on November 29th 1987. It has never been rereleased...bizarrely!

Imagine Swans, Godflesh and Boris put in a blender and forced through a stack of amps turned up to 12. No artists were harmed in the formulation of that last sentence!

Killsonic Action

Ministries of Blood Recordings

2011-12-03T09:21:00.004Z

Ministries of Blood Recordings is/was a cdr label run by Dustin Redington who is one half of Demonologists (the other half being Cory Rowell).

Ministries of Blood was one of the leading industrial blackened noise labels in the United States and for the last 6 years pushed a genre so new and fresh at the time that most thought it to be a ridiculous concept. I mean, who would want to combine the imagery, fetishism and aesthetic of Norwegian Black Metal with heavy electronics? Obviously a lot of people rose to the challange as the black noise vibe exploded worldwide. MOBR only released cdr's and maintained a solid reputation in all things groundbreaking and innovating.

For the record...The Doctrine Of Flesh, Ropes Of Our Father, Lord of The Dead are Dustin solo projects, whereas Puritan Sword and Dead Bird Mountain see Dustin collaborate with Billy Mixson and Eric Sellers respectively.

Massive thanks to Dustin for sharing all 36 releases of the back catalogue!

Book of Blood - Book of Blood
Breath of Chaos - Decaying
Breath of Chaos - Eternal
Breath of Chaos - Summoning The Black
Butcherchrist - Black Wounded Soul
Caliginous - Reap The Atrocity
Cruento - Signal of Distress
Dead Bird Mountain - Demon(s)
Demonologists - Neon Pink (Soundtrack)
Demonologists & The Doctrine of Flesh - Split
Etheric Void - The Irradiating Failure of His Covenant
Graves House - Blood Nebula Forming
Ilabrat - Death Is The Crown of All
Josh Lay - Serotonin Haze
L'exorcisme - L'exorcisme
Lord of The Dead - Dethroned and Cast Through The Bowels of Hell
Lord of The Dead - Hatred
Lord of The Dead - In The Name of Violence
Lord of The Dead - The Sentence of Death
Maleux - Where The Dead No Longer Dream
Mortuor - I'am Waiting For You
Nomad Conqueror - Darkness Ruled The Earth
Nomad Conqueror - I Am From The Barbaric North
Puritan Sword - Completed
Rhuith - Zone Di Morte Illuminata
Ropes Of Our Father & Caustic Viral Hell - Split
Stemcell Research Project - Museum of Sleep
Teeth Collection - Priest Tongue
The Doctrine of Flesh - House of Bibles
The Doctrine Of Flesh & Ilabrat - The Exclusive Expositor of Scripture
The Doctrine of Flesh & Pus Drainer - Split
Toxicum Aestus - Indoctrination of Decay
Unholy Dominion - Spawn
Utarm - Thanatophilia
Witches Sabbath - Requiem of Shadows
Wormwoods Decay - The Butchrey

Jason Glover & Sir Richard Bishop - Elvi Sinawi

2011-12-01T19:31:00.001Z

Between trying to have a life and MU dropping off the face of the earth for a short while and preparing the Ministries Of Blood post...pause for breath...thought I'd drop this.

It's a 3'' cdr released in 2002. I've started seeing this being offered up for a lot of money. If you were thinking about making an investment, bear this in mind (from Sir Rick's own site):

"A live performance of electronics and general mayhem. Recorded in the late 90s at I-Spy in Seattle, or at Benaroya Hall, depending on who you ask. Originally limited to about 35 copies in jewel case but now limited to however many Jason Glover makes when nobody is looking."

Elvi Sinawi

NNCK - The Circle Broken

2011-11-18T19:15:00.000Z

C60 released in 1996 on Sound@One.

The rarest No-Neck Blues Band release...well it is unless you know different.

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Part 2

Taint - Harmed Live 2000

2011-11-18T18:00:00.001Z

Request from the shoutbox to resurrect a dead link:

CDr released on Keith Brewer's own Biteworks label in 2001.

Part 1
Part 2

Sudden Infant - Anarchy In The UK

2011-11-15T17:38:00.001Z

Self-explanatory CDr released on the godlike Tochnit Aleph in 2004.

Anarchy In The UK

Sudden Infant - Philanthropic Phalanges

2011-11-15T17:35:00.000Z

CDr released on Recordings For The Summer in 2003.

Philanthropic Phalanges

Sudden Infant - Ear Wash

2011-11-15T17:31:00.000Z

CD released on Japanese label SSSM in 2003. Totally sold out. SSSM is a sublabel run by Hiroshi Hashimoto (aka Contagious Orgasm) by the way...

Part 1
Part 2

Sudden Infant feat. Joke Lanz & Roger Rotor - Catholic Boys In Heavy Leather

2011-11-15T17:22:00.003Z

"They first met in 1989 as young recruits in the Swiss Guard in Vatican City. After many years of serving and protecting the The Holy Father they got a bit bored and discovered their mutual fascination for loud music and heavy leather. CBIHL was born! Enigmatically, CBIHL professed to have cruised the realms of central Europe 'to convert all the lost souls down the valley deep and up the mountain high'. The rest is history! Hallelujah!"

Right On Sister!

CDr released on Manufracture in 2002.

Catholic Boys In Heavy Leather

Sudden Infant - Live In Basel

2011-11-15T17:17:00.000Z

Some more excellent Joke Lanz material for your delectation! This time around it is a CDr from 2002 released on Ron Lessard's legendary RRRecords.

Live In Basel

Koh / Nakagawa / Tano / Wiese / Yoshida - Frankenstein And Dracula Girls Tokyo Headlock

2011-11-12T13:06:00.000Z

Tim Koh of Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Kohei Nakagawa of Guilty Connector (amonst others), Koji Tano (MSBR), John Wiese (Sissy Spacek, LHD, etc) and Yasutoshi Yoshida (a.k.a Government Alpha et al).

CD released on John Wiese's Helicopter label in 2003.

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Part 2

Graveyards - Endings Vol 8

2011-11-11T18:37:00.000Z

This is AM687 and we are in the calmer waters of December 2007.

There is apparently a volume 6 and a volume 7 (AM561 and AM562) but I've never even seen them. Which makes me sad...

Endings Vol 8

Graveyards - Endings Five

2011-11-11T18:32:00.001Z

This time we have AM482 and it's 2006 again?!

Endings Five

Graveyards - Endings Four

2011-11-11T18:18:00.001Z

This is definately Endings Four. Perversely, it's AM467 and it's 2006. 1,2 and 3 show as 2005. What the fuck?

Endings Four

Graveyards - Ending Three

2011-11-11T18:13:00.003Z

This time it's AM530.

The cover says "Ending 3", AmTapes site shows this as "Endings Vol 3".

Ending 3

Graveyards - Endings Vol Two

2011-11-11T18:10:00.003Z

CDr on American Tapes (AM509).

Part 1
Part 2

Graveyards - Endings Vol One

2011-11-11T18:08:00.006Z

CDr released on American Tapes (AM507).

There is a track 4 listed on Discogs, but this is my copy that only has 3 (?). Either way, there is still 44 minutes of nice on offer here.

Endings Vol One

Graveyards - A Grave Ending

2011-11-11T16:39:00.003Z

Graveyards are John Olson with Ben Hall and Hans Buetow (who have recorded as Traum and appeared in a number of American Tapes outfits).

This is a four cdr set on American Tapes (AM475) from 2006 and limited to 30 copies.

Make a (free) jazz (skronk) noise here!

A Grave Ending - disc 1
A Grave Ending - disc 2
A Grave Ending - disc 3
A Grave Ending - disc 4

Force Publique Congo - Civil War Follows Colonization: Investment 1

2011-11-09T18:13:00.001Z

C10 released on Hospital Productions in 2011 in an edition of 59 copies.

Investment 1

Force Publique Congo - Civil War Follows Colonization: Investment 2

2011-11-09T18:12:00.000Z

C10 released on Hospital Productions in 2011 in an edition of 59 copies.

Investment 2

Force Publique Congo - Civil War Follows Colonization: Investment 3

2011-11-09T18:11:00.002Z

C10 released on Hospital Productions in 2011 in an edition of 59 copies.

Investment 3

Force Publique Congo - Civil War Follows Colonization: Investment 4

2011-11-09T18:11:00.000Z

C10 released on Hospital Productions in 2011 in an edition of 59 copies.

Investment 4

Blod - Early Three Works

2011-11-09T17:51:00.000Z

Have you have ever wondered what the "Dedicated To BLOD" appendage at the end of some of the Sewer Election releases was all about? Thought not. Never mind.

Blod were Jesper Forselius and Ulph Svenson. Cult Swedish Harsh Noise.

Luckily, in 2004, Denshi Zatsuon released a boxset containing three of their very early cdrs which were originally released in 1998 in severly restricted numbers. Denshi Zatsuon was a label run by Koji Tano (a.k.a. MSBR) so you should know where this is heading.....

1 - Starbright

2 - Country Girl Perversion

3 - Pleasurable Figures In Filth

Con-Dom / Schimpfluch-Gruppe / C.C.C.C. - Old Street In Taiwan - Aktion 950907

2011-11-09T17:22:00.000Z

Live collaborative performance released on Tochnit Aleph in 2002.

Old Street In Taiwan

No-Neck Blues Band - A Tabu Two

2011-11-09T17:13:00.001Z

In 1998 NNCK rather perversely released (what is in effect) a double LP as two single LPs.

I've "borrowed" this explanation of the band from the marvellously detailed My Record Collection site as he has done my work for me:

"The No Neck Blues Band, or NNCK, are, according to me, the most representative band of what Wire Magazine has dubbed "New Weird America" (I really hate that term, it's become so all-encompassing that almost anything with a weird vibe has been engulfed in this "category"). This "new weird" sound has it's roots in free jazz and experimental music, nothing was impossible and all was permitted. From one album to the other, you could never be quite sure what you would get except you know it's going to sound quite primitive/tribal; with or without electronics.

The group started out in the mid-nineties and was a part of the whole loft scene, performing often on city rooftops or in lofts or their own "Hint House" These shows were apparently quite wild (even if the members would just stand, unmoving on stage, the music in itself would be sufficient to make for a crazy show) and little by little, cryptic releases made their way on the market, all of them often in very limited quantities. The earlier releases were quite loud group improvisations bordering on noise (no "blues band" were they!), the sound slowly matured into out-there territory, opting for primitive psychedelic soundscapes and/or drone music including often unidentifiable sounds; some of these releases sound a lot like the more fucked up albums by Sun Ra.

Their creative output tends to shift between their noisier side and their more psychedelic side from release to release with fluctuating quality and availability. They often disappear off the face of the Earth only to reappear a few months later with a slew of new albums and singles. Although there are a few identified members of the group (and their side-projects), the group has, since their conception, tried to keep themselves as anonymous as possible."

Well said!

A Tabu Two [1]

A Tabu Two [2]

No Neck Blues Band - Blood/Vapour

2011-11-09T17:02:00.001Z

It took another 8 years for NNCK to release the fourth lathe...yep, 2003.

Blood/Vapour

No Neck Blues Band - Piss/Oil

2011-11-09T17:00:00.000Z

The 3rd lathe from 1995 this time.

Piss/Oil

No Neck Blues Band - Ink/Sweat

2011-11-09T16:58:00.000Z

The 2nd 8" lathe...again from 1994.

Ink/Sweat

No Neck Blues Band - Cum/Thinner

2011-11-09T16:56:00.000Z

This is the first of the 8" lathes that NNCK released on their own Sound@One label. This one in 1994.

Cum/Thinner