va - Inflation (*0 0.000 Remix)

 

Two CDs of remixes from the album "0.000" by *0 (aka Nosei Sakata), which was largely inaudible high tones and silence. This 2002 release came out at the end of the "lowercase" fashion, a sort of post-Bernhard Gunter love of extreme sparseness and low volume. Includes tracks by Merzbow, Taylor Deupree, Bernhard Gunter, Immedia, Richard Chartier, Steve Roden, Duul_Drv, Koji Asano, Dale Lloyd, Immedia (whose album for Line is an overlooked gem), John Hudak, Stephan Matthieu, Marc Behrens, Kim Cascone, Akira Rabelais, Zbigniew Karkowski, Aube, Hsi-Chuang-Cheng, Kozo Inada and two tracks by *0 himself. 

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va - Eternal Blue Extreme (An Asian Tribute to Derek Jarman)

 

1994 compilation CD of artists from Japan, China and Taiwan with tributes to filmmaker Derek Jarman. Includes tracks by Merzbow, PFN, CCCC, Aube, Otomo Yoshihide, Juno, Illuminated 666 and ZSLO. As far as I can tell, it was the only release on a Canadian label called Somnus. 

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va - A Selection of Drones Past, Singles 1993-2000

 

Double disc compilation of tracks from Drone Records, a German label that exclusively produced 7" singles of (mostly) dark ambient/ritual/industrial noise. Music by Maeror Tri, Aube, Reynols, Vir, Tarkatak, Droneament, Toy Bizarre, Francisco Lopez, Yen Pox, Feinen Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim, Osso Exotico and more. 

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va - The Swingers Club

Released as a limited-to-100-copies CDR in 1997 by Solipsism, a CDR-only sublabel of Self Abuse Records, this is a compilation of harsh noise collaborations. Each track features one artist using sounds from someone else. Aube makes a track out of Blazen y Sharp source material, Blazen y Sharp makes a track out of Smell & Quim's source material, Hyware makes a track out of OVMN's source material, and so on. Other pairings include Rotten Piece/Cock ESP, Macronympha/Pain Jerk, Smell & Quim/Hanged Man's Orgasm, MSBR/Hyware, Cock ESP/Iugula-Thor, Crawl Unit/Aube, Skin Crime/MSBR, Hanged Man's Orgasm/Crawl Unit, and Sukora/Rotten Piece.

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Aube ‎- Tapes 1992-1997

On the 25th of September 2013, Akifumi Nakajima died. It took quite a while for news of his passing to reach the wider world. It was a few months later when Mrs Inside told me. We didn't know what had taken him and it doesn't matter. We both deeply admire him and the loss hit home.

This is a set of 20 CDrs containing remastered recordings originally released on 24 tapes between 1992 and 1997. It was initially released in November 2003 in an edition of 50 and then again in March 2004 in another edition of 50. Both appeared on his own G.R.O.S.S. label. It stands as an extremely fitting monument to the genius of Akifumi Nakajima.

As a way of welcoming in the new year and bowing our heads and raising a glass to the great man, we offer you this:

01 Herz Aus G.R.O.S.S. / Drip
02 Submerged Tension
03 Flash Point
04 Frequency For Collapse
05 Emotional Oscillation
06 G-Radiation / Can-Zone
07 Huile Sur L'eau
08 Liquid Passion
09 Squash
10 Voltanic Valley
11 Reflux / Floating Memory
12 Metalustration
13 Stratodrive / Somnambulism
14 Artifact
15 Grind Carve
16 Feed The Fishes
17 Plagent Recoil
18 Moment In Fragrance
19 Syntactic Live Series Vol. 2
20 Ruminant

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