Daniel Menche



Daniel Menche has established himself as a musician with a sense of focus and determination uncharacteristic in a genre known for its randomness and chaotic structure. Rather than creating "noise," he strives for order and cohesiveness. His presentation of sonic structures is similar to the way a writer depicts a story, an allegory seems to arise, which uses confusion as a symbol for the imaginative process of total sound purity; aural intensity is not a representation of confusion or the chaotic, but a concerted effort to provoke and stimulate the listeners imagination by generating intensely powerful sounds and music.

Subtle and patient compositions rely on long, dense layers of droning sounds, while abrasive pieces rely on sounds amplified and processed to extreme levels, pushing the full spectrum of frequencies to the most threshold of limits. Other explorations are intense percussion work that resonates primal chaos displayed gracefully without ever being just "noise".

The video is the Dissonanze 2006 Live Set music by Zbigniew Karkowski & Daniel Menche with live visual art by Philipp Geist.

MEA CULPA! Hands up...I fucked up!!! Really should have done my research. I've removed a load of links that are available on the label sites or are available here or here. Go and buy them!

1994 - Daniel Menche - Dark Velocity (C40) [banned production]
1994 - MSBR & Daniel Menche - Multi Layering Termination (7'') [msbr records]
1995 - Daniel Menche - Vulgar Scratch (7'') [gender-less kibbutz]
1996 - Daniel Menche & Small Cruel Party - Split (7'') [msbr records]
1996 - John Hudak & Daniel Menche - Husher (10'') [flenix]
2002 - Daniel Menche - White Wing [poweracoustics.org]
2004 - Daniel Menche - one hour as The Sky's painted red: the Earth's painted black and She's painted white


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Black Boned Angel



Black Boned Angel are Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel, Our Love Will Destroy The World, Ming, With Throats As Fine As Needles, etc) and Antony Milton (Mrtyu, With Throats As Fine As Needles, The Stumps, etc) and James Kirk (Sandoz Lab Technicians and The Stumps). To say this is doom metal or black metal is lazy lazy lazy...it's all about the drone. Ecstatic!

I've included "You Should Have Slain Me" because it appears all over the place as BBA. It's not. It is Campbell Kneale tho'. Taken from the name of a Hammers Of Misfortune track...it takes the riff on a wild loop ride...drops in the drums and leaves...brilliant!

Buy everything there is on Celebrate PSI Phenomenon and (sister label) Battlecruiser. Support our Kiwi brothers and sisters. It's the law!

OBEY THE LAW!!!

2003 - Black Boned Angel - Supereclipse [celebrate psi phenomenon]
2004 - Black Boned Angel - Eternal Love [battlecruiser]
2005 - Black Boned Angel - Heavens Blaze Forth The Death Of Princes [battlecruiser]
2005 - Black Boned Angel - Live at Instal, Glasgow, 2005
2006 - Black Boned Angel - Ashes (3xcdr) [celebrate psi phenomenon]
part 1 part 2
2006 - Black Boned Angel - Eternal Hunger [battlecruiser]
2007 - Black Boned Angel - Dashed Upon Stones [celebrate psi phenomenon]
2008 - Black Boned Angel - The Endless Coming Into Life [20 buck spin]
2008 - Black Boned Angel & Nadja - Christ Send Light [battlecruiser]
2009 - Black Boned Angel - Verdun (cd version) [riot season]
2009 - Nadja & Black Boned Angel - Self Titled [20 buck spin]
2010 - Black Boned Angel - The Witch Must Be Killed (lp) [conspiracy records]

2004 - You Should Have Slain Me - You Should Have Slain Me (3''cdr) [battlecruiser]


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Out now on Quagga Curious Sounds!



QCS_023-suburban howl / taklamakan: split s/sided C60, edition of 12
Both artists deliver lovely and varied lo-fi textured noise on this excellent split! Cassette is packaged in custom made purple or yellow card packaging with vivid full colour artwork Each copy comes in a hand-stamped brown paper bag.
UK/Europe: £3.90
Worldwide: £4.90

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Crank Sturgeon



"Crank Sturgeon, ordained minister and usurper of plateau monoculture; Husolandija progenitor, dada-mainliner/international trianglewear peddler for the prototype alpha new millenial dirigible-parable concrete discourse found-object assembly (with pants)."

Yeah, that's what i was just gonna say! Imagine if The Resident's had injected drugs into their eyeballs instead of just wearing them. Crank is normal...it's us that haven't got a handle on it! I think you should touch the inflatable man; he can be your guide...

1994 - Negro & Crank Sturgeon - Split (C60) [fusetron]
1998 - Suppression With Crank Sturgeon & Misopsychia - Bloated To Full Capacity Bloodsucker/DNA Programed To Unlimited Violence (7'') [nat records]
2002 - Crank Sturgeon - Motion Pictsaur [xv parówek]
2003 - Crank Sturgeon - Hubris Huso Whoso Antebellum
2003 - Crank Sturgeon - Upon My Discovery Of The Huso Dead Pan Lair (lp) [rrrecords]
2003 - Crank Sturgeon & Tote Stadt - Split [scrotum records]
2004 - Crank Sturgeon - Barely Parable (C30)
2004 - Crank Sturgeon - Crank Sturgeon Builds Dream Home Inside The Hogan Molar-Ray (A Vestibule Build For Tube)
2004 - Crank Sturgeon - Crank Sturgeon Has A Combover Landscape Tapir
2004 - Crankst Urge On - E-Z Voice Over Box-Top Living Solutions (7'') [humbug]
2004 - Crank Sturgeon - Miss Latimer's Gift (C30) [gameboy records]
2004 - Crank Sturgeon - Old Cholk Codger Hereparts [audiobot]
2004 - Crank Sturgeon & XV Parówek - Dixieland [xv parówek]
2005 - Crank Sturgeon - Explanation Bias [obscurica]
2005 - Crank Sturgeon - Ottoman Empirical Raga & Other (Almost) Lost Stories [tochnit aleph]
2005 - Crank Sturgeon - These Middling Men FishWill Be Salve For The Neverolution_Seisureoverseasyore
2005 - Pop Culture Rape Victim & Crank Sturgeon - Abe Lincoln Towncar (C90)
2006 - Crank Sturgeon - Codger Balks for No Eel (C30) [deal]
2006 - Crank Sturgeon - Glory Tape And Trough Of Beslubbering Fish (C47) [spacelessjam]
2006 - Crank Sturgeon - Mollify & Roger, The Matter Of Course For Baptists (Worn As Pants) (C50) [scrotum records]
2006 - Crank Sturgeon - My Endangered Expressive Soil
2006 - Crank Sturgeon & Eric Boros - 20.08.2006 On Boat Deck At MS Weltfrieden
2006 - Crank Sturgeon & Gastric Female Reflex - Live At Radio Centraal [beniffer editions]
2006 - Noggin & Eric Boros & Crank Sturgeon & Id M Theft Able - Split [manufracture]
2007 - Crank Sturgeon - Bark King Haggard (C16) [barfing dagger recordings]
2007 - Crank Sturgeon - Fuchs-Octubre (C20) [psycheform records]
2008 - Crank Sturgeon - Matters Of The (Military) Heart
2008 - Rubbish & Crank Sturgeon - Ship Of Fools [roil noise offensive]

Crank Sturgeon - FS #42 (C62)


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MSBR



M.S.B.R. (Molten Salt Breeder Reactor), aka Koji Tano, was one of the most respected noise artists to emerge from Japan's vibrant noise/experimental music scene of the 1990's. He played with countless other musicians and toured on 4 continents (Asia, Europe, North America and Australia). Much of his material was self-released on his own labels, one of which was dedicated to the production of limited edition cassette releases. Like Merzbow, MSBR's crushing wall of noise managed to tap into a post-human territory of pure absolute volume that seems to have more in common with the unstoppable forces of nature than any form of music.

Koji Tano died on 31 July 2005 at the age of 44. Cancer took him quickly at a young age and at the height of his power. If you have any doubt how respected and loved Koji was (and is) within the community, then you should go here. Within only 23 days Steinklang gathered support from 154 artists from 31 countries to pay tribute to Koji. The personal testaments recorded there are genuinely moving. The homage takes the form of a 10 disc tribute that is free to download.

Greatly respected and sorely missed...

1993 - MSBR - Structured Suicide (C60) [msbr records]
1993 - MSBR & Taint - Scopotophilia (7'') [msbr records]
1993 - Telepherique & MSBR - Amalgam (7'') [msbr records]
1994 - MSBR - 2,000 Thousends Contaminate Electronic Acid (C60) [old europa cafe]
1994 - MSBR & Daniel Menche - Multi Layering Termination (7'') [msbr records]
1994 - Telepherique & MSBR - Geplünderte Leichen (cass) [drahtfunk-products]
1995 - MSBR - Collapseland [heel stone records]
1995 - MSBR - Destructive Locomotion Dedicated To Chizuo Matsumoto [pure]
1995 - MSBR - Fracture Of Silence (cass) [sounds for consciousness rape]
1995 - MSBR - Metal Stricken Terror Action (cass) [banned production]
1996 - MSBR - 303 Holy Mountain Electronixx (C52) [cling film-records]
1996 - MSBR - Final Harsh Work #1 (cass) [robotomy tapes]
1996 - MSBR & Merzbow - Destructible Foundation / Drain (7'')
1996 - Telepherique & Contagious Orgasm & MSBR - Contact #1 (lp)
1997 - MSBR & Blazen Y Sharp - Mass For Dead Insects [msbr records]
1998 - Aube & MSBR & Koji Marutani - 3 Cadavres Exquis [e(r)ostrate]
1998 - ERG & MSBR & Das Synthetische Mischgewebe - Geosynclines [flenix]
1998 - MSBR - Euro Grappling Electro [msbr records]
1998 - MSBR - Final Harsh Work #2 (C30) [spite]
1998 - MSBR & Government Alpha & Notchnoi Prospect - Japanoise Action In Russia [insofar vapor bulk]
1998 - MSBR & Kengo Iuchi - One [alien8 recordings]
1998 - MSBR & RoboChanMan - Australian Sunshine Madness [msbr records]
1999 - MSBR - The Final Harsh Work #7 (C60) [ultra]
1999 - MSBR - The Final Harsh Work #22 [spatter]
1999 - MSBR & K2 & Magmax - Split [msbr records]
1999 - MSBR & Spastic Colon - Live Electronics At Matsuyama (lp) [flenix]
1999 - MSBR & Speculum Fight & AMK - Damkbr (cass) [banned production]
2000 - Government Alpha & MSBR - Live In Moscow (7'') [rrrecords]
2000 - MSBR - Ultimate Ambience 2 [20city]
2000 - Sudden Infant & MSBR - Split [msbr records]
2001 - Birchville Cat Motel & MSBR & Eso Steel - Droop Drone Drops [denshi zatsuon]
2001 - MSBR - Space Lab Green [celebrate psi phenomenon]
2001 - MSBR - The Final Harsh Work #18 [blade records]
2002 - MSBR - Euro Grappling Electro 2 [msbr records]
2003 - MSBR & RoboChanMan - Final Electro Acoustic Work 1 [msbr records]
2004 - MSBR - Mental Dissolution [denshi zatsuon]
2005 - MSBR - Metal Stricken Terror Action - Dedicated To Richard Rupenus [denshi zatsuon]
2005 - MSBR & Government Alpha - Planet Of Fluctuation [xerxes]


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Fuck, The Retarded Girl



Fuck, The Retarded Girl is noise artist Kyle Dennis from Melbourne, Australia. I'll leave it for Kyle to explain the moniker..."sometimes on the early buses to university there is a group of 4-6 mentally disabled young adults (20 year olds) who do some work around the uni, anyway their conversation is always really crass and vulgar, but of course because of whom they are nobody ever says a word. One girl in particular is fond of the word fuck thus, in mine and my girlfriend's head at least, she became known as Fuck, The Retarded Girl. So this name is both a testament to the noise I occasionally have to endure first thing in the morning and an acknowledgement that how acceptable something is has a lot to do with who says it. My theory is that even a bunch of noisy racket like my music should be at least put up with by the public at large given that is coming from a retarded girl named Fuck."

His physical releases are usually very small scale but he has been liberally sprinkling his angel dust all over the interweb for a good few years now. I was going to put links up for all the ones that are freely available elsewhere, but thought "fuck it". So here is everything I've picked up over the past three or so years. Expect Plunderphonics, Noise, Musique-Concrete, Sexual Desire, Power Electronics and Industrial Mayhem!

Also, check out his brilliantly named one off side-project Dannii Minoise. Cheers to Kyle for being up for the post and the offer of other lps to add...so hopefully more soon!

2007 - Fuck, The Retarded Girl & NOWINGUS & Apophallation - Revisiting Retro Metal I
2008 - Acid Attack & Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Split
2008 - Fuck, The Retarded Girl - A Cantankerous Christmas 2008
2008 - Fuck, The Retarded Girl - A Quick Cure For Depression
2008 - Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Abuse
2008 - Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Amplitude Modulation Concerto No. 3
2008 - Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Anti-LP
2008 - Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Bondage Circa 1953
2008 - Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Live Action #1
2008 - Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Live Action #3
2008 - Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Nude Disco
2008 - Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Pull The Plug
2008 - Fuck, The Retarded Girl - The Dead Horse Tapes
2008 - Fuck, The Retarded Girl & Havoc On Fire - Vintage Porn Split
2008 - Fuck, The Retarded Girl & Metek - Split
2008 - Wolverine Carcass & Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Split
2009 - Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Axem Rangers
2009 - Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Cartoon Pin-up
2009 - Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Shitcore Cunt!
2009 - Fuck, The Retarded Girl - The Shape Of Vaudeville To Come 2010 - Anal Immanuel Kant & Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Split

Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Angel
Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Collision
Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Death Erection
Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Dedicated To Issei Sagawa
Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Foot Worship And Fellatio
Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Frozen Banana
Fuck, The Retarded Girl - I Do Aplogise, I Haven't Got A Gramophone
Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Material For Radio Performance
Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Shostakovich Violin Concertos nos. 1 & 2 Fuck, The Retarded Girl - Side Effects
Fuck, The Retarded Girl & Apophallation & Ikea Families & deaddoglover - Revisiting Retro Metal II


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Jazzfinger



It is with honour and wonder that we offer up the majesty of Newcastle's mighty drone-noise-dream-scuzz-improv legends (drum-roll please) Jazzfinger. If ever a band's 'sound' was simultaneously hauntingly pastoral yet at the same time grindingly industrial then it would be Jazzfinger. You need Jazzfinger in your life, even if you don't know it yet! Buy everything you can find. Without hesitation, the people who hold the world together. Feel their power, and be comforted.

2001 - Orrin Deforest & Jazzfinger- Split (lp) [traqueto]
2003 - Jazzfinger & A Way - EP [mallard lake]
2005 - Jazzfinger - Live @ Barden's Room 2, London (05 Aug 2005) 2005 - Jazzfinger - Live @ The Sage, Gateshead, UK (22 May 2005)
2005 - Jazzfinger - This Small Space Where The Salt Glitters (12'') [classic english womb]
2005 - Jazzfinger - Ugly For A Living [gold soundz]
2006 - Jazzfinger - Autumn Engines [rebis]
2006 - Jazzfinger - Iron Age Credentials [spirit of orr]
2006 - Jazzfinger - Los Band Magicos [low point]
2006 - Jazzfinger - Slowed By The Grace Of Water [alcoholic necrolepsy]
2006 - Jazzfinger - The Glass Key [classic english womb]
2006 - Jazzfinger - Winter's Shadow Between Two Worlds [curor recordings]
2007 - Jazzfinger - Listen And Vanish [cut hands]
2007 - Jazzfinger - Low Level Cloud Fucker [chondritic sound]
2007 - Jazzfinger - Orange Sauce (8'' lathe) [altvinyl]
2007 - Jazzfinger - Tour Of The Moors Volume 1 (C60) [heavy tapes]
2007 - Jazzfinger - Wixxon Flag Bearer [dnt records]
2007 - Jazzfinger & Lanterns - Untitled (C60) [sick head]
2008 - Jazzfinger - Grief To Grind The Fire [blackest rainbow]
2008 - Jazzfinger - King Murnam (cass) [jk tapes]
2008 - Jazzfinger - Mole And The Morning Dew (lp) [spirit of orr]
2008 - Jazzfinger - Self Titled (7'') [short forest]
2008 - Jazzfinger - Wooden Women Will (C60) [middle james co]
2008 - Jazzfinger and Culver & Fordell Research Unit - Split - (lp) [blackest rainbow]
2009 - Jazzfinger - Live @ Cafe OTO, London (02.05.09)
2010 - Jazzfinger - Gates Of Failure (C60) [gods of tundra]


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Fossils



Fossils are a rarity in any music scene: staggeringly prolific artists who, by and large, fail to produce subpar music. They're not devoid of ideas, either. From the typical grating metal clangor, lurking murky subterranean drones and psychedelic spiraling voids to super fried, paint-splattered jams that sound like they were born out of junkyards and garbage cans and every sort of droning instrument ever made. Every Fossils release I own sounds distinct. There are two split releases with Sick Llama in J's earlier Llama post. Also, don't have release info for the Blue Tape, I think it's a tape that is...erm...blue. Dive in.......

2005 - Fossils - Fossils (C60) [fag tapes]
2006 - Altar Of Flies & Fossils - Split [hästen & korset]
2006 - Fossils - A Green Ha [middle james co]
2006 - Fossils - Code White [middle james co]
2006 - Fossils - Empty Can Blues (C30) [midori records]
2006 - Fossils - Fossils [fag tapes]
2006 - Fossils - Infected Tissue [maggotapes]
2007 - Fossils - All the Homicides (C30) [jk tapes]
2007 - Fossils - Dug (cass) [middle james co]
2007 - Fossils - Fly By Night (s-sided cass) [ley line magnetic tapes]
2007 - Fossils - Morbid Chicken [middle james co]
2007 - Fossils - The Dehumanization Of Art (C90) [knife in the toaster]
2007 - Fossils - Uhl [cut hands]
2007 - Fossils & Head Boggle & Sick Llama - Brain Mash Potatoes [fag tapes]
2008 - Fossils - Dagobah [knife in the toaster]
2008 - Fossils - Super Silver Fossils (C30) [middle james co]
2008 - Fossils & Sick Llama - Split (lp) [no label]
2008 - Mike Khoury and Derek Rogers & Fossils - Terror Tapes Vol. 35 [middle james co]
2008 - Sick Llama & Fossils - Split (lp) [no label]
2009 - Fossils - Deep Sea Fossils (2xC30) [middle james co]

Fossils - Blue Tape

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New CDr out on Quagga Curious Sounds!


QCS_021-Utnapishtim / Bruital Orgasme: "The Breathing" Split CDr, edition of 15 copies
Hypnotic, beautiful and captivating mixture of noise, drone and experimental music between these two talented projects.
Spraypainted CDr comes in a PVC slip case with handmade artwork also included is an A4 information sheet/poster and multi coloured feathers packaged in a blue and white striped paper bag

SOLD OUT

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These aren't going to be around long so don't hang about ;)

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Steel Hook Prostheses



Gotta admit, SHP were a new one to me. J sent me a sneaky request from his current sabbatical (he's doing a short prison sentence for interfering with farm animals btw).

Expect power electronics with a dark ambient/death industrial twist...

All gone by request. SHP material is going to be officially distributed digitally. Check here.

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Heavy Winged



Heavy Winged regularly lock into relentless motorik grooves, super repetitive, the guitar slowly building momentum, with sheets of high end, streaks of feedback and a wall of buzz lifting you ever higher. Imagine a deranged lysergic-fuelled scientist taking a lost Fushitsusha jam and slowing it down in the lab to examine it more closely...a time lapse film of a 'psych jam' captured in the wild. For most of their releases, the trio set up in a room and play. Totally improvised and recorded to 4 track. Wildly ecstatic...and the "song" only finishes when it feels right for it to finish.

The Wire reckoned one release sounded like "...a vast blank wall of a monolithic windowless tower block, seemingly featureless from a distance, but so rough up close that it tears skin from flesh and flesh from bone." Fair enough, I reckon, if you like that kind of effusive review! This ain't Explosions In The Sky! This is some serious psychedelic heaviness, blissfully blown out and weirdly hypnotic.

I've followed this band for a few years now. Even so, I nip to the shops to find out they've sneaked out another ridiculously limited release...and it's sold out! The last 4 of the posts have no release date or label info...any help out there?

2006 - Heavy Winged - A Serpent's Lust [foxglove]
2006 - Heavy Winged - Echoes Of Silence [deep water acres]
2006 - Heavy Winged - Hunting The Moon [ruralfaune]
2006 - Heavy Winged - Taking The Veil [students of decay]
2007 - Ashtray Navigations & Cold Solemn Rites In The Sun & Heavy Winged - Split [ruralfaune]
2007 - Heavy Winged - Blacc Stork [students of decay]
2007 - Heavy Winged - Enough Rope [cut hands]
2007 - Heavy Winged - Feel Inside [archive]
2007 - Heavy Winged - On The Marble Cliffs [trensmat]
2007 - Heavy Winged - The Very Eye Of The Night [whistle along records]
2007 - Heavy Winged - We Grow (lp) [not not fun records]
2007 - Heavy Winged & Blues Control - Split (7'') [not not fun records]
2007 - Heavy Winged & Taiga Remains - Split (lp) [not not fun records]
2008 - Heavy Winged - A Blanket Of Ash [no label]
2008 - Heavy Winged - Alive In My Mouth [three lobed recordings]
2009 - Heavy Winged - Shaking, Waking (lp) [aurora borealis]
2009 - Heavy Winged - Spreading Center [release the bats records]
2009 - Heavy Winged & Inca Ore - Ring Mining (lp) [not not fun records]
2009 - Windy & Carl and Heavy Winged - Monolith Earth [music fellowship]

Heavy Winged - 1st
Heavy Winged - Katrina
Heavy Winged - Mojito
Heavy Winged - Split Lip


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Hans Grüsel's Kränkenkabinet



There are very few bands who truly baffle. Who confuse and confound, both musically and conceptually. Sure, plenty of bands are weird, or strange, or hard to describe. Some might even be described as fucked up or damaged, but very very few truly baffle. Hans Grüsel's Kränkenkabinet is most definitely one of those bafflingly confusional elite. . .Hans Grüsel and his Kränkenkabinet create a bizarre cacophony of sound. Theatrical, dramatic, noisy for sure, but weirdly melodic and playful and more than anything, confounding. A brain melting chunk of avant "what-the-fuck?" Weird and wonderfully damaged. It's not so much like staring into a funhouse mirror, it's more like smashing your head against it over and over and over until it shatters and you can finally see and hear exactly what strange things exist on the other side.




Had to remove some, sorry.

2001 - Hans Grüsel's Kränkenkabinet - Das Boot [no label]
2002 - Hans Grüsel's Kränkenkabinet - Ein Haunted Sommerplatz [no label]
2006 - Hans Grüsel's Kränkenkabinet - Live On WFMU (04-11-06)

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Luasa Raelon / Envenomist



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 [snip-snip]
2001 - Luasa Raelon - Detonator (cass) [hmw distribution]
2003 - Luasa Raelon - The Erebus And The Terror [brise-cul records]
2004 - Hive Mind & Luasa Raelon & Redrot - Industrial Isolation (tour cdr) [chondritic sound]
2004 - Luasa Raelon - Avarice [i.n.k. recordings]
2004 - Luasa Raelon - Necronautical Mariner [chondritic sound]
2004 - Luasa Raelon & The Cherry Point - Split (C20) [troniks]
2005 - Hive Mind & Luasa Raelon - Alabaster Catacombs [chondritic sound]
2005 - Luasa Raelon - Cephalomancy [snip-snip]
2005 - Luasa Raelon And Hive Mind - Sea-Level Transmission [chondritic sound]
2007 - Hum Of The Druid & Luasa Raelon - Screaming Biology_Oceanic [audiobot]
2007 - Luasa Raelon - Into The Void [crucial bliss]

Envenomist

200# - Envenomist - Scorpian Gears [snip-snip]
2005 - Wapstan & Envenomist - Split [brise-cul records]
2006 - Envenomist - Delving Glacial [gameboy records]
2007 - Envemonist - Black Bile (C30) [twonicorn]
2007 - Envenomist - Beholder [chondritic sound]
2007 - Envenomist - Weighted Ghost (C30) [snip-snip]
2007 - Pulse Emitter & Envenomist - Split (C45) [black horizons]
2008 - Envenomist - Divine Intervention (C30) [husk records]
2009 - Envenomist & Hive Mind - Initiation Into Nothingness (C40) [chondritic sound]

SS Envenomind

2008 - SS Envenomind - Untitled (C30) [tusco embassy]

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Mouthus



Mouthus is the Brooklyn-based duo of Brian Sullivan and Nate Nelson who have crafted a considerable body of work since forming in 2002. Mouthus are very much in the school of NY bands like Excepter and Sightings that merge hard and sometimes velvety psych sounds with a pioneering spirit of experimentation...or whatever. Chaw Mank is Brian Sullivan of Mouthus & Richard Hoffman of Sightings btw and as far as I know there was never a Vol 2. And everybody should go and check out Brian's work as Eskimo King. I love Mouthus! Find it! Buy it! Stroke it!

2002 - Mouthus - Mouthus [psych-o-path records]
2004 - Mouthus - Loam (lp) [ecstatic peace!]
2004 - Mouthus & Ground Monkeys & Dosdedos & Tan As Fuck - Split (7'')
2005 - Axolotl & Mouthus & The Skaters - Live At KDVS [our mouth records]
2005 - Double Leopards & Mouthus - Tour Split (lp) [troubleman unlimited]
2005 - Mouthus - Bigger Throws [our mouth records]
2005 - Mouthus - Slow Globes [troubleman unlimited]
2005 - Mouthus - Told By The Water [our mouth records]
2005 - Mouthus and Valerie Allen - Self-Titled [our mouth records]
2006 - Double Leopards • Mouthus • Sunroof! - Crippled Rosebud Binding (2xlp) [music fellowship]
2006 - Mouthus - For the Great Slave Lakes [three lobed recordings]
2006 - Mouthus - Live at WFMU on Acapulco Dance Party (06.24.2006)
2006 - Mouthus - Recorded 10-12-03 (lp) [olde english spelling bee]
2006 - Mouthus - Sister Vibration (lp) [our mouth records]
2006 - Mouthus - The Long Salt [important records]
2007 - Mouthus - Dual Drift [our mouth records]
2007 - Mouthus - Follow This House [important records]
2007 - Mouthus - No Canal [bottrop-boy]
2007 - Mouthus - Saw A Halo [load records]
2007 - Mouthus - Untitled (2xlp) [no fun productions]
2007 - Mouthus & Axolotl - Live @ No Fun Fest (18.05.2007)
2007 - Mouthus & Cousins Of Reggae - Split (lp) [olde english spelling bee]
2007 - Mouthus & Women In Tragedy - Split (cs) [wintage records & tapes]
2008 - Mouthus & Yellow Swans - Conan Island (lp) [weird forest records]
2009 - Mouthus - Divisionals (lp) [ecstatic peace!]
2009 - Mouthus - EU Tour Singularity (tour cdr) [our mouth records]

2006 - Chaw Mank - Volume 1 [our mouth records]

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Skin Graft



For the past few years, Wyatt Howland (from Cleveland, Ohio) has been gravedigging deep into the most dismal and filthy areas of sound. Howland's Skin Graft project is without doubt creating some of the most abrasive and disgusting electronics that are out there. Negatively charged psychedelic scum electronics. There is nothing...NOTHING...like it. Filth. Beautiful...

2006 - Skin Graft - Cancer (5xcdr - edition of 25) [sksk]
disc 1 - lung cancer
disc 2 - breast cancer
disc 3 - prostate cancer
disc 4 - colon cancer
disc 5 - ovarian cancer
2006 - Skin Graft - Soft Police Murder [sksk]
2007 - Bee Mask & Skin Graft - Split (C60) [teen action records]
2007 - Skin Graft - Chernobyl [wagon]
2008 - Skin Graft - Drug Addict (C30) [hanson records]
2008 - Skin Graft - Ruin (C20) [sound holes]
2009 - Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman & Skin Graft & Temple Fugate - Split - (C30) [arable tapes]
2009 - Skin Graft - Anesthetic (C24) [chondritic sound]
2009 - Skin Graft - Brick In The Mouth Of A Corpse - (C20) [deception island]
2009 - Skin Graft - Caged (C30) [hermitage tapes]
2009 - Skin Graft - Clinic [everyone else has a record label so why can't i?]
2009 - Skin Graft - Depression Paralysis (C28) [nurse etiquette]
2009 - Skin Graft - Frisk (C97) [cylindrical habitat modules]
2009 - Skin Graft V. Wether (C20) [a soundesign recording]

2008 - Dlx Othr - Nineties Youth Experience (C20) [deception island]

2008 - Relentless Corpse & Field Of Hats - Split (C20) [tusco embassy]

2008 - Wyatt Howland & Andrew Kirschner - Torture (C30) [mistake by the lake]

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Skin Crime



There is an elite circle of American noise artists whose output continually rivals and even surpasses those of their Japanese counterparts, and Skin Crime were one of them. The noise Skin Crime produced shifted from atmospheric and structured to no holds barred low-end kick backs of pure aural energy. Skin Crime managed to hit on every area of noise at one time or another, and left no stone unturned when producing noise that is so compelling that it becomes challenging for other artists in the field to come close to matching it.

1995 - Skin Crime - Genital Modification (C46) [g.r.o.s.s.]
1997 - Pain Jerk & Skin Crime - Gadget Bondage/Aural Stimulation (7'') [self abuse records]
1997 - Skin Crime - Monster (Case History #9) ( 7'') [self abuse records]
1997 - Skin Crime - Sotto Gli Occhi Dell'Assassino (listen & die comp)
1998 - Skin Crime - Live [solipsism]
1998 - Skin Crime & Government Alpha - Unnatural Disasters (cass) [xerxes]
2000 - Skin Crime & Crank Sturgeon - Skin Crime & Crank Sturgeon (2xcdr) [solipsism]
2001 - Skin Crime - Parasite [xerxes]
2001 - Taint & Skin Crime & Sickness - Behind The Smile [self abuse records]
2003 - Skin Crime - Burn [self abuse records]
2003 - Skin Crime - Desecration [self abuse records]
2003 - Skin Crime - Eyestrain [self abuse records]
2004 - Richard Ramirez & Skin Crime - Pleasure, Commerce & Disease [pacrec, troniks]
2004 - Skin Crime - Urge [self abuse records]
2005 - Skin Crime - Whorebutcher [self abuse records]

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Kawabata Makoto




...or Makoto Kawabata. I've recently seen all of this OOP stuff for sale for unbelievably high prices. So, I decided to post.

The Private Tapes series was designed to be sold on tour and generally consist of his private musings or extremely rare live recordings of the groups that he has been involved with. "Yesterday Was Your Birthday, Baby" was released as a bonus disc when Acid Mothers Temple released Private Tapes 1-7 as a tour edition (of 30!). Each of those sets was autographed and sold during the Acid Mothers Temple "Magical Ministry Tour" in 2002.

The Early Works box set was released in 2000 in a limited edition of 100 copies, as part of the Acid Mothers Temple Private Disc Series. They were originally released between 1980 and 1983 on Kawabata's independent cassette label, R.E.P. (Revolutionary Extrication Project).

The Private Sound Drawing Series was again released as part of Acid Mothers Temple's Private Disc Series. Tour editions of (perhaps) 200.

Kawabata Makoto - Private Tapes

Kawabata Makoto - Private Tapes
Kawabata Makoto - Private Tapes 2
Kawabata Makoto - Private Tapes 3
Kawabata Makoto - Private Tapes 4
Kawabata Makoto - Private Tapes 5
Kawabata Makoto - Private Tapes 6
Kawabata Makoto - Private Tapes 7
Kawabata Makoto - Private Tapes 8
Kawabata Makoto - Private Tapes 9
Kawabata Makoto - Private Tapes 10

Kawabata Makoto - Yesterday Was Your Birthday, Baby

Kawabata Makoto - Early Works 1978-1981 - Learning From The Past: R.E.P. Reissue Series Vol. 1

01 Ankokukakumei Kyodotai (1978)
02 Kawabata Makoto - Psychedelic Noise Freak (1978)
03 Baroque Bordello - 1st Trip (1979)
04 Baroque Bordello - Ultra Trip Cat (1979)
05 Baroque Bordello - Abnormal Songs Vol. 1 (1980)
06 Baroque Bordello - Kaiten, Love And Punk Rock (1980)
07 Baroque Bordello - Kibo No Jubaku [Spellbound Hopes] (1981)
08 Kawabata Makoto - 4 Tunes (1981)
09 Kawabata Makoto - Sunday Morning (1981)
10 Baroque Bordello - Tenjo Tenge Yuiga Dokuson (1981)

Kawabata Makoto - Private Sound Drawing Series

Kawabata Makoto - 111 (Private Sound Drawing Series Vol 1)
Kawabata Makoto - At Last You Are Mine (Private Sound Drawing Series Vol 2)
Kawabata Makoto - Virgin Mary Was Raped By The Resurrection (Private Sound Drawing Series Vol 3)
Kawabata Makoto - Unanswered Love (Private Sound Drawing Series Vol 4)
Kawabata Makoto - Pulsating Electric Force (Private Sound Drawing Vol 5)

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Starving Weirdos



In 1998, Starving Weirdos began crafting a body of staggeringly beautiful, unsettling freeform soundscapes, unbeknownst to all but a tiny circle of friends and neighbours in their native Humboldt County, California. At the core of Starving Weirdos is the duo of Brian Pyle and Merrick McKinlay. The pair weave intricate tapestries of sound from strands of electroacoustic improvisation, ambient noise, free-folk, and musique concréte. The result is a profoundly disorienting music that thrives on the tension between artificiality and organicity, stillness and constant mutation. Their expansive, understated approach to improvisation and recording more closely resembles an amalgam of early AMM, Taj Mahal Travellers, Trad Gras och Stenar, and Pauline Oliveros's deep listening experiments. Thet have performed with a huge list of contemporaries including No-Neck Blues Band, Sunburned Hand of the Man, LSD March, Religious Knives, Mouthus, Yellow Swans, Jackie-O Motherfucker, MV&EE, Charalambides, Tom Carter, Magik Markers, Tarentel, Xela, White Rainbow, Valet, Rob Wallmart, Tom Blood, Spencer Doran/Cloaks, Family Underground, Lucky Dragons, Mudboy, Old Time Relijun, GHQ, Zaimph, Deerhunter, Seabear, Ignatz, Gala Drop, Nackt Insecten, Themselves (Anticon), Inca Ore/Axolotl, and Talibam!

2005 - Starving Weirdos - self-titled [athiestsaregods]
2006 - Starving Weirdos - Eastern Light (2xcdr) [root strata]
2006 - Starving Weirdos - Father Guru [azul discográfica]
2006 - Starving Weirdos - Live, Arcata, CA (11.10.06)
2006 - Starving Weirdos - Self-Hypnosis (cdr) [collective jyrk]
2006 - Starving Weirdos - With All The Hues Of The Rainbow [audiobot]
2006 - Starving Weirdos (feat. Tom Carter & Shawn McMillen) - Live, Eureka, California (10.12.06)
2007 - Inca Ore + Lemon Bear & Starving Weirdos - A Drawing With Shadows, The Light Is Coming From The Sun [athiestsaregods]
2007 - Starving Weirdos - Harry Smith (lp) [root strata]
2007 - Starving Weirdos - Live [digitalis recordings]
2007 - Starving Weirdos - Shrine Of The Post-Hypnotic [root strata]
2007 - Starving Weirdos - Summon With Electronic Sorcery [bottrop-boy]
2007 - Starving Weirdos - U Sound, Vol. 30 [u sound archive]
2008 - Starving Weirdos - A Pretense To Destroy [students of decay]
2008 - Starving Weirdos - Absolute Freedom 7'' [abandon ship]
2008 - Starving Weirdos - Blue Heron (lp) [olde english spelling bee]
2008 - Starving Weirdos - Brotman-Pyle-McKinlay [athiestsaregods]
2008 - Starving Weirdos - Fierce Ability (lp) [en/of]
2008 - Starving Weirdos - Live @ Valentines (cdr, edition of 58) [self-released]
2008 - Starving Weirdos - Seance At Lufenhulz (tour cdr) [sound and fury]
2008 - Starving Weirdos - Spirit Activity (cass) [root strata]
2008 - Starving Weirdos - Today Is The Clearest Stream (cass) [blackest rainbow]
2008 - Starving Weirdos & Shearing Pinx - Untitled (cass) [isolated now waves]
2009 - Starving Weirdos - B_P_M series 1 (lp) [blackest rainbow]
2009 - Starving Weirdos - Into An Energy (with bonus disc) [bo'weavil]
2009 - Starving Weirdos - Self-Hypnosis (2xlp) [weird forest records]
2009 - Starving Weirdos - The Path Of Lightning (2xlp) [weird forest records]
2009 - Starving Weirdos with Tom Carter & Shawn McMillen - live at the accident (lp) [blackest rainbow]

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QCS_020 Out Now!


QCS_020-Hal Hutchinson: Severed 3"CDr, edition of 11 copies
Second killer Hal Hutchinson releases on Quagga, expect 3 tracks of majestic dark ambient and crushing drone.
Spray-painted CDr comes in a hand-made cardboard sleeve packaged in a black velvet pouch
£3.50 (UK/Europe)
£4.50 (Worldwide)

To buy items via paypal please email Mike:
mike-ridge@hotmail.co.uk
All prices inlcude p&p
Trades are also welcome

http://www.myspace.com/quaggacurioussoundsandoddities

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Live #3

Sick Llama - February 25, 2007 - Easthampton, MA @ Flywheel [flac]
Skullflower - 2007 - Helbaard, The Hague, NL, 2007.01.26 [flac] Part 1 Part 2
Skullflower - 2008 - CCA, Glasgow - 2008.03.08 [flac]
Skullflower - St Giles Church, London, UK 18 Apr 2009 [flac] Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
The Dead C - Live @ Luminaire, London, UK (2006.12.12) [flac] Part 1 Part 2
The Skaters - Live @ Apollo Grill, Easthampton, MA (July 28, 2005) [flac]

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