Bleak Bliss

Tender Love & Tactical Eradication Function - Untitled

Ah, there's nothing like a good old-fashioned postal split/collaborative 90's noise CDR! So satisfying. It does the 'ol earholes some good to get back to basics like this. In the case of the cleverly titled "Untitled" CDR, the collaborators behind the DoD pedals hail from sunny Fresno, California and Houston, Texas. Tender Love, aka M. Headache (say, I don't think that's his real name!), is the guy behind the Inner Space label that issued the album in a run of 100 copies in 1999. Tactical Eradication Function's mother calls him Kevin Novak, who you might know as the guy who runs the Pitchphase label and is a sometime member of Black Leather Jesus. So, you get two tracks of both guys together, then some of Tender Love on his lonesome and two of just TEF. It's noise comfort food... like a casserole.

Tender Love & Tactical Eradication Function - Untitled

Zbigniew Karkowski - Choice Of Points For The Application Of Force

I found Zbigniew's work through his colaborations with other people ... and there are many magnificant examples.

This is possibly my favourite of the releases under his own name.

This was relaesed on Ytterbium in 2000 and was recorded live at the Wataraium Museum of Contemporary Arts in Tokyo on the 9th of December 1999.

Choice Of Points For The Application Of Force

Tetsuo Furudate + Zbigniew Karkowski‎ - World As Will

An orchestral collaboration released on Staalplaat in 1998.

World As Will

Tetsuo Furudate + Zbigniew Karkowski‎ - World As Will II

CD released on 23Live in 2002. The first track is a live recording at the Milk Club in Tokyo. The second track is the result of sound sent between the two until they were happy with the composition.

World As Will II

Karkowski • Furudate • Zeitkratzer‎ - World As Will III

Zbigniew with Tetsuo Furudate and Ralf Meinz playing the role as Zeitkratzer‎.

CD released on Sub Rosa in 2008.

World As Will III

Zbigniew Karkowski - Hear

A 40-minute marathon of crunchy digital synthesis that came out in 2001 as a CDR in an edition of just 100 copies. Released on Alienation, a label run by Akihiro Shimizu/Thirdorgan.

Zbigniew Karkowski - Hear

Zbigniew Karkowski - 1958–2013 RIP

Yesterday, Polish composer Zbigniew Karkowski succumbed to pancreatic cancer. Karkowski studied composition with Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, and Pierre Boulez, and became a frequent collaborator of Masami Akita (Merzbow), Tetsuo Furudate, Dutch sound artist Edwin van der Heide, Atau Tanaka, and Andrew McKenzie (The Hafler Trio). The torment of sound engineers around the world, Karkowski enjoyed intentionally destroying expensive PA systems before his extremely loud (and usually punk-rock brief) concerts. Today, we'll remember him for his music.

Zbigniew Karkowski - Live at the Generator, September 2, 1989

Forced March - Forced March

Dan Greenwood (aka Diagram: A) and Chris Dooley (aka Gastric Lavage) on a C16 from last year.

I can't remember what label this came out on and can't find any reference to this on t'internet.

Forced March

Mother Savage‎ - Kryptopyrrole

Joseph Roemer and Rodger Stella on a 2003 CDr jointly released on Patrick O'Neil's Self Abuse Records ‎and their own Mother Savage Noise Productions. This was originally a C60 tape from 1996.

Kryptopyrrole

Macronympha‎ - Mugwump Reformer

Confused? You will be!

With an obvious nod to Mrs Inside's "Mugwump Reformer Remixes" post from earlier today. The "Remixes" release actually predates this release. The former was from 2006 on Audio Dissection whilst this CDr was released (in an edition of 30) by Rodger Stella on Mother Savage Noise Productions in 2008. This features reworked material from the "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania" LP from 1995.

My brain hurts...

Soap

Urdwyg the Golderr - Cassette Psychic Volume 1

Urdwyg The Golderr is the work of Darren Wyngarde (aka Filthy Turd).

This is a self-released tape from 2012. Apparently each one is recorded on recycled tapes which means that they are all of different lengths so that each copy is unique.

My copy clocks in at 50 minutes.

Cassette Psychic Volume 1

Orgasmic Response Unit - Dissonant Love

Are you in the mood for half an hour of quality noise complete with the sound of multiple marching steel bands falling down a very long lift shaft? You are? Well, you've come to the right place!

Orgasmic Response Unit are Luke Tandy (who records as Being and has been in Wasteland Jazz Unit) and Nate Tandy (aka Diaphragmatic).

The only other ORU that I have is a double C20 on the genius Phage Tapes. They sell their wares via discogs and you should check it all out here.

Anyway, this particular C30 was released on Amnesia Program in 2012.

Dissonant Love

Masked Diode‎ - Masked Diode

3" CDr released on the excellent L. White Records in 2006.

According to Discogs, the only Masked Diode that hasn't been posted here is this one!

Please please please ... if you're sitting on the missing disc, give a dog a home for Christmas!

Masked Diode

マスクド・ダイオウド - 汚染

The mysterious (to me) Masked Diode on a great C18 on the mighty WATERPOWER from 2012.

The label site has been quiet for a few months...hopefully, it's a brief interlude!

汚染

Macronympha - Close to the Edge

Macro's take on the 1972 progressive-rock classic by Yes.

Macronympha - Close to the Edge

Macronympha - "Greatest Hits" Live 1993

All their best-known tunes, as performed in front of adoring fans.

Macronympha - "Greatest Hits" Live 1993

Macronympha - Mugwump Reformer Mixes

If you're anything like me, you've often thought "Gee, I like Macronympha... but I wish they made an album that was one song over and over again with slight variations. That would be the best!" Well, Merry Christmas my friend... someone in Pittsburgh has been reading our minds. Now you can experience the joy of listening to one Macro tune, following by the same tune at half speed, followed by the same tune at a different speed, etc. Holiday fun for the whole family.

Macronympha - Mugwump Reformer Mixes

Black Leather Jesus - Bless:258221

CDR from 2002, issued on MSBR's Denshi Zatsuon label.

Black Leather Jesus - Bless:258221

Last Rape / Bizarre Uproar‎ - Collaboration

For ages, I've been trying to figure out where I'd stored a bunch of rips. I tend to allocate randon names to folders and lose track of where I put things.

Anyway, I've just found the folder where I had stashed this one ...

A long-gone self-explanatory C46 released on Pasi Markkula's Filth And Violence in 2008.

Collaboration

Smersh - A Murder of Crows

Released in 1984, "A Murder of Crows" is one of the earliest tapes by New Jersey hometaper industrial heroes Smersh.

Smersh - A Murder of Crows

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