Agencement - Agencement

The second LP ...

LP released on Pico in 1989.

Agencement

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Agencement - Boxe Consonantique

Processed strings, tape and electronics from the brilliant Hideaki Shimada.

CD released on Pico in 2001.

Boxe Consonantique

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Masonna - Exploring Self-Corrosive Noise With Coquette

Again in 2018, Urashima dropped another wooden box full of reissued tapes!

For understandable reasons, these proved extremely popular and received a four CD reissue shortly afterwards.

This is a 16bit flac rip of that set and you will need to reassemble the four parts.

1 2 3 4

... and here is a 320 rip of the tape set.

Exploring

Croquettes

Ultimately. Happy New Year.

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Maurizio Bianchi - REMS/MECAT

Let's face it, the artist and the label need no introduction.

This is a collection of tapes that were originally self-released between 1980 and 1983. They have been reissued before but this may well be the crowning glory. This is the seven tape reissue courtesy of Urashima in 2017. It came in a lavish wooden box / sliding lid set and I'll readily admit that this kind of packaging rings my bells immediately but, crucially, these reissues (remasters?) sound so much better than any other reissue that I've heard ... and I've heard most and maybe all of them.

The clarity and the depth of the flac rip is a real eye opener and a joy to behold and I'd recommend it.

Regel

Menses

S.F.A.G. 81

Mectpyo Bakterium

Endometrio

Carcinosi

The Plain Truth

The 320 mp3 is good too but just doesn't reach the same dizzying parameters. This in in two parts so you'll have to extract them to the same folder (don't know how / don't ask / find out).

Takes yer picks.

REMS

MECAT

Penultimately, Happy New Year!

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va - The Answering Machine Solution

The future? I ask you what's the point? They invent phones and then people phone you up and disturb your privacy. What the fuck is that all about? That's not what I wanted when they made me go into the future. Where's a revolution when you need one? That's the future for you ... nowhere near as good as the past. We used to have revolutions all the time. Well, at least twice a week. I guess now we have to resort to this.

Mind you, look on the bright side ... if you're a raging shit pump, track 28 was made just for you, but you know that already don't you?

Happy New Year!

Solutions

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Omnid - Thermo

Early CDR from 2003 by Albert Casais, who would later make some fine duo albums with Jeph Jerman (aka Hands To, Animist Orchestra, Blowhole) and Greg Davis. He would also record harsh noise under the King Wheat banner.

Omnid - Thermo

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Agencement - Early Works 1983-1986

Compilation that includes the first LP and three tracks of (prior to this) ultra-minimally available work.

Released on Edition Omega Point in 2010.

Early Works 1983-1986

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Simon Wickham-Smith - Rapt

Released as a CD on the short-lived Disposable Thumb label in 2004, a typically terrific album of sharp-elbowed minimalism by Simon Wickham-Smith.

Simon Wickham-Smith - Rapt

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Merzbow · Tea Culture - Whizzerbait

Just like any right thinking person, I love people who leave Stoke ... especially the likes of Joincey and Mr Todd. Other than the odd compilation this is the only Tea Culture that I own and basically the only stuff I'd heard. Imagine the mountain of merriment when I realised that Mrs Inside was going to post two releases (not one but two)! If anyone out there can send us any more just to push me right over the ecstasy edge then please do!

They eat each other's source material. It's a 7" jointly released on Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers and Oska in 1995.

Whizzerbait

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Vibracathedral String Quartet - Play The Lost Musick Of The English Primevalists - Reconstructed From Stone-Age Texts - Authentic Prelapsarian Mind

A smaller offshoot of the Orchestra, this String Quartet does not merely defy gravity, they refuse to believe that gravity exists. Two cellos, guitar and mandolin recorded live in Leeds back in February 1999, released as a no-label CDR the same year.

Vibracathedral String Quartet - Play The Lost Musick Of The English Primevalists - Reconstructed From Stone-Age Texts - Authentic Prelapsarian Mind

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Taint / Smell & Quim / Con-Dom - Perversion At All Costs

The Taint and Con-Dom discs are the post-xmas hangover cures that you would expect and need. The Smell & Quim disc includes collaborations with Richard Ramirez, Kapotte Muziek, Expose Your Eyes and Tea Culture. The prescient stand-out is the track "Matthew Bower's Shit Pump" which is either about his actual shit pump or his cliched non-educated consciousness-wanking opinion of the future of his own polity aka "I've got a future I'm happy with and the rest of you can burn". Probably literally.

Triple CD released on Red Stream in 1996.

Perversion At All Costs

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Tea Culture - "Weird" Music

Weird is in the ear of the beholder. To me, it just sounds like a party. Released as a tape by Oska in 1994.

Tea Culture - "Weird" Music

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V/Vm - Up-link Data Transmissions

In 1996, before V/Vm became a dumb joke with no punch line that went on for too long, they were a competent Warp-style techno band. They didn't really want to help Aphex Twin, but they sure sounded like him. This was their first record, a normal but well-made album in the vein of such IDM also-rans as Bola, Cylob, Jega...

V/Vm - Up-link Data Transmissions

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White Hospital - We Wish You Are Merry X'mas

Another holiday classic from the wayback machine! This Japanese Christmas miracle first touched hearts in 1984. May it warm your cockles too, all you good boys and girls.

White Hospital - We Wish You Are Merry X'mas 

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Various - AuralOffalWaffleTenPintsOfBitterAndABagOfPorkScratchings

Utterly implausibly, the launch off point for this head fuck is Lieutenant Pigeon's "Mouldy Old Dough". It then drives it through Bernard Mannings' Embassy Club and farts it out through a loosened noise sphincter via The Wheel Tappers And Shunters' Club. Not necessarily in that order. Northern lads ... what can you do?

You thought that the party was over?

It is now!

Double CD released on V/Vm Test Records in 1999.

Aural Offal

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va - Whine and Missingtoe

Some may say that V/Vm's music was lazy, obnoxious and redundant. They may argue that after a few intriguing albums and singles, they just ran horrible songs through Audio Mulch and released too many albums of the same unfunny joke. I've heard it said. Perhaps you have, too. Merry Christmas. Here's some coal in your stocking.

va - Whine and Missingtoe

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Various - The V/VM Christmas Pudding

Well boys and girls ... have you been good this year? Yes? Well that was a waste of time wasn't it? You're going to get this to add to the pile of things you could have lived without anyway ... and you all fuckin' deserve it. Sing up now!

CD compilation inflicted upon the world in 2000 by V/Vm Test Records.

The V/VM Christmas Pudding

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Tea Culture - Tesco's Shopping in Sainsbury's Bags

Mid-90's (?) album of weirdo collage nonsense by Phil Todd (aka the psychedelic superhero responsible for Ashtray Navigations, Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers, Anna Planeta, and many more) and Joincey (aka Wagstaff, Coits, many other sub-sub-underground noise/wtf "groups" related to Mr. Todd), released as a CDR on a label called Arsybackwardzsod!, which seems to only have existed to foist some Tea Culture upon an uncaring world. All titles were named with little pictures, just like on "Hairway to Steven".

Tea Culture - Tesco's Shopping in Sainsbury's Bags

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Zone - Born of Fire

Sophomore album of "ritual" ambient music, released by Luciano Dari's Musica Maxima Magnetica label in 1991. I've always enjoyed this one. Maybe it's a little pretentious, but ça m'est égal. Sounds nice on a chilly, dark winter day.

Zone - Born of Fire

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Agencement - Viosphere+ Selected Works 1984 - 1991

... or maybe I could have mentioned that Hideaki Shimada is the person responsible for the superb violin/electronics improvisations of Agencement?

1991's Viosphere plus three previously unreleased tracks courtesy of this CD released on the impeccable Art Into Life in 2013.

Viosphere+

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