Bleak Bliss

Techno Menses - Lazar Blade 2

A fun album of Esplendor Geometrico-ish heavy machine rhythms by the duo of Kimihide Kusafuka (K2) and Tomoya Sakashita, released in 2001 as a CDR on Koji Tano's Denshi Zatsuon label. Kusafuka had been recording music like this since 1984, and some of that early stuff was reissued on wax by Vinyl on Demand. There also, apparently, was a tape on Audiofile and a later self-released double CD that are yet unheard by me.

Techno Menses - Lazar Blade 2

Chris Farrell - No Vampire

Wonderful mix-tape of warped dub. Genuinely great ... turn it up as far as you can!

C96 released on Krokodilo Tapes in 2015.

No Vampire

Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer - Sicherüngskopie #13

Answers on a self-addressed postcard.

A fistful of micro-edition releases brought together for this compilation ... which came out in another tiny edition.

Double CDr jointly released on Poot Records ‎and Der Schöne Hjuler-Memorial-Fond in 2008.

Sicherüngskopie #13

Id Battery - Last Blue Before Black

Mysterious, Jewelled-Antler-related concrete rustling by Loren Chasse and Brandon LaBelle, released by Unique Ancient Tavern in 1998. If you like Small Cruel Party, Toy Bizarre, Hands To or Artificial Memory Trace, check this one out.

Id Battery - Last Blue Before Black

Kommissar Hjuler und Frau - Halluzinationalsozialismus

Everybody in the house go ... what?

CDr released on Der Schöne Hjuler-Memorial-Fond in 2004.

Halluzinationalsozialismus

New Private Window - The Desperate Hours

"Self-surveilling internet field recordings and derivative, masturbatory ambience courtesy of Leicester-based “media research project” NPW. Clear browsing history after listening."

C34 released on Krokodilo Tapes in 2015.

The Desperate Hours

Mama Bär - Melancholie, Zwiespalt und 2 Kochrezepte

This begins with the faintest pretense that this might in some way be "normal" which is even more disconcerting than the truth. It's a small planet orbiting within the Mama / Hjuler solar system. Normal rules do not apply. Rules do not apply.

Acetate LP released on Der Schöne Hjuler-Memorial-Fond in an edition of 27 in 2005.

Melancholie, Zwiespalt & 2 Kochrezepte

Alessandro Adriani - We Drift In And Out

Tribal tech-trance from the man who runs Mannequin Records.

C60 released on the Blackest Ever Black cassette only subsidiary Krokodilo Tapes in 2016.

We Drift In And Out

Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer & Ninni Morgia and Silvia Kastel - Two Couples

Disjointed fluxan rhythms with one couple on each side.

LP released on Ultramarine in 2011.

Two Couples

Silvia Kastel - Bibula Harena

Delightfully dark dance music for people who can't dance ... which suits me just fine!

C98 released on Id Mud, a tape offshoot of (what could be considered Silvia's rightful home) Blackest Ever Black.

Bibula Harena

Silvia Kastel - Love Tape

Coming on like a slurred Lemon Kitten, this is the signal that the hallucinatory noise will eventually crystallise into the dark-wave tech rhythms of the future.

C30 released on Ultramarine in 2011.

Love Tape

Yermo - Untitled

Solo album by Chris Moon of MCMS, and the guy who ran the excellent Last Visible Dog label. First released as a CDR, then reissued as a CD in 1999.

Yermo - Untitled

Gary Smith / Silvia Kastel / Ninni Morgia - Brand

(Effectively) Control Unit making an epileptic and delirious free country space jazz noise here alongside Gary Smith (of Aufgehoben amongst other things).

LP released on Ultramarine in 2012. There is a Brand II LP that was released on L'Esprit De L'Escalier in 2013 that I have never heard and would seriously love to dive into. Any help appreciated and all that ...

Brand

Kastel - 39

An absolutely compelling and majestic piece of work from Silvia. Just throw yourself into the well.

Single sided 12" released on Phase! Records in 2015.

39

MCMS - 1997-2000

Triple disc compilation of free noise and drones from Omaha, Nebraska, released by Last Visible Dog in 2004. MCMS was mainly a duo of Matt Silcock and Chris Moon, who started the Last Visible Dog label in order to release MCMS' recordings and those of like-minded artists from around the world. Kris Lapke, who now records as Alberich, was an occasional member. This set collects music that originally came out on their first few Last Visible Dog CDRs, one split with Yermo (aka Moon solo) on Campbell Kneale's Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon label, and a lathe-cut LP put out by Eclipse. Fans of New Zealand freenoise, Ashtray Navigations or Pelt will likely already be on their fuzzy wavelength.

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Control Unit - Burn

... and now a noise-rock maelstrom where Silvia leaves nothing unexpressed.

I've never heard the Modern Duets flexi, the Complay tape or the OTO Live CDr (please help me out with that) but the rest of Control Unit's catalogue is commercially available in eithe physical or digital formats. Seek and ye shall find ... I recommend that you do.

C30 released on Fort Evil Fruit in 2014.

Burn

Control Unit - Steel Tape

In the intervening period there was some quite beautiful creative destruction that happened in the world of Control Unit and they metamorphosed into this armour plated feedback drenched noise butterfly.

C40 that has four tracks that repeat either side. Delivered courtesy of Jim's delicious Fusty Cunt in 2012.

Steel Tape

Ninni Morgia Control Unit - Ninni Morgia Control Unit

"Control Unit is the work of guitarist Ninni Morgia and the wonderfully forthright chanteuse and musique manipulateuse Silvia Kastel. It’s like Catherine Deneuve dumped two cases of post-Repulsion psychiatric notes over Pere Ubu’s Dub Housing, lit the fuse and, ahem, stood well back" Julian Cope, Vinyl of The Month, Head Heritage, June 2012. Can't improve that as an introduction.

However, that would come later. This initial release has Jeff Arnal on drums and the legendary Daniel Carter on trumpet, clarinet and occasional vocals whilst Silvia is handling the mixing. It's a very enjoyable romp through constrained free-jazz psychedelics ... similar to the more ferocious Japanese exponents but with one hand still on the steering wheel.

Double LP released on Ultramarine in 2009.

Control Unit

K2 & The Haters - Noise Tournament Vol. 1

... and is there a better to finish and start than with a doff to GX's 40th anniversary of (brain) circuitry frying?

7" jointly released on Kinky Musik Institute and Banned Production in 1994.

Noise Tournament Vol. 1

K2 & De Fabriek - Noise Tournament Vol. 2

I'm not sure that The Factory got the way that this series was supposed to roll so generally KMI didn't get that much of a mention in the pressing ... but no harm done.

7" jointly released on Kinky Musik Institute and De Fabriek Records in 1995. ‎

Noise Tournament Vol. 2

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