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va - Electronic Music From High Schools

There must be a story to this one, but I can't figure out what it is. Released as a CD on Flexidisc ( not the format, but a label run by Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto), this album claims to contain electronic music recorded by high school kids in 1968, 1972 and 1973 with one track at the end from 1984. It seems to be a reissue of an LP released by Recorded Publications Company from Camden, New Jersey, which was, in fact, an imprint that would manufacture vinyl records for school bands. My husband assures me that this was a real thing, and that his high school band recorded such an LP (he played the trumpet, of course. I was more of a French horn girl) in the late 1980s. It's possible that Dangers made all of this music himself and grafted a believable concept onto it. It's also possible that a high school had an electronic music lab, made an LP for the kids and parents to keep as a souvenir, and this was a Creel Pone style small-run reissue for fans of outsider electronic music. If you have more information or inside knowledge than I do, please enlighten us all in the comments.

va - Electronic Music From High Schools

Speculum Fight - Lost

If you're not careful you will underestimate this. From the onset of the machine hum there is real agency and over the course of one hour it evolves into a quietly triumphant aside from the fuss that other people have generated inside your head.

CDr released on P-Tapes in 2002.

lost and found

Autopsia - Wound

An archival album of early machine noise and oppressive tape loop doom by Czech industrial band Autopsia, who are still going strong today. These tracks were recorded between 1981 and 1987, released in 1993 as a CD on Hypnobeat/Gymnastic Records. Fans of Vivenza or (early) Laibach take note!

Autopsia - Wound

Speculum Fight - White Elephant

An alter-ego of Damion Romero with saturated drones and scratchy homemade electronics.

C54 released on his own P-Tapes in 1994.

White Elephant

Dead Machines / Damion Romero / John Wiese - Friday The 13th

On it's own, the attendance list makes you bend the knee but then each get their own side of vinyl and the fourth side is everybody at the same time including Mr O on the old skronky saxophone. When I was a kid I always looked forward to the next edition of the Marvel Team-Up comic so yeah, this always works for me. The crackle is all part of the show.

Double LP recorded live on Friday January the 13th 2006 at Il Corral and released on Anarchymoon Recordings later that year.

Friday The 13th

Religious Knives & Dead Machines - In Brooklyn After Dark

Shaman clank and fiery drones ... everything you could possibly need.

C40 released on American Tapes in 2006.

In Brooklyn After Dark

RU-486 - Disease and Development

Texan power electronics filth from 2009, released on tape by Danvers State Recordings in a run of 65 copies.

RU-486 - Disease and Development

Scott Davey - Goner (Solo Electronic Music, 1988-'93)

Here's an ultra obscure tape to start your week! "Goner (Solo Electronic Music, 1988-'93)" is, as far my pal Discogs and I can tell, the only album by Scott Davey, who played synthesizer in the San Francisco post-punk band Red Asphalt (1978-1982). Homemade electric noises, Residential song-like things, samples and radio buzz recorded after Davey's Red Asphalt days, released on cassette by Egg & Anvil in 1993. Warning: it's an old cassette, and I made the best possible rip, yet artifacts remain. If you don't like it, go buy a copy and rip it yourself. "This is your mother, you poop! You're gone and you didn't return my call, you poop! Call me, you shit ass! Alright, bye bye."

Scott Davey - Goner (Solo Electronic Music, 1988-'93)

Dead Machines - Future Funerals

How to sneak up behind people using stretched electronics.

C40 released on American Tapes in 2003.

Future Funerals

Double Leopards & Dead Machines - Fuck Victoriaville

A legendary group of people delivering thirteen minutes of threatening temple drone.

Single sided LP released on American Tapes in 2005.

Fuck Victoria-ahh

The Dead Machines - Organs Without A Body

Quite possibly the high point of Dead Machines and AmTapes and (by definition) everything else.

C80 and C54 set released on American Tapes in 2003.

Organs Without A Body

The Dead Machines - Discontented Statics

There's no discontent here. Don't judge it by the first bit of contact mic conversation ... it's a lot more developed and engaging than that. As you would be right to expect.

C56 released on American Tapes in 2003.

Discontented Statics

Chris Cooper - Special Bonus Thing

Solo 3"CDr on Kissy Records from 2003 by the main guitar mangler from Fat Worm of Error, Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase, The BSC, Commode Minstrels in Bullface and more.

Chris Cooper - Special Bonus Thing

Dead Machines - Communique Received

The interception of warped and degraded messages from the Olson dimension.

C32 released on American Tapes in 2003.

Communique Received

Ultra Bonbon & Pak - Split

Another micro-edition noise tape from Bonbon Bruises, this time split between Ultra Bonbon and Pak, aka Philadelphia multi-media artist Lauren Pakradooni. Those with ears finely attuned to the sub-sub-underground may know Pakradooni from her tape loop bloop under the Tether moniker.

Ultra Bonbon & Pak - Split

The Dead Machines - Live From The Sandblasters Court

Simply excellent live outing from John and Tovah.

CDr released on American Tapes ‎in 2003 ... it's AM276 btw.

Live From The Sandblasters Court

Ultra Bonbon - Paradise Vol 1

From deep within the Canadian noise underground comes Calgary's own Ultra Bonbon, aka Danny Milanese (who also records as Gel Nails and Fat Legs). This tape came out in 2009 on Bonbon Bruises as an edition of just 20 copies, packed inside a neat little manila coin envelope.

Ultra Bonbon - Paradise Vol 1

Saicobab - Live In OVA At Aoyama Cay On Nov. 2001

Nuanced new age drift.

CD released on Mau Recordings in 2003.

Live In Aoyama

Haare - Doomsday Sunrise

2011 cassette of Ilkka Vekka's sun-blasted drone noise, released by Cathartic Process. Of note: Freak Animal's Industrial Recollections subdivision has just released a 6xCD Haare boxset collecting his out of print cassette material, including this one! I haven't heard it yet, but I'm certain it is worth your hard-earned Euros.

Haare - Doomsday Sunrise

Saicobaba - Live In OVA At Yokohama Bay Hall On Apr. 2002

A self-explanatory release that is more horizontal than the previous post.

CD released on Mau Recordings in 2003.

Live In Yokohama

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