Wigglepig - Meat Market Icons

G.Roscoe Johnson whose home-grown sampler / electronics surfaced on quite a few of those international mail-art compilations of the mid-late Eighties but there seem to have been only two full releases as Wigglepig.

A self-released C90 from 1986.

Meat Market Icons

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z.e.l.l.e. - Rjctd::nw

 

Second & final album by a short-lived Italian duo comprised of Maurizio Martusciello (metaXu, Dogon) and writer Nicola Catalano. Ultra-minimal digital clicks and pops released as a CD on the Japanese label Cubicfrabric in 2003.

z.e.l.l.e. - Rjctd::nw

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Electro Static Cat - Dysteleology

To be honest, I've never known much of anything about who the people behind the Cat and the Consort are. Or, why they did this nor where they went afterwards. I'm just grateful to be alive at a time when I can hear their work. Maybe they just concentrated on rescuing cats ... I hope so ...

LP released on Freedom In A Vacuum in 1988.

Lethologica

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Electro Static Cat - Lethologica

Prior to Empirical Sleeping Consort, there was Electro Static Cat ...

7" released on the brilliant Freedom In A Vacuum label in 1988.

Lethologica

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Nicola Frangione - Mail Music Project

 

Rare LP from 1983 by performance artist, sound poet and writer Nicola Frangione. The record is made up of 47 very short collaborative tracks that all run together. The collaborators are folks from the fine art world as well as the industrial mail-art underground. Some are names you'll recognize: Masami Akita, P16.D4, Gerald Jupitter-Larsen, Naif Orchestra, Lief Brush, SWSW Thrght, Rod Summers, Maurizio Bianchi, Vittore Baroni. The rest are more obscure (at least to me). 

Nicola Frangione - Mail Music Project

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Empirical Sleeping Consort - Aegri Somnia Vana

A stunning piece of demonic industrialism that seeps into every pour of your skin. Discogs has this as having four tracks on Side A ... the fourth track ends in a locked groove and if you just move the needle slightly you get a fifth hidden track, obviously it's included here.

LP released on Impressure in 1990 in an edition of only 100.

Aegri Somnia Vana

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Empirical Sleeping Consort - The Layers Of Awakening

A "manufacturing fuck-up" meant that this was mastered as a single track rather than the intended thirteen. Serendipity strikes, it works wonderfully.

CD released on Kronotop in 1994.

The Layers Of Awakening

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Empirical Sleeping Consort - I've Got Tears In My Ears From Lying On My Back Catatoning Over You, Dear

This is Fido Samworthy and Carra Geenan (who were the short-lived and wonderfully named) Electro Static Cat who are joined here by Sylvia Fischer. There are eight tracks but it plays as a single mix of wonderful wtf explain it for yourself. It's really a damn fine piece of music ...

CD released on Dragnet Records in 1993.

Tears In My Ears

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sc.all - Live at Silk City

 

Delicate, minimal noise by Scott Allison released as a limited CDR in 2004. This is, as far as I'm aware, his only release other than a collaborative CD with Ben Owen on Winds Measure/Senufo Editions. If you like the Winds Measure aesthetic, this is for you. 

sc.all - Live at Silk City

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Macronympha - Beehive / Gargoyle Mechanique Laboratory

... and as an unnatural antidote, here's one of Rodger's later MSNP tapes that regularly turned up back in the day (as the old people say) along with Mr Olson's latest gifts to the world on the finest message board (was it HN_AM? as this old person says). Y'know, one day I'll remember my real name. Anyway, this is a reflection of happier times when Macronympha were still Joe and Rodger.

Live recordings from 1992 and released as a C90 on Mother Savage Noise Productions in 2012.

creative destruction

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DJ Yo-Yo Dieting - Dormant Mirrors / Drum

More mind-dissolving melted beats and loops ... lovely.

C90ish released on Cherried-Out Merch in 2008.

i need warp speed in three minutes or we’re all dead

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DJ Yo-Yo Dieting - Blest Witches Flexing

In my time, I developed a fondness for "enhancing" my consumption of live music with various pharmaceutical and / or "natural" products. That is all now tagged as "life experience" and I've decided that I have more metaphysical concerns which also equates to: "I'm too fucking old for that shit these days". So, erm, yeah. What I on about? OK, back in the room. This is Pat Maher's take on slow motion, warped hip hop beats ... there is a part of me that wishes I had heard this in the context of a search for a quieter space of the club. What is left of me is just grateful that I remember some things occasionally.

A CD released on Permanent Marks, LLC in 2009.

flex my witch up

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Negro / Crank Sturgeon - Split

The first half is Chris Freeman (who I think started Fusetron) with a person whose parents could only afford one name. It's quite entertaining DIY junk guitar feedback contact mic scree. Obviously, the pure genius lies with the B side ... an early missive from the gloriously sane helmeted saviour of the planet: Matt Anderson.

A C60 that was an early release on Fusetron in 1994.

smack my crank up

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va - Vatra/Brand

 

Obscure compilation of obscure industrial whatnot released by Staalplaat as a CD in 1997. Features music by Ron Sluik (who you might know from his "Back to Burnsley" 7" on Minimal Wave), Kurpershoek, Ivan Faktor, NURR, Kees de Groot, subREAL and a long track that's not credited to anyone.

va - Vatra/Brand

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Macronympha - The Right Is Always Wrong

It's Joe and Leo again.

An edition of 50 CDrs released on Haunted Exp Labs Records in 2016.

be strong. stay wrong

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Surgical Mental Klinik - The Unconscious World

 

2003 CDR released by Self Abuse sub-label Solipsism. Harsh noise by Shunichi Imako, who has a few other albums yet unheard by me and has since re-branded as one-man black metal project Satanic Mental Klinik, also unheard by me. 

Surgical Mental Klinik - The Unconscious World

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K2 / NRYY - No More N.P.P.

A split tape from Kimihide Kusafuka and the prolific Norihito Kodama. The K2 tracks are for sale on his Bandcamp, a copy of the actual tape is available on the Phage discogs seller page for five yankee dollars nine years after it was released ... I'm assuming not for long. So kind of breaking our own rules but (on this occasion) you down with N.P.P.?

C60 released on the immaculate Phage Tapes in 2012.

yeah you know me

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Nun - Neuronale

 

Compilation CDR of early industrial music from 1983 to 1986 by Italian artist Ezio Albrile, released by Menstrual Recordings in 2011. The first two tracks were taken from his 1983 7" single, the rest from compilation tapes.  

Nun - Neuronale

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Goat - The Book Of Revelations

 

One of the best albums by Goat, aka Texan harsh noise master Andy O'Sullivan. It was a CDR, released by Beauty and Pain and packaged in a slimline DVD case in 2004. Features guest drones by Gruntsplatter and Steel Hook Prostheses on the first and last track. Really good.

Goat - The Book Of Revelations

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Macromenia - Micro Cunt / Worm Juice

Joe Roemer and Leo Sabatto. Obviously.

C46 released on Bacteria Field in 2015.

Micro Worm

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