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Das Synthetische Mischgewebe - Audience of the Soul Destroyers

The other DSM cassette from 1982, also published by Das Cassettencombinat, was Audience of the Soul Destroyers. For such an early work, it's clear that Hubner had a clear idea of what he was doing. Rough and jagged outsider industrial noise, this tape (and others posted here) may demonstrate audible empathy with early 80's Berlin contemporaries Freider Butzmann and Einsturzende Neubauten, but are also quite unique. Hubner's work would only grow richer and bolder with time, and he is still producing excellent work today.

Audience of the Soul Destroyers

Das Synthetische Mischgewebe - Works

Intricate, dense, thoughtful, and occasionally brutal industrial concrete noise by the composer and installation artist Guido Hubner, doing business as Das Synthetische Mischgewebe with a rotating cast of collaborators/enablers. This very early cassette was one of two that came out under the DSM flag in 1982. It was initially published by the legendary Berlin label Das Cassttencombinat, which was also home to such cheerful dilettantes as Sprung aus den Wolken and Die Todlische Doris.

Works

Unplugboy & Toshimaru Nakamura - Untitled

The bleak, stubbornly anti-human non-music that arose from Tokyo's Off Site scene has always baffled me. I've heard a ton of music, and lemme tell you... it takes a lot to baffle me. One of the scene's chief instigators/antagonists was (is?) Toshimaru Nakamura, who plays a mixing board feeding back onto itself. Some of his work resembles music. Other times, it's a thin wave of nearly-eventless piercing sine tones that feels no need to make itself easy to listen to. These live collaborations with cellist Daniel Weaver (aka Unplugboy) from their 2001 UK tour is one of Nakamura's more music-like productions. It came out as a set of two 3"CDs in an adorable little stapled pouch.

disc 1
disc 2

Ami - .

This little business-card CDr from 2001 is significant for two reasons. First, it probably (correct me if I'm wrong) holds a record for having the most photographs of the artist in the smallest package. I count ten images of Ami's face. Well, I suppose it really is a business card! Second, it was the solo debut of vocalist Ami Yoshida, now known as part of the post-Off Site crew of Tokyo improvisers.

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Zashiki-Warashi‎ - Floor Child

Carter Thornton's alias on a double CD released on Conduit Creations in 2003.

"All instruments played by Carter Thornton except for when they're not."

And, when they are not, you get Brooke Thornton, Carl Maguire, Chris Mannigan, David Shuford, Fudge Bridges, James Duncan, January Geisert, Jesse Wallace, Matt Heyner and Phil Murphy.

Bloat (Green Floor)

Goat (Blue Child)

Enos Slaughter‎ - Enos Slaughter

Enos Slaughter‎ were a great freakfolk improv outfit and featured Carter Thornton (aka Zashiki-Warashi) David Shuford (aka D. Charles Speer and member of No-Neck Blues Band, The Suntanama and Egypt Is The Magick # amongst others) and Marc Orleans (member of Sunburned Hand Of The Man as well as The Helix who record alongside D. Charles Speer).

This CDr was released on Tequila Sunrise Records in 2003. It contains a track called Floor Child.

"all music recorded at night, outside, under a pink sky with fast clouds. special guest appearance by our good friend the wind on microphones."

Enos Slaughter

Kuwayama-Kijima with Carter Thornton‎ - Shrine

Kiyoharu Kuwayama & Rina Kijima are joined by Carter Thornton‎ on this LP released on Carter's own Conduit Creations label in 2005. This is the limited edition of 50 that contained a bonus CDr.

Shrine

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Smersh - The Beat From 20,000 Fathoms

Smersh's 1986 LP on RRRecords. Heavy electronic thumps, shouting from the deepest basement in New Jersey.

The Beat From 20,000 Fathoms

Smersh - The Greatest Story Ever Distorted

1988 EP on the Belgian label KK, featuring some of Smersh's catchiest tunes. Fun from start to finish, five great songs and no bad ones.

The Greatest Story Ever Distorted

Smersh - The Part of the Animal That People Don't Like

1987 LP on Dead Man's Curve by the pride of New Jersey, the amazing Smersh!

The Part of the Animal That People Don't Like

Aube - Singles 1995-1998

A 2xCDR set in a numbered edition of 101 copies, published on Aube's own G.R.O.S.S. label. The title says it all. These tracks originally appeared on Noise Tournament vol. 5 (a collaboration with K2), a split 3"CDR with LOSD, Across the Water (a collaboration with Small Cruel Party), Daseinsspanne (a collaboration with Telepherique), Autodecision (on Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers), Sacrament (on Meeuw Muzak), a split 7" with Grunt, Organized (a collaboration with RLW), Parametalist (on Clate), and split 7"s with Source Direct, TACO (on Syntactic), and Naoidil, as well as one unreleased track.

disc 1
disc 2

Aube - Vinyls 1995+1997

4xCDR set in a numbered edition of 101 copies, reissuing four Aube LPs from 1995 and 1997. These were all originally published by Praxis Dr. Bearmann, but this set was made by Aube himself and published on his own G.R.O.S.S. label.

1 - Pulse Resonator
2 - Throb in Manic Red
3 - Sigh in Depressive Blue
4 - Vas in Euthymic Violet

Brume - Hysterical

Another trip down the archive of French punk/concrete genius Brume, this one came out as a CDR in an edition of 250 copies on Transfixtional Entertainment (the label run by Anemone Tube) in Germany. The disc is subtitled "Finest Selection 1989-1997", which I guess sums up what you'll find here.

Hysterical

Brume - Erzatz #0 / Tout

Sort of a continuation of the Brume Anthology Box 13xCD set, Erzatz #0/Tout reissues material from 1994, 1995 and 1998. Disc 1 features tracks from cassette tapes, disc 2 reissues an album that initially appeared as a very small-run CDR in an oversized hand-painted sleeve. This 2xCD set was published in 2008 by the Russian label Waystyx in an edition of 212 copies.

disc 1 - Erzatz #0

disc 2 - Tout

Brume - Anthology Box

A massive, 13-CD boxset of outsider musique concrete by autodidact Christian Renou, compiling his earliest unreleased bloops from 1979, plus a few out-of-print cassettes and CDRs dusted off and brought back to life. This hefty thing was released in an edition of just 100 copies by the Russian label Waystyx, which specialized in creative handmade and odd-size packaging.

1 - Accident du Chasse

2 - "I'm... I Come... I Was..."

3 - Schiluuk

4 - Stable

5 - Electrocoagulation Tapes

6 - Les Victimes Sont Dangereuses

7 - Moll

8 - Lost in Karrack

9 - Early Tracks

10 - Live With or Without an Audience

11 - In Death We Trust! (Extract) & Program T.4 (Extract)

12 - Drug (Revised)

13 - The Prehistoric Tapes

Moongang - s/t

The untitled debut CDR by Moongang, aka Steve Gunn of GHQ, originally self-published in an edition of 100 copies.

Moongang

Kiyoshi Mizutani‎ - Actual Infinity

C44 on Ulcer House from 1990.

For much of the 80's, Kiyoshi Mizutani‎ was a member of Merzbow with Masami Akita. He began recording on his own from 1989. Although his later work saw him manipulating field recordings of the environment and ecology around him, these early tapes find him utilising found sound, feedback and electronics.

Actual Infinity

Kiyoshi Mizutani‎ - Cemetery

C36 on Ulcer House from 1991.

Cemetery

K.Mizutani - Inferior's Betrayal

C66 from Kiyoshi Mizutani on his own Ulcer House label from 1994.

Inferior's Betrayal

Astral Social Club‎ - Wheezy Paradise

C44 released on Andrew Paine's Sonic Oyster Cassettes in 2011 in an edition of 50.

This documents a live set at the Northumberland Arms in Newcastle on the 14th of May 2010.

Astral Social Club is the work of wonderful Neil Campbell who amongst many things was a member of the equally wonderful Vibracathedral Orchestra. Vibra are playing live again (in the Yorkshire area) so maybe we will be lucky enough to get a full-blown resurrection (a while ago, Neil told me that Mick Flower was even playing occasionally).

Neil has some great new releases for sale so snap them up! You can always go here as well!

Wheezy Paradise

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Das Synthetische Mischgewebe - Audience of the Soul Destroyers

Das Synthetische Mischgewebe - Works

Unplugboy & Toshimaru Nakamura - Untitled

Ami - .

Zashiki-Warashi‎ - Floor Child

Enos Slaughter‎ - Enos Slaughter

Kuwayama-Kijima with Carter Thornton‎ - Shrine

Smersh - The Beat From 20,000 Fathoms

Smersh - The Greatest Story Ever Distorted

Smersh - The Part of the Animal That People Don't Like

Aube - Singles 1995-1998

Aube - Vinyls 1995+1997

Brume - Hysterical

Brume - Erzatz #0 / Tout

Brume - Anthology Box

Moongang - s/t

Kiyoshi Mizutani‎ - Actual Infinity

Kiyoshi Mizutani‎ - Cemetery

K.Mizutani - Inferior's Betrayal

Astral Social Club‎ - Wheezy Paradise

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