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Earhate / Hal Hutchinson - Split
Split CDr featuring Ryan O'Neill's Earhate project. Released on Smell The Stench.
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Split CDr featuring Ryan O'Neill's Earhate project. Released on Smell The Stench.
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Zenith - All That Remains: The Surviving Records Of "VCR Static Death"
Zenith, (based on the electronics brand of the same name) is a Wisconsin based HNW project. The project has been on hold for about two years now and the final release is still up in the air.
All That Remains compiles the first forays into 'VCRHNW,' noise walls made by capturing static from a VCR (the Zenith 4110) on different tape recorders and fed through a TV to manipulate volume levels and create different types of wall noise. This was released by the great and sadly defunct PigDurt Productions in 2010 in an edition of ten. Two C60s and a C40 full of noise walls.
Zenith also recorded as FAP and My Lovely Figment. He was also responsible for the excellent Dictafawn microcassette label. Although the label no longer releases, the entire catlogue is available for free download on it's Bandcamp page.
Zenith went on to release a CDr on Slow Death Records in 2011 (available for free here) and, speaking of Dictafawn, a solo microcassette the same year.
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Caligine, Li Jianhong & Zhu Xiaolong - Shiyun / Yuxuan
Caligne is the brainchild of Gabriele de Seta who is joined by a revolving collective of musicians who number approximately fifteen across his releases since around 2008.
This is a double 5" CDr set on Nothing Out There from this year. On this release, Caligne are joined by Chinese legends Li Jianhong & Zhu Xiaolong.
The first disc has Caligine alongside Li Jianhong (and you already know that I love Li Jianhong). It really is a beautiful piece of live recording...imagine Sunburned and NNCK with some gentle electronics...you're nearly there...and then the 20 minute final track expands and explodes into a different dimension...
The second disc has Caligne alongside Zhu Xiaolong. Zhu Xiaolong used to be the guitarist with Tongue. If you know his work from there then this will be a surprise. This live piece is Sir Richard Bishop sitting on a beach as the sun goes down. It's the vision of Derek Bailey with a slanted doff of the cap to Jean-Baptiste Reinhardt...the occasional voice in the background is Zhu Xiaolong's young son Yu Xuan by the way...so if you ever doubted that this was recorded live...
Nothing Out There is run by Constantin Dubois. He is one half of the magnificent Przewalski's Horses (alongside Aurélie Brouet). He also records as Draisine and you should check that out as well!
This masterpiece is still for sale and you can find it via the label site. Frankly you should just go and buy this now. Nothing Out There has the same creative aesthetic as the deeply missed aRCHIVE label which means that as much love goes into the packaging and the design as goes into the actual music.
Sometimes, blogging seems to be a competition to see how far you can piss into a strong wind. And then something takes your feet out from underneath you. This is one such thing. About three weeks ago, Gabriele just sent me this out of a blue clear sky. No ulterior motives on his part. No requests for promotion or anything like that. Just here it is, do you want to post it? I asked him to check it with Constantin before I considered posting it and he was equally happy with this going ahead.
I have been sitting on this for about three weeks. I would have posted it sooner but I just couldn't stop listening to it. I have to say that I am proud to be in a position to post such a wonderful thing!
[I forgot to mention that Gabriele also runs Monstres Par Excès.]
Shiyun
Yuxuan
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Darren Tate - Remains
This album, published in a small self-released edition of 150 copies, collects some of Darren Tate's earliest music from 1985 and 1986, remastered in 2004.
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Darren Tate - 3/3/06
Just like it says on the package, this CDR was sold at a performance in Preston on 3 March 2006 at the Integration 5 event. Tate made 75 signed and numbered copies. You were not at that concert.
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Darren Tate - Time Lag
More lovely drone by Darren Tate, this time from a CDR self-released by the artist in an edition of 50 copies in 2005.
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Darren Tate, Daisuke Suzuki, & Kathleen Vance - Trees Kissing Trees
Placid, arboreal smoochfest from 2005.
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Darren Tate - Strange Artifact
One big slice of warm drone pie, self-published on Tate's Fungal label in a run of 100 copies in 2004.
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G*Park - One Hour as Bernel and Hoffman
Originally recorded as part of the Resonance 104.4 FM "One Hour As..." radio series, then reissued as a limited CDR by Tochnit-Aleph.
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Greg Kelley - One Hour as Something That Didn't Turn Out The Way I Intended It To (I'm Not Anti-Music, Music's Anti-Me)
Another title recorded for Resonance 104.4 FM's "One Hour As..." program, this one is a black hole of negative energy. It was reissued as a CDR by Chocolate Monk in 2007.
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... As...
In 2002, the London Musicians' Collective established Resonance104.4FM, "the world's first art radio station". For several years, it ran a program titled "One Hour As...", in which artists were asked to create an hour of audio intended for broadcast. A few of these have since been reissued as official releases, but most have not. Then in 2004, the program released this double-CDR compilation, simply titled "... as ...". Artists include Reiko A., Joe Colley, Yannick Dauby, Seth Nehil, Utah Kawasaki, Michael Schumacher, RLW, Loren Chasse, Zbigniew Karkowski, Bruce Russell, Eric La Casa, Kuwayama Kiyoharu, Matt Shoemaker, Rudolf Eb.er, and more.
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Ever Died And Gone To Heaven?
Today, I have been studiously avoiding doing anything that I actually "need" to be doing. What a truly fantastic non-choice that turned out to be!!!
I almost literally stumbled across this!
Two days in London hearing the finest Japanese artists? No brainer.
Could it possibly get any better than this?
Well, good friends, it gets infinately better! There is a funding campaign set up to support the delights on offer. The gig goes ahead regardless...but just look what you can get if you act in the next 10 days!
For a measley $10 minimum, you get a set of unreleased downloads from these artists.
For a truly wonderful minimum of $30, you will eventually get (what looks like it will be) a 10 disc boxset of mastered recordings of all of the live joy that will happen over those two days!
I've bought both of the above as well as tickets for both days. I've even booked my hotel room already!
Even if you have no chance of being in London...to get this amount of never to be released Japanese joy for $40? It would be ridiculous not to!!!
Be warned: as I write now, there are only ten days left of this offer ... move yo ass!
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Various - Density 100 Part II
Double C52 compilation featuring four works by Yellow Cab (Michio Teshima, owner of Vanilla Records), Pain Jerk (Kohei Gomi) MSBR (Koji Tano) and Hyper Ventilation (Akifumi Nakajima and Dub Murashita who also recorded as Loop Circuit).
Released on Akifumi Nakajima's G.R.O.S.S. label on Christmas Day in 1994.
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Various - Density 100
Double C52 compilation featuring four works by Thirdorgan (Akihiro Shimizu), Mortal Vision (Hiroshi Hasegawa aka Astro), Monde Bruits (Shohei Iwasaki) and Aube (Akifumi Nakajima).
Released on Akifumi Nakajima's G.R.O.S.S. label on Christmas Day in 1993.
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Various - Demonic Freak Scene
Very entertaining garagepsych compilation featuring the many talents of The Go-Devils, Bait Ones and Acid Eater!
CD released on Osaka based Time Bomb Records in 2006.
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Other People's Children & The Cherry Point - Split
Split tape of harsh noise from 2004, released by Collective Jyrk in a case covered in glitter that looks snazzy until the little glitter bits fall off onto everything and leave a glitter trail that sticks to other tapes and is rather annoying to clean up. This digital version contains only noise and no glitter. As is expected, the title of The Cherry Point's side is hilarious: "Blood Pours From My Fucking Skull". Sure it does.
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Can't/Kites - Split
Synth squelch madness from 2002, this tape features Can't (aka synth-building scientist Jessica Rylan) on one side, and Kites (aka influential comics artist Christopher Forgues/C.F., who today records as Mark Lord and Daily Life) on the other. It's an early recording for both of them. The tape is only the 3rd release on Forgues' Unskilled Labor imprint, and predates Rylan releasing music under her own name. It's great-looking, too. The purple-painted cassette comes with a metal butterfly inside (?), and the case is sealed with a gold starburst sticker. Punk sci-fi bloop for analog heads.
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