Lefthandeddecision - Box Set




This is one of those does it really exist releases. Well the answer is yes. I know "for a fact" that it is a six CDr boxset (the box is white by the way). I'm assuming that it was self-released (in 2001). My assumption is based upon the fact that it contains all of Phil Blankenship's impossible to find early releases.

On here, you get the Surgical Precision C30, the Without Life C60, the Lovelorn CDr, the RCLF C10, the Bascombination C18, the Powertripping tracks from the IMPAXIS split, the half of the Personal Precision CDr that doesn't include the Surgical Precision tape, the Cracked Electronics C60 (for some reason minus the 24 minute Mumble & Reg Remix) and a variety of great compilation appearances.

I've sat on this for years. And years! I've been waiting to find some kind of presence on t'interweb (as though that would add the requisite authentication) but have failed, but I know a few people who have seen it with their eyes. The thing that niggles me is the 6th disc ... it's much shorter than the others and I can't help thinking that the Mumble & Reg Remix is unintentionally missing. Given that I've sat on this wonderful set for so long, I'm resigned to never knowing ... maybe there is nothing else to know ...

Anyway, there is some kind of gender oppressive rule that, on the 29th of February, females are "allowed" to ask males to marry them. If recognition of your private relationships by the church and / or state is important to you and somebody proposes to you today then judge the prospects of the prospective union by their ability to sit with you throughout this set and offer critical nuances on its finer points. I admit that there should be more punctuation in the previous sentence. Otherwise, bin them off and spend the rest of your life alone. Mind you, I may have not thought that last bit through ...

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Maruosa - Exercise And Hell




This is a CD released on Renda in 2007. Maruosa is a Japanese gentlemen who, as far as I am aware, is called Maruosa. He recorded (very briefly) as Death Ranch with Jason Köhnen (aka Bong-Ra).

This starts with him vomiting all over what might be Handel's Messiah and then it's grindcore / bleepcore / insertyourownwordcore all the way down. Basically, load up your nail gun. Set to maximum speed. Press against your temple. Pull the trigger.

Since I pulled it out of one of the many over-spill boxes two weeks ago, this has been on constant repeat ... and I mean several times a day. I'm hoping that you have never seen Ringu because this is me passing on the curse.

Exercise And Hell

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Francisco López - Untitled Music for Geography




Untitled Music for Geography?

Oh, so that what it sounds like. If I had known that, then I would have paid more attention in school. The only thing that I have retained is how an oxbow lake forms and apart from now I don't think I've ever had the need to consider that information. How different life could have been!

Frankly gorgeous CD released on (the appropriately named) Sedimental in 1997.

Untitled Music for Geography

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Francisco López / Michael Gendreau - TDDM




This is a double CD set released on Sonoris in 2008 that is the polar opposite of the previous post. The sound sources and inspiration are taken from recordings of industrial machinery and engines and factory found sound respectively.

This is the kind of music that fully occupies my mind yet still gives me the space to cast off the detritus of the day and think my own thoughts. An unfortunately rare event in my life and a marvellous gift bestowed by these two gentlemen!

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Michael Gendreau & Francisco López - Drowning & Untitled #185




For Michael Gendreau, space is the place and he uses it to great effect in that he gives you plenty of time to pay attention to how his music builds and degrades. Entropy in action. Francisco López is, naturally, a legend who creates minimal sculptures from nothing at all.

LP released on Blake Edwards' (aka Vertonen's) Crippled Intellect Productions in 2006.

Drowning & Untitled #185

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Michael Gendreau - Vitoj




Starts with tinnitus and gradually builds towards the harsh before dropping off a Schimpfluch cliff, dusting itself off and building again.

CD released on Auscultare Research in 2005.

Vitoj

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Crawling With Tarts - Bled Es Siba




Crawling With Tarts are frankly great ... sort of post-industrial freak-folk (well, we know how much you like meaningless categorisations so there it is).

Michael and Suzanne are joined here by Cliff Neighbors (who was also in Big City Orchestra and Deathranch) on this double C90 set released on Audiofile Tapes in 1998.

The more time you spend with these tapes, the more you will love them! And that comes with a money back guarantee ...

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Crawling With Tarts & Big City Orchestra - Tryst 3




Sometimes, I can't be arsed with loads of words. Big City Orchestra are as ridiculously great as they are prolific. Crawling With Tarts are Michael Gendreau and Suzanne Dycus-Gendreau. This is for all of you who prefer your electronic shamanism with a twist of lemon. C30 released on BCO's UBUIBI in 1998.

Tryst 3

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Jörg Thomasius & Lars Stroschen - Tonart Drei

Third CD on the Tonart label, and the only one without Conrad Schnitzler. Weird electronics from Berlin circa 1993.

Jörg Thomasius & Lars Stroschen - Tonart Drei

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Borbetomagus and Voice Crack - Concerto for Cracked Everyday-Electronics and Chamber Orchestra




Cracked everyday snuff jazz electronics. Apart from this being a CD jointly released on Agaric Records, Uhlang Produktion ‎and V-Records in 1997, what else could you possibly need to know?

Concerto ...

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Hudge - Coy Fish Jazz

Noise from the power-trio of Michael Barthel (who released this CDR on his own Recordings For the Summer label in 2009), Pit Noack (who also is 1/2 of Three Resurrected Drunkards, along with Tom Smith) and Eric Boros (aka Hermit).

Hudge - Coy Fish Jazz

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Justin Bennett - Endless Sound 2 - Ocean

This piece was initially presented as an audio installation, and is designed to be played on a continuous loop. It was released on Spore Records as an edition of 100 copies in 2000.

Justin Bennett - Endless Sound 2 - Ocean

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BMB con - #1




C30 from 1991. I also have #7, #8 and #9 but these were released on Staalplaat and are for sale from the label via Discogs and probably elsewhere.

#1

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Justin Bennett - Endless Sound 1 - Dervish

Self-released CDR from 2000 in an edition of 100 copies, this was Justin Bennett's soundtrack to a video installation and is intended to play on repeat (hence the title).

Justin Bennett - Endless Sound 1 - Dervish

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BMB con - #2




C40 released on their self-titled label in 1991.

#2

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Justin Bennett - Noise Map

Unlike previous albums by Justin Bennett, "Noise Map" contains multiple self-contained pieces rather than a single album-length concept. It was released by Spore Records in 2003 to accompany the artist's book of the same title.

Justin Bennett - Noise Map

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BMB con - Sexbierum




This C20 is the third BMB con release on their own label in 1993.

Sexbierum

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Justin Bennett - Magnetic City

This one is from 2001, also self-released by the artist on Spore Records, and is a stereo version of a piece that was first presented as a multi-channel installation at a festival in Barcelona.

Justin Bennett - Magnetic City

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BMB con - #10




Speaking of BMB con, here's Justin Bennett, Willem 't Hooft and Roelf Toxopeus transforming field recordings on a 3" CDr they released on their own label in 2003.

#10

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Justin Bennett - Demolitions

You may not have heard of Justin Bennett, but his story might sound familiar. Started out in an industrial band in Sheffield UK, then left to pursue very abstract tape music, finally producing brilliantly evocative albums of pure field recordings. You were thinking of Chris Watson, yes? Well, Bennett came up in the same milieu. His band Hula recorded its first albums at Cabaret Voltaire's Western Works studio. Like Watson's move to The Hafler Trio, Bennett left Hula to live in the Netherlands are perform with the incredible group BMB Con. Unlike Watson's later dedication to natural sounds and animals, Bennett's field recordings tend to be of urban environments. "Demolitions" was one of his first solo albums, self-released on Spore Records as a CD in an edition of 400 copies.

Justin Bennett - Demolitions

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Various - Devil From The East・A Decade Of Yoshida Tatsuya




And the award for the clumsiest and vaguely offensive title of the week is ...

The work of Tatsuya Yoshida is the work of legend. For brevity's sake, I will assume that you are aware of how great he is. This a wonderful retrospective of his earlier work and I wish there were more covering the following two decades.

Released in Japan on Bloody Butterfly in 1994.

Anyway (in the sense of brevity being really overrated), I was at Supersonic a few years ago walking between stages. Well, vaguely floating. Striding towards me were Tatsuya Yoshida, Kazuyuki Kishino and Masami Akita, resplendent in ankle length black leather coats. So I did what any right thinking person would do. I engaged them in a prolonged and well informed conversation about their work and the global and personal impact that they have had. They were delighted to meet me, asked for my contact details and we are still in regular contact.

Or what really happened was that I stood absolutely stock still staring like a fool with drool dribbling slowly down my chin. Extremely randomly, I had the theme tune to Reservoir Dogs running through my head at the same time.

To be honest, I prefer the first version of the truth.

A Decade Of Yoshida Tatsuya

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robochanman - strugglediver




Wonderful! Crash helmets with visors advised.

This is a CD released on Ground Fault Recordings in 2000. I have very fond memories of that label ... some 15 years ago they were very busy introducing me to noise that I had never had access to before. Thanks whoever you were!

Strugglediver

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RoboChanMan - Remote Control Militia




Yasushi Tahara dislocates your ears on this CDr released on Koji Tano's Denshi Zatsuon in 2001.

Remote Control Militia

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Towering Heroic Dudes - Blastula




For this, their first release, the ironically named Towering Heroic Dudes were Neil Vendrick, Roxann Spikula, and Rachal Spikula before evolving into a revolving line up of c'mon and hit this friends and associates. CDr released on Obsolete Units in 2007.

Blastula

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Towering Heroic Dudes - My Morning Jackoff




Lo-fi carnage with one side recorded in a bedroom and the other during a live set in sombody's house. C40 released on Abandon Ship Records in 2009.

Jackoff

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Relay For Death - Birth Of An Older, Much More Ugly Christ




Intentionally subdued rumbling noise from Rachal Spikula and Roxann Spikula who were both in Boyzone (obviously not that crate of cretins) and Towering Heroic Dudes. This is an LP released on Hanson Records in 2010. As far as I know, the only other RFD release was one of RRRon's Recycled tapes ... whilst I have a stack of that series, I don't have that one. If you do then please pass it our way.

... Ugly Christ

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Relay For Death - They Are Heating Up The Ovens Get The Fuck Out Now




For such an up-front title you would expect this to be right in your face. It is no such thing. There are a lot of spaces left and if this was just left to play in the background you would have a hard time trying to figure out why you felt this sense of quiet panic. It will be due to this CDr released on No Rent Records in 2011.

Get The Fuck Out

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Secret Abuse - Craftsman's Rhythm




A 7" lathe cut released on Folk Tales in an edition of 30 in 2010. The sound of the format only adds to the sense of decay and disappearance.

Craftsman's Rhythm

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Secret Abuse - Violent Narcissus




LP full of lovely synth rinsed guitar drones released on Not Not Fun Records in 2008.

Violent Narcissus

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Secret Abuse - The Immeasurable Gift




This LP was released on Arbor in 2009 and probably forms part of the six degrees of separation between the previous tapes and Marble Sky.

The Immeasurable Gift

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Secret Abuse - Young Pig / Walking For Days Alone




... and this is a C32 released on Eager Mother Tapes in 2007.

...Walking For Days Alone

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Secret Abuse - Master I Have Desire - Young Pig Vol. 2




You've met Jeff Witscher on here before. This time he is under the crackling noise guise of Secret Abuse. Rather predictably, it's excellent. This is also a C30 released on IDES Recordings in 2007.

Master I Have Desire...

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Daniel Menche & Small Cruel Party ‎– Scratch Of The Mutilated/Sister Brother


Lathe-cut split 7" from 1996, released by MSBR Records in an edition of just 77 copies. Each record came in a unique and completely absurd sculpture package.

Daniel Menche & Small Cruel Party ‎– Scratch Of The Mutilated/Sister Brother

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Lefthandeddecision & SKM-ETR - SKM-ETR vs. LHD 02

Released in 2002 as a business card CDR in an edition of 3 copies by Mouth Records. It came in a wooden box with inserts. Each artist remixes the other. It ends pretty soon after it starts.

Lefthandeddecision & SKM-ETR - SKM-ETR vs. LHD 02


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Lefthandeddecision & R4 - Split

Split CDR on Troniks from 2001, edition of 50 copies.

Lefthandeddecision & R4 - Split

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Lefthandeddecision vs. Navicon Torture Technologies - A Morte Perpetva (Jvstvs Mors)

Business-card CDR released by PACrec/Troniks in 2002 in an edition of 25 copies.

Lefthandeddecision vs. Navicon Torture Technologies - A Morte Perpetva (Jvstvs Mors)

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Lefthandeddecision & Feverdreams - Split

Lefthandeddecision (and later, The Cherry Point) were a great 7" band. He made many singles and split singles, and I think the short duration works in the music's favor. Get in, blast like hell, get out. This 7" came out on Troniks in 2001 in a relatively healthy edition of 200 copies.

Lefthandeddecision & Feverdreams - Split

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