Bleak Bliss: May 2019

Felix Hess - Sasayaki

Felix used to be a nuclear physicist (might still be for all I know) who then started to make his own electronic instruments and "make" found-sound-art-sculptures.

Turn all of your devices off and go and lie down in a field (definitely not on a road) and listen, your brain will do the rest. There is music everywhere.

Hand-painted four CDr set in hand-made wooden box all of which Felix created with his own fair hand and had released by Edition Omega Point in Japan in 1999 in an edition of twenty five.

Sasayaki

Various - The Residents Unmasked!

I'm not sure why the previously posted tape was thought to be necessary when this exemplary freak scene had preceded it.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water? Well, more fool you ... water is the enemy. At all times I am very dry and wear a steel helmet whilst wrapped in tin foil. Trust me ... it's worked so far which I would like to think is self-evident! I'm listening to this on your behalf so you can avoid the neural damage. Just thank THEE LORD for ME! and simply move on and procreate, there's a war coming soon and your progeny will be needed.

Triple C60 box set released on Ecto Tapes in 1995.

Unmasked!

Various - The Residents Unmasked! 2

I'm not entirely sure where these came from but the later attribution of "partially unofficial" gives the game away. The vast majority was recorded waaaaay before 1995 and a fair amount seems to be scalped from other compilations. However, a more important proportion seems to come from a shout out to bedroom weirdos, home tapers and just freaks ... the kind who really do have a shrine of eyeballs that they consult before their daily ablutions. They can all sleep on my couch if they want ... they might just have to take turns (it's not a big couch). More tomorrow. That's both a promise and a threat.

C40 released on Ecto Tapes in 1995.

Unmasked! 2

Various - Interchange Compilation

Randomly, here's a bunch of people presumably still floating around on this brexiting shithole that completely masquerades as a functioning democracy. Basically it's just a tiny bunch of people who come from an extraordinarily privileged public school educated (that's privately educated if you are unlucky enough to be in trumpville) chinless shitpumps protecting their reputation with papa and their business investments. Contempt is too good for them. Anyway. Sorry about that. Nothing to do with the tape at all.

This has a predominantly North-East of England noise thing going on with TNB, Metgumbnerbone, a couple of Mike Watson vehicles (Outside Bill and Small Palace Players) and a scattering of other British outsiders for company.

C90 that accompanied an edition of the short-lived Interchange magazine.

Interchange Compilation

P16.D4 - Passagen

The two P16.D4 tracks on the Devastate To Liberate comp were mastered there at twice the intended speed. This was later corrected on the Tionchor LP from 1987 ... so I was going to post that. Then I remembered this magnificent collection that includes that release. It's long sold out and now changes hands for a huge amount of money. So, in for a penny ...

Brilliant six CD released on Monotype Records in 2012. It also came with a DVD and the label uploaded it so you can watch it whenever you like!

P16

D4

People of America - We Are Fucked

They really are, aren't they?

People of America - We Are Fucked

Various - Devastate To Liberate

With a mid-Eighties compilation that is a fundraiser for the Animal Liberation Front, you would expect the likes of Annie Anxiety and Crass ... but P16.D4, Coil, Current 93, Nurse With Wound and Shock Headed Peters (who provide a cracking cover of The Residents' "Blue Rosebuds")? Great LP for a great cause.

LP released on Yangki in 1985.

Devastate To Liberate

Various - Born Out Of Dreams

Amongst the people here are P16.D4, Nurse With Wound, Mixed Band Philanthropist, Muslimgauze, O Yuki Conjugate, Enrico Piva and a completely pointless contribution from The New Blockaders (but I'm sure it's auntie art so it must be secretly brilliant apart from the fact that something more culturally valuable could have turned up here instead ... a recording of a fart in a bath full of water for instance).

LP released on Frux in 1985.

Born Out Of Dreams

Various - Let The Pigeons In

Déficit Des Années Antérieures, We Be Echo, Bene Gesserit and a couple of collaborations between We Be Echo and Dave Framer's Iham.

LP released on Frux in 1986.

Let The Pigeons In

Rinji Fukuoka, Ayuo Takahashi, Iwao Yama - From Shuji Terayama's Anthology Phoenix Story of Wild Girl Lima

Unreleased session from members of Overhang Party. No information.

Rinji Fukuoka, Ayuo Takahashi, Iwao Yama - From Shuji Terayama's Anthology Phoenix Story of Wild Girl Lima

Plugged Ear - Live 2003

Members of Overhang Party, Broom Dusters, Miminokoto and Zeni Geva get together to play tunes by Neil Young, The Rolling Stones, Serge Gainsbourg and more. Released as a CDR on There.

Plugged Ear - Live 2003

Various - Ritual Dos Sadicos

Some of the people on the prior post but also Art Remains Tangible, Clair Obscur, Parazite and Berlinerluft.

C50 released on VP 231 in 1983.

Ritual Dos Sadicos

Various - Ritual Dos Sadicos II

Well. Having thrown myself willingly into a maelstrom of football (no, it's not called soccer) induced alcoholic hallucinosis and generalised unbearable smugness, the former has now resolved to the point where I feel obliged to return to what I laughingly refer to as bizness.

So for your delectation or disgust, here's a great compilation of subterranean noise, strangled beats and weird tribal infused convolutions that appear designed to turn your head inside out ... Nox, Vox Populi!, Pacific 231, Atrophisme Interne Z, Denier Du Culte et cetera and so forth ...

LP released on VP 231 in 1985.

Ritual Dos Sadicos II

Overhang Party - Untitled

Another self-released CDR of out-takes and live versions.

Overhang Party - Untitled

Overhang Party - Out Takes From 1996 to 2003 (Memorial Edition for 26 September 2003)

Self-released CDR created to give away at a gig in 2003. Epic, soaring psychedelic rock led by singer/guitarist Rinji Fukuoku (now of Majutsu No Niwa).

Overhang Party - Out Takes From 1996 to 2003 (Memorial Edition for 26 September 2003)

va - ND 7

Oldsters like me will remember ND as one of the only sources for information about the noise underground in the days before the internet. Based in Texas (as you can tell from the cover of "N D 7"), ND was a magazine and label affiliated with a record shop in Austin. At the start, they made split cassettes that came inside little magazines. Then, they made magazines full of interviews and loads of contact information so that you could write away for catalogs and tapes. Eventually, they made CDs. "N D 7" was the seventh issue of ND, and it's a compilation cassette. A who's who of who-the-hell-are-these-people. Some names you'll recognize: Minoy, Die Form, Big City Orchestra, X-Ray Pop, The Haters, If Bwana, The Joke Project, Odal, Ideas Beyond Filth. Others are just as obscure in 2019 as they were in 1992: Booed Usic (actually tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE from balTimOre), Vittore Baroni (of Trax), K.U.Sch, Theater of Ice, and others.

va - ND 7

Various - Sex & Bestiality

Pacific 231, Étant Donnés, Die Form, Big City Orchestra, Smersh, Smegma, Blackhouse, Asmus Tietchens, Anne Gillis, The New Blockaders, Bourbonese Qualk, Psychic T.V., O Yuki Conjugate, Sleep Chamber and on and on and on and on ...

Seminal four C90 set released on Philippe Fichot's legendary Bain Total in 1984. It's a huge flac rip of the box so don't say I didn't warn you.

Sex

Bestiality

Bestial

Sex

Pacific 231 - Sachlichkeit

There have been some requests to post this and the split with Berlinerluft or the Thule Apocalypse reissue that came from that tape. Of the three, I only like this one.

C34 released on Tonspur Tapes in 1988.

Sachlichkeit

va - The Passing Gods

An excellent compilation of textural experimental music, the first release on the Play Loud label from Portugal in 1992. Two tracks by Kapotte Muziek and one track apiece by Vidna Obmana, PBK, S*Core, Temps Perdu?, Brume, Hybryds, Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Frank Dommert and Hesskhe Yadalanah.

va - The Passing Gods

va - X-Rated-The Dark Files

Dutch compilation from 2006, dedicated to John Balance and released as a CD on the Steamin' Soundworks label. Tracks by Scanner, KaH, Nurse With Wound, Legendary Pink Dots, Monoton, Markant, Threshold HouseBoys Choir, Raison d'Etre, Coil, Aural Rage and Black Sun Productions.

va - X-Rated-The Dark Files

va - The Memorial Elvis Project

A strange (duh) compilation of what are supposed to be Elvis covers, released as a CD in an oddly sized package by the French label Odd Size (duh again) in 1992. Music by Eleve Modele, HNAS, Asmus Tietchens, La Sonorite Jaune, Psyclones, Duck and Cover in a Psylobottle (isn't that a terrific name for a band?), Bene Gessirit and Laurent Pernice. Don't be cruel, download now!

va - The Memorial Elvis Project

OOOPS ... we did it again

If you don't get it, you will never get it.

Never mind.

Pacific 231 - Psychic Euthanasia

Strange.

Self-released C30 from 1983.

Psychic Euthanasia

va - Autoficial

Everyone's favorite format is the compilation 7". This one, released by GX Jupitter-Larsen in 1996 as the first release on his short-lived Noisopoly label, includes short tracks by The Haters (aka GX himself), Chop Shop, Smell & Quim and Con-Dom (misprinted as Com-, perhaps indicating his real agenda: Comedy-Domination).

va - Autoficial

Pacific 231 - Unusual Perversions

Fucked-up industrial electronics.

LP (presumably self-) released on VP 231 in 1984.

Unusual Perversions

Pacific 231 & Le Syndicat - Alliance

A split between two sets of French legends. Self-explanatory.

C52 released on Cause And Effect in 1984.

Alliance

Pacific 231 - The Lost Judgement

The first half hangs in the air like the promise of vengeance whilst the second flips the coin and gives pulsing noise, washed out guitar distortion and reverbed synth pulse ... or something.

C48 released on Le Syndicat in 1985.

The Lost Judgement

Asmus Tietchens - Seuchengebiete 3

Released as a CD in 1997 by Artware.

Asmus Tietchens - Seuchengebiete 3

Asmus Tietchens - Die Nacht Aus Blei

From 1993, released as a CD by Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien.

Asmus Tietchens - Die Nacht Aus Blei

Pacific 231 - Power Assume

Splendidly warped industrial skronk noise courtesy of Pierre Jolivet.

LP released on Bunker Records in 1986. It appears that there is a CDr reissue on Ladd-Frith from 2002 that is different enough to qualify as a completely different release ... never heard it, can anyone help out?

Power Assume

Legend

Asmus Tietchens - Glimmen

Released in 1999 by E(r)ostrate.

Asmus Tietchens - Glimmen

Pacific 231 & Lieutenant Caramel - Just Digging The Crazy Art

A beautiful collaboration that, if nothing else, just goes to prove that there is no excuse for not improving with age.

LP released on Rotorelief in 2009.

Just Digging The Crazy Art

Pierre Bouchet - Sale Timbale

This is still Philippe Blanchard ... he constantly expands my blown mind. To have all of these pieces of the jigsaw and combine them to create such art? Makes me bow down in admiration and laugh out loud ... sometimes it happens at the same time ... bit awkward to explain when my cats walk in unexpectedly. Mind you, my cats think I'm fucking weird.

CD released on Éditions Suicide Commercial in 1998.

Sale Timbale

Philippe Blanchard / Bardoseneticcube - Untitled

A very very good collaboration that reminds me that I should listen to Bardoseneticcube much more than I have done so far.

CDr released on Ultra in 2007.

Philippe Blanchard / Bardoseneticcube

Philippe Blanchard / Christian Renou - Play:Lunch

An off-duty Lieutenant and an undercover Brume. What more do you want?

CD released on Plate Lunch in 2000.

Play:Lunch

Asmus Tietchens - Daseinsverfehlung

Another magnificent album that's one of Asmus Tietchens' top three, released in 1992 as a CD by Stille Andacht, a sub-label of Dark Vinyl.

Asmus Tietchens - Daseinsverfehlung

Felipe Caramelos - Se Prohibe Cantar

Of course it is the good Lieutenant. A cracking release of concrète awkwardness and bontempi aphex. Genius.

Double disc affair from Waystyx in 2007 that only comes in at around 35 minutes. Which is a shame. Play it on repeat, that way it's at least 70 minutes.

Se Prohibe Cantar

Asmus Tietchens - Abraum

As with most of Asmus Tietchens' works, this one was released with very little information about the source sounds, concepts or process. All you get is the music, which seems right to me. Released in 2010 as a CD on the 1000fussler label.

Asmus Tietchens - Abraum

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