Slugbait - Medium To Heavy Flow

 

1995 CD by the people behind Splintered, Intervene, Husk and more UK noise acts. Released by Dirtier Promotions.

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Taurpis Tula - Steel Rods Bruise Butterflies

 

Half hour of zonk released as a CDR in 2005 by the mighty Chocolate Monk label.

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Taurpis Tula - Caught In The Teeth Of It

 

Limited CDR released by Volcanic Tongue in 2005.

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Taurpis Tula - Cadillac Sitting Like a Ton of Lead

 

2007 LP released by Ikuisuus.

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Vomir & Harsh Noise Movement - Split

 

Split CDR from 2017, released on Harsh Noise Movement's HNM label.

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Keiji Haino & Derek Bailey - Songs

 

Recorded in 1996, released by Bailey's Incus label in 2000. While their previous album was a guitar duo, this one has just Bailey playing guitar and Haino only singing. 

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Keiji Haino & Derek Bailey - Drawing Close, Attuning - The Respective Signs of Order and Chaos

 

The Japanese label Tokuma released four massive Fushitsusha albums in the late 1990s, then doubled down with four more Keiji Haino albums: two solo albums, one album by Haino's cover band Aihiyo and one guitar duo album with the legendary Derek Bailey. This is the Haino/Bailey team-up. You know you need it. 

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Zoviet France - Assault and Mirage

 

First issued as a cassette in 1987, then cleaned up for a CD in 1995. Another gem from the Zoviet France catalog.

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Zoviet France - Just An Illusion

 

First released in 1990, "Just an Illusion" remains one of Zoviet France's very greatest achievements. Mysterious, enveloping atmosphere that mixes acoustic instruments with tape delay for a mix of musique concrete, raga, and ambient noise. The edition we have here came inside a balsa-wood box with the titles stained onto it. The liner notes are on another thin sheet of balsa. Sure, it kind of scratches up the CD, but the band that once packed their LPs in roofing shingles could hardly care about that. When someone isn't sure where to begin with Zoviet France, "Just an Illusion" is what I always recommend. 

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Zoviet France - Garista

 

The first album by Zoviet France might be a shock to listeners who jumped on later to hear their classics "Look Into Me", "Just an Illusion" or "What Is Not True". Back in 1982, when they self-released "Garista" as a cassette, it might have seemed to have more in common with weirdos like Metgumnerbone, New Blockders or even The Residents' "Eskimo". Feral animal grunting and whooping, banging sticks together at the back of a dank cave, general chaotic weirdness that gives hardly a hint of the atmospheric ambience to come. It's their strangest album, but worth a listen to hear what they were doing as odd teenagers huddled around a tape recorder. It was reissued in all formats in 1990, then on LP by Vinyl on Demand in 2019.

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Ferial Confine - The Full Use of Nothing

 

The 2013 CD reissue of a 1985 cassette by Ferial Confine, also known as Andrew Chalk.

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Bladder Flask - One Day I Was So Sad That The Corners Of My Mouth Met & Everybody Thought I Was Whistling

 

Don't be sad! Here is the 2001 remastered CD reissue of a 1981 LP by Bladder Flask, also known as the New Blockaders Brothers. 

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The Box - Great Moments in Big Slam

 

Second album, released in 1984. 

The Box - Great Moments in Big Slam

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The Box - Muscle Mix

This here is The Box's greatest single recording! It's Richard H. Kirk's insanely dubbed-out mistreatment of  The Box's "Crow Bar" and "Low Commotion" songs from 1984. Required listening for anyone who loves this sort of thing. Fans of early 80s Northern industrial dub punk disco (which should be all of you, frankly) look no further. At the same time that Cabaret Voltaire experienced some mainstream success with the robot-funk albums "The Crackdown" and "Micro-Phonies" albums, Kirk was in top form as a producer for like-minded astronauts like Test Dept, Eric Random, Sedition, Surface Mutants, UV Pop and these guys. He slathered both songs in echo and heaviness and unleashed them as a promo-only 12" on his own Doublevision label. So good. 

The Box - Muscle Mix

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The Box - Secrets Out

 

Their debut LP from 1983. 

The Box - Secrets Out

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The Box - Muscle In

 

Non-album single from 1984, hits every possible button for both the husband and me. Post-punk heavy disco from grimy Sheffield. 

The Box - Muscle In

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The Box - Old Style Drop Down

 

Their second single from 1983. Another ripper. 

The Box - Old Style Drop Down

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The Box

 

The Box are, along with Electric Guitars and Fire Engines, one of the hardest bands to find information about via Google. When the first lineup of Clock DVA split from Adi Newton, they took on singer Peter Hope and made a whole bunch of terrific records. Imagine an industrial dub blues by some Sheffield noise weirdos who must have been listening to lots of Captain Beefheart and Hula. This is their first self-titled EP from 1983. 

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The Box

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Akira Toyonaga & Charles Hayward - Punk

 

Scratchy, odd duo album by Charles Hayward (of This Heat & Camberwell Now) and guitarist Akira Toyonaga (of Romp). Released on CD in 2016 by Jigen Productions.

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Bohman Brothers & Richard Thomas - The New York Special

 

Tour-only CDR (not on Discogs!) by the trio that would later be called Secluded Bronte. Adam Bohman, as you all know, was a member of criminally under-rated group Morphogenesis. Adam and his brother Jonathan perform and record as (duh) the Bohman Brothers. This CDR was sold at North American performances in the 00's. I don't have a cover scan, but it's just generic black text on white paper with no other art or information.

Bohman Brothers & Richard Thomas - The New York Special

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