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Four artists (Big City Orchestra, Merzbow, Mohr, Maeror Tri) take a quarter of a CD each on this neat compilation released by Fool's Paradise in 1994.
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Four artists (Big City Orchestra, Merzbow, Mohr, Maeror Tri) take a quarter of a CD each on this neat compilation released by Fool's Paradise in 1994.
How's this to start 2022 with a big screeching bang? By all indications, this nascent trip around the sun will be just as shit as all the previous ones have been. Let's drown our sorrows in feedback with an absolute classic compilation from 1992. This is the fifth (duh) and final entry in the Dry Lungs series, as compiled by Paul Lemos (of Controlled Bleeding, Skin Chamber, Fat Hacker) starting in 1985. The first 3 volumes were LPs, then the 4th was released as both an LP and a CD (such was the market in the early 90s, I suppose) and this last one spans two packed CDs. Both the husband and I clearly recall our first encounter with this monster. It was an affordable introduction to names that everyone knows now, but were relatively unknown then: Masonna, Violent Onsen Geisha, Trance, Arcane Device, Hijokaidan, Cranioclast, Un Drame Musical Instantane, Etant Donnes, Carl Stone, Incapacitants, PGR, Desaccord Majeure, Solmania... plus Controlled Bleeding in their many guises and solo tracks by all three members. It's really one of the best noise compilations ever produced, made even better by its inclusion of sounds that aren't strictly "noise" but are definitely related.
CD compiled by the artist Hans-Ulrich Obrist, given away in a French magazine in 2000 and again with the catalog to an architecture exhibition. Tracks by Merzbow, CM von Hauswolff, Justin Bennett, Pommasl, Serge Comte, Mika Vainio and others.
This 3x7" has such a strange story that I'm just going to reprint the text from Discogs:
"Pressed in edition of 400 copies sometime in the early 90's (probably around 1992). However, the records and their beautiful silkscreened envelope lay in storage in a basement in Seattle waiting for some as yet undecided element to finish them. Then in late 1996, they were finally unleashed, though only 100 copies, as it was decided that each batch of 100 would be a different variation on the set, and work on the each batch would seem to start only well after the last one had sold out. Through this long process, Mark Schomburg a.k.a. Abo of Yeast Culture varied the title of the collection as well as of the label, though essentially containing the same material. The artist on each side as well as the speed each side plays at (some are 33 and some are 45) can be figured out by listening to the spoken intros to each side recorded by Mark Andrew Schomburg and John Hubbard.
"Each record does have its own individual sleeve, and both are contained in a silkscreened envelope which is tied shut with string. For this edition, the original sleeves and labelled were supplemented with extra collage elements. Also, the title of the compilation was changed from the original "Circusirus" and the label changed from the original "Petri Supply", as well as giving different names for the artists [Birdturd instead of Strength Through Joy, and Yeast instead of Yeast Culture]. However, these are exactly the same two records contained in the earlier Circusirus on Petri Supply [from the same pressing in fact]."Obscure compilation of obscure industrial whatnot released by Staalplaat as a CD in 1997. Features music by Ron Sluik (who you might know from his "Back to Burnsley" 7" on Minimal Wave), Kurpershoek, Ivan Faktor, NURR, Kees de Groot, subREAL and a long track that's not credited to anyone.
Kazuya Ishigami/Daruin has run the excellent (and still active!) Neus-318 label out of Osaka since 1997, but it's more low-key than other noise labels from the era. A small amount of the back catalog is available at the label's Bandcamp page, so here's a title that you won't find there (at least, not as of this writing). It's the 3rd volume of what I think was a 10-part series of international compilation CDRs, with tracks by Daruin, Ames Sanglantes, Anemone Tube, EHI, SA-909, Tender Love, Recalcitrant and OCO. This is some deep underground, hometaper-type noise.
va - Neus-318 Compilation Vol. 3
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Two CDs of remixes from the album "0.000" by *0 (aka Nosei Sakata), which was largely inaudible high tones and silence. This 2002 release came out at the end of the "lowercase" fashion, a sort of post-Bernhard Gunter love of extreme sparseness and low volume. Includes tracks by Merzbow, Taylor Deupree, Bernhard Gunter, Immedia, Richard Chartier, Steve Roden, Duul_Drv, Koji Asano, Dale Lloyd, Immedia (whose album for Line is an overlooked gem), John Hudak, Stephan Matthieu, Marc Behrens, Kim Cascone, Akira Rabelais, Zbigniew Karkowski, Aube, Hsi-Chuang-Cheng, Kozo Inada and two tracks by *0 himself.
va - Inflation (*0 0.000 Remix)
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The 72nd (duh) release on Tochnit Aleph was this edition-of-100-copies compilation CDR from 2006, with exclusive insanity from the Schimpfluch crew and friends: Dave Phillips. Raionbaishi, Dear Michael... (aka Michael Barthel/Recordings For the Summer), Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, G*Park, Sudden Infant, and Birthmark Orchestra (a collaboration by Rudolf Eb.er, Andy Bolus/Evil Moisture and Hidekazu Miyano of The Machine Gun TV.
Ultra-obscure 1985 compilation LP from the ultra-ultra-obscure DD Records label. Featuring some of the mainstays of the label like T. Kamada, K. Usami, Mosque of Torment, Mask, Abnormal Sex, Tadaki Tsukimoto, Cat Dog and T. Isotani. Also includes tracks by singer/songwriter Kumio Kurachi (who had some tangential involvement with Fifth Column), T10, Yoshiki Tabata and Young Holmons. Read more...
Double disc compilation of tracks from Drone Records, a German label that exclusively produced 7" singles of (mostly) dark ambient/ritual/industrial noise. Music by Maeror Tri, Aube, Reynols, Vir, Tarkatak, Droneament, Toy Bizarre, Francisco Lopez, Yen Pox, Feinen Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim, Osso Exotico and more.
va - A Selection of Drones Past, Singles 1993-2000
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One-sided compilation LP "anti-tribute" (?) to folk singer Diane Minor, because... I have no idea. Tracks by Crawl Unit, Illusion of Safety, Persona Non Grata, Trance and J. Allen Williams. Released by Gender-Less Kibbutz in 1994.
Read more...This is the 2012 CD reissue of a double-cassette compilation originally released by Suitcase Records in 1990. The original version was two hours long, so the CD leaves some tracks off, but it's still fantastic. Like many Suitcase releases, the package is an insane presentation with Abo/Yeast Culture's intense silk-screen work and printed inserts by the artists. The reissue came in a 12" sleeve with the disc stuck in the center. Music by All Fours, Kapotte Muziek, tac, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Illusion of Safety, This Very Moment, Minoy, Big City Orchestra, David Prescott, John Wiggins, Triptic of a Pastel Fern and Euthanasia. Read more...
Very good four-way split LP shared by Astro, Pulse Emitter, Acre and Monsturo. Released on wax by Anarchymoon in an edition of 200 copies. Read more...
Cassette supplement to the "Anthems" LP with additional anthems by Laibach, Bene Gesserit, Culturcide, Monty Cantsin and others. Read more...
Weird old cheap-looking CDR comp with noise and/or rock by Friends Forever, Burning Star Core, Life Partners, Golden Serenades, Panicsville, No Doctors, Tan As Fuck, Anla Courtis, Lasse Marhaug, Knifestorm, Nautical Almanac, Beesty, Owlconer, Flying Luttenbachers. Read more...
Sketchy all-over-the-place industrial/kitchen-sink bootleg LP from sketchy bootleg label Light Sounds Dark, with music by Ilhan Mimaroglu, Robert Lawrence, Tasaday, The Horse He's Sick, NKVD, Eric Lunde, Autentisk Film, ORA, Javier Hernando of Xeerox, more. Read more...