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The Tubes - Live From The Can

Nothing at all to do with the new wavey "White Punks On Dope" outfit (you'll be relieved to know).

This is another John Olson project on American Tapes (AM858) from early 2010...the first of the three Tubes releases so far. Three C90's packaged in a spraypainted tube or can (depending on what was lying around in the Olson household at the time) in an edition of 12!

The picture isn't of the release...it's one of John's artworks that he sells here.

Tape 1
Tape 2
Tape 3

Rangda - False Flag

Sublime trio of Sir Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny (of Six Organs Of Admittance, Comets On Fire and many other wonderful ventures) on guitar and Chris Corsano on drums. Normally, you would be happy to know that these people were in the same country...but in the same band? It's like your wildest dreams coming true!

Released on Drag City in 2010.

False Flag

...and here's a bootleg of Rangda Live In Geneva if you are interested...

Pengo - Toads Tools Amongst The Tombstones

New York's Pengo is John Schoen, Jason Finkbeiner and Nuuj who form a mighty three-headed avant/drone/noise/psych hydra. Every Pengo release that I have is bewilderingly different from the previous as they restlessly bring together many disparate strains of underground sounds to form a perplexing and at times alienating (but always rewarding) whole. At times, they have been compared to Sun Ra, AMM, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Throbbing Gristle, Suicide, NNCK and Les Rallizes Denudes. At the end of the day, Pengo are like Pengo and nobody out there is like Pengo!

On this LP, released on the awesome Qbico label in 2006, we see them sail off into acid-damaged shamanic Sundurned psychedelic territory. A great album from a really excellent outfit!

Toads Tools Amongst The Tombstones

Sudden Infant - Invocation Of The Aural Slave Gods

Great CD released on Blossoming Noise in 2005. Contains a couple of inspired covers: Cabaret Voltaire's "Nag Nag Nag" and Roxy Music's "In Every Dream Home A Heartache". Excellent!

Invocation Of The Aural Slave Gods

Sudden Infant - ← Look Left

3" CDr from your favourite Swiss noise experimenter. Released on Entr'acte in 2004.

← Look Left

Reynols - Bolas Tristes

CDr released on Freedom From in 2001.

Bolas Tristes

Reynols - Blank Tapes Live In Malmö

Live recording of a session on February 15th, 2003, at The Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden. Unleashed on the world by the Swedish label Komplott.

Blank Tapes Live In Malmö

Reynols - Blank Tapes

CD released on Bernhard Günter's Trente Oiseaux label in 2000. The release comprises music made with analog & digital processings over selected blank tapes dating from 1978 to 1999. Apparently.

You should also check out the (now) netlabel site. There is an extremely impressive amount of quality material available for free download. You may also be able to cop a physical version of this as well.

Blank Tapes

Reynols - '-------'

CD released in 1999 with the honours split between Phil Todd's (aka Ashtray Navigation's) sadly missed Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers & Mike Landucci's equally mourned Blackbean And Placenta Tape Club.

'-------'

Reynols - 10.000 Chickens Symphony

"For their first 7", Reynols did field recordings of (at least) 10.000 chickens and effected them to create a deep-frequency drone with bits of chicken sounds in it for side 1. As a contrast, side 2 shows the more original face of the recordings, a storm of unbelievably high & shrieking sounds, which are at last also being manipulated to increase the astonishing orchestral noise the chickens produce."

This is a 7" released on Germany's Drone Records in two editions in 2000 and 2003 respectively. Chickens as source material...gotta be a pun in there somewhere!

10.000 Chickens Symphony

Hair Stylistics - Monthly Hair Stylistics Vol.10 - Singing For Justice

Hair Stylistics is the noise project of Masaya Nakahara that has taken over from his Violent Onsen Geisha escapades. He is astonishingly prolific but his work is very difficult to source unless you are in Japan or speak the lingo. Every time he offers up wonderful work that displays a sense of humour that is sadly lacking in a typically ultra-serious genre.

The "Monthly Hair Stylistics" series of cdrs were released in a series of 12 (plus a 13th "Mystery Disc") during 2008 (and a little bit of 2009). I only have seven of the thirteen unfortunately. Would I be pissing in the wind in asking somebody out there to help fill in the gaps?

I have around another 50 Hair Stylistics releases that I may sprinkle around at some point.

Singing For Justice

Hair Stylistics - Monthly Hair Stylistics Vol.6 - Wild Hair Style

Wild Hair Style

Hair Stylistics - Monthly Hair Stylistics Vol.5 - 30 Minute Panty People

30 Minute Panty People

Hair Stylistics - Monthly Hair Stylistics Vol.4 - Electric Success In The Ghetto

Electric Success In The Ghetto

Hair Stylistics - Monthly Hair Stylistics Vol.3 - Hard Märchen

Hair Stylistics - Monthly Hair Stylistics Vol.2 - Gracia A La Viva

Gracia A La Viva

Hair Stylistics - Monthly Hair Stylistics Vol.1 - Pop Bottakuri

Absolut Null Punkt - Killsonic Action

On this recording Absolut Null Punkt are Asami Hayashi on bass, Seijiro Murayama on drums with the guitar and vocal duties covered by Kazuyuki Kishino. You should know the latter as K.K. Null and Null and as a member of Zeni Geva, Senssurround Orchestra and a former member of YBO². Seijiro Murayama was the original drummer with Fushitsusha.

This 1988 lp captures a live performance at CBGB in Kyoto on November 29th 1987. It has never been rereleased...bizarrely!

Imagine Swans, Godflesh and Boris put in a blender and forced through a stack of amps turned up to 12. No artists were harmed in the formulation of that last sentence!

Killsonic Action

Ministries of Blood Recordings

Ministries of Blood Recordings is/was a cdr label run by Dustin Redington who is one half of Demonologists (the other half being Cory Rowell).

Ministries of Blood was one of the leading industrial blackened noise labels in the United States and for the last 6 years pushed a genre so new and fresh at the time that most thought it to be a ridiculous concept. I mean, who would want to combine the imagery, fetishism and aesthetic of Norwegian Black Metal with heavy electronics? Obviously a lot of people rose to the challange as the black noise vibe exploded worldwide. MOBR only released cdr's and maintained a solid reputation in all things groundbreaking and innovating.

For the record...The Doctrine Of Flesh, Ropes Of Our Father, Lord of The Dead are Dustin solo projects, whereas Puritan Sword and Dead Bird Mountain see Dustin collaborate with Billy Mixson and Eric Sellers respectively.

Massive thanks to Dustin for sharing releases from the back catalogue!

Puritan Sword and The Doctrine Of The Flesh have been taken down as they are sheduled for re-release.

Cory has asked for the link to the excellent "Demonologists - Neon Pink" to be removed. It's due for a rerelease. Go and buy it. It's very fine.

Book of Blood - Book of Blood
Breath of Chaos - Decaying
Breath of Chaos - Eternal
Breath of Chaos - Summoning The Black
Butcherchrist - Black Wounded Soul
Caliginous - Reap The Atrocity
Cruento - Signal of Distress
Dead Bird Mountain - Demon(s)
Demonologists - Neon Pink (Soundtrack
Etheric Void - The Irradiating Failure of His Covenant
Graves House - Blood Nebula Forming
Ilabrat - Death Is The Crown of All
Josh Lay - Serotonin Haze
L'exorcisme - L'exorcisme
Lord of The Dead - Dethroned and Cast Through The Bowels of Hell
Lord of The Dead - Hatred
Lord of The Dead - In The Name of Violence
Lord of The Dead - The Sentence of Death
Maleux - Where The Dead No Longer Dream
Mortuor - I'am Waiting For You
Nomad Conqueror - Darkness Ruled The Earth
Nomad Conqueror - I Am From The Barbaric North
Rhuith - Zone Di Morte Illuminata
Ropes Of Our Father & Caustic Viral Hell - Split
Stemcell Research Project - Museum of Sleep
Teeth Collection - Priest Tongue
Toxicum Aestus - Indoctrination of Decay
Unholy Dominion - Spawn
Utarm - Thanatophilia
Witches Sabbath - Requiem of Shadows
Wormwoods Decay - The Butchrey

Jason Glover & Sir Richard Bishop - Elvi Sinawi

Between trying to have a life and MU dropping off the face of the earth for a short while and preparing the Ministries Of Blood post...pause for breath...thought I'd drop this.

It's a 3'' cdr released in 2002. I've started seeing this being offered up for a lot of money. If you were thinking about making an investment, bear this in mind (from Sir Rick's own site):

"A live performance of electronics and general mayhem. Recorded in the late 90s at I-Spy in Seattle, or at Benaroya Hall, depending on who you ask. Originally limited to about 35 copies in jewel case but now limited to however many Jason Glover makes when nobody is looking."

Elvi Sinawi

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