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Various - Belgrade Is The World
C60 from earlier this year on Posh Isolation. 100 copies that disappeared immediately.
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C60 from earlier this year on Posh Isolation. 100 copies that disappeared immediately.
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V.D. - Just As Pretty
Have you ever thought that you have too much music?
I've chased this for ages. I've been clearing out the "junk room" and lo and behold...a couple of boxes of cdrs and tapes...
Keith Brewer (Mania and Taint) & Chris Goudreau (Sickness).
It was released on Chris's Ninth Circle Music but I haven't been able to carbon date the cardboard box or remember my name so ... blah!
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German Army - Tarsier
This is a C42 released on Nute Records in 2012. Nute is a sub-division of the glorious Irish label Trensmat
I'm utterly obsessed with German Army. For ages I imagined in my tiny mind that if Mark Stewart had left The Pop Group and had gone on to write the Butthole's best songs...then it would sound like German Army.
And then this tape has a 9 minute reworking by Whirling Hall Of Knives which is obviously a nod to the track on Rembrandt Pussyhorse.
See, it all makes sense...eventually.
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German Army - Turkish Bath
CDr released on Kill Shaman in 2011.
Information on these savants of the west coast of America is hard to find. However:
"German Army is a side project of Paul Kneejie (The Pope, Submissions, Bipolar Bear) and Greg Toumassian. German Army is an experiment in ambient and atmospheric jungle minimal music. It’s dark, rhythmic, druggy, and enchanting. Recommended if you like Factums, The Dreams, etc. Check out their video of “Pulling Lashes” on the home page. This is a split release with AM Discs."
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Filament - BOX
Filament is the work of Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko Matsubara (aka Sachiko M). Whilst both are former members of the exemplary Ground Zero, this work is a different beast. The Improvised Music from Japan site has a lovely summation of their work:
"Filament, a limitless laboratory for memory-free post-sampling music which has completely deconstructed sampling. Filament is important both as an answer to Ground Zero's extreme chopping and plunderphonics, and as a touchstone of post-techno experimental music."
For this five disc collection of live works, the term "memory-free" is absolutely key for me. It has a quite magical effect whereby whilst you are listening to it...you forget that you are. When it stops, you can't quite remember what has just been said to you. But in the meantime, it completely declutters your mind of the daily nonsense that seems so important and actually allows real (personal) thought to come to the fore.
Released on F.M.N Sound Factory in 2004.
Disc 1
Disc 2
Disc 3
Disc 4
Disc 5
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DR GMWLP - Tunnel Rays
DR GMWLP (aka Dr. Gretchen's Musical Weightlifting Program) is Gretchen Gonzales and John Olson.
The CDr is again attached to a hand painted LP on American Tapes (AM183) but this time the year is 2001 and the edition is only 15 copies!
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DR GMWLP - Lung Pyrimids
CDr attached to a hand decorated (hence unplayable) vinyl LP, released on American Tapes (AM160) in 2000 in an edition of twenty.
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Government Alpha - Death Techno 2000
Government Alpha is Yoshida Yasutoshi.
If you don't know his work...where the hell have you been?
If you do know his work then you already know that we are not worthy!
CDr packaged in recycled LP covers in an edition of 27 on American Tapes (AM141) in 2000.
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John Olson - Attic Chair
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Unknown Artist - Untitled
My money is on John Olson.
C18 released on American Tapes (AM101) on New Years Eve 1999 in an edition of eleven.
Depending on your timezone...this was the first release of the new millenium.
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The Lake Bottoms - Untitled
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K2 - Funeral Songs
The weather is great and the domestic duties have been piling up...hence the lack of posts...anyhow...
Kusafuka Kimihide is back with a vengeance.
New K2 material seemed an impossibility for a long time but over the past few years he has burst back into prolific life!
Happy days!
Given the label, this is a suitably demented and twisted set of works.
CDr released on Mike Ridge's Quagga Curious Sounds in 2012 in an edition of 50.
And...as if that isn't enough...there is a new K2 Quagga here!
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Acerbitas - Absolutism
This is Michael Ridge.
This is his British take on the HNW. It was self-released in an edition of 17 last year. I got my copy from the man himself. No point in me and 16 other people being the only people getting to hear this.
Long time frequenters of this space will have delighted in (kickstarter and blog virus inflictor) J's association with Mike which led to J's posts of Mike's DIY Quagga Curious Sounds label and Mike's Zebra Mu project.
It was J's post of the Quagga Sound that brought me to the original incarnation of this blog...which led to me talking to J...which led to me getting involved...which led to me doing what I have ended up doing here...
If it wasn't for Mike, this blog wouldn't exist anymore.
Seriously.
Absolutely
Cadaver In Drag / Hive Mind / Charlie Draheim / Moth Drakula - Tour
...just in case you were in any doubt about the quality of company that Cadaver In Drag kept...
Tour CDr released on Chondritic Sound from 2006.
Tour
Cadaver In Drag - Abuse / Breathing Sewage
Cadaver In Drag varied from grind, doom and power electronics ... often on the same release. In various incarnations, Cadaver In Drag have contained Ben Allen (aka Caves), Jason Schuler (who was in Warmer Milks), Josh Lay, Morgan Rankin (aka Gnarly Sheen and runs Husk Records with Josh) and Travis Shelton (also of Warmer Milks).
This CDr was released on BloodLust! in 2009 and contains material from the Abuse CD on Husk Records and the Breathing Sewage tape on Animal Disguise from 2005. It also includes a previously unreleased collaboration with Mark Solotroff.
I thought that they had stopped recording in around 2009 (which is true) and there would be no more to hear (which is not true). Husk Records have just released "The final lost full length studio album from this genre bending, misanthropic, and often misunderstood band finally unearthed after being recorded in 2009. This is a document of the last stage of the band as they were pushing things into even more abstract terrain than before and continuing their reputation of genre rebellion. Complete with guest appearances from Sara O' Keefe, and studio magic from Paul Puckett".
So if you like these...go and get that!
Abuse / Breathing Sewage
Knife City / Cadaver In Drag - Split
C10 on American Grizzly from 2006.
Knife City is the work of Branden Diven, formally of Warmth.
Split
Various - Victorian Electronics
This is a four 3" CDr boxset released on the excellent Striate Cortex in a rapidly sold out edition of 50 in 2012.
Here you get Neil Campbell's Astral Social Club (with Paul Walsh), Daniel Thomas (who also runs the brilliant Sheepscar Light Industrial label), Midwich (aka Rob Hayler who also runs the must-see Radio Free Midwich blog) and Ashtray Navigations (this time around as Phil Todd and Melanie O'Dubhshlaine aka Melanie Delaney who also records as Ocelocelot).
This was released to celebrate the 50th Striate Cortex release and the birth of Sheepscar Light Industrial.
Whilst I have your attention...go and visit Daniel's and Sheepscar's bandcamp pages where there is a wealth of fine material available as name your price downloads.
Victorian Electronics
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