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Toshimaru Nakamura‎ - No-Input Mixing Board

Toshimaru Nakamura creates great improvisational work generated solely from his manipulation of the internal feedback within his mixing desk and drops some really great hallucinatory technoise.

This was released on Zero Gravity in 2000.

No-Input Mixing Board

Toshimaru Nakamura‎ - No-Input Mixing Board 2

CD released on A Bruit Secret in 2001.

No-Input Mixing Board 2

Toshimaru Nakamura - No-Input Mixing Board [3]

CD released on Alcohol in 2003.

No-Input Mixing Board [3]

De Fabriek - Music For Zelftapers B

And now, the exciting conclusion!

De Fabriek - Music For Zelftapers B

De Fabriek - Music For Zelftapers A

Calling all home-tapers! This 1989 chunk of ugh is for you.

De Fabriek - Music For Zelftapers A

De Fabriek - Enz Enz

A c90 (!) by De Fabriek from 1984. This ought to keep you busy for awhile.

De Fabriek - Enz Enz

De Fabriek - Members Only

All-over-the-place 1982 tape that gathers everything I like about De Fabriek in one place! You've got some rough low-fidelity noise collage, synth bleep, industrial clatter, people muttering to themselves (?), and some charmingly inept punk blurt.

De Fabriek - Members Only

De Fabriek - An Titils En Muziek

One-sided 1982 cassette, self-released by De Fabriek.

De Fabriek - An Titils En Muziek

Massimo Toniutti - Le Gabbiette di Faraday (e un Programma Radiofinico vol. 1 1996-1998)

Radioplays by Giancarlo Toniutti's brother, Massimo, issued as a CDR by Aua Records, a label (and, apparently, CD duplication service) based in the Toniuttis' home town of Udine, Italy. There's lot of fun, classically "musique concrete" hectic jump-cuts between dialogue, television, field recordings, and other music, but I suspect a working knowledge of Italian would make this more meaningful. If you like Lionel Marchetti, Brume, Michel Chion, or Pierre Henry, this is a darned enjoyable ride.

Massimo Toniutti - Le Gabbiette di Faraday (e un Programma Radiofinico vol. 1 1996-1998)

P.D. - Inweglos

If that early P16.D4 tape tickled you, then this further slab of German industrial pre-history will make your entire month. Originally issued by the band on Wahrnehmungen as an LP in 1980, then reissued with four bonus tracks on a CD by Absurd in 2004, this was a provocation against the German new wave drivel being perpetrated in the wake of punk rock at the time. Lyrics drip with sarcasm: "Do the disco, do the disco, dance baby dance, you know you like it, do the disco". Yeah, sure. The band, of course, is Permutative Distorsion or Progressive Disco or P16.D4. Following some icy "pop" (ahem) disdain, the band slips into TG-inspired synth nausea and heaps of scrumptious tape loop gloop. Speaking historically, this LP sits alongside The New Blockaders "Changez les Blockeurs", SPK "Information Overload Unit", Merzbow "Material Action 2", Nurse With Wound "To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl", and a very few others as one of the defining documents of the dawn of what we now call industrial noise music.

P.D. - Inweglos

OOOPS...We Did It Again!

This season was my 30th consecutive season following my team.

30 years (and I go back further than that) of what has been a tragicomedy.

Fuck me! I'm so happy I could burst!

And yes, I was there!

Flux Of Pink Indians‎ - The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks

I could talk about Flux for a long time but I'll save you the bother.

This is a double LP released on their own Spiderleg Records in 1984. This is simply one of the greatest English albums ever made and is a classic from the Anarcho-Punk era. A beautiful time when politics, music and life converged. A desperate and glorious time!

This is every bit as important and great as it was thirty years ago!

The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks

Ninth Massacre ‎- 1992-1996

Four tape retrospective set released on Trash Ritual in 2006. Ninth Massacre used to be fellow Texans Richard Ramirez and Dwayne Cathey. This covers their three releases plus a couple of unreleased tracks and (I think) material from their only live performance.

1: Flesh / Punishment

2: Murder

3: Drazewar

4: Bait / Filth

Various ‎- Herz Aus G.R.O.S.S.

Four tape set released on Statutory Tape in 1994. The label was a sister label of Ron Lessard's RRRecords which largely concentrated on bringing Japanese noise to hungry western ears. God Bless Ron!

This collects some of the best music on Akifumi Nakajima's G.R.O.S.S. label and everybody here is a legend. You can't go wrong really.

Aube / Monde Bruits

Dislocation / Mortal Vision

Club Skull / Thirdorgan

Shida / A.M.M.T.

Pain Jerk ‎- Cacophony Of A Thousand Pleasures

Triple tape boxset from Kohei Gomi from 1996 released on his own AMP label.

Classy and classic Japanese noise from back in the day.

Tape One

Tape Two

Tape Three

Ohno Masahiko - Destroy Ohno Monsters 1

Once again, a CDr released on Fatagaga in 2009. You should know Ohno Masahiko as Solmania. Rather than a noise assault, on these three discs he wrings the life out of guitars to create some wonderful improvisational work.

I can only assume that Fatagaga was his own imprint created to release these. There was a 3" CDr called "Destroy Ohno Monsters X" that I have never heard or seen ... if somebody is sitting on that and would be willing to share that would make us all happy!

Destroy Ohno Monsters 1

Ohno Masahiko - Destroy Ohno Monsters 2

CDr released on Fatagaga in 2009.

Destroy Ohno Monsters 2

Ohno Masahiko - Destroy Ohno Monsters 3

CDr released on Fatagaga in 2009.

Destroy Ohno Monsters 3

P16.D4 - Wer Nicht Arbeiten Will Soll Auch Nicht Essen!

The very first cassette by German legends P16.D4, issued on their own Wahrnehmungen label (the name soon changed to Selektion) in 1981, then reissued as an LP on Was Soll Das? Schallplatten in 2004. It's far from the immaculately-produced, austere tape-splice confusion that the band would produce in subsequent years. This music is more in line with No Wave, punk, dub, and broken home taper noise, and it's as raw a document as the band ever produced. Mastermind RLW (Ralf Wehowsky) and Roger Schonauer rock the tape machines, guitars, bass, and do some "singing". Both would remain members of P16.D4 and Selektion until their end in the late 1990s. Gerd Poppe and Achim Scepanski (on drums and synth, respectively) were shorter-term band members. That last guy would go on to found a little techno label called Force Inc (with subdivisions Mille Plateaux and Ritornell of interest to readers on this blog), but surprisingly, this is one of his only recorded appearances.

P16.D4 - Wer Nicht Arbeiten Will Soll Auch Nicht Essen!

De Fabriek - Fabrieks Conseqensus

Cassette from 1982, released on both De Fabriek (the band's own label) and Esplendor Geometrico's EGK label.

De Fabriek - Fabrieks Conseqensus

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