Taku Sugimoto & Annette Krebs - Eine Gitarre Ist Eine Gitarre Ist Keine Gitarre Ist Eine Gitarre...




Bass and guitar as you would never conceive possible. Well, you stop by here so maybe you would. The first two tracks were captured live at Off Site on June the 12th 2001 with the third track recorded live at "Verein fĂĽr Experimentelle Musik" in Darmstadt on November the 2nd 2001

Released on Rossbin in 2002.

Eine Gitarre...

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Taku Sugimoto, Masafumi Ezaki, Taku Unami‎ - Trio At Offsite




Slow motion, non-existent silent jazz from the state of consciousness that grew out of the tiny Off Site venue in Shibuya, Tokyo ...

Released on Taku Unami‎'s Hibari Music in 2002.

Trio At Off Site

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Zone Nord - Salbutanol

Here is what it might sound like to fall asleep under a sand grinder. It was made by the under-prolific Jean-Luc Angles, named after an asthma medication, and issued as a CDR on Tochnit Aleph in 1999.

Zone Nord - Salbutanol 

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Blackest Ever Black ‎- An Old Dead Leaf Painted Purple




Right. Enough of all this harsh business. Well, for a few days.

This is a bonus CDr that came with a limited edition T-Shirt from Blackest Ever Black that was sold at the tail end of 2012. The "track-list" gives you a clue where this mix is heading but it's enveloped in the BEB aesthetic (which is obviously a very great thing indeed).

If you liked any of the Krokodilo tapes I posted a while ago then you really need this. Stunning ... and completely recommended!

1.01 The Janet & Johns - Let Bygones Be Bygones
1.02 Étant Donnés - La Montée Au Ciel
1.03 Cyclobe - Strange Hotel
1.04 Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - In New Guinea Police Don't Have The Petrol Money To Search For The Witch Murderers
1.05 Years On Earth - Saving Face
1.06 N4's - N4's
1.07 Five Thousand Spirits - From Sea To Sea
1.08 Lussuria - Viper Room Vigil
1.09 Space Machine - Cosmos From Diode Ladder Filter 1
1.10 Schleimer K - Cold Sounds
1.11 Vagon Brei - A Little Story Of Asturias
1.12 Anduin - Behind The Voyeur's Wall Of Glass
1.13 Tropic Of Cancer - Wake The Night


An Old Dead Leaf Painted Purple

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Various ‎- HNW: Alone




Jim Haras runs the Fusty Cunt label, records as Deterge and must have a perverse sense of humour. For the label's 34th release, he prepared a huge ten C60 collection to deliver a total Harsh Noise Wall overdose. Then he listed the artists alphabetically and randomly ascribed numbers to the otherwise featureless tapes. I would imagine that no two sets are the same. Even the biggest Wall nerd won't be able to figure out this puzzle...

There are three people that I was not previously aware of but then there's Ghoul (aka Robert Meldrum aka Corpse Candle), Griz+zlor, I Am A Slut {aka Tomasz Piotrowicz), Shining Sex (which is another alter ego of Richard Ramirez), Självhat, Svartvit and (obviously) Vomir.

Released on the excellent Fusty Cunt Tapes in 2010.

Tape 01 Damsel In Distress
Tape 02 Ghoul
Tape 03 Griz+zlor
Tape 04 I Am A Slut
Tape 05 Midnight Heat
Tape 06 Shining Sex
Tape 07 Självhat
Tape 08 Skinflint
Tape 09 Svartvit
Tape 10 Vomir

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Various ‎- Cataclastic Fracture




A note of caution if your pulse has increased to dangerous levels: this isn't the tape collection. The original version of this CD was a three times C90 boxset that I have never seen for sale or to beg, borrow or steal. It's one of those missing things that hurt. This version features one to two minute snippets of the material on the original tape set and shows how great that set must be. In the absence of the tapes, this will have to do ... perhaps forever.

Jointly released on Deadline Recordings ‎and Lazy Squid in 1994.

Cataclastic Fracture

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va - Fratricide

Top-shelf harsh noise compilation, released as a cassette on Dave Gilden's Get a Job Records label in 1995. Featuring no-bullshit gnarl from Gilden, Black Leather Jesus, EEE, Manplug, Sudden Infant, Lasse Marhaug, Macronympha and more.

va - Fratricide

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Contagious Orgasm - In My Heart

A picture-disc by Hiroshi Hashimoto/Contagious Orgasm, who gets lumped in with "Japanese noise" but isn't really noise at all. A whole lot of his music is rhythmic, even tribal, with lush soundtrack-like passages. This EP came out as a 10" on Ant-Zen in 1998.

Contagious Orgasm - In My Heart

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Alva - That's Not Fair

Alva were a trio from Tampa, Florida, who had one cassette in 1997, then one CD on John Zorn's Avant label and an album on Menlo Park before vanishing into who-knows-where. They played accordion, violin, and what sound like toy instruments doing (purposefully?) naive Residents-like ditties about Edward Gorey and flies. This is the cassette, which I believe was their first release.

Alva - That's Not Fair

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Various - Mumbo Jumbo




Great old Japanese tape featuring Merzbow and Contagious Orgasm (Hiroshi Hashimoto, Kenji Kobayashi and Shingo Sugiura) who will be very familiar to you. However, this also features Ryuta Noguchi's Rabbit Eyes Rising and N.E.W.T. (who I know nothing about) and their material is every bit as strong as their more renowned counterparts.

C40 released on Hiroshi Hashimoto's SSSM in 1990.

Mumbo Jumbo

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Crystal Fist Feat Universal Indians - Live At Liquid Room 2.22.1997




Crystal Fist were Masaru Kuwayama and Mitsuhiro Hayashida (aka Kuknacke The Bass Emperor!) and (certainly not to be confused with the American) Universal Indians were Masami Akita and Tetsuo Sakaibara who became a member of the live incarnation of Merzbow.

Released on Zero Gravity in 1999 and it is very very good....

Live At Liquid Room 2.22.1997

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Panther Skull - Gunk Vol. Two

An early tape of crusty tape loops and feedback drone by Justin Meyers, also known as Devillock and 1/2 of Glass Organ. Meyers' graphic design skill and striking, clean aesthetic made his Tone Filth label stand out from the 00's spray-paint-and-pot-smoke basement noise cassette crowd. This mini-album, published in an edition of just 33 copies in 2005, featured black paint on black paper with a neat complimentary flourish on the white label. But visual splendor would be nothing without sound to back it up. Meyers' own music was (and continues to be!) stellar, as you will soon hear for yourself.

Panther Skull - Gunk Vol. Two

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Die Reitenden Leichen - Grudge




Ten minutes of wall noise with a horror film intro from Die Reitenden Leichen who is Matthias MĂĽtzlitz and now releases on his own Monolithische Aktion label.

C10 self-released on World Nihil in 2008 in an edition of 25.

Grudge

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Die Reitenden Leichen - Feast




Excellent C20 that starts with clipped static and builds to it's wall crescendo ... nihilistic joy for the few.

Self-released on World Nihil in 2008 in an edition of 25.

Feast

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Sewer Election & Werewolf Jerusalem




Crackling collaboration from Dan Johansson and Richard Ramirez. What could possibly go wrong? Well, nothing.

C32 released on Trash Ritual in an edition of 75 in 2008.

Collaboration

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Werewolf Jerusalem - Beneath Still Waters




Brilliant tape from Mr Ramirez's Werewolf Jerusalem alter ego. I've been an avid slavering fan-boy of Werewolf Jerusalem (and Richard's work in general) for many years. I think that Side B might just be the best thing I've heard by him ... and Side A is pretty damn good as well!

C40 released on Death Letter Tapes in 2008 in an edition of 30.

Beneath Still Waters

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White Blobs - Untitled

A mystery cassette from the excellent Tone Filth label (RIP, but replaced by the equally sterling and hilariously-monikered Sympathy Limited), published in 2006 in a run of less than 50 copies. The artist(s) behind White Blobs is not given credit, though I assume that it's label boss Justin Meyers (aka Panther Skull, Devillock, and 1/2 of Glass Organ) since it sounds like his well-manicured analog synthesizer squeak and burble. This tape features two short tracks (or one track, spread over two sides) of hushed, playful circuit bloop. The music seems perfectly suited to its format in that it's easy to have this tape flip and repeat over and over, letting the listener live in its midst as if conducting life's business whist swimming in a pool full of colorful plastic balls. There is one passage towards the end of side 2 that seems to be a crescendo (sort of), but for the most part you could have this music playing softly over the speakers in a used bookstore and no one would be too bothered by it. If anyone can confirm or deny my hunch that Meyers is indeed twiddling the knobs on these blobs, I would be curious to know.

White Blobs - Untitled

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TAC - Lapse Of Silence


This shorter outing also comes with "destroy before listening" packaging. It also does what it says on the tin, so if you want to know what the sound of grass growing or mushrooms dropping spores is like, this is your cup of tea. A different kind of extreme sound art, barely perceptible.



A self-released 3" CDr from 2003 in an edition of 50.



Lapse Of Silence

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TAC - Situations & Circumstances


Another fine release from TAC. This one came wrapped in a heavily taped cardboard sleeve with an extensive wire mesh cover filled with plant matter. It had to be completely destroyed to extract the CD. More field recordings, including rain storms with pulsating periods of feedback coming and going. Quiet and sparse.



A self-released CDr from 2002 in an edition of 26.



Situations & Circumstances

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TAC - Spatialized


TAC is the work of Tom Cox, who began conducting audio experiments in 1984 and has issued a slew of limited cassettes and CDrs over the years. This one is based on field recordings with various sonic happenings in the distance.



A self-released CDr from 2000 in an edition of 50.



Spatialized

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