Bleak Bliss

Spykes - The Secret People

This was a very expensive John Olson designed t-shirt that was put up for sale by The Trilogy Tapes in 2008. It features the flyer for the The Secret People / American Tapes Shit Noise Fest in Lansing on January the 26th, 2008.

Oh, and it also came with a triple CDr set as a little bonus item.

I'm still working on uploading the t-shirt.

The

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The Rita - Blood Into The Dirt Reptile

Initially, this was released as the CDr companion to the Graveyard Of Whorer tape released on Toe Products in 2006. It next saw the light of day as part of the Reptilian Corpse And Dirt tape jointly released on Breathing Problem Productions and Drug Money Records ‎in 2008. I've never been able to get even close to either of those tapes. Luckily for me, Urashima released this track as an extravagantly packaged business card CDr in 2013 in an edition of 20. It's short and sweet and was worth the wait.

Blood Into The Dirt Reptile

The Rita / Lap Dancer - Darkness Off The Coast Of Vancouver, Off The Coast Of Japan

Lap Dancer prefers to maintain anonymity as far as I can figure out. Obviously, The Rita is Sam McKinlay. You should need no convincing. C40 released on Swampland in 2005.

Darkness Off The Coast Of Vancouver, Off The Coast Of Japan

BT.HN. - Ritual Totemic Stone

Originally, this tape was released on Trash Ritual in 2005 under the pseudonym of Ba. Ku. which signified the militant noise skateboarders Barrier Kult. The following year, the same label released this C40 under the pseudonym BT.HN. This also received a great vinyl reissue from Urashima in 2013 and if Urashima are re-releasing something then you know that it is special.

This is ripped directly from the 2006 tape. It's Josh Rose and Sam McKinlay and the B Side also features Keith Brewer as Taint.

Ritual Totemic Stone

False Creak - Dark Water Otter Whores

False Creak were a one hit wonder featuring Josh Rose, Sam McKinlay and Taskmaster. If you are only going to release one thing then you may as well make it as astonishing as this!

Single-sided C40 released on Abhorrent A.D. in 2007.

Dark Water Otter Whores

Aube - Hydrophobia

Single-sided C60 released on Vanilla Records in 1991 using only water as the source material.

As far as our meagre research takes us, alongside the E-Power tape that the Mrs posted these four are the only Aube tapes that weren't included in the Tapes set I posted at the start of the year.

Hydrophobia

Aube - Luminous

From the liner notes: "LUMINOUS" is the title of the contemporary art exhibition series by ARICHI+SASAOKA from Osaka Japan. Their installation is expressing the planned accidents by flickering lights on the environment use flourescent lamps and the variable-voltage transformer. This "LUMINOUS" tape is consist with their installation.

C46 released on G.R.O.S.S. in 1993.

Luminous

Aube - Submerged Tension Remix

C46 released on G.R.O.S.S. in 1993 using water as the source material and remixing the tape released on Steeple & Globe earlier that year.

Submerged Tension Remix

Aube - Entangle Spirant

Akifumi Nakajima using steel wire as the source material for this C46 released on Drahtfunk-Products in 1995.

Entangle Spirant

Birchville Cat Motel & 010010 - Split

A rare early tape on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, this time split between Birchville (who on one track is joined by Stefan Neville/Pumice!) and short-lived BCM alter ego 010010. Probably released in the mid/late-1990's.

Birchville Cat Motel & 010010 - Split

Mama Bär & Rudolf Eb.er - Il Portale Delle Indipendenti

This was initially released on Der Schöne Hjuler-Memorial-Fond as an acetate LP in 2006 in an edition of 27. It was then re-released as a CDr on Rudolf's (apparently) Japanese only Hate Operation imprint. The following year it was released on Blossoming Noise as a CD with an additional 20 minutes of Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck material that appears to still be availalble. This is a rip of the Hate Operation CDr.

How on earth do you expect me to describe this? It's the other half of Kommissar Hjuler mixing it up with Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck. It is profound and deliriously majestic. That's the best I can do.

True Genius

Ochu - Bonds Of Boredom

Ever felt an unaccountable sense of fear and futility? Turns out you should have been even more terrified than you were. C20 released on Vemod Records ‎in 2003.

Bonds Of Boredom

Ochu - Dryparn

Broken tones, shearing gears and scribbled noise on a C20 released on Gothenburg Blood Cult in 2008.

Dryparn

Treriksröset / Ochu - Pro-WM / Uppbrott

Tommy Carlsson gets caught up in an alien firefight, wins hands down and is welcomed home by Love Rosenström's therapeutic loops. 7" released on Love's Segerhuva label in 2004.

Pro-WM / Uppbrott

Regim / Treriksröset - Full Kill Mode

Lirim Cajani and Tommy Carlsson producing 20 minutes of excellent Swedish mayhem on a split released on Vigilante Tapes in 2006.

Full Kill Mode

Regim - Round 'em Up

Another typically diverse offering from Lirim Cajani even featuring some trapped and broken beats within the organised chaos. C20 released on Vemod Records in 2003.

Round 'em Up

Regim - Hostile Takeover

Great tape from Lirim Cajani full of rocket exhaust noise, crumbling walls, subsumed radio, plundered dialogue and looped industrial machinery. C50 released on Vigilante Tapes in 2005.

Hostile Takeover

Regim - Covered In Shit

C30 released on Vigilante Tapes in 2006 that leans more towards the Wall. Side A is full of rolling static crackle whilst Side B steps it up a gear and appears to have children singing buried deep inside it, adding a very disconcerting twist to the proceedings.

Covered In Shit

Regim - Stabbed By The Blind

LP full of blistering power electronics released on Segerhuva in 2009.

Stabbed By The Blind

Ophibre & Jarrod Fowler - Baggie/36 Letters

Here's a genuinely puzzling split cassette by Ophibre and Jarrod Fowler, released by Oph Sound in 2007 in an edition of 50 copies. Ophibre's track is a gauzy, steadily (though not unpleasantly) ambivalent texture that sounds as if it's being played by your upstairs neighbor and you can only hear some of it drifting down through the ceiling. Fowler's side appears to consist of a lot of jazz records being played at the same time. Not all the records are the same length, though, so the first section of the piece ends with a long stretch of a single, unaltered jazz album. It's followed by simultaneous R&B and dance music, again multiple recordings one on top of one another with no further manipulation of the source material. The tape comes with two little plastic bags, the contents of which are accurately described by the title.

Ophibre & Jarrod Fowler - Baggie/36 Letters

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