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va - Kassettentäter Vol.2, Deutscher-Kassetten-Untergrund 1980-1983

Second volume in the Kassettentäter series of unofficial compilation LPs of deepest-underground "minimal synth" German hometaper insanity, featuring even more ultra-obscure bleeping nobodies such as Vexierende Textur, Bill Bo, Inex Tremis, and a few whose music eventually became marginally more accessible: Ich, Sauerkeller, Bodenpersonal and more. Again, go search any band names at Tape Attack to see if complete cassettes are posted there.

va - Kassettentäter Vol.2, Deutscher-Kassetten-Untergrund 1980-1983

va - Kassettentäter - Deutscher-Kassetten-Untergrund 1979-1983

First in a series of extremely rare (and very unofficial) LP compilations of homemade German synth-punk and strange noises from that golden age of DIY, the late 1970s and early 1980s. All songs on these compilations were first released on cassette tapes and barely heard outside of Germany. The LPs themselves were rare and expensive to begin with; rumor had it that each one was limited to just 100 copies, and priced accordingly. This initial volume came out in 2002. The bands on this record include 4712, Duotronic Synterror, Der Blaue Traum, Georgie D., Der Künftige Musikant, Reinheit Des Herzens, Steff GBH, Ewig & 3 Tage, Lorenz Lorenz, Hessen Ganz Groß!, Militanz, Täglich, Co-Mix and Sugalo. If you like this one, go search these band names at the Tape Attack blog and discover their complete cassettes, resurrected!

va - Kassettentäter - Deutscher-Kassetten-Untergrund 1979-1983

Magic Is Küntmaster - Nightsongs For Ugly Children

Imagine having a nightmare where you are listening to early His Name Is Alive playing Space Invaders in an alternate universe...

Absolute class from Camilla Ha released on Andy Ortmann's Nihilist label in 2003.

Nightsongs For Ugly Children

Ahlzagailzehguh - Black Destination

Gorgeous harsh noise from James Cooke!

You'll know Jeff Plummer as Immaculate:Grotesque. He released this double C20 set on his own Truculent Recordings in 2004.

Black Destination

Ahlzagailzehguh - Misinterpreted Injury

Double 7" set released on Razors And Medicine in 2008.

Misinterpreted Injury

Yellow Tears & Ahlzagailzehguh - Sitophilic Remorse

Broken brilliant noise on this C10 sold on the joint US tour in 2008.

Sitophilic Remorse

Ascites - Incisional Drainage

Doomed synth opens the way to the deeply unsettling noise that lies beneath ...

CDr and C6 that was for sale during their 2009 US tour.

Incisional Drainage

Ascites - Fluid Excess

Texan noise that doesn't hang around before it starts kicking you around the room.

C30 released on Fonofobi Tapes in 2009.

Fluid Excess

Cranioclast ‎– Iconclastar (Blue)

Final album by Cranioclast, released by Dom America in 1993.

Cranioclast ‎– Iconclastar (Blue)

Cranioclast ‎– Iconclastar (Green) Icons No I-VI

Cranioclast's final work, as far as I can tell, was a two-part album of "Icons" spread across two CDs. This first part came out on Maxima Musica Magnetica in 1992.

Cranioclast ‎– Iconclastar (Green) Icons No I-VI

Cranioclast - Lost in Karak & Somnii Palus

More heavy fog from the mysterious Cranioclast, a 1992 CD reissue of thier 1988 LP in a box with lots of art inserts and some extra audio gloop tacked onto the end.

Cranioclast - Lost in Karak & Somnii Palus

Crainioclast - Koitlaransk & Ration Skalk

A CD that compiles the mysterious German duo's anagramatic first two full-length albums. "Ration Skalk" was self-released as a cassette in 1985, then reissued in the same format by CoC in 1989. "Koilaransk" first appeared on LP released by Principe Logique in 1985, then reissued by CoC in 1989. While the CD, released by the Maxima Musica Magnetica label in Italy in 1994, necessarily dispenses with the elaborate visual art inserts that accompanied the originals, it does present the music with digital clarity. Even if the art is obscure, at least you can make out the inscrutible details.

Crainioclast - Koitlaransk & Ration Skalk

Reynols / Tomasin - Ormis Votas

When not fronting the Argentinian band Reynols, Miguel Tomasin has amassed a quiet cult following of his own centered on his discursive vocal style and the rambling musical accompaniment of his bandmates. Perhaps not the most sought after, but one of the rarer releases of his (I think it was limited to 25 but don't quote me) is this bit that functions as a split with the band, equal parts drum-fueled monologue and freak-out jam. If anyone out there in the "cyber" has the 10" on Freedom From now would be as good a time as any to share!

A 3" CDr released on Gameboy in 2001.

happily...

BizarreϟϟMania - What's Your Pleasure, Sir?

Genius collaboration between Pasi Markkula, Keith Brewer and Pekka PT (aka Gelsomina and Sick Seed). Enough said.

Ridiculously good LP jointly released on Freak Animal Records and Filth And Violence in 2010.

What's Your Pleasure, Sir?

Mania / Bizarre Uproar - Charnel Heap

Keith Brewer and Pasi Markkula on a double C30 released on Corrosive Art Records in 2010 and reissued by Pasi on his Filth And Violence label in the same year.

Charnel Heap

Mania - Miserable Disposition

It's Keith Brewer (the gentleman formally known as Taint) on a C44 released on Dan Johansson's Harsh Head Rituals in 2005. Boom!

Miserable Disposition

Vomir / Napalm Noise - Split

Vomir is a favorite of this blog and needs no introduction. Napalm Noise is a mysterious outfit I must confess to knowing little about. Most releases are split like this one and appear on the Underground Pollution label. This track veers off the pure noise course and into some heavily distorted beats. A fine outing with some duly apocalyptic artwork...

A CDr released on Maisonbruit in 2006.

Get it!

Streetmeat - Show Me Your Work

Oxyacetylene noise from the flame throwing hands of Robert Newsome. Noise done Houston, Texas style.

C60 and business card CDr (the latter is a brief collaboration with Richard Ramirez) released on the delicious Fusty Cunt in 2011.

Show Me Your Work

Slaughter-Fetus - Destruction Of Private Property Under Influence Of Methamphetamine

On this recording Slaughter-Fetus are Bast (aka Vanessa Gates) and Vargrwulf (aka Joseph Gates). Given the choice of alter egos, this should signal that you are about to go head first into a wall of noise.

C44 released on Violent Revolution International in 2010.

Destruction ...

R.S.P. - Ultimate Fucking

Filth.

Lovely lovely filth from Reptilian Sexual Predator released as a C42 on Human Ignorance in 2010.

Ultimate Fucking

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