Kommissar Hjuler und Frau / Peter Kastner / Kakawaka - Whole Lotta Love

Initially, Side A was self-released as a CDr in an edition of eleven. Luckily, Knox Mitchell was on hand to reissue it on tape so more of us could listen to the Zep "classic" get the kicking it deserves. The reverse sees each have tracks of their own and each one are great. All in all, this is one little gem that slipped under many a radar.

C60 released on Green Records And Tapes in 2012.

Whole Lotta Love

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va - Contemporary Denshi-Zatsuon Vol. 1

Compilation of Japanese and Dutch music, released in 2001 on Koji Tano's Denshi Zatsuon label. Includes a track by Goem, then solo tracks by Goem's members Roel Meelkop, Peter Duimelinks and Freiband (aka Frans de Waard). The Japanese contributions are by i.d., Utah Kawasaki & Tetsuro Yasunaga (of Minamo), and Pezica.

va - Contemporary Denshi-Zatsuon Vol. 1

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Penile Colonie / Prison Planet - Penile Colonie / Prison Planet

"A double A-side split of paranoid ozploitation from two career criminals…Penile Colonie (sic) is an imagined artifact from early colonial Australia…Prison Planet projects a future in which the whole earth has gone the way of Norfolk Island. Or, in their own words: a series of relics and prophecies from the arse end of the world, for the arse end of humanity."

C46 released on Krokodilo Tapes in 2015.

Penile Colonie / Prison Planet

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Basket Case - Untitled

Untitled Michigan basement jazz grime by John Olson (Spykes), Lisa Colwell (The Lake Bottoms, Commune Ills) and Geoff Walker (who was a member of Gravitar), released by Gods of Tundra in 2009.

Basket Case - Untitled

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Gen Ken Montgomery & Conrad Schnitzler - GENCON Duets

So, whilst we're on the subject ...

CD released on GD Stereo in 2010.

GENCON Duets

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Conrad Schitzler and Gen Ken Montgomery and Mama Baer / Kommissar Hjuler und Frau ‎– GEN CON FLUX

Three of the Gen Con tracks on here are the shorter collaborations from the earlier GENCON Duets release. Not sure why there would be such a direct lift but there is also a 12 minute collaboration that I don't think has appeared elsewhere plus a 12 minute collaboration / obfuscation with Mama herself and a further long-form Kommissar Hjuler und Frau piece. All aboard!

LP released on Psych.KG in 2015.

Gen Con Flux

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Techno Menses - Lazar Blade 2

A fun album of Esplendor Geometrico-ish heavy machine rhythms by the duo of Kimihide Kusafuka (K2) and Tomoya Sakashita, released in 2001 as a CDR on Koji Tano's Denshi Zatsuon label. Kusafuka had been recording music like this since 1984, and some of that early stuff was reissued on wax by Vinyl on Demand. There also, apparently, was a tape on Audiofile and a later self-released double CD that are yet unheard by me. 

Techno Menses - Lazar Blade 2

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Chris Farrell - No Vampire

Wonderful mix-tape of warped dub. Genuinely great ... turn it up as far as you can!

C96 released on Krokodilo Tapes in 2015.

No Vampire

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Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer - Sicherüngskopie #13

Answers on a self-addressed postcard.

A fistful of micro-edition releases brought together for this compilation ... which came out in another tiny edition.

Double CDr jointly released on Poot Records ‎and Der Schöne Hjuler-Memorial-Fond in 2008.

Sicherüngskopie #13

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Id Battery - Last Blue Before Black

Mysterious, Jewelled-Antler-related concrete rustling by Loren Chasse and Brandon LaBelle, released by Unique Ancient Tavern in 1998. If you like Small Cruel Party, Toy Bizarre, Hands To or Artificial Memory Trace, check this one out.

Id Battery - Last Blue Before Black

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Kommissar Hjuler und Frau - Halluzinationalsozialismus

Everybody in the house go ... what?

CDr released on Der Schöne Hjuler-Memorial-Fond in 2004.

Halluzinationalsozialismus

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New Private Window - The Desperate Hours

"Self-surveilling internet field recordings and derivative, masturbatory ambience courtesy of Leicester-based “media research project” NPW. Clear browsing history after listening."

C34 released on Krokodilo Tapes in 2015.

The Desperate Hours

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Mama Bär - Melancholie, Zwiespalt und 2 Kochrezepte

This begins with the faintest pretense that this might in some way be "normal" which is even more disconcerting than the truth. It's a small planet orbiting within the Mama / Hjuler solar system. Normal rules do not apply. Rules do not apply.

Acetate LP released on Der Schöne Hjuler-Memorial-Fond in an edition of 27 in 2005.

Melancholie, Zwiespalt & 2 Kochrezepte

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Alessandro Adriani - We Drift In And Out

Tribal tech-trance from the man who runs Mannequin Records.

C60 released on the Blackest Ever Black cassette only subsidiary Krokodilo Tapes in 2016.

We Drift In And Out

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Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer & Ninni Morgia and Silvia Kastel - Two Couples

Disjointed fluxan rhythms with one couple on each side.

LP released on Ultramarine in 2011.

Two Couples

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Silvia Kastel - Bibula Harena

Delightfully dark dance music for people who can't dance ... which suits me just fine!

C98 released on Id Mud, a tape offshoot of (what could be considered Silvia's rightful home) Blackest Ever Black.

Bibula Harena

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Silvia Kastel - Love Tape

Coming on like a slurred Lemon Kitten, this is the signal that the hallucinatory noise will eventually crystallise into the dark-wave tech rhythms of the future.

C30 released on Ultramarine in 2011.

Love Tape

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Yermo - Untitled

Solo album by Chris Moon of MCMS, and the guy who ran the excellent Last Visible Dog label. First released as a CDR, then reissued as a CD in 1999.

Yermo - Untitled

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Gary Smith / Silvia Kastel / Ninni Morgia - Brand

(Effectively) Control Unit making an epileptic and delirious free country space jazz noise here alongside Gary Smith (of Aufgehoben amongst other things).

LP released on Ultramarine in 2012. There is a Brand II LP that was released on L'Esprit De L'Escalier in 2013 that I have never heard and would seriously love to dive into. Any help appreciated and all that ...

Brand

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Kastel - 39

An absolutely compelling and majestic piece of work from Silvia. Just throw yourself into the well.

Single sided 12" released on Phase! Records in 2015.

39

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