Bleak Bliss

Princess Dragonmom - Slow Poke

My favourite of the PDM releases that I've heard. Quality all of the way through.

CD released on Insignificant in 1995.

Slow Poke

Noiseuse - Ruin Of Legend

A short-lived project form Shinichi Shikada full of extremely effective harsh noise and block-leveling Industrial pounding. Very very good indeed! This is all that I have by him ... any help improving that situation would be greatly appreciated!

3" CDr released on Misanthrope Studio in 2006.

Ruin Of Legend

Princess Dragon-Mom - Fear Of Evil

"PDM's noise tribute to Blue Öyster Cult" but thankfully you can't really tell.

CDr released on time STEREO in 1999.

Fear Of Evil

z.B.u.ä. - Buuhndahmaging

"Original cassette was 'Unformal Sound Report #5', which was released at 5/Feb/'91 and contained 2 long pieces. Each parts were reformed concerning each themes." I have no idea what Unformal Sound Report was ...

There's also a triple tape split with Das Konzentrat that I have never even smelt if anybody can help out with that>

A C56 on no apparent label from 1991.

Buuhndahmaging

Princess Dragonmom - Patches

A prolonged nervous twitch that may induce formication in the right hands.

CDr released on time STEREO in 2001.

Patches

Moke Grotton - Thoughts Remain Gruesome

Deep-underground American noise by Moke Grotton, aka Mike Pratt from Philadelphia. Discogs lists two tracks on each side of this tape, but when I ripped it I didn't hear any pauses between tracks, so you get each side unbroken. Released by the Brazilian label No Lyrics in 2006. This artist seems to have only been active between 2005 and 2007, then I guess he put the contact mics away and got a real job.

Moke Grotton - Thoughts Remain Gruesome

Princess Dragon-Mom - Haunted Tube

"Princess Dragonmom's 8th annual Haunted Tube - Halloween Night, Detroit, 2003."

3" CDr released on time STEREO in 2004.

Haunted Tube

z.B.u.ä. - P V S S

More idea-switching brain twitching harsh Alpine air fresh from Tsuruoka in Yamagata Prefecture.

C54 released on Anomalous Records in 1993.

P V S S

Princess Dragon-Mom - Inside Haunted Tube

From what I can deduce, Haunted Tube were annual Halloween gigs / noise-blowouts that ran in Detroit from 1996 until at least 2003. These are three PDM offerings from 1997-1999.

CDr released on time STEREO in 2000.

Inside Haunted Tube

ZBÜA - From 27/Jan/1957

Suzuki Shunya appeared in the Japanese noise scene during the early 90s as "an example of non-personality". He appears to have managed this quite successfully as very little was known about him at the time and nothing at all since. There's influence from the European industrialists with a touch of Schimpfluch about it but it all stands up in it's own right.

C52 released on Sounds For Consciousness Rape at some point in the early 1990s.

From 27/Jan/1957

I'm Sore / Princess Dragon Mom - Split

PDM were Warren Defever (who is in the brilliant His Name Is Alive) and Davin Brainard (with both of them running the time STEREO label) alongside Dion Fischer (who appeared in a number of time STEREO outfits as well as garage-blues punkers The Dirtbombs). I'm Sore was Ian Masters who seems to have been in the early incarnation of Leeds shoegazers Pale Saints ... and how you get from there to the Michigan Noise Illuminati is absolutely beyond me! And the tracks were recorded in Osaka ... now there's a man who couldn't wait to get out of Yorkshire. The two PDM tracks were recorded in Holland and Detroit with thanks to Koji Tano which answers a non-existent question.

CD released on Born Horse Productions in 2001.

I'm Sore / Princess Dragon Mom

Cracked Dome & IDX1274 - Split

Double CDR of American harsh noise by two obscure artists from Oregon, both of whom were active in the 00s but seem to have slowed down (or stopped?) several years ago. I think, though I'm not certain, that both Cracked Dome (aka Gene Symptoms) and IDX1274 were also members of The Sunken. Released in 2006 by Barfing Dagger Re-Recordings, a name which must have meant something to somebody at some point.

Cracked Dome & IDX1274 - Split

MSBR / Princess Dragon-Mom / Noise Work Shop - Rotterdam Noise Feyenoord

Noise Work Shop is literally that. When Koji Tano toured he would open up / participate in opportunities to experiment with the available electronics. This example is listed as Detroit in February 1999. time STEREO have uploaded a video of such a thing in Rotterdam in September of 1999. So, erm, yeah, whatever. And you get Princess Dragon-Mom who are an excellent trio who orbited within the time STEREO universe.

CDr released on MSBR Records in 2000.

Rotterdam Noise Feyenoord

rhBand - First Tone

Three 1997 concerts from California, presented as four tracks on a CD put out by Drunken Fish in 1998. Drunken Fish was a strange and fascinating label that put out experimental and psychedelic rock, drone and noise by legends like Bardo Pond, Roy Montgomery, Sferic Experiment, Starfuckers, Birchville Cat Motel, Children's Television Workshop... run by the former bassist of the hardcore band Verbal Assault, believe it or not!

rhBand - First Tone

bloggs - Music For Multiples

Joe Bloggs aka Ralph Haxton (one half of rhBand) aka Damon Cleckler (owner of the Gyttja label). Expect "strict tape manipulation, no effects processing".

CD released on Fresnl in 1999.

Music For Multiples

Ralph Haxton - Itai Itai

Enjoyable but extremely brief harsh noise scree. It was designed to play at 45rpm, but you get it here in 33rpm as well.

Single-sided 7" released on Gyttja in 1992.

Itai Itai

Ralph Haxton - Nathicana / Ernesticide

The first track is presumably taken from the HP Lovecraft poem. Quite fitting really given that if you play it forwards you can hear the devil calling. The reverse just makes me wonder what Ernest did to deserve it.

7" released on Gyttja in 1992.

Nathicana / Ernesticide