Bleak Bliss

va - Cottage Industrial Vol 3

Mid-00's international noise/weirdo compilation from the Humbug label, with tracks by Idea Fire Company, Pho, Ryfylke, Orange Manifold, Wooden Wand, OvO, Raionbaishi, Moth (aka Jon Dale), Excepter, Lunt, WaWa, Violets Rock n' Roll, Sinistri (previously known as Starfuckers), Maskinanlegg and Anders Hana.

va - Cottage Industrial Vol 3

Kjetil D Brandsdal - Freedom Waaaoh Waaoh

You might know Kjetil D Brandsdal as a member of Fibo-Trespo, or with noise rock bands Ultralyd, Noxagt, No Balls, University Punx and so on. This disc compiles some early tracks from his first two self-published LPs. It was released by the great Corpus Hermeticum in 1999.

Kjetil D Brandsdal - Freedom Waaaoh Waaoh

Hive Mind & Religious Knives - Untitled

Collaborations can be pleasantly dark.

3" CDr released on Chondritic Sound in 2005.

Hive Knives

KA - Water Mertz

An album from 2004 by a trio offshoot of Origami Replika, released as an edition-of-75 CDR by Cipher Productions.

KA - Water Mertz

Hive Mind & Religious Knives - Untitled

There's an old piano and it's playing hot.

CDr released on Chondritic Sound in 2005.

Hive Knive

Hive Mind - Sand Beasts

Internal music designed to make you think ... possibly about what is creeping up behind (or inside) you.

CD jointly released on Chondritic Sound, PACrec and Troniks.

Sand Beasts

... and in a display of loveliness, in the first few editions, Greh also included this 3" CDr.

Ports Of Entry

Astro - Fracture Composition

Three live tracks that were then taken back into the studio and remixed. The third is "Japanese Royal Blue Part 3" which is both sides of the Turgid LP turning into a different beast altogether right in front of your ears.

CD released on Rape Art Productions in 2009.

Fracture Composition

Hive Mind / Damion Romero - Return To Steam

You already know that Hive Mind is the work of Greh Holger (who also recorded as Black Sand Desert amongst other pseudonyms) so I won't bother telling you that. On this, both get two sides each to provide some quality tones, drones and layered filth.

A double C30 set released on Greh's always excellent Chondritic Sound in 2009 in an edition of 50.

Return To Steam

Astro - Japanese Royal Blue

Two live tracks recorded in Tokyo and Stockholm respectively in 2007 and 2008.

LP released on the great Turgid Animal in 2010.

Japanese Royal Blue

Astromero - Live In San Francisco

Hiroshi Hasegawa with Damion Romero on one live recording (guess where) and one studio recording. I've seen the legs of the former but not the latter so I'm not sure if this constitutes a theme.

LP released on No Fun Productions in 2009.

Live In San Francisco

Damion Romero & David Scott Stone - John Wiese's Legs

Now that I've thought about it, you only see John stood behind a table full of electronics. He must have something to hide.

3" CDr released on P-Tapes in 2005.

The Truth Will Set Him Free

Damion Romero - Twins

A very satisfying exploration of machine hum, tones and drones.

Double LP from P-Tapes and (appropriately) Tone Filth in 2007.

Twins

Damion Romero - Missing Link

More insistent drone by the very excellent Mr. Romero.

C30 released on Hanson Records in 2007.

Missing Link

Speculum Fight / Lab Rat - Split

Apparently, Lab Rat is the work of Patrick Barber (who amongst other things was in the great Blowhole). The construction of his side of the tape is credited to bicycle, effects and tape ... it's brilliant and genuinely sinister. Unfortunately, this is the only Rat that I have to offer ...

C52 released on Anomalous Records in 1994.

Speculum Fight / Lab Rat

Speculum Fight - Lost Live 2

Two more disoriented live performances from 1996. If you are following the narrative you will rightly be shouting into the face of strangers "where's the Lost 2 CDr then you bastard?". I consider that to be a perfectly appropriate approach to people you have never met before. If one of them coughs it up then slide it this way!

C30 released on Hanson Records in 2007.

Lost Live 2

Gang Of Three

Yesterday, I woke up to find out that, as a consequence of an apparently random sequence of events, Andy Gill had died. Andy was the guitarist with the Gang Of Four ... one of the very few truly influential bands spawned by the UK post-punk revelation. Given that their initial heyday was forty years ago there may be some whippersnappers out there who have no idea that they existed. The first album is one of the most urgently important releases to have climbed out of my godforsaken xenophobic set of islands.

This is the Infinite Zero remastered CD edition that was re-released in 1995 and includes the original LP from 1979 and the full self-titled 12" from 1980. It's essential.

Dirt Behind The Daydream

This is the Strange Fruit CD from 1990 that brings together the three Peel Sessions recorded between 1979 and 1981. It's essential.

Dressed For The H-Bomb

va - Fit For Kings (A Compilation Of Peripheral New Zealand Music Series II)

This 2000 CD, released by Crawlspace Records, collects tracks originally released on the label's series of lathe-cut 8" records. Personally, as proud completist collector scum, I would have preferred to hear entire 8" records rather than just a track from each, but this is better than nothing. Noise from RST, Sandoz Lab Technicians (plus solo tracks from each member), Pahjib, Crude, Empirical, Wayne Gordon, Pit Viper, Lapdog and Duncan Bruce.

va - Fit For Kings (A Compilation Of Peripheral New Zealand Music Series II)

Speculum Spyked - Speculum Spyked

It's Damion Romero and John Olson on a single-sided LP released on American Tapes in 2006. Necessary by definition.

It's AM502 btw ...

Speculum Spyked

va - Fit For Kings (A Compilation Of Peripheral New Zealand Music)

Necessary compilation CD of New Zealand noise and out-rock by such underground heroes as Crude, Children's Television Workshop, Witcyst, Aesthetics, Parmentier, Casagante Apparatus, Pointsman and White Saucer. Released by Drunken Fish in 1998.

va - Fit For Kings (A Compilation Of Peripheral New Zealand Music)

Speculum Fight - Lost Live

This takes the Lost idea and transplants it into three live venues with very different results.

CDr released on P-Tapes in 2002.

Lost Live

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