Splintered - Noumena




... and Splintered just carry on with the sole purpose of creating new territory in order to fuck with your mind. Extraordinary.

"Joint-released [sic] by Amanita and Suggestion, this appeared in late 1998 and amounts to something of a 'lost' album originally intended for release a few years earlier by a US label. A vinyl version of the same album was released by Dirter Promotions in 1994 in an edition of 300 which very quickly sold out, although this was supposed to originally represent an actual accompaniment to the 'proper'/full version captured on this CD."

Noumena

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dis - Ed Was Solace




Some of the best music I've heard is something that I bought on impulse. Mind you, occasionally it doesn't work out ... the only music I ever bought that I don't still have is the Steel Construction LP by The Leather Nun. Surely there are laws against such crimes. I gave it to someone that I didn't like much. Anyway, I digress. I didn't know anything about this but the graphics grabbed me immediately. Fuck hyperbole ... it just blew me away and I played it for the rest of the day.

This was part of the wave of the quietquietLOUD expression of American post-hardcore/post-punk. Before I bought this I already owned both Slint LPs and they are truly brilliant and Slint are rightly lauded ... but ... dis are better. Maybe there is a church of dis- out there that I am not aware of but christ on a bike, these people should be played to children in all State institutions. We have nothing to lose ... dis to the masses on a free prescription!

There is one split single that was released with Cool Beans magazine #3. I'm pretty sure that track hasn't appeared anywhere else but I don't have it ... if you've ripped that pass it on in a mission of mercy type thing. Other than that there were three singles and three albums ... in a gift to humanity, they have put the first two albums up as a name your price ... there are a few copies of the third album that you can still get here.

Seven inches of wonder released confusingly on Twelve Inch Records (make your own jokes at the back of the class) in 1992.

with broken this and broken that

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dis - Nicolae b/w Cage Me Safely




These are versions that are taken from small fry recording sessions 3+4, in April and August 1993 and don't appear on any other release ... does anyone know if those sessions have appeared anywhere?

7" released on South East Records in 1994.

Nicolae

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dis- / Panel Donor - Split




This is all that I know about Panel Donor but that's now why I am here right now ...

7" released on Lombardi Recordings in 1995.

dis- / Panel Donor

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Splintered - The Judas Cradle




Can somebody explain why this band aren't universally worshiped?

Even my cats don't understand and they know so much more than I do.

CD released in 1993 on Dirter Promotions, a label that is perpetually wonderful.

The Judas Cradle

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Drive Like Jehu - Drive Like Jehu




Imagine a big room where Meat Puppets, Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth and Fugazi sit around a big table, listen to Drive Like Jehu, and then accept that the mission has been accomplished and go home and get regular jobs.

Headhunter Records. 1992. Majestic.

Jehu Welcomes Careful Drivers

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Naoaki Miyamoto - Me No Tawamure




Solo guitar noise album by the artist formerly known as MNS, released by Hitorri in 2009.

Naoaki Miyamoto - Me No Tawamure 

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Splintered - Parapraxis




Splintered were/are just an incredible (shifting) bunch of people writing singular noise-rock scriptures. I'm not convinced that comparisons work in this case because most of the good people sound like Splintered. Do your own research. This is their first album.

CD released on Intellectual Convulsion in 1992.

Parapraxis

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MNS - Incredible Noise Guitar

There isn't enough music out there by guitarist Naoaki Miyamoto, aka Musik No Sense or just MNS for short. He self-released this aptly-titled CD and a lathe-cut 7" (yet unheard by me) in 1998 and a 7" with Stabat Mors in 2003. Under his own name, he made a few solo albums, one album with Satanic Abandoned Rock n' Roll Society (a band consisting of Miyamoto, Tetuzi Akiyama, Utah Kawasaki, and the great Atsuhiro Ito, who plays amplified florescent light bulbs) and one guitar duel with Kawabata Makoto. And so, enjoy this rare document of exactly what the title promises. Fans of Solmania, Diesel Guitar/s  or Total will surely love this.

MNS - Incredible Noise Guitar

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This is what it is like when you are not Amy Cooper.





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Send In The Army?




So what would the difference be exactly?



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Melvins & Steel Pole Bathtub - Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More / I Dreamed I Dream






This is from memory but to be honest, that's never stopped me before. Apart from being a great piece of work, it's layered in meaning. The cover itself mimics the Mudhoney / Sonic Youth Sub Pop single from the previous year. Then you add in that Matt Lukin was a founder member of Melvins and then left to join Mudhoney ... hence the toilet on their half of the sleeve and the choice of song. Positively sulphuric in it's response and that cheers me up! SPBT cover a great SY track. Bonus.

7" released on Boner / Tupelo in 1989.

Sweet Young Dream

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Sonic Youth & Mudhoney - Touch Me I'm Sick / Halloween




I always thought Death Valley '69 would have been a better choice.

7" released on Sub Pop in 1988.

Touch Me I'm Sick / Halloween

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va - Brain In The Wire / Brain Not In the Wire


This came out in two versions... a double disc and a triple disc. The double disc version came, as you've probably guessed, in The Wire magazine. A third disc included music that was, again obvious from the title, not included in The Wire magazine. Released in 2002, compiled by the folks behind the Brainwashed.com website... includes music by Matmos, V/Vm, Greater Than One, Jessica Bailiff,  Legendary Pink Dots, Nurse With Wound, Aranos, Little Annie, Bedhead, Diamanda Galas and more.

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disc X

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Steel Pole Bath Tub - Venus In Furs / European Son




Yeah, two Velvet Underground covers ... what's not to love?

7" released on Communion Label in 1991.

shiny shiny shiny boots of leather

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Tumor Circus - Take Me Back Or I'll Drown Our Dog




Just in case you don't know, Tumor Circus were a short-lived and unholy union between Steel Pole Bath Tub, Charles Tolnay (who was in the likes of King Snake Roost and Lubricated Goat) and the perpetually relevant political rants of Jello Biafra. It was only released in the UK as a 12" (a 7" elsewhere) and includes the track "Fireball" but it's different to the one that appears on the self-titled LP in the same year.

12" released on Alternative Tentacles in 1991.

horse molester must be stopped

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va - Brainwaves 2008

Second triple-disc compilation from the second Brainwaves Festival. Another blank white sleeve for the bands to autograph. This one has music by Reformed Faction, Meat Beat Manifesto, Threshold HouseBoys Choir, Christoph Heemann and Andreas Martin, Marissa Nadler, His Name Is Alive, A Place to Bury Strangers, Manorexia, Silver Apples and more.

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disc 3

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Resistance Takes Many Forms





HERO!

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No Justice. No Peace.










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va - Brainwaves

Triple CD compilation given to audience members at the Brainwaves festival, hosted by Brainwashed.com in 2006. Includes exclusive music by Z'ev, Jack Dangers, irr. app. (ext.), Throbbing Gristle, Goodiepal, Troum, Black Light District, Edward Ka-Spel, Wagon Christ and more. The package was all white with no information on it. The idea, I think, was for audience members to ask artists to autograph the album during the festival.

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disc 3

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