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Puce Mary / Rodger Stella - NYC
That they have only collaborated twice is a real shame ... they compliment one another beautifully.
C50 released on Mutter Wild in 2016.
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That they have only collaborated twice is a real shame ... they compliment one another beautifully.
C50 released on Mutter Wild in 2016.
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Puce Mary / Rodger Stella - PM/RS
"This tape was released while Puce Mary and Rodger Stella were on tour together. The tape consists of 2 tracks, one on each side, that Puce Mary wrote and produced and Rodger Stella manipulated on his own after."
That was the version that was pushed out to cover a small space on a mersh table. Apparently it was a very very small table because they only bothered to produce nine copies. Luckily, Rodger reissued it on his own label a short time later
C20 released on Mutter Wild in 2015. Frederikke Hoffmeier and Rodger Stella occupying a space that you can describe for yourself.
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Rodger Stella - Zodiac SF
Damn fine rolling noise drones with a beat? Excellent gear from the former Macronymphomaniac.
C62 released on Mutter Wild in 2014.
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Priest In Shit - Our Population In Ruins
In their time, Priest In Shit involved many legendary figures within Houston harsh noise circles but the core is attributed as Sean Matzus, Richard Ramirez and Tanner Garza. I really don't know who constitutes this incarnation but it is a cracking combination of tantalising drone interspersed with spurts of harsh noise thuggery jumping out of the bushes to pummel your head in.
C50 released on Cipher Productions in 2008.
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Merzbow - Cretin Merz
This is from the other end of the Slowdown spectrum. The original tape material is from 1980 when Merzbow were Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani. It was remastered (and reworked?) by the former in 2017. The cover gives you a clue to the source material that is chopped up and rinsed out ... but I swear that I hear the twin guitars of Sonic Youth in there. Mind you Masami Akita is more than capable of creating aural miracles, so who knows?
CD released on スローダウンRECORDS in 2018.
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Merzbow - Kaoscitron
Masami Akita appears to have developed a somewhat beautiful relationship with Slowdown Records. In the past three years he has released lots of work ranging from remastered early (and impossible to find) tape material to new recordings. This is the latter ... it's fucked up club gloop, synth-industrial, tortured EBM all with a Merzbow twist ... and for the final 26 minutes, he lets it all hang out.
Mirthful not monolithic.
CD released on スローダウンRECORDS in 2017.
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Mutant Ape - Archive 01
George Proctor offering up Six Hours Of Yorkshire Based Torment! Six hours? Do I really have time for that? Seriously ... make the time. This is just a complete masterpiece of English (or anywhere's) noise.
Three C120s courtesy of Turgid Animal in 2012.
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I8U - Untitled
Debut CD of icy drone by Montreal's I8U, who now records under her own name, France Jobin. Released in 1999.
K. Mizutani - Transcend Sideways
"The wind blows wherever it wishes; you hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. It is like that with everyone who is born of the spirit."
I think we're alone now, there doesn't seem to be anyone around.
Really?
CD released on Artware Production in 1997.
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Kiyoshi Mizutani - Waterscape
Drone and absence tone with just enough chopped glitch to make you realise that relaxation is overrated and somebody else really is in the room.
CD released on E(r)ostrate in 1997.
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K. Mizutani - Millstone
If you don't know that Kiyoshi Mizutani was one half of Merzbow for a long time a very long time ago then you've not been paying attention. If you've not been paying attention then this will only make matters worse. It's pure Swiss cheese.
A CD released on Lord RRRon's Pure label in 1995.
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Mothra - The Remains Of Life
Mothra are Masahiko Okubo (Linekraft and Oozepus), Jun-ichi Takahashi (Screloma), Fumihiro Kojima, and Masahito Nozu. You even get Kohei Nakagawa (as Guilty Connector) joining in the organised carnage on one track. This is a broiling pot of noise styles so take a punt on your own description. It's very good.
This is their first release, a CD on Three Plugs Records from 2002. If you like this you might be interested in the vinyl reissue of their second release Doom Patrol that has just hit the Cold Spring shelves.
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A.N.P. / Null - Dyspareunia
Side A is Kazuyuki Kishino, Asami Hayashi and Seijiro Murayama's brilliant Absolut Null Punkt and the reverse is just full on KK. This stands amongst any of the best noise tapes ever released. End.
C48 courtesy of Nux Organization in 1985.
Yes. Nineteen. Eighty. Five.
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Wolf Eyes - Starched Calendars Vol 1
So American Tapes died when the catalogue number hit 1000. Everybody knows that's true. Don't we? Well, there is a slow but steady stream of releases that bear the signature artwork and recycled ex-library tapes. Whether it is tagged with a label name is fairly irrelevant in the grand scheme of things so maybe there is a freedom given by just sliding things out virtually unannounced into the nest of sub-underground stalkers.
I think that there is probably some sampled and manipulated contributions from the other Eyes but this tastes of Mr Olson weaving his magic. I've only had one opportunity to have a taste but didn't think he would take to it too kindly. Maybe next time. I reckon largely umami (which is obviously preferable). Everything that I say here is self-evidently true ... if you know otherwise hold yourself up to a ripple of disinterest in the comments section.
A self-released C60 that was also released in 2019 in an edition of ten.
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Wolf Eyes - Starched Calendars Vol 2
How to blow a blown mind.
A self-released C54 from 2019 that came in an edition of ten copies.
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Various - British Cassette Culture (Recordings 1975-1984)
You have to love VOD. I'm British and have long been an avid pursuer of the obscure boundary pushers that are out there. However, apart from the Pink Dots, everything here had previously completely avoided me. This is an entire world of hitherto unknown excellence ... an entire landscape of synth-industrial-electronica-dark ambient that bears no relation to the vaguely equivalent forms of music that permeated the contemporary consciousness.
Eight LPs, one seven inch single and one single-sided seven inch single courtesy of Vinyl-on-demand in 2016.
01 Those Little Aliens & This Little Alien: Recordings 1980-1981
02 Ron Berry: Where Dark Forces Meet
03 Legendary Pink Dots: Premonition
04 Stephen Cadman: Big Smith Stays In Bed
05 All The Madmen: Tape Recordings 1980-1983
06 Carl Matthews: Mirage-Tapes-Years
07 Kevin Harrison: Tape-Recordings 1975-1985
08 Ron Crowcroft: Mundane Recordings 1980-1985
It's not MP3.
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Asher & Ubeboet - Cell Memory
For when you've had enough noise assault, here's a pleasantly subdued album of droning minimalism. One of the earliest CDs on Ben Owen's fantastic Winds Measure Recordings label, packaged in a stunning grey-on-white letterpress sleeve.
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John Wiese & Caves - Split
A split CDR by John Wiese and Caves (aka Nathan Howdeshell aka Brace Paine of Die Monitr Bats, Heavy Seals and The Gossip), first released by Howdeshell's Fast Weapons label in 2002, then reissued by Troniks in 2006.
Otomo Yoshihide, Martin Tétreault, Sachiko M, Yasuhiro Otani - Four Focuses
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Sissy Spacek - Psychic Facts
In order to get Sissy Spacek's "Psychic Facts" LP, you had to buy one of the first 100 copies of their "Scissor" LP and notice that the gatefold cover had something strange inside it. The "Scissors" record was in one side of the gatefold, but the other side was sealed shut... and had another record hidden inside of it. That's "Psychic Facts"! The husband was a Wiese fan from the beginning, so he had the foresight to buy two copies. One of them was kept intact, the other circumcised to reveal this record.
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