Borghesia - Clones

 

Second album by the former-Yugoslavian electronic duo, released as a cassette by Galerija Ĺ KUC Izdaja in 1984 then reissued on LP by Dark Entries in 2012. There was one self-titled cassette before "Clones" but it remains unheard by me. While lacking the irony and confrontational humor of that other Ljubljana band you know, Borghesia were still pretty great. They deal with some of the same themes as Laibach (as any artist living in that part of the world in the early 1980s surely had to) but wouldn't be so explicit about it until the decade's end. 


clones

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Taku Sugimoto, Taku Unami, Masahiko Okura - Chamber Music Concerts Vol. 1

 

A triple CD set of compositions by three guys associated with the Off Site venue in Tokyo. When it was active, the Off Site scene tended towards radically minimal noise and improvisation by Sugimoto, Unami, Okura, Toshimaru Nakamura, Sachiko M, Tetuzi Akiyama, Utah Kawasaki, Masafumi Ezaki and other like-minded artists. Released in 2008 by all three artists' labels: Hibari Music, Slub Music and Load Factor.


chamber

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Alvin Lucier - Still And Moving Lines Of Silence In Families Of Hyperbolas




Two days ago, Alvin Lucier left us. What we've lost is someone who didn't so much push the boundaries as say that there were none.

Right up there with Pauline Oliveros, John Cage and Éliane Radigue.

A double CD released on the unintentionally understated Lovely Music, Ltd. in 2002.

not hyperbole

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“19” - Ninety Seven Circles




Joyful idiosyncratic carnage.

It brings me back to the age old question: is free expression better then free sex? This offers the possibility that the answer is: it's just as good but quite a bit less sticky.

At last, the quest is over!

Originally self-released vinyl from 1981, this is the Time Bomb from 1996.

the ninety seven circles

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19 - Sound Track




There are so many things that I have listened to and treasured over the years that seem to owe everything to 19/Juke and this set of post-punk uber-skronk just continues to confirm it. How do the territorially obscure channel ideas that don't exist yet? Who gives a fuck? The philosophical waffle (whilst relevant) is just an attempt to obscure that in terms of catalogue numbers this should have preceeded the previous post. A cardinal nerd-error ... forgive me Mrs Inside for I have sinned!

Originally a self-released LP, this is the (flac) CD reissue on Time Bomb Records from 1996.

the sound of slipping standards



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19/Juke - Pieces




Unfathomable ethnographic whirlpools organised by genius beyond my imagination.

Originally self-released on vinyl in 1982, this is a lossless rip of the CD reissue on Time Bomb Records from 1996.

Pieces

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19/Juke - EZMD




Well who would have thunk it? It was nearly eight years ago when Mrs Inside posted the 19/Juke retrospective boxset. Erm, yeah, that was a long time ago! Definitely time to revisit the unfathomable genius of Shinro Ohtake.

This is a lossless rip of the CD reissue on UCA in 1991.

EPMD

This is a rip of the original C40 released on 用美社 in 1987.

EZLSM

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Various - alt.noise: A Switch Records Compilation Of Noise And Electronics




It starts with Incapacitants and ends with something that sits right at home on one of the Macro Dub Infection compilations. I need say no more.

CD released on Switch Records Canada in 1997.

alt.noise

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Jeph Jerman - A Fidgety And Excitable Engine




The inimitable Mr. Jerman continuing to confound expectations.

C40 released on Second Sleep in 2013. The source material was reused and released as a lathe and CDr combo nine years later in a sexy wooden box. Completely different results to what is on this tape but there were only 12 of those released. So brothers and sisters, weep along with me at the futility of ever thinking that we will hear that and console yourself with this excellent tape.

engineering

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Various - Extreme Pleasures




Nothing not to like here: Sshe Retina Stimulants, Iugula-Thor, Atrax Morgue, Macronympha, MSBR and Mark Solotroff.

A C30 released on Slaughter Productions in 1996.

Volume I



The main interest for me is Dead Body Love but you also get Advokat Ihrer Hoheit, Drape Excrement and Lvnvs (which was largely the work of Devis Granziera who also collaborated with Marco Corbelli as Necrophonie / Necrofilia).

A C22 that was available for free for those who preorded the first tape and was of course released on Slaughter Productions in 1996.

Volume II

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Sharon's Last Party - Blue Light and Blue Eyes

 

The only 7" by short-lived Swedish power-electronics supergroup, featuring Erik Jarl, Ochu and a few other folks from the Segerhuva orbit. Released in 2002.


helter skelter

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Blod - Romantic and Deranged

 


A 7" single from 1999. Scumbag noise for deranged romantics.

true romance

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Death Laid An Egg - Collection 2008-2010




A big old chunk of wall noise courtesy of Richard Ramirez and Trent Bingham.

Their first four releases gathered together in a double CDr retrospective on Room 2A in 2015 in an edition of 15.

ovoid

The film from which they take their name isn't a traditional Giallo and the director (Giulio Questi) isn't one that I would normally associate with the genre but it's pretty good all the same.

ovate

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Blod - My Beloved Daughters

 

Confusingly, there are two different Swedish noise acts called Blod. This is the much nastier Blod. 2004 CD released by Seguhuva. 


scumbag relationships

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Leif Elggren - The Internationale

 

King Leif's 1996 7" single, a sort of cover version of an 1800's left-wing anthem. 


destroy the nations

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Dead Body Love - Nechronology




This is a collection of generally unavailable releases (with a tape of previously unreleased work) from everybody's favourite corpse fiddler: Gabriele Giuliani. What? you have a top ten? Weirdo!

I posted this in September 2013. I've managed to learn a lot in the intervening period, not least patience. I've gone back to the rips and reduced the unwanted noise where I could, amplified where necessary and topped and tailed where the machine was allowed to run without adding anything of value. It took quite a while and it was worth it.

A genuinely great eight cassette retrospective released on Second Sleep in 2010.

opt in

opt ion

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Leif Elggren - Pluralis Majestatis

 

A metal bed frame played with metal crowns by King Leif. Released as a CD in 1999.


king & crowns

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Leif Elggren - In Sleep The Knives Are Sharpened

 

Sounds of knife sharpeners by the co-king of Elgaland-Vargaland, released in Iceland as a 10" record by Some Records in 1998.


look sharp!

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Leif Elggren - Flown Over by an Old King

 

Going way back to 1988, this is the debut solo LP by the future king of Elgaland-Vargaland, released by his future co-king CM Von Hauswolff on his Radium 226.05 label. 


as the king flies


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Ankh - st

A one-off collaboration by Jean-Marie Onni (Le Syndicat) and Pierre Jolivet (Pacific 231), released on CD in an oversized cardstock envelope by allegedly-bootleg Swedish label Art Directe in 1993.
 

beat the boots

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