The Gerogerigegege - Blackout Archive V.1~ V.3

Sweet Baby Jesus ... I can't wait for the Covid Archive.

Three CDs released seperately on Juntaro's own Vis A Vis Audio Arts in 2019. Then they were brought together with a fourth "not for sale" CDr. No spoliers but ...

back in blackout

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Ramleh - Blowhole

The very excellent Gary Mundy and Philip Best. Draw your own parallels.

LP released on Shock in 1991.

so you can leave your nose at home

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va - Texas

 

A 2006 triple-LP boxset from RRRecords with noise from, you guessed it, Texas. One LP side each from A Fail Association, Steel Hook Prostheses, Goat, Inhalant, TEF and Concrete Violin.

beers & steers

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va - California

 

2006: The Year Noise Broke. RRRecords, Troniks and Ground Fault teamed up to release this landmark 10xLP geographic-themed boxset of many flavors of noise from California, with one entire LP side each by The Cherry Point, Randy Yau, Solid Eye, Tralphaz, Xome,  Moth Drakula, Rubber O Cement, Amps For Christ, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Yellow Swans, Control, SIXES, The Skaters, Open City. Oscillating Innards, John Wiese, Damion Romero, Spastic Colon, John Weise, Gerritt, Joe Colley. 

crazy from the heat

ten-way tie for last

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The Gerogerigegege – 燃えない腹

Whoa. 17 tracks on limited vinyl? With me on the cover?

But hang on a minute, it only comes in at about seven minutes!

Listen hard matey, I bought The Doors' "Live At The Hollywood Bowl" when it came out. I get it. Quit your whining. You still have me on the cover.

A 12" released on Scrotum Records in 2017.

here we gero

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Ramleh - Homeless

So I wish I'd checked Bandcamp before I'd prepped a load of Cultural Amnesia posts. Ah well.

So how about this gorgeous piece of work? A legendary line-up of Gary Mundy, Philip Best, Stuart Dennison and Anthony Di Franco that is completely distinct from the earlier Broken Flag industrial power moves. Think the finest noiserock with the occassional sprinkle of Velvet / Spacemen dark psychedelics.

CD released on Freek Records in 1994

maybe tomorrow i'll want to settle down

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Various - Endzeit

The Virgin Prunes, Cultural Amnesia, Section 25, Culturcide, Raudive Bunker Experiment and Die Klopferbande. Strangely compelling early Eighties synthnoise.

C50 released on Datenverarbeitung in 1982.

celebrate end times, c'mon

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Nurse With Wound - Alas The Madonna Does Not Function

Exquisite. As far as I know it's unavailable outside of the second hand market ...

LP released on United Dairies in 1988.

the fallen madonna with the big boobies

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Various - Bethel

Front-runner in the race for weirdest line-up on a compilation: Doo-Dooettes, Boyd Rice, Foetus, Virgin Prunes, Pure, 23 Skiddoo, Coil, Nurse With Wound and more ... there's even a track from Meat Puppets that I don't think appears anywhere else.

C60ish released on Datenverarbeitung in 1983.

little donkey

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Various - In Fractured Silence

Un Drame Musical Instantané, Hélène Sage, Sema and Nurse With Wound.

LP on United Dairies from 1984.

hello darkness

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Various - An Afflicted Man's Musica Box

Another classic that saves my typing finger.

LP released on United Dairies in 1982.

you don't need to call it music if the term shocks you

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Various - Masse Mensch

As it says on the tin ...

LP released on Selektion in 1982.

übermensch

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Various - Dry Lungs (A Compilation of Industrial Music From Around The World)

Stunning. Do your own homework.

LP released on Placebo Records in 1985.

last lung leg

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va - Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

 

Four artists (Big City Orchestra, Merzbow, Mohr, Maeror Tri) take a quarter of a CD each on this neat compilation released by Fool's Paradise in 1994. 

u mad, cow?

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Various - Dry Lungs II

Severed Heads, Hijokaidan, If Bwana, Randy Greif, YBO², Croiners, Jarboe, Controlled Bleeding, Asmus Tietchens and more.

LP released on Placebo Records in 1986.

two lips, two lungs and one tongue

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Various - Dry Lungs III

So, where was I again? Ah yes, vinyls! Fisrt off, you really have to be living your best life to get annoyed at the presence or bscence of a single letterr.

Unsurprisingly the third in the series featuring the likes of Greater Than One, Die Form, Paul Lemos, Maybe Mental, Cranioclast and Carl Michael von Hausswolff & Zbigniew Karkowski.

LP released on Placebo Records in 1987.

lunge

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I8U - Grasshopper Morphine

 

A very early album by Montreal sound artist France Jobin, under her "band" name I8U. This set of crisp minimalism was released as a small-edition CDR by Piehead Records in 2002 in a limited edition of just 300 copies. 

OU812

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Fouke - Sulphur River

You lot have had it far too easy lately ... all of this music where you can wear your hats at a jaunty angle and moonwalk across your parquet flooring? Well, enough of that. Stand by your beds and straighten your brims.

A triple CDr set on Room 2A in an edition of 15 from 2014.

Hats off to Richard!!

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va - Etat Bruit -Switzerland-

 

A metal film canister containing five 7" records representing the best that Switzerland has to offer (aside from Yello, Mummenschanz, melted cheese, knives with bottle openers in them and probably a few other glaring omissions). Includes music by OP Rechts, Sudden Infant, Maggot Bile (aka Roger Rotor), Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock and Batchas. Released in 1996 by Scrotum Production, a label run by Mr. Batchas.

neutral state

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Napalm Death - Scum

To pause a tour of UK hardcore, here's something that I expect you all have already ... but you never know?

A ground-breaking LP from 1987 on Earache. This is the lossless remastered and reissued CD version from 1995.

I'm The Daddy Now!

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