Aube - Tapes 1992-1997




Akifumi Nakajima needs no introduction here.

We lost him way too soon in 2013 but what a legacy he left! This is a spectacular 20 CDr collection of his earlier tape releases courtesy of his own G.R.O.S.S. label. There was an initial edition of 50 in 2003 and anoother 50 in 2004.

... and with some further ado:

01 - 1: Herz Aus G.R.O.S.S. [Water] (Statutory Tape, 1994)
01 - 2-3: Drip [Water] (G.R.O.S.S., 1992)
02 - 1-3: Submerged Tension [Water] (Steeple & Globe, 1993)
03 - 1-2: Flash-Point [Glow Lamp] (G.R.O.S.S., 1993)
04 - 1-2: Frequency For Collapse [Field Recordings In The Building] (G.R.O.S.S., 1994)
05 - 1-3: Emotional Oscillation [1 V.C.O] (Old Europa Cafe, 1994)
06 - 1: G-Radiation [Glow Lamp] (Fever Pitch, 1994) (split with Smell & Quim)
06 - 2: Can-Zone [Can] (Soya Sause Bolognese, 1994) (split with Sudden Infant)
07 - 1-5: Huile Sur L'eau [Water] (G.R.O.S.S., 1995)
08 - 1-3: Liquid Passion [Water] (SFCR, 1995)
09 - 1-3: Squash [Can] (Chocolate Monk, 1995)
10 - 1-5: Voltanic Valley [1 V.C.O.] (Perverse Serie, 1995)
11 - 1-2: Reflux [1 V.C.O] (Bawler, 1995)
11 - 3-5: Floating Memory [1 V.C.O.] (Napalmed, 1996) (split with Napalmed)
12 - 1-2: Metalustration [1 V.C.O.] (BloodLust!, 1995)
13 - 1-3: Stratodive [1 V.C.O.] (Bandaged Hand Produce, 1996) 13 - 4: Somnambulism [1 Monophonic Analogue Synthesizer Roland SH-2] (Kadef, 1996)
14 - 1-2: Artifact [Brain Waves-Electroencephalogram] (Bawler, 1996)
15 - 1-4: Grind Carve [1 V.C.O.] (Slaughter, 1996)
16 - 1-4: Feed The Fishes [Water] (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers, 1996)
17 - 1-3: Plagent Recoil [Metal] (Less Than Zero, 1996)
18 - 1-2: Moment In Fragrance [1 Monophonic Analogue Synthesizer Roland SH-2] (Cling Film, 1996)
19 - 1: Syntactic Live Series Vol. 2 [1 V.C.O.] (Syntactic, 1997) (split with Scanner)
20 - 1-4: Ruminant [1 V.C.O.] (Sound Probe, 1997)


Only 100 copies of this majesty? Enough to make you want to start a blog ... erm ... this is a fitting way to mark 14 years since I first posted here.

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Architects Office - Caswallon The Headhunter




Architects Office were a shifting musical collective from Boulder, Colorado. They were formed in 1983 and are best known for working with filmmaker Stan Brakhage. This is an oddly compelling ancient narative embedded in a half-remembered fever dream.

From Welsh mythology: "Caswallon’s cousin, Bendigeid Vran, the giant who would soon lie dying from a poison dart in the foot after having conquered and killed everyone in Eire except five pregnant women in a cave, was to say to his men: “Take my head and carry it with you whereevr you go and for eighty seven years my head will be uncorrupted. And all that time the head will be as pleasant a companion as when it was on my body. And when the eighty seven years are over, bury it at the White Mount in London, facing Gaul and for as long as it is buried there, there will be no invasion in all of the island of the mighty"."

Then King Arthur dug it up and we ended up invading everywhere else, and prostrating ourselves before a monarchy and Tory shite like Boris Fucking Johnson and the spoilt Victorian wraith, Jacob Rees Mogg. Rule Britannia.

An LP released on Silent in 1986. You still get some surface noise on this but I have spent an inordinate amount of time removing pops and scractches so it can be heard in the best condition that I can muster.

apostrophe or lack thereof

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Sleep Column - Rust




Sometimes, Harsh Noise Wall can be an essential trance / transcendental mental purgative. Today, this is mine. Ivan Sandakov making the interior lanscape a more welcoming environment.

A lossless four CDr / four hour set released in 2014 in an edition of twenty courtesy of Vomit Bucket Productions.

turns out rust does sleep sometimes

mega option for bandwidth purposes

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Bastard - No Hope In Here




As the 2023 turd burger underwent the peristaltic purge of the colon of destiny only to be met by the clipping sphincter of fate to face the toilet bowl of truth ... we enjoy the first days of the new dawn before we prepare for the inevitable eleven and a half months of existential dread ... Hurrah! Happy New Year!

A rare CD compilation of the vinyl tracks from these late 80s / early 90s Japanese hardcore heroes. Released on their own Bastard Records at some point in time.

abandon bob. it's weird being a bob, but ill get used to it. i'll have to!

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tac - Next




A comment hit out of the blue but at an opportune time. If you missed this majestic collection first time around, you are forgiven.

Maybe you haven't heard of tac, the name used by Tom A. Cox of Tennessee for his music since 1984. If you haven't, then let's change that. Cox self-released cassettes (and then CDRs) in very small editions, adorned with clearly labor-intensive silkscreen art and sculptural materials. His music was forbiddingly alien in nature and opaque in substance. Some of it is a tactile noise rush of mysterious origin, harsh and difficult and uncompromising. Later on, tac reversed gears and created albums of nearly-inaudible scrapes and bodiless whoosh.


This massive retrospective box of six 100-minute cassettes collects material from the first ten years of tac's work. Some of it is previously released (not that very many people heard it the first time round), and much of it is not. Collaborations with like-minded artists Small Cruel Party and factor X take up one cassette. If you're a fan of Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, G*Park, Hands To, Yeast Culture or John Hudak, these six-hundred minutes of fascinating audio ought to keep you enthralled for a long while.

Released in 1997 by Suitcase with a baroque package as demanding as the sound within: painted tapes, silk-screen mesh box, silk-screened booklet.

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Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffalos - Electrum




Time to channel your inner groove monkey. If you think that is a euphamism, well take a long hard look at yourself! Oops, channelling my inner Dr Z ... nevermind, we could be here all day. Stone cold Japanese jazz legends that nail down the musical / social transition of the time... exquisite psychedelic jazz rock expansion for blown minds. Less pretentiously expressed: it's fucking great and you might want to have a listen.

Originally an Lp released in 1970, this is the CD reissue on Think! Records from 2006.

y'all been way hep!

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Lidless Eye - Blue Perfume




This is the work of Knox Mitchell. For fifteen or more years, a stalwart of the American school of build your own electronics at home and then fuck about with it.

A self-released C68 from 2013. It came in an edition of five so you might have missed it.

Blue Perfume

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Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer & Ninni Morgia And Silvia Kastel - Two Couples




A person could make a fool of themselves trying to describe the machinations of der Kommissar und Mama, so I'll leave that one to you. Ninni and Silvia are people that I have been meaning to post for such a long time. They create beautiful work, especially as Control Unit (not that one).

An LP released on Silvia's Ultramarine in 2011.

a squared circle

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The G.I. & The Spykes - Ambushed By Magnetic Tape Haterz




It's that man Olson from a long time back. Erm ... just fucking hell yes. That'll be the description done then.

A C52 relaesed on American Tapes in 1999. It's Am75 btw.

taperz gonna tape

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Jojo Hiroshige - Kimi Ga Shinette Ieba Shinu Kara




It's Jojo with his guitar and amps ... more than plenty

CD released on his Alchemy Records in 1997.

you were perverted too

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Anemone Tube / Dissecting Table - This Dismal World




I really like the work of Stefan Hanser. I posted some of his Anemone Tube tapes about ten years ago to almost complete apparent indifference. So, erm yeah, fuck you! Ichiro Tsuji needs less of an introduction to all you hipster types. So, what's all this about then?

"This Dismal World is a dark concept album about the ‘Four Nobel Truths’ – the central teachings of Buddhism explaining the nature of suffering (dukkha). Legendary cult industrial act Dissecting Table from Japan and Germany’s dark ambient/industrial project Anemone Tube join forces to perambulate the stony path of the four noble truths: suffering, its causes, the possibility of its cessation and how it can be overcome. With the use of field recordings exclusively made in a mausoleum in China in 2007, Anemone Tube gains insight into the first truth of suffering, the impermanency of all forms of life and the inevitableness of death. “In The Mausoleum“ is a dark industrial epic conjuring up a sinister, threatening atmosphere. With the crushing power-electronics track “From Anthropocentrism To Demonocentrism”, based on field recordings made in buddhist temples in Nanjing and Shanghai, Anemone Tube consequentially confronts the listener with the origin of man`s craving for sense-pleasures and self-perpetuating egocentrism. Dissecting Table`s monumental industrial track “1000 Tones“ is dedicated to the 1000-armed Guanyin – being known as the goddess of compassion to save beings from suffering and ignorance. Almost like a self-mortification Dissecting Table is reciting the complete 25th Lotus Sutra about The Universal Gate of Bodhisattva Kanzeon (“the perceiver of the world`s lamentations”). Accompanying with ritual drumming, diverse analogue treatments and deep growls, Dissecting Table creates a threnody for today’s dejected world."

Released as vinyl on Peripheral Records in 2013. This is the C42 released on Black Horizons. Same year.

worn-out places, worn-out faces

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Nut Screamer - Cedar Point Is Lord




"Cedar Point Is Lord was recorded on July 15th 1993 during the Noise Fest '93. It is essentially a field recording at Cedar Point amusement park made by Steveggs on a portable recorder. It consists of Steveggs, Billy Nocera (of Razorback Records) and friends Mike Duncan (of Black Mayonnaise) and Roach yelling obscenities, profanities, screams and obnoxious jokes over noise from riding roller coasters. Side B features a special unreleased grind/noise jam done by Steveggs."

A C92 released on Stupidity Records in 1993 in an edition of meh.

my sweaty lord

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Akira Sakata - 20人格 = 20 Personalities / Akira Sakata Sings




Akira Sakata is a giant of Japanese jazz across decades ... from the early flowing recordings to the later embrace of Jazz Hijokaidan and the works with Jim O'Rourke and etc and so forth.

Here he shows that he is a man that shouts at people in passing cars. That is an approach to the general populace that I entirely approve of!

As a whole, this is just magnificent ... equal parts hallelujah, wtf and laugh out loud funny (frequently at the same time). His scat take on good ole Bing is just gold ... slip that one into your festive playlists.

Originally released on Better Days as an LP in 1980. This is the CD reissue from 1993.

20人格

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Pink Chunk - Abstracted Bar




Daniel Dlugosielski and John Olson in their much-feted non-jazz Jazz Band.

A double tape set from 2013 released on American Tapes in an edition of 40. It's AM939 btw.

"Live @ The Abstracted Bar, Fall Sessions"

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General Assurance - Abundancia En Su Vida




The indefatigable John Olson.

C56 released on American Tapes in 2008. It's AM730 btw.

calling occupants of interplanatery craft

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Philosophy Of Knives - Violent Death To Rapist Scum




Couldn't agree more. A pleasing miasma of noise / PE / grind rage.

It repeats on both sides and still only comes in as a C14. Fusty Cunt. 2012.

may your suffering be eased in retribution

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Dissecting Table – Death Is Deaf To My Wailings




Ichiro Tsuji is an icon that has been active for nearly 40 years. For quite a while now, his output is almost exclusively self-released and highly limited. Keeping track can be a full time job ... but when it's this good, it's worth it.

A double CDr set on his own UPD Organization from 2020. An edition of 15.

for ruby

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Deterge - Gestation




There's a bloke called Steve that runs Industrial Coast and he is a shining beacon on this stinking isle. I always go to gorp even if I can't justify the wrath of hungry cats by buying everything. A few days ago, I got five Fusty Cunt tapes from him at a lovely price. It will take me a while to get around to listening to them, never mind sorting a decent rip.

However, it's always a good time to remind people that Fusty is a stunningly good (harsh) noise label. It's run by Jim Haras. He records as Deterge. I love him. Here's one he prepared earlier.

A three tape set on Fusty Cunt from 2013.

will you keep it, will you keep yourself

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Various - Foundation Stones: The Stunned Box




I was, and still am, in love with Stunned Records. The entire catalogue is wonderful.

Between 2008 and 2011, Philip and Myste French ran that label with impeccably high standards from packaging to extraordinarily good artwork and then you move on to the range of artists and approaches. Just WOW. I only found them about half way through and bought everything that I could get hold of. Given that it was a small tape / CDr label based in Long Beach, California (with no discernible European distro around), it took a bit of work to track the releases.

It was around this time that they moved to Portland, Oregan before ceasing operations with their 137th release in 2011. There was a 138th release in 2019 but it's really not part of the canon.

Here you will find Eureka (aka William Giacchi who was also in Super Minerals amongst others), Ear And Throat (their only release), Rambutan (aka Eric Hardiman who was also in Burnt Hills, Century Plants and more and runs Tape Drift Records), Metal Rouge, Sleepwalkers Local 242 (which, whilst being a great name in its own right, is the work of Grant Capes who was in (VxPxC), Thousands etc), SMGSAP (Shea M Gauer and Scott A. Peterson, geddit?), Plankton Wat, The Doglands (the work of John Frank who in a completely different guise was in Trotsky Icepick
and Danny and the Doorknobs), The Pistil Cosmos (aka Vincent Caylet who also recorded as "V", Archers By The Sea, Cankun and Thé Déluge as well as within Ruralfaune Collective and Monks Of The Balhill), Sean McCann and Enfer Boréal (aka Maxime Primault who recorded loads of great stuff as Annapurna Illusion, Black Zone Myth Chant, Black Zone One, High Wolf and Kunlun and as Iibiis Rooge with Neil Campbell, with Jani Hirvonen as Saturn Finger and as Voodoo Mount Sister with Alice Dourlen aka Chicaloyoh). That is quite some list of wonderful people ...

Marking their 100th release, this is a six tape retrospective of, even then, out of print releases in a magnificent purpose built vinyl clip case tape box, with gorgeous artwork inside a woolen drawstring crocheted bag. A landmark release courtesy of Stunned Records in 2010.

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Whilst you are waiting for them to download, you could do worse than listen to Enfer Boréal ...

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Hijokaidan featuring Nasca Car - Untitled




Yeah. Even ennui runs out of steam. You can't rely on anything these days!

I was really bored with all of this and then started to get bored with being bored and then I thought "this is the finest sign of being a postmodern twat". Unsatisfied with that self-evident truth, I started to wonder "if I disappeared up my own arse for long enough, would I get to see the back of my own teeth?" and then I thought ... *gun shot*

Until recently, this was one of my missing links. Two five minute studio recordings (that surely were intended for a 7" release?) and two 18 minute live sets. It's magnificent and everything that I had hoped it would be before I was able to actually hear it.

A CD on Alchemy Records from 2015.

you're the kind of girl that fits in with my world

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