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De Fabriek - Enduro 3333
Another very early De Fabriek tape, Dutch homemade industrial from 1981.
De Fabriek - Schuurpapier
"Schuurpapier" was one of the very first De Fabriek cassettes, coming out in 1980 (the same year as Gold).
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Frieder Butzmann - Das Madchen Auf Der Schaukel
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Hermann Kopp - Nekronology
I'm no gorehound, but Mr. Inside sure is. There are some old movies on VHS tapes in our apartment that the boy and his friends watch over and over, but I have to leave the room when they do. "Nekromantik" and "Der Todesking" are two of those movies. So gross. The soundtracks to those movies, though, are wonderful! They were recorded by a guy called Hermann Kopp, who has been making creepy synth music (some of it reminding me of Die Form's earliest tapes, or maybe even The Residents at their most icky) since 1981. This CD collects music made for both "Nekromantik" films (yes, they made a sequel!) and "Der Todesking". If Slaughter Productions or Old Europa Cafe float your boat, this this gothic horror will keep you in good cheer until next Halloween.
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Odal & Post Mortem - Dubious Lives
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Due Process & Odal - Independence Day Celebration
Due Process & Odal - Independence Day Celebration
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Alluvion - Alluvium 2
It's hard to imagine, but in the early 00's, the idea of a CDR label seemed bizarre. One of the first labels to jump at the idea of making only CDRs was Aesova, run by an American artist and designer named K. Michael Babcock, who also made music under the name Alluvion. This is his second release as Alluvion, also the debut 3"CDR on Aesova.
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Michael Graeve - Simple Methods For Complex Times
More sound sculpture made out of piles of dusty old record players. This is not the nimble, nuanced turntable improvisation of Otomo Yoshihide or Martin Tetreault. It's heaps of dirt and crackle stacked messily into mountains of junk.
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Michael Graeve - Three Live Recordings 2001-2001
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Jamie McNair - Ocean Dictionaries
Many underground noise and drone artists first came to my attention via CDRs that were published by Birchville Cat Motel's Celebrate Psi Phenomenon label. They weren't so easy to come by here in Ontario, but Mr. Inside and I used to mail-order as many as we could track down. We discovered some of our favorite artists this way: Peter Wright, A.M., Clarinette, Slow Listener, many others. Some artists, though, made one album and quit. Jamie McNair is one of those one-hit wonders, but wow what a hit it is. I haven't found any information about McNair, and none is provided by this CDR. Expect chilly glacial hum, not as rugged as Eso Steel but not too far away either.
v/a - Le Jazz Non: A Compilation of Nineties NZ Noise
Sometimes, a compilation is the perfect way to reign in a wide, disparate group of artists whose individual releases are scarce and/or obscure. When it works, a great compilation brings its participants out from the shadows and frames them as a "scene" of some sort with sympathetic reverberations across its tracks. Listeners can then refer to it as a benchmark for all related music. "Le Jazz Non" is such a compilation. Put together by Bruce Russell on his remarkable Corpus Hermeticum label in 1996, it's hard to imagine a more fitting object to introduce the New Zealand free noise and drone micro-scene to the world.
"Le Jazz Non" gathered previously little-known acts such as Thela (aka Rosy Parlane, Dion Workman, and Dean Roberts, all of whom now have productive solo careers), Gate (the extra-Dead C. "band" of Michael Morley), Rain and Doramaar (both featuring members of Flies Inside the Sun), Omit (whose hermetic nightmarescapes we've posted here on Bleak Bliss recently), Surface of the Earth (makers of a self-titled CD that remains the definitive New Zealand drone album, and is still available from Utech. Stop whatever you're doing and buy it now), RST (drone guitarist who would go on to make lovely shimmer for Ecstatic Peace, Last Visible Dog, and Utech), Witcyst (utterly baffling mail-art trash noise), A Handful of Dust (aka Mr. Russell making feedback-laced anti-music with Alastair Galbraith), Lame & Sorry (aka Galbraith with Shayne Carter of Straitjacket Fits), improv/rock heroes (and sometime Gate backing band) Sandoz Lab Technicians, and the still-obscure Empirical, of whom this track is one of the only extant documents.
Don't rush through this album and form an opinion right away. Spin it a few times. Let its molecules disperse through the air in your home. Live with it for awhile. Let the atmosphere sink in and steadily rewire all of your synapses.
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Dead Man's Gravel - The Cuckoos Sang in Their Appropriated Nests
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Plagal Grind - st
The only release by this New Zealand band, which included Peter Jefferies (This Kind of Punishment), Robbie Muir, Dave Mitchell (The 3Ds) and Alaistair Galbraith (The Rip, A Handful of Dust, Lame & Sorry). A rare and highly sought-after platter of messy garage fuzz that appeared on Bruce Russell's Xpressway label in 1990 and currently commands some silly prices. Plagal Grind is pretty much the Platonic ideal of NZ indie rock, and neatly sums up the Xpressway aesthetic in just a handful of killer songs.
Pieters/Russell/Stapleton - Sex/Machine
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Dworzec - Wednesday
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Flies Inside The Sun - Cactus Sky
I'm sure it is only a typo, but Le Mal d'Archive was actually Flies fourth release. This is their third, released on Metonymic in 1999.
I would post the 1st "An Audience Of Others (Including Herself)" but it looks as though the CD version is still available on Kranky some 19 years after its release.
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Flies Inside the Sun - Burning Glass
Fifth and final album by Flies Inside the Sun, from 2003.
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Flies Inside the Sun - Le Mal d'Archive
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Flies Inside The Sun - st
Something of a New Zealand free-noise supergroup, Flies Inside the Sun was formed by Kim Pieters and Peter Stapleton in the wake of their band Dadamah (with Roy Montgomery). They were joined by guitarist Brian Crook (of post-punk legends The Max Block, Terminals, Scorched Earth Policy, Renderers) and Danny Butt (Tanaka-Nixon Meeting) and recorded several albums of thunderous improv sprawl. After their debut on Kranky, this self-titled album came out on the band's own Metonymic imprint in 1996.
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Fela And Afrika 70 - Zombie
This post is a result of a small dialogue in the post below. There is no criticism implied or stated.
You can easily research the significance of Fela and this LP and the Zombies of the Nigerian dictatorship and we think that you should.
Just in case anybody wondered where myself and Mrs Inside stand on the question of politics in music. This is the sound of colours being firmly nailed to the mast!
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