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Paranoid Time - Pregnant Nun

Well, let's face it. We should all be proud of those splendid guardians of moral sensibility that demanded, nay insisted, that we should have a warning sign at our front door. If it wasn't for that one person then the jcard on this tape may well have brought down civilisation as we know it!

Now it all makes sense and we can accept our perverted outcast status for what it is ... a moral failing of everybody reading this but especially me. I have reflected and shall no doubt repent.

Anyway, I digress.

This is 26 minutes of brilliance from Patrick Yankee released on Dan Johansson's Harsh Head Rituals in 2007.

I feel suitably cleansed of my sins!

Pregnant Nun

Zvuuk - For Dave

Belrusian artist Zvuuk's tribute to Dave Phillips, issued as a CDR on The Egg and We in 2006.

Zvuuk - For Dave

va - Switzerand vs USA

Mr. Inside found this many years ago, one of the nicest gifts he's ever given to me. It's a four-way split c90 featuring tracks by Sudden Infant and Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock representing Switzerland on one side, and Americans Daniel Menche and Small Cruel Party on the other. The insert includes some adorable portraits of all four participants by Joke Lanz, who issued the tape on his own Soja-Sauce Bolognese label in 1997. It comes stuck inside a crushed can, a packaging concept that seems to have inspired the USA side (maybe also the Swiss side, but I can't tell from the titles). Menche's furious fuzz is titled "Canquake", SCP's track is called "Can the Sound Can" (after SBOTHI, of course). Sudden Infant's track, "Les Schwab", may or may not be named after this guy. R&G's "Für Scheide, Schnecke Und Rassiermesser" translates to something I'd prefer not to type here.

va - Switzerand vs USA

Beequeen - Gund

On this release Beequeen are Freek Kinkelaar and Frans de Waard. You'll know Frans as a member of Kapotte Muziek and many other great things and he also started such great labels as Korm Plastics, Bake Records and My Own Little Label.

This is a CD released on Freek and Frans own Plinkity Plonk Records in 2003. It features Beequeen reworking material by Koji Tano's MSBR and vice versa.

[I've just realised that this is still for sale after 12 years. Astonishing! Where were you all? Anyway ... go and give Frans some love.]

Gund

Magmax - Magmagenome

Koji Tano is certainly best known for his work as his MSBR (Molten Salt Breeder Reactor). Probably less well known is his noise-work as Magmax. Given the Suicide-styled arcade game B-movie synth elements it won't surprise you to know that he took the name from a mid-80s Japanese side-scrolling shooter game. Remember those days when such games were the pinnacle of technology? Ah, sorry, I keep forgetting that you weren't born then. Anyway I was and I'm pretty sure that the anarcho-grindcore style vocals weren't part of the gameplay. This is an LP and 7" combo released on 220N in 1997 that still makes me smile every time I play it.

Magmagenome

MSBR, K2, Magmax - Untitled

Three-way split CD of harsh noise from Japan by Koji Tano (both as MSBR and Magmax) and K2, released in 1999 by MSBR Records as a CD in a clear slimline jewel case.

MSBR, K2, Magmax - Untitled

Gomikawa Fumio - Return Of Gomikawa Fumio

Kohei Gomi, Fumio Kosakai and Toshiji Mikawa? Pain Jerk meets Incapacitants? Released on Alchemy Records in 2002? That'll be a yes then.

Return Of Gomikawa Fumio

Pain Jerk - Exhibition Of Electro-Disease

Pain Jerk is Kohei Gomi but you know that already. I was lucky enough to see him live last year. Legend!

C50 released on G.R.O.S.S. in 1995.

Exhibition Of Electro-Disease

The Black Museum - Wail

All I know about The Black Museum is this tape. It's a sinister bugger that sometimes just seems to hover in the air before you realise that's it's been building up all around you. Trying to categorise this defeats the object and would interfere with my enjoyment of it. So I won't even bother.

C44 released on G.R.O.S.S. in 1993.

Wail

Masonna - The Passion of Rubbers

Did you think the GROSS party was over? Not yet, it isn't! This double c10 is not only one of the best releases on the GROSS label, it's also one of the very best things Masonna ever committed to tape.

Masonna - The Passion of Rubbers

Treriksröset - Heteronormativ Musik För Att Stärka Medelklassens Självbild

This is a mysterious C30 that appeared last year. There is no evidence of a label so I'm assuming it's self-released ... primarily because I'm hoping Tommy is still active in some capacity. Anyway, it's great.

Heteronormativ Musik

Treriksröset - Puking Blood

... and now turn everything up to 11. C18 released on the splendidly named Gothenburg Blood Cult in 2005.

Puking Blood

Treriksröset - Venal

Now this is the kind of noise that could only be made in Sweden! Noise + Sweden = Yes. C30 released on Utmarken in 2009.

Venal

Treriksroset / Blud Thirst - Shivers

Treriksröset and Blud Thirst are Tommy Carlsson (who also ran the mighty Segerhuva label) and Evan Pacewicz (who was also in Moth Drakula, Roman Torment and Wire Werewolves). This is a C10 released on Swampland in 2006 and is an odd but gratifying blast of noise/PE. Half way through the first side you get some kind of rock song and black metal in reverse...eh? Was that the plan? Don't know, don't care .....

Shivers

Violence Jazz - Protection

"Protection" pares the group down to a trio sans Jesse Ward, but the squall remains the same. Issued as a CDR on Tigerasylum, a Brooklyn label with free-improv sympathies, in 2007.

Violence Jazz - Protection

Violence Jazz - VD in Modern Jazz

Debut CDR from 2006 by a clearly Borbetomagus/Hijokaidan-inspired group of surly students from Berkeley School of Music, also the first release on band member Luke Moldof's Razors and Medicine label. By day, these guys studied free jazz and improvisation with Joe Maneri and Joe Morris; by night, they made ugly noise and released it on ugly CDRs. Two members of this band, Luke Moldof and Jesse Ward, would go on to form power electronics band Craniopagus. Later, Moldof's compositional brilliance would be made clear on solo recordings that came out under the name Stillbirth and in Perispirit, his unpredictable duo with Ricardo Donoso.

Violence Jazz - VD in Modern Jazz

5608 - Untitled

A loose song-like jam by Stefan Neville/Pumice (from New Zealand), joined by Mudboy and David Lifieri/Manbeard (from Providence, Rhode Island) on a tape released by Free Matter for the Blind in 2008.

5608 - Untitled

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO - The Penultimate Galactic Bordello Also The World You Made

Let's face it. Computers make you lazy. I've recently had to get myself a new one and have finally been able to consolidate loads of stuff scattered around various external drives. This is one such thing. I played it a couple of nights ago and couldn't understand why it has been so long. Oh yeah, computers make you lazy. I bought this from (the great) Dirter Promotions when it came out in 2004. The actual box set has been sitting on one of my shelves about four feet away from my left hand for years. Remembered but not played.

This incarnation of the UFO are Kawabata Makoto on guitar, Tsuyama Atsushi on bass, Hajime Koizumi on drums, Higashi Hiroshi on celestial synth with Cotton Casino handling the vocal duties on the first three discs.

If you already have this, go back and reacquaint yourself with an old friend. If you don't already have this, you are in for four hours of the kind of deliriously magnificent music that only exists in the collective mind of AMT.

One

Two

Three

and Four

Sewer Election - Killing for Belgium

I'm not really sure why Sewer Election is killing for so many European countries, but apparently he is. On this cassette, issued by Harsh Head Rituals in 2006, he defends pomme frites and wild fermented ales with a wall of harsh noise. Maybe DoD pedals keep the tourists out.

Sewer Election - Killing for Belgium

Sewer Election & Treriksröset - Killing for Germany

It's a good thing Germany has two Swedish guys killing in its name, because otherwise... um, hang on, maybe this doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Released as a one-sided tape in 2007 by Chefsideologens Bolag.

Sewer Election & Treriksröset - Killing for Germany

THE FUTURE?

We still don't know...we're making this shit up as we go along!

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PRACTICALITIES!

We have had to change file hosts many times since we started in 2009.

Most of the older links are undoubtedly dead. If we were to try to keep every link going there would literally be no time for new posts.

Given that we have an untold number of things that we think need to be heard, it's not possible to do both.

Some things may be re-upped but (as always) we are unlikely to pay any attention to "anonymous" requests.

Entertaining (rather than desperate) requests may stand a chance but don't bet on it!

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LIKE MINDS

Crate Diggers

Paranoid Time - Pregnant Nun

Zvuuk - For Dave

va - Switzerand vs USA

Beequeen - Gund

Magmax - Magmagenome

MSBR, K2, Magmax - Untitled

Gomikawa Fumio - Return Of Gomikawa Fumio

Pain Jerk - Exhibition Of Electro-Disease

The Black Museum - Wail

Masonna - The Passion of Rubbers

Treriksröset - Heteronormativ Musik För Att Stärka Medelklassens Självbild

Treriksröset - Puking Blood

Treriksröset - Venal

Treriksroset / Blud Thirst - Shivers

Violence Jazz - Protection

Violence Jazz - VD in Modern Jazz

5608 - Untitled

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO - The Penultimate Galactic Bordello Also The World You Made

Sewer Election - Killing for Belgium

Sewer Election & Treriksröset - Killing for Germany

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