Bleak Bliss

Various - Microinjection Master Tape

C60 released on Hiroshi Hashimoto's SSSM label in 1992. As you would expect, Contagious Orgasm is here and as well as a 14 minute track from Taint you get So Nakatomo's Less Expect, Colin Wales' Platzangst, Everett Perdue's Die Schammade and F. Miura's (?) Black Elegance.

Microinjection Master Tape

va - Fuck Your Head With An Iron Fist

Nasty harsh noise CDR compilation released by Pekka PT (Gelsomina) on his Musically Incorrect Records label in 2006. Tracks by Bizarre Uproar, A Machine Called Orgasm, World Downfall, Squamata, Moke Grotton, Cloama, Halthan, noisecore by Tuho, Slovenian noise band Sist En 343, Gelsomina, Barrikad & MK9 (the artist formerly known as Death Squad), Rulla (aka Tommi Keränen of Testicle Hazard in a rare solo appearance), Halthan, Funeral Mongoloids (aka Pekka PT again), and Watchdog.

va - Fuck Your Head With an Iron Fist

Various - Does It Float?

Originally, this was a triple 8" lathe box set deal full of previously unreleased New Zealand based delights. Luckily, for us, Trinder Music also released a CD version in 1994.

Does It Float?

va - Killing Capitalism With Kindness

More pop/rock than the previous compilations I posted, but just as much an essential piece of the 1980s New Zealand underground. Artists include Kathy Bull, Trash, A Handful of Dust, Sandra Bell, This Kind of Punishment, and lots more.

va - Killing Capitalism With Kindness

va - Xpressway Pile=Up

More low-fi blur, first released as a cassette on Bruce Russell's galvanizing Xpressway label in 1988 and then reissued on LP and CD a handful of times.

va - Xpressway Pile=Up

va - Making Losers Happy - Xpressway NZ Singles 1988-91

Badgerstump and I just want you to be happy. This album should do it. These are the songs that kickstarted what we know today as the New Zealand noise/rock underground, featuring nothing but classics by The Dead C. (the entire "Sun Stabbed" EP, in fact), The Terminals, Plagal Grind, Peter and Graeme Jefferies, Alastair Galbraith, David Mitchell, Robbie Muir and Denise Roughan... some would make friendlier (but still wonderful) music for the Flying Nun label, others remain underground heroes to this day.

va - Making Losers Happy - Xpressway NZ Singles 1988-91

Various - America The Beautiful

Ridiculously good double CD set released to celebrate the 10th anniversary of RRRon's RRRecords. Who would have thought that 22 years later we would still be saying thank you to the great man?

Car Chase

Stun Gun

va - God Bless America

One of the all-time classic compilations of US underground industrial noise and home-taper weirdness, this triple LP boxset from came out in 1985 on RRRecords, with 100 copies wrapped in an American flag. It features tracks by Borbetomagus, Controlled Bleeding, Dimthings, Smersh, Tom Recchion (of LAFMS), Un-Film, Psyclones, Data-Bank-A, Maybe Mental, Sleep Chamber, Master/Slave Relationship, PGR, Architects Office, Smegma, Blackhouse, F/i, Randy Grief/Screaming Dukduks, Eugene Chadbourne, Walls of Genius and more.

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Crank Sturgeon - Crattleer Bingh!

More fast-paced noise from guitar and amplified doodads from Crank Sturgeon, self-released in an absurd taped-together trash package in 2001.

Crank Sturgeon - Crattleer Bingh!

Crank Sturgeon - Plentifold Gape & Lando

I want Matt Anderson to have my babies!

Another Huso Solutions masterpiece ... from 2011.

Plentifold Gape & Lando

Crank Sturgeon - Hair On The Frozen 'Nial

More savant blurp released on Huso Solution. This time it's 2012.

Hair On The Frozen 'Nial

Crank Sturgeon - A Latter-Day Ain't For Tomorrow-Land's Burlap Megaphone (Tactics On Smudge Recording & Cardboard Shrines)

Exorcism Matt Anderson stylee.

Self-released CDr full of fucked up genius on Huso Solutions from 2013.

I seriously love Matt Anderson!

show it give it do it

Crank Sturgeon - De-Buttes

Action-packed noise, recorded live over college radio by Crank Sturgeon in 1997 and self-released as a cassette in a trash package. Supposedly features sound contributions from Macronympha and someone called Southern Man, whoever that is. Lots of relentlessly manic energy and contact-mic foolishness.

Crank Sturgeon - De-Buttes

Various - Spiral Organ Of Corti

This compilation really shouldn't work. Con-Dom alongside Crank Sturgeon? You also get Contagious Orgasm, Thirdorgan, Deutsch Nepal, raison d'être and Salt alongside the otherwise unknown Kings Of High Frequency. Rest assured, it works.

Double C60 released on Hiroshi Hashimoto's (aka Contagious Orgasm's) SSSM in 1995.

Spiral

Organ

Various - The End Of The Fear Of God

On here, we start with good intentions and real plans. Then one of us drafts a post and it blows it all out of the water and we're off in another direction. It's all a bit When Harry Met Sally meets Thelma And Louise. So, if you don't like this then A: what are you doing here? and B: It's all her fault!

69 artists across 70 minutes on this CD released on the glorious Tochnit Aleph in 2004.

The End Of The Fear Of God

va - Ohren Des Kaiser Hirohito

A fantastic 2xCD international compilation that came out on DOM in 1992, featuring great music from HNAS, Vox Populi!, Empirical Sleeping Consort, Maat, Illusion of Safety, Hajsch, Jack or Jive, Anemonengurt, Markus Schmickler, Jocelyn Robert, Monika Westphal and so many more it will make your head spin. Unlike most 2xCD compilations, this one is thoroughly enjoyable from start to finish, even though it has the Legendary Pink Dots on it.

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Gate - The Lavender Head 1.1.1.2-2.1.2.2

Originally, this was an impossible to find lathe cut double LP released on Precious Metal in 1998 in a tiny edition of 30. Luckily for the rest of the world, this was re-released as a vinyl double album on Hell's Half Halo the same year in more accessible quantities.

The Lavender Head 1.1.1.2-2.1.2.2

Gate - The Lavender Head v3

Michael Morley on a CD, recorded live and released on Precious Metal in 2001.

The Lavender Head v3

Gate - 3M

The single that wasn't on the Golden compilation. Not surprising given that it came out five years later ...

7" released on Tonschacht in 2001.

3M

Michael Morley - CNDYSYS / STPHNSYS

A couple of years ago, Even More Important Records released a series of lathes in tiny quantities. Of course, they sold out very quickly. In what is the greatest middle finger to the digital format, they put them for download at the meagre cost of $1,000 each. Makes me smile every time I think about it.

7" lathe released on Even More Important Records in an edition of 20 in 2014.

CNDYSYS / STPHNSYS

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