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Guilty Connector - Different Water

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CDr released on Utsu Tapes in 2000.

Different Water

Fear Konstruktor & Defektro - Split

Split cassette from the mighty Phage Tapes. One side by Japanese industrial trio Defektro and one side of noise electronics by Russian artist Fear Konstruktor. Released as a cassette in a run of 100 copies.

Fear Konstruktor & Defektro - Split

Electro Hippies - The Peaceville Recordings

Nifty compilation that brings together the "The Only Good Punk... Is A Dead One“ and "Live" LPs and the tracks from a couple of Peaceville compilations. It brought the curtain down on the Hippies but it's a great way to bow out.

CD released on Peaceville in 1989.

The Peaceville Recordings

Electro Hippies - Play Fast Or Die

Sometimes spending a day getting drunk seems like a good idea. If only I could, in those moments, project myself forward 24 hours to view the resulting shambles. Ugh. Anyway, Electro Hippies were a fucking great bunch of anarchogrinders from the North-West of England that burned brightly and briefly during the mid to late eighties.

12" released on Necrosis Records in 1989.

Play Fast Or Die

Lawnmower Deth - Ooh Crikey It's...

Yep. ABV increasing. Happiness quotient experiencing unprecedented rise in fortunes.

CD released on Earache in 1990.

Ooh Crikey, it's Sheepdip

Lawnmower Deth - Return Of The Fabulous Metal Bozo Clowns

So.

Work has been really shit. In an unremittingly shit way. I've just woken up from a 10 shift in the past 11 days stretch. I could carry on with what's been going on but then decided that rooting through the shelves and getting really drunk and playing what the fuck I felt like at ultra volume would cheer me right up. Guess what? It worked.

Channeling Bad Taste ... here's deth by rotating blades. Think deliberately shit cock out metal with deliberately great grind that channels Crass and Cardiacs.

CD released on Earache in 1990.

Bozo Clowns

Sewage & Sewer Election - From Lilla Paris To Björngatan In Full Moon

Sewer Election gets one long blast and Sewage has 13 short nasty outbursts on this split CDR. Both halves are solid. Released by L. White Records in 2003 in a limited edition of 200 copies.

Sewage & Sewer Election - From Lilla Paris To Björngatan In Full Moon

Guilty Connector - Devil's Grip / The Skull's Grief

Culinary kitchen clatter that is more in the style of manipulated field recording ... that is, until it gets utterly obliterated by righteous harsh noise.

A 16 minute CD released on Human Flower Records in 2004.

Devil's Grip / The Skull's Grief

Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg - Der Kleine Fritz In Klopstockland

Strange 2004 LP by the strange alter ego of Uli Rehberg, who may or may not be a member of Werkbund and Mechthild Von Leusch, released on his own Walter Ulbricht Schalfolien label. I've got nothing to help you with this one.

Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg - Der Kleine Fritz In Klopstockland

Guilty Connector - Conspiracy Of The Mankind / Cosmic Conspiracy

This is a splendidly mental idea! The label was the home of leftfield techno of the likes of µ-Ziq, Luke Vibert and Venetian Snares ... and then they release this by Kohei Nakagawa? It gives the sense of belonging but then he cuts everything up, puts it all in the "wrong" order, hammers his pots and pans, sautés in results in warm noise and presents the finished results on a bed of fried circuits. Christ knows what the label devotees thought of it. I've been prepping this series of posts for a month or so and I keep being drawn back to listen to this daily. I really like it.

7" released on Planet Mu in 2003.

Conspiracy Of The Mankind / Cosmic Conspiracy

Otani Yasuhiro & Aoki Tatsu - Dial

Yasuhiro Otani started as a jazz guitarist, but switched to digital music and noise in the late 1990s and currently works at IRCAM in Paris. He has a very good solo album that you ought to hear, though collaboration seems to be something he returns to. Otani has made albums with Jeff Parker (of Tortoise & Isotope 217), Otomo Yoshihide, Xavier Charles, Uchihashi Kazuhisa (of Ground Zero & Altered States) and this one with jazz bassist Aoki Tatsu.

Otani Yasuhiro & Aoki Tatsu - Dial

Guilty Connector - ''Brutality Of The Gloomy Days'' The Live Album [蛮行ライヴ]

Warning! All circuits were harmed in the recording of this release.

Recorded live in Belgium and Germany in 2001 and jointly released as a CDr on Off Black and Utsu Tapes in 2002.

Brutality Of The Gloomy Days

Brendan Walls - Outposts

Australian composer Brendan Walls might be best known as a member of confrontational noise-rock group Menstruation Sisters (along with Oren Ambarchi) and gentle ambient quartet Marsfield (with Andrew Chalk, Vikki Jackman and Robin Barnes), but he also recorded a small number of solo albums that are all worth your time. This one, probably his most obscure, came out in 2006 as a 300-copies LP on Christoph Heemann's Dom Bartwuchs label.

Brendan Walls - Outposts