THE BOYS NEXT DOOR - Next Door (Live Bootleg 1979), CD
(1994) An ideal for living CD, New
Live bootleg recording, recorded between two live shows in Sydney 1979, and The London Tavern in Melbourne 1979.
BODY/HEAD Coming Apart (2013); CD
(Matador) Kim Gordon and Bill Nace CD, New
Body/Head is the minimalist duo of ex-Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon and experimental guitarist Bill Nace. On 'Coming Apart', their intoxicating first full length, where both play guitar and Gordon sings, the duo treat a limited palette as a challenge, like the straitjacket a magician dons to prove he can break free.
Dry Lungs V (5) Various Artists; 2 x CD set
(1992) Packaged in a six-panel tall folder with liner notes, and housed inside a slip-case. Used
This is the US release of this amazing experimental V/A compilation from 1992 on Subterranean Records. Artists include: Controlled Bleeding, Etant Donnes, Fat Hacker, Masonna, Hijokaidan, Chris Moriarty, Cranioclast, Merzbow, Incapacitants, Violent Onsen Geisha, KK Null, and heaps more...28 tracks of pure experimental/industrial/noise royalty! So fucking awesome!
ENDLESS SMILE – Ten To Hope CD
Limited Edition CD, (1996)
Guitar-based experimental noise/drone band from Sweden. A noisy release from this Swedish group that comes in a standard clear tray jewel case with a tissue paper-like front card and a full color two sided tray card. Liner notes are on the back. Limited to 500 copies.
This is quite a brilliant release. 5 tracks in just over an hour. Hi frequency, psychedelic, bright swirling noise from this Swedish 5 piece. Traditional instruments (Guitar, Hurdy Gurdy, Bass, Drum machine etc) are manipulated and compressed into oblivion. This is real 'wall of noise' music. Like 'My Bloody Valentine' with the songs stripped away, leaving just the luscious blanket of sweet noise in the room. Highly enjoyable. limited to 500 copies on Swedish 'Releasing Eskimo' label.
PHONED NIL TRIO; Big Time Weepers (2 x 3" CDR)
Double 3" CDR (2011)
An awkward combination of harsh blasts, tape hiss, and modular synth attack. Massively bizarre in the best way. Collaboration between Peter J Woods and the men behind Dan of Earth and Lucky Bone. This 2011 release on FTAM Experimental label based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This is an amazing release for those who, like myself, are that way inclined.
XDUGEF; Retardant CD
CD (2005) Canned Beef Records
Xdugef has been making Noise since 2005 , an experimentalist and noisician from Los Angeles (USA), whose work is produced from found sources on the internet, from modified electronic toys, circuit bending and self made devices as well expensive button mashing and the occasional computer.His NOISE is comprised of sound bits slowed way down. Also incorporated are elements taken from recorded phone conversations and open mics and other found sounds as well as his own vocals. There is a certain fixation with samples that have been ‘slowed way down’, their low tonal pitch and elongation gives them rather monstrous properties. Plunderphonics meets harshnoise. Electronica meets raw and crude NOISE!
MURDEROUS VISION / KURU “Blood-Brain Barrier” Split CD
CD (2003) Somnambulant Corpse
Murderous Vision begins with six tracks of their increasingly bleak death industrial soundscapes. "Stumble Upon the Scene" opens with murky synths, manipulated vocal samples, and unusual percussive sounds; "A Body Left at the Corrigated Dock" runs 11+ minutes of rumbling distortion and feedback with harsh distorted vocals and pounding low-end in the distance; "Face of the Kill" is quieter and uses lots of thin, fragile distortion with a subtle loop repeating at times; "Crushed, Then Removed" follows similarly but kicks up the rhythmic pulse and aggression factor tenfold, also utilizing some blistering distorted vocal shouts that lend a power electronics feel to things; "4th Day Stench" continues in a very similar but even harsher manner; and "Baby, It Ain't No Sin" closes with an unusual attack of harsh noise with hyper obfuscated vocals and lots of vibrating movement. The feel is definitely rooted in death industrial, but everything from flowing dark ambient to blatant hash noise is suitably represented herein. Kuru offers up four tracks in about 20 minutes, 10 minutes or so less than what Murderous Vision threw out. "Landing of the Gods" is fairly harsh rising and falling tones and some chaotic bursts with delay; "Dreamwalker" uses hums and drones with some almost melodic ringing tones to create a softer, more minimal and expressive track; "Collective Meat" is a good mix of dark ambient and harsh textures, creating a brooding atmosphere that is curious in that the sounds suggest that you may be hearing things that aren't really there; "Contaminating Opposites" is far quieter than the other compositions, with some distant abrasive distortion and sweeping low-end synth undercurrents - very cool; and the closer, "Resolve Into Totem", is a brief piece that infuses some melodic synths (under light distortion) into the mix. The CD-R comes in a DVD case with excellent packaging with cover printed in bronze on metallic card.
