Experimental, Noise, Electronic, Power Electronics, Limited Edition, Steve Albini, Peter Sotos; Vinyl LP - Ex Used condition
2009 release. Recorded in 1995 by Steve Albini and William Bennett in Chicago, Quality Time, marked the end of the mid-period Whitehouse with an album containing the original version of the notorious ''Just Like A Cunt'' featuring Philip Best on vocals, and the indescribably disturbing ''Baby.'' Also features the beautiful cover artwork by Trevor Brown.
From the cover:
Warning
Extreme electronic music : Please acquire with due caution
Limited edition of 250 hand-numbered copies on the cardboard insert. Experimental, Electronic, Noise, Power Electronics; Vinyl LP - Ex Used condition
This is pre-Burmuda Drain Prurient and hence it's pretty fucking gristly throughout, ranging from excoriating noise blasts ('People Dressed In Disguises') to dank ceramic drones ('People Wear Masks'), and wretched violence ('Severed Penises Beaten Against Her Statue'). "Dedicated to Attis who felt compelled to castrate himself."
Experimental, Dark Wave, Dark Ambient, Noise, Electronic; Vinyl LP - Ex Used condition
When Cold Cave embarked on their first UK tour in 2009 one of the most sought after pieces of merchandise was an exclusive split release with Prurient limited to just 100 copies on Cassette. Hospital Productions have mercifully pressed up the tracks from the tape - plus one additional cut exclusive to this LP to satisfy the vinyl vulture's appetite. In stark comparison to the glam-electro melancholy of 'Love Comes Close', this is a collection of incredible bleak and isolated dark ambience, almost entirely beat-less (except for one short passage laced with doomy kicks) where vocals are noticeably absent too, save a shadowy undertone of malnourished groans and gloomy exhortations. The mood is oppressively dystopian and depressed, which should be taken as a warning to anyone on the brink of it!
Experimental, Electronic, Power Electronics, Noise, Dark; Vinyl LP - Ex Used condition
Full length LP. Sexual-psychosis, dark power electronics. For those devoted.
Mad Max, Cult, Australian, Soundtrack, Score, Rare; CD - Ex Used condition
This is the original first 1993 CD release of the Original Sound Track to the original 1979 Mad Max film, soundtrack created by Brian May. Released on US label Varese Sarabande. Very rare CD release in Ex Used condition.
Kawabata Makoto, Acid Mothers Temple, Japanese, Japanoise, Psych, Noise, Experimental, Drone, Electronic, Rock; CD - Ex Used condition
Cosmogonic rockin' project from Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple), featuring endless suspended drone electronic textures. This one represents the contemplative eerie side of Kawabata Makoto musical universe
Japanese, Japanoise, Noise, Experimental, Avant-garde, Electronic, Rock; CD - Ex Used condition
1st album in 1997 under the solo name of Seiichi Yamamoto, the leading expert in experimental music. Includes a total of 10 songs with an avant-garde sound world centered on noise guitar sound, which is more experimental than the band.
Japanese, Japanoise, Psych, Noise, Krautrock, Progressive, Rock; CD - Ex Used condition
The album includes liner notes by Damo Suzuki (ex. Can). ‘Dream of Liquid’ was created for Mandog’s first UK tour held in June 2011 and mastered by Souichiro Nakamura, who mastered recordings by a number of artists such as Yura Yura Teikoku and Guitar Wolf. The line-up of the band for this album is Keiichi Miyashita (the founder of Mandog, Godman, Wabo-Chao), Akira Kikuchi (Kawaguchi Masami’s New Rock Syndicate) and Masataka Fujikake (Shibusashirazu, ex. Zeni Geva).
"the ensemble playing here veers from frenetic ecstasy, like a super-charged soft machine, to mournful synth-dressed marches which recall mid 70s giants of progressive searching like hatfield of the north and that other wyatt project matching mole. the guitar/synth/bass/drum set up nails each piece to the floor with retro stylings that also point to a future which can only be imagined whilst at the heights of humanist thinking." Rough Trade
Electronic, Experimental, Drone, Folk, Japanese, Japan, Psych, Masaki Batoh, Ghost; CD - Ex Used condition
Brain pulse music is made using a stereotypically goofy-looking contraption, one that features a wired headset and a readout monitor on a cart. If someone told me it was an object retrieved from Nikola Tesla's laboratory, I might believe them. Brain pulse music was initially conceived to treat patients with "congenital abnormality of the cerebral nervous system." It is generated via a device that consists of a headpiece, goggles, and a "motherboard." Brain waves are sent via radio to the computer, which translates them into wave pulses and then into sound. Batoh had a Brain pulse machine machine created for this project, which transformed from an experimental endeavor to a therapeutic one in the wake of the earthquake. The seven tracks on Brain pulse music were prayers and requiems, according to Batoh. Those words suggest a projected empathy to the victims; listening to Brain pulse music, though, it seems just as likely that the album was a vehicle through which Batoh and his collaborators coped with the devastation around them. Certainly it's difficult to imagine the discordant reeds of "Kumano Codex 1" or the morphing digital crevasses of "Aiki No Okami" being of much use to the injured or grieving, but I can absolutely imagine that long, meditative pieces here were salves for their creators.
Acid Mothers Temple, Psychedelic, Japanese, Japanoise, Noise, Experimental; CD - Ex Used condition
This newest solo outing from Kawabata Makoto is very different from most Acid Mothers Temple records, however. Eschewing guitars almost completely, this album features three long pieces of subtly shifting electronic drones and vocal loops. "I'm In Your Inner Most" is a psychedelic drone journey to the center of your mind. Makoto pushes the distortion on his electric organ, and fills out the texture with synthesizers, violins and a female vocal sample that randomly fades in and out of the mix. Not very easily digestible at first, upon repeated listenings you begin to sense the true cosmic transendence of his music. LaMonte Young's influence can be heard in the first track - a long, shape-shifting high-pitched squeal that cleanses the listener's mind of all thought, leaving only the rapturous sensation of sound. The second track begins with the same drone, but adds delightfully cosmic keyboard arpeggios and cyclical melodies. Even throughout the beautiful melodic sections, Makoto continues to push the noise and percussive distortion so that the listener remains in a completely trancelike state while investigating the astral worlds that the keyboards usher you through. Shades of Tangerine Dream and Terry Riley become apparent towards the end of this track, as the synthesizer loops take prominence. The third track "Oculation (remix version)" contains the same organ tones and repetitive synthesizers as the first two tracks, but adds some atonal guitar feedback into the mix. "I'm In Your Inner Most" is definitely an album that requires active listening to enjoy......
Electronic, Experimental, Jazz, Bill Laswell, Toshinori Kondo, Drum 'n bass; CD - Ex Used condition
This has to be one of the best future jazz releases. A fantastic fusion of drum'n'bass, trip hop and Toshinori Kondo's inimitable trumpet playing.
Japanese, Japanoise, Noise, Psych, Experimental, Rock; CD - Ex Used condition
In its original form this album dates back to the early days of Melt Banana, seeing an initial release in 1994 on British cassette label Chocolate Monk. This reissue is of the 1999 A-Zap edition and In typical Melt Banana fashion it crams 32 tracks into a brisk 28 minutes, exhibiting a sense of efficiency only previously found in Napalm Death's catalogue. The first side of the original cassette was occupied by a live recording made at an improvisation festival in 1992, while the second side was recorded to a multitrack cassette recorder in 1994. This is about as raw as the band have ever sounded: you can hear their raucous beginnings and their characteristically playful approach to blowing your ears off first finding its feet on this album. Punk rock has never sounded like so much fun - this is an absolute blast.
