Electronic, Experimental, Industrial, Techno, Noise; Limited Edition (500 copies) Vinyl LP - Ex Used condition
With 'Referèndum' Exoteric Continent draws us into the awkward spaces and styles around techno and noise's shifting, jagged borders, using drums, percussion, magnetic tape and synthesisers to outline nine atonal and enigmatic silhouettes. Ranging from the creeping slow techno misshape of 'Percentages' thru the sagging chamber feeling of 'Posicions', to the Soisong-like gamelan tones of 'Transició', and over to the kinky industrial swing instincts of 'La Mirada Llarga', he mixes rugged structures with stranger, keening electronics in the insectoid logic of 'Autoritat', and the rubbled electro-acoustic texturhythm of 'Agrupació Civil' to forge a fractious, unstable brace of noise techno that sits somewhere between classic Pan Sonic and his Hospital lablemate Alberich.
Punk, Oi!, Street Punk, UK; Various Artists Compilation Vinyl LP (1982) - VG Used condition
Pretty cool label compilation by Beat the System/Lightbeat Records with their house bands and in 1982 they have published of those their first 7Inches and pressed some here plus a few rare tracks I think. The result can be compared with other UK slabs of that time and that were some. Fourteen, two from each band, spiky short goodies which will not die out. Let's see what else I pack today at the buffet!
Industrial, Techno, Electronic, Experimental, Noise, Remixes; 12" Clear Vinyl 3 track Single - Ex Used condition
Violetshaped is a collaboration between Violet Poison and Berlin-based artist Shapednoise. This first installment in this series features remixes from Roly Porter (formerly of Vex'd), who electrocutes "The Lord Won't Forget" with spasmodic concrète jolts, Vatican Shadow aka Dominick Fernow tattooing your ear drum on "Delusory Parasitosis" with drum work almost approaching Cut Hands levels of focused ferocity, and Kangding Ray who rounds it all out with a grungy, pendulous re-carve of "The Oven."
Industrial, Ambient, Experimental, Noise, Michael Gira, Jarboe, Swans; Vinyl LP + poster and flier - Ex Used condition ('87 pressing)
Blood, Women, Roses (1987) was Michael Gira and Jarboe's SWANS side project's first release and featured vocals entirely by Jarboe, who had previously mainly been performing backing vocals. Many of the tracks on this album were covers of show tunes and other popular songs (for example "Cry Me a River" and "The Man I Love").
Experimental, Noise, Electronic, Guitar, Dark, Sweden; Limited Numbered edition (300 copies) Vinyl LP
Malign trades in a sense of depression and negativity that draws strength from the vacuum behind hope, vacillating forlorn, Loren Connors-like guitar melodies and rubbled shellac samples that recall The Caretaker with passages of fierce distortion and slurried atmospheric textures that project hellish images of waterboarding and abject terror on the mind. The guitar pieces are almost Jandek-like in their awkwardness, often morphing mid sentence into the kind of shuddering knots that Aaron Dilloway would be proud of, steadily toeing away hope in favour of full depressive immersion and feelings from the brink. Ultimately, though, the record wouldn’t be so convincing without its severe sense of sincerity, honestly conveying that pall of darkness without any ironic distance. It’s a proper downer in the best way.
Soundtrack, Film Score, Limited Edition, Coloured Vinyl, Death Waltz, Horror, Cult; Limited Edition (400 copies)
Jay Chattaway’s score to the sleazy 1980 horror flick Maniac is a great listen, with a certain amount of big dramatic arpeggiations, but also with plenty of rarer elements in the mix. Think eerie strings, flutes and discordant synth-stabs, arranged in an unpredictable and unsettling way. Limited edition of 400 transparent blue vinyl LPs, via Death Waltz.
Electronic, Noise, Experimental, Harsh, Ambient, Drone, Aaron Dilloway; Limited Edition Red Marble Vinyl - Ex Used condition
There seems to be a lot more control on Rotting Nepal than I've noticed previously, with some 'almost' delicate balancing of shortwave signals that are kept on the very edge of freefall distortion. The trapped rodent scream and alien growl of "Rotting Nepal 6" come together like an ugly melody and settles into what could happily pass as a Dalek beat before its overcome by distortion. "Rotting Nepal 1" is the highlight here, mixing up chopped and reverberated Nepalese speech samples and splinters of native instrumentation between subtle sandblasts of static. The piece has a rough dub production style of handmade echoes, clicks and distorts spiked with clicks of scrambled signal. Throughout the album there are rhythmic shreds of cloudy noise throughout the album that eventually explode from their controlling valves ending in messy static. Amidst the endless conveyor built of releases this is one solo Wolf Eyes release that's really worth scrabbling about for. Limited to 500 copies on 140gram red marbled vinyl.
Experimental, Noise, Dead Machines, John Weise, Bastard Noise, Harsh; (2008) Double LP Packaged in a foldout sleeve. - EX Used condition
When you play a gig on a Friday that just happens to be the thirteenth day of the month, is there really any other option? You gotta release it, man. And you gotta get that nice old school horror feel to the cover to make it complete. Would you believe me if I told you that's exactly what happened here? It's the truth. John Wiese, Damion Romero and the Dead Machines played a show at today's "it" venue Il Corral on January 13th 2006, Anarchy Moon boss Bob Bellerue was on hand to record it, and the rest is noise history. Pretty pretty packaging job on the sleeve too, 12"x40" screened semi-gatefold fully-scorchin' doodles all over. It hurts so good.
Electronic, Noise, Stephen O'Malley, Doom, Peter Rehberg, SunnO))), Pita, Mego; Double Vinyl LP = 7" single Limited Edition of 500 copies. - EX Used condition
IV presents the listener with a record of greater complexity, but just as much power to evoke as the more soundtrack-focussed work. Take ‘Paratrooper’, for instance. Its airborne cavalry pour forth what seems to be glowering and gutteral chant. At this, atonal guitars slash and swipe and a heavily processed drum sound pushes and hisses, piston-like. Somewhere, innocent bells try to ring out before being instantly suppressed - this is an album that feels heavy, dystopian. KTL's IV sees Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley and electronic artist Peter Rehberg team up with Jim O’Rourke on production duties for what is being described as their first studio album that exists without reference to accompanying visual stimuli.
Improv, Noise, Glitch, Electronic, Experimental, Canada, Montreal, Constellation, Silver Mt. Zion; Vinyl LP - Ex Used Condition with slight marking to open edge of sleeve.
The second full-length from this genre-defying duo is a somber and richly-detailed work that constructs a dystopic environment where the ‘natural’ and ‘organic’ are inseparable from electricities, radioactivities and the detritus of military-industrial technologies and materials. Through micro-recordings of metallic objects and resonances, field recordings, and raw filter-bank improvisations, Aden Evens and Ian Ilavsky (Sofa, Silver Mt. Zion) constructed a sonic landscape of polluted signal sources, weaving tentative, provisional signs of humanism into the mix by way of piano, organ and drums.
LP is pressed on 180g audiophile vinyl and comes in a thick printed jacket with credits insert.
Experimental, Noise, USA, Harsh, Electronic, Avant, Limited Edition; Vinyl LP re-issue (2016)
Founded in 1979, 'The Haters' are one of the earliest and most well-known acts in the modern US noise scene. The group is primarily the work of the Hollywood based media artist, writer, and filmmaker GX Jupitter-Larsen, accompanied by a constantly changing lineup of other "members," usually local experimental musicians and artists in whatever town in which a Haters performance happens to take place.
This record has been pressed on 140 gr black vinyl with black label and black inner sleeve and comes in a deluxe silver silkscreen on black cardboard sleeve with an original picture, limited to 199 copies w/insert.
Dark, Ambient, Heavy, Noise, Doom, Soundtrack, Score, Lars Von Trier, Antichrist, Cipher, Industrial; Vinyl LP - Ex Used condition
Originally released as limited CDR in 2013 on Oppressive Resistance Recordings, Cipher Productions have seen fit to reissue this on vinyl with all new artwork and 3 lengthy remixes appended for good measure. Thematically the album functions as a direct homage to to Lars Von Trier’s film ‘Antichrist’ (….or perhaps can be considered an alternate soundtrack of sorts?), and certainly manages to capture the mood of mental anguish and emotional desolation of the film. Sonically speaking this music found herein is far removed from what might be typically expected from either project, where ‘Nature Is Satan’s Church’ features industrial orientated drones and minimalist dark ambient soundscapes (…which then verges on the isolationist ambient side of things at times). In then tying back to its inspiration source, this minimalism has replicated and expanded upon the the harrowing and starkly minimalist sound design (…which is only fleetingly employed within ‘Antichrist’), while each of the 6 album track titles specifically replicate each of the chapter titles of the film.
