Amnesty, Abolition, Cruelty, Torture, Violence; Paperback Book - VG Used condition
Survey of torture practices and cruelty to prisoners country by country around the world, with a global program for its abolition, appendices, medical ethics.
Experimental, Noise, Industrial, Dark, Death, Doom, Abstract, Black, Metal; Paperback Magazine (A5 format) - New
Noise Receptor Journal continues its adventures into the physical world, where this print venture constitutes the physical manifestation of the Noise Receptor blog, but also contains interview and art content to differentiate it from the already published web-based reviews. CONTENT Long-form interviews with: Moral Order, Post Scriptvm & Total Black & Nordvargr (30+ year/career spanning interview). Detailed report / photos of the Dominion of Flesh: 5 Years of Cloister Recordings festival. Reviews: 50+ detailed reviews (ambient/ industrial/ experimental / power electronics etc.). Artwork: Original cover artwork + review section artwork by Nordvargr.
Electronic, Experimental, Musique Concrete, Contemporary, Classical, Melbourne, Netherlands; CD - Ex Used condition
Continuity 3 (2002) for percussion and computer uses transformations both of performing technique and of the sound itself to explore relationships between continuous and discontinuous textures and structures. The use of only three metallic sound-sources does indeed create a sense of continuity and coherence, whose converse is to be found in the constantly changing electronic refractions to which the sounds are subjected. The overall effect is of an extension of the idea of resonance, so that as the metallic bodies are struck and resonate, they in turn serve to "excite" the virtual resonating body in the computer, one which is no longer tied to rigid physical objects and natural decays. Both in its adherence to a carefully selected vocabulary of sounds produced by bodies in motion and in its sense of dramatic timing, Continuity 3 seems to continue the musique concrète tradition exemplified most memorably in the work of composers like Pierre Henry, Bernard Parmegiani, and François Bayle. The fact that it is performed in real time by a percussionist and a computer running Max/MSP is a measure of how profoundly the practice of electronic music has changed as a result of the accelerating development of digital technology. At the same time, the lessons it draws from musique concrète, a music composed with magnetic tape and razor blades, is witness to the fact that the best of that music was in no way restricted by what we can now view as rudimentary and fearsomely time-consuming methods, but has, and will no doubt continue to have, many subtle and sophisticated things to tell us about the art of sound-composition. The percussionist Timothy Phillips plays with and against the distorted images of his own sounds as if engaged in the almost subliminal interactions of chamber music.
Experimental, Abstract, Electronic, Industrial, Noise, Pan Sonic, Mika Vainio; Limited Edition (300 copies) Double White Vinyl LP (2014) - Ex Used condition
Where Pan Sonic succeed in their work, both here and elsewhere, is in the subtle bridging of discipline and the impromptu. They're somewhere between chaos and order, setting out rigid backbones to tracks, some of which harken back to mechanized sounds that mirror the earliest drum machines or synthesized drums. From there it resembles a battle between ship and wave, with both sides winning out at various junctures. Their use of repetition was chiseled down to a fine art by this point, and listening to them use it on a track such as the sprawling "11'03" is a fascinating experience—this isn't repetition to get lost in, to transport you away. It's there to drag you in, to keep you alert. It's the direct opposite of krautrock dreams or techno fantasias, even though roots of those genres can be found across Pan Sonic's output. Instead this is a nightmarish vision of the everyday, a stark and arresting vision of existence that spews out humanity's ugliness across a mixing board and a mesh of wires. Limited Edition 300 copies
Electronic, Noise, Harsh, Experimental, Industrial, Hospital Productions; Limited Edition Vinyl LP - Ex Used condition
The 2008 (Hospital Productions) debut full length LP from Brooklyn's Yellow Tears. Yellow Tears features members of Halflings and provides a diverse industrial noise collage. Painful and reflective abuse covers the hands, the face. With a wide hole, guitars, junk, and electricity are swallowed and slurped up with gargling enthusiasm. Compositions raise questions and provide little of answers - short tracks slide through, under and between. Inventive and bizarre while following the tradition of perverse industrial fetishism.
Electronic, Experimental, Industrial, Noise, Ambient, Techno, Drone; 12" Vinyl EP - Ex Used condition
An amazing record...Gigantic slow drone, glistening chromed out groove, vocal manipulations fused to powerful electronics. Acid rain with molten thunder. Later, light kicks come onto the scene. Slinky electronics follow closely with echoes in the distance. Gusts of dust develops into a slushy mud storm. Brutal.
Black Metal, Documentary, Pagan, Mayhem, Burzum, Darkthrone, Norway; Limited Edition 2 x DVD set (2010) - New
There has been more written in books/magazines and visually documented on film about the rise of black metal in the late '80s/early '90s than most would care to shake a stick at, much less a scythe. And almost all of it revolves around the infamous series of events that coincided with the rise of blasphemous form in Norway during the early '90s, including the anti-Christian/pro-Pagan rash of church burnings and MAYHEM's macabre carnival of murder and suicide. The difference with "Until the Light Takes Us" is that it serves at once as a history lesson, cultural treatise, and artistic statement during its 93 minutes, doing so without losing the viewer in a haze of minutiae or purposeless sensationalism. It also pays off by allowing people like Fenriz (DARKTHRONE) to offer an insightful view into the historical/musical side and the ever-controversial Varg Vikernes (BURZUM) to offer a lucid, downright logical explanation of the cultural, heritage-based appeal of the subgenre without spiraling into rants of an overtly National Socialist nature. A range of other scene stalwarts, such as IMMORTAL's Demonaz and Abbath and the ubiquitous Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg (ex-MAYHEM, et al), discuss their views of the personalities involved and the gruesome fates that befell people like Euronymous and Dead, as well as the artistically significant strides made in a Scandinavian region that gave birth to seminal acts like BATHORY, MAYHEM, IMMORTAL, SATYRICON, DARKTHRONE, ULVER, and BURZUM.
The limited two-disc DVD edition of "Until the Light Takes Us" offers the best bang for the BM junkie's buck. Included across both discs are outtakes, deleted scenes, and visits with several black metal musicians not featured in the film, including Ted "Nocturno Culto" Skjellum (DARKTHRONE) and Jon Necrobutcher (MAYHEM) and additional conversations with the movie's "stars." The 45-minute class on the history of black metal taught by Professor Fenriz on Disc 2 is the cake taker. It is difficult to make a DVD that reinvents the story of the Norwegian metal movement and "Until the Light Takes Us" doesn't do it either, but it sure as hell tells the tale from some different angles in a way that makes it a sweepingly gratifying film experience and a mandatory purchase for the curious and the devoted.
Tasmania, Noise Rock, Shoegaze, Classic, Indie, Unstable Ape; CD (1998) - Ex Used condition
Beacon of Hope is noise rock for sure – something like a cross between crazy shoegaze with mad industrial rock. And the entire album sounds as heavy storm weather arranged for angry vocals and furious guitars. If you want to know what kind of music may come out of the musical hell of 90's Tasmania, then Sea Scouts are your band. Their sound is never too little and almost always too much.
Scientists, Various Artists, Monomen, Philisteins, Mudhoney, Sunset Strip, Cheater Slicks, Rock n Roll, Punk, Australian; CD Compilation, Dog Meat Records (1993) CD
TRACKLIST
-Cheater Slicks Set It On Fire 3:13
–Honeymoon Killers* Murderess In A Purple Dress 2:15
–Monomen* Swampland 4:39
–Stump Wizards* Bet Ya Lyin' 2:12
–Star Spangled Banana Frantic Romantic 3:12
–Walkingseeds* Nitro 3:38
–Mudhoney We Had Love 4:40
–Sugar Shack (2) Hell Beach 1:38
–Vertigo (12) Pissed On Another Planet 3:16
–Philisteins* Teenage Dreamer 2:39
–Laughing Hyenas Solid Gold Hell 3:36
–The Sunset Strip It Must Be Nice 4:19
EBM, Techno, Experimental, Electronic, Industrial, Noise; Limited Numbered Edition EP - Ex Used condition
After an acclaimed tour opening for Nitzer Ebb in North America and a prolific production for Desire Records, //TENSE// is back in their creepy studio and the result is a constellation of brooding synth bass lines, pounding electronic drum pad sounds, movie samples and distorted vocals that sound pitch perfect underneath all of the madness. To have an accurate idea of what we are talking about, imagine that Snake Plissken never escaped New York and he started an electro body music band with The Duke. Then, youare almost close to. //TENSE// are definitely bringing back to life the earlier days of EBM, in a funky-industrial mixture that is so close to the shiny mid 80s period of Cabaret Voltaire or earlier Ministry, think early Wax Trax-era US industrial (Ministry, Skinny Puppy) crossed with the more minimal european wave sound (Absolute Body Control, A Split - Second). Limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies with 2 inserts.
Techno, Industrial, Electronic, Experimental; Clear Vinyl 12" Single - Ex Used condition (Cover has fingerprint marks - Vinyl Ex)
Kerridge was subsequently further welcomed into the fold of fresh and forward thinking, techno-not-techno producers with the Waiting For Love 1-4 EP, released through Karl O’Connor’s Downwards imprint earlier this year. The Englishman will continue his dalliance with Downwards with this EP entitled From The Shadows That Melt The Flesh.
