Marginal UK electro-loner Hari Hardman has opted for the cassette format for Chairantus Roseus (HH021), the 21st release on his own Hari Hardman Produkts label. A C10 tape (five minutes per side) must be the shortest length of oxide you can get before you start producing an endless home-made tape loop. Almost unvarying analogue...
Very happy to receive three excellent discs from Hospital Productions, the NYC label and record store run by Prurient, and home to much that is good in the areas of extreme noise, Black Metal, and dark experimentation. Burning Star Core always gets unreserved recommendation from this magazine, and Inside The Shadow (HOS-212) is a...
Goodly bundle of items arrived in October 09 from the Swedish Kalligrammofon label, including two excellent seven-inchers…Solo Senza Testa offers us his unique take on dub music with Skull of Sade II (KALLIGRAMMOFON #11), an action which apparently continues a thread begun many years ago by its creator Jonas Rosén, when he recorded a...
We nearly overlooked this fine sound-art item from Scott Foust, who sent us Jungle Fever (SWILL RADIO 030), his first ever solo record which he published under his Foust! alias some months ago. It’s a single 77-minute piece which may have derived from field recordings in his home area of Amherst. but its origins...
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Another splendid Mort Aux Vaches package (MAV 062) which I find has been in the box since October and was released around September 2009. It’s by our good friend mudboy and over the course of five tracks seems to replicate one of his ceremonial live performances for the benefit of the good folks at...
Among all the prevailing efforts to reissue just about anything that moved from the international post-punk home-made cassette and DIY era, it’s a pleasure to find this astonishing curio from Mika Taanila who, in 1980-1981, did his bit for the Finnish underground, recording cassettes under the guise of Musiikkivyöry (literally, ‘music avalanche’). A disaffected...
From Paris, we received a CD from the French combo P.H.O.B.O.S. who make a decent attempt at realising a studio record that is intended to appeal to an audience of frowning grim-faced listeners besotted with noise, black metal, industrial and doom. The resultant Anœdipal (MEGATON MASS PRODUCTS PIKADON001CD) is not too bad, belting us...
Remarkably loud and forceful minimalist electronic tones from Acre on his Isolationist (ISOUNDERSCORE ) CD. Aaron Davis from Portland regards this as his most ambitious work, produced after a few years spent issuing very limited releases for CDR and tape labels; indeed a couple of tracks here were issued last year by the label...
Cremaster once again offer us the finest in Spanish minimal improvised noise, this time using feedback, pickups and something akin to a prepared guitar on Noranta Graus A L’Esquerra (MONOTYPE RECORDS mono 026). The duo of Ferran Fages and Alfredo Costa Monteiro have impressed us in the past with their all-acoustic records of rumbling...
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