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Live At Club Lower Links October 13th, 1992 (DVD)
"Burning, screaming, terror assault on your ears. Hot wax on someone else's body - what more could you want? Once ya check this out, you'll never be able to save your desire for noise. More noise, roaring, raging noise. Noise!"
Kites Of Nephthys
Years in the making, the first full length album by Piercing follows releases on notable labels such as No Rent and Detachment Programs.
Output by this project has been somewhat limited and selective due to it's time consuming nature and nitpicky process of preparing loops derived from specific source sounds, which are then painstakingly shaped into melancholy and melodic tape degraded noise compositions that strive to put the listener in a palpably surreal or transcendent atmosphere. All of the…
Trench Trapped
Americanoise act Heat Signature return in 2025 with “Trench Trapped”, a new full-length assault for Input Error. Never-ending labyrinths of mud-caked tunnels and ditches are traversed and dissected one-by-one, and the first glimpse of enemy combatants along the way is met with rampant, clip-emptying fire. War is both hell and the unknown.
Additional mercenary support sounds are included from Keith Brewer, Ahlzagailzehugh, and Diaphragmatic.
Just Glittering/Idwal Fisher (Book)
Just Glittering and Idwal Fisher were two collaborative noise zines produced by Mark Wharton, featuring work by the genre’s finest exponents and fans. The first issues of Just Glittering appeared in the late 1990s, and the two zines went on to document a fertile decade of creative noise-making. Back then, you couldn’t walk past a pub in Leeds without hearing windows rattled by a passing Japanese noise artist or effects pedals looped into submission, whilst meat thermometers regularly disappeared…
Peoples Person
A nugget of gold originally released on cassette in 2017 on Team Boro Tapes, now finally on CD in a more generous quantity. Sluggish yet straight forward noise in the more rough Swedish school - any of these tracks would have fitted perfectly on comps such as Underground Sweden, Fuck Money Fuck Life, Piller Thriller etc - but there's just something slightly off with everything Peoples Person does, and therein lies the charm. A nasty brew for sure.
"The split with Stall Man was good and all but t…
C.O.T.H.
There's a slow dreamlike flow to this album. Broken sounds emanating out of nowhere, slithering along to a pulse of their own on a course set for utter depletion. The wild shifts, the timbre and textures will be familiar to anyone who's followed his output, but this is still something else. A restrained, somnambulant and perhaps even heartfelt piece of work.
Collection 001-010
Carrying on their longstanding dedication to the seminal output of Merzbow, Urashima returns with what is unquestionably their most ambitious release to date: “Collection 001-010”, a deluxe, 10 LP vinyl box set limited to 299 copies, gathering together the entirety of the project’s first ten releases, originally released in 1981. Encountering the band in its early incarnation of the duo of Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani, raw, exposed and bristling with energy, foreshadowing numerous trajector…
Statue Falls
Renowned for some beautiful guitar work, as Translucent Envelope, Portland based artist Bob Desaulniers explores the more abstract side of sound managing to hold together a sparkling synthesis of agitation and precision, detail and roughness, perfecting a formula that has already been leading phenomenal releases out on Chocolate Monk, among others.
Ultra Point Of Intersection Exist
*199 copies limited edition* Originally released in 1987, this album stands as a defining statement of the Japanese noise and industrial music scene - an unrelenting fusion of harsh and heavy electronics paired with mechanized rhythms. The brainchild of Ichiro Tsuji, Dissecting Table’s sonic assault exists in the same lineage as the dystopian brutality of Whitehouse, the mechanical terror of early SPK and the raw sonic deconstruction of early Einstürzende Neubauten. At the crossroads of noise, i…
Beyond The Valley Of The Tapes
Japanese noise artist Killer Bug aka Kazumoto Endo released this 2-CD set in December 2024 on the Berlin, Germany-based noise label Total Black. (Originally released in 2005).Contains 11 cut-up harsh noise tracks that haven't faded away after 20 years.
Lake Of Fire
Tip! Lake of Fire is the 11th studio album by American harsh noise artist Jason Crumer. It features deep textures and a carefully crafted palette of harsh frequencies, all set within a grand cinematic scope, with bold and decadent walls of sound, true to the spirit of rock'n'roll. Rawness, immediacy, intensity, and brutality surge through every moment.
Phantasmagoria
Phantasmagoria is a landmark release from Japan’s legendary noise collective C.C.C.C. Originally unleashed in the early '90s, this album represents the group’s masterful balance between overwhelming sonic force and hypnotic, psychedelic intensity.
Led by Hiroshi Hasegawa and fortified by the presence of Mayuko Hino, C.C.C.C. blended the raw power of Japanese harsh noise with elements of cosmic electronic music, creating a sound that resonates with the crushing density of Merzbow, the ecstatic di…
B-Semi Live: 24th May 1984
*199 copies limited edition* KontaktAudio presents the first-ever official release of the ultra rare and sought after B-Semi Live 24/5/1984 cassette, a rare and explosive document capturing a crucial moment in Japan’s underground noise and industrial music scene. Recorded at the legendary B-Semi venue in Tokyo, this performance brings together three pioneers - Merzbow, Null (K.K. Null), and Nord - delivering a raw, unfiltered onslaught of early Japanese noise music in its most intense form.
This…
Hatonal
Nobody feels the sound fracturing as Masami Akita, nobody understands noise better than Merzbow. This Japanese artist is for more than forty years the maximum exponent of a style that has been catalogued and denominated with perhaps, the most descriptive word of modern music. Noise can have very diverse connotations, however, when we transfer this term to the pleasure and enjoyment that a piece of music generates in the listener, when we treat non-music as music, we understand that sound express…
You Will Be Excluded From The Kingdom Of Heaven
*300 copies limited edition* "A new edition of the original statement first released by Nil By Mouth Records on cassette and immediately sold out. Old Europa Cafe is making available once again transmissions that refuse to be suppressed by the smothering hands of the seemingly ubiquitous audio platforms. Drawing inspiration from the forefathers of Power Electronics, but pushing the foundational doctrines into new territories, Terror Cell Unit are truly deacons shepherding over the flock of moder…
Shinsen Na Clitoris
*300 copies limited edition* Masonna is one of the early peeoners of Japanoise. This CD is the combined re-release of two classic first-era Masonna albums: Masonna Vs. Bananamara - very first vinyl release originally produced by Vanilla Records / Japan in 1989 and Shinsen Na Clitoris = 新鮮なクリトリス - very first CD release originally produced by Vanilla Records / Japan in 1990
Masonna sound is true harsh Japanoise but always inspired by Psychedelic-Music and mainly perfomred using distorted vocals, a…
Tämä On Suomelle
Vincent Dallas is one of the best things that happened to the noise underground in recent years, plain and simple. Passionate no frills approach harsh noise often reaching mesmerizing levels of intensity, always done with visionary talent, enthusiasm and love by a great guy. These recordings are fantastic, it's all I can say about them. They're possibly my favorite from Dries, and i've played these tracks over and over since he sent me the master.
''There was an idea, a purpose to forget everyth…
Enjoy The Pleasure
Finnish craftsman Moozzhead - active since '94, resurfaced with a vengeance in recent years after a long hiatus, releasing a string of flaming hot tapes on great labels. Here he offers five tracks of joyful and vibrant harsh noise, to take you back to those magic early 90s summer nights spent by the blue light of softcore tv transmissions.
Comes with two sex cards.
Midnight New Yoshikawa City
Two sidelong tracks of perfectly crafted psychedelic noise from the master Fumiyuki Nagura, truly legendary japanese noise artist of the 90s.
The Sound of Raspberry
Tip! “This is what we need! In these confused, populistic and fascist times — this is the jazz we need! Urgent! Dedicated! Radical! Unique-face-peeling-cutting- edge- and- totally-in-your-face-MF! This is all we need for a better living! Think… Borbetomagus, John Zorn, TG, Masami Akita, Hanatarash… this is it and yet, not at all alike!” - Mats Gustafsson "Absolutely blistering duo album. The sax sounds like it's laser-cutting its way through the atmosphere while the drums expand and contract the…