Noise /
Gesamtkunstwerk - Dokument 81-86
Incredible release!! This ultra-deluxe leather-bound box set comes in a cross-like holder for the five Vinyl discs and also includes a DVD with two outstanding live-performances from 1982 and 1984 plus a large poster,10 postcards, a metal enamel-badge as well as an extensive 36-page booklet illustrated with archive photos of Laibach's hometown Trbovlje.The Box focusses on Laibach's early years as a provocative performance-music-and-multimedia-group and includes early studio and unreleased…
Vital 1983-89
Grim is an absolutely amazing, almost skizophrenic and obscure power-electronics and noise-one-man project of Jun Konagaya. Jun’s sound change its mood and athmosphere in seconds. From extreme harsh and hard power electronic noise-walls to ingenious folk-songs and tunes as you know it from Charles Manson.In the very early 80s Jun formed White Hospital together with Tomosada Kuwabara. They released one album called "Holocaust" in 1984 and split. At that time Jun had already released the „Vital“ T…
Die Arbeiter von Wien
'The third part in Jupitter-Larsen's series of old trade union / battle songs follows Internationale (Banned Production 2010) and Solidarity CD (Banned Production 2010). Written by the Viennese lyricist and essayist Fritz Brügel, presumably in the late 1920s, this piece deals with the events during the so-called July Revolt in the capital of Austria on July 15, 1927, caused by a court verdict which acquitted three members of the right-wing Frontkmpfervereinigung Deutsch-Österreichs (the sa…
Industrial Murder / Menstrual Bleeding
Another classic album reissued by Phage Tapes and R.O.N.F. Records. An early work of Maurizio Bianchi recorded at Mectpyo Studio in 1981 and originally released by Banned Productions (US) back in 1992 as a vinyl LP. CD packaged in beautiful 5 colour screen printed arigato packs. 2 tracks totalling. 50 minutes in length. Limited edition of 300 copies. As with any early 80’s Bianchi this comes highly recommended.
As loud as possible: the noise culture magazine - 1
As Loud As Possible is a dense, perfect-bound UK-based magazine that debuted in late fall of 2010 to explore Noise music and culture with articles, interviews and reviews with both seminal and newly emerging sound artists that specialize in atonal sonic brutality. With ear-splitting frequencies and crumbling avalanches of layered sound, harsh noise is a provocative brand of sound art that frequently fascinates as much as it alienates. But in defence of this raging racket, I will say that Noise i…
Obitorio Veneto
conceived by artist Nico Vascellari as contribution to the Diedrich Diedrichsen-curated exhibition Rock Scissors Paper at Kunsthaus Graz. Lago Morto is “about things that casting calls usually exclude -- targeted aggression, unpredictable social effects and local politics.” The band performed for fifteen days in Vittorio Veneto in nonmusical venues such as bars, hotels, pizzeriaa, laundrettes, video stores etc. All fourteen of the band’s songs are on the CD. The DVD contains a video from each of…
Cenotaph
Two new pieces based around reel-to-reel loops, electronics & metal junk. Maximalism meets minimalism. (label press) Neato little single from one of Weirdo's compatriots in Sweden, Mattias. Loops, electronics, junk, tapes, etc. An array of fixed oscillator tones is suddenly attacked by a dog barking at a sliding variety of speeds. On the flip, some car crashes that GX Jupitter Larsen would surely enjoy. But the way the loops interact with each other isn't quite so muscular/American, which is a f…
Split
“A transatlantic meeting of two artists, each mixing concrete and industrial music in ways entirely different from one another.”
Yaho-Niwa
Masami Akita alias Merzbow, the king of noise music, the defender of the vegan cause, the animals lover is coming back with a cosmic and devastating magma, a spinning metal tapestry-work with loops of echoes in a whale rutting way. As usual, to be listened to very loudly. Mix realized at Munemihouse in Tokyo during the month of April in 2011.
Guya / Greed
Second official release from CX records, Italy. “Guya” new and unreleased track from the master of japanese noise Masami Akita, 18 minutes of noise bliss, a powerful sonic trip structured by feedbacks, digital and analog electronics. A devastating masterpiece. 3 new tracks recorded, composed and mixed in Berlin, Rome and Tokyo by Cris X/Cristiano Luciani in collaboration with underground japanese musicians, Keiko Higuchi (vocals, piano, lyrics) and Sachiko (vocals, electronics): a dark and visi…
KRMN
Working with the same source material, sound artists Maurizio Bianchi & Francisco Lopez create individual works produced from the impartial de-oxidation of sonorous carbon-containing modular compounds. "'KRMN-FL' and 'KRMN-MB' were both created with the same original source materials, jointly created by Maurizio Bianchi and Francisco Lopez.""Produced from the partial oxidation of carbon-containing compounds, carbon monoxide is a highly toxic gas and has no odor or color. It is the most common ty…
Technology-X
Mirror Tapes present a stunning issue of unreleased, archival work from notorious electronic noise pioneer, Maurizio Bianchi. 'Technology-X' was salvaged from tapes dating to 1981 and carefully restored and remastered for cassette by Edward Sol of Quasi Pop records, faithfully representing MB's crushing dynamics and incredibly visceral textures.
OIRT EMO-DNE
Previously unreleased private cassette from February 1981 containing sound sketches to shape the future 'Endometrio'. While the 'EMO-DNE' track bears some basic resemblances with Endometrio's 'Primo Ciclo', the 'OIRT' track sounds significantly different in the labyrinth of MB's creative processes. The flaws and distresses of the original tape give intriguing textures and details to the recordings which stand well on their own beyond being 'Endometrio' in embryonic form, and towards much …
Symphony For A Genocide
Near-exact reproduction of the original Sterile Records release, including hand-stamped labels and inserts just like the 1981 issue. M.B., aka Maurizio Bianchi, has enjoyed a deserved renaissance in recent times as a new generation discovers his charred brand of industrial noise, particularly the artist's formative early 80's period before he disappeared in pursuit of religion. In the ensuing years, many of these early records became prized collector objects, garnering hundreds of dollars…
Attache à ton esprit un éternel bourreau
"no dynamics, no change, no development, no ideas" Nothing is progress. Everything repeats itself endlessly and nothing stands out as important. Nothing more should be undertaken. We will never arrive at the final destination . The truth is over , comes the loneliness . Two cohesive tracks of total static harsh noise, crusting, crushing, crackling of 14 minutes each by the master of the HNW Vomir . No graphics , text only in a deluxe silver silkscreen on black cardboard sleeve. Edition of 99 cop…
Gills cut into woman
"Terrifying monster of the ages raging with pent-up passions! ...with every man his mortal enemy ...and a woman's beauty his prey! Could only her beauty tame its savage fury?""...forbidden depths!" Creature libertinage; voyeur of the women's legs enveloped in dark waters. The hosiery has been cast aside in exchange for a one-piece to enter the watery depths, setting the stage for obsessive creature tendencies targeted toward the shapes of Kay Lawrence, Helen Dobson, and Marcia Barton. Sam McKi…
Self Title
There are no words to say how amazing the Heinz Hopf's debut album is. They are a harsh noise duo consisting of Matthias Andersson and Dan Johansson. The first is the mind behind the label Release the bats, and the second is the man behind the moniker Sewer Election. The result is 32 minutes of pure, brutal and uncompromising harsh noise. Comparisons with Incapacitants is too easy, their love of the Japanese noise is too evident. Comparisons that do not lead to the cloning of a sound. Thei…
Vibrant New Age
Sadly (for us left coasters), in November Ms Leyna Noel aka Psychic Reality decamped from SF to NYC, but before packing up her every worldly possession and road-tripping trans-America she eked out a sliver of precious time to hole up in the studio with Phil Manley (Trans Am, Jonas Reinhardt, etc) and record her long-awaited debut full-length on thick 2 inch tape. Vibrant New Age is the result. The name says it all. But Noel’s New Age is not the 80’s redux fad of healing crystals, pastel fades, d…
True Form
Lettera22 is a new project from Riccardo Mazza and Matteo Castro (of WW and Nico Vascellari fame). Influenced by the contest of their everyday living in a place compressed between countries, mountains and factories, their sight points directly to men, machines, fields.Tape loops, field recordings and feedbacks melted in a unique form by violent, dinamic and noisy structures. Blind fury moments in contrast with cavernous concrete parts give us the sound of desolation landings. What was concrete b…
one bird two bird
Sold out at source, few copies available: Merzbow, Mats Gustafsson and Jim O'Rourke, legendary figures of experimental music, meet in the studio in Tokyo, 2009, to create this LP-only release of "face-melting intensity". Three titans of experimental music with more than three decades of experience clashing together for a monster studio session in Tokyo, 2009, resulting in two blistering sides of wax full of face-melting intensity."-Editions Mego