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Mirage
Titters at esoteric dirty word usage aside, imagine my surprise when I attempted to load the Smegma wiki to fact check a couple of details and found myself face to face with a graphic picture of a smegma-pocked penis glaring at me on the non-band actual smegma page. Anecdotal though this story is, and junior highish besides, it kind of summed up better than any intellectual discussion could why Smegma is the perfect name for this band, and has been since Glamour Girl 1941 …
Being A Firefighter Isn\'t Just About Squirting Water
Ever since the days of Leonin and Perotin, people have been trying to pin down that special something that makes music so unique, with Andrew McKenzie of The Hafler Trio more ardent than most in his perusal. The lavishly packaged 5th instalment in this highly limited edition series of EP's, 'Being a Firefighter Isn't Just About Squirting Water' comprises a single 20 minute composition that is a dictionary definition of delicacy. Building upwards from spectral entities, …
Paris
Early 20th century brothel prostitute exploits and journeys in and out of the city streets. The augmentation of the libertine culture culminated into the earlier Degas brothel works, all the way to the later 'Paris' underground b/w hardcore magazines of the late 60s/early 70s. Scott Walker and his 'The Girls from the Streets'. The lust and vice that permeates the latest vinyl Black Air work from Gordon Ashworth (Oscillating Innards, Concern) and Sam McKinlay (The Rita, BT.HN., Vice Wea…
Y
a lovely project by Silentes records, a series of 26 cassette tapes centered around the interpretation on silent sound....Each tape is associated with a letter of the alphabet. Each letter is associated with an artist Each letter gives birth to an unwanted word The music is the artist's personal vision of silence 26 tapes by 26 italian acts. Each tape is hand numbered and limited to 100 copies. And the "M" letter is dedicated to Maurizio Bianchi aka MB, italian pioneer of noise music, orig…
E.G. Box 3
The 3rd (and final!) of the ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO – Boxes!Deluxe 4CD Box-set, limited to strictly 500 copies! This final box features 3 titles/4 discs: 1) "10 Años de Esplendor" double-CD, 2) "Mecanica del Trabajo Moderno", 3) "Control Remoto+"
Live At Henie Onstad Art Centre
Masami Akita’s Merzbow project is the biggest name in noise music. Few other artist enjoys the kind of respect within their fields as Merzbow does within the noise scene. If talking about noise music there is simply no way getting around Merzbow. Since 1979 Akita has worked relentlessly producing hundreds of records. He also has a long list of collaboraters: Richard Pinhas, Sunn 0))), Autechre, Pan Sonic, Jim O’Rourke, Boris, Gore Beyond Necropsy, Smegma and many others.Merzbow performed …
Eucalypse
The Tasmanian Blue Gum tree, Eucalyptus globulus, is native to Tasmania and southern Australia. Eucalyptus trees are uniquely suited to the varied ecologies of Australia, and there is no other continent more closely associated with one genus of tree. Its leaves are the food of choice of the koala, and its flowers attract bees and hummingbirds. Out of approximately 300 identified species, Blue Gums are now the eucalyptus most frequently found in other parts of the world. Throughout the tro…
The disappearing act
Gerritt runs the Misanthropic Agenda label out of Berkeley, California. Los Angeles resident John Wiese is a member of LHD and Sissy Spacek, and both have been freelance members of drone metal unit Sunn O))). 'The Disappearing Act' displays the pair's expertise in pulling transmissions from an elusive dimension utilizing elements of dynamics, noise, rhythm, silence and tone.'
Bats in the attic
Pica Disk is proud to present 'Bats in the Attic' - Kernen's solo debut full-length CD. This album has arrived to shatter Finland's pristine reputation. You thought they were a bunch of bland mobile-phone-touting Nords? Think again: from the swamps they came and to a swamp of blistering warped noise they now return. Active for years as Rulla, Tommi Kernen has been keener to raise hell on stage worldwide than to put in studio time. Though he's dirtied his hands as an Incapacitants and Pyma…
Sufiq
Those keeping a running count will know that Sufiq brings the Muslimgauze CD catalog into the triple digits. This mini-album is especially significant, as it extends the extraordinary productivity of Muslimgauze auteur Bryn Jones beyond his untimely passing. New Muslimgauze titles have emerged since, but each was scheduled prior to Jones’ death in January of 1999. Active to the end, Jones left behind a store of finished masters. Sufiq sees the first release of material from this impressiv…
The Squid
Dilloway & Yeh recorded live to 4-track cassette Summer 2006 in Ann Arbor. Yeh on violin, Dilloway on Tape loops of Yeh's Violin. Originally released on LP, this Digipak CD version includes a bonus track collage of the 3 tracks from the duo's out of print FALSE SPEECH cassette.
Chain Shot
Opening with the gyrating scum of a lint-filled wind turbine, Aaron Dilloway's Chain Shot is a go-nowhere-quick exploration of the bowels of an inferno. This might just be what it sounds like inside the volcano, the lava spluttering up on you before it hardens into its shiny metallic coating. With only tape loops, metal, and horns (and sometimes, it seems, metal on horns) the two side long pieces, "Chain Shot" and "Execution Dock" respectively, explore the ugly underbelly of noise before ju…
Birth of anolder, much more ugly Christ
'This shit is dark and I'm not talking about some fucking 'I sleep during the day' dark... I'm not talking some 'Cannibal Corpse shit - I'm a fucking mutilator' dark... And I'm not talking 'I'm a noise dude into black metal' dark I'm talking total fucking end of the world... shit... like... everyone is going to die and it's gonna be fucking terrible. Recorded in 2009 by sisters Roxann and Rachal Spikula while in a hospital doing some fucked up health study where all they could drink was …
From the Rites of Lazarus
FINALLY ARRIVED, Ultra limited edition of just 120 copies...Burial Hex is a composition cycle by Clay Ruby, featuring "Horror Electronics" to be executed in preparation for thee final mysteries coming in the twilight of this Kali Yuga; from 2004 to 2012, from the cemetery to the stars. From the Rites of Lazarus showcases three compositions dedicated to entry and fearless adventure through the spirit world. Recorded between 2007 and 2010, Burial Hex indulges in heady astral invocations and inten…
Rotted Afterlife
JUST ARRIVED! Rotted Afterlife is Josh Lay's new full length LP follow up to his highly acclaimed True Mask CD on Small Doses. Taking things into a darker terrain than True Mask, this album oozes into your psyche and stains the walls with depressive Death Industrial/Noise. Choosing to not use vocals on this one, but lets the multi-layered dungeon echoes and decayed noise do the talking. A sick and desperate soundtrack to a dying world. LP comes in a deluxe silver silkscreen on black cardboard sl…
20 Jazz Funk Greats
Drew Daniel explores the album's multiple agendas: a series of close readings of each song, with key concepts, strategies, and contexts.Previous writings about Throbbing Gristle have tended to dissolve into lurid half-truths about deviance on and offstage; their actual recordings, lyrics and images have received comparatively slim analysis. Yet their work informs a broad range of music which draws inspiration from TG's arcane, deliberately misleading example: not just 'industrial' music b…
Nobody's Ugly
Original, long out of print, few available: Whitehouse's Philip Best goes it alone on this outing as Consumer Electronics (although since William Bennett takes the production credit for the album, you pretty much take this as a standalone Whitehouse release in its own right). This time around Best's verbal abominations are left at home, and there's really nothing to indicate an explicit vocal presence over the course of the LP. Instead, you're treated to a symphonic tirade of distortion an…
Progress report: 1980-83
Finally here, this outstanding 7Lp-MetalBox with 60-page Book and T-Shirt & DVD is an ultimate collection of the Godfathers of Electronic Body Music, Hard Rythmic Electronics & Minimal Synth. Portion Control’s Work from 1980-1983 contains all official released and even unreleased Tapes on their own POR CON – Label incl. Gaining Momentum, Dining on the fresh, Private Illusions I&II, Video Soundtrack, Progress Report and more obscure and unreleased tracks from Portion Controls Archiv plus Co…
Viva Negativa! A Tribute to the New Blockaders Vol. III
Viva Negativa! A Tribute To The New Blockaders: Volume III: USA. Volume III in a series of UK-European-US and Japanese artists' tributes to the pioneering UK Noise group The New Blockaders including exclusive tracks by Z'ev, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Alan Courtis, Controlled Bleeding, Plethora, Macronympha, Prurient, Richard Ramirez, Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, Carlos Giffoni, AMK, Aaron Dilloway, Wolf Eyes, Idea Fire Company, Mnortham, Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke, Damion Romero, The Haters…
Viva Negativa! A Tribute To The New Blockaders Vol. II
Volume II in a series of UK / European / US and Japanese artists' tributes to the pioneering UK Noise group The New Blockaders including exclusive tracks by : Asmus Tietchens, RLW, Achim Wollscheid, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Sudden Infant, Dave Philips, Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Kommissar Hjuler, Mama Baer, Freiband, Vortex Campaign, Grunt, Lasse Marhaug, Jerome Noetinger, Christian Renou, Pita, Giancarlo Toniutti, Zbigniew Karkowski, Alexei Borisov, Cisfinitum, etc. Artwork by Richa…