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Split
An inevitable and sensible split release between two of today's most unconventional projects, both consistently pushing the boundaries of contemporary Harsh Noise by fearlessly incorporating limitless experimentation drawn from tried-and-true tape music techniques, as well as aspects of electroacoustic and free improv.Both artists have a tendency to collect seemingly random and bizarre sources that are then crammed together into an elaborate found sound collage akin to a sonic puzzle. Each part …
Hack Conduit
Lo-fi wall noise muck from the mind of Canadian artist Barrett E. Lediard (Toanche Dwelling, Rotmans, Vast Field Magnetism, etc). Hack Conduit is the epitome of terms like "muddy" and "blown out", recorded straight to tape and sent directly to AAD headquarters on said tape in order to capture both tracks in all their filthy hiss-ridden authentic glory.3" disc with printed label & 3 panel cover art housed in polycase.
Helios
AAD warmly welcomes Tim Olive to the family. Canadian born but residing in Japan for many years, TO has been involved in experimental music spanning more than two decades and has collaborated with dozens of great international artists and labels alike. Armed with a minimal setup of metallic pickups, springs and scrap metal, TO has mastered his sound by amplifying acoustic objects that are then played like a free jazz musician tinkering with a pile of broken guitars.
Hunter Killer
2015 Disfathom-era multi-track recording with Mike Du Bose on vocals.
Mirror Aggressor State
On the heels of their F.O.A.D. LP and mid-west/east coast tour, a new full-length album from the Isaac Horne/Charlie Mumma/John Wiese trio line-up.
Fatal Event
*2024 stock. 42 copies limited edition* Power electronics and noise from the Italian master. The CDR is contained in a black cardboard envelope measuring 13x13 cm. about (250 grams thick) with a 10x10 cm sticker on the front. The cdr has a small sticker, and inside the envelope there is a photocopied insert printed on front and back in the format of miniposter of the dimensions of 22x44 cm. approximately (paper 100 gr. thick). Composed and performed by N. with feedback, space echo, analog filter…
Euroticon
*45 copies limited edition* Porno industrial power electronics from Italy. Edition with a real 1 cent Euro coin. The mini CD-R is contained in a high quality (300 gram) handmade red cardboard box. A figure printed in black and white on polyester (300 grams) is attached to the front of the package. A real 1 euro cent coin is attached to this figure.
Inside the package are contained:-a small polyester tag with the copy number-the mini CDR (with a sticker on it) placed in a paper bag on which a sti…
Bisturi
*40 copies limited edition* A single track from 2010 of one of the master from Italian death noise. A scalpel in your flesh! Edition in a special package with an original scalpel blade! The business card is contained in a 260 gram white textured cardboard envelope with leather effect. The cardboard envelope is printed on the front and back. Attached to the center of the main front is a scalpel blade, sealed in its original bag. The envelope is in turn contained in a single use blue nitrile glove…
Carefully Upon This Hour
AAD proudly presents "Carefully Upon This Hour", the follow up to muttering's 2022 cassette "Iron Angel, Please Keep Quiet". Subdued amp buzz and clattering acoustic objects echo in the distance of what sounds like a large decrepit room, gradually building up into a roaring thunderous mess of twisted scrap metal and feedback that abruptly submits to quieter reverberations...only to be disrupted with one last blast of abrasive rumbling junk noise.
Animal Motherfucker
At last, the debut full length CD by New Grasping Machina! This project has made quite a name for itself in recent years and should be familiar to most noise heads at this point, due to being so tirelessly active both live and recording wise. Luk Henderiks is an actual singer-songwriter in various actual bands playing actual music...however, the enthusiasm and consistent focus Luk puts into NGM makes it obvious this is also a big priority, as well as operations of their DIY-style CDr imprint Mec…
Spirit World
Prolepsis has been one of contemporary Harsh Noise's best kept secrets for the past couple of years, although i've done my best to put people on to the project, which is not easy considering their minimal online presence and short list of physical only self-released titles (that honestly tend to outshine a vast majority of hyped releases by more well known artists).
Until now this Michigan-based project has only been featured on AAD's "Life is Fucking Stupendous!" compilation, but the brief soni…
Sacred Heart of Reinvention
Wow, this is unreal -- the first full length album by Slacking on AAD? What a privilege to do this landmark release, which will surely be looked back on years from now as a crowning achievement for the label, in the same way that Creation Records must feel about being the one to have put out "Loveless". From the first time i heard this project i was stoked in a way i hadn't been since first discovering Harsh Noise. It was immediately apparent that i was to be in total support of this project as …
Playing The Flute Down Baltimore Pike
*50 copies limited edition* Dead Door Unit is the solo noise moniker of Ken Geiger, a prolific experimental and metal musician from NJ. Vocalist for the death metal band Blemish and one half of the junk noise duo Master Grave Services, Ken has been releasing high test tape noise as Dead Door Unit since 2022, and for years before that under his own initials. DDU is a sonic scrapheap of mangled degradation. Junkyard sampling, vertigo-inducing loops, and careening feedback tangle together in twiste…
Perverted Architect
Stripped-back harsh noise / death industrial from Finland’s underground. Lo-fi production recalls best of 90s noise, fans of Slaughter Productions take note…
Oersted
*Limited Edition of 299 copies. Black vinyl * Masami Akita's exploration of noise as a musical form has influenced generations of artists and reshaped the way we perceive sound in the context of contemporary music. Oersted stands as a testament to Merzbow's ongoing artistic evolution and his unwavering commitment to pushing sonic boundaries. This limited vinyl reissue, expertly remastered by the wizard of mastering, James Plotkin, with 299 copies available on black vinyl, is a must-have for coll…
The Spyked / Lamb Lays Down In Georgia
"The weave of events rises and falls creating an undulating flow like a living river of aural dramas."
46-minute program, handmade packagingJohn Olson, Max Julian Eastman, Creighton Jenkins
Abandon
Philadelphia-based K. Geiger is active under the guises of Dead Door Unit, Master Grave Services, and his imprint French Market Press producing ultra-limited noise tapes (often 7 copies or less) in unusual packaging that echoes labels like Sound Probe or SFCR. "Abandon" brings with it a refinement in style differentiating itself from early cassettes like "Laugh At The Devil". While I once described that release as reminiscent of an embryonic Prurient, this debut disc is both an evolution and a p…
Laugh At The Devil
Tip! *2024 reprint* Dead Door Unit is the alias of Northeastern US artist Ken Geiger. The project follows in an exploratory vein of tape-recorded junk noise and field recordings. "Laugh At The Devil" is a work raucously out-of-time, bringing to mind the murk of mid-aughts Hanson releases or even the obscure malice of Dom Fernow's earlier work. Geiger breeds a fresh perspective through destruction and reassembly; "desperation."
Freak-Out Your Friends!
35 minute live gig recorded at TUSK Festival, Gateshead Old Town Hall, Newcastle, England 2015 by Sam Grant. Very special Thanks to Lee Etherington.B-side contains entire gig backwards.This is possibly my favorite set I've ever performed.