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Buchenwald
The seminal classic first Whitehouse album released in 1980, one of the most important and influential records from the embryonic field of electronic and industrial music
G.I.L.
A collaboration between Ted Byrnes and Sam McKinlay (The Rita), G.I.L. is the debut full length from Cackle Car. Solo percussion tracks from Ted Byrnes emulate drag racer engines idling on nitro. Sam McKinlay then takes each track and translates them even further into a distorted cackling texture. A call and response divided into 10 parts, G.I.L. reaches points of near mania, and constantly shifts into a new direction as soon as it becomes comfortable.
Photography by Sam McKinlay.
Mastered by Gr…
As Loud As Possible
Tip! CD Edition, 8-panel digipak. The mid-90s were particularly abundant years for harsh noise, producing many albums which are now considered masterpieces. One of the most beloved classics from this period is "As Loud As Possible" by Incapacitants. Active since 1981, the duo of Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai found their stride in the early 90s and set off on an unrelenting course which produced countless gems of noise. Many of these have been well preserved and documented elsewhere, compiled …
Gascha Muche
Tip! *In process of stocking* An extended and remastered edition of this excellent tape (one of my favorites in the AAD catalog) that came out last year and sold out way too fast. When I first heard this material I immediately knew it was worthy of a CD edition, but we already had everything mapped out for a tape. So here it finally is, just in time for his East Coast Tour this Fall...and this is not an act you can afford to miss...truly one of the most unpredictable and interesting Harsh Noise …
Live At Sendai Contemporary Museum
Tip! *250 copies limited edition. In process of stocking. 2022 stock* Killer live performance from 1999. Energic high class harsh noise. Pressed on heavyweight half/half - black/milky clear with black, white and cokebottle green splatters 12".
Live In Taiwan 1995
Tip! *195 copies limited edition. In process of stocking. 2022 stock* Originally released on B side of Vaginal Disco cassette on MSNP now presented on a gorgeous transparent yellow vinyl. Recorded live at Art Demolition festival held in Taipei, Taiwan 1995. Mastered directly from Hi8 master tape.
Xerxes
*350 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* Retrospective boxset feat early Xerxes tape releases. Remastered by the artist himself. Harsh Noise at its finest! Deluxe boxset with 16 page booklet.
The Maternity Music
*300 copies limited edition. In process of stocking. 2022 stock* Produced and mixed at Xerxes Studio during October-November 1996. Reissue of tape originally released on Mother Savage Noise Productions in 1997. Brutal and crushing Harsh Noise.
Tapes 1991-1994
Tip! *500 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* Retrospective boxset from this Japanese Noise god. Includes his tapes, live and unreleased studio material from the same era. Deluxe boxset with 20page booklet.
Amlux
** Limited edition of 300 ** Certainly Amlux is a very cohesive and well-constructed piece; starting more softly than usual, the record slowly builds into the chaotic harsh sound that Merzbow is well known for, but this time adding some actual recognizable music elements (like rhythms), and constructing various surprisingly well-texture soundscapes, that made of this album a more focused and immersive piece that effectively keeps engaged during 40+ music of primal noise. Records like this are t…
Personalization
*40 copies limited edition* Rapid-fire assault of short-length cut-up, collage, and power electronics tracks. c27 cassette with 4-panel insert printed on lightweight red card stock.
Music For Nobody
*50 copies limited edition* Fervent & ecstatic UK electronics, a violent step towards self-acceptance. Mastered by Foul Prey. c44 cassette with 4-panel insert printed on heavyweight blue card stock.
Zouroku No Kibyou
* Deluxe edition in wooden box with color print on the lid that reproduces an amazing draw by Hideshi Hino. Contains vinyl with white label, 40 pages book with original photos from concerts complete with credits from every show, tape with rare 6 studio tracks recorded in April and June 1980, 9 postcards, a big poster, a numbered certificate in 99 copies plus live photo book (two A3 double face foldable), one Japanese sheet, a lucky triangle card, extensive liner notes by JOJO in Japanese and Eng…
Feedback Of N.M.S.
**Deluxe edition in wooden box with color print on the lid that reproduces original Alchemy cover. Contains double vinyl with white label, exclusive black t-shirt in premium cotton, unreleased A4 draw by Takuya Sakaguchi, a big poster, a numbered certificate in 99 copies plus six cards reproducing Takuya Sakaguchi's original drawings and adding an unreleased drawing and extensive notes in Japanese and English. ** Incapacitants are the best noise band to ever come out of Japan; the group was for…
s/t
*In process of stocking* "Piercing is my tape noise project and MOT is Paul van Trigt's. Paul is also a visual artist and colleague who has been responsible for making many AAD releases look good. We are a dream team and it was only a matter of time before we did something together showcasing our solo sound work.
Piercing's track is loosely based on traditional Egyptian funerary rituals..."Forbidden Wailing" is a reference to Egyptian women verbally expressing their grief and sadness during mour…
Initial Shock
*2022 stock.* Knurl sits among a very small handful of Canadian harsh noise acts to debut in the 90s and remain active to this day. Among the likes of Ryan Bloomer (Flatline Construct), Sam McKinlay (The Rita) and Pierre-Marc Tremblay (Âmes Sanglantes), Alan Bloor was the first. Coming off of playing in hardcore punk band Binge of Violence, Alan "found" noise by accident while doing performance art, but it had always been a source of interest for him: “While I was working in welding shops I used…
III
"Texture. A nice word, wouldn’t you say, settling into the audible dis-course with whiffs of sophistication, complexity, depth. The Oxford English Dictionary gives us "the constitution, structure, or substance of anything with regard to its constituents or formative elements". Merriam-Webster offers "the disposition or manner of union of the particles of a body or substance". And here, courtesy Barstool Mountain, III, a deep-dive into fractured reservoirs of textural dis-course, whiffs of smudge…
Seinsart : Live at Morden Tower
Tip! *Limited edition of 300 copies.* Live At Morden Tower was first released in 1983 and re-released many times through the years but never into CD format. Finally here comes the very first CD re-edition of such seminal work including as bonus also the track "Live At Anti-Fest".
Changez Les Blockeurs (1982), is the first true Noise LP of the modern era. Although Changez Les Blockeurs was undoubtedly hugely influential, TNB’s Live At Morden Tower cassette (1983) was perhaps even more so, just ab…
Electric Field In Parallel
‘Another stunning, definitive and beyond harsh release from the arguably the most forward thinking ultra-sonic-destruction unit in the world.’ - Brandon Hill
Seeing Trip’le
*Second edition of 50 copies* Dave Gilden & Richard Ramirez created Slave Labor in 1993. With this project they performed live in Houston at Deadline's Noisefest in the same year. Also, at this festival Gilden debut his project simply known as DEPRESS (not long after to be renamed Depress/Regress). Gilden & Ramirez continued to work together in Black Leather Jesus & Lingula. Although troubled as an individual, Gilden's work shows what an impact his legacy has left us as part of the American nois…