Aburadako ‎– "Aburadako" '83-'84 CD (1999)


Mastered-off-the-vinyl official discography (flexi/12"/comp/live) from one of Japan's more cerebral oldcore legends. Aburadako explored the horizons of music for the sake of the zeitgeist itself, utilizing strange tempos and esoteric themes, dramatic riffage, very theatrical vocals, and warped arrangements that are the aural equivalent of a performance-art enactment (minus the narcissism). Hyper-tight, if shakily talented, they continue to remind me of Fear or Flipper's experimental tracks heavily filtered through a recurring barrage of mid-fi punk venom. Or maybe we don't try to figure them out, we just download and FEEL! 

Delta 9 - "Alpha Decay" CD 1997

Cracked the SHRINK on this for you lops! A compilation of Dave's 12" releases from various hXc-techno labels back in the day, every track is a surgically precise godhead of proto-speedcore that even caught Earache's attention. Dave's sound along with Lenny Dee's homies are what defined and partially created extreme techno, so any of the usual descriptors for the early years of that scene (belligerent humor, a particular obsession with Slayer samples, more samples of hip hop elements minced under industrialized repetition) carry a heavier weight than whatever "rave" bullshit people always assume of this form of electronic music. If you know, you're down. If you're not down, you're a bitch. S...M...H...slooowly......a biiitttccchhh!

Cthuwulf - "Gaishu Issyoku" Demo EP 2006

"THANKS: Ripcord, Gai, Mob 47...everyone else can go get fucked!"  --My (old) band

Ethnic Acid - "Power Works 1986-1988" 2xCD (2009)

B-R-U-T-A-L industrialized Power Electronics from England. Surprisingly advanced in form and performance for it's time, the noise is amazingly structured and outright memorable upon first listen. I feel a modern equivalency to Propergol's paranoid terror attacks, even a shared abrasive tension in the "softer" sections (though Ethnic Acid doesn't keep their "songs" as tightly constrained to theme). I felt like I survived a Purge or two, with a fond reminisce of the massacre whilst twirling a cane through the nuked out landscape. The entire body of work (cassettes only, mastered superbly here) is so incredibly varied, fascinatingly and sensibly layered, so relentlessly disturbing, I'm shocked I zoned on their existence for so long! You don't need to wear a condom to annihilation yo, this shit's gonna hit you R-A-W!

Fatal Error - "The Drinking Sessions '88-'92" CD (Year?)

This discography is so old I don't even remember the year Sami Kettunen sent it to me. '97? '98? Holland's Fatal Error was a stalker level Agathocles clone, outright stealing their arrangements. There's long/short track mash-ups, stuff that resembles V.N.A. a great deal too...but even grimier in tone, underpinned by a unique and powerful gallop-blast that sounds totally fucking brutal. The packaging isn't brutal though, it's pro-pressed but the fold-out xeroxed cover is the only housing (I gotta say it's a GOOD xerox). The band was competent in general, creating something of their own with the longer crushers, and making me miss the fuck out of oldschool noisecore with the short ones. Demos/Reh/Live/you're used to the quality.

Goblin - "Sewn Together...Torn Apart" CDR Demo 2003 (Recorded 2000)

Raping-your-mind-if-you're-too-stoned-heavy, Sam Biles' "other" band got a fanboy review out of me 13 years ago, and I'm gonna do it again cuz I'm always fuckin' right. Soul grinding chug and sludge is what frighteningly backs Sam's truly fucking inhuman vocals. Like Keller on overkill or Mentally Murdered era Lee Dorrian on 33 rpm, crushing your brain's balls with judgements of contempt and rage against the puppet masters and societal zeitgeist. Coupled with what was initially extravagant home production and playing ability (BUT mastered to a 4-track, so there's tape clicks), the gory end is EXACTLY like dad belting your ass to the bone after he's psychotically screamed himself into a near heart attack over how bad you fucked up...again. THIS shit is SICK! Megatons of lengthy unmarked samples, so pre-game some Mortician if you need to get lubed up.

Whitehouse - Live In Paris 2003 FLAC

I believe I got this on a cdr-trade with the homie Guy from England (I'll eternally Goatse-stretch my brain to give all credits their due). Guy's own digital audience recording, it's clear and texturally full with NO mic movement whatsoever...though dynamics are distinctly lacking. There's no crowd chatter thank Trump, and mic placement unilaterally captures each and every perverted squirt from the duo, but "subdued" isn't a recording method that ever works in Power Electronic's favor (oh, the performance and pacing however is notable for it's precision and Machiavellian levels of control). A neat download (I think), but sonically underwhelming.

Majesty - Live 5-23-87

Just in time for Halloween! I assure everyone's subatomically calibrated electron microscopes that I have plenty of my own rips queuing up for eventual (in centuries) upload, re-upload, re-re-upload etc...but Mahler keeps offering aural heroin, and I just can't say no! This was Majesty's only show, performed as a two piece, with intense tape-swirl and all the production values of a walkman covered in mud.  FOR COMPLETISTS ONLY! It's pretty much in the same vein as the State Children demo, meaning it's unlistenable...but hey...some people out there are adamant that they can "hear the noise still"...so go forth! The Majesty art is mine, official, and is F-I-N-A-L-L-Y seeing the light of day in a CD repress (of F.O.A.D.'s LP) on Haunted Hotel records.


Agathocles - Unreleased Live '88-'90

Mahler gettin' nutso with the 'Cles! His words below (the rips were freely offered, I don't pilfer EVERYTHING)...

"1. Rare full live set here by Agathocles, when they supported S.O.B. (Jap) at Het Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium in October 1990. Soundboard recording that's been restored & remastered by myself. Two tracks from this set were used as their side of the split 7" with BLOOD (Germany) in 1991, but this is the full set. This is when they were going through a death metal/Doom phase I guess. Not much of the mince-core to be found here, but still utterly punishing & super heavy. The first 90 seconds of this set has some slight tape whirl, but gets better after that. Ripped from a 25 year old tape.

2. Recorded at the Hnita Hoeve in Heist op den Berg, Belgium, July 1988. This is an audience recording & it came out "ok" after some restoration & remastering. AG were still in their grindcore period here, so the songs were shorter & pretty much devoid of any metal. 17 tracks in 24 minutes (& that includes Jan's famous song explanations too!).

3. To celebrate Agathocles's triumphant gigs in Canada, I went through my OLD tapes of theirs to try & find something special to rip & upload. In other words "special" meaning A: It hasn't been released yet & B: it needed to be good enough quality. So I came across this live show they did in Hoogstraten, Belgium in February 1988. This is probably the best quality "very early AGx" live tape I had. So I've ripped, restored & digitally remastered it. 10 songs in just under 15 minutes. P.S. Just before the last song, the guy taping it gets his mate to fart into the tape recorder...thanks to the remastering, you can pick it up quite clearly.

4. Live in Leiden, Netherlands September 1990. 45 minutes, great sound, although they were quite clearly in their Death metal period by then. 11 tracks, restored and remastered."

Sacred Youth (MP3) & Helltripper (Wav) 2008


Skeletal cold amateur power electronics and satanic metalpunk from the deceased sovie-homie Paul. Originally "releases" on my upload label via Damaging Noise, here they are again (with extras) in memory of Paul and his earliest noise sacraments. Sacred Youth I once lazily compared to Genocide Organ, though Paul's sounds were thinner and more outright noise (mostly the effect was reminiscent because of Paul's spoken-contempt over the tracks). Some elite nerds took umbrage with the comparison and I continue to hope that THEY commit suicide. Helltripper is good, very good, though obviously lo-fi as hell and somewhat interchangeable with most bands in that scene. Mostly, I wanted to revisit Paul's more obscure visions and to share them with the world once again.

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