Generic Death - 2010-2012 CDR

Upper mid-fi home produced solo noisecore-grind ('88-'90 throwback status) from Dopi/Machetazo/Bobybag. The genre is dead seriously arranged and played, though there are willfully retarded moments the style was always known for. It's like a perfect molecular fusion of Sore Throat, Seven Minutes Of Nausea, Anal Cunt (duh), and even the Xysma demo's pitched sewercore vibe...all disastrously unspooling at once. Complete discography, Dopi only gave a handful of these out as one massive mega-advance to all the releases...and then he "broke up"!

Halo - "Degree Zero Point of Implosion" CDR/LP 2000 & "Guattari (From The West Flows Grey Ash And Pestilence)" CD 2001

Cum my noisenheimers, let us smoke irradiated Swanflesh out of David's Head (which is wearing oldschool walkman headphones playing a hyper-tight Throbbing Gristle in one ear, and a death metal Fall Of Because in the other). Disassociative and dreary, uber-distorted bass and analog drums crushingly overlay unindulgent feedback fetishes and longer ambient segues (usually created with acoustical phenomena inherent to each instrument). The band was just so impressive across the board, from songcraft to production...all on the DIY downlow. That production is engineered in a manner very close to most of the aforementioned godheads, an astounding fact (F-A-C-T) considering the duo would capture nearly all of each session live...sometimes improv...with only a minimum of additional mixing/effects overdub. They were good enough for Relapse, and with most bands that are good in general, they vanished not too long after. They have more stuff, you'll hear it before we die, but this stuff's the best!

M.B. - "Inexistence" CD 2009

Disexist drone from the absolute legend, Maurizio Bianchi. Is it his best ever? No...but it's cold...heat-death of the universe cold...Michio Kaku himself freezes solid, and SHATTERS! This is the music the cosmos plays inbetween the nanoseconds of an aborted suicide. The tracks (some of which are reaaallly fucking looonnng) are somewhat interchangeable, but it's never a burden to sit through the whole thing (and once one is onboard with the theme of existence vs nonexistence, it's easier to catch the nuances of each "song" as a single chapter to the overarching narrative...or non-narrative...I dunno, this scene is Frasier shit). Before the link, PARAPHRASED KNOWLEDGE...

"Maurizio Bianchi (Born December 4th, 1955) is an Italian pioneer of Industrial music. Bianchi was inspired by the music of Tangerine Dream, Conrad Schnitzler and Throbbing Gristle. He corresponded with many of the key players in the industrial music and noise music scenes including Merzbow, SPK, Nocturnal Emissions, and Whitehouse. This exchange of letters and music lead to his first LPs being released in 1981."

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.

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