Phil-anthropy: Altruistic noise from across the pond

The homie Phil / Imminent Destruction Records hooked it up with contributions to Selfish Few. He's been piecemealing me (us) megatons of stuff, so we'll all slooowly lag it out together as it gets re-upped. Below are his own words on the projects, with my fan-art of his label to the side. :) Yes you get covers.

"Mass Collapse demo is from 2012. It was their first recordings. They're from Fukuoaka, Japan. 3-piece that play astonishingly good grindcore. They also feature with two songs on the 'Divine Wind' EP on Imminent Destruction Records."

"Noisehead From The Bath Hate are from Japan and this was their only release, from 1999. Quite hard to get now, even inside Japan. They have obvious influence from early ENT and bands like DOOM, Abraham Cross etc. This is just as punk as it is grind. Anti-Multinationals and pro-Animal Rights being just some of the themes on this album."

"Museum Tape is a compilation of stuff that was released on that label [Late 80s --S]. Other bands released by Museum Records include Kyojinbo, Tsurezuregusa, Chudoku, who all had vinyl out on this label. There was a series of tapes (up to Volume 5 I think) which appeared, I'm guessing before the vinyl releases. They're all pretty similar with some songs on this tape featuring on other tapes in the series."

K2 - "Molecular Terrorism" CD/CDR 1996

One of my fave Power Electronic / Junk-Collage releases from Japan. Shit gets LOUD here, but instead of a blast-furnace of non-stop screaming feedback, there's noticeably sourced sounds of clanked-on metal pieces, metal dragged on concrete floors, rattling, banging, rending, with the "natural" noise provided from such behavior further filtered through a surprisingly complex array of pedals and 4-track recorders (I saw him live in the 90s, and can anecdotally back up his methods). Things are very "cut up" here, with jumps between noises appearing every 30 seconds or so (or less...all cuts are CLEAN). K2 was noted for recording in abandoned and utterly stripped parking structures, taking advantage of natural ambiance and reverb...though I can't lie, everything else about this release will only appeal to those who stay at coffee houses till midnight pretending they're lost philosophers or poser nihilists. Great release...if you're psycho for this stuff.

Taatto - 2008 Demos

T-O-R-T-U-O-U-S Suomi noisecore-thrash from just a few years back. Sometimes it's early Disorder with Sakevi screech-singing, other times it's industrialized sludge. Sometimes it ultra-skanks, ultra d-beats, ultra whatever the fuck it wants to do (all with Sakevi screech-singing). It doesn't come off as sloppily composed OR performed, the short correspondence I had with Terska (this was a one man band) verified that he was exploring "sameness in diversity" or some other mentally masturbatory thing. Trax are pleasingly simple with distortions laying in the fuzzier camp. It's amateurishly produced, but well home-recorded (all digitally, but it has a crazy oversaturated-tape edge. I think it sounds great!). Oh yeah, I did a bullshit download-label in Damaging Noise days, so I re-released two of his demos (authorized). I included that cover only for completism (and pride). Great, GREAT stuff. What happened? 

Ronald Ruck - 88-89 CDR 2006

Blazing Belgian thrashcore-grind from '89 (with clean vocals). The band was competent (and arguably tight), resembling Filthy Christians during their thrash sections, or a heavier and full blastbeat Larm in overall intensity. There's many microsecond/bullshit songs scattered about as well, with both guitar and bass distortions hellishly pleasing in tone. Studio (?) production was disappointingly buried under massive tape hiss and overall low sound (and this was an official release). There's rehearsals and boombox quality mixed up between the tidier sounding tracks. Very fun (and speedily brutal) band who I wish could have found their real masters for something less half-ass than a CDR (I do admit it's packaged "cutely"). I might have the studio tracks in better quality on tape, but I'm slugshit lazy, so this is how we do it...
 


  

Chemotherapy - 7" 1983

Jesus Christ. The epitome of inept (amazingly not the shittiest thing I own). These want to be songs, there's rough coherency in what SHOULD be songs. If I twist my brain to absolute torsion, I could say they wanted to sound like DRI...or SOA...then complete blurrcore (making them a very warped footnote in the history of fast music). I...I can't figure it out. It's bizarrely recorded, but not awful. Notably (though not adequately) performed on time, it's better than Psycho Sin. It's just terrible, but the enthusiasm that far exceeds the playing ability also shines through like a nuke. Songs range from 18 to 47 seconds (an AWESOME ratio). Get ready for no distortion on the guitar.

Massmedia - The EPs 1979-1980

Pre Headcleaners. Zero thrash, but well executed jangly KBD P-U-N-K with sizzling hi-hats and overall trebly production (some of this shit's gotta be recorded on a boombox though). "Kent Agent" from "Ingen Hets" and "Jag Vill Ingenting" from "Das Jazz" are my fave tracks. "Ingen Hets" overall is my preferred EP. There's still a level of competency here that...given time...they would have easily veered out of Shit-Fi territory (the self-titled actually exemplifies Shit-Fi). But then, we wouldn't have Headcleaners now, would we? :) Shout-outs to Katz Seki for taping me "Das Jazz" literally 20 years ago. That nigga deserves a statue more than Lemmy.

https://www.mediafire.com/?pm0d8761n1a5bfu

Brain Cancer - 2008 Demo

Shockingly, a western-noisecore band I not only liked, but bothered to keep! They have that generically "epic" (but simplified) Framtid energy with a "Monarchy Zoo" era Doom speed/song arrangement. I think ENT's Phonophobia may have been a fave record of theirs. Guitars aren't irritating and seem to have a shape to them. This sounds like a well recorded 4-track (room ambiance is great too), but some power (and bass guitar) is lost. I wish they could've gotten more material out. I received this tape in a trade, lack of any info on the cover and all (I don't think the spine is the title, more a proclamation). 6 nameless songs in 10 minutes, and they're all...memorable! I want to say I got this 2008-ish and would place the band in that same timeframe (I somehow never emailed them, and would feel retarded as fuck to attempt it now). As terrible as this sounds, I really love their name!

https://www.mediafire.com/?c0zp237451ourog

Christfall - "187 The World" 1993 Demo

Suffering Luna's original name. Psych-sludge at hardcore length (think Pain Of Mind, not Larm). It's almost like the guys didn't have the patience for doom, but still wanted to acid-trip you as hard as possible in the shortest time possible. The tracks average between 2:55 to 3:40, yet have an urgency to them that belies their sonic whirlpool of heavily looped tv samples (interwoven into the tracks like an instrument unto itself), torturous shouting and semi-singing that's drowned pleasingly in reverb AND delay, multiple guitar effects mercilessly engaged (some effects become integral to certain tracks), commandingly deep bass that never gets lost in the mix (minus the crap tape degradation/generation), and a professionally captured yet characteristic recording. My rip, and the billionth time I've uploaded it...



Evoken - "Rotting Misery" Flexi 2012

ULTRA DOOM!!! I refute all mankind's perceptions on the silliness of posting a lone MP3. Paradise Lost's most loved track is given a shockingly majestic megaton upgrade! This is one of the best goddamn covers I've heard of the song (there's a couple out there, none bad at all), bringing honest contemplation if it trumps the original. It certainly trumps the other covers. It's slower, deeper (the ambiance immerses you to the blackest fathoms), heavier, and slightly improves a couple timing issues on the original track. It's mindblowing to me, so of COURSE I'm hoping you have a similar experience!

Schismopathic - "Kharkharamaphatic Regurgitator" Demo 1989

Why do I have this on multiple formats? It's not (just) because I'm a nerd, it's because I'm fuckin' senile. I'll give you the superior version, which was the first version I received a few years back: a simple and nicely done rip of the band's demo. Basic grindcore, and completely pure at that (no goreporn or metal in their style). It's tight (enough), mics are cupped, drums are pleasingly fast with notable "wrist power", it's good...just typical of the time and place (all the ex Eastern Bloc bands pretty much cloned Napalm Death but ended up sounding like Agathocles). I gotta extra-credit them with the feel that they could have been on a Chris Dodge comp. 9 songs, 10 minutes, cross between large rehearsal space and live mixed production, and it's old. Old shit's cool. Click the cool link nigga...

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