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.

Juche - CD 2008

Mind-slaughtering Tesco compilation themed around North Korean dystopianism. The partakers are of the highest caliber, featuring Turbund Sturmwerk, Operation Cleansweep, Con-Dom, Genocide Organ, Militia, Ex.Order, Grey Wolves, and Anenzephalia...B-U-T...I have to admit, certain tracks have a rushed or outtake-y vibe. Nothing's totally texted in (the band art sections are though...pixel city), just given the comp's theme I'm not hearing anything profoundly different compared to each group's usual output. Or maybe I'm just being a petty bitch, because taken as a whole this CD is still a shamelessly classic power electronics orgy!


Machetazo - Demos @ 320

Gurgalicious goreblurr for the homie Jer-Jer (who was dyyying to experience them). These were the band's debut sounds, showcasing a surprisingly different attack (grind-noisecore) than what they came to be known for (analog as fuck neanderthal death metal). Ridiculous number of tracks per demo, charming homegrown and semi-studio production, barf-blasts of songs in microseconds, why Dopi refuses a diehard reissue is a crime against humanity in my eyes (though one demo got pressed to 10" back then)! Sent to me oldschool in a tape trade, rizipped, and BLAMMO! I have no idea how to end this other than including a shoop I did of Dali. He was Spanish too, that's how I'm connecting it.


Screaming Holocaust - Discography

Discore as fuck doss from ye golden age of U.K. thrash. E.N.T.-ish screech vokes rupture over d-beats, s(tick)-beats, and the occasional Crass-inspired rant or metalized riff. The band remains authentically obscure for reasons beyond me...given their pulverizing energy and fearlessness in experimentation, their name was one I assumed would remain ubiquitous across every crustie's tongue piercing. This is the complete known discography (full track listing in download), sent to me on CDR from guitarist Roki for authorized upload on Damaging Noise. I feel confident he wouldn't mind it being shared again! :)


Electronic Oddities - 1860 to 1970 (2004)

Fascinating radio special on experimental music's earliest argued roots. Copy of opening text below, transcript of entire text bundled with upload.

"Originally broadcast on Friday 29th October 2004 on London's Resonance 104.4fm. Please forgiven the terrible 'booming' sounds in the studio - the people next door to the radio station seemed to have been having a party that night! This show is dedicated to Jhonn Balance, who sadly departed this mortal Coil just 2 weeks after the show was broadcast. You can hear one of his tracks in the show.

Early Electronic Oddities is an exploration of the strange and subliminal sounds of early electronic musical instruments from 1860 to 1970, and many now almost obselete daring and experimental creations like the Mixtur-Trautonium, the Ondes-Martenot, the Rhythmicon, the Ondioline, the RCA synthesizer, electro-theremin and the inventions of the Italian Futurists and Raymond Scott.  Live discussions, field recordings and amazingly unearthed rare recordings presented by two theremin players, Miss Hypnotique and Bruce Woolley.  Features recorded contributions by Bob Moog and Jean-Jacques Perrey."

Part 1:
1. Radio Nottingham - the Radiophonic Workshop
2. Chorale - Antonio Russolo
3. Celestial Nocturne - Samuel Hoffman (theremin)
4. Concerto for Ondes-Martenot - Andre Jolivet featuring Jeanette Martenot
5. Various soundtracks - Paul Tanner plays Electro-theremin
6. Now in heaven you can hear the latest Fall album - Hypnotique (Rhythmicon)
7. Jean-Jacques talk about the Ondioline
8. Demonstration from Fantasy for Mixtur-Trautonium - Oscar Sala
9. Telstar - The Tornadoes (Clavioline)

Part 2:
10: Bob Moog - talks about the RCA Synthesizer (background music: the Man from Uranus)
11: Nola - Felix Arndt (RCA synthesizer)
12. Return of the Elohim Pt 1- Zorch (VSC3)
13. CoilANS - Coil (ANS synthesizer)
14. Silver apples of the moon - Morton Subotnik (Buchla Modular)
15: Bob Moog talks about Raymond Scott (music from 'Manhattan Space Research')
16: Zwi Zwi oo oo oo - Delia Derbyshire (Wobbulator)
17: Modified clarinet - Reed Ghazal (Circuit Bent instrument)
18: In a Delian Mode - Delia Derbyshire (Radiophonic Workshop)
19. Return of the Elohim Pt 2 - Zorch (VSC3)
20: Futurama (Raymond Scott advert)

Heavy Nukes - Demo 2008, 7" 2012

THIS is punk that excites me! Beyond Shitlickers (he even blatantly rips them off...multiple times...with negative fucks anti-numbering into infinity), and at other times so Mob 47 it's Mob 48. A shockingly tight dis-noise barrage that wears a wizard hat atop it's wizard hat in studious mimicry and passion. You'll thrash the pose, you'll crash the posers, you'll wish I'd ripped the 12" too since it's even more fatally catastrophic than this material.

P.S.: The demo is confusing as hell, as it seems to be completely different songs to versions that appear on the 7"...but you do get full scans of the 7".

Black Winter - Live 1987

This comes courtesy of the nigga Mahler, whose o.g. archives of live / reh tapes is one of the most mentally demolishing I've seen. His words on the project below...

"Live tape by BLACK WINTER, a totally unknown UK band, very much in the vein of AMEBIX, AXEGRINDER, (demo & 1st LP) HELLBASTARD & HELLHAMMER/CELTIC FROST. Recorded at this venue called "The Queens head", somewhere in the UK on the 25th of July 1987. Very decent live recording that has been restored & mastered too, from a 28 year old tape. 4 tracks, 27 minutes."

Slaughter Strike - "A Litany Of Vileness" Demo Tape 2010

Grinding hardcore with an early 90s grind/death backbone (those scenes were completely fused back then). I think the Utopia Banished era of grind influence actually works very well for them (the intro especially seems like such an obvious spliff-pass to that specific LP). There's even a few drips of early 90s doom tucked away in there...but mostly the tunes remind me of Citizen's Arrest at Daryl's deathliest. Production feels analog (if it's digital I don't give a fuck cuz it still kicks ass), every element is completely full and non-competing in the mix. This band nerded hard on influences right down to production styles, and that nerding payed off spectacularly. One of my earlier rips, and I still think I did a Keller-stellar job!

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