Gasmask - 7" 1985 (FLAC/320)
Noiseless
noise-punk! One beat, one chord, Chaos U.K. is an obvious paramour, but
it foregoes treble-fetish for "regular" scratchy guitars. The pace is
methodical, I wouldn't call it slow, though it has a decidedly lazier groove than it's contemporaries (a bit surprising considering they were pre Coward, a fast thrash project). Possibly the most primitively
played recording of the era, so much so you'll SERIOUSLY question your sanity why you can't stop listening to it!
Outo - "Many Question, Poison Answer" 7" 1984 (FLAC/320)
So What's older twin in debuting with a stunning noisecore EP...then wimping out to play dad rock on every release that followed. Outo's first 7" is punky like Swankys (though not as spastic), and even employs a similar phaser/flange technique within several of the trax (and a bulbous bass whose smothering mix will bounce the teeth right the fuck out of your shattered ears!). In a subscene that culls influence from just two British bands that already sounded alike, and even shared the same label, this is musical indistinction worthy of it's shekels.
FLAC/320 bundled...
So What - "Injustice" 8" Flexi 1985 (FLAC/320)
Forgotten noisecore classic! Mirroring Outo's career path, So What debuted with a fuzzy Riot City bounce before cuckolding themselves to the metallized wank of "traditional" Japcore. That debut, this flexi, is as masterful of the chaos-punk style as it's better known rivals, with a recording roughly similar in vibe and tempo to Confuse's "Contempt..." EP (albeit not as spaciously mixed). Thuggish and dark, It's still inherently derivative solely due to the genre's high degree of structural rigidity...but...SO WHAT?! 😛FLAC/320 bundled...
DJ Tron - Resurrection 12" 1998
MORBID TALES: Deathcore demigod DJ Tron dies. Drugs? Suicide? No one knows, though the family spokesperson was conspiratorial about shutting up any and all of our questions. Just a month or two later, this 12", my fave release by Tron, shows up on discogs for mere kilobytes (I'd never owned a physical copy before, relying for years on a tape dub). SO! The seller is brand new and has zero feedback, but I take a chance anyway...and receive the package completely drama free. Curiously, the sender's last name and address synced up as a potential relative of Tron. I didn't have much time to ponder this coincidence when the seller abruptly emails me, mentions that he's Tron's DAD, and that he had great concern if the package arrived safely...AS IT WAS TRON'S PERSONAL DJ COPY. Apparently the family was liquidating Tron's collection to help offset his funeral costs. I immediately responded with condolences, shock at the nature of the contact, and blubbered on a bit how much respect I had for his son's body of work. He never wrote back.That's the story, and I'm stickin' to it till my grave.
[TL;DR: Arguably "basic" hard terror shockwaves with a diamond-breaking boner for satanism, insanity, and D-E-A-T-H!!!]
https://www.mediafire.com/file/iuk0c4742vabzrq/DJ%20TRON%20-%20Ressurrection%20EP.zip
Amnesea - "1st EP" 7" 2013
Mesmerizing disnoise from Japan, strikingly similar to Abraham Cross at middest pace, with clean, highly controlled vocals reminiscent of Total Chaoz (a band that was essentially Larm pre-Menno). The production is as blown out as the genre usually demands, and deftly mixed, impressively cloning the warmth of a redlined 4-track with the fullness of what I'm (wildly) assuming is an actual studio. I'm outright bummed that this seems to be their only release! All girls too, but download them for the quality of their noise, not for...you know...their PUSSYS ya fuckin' F-R-E-A-K!!!https://www.mediafire.com/file/1qgbckxq2xbh5e2/AMNESEA%20-%201st%20EP%202013.zip
Nausea - "Psychological Conflict" 7" '91 & Live Soundboard KXLU '94
Nausea was on nuclear fire in the early 90s, fusing metallic industrial (ala Pitch Shifter) to their already legendary discore approach to grind. The 7" is fully mature in it's cacophony, blast-skanking with a power and tightness only hinted at on their previous split demo. Subsequent releases found the band steadily refocus attention upon mechanized dirge, culminating in the entirely "psych groove" set on KXLU radio (a straight up experience whether you smoke heavy dope or not...though it's obviously even better on heavy dope). Arid production throughout, with tape hiss somehow noticeable even on the 7", but otherwise this is a pairing of some of the most brain-blowing listens you'll ever peep...E-V-E-R!!!
DJ Freak - "Industrial Power" 2xCassette 1997
LOTTA 'stalgia for me with this set of tapes, as they were the very first hXc-techno mixes I purchased after being introduced to the genre via the R.A.W./Hypnotic 23 split cassette. Freak gets his freak on immaculately with this release, showing no mercy in turntable terror or frenzied song selection (which is biased to the fast and simple, no matter the sub-genre). Heavily intermixed and totally fucked with, unhappy hardcore, breakbeat, and jungle all flash their tits in atonal collusion. For me, these are THE quintessential 90s raver tapes...with one majorly depressing caveat: gigatons of hiss. Professional duping at such tepid quality was a mystery to me even 20 years ago, but I wouldn't upload it if there wasn't juuusssst enough noise power leftover to brutalize your ears as hard as Harvey Weinstein brutalizes potted plants.https://www.mediafire.com/file/wzr443s421h92w4/DJ%20Freak%20-%20%22Industrial%20Power%22%201997.zip
Vomit - Unreleased (?) Demo '88 & Reh '89
I...have no fucking idea what I ripped. I thought this was material from the Grecian Vomit (straight thrash metal with a coincidental form of cheesy songcraft usually attributed to Japanese heshers), but there doesn't seem to be any documentation anywhere for these specific jams. I did receive the tape from Greece, and there's a similarity between these sessions and the canon recordings, but I'm still open to being schooled if I'm conflating two completely different bands.Gaffled trivia: "Formed in 1985, Vomit were strongly influenced by Voivod [not really, but the logo homage is dope!] and Celtic Frost. Members later split into Varathron and Necromantia. The vocalist went on to form the grindcore band Sound Pollution, who did a split 7" with Rotting Christ (who were also a grindcore band at the time)."
https://www.mediafire.com/file/hart8wzpuh3debn/Vomit%20-%20Mystery%20Shit%2088-89.zip
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