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#8 (october 06 -
now)
..howling ghost proletarians:: the singer Guitars,
slides, feedbacks - like a beginning of the best song of a rock band,
you know, the part when they just make noise and gradually notes appear
and then chords ... only here there is no song coming, just the atmosphere.
notes do appear form time to time, but they stay unconnected. it is
a moody, cloudy morning as i am writing this and the music of this
cdr worked quite nice for building a moody soundscape but i do doubt
if i am gonna play it again for the rest of the summer (they say sun
is coming indeed tommorow)
|--cdr | released by absurd
..the psychic paramount:: franco italian tour
The highly improvised music of psychic
paramount brings to mind bands like hovercraft or aalboth.
i was especially amazed by this recording (which was originally made
on tape) by some of the guitar techniques (which reminded me the guitar
masterpieces of one with the universe). lots of guitar noise
and a rhythm section that follows a loose but heavy line. raw and
intense builds up in power and is really kicking. Music to be experienced
loud
|--cd | released by public
guilt
..maskinanlegg:: harsh and nervous
not really harsh although mostly noisy. nervous, yes, as noises move
quite fast. where do they go? well, if they go anywhere at all, it
seems like a place where people tend to yawn a lot. but never sit
still, on the other hand. one track ("she took a long nervous
look") is the most interesting, based on a industrail repeating
noise, the others are not bad but not really something to remember
|--cdr | nervous
nurse
..still:: remains
Still is the one man project from hsi-chang lin from
dalek. like phillip jeck or strotter inst.
he uses only turntables and petal effects as sound sources. starts
really noisy and slowly melts down to a nice rich ambient texture.
one would expect more cracks and the usual rhtyhm of 33 rpm but still
apparently shows a higly skilled manipulation of the turntables and
the pedal effects creating unique and at times wonderfull soundscapes.
so the usual question with experimental music "right, this
is highly unusual as an instrument, but can you actually listen to
it, when you don't know how he made it?" can be answered
with "oh yes, indeed.." and it'sa great listen
i should add
|--cd | released by public
guilt
..megatone:: power blade
A project from moldavia. experimental and somewhat pacy sounds and
ambience with a set of sounds reminding the ones produced by some
programs which interpet gene reading into sound. works rather good
in low volume transforming the space in somewhat like science fiction
b-movie labaratory. true, the colour of the sounds is rather monotonous
and too digital like, still, although nothing to really blow your
mind, something that at least can keep your interest. a property which
tends to become rare in the tons of experimnetal music released nowadays
|--cdr | vtazlauanu@dnt.md
..ryfylke:: morild / nuema brister
dark, deep and chthonic soundscapes, almost trembling under your feet.
A few times, sounds spring and then are pulled back again, but mostly
this bubbling, murky cold sea of sound keeps its threatening presnce.
ah yeah, it does come form norway indeed
|--lp | released by roggbif
..v/a nous sommes les morts
A compilation with noise-rhythm-industrial music. a genre that is
quite typical in germany i'd say. what is aslo quite typical is the
artwork (black, with grey gothic letters) which somehow made me think
in a context i didn't like: yes, sad pathetic assholes like wumpscut
or the whole neo-folk, ritual, industrial ebm scene which plays with
mysticism and nazism and displays such an amazing capacity of reduced
brain activity. but, leaving aesthetics aside, what we have here is
14 projects (mostly german i think with the obvious exception of contagious
orgasm) which produce industrial like noise and -occasionaly- rhythms.
from these: object/urian offer a clever and powerful rhythm
track, ick a noisy tesco-like track and i also liked
the contributions of ppf and contagious orgasm.
the rest also move to an average level and this comp. has a quite
compact character in its sound. Maybe not so much my cup of tea, but
quite ok
|--cd | released by apocalyptic
radio
..sten ove toft_utarm_jon eriksen:: split
3 norwegian projects. jon eriksen starts (and closes) this cd with
a harsh digital noise, which left me somewhat uninterested. sten ove
toft's long track that follows changes things though. a long, fat
nice dorne which builds up slowly bursting in 2 minutes of noise towards
the end. utarm's contribution sounds more norwegian than the rest:
drak and cold atmosphere with haunting sounds coming and going, along
the lines of deathprod. and the quite explanatory tiulte "doomed
from lust for all that was". nice and powerful stuff
|--cd | released by roggbif
..vinyl terror and horror:: nightmare lullabies
Quite precise title. this dannish duo
uses mostly turntables as instruments (although i did spot some field
recordings) creating loops and strange sounds and nightmarish indeed,
melodic themes. at times drony and times just weird, it is something
to listen again and again discovering new elements (or new parts to
mix with other sounds). very nice and rich in variety, for all those
looking for new sounds and ways to create them
|--lp
..strotter instr.:: anna
Vinyl seems the suitable format for a guy playing only with turntables.
swiss c.hess creates four tracks with his usual vinyl-rhythmic
and industrail noise soundscapes. as a plus both sides of this 7"
lock-groove at the smae point creating 2 extremely nice and interesting
loops. great!
|--7" | released by implied
sound
