Wednesday, April 29, 2009

SoiSong - xAj3z (2009) [256]

Hooray, the new SoiSong album, it too surprises us with a bizarre shape. It's not nearly as fantastic as qxn948s, but it's definitely worth hearing for anyone who likes ambient / experimental electronic music.

download 256 (re-upload)

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Okkyung Lee - Nihm (2005) [VBR209]

Jazzy cello improvs in an avant-garde modern classical spirit.

VBR - 209

Monday, April 20, 2009

Instrument Normal - Audible Incarnations of Shapeless Entities (2009) [V2/V0/320/FLAC]

Shameless self-promotion. Instrument Normal is Disexistentsium (me) and Hypochondriosis, and this is our collaboration. We are perhaps most coherently described as noise, with sound manipulation and distortion recurrent through the album, influence from industrial music. Elements of dark ambient can be clearly heard on some tracks. At times with hints of drone doom metal.

AISE is an experiment in extreme expression. Broken undefined soundscapes crafted through destructive processing on sound or body. Self-indulgent with lesser interest in accessibility or existing formulae. An attempt at creation through destruction. Uncompromisable, devoid of hope. Is it music? What is the point of music?

A loud disagreement with "musicality". How could you express anything if you restrict yourself to it? It seems cowardly, or perhaps you're just that uninteresting. I think I've misunderstood what it is to "express your feelings" if it means to play the exact same chords on the guitar the ones that came before played.

Tracklist:
1. Nifel (3:41)
2. Enter The Machinery (6:00)
3. Stones of Sala (3:55)
4. Defloration (10:21)
5. 0 (8:08)
6. Abrasion (30:05)

Download:
Folder

MP3 320 part 1
MP3 320 part 2

FLAC part 1
FLAC part 2
FLAC part 3
FLAC part 4
FLAC part 5
FLAC part 6

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene (1976/2007) [V0]

I lied, here's another nostalgia album. This is the 2007 remaster for the classic pioneer electronic album from 1976. Impressive 100% synth, I want to call it ambient, it also has these catchy parts.

Uploaded for a friend.

V0

Shining - III: Angst - Självdestruktivitetens Emissarie (2002) [V0]

More black metal?

Shining is pretty famous, and even though I try to make a point out of not posting albums everyone already heard I decided to post this one. One of Kvarforth's earlier works released when he was only 19~ years old. While he is extremely notorious for his album "V: Halmstad", extremely acclaimed by fans and critics alike, I almost still prefer this one. I don't think everyone has heard this earlier album. It's more black metal ("Halmstad" actually being doom metal rather than black metal) similar to atmospheric black metal and mid-burzum ("Hvis Lyset Tar Oss", "Filosofem" etc.) through almost ritualistic repetetion, highly distorted guitars which almost only become a soundscape while still having legible melodies and riffs. With screams/growls on top. Simple yet effective production. It almost comes off as minimalistic. It definitely has a glow his other albums lack. In the same way it lacks some of what his later albums offer.

Speaking of Kvarforth as a person, I think he is hilarious. Not in the sense that I am laughing at him, rather I am laughing with him at all the little fuckers who take him seriously. He is the greatest troll ever to have existed.

MP3 V0 (tis a re-upload)

Okay, enough nostalgia for a while.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Vrolok - Resurgence III: Order of the Sphere (2007) [V2]

Okay, about time to actually make a post. Even though this album is so recent it feels very nostalgic to me, giving me flashbacks to teen years when I used to be "into" black metal. Today practically all black metal feels outdated, franchised or otherwise ridiculous. The first black metal bands did something interesting for their time but it quickly grew stagnant. For me Vrolok is something like rediscovering black metal all over, how it was supposed to be today, tortured, dark, dirty. Call it depressive black metal or call it industrial black metal or whatever, Vrolok is the epitome of black metal.

MP3 V2

Sunday, April 12, 2009

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Monday, April 6, 2009

Mental Destruction

Here's a few Mental Destruction uploaded mainly for a friend. They refer to their music as "Orthodox Industrial", their inspiration for lyrics lies in their devotion to Christ. A notable work of theirs which is not posted below is "The Intensity of Darkness" released 1991 on Cold Meat Industry, which my friend already had. It should be available on other blogs if it interests you. With releases dating back to 1990 they were indeed part of the growing early Swedish industrial scene. What is it with christian swedes and death industrial anyway?


Mental Destruction - When Madness Strikes (1995) [V0]
A '95 CD reissue on Cold Meat Industry of their somewhat infamous early '90 cassette.

v0

Mental Destruction - Straw (1996) [FLAC&V0]
Their most recent full-length, released on CMI, the band is still considered active.

FLAC part 1
FLAC part 2
FLAC part 3

v0


Mental Destuction - Before the Night (2001) [24/96FLAC&v0]
A 2001 7" LP released on Ant-Zen. This is Side A only.

24/96 FLAC

v0

CoH - Enter Tinnitus (1998) [FLAC&V0]

Shaping sounds with the help of the synth. CoH will remind you of Ryoji Ikeda, yet being surprisingly listenable, at times even catchy. The odd minimal synths, the clicking, popping and bleeping rhythms together become an eerie soundscape.

FLAC part 1
FLAC part 2

MP3 V0

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Piirpauke - Piirpauke (1975) [256]

"Piirpauke is a Finnish band that combines folk music, ethnic and jazz in their music."

I uploaded this for a friend who couldn't find it, I haven't heard it myself yet, so I can't insure you that it's any good. I still thought I'd put it here for anyone else who couldn't find it.

mp3 cbr 256

Friday, April 3, 2009

Swans - Omniscience (1992) [FLAC&V0]

A swans live album which has with time become very rare. Compiled from their 1992 world tour. Featuring some tracks otherwise unrecorded or unreleased.

FLAC part 1
FLAC part 2
FLAC part 3
FLAC part 4 (fixed link)

V0 part 1
V0 part 2