Boris - Smile Live At Wolf Creek (2008) [V2]

Status report: This place isn't dead just yet. I've been occupied with work. I was without a computer a while etc. A lot of different reasons contributed really. I haven't had as much time on my hands to find music, much less make posts about it here.

Since Pink and onward we've been tought to be skeptical of new Boris releases. As this came out after Smile (which wasn't bad, but not that great either) my hopes weren't too high. Listening to CD1 it's pretty much what I'd expect from such pink-ish tracks, it sounded similar to what I heard when I saw them live during the Smile tour, some nice high-pace moments but often annoying with Atsuo's outbursts of "wooh"s and "yeah"s.

The last 50 minutes of CD2 however (beginning with No Ones Grieve), was something completely different, it blew me away, I haven't heard such fabulous droning and noising from Boris in years. Sure, it should've been expected seeing as the last 3 tracks are the ones that make the studio version worthwhile as well. With this I think the Smile Live album actually outdoes both the Southern Lord studio and the Diwphalanx studio Smile, yet it's still remarkably unappreciated in comparison, which is why I wanted to post it here. Worth getting for CD2.

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Natural Snow Buildings - The Wheel of Sharp Daggers (2008) [V0]

An often overlooked tape in the Natural Snow Buildings discography, could be because it was limited to 135 copies all hand-numbered with hand-painted inserts. However it deserves recognition as one of their better releases.

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Fripp & Eno - (No Pussyfooting) (1973, 2008 remaster) [V0]

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Robert Fripp, Brian Eno. Two legendary names in development modern avant-garde music. This album has proved to be one of the absolute most influential albums to the development of modern drone and ambient music. It features two tracks, The Heavenly Music Corporation, Swastika Girls and edited versions of those tracks, reversed, half speed etc. This is the 2008 double disc rerelease/remaster featuring even more versions of the tracks on CD2 and has the tracks split up in random parts, I guess the label figured it'd sell more that way. I never really liked Swastika Girls that much but I guess it's a decent loop-experiment for it's time. The Heavenly Music Corporation never seems to fail to take you away though.

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Mars - The Complete Studio Recordings NYC 1977-1978 (2008, flac & mp3)

Back to posting some no wave. Mars is another one of those no wave bands who never actually properly released anything major, in this case just an EP, and we'd need some compilation later on to actually be able to have something to listen to. Even though we love these studio recordings, most no wave bands considered themselves to be live bands, which is possibly why they never really released much studio material, or maybe it's because the capitalist interest in no wave was ZERO, and I guess it's far too late to experience them in their full live glory. This is as close as we get. From parts similar to that of DNA's noise rock to a more purely post-punk sound and even sometimes as far as some weird soundscapes.

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Natural Snow Buildings - Sung To The North (2008)

Uploaded as requested. Starts out kind of weak but the 1 hour droning track is sweet.

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SoiSong - Soi-Jin-No-Hi [qXn948s] (2008)

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!! 40.000!!!
IT'S FUCKING OCTAGONAL!
WHO CARES ABOUT THE MUSIC!?
IT'S FUCKING OCTAGONAL!

Download this shit, vbr-v2 scene

I couldn't possibly imagine how you haven't downloaded this yet. But anyway, it's another post-Coil Sleazy project, this time together with CoH. Brings two specialties together and becomes something great. Sleazy's subtle sound manipulation of the eastern trademark with CoH's rhythmic soundscapes.

The Threshold HouseBoys Choir - Amulet Edition (2008, FLAC + mp3)

"Sketches towards the Soundtrack of a movie - yet to be made - about Thai Temple Tattooing"
- Amulet Edition in Sleazy's own words.

Follow-up to Coil I guess, reminiscent of later Coil stuff. Subtle, eerie, manipulated vocals etc. The genre would be something like experimental ambient. Thanks to Headphonehalo for this rec.

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