Bumped post from 1/5/09
Here I am, promoting another great album by my good friend. Some of you might've checked out his previous alum "Lust Year" which I posted earlier this year, depending on whether you liked that or were horribly disgusted (perhaps both) you might want to give this a try.
While I at first listen was hoping for more than just a couple of tracks from the first movie. I remember the OST in the first movie being very memorable and somehow some years later I stumbled upon this and just had to check it out. I was slightly disappointed upon listening, most of the tracks are from the second movie, which is unfortunately not nearly as enchanting .
Subtle, somewhat minimal trip-hop creates a stripped down atmosphere through repetitive drums, melodies and basslines. With Genesis' manipulated words echoing throughout the pieces. Although seemingly unspectacular, I quite fancy the eeriness that is prevalent throughout the record. I can't seem to help cycling back to this. I don't know how much creative input Genesis had in this but it seems to me to mostly be Astrid Monroe.
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.
Lust Year is the most recent solo release by Santeri who runs Instrument Normal with me. In this album he delves into the abyss of harsh noise, ranging from wallnoise to ear piercing isolated feedback to delicious angsty screams. But it also delves into some ambient, sometimes buried under the noise, sometimes entirely by itself. This really is one of the most harsh creations I've ever heard and I'd recommend it to anyone who'd like such a thing.
Hey. Some of you might already be familiar with this project, it's a project I run together with a Finnish friend of mine where we delve into the universe of noise, dark ambient and other forms of fucked up soundscapes and sonic experimentations. This was officially released last year somewhere in September, thought I'd eventually post it here as well.
"Following the emergence of differences within the GRMC Pierre Henry, Philippe Arthuys, and several of their colleagues, resigned in April 1958. Schaeffer created a new collective, called Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) and set about recruiting new members including Luc Ferrari, François-Bernard Mâche, Iannis Xenakis, Bernard Parmegiani, and Mireille Chamass-Kyrou. Later arrived Ivo Malec, Philippe Carson, Romuald Vandelle, Edgardo Canton and Francois Bayle"
Here it is, surprise. Unlike the others this is just one song. Despite being very pop-rockish, mellowing out towards the end, it's actually quite listenable, nothing I'd keep on repeat for too long though. Wata shares her very average singing voice, sorry, she's a great guitarist but I really don't see why so many of the Boris fans want her to do more vocals.
BUMP: I'm whoring out to your wishes and am posting FLACs for your enjoyment. Made it quite a few days ago actually, however I had internet issues and I've been busy so I haven't found an opportunity to post it until now.
Saw the premiere screening of this movie at Stockholm film festival, where they gave me the soundtrack as a gift. Thought I'd share it as an universal recommendation, not just music-wise. The soundtrack is ambient, sometimes venturing into darker moods, sometimes a little too cheesy for my taste, it's catchy though. Script/story-wise this movie is nothing fantastic, rather hollywoodian. The main enjoyable factor in this movie is the visual atmosphere it creates through it's innovative 2-d animation, how it depicts the bleak dystopian not-so-far-future world. Check it out.
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.
Still, former Dälek member's solo album Remains. Still is mostly associated with earlier Dälek days when they embraced a much darker sound, most prominently heard on "Absence". Remains is a album of harsh, dark soundscapes. In a way it's very much what you'd expect from a solo album from Stills, kind of like Absence without the creative influence of the other members, isolated.
ACID ACID ACID. The pinnacle of Coil's more energetic fucked up electronica aspect. Results vary from mind fuckery to catchy moments to bad trips.
Classic krautrock band Faust. Released on CD-R, limited to 400 copies and sold during tour.
Didn't like this one all too much, but at least it gets better towards the end. Thought some of you might still be interested in hearing it for yourselves though.
If you're new to Incapacitants I much more recommend "As Loud As Possible", which is much more interesting and engaging. I re-uploaded the FLAC of that album as a bonus.
Take the extremes of no wave and multiply them several times. Take your typical japanese insanity and multiply it several times. Hanatarash is Yamaysuka eYe (best known from Boredoms) and Mitsuru Tabata (best known from Zeni Geva). Hanatarash was as much art in sound as it was performance art in destruction.
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I checked this out without any expectations (didn't like "And Still, Wanting") and was positively surprised, and I can't deny that this guy has gained some respect of mine after he raped my ears at No Fun Fest. 
I guess I was planning to post this sooner or later. Blog named after this.
David Tibet reading a collection of loosely related poems, written by the cult poet Thomas Ligotti, over some dark ambient soundscapes and sound manipulations.
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Helicopter quartet. A string quartet recorded with each musician in a separate running helicopter mid air, with the noise of the engines and the blades. Not Stockhausen's best but does build up a tension, an anxious atmosphere. Might be a good starting point if you're looking into Stockhausen, it depends on where you're coming from, though I'd anyway recommend Elektronische Musik over this.
The Youtube clip above is from the film about Helikopter Quartett which I can more heartily recommend. I'm considering uploading an encode of it here later. Stay tuned.
Fantastic new double album from Natural Snow Buildings. On par with Slayer of the King of Hell, Night Coercion in the Company of Witches and The Dance of the Moon and the Sun. This is the double CD edition, there is also a triple vinyl and double CD edition.
Follow up post to: Enter Now The World
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One of the very few Lydia Lunch-related projects with actually redeemable qualities, none thanks to her however. It is also said that she hated the band while she was in it. A very short lived story, literally, the bassist George Scott III, probably better known for his efforts in James Chance & The Contortions, died of a heroin overdose the same year as they released this live recording on cassette and the band split up.-cd-2009.jpg)
The new album of Bear Quartet. It delivers a little of that darker experimental stuff we hear on Eternity Now but it's mostly in a much more accessible pop or rock format which I don't care for much. Anyway Bear Quartet is a band I respect despite releasing albums like these, and I'd listen pretty much anything they'd decide to release anyway.
As much of a treat it is to read Bukowski it's a whole different experience to hear him read it for you. 2 live performances where he read various poems including many of his best.
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Droney soundscapes in an improvisational free folk spirit. Features much sound-manipulation similar to that of electro-acoustic music. From Denmark actually, so my theory of 'no good music could ever spring from Denmark' has been proven wrong.
Dark Ambient album released on Steve Roach's label SteveRoach.com (recommended). Has very nice tone and development. Listen to it loud to grasp all the details, or else it kind of defeats the point.
Even if it does feel a bit cliché to post this album I feel a responsibility to do so. Stockhausen was one of the first to create music that can be considered an art of sound. By super-imposing sine waves he managed to construct the sounds themselves from their very basic structure. This is a compilation from some of his work during the years 1952-1960. The somewhat chaotic series of sounds create a rather mellow atmosphere despite their unpredictability and can still be compared to the modern noise music of today. An absolutely must-hear album. Genius or garbage, you decide.
Much more obsessive in it's rhythms compared to it's predecessor "Descension" (go to post), keeping the same drum pattern throughout most of the album, making it feel like a ritual that you are taking part in. Starts out with feedbacking dissonant improvisations which almost take on an epic feel at times, works it way to lose form and shape and be crushed by the walls of sound of shrieking amps and distortion pedals by the end of the album.
Dark krautrock built around noisy, dissonant walls of sound or eerie ambient improvs. Inspired by black metal in it's raw, dark, ritualistic outlet. Repetition in combination with improvisation.
I just recently saw Neurosis live and it reminded me of this album, and how many Neurosis appreciators are completely ignorant to it's existence. Metalheads who only like Neurosis for their riffs or "brutal" sound will not like this album. People who listen to Neurosis in appreciation for the combination of dissonance and ambient to heavier, crushing even epic sounds, will probably love this album. It revolves around much more synth with drums rather than the guitars, with Jarboe's very dynamic voice giving it a gothic feel. I really can't pidgeonhole this into a genre but it has elements of post-punk, sludge, doom metal or even post-rock.
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No wave-reminiscent jazz post-punk. Blurt is a must-hear in case anyone missed out on them, quite known for their great lives among other things. This is not their best album, but well worth a listen, being the last album with the original lineup, works good as a starter point.
Probably Gridlock's most sophisticated album, shows a great deal of maturity yet still contains the distinctiveness of their earlier more straight-forward industrial / rhythmic noise material. Perfectly merging harsh abrasive, indeed formless, rhythms with beautiful ambient soundscapes, this being their last album leans more toward IDM. But in a way IDM feels like an insult to such a mature album like this, just glowing of analog warthm, in difference of the digital clones, who just relish on cheap software, and are otherwise found in the genre. Do not let the word IDM scare you off this fantastic record, this is unlike any other IDM.
Here's the new Throbbing Gristle if anyone missed it, was exclusively sold at live performances in US, April 2009. The first five minutes I was slightly sceptic, but I'm definitely not disappointed. This feels great after "The Endless Not", which itself wasn't bad, it just didn't feel TG, it felt Coil-ish. TTMM is more subtly powerful, eerie, creepier and probably better, slightly reminiscent of some of their early stuff. I don't think they could ever outshine their earlier years though and I don't think that's what they're trying to accomplish either.
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.
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