IZU - Going Salamander - (Highpoint Lowlife-USA-2006)

 A fantastic brew of warped yet warm future-melodies discordant breaks & twisted, languid synth action. Effortlessly includes some highly involving & hypnotic structures combined with a playful DIY techno attitude. A highly original, darkly atmospheric & hugely impressive round up from someone with a braindance orientated mind. Honestly, if you wanna hear an inventive & funky album then go no further....(review by beeslovesugarwater published on Discogs)

Highpoint Lowlife records started as an idle daydream atop Potrero Hill. Two bums by the names of Joey Hurt and Thorsten Sideb0ard were running a local dj night in a bar, where they would play a mixture of new and local indie pop, rock and electronica. Inspired by the success of their club night, they decided to push forward with the idea of the record label. The daydream came to fruition with a double disc compilation of local San Francisco bands that summer of 2001. Continuing that dream, Highpoint Lowlife strives to bring you the best in new alternative music. You can check out our website for more information.(from Internet Archive)  click me

 

PIIRI - Gpu (Revised) - (Vertical Form-UK-2002)

 

 

Piiri is the artist which real name is Ilpo Väisänen ,here playing a quiet form of IDM and minimal electronic,it is quite pleasant. Vertical Form was an IDM, electronica, experimental, dub, etc label from London.Started 1999 and finished late 2004!...Enjoy it!

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KID606-Songs About Fucking Steve Albini-(Important Records-USA-2010)

 

Miguel Trost De Pedro (born July 27, 1979), better known by his stage name Kid606, is an electronic musician who was raised in San Diego and later moved to San Francisco. He is most closely associated with the glitch, IDM, hardcore techno, and breakcore scenes.

Kid606's music is similar to the work of his friend and colleague Lesser, as well as hardcore and IDM acts such as Atari Teenage Riot, Autechre, Mr. Oizo, and Matmos. He is primarily inspired not by his electronic contemporaries, but by his love of the industrial music, death metal, and industrial metal of the 1980s and 1990s, particularly bands like Godflesh and Napalm Death.^[1] His music is known for its high tempo breakbeats and liberal use of noise and sampling, as well as its punk aesthetic, uninhibited genre-mixing, and irreverent sense of humor. However, he is equally adept at creating more serious tracks that often reside in the realm of ambient and glitch ("Parenthood" from Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You and the entirety of P.S. I Love You being good examples).

Notable releases by Kid606 include Don't Sweat the Technics (VC140: 1998), Down with the Scene (IPC-7:2000), P.S. I Love You (MP93: 2000), and Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You (IPC-46: 2003). He collaborated or participated in the groups Flossin, Spacewurm, Ariel and Disc.^[2]

In 2005, he put together a band with a drummer and guitarist called Kid606 and Friends.(from Wikipedia)

 Notes

All songs on this album were created with analog source material (analog synths, AM/FM radio, microphone) then processed on a computer, then mixed and mastered to two-track analog tape.

The album cover and title are both a reference to Big Black's album Songs About Fucking, of which Steve Albini was lead singer and guitarist. Also, all of the track titles are anagrams of "Miguel De Pedro", Kid606's real name.

Issued in a clear tray digipak style cover.
The shrink wrap has a sticker on the front.(from Discogs)  click me

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v.a.-TEKNOIR-(Hymen Records-Germany-1999)

 Legendary double cd compilation by this historic label.A bunch of artists yet to become famous shoot their brilliant tunes made of hard electronics pieces :Industrial, Rhythmic Noise,  IDM, Teknoid,  Extreme Experiments of Heavy Machinery or you name it.

This is just a great sample,not to be missed...Enjoy it.

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Tracklist

1-1	Vostok–	Intro	0:38
1-2	Black Lung–	Drachanalia Pt. 1	3:41
1-3	Orphx–	Rnd	4:42
1-4	Imminent Starvation–	Hillstone	6:18
1-5	Not Breathing–	Kissy (Pre M.R.I. Mix)	6:37
1-6	Synapscape–	New Order	6:38
1-7	Monolith–	Matrix A	6:26
1-8	Icon Zero–	Tomorrow	3:22
1-9	P·A·L–	Little Cloudy Fluff	6:13
1-10	Substanz T–	Industrial Music For Industrial People (Live)	4:19
1-11	Lustmord vs. Metal Beast–	Open Towers Emerge	4:33
1-12	Vromb–	Synchronisateur (Vostok Mix) Remix – Vostok Remix – Vostok	7:42
1-13	Seekness–	Cracked Brain (1996)	11:29
2-1	Architect–	Pastgate	5:27
2-2	Oil 10–	Oil 5 (Remix)	6:00
2-3	Bochumwelt*–	La Pensée	5:03
2-4	Beefcake–	Listen To The Call	5:19
2-5	Somatic Responses–	Oblique	6:16
2-6	Črno Klank–	Polka	4:08
2-7	Esplendor Geometrico*–	Control De Vigilantes	5:20
2-8	Klangstabil–	Regelkreisauslöser	3:59
2-9	It–	Logic Noise Cargo	4:14
2-10	Mother Destruction–	Odr	3:54
2-11	Snog–	Hooray!! (Black Lung And The Death Jungle 2000) Remix – Black Lung Remix – Black Lung	3:04
2-12	Hypnoskull–	Hypnoreakt Vs. Ammo	3:58
2-13	Winterkälte–	Global Defrostation	5:55
2-14	Silk Saw–	Cut The King	10:1

v.a.-The Plot Thickens 2005 - (Coven H-UK-2005)

I wrote already about Hekate in  a  specific post about them  last year,unfortnately I still have to write about Random Artists even if I have been to many of their exhibitions held in London in the last 10 years.

This CDr was realeased for Hekate & RandomArtists exhibition of same name happening in Praha, CZ on 4th & 5th August 2005 (from 1 pm - 10 pm) at Twilight Zone record shop and B3 pub. 

This sampler offer to us many musicians involved in Random Artists and Hekate playing breakcore,IDM and other shapes of electro-madness.

A nice cd from the very underground European electronic music scene of the last decade.

Enjoy it.

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Tracklist 1 –The Reverend Slow Art 4:27 2 –FZV FZ-Revisited 7:24 3 –Hue Jah Fink Dr Hue Vs. The Cybermum 5:22 4 –Atwar Rapobot_onitsway 4:50 5 –Controlled Weirdness* Zombie Bass 5:06 6 –Blackmass Plastics Top Notch 5:11 7 –Ronin (2) 20 Dead Sound Bwoys In The Back Of Me Van 6:12 8 –The Wirebug Gush Fatty 4:27 9 –FSV* AbstraktBolloxKore 4:28 10 –Controlled Weirdness* Enter The Secret Castle 6:11 11 –Editor (2) Track 2 5:40 12 –L.A. Moreboy Part 2 4:20

 

FISK INDUSTRIES-The Isle Of Wight EP-(Highpoint Lowlife-UK-2003)

The real name behind this project is Mat Ranson. Fisk Industries plays a good downtempo and IDM.
This ep offers us 6 nice tracks and it was released in 2003.

Active between 2001 and 2011, Highpoint Lowlife used to be a London based record label enthused about all forms of new sound. Their releases ranged from a glacial drone and engulfing digital sprawls through to half-step bass heavy hip-hop, head nodding distorted noise, and anything else that doesn’t sound quite right! (all the info from Discogs)

Enjoy it.

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