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Showing posts with label 2018. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2018. Show all posts

Saturday, 3 May 2025

HTV Zine N14 - (Fanzine-UK-2018)


This is a nice zine made in London in 2018. It contains interviews with Chaos UK(London) and Nagrobki(Poland), a Wolf Eyes gig review, weird graphics, short stories, tons of music reviews, and strange pictures. It is messy, and somehow, with its broken language, it has its aura. It is definitely underground press from the very underground scene. Enjoy it. 

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Friday, 9 September 2022

BROTHER OF JUDO - Fuck You Mother Nature - (Debila Records-Slovenia-2018)


Brother Of Judo is a noise project from Slovenia active since 2011, the year of his first tape, since then this artist is been releasing many productions (tapes,cd-rs, split mini cd-rs..)! The mind after it is Nejc, who is also the mastermind of  Debila Records. This label is been active since 1995 when Nejc founded it with the help of  his friend Veljko, who left the label around 2000.

 

In these 27 years, Nejc released, so far, 198 productions, mainly Slovenian artists but also musicians from other countries. A detailed list of all his productions can be found on his blog: ...Brother Of Judo And The Others...  where you`ll see also the pictures and introductions to his vast catalogue, made of: 73x tape, 2x double tape, 105x CD-R or 3'' CD-R,- 3x double 3'' CD-R, 1x 4 3'' CD-R box-set,- 2x LP, 4x 7'', 1x DVD-R! As I can see Nejc prefers the tape as a format and he likes the mini CD-R too.

 After swapping a few emails with him I can say that his attitude is really old school, he runs his label for pure love and he prefers exchanging productions rather than selling them, just like the good old days. Eventually, a very big THANX to Nejc for giving me permission to post this tape and passing me all the info about Debila Recs included in this post! Enjoy it. 

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Monday, 5 September 2022

v.a.- 磁気墓地 [Magnetic Cemetery]-(Vicious Fanclub-C70-France-2018)


 Fantastic compilation of old Japanese HC Punk bands active on the end of the 80s  and early 90s. Many obscure acts yet great music, the quality of the various recordings changes from excellent to mediocre but overall is pretty good. The folded cover sleeve reports info and some pics. If you are into old school HC punk, get this, you`ll love it. 22 Bands, 37 Songs, on a C70.

Enjoy it.

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A1Bat BonesEvil Eyes
A2Bat BonesSlash The Time
A3Bat BonesI Give You Pain
A4Bat BonesNo Mercy
A5Nightmare (6)Positive Fact
A6Nightmare (6)Fun To Death
A7CrückNever
A8CrückOur Minds
A9Hedge Hog (2)Advance
A10Hedge Hog (2)Oh My God
A11IdoraLondon Calling
A12Jelly BeansDiffer
A13Living VantageListen
A14Living VantageFoolish Dream
A153 Under Bad ChoiceNo Face
A16Griffin FZDuck Fight
A17Griffin FZBen Johnson
A18Griffin FZSamba
A19Sic Death Slaughter*Wild Men
B1MacrofargeMasayume
B2MacrofargeMurder
B3MacrofargeOne Morning
B4SuperdumbBusiness
B5SuperdumbScandal Of Asshole
B6Slang (6)Hard Crack
B7Slang (6)Worthless Guy
B8Me♀ss*Give Away
B9SlaverGive A Groan
B10SlaverWild Savage
B11Raise CainMan Eat Dogs
B12Final JasonBeyond Control
B13Final JasonCop
B14Pig SlaughterPrayer
B15Pig SlaughterMoralism Sucks!
B16Yellow LabelMad Cap Like Rat
B17Final CountStupid Life
B18NaüseaReality
B19NaüseaDon't Leave Me
B20Sic Death Slaughter*No Reader


Saturday, 9 April 2022

FAINTIN` GOATS-Monomania-(Self Released-Italy-2018)

 

Faintin 'Goats is a musical project focused on experimenting with electronic and noise punk stuff.
Born in
April 2016, the duo is formed by Alessio Del Donno and Daniele Pescatore.
The project is open to everyone who wants to share the same attitude or ideas of making music, without genres restriction.
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Thursday, 23 September 2021

You Are Fucker n5-(Fanzine-UK-2018)


 Small zine focused on the crust punk:long interviews to Fatum and Disease, music reviews, columns and an intersting punk  report about the London scene.

Enjoy it.

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Saturday, 31 July 2021

CONTAGIOUS ORGASM - Live At Maschinenfest 2018 - (Raubbau-Germany-2018)


 Raubbau picks up the thread and continues with its quest to make available memorable maschinenfest performances. contagious orgasm was a mf regular, and this perfectly shows the progression from the 2008 performance made available last year: gone are the idm leanings, the co sound of the 2010s (which is presented here) is even more a language of its own, abrasive and accessible, palpable and psychedelic at the same time.

get ready for some active listening - “afterglow” and “operation blue” are like a walk over thin ice, with acoustic strings and percussions, intimate melodies, whispered vocals and eerie washes of background feedback. the two parts of “exploration end seeking” are examples of co’s experimental leanings and an appreciation of the musique concrete. “mineral” and “firewalker” sport almost-rhythms and through a psyched-out, spooky back-alley take the performance to its noisy finale. It goes without saying that the sound quality is flawless, representing all the fine details of the truly unique co sound.
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www.raubbau.org
www.facebook.com/raubbau.label

 

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mineral 05:58



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firewalker 06:31


Monday, 21 June 2021

d E-Pine Island Under the Midnight Sun-(RU.MO.RE/1000+1 TilT-Greece-2018)


Pine Island Under the Midnight Sun was influenced by a large glacial calving in the West Antarctic Sea and how it was captured by the Operational Land Imager on Landsat 8.
Credits: NASA Earth Observatory/USGS
Cover Photo, 19 December 2017
Recorded May to July 2018, Athens
Live Mix/Recording by d E
Mastering at Sweetspot Studios
Special Thanks Alexandra, Alexandros, Iason, Ion, Kostas, Lydia, Stathis
Released by
RU.MO.RE (ectrecs@gmail.com)
1000+1 Tilt (tiltrecordings@gmail.com)
 
released November 6, 2018  
d E =Soundscapes, drones and noises as these are perceived synaesthetically. Inspired by techniques like automatic writing, all the tracks are live mixed and recorded as one-shot meditations, aiming to capture the feeling and the entropy of the moment intact.

 

Thursday, 3 September 2020

HELLCHARGER-Black`n`Roll-(Bandcamp-Mexico-2018)

Hellcharger is a band fro Monterrey (Mexico)! They play a blackened form of punk`n` roll!
This seems to be their only production released on August 15, 2018.
Enjoy it.
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Sunday, 15 September 2019

BLACK FAUN-Live 09022018-(E.C.T.,Concrete Noise-Greece-2018)

Black Faun is yet another project by Alex of Grim Machine, already fully covered in this blog.
In this tape, Black Faun(which appears to be a duo) offers us the live recording of their gig at Sticky Fingers in Patras, Greece (09/02/2018) and was released in 50 numbered copies as single side cassette.
The long track consists of found sounds slowly evolving from quiet noise to an assault of deranged brutal distortions and chaos.
E.T.C. is Cassette label orientate in noise, power electronics and industrial. Active from 2017.
Concrete Noise created by Alex M. (5) to host his sound and music works, as well as his collaborations and split releases with other artists.
A Fb page about Black Faun is here.
To complete this post I am attaching the video taken from the Concrete Noise Youtube channel about this tape. 
Big thanx to Alex for donating to this blog this great cassette.
Enjoy it.
~f*a)r_a¬w{a:y_ 

Monday, 11 February 2019

v.a.-A Fucking Noise Tribute To Sore Throat-(Abstinência Anti-Music-Brasil-2018)

Released on the 23rd of  December last year, this compilation with its 39 tracks is a violent`n`noisy grindcore slap...as you might want to expect from a real tribute to the legendary Sore Throat.
Abstinência Anti-Music from Brasil is a net-label interested in releasing what they call anti-music productions.
Their Bandcamp page is here where you will find all their productions as a free download.
Enjoy it.
~f(a*r~a*w^a~y(

Saturday, 5 January 2019

dUASsEMIcOLCHEIASiNVERTIDAS-Poda/Enco-(Associação Terapêutica Do Ruído-Portugal-2018)

I know dUASsEMIcOLCHEIASiNVERTIDAS and Associação Terapêutica do Ruído since a few years now and I was thinking to make a post about them already last year, lately, I met in Lisboa Boris and Joao and I asked them to write something for this post. Today I am proud to present this band and their music releases+biography and videos. They play a very personal form of noisy free jazz mixed with art-rock and avant-garde propelled bass lines,obsessive guitar riffs + rhythmic weird passages.
As I was very curious about their name, I did dare to ask:  dUASsEMIcOLCHEIASiNVERTIDAS  means "two reversed semi-quavers" or "two reversed sixteenth notes" (or "due semi-cromi invertiti;) and the original idea was to have just a symbol/logo with no name, but then at a certain point the symbol had to become a word and that's how we ended with this name:)
They have out quite a few releases, split tapes, and collaborations, all as a free download on their bandcamp page.

Here a short bio provided by Joao:
"Formed in 2007 by the same sick minds who created the hyperactive Associação Terapêutica do Ruído (ATR), their siamese entity which is dedicated to promoting DIY concerts and releasing and distributing records, the dUASsEMIcOLCHEIASiNVERTIDAS (dSCi) are a collective of noise therapists based in Lisbon that have a curriculum almost as extensive and intense as their music: two EPs ("I" in 2008 and "II" in 2009), a tape (“SADITREVNiSAIEHCLOcIMEsSAUd“ in 2010), a LP (“4” in 2012), two split-tapes (“dSCi/Cangarra” in 2013 and “Chains Split Tape Vol. 2” in 2016), a single (“Poda/Enco” in 2018), a split-vinyl (“dSCi/Parpar split” in 2018), two live albums with their side project of electro-acoustic improvisationdOISsEMIcIRCUITOSiNVERTIDOS, participations in several compilations, countless european tours and hundreds of concerts in the most varied situations and places and with the most diverse groups and musicians, not to mention all the other projects to which they are or have been directly and indirectly linked during these years."

Their last production is a split vinyl with their friends PARPAR and I am attaching here their official press-release.

Associação Terapêutica do Ruído & A Besta present:








After having shared the stage on a number of occasions, including the recent Ñekñek Tour, the infamous dUASsEMIcOLCHEIASiNVERTIDAS (dSCi) and the intrepid PARPAR have just released a split album together!


Recorded in October last year by maestro Milo Gomberoff at his Hukot studio in Barcelona during dSCi's KsChNpSk Tour and PARPAR's Tuktuk Tour and mixed and mastered by the master himself during the following months, the album was released on vinyl on the 18th November at Feira de Vinil de Lisboa, a vinyl record fair that took place at Mercado de Santa Clara in Lisbon.




The record, whose artwork was done by Katafu (Krafica), includes 4 tracks from dSCi: the already well-experimented “Jean-Louis is not a crime”, “Glut” and "Dr. Músculo” (aka "Mr. Muscle", which features the special participation of Pedro Arelo from PARPAR) and the new "Benco", a full version of the B-side track of the single “Poda/Enco” released last January; and 3 tracks from PARPAR with guest André Calvário (aka Jorge) on the bass: new versions of “STOSTO” and “PAIPAI” and the brand new “HUKHUK”, which was made during this recording session (and which is the first improvisation of the duo with a third element).



The vinyl edition is a partnership between the collectives Associação Terapêutica do Ruído (ATR) and A Besta and the labels Epicericords (France), Et Mon Cul C'est Du Tofu? (France), Experimentáculo Records (Portugal), Gaffer Records (France), Lepers (Italy) and Panda Records (Thailand) and it can be ordered by mail through any of these labels (or found at some record stores and distros around the world). And the digital edition is available for free download through the Portuguese netlabel Enough Records (and also in the bandcamps of some of the labels involved on this joint release).
To complete this post I am going to attach here all the useful links about this amazing trio, they are often in tour therefore if it happens that they are in your town I recommend to go to see them live. Thanx to Joao and the rest of the gang for sending me all these info and their help.
Enjoy it.
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Tuesday, 1 January 2019

AL DAHAS-State Of Boredom-(Crack Head Records/Favela Records-Qatar-2018)

Al Dahas is a Political Punk Power Violence / Fast-core band from Doha, Qatar.
 State of Boredom is their first release, recorded in Qatar by the band itself and it is crafted with 13 powerful tunes smashing uncontrolled energy, excessive violence, screams and few more aggressive shouts.
All the tracks are kind of mixed together creating 1 tune timing less than 7 mins, one side only, a real punch in our face.
An FB page about Qatar punk scene is here.
Get it if you like violent stuff.
Enjoy it.
~f(a~r*a~w)a*y: 
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Friday, 7 December 2018

Qamat is-sa'atu-Unpronounceable-(Detriti-Germany-2018)

This tape-work is the astonishing production by this Russian project that works in various areas such as art, film, music and propaganda like the old industrial acts. Their sound combines heavy electronics with ancient melodies.It was formed in Moscow by Ixes and Al-Maytatu L-Habithu.
As it happens that I am in touch with Al-Maytatu L-Habithu, who kindly has helped me a few times translating stuff from the Russian, I have asked him to write an introduction for his wonderful act.
I am very proud today to offer here a comprehensive biography including links and some videos.Big thanx to my friend Al-Maytatu L-Habithu for this great contribution. Enjoy it.(~fa*r~a^w~a*y^)click me

ﻗﺎﻣﺖ ﺍﻟﺳﺎﻋﺔ [Qamat is-sa'atu] in Classical Arabic means "The hour of resurrection from the dead has come".
Qamat is-sa'atu was formed by me (Al-Maytatu L-Habithu) and Ixes in Moscow, Russia in 2009,year in which we made our first release: 4-track noise album 'Настал час Северной Пальмиры' (The Hour Of Northern Palmyra Has Come) in a limited edition of 15 copies, self-released, not for sale, no album cover, just a number of CD-R signed in Arabic. All copies were left in the streets, squares and other public places in Saint Petersburg, Russia (another name of the city is Northern Palmyra, especially in poetry). There were 4 short rhythmic noise tracks inspired by some old school industrial weird bands. This release we made not for sale, just the idea was to make urban artefacts and left it in the streets.
In 2010 second release 'Labyrinth of R'lyeh'. The edition was 1 copy, self-released, not for sale, hermetically sealed box with CD-R inside. This album is a 2-hour long ambient track with ocean sounds and deep water drones. Hermetically sealed box with CD-R was thrown to the bottom of the Indian Ocean somewhere near Phuket island.
In 2011 Ixes left Qamat is-sa'atu to form his own act Per Aspera. That year I was searching for my own sound and started buying second-hand old hardware. The idea was to make a new sound design which will combine synthetic melodies, heavy electronics and live instruments in exotic oriental scales. Some friends of mine joined the project to do records in the form of studio jams. We recorded such instruments as cello, trumpets, hunting horn, zurna, didgeridoo and more to make loop and samples.

In 2012 Qamat is-sa'atu found a new direction. We produced a short movie 'Темный Лес за Кукольным Домиком' (Dark Forest Behind the Doll House) inspired by the silent horror films of the 1920s. We also produced the soundtrack for this movie and it was an interesting experience maybe we will do more films and video art in future..

In 2013, after two years of experiments, Qamat is-sa'atu released [‘ālam al-mithāl]. 2 track EP. Digital release by Inversion Records (Russian netlabel).
That year vocalist Nomind (aka Alsinner aka Alibek B.) joined our project. He also does vocals in several groove metal bands in Chercessk.

After 2013 Qamat is-sa'atu recorded tracks for a number of industrial compilations, and exclusive tracks for compilations of UIS label. It is my small tape label. Label's concept was born while I was working in Qamat is-sa'atu with Ixes.


In 2017 Qamat is-sa'atu and Russian darkwave band KRRAU released an epic split 'Archaos' which was based on oriental myths about Iskander Zul-Qarnayn (Alexander the Great). Most lyrics on Russian, some part on Karachay language (the ancient language spoken in villages in remote areas of the Caucasus Mountains). There were two editions:
By Slovak label Sky Burial. Tapes may be still available here: https://skyburialproductions.blogspot.com/2016/09/sky014krrau-qamat-is-saatu-archaos.html
And by my (second) label Oriental Prophecy. Tapes available here: https://orientalprophecy.bandcamp.com/album/--2
In December 2018 will be new album 'Порождение ночи' (Night Breed). Edition by Hvedrungrsmil Records (Russia). 25 numbered tapes, xeroxed collage on the album cover, analogue mastering with vintage hardware in pro-studio. It is pretty raw electro-industrial with early 90s spirit. 3 tracks from this upcoming album are included in the Detriti release 'Unpronounceable'.
In 2019 We will return with a new ethnic oriental industrial album (I hope).

Detriti is a well-known label here in Russia. This label produced a lot of Eastern European and Russian releases. Detriti doesn't care about the language barrier in music. Big respect! And I like Detriti old-school concept design. I think fits with the music very well. I met Davide (owner of the label) in Moscow this summer. He made a show with his Words And Actions. His gig was great, we talked a bit. He is really a kind person. I sent him Qamat is-sa'atu new album 'Порождение ночи' (Night Breed). He liked it but he also wanted to include in the release old tracks. Therefore We created 'Unpronounceable' that is, in fact, a compilation of old and new tracks. The sales went very good and the edition of 40 tapes was sold out in preorder (before the official release date).

About our live activities, Qamat is-sa'atu is not a band, like a rock band, we don't do gigs and all these activities. Our band is a studio project. Sometimes we do jams and records but we live in different cities and meet each other very rarely. We produce our music in this way: I program some rhythms on my SR18, the other participants record some improvisations that I will include with a sequencer, after we write the lyrics and record the vocals.
Regular members are:
me (Al-Maytatu L-Habithu) - synths, drum programming, vocal, percussion
Nomind - vocal

Partitipants are the friends of mine. They joined project from time to time:

Ulia K. - vocal
James Adlay - trumpets, hunting horns
Max Irm - guitar (ravish-sitar), zurna
Vitaliy K. - guitar, radio manipulations
Maria Vrana - didjeridoo
Stan Dex - cello

Important links:
https://qamat.blogspot.com/ (navigation in Russian)
https://vk.com/club51504188
https://soundcloud.com/qamat_is-saatu
Also parent labels. [Q] tracks in every release:
https://uislabel.bandcamp.com/
https://orientalprophecy.bandcamp.com/