Electric Omen ‎– Abandon All Hope tape

Evil earth rumble distorted drone by Sindre Bjerga, like something Lovecraftian crawling towards you. 2009(?) tape on Blackest Rainbow.

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VA - With Friends Like These: 10 Years Of Pissing In The Wind cdr

 

One way or another I'm gonna drone ya, I'm gonna dict'ya, I'm gonna Bjerga. Bjerga, Bjerga, Bjerga! No, we aren't going to stop posting Sindre-related stuff here, so here's a comp by his label Gold Soundz celebrating 10 years of operation, with multiple short (max 1 minute and a half) tracks by Dylan Nyoukis, Posset, Jan M. Iversen, Cock E.S.P., Terje Paulsen, Hal McGee & Danny McGuire, Nils Rostad, Bjerga/Iversen, Torstein Wjiik, Kema, Anders Gjerde, Joey Chainsaw, Tobacconists, Crazy River/Monolab, Pål Asle Pettersen, Staplerfahrer, Andreas Brandal, NXP, Adults With Chicks feat. Mah-Ruk Ali & Mira Craig, Ronny Wærnes, Origami Boe, Mesmer Korsbols, Cape Of Seaweed, Rogaland Hot Club, Jazkamer, Frans de Waard, Hans Einar Gulliksen, Flesh Coffin, Full Narkose Band, Koff Koff, Kunstlusk, Ezdanitoff, and Rust & Rot. Expect various styles, from harsh noise and drone to dictaphone and glitch. 2010 cdr on Gold Soundz.

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Drone of the solar system

The reason why drone is my favorite music genre and why it has always been even when I didn't realize it as a child when natural or machine drones made me woozy and sleepy could perhaps lie in this video showing that drone is everywhere and perhaps the most natural of things, as it exists even in the void of outer space. Sound can travel in space vacuum as electromagnetic waves emanating from celestial bodies and the solar wind and moving as molecules. The frequencies of most of these sounds are much higher than the human ear can catch, but NASA has managed to catch them on its space probes and process them appropriately for our pleasure, having first done that via the almighty Voyager. One video among many to showcase sounds like these is the following, including sounds captured from the trajectories of Jupiter (Lustmord would be proud), Uranus's moon Miranda (totally spectral), Neptune (waves crashing on a ship), rings of Uranus (oscillating singing-bowl-like and haunting), Saturn (the souls of the undead), rings of Saturn (a ghost's nursery rhyme), Earth (did Robert Rich play this?), Jupiter's moon Io (a research station in the Antarctic), and Uranus (scary things flying overhead, equally scary to the planet's surface). Many of these sounds are similar to my own sound experiments with ambient and drone, which goes to show how much this music is influenced by nature and by this vastness. I've always been both fascinated and scared shitless by the solar system and the sight of the planets and this makes me even more so.

And some more Uranus rings singing bowl hypnosis.

Nate Young - Regression cd

 

This should have been released in the late-1970s as a soundtrack to a horror movie. Unnerving and claustrophobic electronics made through mind-numbing loops and synths. What else could you expect by Nate Young, brothers and sisters? Originally released as a lathe laser disc in 2008, this is a cd rerelease by iDEAL Recordings.

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Duncan Bruce ‎– New Glass Tapu cdr

Bleak Bliss had posted this in 2015, but unfortunately it has been taken down, so I though to re-upload this from my own cd. Saying that this is from new Zealand should just be enough to know that it's gonna be great, but ok, this is a nightmarish improvisation set on manic percussion, haunting sax, simmering organ/synth drones and dungeon pianos reconstructing soundtracks of '60/'70s giallo/Hammer Horror films. An absolute fucking masterpiece. You need to save this up in case it goes down again, ok? 2008 cdr on lf records.

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Dead Issue / Raw Noise Apes split 7"

Two-member technically perfect grindcore from LA by Dead Issue vs primitive, heavy and murky noisegrind from Greek cavemen Raw Noise Apes. 2016 7" on Psychocontrol Records, Autistic Society System Filth-Records, Grindfather Productions, and Bloody Scythe Records.

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Fordell Research Unit/ Culver split 10"

Another split between the many ones (and many collaborations) between Culver and Fordell Research Unit, who could be said to have a symbiotic relationship with each other. They both cover similar ground here, that is, enveloping sprawling drone with an almost orchestral quality, like a mix between Starts of the Lid and a ship engine. 2009 10" vinyl on Cosmic Slumber.

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