Friday, June 30, 2017
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Ramleh – Conquest Play / Clockwork
2016 12" LP by legendary Ramleh on Entropy, with two exclusive tracks. "Conquest Play" is a terrifying guitar noise wail, while "Clockwork" is a rhythmic post-punk epic. Essential stuff.
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Monday, June 26, 2017
Saturday, June 24, 2017
Culver – Recurrent Themes For Consumer Society
This 3" CDR released by MUZZedia VERHEAD in 2009 is a rerelease of an early Culver tape released by Saturated Tape in 1995. For those familiar with Culverian drone, this is quite different, as it is noise with a touch of hypnotic industrial machinery repetition. For more early Culver, a good place is 1000 Flights blog.
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Tuesday, June 20, 2017
va – Le Triomphe Dans L'Endroit De La Duperie (Maurizio Bianchi, etc.)
Music accompaniment for an Italian art exhibition, featuring music by Maurizio Bianchi, Andrea Marutti and Lost Shelter. 2010, Ambiente H.
(There are 60 pages of text in Italian which I didn't care to scan.)
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Sunday, June 18, 2017
va – Drones, Tones And Various Repressed Emotions
Ambient/drone compilation CDR released in 2009 by Basses Frequences. Tracks by Nicholas Szczepanik, Tamagawa, Fordell Research Unit, Elementaural Research Project, Culver, Alistair Crosbie, deAnimator, Créature, and stand-out tracks by Wereju, Aidan Baker.
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Saturday, June 17, 2017
va - Doing The Right Thing Takes The Emptiness Away
Great 2006 CDR drone/noise comp by Pjorn72 featuring Alistair Crosbie, Kylie Minoise, Dirty Husband, Culver, Temple Of Static Christ, Handek, CKDH, Nimrod 33, Nackt Insecten, The Maniac Upstairs, Muscletusk, Legion, The Blue Brazilians, Opaque, Shareholder, Adverb, Noma, Usurper, Silent Order, U-Drift74, Fordell Research Unit, Wounded Knee and an unbelievable sinister drone by Harm (Samantha Davies of Skullflower, Voltigeurs, Valley of Fear). This track bears the namesake of Harm's demo The Dye From The Dresses of the Drowned Women, which is the only release by Harm I don't have, so please if anyone reading this has it, I'd be grateful if it could be shared.
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Maurizio Bianchi – Escape To Bela-Zoar
This is if I remember correctly the second MB release I had ever heard (after Symphony For A Genocide) and I was stunned. I have slept many a time to the hypnotic sound of the first track which is the aural equivalent of the swarm of locusts mentioned in Revelations. The second track paints the picture of a decimated landscape after a nuclear explosion, while the third track is a Lovecraftian subterranean journey. 2006 CD on L-White Records.
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Maurizio Bianchi & Hue & Fhievel – Erimos
One of MB's most ambient moments with fellow Italians Hue and Fhievel. 2007 cd on Digitalis.
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Maurizio Bianchi – Computers S.P.A. / Com.SA
At War With False Noise reissue of early (1980) tapes, so you can expect a less nuanced approach.
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Maurizio Bianchi - The Testamentary Corridor
Unsettling synth music recreating perfectly the feeling of walking among unknown corridors. 2006 CD on Silentes Minimal.
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Monday, June 12, 2017
Land Use-Maurizio Bianchi-Pharmakustik - Spülfeld
Tunnel sounds and flowing liquids in a collaborative effort by Maurizio Bianchi, Land Use and Pharmakustik. 2011 CD on menstrualrecordings.
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Maurizio Bianchi & Cheapmachines - Paradoxos CDR
Ringing and screeching noise by legendary Maurizio Bianchi and Cheapmachines. 2008 CD-R on TIBProd.
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Sunday, June 11, 2017
Culver/Karst - Peach Volcano
Another tape in the "Volcano" Culver/Karst collab series. This one sounds quite subtler and quieter somewhat. 2009, Matching Head.
For the rest of the "Volcano" releases:
Blood Volcano: Here
Quarter Mile Volcano: Bleak Bliss
Mile High Volcano: Bleak Bliss
Culver/Karst - Funeral News
Wall-ish drone by Karst, stasis drone by Culver. 2007 tape, Turgid Animal
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Karst
As already said, Karst is the drone project of George Proctor of Turgid Animal recs, Murder Book and Mutant Ape. No Prose cdr was released in 2008 on Phage Tapes.
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Sinking Sand tape, released in 2007 on Matching Head. This is much noisier than usual Karst stuff.
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For more Karst look elsewhere here, as well in Bleak Bliss.
Karst/Culver/La Mancha Del Pecado - Split CDR
Karst is George Proctor (Turgid Animal, Mutant Ape, Murder Book, etc.), Culver is Lee Stokoe (Marzuraan, Skullflower, Matching Head tapes) and is the best drone project around. La Mancha Del Pecado is Miguel Perez (Skull Mask, Neck vs. Throat). Deep drone from all three artists. 2013 cdr on Turgid Animal.
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Culver & Karst - Blood Volcano
Collaboration tape between Culver and Karst in 2008 on Turgid Animal, as part of the "Volcano" series. This sounds to me as one of the most noisy works by both projects.
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Friday, June 9, 2017
Maurizio Bianchi & Land Use-Psychoneurose
Tense ambient noise by the man and Land Use, released in 2005 on Manifold. I consider this one as one of MB's very best. The second track especially is beyond words.
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