Jazzfinger – Ugly For A Living

The godfathers of skronky impro drone on a very heavy fuzzed-out jam. "Shribble By The Shoals And Stepping Stones" is an amazing hypnotic track. Sounds somewhat like Burzum' "Tomhet" but without the melody, just a monotonous synth drone. Really good. 2005 cdr on Gold Soundz.

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Star Turbine, Inseminoid, Fordell Research Unit, Xazzaz ‎– Nundungeon cdr

On this 4-way split that was made for a gig in Edinburgh, we have Star Turbine (Sindre Bjerga and Claus Poulsen) making low-end dictaphone drone that is amazingly effective in its decaying tape sounds, Inseminoid offering hypnotic harsh noise/drone, Fordell Research Unit creating spooky sci-fi UFO drone, and Xazzaz destroying amps with his gruesome harsh guitar noise. 2014 cdr on Gold Soundz.

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Posset ‎– Peed-trofm:oc tape

This is surprisingly varied given its short duration. It features Joe Murray-Posset's standard drooling madness, severely autistic moanings and field recordings dicta manipulation and then moves to cooking pots banning with an admiringly aptitude at creating drum rolls and even blast beats (he's like the Pete Sandoval of kitchen drumming), ending with a calming ambient loop w/ tonal alterations. Sweet little thingy. 2010 tape on Gold Soundz.

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VA - Magnetic Decay tape

Experimental electronics and drone on this compilation made on a recycled cassette, featuring Norwegians Håkon Lie and Sindre Bjerga (in one of his darkest moments) along with Brits Ian Watson and F.Ampism. 2015 tape on Gold Soundz.

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Culver / Electric Omen ‎– split tape

 

This split tape was made in drone heaven. Lee Stokoe/Culver presents one track of detuned oozing muck and Sindre Bjerga/Electric Omen is offering a distorted wall of bass rumble and swirling loops. 2008 tape put out on a recyled cassette on Gold Soundz.

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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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Various - Bjerga/Iversen - Dissect And Connect - Bjerga/Iversen remixed

 

It's obvious Bjerga and Iversen are adored around these shores, so we'll buy other artists remixing them too, right? So here we got remixes by HOH, Robert Horton, Dead Wood, Andy Jarvis, Joe + N, Swamps Up Nostrils, Hrönir, Green Kingdom, Prester, Tzesne and Culver accentuating the most drone aspects of the Norwegian duo. 2007 cdr on TIBProd. and Gold Soundz.

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Bjerga/Iversen ‎– Small Change floppy disk

Another one in the Bjerga/Iversen floppy disk series. In this one, it sounds like they were scuba-diving and they caught sounds of signals and other sounds from boats. I like it, it makes me sleepy. 2010 floppy on Gold Soundz.

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Bjerga/Iversen ‎– Short Circuit floppy disk

Another floppy by the Norwegian duo, this time we have a submerged drony piece with someone talking over. Guess Bjerga and Iversen went into a manhole and recorded the sounds from above. Nice. 2009 floppy on Gold Soundz.

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Bjerga/Iversen - Time Lapsed floppy disk

Aaaahhhh ze floppy disque! Strong contender for most obsolete and redundant storage format of all times. How many times have all of us cursed a dysfunctional floppy where we had stored a file in the 90s and we couldn't retrieve it. Bjerga/Iversen have released a number of floppy discs containing small excerpts of noise, but unfortunately I don't think they have been successful in rekindling interest in floppies as a beloved format for the underground (whereas vinyl and the cassette are far from being extinct). So, this one includes one minute of screeching resembling the noise made by elevator ropes if they had been recorded inside the shaft. 2008 floppy on Sindre Bjerga's Gold Soundz.

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Culver ‎– She Had Blue Eyes Filled With Blood cd-r

I think I have said this before about a Culver or Lee Stokoe-related release, but this is the musical equivalent of working as a stoker for the engine of an icebreaker ship or a huge furnace, such as the one described as being always on the brink of explosion in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. As you can always expect from Culver, this is deep, deafening drone wall by one of the greatest masters of the underground. 2007 cd-r on Sindre Bjerga's Gold Soundz.

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