Napalmed / Mood Nanamenicaca - Split

Label : Napalmed

Country : Czech Republic

Year : 1999

Format : 7 inch

What was a Christmas present to me is a Boxing Day gift to you, the reader. Hope you all have had a jovial holiday, and if not, I hope to at least spread some joy your ways. Here's some stirring sounds provided by Czech noise masters Napalmed and a sideproject of a blog favorite in Hachiman-Mae.

Now, I'm not sure if many of those who come by this blog read my reviews on rate your music, but I'll keep this brief so as to not create a retread of my review of this on there. This split was something of a surprise to me as it played along, shattering my expectations ov it. At first glance, I had thought this would be a coin of different sides in terms of sound: The harsh machinations of Napalmed and the lowfi junkfolk of Hachiman-Mae. But, as you may hear, it deviates quite a bit from my preconceived notions.

For one, the two sides do not present much of a radical difference from one another when it comes to general aesthetic. Two sides of electronic experimentation as it were. Though Napalmed's contributions fall more into the realms of industrial synth and Mood Nanamenicaca's in the ways of glitch collage, the aural arenas are not separated so much as they are in perpendicular realities. If that makes any sense at all.

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Napalmed - Recycled

Label : RRR / Statutory Tape

Country : US

Year : 2000

Format : C90

I'm not much of a Noiseman sound insect, at least not as much as I used to be, but Napalmed are probably one of the better harsh gruppes out there. I've been sitting on this one for about 3 years, along with another one of these tapes I bought from Jerry's when he still had a big case of these specially ordered Recycled tapes from RRR... One of the tapes was blank so even you could be a star!

Come to think of it, I was planning on making a megapost for all these tapes, but it never came into fruition, instead fated to wither in my drafts. Maybe I'll do it later.

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