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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Die Welttraumforscher - Die Singende Sternlaterne / Folklore Des Weltalls 1982

Label : A Tree In A Field Records - TREE046 / Planam - PLANAM WTF2

Country : Switzerland / Italy

Year : 2013

Format : LP

Here's a good'un. Someday, I will buy this entity's entire catalogue and share their genius ectoplasmic sonicforms with you all. In due time, of course. Or maybe one of those electro-boutique labels like VOD or Dark Entries or Blackest Ever Black etc. could do that... There's a whole realm of possibilities, though it betrays my own contrarian and pseudosolipsistic sense of "ownership" over it and the gratification of exposing it to the relative "masses". Doesn't matter when the music's this good!

This is both a rerelease and an archival release, the first side being a reissue of a 1983 tape and the flipside being an unreleased 1982 project now trapped in wax for our pleasure. This is all fine and dandy, but I wonder if the A side is an abridged version of said tape, as some tracks seem to fade a bit early and there seems to be a few tracks missing from the original. Even with that in mind, this is still an excellent document that I recommend very much so.

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1m54 - All Breaks Loose, I Suppose

Label : Toothpick - TP08

Country : Belgium

Year : 1996

Format : C30

Ripped by OminousMafioso

Very personal and intimate, as lowfi cassettes are wont to be described. This is definitely worthy of such labels, as each sparse track flows along the hiss like some kind of metaphor which loses meaning when I extrapolate on it. It's nice, very nice. And I'd been looking for it for quite the while til I contacted the person who had so graciously gleamed me with a rip of it. The screen name above is someone to watch out for, he has a great collection of tapes and is a very cool guy on top of it. Cheers!

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Various Artists - Cassette Revolution Vol. 1

Label : Narisu Records - CSRN-2501

Country : Japan

Year : 2014

Format : C50

I forgot to post this one, after all the relative trouble I had to go through to get it. Truthfully speaking, I posted this before on a behind-closed-doors kind of site while neglecting my own pet project. I had forgotten my roots, how shameful of me. Anyway, it's here and I can't complain, I need to keep this place's blood flowing.

This is a bit of an odd tape to post here, as its experimentalisms are more latent compared to most other posts here. Dissonance comes and goes, sometimes in favor of a more JPop approach... But there are some (un)hits here, cool stuff all around. I wonder if the Japanese are going to pick up more on the recent kassette kultur revivalism that's been going around the past few years, at least that's what the indie tabloids say. Not like people haven't been putting out tapes consistently since the CD tried to stifle it.

Since I'm a such a generous host, I've scanned and even tried my hand at cleaning the mini-manga (an omake to the cassette, if you will) that came with it. No TL, though. Even though it looks like basic stuff, I can't really read it. Maybe a scanlation group will pick it up and get in tussles with other factions over it.

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Shep and Me - Nasturtium Inertia

Label : Dear Skull - DS-011

Country : US

Year : 2011

Format : LP

Here's another album for you guys, with the same folk flavor as the last. Truth being, this is free/avant folk in a more Charlie A. McAlister way than a Jackie-O Motherfucker tinge like the last one. Small scale and lowfi ambient pieces abound.

This is a remastered reissue of a 2009 tape. This rerelease is of the odd assortment: it is abridged and yet it is obliged. What I mean by that is that two tracks from the original tape release are redacted in favor of two new ones. Good tidings, a worthy reason to download this one if you happen to have the original. This records packaging is something interesting, too. The sleeve itself is encased in what I can only describe as faux-hardwood flooring texture, and that itself is covered by the album sleeve. Tough nut to crack.

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IS - IS

Label : Awesome Vistas - AV-08

Country : US

Year : 2009

Format : LP

It's a real shame I can't really give cool anecdotes on these interesting recordings I find and post here, like all those other respectable illegal filesharing joints. Most of the time, I just find wreckords at a local shop and take em home with little in the way of an obstacle. Quite boring. Maybe I should start writing fictitious proseworks to spice things up. Anyway, what IS this? IS is IS, an improvisational grouping centering around Chris Johanson and his merry group of friends, as seen in this insert:

 A bit voyeuristic, an email conversation between the culprits of this work of freefolk ambiance. As I had found later, some of these cats are pretty big luminaries in the once big(?) free impro-folk scene, lotsa Jackie-O Mothereffer alumni. It's nice, an exercise in a now seemingly bygone style in two sides which probably made for a good soundtrack for the exhibition it was created for. Now that I am thinking for the first time in awhile, I never really thought to check which side is which as this information is obfuscated by the fact that each side is marked by a colored label instead of the traditional text laden generic... I suppose it doesn't matter, unless someone is very serious about the archival of late oughts indie-pain-dance in plasticity.

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RE: uploads - 10'' mix (instrumental).mp3.opus.exe

Tomorrow, it could be you.

Billy Synth - We Have Got To Make It On Our Own

Label : Mind Cure Records - MC-107

Country : US

Year : 2015

Format : LP

Not quite Pittsburgh, but close enough. This is some roaring Stooge infused synthgaragepunx from the city of Harriburg, mind the lack of h. I've never really been around that area of the state, but I never would have expected such cool synthetic punk to come outta there. Especially not from around 1978.

This is another release from a local record shop/label that has closed its physical doors and has set its sights towards shows and the wired... Still a cool place, though. The insert includes a positive overview by Michigan's own John Olson, so you know it's kwuite something.

This compilation includes his work with bands such as The Turn Ups and The Janitors, who I am sure are the same bands with different names as bands were wont to do back in those times and today.

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Various Artists - LowLife 17

Label : RRR Records - RRR-L03

Year : 1993

Country: US

Format : LP

Hello, here's something I've had for a little while and never bothered to upload for whatever reason. This here is a companion to the LowLife zine which apparently existed and RRR pressed for a coupla times... Too much indeh rawk here for me, don't care for it. There is some good avant moments, however. Murray Reams and Paul Hoskin play together on 'ere, and the mostly unknown band called Cake inverts their more popular and similarly named contemporary with some exp. folk dirges. Tinnitus is cool, too, and befitting of its name. My memory isn't very good, so maybe I imagined what this whole record sounded like in lieu of listening to it again. Well...

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It also came with this booklet, presumably the zine in question. It's pretty cool, contains some reviews about now acclaimed cult klassics like Spiderland (a pretty ambivalent review for that one, all told). Some illustrations, too! Pretty... Didn't scan it, though.

Midori Okamura [岡村みどり] - ブルースでなく (Mint-Lee)

Label : Out One Disc - KBS-DDCO-1011

Country : Japan

Year : 2010

Format : CD

Sweet minimalisms, here is another import from some island in the Pacific. A bit less manic compared to previous affairs, this is a nifty little collection of short and long and tall and brief synth tracks for the people.

Midori is a familiar name within the K-Hin Bros. collective. This being a reissue of a 1993 tape distributed by that legendary company and her being a member of Keihin mainstay Constance Towers/Space Ponch, this is rather self-evident. On another tangent, this apparently came with a CDr that contained some of the short CM (jingle) tracks she did. Alas, my copy did not come with that.

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EDIT: Here's that bonus CDr I mentioned earlier, found on the internet superhighway.

CM Special Vol. 1 & More

Blender Blender 2x4 - The Clownward Spiral

Never to be expected, a smattering of DIY ethics coming your way!

Now, Blender Blender 2x4 (or BB2x4, or BB2X4, etc.) is was/not/was a project by Poughkeepsie native K.D. Schmitz. It is a project I've heard about for quite awhile and I finally got my hands on a rip through the kind hands of Tony Coulter, who on every fortweek hosts the great show called "Tape Hiss" on WFMU. Basically, he plays obscure tapestries from various eras and of sometimes dubious origin all the way through. As consequence, the shows are not archived unfortunately to those who can't always make the grade at midday to listen in. But, Tony was gracious enough to send this particular rip over. Gotta luvvvvv it.

The tape consists of what I always assumed this particular mutations sound would pertain to: collages and intermittent noize, sometimes combined. A little uva twist here, some radioplay and the spoken word has entered the pregnable soundform. Gives it a little spice, I'd say. Something to do with clowns.

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Note that the album cover isn't so much of a scan as it is a cropped photograph blown up by waifu2x, so it looks a bit wonky. Also, the files are not split, but tracklisting can be found here.

Hachiman Mae - 八幡前その弐 (Hachiman Mae 2)

Label : n/a

Country : Japan

Year : n/a

Format : C60

Here we are again, the start of the end. The start of the end of Hachiman-Mae's extant tapography (at least to my knowledge). Their sound hasn't changed much from the last tape: noisy folk mannerisms in a lofi environment, short and harshly sweet in its brevitous use of a 60 minute cassettes A side. 

As one can surmise from the imagery brought forth by me, the packaging is much more ambitious compared to the last soiree. More colourful, decorated, and a bitch to scan. A fold out enclosure held together by a golden string holds within another enclosure whose space is occupied by the emerging soundform contained within yet another enclosure, this being the cartridge.

I got this rarity off Discogs dot com from the man behind NAPALMED, a Czech noise projection which collaborated with these guys through split releases, comp appearances back in those near old times. He tells me that he hasn't spoken with members of the group for quite awhile, and that Hosomi didn't have email. Well, there goes my plan of any sort of reissue/retrospective that would shake the modern world to its post-ironic core.

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(In 24bit/96khz FLAC! Hear the hissy detail!)

C.O.Y.C.A.M.I.I.K. - 0 = ∞ / Yü / Enthusiasm

A phantom post! Spectre of the night, time slipping into the dark recesses of, well, the night. Hard to tell sometimes. Here's a peculiar post for a peculiar time: a double feature for the bootleg platinum screen that is this blog. From one arbiter of illegal downloads to another, two ridiculously obscure tapes from one strange outfit from Philly-Delphi. I got this off a certain Russian torrent protocol, very slowly did it finally reach me. So I figured I'd cut out the front man and put the middle man in the spotlite, DDL is always there for you!

Anyway, this is pretty much a strange concoction of midi-classical compositions with some elements of noise, collage, industrial, and other such vapid, invented derivances (Is it "derivences"? Such variance). Kind of cheesy, but kind of cool, too. That's how I like it, most of the time at least. It's getting late so I'll cut to the chase and leave this pseudo-gonzostreamo to my slumber.

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Pineal Ventana - Stagnancy Is Revolting

Label : PV Records - PV1

Country : US

Year : 1993

Format : 7 inch

Perhaps out of character, have a post-HC record. Saved by its noisy demeanor, however. I may be losing my edge, I almost bought a minimal techno record and very well may have posted it here had I done it (it was rather good, though. Probably should have picked it up). A digression, as they call it, but I appeal to it here.

 Back to the little slab o' vinilo presented, just some scorching noise-industrial sized punx for the discernible of disturbances. A track that it isn't listed actually persists here, which I have made the distinction of in the rip, just for you. There's some nice vinyl messabouts to change it up from the average noisepunck charade, whether its physical or aural I don't really know.

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(note to the self, get Photoshop or something to help me stitch manually in a coherent fashion)

Barom One - Barom One tai Barom-san (Barom One vs Barom-San)

Label : 殺害塩化ビニール - MURDERCD-6767

Country : Japan

Year : 1998

Format : CD

Confession time, I uploaded this somewhere else before putting it all on display here. I put it on a very exclusive place of the net, with a name to the tune of J■op■u■i. Most kidding aside, this is a rather interesting and Japanese album.

(It came with an obi so you know it's legit)

This was actually my first foray into the world of import via proxy. Fun and notso fun stuff, and sometimes the only way to get items such as this, but it was worth it. I had been familiar with this peculiar grouping when I happened upon their split with Brezel Göring which contained some very choice tracks (one or two or three of which appear on here). Intrigued, I sook out more stuff by them and happened upon this on a Japanese auction site and the rest is a subfootnote of history.

 (Not a noise album without some collage. Colorful, too!)

The music, to my clouded understanding, is some bizarre mix of synthpunk, japanoise, jpop, and karaoke standards. Fun fer all the broken families of the werld.

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