no interest reviews of the no audience underground

V/A ‘noise to meet you: Asia’-CDR in another very nice cardboard digipack

/Ah, noise compilations; an hour worth of loud boredom, from boring power electronics to boring noise industrial. Not this time, though: from Kiyoshi Mizutani’s restrained and minimal ambient to Wang Changcun’s digital breakbeat noise (Groxyo meets Government Alpha) through Akihiro Tanigushi’s clicking beats and lung-shaking low bassline (best track on the comp and come to speak about it the best track-with-a-beat I heard in some time); through Chen Li Wei’s noise electronica and Yasushi Miura’s ever changing chameleonic rhythms (Miura’s name I now have written somewhere for future reference) and Justin Zhong’s expanding spiralic walls of noise there’s really no place for boredom there.

/www.simlog.tk or simlog_at_hot.pl

V/A ‘thrombose’-thrombose-CD in a jewel box nothing’s perfect

/This is odd. Odd like blossoming fractals and a www font where www means wild wild West and not what you might have thought. Odd like digital unicode #2665 character –or hearts, depending on whether you are automatic or romantic- and digital xxxs like you’ve been kissed by a robot a few times (and the kiss wasn’t cold or mechanic, it was rather warm and welcoming because that’s the kind of robot you’re friends with). Odd like an all-stars electronic compilation and it also is allsorts but it sounds like a whole. Odd like unstable beat’n’dub from Peerspex and noisectronica ‘toys are us’ by Trombone. Odd like Darky becoming a lot better than his influences these days. Odd like Köhn exquisitely delicate pulse’n’drone constructions. Odd like mostly pop and very listenable but harsh and noisy and very experimental, too. Odd like goo/odd.

/http://thromboserecords.free.fr

V/A I’m going ape -NFL-red 7” old school b&w sleeve yeah

/Four bands, and up to 15 songs per band. I guess it gives an idea of the genre since noisecore and experimental electronics are the only places where such short durations are found. ‘Fuck trashcore, this is noisecore’ says the sleeve so here’s the genre. Well; yeah, it’s barely listenable but there’s a nice track title: ‘The Human race can eat my banana’.

/www.globaldarkness.com/csmd

V/A Sixty minutes (our hour)-wiaiwya-CD in a great PVC envelope

/No one would like to call their label Where It’s At Is Where You Are. Well, except the people from Where It’s At Is Where You Are. No one would like to ask sixty (yeah, that’s 60) artists to make an around-one-minute track to make an around-sixty-minutes (that’s one hour) CD. Well, except the people from Where It’s At Is Where You Are. No one likes videogame techno and 8-bit ambient. Well, except the people from Where It’s At Is Where You Are (and Jimmy, Darky and me as well). No one has a range of tastes so wide they could like nofi pop with sweet vocal tunes recorded in a bedroom, electroclash, guitar ambient, jungle, strangebeatmusictheycalltechnoTM, hiphop and noisy electronica. Well, except the people from Where It’s At Is Where You Are (and Jimmy, and me as well). I bet there’s not room enough left in their house to store all the records they have/like/listen to. They say you get 60 masterpieces on this record for a bare £3 (and Psapp’s track is really a damn masterpiece!) but they forgot to mention the record itself is a masterpiece: these people at Where It’s At Is Where You Are, they’re my buddies, although I never met them.

/www.wiaiwya.com

V/A ‘scratchtest#2’-scratch-CD-yellow digipack

/Instrumental hip hop vs. heavy dub meets bleep’n’beat vs. synthpop. Mastering’s a bit light on bass frequencies for me but still: a very good and still very cheap comp from Scratch Association, France. A special mention to MC l2OP & Seb Normal for their El Spacial Ghetto, fine silly lyrics, excellent lofi hip-hop. Another one to Gilles Sornette for his instrumental electro-reversed dub. Who said dark slow-paced rhythm music was only made in the suburbs of Bristol?

/www.scratch.asso.fr

V/A ‘sympathetic sounds of the wild west midlands’ - brainlove - CDR

/Things to eat and drink in here as we say in my neighbourhood. Starts off with GI Love and Special Sauce given several kicks in their lazy butts (Copter, they call themselves). Laidback blues with a theremin. Yea, hiphop with distorted vocals, my favourite type of hiphop. A Casio VL1, a cheap beatbox, a guitar they stole from Big Black and here’s The $hit. Zombie Elvis has a nice name. Trash Fashion are Depeche Mode, maybe some of you people like this kinda absolute crap. I told you Dreams Of Tall Buildings had a reputation of making good music some time ago: here you are… Steal a harp sample from Björk and make a great song. Hey, track 9 is pure noise! Incredible! 10, Depeche Mode again, f**. Little Robot Voice follows and is it a SH 101 they use? Not bad ambient pop with jungle influenced beats in the background. 12’s pop + rhythms again, not bad again. 13 is Pram and you can’t go wrong choosing Pram for a comp. Simply great and beautiful, as always (I missed Rosie’s voice on that one). 14 is The Telescopes showing you their dark ambient side. Wow Meow says you should enrol in the Anal Academy, sounds like a song from Travis (MY Travis from Reality Impaired, not the popshit ?), wonderful. A little instrumental hiphop with lots of vinyl crackles and sampled jazz brasses for three tracks Rocket Martin, Grandmaster Gareth and Conformist MC all get groovey in their own fashion. Fidel Villeneuve says he’s cheap and seems to have stolen something from Big Black as well (who said they stole everything from Metal Urbain so I guess there’s no offence). Yea baby, more Copter. And Bureau de Change: distorted synths & guitars and cheap beatbox with the Big Black trademark again, nice. Micronoymous help you relax on the end track. Nice, all that –hope I didn’t get the tracklist wrong cause it’s all messed up on my copy.

/www.brainlove.cjb.net

V/A ‘Unacknowledged pop - song collection vol.666’ - xerxes - CD - Jewel boxes suck forever but the artwork’s nice this time

/If you ever thought noise music was strictly limited to Japanese madmen with their trolleys full of effect pedals (or their fancy laptops with that backlit half - eaten apple which is all you can see of their creation on stage to speak the sad modern truth) all making 120 db worth of walls of hisses and feedback (a misinterpretation of the title ‘music FOR airports’ can cause you to understand ‘music OF airports’ and think the sound of a 747 lifting off played 15 cm away from your ears is a pleasing experience –anyway, this ambientish crap from Eno should never’ve left the rubbish bin; distortions or not), you should get this. And realize noise music also is freejazzyhiphop, metal, half - rotten easy - listening vs. techno and a flanger pedal, NOISEpop (NOT noisy pop, ye of little faith), bluesy electronica and every subgenre you can think of. One of the best comps I ever heard.
/First sentence contains samples from Jimmy Possession and Mark Wharton.

/xerxes_at_eb.mbn.or.jp or nunulaxnulan_at_hotmail.com

V/A ‘popular electronic uzak’ - samboat - CD - jawalla boxa gagaga

/Starts like a Rephlex compilation so PLEASE don’t eject it at once! You know all these rhythmic gimmicks reviewers_at_magazines feel are oh - so - wonderful –let me put it the way I think it is: there is NO such thing as intelligent dance music or intelligent techno (techno’s stupid, dance music’s stupid, dancing’s stupid, once and for all). But… Ah yeah, circa track 3 - 4 it starts sounding like a System Corrupt compilation, so it was worth waiting a little. You even got this Boulez Republic track (good name, btw) that sounds like Darky meets Soft Cell, quite brilliant. Gorki Plubakter pretends he’s doing an electro - punk cover of a famous French popsong with a teebee 3’o’3 and is quite successful at it (funny lyrics, too). Special mention for Man Eater Orchestra that definitely could be featured on a v/vm compilation and feel at ease. Industrial - influenced rhythms, minimal clickoglitchy electronica with a touch of noise, even a little noisy ambient, yeah yeah this comp’s well worth your money.

/mailto: samboat_at_tiscali.fr–snailto: Tropicalux - La petite menagerie 41150 Mesland FRANCE

V/A ‘be very afraid’–dead mind - CD - jewelohwell boxohmybox

/Opening any kind of comp with a 4’30” noise ambient track that sounds like Tribes of Neurot isn’t such a brilliant idea (except if you’re releasing a Neurot Greatest Hits of course); anyhow, they’re called Monotonos so they’re not lying to you regarding their stuff. But it goes wild and all over the place pretty soon, bloopy dancefloor dub’n’chno; followed by a little craziness from Crank Sturgeon vs. Outermost. Then noise ambient again, but Truck Van Rental manage interesting enough drone textures that all sound made with more or less processed Theremins. Believe me or not but track 6 is sort of reggae metal quite pleasing to the ear. More noise. And yea, here comes Dead Husbands (they got an album on the same label and it’s nice I bet I’ll review it here someday) who got this funny statement all over their flyers ‘everytime my husband dies, I keep the house’: wise ain’t it. A bit of Vangelis - like horror which is I hope not to be taken seriously. Buckettovsissors is raw rhythmic industrial, real aggressive and well made. Kingdom Scum get the Nicest Name of the Comp® award and blast instrumental noise hiphop. Tumour give us their usual Tumour stuff, ultra fast paced grindcore vs. industrial noise, of course I love it but it’s by no means your (nor mine, since we’re talking about it) average love - night background.

/controlvschaos_at_hotmail.com

V/A ‘Godflesh: tribute’ - nihilistic holocaust (whatever that name means) - 2xCDR - cheap plastic crap A.K.A. jewel box

/Praise the label that made a tribute compilation to one of my favourite bands ever. Thank you. Not that I’m going to say anything about the tracks on that comp since I don’t like negative comments, but having 2 CDRs worth of Godflesh covers is a great idea. Thank you.
/www.nihilistic.ca.tc

V/A Goulburn Poultry Fanciers Society Christmas Compilation - system corrupt – CDR – Santa goes porn artwork

/You may not be familiar with System Corrupt compilations (GFPS is a division of SyCo dealing with The Perversion of Normal Music^TM) but this is only because you’re not a regular reader of this. Well this is a Christmas compilation and the liner notes tell the story of a seemingly gay young man getting a quite sturdy assfuck from Santa Claus as a Christmas present and enjoying it a real lot (and thus giving the rather explicit porn cover its real ‘not-to-be-taken-seriously’ meaning). I guess this sums up pretty well SyCo’s nasty humour and usual contempt for what’s regarded Normal^TM by Normal People^TM. Oscar for the nicest name is for DJ Rainbow Ejaculation whatever the name means and his power-hardtech isn’t bad either. There’s ‘a violent night’ (this one’s got funny satanic lyrics) and a not so ‘silent night’ from Zeitgeist. Hip hop, SyCo’s usual great hardtech moments (Negative Network) and usual sheer madness moments (Dsico) and usual power-electro/noise moments (k5k). A good comp, who said as usual.

/mailto: goulburnpoultryfancierssociety_at_hotmail.com – see at www.systemcorrupt.com

V/A ‘in brine’ – FFR – CDR – beautiful plastic envelope and full color cover

/I had this a long time ago and who knows why it got buried in a drawer and was only exhumed today. And this is because it consists of ALL stuff before FFR#18 (which is this one): not only the records in mp3 format but nice b&w printable covers. So it plays only in my computer and that may be why it got lost when we moved: packed with computer stuff instead of neatly arranged with other FFR releases. I won’t review the albums presented here and the exclusive stuff and say the layout is beautiful and all but I’ll speak about myself instead, which is fair enough as far as I’m concerned. I like records you can’t listen to they say and there’s a GREAT one in there: Klunk’s ‘ultrathin’. The title’s just neat and the music is my kind of impossible music: droning ambient, incredible rhythmic tick&clack sounding like you’re making techno with Mickey Spillane’s Underwood, pulse waves, static: AHHHH, again!!!

/see at www.fencingflatworm.cjb.net or snailto: 16 station parade – Leeds – LS5 3HG - UK

V/A music from the deserted village - deserted village - CDR - nice layout quite similar to FFR’s

/Hey, starts with The Cosmic Nanou pretending they’re The Duds! (What a start, ain’t it). Ambientish droney electronica-influenced D&B then; neat. Then comes (is it Gog? I mean I can’t read this font properly) some sort of hiphopish sludgejazz, like Painkiller mimicking Corrupted at the beginning of the track then G Love and Special Sauce with a sweet bit of electronics, well done. Noisy folk next, why not, make up new genres for me. Agitated radio Pilot got a nice name and a beautiful little tune that doesn’t last too long over vocal nonsense. Magickal Folk comes afterwards and oh my, it took me three careful listens to catch they were actually singing in French for this acoustic ballad. Hope your Faraway Tree understands you better than I do and no offence meant sir. Two tunes of more classical, melodic (and nevertheless well crafted, a bit like Endorphin’s prods) D&B and dub (this one’s a bit noisier) follow. Noisy folk again, very nice, reminded me of that psychedelism I liked so much in early Flying Saucer Attack this band’s called United Bible Study and that’s one good song for you guysandgals. Bluesy poppy folky, move your body next to track tenny, yuck and press fast forward. 11: D&B again, with a more experimental touch to it this time, not so bad only too long. Psyche noisy folk again, apparently this label’s speciality and Esquilax it’s called and it starts like a summer breeze and ends in a blizzard fading in the distance. A vocal track closes the release. Know what: 90% of what’s in there ranges from not bad to real nice which is quite a lot for a compilation says me. I play that record quite often on the car’s stereo when my better half gets tired of Mercury Rev and THAT is a relief.

/see at www.desertedvillage.com

V/A/ ‘anomalous silencer’–NAPALMED Records–CD–nice BW package

/As you know we do not review productions of bands on the label, so we’ll say nothing of the PRESSURE track featured here except that it’s very good and a reason on its own to buy the comp. It also appears on PRESSURE’s first demo. Now let’s talk about the rest: from the Scorn-like ambient/dub of Mamarracho to the pure noise of Stratosfera, everyone should find something to like in here. What I liked were the NAPALMED track –not so noisy-, the Fuck the Facts track –some kind of grindcore played so damn loud and fast it could pass for Japanese industrial-, and of course Mr Gunter Schroth’s strange experimentation with his barcode-generated sounds. And by the way: there is a really *REALLY* good thing about these pay-per-minute v/as: most tracks are short enough, for a change. And we’ve got a few copies of this one if you want to trade.

/napalmed_at_volny.cz or NAPALMED-Lipovà 1123-43401 MOST-Czech Republic

V/A/ ‘Elsie and Jack and Chair’ – CD (and I had no cover but only a quite nice promo leaflet on transparent paper)

/Noise ambient, electronica ambient, (Füxa but still) ambient, film-soundtrack-ambient, melodic ambient, fast forward tracks 1-5 (still: give an ear to Füxa, for if this track wasn’t drowned in 25 minutes of the same stuff I’m sure you could like it). Then: ten minutes improvised (quiet) noise / rhythm and a bit of ambient again (band’s called ‘Shifts’ and has an album on Elsie and Jack, can be nice). Ah, ambient with guitars, this is the Shifts again and this is nice again. Totemplow: noise, but not so loudly mastered, so where’s the point. Brume: ah, noise, loud this time, I liked that one. Mlehst: noise, noise, noise and a touch of ambient (and this is supposed to be power electronics, only about ten times too long). Promo sheet says next track from Flutter is ‘brutally harsh, unyelding, friendly noise’... I suppose I had the wrong tracklist, because this is ambient again I’m afraid. THEN comes Tabata and oh my, it WAS worth the wait. Tabata alone makes some improvised guitar-only music, quiet and melodic, sort of post-rock even if you don’t like the name sir. With Tatsuya Yoshida, he makes slightly less melodic and slightly less quiet music, with some electronics probably and drums because Tatsuya Yoshida is Ruins’ drummer so you’d be disappointed if there weren’t any weird beats and so would I.

/If next v/a features a LITTLE LESS ambient, I bet it’s going to be great. As it is, Shifts, Brume and Tabata are really really good and are the reason why this comp is reviewed here. Not that I don’t like ambient you see, but not THAT much.

/2 the cliff, seaton carew – HARTLEPOOL TS25 1AB – UK or mailto:phil_at_elsieandjack.com - www.elsieandjack.com

V/A/ ‘Esprit III’-Aspic-CDR-arty cardboard cover

/This is vol#10 of these comps. Sadly, it’s the last one, it’s about time we talked about them. This one keeps up the recipe that made the project succesful: one track from each project of the label FRZ, Darky and Blue Baboon (this time, FRZ’s track is by far the best, soundtrack for a 1970s spaceage breakfast in artificial gravity), and various varied tracks from people all over the world. This time you get good hiphop with Sage Francis, (just a bit) boring electronica from .tape., honest electronica from Domotics or Rabbit’s Sorrow, melodic ambient from Carpet Musics (hello Kraftwerk, where have you been), and remixes from previous offerings. Previous comps included rockstars such as Ultra Milkmaids or Celluloïd Mata as well as good surprises like I Am Robot and Proud or Astroglide (now called Trombone). I heard them people created Optical Sound and Aspic Records with guess who Optical Sound Records. I’m sure there are boxed sets left of the whole series for you should you ask. Ask, wouldn’t you.

/www.zone51.com/aspic or aspic_at_zone51.com or 3 rue de la convention-69100 VILLEURBANNE-France

V/A/ ‘SY/CO’–system corrupt-CD-BW artwork

/Never heard of the Australian hardcore/noise/electro collective System Corrupt, uh? It’s about time you did. A great zine (‘no frills’), full of perverted corporate business adverts and. The infamous Goulburn Poultry Fanciers Society v/a: volume one is hacked and slashed pop hits from Britany Boobies to Wake me up before you go, next will give a big (but polite) kick in Mr-Puff-Daddy-and-friends-from-what-corporate-hip-hop-became’s arses. Experimental poetry on blood (or is it red paint ahaha) stained flyers. These people sell tee-shirts (and nice ones, too), they make great flyers and stickers, broadcast radio shows, organise free parties, turn pop 7” into noise miracles by changing the place of the supposed-to-be-center hole. They touch and pervert and make art of almost every crap you can think of and you’re still laying in front of your TV whining about how much tired you are? And now this comp. Distorted-till-death jungle drumbeats. Rhythms so fast your automatic BPM counter died merely watching them. Well chosen and very funny vocal samples. Overall an excellent comp for those days when this extra stamina is required to (go to and) work or play your favourite quake-like, doom-like, unreal-like or whateverthehellthislatestwolfensteinclonein3Dis®-like. Highlights? Yep: Null Object and its ambient approach of rhythm-driven brainwashing (best track on the comp); Fraughman and ‘oh my what did YOU do to my guitar riffs’; Core-Tex Labs who seems to have hacked a tape of French TV’s Worst Of and delivers a 5 minutes binary attack, Mute Freak with a less straightforward approach of beat torture manages to avoid the clichés of electronica and Anti Kati, who’s got a system and it works (or so they say, with samples from The Day the Earth Stood Still).

/http://www.systemcorrupt.com or PO box R420 Royal Exchange, 1225, N.S.W., AUSTRALIA

V/A/ ‘the flaw of lives’-Fiend-CDR-Color artwork

/It all started bluesy with a tune on guitar. Then it was experimental (and rather noisy) guitar and it was from the same band. Country music followed and weird space rock and both tracks were from the same band, but not the same as the first two tracks if you follow me. Spintronics (my personal favourite) followed and I was sure I’d like the whole comp cause it would’ve been techno if techno fans were smart enough to like this kind of techno. Then Candi Nook, same comments applies although it’s dance music. Drum’n’bass from Socteau Cirque (two tracks in a row and some more afterwards). Then hardcore beats and straightforward rhythms and on it goes… You got NOISE as well and more experimental soundscapes even ambient I by the end of the record. Let’s be negative, cause this is too much of a brilliant record: why not including some grindcore while you were at it?

/c/o P.Harrison 18 canal road-sowerby bridge-West Yorkshire HX6 2AY-UK or www.fiendrecordings.com or mail_at_fiendrecordings.com

V/A/ French Putsch!-Brume-CD-pro jewel box

/There’s a French industrial electronics label, yes there is ma’am and it’s called Brume records. Someone recently told me people in our rather uncivilised country needed some kinda stars to trick them into difficult music and this could be the appropriate CD. There’s Mlada Fronta of course (how could you do any kind of French electronics comp without them) for the ambient soundtrack-like easy part and Komintern for the easy-but-harsh-dancefloor part. Flint Glass as well maybe seen as easier music but his cocktail of deep watery drones (and something that sounds like the didgeridoo electronic counterpart) and dub-like rhythms build up something that can act as a bridge between easy and not-so-easy electronics. My personal favourites: Holger Vice (who quite amusingly uses very1980-sounding drumkits to build up some kind of dry and sharp dance music for very slow androids, the kind Kraftwerk could’ve shown on stage-or think Visage after the Apocalypse), Prbn, techno for robots (for very serious-looking warlike black steel ones this time), and Atelier 112, an experimental-impro collective, managing to do noise-electronics-sounding music with acoustic instruments, best track featured there. There’s a video of their shows as well on the CD and it rocks.

/98 avenue de Flandre 75019 PARIS-FRANCE or see at http://www.brumerecords.com or mailto tremorin_gwenn_at_hotmail.com

V/A/ No Frills (CD, comes with the brilliant zine)

/System Corrupt is the finest in hardcore techno people say. Actually, people are right for a change, Passenger of Shit, 556a, Scruts’n’Guts and Toecutter for instance really are both HARDCORE and TECHNO. But people forget SyCo is somewhat wider than just hardtech. Maladroit, Null Object and pH know what playing with rhythms and ambiences mean. Ah and what about this nasty, loud, heavy hiphop of theirs (Suicidal Rap Orgy –they got a video 3”EP out as well, Refuz, and especially Diablo Negro), it really is my type. There’s good old live power electro, raw madness (7U? and Composite of Negatives) and hail to Mr DJ Anal Erection for a somewhat special disco remix and a rather stupid alias. An extremely convincing v/a for nutters like me that comes with an excellent zine for nutters like me.

/www.systemcorrupt.com - PO Box R420 Royal Exchange, 1225 NSW, AUSTRALIA

V/A/ Reality Impaired #2-CD-funny plastic cover horrible bw artwork as usual

/Starts with bluesy punkrock. Then Testicle Bomb (that’s what I call a name) is sludgey hardcore. Trixie and the Merch Girls offer us to suck their asses cause they smell, I’m not sure I’d like this kinda Bloodhoundgang-type humour if it wasn’t from a girl’s band. Bluesy rock and roll and lofi fast punk. More blues follows and I do agree with Vaginal Discharge: Christian rock sucks. Lofi blues again, thrice, in the rather WEIRD catagory. Excellent. More lofi hard/noisecore, live, loud, ugly, the kind I like. Super noisy pop with Travis which I bet isn’t the pop shit I knew. Mind Orgies is… well, I can’t tell, D&B, pop, metal, noise. Lucid’s in the same vein, more sludgey, more metal, more psyche, just good. Freak Flag makes some sort of noisy ambient this time. Satan’s God’s goes plain crazy with guitars, just like Deuce Das with trumpets (?). Some sort of D&B on acid follows and yeah, back to lofi pop and to psyche and rude rock just afterwards. The Camorra is noisecore (a bit too nu-metal sounding for me). Plain weird again with Mixomatosis and Oral Uterus (a name, and an 8 seconds noise miracle, hats off to you guys/gals). A little nicey ambient, then some boring noise, twice, which is not much boredom for a 29 track- over an hour comp. I never heard of any of those bands except Freak Flag and they range from not that bad to absolutely fantastic. And the record is sprinkled with hilarious vocal samples. This label just DESERVES your attention, do you get me?

/c/o PO Box 1285, JOPLIN, MO 64802, USA

V/A/ untitled feat finaldoll/finalcut, iloj tone, gezeda, planetaldol, astron, circonferens6.x, der brotman-autoproduction-CDR

/As I am listening to this I wonder what difference there is between this underground French comp with its DIY-at-home design I’m trying to review and the supaclass-we’re-artists-you-know Rune Gramofon comp I had from a friend a while ago. Packaging sure isn’t as nice, and the whole record sounds probably a lot more lofi, but overall the music featured here could easily be on some sort of real label. Not that I’m a fan of this CD, featuring more or less noisy electronics, dub, ambient and an underproduced metal track, but there’s material there one can listen to a couple of times, especially the finaldoll/iloj tone collab (iloj tone alone is also okay), and the astron track (astron being the French DJ Spectre, making some fine classical dub with carefully selected movie samples). If I still wonder about the difference, maybe it’s because there’s no difference in quality between CareWare underground DIY labels and the independent-but-still-distributed-by-Sony ones.

/Fumex Lamy-Les Theureaux-71220 Martigny Le Comte-France

V/A ‘it’s fan-dabi-dozi’-test records-CDR-not for sale, really (they say, but you should buy it, really)

/Weirdos, freaks, mad(wo)men, shitheads, fuckedbrains of all nations, could you please unite and make a CD compilation. Okay, you already did (how come most of you live in Australia), and it’s called ‘it’s fan-dabi-dozi’. This is very nice of you people thank you. I just love Suicidal Rap Orgy, you get Cock ESP for the there’s-famous-people-on-the-comp alibi, you learn about death by gravy from Rob, Andy and Tom, get quite a lot of perverted/bastardised/breakbeaten-to-death pop & dance music to bang your head to (my personal favourites being Rank Sinatra’s ‘eternal flame’ and Jansky Noise’s ‘right eye of the tiger’ oh yeah), there’s even pretty listenable stuff here like [.kuozo] (dub ambient, yes it is) and we’ve got a draw for the greatest band name between Andy Calorie and Vagina Jones. This comp is as varied and excellent as Reality Impaired or Sy/Co ones usually are and that’s saying a lot.

/Get it through System Corrupt see above (that’s how I had it) or try www.brainwashed.com/vvm

V/A ‘night on earth#2’-night on earth-LP-simple but nice sleeve

/Electro for everyone’s in there, from the glitch techno of Grabuk to the ambiental minimism of Gamaboy, from the power-electro noise of Tzii to the kraut-like melodies of Music For Sleeping, from the deconstructed hardbeats of Saoulaterre to the dark dub of Thropp (I hope I understood which side is which).

/mailto: erickd66_at_hotmail.com