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Bitch Junior - live _at_ myrys festival sept. 19th 2003 -
/Imagine this: a trio where both bass player and guitarist sing (both high
end screams/low end growls, old recipes make the best dishes as my granny
says); relentless grind/hardcore complete with blast beats, less than
two minutes songs, five breaks in a row (and one of them was heavy and
slow and pounding like a sledgehammer on a can of Dr Pepper –wonder
if that makes any sense), good attitude and saying ‘merci’ twice per
minute and having a smile on their faces most of the time and playing
for less than half an hour and inviting friends to sing and play with
them on stage. And they have a sweet non-PC name. Blimey, those Frenchies
are all nuts.
GerraeternA ‘the end of noise’ – autoproduction – CD-homemade package
/Please note Mr TORRES that having your own thoughts and/or own opinion is not allowed. Calling a ‘the end of noise’ a CD not containing any music isn’t neither, you know. As we saw weird and personal use of English language on your website, Mr. TORRES, we do want to inform you that such behaviour can not and will not be tolerated. ‘The end of noise’ consists of a painted-in-black AOL connection CD. The word ‘GuerraeternA’ engraved on its data side puts it back to what it really is: useless rubbish. We simply loved the idea, simply loved the GuerraeternA flyers, simply loved the GuerraeternA badges. Thank you Samuel.
/GuerraeternA c/o Samuel Torres calle 25 Z-1#1-Ciudad Universitaria-Trujillo Alto, PR00976 – USA
Gorezoo 4 ways split-Meat5000-CD-color artwork
/Tekken delivers what we payed for: fast&furious grindcore&fun, but they add their Taken by Tekken remixes to make the record really worth having (and they included remixes from BE Inc. Bands which is rather nice ). Suppository do have a silly name and give us this Napalm Death circa Harmony Corruption mincecore-influenced death metal we all like (just in case you don’t, why exactly are you reading this?). Sergent Slaughter get the funniest track title award of the year and warn us they use no effects on their vocals (and do not mention their singer is an alien from Sorethrotta 12). Fate isn’t that bad, somewhat more classical and a bit less crazy than the rest but doesn’t spoil the whole thing.
/c/o Jandin-31 rue Jeanne d’Arc-59000 LILLE-FRANCE
Government Alpha + Richard Ramirez ‘sol suave’-xerxes-CDR wonderful packaging as usual on xerxes
/I always think and say I’m noised out, and most of the boring material that comes and goes into the NOISE genre just confirms it. But I hope I’ll never get blasé enough to see such a great release with contempt. Simply excellent: wonderfully crafted harshest granite walls of noise with tiny holes of welcome quietness and slow colour changes from deep black to dark grey, my favourite colour change. Too long? Of course it is (only slightly) but still, apart from a few Gerogerigegege 7” who can say any noise release isn’t too long: it’s just an exhausting experience not for the weak of heart.
/xerxes_at_eb.mbn.or.jp
Governement Alpha-‘Glacial Specimens’–Tabula Rasa–CDR–beautiful homemade color package
/As soon as I put it inside the stereo and pressed PLAY, that little voice whispered in my head: ’This is *just another* Japanoise record’. Not quite, little voice. Ingredients are here: deafening high frequencies, humming LOOUUD basses, walls of harsh distortion, digital-with-ultra-high-gain-curves mastering, etc. At first, I fast-forwarded through the record as you dear reader will probably do, too. BUT: where you’re a stone-hearted bastard, I’m only a very busy gentle unprofessional, so unlike you I then took time to listen carefully to some parts and… They were excellent. There’s nothing there any normal human being could stand for more than two minutes, but there IS some great rhythmic work, some fine my-sound-is-your-pain research, and a lot of your-stepmother-will-never-come-back-for-a-cuppa-if-you-play-this-again moments. Maybe you, little voice, could make a better use of your time by teaching all these Japanese people how to turn their distortions OFF for a while?
/TABULA RASA-calle Acuerdo n18-Madrid-28015-SPAIN or mailto:tabularasabar_at_hotmail.com
Groyxo / Kraftvaerk 8000-perineum-CDR-greenice cardboard pakg’
/Japan’s Groyxo makes NOISE the oldies but goldies way, his s-s-s-s-s-stutter tracks consisting of hacked and chopped and sliced and minced and grinded sound sources passed through a truckload of distortion effects for 18 minutes of (difficult) pleasure. Kraftvaerk 8000 is regular but not uninteresting digital-type industrial noise, playing a lot with low/high volume structures, white/pink/brown noise with rather surprising (and pleasing) half-analogue half-techno moments. Keep an eye on your Perineum (couldn’t help this one, sorry)
/kachifugetsu_at_yahoo.co.uk
Grundik+Slava ‘polise’-Earsay-CD-regular jewel box too bad
/Despite this not being packed in the great Earsay envelopes, it’s a great record. Refinement isn’t a word I like to use when trying to describe electronic music, but this is a sweet and delicate and melodic and carefully crafted refined electronic album. Think Oval with much of the annoying rhythm virtuosity left behind and the pop sense of melody emphasised, or (for you, underground fans) Dave Handford cooled down by a drink of chestnut syrup and fresh milk (this is delicious, believe me). These guys did sort of a MIDI remix of Tchaikovski’s major works (something I was prepared to hate, slag off & throw away), released on the same label and it’s as great as this one is. Being ambitious and not appropriately talented makes you a boring fart, being ambitious & appropriately talented can make you close to genius. Much respect to Grundik+Slava.
/http://www.earsay.com/ – c/o the Third Ear – 21 Shenkin street – Tel Aviv- Israel
Guaranteed Katch ‘in a sumptuous brown gravy’-reality impaired-CDRs in plastic envelopes are my favourite
/Once upon a time, people with ideas couldn’t make any music. Nowadays –and please don’t ask, thanks to computers- not only people with ideas can make music but they can record, burn on a CDR and spread their weirdness around. Did you hear illegal mp3 downloading was responsible for the fall of them majors? Three things: first thing, I didn’t see any of them closing their doors, which I’m most unhappy about and I saw Universal had quite a few million dollars left to spend for Mr Meissier. Second thing, I still see them investing truckloads of money to advertise for ultra-shit from outer space that doesn’t sell because guess what, it’s ultra-shit, be it from outer space or not. Third thing, if half the stuff they released was half as good as this record, I really think people would buy it. If I never download any mp3s on p2p networks, it’s simply because the interesting music over here is on CDR and/or homemade labels and isn’t available on p2p (the one you should use is WinMX, by the way). So, ask you impatiently and I must say quite unpolitely, shame on you, what does this record actually SOUND like? Hell, don’t be so rude: have you ever heard of Uzme Doma? God is My Copilot? Anal Cunt (less accurately named Agoraphobic Nosebleed today)? Ground Zero? The Boredoms? Have you ever heard the names Jazzcore or Doom Metal or GroovyTrashMetalNonsense or Countryweirdrock’n’rollwithdriedvegetablesinside? No? Go buy yourself a record player! –and buy this record while you’re at it.
/PO Box 1285 JOPLIN MO 64802 USA
Gunter Schroth ‘barcode music’ – ARCHEGON – CD-pro crystal package
/The concept itself is interesting enough to appear here on its own. This CD consists of compositions and improvisations using barcode-generated sounds (though the interfaces used to make the sounds aren’t explained we can see Mr. Schroth at work on the CD sleeve). A very good use of medium/low harmonic frequencies makes this a pleasure to listen to with my headphones. Something good too is the not-so-frequent use of rhythmic patterns (though how rhythms are produced using live impros with barcodes remains an interesting mystery to me). The music reminds me of the experimental ambient works of Harry Oldfield and likes using almost robotic, very digital-sounding synth sounds instead of crystal or other analogue sources. Track#8 is a good piece of vocal strangeness in the vein of Pierre Henry’s GRANULOMETRIE, so ‘interesting’ is probably a better word to describe the CD than ‘entertaining’ is. But you know: we really like interesting music, here, and often think entertaining music is crap, so this one will get frequent listening.
/ARCHEGON c/o Gunter Schroth Muhlgasse 31 – 60486 FRANKFURT – GERMANY or mailto:archegon_at_t-online.de
Füxa
/ The Telescopes split – mind expansion – 7” clear vinyl – wonderful
hand painted cover by Randall
/And I get this kind of record by the post. I think it’d take me ages to
find records that good in shops, see; records that rhythm and pulse
and echo and trumpet and ringmodulate in my head long after they left
the turntable. Records that come on my favourite format (7” clear vinyl,
I guess you already know that) with a genuine numbered hand painted
cover and are brilliantly just the good length (shortness?). Records
that are somewhat dreamy drum and bass with an exquisite nostalgic feeling
(especially when played 33rpm). And these people release a lot of stuff
from Füxa: this makes them good people, doesn’t it, even if they’re
Füxa’s own label. And I get this kind of record by the post. Lucky bastard.
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