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Pan Demla ‘goes to your town’-demo-CDR-usual noise b&w Xeroxed cover

/Ah, CDRs and home production were the best thing that happened to music since Anal Cunt invented noisecore. Speaking about noisecore, AC had this good idea of recording mostly 7” at first and then making real songs and funny covers in the middle of their full-length-10-million-songs-lasting-for-less-than-10-seconds albums. Longest track on this CD is more than 7 minutes long, everything else being around 20-40 seconds which I think is an excellent length for metal-related songs, even if quite a number of tracks seem to be sliced bits of long recording sessions (sliced only to give the record that Gerogerigege feeling I guess). Only thing is you have 83 songs there and it gets us back to CDRs again, 80 minutes maximum length and people thinking mandatory to fill them half way up at least… If this record had consisted of 3-5 full sessions of 3 minutes each, I would’ve cried for excellence. As it is, I like it but mostly because it reminds me of good memories back in the 80s. Never happy, see: always says it’s too long and when it’s short, says it’s too short (and too long overall). Fuck record reviewers.

/mailto: pan_demlal_at_volny.cz

Parkinson/Tekken split – weewee and others – 7” vinyl – funny orange artwork

/What would this newsletter be without something from Tekken to review in it. Here you are again, they deliver their usual dose of humorous punk’o’grindcore (they say they’re better than you and I bet they’re right) and the usual electroremix, this time by Kukozu (grinding black metal type EBM lasts for a few seconds and does the trick allright). How can a metal band from Malaysia release or even record anything is a mystery to me but here you are, Parkinson -not the most original name you ever heard- do get to us with not the most original metal hardcore you’ve ever heard but with a great deal of sincerity most bands miss today. Nice good old split just like the ones you could get in the good old days back in the 80’s, only with a much better sound J.

/25 rue Goudouli 31240 Saint Jean - FRANCE

Pasif perifrasik-sijis-CDR the usual nice PVC envelope and color artwork

/I was taking a walk in the city at night yesterday. I live in a small town so going to the next big city is somewhat of an excitement (in case you’re wondering, this city is Montpellier, the original French one mean, not the sampled US counterpart), like seeing shops and all kinds of weird students posing as weird students heavily into some kind of underground scene on their grandparents’ money. As I was having this nice walk, Christmas lights and decorations and all, I heard a band: two vocalists, acoustic guitar and contrabass. Apart from the nice feeling of hearing acoustic country-rap-I’m-GI-Love-but-there’s-no-special-sauce-left, I was just surprised so many people were gathered there to hear music they’ll sure despise if it were anywhere else but in the streets, let alone buy a record. Had I been taking a walk in a Martian city, this band would’ve been Pasif Perifrasik and would’ve been a vocalist, a heavily processed electric lute, an electronic bassline machine, a modular spaceship-looking synth, a robobeatbox, white noise and clicks, and doing future-retro country psychedelia (this kinda country music from the plains of Mars, you know). But there’ll be something similar: people would stop to hear the music because it’s good but they’ll never buy the record. Or maybe they would, Martians are so much smarter than we are.

/www.sijis.com

Pauwet Paulus Mazur ‘kriegsmarine orchester und blaue hund’-CDR in another nice folding cardboard pack

/Noise’n’beatz’n’jazz and all sorts of stuff (track 2, sonar swing, is especially super-nicey future-retro-ish). Imagine heavily scratched and dusty old vinyl beats sampled, a clarinet and a saxophone plugged into a TB-303 plus various claps and eerie vocals and toy basslines, all force-mixed together for a jazzy drum’n’bassy dance music back from the 50’s (the 3050’s that is) and played in front of a party of toxic-generated undead soldiers and their misuses.

/www.simlog.tk or simlog_at_hot.pl

Peaches/Björk-live_at_Bercy-Paris-June 16th 2003

/We went through a 3 hours drive to Paris (real bits of traffic jams enclosed) to see Björk and arrived 15 minutes late. There she was on stage, wearing white mini-shorts and screaming like mad, encouraging a quite unenthusiastic audience to ‘shake your dicks and move your tits’ (not something I’d say to someone I know, let alone a 10000 people crowd, especially when those bastards think they’re smart booing you, we’re in Paris in case you didn’t realize people there are stupid), then changing for pink mini-shorts and then black ones and wearing a triple-X cape I’m sure Rocky Balboa would’ve thought sexy and it was all a mixture of 1980’s New Wave on amphetamines, hardcore 4/4 boom-tack beats and death metal. These were 25 fucking brilliant minutes, to speak her language. But it was Peaches, not Björk, because Björk on stage is Atari Teenage Riot for the underground alibi and lots of terrible commercial club techno and mellow pop, with fireworks and a stage performance Guns’n’Roses (YUCK) wouldn’t dismiss. Who cares about Björk, we’ve seen Peaches!

Pekatralatak / Tekken split-weewee / vendetta-picture 7” yeah!!!!!

/The promo flyers for this record are hilarious: one shows Mr Conan The Barbarian and states ‘Tekken – super violent hardcore – New york / Pekatralatak –extreme blasting ska –Portland’, another shows some kinda moshpit close-up and states ‘Pekatralatak – tofu folk – Sarajevo / Tekken – melodic grind – Washington DC’, another features a Manowar-like horde of primitives with swords and states ‘Tekken – punk / Pekatralatak – punk’… And I’m sure they made lots of others. Pekatralatak are from a small town near Bayonne (Pays Basque) and Tekken from Toulouse Hardcore City (France). Music, uh? Who cares, their descriptions are as inaccurate as mine would be, so let’s say shoegazing pop for Pekatralatak and dub ambient for Tekken. Just a translated excerpt of Pekatralatak’s ‘le 15 août’, here we go: ‘and you worked for a year to go there (…) you slay nature and proclaim its beauty: your holiday, tourist, smells like shit… Come, come the 15th of august: road slaughter is gonna clear the masses’ –quite straightforward, ain’t it, bit like their music.

/david.weewee@laposte.net or vendetta@vendetta.propagande.org

Pilfernators ‘are shit’–Power Violence–black CDR-BW Xeroxed artwork

/If damn good hardcore techno is what you’re after, then here you are. But wait, there are ambient moments, too. And sweet one-finger-melodies. Okay guys, pigeonholing projects is becoming a bit difficult for us brainless reviewers, so why don’t you stick to 180 BPM boomboombooms all the time instead of pretending you’re making music? Maybe next time you could keep things a little shorter, too (you know I’m always complaining tracks are too long, don’t you). Pilfernators are featured on the SY/CO comp reviewed elsewhere, that’s what they deserve for their splendid sleeve artwork.

/http://www.powerviolence.20m.com/

Pixelkid ‘in monsterworld’-213 records-3” CDR-pixelkid dragonball cover

/Soundtrack to a videogame Sega could never have released they say. Yep, quite right, sounds like a Darky vs. Black Lung split all made with Pocket Music on Gameboy. Lofi oldschool hardcore techno or something AND short. GOOD!

/24 rue de Verdun, 54560 Audun-le-Roman-FRANCE or see at www.213records.fr.st

Pollen ‘dntthnkfryrslf’-3” CDR neatly packed in a sponge

/Yeah, you read okay: packed in a sponge. What this actually means when you get the record is something I want you to discover by yourself. And I’d like you to discover Pollen’s music that sounds like an 8-bit version of Boards Of Canada or maybe like Darky dissecting analogue synthesis with a microscope inside the CPU of a Commodore 64. And I’d like you to smile as I did listening to ‘say goodbye to the gameboy you knew’, a smile remindful of these rainy afternoons spent playing Balloon Kid and Kirby’s whatever adventure it was, of these headaches the tiny b&w screen gave you, of how you were pleased when you first took in your hands this little pink GB color and played Mr Driller for four hours in a row with it. And may you think by yourself a lot of good of this record since you can always pretend you didn’t get what its title means.

/www.retinascan.de

Posset ‘she looks like lisa from hate’-FFR-3” CDR-oh my that’s a nice layout!

/Post-rockish sweet and experimental guitar meets analogue and noisy electronics. Or maybe this is only processed guitar and some vintage beatbox/synth/effects (who cares). Short even for a 20 minutes track (but there’s only one), probably improvised, probably one-take (who cares). In the vein of what people like Imagho or FRZ do, only building up a lot noisier and power-electronics-influenced wall of sound as the end of the record approaches. Did I mention this was great? (I care)

/since Fencing Flatworm sadly closed doors, this release isn't available

PS stamps back vs. Anal vissi ‘homefucking is killing prostitution’-tilt1000+1-CDR nice cardboard wrapping

/These guys have to say for themselves this record is pure old-fashioned computer music with absolutely no trendy electro-acoustic enhancement or any instruments of any kind. They also have to say that unauthorized everythings of music (copying, lending, mp3ing, etc.) not only saves you money but might as well kill the music industry, given enough time and perseverance. Based on these liner notes and the ones of Julien Ottavi above, I might just as well copypaste the liner notes (and NOT the press releases, mind you) of records instead of wasting time on actually writing my reviews. Nice minimal drone’n’beat’n’ambient by the way, quite in the vein and at a similar level of quality as Mille Plateaux’s releases of the same type (Pansonic sure comes in mind), only a lot cheaper and without any of the fartyartytrendyshitty attitudes you get for free when you buy a Mille Plateaux recording at your local washroom (that’s the way Northern Americans call the place they go shit, which I always found really ironical).

/suckerpunch_at_mailbox.gr or www.geocities.com/tiltrecordings

Putrefy ‘lust so vile’-grindethic-CDR-jewelsox

/Metal has –as you well know- this specialty of sub-sub-sub-sub-genres so let’s say this is 18 minutes of death-gore-crust-grindcore. Just the perfect mix between being clichéd enough to be instantly recognizable as underground metal and personal enough to be listened more than one time with a great deal of pleasure –good bulldozer sound too.

/www.grindethic.com