CD, Entr'acte, 2009

Pocket protector music a la
Stockhausen meets MEGO circa '98.

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Pop Culture Rape Victim (or you will find recordings as PCRV) is the work of Matt Taggart. During the intermission, I started pulling things off the shelves that I hadn't heard for a while. Time well spent.

Matt always throws out varied noise offerings...this is no exception, from the vaguely psych veering towards HNW territory.

Double cdr on dollfullofrivets from 2007. The label was run by Erik Arteaga aka Nkondi. Eric and label appear to have ceased...unless you know otherwise...?

Redemption - Disc 1
Redemption - Disc 2

Yellow Swans were Gabriel Mindel Saloman and Pete Swanson. More often than not, the band name was preceded by a "D" word...this time around it's "Drowner".

This was released as a C60 tape on Tape Room in 2007...and later released on the same label the following year as a cdr. This is the tape...like you care!

Somebody dropped a comment in the YS post from waaaaay back asking for this one. I had it ready for posting prior to the "death". Well, I hadn't forgotten and now it's here.

Drowner Yellow Swans

LP, Le Souffleur, 2004

One long piece of lilting organ drones, squawks/squeaks,
random panned noises and effected vocals which wouldn't
sound out of place on a 30 year old home tape release.
Single sided vinyl.

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Sam McKinley presents his fascination with stockings and Italian actress Laura Antonelli. A proclivity that I have some sympathy with.

"Recorded live using various mic'd styles of women's nylon stockings. Methodical dwelling on the different densities of the nylons via classic harsh noise instrumentation. Stockings, eye liner, eye shadow, and mascara - the abstraction and deconstruction of the female form."

Eight C30 tapes released in 2009 in a tiny edition of 49 copies on the (very recently deceased) Utmarken label.

Thank you Utmarken!!!

Tapes 1-4
Tapes 5-8

CD, X-OR, 1998

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web United Noise Toys
web Anna La Berge
web Gert-Jan Prins

CD, Roggbif, 2008

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web Golden Serenades
web Sewer Election
web Treriksröset

CD, X-OR, 1997

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web Mats Gustafsson
web Misha Mengelberg
web Gert-Jan Prins

CDr, Pegasus Farms, 2004

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CD, Even Stilte, 2003

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web Guilty Connector
web Tabata

I've got to say that having two years of time and effort erased in one second broke my heart. I needed a bit of "me time" in order to (as Mutant Sounds so eloquently put it) lick my wounds.

If I'm a pirate...piracy is in really bad shape. The mission is the same. Songs from under the floorboards...music you would probably never have heard before...seriously limited releases that disappear into private collections, played once or twice and shelved forever...links to artists and labels...and some things that you will hate but may become your new favourite thing...or some things that will just irritate you!

If I ruled the world, this stuff would be pumped out to infants to raise them away from popular "culture".

Thanks to the people that felt strongly enough to post a comment of encouragement. Especially Aaron...that one meant a lot! Big love (as always) goes to David Payne for giving me the Über-supportive / optimistic shot in the arm that I really needed. There are others and you know who you are! And...the three people who joined after the blog was killed...how's that for hope over expectation!?!

In a few days, I'm planning a post that will probably dislocate the lower jaw of the noiseheads amongst us. At that point, the January 2012 and December 2011 posts will also be back up. Please understand the work that has already gone into posting what has been deleted. Requests for other re-ups from "anonymous" and "guest" are liable to be completely ignored. Get Engaged!

Even so, we live in uncertain times and I'm loathe to put too much time in when filehosts are likely to disappear one by one. The subtext is clear...there's an american election coming and the big-money backers are flexing their muscles. In doing so, they will take out people like us!

Either way...we start again...and again...and...

CD, GROB, 2002

A glitch era laptop battle btw
Fennesz AND Gert-Jan Prins
...what! Recorded live, Berlin 2000.

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web Peter Van Bergen
web Gert-Jans Prins
web Christian Fennesz

CD, X-OR, 1997

Loose jazz that gets progressively
noisy, sloppier and interesting.

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web Luc Houtkamp
web Fred Van Howe
web Gert-Jans Prins

LP, Catsup Plate, 2002

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web Alvarius B.
web Dylan Nyoukis

First, I'd like to take the time to truly thank those of you who were kind enough to offer to help with the process of re-upping the downed content on Mutant Sounds. To that end, it was very encouraging to read about the soon-to-be hosting service Righthaven, that's being actively touted by the folks at Boing Boing right now here

Once Righthaven goes live (which it seems like it might be doing within weeks), I can begin to coordinate with the handful of beautiful humans who've chosen to lend a hand in getting all of our downed content back up and running.

Stay tuned...

LP, Hot Releases, 2011

This album is still available and has been posted with
the labels blessing. Support sub-underground artists!

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CDr, Housecraft, 2008

Live track feat. pre-fame D. Lopatin.

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3'', emr, 2006

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CDr, Art As Intent, 2010

Aka Andreas Brandal. Ed. of 20.

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CDr, Editions Brokenresearch, 2007

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