Friday, 1 October 2021

Azoikum & Scatmother ‘Holden Caulfield’ C-70 (Nil By Mouth)

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  Stefan Widmann’s Azoikum has emerged from the ice, pushing out a number of releases in the last couple of years which show no sign of degr...
Wednesday, 18 August 2021

Red Wine And Sugar 'Donkeys Are Led By Donkeys' 10" (Index Clean)

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Red Wine And Sugar is the duo of Melbournians Mark Groves and Samaan Fieck, a melding of (as the promo blurb accurately states) “drily deliv...
Wednesday, 21 July 2021

Merzbow & Prurient 'Black Crows Cyborg' 12" (Hospital Productions)

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  Both pervasive collaborators, the stylistic strengths of Merzbow and Prurient have – to my knowledge – never met prior to this LP, each pr...
Wednesday, 14 July 2021

Blessed Sacrifist 'Loss Of Innocence' CD (No Coast/No Hope / FTAM)

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Emerging from an ever-deeper sea of east coast American power electronics/death industrial projects, Blessed Sacrifist pushes genre affiliat...
Tuesday, 6 April 2021

Nunsploitation & Milat 7” (Innercity Uprising); End Project & Ebola Disco/Browning Mummery 7” (Novichok)

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Even if I admittedly don’t retrieve them from the shelves as often as I should,  split 7” records remain a favourite format for the unexpect...
Friday, 12 March 2021

Like Weeds ‘Until There Is Nothing Left’ C-21 (Deathbed Tapes)

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  I thought I’d figured out Kenny Sanderson’s post-Facialmess creative form across the half a dozen or so Like Weeds releases to date, but ‘...
Saturday, 27 February 2021

Trance ‘Ancient History’ CD (Helicopter/Troniks)

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Trance never quite entered the centre of Americanoise understanding, the project running a freer and more ambient understanding which linked...
Saturday, 6 February 2021

Young Hustlers ‘Hiding In The Open’ 12” (Skuggsidan)

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  My review of Young Hustlers’ debut cassette ‘Encaged’ described a series of tracks built from familiar power electronics components but pr...
Friday, 29 January 2021

Mark Vernon ‘An Annotated Phonography Of Chance’ 12” (Misanthropic Agenda)

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Last year saw the release by Misanthropic Agenda of a deluxe double LP reissue of Joe Colley’s intense ‘Psychic Stress Soundtracks’, an expl...
Friday, 8 January 2021

Death Dedication & Necroecclesia ‘Experiment To Destruct’ CDR (Head Tapes)

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‘Experiment to Destruct’ looks, feels and sounds like a release I haven’t picked up in a long time: two acts of raw harsh noise ripped to a ...