Sunday, February 14, 2010

Brume - Catalogue (tape, Brum Rec. 1988)


From discogs: Brume (Christian Renou) is a prolific French musique concrete composer/sound organizer who has been releasing CDs and cassettes worldwide. Renou is remarkable because he engages in elaborate concrete compositions without the academic pretension that surrounds much of the work in this style.

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Saturday, February 13, 2010

Survival Research Laboratories - Illusions Of Shameless Abundance (tape, Charnel Music CHC 6, 1989)

From discogs: Survival Research Laboratories was conceived of and founded by Mark Pauline in November 1978. Since its inception SRL has operated as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product or warfare. Since 1979, SRL has staged over 45 mechanized presentations in the United States and Europe. Each performance consists of a unique set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and special effects devices, employed in developing themes of socio-political satire. Humans are present only as audience or operators.

Personal on this particular release: [Creative Director] - Mark Pauline [Soundtrack Preparation] - Chris Hart , Mark Shepard, Mason Jones , Rick Rees [Microphone] - Chris Hart , Drew Shell , Jeff Dauber [Scanner] - Roy. Mixed By - Mason Jones and Tape, Effects - Rick Rees

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Friday, February 12, 2010

Atrocity Exhibition - Splintered (tape, Big Body Parts BBP 059, 1987)




A rock band which seems a bit strange on Big Body Parts. The line up consisted of Tom Ray, Steve Beckner, George Ericson and Jerman.

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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Zombies Under Stress - Normal Obsession (tape, Kaisettes K09, 198?)




Final tape I have from this rhythmic industrial band from Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Kiyoshi Mizutani - Actual Infinity (tape, Ulcer House, 1990)


More music by this former member of Merzbow. See previous post for more information.

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Hapunkt Fix - Fix It! (tape, Bloedvlag Produkt, 198?)


From Discogs: "Harald Fix. German (mail)artist, musician and performance artist. He started recording in the very early 1980s. His trademark were cut-up and musique concrete, often with field recordings and found noises. He recorded under his artist name "Hapunkt Fix" or "Hapunkt Fliegenstrumpf" or "Hapunkt Fliegenstrumpf Fix". (Hapunkt translate "H-point", Fliegenstrumpf translates "Flies-sock"), as well as "Sulo".
He was part of the intense but shortlived performance group "Rockgruppe Hass Auf Den Kapitalismus" (translated: Rockgroup Hatred Against Capitalism" with Guido Hübner and Graf Haufen. He joined the Neoist movement and recorded as Monty Cantsin, as well as White Colours. He selfpublished his field recordings collage from the 9th Neoist Festival in Ponte Nossa Italy on a limited edition cassette. Together with his then girlfriend Doro Benditz he recorded as Weird Scenes. He participated in various music by mail projects with international artists. One of his art projects was to machine scratch records and sell them in handmade covers. It was called "Projekt Denaturierter Tonträger". He even performed live with these records. He also worked on radio plays with his friends. He died in 2002 at the age of 38, after a long illness.

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Monday, February 8, 2010

The Dadarotator - What Is Dadarotator (tape, Produktion, 1983)




Kurt Schwitters is quoted on the cover: 'the dadarotator is a perculiar combination of rotators, axes and pistons, built with cadavers, nitric acid, and Mertz in such a way that you enter it with complete understanding and emerge from it with none. You'll be a rotarydada and you'll pray to the machine like someone inspired - amen'. Find out how that sounds!

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