Mute Socialite – “More Popular Than Presidents and Generals”
if you like Shearing Pinx, Mutators, Nü Sensae, etc…
then you should probably get this
Next Life – “The Lost Age”
chiptunes meet Psyopus
Bong/Quttinirpaaq split LP
in the interest of continuing to see posts go up here once in a while, i’m probably gonna stop bothering with write-ups and assume people know how to use google. or maybe – just maybe – you’re adventurous enough to take a chance on something without having it spelled out for ya ahead of time? in the meantime, there’s a buncha folks on the sidebar who are doing a much better job than me at this sorta thing these days – go hit some of them up if ya haven’t already.
Wicked Innocence – “Omnipotence”
looks like Classic Extreme Metal got taken down, so i might re-post a few things i’d grabbed from there, starting with this slab of weirdo tech-y death metal and some of the most guttural vocals i’ve ever heard.
Vampires of Dartmoore – “Dracula’s Music Cabinet”
another one of these who knows if the story behind it is true or total bullshit “rare” novelty things, but in this case who cares what the story is. shit is basically a spitting “image” of that freaky psych/jazz stuff that used to play in the background of those old-ass Spiderman cartoons from the 60s whenever Spidey had to go to the center of the planet to fight some mystical being in some forgotten land or some shit… and if ya got a problem with that then get yer comic-book n’ cartoon-hatin’ ass offa mah interwebz!
Diminished Men
i’ve been listening to this band’s myspace page for months now in anticipation of them releasing something… and it looks like my wishes are about to come true when they unveil “Shadow Instrumentals” on the reknowned Abduction Records on Sept. 24. in the meantime, i found this live radio broadcast on Seattle’s KEXP to tide me over with some more of their swampy, trippy surftastic instrumentals that bring to mind The Mermen and more than a hint of their label-”benefactors”… and it’s stuck on repeat. love it like i do.
Borbetomagus/Shaking Ray Levis 10″
picture-disc collab release from the well-known skronk merchants in Borbetomagus and the probably lesser-known Levis. in a nutshell, this basically adds the synth + drums “core” of the Shaking Ray Levi Society (aka Dennis Palmer and Bob Stagner) to the usual dual-sax + guitar caterwaul of Sauter & Co.; the end result sounding not entirely unlike William Hooker’s brilliant “Radiation” release that would follow it a few years later. i think i’ve seen this posted elsewhere recently but oh well… this is my OWN rip of copy #73 (out of 1000), so THERE.
Trumans Water – “Fragments of a Lucky Break” LP
picked this up when i saw them live in… ‘99, i guess it was. heard hide nor hair of this album – or the label it came out on – since then. i guess you can say it’s fairly standard fare/more of the same for them, but in their case that’s hardly a bad thing.
Trumans Water – a couple 7″s
the first of these was on 80s indie/noise rock-haven Homestead and the second was, once again, on Sympathy For The Record Industry. as for the contents, it’s pretty much standard fare for this lot – quirky, noisy rock that sounds like it could fall apart at the seams any minute, but somehow never does. there’s a third uncredited track of what sounds like sax skronk on the b-side of “Skyjacker” – i ripped and indexed it in the same file as the lead b-side track, since it’s not distnguished as separate anywhere else in the packaging.
Skullflower – a couple 7″s
you all know who this is, right? even if you don’t i’m not up for waxing poetic at the moment so go have a gander at my previous post of their “IIIrd Gatekeeper” album for a bit more info. the first of these two was on Sympathy For The Record Industry and has some of the best cover art ever (IMO of course). the second was on Forced Exposure (yeah, they do – or did, at least – occasionally put out their own records as well as distributing a small country’s worth of other labels) and i’m not 100% that’s the actual title, but it otherwise didn’t have one and that seemed like the best option to go with.
Voorhees – “Spilling Blood Without Reason” LP
excellent mid-90s Neg. Approach-style hardcore throwback here. some of the songs run together on the vinyl – there are no missing tracks, but the indexing skips a number wherever one file contains two songs.
Ancient Chinese Secret – “Caveat Empire”
quick diversion from my own rips for this amazing release by this one-off Chris Dodge (Spazz, Hellnation, East West Blast Test, etc) project also featuring his wife Lydia on vox/organ and former Capitalist Casualties drummer Matt Martin. released around the turn of the decade as one of the final outings on Dodge’s own Slap A Ham label, it’s a twisted, genre-bending meeting of Man Is The Bastard, NoMeansNo, Melt-Banana and Boredoms tossed into a no-wave/powerviolence blender of pure excellence. but why are you still reading this?
Cavity – “Human Abjection” LP
a few years after sludge-masters Eyehategod and Grief took the early 90s underground/extreme music scene by storm, these Floridians stepped up to the plate with what was, at the time, a fairly unique blend of the aforementioned sludge style with more “straight ahead” hardcore. it’s been done countless times since, but, everything good gets imitated sooner or later. this one always got bonus points with me for being on transparent-blue vinyl – possibly my favorite vinyl color ever. not that it’s of utmost importance or anything, but… yeah. anyway: THE MOOOOOOZIK
Discordance Axis – “Jouhou” LP
these guys need no introduction. or rather: if they do, you’re in the wrong place. this is the LP release on Devour – CD version had more songs. those aren’t here. be a purist and deal with it 
Krisiun/Viollent Hate split LP
continuing in an apparent tradition of South American bands with mispelled names, we bring you this mid-90s split LPs from two Brazillian outfits: one a known quantity, the other, not so much. Krisiun were a 4-piece at this point, adding a second-stringer by the last name of Souza to the trio of brothers that still comprise the band’s line-up today. potential relevance: Viollent Hate’s singer shares the same last name, and the VH dudes look a lot younger in general, lending the impression that they might have been the band of the now-ousted Krisiun axeman’s little brother? who knows…
at any rate, Krisiun served up 4 songs of the typically brutal DM formula they’ve yet to stray far from even today… and Viollent Hate offered some technically minded 80s thrash worship that’s pretty damn good as long as you can keep your eyes off the lyric sheet.
Profanatica/Masacre – split LP
speaking of fucked black metal, i went crate-diggin again and found this gem from the early 90s. all you really need to know about Profanatica – aside from them predating today’s BM bands by nearly 20 years – is that their side (sub titled “Tormenting Holy Flesh”) ends with a grown man screaming “sodomy is brought upon the nuns rotting asshole!!!!”.
Masacre is neither the Flordian DM band nor the Laswell/Frith no-wave trio of similar names – note the missing “S”. despite the apparent misspelling though, that’s the correct spelling in their native tongue. they (are? were?) from Colombia, by the way.
Rites of Thy Degringolade – “An Ode To Sin”
final mid-decade outing from this seriously fucked and truly amazing black-ish metal outfit who had the distinction of being one of, if not the only band to share a split with the equally fucked Portal… a recent dicovery for me and i’m obviously way too late to this party since they’re no longer together… damn shame too, cuz they give Canada something else to be proud of, musically speaking
Owl Xounds – “Teenagers From Mars” LP
vinyl-only outing from a permutation of this sadly-defunct Brooklyn outfit, this one featuring “core” members Adam Kriney on drums and Gene Janas on upright bass; along with Mario Rechtern (Austrian saxophonist active in free-jazz/improv since the 60s). it really hearkens back to the ESP-Disk/etc., favorites of that era and bears down with a ferocity that gives a whiff of what Last Exit might have sounded like in trio form… minus the Sharrock-shred and if Laswell were less of a wanker.
looks like some copies are still available here if you’re not vinyl impaired
but if you are, then here
The Godz – “Godz 2″
either this or it’s predecessor appeared quite some time ago on the long-deleted blogspot version of Spending Loud Night, who seems to have also recently resumed posting – much to my surprise when i wandered over there to grab this link.
anyway, upon hearing this – along with fellow mid-60s ESP-Disk oddities The Fugs (who were recently chronichled over at Decrepit Tapes) – i became accutely aware that there was, in fact, a precedent for the Sun City Girls prior to their existence (their early cover of The Fugs‘ “CIA Man” making this fairly obvious).
so what was the precedent for this? who the fuck knows. drugs probably had something to do with it… and given their involvement with ESP Disk, it’s likely that the freer forms of jazz primarily purveyed by that label had an influence… but whatever the case, you should become familiar with this tripped out garage-folk fuckery post haste.
Units – “Digital Stimulation”
been a while… generally not feelin this a whole lot lately. might come back to it regularly, might just post sporadically when something really jumps out at me. in the meantime, i doubt i’ll be bothered with any re-up requests. most of this stuff has been here a good while now and a lot of it is available easily enough if you know where to look.
anyway, onto this… long story short, some great and underrated synth-punk i only recently discovered myself. as far as i know this was their only full length release… there’s a newer discography/early-years type thing recently out that contains this and a bunch of singles n’ whatnot. Forced Exposure has it, i’m sure a bunch of other easy-to-find-on-teh-webz places do as well.
in the meantime, enjoy this pre-remaster version of the LP
Th’inbred – “Kissin Cousins”
mid/late-80s West Virginian hardcore band who were often referred to as “jazz-core” and other such labels, suggesting a transendence from the limitations of basic punk rawk which their level of musicianship definitely brought out. sort of halfway to being an Am-Rep-style “noise rock” band and with more than a hint of Greg Ginn’s jazzy/metallic guitar tones from later Black Flag releases. some seriously good stuff, long forgotten and recently resurrected from my own memory banks. join me in my nostalgia.
Mexican Power Authority – “Haiku… Geshundheit”
i’m pretty sure i have versions of this on both cassette and LP around here somewhere… but either way, thankfully someone saved me the trouble of ripping/encoding around 130 individual tracks… even then, some of the tracks here include multiple tracks from the LP, since the actual number of over 130 is whittled down to 99 (everything’s here though – i checked it against the tracklist on my vinyl copy).
anyway, for those who didn’t know about ‘em when they were around, MPA were a Jason Flower-led outfit from the Vancouver area active in the mid-90s who incorporated pretty much all of my favorite styles of music into one amazing package. a bit of Black Flag-ish hardcore, a bit of Descendents-ish pop-punk, a bit of Voivod-ish tech-thrash (MPA even appropriated the “Killing Technology” font for their own logo), a bit of early Napalm Death/Carcass grind, a bit of Naked City-inspired speed-jazz and a healthy dose of pure whackiness influenced by the likes of Japanese favorites a la Boredoms, Omoide Hatoba, etc… MPA threw it all together seemlessly, more often than not in a minute or less.
with no exaggeration, this is easily one of the highlights of Canadian music EVER, underground or otherwise… seeing them live was easily one of the highlights of the entire 90s for me. you’d be foolish to pass it up if you aren’t already familiar.
sadly, as great as Mediafire have been lately, they still have the annoying 100 MB size limit, so this is in two parts: here and here.
Disharmonic Orchestra – “Not to Be Undimensional Conscious”
goddamn, Austria (typo previously. oops) has given us some good bands over the years. i had totally forgotten about this gem (the unfortunate one or so minute of “rap-rock” in “Return of the Living Beat” notwithstanding) from my teenage years until Classic Extreme Metal unearthed it for me a few days back… quick turnaround over there tho and some folks might’ve missed it, so, here
(ps, sorry for the lack of activity lately. just not feelin’ it. vinyl got tedious to rip after the initial bout of enthusiasm. i’ll be back to it soon enough i imagine)
Nomeansno – “Betrayal, Fear, Anger, Hatred” 7″
re-issue of some really early stuff, or something.
ps: not to sound unenthusiastic – i’m adjusting to a new schedule and a little sick so not up to much writing at the moment. but don’t worry, it’s good stuff here – if i hated it, i wouldn’t post it.
Happy Flowers – “Peel Session” 7″
another slab-o-stupid from my favorite noise-rock fucktards of the 80s. fuck the Butthole Surfers… this is where it was really at.
