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Out now on Virtues: Norillag - The Union Of Death LP True industrial music from Vancouver, Canada. Norillag uses scrap metal percussion and heavy machinery hand in hand with atmospheric classical instruments; channeling the early years of industrial while bringing a modern touch to the genre. Frenet...

Copies are on their way to Scream & Writhe as well as Satatuhatta.

Ineffable Slime has been carving out their name in subterranean harsh noise with recent releases on Fusty and Tribe Tapes. On Stalking the Sphinx, the artist builds on the insanity of previous offerings with a massive full-length CD of spastic yet well-composed dynamic noise. Dusty cryptological rit...

Two new tapes available now from Virtues: Troy Schafer - Untitled No. 7 - C30 New tape of solo work from Wisconsin artist Troy Schafer; also known for his involvement with Spiral Joy Band and idiosyncratic neo-folk project Kinit Her. Untitled No. 7 is difficult to classify yet intimately intriguing....

Yankee wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 8:42 pm My favorite spot was BORG WARD. Best loudest sound. Perfect layout. Cool hangout spot in back. Great funnest crowd. Nerds be jizzin’

Borg Ward in Milwaukee is sorely missed, and the scene here has never recovered since its passing.

prolapsedlielack wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 4:50 pm

ChicagoAnimal wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 3:47 pm Bloodyminded and Intrinsic Action are only acts that matter in this vein. All else is poorly recorded nonsense and child's play.

Where should I start with both?

For Bloodyminded, the answer would probably be the "True Crime" album, ha.

https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/346292953/Rissiek+LP+600px.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&w=300 Kate Rissiek – Decayed Signals LP For years, Vancouver’s Kate Rissiek has been cultivating her sound with strict focus, making her project Rusalka a veritable household name. For her new LP ...

AVAILABLE HERE: http://www.virtueslabel.com Damaged yet enticingly-composed harsh tape manipulations and surreal concrète textures from British Columbia's Paul van Trigt, also well known in the noise world for his outstanding collage work. Pro CD in 6-panel digipack. Mastered by Grant Richardson. C...

Available now at http://www.virtueslabel.com : Jon Mueller - The Future Is Unlimited, Always Pro-CD in hardcover digibook Long-form heavy and hypnotic ambient from this prolific Wisconsin artist. Jon Mueller’s ‘The Future is Unlimited, Always’ is an examination of time, meditation and loss as we all...

Any recommendations of projects and labels in Ukraine proper?
Quick search on Discogs brings me to Volok Records and Red Engineering Production which I will be checking out after work this evening.
I know lots of metal from the region but very little in noise/electronic realm.

I may be out of the loop, but this 1996 Strict tape Impulsion is one of my favorites. Great Italian lofi noise. It's on an Italian label but Strict was an American project. The album "In Preparation" is hailed as a classic in smaller circles, asfaik, though he definitely doesn't get as mu...

Off the top of my head the first thing that comes to mind that I rarely see acknowledged is Noisegate. Particularly their album The Towers Are Burning. Not strictly noise but in line with that mid-late 90's bleak CA crusty Neurosis/TLASILA style noise metal. Along with side projects and related such...

Äsping - Uthark New from Cloister. Not a "noise tape", sounds more like Wolf Eyes with a string quartet covering György Ligeti featuring Barbara Hannigan or Diamanda on vocals. Really incredible tape, will appeal to those with an appreciation for modern classical and pagan stuff. I wish it...

housepig wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 5:58 pm ok, off the soapbox now. have fun. see you around town!

Preach, Bill, preach!
Those are all excellent tips that I wish I had known day one.

A few weeks ago I watched and really loved a newer French film called Titane by director Julia Ducournau. Would appeal to most fans of J.G. Ballard and David Cronenberg. Lots of body-horror sex and violence and twisted shit but there's still a lot of sweetness to it. I haven't yet seen her previous ...

record stuff you really want to hear yourself, and listen to it until you start to feel stupid. Great advice. There always seems to be a pressure to release 20 fucking tapes a year. We don't need that. Learn your gear, find your sound first. Then focus on one release at a time, make sure you're pro...

It seems pretty common these days, with new batches of multiple releases coming out every week, that everyone has ever-growing "new arrivals" pile stacking up on the shelf. While it is exciting to constantly get the dopamine rush of finding a parcel in your mailbox every other day, I am mo...

Alex K. Milwaukee, USA.
Known for my project Climax Denial. Formerly ran Sexkrime Arts label.
Been in the game since 2003 or so.
My new (not exclusively noise) label is called Virtues.

Haare wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 9:12 am Not attaching pics (surely that eats up forum resources?)

That's a good point.
Admins, are we encouraged to go crazy with pics, or should it be reserved for special occasions?

I have not regretted deleting Facebook years ago. Yuck.
Happy to be here and talk some shit. 🙂