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Listening to the new Twig Harper album, 'Two Variations for the Shadow of the Absolute' before adding it to the distro list. Very very strong left hand turn from Mr. Harper here into very outwardly contemporary classical instrumentation and composition! A big curveball and something takes a bit of t...

material like this sounds better on CD anyways and just deserves to be out there at a relatively affordable price. Well, quite. Without wanting to wade too deeply into the format wars (!) I think sound quality (or rather the ability to present material more accurately/neutrally) and affordability o...

Will take a cd version of a project like that every time. Vinyl is great - definitely worked brilliantly for the solos set - but I just think cd is a better format overall for these ambitious archival collections

Very happy to see this thread on here! Maybe self-serving as it is closer to what I tend to make (tape loop/manipulation stuff), but also I appreciate the comments so far, as it is also more what I tend to listen to. Couple of labels of late that I've been really enjoying: No Rent Records - Lucas A...

Gave this a listen today as I heard yesterday that Gary passed away during the holidays. Still extremely weird, super annoying at times but there are some great moments. Yes, very sad loss. He never played or released too much compared to others and is probably better known for his uniquely partici...

VMS Elit - Sueur De Sang (Joy De Vivre) Prime VMS-E stuff! No fucking about, blistering, 'electronic things being used wrong and dying' sounding harsh noise. Has a wetter, squeakier (ha!) quality than other things by him plus a tonne of pause/ffw'd button thrashing which is excellent. The damage is ...

What do you know, I found some time today! To start off I'm going to talk about Regional Bears Without question one of my absolute favourite labels going. A very steady stream of impossible to predict strangeness which takes in some really well known and fantastic names alongside some total mysterie...

Love this tape. Frequently walk around saying 'oh, yutris' to myself as per what I think is going on somewhere on that tape. I could swear that the front cover is the fucking ET poster but just without the bike/elliot/et. Love all the false endings and long sections of quite hard going monotony sand...

Fleshlicker! Not to say that he doesn’t have any following or is a super low key project, but I’ve often thought that his stuff would probably blow a lot of minds if more people heard it. While always remaining very much it’s own thing his sound straddles harsh noise, grind, noisecore and death meta...

A long time favorite of mine that would fit in here is Graham Lambkin. I enjoy all of his solo output but Community has been getting regular play ever since its release. Love the Shadow Ring too of course. It's a shame that the Cd box set of their discography erstwhile was going to put out doesn't ...

I also often find myself in these weird lulls that I absolutely hate, but don't even realize they're happening until I'm hours deep into listening to... nothing. It often happens at work where I'll put an album on to start the day and then for some reason never follow it up with another album. Taki...

I'm curious as to whether there is an appetite to discuss different kinds of experimental and weird music on this board. Speaking for myself I have always thought of harsh noise/PE/Industrial simply as different strands of the 'weird music' that I enjoy, which just as readily encompasses junky tape ...

A broader comment related less to the actual craft of noise making but don't be afraid to get in touch with people whose work you enjoy and tell them you enjoy it. Most noise artists/labels are not wading in fan mail and over time these small attempts to contact people can form into long term connec...

I get forever stuck in a cycle of listening through the "new arrivals" pile, shelving stuff, then continuing to work on the "new arrivals" pile... i find myself getting stuck in this same rut. Yes this is an easy and absurd situation to get into unfortunately. I've been making m...

Nice idea. Looking forward to having another space to procrastinate in ;)