Releases of note (so far) for 2023

[xIncorruptibleCorpse777x]

Thought starting it now would make it easier to keep track of them for year-end lists. Btw should December 2022 releases be added? Stuff from late December the year before people make lists usually get overlooked. I don't know how many people included White Gold - 3 or Wasteland Jazz Ensemble - ST on their lists (aside from Untitled Zine for the latter), you know?

Hanzo Hasashi & Developer - One (Bizarro Warrior)
Incapacitants - Oxen Man's Uneasiness (Oxen)
Linekraft - Chaos State (Total Black)


reissues:

Macronympha - Amplified Humans (Freak Animal)
Macronympha - Baroque (Freak Animal)
Macronympha - Membranes and Black Holes (Freak Animal)
Masonna - Ejaculation Generator (Total Black)

[D345]

Merzbow - Ejaculation Generator (Total Black)

obscure Freudian slip here?

[xIncorruptibleCorpse777x]

More like lack of sleep. :P

[adult human]

Heard Beton Tåge - Formless today which I noticed was released this year. Pretty interesting recording.

[xIncorruptibleCorpse777x]

Patriots As Slaves - HNW Amendment 1 (Stemms Audio)
https://stemmstapes.bandcamp.com/album/hnw-amendment-1

[Joie de la Blumpy]

Heard Beton Tåge - Formless today which I noticed was released this year. Pretty interesting recording.

This one popped up out of nowhere, at least for me, only to surprise me that the project had been going for a good some years at least. And that everything I've encountered has been stellar. Verging on CYESS AFXZS level cinematic territory. Worthy of the enthusiastic release blurb from the label.

[adult human]

Heard Beton Tåge - Formless today which I noticed was released this year. Pretty interesting recording.

This one popped up out of nowhere, at least for me, only to surprise me that the project had been going for a good some years at least. And that everything I've encountered has been stellar. Verging on CYESS AFXZS level cinematic territory. Worthy of the enthusiastic release blurb from the label.

I liked it a lot, however there was an aspect in there somewhere that stopped me going whole hog crazy in love with it. Perhaps precisely BECAUSE of that cinematic quality which tends not to be something I look for that often in my noise. It's clearly a project which tries out a lot of very interesting, different things which on the one hand I love, adore in fact, yet on another makes me really notice the parts that don't work as well. Who knows. The point is it was OF NOTE. I'll definitely be spinning it again soon.

[xIncorruptibleCorpse777x]

reissue:

Knurl - Invection (self-released by Alan this time; was originally put out by Skeleton Dust)

I have this and it's good. Great scrap-metal noise.

[Joie de la Blumpy]

Heard Beton Tåge - Formless today which I noticed was released this year. Pretty interesting recording.

This one popped up out of nowhere, at least for me, only to surprise me that the project had been going for a good some years at least. And that everything I've encountered has been stellar. Verging on CYESS AFXZS level cinematic territory. Worthy of the enthusiastic release blurb from the label.

I liked it a lot, however there was an aspect in there somewhere that stopped me going whole hog crazy in love with it. Perhaps precisely BECAUSE of that cinematic quality which tends not to be something I look for that often in my noise. It's clearly a project which tries out a lot of very interesting, different things which on the one hand I love, adore in fact, yet on another makes me really notice the parts that don't work as well.

I think I get you. And no doubt some nice fertile terrain to get digging into right there. To explore cum exploit a tension between (more or less) conspicuous intent and constantly seeking to undermine that intent. Perhaps here to describe a quality that serves any kind of (the preferred sort of) sound work, aka the more willfully exploratory, but I like to imagine noisepervs as better poised to work the fields so speak.

Was just, as in minutes ago, listening to BT's Bruised Contour (2018) thinking the project is more than willfully vested in the principle of fucking with their own program, ridiculous bings and bongs absolutely ruining (or punctuating) the harsh moment, in the best possible way(s).

[Joie de la Blumpy]

This one popped up out of nowhere, at least for me, only to surprise me that the project had been going for a good some years at least. And that everything I've encountered has been stellar. Verging on CYESS AFXZS level cinematic territory. Worthy of the enthusiastic release blurb from the label.

I liked it a lot, however there was an aspect in there somewhere that stopped me going whole hog crazy in love with it. Perhaps precisely BECAUSE of that cinematic quality which tends not to be something I look for that often in my noise. It's clearly a project which tries out a lot of very interesting, different things which on the one hand I love, adore in fact, yet on another makes me really notice the parts that don't work as well.

I think I get you. And no doubt some nice fertile terrain to get digging into right there. To explore cum exploit a tension between (more or less) conspicuous intent and constantly seeking to undermine that intent. Perhaps here to describe a quality that serves any kind of (the preferred sort of) sound work, aka the more willfully exploratory, but I like to imagine noisepervs as better poised to work the fields so speak.

Was just, as in minutes ago, listening to BT's Bruised Contour (2018) thinking the project is more than willfully vested in the principle of fucking with their own program, ridiculous bings and bongs absolutely ruining (or punctuating) the harsh moment, in the best possible way(s).

I was going to unpack this a bit in the first post but ran out of steam. So here's a second run at the "cinematic" descriptor, duly acknowledging my tendency to play fast and loose with descriptors, but which for me would easily accomodate projects like Hum Of The Druid, Jeph Jerman, Remnants. And a fair chunk of the Satatuhatta roster while I'm at it.

In this paragraph I'm going to call it a self-evident spatial awareness or as previously framed a (sense of) coherent intent as to how the elements are parsed- in space, and no less importantly in time. If this sounds like music, it is, and so a potential (if I'd say interestingly) "dead" end around which noise might be forever coiling itself, as though ever poised to puncture perceived threats to vacate the core (a la spastic, unhinged, de-ranged, WTF, William Bennet Is My Dick, &c), accepting that a host of other, more rarified (or militant), cores will very likely have been proposed along the way.

[k.p.g]

The new Deathprod is really great. Shocked I never see him mentioned that much in any noise circles. He is an absolute legend to me.

[holy ghost]

Really excited about the Solmania "Highdrophobia" LP on Urashima.

Also the Merzbow "Noise Matrix" DLP on Hospital. I have the CD version but will probably pick it up because this is the top notch Merzbow era I'm most partial to.