Favorite noise releases of all time

[gdu]

List of some of your favorites of all time!
Need some more classics to listen to.

Some of mine would be:
Aaron Dilloway - Concealed
John Duncan - Riot
Killer Bug - Beyond The Valley of the Tapes
Skaters - Dark Rye Bread
Haters - Drunk On Decay

Get to it!

[leuksi]

Oh shit... Uhhhh...

Dave Gilden - Texas Chainsaw Dopefiend
The Rita - Magazine
Black Leather Jesus - A.N.T.I
Incapacitants - As Loud As Possible
KNIVES - Violent Distillation (can't name any particular release on this comp over others, it's golden back to back)

[junkyardshaman]

Keiji Haino - Watashi Dake?, Nijumu
William Burroughs - Nothing Here but Recordings
Bryan Lewis Saunders - Near Death Experience
Einstürzende Neubauten - Kollaps
Chu Ishikawa - Tetsuo soundtracks (ok, this is maybe kind of.. off topic or not?)
Merzbow - Aka Meme, Mechanization Takes Command, Kibako, Age of 369 / Chant 2, 1930, Mercurated...
Sly & The Family Drone & Dead Neanderthals - Molar Wrench
Swans - Public Castration Is a Good Idea

[gdu]

Chu Ishikawa - Tetsuo soundtracks (ok, this is maybe kind of.. off topic or not?)

The Tetsuo soundtrack is fucking awesome

[leuksi]

Bryan Lewis Saunders - Near Death Experience

THIS!!!!

[junkyardshaman]

Bryan Lewis Saunders - Near Death Experience

THIS!!!

very, very, very criminally underrated and unknown! One of the most impressing experiences every time I listen through it. Also the documentary is good, I bought it in Vimeo years back but I am not sure if it still exists there. Might want to check!

[leuksi]

Bryan Lewis Saunders - Near Death Experience

THIS!!!

very, very, very criminally underrated and unknown! One of the most impressing experiences every time I listen through it. Also the documentary is good, I bought it in Vimeo years back but I am not sure if it still exists there. Might want to check!

IIRC, it's free to stream nowadays. Great clip.

[adult human]

The New Blockaders - Changez Les Blockeurs
Hijokaidan - Noise From Trading Cards
Kazumoto Endo - While You Were Out
Gerogerigegege - Yellow Trash Bazooka
Gerogerigegege - All You Need Is Audio Shock
Emil Beaulieau - Moonlight In Vermont
Emil Beaulieau - Memories
MSBR & Kengo Iuchi - One
C.C.C.C. - Cosmic Coincidence Control Center
Grey Wolves - Judgement
JSL & Kakerlak - Piles of Porn Mags
Macronympha - RRRecycled
Macronympha - Then & Now
R.H.Y. Yau - Coagulation: Selected Works 1996-2000

So much more...and purposefully leaving out comps...

[noisehangover]

Xiphoid Dementia – Might Is Blight
Xiphoid Dementia – Prison Of Hope
Cosmos Entropy – Unknown
Gjöll – Not To Lead Nor To Follow
Gjöll – Way Through Zero
Control – In Harm's Way
Monokrom ‎– One Fine Day In The Pyramid
Kristoffer Nyströms Orkester ‎– brakeHEAD
Sutcliffe Jügend – The Deluge
Loss ‎– I Am But The Sum Of My Conditions

[Knifedoutofexistence]

Been thinking about this recently, so off the top of my head if I had to pick a top 5 I’d go with this:
Ramleh - Hole In The Heart
Vasculae - In Theory
Ligature - Paradise
Constrictions - Zero Discrimination
Purging Light - Endlessness Of Desire

[Helvitis]

Gjöll – Not To Lead Nor To Follow
Gjöll – Way Through Zero

Love Gjöll. Highly underrated imo.

[D345]

I have been thinking about this subject too much since I watched the latest WCN episode and have been having an existential crisis and felt under educated, hah. But here are some, maybe this helps:

The Gerogerigegege - Tokyo Anal Dynamite.
It's hard to pick one from them because all of them are pure genius works, but this might be the best. So much fun! It's just not best noise album, it's best rock'n'roll album too.

Throbbing Gristle - DOA
Not very noisy at any point but the pure randomness of it has inspired me a lot. Same goes with Journey Through The Body.

Swans - Public Castration Is A Good Idea
For nostalgic reasons. Since first hearing this I have found maybe better live recordings from 1986 tours of Swans but the total loudness of this is still impressive.

Einsturzende Neubauten - Kollaps
This one goes too back to where I started to get into all things noisy. This started for me the idea that anything can be used in making of music. The whole cliche.

What else? best/fucking great
Incapacitants - as loud as possible
Whitehouse - birthdeath experience
Mörder Machine - happy birthdeath
Hijokaidan - romance
Bizarre Uproar - dekadenz
Nihilist Spasm Band - no record
Vomir - social distancing
The Rita - thousands of dead gods
MAAAA - sampo distortion
Scopophilia - violent for being sexually desired
Kovana - fluids of chimera
.......

[Capers]

Looks so boring, this list. Am I really that dull a person? Oh well… Some have meant alot to me over the years, some are fairly fresh to me but immediately struck me hard and deep.

METGUMBNERBONE - Ligeliahorn LP (a-mission, 1983)
THE HATERS - Future Cheers C60 (Sound Of Pig, 1986)
ERIC LUNDE / HANDS TO - Split LP (Complacency, 1989)
THE NEW BLOCKADERS - Simphonie In X Major LP (Hypnagogia, 1991)
ZONE NORD - LP (self-released, 1993)
INCAPACITANTS - Operorue CD (Kubitsuri Tapes, 1995)
MSBR - Intensification 10” (Praxis Dr Bearmann, 1995)
MACRONYMPHA - Baroque C46 (Less Than Zero, 1996)
SPECULUM FIGHT - Swimming Pool LP (Volvolo, 1996)
CRAWL UNIT - The Future In Reverse CD (Povertech, 1997)
TRERIKSRÖSET - Sexregler CS+CD (Hatband 2002, Chrondritic 2007)
PARANOID TIME - Ratlife 12” (Troniks, 2007)
KAKERLAK - Reproductive Activity Rhythms C30 (Self Abuse, 2009)
SEWER ELECTION - Vidöppna Sår LP (Pan, 2010)
ALTAR OF FLIES - Rabbit Hole LP (Järtecknet, 2013)
DANIEL RIZER - Contaminated Time LP (Skeleton Dust, 2016)
MNEM - Elyktrion LP (Verlautbarung, 2020)

[JuntaCadre]

LHD - Even Still

[33033]

Wolf Eyes - Slicer
The Rita - Bodies Bear Traces Of Carnal Violence
Merzbow - Pulse Demon
Masonna/R & G/Schimpfluch-Gruppe, Dave Phillips & Rudolf Eb.er - Arschloch Onna
BT.HN - Burned Forest, Blackened Landscape

Not quite pure "noise" in the sense I think we are talking but I can't not mention:
Nocturnal Emissions - Spiritflesh
Burning Star Core - Challenger
Skullflower - Last Shot At Heaven

[Tribe Tapes]

Big City Orchestra - Anguilliform
The Cherry Point - Night Of The Bloody Tapes
Controlled Bleeding - Plegm Bag Splattered
Dave Gilden - Texas Chainsaw Dopefiend
Deathranch - A Prisoner
The Haters - Future Cheers
The Haters - Niet Hier
Harry Pussy - Ride A Dove
Human Skin Strippers - Skinstripperess
Minóy - The Flavor Of Acid On Ice
Minóy - The Art Of Egyptian Bathing
Skin Crime - Burn
Un-Kommuniti - Ex-Oblivione

[Zalhietzli]

Chu Ishikawa - Tetsuo soundtracks (ok, this is maybe kind of.. off topic or not?)
Swans - Public Castration Is a Good Idea

Great picks !

My list :
Hair Police - Mercurial Rites
Jason Crumer - Ottoman Black
Tourette - Jardin du Sommeil, Chant d'Amour sur la Nuit Grandissante
Suttcliffe Jugend - Offal
Swans - Public Castration Is a Good Idea

[T.D.]

Without overthinking it, 5 more that haven't been mentioned:

-Airway 'Live At Lace' (LAFMS, 1978)
-Male Rape Group 'On To 83' (Broken Flag, 1983)
-Yeast Culture 'IYS' (Petri Supply, 1989)
-Monde Bruits 'Portuguese Man-Of-War' (Vanilla, 1991)
-Darksmith 'Total Vacuum' (Hanson, 2010)

[adult human]

Monde Bruits 'Portuguese Man-Of-War' (Vanilla, 1991)

I hovered over this on mine and to be fair, it would probably be on there pending a few more listens but I have only given the big batch I got from Vanilla a single spin since obtaining it in 2020...

[Knifedoutofexistence]

Hair Police - Mercurial Rites

Incredible record! I was played it on my first tour doing noise I think, it came out around that time. Another record that nails the noise-with-vocals but not PE thing that I love so much that I mentioned in the Now Playing thread when I went off on one about how great Oscillating Innards is.

[Vast Field Magnetism]

I've thought about this for a few months now after having a discussion with a friend, and my top-5 (at this point in time) noise + adjacent releases would be:

- Speculum Fight - White Elephant: Monolithic, cascading walls of shimmering drone/noise.

- Chop Shop - Scraps: Metallic, static noise blasts from strange speaker installations. Huge emphasis on room tone. Industrial in the truest sense.

- The Haters - Rot 7": One of the earliest noise recordings I heard. Calamitous destruction from every angle. A-side "Rubbish Often Tears" is as good as sound gets.

- Hands To - Artiment: Two c60's filled with some of the strangest, most satisfying sounds ever recorded. Possibly the best embodiment of Jeph's work. See also: Eurean Recant for an equally great tape.

- James Ferraro - Jarvid 9: Flushpipe: Controversial choice perhaps, but this double-CDr is the end of terrestrial music. Every second completely overloaded with complex, beautiful melodies, freeform synth solos, and sounds that seem too on-the-nose yet abstract to exist all buried under the haziest fidelities imaginable. Impossible, endless, infinite music.

[BobD.]

I've got a lot of down time at work today, so why not?

A few of my favorites, no particular order:

Wolf Vostell- Decollage Musik (proto-noise I suppose but still way weirder than you)

Fossils/Darksmith- Million Year Spree

Agog- Dust Is Their Food And Clay Their Meat

Yeast Culture- IYS

Aaron Dilloway- Modern Jester

Joseph Hammer/Jason Crumer- Show 'Em The Door

Small Cruel Party- Accident In Substance

Evil Moisture- Yerm Flowers

Hands To- Scrine

[T.D.]

I've got a lot of down time at work today, so why not?

A few of my favorites, no particular order:

Wolf Vostell- Decollage Musik (proto-noise I suppose but still way weirder than you)

Fossils/Darksmith- Million Year Spree

Agog- Dust Is Their Food And Clay Their Meat

Yeast Culture- IYS

Aaron Dilloway- Modern Jester

Joseph Hammer/Jason Crumer- Show 'Em The Door

Small Cruel Party- Accident In Substance

Evil Moisture- Yerm Flowers

Hands To- Scrine

This is my kinda list! De-collage is probably not noise in the strict sense (not that it matters), but it is one of the best WTF artist non-music etc. records I've ever heard. Agog is a favorite as well, love everything I've heard by him.

[BobD.]

I've got a lot of down time at work today, so why not?

A few of my favorites, no particular order:

Wolf Vostell- Decollage Musik (proto-noise I suppose but still way weirder than you)

Fossils/Darksmith- Million Year Spree

Agog- Dust Is Their Food And Clay Their Meat

Yeast Culture- IYS

Aaron Dilloway- Modern Jester

Joseph Hammer/Jason Crumer- Show 'Em The Door

Small Cruel Party- Accident In Substance

Evil Moisture- Yerm Flowers

Hands To- Scrine

This is my kinda list! De-collage is probably not noise in the strict sense (not that it matters), but it is one of the best WTF artist non-music etc. records I've ever heard. Agog is a favorite as well, love everything I've heard by him.

Yeah, Agog is so so good. His sound kind of hits the bullseye for me, combining a lot of my favorite aspects of ‘80s and ‘90s noise and tape music. It would be nice to see some kind of box set of his hard to find cassette releases, I know there’s a lot I haven’t heard.

I was actually introduced to Agog via one of your playlists a few years back, so hey thanks!

[Kenny]

My Top 5 NOISE releases (no industrial / PE / Noise adjacent etc)

Merzbow "Venereology"
Kazumoto Endo "Keiyo"
Sickness "Mudlark"
Skin Graft "Dystrophy"
Pain Jerk "Spitfire"

Fuck forgot Bastard Noise "Rogue Astronaut"