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- ANDREW NOLAN – Background Music CS (2018)Terminal Escape (August 3, 2019) – https://terminalescape.blogspot.com/2019/08/andrew-nolan.html It’s like the sound that’s happening all around you as you live your life….if your life is a …
- ANDREW NOLAN – Museum Etiquette CS (2020)Noise Receptor (September 2, 2020) – https://noisereceptor.wordpress.com/2020/09/02/andrew-nolan-museum-etiquette/ Being completely unfamiliar with this Canadian experimental noise artist, I have to take this new tape from this …
- BARSTOOL MOUNTAIN – Tightrope Walker LP (2023)Bandcamp user Walter Campbell – https://absurdexposition.bandcamp.com/album/tightrope-walker Easily a best of 2023, simply outstanding release that took a few listens for me to appreciate, let alone …
- BLOOMER – Battle’s Sign CS (2019)NOISE NOW PLAYING Facebook user Barrett E. Lediard (February 3, 2020) – https://www.facebook.com/groups/noisenowplaying/posts/484306602475864 Crumbling, scorched earth electronics from a shadowy local legend.
- CASA DI CACCIA – Grand Totàl CS (2023)Noise Not Music (July 30, 2023) – https://noisenotmusic.com/2023/07/30/review-casa-di-caccia-grand-total-absurd-exposition-jul-21/ Matteo Castro is a name that may not be known to many, but to the few for …
- DODGE JONES RAGE – West Coast Power Outage V CD (2023)1208 North Fuller Ave Apt 1 (March 4, 2023) – https://1208fullerave.blogspot.com/2023/03/dodge-jones-rage-west-coast-power.html This trio release each of their albums as differently numbered West Coast Power Outages …
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- FLATGREY – Tombs CS (2017)Noise Widow #2 (June, 2018) Ah, another straight-forward HN tape. Fine by me. You’ll be happy to hear that it sounds like a noise flame …
- GRIEFER – Communication Denial CS (2020)Noise Receptor (November 18, 2020) – https://noisereceptor.wordpress.com/2020/11/18/griefer-communication-denial Griefer, a Canadian power electronics / death industrial project have been releasing material since 2004. Although this new …
- GRIEFER – Egress Report CS (2017)Existence Establishment (September 8, 2017) – http://existest.org/ee_v3/?p=9559 I like song structures. Griefer‘s tape is a power electronics tape is full of actual songs with a …
- K.M. TOEPFER – Undercut CS (2019)Raised By Cassettes (March 27, 2019) – https://raisedbycassettes.blogspot.com/2019/03/cassette-review-km-toepfer-undercut.html There is this ringing. It sounds kind of like a phone, but it also has this distorted …
- KNURL – H2T CD (2023)Scream & Writhe Forum user Happiness, forever (February 20, 2023) – https://screamandwrithe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7116&#p7116 Hell Yeah! Like a Freight Train crashing blistered frequencies through my house against …
- KNURL – Intial Shock CD+DVD (2020)Special Interests user TordonLjud (November 2, 2020) – http://www.special-interests.net/forum/index.php?topic=52.msg90533#msg90533 I wondered fairly recently where all the Knurl reissues are and suddenly here is one and …
- MASS MARRIAGE – Nothing Underneath CS (2012)Weird Canada (May 30, 2015) – https://weirdcanada.com/2014/05/new-canadiana-mass-marriage-nothing-underneath/ From the spirit warehouse of Chris Taggesell: Melissa Paget‘s unique brand of sonic experimentation projects audial filth filled …
- MERZBOW – Aqua Necromancer (Expanded) 2LP (2022)Bandcamp user MERZILLA – https://absurdexposition.bandcamp.com/album/aqua-necromancer-expanded Incendiary rhythm prog rock disarray somewhat resembling pureed scraps from Can, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Faust & Soft Machine in a …
- MET GLAS – Moody Brooding CS (2023)Special Interests user FreakAnimalFinland (August 17, 2023) – https://special-interests.net/forum/index.php?topic=52.msg102220#msg102220 I can’t really articulate why exactly, but this tape ended up to be one of the …
- MO*TE – Throw a Stone CD (2021)NOISE NOW PLAYING Facebook user Howard D Stelzer (May 8, 2021) – https://www.facebook.com/groups/noisenowplaying/posts/790994575140397 hot take: this is his best album. Psychedelic and way more colorful …
- MOT – Savage CS (2020)Bandcamp user Guillermo Pizarro (September 4, 2020) – https://absurdexposition.bandcamp.com/album/savage One of my favorite things in life are short, live set length noise tapes. MOT knocks …
- MOT & VIOLENT SHOGUN – Mangle CS (2022)NOISE NOW PLAYING Facebook user Erik Nystrand (May 26, 2022) – https://www.facebook.com/groups/noisenowplaying/posts/1028192428087276 To me, this is timeless industrial noise. Intricate pieces where loops are the …
- MUNITION – Gaze/Gauze CS (2019)Raised By Cassettes (April 8, 2019) – https://raisedbycassettes.blogspot.com/2019/04/cassette-review-munition-gazegauze.html Deep, distorted electronics come through like waves and then it just turns into this blurry, jumbled sound …
- MURMUR / MUTTERING – Muted CS (2023)Bandcamp user Dawid Scumwalski (November, 2023) – https://absurdexposition.bandcamp.com/album/muted This is yet another pure harsh noise offering from Scream & Writhe. “Muted” by MURMUR/MUTTERING has all …
- PHOLDE – To Favour the Occurrence CD (2023)Scream & Writhe Forum user Happiness, forever (February 20, 2023) – https://screamandwrithe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7116&#p7116 this is what I put on at night cuz it’s relaxing to me …
- PRIMITIVE ISOLATION TACTICS – Deconstructing a Purpose CS (White Centipede Noise, 2020)Special Interests user Baglady (January 12, 2021) – https://special-interests.net/forum/index.php?topic=52.msg91512#msg91512 A thick, warm, odorous, humming and vibrating tone wriggles around throughout, expanding into crunch and warble …
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- PRIMITIVE ISOLATION TACTICS – Dirty Prophecies CS (2020)Scream & Writhe Forum user Capers (March 27, 2022) – https://screamandwrithe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3568&#p3568 My only previous sonic encounter with PIT was the tape on WCN, Deconstructing A …
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- PRIMITIVE ISOLATION TACTICS – Past Spheres and Present Circles CS (2018)Bandcamp user metalm8200000 – https://absurdexposition.bandcamp.com/album/past-spheres-and-present-circles For someone not at all accustomed to or well versed in the world of noise music, this was an incredible …
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- RUSALKA – Base Waters LP (2019)1208 North Fuller Ave Apt 1 (December 8, 2019) – https://1208fullerave.blogspot.com/2019/12/rusalka-base-waters.html RUSALKA, is the Vancouver Canada based project of Kate Rissiek and has been active …
- RUSALKA – Blood Comes Anyway CS (2013)NOISE NOW PLAYING Facebook user Joel Shanahan (November 30, 2022) – https://www.facebook.com/groups/noisenowplaying/posts/1156877815218736 How fucking good is Rusalka? Not only is this tape absolutely crushing, but …
- TED BYRNES – All Hands CS (2020)NOISE NOW PLAYING Facebook user Erik Nystrand (April 8, 2021) – https://www.facebook.com/groups/noisenowplaying/posts/773137416926113 Percussive hands-only noise! I’ve never tried it, but I can’t imagine it would …
- TED BYRNES – Double Negative CS (2019)Noise Not Music (March 13, 2019) – https://noisenotmusic.com/2019/03/13/review-ted-byrnes-double-negative-absurd-exposition-mar-3/ As I sit down to write about Ted Byrnes’ new tape Double Negative, I realize that there …
- THE RITA – Her Shell, The Chute CS (2022)Scream & Writhe Forum user htp_systems (December 4, 2022) – https://screamandwrithe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6488&#p6488 This tape is a high point for me within the more recent The Rita …
- TOANCHE DWELLING – Hyleidos CS (2022)NOISE NOW PLAYING Facebook user Nigel Munroe (January 4, 2023) – https://www.facebook.com/groups/noisenowplaying/posts/1182673165972534 I’ve given this a couple of spins since the year began and while …
- UMPIO – Sin Memoria CD (2023)Scream & Writhe forum user Joie de Blumpy (January 21, 2024) – https://screamandwrithe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=10509#p10509 Taking a hefty clanking sledgehammer to tiny twitching remnants of a de-cum-re-pressurized …
- UN REGARD FROID – Exophilie CD (2023)Scream & Writhe forum user Joie de Blumpy (January 21, 2024) – https://screamandwrithe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=10509#p10509 Looks cold, cold as a thing to which it would be ill-advised …
- VIOLENT SHOGUN – The Possibility of Life’s Destruction CS (2020) / TED BYRNES – All Hands CS (2020) / B.P. – Zhiishiibi-Zhiibiing CS (2020)Vital Weekly #1250 (September 15, 2020) – http://vitalweekly.net/1250.html The resurgence of the cassette was I suppose to be expected after the likes of HMV got …
- WASAUKSING SNIPER CS (2023)Bandcamp user Dawid Scumwalski (November 2023) – https://absurdexposition.bandcamp.com/album/wasauksing-sniper Wasauksing Sniper’s self-titled record was a delightful surprise. Subdued noise, sounds like it was recorded on tape …
- ZENTA SUSTAINED – Serpent Track Patterns 12″ (2022)WCN Maniac’s Circle Discord user Capers (February 25, 2023) Having not heard any earlier Zenta Sustained, this was not what I expected at all. McKinlay …
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- ZK – Discordia CS (2023)Special Interests user Fistfuck Masonanie (August 4, 2023) – https://special-interests.net/forum/index.php?topic=52.msg102047#msg102047 Choked out frequencies. Maximalist thrashing strangled and shaped by the lack of peak limiters. Sounds …