Monday, August 29, 2011
Nocastle + PFM Reviews.
Thanks to music blogger Sean Prescott for these reviews, even if he did get his patch leads a lil' crossed with the PFM cd-r. Check it here.
Monday, August 15, 2011
CCCC / JS Lathe Review.
Thanks to old mate Screwtape:
COSMIC COINCIDENCE (CCCC)/JUNK SICK, split
12" lathe cut, 2011,
Altered States
Cooper of AS warns that the sound level is somewhat low on this cut, particularly on the first part of side one, and also issues a free download of wave and mp3 files for this material, but interestingly I found the sound quite acceptable and, in fact when compared to the wave files, somewhat more enjoyable. The lathe cut seems to have added a kind of low fidelity grit to both sides which seems to enhance the actual pleasure of the music. This is particularly the case with Junk Sick - Cooper and long-time collaborator Tommy Gunja - who have created two messy, crude spirals of home-taped Noise that manage, with the first piece "Space Debris" to maintain a nice experimental feel with analogue synths, effects, tapes and contact microphones that features a lot of water-ish gurgling with spurts of static, underlined with synth humming and oscillating. The track features choppy bits of harsh sound over more rushing, dirtier layers that combine well and keep things moving without spazzing around. A fairly appropriately titled track, actually, invoking the idea of pieces of human-made shit clogging up space. "Black Dust" reminds me more of the kind of cassette improvisations put out by these people before, a rustier and more coagulated sound that gets more active and aggressive with a lot of nice dragging sounds and more intense synth. Both these pieces are great and I look forward to the up-coming "Rising Damp" tape.
The Hasegawa party, for their part, start off with the usual slow building cosmic synth tones that mutate and evolve with more stressed sounding electronics, like something being stretched beyond its limits, and these sounds move together, the slow winding synth and burbling and gurgling electronics, building in intensity but maintaining dignity. Funnily, because of the building tension of "Apocalyptic Birdsong" it seems to be too short, despite being over sixteen minutes in length, but this project always did seem to excel in the spaced-out-jam method, rather than the concise hit. Still, the sound presented here is structured and strong and the download version can bring out details the lathe cut perhaps missed.
Still a few copies left unaccounted for, but probably not for long. Hiroshi will have copies soon
COSMIC COINCIDENCE (CCCC)/JUNK SICK, split
12" lathe cut, 2011,
Altered States
Cooper of AS warns that the sound level is somewhat low on this cut, particularly on the first part of side one, and also issues a free download of wave and mp3 files for this material, but interestingly I found the sound quite acceptable and, in fact when compared to the wave files, somewhat more enjoyable. The lathe cut seems to have added a kind of low fidelity grit to both sides which seems to enhance the actual pleasure of the music. This is particularly the case with Junk Sick - Cooper and long-time collaborator Tommy Gunja - who have created two messy, crude spirals of home-taped Noise that manage, with the first piece "Space Debris" to maintain a nice experimental feel with analogue synths, effects, tapes and contact microphones that features a lot of water-ish gurgling with spurts of static, underlined with synth humming and oscillating. The track features choppy bits of harsh sound over more rushing, dirtier layers that combine well and keep things moving without spazzing around. A fairly appropriately titled track, actually, invoking the idea of pieces of human-made shit clogging up space. "Black Dust" reminds me more of the kind of cassette improvisations put out by these people before, a rustier and more coagulated sound that gets more active and aggressive with a lot of nice dragging sounds and more intense synth. Both these pieces are great and I look forward to the up-coming "Rising Damp" tape.
The Hasegawa party, for their part, start off with the usual slow building cosmic synth tones that mutate and evolve with more stressed sounding electronics, like something being stretched beyond its limits, and these sounds move together, the slow winding synth and burbling and gurgling electronics, building in intensity but maintaining dignity. Funnily, because of the building tension of "Apocalyptic Birdsong" it seems to be too short, despite being over sixteen minutes in length, but this project always did seem to excel in the spaced-out-jam method, rather than the concise hit. Still, the sound presented here is structured and strong and the download version can bring out details the lathe cut perhaps missed.
Still a few copies left unaccounted for, but probably not for long. Hiroshi will have copies soon
Friday, August 12, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Cosmic Coincidence / Junk Sick Split 12" Lathe.
Cosmic Coincidence is the moniker under which Hiroshi Hasegawa has recently reformed his essential unit, C.C.C.C. They should need no introduction as one of the best harsh noise groups of all-time. Their late 80’s/early 90’s releases range from industrial to their later trademark psychedelic noise. ‘Apocalyptic Birdsong’ falls into the latter category and takes the sound to its astral conclusion. These are the first new C.C.C.C. studio recordings to be released in more than a decade.
Junk Sick is a duo comprised of two punk shitkickers from Melbourne, Australia. Taking influence from late 80’s/early 90’s Japanese noise, their two tracks here are a lo-fi assault of electronics, analogue synth, tapes and junk.
12” lathe-cut by Peter King, limited to 50 copies. $20 AUD + postage.
Email: alteredstatestapes@gmail.com
NB: due to being lathe-cuts, the record must be played LOUD for intended effect.
All copies come with access to download the tracks.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Sunday, August 21st - Round & Round
Lazy Sunday afternoon show at Round and Round record store, featuring:
Dick Threats (industrial dance-floor beasts)
Tim Coster (blissful waves)
Culm (juke/grime influenced improv techno)
3pm
Free
513 Sydney Rd. Brunswick
Dick Threats (industrial dance-floor beasts)
Tim Coster (blissful waves)
Culm (juke/grime influenced improv techno)
3pm
Free
513 Sydney Rd. Brunswick
Tuesday, August 9th - Make It Up Club.
Black Velvet Unicorn Painting - Marcus Cook (sound) & Emma Albury (sound)
Carolyn Connors (voice), Cor Fuhler (synthesiser and processing) and Sean Baxter (percussive junk)
Cooper Bowman (Korg DS-10, tapes & effects)
Bar Open - Brunswick St, Fitzroy
9pm start
$5 / $10
Carolyn Connors (voice), Cor Fuhler (synthesiser and processing) and Sean Baxter (percussive junk)
Cooper Bowman (Korg DS-10, tapes & effects)
Bar Open - Brunswick St, Fitzroy
9pm start
$5 / $10
Monday, August 1, 2011
BLAAAACK BAAAAGS - AUGUST PROGRAM.
I'm organising the one tomorrow night. After heaps of hassles, the lineup is:
VDO (catchy drones duo comprised of Christopher LG Hill & Joshua Petherick)
WORNG (solo synth hypnosis)
Lloyd Honeybrook & Nic Tammens (sax n' geet free skronk)
Culm (juke/grime influenced improv techno)
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