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Meerenai Shim - The Art Of Noise
not on label, 2013
Shim is a classical/jazz/avant-garde flutist that plays in a variety of off the wall projects as well as traditional chamber orchestras. In addition to all this, she also runs her own classical label. This is her 2013 album and an accompanying 7". The album has everything from somewhat traditional classical compositions, to stuff th
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Vinterland - Welcome My Last Chapter - 15 Year Old Blood CD
I have their two demos on tape (dubs, not originals) and they're pretty raging. I've never run across a copy of this album. Cool that you found such a nice reissue. I like Temple of Darkness. I've always been able to get quality stuff from them.
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Ape Machine - Live At Freak Valley
Ripple Music, 2015
Straight ahead riff-driven stoner rock recorded live in 2013 at the annual Freak Valley festival held in Germany. These guys pump out chugging, 70s style songs like there's no tomorrow. This LP comes in a nice gatefold with a bonus DVD of the entire performance. Good stuff if you're looking for heavy rock'n'roll tha
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Static/Voice/Static - Hentai&Cookies&Milk&Christmas
not on label, 2016
Some droning noise from Oregon. Notice that the name is misspelled as "Vocie" on the J-card.
This is pretty decent stuff, low-key and oddly relaxing. Think New Age on acid and you're getting the picture. There's a ton of releases from this outfit, with all the physical stuff being pr
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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End The Sun - Rhythm of Defeat
not on label, 2016
I found this randomly searching around Bandcamp one night, gave it a listen and ordered the CD. This is some heavy duty experimental black metal from a one man project out of Augusta, GA. On the link below, check out the third track in particular, "Kilkreath, I'm Melting". There's so much going on in this epic it's
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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^I saw George Winston play live once and it was a very cool small venue concert. It was a formal affair, everyone was dressed in suit and ties and he came out in a pair of knee cut jeans and a flannel and wooed the audience without batting an eye.
I've always wanted to see him play. I have a live comp from the early days of Windham Hill that has a bunch of performances by dif
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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George Winston - December
Windham Hill, 1982
I know it's technically considered New Age and not classical, but I think this album fits here.
I came home after a long day at the office and just needed something to chill out with. This album fits the bill perfectly. Beautiful solo piano with hints of everything from the post-bop era of Vince Guaraldi to JS Bach.
Nothing more to
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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^Snakefinger made some truly far out records. Phil Lithman was one of those avant garde geniuses that was way ahead of his time.
What else can you recommend from him? I'm interested in checking out other albums.
His early stuff with Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers is pretty cool, but not at weird as he would get in a few years. Personally, I think
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Dettinger - Intershop
very much part of the "Cologne Tech House" sound
For my personal tastes, the Germans are absolutely the best at this kind of stuff. That clip is excellent. I'll check out some more of his stuff.
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Noisem - Agony Defined LP (A389Recordings)
I always wanted to see these guys play. I understand they put on a killer live show.
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Toxic Reasons - Independence LP
Damn! I saw these guys play in Atlanta back in '88. Awesome band!
Are you close to Atlanta ??
I live way down in Southwest Florida and split my time between here and central Texas these days. Back then I was in college in Knoxville, and would go down to Atlanta on weekends to catch shows. I still have
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^Snakefinger made some truly far out records. Phil Lithman was one of those avant garde geniuses that was way ahead of his time.
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Schammasch - Triangle
Prosthetic Records, 2016
Swiss prog/art/death/black metal that I picked up as a completely blind buy a couple of weeks ago, and holy shit! This thing is great! A three-CD epic monster set, at times I would swear I was listening to the best Celtic Frost album they never recorded. The drums, even though they are definitely triggered, are just bone shaking at the proper
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Captain Beyond - S/T
I have my older brother's original copy of this that he gave me when he went off to college. It's still in pretty decent shape, just reeks of hash even after all these years.
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Toxic Reasons - Independence LP
Damn! I saw these guys play in Atlanta back in '88. Awesome band!
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Lifelover - Pulver
GoatowaRex/NorthernSky, 2006 - This reissue by Osmose Productions, 2016
This was Lifelover's first LP after a demo released a year earlier, and they came out of the gate with a masterpiece of gothic black doom. Churning riffs, creeped out and depressed vocals, weird samples, disturbing artwork. This one had it all. I don't even mind the drum machine. It actual
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Did you see that Skin Crime box that came out awhile back...something like 20 CDs? Wanted that but never could get around to buying it.
I didn't know about that, but I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for it!
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Waldgeflüster / Panopticon (split LP)
Nordvis/Bindrune Recordings, 2016
My apologies for posting so much black metal lately. I've just been on a kind of jag with this stuff.
This split between Waldgeflüster (Munich, Germany) and Panopticon (Minnesota) is easily one of my favorite releases of this year, showing that even an ocean apart, metal is a universal language. Each band has
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There? - The Wall Live 1980-81
Columbia, 1980
Two-disc box set that came with a 64 page hardcover book containing photos, essays, and blueprints of the stage set for the live performances of The Wall that Floyd put on at Earls Court in 1980 and 1981.
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Hijokaidan - Romance
Alchemy Records, 1990
Pure harsh noise from Japan. These folks have been at this since 1980. I've been trying to put together a comprehensive discography of guitarist Jojo Hiroshige's work for almost 30 years now. I'll likely still be trying to complete it when I die considering the number of releases from Hijokaidan and his other related projects that
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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^That's a solid lineup on that tape. Self Abuse has been putting out good stuff for a long time with no signs of slowing down. I just ordered a copy of Skin Crime's "The House On The Cliff" a couple of days ago.
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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What album by Leviathan would you say is the best?
I really dig The Tenth Sub Level Of Suicide. That was the first album of his I heard. Howl Mockery At the Cross is pretty decent, too. It's another older demo he had released on his own that Moribund reissued after Tentacles Of Whorror. He recorded a split with Xasthur that is insanely epic on both their parts. The last tw
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Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
This ad popped up earlier today in my Instagram feed. Nothing says "Merry Christmas" quite like some black metal from Burzum.
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General Discussion
Leviathan - Tentacles Of Whorror
Moribund Records, 2004
The second full length album from Leviathan after somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 demo releases, the last of which was given a reissue by Moribund as the band's official debut "The Tenth Sub Level Of Suicide."
Leviathan is a one man US black metal project by Jef Whitehead, performing under the moniker of Wrest.
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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The singer, Pat Dubar, eventually ended up in a hippie/alternative/funk/metal band called MindFunk. You may have heard of them...not to my taste at all though.
That's too funny! I remember seeing a video or two of theirs back in '91 or '92. I had no idea that was the same dude! I remember thinking they weren't a very good band at all.
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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The War On Women - Improvised Weapons
Exotic Fever Records, 2012
10" EP from this feminist punk band out of Baltimore. I was hesitant about posting this because one of the few things I refuse to ever do is express political opinions on the internet, so I'll just skip the stuff about their social agenda. The music is what matters to me anyway, and in this case it's excellent
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Where U.C. do add a little more personality of their own is a greater emphasis on melody and a couple songs that would've fit in with forward looking contemporaries such as Dag Nasty. Although there is a lot of aggression here, it's not unbridled rage like the first two Minor Threat EPs.
^This is some top notch hardcore punk right here! I can definitely see the compa
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Militia - Live Provocation 1&2 - Cassette
I like what they're doing in that video clip. I've always been interested in that sort of industrial stuff where they're making actual music from non-instruments. I've heard a lot of tapes from Soviet-bloc era Eastern Europe along those lines. Pretty neat to see Belgians doing something similar.
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Ulver - Nattens madrigal – Aatte hymne til ulven i manden
Century Media, 1997
This is the second album in Ulver's so-called "black metal trilogy." The title roughly translates as "Madrigal of the Night – Eight Hymns to the Wolf in Man."
Even in the lo-fi domain of Norwegian black metal, Ulver's superior musicianship shines through. There are some awesome d
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop