At War With False Noise

Valgriindedfa

Rage in Eden

Twilight Records

Beast of Prey

In no particular order: Eleven records from the last ten years that have made a big impact on me in some way, mostly having to do with making my own tunes.

1. Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile (1999)
2. Sigur Rós: Ágætis Byrjun (1999)
3. Lament Configuration: Paragon-Asia Dataflow (2004)
4. Cex: Oops! I did it again! (2001)
5. Gultskra Artikler: Goloded (2004)
6. Tujiko Noriko: Make Me Hard (2002)
7. Lustmord: Zeotrope (OST) (2002)
8. Panacea: Brasilia (2000)
9. M² (Squaremeter): The Bitter End (2002)
10. Set Fire to Flames: Telegraphs in the Negative/Mouths Trapped in Static (2003)
11. Clint Mansell: The Fountain (OST) (2006)

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Other albums not on this list that I’d include now.

Dead Lettters Spell out Dead Words: Facelessness Erases Every Trace of Humanity (2008)

Kode9 and the Spaceape: Memories of the Future (2006)

Wolves in the Throne Room: Two Hunters (2007)

There are still a few shining lights out there, but it seems like when Fukkgod Let’s Create went away (in their familiar form at least), a lot of other netlabels disappeared as well, or started putting out sub-par material. Autoplate is no longer putting out new stuff, and the rest of Thinner has gone the route of paid downloads. Monotonik is still going strong, but I haven’t heard anything vibrant out of that camp in at least two years, not since Bliss’ “Hello Brain Goodbye Heart”. No Type offers fewer and fewer releases overall every year, and sub-labels Sine Fiction (a netlabel project that could be amazing) and Nishi haven’t had any new releases since 2007.

So what’s going on out there? Am I just not finding the good shit on Google anymore or have things really become that stale?

I’ll write more about this soon. I just wanted to get this initial part down here first.

Okay, so the point of that little rant?
I am going to delve deep into the netlabel land again and find some of the good stuff.

Merzbau-Label some nice low-fi, indie type stuff. Also helped me find Tiago Sousa’s “The Western Lands”, which excellent.

Wicked Dubstep Mix

Free Albums Galore is a blog dedicated to posting free music downloads from netlabels and artists. This site is particularly great because of the variety they post.

Must Finish is Rjyan Kidwell’s (Cex) label for putting out small run tapes. I’ve been getting these are they have been coming out, so far they’ve all been pretty great.

Autoplate is one of my favorite labels. It was there that I first found Gultskra Artikler. It looks like they aren’t putting out new music anymore, but the back catalog is still up.

Coming soon to Noiseusse Recordings.

Still working on that cover. Soon though. SOOOOOON!!!

30 discs are burned, CD print tests are done. Final package designs are in the works. (Final CD art is the one on the bottom)

Tomorrow I print the art on the rest of the discs and finish the package design.

I think this (The Hawk is Howling) is one of the best things they’ve done. I dig it way more than Young Team. This feels more cohesive than Young Team, much more grown up sounding. Young Team was cool because along with it’s epicness, there are points in it that you can totally tell it was made by a bunch of guys with a pretty good sense of humor… at least to me.

Young Team may have been a little more raw, but Hawk is Howling sounds a lot more inspired to me. Why would Mogwai want to take a step backward at this point? They’re moving forward, and every time they do it makes more and more of an impact.

Sooooo, yeah. There’s my two cents.

I haven’t owned/listened to anything on casette in a few years, but it sounds much better than I remember. The first thing I popped in was Tsuskimono’s Bat Heads Roll which I picked up around the time it was released. It has been sitting on my shelf for a while.

First off I want to say how good the sound is even when its really loud. So warm. So So So warm. I have the tape deck cranked right now as I’m listening to it and it is amazing.

Those familiar with Tsukimono might find this release a bit of a departure from some of his more mellow releases (his Fukkgod output speccifically), Bat Heads Rolls is much more noise oriented than I had expected. It still sounds like Tsukimono, but it wants to drill a hole in your brain. The sounds aren’t total chaos and their are some great beats after about 30 min. on side A. Side B is a huge synthy drone, like the sound a hive-mind would make or something.

Anyway, great job and now that I’ve got a tape deck again I can listen to it whenever I want!

666gangstaz – become ::: (1:08)(192kbps) ["..now I am become death, destroyer of worlds.." ]

I haven’t been talking about music lately to anyone. There has actually been a lot of good stuff in the past few months. It was basically laziness that kept me from talking about this album.

Exotical Privates is the best remix album I’ve heard since Coil’s The Snow EP and Nine Inch Nails’ Further Down the Spiral, and ranks high among my favorite Kidwell releases. This is the album that often gets me to work in the morning, gets me through the day, and puts me to bed from time to time.

The whole thing is just so fucking smooth. Rjyan has cracked the code when it comes to reinterpretation. A great range of sample sources to build up a really nice vibe. This is not some crappy Remix Album with slight variations on the same track, these songs are pushing the original versions into new uncharted territories.

Check it out!!! In 50 years when dudes my age are meeting their grand children you’ll want to remember to tell them about Cex!
Also Rjyan if you ever happen to read this, thanks for letting us (Noiseusse) publish one of your journal entries a few years ago.

The only politician that doesn’t make me puke in my shoes! (Other than Nader)

ECLIPSE Solar
ECLIPSE Lunar

I’m just randomly posting this. Eventually it’ll be part of a syn.pro release (the return of Noiseusse is imminent!). Its the first new song I’ve made this year. Enjoy. This is what happens when we get radical weather shifts where I live.

Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero
M.I.A. – Kala
Burial – Untrue
Venetian Snares – My Downfall (Original Soundtrack)
Cex – Sketchi
Cex – Exotical Privates
Rasputina – Oh Perilous World

Audio Addiction

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PS brushes

A good site for reviews and linking to free albums/netlabels

Mechanical pencil with white lead!

Bad-ass smoke tech

Ultimate Russian Pop distro in the states

A bunch of good artists collective blog

Cool art for sale, much like Deviant Art, only seems higher quality and less MySpace

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came Original oil painting for sale!

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First I need to mention that Vaultworks has got it together. The CD arrived in less than a week! Quick mail orders rule!

Juggernaut is the latest release from Brian Williams under the Lustmord moniker. I’ve been following his music for quite a while now; Zeotrope is one of my favorite albums of all time. I tend to get a little down on ambient type music from time to time, but I think Lustmord will always be one of the champions of the sound. Juggernaut is no exception and far more than just boring drones. The disc features King Buzzo of the Melvins on vocals and guitar adding slow distorted chugs and vocal shrieks and mutters and some sort of weird singing.

There are probably some people who aren’t going to be into this as much as previous Lustmord releases. It isn’t a huge departure or anything, but to give an idea, there is at least one guitar solo. I usually think sci-fi with Lustmord, but Juggernaut feels almost rock oriented. It has the Lustmord feeling of sheer terror overall, but there is something different going on with the song structure. Everything is very solid sounding.
At the moment the two middle tracks, (2) Prime and (3) Able are my favorites overall, but there are nice moments in all four of the songs.

Well worth the 10 ten bucks.

Cool bottle lighting idea

Label that is putting out the next Sawako album

Mailorder Mailorder

New Mark Danielewski

Laser Flashlight Hack

Aquarius Records: Badass record store in the Mission.

I miss these dudes as Shogun. A couple of the members went on to form a band called Dartanian, and they are pretty darn good, but the world has moved on in a way.

Shogun – The Pull

Perhaps my favorite thing about this track is it comes on right before Sigur Ros, and it makes me smile every time. In a sort of evil way.

Gultskra Artikler – Ethnic Live

Breakcore from China

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It is shaping up… the story so far.

These are the initial mixes for the first quarter of completed tracks. I have a bad tendency to call something done before it really is (my attention span is really short about things like that, and sometimes I move on to “B” before completing “A”), and I’m trying to hold off on these (hence draft 1).

Aphrodisia-Will in the Tower-Statue of Bodies-Voyeur

Carnivora-The Doc-Monsters on the ship-Druuna sleeps

Carnivora-Her Mind

Creatura-Druuna Led Through the Wasteland

I need to remember to update my to do list. More to follow…

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http://www.team9.net/mp3s.htm

http://partyben.com/downloads/
(You must listen to Daft Queen!!!)

http://www.bootiesf.com/bestofbootie_2005/

Ooh and this!
http://www.rebeldjs.com/

I don’t think I could ever explain my intrest things of this nature.
Pop is a strange animal. It doesn’t usually taste good no matter how it is prepared, but at the same time, it tastes like everything. I guess that is sort of its point. Maybe?

257.000

scar

306.000

not a rutherford

604.000

a place i have never been

nails

the last song