Ye ken?...

Hard as nails Glaswegian 'Poowah Vialance, och, hoo ghivs a shi-ite ma-an!'
Too good not to post.

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Spyed some tapes...

Disattack - A Bomb Drops... demo (1986)

Electro Hippies - Killing Babies Is Tight demo (1986)

Carcass - Flesh Ripping Sonic Torment demo (1987)

Malicious Grind demo '87

Totenkopf - Fuck With Noise demo (1991)

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Cosmico...

Daniele Baldelli & TBC - Cosmic Club 1980 mixtape (C60)...

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Daniele Baldelli - Cosmic: The Original (mix)...

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Cosmique...

French Cosmic-Disco synthathon composed by Roger Davy

Moonbirds - Energy-MC1 (Disques Ibach, 1978)...

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Reality...

#2 (DEEP SIX, 1997)...


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Towel...

: Anthology (Vermiform, 1998)...


All of Towel's songs are included on this disc, all 1,027 copies of which were badly hand-screened by Neil Burke in one drunken overnight session. This skimpy, shitty digipack is a fitting headstone for such a great and misunderstood band; if their own record label couldn't muster even the minimum of respectful packaging, how could TOWEL have expected anyone else to respect them?

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read, learn, kill...

Traditional, straight forward Black Metal from Canada. drugged up, thrashy and caustic. line ups containing members of Axis of Advance, Ouroboros, Vehement, Revenge.

WEAPON: Violated Hejab EP (Legion Of Death, 2005)

WEAPON: Para Bhakti... Salvation EP (Full Moon, 2007)

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upcoming long player : "Drakonian Paradigm" released soon by The Ajna Offensive label

grind to a halt...

Noise Grind Power Death (625 Thrashcore, 2009)

"Blistering, primal noise/grind done by the now defunct Gulf-Coast grind-unit. Raw and punishing, how grindcore is supposed to be. Glossy metal magazines will be confused, posers decimated, and the last-will and testament of this band will live-on in infamy."

(single sided LP, 53 untitled tracks; vocals, drums and effects only)

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625 Thrashcore

Hundebiss...

Dracula Lewis "Vernasca, Valhalla" C30 (Hundebiss, 2008)

"Dracula Lewis is one of the most well hidden deep dark secret from eastern-Europe, based in Romania he spent long time traveling all over the world. Vernasca, Valhalla is the first official release and Hundebiss Records is proud to present this four tracks done with a broken mixer and two open-mic. The result is a deep listening, lo-fi aggressive electronics with weird field recordings but also a spacey melodic sweet sound who came up from this maelström."

"Everything done with a broken mixer, open mic and some effects, no loops, computers or synth were used in this session." (Hundebiss)

Nice outer space-psych-horror electronics, mostly feedback based with some wolfman-vampire cameos here and there. Really good stuff. Tape is now sold out.

Side A - 35 oct. 1916, A Letter From Transylvania
Side B - Il Mattino ha Loro In Bocca, The Magic Feature Number Twelve

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HUNDEBISS

HUNDEBISS

Hobart Smith - Of Saltville, Virginia (Folk Legacy, 1964)...

L.P. notes:

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GASP - Drome Triler Of Puzzle Zoo People (Slap A Ham, 1998)...

Gasp used elements of grindcore, power violence, psych, ambient noise, tape manipulations and down-tuned sludge to create a sound that will never be duplicated. They released records on some of the most influential punk and hardcore labels of the past decade, including Slap a Ham, Witching Hour, Clean Plate, and Deep Six.

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interview with Reggie Rosales (vocals)

☢...

Thumbprint Press

80 Blocks From Tiffany's (1979)...

Like 'The Warriors' but real

SIEGE - Drop Dead...

Highly influential Boston Hardcore recorded in 1984, the first 6 tracks were the original demo and the final 3 were first heard on 'Cleanse The Bacteria' comp in 1985 put together and released by Pushead (Zorlac illustrator seen in many a Thrasher mag), this is also the entire discography apart from a couple of live bootlegs as they split in '85. Unorthodox in comparison to other more traditional bands in the Boston Straight-edge scene they performed their shows further afield to more appreciative crowds. Sheer ferocity, speed and jarring tempo-changes made them forerunners (along with Deep Wound) to become the first band to pioneer the traits of Grindcore and Powerviolence, perhaps only matched in might by Infest?

1. Drop Dead
2. Conform
3. Life of Hate
4. Starvation
5. Armageddon
6. Walls
7. Sad But True
8. Cold War
9. Grim Reaper

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Abraham Cross - Peace Can't Combine EP (MCR, 2001)...

A great slice of Japanese Crust, 9 tracks recorded in '94-'95:

Course For Life
Teach A Cage
Brain Storm
Feelings In Soil
Pointless Tooth
Bad Circulate
In There
Same As War
Pointless Tooth


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Skull - Beer, Metal, Spikes demo (Utterly Somber, 2004)...

Influenced by: Motörhead, Venom, Exodus, Bulldozer, Voivod, the NWOBHM and 70's rock n' roll bands. Speed/Thrash Metal from Colombia.

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v/a Musics of the Soviet Union (Folkways, 1989)...

Very little indigenous music from the former Soviet Union is known to the West. This recording, from 1988, offers a rich sampling from many of the more than 100 ethnic groups within this vast region. The record begins with passionate Lithuanian lullabies and proceeds through ancient seasonal and ceremonial village songs from southern and northern Russia and the asymmetrical dance rhythms performed by Estonian bagpipers. From the distant Mongolian frontier, the amazing art of Tuvan multiphonic "throat singing" can be heard as well as the richly harmonic male choral singing still practiced in Georgia.

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(if your interested in Tuvan Throat Singing i posted an album previously Chöömej, Throat-Singing From The Center Of Asia along with tracks featured in Herzog's documentary Little Dieter Needs To Fly or is it Rescue Dawn?). An album called The Spirit of The Steppes (Throat Singing From Tuva and Beyond) can be got at Moon Musick.

Shalom Comrade! Yiddish Music in the Soviet Union 1928-1961 (Wergo)...

Stalin’s cultural ideologues planned to deploy the music of the Yiddish-speaking Jews of the Soviet Union as a building block for the new Soviet music, whereas the Jewish religion with its traditional way of life was damned as counter-revolutionary. The anthology “Shalom Comrade!” tells the forgotten history of Yiddish music in the Soviet Union and contains rare recordings from the archive of the ethnomusicologists Rita Ottens and Joel Rubin.

Featuring Misha Aleksandrovich, Mikhail Epelbaum, Marina Gordon, Emil Gorovets, Anna Guzik, Solomon Khromchenko, Nechama Lifshitsaite, Saul Liubimov, Solomon Mikhoels, Debora Pantofel-Nechetskaia, M. I. Rabinovich, Zinovii Shulman, Sidi Tal, and many others.

(Scans of the cd inlay booklet with lots more information inside the download folder)

v/a Navajo Songs (Folkways, 1992)...

The lifestyles, philosophies, and traditions of the Navajo nation are represented by songs for herding, planting, harvesting, hunting, blessing hogans, and soothing children. The 1933 and 1940 field recordings from settlements in New Mexico and Arizona beautifully document a music largely vocal and highly melodic with relatively short song phrases repeated, divided, and combined in intriguingly complex ways.

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James Ferraro...

Tape links... HERE










KFC City 3099: Pt.1 Toxic Spill (New Age Tapes, 2009)...

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BUY HERE

Last of the Minstrels...

The archaic Abner Jay from Fitzgerald Georgia described himself as 'the last great Southern black minstrel show' and was still late in his life touring the Southern countryside in his camper converted into a portable minstrel stage. He played the long-necked, plucked string instrument we nowadays call the banjo. It's possible antecedents have existed in many forms and under many names. The commercially-manufactured, standardized form has emerged from vernacular instruments, including what 18th-century European travelers to the West Indian colonies reported as `strum-strums': long, flat-necked, skin-covered gourd bodies strung with catgut, resorted to by plantation slaves for intimate diversion as well as larger occasions of social excitement arousal. Coming from whatever precursors, the banjo occupied an important place in late-19th century black and white minstrelsy and vaudeville. Jay was once a travelling performer with the Silas Green Show, whom he joined in 1932, one of the last multifaceted road shows on record.

He had a huge repertoire of banjo and old-time songs learnt from his grandfather, who had been a slave in Washington County, Georgia. There is a long line of social and musical experience which constitutes Jay's tradition: blacks' domestic entertainment inspiring white imitations; in turn stimulating composed, sheet-music idioms for middle-class and professional performance, which then animated younger generations of black musicians. Tastes and tolerances of what constitutes acceptable public entertainment are always changing, of course, Jay was part of making idioms which may not in fact have received too much exposure in the daily pressure to captivate audiences by extrovert mannerisms. Abner was the last of the minstrel musicians. The distinction is that what we call minstrel music is complex. There are at least three different levels.

There's the first level of European Americans recognizing the creativity in the slave quarters as a component for attraction and assimilation; two, there would be the response from the African American community that would mimic the mimickers; and three, there would be a contingent of African American creative musicians who would seek to parlay that polarity--that is to say, to take the original and dynamic components of that experience, and attempt to do something with that. Abner Jay falls into that group. For over fifty years Abner was a one-man band, hambone and bone player. Except for the six string banjo he also played the old swamp style guitar, harmonica, bass drum, cymbals and sang, all at the same time. He went on to lead the WMAZ Minstrels on Macon radio from 1946-56 before going solo and touring the country in his portable Œlog cabin¹, complete with its own PA system, from where he would perform and sell cassettes and LPs. When Abner was born his dad kept the birth records on the side of the house. When the house burned down, the birth records were destroyed, and Abner was never able to find out just how old he was. Jay claims the secret for his good health was "layin' on his belly drinkin' water from that ol Swaunee River". Jay died in 1993.

"I play banjo in an old cotton-picking style - real smooth, real quiet. There's not a lot of fancy licks" Abner says.

(Biography from Anthology Recordings)

Abner Jay - Swaunee Water And Cocaine Blues (Brandie Records, 197?)...
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(Mississippi Records recently released 'The True Story of Abner Jay' on vinyl, buy it from HERE)

Arkha Sva - Mikama Isaro Mada (Total Holocaust, 2008)...

Compilation of the Rekonquista and Hymne tapes, previously only released on tape format.

"Although this band is from Japan their contact address is in Levallois-Perret, France. Strange I wonder why? Might it have anything to do with the fact that a lot of inspiration for the music on this tape is derived from the infamous Les Légions Noires (The Black Legions). Arkha Sva's music is certainly inspired by bands like: Mütiilation, Belketre, Vlad Tepes. The music is dirty and harsh Black Metal, mid-paced with few tempo changes, a low almost guttural scream vocals, pounding drums and a dark and hate filled atmosphere. The riffs are minimalistic and ice cold."

1. Emergence hors de l'Abîme 02:53
2. Thou Disappear 03:48
3. Chant I 01:01
4. Rekonquista 03:23
5. Chant II 00:37
6. Requiem on Their Graveth 03:35
7. Chant III 00:50
8. Nameless Rebellious 05:14
9. Odeur de la Mort 01:35
10. Hymne aux Légions Noires 04:10
11. Sublimation of the Destruktive Lust 04:56
12. Transylvania 04:10
13. The Dark Promise 03:51

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Dead Body Love - Low-Fi Power Carnage (Militant Walls, 2007)...

“Low-Fi Power Carnage” is an amazing document of raw and crunched harsh noise range and focus as it pummels over its four different tracks; each their own monster in strategy and manipulation. Dead Body Love has an uncanny ability to investigate movement within the rock bed of sound, sometimes picking apart the tones and sources with deconstruction techniques that range from ‘static drone’ to the brutal and abrasive. Thus, this release has something for every harsh head as it covers numerous areas of violence, abstraction, and even an occasional heavy driving, throbbing force that brings to mind early ‘Industrial (i.e. Broken Flag).

originally released on cassette in 1995 by Old Europa Cafe

(Militant Walls is a Canadian Noise label run by Sam McKinlay of The Rita, check out his blog... http://bakurita.blogspot.com/)

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Mayhem - Life Eternal EP (Season of Mist/Saturnus, 2009)...

i wasn't planning on putting this up but thought it fairly fitting because of the Morbid tape posted earlier.

'De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas' was Mayhems first studio album recorded after vocalist Dead blew his brain out in '91 and just before Varg Vikernes known also as Count Grishnackh (Burzum) stabbed to death Øystein Aarseth known as Euronymous in '93 because Varg considered him a fake and a disgrace to the scene for supposedly wearing a pink dressing gown behind closed doors and getting off on gay porn. Anyway Attila Csihar had joined to replace Dead on vocals, you also have Varg Vikernes on bass, Euronymous on guitars of course and Hellhammer on drums. The murder happened whilst the album was in production and the parents of Euronymous asked Hellhammer to have Varg's bass removed and re-recorded but he never did, he only turned it down in the mix, it's also debatable that he altered the tracks at all. This EP here is the first release by Attila Csihar's label Season of Mist and is supposedly the versions with the original levels probably mastered from the original master tape so the sound quality is better (depending on your preference as to how you like your Black Metal to sound like!). It's only an EP because 3 tracks from the album are missing, fuck knows why the others aren't here and with such a messy discography anyway it beggers belief as to why he was sitting on these alternate mixes for 15 years? Its all just details anyway but perhaps these versions are truer to how the initial release might have sounded like if Euronymous hadn't been killed, hell knows?

Cursed in Eternity 05:07
Pagan Fears 06:18
Freezing Moon 06:20
Funeral Fog 05:48
Life Eternal 06:51

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Deathchurch...

Paranoid Destruktion cassette (2004)



raw violent Black Metal from Japan...

Total Destruktive Arising
Deathcrush (Mayhem cover)
Terror Revelation

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