Monday 27 October 2008

VDD Energise - The Return (Hardisk 02)

A rather overlooked record from 2001 by DJ Valium(We should call him Valyom now thanks to some drug overlord or other taking issue with the name). 4 really earthy, meaty live acidic tracks, awash with shrillness and crunching percussion and the like. Ripped by Helicopterface again.

A1 Crazy Amazones (6:26)
A2 Rebirth Of Change (5:15)
B1 707 (3:48)
B2 Ex-Titanic (4:48)

Also, I just found this nice video footage of him recording his Six Sixty Six EP in Total Output's studio. He also has a bunch of other clips of himself and a few others on his channel there, including a clip of Jeff Mills' first gig in Belgium in 1994.

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Thursday 16 October 2008

Trauma - Abreaction (Intraveineuse 03)

Intraveineuse is part of the big Caen-based Alcaloide/Kryzalide nexus, whose various labels range from pretty gritty stuff to 'techno'(Which, being French, would imply Hardtek), to your bogstandard 'Frenchcore'. This release is somewhere between the three. One side mid-speed kick-propelled numbers with some stock atmospherics, the other side has one 'Doomcore'(Aren't we throwing around the -core suffix today?), and some sort of sparse amen-break electro piece. It's not a big favourite, due to a couple of very easily recognisable kicks, but still of interest.

A1 Big Break Induction (6:12)
A2 Ford's Syndrome (6:05)
B1 Audicore (6:11)
B2 Destructions-trieb (5:55)

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Tuesday 14 October 2008

Caleb Temple - Inter Sect (Zero Tolerance 006)

Zero Tolerance(as far as I can gather) was related to the VFM/Dead By Dawn(Both of which you can read a little about Here ) parties, and featured music by people associated with both nights. Not sure if Caleb Temple is a pseudonym of Warlock, Lorenz Attractor or Heist, or a completely different person, but if one was to make an ill-informed guess, one would say it was perhaps at least in part by Lorenz Attractor.

3 fairly diverse takes on acid techno, the A side sounding like a slightly more sophisticated early Liberator track, getting increasingly driving and mechanical on the flip.

a Inter Sect (8:23)
b1 Tentacle (3:41)
b2 Flytrap (6:13)

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Sunday 12 October 2008

UHT/Saoulaterre - Ultra Annoying Rec Vol 3

Cavage figureheads go for a loosely Koney-esque outing on this Progerik sublabel. Lots of layered and ring-modulated kickdrums, slightly fragmented rhythms and and the occasional surreal hook thrown in for good measure. Thanks again to Helicopterface, who has now almost put as much into this blog as I have. I need to get the finger out....

All tracks Untitled.

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Tuesday 7 October 2008

Eradicator - Agitprop (Fischkopf 014)

Ripped out of absolute necessity, seeing as the only other rip doing the rounds is inexplicably overdriven and, even less explicably, on 45rpm. My copy isn't in the best condition but my turntable does have a 33 button, so I guess I win this one.

This is from 1996, by the obscenely prolific and diverse Patric Krämer, AKA E-De Cologne, Test Tube Kid, EC8OR, and about 15 other alaises and collaborations. The whole proverbial gamut is run from guitar driven speedcore(including the blatant Lard rip), sinister soundscapes, never-ending ear piercing squeals and the occasional stock gabber synth, old TV/film sample, and silly little bleeps. Pretty much everything you'd expect from mid-90s Krämer all in one, all smeared over with a(sometimes extremely)lo-fi finish. Some lovely Gilbert & George rip-off artwork too, of which you can only see one side of on discogs, but I could have a scanner soon to do the rest.

PS: Track D4 co-produced by DIN.
PPS: Typo on Track C2 is as is on the sleeve.

A1 Used Against Us Remix (5:22)
A2 Distorted (7:48)
A3 Agitprop Troop (2:29)
B1 Enter Three Witches (7:08)
B2 Impulse To Destroy (8:58)
C1 Split Wide Open (4:00)
C2 You're Lieing Pig (5:00)
C3 Worringen (5:42)
D1 Fucking Bitch Called Walker (4:22)
D2 Forkboy (3:04)
D3 Widerstand (2:52)
D4 Thou Shall Kill (3:39)

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Sunday 5 October 2008

Electric Noise Twist - The Electric Noise Twist (Vision 23)

Shrill and bass-heavy industrial/jazz from Markus Kneubühler and Alex Buess(both of 16-17, the latter also of God, Ice and Phantom City), and also a young Christoph Fringeli. The following words are pilfered from this EST review archive:

"For me at least, this label helps to define a new genre. This album, recorded in 1989 by a trio consisting of label supremos Christoph Fringeli and Alex Buess, along with Markus Knuhbühler, marks an angular collision of jazz, rock and hardbeat music, if such a thing can be imagined. If industrial jazz didn't exist before, then it does now! Heart-pumping drumbeats underlie fuzzy blares of noise, mixing influences from rock bass through to screaming jazz sax. The best moment comes with Who the fuck are you and what are you doing in my image track? which mixes the noise, drums and almost John Zorn-styled sax very well. Some of the other tracks either lack a powerful enough or fast enough beat to really shift things along, or suffer from the general shapelessness that plagues a lot of improvised jazz. The idea's a great one: blaring sax and/or clarinet across a powerful boombeat sounds great, but this album really only has the noise without the get-up-and-go to propel it forward quickly enough. Interesting stuff which is worth a listen, even if it doesn't quite reach the target it seems to have set itself. ENT are hoping to start playing live extensively this year."

Cheers to Helicopterface again.

A1 My Trigger Fingers Itching
A2 Who The Fuck Are You And What Are You Doing In My Image Track
A3 Slaughter
A4 Choose Alienation
A5 C.A.Dub
B1 Media Assassin
B2 Twisted Hubbub N Din
B3 Synchronise Your Castor Oil Will You?
B4 Tell Laura I Love My Blue Heaven
B5 Time To Squeeze Out The Welchers

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