AUSTRALIA - Industrial / noise

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morbid_dyspepsia


no_baizuo_allowed

#91
Defektro's label & company, Lastgasp Art Laboratories, has not yet been mentioned. He's been selling his homemade electronics out of Sydney for a good long while now. There's a huge Defektro discography to wade through, and I am by no means done. Originating in Japan, his focus for at least the last 2 decades has been on producing a machinistic version of noise. One could name something such as Vivenza as a starting point for this sort of approach.

-The only release I physically own is the Hard Luck Heart 7". It goes for almost offensively cheap prices nowadays, despite a limited pressing of only 200 copies over a decade ago - but I will treasure my copy all the same. I might buy up all spare copies on the market and hoard them for ever... Beyond the excellent tracks (Industrial March / Survive / Sakura / Hard Luck Heart) there's some unintended eccentricities that really make it quite priceless... Logo is stylized as "Defektro Noise Army" (sign me up!) and there's a motorbike picture on the centre label, like some hooligan antisocial bōsōzoku bootboy.

-At the top of my most-wanted list is his first tape "Noise Bomb" from '98 (released in JPN.), with a J-card cover resembling a time bomb, track titles such as Sine Attack / Percussion Cap / Sabulite, and a cassette with a built-in flash LED, with a switch in the case to turn on the light. Clearly a faithful adherent to the original idea of industrial noise as warfare. One of the greats!

Some other favourite tracks:
-"Euthanasia" on Steinklang Ind. "Japanoise of Death" V/A compilation. Loop-based.
-"Tone Climber" on the Sklo/Slovak split. Self-explanatory.
-"Pressure Gauge" on the Fear Konstruktor split tape.
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no_baizuo_allowed

#92
Quote from: morbid_dyspepsia on September 07, 2019, 11:07:11 AM
Here's the radio show with Pat O'Brien and Luke Holland:
https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/o-tomorrow/episodes/8856-o-tomorrow-28-august-2019

Just noticed that the disk jockey at 3RRR played an Armour Group track, "Cruel", in the middle of the night. This track doesn't appear to have ever had a release. Very cool that it has only been aired publicly on this one occasion - I don't remember what it sounded like but I probably would have been listening in at the time.
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no_baizuo_allowed

#93
Shout out to Overuse for their constant stream of fine quality imports.

It's hard to pick a favourite release from the Tasmanian camp, their noise tapes are always so low-profile and don't receive anywhere near the same exposure as their bands do. I hope the Isolationist – Boot Worship CS gets uploaded to YouTube someday... *hint hint*
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no_baizuo_allowed

#94
CAVEMAN NOISE #5
Well not quite from here but close enough so I'll mention it. 2 countries, 1 Tasman. Is there really any thing separating the two lands apart?
I heard the editor works behind the counter at a smoke/vape shop... An environment truly befitting of a fanzine like this one...
I actually use this as a resource to look stuff up - that's how you know a rag is actually valuable in this day and age. It's worth holding onto so I don't forget half the stuff mentioned. The curation of items reviewed, and featured interviews, has a great consistency. The editor only really goes for demo tapes and items traded, rather then over-hyped pro-pressed releases. What can I say, it's just cool to get a photocopied fanzine from NZ that extolls the supremacy of a lathe cut from Macedonia (Fuck Yoga). Also got plenty of Atrocity Altar, Expansion Abyss, Manifest of Hate Creations, etc. with an unhealthy dose of filthy noise and p.e. thrown in... This man has his finger on the pulse of alot of what's happening, and he goes at covering it with a great obsessive enthusiasm. Definitely one I'll hold onto, just because the editor's zeal for all things underground makes it all stick together in a really unique manner that would look totally incoherent in the hands of anyone else but ed. Hairy Palm
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no_baizuo_allowed

#95
The EBOLA DISCO / SCRUBBER – SPLIT 7" of late last year is really impressive. Is this a return to their beloved EMS AKS? The A-side's cut has some of the hallmarks from the Flies for Friends 12" in many ways. Basically, from the discography currently extant, there exists two sides to Ebola Disco: the live documents and the studio recordings. First thing I ever heard by them was the "Live in Preston" track on V/A - SCVM comp ca.2009... Has it really been over 10 years since that came out? Wow. Apart from a penchant for revisiting the classics, the studio recordings seem to have their own flavour. Rough and tumble approach, Just plug in and see what happens (Or, "turn on the oscillators and make certain patterns" was the description made in an interview videotaped and put on YouTube). Who else recalls "Flies for friends"? A superb and jarring start up that spreads out into a great immersive blizzard. I always thought it was great that Tesco chose to press that over anything more refined or polished... The sporadic L / R channel panning as first enjoyed on the 12" now makes a return on this 7". Total rush of knob twisting.
Once self-styled as 'feral lycanthropic disco', I also dig that this band have insisted on their own definition of being Power Electronics, throughout their many years operating as a unit.
Not sure what one can grasp from this interview other than a desire to be unpretentious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbVmHtliZ9Q oh, and of course a desire to put the POWER back in power electronics.
New lathe is a prime cut of their studio fuckery. And great to see a release in honour of the humble gas station. It has been a good year and this surely tops it off.
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Electro Surgeon

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AUSTRALIAN NOISE AND PUNK

nezalezhnye

Sharing this very based Isomer quote from 20 YEARS AGO:
Quote"Of all the peoples of the Balkans and of Europe at large since WW2, I don't think any have been demonised and ostracised to the extent the Serbs have, largely as a result of the work of public relations firms, the rivers of shit that came from the US and NATO, and the complicity and involvement of the Western media. So much of what filtered through to us was and still is tainted, and 'Star of Sarajevo' is a personal response to that."

no_baizuo_allowed

This looks like a doozy

https://www.asrarlabel.net/shop/asrar-releases/asr316-leather-temple-aus-leather-temple-lp-html

QuoteASR316 Leather Temple (AUS) – Leather Temple LP

Debut full-length of this side project of MN (Carved Cross, Blackline, etc..).

Old School Noise Industrial for real connoisseurs.

Co-released with Overuse (Australia). Limited to 100 copies.
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Thermophile


FallOfNature

Quote from: nezalezhnye on April 16, 2022, 10:09:11 PM
Sharing this very based Isomer quote from 20 YEARS AGO:
Quote"Of all the peoples of the Balkans and of Europe at large since WW2, I don't think any have been demonised and ostracised to the extent the Serbs have, largely as a result of the work of public relations firms, the rivers of shit that came from the US and NATO, and the complicity and involvement of the Western media. So much of what filtered through to us was and still is tainted, and 'Star of Sarajevo' is a personal response to that."


This prompted me to revisit Isomer's Nil By Mouth EP, which is probably my favourite release of Dave's but I don't see it spoken about near as much as the Tesco releases.

Plenty on discogs for a good price. Recommended!

morbid_dyspepsia

Ice Age Productions latest compilation ft. 50+ Aus & NZ noise, industrial, experimental, outsider and psychedelic artists:

https://iceageproductions.bandcamp.com/album/the-final-transmission

Andrew McIntosh

A couple of interesting recent discoveries. For mine, Mesh's "Machine Dominate" sounds very much the essence of first wave Industrial, what with its use of primitive drum machine, samples and raw electronics (I'd agree somewhat with the comparison to Etat Brut), while Negative Reaction seems much more Throbbing Gristle inspired (very much "Hamburger Lady"/"Very Friendly"), with the final track, with its somewhat bluesy bass line and stream-of-consciousness spoken word is almost an accidental beat poetry piece.

Mesh - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqfnHSoNcqc

Negative Reaction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lOGQamBKgI
Shikata ga nai.

Theodore

Speaking for oldies from Australia : Proclamation Plague . Who can resist this beauty ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts87FOLKNDU .
QuoteSources: Environmental, voice, loop, speed, feedback, amplification. No Synthesizers were used in the recording.

His Bandcamp page https://proclamationplague.bandcamp.com/album/music has a couple more old + some new. Discogs lists many more from the 80s. Who knows what diamonds are in there. I envy the guy who bought some of these tapes on good price some years ago. - He also has a FB page, and an email there. Just saying ...
"ἀθάνατοι θνητοί, θνητοὶ ἀθάνατοι, ζῶντες τὸν ἐκείνων θάνατον, τὸν δὲ ἐκείνων βίον τεθνεῶτες"

Aldous

Quote from: Andrew McIntosh on June 19, 2023, 12:44:21 PM
A couple of interesting recent discoveries. For mine, Mesh's "Machine Dominate" sounds very much the essence of first wave Industrial, what with its use of primitive drum machine, samples and raw electronics (I'd agree somewhat with the comparison to Etat Brut), while Negative Reaction seems much more Throbbing Gristle inspired (very much "Hamburger Lady"/"Very Friendly"), with the final track, with its somewhat bluesy bass line and stream-of-consciousness spoken word is almost an accidental beat poetry piece.

Mesh - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqfnHSoNcqc

Negative Reaction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lOGQamBKgI

Both of these are great! I especially enjoyed Negative Reaction! Awesome stuff and the final track wraps it up perfectly!