Been holding off adding to this thread because 'dark' material like this is really not my wheelhouse...but then 'Satan Place' got mentioned so I'm going for it.
I suppose I'm more interested in stuff that takes the form of audio curiosity, sound art or - as CMSFoundation once said to me - 'the inscrutable art object'. The stuff I'll contribute to the conversation is only related to industrial and noise by a thin set of cultural relations but hopefully it'll be of some interest.
Right off the bat I'll recommend this album recently put out by Paradigm Discs.
https://captain-maurice-seddon.bandcamp.com/releasesThis is an LP of (mostly) phone calls and a few 'pottering about the house' recordings from the now deceased
Captain Maurice Seddon. Exactly who this guy was and what he did is a long and varied story but essentially this is a peek into the world of a true, old English eccentric. The recordings are all taken from cassettes that one of his friends collected from the floor of his house after he died. Apparently, being an old army signals guy with a serious aptitude for old electronics and machinery, Seddon modified his phone to operate like a 2 way radio, meaning people could only hear/speak in accordance with when he pushed a button to allow the signals through. The recordings are all incredibly funny and charming as he speaks in such proper, formal tonalities while trying to arrange a dentist appointment or have a conversation with his long suffering sister, slipping in and out of german and english. I don't know if there will be something lost in translation for those who aren't from or near England and kinda grown up with figures like this on the peripheries of tv and radio, but there is something very engaging about it in my opinion. Since the label has released work by Daphne Oram, Burroughs, Adam Bohman, Trevor Wishart and more you definitely feel like this is being presented as a kind of ready made, audio art document.
Speaking of which,
Adam Bohman's stuff definitely belongs in here too. Of course you get lots of junk/broken instrument scraping improv on his records which is absolutely one of the key things he does and is known for but also there is a ton of ephemeral stuff in there from oddball domestic recordings, voice/spoken word experiments and most importantly his cassette postcards/diaries. All of his albums - at least the ones on Paradigm Discs - come from him turning over a load of cassettes to the label and Clive picking the best parts. I don't really think Bohman himself has any real interest or ear for making 'records' in that sense. His cassettes are definitely things that must be heard and I know there are some floating about online..maybe on that SONM archive if it still exists...which are him just documenting his day trips out. I've seen him break away from groups in person and make these things in real time which is a great thing to witness. This one from Vitrine is a good indicator:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7K-BTjWYi8 EDIT - Fucking hell, I'd never listened to this before but I realise he's talking about a gig I played at in this as I recognise the story and assume I'm the 'other person from Brighton playing solo'. How nice.
Moving on, one of my absolute favourite things is when a band or artist known at least in part for making 'music' of some sort manage to get away with putting out whole releases of entirely found/non musical sound as legit parts of the catalogue. Does it get ANY better than the mighty
Gerogerigegege for this? It's a really obvious thing to contribute here...most will be familiar with the pop music, gay porn sound track and just plain old jerking off/shitting recordings...but I find this contribution to the Yellow Power Scum compilation to be the best example of their true genius in this regard: audio from some TV show talking about the band with what is obviously a clip of them playing somewhere in the middle. Best compilation track EVER.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xHwOEKL370Not something I actually have myself or ever really cared about getting/listening to properly but
Adrian Rew's LP on Hanson of slot machine field recordings is a great concept:
https://soundcloud.com/hansonrecords/a1-01-3-31-2013-horseshoe-casino-cleveland-ohI can't be fucked digging it up properly but the LP of RRRon, Mikko, Pete from Second Layer and whoever else inside their record stores was a master stroke and I was so glad when I finally just said 'fuck it' and bought the thing.
There are loads of things I'm definitely forgetting which I'll add later if I remember
