2 new vinyl releases out today!
TESTICLE HAZARD - Fifty-Sixty LP
The long-lost psychedelic album from the Incapacitants of the North! On Friday the 13th, 2009, Lasse Marhaug and Tommi Keränen had an extremely productive day at a real-deal high-end studio in Helsinki, recording a 7" (Het Potati - released on A Dear Girl Called Wendy), a CD (Python In The Bowl - released on Freak Animal) and an LP (Fifty-Sixty - this one). An unnamed and now defunct Finnish label planned to release it shortly after its inception, but the label folded and the album was shelved for nearly 10 years until WCN befriended the band and learned of the unreleased tome, upon which it was obvious it needed to be revived and released!
For those who might for some reason be unfamiliar with the sound of Testicle Hazard, the above mentioned nod to the Incapacitants is an inevitable starting point, but really what you have is two of the most singular and talented solo noise artists truly playing together, creating an incredibly high energy storm of harsh and dense noise live in the studio. Of course jagged sheets of distorted electronics and ripping feedback are the base ingredients, but the specific sounds these brothers utilize within that recipe are so idiosyncratic that you really have never heard a record like this before. Their instinct for live noise is uncanny: each side of the LP begins with the warming up of the machines, searching for the sweet spot, but after about 30 seconds, they're soaring on such an ecstatic wave that I end up swaying around wavy gravy style for the duration of each side every time, no matter how hard I try not to. This record is definitely not the sound of 2020.
"It's not OLD SCHOOL noise, it's OLD NOISE" - Lasse
"I see this as some kind of a personal epitome of how the perception of time has changed (time flies, years go by almost without a notice), but on the other hand, I also think the music sounds like something we could have recorded last week." - Tommi
Edition of 300 copies pressed to yellow vinyl with light green marble, in high gloss sleeve and black disco bag.
Cover art painted by Arsi Keva.
PARANOID TIME - Lip Rippers 7"
10 years ago, I started White Centipede Noise in Minneapolis, Minnesota with a short list of artists I dearly wanted to work with, PARANOID TIME being at the top. I approached him about a 7" and within that first year, he delivered a beastly master. I, for some reason, flaked and carried on with my life for the next 10 years as the dickweed who flaked on the Paranoid Time 7".
I unearthed the master in 2020 while cleaning house, put it on the stereo and had my wig pushed fully back. Side A is the brashest imaginable no-frills in-your-face junk-metal abuse, spanning from wild high-end scraping to bowel-rattling lows, most certainly made with a rusty machete. Side B is a harsh knuckle-dragging drone, staring you down like "I WISH YOU WOULD," complete with a fake out "2 FOR FLINCHING" ending. Classic midwest tough guy shit.
I am literally humbled to be bringing this 7" out 10 years late, on the 10 year anniversary of WCN. Pat has been a noise hero of mine since day one, so this one really means a lot to me. This is WCN006.
Limited to 100 hand numbered copies, in card-stock sleeves with photo prints.
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