Author & Punisher – Women & Children CD
Seventh Rule
Tristan Shone returns for the next installment of his epic industrial metal project Author & Punisher with Women & Children. I have been following his works for a few years now and fully appreciate the eclectic mix of doom, electronica, and industrial elements that Shone brings to the table. One of my favorite releases of the project has always been The Painted Army and although I certainly love his other work I always have thought that Shone had a certain propensity for …
Kine – Meditations in April Green CD
Alrealon Music
Kine is an interesting group of experimental musicians that was formed in April of 2012 during Vietnamese artist Dao Anh Khanh’s visit to New York City where they recorded the ‘Meditations in April Green’ release. Two of the members of the group are also in Pas Musique who I’ve previously reviewed.
The album kicks off with 2 long tracks the first Meditation 1 clocking in over 15 minutes. Given that every track on here is named Meditation x it makes sense that the general …
Freddy Ruppert – Hangs a Shadow C70
NNA Tapes
So it is that this is the first release from NNA Tapes to have graced my review pile! And what a pleasure it is. Freddy Rupert – an artist with whom I am unfamiliar – creates what I would consider just about the most pure version of sound collage or musique concrete I’ve heard since Pierre Schaeffer.
Throughout this tape it feels like there is very minimal processing and mostly just layering and editing of different sounds. I do hear possibly some tape manipulation …
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Bitchneck is a no-holds-barred power electronics unit from Boston representing the MA/PE/FU mentality. The project has released a few DIY cassettes on his own but this is first proper label release and hell hath come with fury. Twenty minutes of harsh noise and power electronics with lucid moments of experimental industrial.
Short and to the point No Power will not let down fans of American PE.
Perfume
Mere Ceremony [ Full Track ]
Even Worse Than the Last Time
Fevers & Carwrecks
Strictly limited to 50 copies.
Professionally duplicated cassettes.
Full-color 4 panel j-cards with collage art by …