a few words for the beginning and ending of all: i really dunno why it took so long (maybe it will take even longer...). i was mostly totally demotivated and struggling with the dragons and demons of daily life. also struggling with different realities and some non-realities. well, life is hard sometimes and it was and still is a fukken strange period in this shitty existence of my entity. often i was really frustrated that i could not really get my shit together, i even did not bother to answer the mail after a while, becuz there was not much to write about a frustrated, depressed and totally fucked-up life. and there is still not much to write about it, and that is a good thing in some way. so, i try to get this fucker out by asap(or maybe next month) but it will be done if the brown-yellowish dragon with green leather-suit does not come around and wants to crush my skull...

some of the stuff is not available anymore, some of the stuff maybe never existed, is out of print, got lost in the last hurricane, was devoured by fred the lunatic bull-terrier, in other words, also some addresses are out of date and the persons maybe moved to other cities and finally started to have a decent lifestyle with house, family, car and cats. so, don't blame me. try to contact. but don't be disappointed if there is no answer. i hope next gecko will be way more faster and really really heavily up-dated. but normally i lack the time for such peanuts. ah, yes send me peanuts.... next gecko won't be delayed i hope, but (daily)life(routine) is such an energy-consuming bastard, so you never know...

Tapes are ruining my ears and financial situation

Urb Sound Systems (distributed by: virus distribution, Martina Kedrova, Nam. Snp 35, 81100 Bratislava, Slovakia - witchmak@centrum.cz) is a 3-way noise/experimental split between Exurbia, Urbanfailure (http://urbanfailure.szm.sk/) and Urbanox. Very interesting experimental music that might expand your mind. From silent noise to breakbeat hectic you get the whole range. Also available as CDr and you can order it from Gecko-address too.
Bruce Atchison (PoBox 188, Radway, AB, T0A 2V0, Canada - ve6xtc@telusplanet.net - http://gideon.www2.50megs.com/) has now moved and all his stuff is still available on tape and CDr, but he has not created any new electronic music lately.
Maika Records (c/o Mbf, Postfach 2708, 8021 Zürich, Switzerlanth - nora.duester@gmx.net) have a nice little compilationtape available with nice bands, that appeared in some way on a maika-release: los tres lulus, zfk, die ministranten, hook, marsvenus konfusion, ado, kleingebäck, custom drummer, third world planet, end this scene, c+r, alien influence, monoblock b and nebulus. trash-pop and more, also available from gecko-address itself.
Social Insecurity (social.insecurity@amserve.net) "futureless world demo" 5 sonx in the vein of classic discharge-style with maybe a bit more metallic and upspeeded approach, but pretty easy change of chorus/ verse and stuff. Straight-forward music about all the anti-authoritarian shit and discomfort.
ClipUnzine (Zoran Jankovic RAX, Titogradska 52, 36000 Kraljevo, Yugoslavia - izrodi@ptt.yu) has a very strange tapecomp. to offer, to say the least: pagan future, b.b.f., cfs, pamba, histerezis mozga, no choice!, mmc, karmakumulator-chaos absorber, minuti ludila, random groups, sloseri il' necu da slusam and anhepi wednzdejsz! experimental, noise and industrial till electro/grind.
Age of simulation: (istari@sozialistischer-plattenbau.org - http://sozialistischer-plattenbau.org/index2.html) don't know why, i fukken like this tape! 4 sonx of sampled dub, breakbeat and maybe jungle? i don't care about the different styles, short and intense, at least 3 sonx. lowFi super HiNoise. #  yppasswdd daemons "beta version 0.6.2", bizarre pop electronic tune, this is a c-46 tape. resellers: 2.50 EUR / customers: 4 EUR
NNY (fuck the bastards rec., pobox 97104, 08080 barcelona, x-pain) "don't happy be worry": tape release of the great vinyl release of this unfortunately defunct band that played some mixture of hectic headache and grindy third world planet (no wonder..), good for us that they had an excellent drummer with unique style (hooray for marylise). music for the stressed-out hyperactive lunatics out there. at some stages pretty free-jazz approach with a good sense of twisted humor. if there is a must, then this is a must-have.
It lies within (pobox 23045, athens, 11210 greece) "surrounded by evil, low on gas": really cool no-wave band from the ancient world of civilisation. starts with some sombre tunes that remind me a bit of cocteau twins, then next a song reminding me a bit day by day/ lost world. inspiring music with female vocals and preserving the feeling of really cool bands from the 80ies. pretty rocking stuff at some stages. imagine joy division with female vocals played with punk approach mixed with indie driving rock from the late 90ies. curious to hear more stuff by this band.
KGB "Big brother is here tape" 15 trax, 44 mins. of music free forms, hc, grind, electro, techno-acid, breakbeat, experimental, 6 trax with lyrics. 3$ or trade into electro/ experimental/ grindcore (no gore!) from: KGB-NK, Amfissis 5, 26331, Patras, Greece.
Scrotum Records (Björn Liebmann, Postfach 510118, 09044 Chemnitz, Germany) is another tapelabel that puts lot of energy and spirit in his releases. Noiseoverdose vol. 1 with Reynols, Antenna 59, Expose your Eyes, Neandertal, Chink, Angelica Rosenthal, Kadef, Deison, Ames Sanglantes, The Violet Grind, HumanExtermination Project, Daruin, Arktos, Hermit, Il Mestruo delle puttane, Tender Love, Mizuko, Raise Hell. From the mixture most of the projects are enough interesting, especially because not everything is harsh, you also get more relaxed antimusick. # Jalopaz/ Group B "Red Green Earth" is a pretty relaxed collaboration with violin, electronics and other bits of trippy shit, creates a pretty avantguardesque mood. Nice to look at although it is sparse layout and nice to listen to without being superficial. # Although Björn was totally satisfied with this recordings and proudly told me that he did nothing so heavy and coherent like this before I must say that I preferred the Raise Hell vs. Alien Audio split tape to the Kummieband & glebstoff fullength, especially because i am not really into harsh sounds at all, must say that i am losing the patience after a couple of seconds if it is not really totally extreme and sick, so sorry Björn, K&G has a really nice name but an average soundtrack, but Raise Hell despite of the blackmetalname is way more interesting especially becuz it is not predictable what is going to happen in the next moment and also becuz it is softer in sounds, and Alien Audio has some great moments too. Get in contact with this dedicated guy and ask about the huge list. # hermit "live in slovenia '99" c90 - good dose of canadian humor and feedbacking pulsating noisewalls corroded by painfull screams, might resemble a bit to some bastard noise to give you a slight direction, but extended version, slowly progressing with occasional noise-bursts. on the b-side there's a collaboration with the slovenian noisecore-posing act mastikator. nice and nifty bag possibly made out of an airbed, limited to 46. # speaking of limited edition, björn gave me personally a 4-way split with kadef, kummieband & glebstoff, use your pain and napalmed. Surely sold out and you missed the package with wallpaper and the cool projects with cult-status. # again a very cool release on scrotum: the nautilus deconstruction vs. militiact “vernunft und tragödie” dealing with the heavy topic of suicide. Consists in wailing screams and painfull moods, but creating a pretty intimate atmosphere. Comes with german explanations and thoughts, a tape that you cannot play and wrapped in a nice trashbag-recycling-bit-art. Limited to 20 but it should be available in larger quantities to tell the truth outside, eh he! * received also another tape: "tapes have more personality" with fuck the fact, the nautilus deconstruction, a.s.d., error, soviet subliminal seduction, maximal, humanextermination project, lim. to 21. and with some bits of destroyed CD i guess. although it was also open to other styles most of projects play a wide range of mean industrial-grind to experimental soundscapes. nice little booklet and nice projects to contact.
Debila Records (Nejc Pockar, Kregarjeva 1, 8250 Brezice, Slovenia) has a short tape full of Ames Sanglantes/ Sist En 343: AS makes a weird cut-up noise harsh collage with lot of changes in sound and some screams distorted and voice feedbacks. Short attack also from Sist En 343 with pulsating industrial machinery feedback orgy.
Red Neon Tapes (Patrick Parent, 66 Avenue Albert Elisabeth, 1400 Nivelles, Belgium - redneon@kynet.be) the moth "pummel box", a guy talking and singing partly out-of-tune non/sense and banal texts to reduced maybe casio or homeorgan sounds and bossa nova and other nice drum patterns. it has a simple beauty and freshness. 90 mins. of music that exists without much of effects and technical help apart from basic stuff.
Parkinson/ Aghast (Broken Noise, c/o Jimbo, 12 JLN Lembah 24, TMN Desa Jaya, 81100 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malysia - brokenvision@hotmail.com or All System Fail, c/o Izumi Kubo, 35, Sannaicho, Sennyuji, Higashiymaku, Kyoto, 605-0977, Japan - hatethem@stones.com) sometimes really kick ass with their grindy crust, but i simply did not know what was going on most of the time, there were some lyrics written down that never fitted to what was sung, so i was confused all the time.
Breathless (Anak Liar Rec., c/o Mat, 12 JLN Tasek 25, Bandar Seri Alam, 81750 Masai Johor, Malaysia - anakliar@yahoo.com) a re-released Hcpunkcomp. from asian bands and that is the only interesting aspect of it. Despite of the line-ups of the bands there is not much information, no contacts (I think most of the bands don't exist anymore!) and especially no lyrics. Looks professional but in the end it is a bit boring.
Negative Trip (Purple Tree rec. Seestrasse 148, 8820 Wädenswil, Switzerlanth) "EU". Strange mixture of some loops and hip-hop grooves, sometimes dance-music orientated electronica, but mostly a soundtrack for the daily horror in your head. The tape version is much better than the CDr in presentation. # suburban skulls "tenebre 491" (rim3@bluewin.ch) great groovy slow hiphopstyle mix of samples and nice patterns, soundscapes and voices. if you use a sample from the trumpet melody in fellinis' picture "la strada", you must be on the winners' side. i use it often when i am remixing and recycling contemporary music when i need an interesting chilled-out background.
Third World Planet/ Ultra Vires (distributed by: TKA, PoBox 158, 34-400 Nowy Targ, Poland) originally released by BreakEven, while TWP have way more power with their nihilist grind-noize attack, Ultra Virus are more unprecise and chaotic with their @-punk. Nice presentation of the lyrics also in polish, so you know where to take polish language lessons now.
Oranges (Un)musik (Arkadiy Lepehin, Molodezhnaya 1-5, Gusev, Kaliningrad, 238030 Russia) is Green's small tapelabel, a guy who is also into mailart and travelling. Followers "Neverfly" is okay melodic punk-rock, but nothing really special, you can sing along to their tunes. I did like the H End "Whitetape" more: guitars, effects, tapes and an all in all psychedelic soundscape.
Owl Rec. (Jason Vizmanos, 2555 W Catalpa Ave. Apt#212, Chicago IL, 60625, USA) has out the Death by Noise comp. c-90 with: Ehi, Grub, Praying for Oblivion, Herk, f2rc, Outermost, Ja, Wendy y los huevos Rancheros, Sonic Disorder, Insomnia, Neandertal, Satan's God, Zombie Dead, KGB, Noise Migranaaa, and it lies within. $2(US)/$3 (w) or trade. In the meanwhile (well, during a year I guess...) Jason has been really active releasing stuff and most possibly is still interetsted to do splits and compilations, so send your stuff and ask him directly what is going on. At the moment I have a couple of tapes by Insomnia here: Insomnia "Mental Combat" (early noise-collages), Insomnia "Poisoning thyself", Insomnia/ Praying for Oblivion collaboration and the Insomnia/ Neue Migrene split. Most of the stuff is pretty varied I think Jason uses lots of different soundscapes and keeps up intensity sometimes. Also available are some tapes by Jason's project Insomnia and a split with Herk. "Birds of Prey" is a really good experimental/ industrial and even a bit electronic sampler with really good projects like Sikhara, Stream Angel, Fosc, KGB, Ehi and many more. Unfortunately you just get the tracklist and contact list, so it is not so informative at all, but you can write to the projects at least...
Arbeit macht Fleisch (Timo Oertelt, Buttmannnstrasse 14, 13357Berlin, Germany) released the Bonehouse/ G.F.P.M. split: Bonehouse play nice metallic hardcore and that's it. GFPM are way more aggressive with their mean grind, but i did not really like their lyrics (pretty average for this genre!), don't see a purpose to sing about dildos and sodom and gommorrha, just watch a porno flick and shut the fuck up!!
Anti Everything (22 Mallory #1, Hampton VA, 23663, USA - http://www.ratward.com - http://www.thenofi.com ) sent me lot of stuff years ago and most of the stuff is not available anymore, the items were: A sonic Deterrent/ Monobrain splittape; The Violet Grind/ A Sonic Deterrent split, Noise Conglomerate Vol. 1 comp. (very very good) ; A Sonic Deterrent/ Prurient and some CD and vinyl. Most of the stuff that is available at the moment in limited quantities is released as CDr. So get in contact and ask: existnoise@aol.com.
cold-coffein-addict, (c-c-a/Jörn pf 100623, 07706 Jena, Germany - http://www.neufnoir.purespace.de/cca.html ) is a very active and interesting tapelabel with lot of tapes available: human kind of shit/ the nautilus deconstruction c60: both soundartists really kick ass, but nautilus deconstruction is really topping the shit with a really outrageous and genious cutup-collage of concrete and feedback noise, eastgerman cheasy singer-songwriterballads and many millions of miracles more. a must have. not only becuz i said so. the cover is artifact too. # Böswillige Programmieranweisung: 60 mins. Of endlessly repeated loops, pretty noisy and not really annoying, but hellish monotonous and like the name (translation something like: mean program command?) suggests there is a threatening alien intelligence lurking somewhere in the background. Nothing really special, but still worth a listen or two. # Tremor "Kuscheln" distorted and extremely modulated maybe drum/basspatterns as source or something, slowly but steadily changing. Musick in order to switch off the time axis. Maybe also without much intention except from experimentation? # "Don't forget and don't forgive" Antifascist compilation, many (anti-)music-styles. Seperate DIN-A5-booklet. Contributions by: AleXdee, Antenna 59, C14Methode, Decimation of authority, Flagsmasher, God only word, N. D. Collapse, Nail, Nave, Oropax, Taxi Driver 666, Verge on reason, XotoX, Zonenkiner # "Don't forget and don't forgive pt.2" this time with more projects that really make a statement against fascism: Antifascist comp. feat. electronic stuff only. Seperate DIN-A5-booklet. Contributions by: Ashtar-DXD, C14-Methode, Completely fucked up society, Diazo, Human kind of shit, Insomnia, Jan AG, KGB, L.O.D., Napalmed, The Nautilus Deconstruction, Outermost, SKLO, Sabatto, The compat floppy project, Tremor, Verkocht, Violent Disorder, Wolfsthroat, XotoX, Zweifel # Ashtar-DXD "hetzjagd" C-60 Brutal break-/speed-/hard-/industrial-core from Wartha. No stupid Gabba! Includes voice samples & "real" vocals. Co-release w/ hArt?de.FAKEte & Riot rules Rec. # Sabatto "Hipertension" C60 - Industrialized/Technoized experimental from Ecuador. Booklet-design by CCA.Lim. Edition w/ colour-cover. # Takeshi Sakamoto "works for percussion" c90: sideproject of wolfthroat from dresden, maybe using effect-processed extreme-reverb contactmiked metalplates, cymbals and bells plus classical music as basistrack.partially great unstructured noisebursts with short pauses of stoic silence, symphonic japnoise? pretty diverse and interesting stuff, above average, sounds sometimes like distorted gamelan music. # fear of myself/ zweifel: andy of xotox/neufNoir fame is behind this sombre dark electro project. a bit of monk-chanting, driving beats and a gothic touch of sounds. good that cool guys like an/dy do such nice and unpretentious electronic music that is fun to listen to. some of the stuff is noisy industrial like, so you get a wide range of sounds. zweifel is way more unaccessible with dark& delayed soundscapes using metalplates, scrap and mainly echoed percussion & minidisc sample-loops. patrick calls it emonoize and is a very political and caring guy, although you find in his booklet slogans like "for the destruction of civilization". booklet consists of recycled already used xeroxcopy waste paper, so this is a step closer to earth liberation (still misanthropic though..)
humankind of shit/ nautilus deconstruction collab. part 2 c60: this is heavy and not so funny really. industrial sludge meets delayed and desorientated melancholic guitars. hard to characterize but surely nice if you listen to it in your tiny cottage, if you're sitting on your fake polarbear fur carpet sipping a cup of hot chocolate. i would say desire or even longing comes close to it. from: bert sergon, friedenstrasse 77a, 02959 schleife or micha barthel, esplanade 30a, 13187 berlin, germanie.
"audible kode" (http://www.phantomtourist.com ) is a very nice tape full of short samples of different files that have been played like they were soundfiles. this surely is a good source for noisy and really strange samples, if you want to enhance your boring average synthsoundtrax. johan berghaus is the master behind this jewel and side b consists of 4 sonx composed with the material from the a-side. a journey into unknown fields of digital sounds, mastered on computer and put out on tape, so this is DDA quality. ask for more: berghaus@phantomtourist.com
The Finkles (Wheelchair Records, Raatteentie 30, 90140 Oulu, Finland wc_r@hotmail.com - http://www.angelfire.com/co/wcr/index.html) "Non-Stop Nutcrackers": these 2 finnish guys improvise some heavy rock shit totally instrumental, i bet they surely have lotsa fun with it and that they're not 100% totally serious about it and about themselves. it's pretty fresh and somehow they surely have some really good stuff to start from making up really cool sonx, i missed a drunken singer who is singing about taking a shit or going to work totally drunk.
recordings for the summer (m. barthel, esplanade 30a, 13187 berlin, germ-any - nautilus_comets@hotmail.com ) is a very dedicated mainly tape-label (but soon also CDr) with high standard of aesthetics, both in package and also sounds. Released the "minlaura" short tape by [min]. six miniatures of minimal sounds created with analog synth and feedback. nihilist approach and wrapped in a yellow plasticbottle. limited. 11DM. soon: 5 haufen. fotoaktion & soundtrack, with 10 pictures of a body performance-action inmidst of 5 garbage-heaps and the soundtrack is done by well-known german project kadef. also planned: hermit "ashes of an ancient civilization" CDr, a re-release of the celebre second(?) hermit-tape as a benefit for animal right group(s). * "Kopf & Nagel" 2x 10min Tape Compilation with: human kind of shit, totstellen, kadef, the nautilus deconstruction, all sounds created by destroying different things. concrete sounds and collages. limited edition 19, big paper package with different "arty" paintings and collages. NEXT: Sudden Infant 3x10 min Tape Box, no "der geringe unterschied zwischen unterwegs-sein und weg-sein" CDr, Richard Ramirez CDr (brand-new-work!), A Sonic Detterent CDr, Dave Phillips Mini-CDr, Kadef Mini-CDr - The Nautilus Deconstruction releases: "vernunft & tragödie" C-20 split tape with "militiact", lofi-noise-collages from 1995 and small-sound-crying-action with theatralic touches. limited to 20 in trashy package (released by scrotum records); "körper. .flucht" C60 limited to 26 with photo-collage and pieces of broken glass. really loud depressive & morbid sounds. (released by the nautilus deconstruction); "spiel. ohne wissen davon" C30 new! limited edition 10 with much inserts and nice painted box. confused-depressiv-sounds.from low to loud. (released by the nautilus deconstruction); split tape with/ human kind of shit C60, unlimited edition in color cover much different collages. concrete and harsh ... h.k.o.s. is industrial-like noise! and much more to come and already done!
sparetime activities, c/o dead fly/ audiophil rec., pobox 4307, 6002 luzern, luzern, switzerlanth - zeroeightalpha@yahoo.com) The Man with the spiders in his room "Exoterist" is one of the most interesting tapes I got into electro experimental structured pop(?). So then it is also available from Gecko address. 3 Sfr. (CH)/ 4DM (e)/ 2$ (w) plus postage (another 2$?) # zea vs anni hilate "audiosnuff" c60: 6 mean and distorted soundtrax for your unhappy hours and weeks, antimusick for the post-nuclear generation without future and basically believe. it was recorded at "white.hell" so maybe this means something too. negativity combined with power played with synths, drummachine, effects and a good dose of hatred, or should i say misanthropic vision of world? # zea "today's dream ought to be tomorrow's reality" c45: 8 rhythmic and even danceable sonx for your misanthropic solitude-disco. you are the dj and the guests never showed up. kids who live in big cities listen to this if they have a cool undergroundrave. # zea cassette-single in the same vein, one song self-described as "crazy fucked-up slow-electro-psy-motion". 21 mins. of music that sorry neither got me bored nor made me excited, it just left me indifferent (wasn't bored or excited...) # z8a:"postcard fx"c60 - if you scan a bunch of received postcards and the musicsoftware you're using can play bitmapfiles and maybe you add some other shit and effects, then you might receive the similar result like the stuff here. astonishingly threatening music. makes you even forget about such things that there is a music-industry out there.#  contracreation/ z8a c45 "a closer look at mankind": what do you expect from such songtitles like "in hate i burn" or "noise to end the world"? i think there's not much more left to say, what reigns is the silence of death and nothingness. black holes sucking in all the sounds of the universe. no future and no present anymore and the past has never existed. nice package showing you bodyparts, mine had a diagram of arterias of the lower limbs.
nauze muzick (c/o Marcus Obst, Güterweg 89B, 09474 Crottendorf, Germany-http://www.nauzemuzick.net/ ) Das Rhythmische Ornament "vakuroom II" is a percussive and relaxed maybe improvised psychedelic trip into the regions of endless and timeless drones, headmovies and chillout activity.
Abnormal Tapes (Matjaz Galicic, Dragocajna 7A, 1216 Smlednik, Slovenija - http://www.astrozombie.net/abnormal ) traded lot of tapes with me and I am so lazy to give you a proper description and personal comments, so I let matjaz describe his own tapes: Mastikator (slovenia): demo 2000 - 1st »official« demo from this crazy noise-core unit w/drum-machine # Napalmed/Hermit w/Sist En 343 (czech/canada w/slovenia) splittape - great ambient-ind.-noise from everybody!! # Odal/Neandertal (netherlands/italy) split-tape - great noise & ambient!! # Sodn' Dan/Histerezis Mozga (slovenia/yugoslavia) split-tape - crust-punk/crazy HC-death; comes w/lyrix of S.D.!! # Âmes Sanglantes/ Einschlafhilfe (canada/germany) split-tape - good ind. noise from both! # Napalmed/ A Sonic Deterrent (czech/usa) split-tape - industrial- noise from both!! will damage your ears 100%! # Defecacion Purulenta (spain): With Love (The Best Ballads) tape - includes stuff from 2 split-tapes and 1 demo-tape!! total cuervo-core!! # Neue Migrene/ Sist En 343 (germany/slovenia) split-tape - dark, noisy & depressive keyboard abuse/crazy ind. noise! # Emil Beaulieu (usa): "Born In The USA" tape - great powerful harsh noise! Price for one tape is 4USD postpaid Earth-everywhere, six tapes are 20USD postpaid Earth - everywhere and ten tapes are 30USD post-paid Earth - everywhere!! Sorry for high(er) prices, but postage rates are extremely high here # Fuck-U-tapes is a DIY tapelabel dedicated only to shit-noise-crap-fun-core-gore-bore also done by Matjaz. This is strictly non-profit + unusual label because all tapes are for free. But you must pay 2$ to cover postage. You can also send a short tape and postage. Send 1$ to receive the list.
Beer Records (Miha Novak, Kunaverjeva 4, 1117 Ljubljana, Slovenija) has now out and available for trade only the Noizart 3 comp. C64 with international diy-noisebands/ projects like Recalcitrant, Tremor, Mastikator, T.P.D., Outermost, Gruuthagy, Moncho Conlazo, Final Exit and many more!
Phantomnoise Rec./ Trash Tapes (Alexander Dreyhaupt, Zschocherschestr. 25, 04229 Leipzig, Germany - alexdee@widerstand.org - http://phantomnoise.widerstand.org/ ) TrashTape#20 "Do you think it's cool, to be a one men scene?" is a splitcomp. with Bad Taste, so on the trash tapes side you will find: completely fucked up society, ohmkill, inapt, pestcore, tremor, ashtar dxd, inu:shini, noizecreator, xotox, aleXdee+skeleton93, deep, bufo buffo and n.d.collapse. the bad tasteside features slave cylinder, matt demon, stallion!. Dr. Butcher m.d., gabbist monks, murkbox, beep the speaker, mainline. # aleXdee "S.N.A.F.U.": this is no regular release, only a promo to test some new trax together with old shit. no price, no package, no cover. New Releases: the compilation "innovationswerk" on "suizid records is out now, featuring trax be alexdee,eiterherd,low entropy,geroyche and many more..order from suizid records. the next release of phantomnoise will be a 12" by our new artist LXC...coming at the end of may! * newest edition of the Tokyotribe 02216 magazine from singapore features articles about phantonoise records and widerstand records...you also find some words about our fortcoming release by LXC. * new mp3 files from Mimaku Spldat (our new hope for trash tapes) and from our phantomnoise 004 hero LXC * the remix version of "rush" done by berlins society suckers will be on the next compilation of Kancer Records from Los Angeles U.S.A. * new mp3: all trax of phantomnoise 3 now ready for download * new mp3: society suckers remix of alexdee's "rush" from Phantomnoise 002 * Trash Tapes 33 by LXC is out since end of december! * Endearment, a german post-hc band, have an aleXdee rmx on their current album. * alexdee will have trax on the next compilations of cold coffein addict recordz,Dhyana recs,kancer records & sozialistischer plattenbau * check out the next issue of the german hardcore magazine "hakkerz", you will find a small trash tapes article...get hakkerz @ sound base music
Neuf Noir Rec. (Andreas Davids, Rembertstrasse 13, 33102 Paderborn, Germany - orbicybe@t-online.de - http://www.neufnoir.purespace.de) Hagbard Celine/ Xotox "Sünde" this might be amiga-terror minimal digital aural attack written and stolen and destroyed by hagbard celine in sept. 1999 (very old...) starts pretty relaxed with drums and distorted basses, trashy breakcore/ freecore and remains pretty slow all the time. Xotox is working with more voice samples and driving and straight patterns, intelligent and cool electronica that you can dance to. $4 incl. postage
Spoiled Meat (Maik Hamann, Niels Stensenstr. 14, 17153 Reuterstadt Stavenhagen, Mecklenburg, Deutschlanth) geknüppel und gegröhle in tieferen lagen, kurze kohärente sonx und viel gelaber zwischen den stücken, sind ja schliesslich echte proberaumaufnahmen. Macht mir immer spass und gerne würde ich’s live hören und nicht so ab tape. Grind mit metaltouch irgendwie. Das ist wohl immer noch der untergrund. Haben sicher auch nette t-shirts an die jungs und hoffentlich hat sich die band nicht schon wieder aufgelöst.
Salikapalikau/ girnu giesmes (Dangus Productions, PoBox 3058, 2026 Vilnius, Lithuania – ugnies@takas.lt – http://www.omnitel.net/dangus) poor darius, he sent me ages ago this very cool tape and my PR-agent never replied and traded stuff with him. But I must say that I really like his (salikapalikau) trilogy called “agnozija”, hypnotic soundscapes, with synths, pulsating basses, high-pitched occasional feedbacks, flanged& phased parts, symphonic areas, dark drones, 3 tracks lasting around 10 mins. Each with slow and progressive changes. For sure this Lithuanian soundartist knows how to mix and especially when to change that it does not get boring. Intelligent and creative, relaxing and inspiring trip. GG is a bit more into industrial realms, constant basstones, distant voices with delays and the feeling that modern communication is based on overload of information and distorted and vague semantics. Much more monotonous (in a good way) than Salikapalikau.
NotLG tapes (Kirill Mikhailov, PoBox 51, 198332 St-Petersburg, Russia - notlg@pisemnet - http://www.notlg.cjb.net) is a DIY non-profit label/ distro (punk/ HC/ crust/ garage/ noise), send something for free catalog.
Kummerlige Forhold "Høg over høg" (Kummerlige Forhold, c/o Kattesundet 10, 9000 Alborg, Denmark - kfi@image.dk) is spastic feedback orgy of the destructive vein, fast changing and in turning knobs obviously. old. Soviet Subliminal Seduction "...og sprot" (c/o 1000 Fryd/ att. Mikko/ Kattesundet 10, 9000 Alborg, Denmark - boogiewoogie@inorbit.com) sounds pretty like distorted breakbeat industrial madness but then you also get the harsh noise hell treatment. Lot of variation and high-standard of playing techniques. Visit there homepage for more information what is up: http://www.noisejihad.dk
Stillstand Tapes (Gordon Sauer, Lerchenstrasse 22, 17034 Neubrandenburg, Germany - stillstandrec@gmx.de) "Beulenmusik für Eingedrückte" comp. with seamonster 1, waldrand, origami replika, äquatorkälte, discotheque groenland etc. ambient and noise and both and mixed and seperated. projects that played in that beautifull gigspace in the blumstrasse (r.i.p.). more or less 90 mins. # nerd revolution/ masturbatorium. mast. come with a weird mix of voice-experiments & psychotic listening+ lo-fi ambient, while n.r. present obscure and fast dance-music, strange disharmonics, special guest a crazy, wild guitar hero, 90mins. tape in transparent-paper cover. # Old Nick "fulgurator roche" sideproject of discotheque grönland, so this is filtered, modulated and delayed synthsounds, partially monotonously minimal, then more chaotic progressiveloops. drones interrupted by circling jumbojets and nervous fighterplanes. radiowaves from pulsars meet slowed-down drum and bass. Soundtrack for hopeless weeks and Icelandic winters. still don't get the joke about leaving the b-side totally blank (maybe it is very silent minimal uniphone avantgarde?) # Old Nick "uwe-barschel-mall" again a one-sided tape with field recordings done in a shopping mall and sparse analog sounds and beeps. Life is a symphony, but Barschel is dead!
Gebrauchtemusik (Postfach 101602, 86006 Augsburg, Germany - gebrauchtemusik@aol.com - http://www.mathiashuber.de/gebrauchtemusik) Sampler (http://www.mathiashuber.de/gebrauchtemusik /label/label.html): da gibt es eigentlich nicht viel zu sagen, wohl eher mehr zu erlauschen. es hat perlen und vielleicht hat es auch ein paar säue? die crème de la crème der homerecording-scene scheint hier munter versammelt zu sein, blättert in einem riesenrätselbuch, legt einen brand im kaufhaus und schaut kurz in den taschenspiegel. da steht noch was von geräuschpop und das kann ja nur gut sein: der sack ziegler/doc wör mirran, lightning ivi, yasmine eccius, das trunkene lied, mathias huber, berhard kübler, deep, krankheit der jugend, jesus jackson und die grenzlandreiter, gedankent.raum, paul chi, bdolf, der bayer. # jesus jackson und die grenzlandreiter c60: schrummelgitarrenpop mit klug durchdachten und witzig-skurrilen texten. reinhard may für kaputte menschen? konstantin wecker für asoziale parasiten? quetschenpaua mit gitarre anstatt akkordeon und weniger betroffenheit? vergleiche hinken immer und musikjournalisten sind prinzipiell schon inkompetente arschlöcher und peinliche wichtigtuer. bestell ein bier und lausche den trunkenen klängen, gröhle vielleicht die refrains dezent mit. hat auch ein bisschen casio-orgel dabei.
Vegas Recordings, (POBox 45, Mirfield, W.Yorks, WF14 9YQ, England - vegasdiscs@yahoo.com) Third Lung "New York" sounds a bit Sonic Youthish, but more groovy and the straighter songs, but it is much more "electronic" with loops and heavier monotonous at some stages. Noiserock for bulldozers. Mr. C. is actually working on his next cd at the moment, which is nearly done, he's putting it out under the name The Stockholm Syndrome (which is basically Third Lung under a new name !). Musically it carries on in a similar vein to that of Third Lung.
Ifsociety (Seunalantie 1 a, 00730 Hellsinki, Finland - http://www.ifsociety.com/herodishonest - herodishonest@hotmail.com) Hero Dishonest "demo" with ass-kicking upspeeded oldschoolHC, this demo is from end 2000, the band still exists and have a full-length CD out.
The Violet skies of Autumn (Michael Wüest, Ländli, 6110 Wolhusen, Switzerland) presents "1997-98 When Life was labour lost" 6 songs of isolated and melancholy keyboard music with a total length of 90 mins. Pretty melancholic tunes, but in the end it gets a bit too tiring. Due to direct recording it is just more or less uni-sono-stuff, so a bit sparse, but still interesting enough if you want to dedicate your time to it. Duration of the songs is also a bit too long sometimes... 4$.
Carpe Diem (igor mihovilovic, kamenita 62, 21000 split, croatia - http://www.geocities.com/carpe_diem_records/index.html): pbk theatre/ zarathustra is a reissue, originally released on Flame Records/ Imam Ideju Records in 1999. this time Zarathustra offers you 7 songs recorded from 1993 to 1999, named "Retrospectiva Obscura", and PBK 9 songs recorded and mixed in early 1999, named "Welcome To Interzone". more listenable than first tape but still painfull and depressive as hell. 90 minutes. * Schmrtz Teatar - "Zena Bez Nozdrva / Zlatno Smece" croatian legendary pop-performance group Schmrtz after 5 years of work and more than 100 subversive activities like concerts, performances, plays and such releases this tape with one side of new songs and other side of compiled songs from their first two albums. almost 60 minutes of melodic, and sarcastic rock'n'roll. profesionally printed * Kazin I: first croatian audio zeen, featuring Schmertz Teatar / PBK / Zidar Betonsky / Hermit / DJ Jonathan Crooks / Franjo Tudman's and others' freak outs / audio collages / poetry / prose / plus other weird shit with handpainted tapes and color covers. 60 minutes. * kazin 2nd: second croatian audio zeen, featuring PBK / Zarathustra / Gospa / S.P.K. / Essence / Kilo Kruva / Discliche / Orfej feat. Schmertz Teatar & Handycapt. / Disaster / Morning Maniac Scrapbook / Sluzincad / Mondo Kick / Kemya / Marshmallow feat. Schmertz Teatar / Ines / Lolita Lee Mayakowsky, plus weird radio, tv and train samples, poetry, audio collages, freak outs, porno shit... 90 minutes. Tapes are 20 KN / 5 USD / 8 DM ppd. trades are one of the best ways to make our expenses smaller and to directly fuck the system and economy!
Dhyana records (Bernd Spring, Rosenaustrasse 16, 86150 Augsburg, Germany - dhyana@dhyanarecords.com - http://www.dhyanarecords.com) has always really cool tapecompilations to offer: Semi Sweet Comp.-Tape & -CD plus Magazine, US$ 4,5 / 4,5€ - The biggest Dhyana-Compilation so far! 43 bands/ musicians/ projects from all over the world, 155 minutes of first-class and innovative music. From home-recordings to hifi-pop, from ambient to gabber. # Pozor Compilation-Tape C-60 (sold out, but try: http://www.gebrauchtemusik.de). Ein noch windigerer Tapesampler. Diesmal mit dabei: Runde1, Take2sneks, Gestalt, Alexdee, Wardrobe memories, Rumpeln, Lemmingveij, Oscillator, Jesus Jackson & die Grenzlandreiter, u.v.m. # Windiger Compilation-Tape C-90 3,5€ / US $ 3,5. Blackjewishgays & Friends, Klimperei, Rininat Rebresch, nanook, Jürgen Eckloff, Xabec, Die Frucht, Ndju vs. No, Inox Kapell, Expose Your Eyes, etc. plus booklet.
Masturbierbar comp. (gmt.rec. c/wg, friesenstr. 89 b, 28203 bremen, germoney - asistema@rocknriot.zzn.com ) mit stereowalkman aufgenommen in diesem legendären konzertkeller in luzern, so soll es sein: 6000 crazy, logica di morte, ugly aesthetics, dystopia, sacchi per rifiuti, alarm, der kleine hirnfick, bocca chiusa. Ein wichtiges Zeitdokument für eine Handvoll Menschen, leider Geschichte...
1000+1 Tilt #7 (1000+1 Tilt, PoBox 23045, Athens, 11210, Greece - suckerpunch@mail.gr - http://1000tilt.50megs.com/main.htm) is a very interesting tapelabel and written matter producing distribution. Iason is a very nice& caring person and puts lot of effort in his projects. Did not have the occasion to get the "new" tape, but it features: Origami Replica [norway], Dom 108 [greece], Tool of the Man [uk], London Whore Orchestra [italy], It Lies Within [greece], Chrysler [uk], Dark Star [Germany], Roger Rotor [switzerland], Tremor [germany], Xabec [germany], Kummerlige Forhold [tuungen udtagning], released in June '01 [C60 / CD-R]. #6 "The Dreams and the Machine" is a very good compilation with a thought-inspiring booklet with very intelligent essays on self-produced music and stuff, soundtrack is provided by: Pille Allein [switzerland], Eye [australia], KGB [greece], Enatos Minas [greece], Tool Of The Man [uk], Glassine [greece], Reynolds [argentina], Are Mundal [norway], Yggdrasil [germany], Kjetil D. Brandsdal [norway], KA [norway], It Lies Within [greece], released in June '99 [C60 / CDR]. 2$ ppd. each.

7" and more are polluting the world if you get sick of it and throw it in the garbage

Wäldchengarten 10"- "was Kommunikation" Lars (Kummerlige Forhold) and his brother Dennis bought a ten-pack and decided to jam, and so they decided also to form this guitardrone duo with longdelayed drones and harsh feedback excurses, high-pitched beeping and low-pitched humming. They're creating a sombre & severe atmosphere sometimes. Contact: waldchengarten@trashcan.dk.
no murder/ Fazed 12" (Leiste, Stöckartstr. 6, 04277 Leipzig, Germoney - nomurder@yahoo.com) F. with bi-female vocals and emoish lyrics about all the frightening things out there in the mean world. NM a bit more upspeeded and angry. Two caring bands joined forces and you'd have a thought-provoking and action-inspiring product here, but where to start from?
Dhyana records (Bernd Spring, Rosenaustrasse 16, 86150 Augsburg, Germany - dhyana@dhyanarecords.com - http://www.dhyanarecords.com) has always to offer some jewels of the not-so-obvious scene of shiny black stars: 4-way 7" with Deep, Nhlsm, Istari Lasterfahrer, Slackism is of course extremely varied in styles, you get breakcore with istari, contemplating psychedlic bongo/didgeridoo-mania with deep, rock-wave-collage with nhlsm and flowing & timeless soundscapes with slackism.
The Public (Dusan Ozanak, zborov nad Bystricou 455, 02300 slovakia) "another day in paradise" LP - fast experimental emo violence hardcore. 7$ ppd. (eur) 9$ppd. (world) (registered airmail)
sozialistischer plattenbau (sa6a065@uni-hamburg.de) yppasswdd daemons "traceroute_to_207.46.131.13" contains 6 tracks, yd is a dogma00 project (http://commie.oy.com) with repogrrl and istari and deals with vintage and trashy electronic instruments. the voice of the band is computer generated and the songs itself are deranged known popsongs with changed words to computer tecnical issues or simple program codes. 6DM, http://go.to/yp # "verfolger" is a collaboration project of tbc (wachsender prozess) and thorben k. (animation movie maker) from hamburg. verfolger got the mentality of revolting industrial robots, where distorted rhythmbox scatters against ms-20 filter patches. this 10" contains 6 tracks and there are 300 duplicated copies done, 10DM.
Drone Records (S. Knappe, Bohnenstrasse 14, 28203 Bremen, Germany - DroneTroum@aol.com - http://www.dronerecords.de) Dronaement " wassermond" side-project of Das Rhythmische Ornament/ D:Rhythm:O with 2 flowing tracks using watersounds as soundsource and a bit of electronics to add it up and to modulate it. This is relaxing sound. * Reynols "10000 chickens symphony" is basically field recordings in a chicken farm (one side slowed down and really doomy, the other side high-pitched and catching the whole horror and misery of these poor creatures in cage).
Re-sisters (Skuld-Releases, Malmsheimerstr. 14, 71272 Renningen, Germany) "Riots not Diets" 7": is an excellent release by this now defunct anarch@-feministpunk band that combined aggressive music with intelligent radical feminist lyrics and an offensive performance, they had a big impact on the confused audience. The booklet is very well-done with great artwork and collages, all the fine lyrics presented and a good essay about eating disorder/ anorexia nervosa. Sometimes I hated them for their music, becuz they were practising like berserks in our squatted rehearsalroom at the RGH (rip), but i love them for what they stand for.
Mexican Power Authority "100 year old shack" breakeven@hotmail.com / painart; recordings they did in a really old hut, changing from a grindattack to trippy psychedelic rock. High musical standard I would rate, think the 300 copies are already dead and gone, so no further description.
Praying for Oblivion (c/o final judgement ov the great oblivion, PoBox 22103, Nashville, TN., 37202-2103, USA) Praying for Oblivion/ Outermost split 7" - Praying puts forth a track of desolate post-industrial ambience using homemade instruments and digital effects. An exercise in subtle terror. Outermost's "misunderstanding bubble illusion" is an all-out audio assault. Japanese freak-out industrial-noise madness.Pressed on clear vinyl with sleeve and insert. 5$ or trade also from: Outermost, c/o Kei Yokota, 064-0807 Sapporo, Minami 7, Nishi 12, 2-5-304, Japan. * Praying for Oblivion "The fear experiments" - vinyl release of dark-organic post-industrial ambience. The sounds on this recording were created by homemade instruments, analog synths and effects. side B features a track recorded live. 4$ppd.
Devil Rock Recordings (Bri, PoBox 187, Leeds, LS6 1LH, UK - szandor66@hotmail.com) John Holmes/ Canvas split 7": JH is very dark and if you have a depressive phase do not read the lyrics. It's all about nothingness and the senselessness. With metallic thrashcore. Canvas reminded me a bit of more metallic Jesus Lizard, Helmet with more breaks. Stupid comparison, but i am a stupid reviewer.
War Toys "Nachzehrer" (LOI Rec. c/o Martin Niemitz, Hildastrasse 27, 79102 Freiburg, Germany - Stefan Vetter, Sieglindenstr. 26, 86152 Augsburg, Germany) seem to dedicate this 7" to good old Ronald McDonald. At least they sing a nice song about him. They also make clear that they don't eat dead meat. Bavarians that kick ass and use their brain, that might not often be found in this region...(oh, this stupid generalizations again...). Bernd did a nice layoutwork and this comes in a nice silkscreened fabric bag.
Strongly opposed rec. (Flurweg 29, 2504 Biel, Switzerland Earth) was really busy with releasing stuff: Orange World "Fun, Noise& Message" really nostalgic with recordings from '88 that might give you a hint how punk sounded at this time * Earth Citizens "To a nation of Party Lovers" LP has already been released as a tape by Resistance Prod. back in the 90ies & "Complications" LP with all the sonx they did for various compilations. It was a bit before my involvement in the diy-scene (I was a wave-popper back then I guess...) and so I missed this band live (they never played in the clubs I was drinking my beers...) Too bad!! * Protest "The connection" 7" is a must. Short and compact lyrics, combined with hatred and a guitarsound I immediately fell in love with. Once again: a must! * Domo Arigato "Soymilk+Punkrock" japanese punk and it is hard to describe especially if you took part. It comes close to Discharge. International effort.
Gender-less Kibbutz (PoBox 158469, Nashville, TN, 37215 USA - http://intrasuoni.da.ru/genderless - gender_less@hotmail.com) Aube "Monochordattune" 7" uses sounds of steel wires as source material and with increasing intensity and overlaying tracks he creates a great soundsculpture like almost always. * Mr. Natural/ K2 'Assorted scrapes' 7" $3, Smash! Boom! Bang! Bzzzz.....what else would you expect from Kimihide Kusafuka and John Sharp? Scrape metal and hardwood floors collide to produce a cacophany as finely crafted as a lace doily. A prelude to the forthcoming collaboration. * Daniel Menche "Vulgar Scratch" one side effect-processed scratching noise, the other side scratching sounds combined with a pulsating oscillator and some effectfeedbackloops. * msbr& blazen y sharp "dirty knobby" specially produced for the december 2000 european tour of MSBR in a lim. ed. of 200 . metallic rhythms are overwhelmed by waves of drones. * new: Mr. Natural "untitled" LP $8, six tracks recorded between 1998 and 2000. vivid textural sounds from hand made instruments, trains, and plants. * G X Juppiter Larsen & Manon Anne Gillis 'Encored Dust' 7" $3, The long awaited collaboration between the infamous Haters and the mistress of french noise. Two brief tracks with a special mastering technique so you never know which version you're going to hear! A Noiseopoly release available for a limited time through GLK.
Jeniger (Jeniger, Hebebrandtstr. 2a, 22297 Hamburg, Germany) "Captured" 7" with 5 sonx of boombastic emocrust of this unfortunately defunct band from northern deutschlanth. Kay gave me this 7" after their gig in the Koepi when I was there just for "holidays". So this 7" is of a slighter more importance to me than the average 7". They did a farewell(?)-LP, that will be reviewed in the next Gecko. I am too lazy and it is almost summer, you know!
Sensitive Wormrile Rec. (Stephan Kurth, Niklotstr. 6, 18507 Rostock, Alemania - http://www.sensitivewormrile.net/ - sensitivewormrile@yahoo.de) Wojczech/ Cut your Hair split 7" with the recordings they did on their Brasil-tour. Wojczech thrashes down like always and ever their crustgrindtunes with intense energy and negative apocalytic lyrics. Cut your hair plays some sort of emoish hardcore, their songs are more relaxed and slower. Nice orange sleeve and lyricsheets.
Attack Rec. (PSF 350541, 10214 berlin, germany) Ugly Aesthetics 7": it is always hard to describe music of friends. In any case it is appropriate to be nice and to find nice words, but these friends don't give a fuck about it, I guess. Musically I would dare to say it is not extremely thrilling (average), but the presentation and the text you can also read in english too are sharp like machinegun-volley, pretty cynical and mani(a)c. Also the pictures of trans-gender nature and other natures are cool.
Maika Records (c/o Mbf, Postfach 2708, 8021 Zürich, Switzerlanth - maika@888.nu) have still a couple of releases available: "side a+b/ c+d" doubleLP with swiss/ finnish experimental/ electro/ noisy artists/ projects. 25 sfr. End this scene 7" with brutal psychotic attack HC-trash from Zurich. sfr. 6. A very nice c90-comp. with lo-fi trash pop for 5 sfr. and pretty new the Custom Drummer "The return of the yamaha man" club edition (electronic suomi flow with aavikko computer boyz) sfr. 12. 

CDS/ CDr will never manage to be added to pablo's collection

Sist En 343 (Matjaz Galicic, Dragocajna 7A, 1216 Smlednik, Slovenija - http://www.astrozombie.net/abnormal) "4357126 ms" titled CDr is once again a fine DIY product with lot of cut and paste work, cardboardcover and information about animal-rights (written in obscure slovenian language) and a sound that mostly could be labelled as distorted industrial-noise. 3 sonx were recorded in a live-situation. This is limited to 50, but they will make more copies if necessary!
Gebrauchtemusik (Postfach 101602, 86006 Augsburg, Germany - gebrauchtemusik@aol.com - http://www.mathiashuber.de/gebrauchtemusik) hat einen neuen Silberling produziert: gm012 Bernd Spring / Zeitriss "Iconnections" - Wie bereits bei Bernd Springs erstem Album Infrastruktur handelt es sich auch hier wieder um Musik für eine Lese-Performance der Literaturgruppe Zeitriss, die auf diesem Livemitschnitt auch zu hören ist - mit einer Collage aus Texten von Peter Bommas, Hubert Thalhofer, Rue De Guerre, Werner Baur, Inga Sawade, Jürgen Jäcklin, Manfred Wieninger und Udo Dickenberger, die für das spartenübergreifende Kunstprojekt Iconnections geschrieben wurden und auch in der Zeitschrift Zeitriss erschienen. Ebenfalls an diesem Projekt beteiligt ist der Holzbildhauer Terence Carr, dessen Arbeitsgeräusche - Sägen, Knirschen, Krachen, Klirren, Schaben - das nahezu einzige Ausgangsmaterial für die Musik auf dieser mit knapp 20 Minuten kurzen, aber konzentrierten CD bilden. Für diese Dokumentation wurden die digitalen Originalaufnahmen von Bernd Spring zusammen mit den am 24.01.2002 im Jungen Theater Augsburg live aufgenommenen Lesestimmen abgemischt.
Krankheit der Jugend (KrankeKunstVerlag, c/o Tim Siebert, Hauptstr.75, 74206 Bad Wimpfen, Germany - kkv@hit.online.de) "Ilmenau/ Bad Rappenau" a very long psychedelic experience, the intonation of two guys travelling away from a typical boring and dull smalltown going to such exciting places like Goa or Spain. distant voices mixed with long and groovy passages. Musically a long journey through different styles and moods, mostly instrumental apart from the samples between the songs. Reminding the good old days of the late 60ies and especially 70ies. This german band usually also experiments lot with literature and performance. KKV-NR 020, 25DM (inkl. p+v)
Neuf Noir Records (c/o Andreas Davids, Rembertsstrasse 13, 33102 Paderborn, Germany - orbicybe@t-online.de - http://www.neufnoir.purespace.de) Xotox "Live at Bunker 44, Wiesbaden" - 17 of really varied electronic music with lot of voice samples and changes and spreading the feeling of exciting late '80 cool synth bands and industrial strangeness, but with lot of new references like break- and freecore, tendencies and variations. Fill the clubs with these sounds and empty the streets (except if you celebrate a illegal street-rave) in the process. * Too bad that my CD-players cannot read the Zweitschuldner and Xotox "AntiArt" CDR. * Hagbard Celine/ Xotox "Sünde" is in such a nice package with millions of yellow and green plastic bits so that i decided to leave it like it is and since i maybe have it already on tape i never gave a listen to it.
Archegon (Günter Schroth, Mühlgasse 31, 60486 Frankfurt/M, Germany - archegon@t-online.de -http://www.archegon.de) Günter Schroth "Barcode Music". I can honestly say that the world of barcodes is definitely not my world, but günters world of barcode controlled sounds is way more familiar to me. scanning through cans, tins, sheets full of barcodes günter creates via programs and synths a pretty chaotic but still relaxed soundworld. On this Cd you get 4 compositions (so maybe that sonx are reproduced in a live-situation?), the remaining 5 sonx are performances and improvisations, like "vinyl-scan" that is a collaboration with vinyl-turntable-artist Claus van Bebber that offers even more variation in sounds (if that is possible?) and "voice-scan" finally brings you back to reality with a very nice improvised dialog between Günters programmed scan-sounds and Franziska Quandts fully virtuos use of her beautifull voice and singing (multi-tracked), which surely is my favourite song. This might also be interesting for you, although the digital world never had much fascination for me (i am a really old-fashioned guy maybe) günters conceptual but still free aproach to work with barcode as "soundsource" left me at least astonished about the wide field of possibilities. 15 Euro.
Anti-Everything (22 Mallory #1, Hampton VA, 23663 USA-http://www.ratward.com - http://www.thenofi.com ) "Noise Conglomerate Vol. 2" with Daruin (jp), Monobrain (nl), Government Alpha (jp), Vita Verbum Lux (can), Reynols (arg) and Napalmed (cz). Good and interesting enough compilation. Few copies remain, so hurry up!
Cock E.S.P. (c/o Elyse Perez, Box 141, 151 1st Ave., New York, NY 10003 - cockesp@cockesp.com - http://www.cockesp.com ) "We mean it this time": maybe you should have an access to that peculiar american humor, becuz Cock ESP is much about it. It starts from the cover that shows Emil and Matt posing as really cheasy death-metalheads with painted faces like the good old Kiss (you even get the skull on a stick!). either you like Cock ESPs partly obscene humor or you don't like it. Good quality trash shit harsh noise. What do you expect from a band that is "the pride of north american noise"? * "Menasha Red Light District": No voltage-controlled oscillators were harmed in the recording of the disc, like they promised. This is old-school stuff with huge overdrive pedals, contact-mics and metalplates and over-distorted cheap microphonefeedback and screams. Maybe american noise culture with an obsession for trash b-movies and pornography too, i guess.
Noisebludgeon (PoBox 12-345, East Broadway, Vancouver, BC - V5T TW5, Canada - http://www.noisebludgeon.com ) Hospital/ Bastard Noise: Good dose of frequencies, syrens, feedbacks, electronic storms and distorted fragments. Unstructured and fast-changing noise, but also slowly progressing and intensity-increasing soundscapes. Bastard Noise is very long delayed journey through wailing walls of sounds and bass-grumblings, soundtrack for a very serious sci-fi film about an interplanetary oxygen leak. Very pleasant reverberating sounds. Imagine a huge set of gongs and a reverb multiprocessor and maybe you get the impression how it sounds.
The Bigots (Bigots, POBox 152, Campbell, Australia 2612) "What do you think you're gonna do about it?": the australian Active Minds? Never. Saw them live and liked it a lot, tight duo with fast aggression. Hope they still are rocking the different clubs and basements. Nothing bad to say about bands that sing about vegetarianism and and other approved topics. Nothing really new, but still thrilling and fresh. Pretty rocking stuff!
Declaration of Santo II (Wittmannstrasse 4, 64285 Darmstadt, Germany) "Bormuth meets Inox Kapell inna Eledil stylee" is a live-collaboration between Bormoth from Wiesbaden and Inox Kapell from Wiesbaden. Easy listening electronica with lot of funny interactions and improvised bits and performance. Colorfull evening for sure with insects, aliens, toy-instruments and cheap synths and drummachines.
Urknall Tonquelle (Inox Kapell, Wielandstr. 4, 65187 Wiesbaden, Germany - inoxkapell@gmx.net) C.O.Caspar/ Inox Kapell is maybe an ambient-collaboration between these two projects or something. Extremely slowly progressing changes in sound and moods, with a minimal beauty and shiny simpleness. mostly percussive late in the night sounds. 8 sonx but basically it is a long drone that is seperated in pieces afterwards. * "Das Rhythmusboxen des Ambientinox" 12 ambient dada-neue deutsche welle polka, bossanova rhythmical tribal stuff sonx, pretty uncomplicated, fresh and astonishing in the effect. * Shrebbl a gogo "zukunftsmusik" is' inox kapell plus rüdiger erb, minimale rhythmen und filigrane analoge sounds, abgedrehte songtitel, alles in allem 2 CDs voller farbiger und leichter instrumenteller elektronischer Musik. Also, die Zukunftsmusik findet ohne menschliche Stimmen statt, beruhigend? Auch erschienen bei: TriTraTrotz Rec., Gneisenaustr. 4, 65195 Wespbaden - tritratrotz.records@octopusweb.de
Praying for Oblivion (c/o final judgement ov the great oblivion, PoBox 22103, Nashville, TN., 37202-2103, USA ) "Swans Song" 5 sonx of distructured and distorted collapsing soundworlds, harsh power electronics industrial. I liked the sonx most with the psychotic and wailing screams and voice.
MSBR& blazen y sharp (MSBR rec., 2-2-12-101 Hanegi Setagaya, Tokyo 156, Japan - http://www.msbr.com or Gender-less Kibbutz, PoBox 158469, Nashville, TN, 37215 USA.- http://intrasuoni.da.ru/genderless - gender_less@hotmail.com) "Mass for dead Insects" A collaborative and split work by msbr and Blazen Y Sharp. Sounds are dark atmospheric noise ambient. Mixture of msbr's electronics and BYS's metal acoustic sctratching noise.
KGB-NK, Amfissis 5, 26331 Patras, Greece - "Aliens on Earth" 22 fine songs with synth-melodies, really structered and song-orientated stuff, even with lyrics and chorus and that kind of stuff. lot of nice textures and sounds to discover. Write and ask what is up.
Anemone Tube (auf abwegen, pobox 100152, 50441 cologne, germany - info@aufabwegen.com - http://www.aufabwegen.com) :existence. On this limited edition CD (lim. 500) that comes in friendly red-orange colors you find finally some more music of the german industrialnoise act Anemone Tube, that is currently not active anymore in recording music, but as label and distribution (anemonetube@transformed.de - http://www.transformed.de). you get here 7 songs of high-quality rise and decay soundscapes in some way tending to the darker sides of our existence maybe. like the title maybe existence is not only a joke but a really serious matter and as i know stefan all through these years i can say that he surely goes into the deep. carefully constructed collapsing soundwalls with lot of facets to discover each time you gonna listen to this silver jewel.
manufracture (this is a nomadic artist and label-manager, so no stable address at the moment: http://noiseweb.com/hermit - hermit@noiseweb.com) Hermit "Demo" offers you a fine range of evil sound installation in praha (surely performed in a dracula costume), karaoke noise style cut-up, even a bit minimal klicks and klacks, some painfull violin treatments. half live and half diy-recorded at the legendary trash-land squat. * Hermit & Thirdorgan collab. "dead-tech machine gallery" starts with the classic "pain machine" by the fine canadian noise-artist, dark slow pulsating rhythmical industrial i would call it, lasting more than 10 mins. so it cannot be a harsh noise attack. after that 5 more sonx ranging from ambient soundscapes to mean distructured noise. You get two collabs. the rest is done by the two artists alone. You always can hear that the apocalypse is near. * Noisegate "as we were walking" features a live interpretation of that 30 mins. song, the opening piece of Suspended Animation Ambient. Very loong drones and reverberating soundscapes, with lot of changes in dynamics. Might be a soundtrack for a film about a long journey through the endlessness of the space (if you want to escape this ugly planet again...). * Man is the Bastard:Bastard Noise: "Selected pathways to undisclosed planets: live" starts first with a very long ode to the futurists. beeping, oscillators going wild, abused effect pedals, feedbacks, machine guns and computer gamesounds, in some way the typical sound BN always creates. Remains interesting enough.
Bar La Muerte (Bruno Dorella, v.Gioia 82, 20125 Milano, Italy - bdorell@tin.it - http://www.barlamuerte.com) Ovo "assassine" the infamous free-form music impro-duo from northern italy is teamed up with the help of Claudio Parodi (cheap electronix), Hermit (electronic, screams), Eleonora Parapietro (trumpet), Jacopo Andreini (sax and drums), Capoccia (drums, metals). Nice morbid but still colourfull drawings and music that has no boundaries and real definition.* Allun "et sise" four-wymyn using typewriter, mixer, toy-instruments and a big dose of musical imagination and creativity in order to create an almost free-jazz soundcollage without all that academic aspects that make free-jazz unthrilling. One could label it no wave too, but every label does not fit and is a reduction for this broad definition of musickal art. * Allun "onussen" (co-released by: One-Touch rec.Monopolka, c/o Philipp Wolokitin 199106, Opochinina 5-20 St. Petersburg, Russia - trilobit@mailru.com) dear marylise sent me this CD that again is fucken hard to describe with my reduced knowledge about the elaborated words of english language, and i don't want to look up every second word in the dictionary... Well, this one is way more aggressive than the previous one, more climaxing to the extreme delirium, outof-head improvisation, nice screams, nice noises and powerfull drumming. again free as music can be. 17 sonx with different moods and surely not written-down notes. Maybe the words and singing is improvised too. Should find a bit concentration to listen to it carefully, normally i am running around like a manic berserk and cannot concentrate a fuck. So I cannot write a decent review now, but this is for sure not music to relax too. In the extreme it makes your miserable life even more complicated, and pushes you one more step closer to the abyss, but it might save your life as well in the next moment.
Bartles (Bartles, PoBox 106, Livonia Center NY, 14488, USA) sent me his 42nd release, this might obviously be another lie, but i am sure that john b. is jamming already for years through cigaret-smoke bars and whisky-speakeasy-venues with his prominent crew of musicians. still they decide to play some sort of party-music for a good time, singing about poop and other banal things, with lot of humor and passion. if bukowski would have had a musical blues side-project it might have sounded like this. i like it in some way, mister bartles is for sure a good storytelling guy.
Dissecting Table (Ichiro Tsuji, 6-10-1, Rakurakuen Saiki-ku, Hiroshima, Japan - upddt@ba2.so-net.ne.jp - http://www02.so-net.ne.jp/~dissect/) "DeadZone". Being a little admirer of Dissecting Table's morbid aesthetics and threatening conceptual industrial-noise, I was thrilled to get this copy as promotion (no, i don't distribute CDs...). Sometimes it is raging death-grindgrowling mixed with driving metal percussion, sometimes it is slow-part ambience before the nightmare continues again. The 4 songs last mostly more than 10 mins. without many flaws and that is a good sign. Mostly it seems to catch the horror-atmosphere of the slaughterhouses, decaying bodies, death and threatening violence. Good basis for your selfmade splatter-horror-movie. 1300 Yen ppd. airmail
Dhyana (Bernd Spring, Rosenaustrasse 16, 86150 Augsburg, Germany - dhyana@dhyanarecords.com - http://www.dhyanarecords.com) "Fluffy props in realtion to the gist" (C45-Tape or CD-R) (3EUR / 3$): An international strike for singularity. With: Amanda A. Hendricks (digitally edited bird songs as soundinstallation), Ove-Naxx (Ragga from Japan), Rose For Bohdan (quasi-rock), Gang Wizard (indi rocks!), Logan Bros., Andreas Stoiber (electronics), Big City Orchestra (ya know em from da charts!), Nhlsm (cureclone from swizz), Bantu Mantra & JesusJackson (it grooves!), Grrzzz (French activities!), Der Unsichtbare (technoid somethings!), Toshi Hiraoka (me and my japanese piano!), JesusJackson und die grenzlandreiter (no more compilations without them!), Chaos No Future (fucked-up german punk). Comes with a nice but small booklet. Nach Semi Sweet wird eine ruhigere Kugel geschoben und gesamthaft kommt der Silberling einiges relaxter rüber. (more relaxed than manic Semi Sweet). Bernd receives often very interesting projects and you cannot beat his fresh humor and taste. Always good source for new discoveries.
Black Faction (PoBox 27, SWDO, Manchester, M16 9ES, UK - andydiey@appleonline.net - http://www.alchemyaudiolab.com) "Internal dissident Part 1" from soleilmoon Rec., PoBox 83296, Portland OR 97283, USA - http://soleilmoon.com) "Internal Dissident Part 1" - "Think of the epic poem "The Divine Comedy", by Alighierei. It describes the poet's imaginary journey through Hell and up toward Purgatory. Now imagine how that would sound filtered through the musical mind of a contemporary sound designer and Mancunian electronica artist. But this is not all, the sound designer takes you also to other soundtravel and you pass Arabia, Afghanistan, Persia, Odessa (a couple of bows to mighty Mr. Muslimgauze), back to Dante and his Hell & Purgatory. 9 tracks that have nice sounds to offer, that are often creating a really special mood, but sometimes it comes a bit too smooth, often you are not getting rid of the feeling that you are in a super-produced picture, with very well constructed and highly-calculated sounds. This is for sure quality, but sometimes lacks the astonishing effect, it might be a bit predictable what comes next, especially with the beat-orientated stuff, but still a good recording to pass a rainy sunday afternoon with or to start the week.
Plod (Plod, 25 rue du bon pasteur, 69001 Lyon, France - plodmail@yahoo.fr - http://mp3.com/plod) "Pérave l'ornithorynque déplaçable" very intense and capable french trio playing breakbeat, two-step, foonky stuff instrumentally with violin,viola and drums. had the pleasure to set up a gig for them in zurich and the audience really went berserk.
2/5BZ (serhat@2-5bz.com - http://2-5bz.com) "Ulonbay" this guy from istanbul does a very good mix of traditional turkish instruments, cut-ups from turkish films and cheasy music stuff. all with a very nice of psychedelic touch and treatment. you also get some wild improvisations and session here.
G.Las (http://noiseweb.com/hermit - hermit@noiseweb.com) "compile". very cool cut-up adventures put together by master gunnar himself, and if you know his works you know what to expect from this guy who admires muslimgauze: with a good ear for details and a good taste of strange but in some way never overburden combinations of different soundsources you start for a travel through many different regions. i liked this that much that i decided to re-release it on my gürteltiertapes-label as a tape.
Räuberhöhle (raeuberhoehlenkirmespop@gmx.net - http://megapeng.net/) "knallerbsen". das hat mensch halt davon wenn krawallmädchen casios und bontempis in die finger kriegen und sonst irgendwelche software und noch andere nützliche dinge wie spiele-samples und plastikmusikinstrumente. raus kommt im besten falle sowas wie dies: trash electropophass mit viel witz. gefiel mir auf anhieb und die rülpser gefielen sogar meiner ex-zimmernachbarin. weiter so und mehr so!
Tudosok (http://www.index.hu/tudosok - tudosok@index.hu) "scientists" this is jazzy stuff combined with madness and poetry. normally i don't get the humor becuz it lays in the wise words sung in a foreign language. this is for sure a twisted approach to entertain people on a high level.
Burning Emptiness (c/o Berengere et Denis Del Nista, chemin de saint Marc, Mauran, 13130 Berre l'etang - france - http://www.burningemptiness.fr.st) is a very interesting label from France offering you a wide range of electronic/ noisy styles: BE_06 "ProPulsive" compilation: CDR w/color artwork, under license from ProProductions USA. Industrial/ Ambient/ Noise/ Hard Techno (feat. Inhalant, Gale Grand Central, Tin.RP, Konstruct/de/Konstruct, etc.) - BE_07 Tin.RP 'StarVing' (Hun_geR v2.6b): special edition including the audio CD and a floppy, limited to 20 copies w/a different color artwork and a different package for each ! More digital rhythms and less noise aggression from Tin.RP...- BE_08 Guitare Brothers: CDR color artwork, limited to 60 copies. Happy electronics with pops and noise featuring Guyfire as Mr Atomic and Jelly Baby as V-MARK3 - BE_09 This Is Not Red Paint 'Lost Souls': tape or CDR bw stupid artwork, under license from Vendredi 13 records. Genuine lofi rhythmic/noise industrial (again). Tin.RP "Hunger". is inspired by "the hunger" from Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun. Heavy use of software bugs and 2-bit digital degraders create hypnotic rhythm patterns and tortured melodies. Strange vocals and lyrics remind us of our insane behaviour towards food. Everything is Euro5, $6, £3,5 or CareWare. You can subscribe for four records (past or future or both) + gifts for Euro 15, $18, £10 or super-CareWare. Trades welcome.
welkom (Melodikrecords, PoBox 172, 8820 Waedenswil, Switzerland - w443376@planet.ch) "homebites" comes with an extreme variation in styles, you get 80ies style electropop (sounding a bit like New Order for example), fragile guitar-ballads, hip-hop carpets, you even have something like a donald duck voice ranting about, most of the tracks are driving electronica stuff though.
Aequatorkälte (http://www.sensitivewormrile.net - sensitivewormrile@yahoo.de) is what i call extreme slow progressive ambient. Kutter gave me 2 of his works and it is always great to listen to them, especially late at night with no other human noises around. There is something mysterious and dreamy about "cluster rhythms walk"& "Stachelhaut". Sonx lasting around 20 mins. each.
Neus-318 comp. vol.7 (Neus-318,c/o Kazuya Ishigami, 1-19-2,Sunjiyata,Higashisumiyoshi-ku,Osaka,546-0022,Japan - neus_318@yahoo.co.jp - http://www.neus318.com/) Soran of Skamstötten gave me this CD-sampler with mainly harshnoise and (power) electronic on it: Radio Beirut, Palsecam, Daruin, Ames Sanglantes, Sistrum, Moz, Skamstotten, G.I.& the Spykes,Zanisect. At least you get conatcts of all bands, but presentation and information is a bit poor nowadays...
Ole Lukkye (klangbad, Ertingerstr. 45, 88525 Dürmentingen, Germany - info@klangbad.de - http://www.klangbad.de) "DooDooDoo" is a re-release of this russian psychedelic Ethno Trance band from St. Petersburg. This professional band toured in Germany and in Austria and I am pretty sure that they found their public. For my taste and interest they are "too big", I don't know if they are "commercial" since I never was in contact with them personally. Their colorfull but a bit innocent music is designed for a bigger audience than the underground has to offer.
Histerezis Mozga "Kaa Mozat..." 3"CD (Rastoder Damir, Vojvode Stepe 27/1, 36000 Kraljevo, Yugoslavia hmozga@yahoo.com) offer you 9 powerfull noise-grind industrial tunes with computer and guitar and mean growling. I can definitely hear a progress in their music, it is way more tighter than their more chaotic tape-splits before.

Labels are faking sincerity but hoping for the big cash

Black Orchid (Emil Maťko, Zelená 2/C, Banská Bystrica 974 01, Slovakia - matko@isternet.sk - http://www.blackorchid.host.sk) is a label dedicated to ambient_ dark electronic_ experimental music.
Blatant Propaganda (PO Box 1327 Woden 2606 Australia. - eye@canberra.teknet.net.au - http://www.teknet.net.au/~eye/) is a record label of progressive-post-industrial-electronica-acid-punk-drum&bass noises; a journal of (anti)propaganda, activism, culture-jamming & music reviews; a bunch of radio shows & more. Over 300 pages.
Trauma Press Recordings (3 Cardiff Rd, Taff's Well, Wales, CF15 7RA (U.K) - popiepants@yahoo.com - http://www.angelfire.com/ky2/traumapress) is dedicated to the pursuit of noiziness. tapes - £2 . CDRs - £3, other items individually priced. Please add 25p (UK) 50p (elsewhere) per item P&P . trades welcome. Cash at own risk, cheques payable to Casey Raymond. Trades (email first). Non-uk residents please write/email for details. latest releases: EP001 - Presto and spartanite "Stop Pushing" 7" ep (£3.00); CDR24 - Botanophobia Live "Let's Get Listless" CDR; CDR23 - Botanophobia + Jesus H. Christ "Holy Noize" CDR; CDR13 - Digital Etah '100-130' + Luke Buttdredger 'On Point' + Botanophobia 'By the Power of Greyskull' - CDR; MC022 "Charity Shop Noize"- Tape; MC021 - Ych Afi/Vm "Mae yna rhywbeth cyfunrhywiol amdan cig" (A Welsh tribute to V/Vm) - Tape; MC020 - Presto and Spartanite - 'Amatuer Dramatics (Live)' - Tape; MC019 - Audio/Spastic "Like. Cat. Dog. Eloise" - Tape; MC018 - Botanophobia "Only Though Abject Failure...(Live)" + "Rehearsal Tapes" - Tape; MC017 - LOAD " " vol.1 - a retrospective of spectrum computer game loading patterns - Tape
Distorted Vision Rec. (Distorted Vision Records, 300 West Fourth St., Mt. Carmel PA 17851 USA - tgbob@sunlink.net - http://www.geocities.com/tgbob_2000/) is Bob Marinelli's own label and information site. Current releases: Bob Marinelli/Government Alpha - Harsh Noise. A wonderful pairing of East & West, as Yatsutoshi and Marinelli combine for a harsh noise feast. full color. ($4 including postage). Bob Marinelli/John Weise split 7" - Bob presents a raw noise performance from the Outhouse (created with vibrating metal and textural sources). Designed to be felt as well as heard [play LOUD]. John Weise offers a rapid stream of harsh chaotic sounds. Excellent. ($4 including postage). The DVR split-series: Bob Marinelli/Outermost - East Coast U.S. noise pairing up with japanese noise! Two artists from the next generation of noise in glorious full color. Available through Distorted Vision ($4 including postage). Bob Marinelli/Flutter - Two U.S. noise artists team up on this release. Flutter provides a quickly edited constantly changing string of sounds. Bob Marinelli captures an overwhelming, rapid-fire noise performance. Available through Distorted Vision ($4 including postage). Bob Marinelli/Facialmess - Another East-West bi-continental connection as Bob Marinelli and Facialmess (Japan) join together on this release. A split tape full of the harsh sounds you'd expect from these two up and coming noisemeisters. Available through Distorted Vision ($4 including postage).
Dachstuhl (Lutz Pruditsch, Hartenkamp 11, 26127 Oldenburg, Germany - tarkatak@nwn.de) offers: Vance Orchestra: Monstrance 7" from Netherlands, 2 tracks of experimental ambient trips. limited to 300 for 9DM; Tesendalo: Einklang CDr minimal electronic ambient, special package. 18DM; No+ Tarkatak: q CDr, droning ambient vs. noisy collages. first edition of 100 in nice package. 18DM; Tausendschoen: Yonmade CDr + 3"CD, ex-Maeror Tri member Helge Siehl with rhythmical, ambient tracks plus 19 of his artworks on 3"CD. 20DM; C.Reider vs. Tarkatak: the druser pricid CDr, collab. by c.reider from usa and tarkatak from germany.
Bar La Muerte (Bruno Dorella, V. Gioia 82, 20125 Milano, Italy - bdorell@tin.it - http://www.barlamuerte.com) offers you Allun 7", A034 The insider "Lobotomatik" CD, Bugo 7", Runi/Bugo split mcd, Larsen/Mr. Bread split 7", Allun "Et sise" CD, V/A "Fire crawl with me" 10" comp..ask ask ask, also for trades, collaborations, gigs and more.
complication #27, (postfach 301130, 04251 Leipzig, Germany - schlafpunx@antisocial.org) has been really active in this year putting out tapes and stuff and is one of my favourite labels, especially because of the handmade and unique packages: Schlafpunx "Lethargie" is Florian's solo-thingie and after the huge battle to get the tape out of the glued box you can enjoy (or not) 30 mins. of strange soundcollages, distant voices and echoed noises. The mood is not really "happy party- good drugs". More like big city depression or general life crisis. Limited to 15 pieces and a jewel. # "Thelectrick Idiots" is one of my favourite tapes from this year. Maybe it is deconstruction of disco-pop, but it preserves the thrilling aspects of "pop" and adds the ethics of lo-fi-noise to it. Great stuff done (micha is ein Künstler!) on a 4-tracker with cheap drummachine, synth and distorted vocals and jangly guitars, what does a poor soul need more than that?! # Wrought:Ironsmile "the world is so complex" are from the west-coast of Canaduh (from Vancouver to be precise) and play emotional music and i always liked their musical art. maybe you get almost all the stuff they released so far (even unreleased stuff!), all in all 90 mins. of music when you decide to stay inside if it is raining outside or inside your head. # "In tyrannos" is a fine compilation with mainly punk/hc bands, but every now and then you also get those whacky and weird experimental projects that you hate. Best thing about this comp. is that it is a benefit for "Totalverweigerer-Initiative" (total objection of military/ civil service) so this tape has a good cause besides of being just entertainment! # Slackism "Eitrige Erinnerungen" is also aural and visual art, strange package with recycled paper and out-of-focus pictures. Maybe floh did this tape in order to survive in that ugly city called Halle. Experimental fragments of a grey-city life maybe. # "Der hang zur verallgemeinerung" is a project between Olli and Floh and not funny at all. One song consists in a scream repeated ad infinitum (as it seems) plus feedback and effects, the other song just flows and creates not a really happy mood. Also limited and be quick and ask for other stuff that is available since Floh started a tape-only distribution as well, busy and super-nice guy!!! # the latest thingie floh sent me was the highcut/nuggetLunch splittape: nice spraypaint package, some kind of rocket or comet icon, made out of a reused rolling tobacco bag, also rocketpictures inside. musically some twisted mixture of breakbeat and chill-out madness, stolen samples from vinyl and environment. paranoid schizophrenia? nuggetlunch@gmx.net exchanges cdR of actual sound in order to transmit truth. write for truthchanging and paranormal disaster listening. i gave it a listen a couple of times, and i would listen to it whenever i feel antisocial (so pretty often...). limited to 28 so you'd better hurry up! halle surely IS on my mu-sickal map! # I almost forgot the 7" floh did by Istari Lasterfahrer, my chaos of boxes and in my mind must be frightening...so you find loops here, short samples, driving breakbeats & basslines, 5 sonx that leave me confused, especially the almost instrumental I lose orientation and I don't get really the 'message'. Sometimes I think there is something missing, some sonx are very strong but there are also phases of flawness on this record.
Abnormal Beer Terrorism (Matjaz Galicic, Dragocajna 7A, 1216 Smlednik, Slovenija or Miha Novak, Kunaverjeva 4, 1117 Ljubljana, Slovenia) have out the Senseless/ Sirup Za Izkasljevanje split 7": Senseless, 4 trax of intense violent, non-compromising aural therapy. Fast and aggressive blast of apocalyptic hc/crust from Croatia.4$ (e), 5$(w).
Strongly Opposed Rec. (Flurweg 29, 2504 Biel, Switzerlanth, Earth) has two brand-new releases out: Protest "The connection" 7" - swiss anarchist veggie crust poonk pioneers. 9 and a half songs recorded in 1993. Originally all songs available on various comp. tapes.Now first time the whole studio session on one piece of vinyl. Features two ex-members of Earth Citizens. - Domo Arigato "Soymilk + Punk Rock" 7" - swedish/ swiss/ ivory coast project, 4 songs pretty much like early Discharge. 2 songs sung in japanese. Recorded in 1996, originally released on two compilations - now available for the first time on one 7". Featuring members of Earth Citizens, Protest, Pille Allein and Yuppiecrusher.Sfr. 4.-/ 20f / $5 world (surface). Still available: Yuppiecrusher "Results?" 7" - swedish anarchist melodic Punk, 2 sonx by this now defunct band, one of which an ace ska punk song calling for unity (1998). Sfr. 3.-/ 20f/ $5 world (surf.) and Avaricious 10" - greek/ UK/ swiss anarchist punk project from 1999, 16 sonx, tunefull & melodic attacks on the system.Often compared to Dirt, Action Pact, Vice Sound & even Crass + Flux of Pink Indians.Sfr. 10.-/ 40f/ $10 world (surface). All 4 for 20 sfr./ 100f/ $20 world. Ask for the ever growing "United Carrot Lovers" DistroList.
Chupa Verga (onq@libero.it NEW website moved to http://utenti.tripod.it/chupaverga/) has probably stopped to release tapes (after 50 releases). But onq is still doing his nice melancholic music, but i am not properly informed about current releases.
Edition Neumann (Edition Neumann, Grüner Hang 26, D-48151 Münster (Germany) s-g@muenster.de) had news: a)  From Italy came a soundmedia called 'The Insider : Lobotomatik'. This CDr is not copyrighted. I had optimized the soundquality of this record. Surely: my friends from Italy got one issue of the final result for free. Here you can listen to percussive electronica with noise-influences. Visit my website and load down a short demo-track. b) Oli Guzul is back again !!! His actual CDR is called 'Blunas Revenge'. Here you can listen to nine electronic tracks, describing an upcoming storm. Another face of Oli Guzul.Demo available at my websitte. c)  Edition Neumann has produced their first multimedia CDR, called: Not delivered - Siggi Grundmann-Neubert, yes, it's me, worked it out with computer, synthesizers, software. All compositions, treatments and production included. On this CDR you can also find all tracks in high-quality mp3-format. Further some videos for PC.
Suggestion records (http://www.suggestion-records.de )  is a nice mailorder & label into experimental, industrial, post-rock, ambient and more.
Insofar Vapor Bulk. (com.eudoramail@eudoramail.com) Alexei Borisov  "Pa Koket" (CD-R) (Borisov sounds very abstract, minimal electroacoustic with guitars, found sounds collages, rhythmic structures, child voices and psyko acoustic bass loops) Cisfinitum  "Landschaft" (CD-R) (Cisfinitum brings refined killing noise-drone-ambient. Very emotional; now hi-tek eqipement was involved. In cooperation with Grief Recordings. mp3-files under: http://grief.mu.ru/cisfinitum/) on the way! out very soon: MSBR/Government Alpha/Notchnoi Prospect -live in Moscow '98- (CD-R) (Live performance document of these japanese noise units plus one russian electronic formation. Disc includes bonus tracks: three recycled pieces composed by russian artists who used japanese live record as sound source) Handmade cardboard boxes with b/w information inlays. Quality mastering, best cd-r media, minimalistic design... Ask for more russian independent CD's. Contribute to our magazine.
bearwalking just finished making a more appealing version of its website. Plus now there's a distribution catalog up. http://bearwalking0.tripod.com/

Distribution/ infoshops of satanist and humandespising goods

Les Tya Baillis (Kristel Stuby, rte de la Brinaz 24 b, 1422 Grandson 2, Suisse - kristuby@movingisland.com) is an infokiosk with books, zines, booklets, music and more.
Napalmed (Radek Kopel, Lipova 1123, 43401 Most, Czech Rep. napalmed@volny.cz) is a noise, industrial, experimental, power electronics... distribution and label and well-known band. Get in contact for the news.
Fecal forces (c/o Boris Milakovic, Sv. Duha 30, 34000 Pozega, Croatia - pozega_underground@yahoo.com - http://www.geocities.com/fecal_forces) is a fine distribution of extreme musick & zines.
Bitter & Twisted (Evan, PoBox 298, Sheffield, S10 5XT, England - evilevan666@yahoo.com- http://www.anarchopunk.free-online.co.uk/bitter.html) distributes the usual diy punk, crust stuff. Evan does the nice godzilla-influenced horror Gibbering Madness zine.
Buka I bes (Radenkovic Veljko, Petra Zalca 1, 35237 Resavica, Yugoslavia) is looking for diy stuff to distribute in YU, but also for bands playing hc/crust/ grind for furthcoming comp. tapes.
Catalina TM (c/o Wehrli, Im Pfang 440, 5024 Küttigen, Schweig) kommuniziert mit den Karotiden und hat Fischzeug, Heftli, Fanzines und ist ein feines Verlagshaus!!
A.W.I.M.G.S.E.H. (Andreas Reiffer, Albert-Schweitzer-Str. 17, 38108 Braunschweig, Germany - reiffer@subh.de - http://www.subh.de) ist ein Mailorder für subHkulturelle Literatur, und wird aufgelöst, von daher die Restbestände ziemlich billig zu haben!!!
Mince Core (Jan Frederickx, Asberg 8, 2400 Mol, Belgium) has mainly grindcore stuff Jan's band Agathocles put out available for fair prices, but there is also other stuff available. Jan is looking for the "A tradition of..." Comp. EP. Can you help him?
no rekords (jan iwers, dorotheenstr. 5b/ 254, 30419 hannover, germany) distributes experimental music and stuff he did as no and other collaborations. always high standard of aesthetics and rather eccentric.
Rinderherz Records (Rinderherz Records, postfach 3634, 5001 aarau, schweiz - rinderherz@lycos.de) hat wieder eine Liste zusammengeklebt und säuberlich mit compi geschrieben. eine gesunde portion humor ist immer mit dabei, so machen listen wenigstens ein bisschen spass!
Infoshop Bokal (Bokal, 3 rue Lazare Carnot, 01000 Bourg, France - http://www.chez.com/lebokal - lebokal@chez.com) have soon a new catalog out, available for 2 IRCs. ask them also about other news and ressources. 
Go Activist distro (c/o Sevic Peter, Cankarjeva 48, 5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenija) has a small diy distro with patches, t-shirts and some zines, tapes.
++ Stano Snelly, Taceuska 22, 08501 Bardejov, Slovakia mmr@inmail.sk has a small diy tapelabel & distro, so contact him if you want your stuff distributed or if you want a list.
hmw (Ryosuke Ninomiya, 8-1-3, Minami-Kamodai, Kamo-Cho, Souraku-Gun, Kyoto 619-1127 Japan - hmw@mint.freemail.ne.jp - http://www.geocities.co.jp/Technopolis/9431/index.html) is a fine distribution into noise, grind, industrial and also a tape-label.

Zines are just a waste of time and the main reason why the rain forest gets cut down

Legastoplex No.0 (Legastoplex, c/o Le Dorc, Hebebrandtstr. 2a, 22297 Hamburg, Deutschlanth) ist ein sehr nettes A6-Magazin für Sozialverunsicherte wie mich mit Kommunikationsstörungen, asozialen Tendenzen und sonstigen gescheiterten Kommunikationsversuchen. Sehr schöne und kunstvolle Zeichnungen, Collagen, Copy-Art, harte aber sehr persönliche geschriebene Passagen, autistische Grenzgebiete, viel Psychokram irgendwie, aber sehr bildlich dargestellt und nicht immer wirklich fassbar. Ist schon sehr alt, vielleicht gibt es eine Nummer 1 oder so, vielleicht gibt es nix mehr. Kommt aus dem (nun leider nicht mehr) Jeniger-Umfeld und das ist schon mal Grund genug (es lebe das Name-dropping...). Mehr davon, denn so fühle ich mich nicht mehr so einsam in meiner Einsamkeit!
Head in the Clouds (Suckerpunch, pobox 23045, athens 11210, greece - suckerpunch@mail.gr) is a collection of shortstories Iason wrote in the last 9 years. Most of them are cruel, sci_Fi, horror, gore shortstories about Blobs eating everything, androids and this kind of stuff. Most of the stories left me a bit confused, I cannot say it was an entertaining pleasure to read about such (sometimes not so obvious) forms of violence. Yes, indeed, for my taste most of the stuff is a tiny bit too violent for my weak nerves. Nevertheless, a good effort and some morbid hours guaranteed!
Inkulant #2 (inkulant, Postfach 598, 3000 Bern 25, Schweiz - inkulant@gmx.net - http://www.inkulant.ch.vu/) ist gegenüber dem Erstling ein bisschen dünner ausgefallen, aber Rolli war wohl mit anderen Sachen beschäftigt. Eine gute Mischung von Punk, Politik und reflektiertem Spass. Antifa-Spaziergang in Bern (Erlebnisbericht aus der Präventivhaft), ein wie immer guter Artikel von Abasletat über Food Not Bombs, etwas über die Prozesse und Repression gegen die HausbesetzerInnen in St. Güllen, Frontberichterstattung vom alljährlichen Schrottbar Festival (nix neues...), viele Reviews und noch andere nette Sachen. Sympathisches Layout und Geschreibsel und sagt dem Rumlümmler Rolli, er solle mal mit der Nummer 3 vorwärts machen! Sfr. 2 plus Porto. Fachblatt für renitente SeniorInnen steht aufm Cover, nett!
Härter #7 (Frank Bröker, PF 1726, 48006 Münster, Deutschland - frank.broeker@gmx.de - http://www.st-groessenwahn.de) ist die "Sissi-Syndrom-Sonderausgabe" als lose Kettengeschichte von zahlreichen Schreiberlingen entstanden, von daher ein Wechselbad an Stilen und ein bisschen roter Faden. Lag ein bisschen rum im Stadtpark (wie üblich) und habe mir