HEY-HO THIS IS STILL UNDER PERMANENT CONSTRUCTION!!!!

okay, gecko is still existing despite of lack of everything, even oxygene and money and water and fuel and nuclear power. now gecko is not consumer-friendly really anymore, no structure, no prices mentionned (very rarely) only for the chaotic freaks, basically telling you the truth about some long-existing friendships and deals with the musical mafia, telling you lies about the music-industry, telling you shit about the nice world outside, writing about received emails and propaganda-shit that seems to be interesting and increasing the entropy of information, taking part in the war of (dis)information and basically totally dedicated and devoted to the underground network of networking nerds and freaks. subversion is only one chapter in our book of total subversion, eh he!!! no prices mentionned except from releases of a benefit nature.

manufracture ( http://noiseweb.com/manufracture - manufracture@noiseweb.com ) was hyperactive to say the least (or me i was totally lazy?), anyways one day i received a box full of different fine and inspiring diy-jewels from eric with a nice picture of him and marylise doing some shit with canoos in canaduh, it was like birthday and that is a part of the story linked to that secret box. hermit "urban myth vs common knowledge" CD (and other tales of modern living and isolation) has a very catchy rhythmical opener that uses only whacky rhythmical cheap electronic, voice and sparse noise but still remains totally interesting all the way through. second track is way more complexe with an islamic guy shouting/ praying and electronic going wild and "i'm the best" karaoke-style cheap asian stuff. third track then more violently live with voice, shouts, distorted and pitched violin. the two remaining songs are 2 drones of about 20 minutes with increasing intensity and both creating not really an atmosphere where you would like to drink beers and shout around like the filthy punx. pretty melancholic or better said slow changing monotony but in the good sense, reduction to the essential. waves that have the ability to carry you away to another soundplanet. comes with the unique sparse boros layout, stamped hermit logo and black fingerprints, minimal but effective. in my humble opinion this for sure is the most mature and outstanding hermit output so far. *** man is the bastard bastard noise wiese & wood "mutant" CD is what i would call a soundtrack with the edge to psychotic insights, misanthropic apocalypse and post-armageddon times of a nuclear war without winners. but nature might survive in some way and continues its senseless existence without the human scum. woods unique violent barbaric voice and a total out of control sometimes electronic sound wall leaves no real hope. this is for sure musical destruction done with surgical accuracy at some stages but then your skull is smashed in by a round set hammer in the next moment always leaving you in expectation for the next aural horror. *** dave phillips "IIII" CD is by no means easy to access but if you manage to get into his eccentric sound-world full of noises from the nature/, slamming doors, voices, humming, fire, water, birds, syrens and screams of momentary madness then you will understand and re-define the label "extreme noise". really personal collage of body-sounds, self-built electronic devices that make strange bleeping sounds and lot of long pauses and extreme changes/ cut-ups and a nearly-manifest promoting respect to creatures and nature. eco-noise? inserted in a silk-screened nice white cloth-bag. *** mexican power authority "i just want it to be easy" LP *** zabloudila "plyta kmpaktwa niskzumowa" CD offer 3 songs and almost an hour of improvised noise-wall con/destructed by guitars, basses, female singing and whispering, tribal-drumming. collectively they are jamming around and exploring the vast fields of never-really-determined music just existing for the moment and living by the freshness of experimentation in sounds and noises. *** vialka "tonight i show you fuck" CD is one of my favourite recordings in these dayz of general depression and desorientation, but it is fukken to short and leaves you screaming for more. unbelieveable what a range of no-wave  jazzy tunes marylise, eric and jacopo are able to create in just 24:27 mins. this might be partially sabot finally managing to play their intellectual head-music with guts and with the quirky groovy approach good and very old nomeansno had maybe in their good old dayz. but this definitely more than unispired copyratting. high-speed mtv-rock'n'roll-circus with escapes into french world of chansons and greek-inspired catchy tunes. colors for your miserable life, if you don't fall in love with the nice cover and the eccentric back-cover you must be a zombie. so whenever i feel down they "show me fuck" or maybe that i should not take the mean world outside too serious. with a good dose of humor you can survive every personal collapse of your worlds. *** hermit/ e. boros "cabaret experimental" mCD live performance in athens @ small music theatre (14/10/02). mCD with recycled postcards as covers thus you have your personal cover (mine showing the phallic eiffel tower), musically finest canadian cabaret-noise with lot of humor. you have laughters and noise-entertainer eric telling you the joke about a little baby polar-bear doing some excurses into experimental noise soundscapes and manic aggressive noise-bursts. highly fresh stuff with lot of originality giving you a good time.
 coming soon: noisecuador v/a CDR (feat. armenia, acerrimamente, estupida melodia, taurux, eatm, deja vu alibi!, guanushca)
macska leves v/a CD (feat. andrei dergatchev (RUS), bastard noise (USA), dave phillips (CH), cock esp w/art pratten (USA), g.las (D), sudden infant (CH), kiko & marylise (CH/F), gábor tóth (H), jalopaz (USA), zabloudil (CZ), completely fucked-up society (CH), urbaNOXfailure (SK), tea man with tea gum (RUS), no exit (CH), the hermit deconstruction (CAN/D/F).

complication no. 27  (cmplctn#27 / florian, p.o.box 30 11 30, 04251 leipzig, germanie - schlafpunx@antisocial.com - http://www.cmplctn27.da.ru/ ) slackism "... and the deal w/ consciousness called moradorm-s" is limited to 9 copies and i guess it will be hard to get one and maybe i should look up in the compendium of contemporary drugs and then i know what strange deals floh is doing in order to create his strange musick. well, one side is basically short samples of electronic bleeps, klicks and not really static shit. abstract electronoise? second side with 2 songs lasting a bit more than 1 minute but consistently not lasting longer than 2 mins. nice stamps from nippon as cover reminding the good old tradition of warhol pop-art reproduction. in some way this might follow the japnoise tradition (second side) but i know that floh is not really into traditions (only the tradition of keeping up to be a lazy bone), so forget about it! comes close to a cassette-single. fragments of a fucked-up technoized world. use technology and make something creative with it, but in some way this is sober distant cold freaking-out technology. repulsive and ... anarchist? //// schlafpunx/ schönheit der jugend: sdj with two melancholic guitartunes, noisepop instrumental mild distorted delayed two-guitar structures promising you that there might be a tomorrow and maybe the tomorrow will be again your day. but now everything is fucked outside and you prefer to stay inside becuz you don't want to meet anybody. music for the innerspective minutes. schlafpunx even more antisocial in some way with raindrops in the background, starting with two-chord monotony, then chord strumming and whispering, in some way creating a way more intimate atmosphere than sdj who is more cool and distant. filigrane structures and living from the sound itself. in a very nifty "real-existing socialism" designed bag for flour (functional and pretty sober, but still stylish!). if this is not the recycling-art that i like... short pieces, momentary pictures of a fading present. //// johan berghaus/ slackism (lim. 50): slacky with 12 looped structures, catchy. mostly starting from a very simple song idea but never getting boring and changing from song to song moods with different sources and loops always keeping up the tension and it is a nice adventure to follow floh's soundscapes, good and creative use of his sampler! chaotic loops. repetition with slight variation. johan berghaus is basically playing almost rhythmical videogames. this is dance-orientated stuff not meant to be played in your local discotheque where dumb redneck consume zombies are killing their miserable existence. amazingly increasing structures and songorientated instrumental synth-sounds structures with a vicious heart and a psychotic soul. mister berghaus should get a big deal and put out millions of releases, if i was a talent-scout.... *** hermit/ dobra minus (lim. 21) hermit begins with soundchecking his gear, checking out different atnal frequencies and filters yu know. slowly building up with classical ouverture, protesting poultry going wild. oh well, i remeber this glorious night at cedric's exhibition of furniture and sculptures. cheese, grapes, wine and bread. eric with nice clothes sitting at a table in front of his gear. we had a very good time. apparently dobra minus had also a good time at their cottbus gig. drones with bass, synth and effects and other technical gadgets. dobra minus is mostly relaxing sounds, chillout-noise? the non-plusultra is the artwork and packaging done by achim lehtrab. partially burnt cardbard and glued-on garbage. *** slackism.schönheit der jugend collab. CD/tape *** ka/ origami olympika/ kobi/ tore h. boe live CD is from the bootlegged series with live recording of these norwegian wizard of weirness-ambientnoise from (20/6/02) ranging from (self-description rules!) "droney crackling electro-acoustics in a slightly weird surrealist setting", "sport broadcast videos with massive drone music" to "creating sounds from various objects, mainly acoustic, weaving them into carpets of sound matter". 55 mins. of soundscape adventure into nordic polarlight dimensions. *** minus ktv "l'echo du monde" is a live-mix set from the aural assault at zoro (8/11/02). radical mix of free-jazz saxophones & basslines with classical pompous chorals, ambiental and noisy (non)structures and with records you usually find in flea-markets. left me in a good mood and i wanted to start a rip-off project too immediately, but first i have to end 10.000 of other things and projects. this is it. get it or not. this is music i want to hear played at the national radio! *** miniCD-series: zwei wölfe kommen nach berlin und verhungern dort (lim. 26) - 2 nice hectic songs throwing together simple jingle-like synth stuff, scratches and breaking beats and noises for your pleasure. it is a re-release of an ultra-rare tape-release on milchstrasse. lasts not longer than the average time i spent in the supermarket. like always wrapped in something special, this time it is a plastic what-was-maybe-supposed-to-be table-cloth. *** not a regular release from the c27 empire this is a limited to 11 pieces shortie with 3 mins. of slackism sampling cut-up adventure looping madness. the song is titled "mine" and is straight forward improvised combination of short sampling bits and moody piano-loops giving you some kind of ambiental safety (but there is no safe place on this ugly planet...) *** nugget lunch "outofomission" takes you to the land where maybe you will find negativland and the likes, lot of stolen and recycled stuff to find here, combined to a very varied 20-mins. of twisting changing of patterns, noises, voices and distant explosions. changes exactly there where it is necessary to keep up the intensity and where it is necessary to stop with the groove. very nice inlet and cover giving you a bit information but lot of information-overload to say the least. (lim. to 26/1st ed.)
 
ok finally fakezine (www.fakezine.tk ) webzine for contemporary experimental music and [sub]culture is out!in our attempt to move (take a step across) the borders of the contemporary music scene, this is our small scratch or glitch in the vast desert of plastic or vinyl discs and mind categories. like the name itself tells, this cyberspace thing u r looking at is a webzine dedicated to what we like. the thing we live for. contemporary experimental music and [sub]culture. fake zine will be released irregularly by acid fake recordings. there will be interviews, articles, reviews and any form of artworks that are in correlation with before mentioned categories. it will be designed according to acid fake's view of design and design principles. fake zine will continue to develop as the scene itself grows with the possibility of adding other formats like print. fake zine is part of acid fake recordings.
 
microcassetor  volume 2 is being compiled now. record whatever you want onto microcassette tape and mail it, along with 4" X 4" black and white art, if you like, to sounds from the pocket, 211 B south hope street, hampton virginia 23663 usa. noise, music, dog farts. packaging is hand fashioned recycled LP's, limited to about 50 copies. free copy to those appearing on finished product. microcassetor is a series. volume one still available. see details about microcassette comp. to hear some microcassette stuff:
http://www.mp3.com/microcassettor - http://microcassettor.iuma.com
gerald fiebig ist die dreifaltigkeit des virtuellen raumes. wer's nicht glaubt soll nachschauen: http://www.gebrauchtemusik.de (online-fanzine für musik, homerecording und geräuschpop); http://www.mathiashuber.de/jesusjackson (jesus jackson und die grenzlandreiter - die virtuelle hausmusikgruppe); http://www.geraldfiebig.net . v/a "anarchie und montag" CDr with meister leder, thorsten propeller, bernhard kübler, lustige mützen, die beatpykmähen, mathias huber, der bayer, www.gebrauchtemusik.de, deep, das trunkene lied, jesus jackson und die grenzlandreiter, el retardo.

recordings for the summer is putting out release after release and has up to 10 releases in the pipeline. always strictly limited stuff and highly arty packages with lot of recycled material. you can make contact through agent nautilus_comets@hotmail.com :
"angst. braucht keine angst zu haben" split cassette with cfs vs. [min] "186 wege aus der isolation" (lim. to 36) 2 tape maniacs fill the space of a c60 with different tape-collages, minidisc sampling bits of more or less personal audio diary. well, it is hard to describe a sound-carrier that has been produced just becuz you wanted to show off your creative ego, haha. so i stop and you start ordering, hehe. also released by gürteltiertapes.
"morphem 8-1" compilation on 30minutes cassette, harsh noise and a bit experimental stuff from g-hörsturz (germany), the earwigs (usa), sonic disorder (usa), cock e.s.p. (usa), kummieband & glebstoff (germany), emil beaulieul (usa), the gynger effect (usa), cfs vs. [min] (swiss). all tracks unreleased! limited edition to 16 pieces in special package
sudden infant "philanthropic phalanges" CD starts with wild scratching slowing down to the word-pair "foot/feet" combined with snarling doors, vinyl locked grooves, voices, noises and samples and loops. when somebody was knocking at the door, the first time it sounded so real that i immediately got confused. unfortunately my copy is so fucked-up that i only can play 6 mins. and the the extreme digital cut-up of fucked-up burning starts to play. nice grey sparse package with finger/toenail-clippings glued on the cover (the copper at the austria border asked what this is and we replied with a laughter "art. soundart.")
 
radio obsolete recordings (andrew seal, 129 farmer st. 3rd floor, buffalo NY, 14207, usa - Tote_stadt@yahoo.com ) "tote stadt/ the nautilus decnstruction" what once used to be praying for oblivion now is tote stadt and it is more dark & somber than it used to be. imagine metropolis full of mutants, cyborgs and zombies waiting for the final day. mostly distorted dark drones with a bit screaming and a touch of old-school industrial. the 5th song reminds a bit of noisy mixture of butthole surfers and especially blurred jesus and the mary chain. pretty fresh reduction of songideas repeated ad infinitum creates monotonous moods, but i tend to like it, becuz access is pretty direct this way. the nautilus deconstruction is by no means not easy to access. there's no real point to start from except maybe voice as soundsource, noises made with mouth and cheap microphone. in my humble opinion this is excellent high-standard concrete noise with tapes and reduced background noises from water,  paper plastic, garbage and cadavers. it's totally eccentric noise-fetishism reminding me a bit sudden infant stuff, but this is of course unique and great and not only a cheap clone. highly (not only) entertaining and inspiring. great moments in conceptual but still not totally determined noise-world. amazing how a chain of banal noises in itself can create such a tension. nauti gets better and better and has now step by step his chaotic noiseworld under his control but he does not forget about the magic of kaaos.

scrotum rec. (björn liebmann, pobox 510118, 09044 chemnitz, germany) mr. natural "D" okay. three sonx of noisy textures effect-manipulated, mechanically produced chaos-noiseambient. simple ideas, but amazing variety of result. this is a totally irreversible process, nothing is like it used to be afterwards. something has drastically changed. maybe everything is possible again, maybe the bad won over the good guy, but yes, the world is still spinning on. highly dynamic & progressive noise-wave-scapes taking you by the hand and gently showing you an alternative soundworld. thank mr. natural there is more. maybe this is psycho-active noiseambient? cold 6000, brown's requiem (!) and axminster 6400 just left me amazed & puzzled.

crimson rec. (roberto hollanda, c.p. 130 - ag central, rio de janeiro, rj 20001-970, brazil - arlequimhc@yahoo.com.br) slackism "eitriges etwas" CD opens up with some stuff that has already been released as a tape back in year 2000. minimal but effective sound miniatures and loops, you don't need more than this in order to keep your listening audience interested enough. some sonx don't need more than one general idea plus a bit variation and modulation.

pck splotch music (pobox 301130, 04251 leipzig, germany - florafock@gmx.net  - http://www.pck-splotch-music.da.ru ) dobra minus "heelflip me!" CDr is one hour of dreamy fairy tale drones with slowly progressing and echoing soundscapes, occasionally stroked guitars and basses, contact-miked stuff and things they found in their recording room that revealed its acoustic treasures. lot of different stuff to listen to, recorded just before the slovakia tour in fall 2002.

urbanfailure/ urbanox (lim. 23)"mcrsndzRECYCLEver1.02" 3"CD once again tobias and miso join forces and create a short audio-message with the help of analog noises from self-built boxes and fucked-up manipulation of digital-sound-software. well, fogg, this is already one year old and surely not available anymore. *** urbanfailure "generated experience" CDr shows you what miso was exploring and experiencing in the second half of the year 2k2. eleven flights to different sound-galaxies and mind-expanding/blowing territories. slowly-changing pulsating crackling sounds, helicopters flying around starting pseudo-battles with low-tone threatening audio-weapons. well, sometimes it is relaxed and relaxing but sometimes it develops into chaotic, hectic soundscapes. the absence of human/ nature soundsources makes it fukken technoid. in some way it is not really the "uplifting techno-trance" miso usually tends to label his contemporary electronic sounds.   http://urbsounds.szm.sk

napalmed (radek kopel, lipova 1123, 43401 most, czech rep. - napalmed@volny.cz - http://www.napalweb.host.sk ) napalmed "never mind the MSBR, here's the napalmed" CD with 2 tracks lasting up to 72 mins. of spontaneously improvised harsh industrial/ noise. an orgy of feedback from effect pedals, iron scraps treatment, insane voices, distant industrial hammering. the first song is too much dominated by phased feedback effects in my opinion. but the second song remains interesting for almost the whole duration and that is nearly 1 hour. a mixture of psychedelic windblowing, rhythms and patterns, accoustic-guitar treatment, random noises, generally with much more intense atmosphere than the first piece. in the mood the titlesong is not so pissed-off like the opener and sounds seem to be much more clear and one can hear helluva different sounds. the song even offers different changes in tempi (extreme doom industrial) and in combination change in mood. well, this for sure was a good session for this time fourpiece napalmed. the unique artwork done by radek gives the CD also the visual colors with lots of clippings from surely scientific magazines, catalogs for industrial tools. napalmed is also label and distribution, so check out also the miriads of stuff he has to offer.

archegon ( archegon@t-online.de - http://www.archegon.de ) six and more "way out" CD is documenting the musical highlights of 4 gigs this experimental open project performed during 1999 to 2001. 16 sonx lasting from 1 mins. up to nearly 10 mins. they played their improvised electro/akustic music in a dusty barn with cows paying a visit and wondering what the 2-legged creatures are doing with the strange tools they have brought from their big cities. there are many quite intense moments, tension is built up, some minimal basic structures are developped and dissolved in the next moment. it is amazing that so many actors can harmonically in some way get along (sometimes more than 10 people involved). collectively improvisation at unusual places and in inspiring environment. 

http://www.littlebrutalravebastards.de -over the edge dancemusic for non existing dancefloors-

muuna takeena is no more. sorry about this, but I just do not have time and energy for it anymore. also, the MT stuff has got mighty tired and busy with their lives. so sorry, but I apparently I got old. I'm not going to give up publishing totally. but more about that later, so keep your minds open. so no more stuff for review for me, thank you. thanx to all for the time and patience and trust. love you all. "Palonen" < palonen@mbnet.fi >

welt am draht (karlstr. 41, 38106 braunschweig, germany - marc.aseipp@tiscalinet.de ) cocinox "bachfugen" & datoistic imago CD

stillstand (http://www.stillstand.net - stillstand@gmx.de ) KA vs. origami olympika "a summernight in june" CD (lim.27) 30 min. of pure summerdepression starts with barking dogs and applauding audience (KA) followed by a deep pulse and telecommunicative communication. *** discotheque grönland "saugnapf oder wie kann man nur so blöd sein?!" CD (lim. 27) *** crank sturgeon/ discotheque grönland "split your ears" CDr (lim. 32) visually wrapped up in nice green cardboard joined by pro-layout small booklet that is glued on it. starting with discotheque grönlands ambient drones of long reverbating soft tones and surgically application of short noisy bits and layers for almost 20 mins, maybe you will forget the hectic of your daily life, but the next song brings you back to the epileptic nightmare of sound-information-overload of looped short samplings and in the background a cold polar wind blowing. but the next 3 songs will calm you down again a bit, but this for sure is not happy go party music, describing the next possible catastrophy sometimes or just being a bit melancholic. crank sturgeon is starting the don quichote battle against tapes, dictaphones, records, stringy-objects that make funny sounds, mixing it up with street field recordings and shortwave radio receivers. random akustical social studies maybe?

trash tapes (phantomnoise rec., postfach 301326, 04253 leipzig, germany - http://www.phantomnoise.com ) dreadmore & matt demmon splitCDr (lim. 100)

lnp (maarten kleywegt, duyn v. maesdamstraat 50, 7391 vn twello, holland - mkleywegt@hotmail.com - http://www.angelfire.com/nb/lnp ) the industrial wiping system "kaliemia" CDr

disdrug this fuck "betonska dzungla" CD. kontakt: skrajnik@doctor.com

helicopter (24846 walnut st #205, newhall ca 91321 usa - http://home.earthlink.net/~johnwiese ) man is the bastard: bastard noise "throne is melting" CD

chromatic idiot "untitled" (bartek kalinka, ul. slneczna 9, 05-870 blonie, poland - http://terra.pl/xvp ) (june 2001)
chromatic idiot is new collab project between two polish exp. noise units xv parowek & prisoner of flesh (warsaw area). recorded using a feedback system. made of chosen live improvisation fragments. probably a successful search for unusual, weird sounds - a real experimentation. feedback goes into varied states of complicated structures, sometimes into fake melodies or rhythms that amazed the authors. CDR comes in thin jewel box, with b&w laser printed cover.

ruido de odio / armenia "ruido de protesta" CD (jose jimenez a., casilla 09-01-16478, guayaquil- ecuador - chivolodiskos@hotmail.com or leonardo sabato, casilla 09-01-15206, guayaquil- ecuador - lsabatto@hotmail.com ) in some strange ways this kicks ass, i don't know why, maybe i am always fascinated by the direct hatered of some "exotic" bands. in some way they are really meaning what they are shouting, also good point is that they shout it in spanish. of course i have to insist that this is nothing new, but i still like to hear stuff like this from time to time, when i feel like listening to straight-forward crust-HCpunk. armenia is then a bit more into (harsh) noise. extreme feedback distorted whatever-was-the-soundsource. sometimes i like stuff like this but sometimes i just don't get it, what is the intention.

insofar vapor bulk (c/o danchenko, solnechnaya 7-17, odintsovo-10, 143000, russia - com.eudoramail@eudoramail.com - http://uk.co.8bit.co.uk)  government alpha/ msbr/ notchnoi prospect "Live at Krai, Moscow, 28-06-98" CD *** andrei dergatchev "just what i feel" CD Delirious Concrete music. Another great electroacoustic work by one of the most talented musicians from THEREMINcentre - Moscow community of enthusiasts. *** cisfinitum "landschaft" CD ***   (russian name) a cross-cultural compilation. new full length CD: a first attempt of music/art collaboration between russian and other cultures. all tracks were composed and recorded during summer/autumn 2001 exclusively for this compilation. CD is packed in strange deformed digipak case with surreal images and texts.

zweifel CD

petty bourgeois broadcasts (pobox 568, 4005 basel, swizzerlanth - kingmongol@hotmail.com) níƉ "många myggor, mycket öl" CD was originally a recording released on a very ltd. split cassette with D.A.R.K. from england and is now available as unlimited CDr. it is a very moody drone of up to half an hour. this would not be okay like this but the three fine people involved like to de-construct the totally balanced and soft structures of neverending ambientesque drones with noisy bits and field recordings and much more different soundsources from different analog and digital devices and plugged in tools. always improvised but not just jamming around without intention, so this is resulting mostly in a collective aural sculpture effort with high standard.

transgredient Rec. ( troum@dronerecords.com - http://www.troum.com ) troum: tjukurrpa (part two:drones) this for sure could be labelled as "transcendental noise" or "dark atmospheric ambient industrial". maybe it is the shamanic approach or escape to the inner world of maybe even subconsciousness. but normally you're awake and so you stand in the door that might open up for you and you are beginning to see what might be behind the open door, but you don't see it very clear, it looks like a dream or maybe a nightmare (depends in what mood you are). it is up to you if you want to step into this new room and dimension. you can also sit down and just listen and reflect about deep thoughts, maybe there might result a progression in your mind. surely expanding your world. 5 drones with deep names like "scurphen", "dhren", "trahan", "afgod" & "tiefenrausch" (what can happen to you if you have to much co2 in blood while you are scubadiving i guess). definitely trying to unlink to the physical reality and stepping into the spiritual soundworld.

dhyana records (bernd spring, rosenaustrasse 16, 86150 augsburg, germany - bernd@dhyanarecrds.com - http://www.dhyanarecords.com ) first of all, there is a 630MB mp3 database waiting for you. all the compilations available for download. great, then you will die by music-overkill. double CD compilation and fucking great: V/A "short circuit. no bang" 2 xCD comp. with The Swagger (Pop-Poet!), Zeitgeist, Wardrobe Memories, Steve Nardini, Persian Empire (Pavement-Cover!), Beta Evers (von Kommando6!), Bidol Cath (yeah!), Para.Mecium, Claire Kapisky, Onq, Modulator, Das Moustacheprojekt, Oscillator, Death Sitcom, Recoda und Bantu Mantra & Jesus Jackson. B: Kitty Empire (rock!), Braut Die See, Pit (!), Morose (hit!), Zimno Zima (wow!), Deep (Cure-Cover), Sascha Müller, Baradelan, The Nether-Carols, Der Bdolf, Susp. Breeds Conf., Hidden Tech., Flora Fock, Florian F., Xotox, Worlds Ab-Art, Tesendalo, Slackism, Intrauterin Alliance, Inox Kapell. much stuff to discover and always good wellknown stuff to discover. very good in presentation and sounds. always source of inspiration and a kick in my lazy ass if i listen to stuff from this finest label. music has much to do with heart and soul, this sounds a bit cliched, but here you have lot of it. gives a warm feeling although the world outside is cold and hostile. *** dr. treznok/ cocaspar/ inoxkapell - bei supamolly  3"CDr. " a neat little CDR release, which was recorded earlier this year by a bmost odd trio: Inox Kapell, Co Caspar and Dr. Treznok. Knowing the I never heard of him. These six tracks are mostly improvisations built around acoustic instruments, except for one piece which is a Co Caspar piece (with his trademark use of sound effects). Instruments include found sounds, wind instruments and Caspar's metallic pipes. They play along nicely in these strange, yet atmospheric sounds of ço" CD-comp. with hinterlandt (birds, cats, monkey, easy-listening grooves, frogs, roosters drops, funky basslines, organs, d'n'beats), sputnik booster (distorted electropop, a tune that could go on and on), die grenzlandreiter (simple songwriting here, a simple song that keeps up the ramones-tradition but much more socio-political, in some way totally catchy song), margarin grain (in some way country/folk influenced rocksong that tells you something about wonderland motel and having a good time in motels and on roads maybe?), jugendstil (indie with drive but not really edges, could be broadcasted in student's radio), object astra (a very good and tight song in the onq/colors from behind tradition), v. (endless automatic loops lasting 3 mins.), redcode (bastard breakbeats with voice samples), pichismo (esperanto noise this time, sometimes they play strange pissed-off psychedelic punkHC), s/m operations (machines going wild and beating the shit out of the artificial designer-laptopped head(but no heart)music, computer white-noise?). on the envelope-cover you see the feet of a very well-known person in the fine underground and the comments to the songs are translated by a totally fucked-up module who in the end describes music much more apt than me. like always lot of fresh and excellent stuff of projects and bands i did not know they even existed. maybe this time a bit short (34:54) but with that you can relax and be surprised in a short but reasonable time. my three mutated thumbs up! *** v/a "sold out in 2003" CD-comp. was a nice present for costumers and friends of dhyana records coming together with a calender of the year 2003 promoting all the sold-out trash that is no more piling up in bernds' living space. once again proofing that dhyana is a fine and tasty soundpollution. *** deep "drivedeepdownhill" double-mCD is downhill bass-dominated psychedelia, some bits sound like desolated and disorientated monotonous cure-sessions from the pornography-era, which is very close to me (aha!). basically a 40 mins. session with a bit of distant singing at the beginning and some whistling birds, afterwards rhythmical phased/flanged bass-feedback drones into spheric soundscapes. very nice short photostory about downhill in forests. with some part of the tire on the cover.

pe lang (pelang56@hotmail.com ) "raumtransport 20:57" CDr (lim.25) is a very nice minimal sounding piece of sound but not with totally easy concept behind. basic sound origins from a feedbackloop from a 2,5 meter spring reverb (check: http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/epeasant/projects/springs/springs.html ) and a fixed filter bank (don't ask me what it really is...). if you're listening on headphones, then you will hear that sounds wander through different spatial dimensions, this is achieved realistically with an altiverb plug-in. on the CDr you will also find a program written in max/msp/jitter and is a short research about the relation of frequencies between tones, movement, light and colors and planets. venus f.e. has a basic frequency of 221.23 hz on the 32nd octave resulting in "a", color is "yellow-orange", tempo is 103,7 beats per mins. in the 25th octave with a pendular length of 8,3 cm. oh well, maybe this scientific ambient? the result is appalling(?) and relaxing, in some way even meditative sounds. pretty sober but functional artwork of the cover, with very sparse information. maybe it is no coincidence that it reminds me of the stuff i have been exposed to by carsten nicolai/ raster-noton. this for sure is hardcore reflection of the basiscs of accustical phenomenas and experiments. but despite of getting across the cold and remote spheres of academic research this release sounds in some way from the warm and emotional heart by itself. no dry explanations necessary.

one-touch rec. (philipp wolokitin, opochinina 5-20, 199106 st. petersburg, russia - monopolka@pisem.net - http://www.trilobit666.narod.ru/index2/index2.htm ) happening oklahoma symphony "hong bao" CDr

minipli 550 "schneid dein minipli" CDr. http://www.megapeng.net/minipli.html there are CDs i wished would continue forever. here's more or less everything i like from the electropop 80ies and what reminds me of good old dayz full of broken hearts, personal problems and problems with teachers. colors for daily struggle and the people who make your live turn into hell can fuck off! positive energy. sunshine against clouds. but beware this is not superficial sunshine!

 1000+1 tilt (pobox 23045, athens 11210, greece - suckerpunch@mail.gr http://www.geocities.com/tiltrecordings ) cities in desolation "demo, anavyssos session part I, 1/03" is what i call pretty pschedelic noise-industrial with cello and psychoactive electronics. takes you by the hand and leads you into a distant world of dreams and possible nightmares, but it is up to you, normally moods are of a melancholic intro-spective nature and not really hostile to you. maybe to you it might sound hostile but for me it developped a pretty familiar feeling although mostly i did not have a clue what was going on or what will really happen in the next moment. *** drog a tek "23:46" CDr starts with the really long titletrack with delayed guitar picking, harmonium and some pitched single tone keyboards. relaxed but also a bit melancholic and sad. second song slowly exploring rhythmically and humble two guitar sound-worlds. third song is  a straight late-night session to dance to.  guitar/toms based tribal waves that come and go and somehow distorted whistling or flute?after these songs stuff gets electronic. fifth song reminds me of digital distortion and fucked-up CDs, sounds great. sixth song could be a commercial for a robot adventure park of secret dreams. more than 1 hour of different  beautiful soundtrips. *** p.s. stamps back "78" CD is iasons computer-only music output with a little help from ed kemper. 12 songs that create different moods, but mostly tendencially psychotic or just strange/ eccentric. the master of the laptop-mouse knows how to combine loops and to contrast sounds, textures and voice samples.  *** in case you are interested, this is a diy mailmusic project, for free and unconventional music creation. forward to your allies, hide it from insurance agents/ cops/ judges/ artists/ advertisers/ bankmanagers etc. the goal is to promote collaboration and sharing of ideas between people who do music. the main idea is this: someone creates a sound, drone, loop, rhythm or complete track. s/he then sends it over to someone from the mail musicians list. the receiver can effect process, destroy, cut and paste, throw away, mix add sounds and tracks etc and either produce a "song" or send it over to another mail musician for the continuation of the same process until one feels that the track is finished. or someone is picking up a track from the tracks to use list. the resulting material is sent to this site, it is uploaded in mp3 format, and it is generally free to be used in any releases by any mail musician.

electric shaman "kozmik zikir" CD ( kozmik_zikir@yahoo.com - http://www.geocities.com/electric_shaman2002 ) all in all 15 pretty short sonx here, what makes it a bit weird. and then most of the sonx are even faded out. improvised guitarmusic supported by sparse synth sounds, sounds like 4-track homerecording. some of the trax have rhythmical patterns with basslines. there is an obvious psychedelic approach or mood.

 INSIDE online-artzine #10 http://www.inside-artzine.de Art, Shortstories, Animations & Information. wie immer qualitativ hochstehendes artwork mit viel hass, zynismus und geballte negativität in your fucking ugly face. irgendwie wird hier schon die hässlichkeit auf höchstem niveau zelebriert. der reale alptraum beginnt wohl hier. trotzdem, auf papier käme das alles wohl einiges besser, denn irgendwie will nicht so recht lust bei mir aufkommen die wohl bitteren texte auf dem flimmernden bildschirm anzugucken. jenz@inside-artzine.de

Motor166 ( prodigyant@worldnet.att.net - http://motor166.tripod.com ) "static sky" CDr (2002) offers you 20 songs exploring the vast fields of experimental digital noise. what surely makes it cool is the ability not wanting to sound like everybody else who's using software trackers, effects and samples. - "corrosive" CDr (2002) much more odd and strange with voice bits between the "sonx" than the more static previous CDr. Funny to see songtitles like "die ende von es" and to hear pieces like "california noise" that consists basically in field recordings and voices with a bit of effect manipulation. - "soundbox" CDr (2003) starts with a very long (21:38) voice and noise manipulation, people discussing about anarchism and god, money and whatever. the last song is also lasting more than 20 mins. and titled as "blue candy monkey train" blasts your ears of with electric hurricanes and sandstorms.

TK.CK. CD

selfshit CDr tight hcpunk assault with drummachine and noisy approach from belarus. 9 sonx in 10 mins. so you get the full rage straigth into your face. you even get get 2 coversongs: "punk as fuck" by lawnmower death and "isolation" by joy divison. in some parts it sounds like mean deathmetal, but it is definitely too much punk influenced. kontakt: (for green), igor konik, pobox 205, minsk, 220107 belarus. also kontakt for the xerotika cut'n'paste collage comic zine. green sent me #14 and it is written in russian, so i dont understand the meaning of the kyrilic symbols. but it looks in some way similar to some weird stuff l. blissett or any other mailartists did, but also here there is obviously a big influence by punk and that is always good to see. xerotika@newmail.ru

doghouse (http://www.monochrom.at/cracked - cracked69@hotmail.com ) "demo1.b" & "demo 2" CDr. first demo offers you 11 with numbers titled trip-hop(?) mostly straight-forward songstructures. but georg never opted for the obvious and safe way, so welcome to some weirdness and oddness. normally i would lose interest very soon in such styles like this, but this for sure has more originality and rawness to offer than the average house/acid/trance section output. in some way it is pure fun and maybe it is also meant as some kind of parody, i don't know really, but i think georg really means it. it is totally diy approach and fresh like this. the kids in the clubs would maybe hate it or be irritated and that is way more cool. but the chance that music like this is played by djs in nice sterile clubs where lot of superficial people gather to have their superficial smalltalk about fashion and latest records, is really meager. maybe life in such clubs would be more interesting with diy electronica? i doubt. i don't know much about such styles, so i cannot write that much about it. visit georg finest and always funny and cynic webpages. he did the very very good cracked zine that obviously is not coming out as zine anymore, it's now electronic on the web. have a good time with that all-time redneck.

gerda grimm, hebebrandstr. 2 a, 22297 hamburg, germanie. totstellen "III" tape/CDr *** totstellen/ phrenophonia c60 *** bambulesolitape für 5€ with elektro, wave, metal, break, violence, punk. also contact for the fine no-way-out distro with self-screenprinted patches, stickers and more.

a jar of plum jam (ivan mitrevski, ljubljanska 89, 1230 domzale, slovenia - ivanmitrevski@hotmail.com ) is a very cute comic booklet consisting of one story about an animal-couple that had an argument, the male fucks off, the female starts to worry and goes to the forest to look for her loved one and the rest won't be revealed. it all started just becuz of a stupid jar of plum jam. only symbols used so maybe different cultures can understand this story.

gaze into a gloom#2 (GIAG, pobox 15, riga lv-1011, latvia - giag@mail.ru) is a free magazine covering industrial, ambient and gothic. this time: blood axis (right-wing shit although the interviewer believes that the head of this band is no nazi), merzbow (gig-report), thom kurotenshi (jap. emotional electronica), staalplat records, and the fabulous drag queen reviewer gary simmons in a manic-depressive way on prozac. and lots of reviews.

kadef (kalojan witanski, saalestr. 12 a, 35260 stadtallendorf, germany) has out lot of limited and special packaged tapes with (art)noise. this for sure is tapeculture.

krankekunstverlag (c/o tim siebert, stubbenkammerstr.5, 10437 berlin, deutschlanth -  maldoror222@aol.com - http://krankekunstverlag.com/ ) ist die homepage der vielseitig aktiven crew um die musikprojekte krankheit der jugend++gedankent.raum++on her tongue++d.werk++schwarzerde++nebenprojekte...und literaturprojekte betonbruch fanzine++stadt-rand-bild anthologie++x-hoch-x/ neue literatur++maldo:ror++sonderhefte. ich habe den kontakt verloren und verschlampt und werde den wieder aufnehmen. neuigkeiten: krankheit der jugend basteln an der best of cd box mit einer cover- bzw. remixed cd ( u.a. mit blumen in erichs garten uvm. ). desweiteren arbeitet man an dem buch zum zehnjährigen bandbestehen und an einer neuen cd.live wird krankheit der jugend auf dem römersee festival zum ersten mal in veränderter formation und bedeutend elektronischer zu sehen sein. im herbst fogt eine kleine tour. gedankent.raum arbeiten noch immer an der neuen cd “ liebe und andere verschwörungstheorien “. sie wird aber nach über einem jahr im sommer erscheinen. freiheit für franz-josef-strauß heißt das neue psycho-digitale hardcore projekt von maldo:ror und sobrandi. momentan arbeitet man an den ersten songs um anfang nächsten jahres das erste konzert spielen zu können. maldo:ror arbeitet an der überarbeiteten version von legalize einsamkeit. es soll nun zu einer art rückblick über die gedicht veröffentlichungen werden und neues beinhalten. der verlag bereitet die veröffentlichung des neuen betonbruch fanzines( #8 ) und die planung der neuen anthologie vor.desweiteren ist eine promo cd geplant, die einen überblick über die aktuellen projekte bieten soll. für den cd sampler gang nach canossa II werden noch bands gesucht, die nicht gerade gängige musik machen.  

sex, death & ronald macdonald vol. 3, issue 21 (summer 2002) (vermicious knid, lupine ladies press, pobox 543, accokeek, md, 20607 usa - vermicious_knid_21@yahoo.com) is a cool thin zine into poetry, mailart and comics. always open to your stuff.

härter feat. rude look no. 9 (härter, postbox 100408, 04004 leipzig, germanie - frank.broeker@gmx.de - http://www.st-groessenwahn.de ) kommt immer dann raus wenn die zeiten möglichst hart sind. der symbiotische zusammenschluss für dieses feine heftproject mit rude look und der grafischen unterstützung durch das minotarus empire state building (jedenfalls für den umschlag) macht optisch was her und der inhalt ist dieses mal wirklich sehr sehr gut und inspirierend. ich selber habe mich in den letzten jahren ziemlich abgekapselt vom social beat kuchen und inzwischen scheint das biest zum grabe getragen. was ist passiert? haben sich die möchtegern-bukowskis zu tode gesoffen? haben sich die peinlich-burroughs-kopistInnen zu tode kopiert? gab's mal eine social beat scene? mit hauptsitz in berlin oder in asperg oder wo auch immer der chef-koordinator der subh residierte? ich schätze mal, das was immer schon gut war hat auch den kollaps überlebt und sich sowieso weiterorientiert und über den bierstiefelrand gekuckt. ein paar sind auf der strecke liegengeblieben oder torkeln noch benommen umher. vielleicht werden sie noch belächelt, aber sicher nicht ernst genommen. social beat has grown up. der jugendliche leichtsinn hat sich zu ernsteren parties aufgemacht. mensch macht jetzt den spagat zwischen noch nicht völlig abgelegter subkultur und eigentlich schon akzeptierter professionalität und fühlt sich wohl total schizophren. aber eigentlich ist's ganz einfach: auf den background oder die roots kommt's wohl an. härter hat überlebt und paddelt weiter und hält sich über wasser. so schafft's (sub)literatur auch vielleicht zu neuen ufern, wenn das überhaupt jemenschd will. (issn 1439-9865)

satyricon (macario, bp 347, 75232 paris cedex 05, france - macario@freesurf.fr) by ben& ( ben.lara@attglobal.net) is a fine french/ english commented collagebook. reminds me a bit of yates-stuff, but in my opinion ben& is much more direct and cynical.

karbonmusik (karbon, limmatstrasse 189, 8005 zürich, swizzerlanth - info@karbonmusik.ch - http://www.karbonmusik.ch) is a mailorder/ shop here in zürich and offers a good selection of electronica, experimental, noise, jazz, soundart and much more.

whizzbanger guide to zine distributors#6 (shannon colebank, the whizzbanger guide, pobox 5591, portland or 97228, usa) compiles selfdescription of distributors from 18 countries, incl. zine libraries, zine stores, dozens of zine-friendly web sites and many other valuable zine ressources. the disadvantage of such compilations sometimes is that people come and go and so obviously it is quite outdated after a year. but if you are not the total novice you will surely recognize the people who are "into it for life". in any way i found lot of inspiration and reasons to get in contact with some people/ projects here. it is an excellent ressource, edited with accuracy and you have lot of compressed, but still entertaining information here. shannon is putting out and updating this guide every year, so send your self-description or enough money and you will receive access to the exclusive circle of zinesters. *** aftermath is refreshingly critical rant towards the ugly face of us-capitalist-nation. it sums up the feelings of a shattered american dream after the terrorists'(?) attack (or was it the CIA?) at that well-known and now already totally symbolic day. in any way, good to read such thoughts that have nothing to do with that plastic pro-american dream that turns into nightmare if you are not a winner and if you look closer what mean implications it implies (bad english). the poems are written in a pissed-off, aggressive and in some way cynical tone throughout. georgie double-ya is the hero of a nation of brainwashed patriotics, idiots who buy the media lies about constructed and over-biased targetgroups of potential enemies. if you are not for capitalism then you are enemy of the democratic(!) state. the power of money still makes the world go round. *** death of culture is a book of poetry about the daily lies and commonly shared myths. *** flashpoint#3 is not only documenting the fact that aids does not exist, but also telling you something about the relation of aspartame/nutrasweet and brain cancer and other diseases and sideeffects related to this faboulous sweetener of diet-cokes and other industrially processed dead-food and beverage. lot of controversial and challenging information here, but sometimes i miss the clearness becuz it is such an information overload in the end. in some way sources of information are not totally clear documented, but it does not really matter. some stuff reminds me of some conspiracy theories, but maybe with some personal research you come to the same conclusion.

abolishing the borders from below #5/ 6 is an anarchist courier from eastern europe, a bi-monthly bulletin with information on different political and cultural anarchist/ autonomous activities in eastern europe. you can send info about protest, manifestations and other actions going on in your region. all materials (incl. graphics & photos) send to: abolishingBB@hotmail.com. if you want to help with distribution: wielkowitsch@hotmail.com - you will maybe find the latest copy in your fine local radical info-shop. well, it is a very informative and refreshing newsletter to read, although some of the stuff is a bit outdated, but it is for sure kicking ass to see with how much energy people everywhere in the east are keeping up the autonomous/ anarchist struggle despite of the repression that is sometimes even much more brutal than here in western countries.

sterz (mandellstrasse 10, 8010 graz, austria - sterzschrift@aon.at - http://www.sterzschrift.at ) ist eine unabhängige zeitschrift für literatur, kunst und kulturpolitik. suchen bis august beiträge zu identiät/en in lyrik, prosa, essay, foto, grafik, comic oder andere manier.

strongly opposed rec. (flurweg 29, 2504 biel, swizzerlanth, earth) has following fine vinyl stuff to offer (maybe now out of everything): brutal massacre "survival of the sickest" 7" 6 track debut ep by this swiss 2-piece raw, crustgrindpunk band. not only cos they are 2 they remind a bit of active minds, but also due to the energy of the songs. strahlkahl "strahlkahl" 7" 4 track debut ep by this swiss fourpiece, party reminding doom. comes with lyrics and cut'n'paste stuff. ask pablo about his fine united carrot lovers distribution list with lots of fine punkrock/crust related music, some zines and ask him about new releases. keeping up the spirit of the good old dayz that were not much better than the shitty times now. but sometimes it is good to think back and fucken hell in some way there was more energy around these dayz, it was more or less new and fresh and vital, but now it seems it is dying or just totally busy with trying to survive.

total annihilation distribution (evan, p.o.box 298, sheffield, s10 5xt, england.  evilevan666@yahoo.com -  ) is a fine distribution into diy punk, crust, grind and hardcore (tapes, vinyl, zines and patches). good ol'evan is producing a very fine godzilla-lovers zine. a bit of horror mixed with the daily horror of the (punk)circus and some stories of his strange travels and trips. at the moment it seems every issue is sold out. but check out other distributions, i highly recommend it. the review-section is now also online and the distribution-list too.

decades of confusion feed the insect#32 (218 buckingham place, philadelphia, pa, 19104, usa - eulogycontact@hotmail.com ) contains lot of nice artwork, drawings and written stuff. pretty spiritual stuff if you ask me, out of body experience, religious visions, icons & angels and stuff. maybe  there are some people who take drugs that are psycho-active?

romp info& plattenladen, postfach 6347, steinenstrasse 17, 6000 luzern 6, schweig is a nice diy-anarchopunk record/ tapes/ patches & whatever you need shop. good for you that they are open-minded and are carrying also other stuff.

mince core mailorder (jan frederickx, asberg 8, 2400 mol, belgium) good old uncle jan is totally into grindcore and related stuff and has lot of stuff to offer, ask for the list and step into the remote world of headbanging bastards.

gas world distribution (simon pare, 827 goldbourn, greenfield park, qc, j4v 3h4, canaduh - http://fade.to/gasworld ) has a great selection of underground records for some amazingly low prices. crust, grind, gore, punk, death and thrash. ask for free list.

bellow no. 5/ vol. 1 (bellow, box 35, c/o green leaf bookshop, 82 colston street, bristol bs1 5bb, uk - bellow1@bigfoot.com - http://www.bellow.org.uk ) is a newsletter basically about the international anarch@-feminist movement and its direct action and discussion, always good to see initiatives like this. If you can help with the distribution send us your postal address for a paper copy or an email address to receive a PDF version for printing out (you'll need 'Acrobat Reader' for this). Or simply download the PDF files from this site and print them out. We also come together at Women Speak Out gatherings, to organise direct actions, discussions, films, constructive larking and opinionated exchange. These gatherings attract women from all over the country and are held at regular intervals. #6 is available and online as well (oct./nov. 2002).

reason to believe zine#7 (reason to believe, 145-149 cardigan road, leeds, ls6 1lj, uk - info@rtbzine.org - http://rtbzine.org)  The 'Prison' Issue. Another 80 pager : Prisoner Support, Haven Distribution, How to Write to a Prisoner, Mark Barnsley, Rod Coronado, Resistance in the South Pacific, Fundacion De Estudios Liberarios, 'Are Free Zines Killing Small Zines ?' Direct Action Starts At Home, Better Breathing, Crispus Attucks,Stand, Managing An Allotment, Music News, Your Views, Zine, Book & Music Reviews!!
 
infected by dementia#1 (armantas geciauskas, pobox 186, vilnius LT-2000, lithuania - armaz@angelfire.com ) this time with demisor (grindgods(?) fromsingapore), pichismo (esperanto-core from russia), driller killer (swedish scandi-crust? i dont know them...) and other shit. nice mixture of chaos and information and spirit. pretty open-minded to many extreme styles, but total punk with cut-up paste, glue, scissors and typewriter and even handwriting. some unusual contacts may be found here. i also traded/ received #2 and i was reading some funny but in some tending to superficial interviews with dickless tracy (slov-crustgrind), etsetera/guerraeterna (for a change very interesting individual from puerto rico doing some exp. noisy stuff and experimental free-thought zine), australian label/distro into shit/noise/grind called smell the stench (sorry julian still owe you a letter or two with stuff...), s.m.e.s (pothead technogoregrind from holland), comix-reprint from the cute and beloved born again christians this time bashing the fucked-up youth lifestlye with speed and desorientation, always nice, but they really mean it! good and fresh zine again, messy layout and some hard to decipher fonts, but openminded and not totally correct zine (promoting fun hobbies of average and maybe frustrated bored white fuckers, you know what i mean...).

@-kontra is an anarchist magazine run by collective of CAS/CSAF people. #117 features legal information about repression in general and about antiNATO mobilisation in specific and brief history of the czech anarchism and some news. intersting and informative and available for solidarity prize. http://a-kontra.csaf.cz