This will be a great evening. If you're in the area of Denton, TX, you should come check it out.

Program 15: Suspense

Here's some dark/dreamy stuff I've been freaking myself out to lately.

Abner Malaty - Open [link]
Grønvirke - Appendicitis [link]
City Of Worms - Hichotomy [link]
Coup De Grace - Sick Of Living / Unwilling To Die [link]
Ewald Spiss - Siebenglasfuss [link]
S·Core - Symptom [link]
La Kuizine - Raomem (I'm Naked) [link]
Croiners - Untitled [link]
Atrax Morgue - Something Bad [link]

total: 43:50

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Suspense

Seesselberg

Synthetik 1 (LP, Self-Released, 1973, Germany)

1. Overtüre - "Jeder Ist Heutzutage Glücklich" - If Someone Survives, We Will Have A Return - Match (Konditionsmusik - 1972) (3:41)
2. Eintrachtkreis-Paranoia (Die 200jahrfeier Findet Nicht Statt - Kondominatsmusik - 1972) (1:02)
3. Verhütungsfreudenwalzer (Kontinenzmusik Für Eine Akademie 1973) (1:27)
4. Speedy Achmed (Verhaltensanweisung 1973) (3:46)
5. Studentenzucker - "Tue Gern, Was Du Tun Mußt!" (Konfektionsmusik 1973) (0:36)
6. "Die Menschen Sind Glücklich, Sie Kriegen, Was Sie Begehren, Und Begehren Nichts, Was Sie Nicht Kriegen Können - Laubsägebastler, Briefmarkensammler Und Brieftaubenzüchter Bilden Das Rückgrat Der Menschheit" (Kondolenzmusik 1973) (10:42)
7. Phönix - 1972 (10:14)
8. "Was Dir Heute Freude Macht, Das Verschieb Nicht Über Nacht!" (Kondensmusik Aus Einem Konzert Im Gallery-House London - 1973) (4:16)
9. Auszug Aus Einem Konzert In Der Düsseldorfer Kunsthalle 1971 (7:45)

This was posted by Mutant Sounds about two years ago, and blurbed about on Matrixsynth about a year ago, but I thought I would bring forth this mammoth recording once again. Seesselberg were a little known German brotherly experimental electronic duo. They recorded this record between 1971 and 1973 and released it themselves in a run of 1000. I am assuming this was all recorded using an intense rig of modular synthesizers and effects... I have a guess that they were using Serge machines from their lone YouTube video online, but also could have used hand-built equipment. This recording makes incredible use of the stereo spectrum. Rich filter sweeps and sample and hold patterns whoosh around your head. Some of the most impressive and out-of-this-world synthesizer sounds I have ever heard. Anyone that is a fan of abstract electronic music and/or freaked out psychedelic music should definitely check this out.

A small German compact disc label, Plate Lunch reissued this recording in 2002... which you can (I think?) purchase here.

The files are separated into two sidelong mp3s.

download here:
Seesselberg - Synthetik 1

La Kuizine

Maeror Tri

Subliminal Forces (Cassette, Tonspur Tapes, 1991, Germany)

1. Ambrosia
2. Unconscious Confusion
3. Sonitus 1
4. Caelum
5. A Mystic Smile
6. This Wonderful Sadness
7. Abditus
8. Memento

"This tape is dedicated to the Sub-Conscience!
For best effects use headphones and play at high volume!
Recordings made July 1990-January 1991.
Thanks to Stefan Schwab.

..like a waterfall in your mind..''

Headphone music, anyone?

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Maeror Tri - Subliminal Forces

Kapotte Muziek + Vidna Obmana post reuploaded, here.

Harsh Ears Now!! 2

Harsh Ears Now!! 2 (Cassette, Midas Tapes, 1986, Netherlands)

1. Kapotte Muziek - De Opstanding/Het Leven
2. THU20 - 4023
3. Dwarf Farm - I Wait For My Cure
4. Club Rialto - They Needed Me
5. Happy Halloween - Oh! The Night
6. The Vital Parts - Kindergarten
7. Jacinthebox - Taste
8. Jacinthebox - Dada
9. THU20 - 6554

Volume number two in a great compilation series from Midas Tapes. Lots of intense rhythms.

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Harsh Ears Now!! 2

International Musique Concrete Assembly

I.M.C.A. 1 (Cassette, Midas Music, 198?, Netherlands)

1. Untitled
2. Untitled

C-30 mail collaboration tape between 3 somewhat well-known sound manipulators. The initial recordings were by Frans De Waard (Kapotte Muziek)... then they were processed by Jos Smolders (IOSS), and John Hudak.

Interesting release. I definitely heard some teeth brushing in there.

download here:
International Musique Concrete Assembly - I.M.C.A. 1

Mystery Hearsay

Rifles Aimed At The Heart (Cassette, Midas Music, 1987, Netherlands)

1. Tried And Tested
2. Signals Home
3. Sights Centered
4. Astral Panes

Here's a nice experimental/industrial tape from Mike Honeycutt aka Mystery Hearsay. Lots of overlapping strange synth sounds and noises. There were some conflicting tracklists on Discogs, so I went with the one on the j-card. Correct me if I'm wrong. More from Midas Music/Tapes to come later tonight.

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Mystery Hearsay - Rifles Aimed At The Heart

transmission 14

Cabaret Voltaire - Your Agent Man
White Stains - Soft Explosion
Vox Populi! - Fassle
La Sonorité Jaune - La Boucle Du Desir
Geins't Naït - Picnic
Public Image Ltd. - Banging The Door
Nocturnal Emissions - Acres Of Gold
Zone - Sunbathing
Arcane Device - Diabolis Ex Machina Part 3
John Cage - Sonata #5
Section 25 - Hit

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snowy in the valley of vapors

Check out my friend Jason Moore's interesting blog:

Pax Absurdia

transmission 13

I'm still here! I just haven't really had the time to post lately, sorry---but here's something to hold you over until I get to posting more releases. It's a pretty diverse set of some of my favorite tracks I've found on blogs and the internet recently.

You should check out TheeBradMiller's TBM Radio site. He does something very similar to this , with some podcasts of great industrial musick and great exploitation film screen shots.

(I added some links for the tracks-- so you can go to the respective blogs I got them from and download the album)

tracklist:

Philippe Laurent - Desordre Et Distorsion
Kosa Nostra - For The Best
Brigade Internationale - Remember My Death
Moments Présents - A.D.
Le Syndicat - Le Statent Du Lepreux
Mad Tea Party - Modern Time's Pop
MLD - Perpetual Motion
Two Daughters - So I
32 Guájar's Fáragüit - Preterpret
Ain Soph - Credo (G. Kremmerz)
White House White - Africa Intrigues
Pierre Schaeffer - Etude Violette

P.S. -- This recorded at somewhat low volume for some reason... so turn it UP!!

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transmission 13

Happy New Year!!!!

Y Pants post is re-uploaded.

Esplendor Geométrico

Sheikh Aljama (CD, Daft Records, 1991, Belgium)

1. Baraca
2. Trafica
3. Introspeccion
4. Medinati
5. Descontrol
6. Jeque de Aljama
7. Min Dahul
8. Animatriz
9. Sinaya

Heavy, heavy rhythms with a middle-eastern theme throughout the album. Released on Dirk Ivens' label Daft Records.

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Esplendor Geométrico - Sheikh Aljama

re-uploads

Monoton
La Nomenklatur
Geile Tiere

transmission 12

I thought it would be fun to upload another podcast. I think I'll start doing these more often again. Thanks to enborRa, Sickness Abounds, Nostalgie De La Boue, 433rpm, and The Thing On The Doorstep.

Die Form - Sing Song
Esplendor Geométrico - Dinamo 3
Mecanica Popular - Daguerrotipo
Jacula - Triumphatus Sad
Order 1968 - Sturm
Geins't Naït - Vaclav
Gerechtigkeits Liga - Narkomanie
Pornosect - The Lie Becomes The Truth
Pacific 231 - Ma Douce Amie
P. Children - Social Life
Anne Gillis - Untitled

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transmission 12

Minny Pops post is re-uploaded.

La Nomenklatur

La Légende Des Voix (Cassette, Les Nouvelles Propagandes, 1986, France)

1. Ouverture
2. Ultima
3. Insure Post Mortem
4. Arth
5. Ouverture II
6. Merith.D.
7. Ankhare
8. Merith.B.
9. Exthrem.O.

Intense rhythmic industrial solo project of Philippe Escartin (aka Tiburce). You can read more about the Les Nouvelles Propagandes label here, at the excellent Nostalgie De La Boue.

download here:
La Nomenklatur - La Légende Des Voix

Vidna Obmana

Gathering In Frozen Beauty (Cassette, The Decade Collection, 1989, Belgium)

1. Dazzling Array 1
2. Lost In The Swirling Distance
3. Dazzling Array 2
4. Before Mutual Grace
5. Upon Steels Heaven
6. Into Grey Divides
7. Gathering In Frozen Beauty

From Discogs:

"Belgian composer Dirk Serries chose the name Vidna Obmana for his musical persona because it means "optical illusion." in Serbian language. Thirteen years hence, Vidna Obmana still finds that the name gives him a feeling of freedom to place his music first, before his own personality and philosophy. Like water, Vidna Obmana continues to change form over his musical career. As a self-taught electronic musician, Vidna Obmana explored different musical areas before discovering the techniques of looping and shaping harmonies, merging layers of sound and minimizing the configurations to a few notes. His style of atmospheric music creates trance-like states in listeners who understand the language of sound."

Gorgeous minimal ambient release.

download here:
Vidna Obmana - Gathering In Frozen Beauty

Oveo

Ancient TV (CDr, Self-Released, 2007, US)

1. Ancient TV

Here is a nice document of the experimental scene in my town- Denton, Texas. Oveo was a project of two prolific local musicians, Jason Moore and Andrew Michael. Ancient TV is their minimal dronescape masterpiece. They utilize various electronics and effect treatments. AM's signature Korg drum machine gives a pulse throughout the 18 minute long piece, while foggy, lush, meditative sounds wash in and out. For fans of any dark ambient music...

download here:
Oveo - Ancient TV

Re-Ups

I will be working on re-uploading some requests by some of you soon. Sorry for the lack of posting/replying. Right now I see that the Guerre Froide and Minny Pops are requested. Anything else?

Aube

Drip (Cassette, G.R.O.S.S., 1992, Japan)

1. Drip Part 1
2. Drip Part 2

"Original Live Recording At On Gallery Osaka 2. May 1992 'Water 1992' By Takashi Sasaoka.
Edited, Re-Recorded & Re-Mixed At Studio Mecca July & August 1992."

download here:
Aube - Drip

Kapotte Muziek

Real Time Music (Cassette, Midas Tapes, 1987, Netherlands)

1. Real Time Music 26/X/87 AA
2. Real Time Music 26/X/87 AB
3. Real Time Music 27/X/87 BA
4. Real Time Music 27/X/87 CA

Notes from Discogs:

"All sounds by Frans de Waard and his broken tape-deck.

Limited edition of 50 copies. First 20 copies in special boxed edition with parts from this tapedeck of Kapotte Muziek.

This tape was later re-released on 7" by Midas Music."

download here:
Kapotte Muziek - Real Time Music

Death Pact Mailmusic

Death Pact Mailmusic was a sub-label of Midas Music and Korm Plastics. They released 6 tapes (8 were planned), all of which were mail collaborations between prominent industrial/post industrial/noise artists.

Kapotte Muziek + The Grey Wolves

Death Pact 2 (Cassette, Death Pact Mailmusic, 1988, Netherlands)
1. Untitled
2. Untitled
3. Untitled
4. Untitled
5. Untitled
6. Untitled
7. Untitled
8. Untitled
9. Untitled

Vidna Obmana + Kapotte Muziek

Death Pact 8 (Cassette, Death Pact Mailmusic, 1988, Netherlands)

1. Untitled
2. Untitled
3. Untitled
4. Untitled
5. Untitled
6. Untitled
7. Untitled
8. Untitled

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Death Pact 2
Death Pact 8

I've also re-uploaded the Peloquin/Sauvageau album here, by request.

Sorry for the long break....

Henri Roger

Images... (LP, Tapioca, 1975, France)

1. Images...
2. Au Delà Du Langage
3. Ataraxie
4. Asyle Cosmique

Instrumental cosmic music from France. Great sounds coming from early Korg synths, and some Yamaha organs. Very cool record to sleep to, or to do whatever to. Thanks to my friend David for turning me on to this record. Looks like Mutant Sounds has some other records from this record label, I'm sure those are interesting too.

download here:
Henri Roger - Images...

Diamánda Gálás

The Litanies Of Satan (LP, Y Records, 1982, UK)

1. The Litanies Of Satan
2. Wild Women With Steak-Knives

Excellent, scary, out there album. I'm sure this has been posted by many blogs before, but anyone that hasn't heard this needs to. It's not a record you listen to every day or anything. Side A is for voice, tape, and electronics. Side B is "for solo scream."

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Diámanda Gálás - The Litanies Of Satan

NOTE: No more bickering from you little anon posters. If you don't like my subject matter, you can simply not come here. Start your own blog!

Ataraxia

The Unexplained (LP, RCA, 1975, US)

1. Tarot
2. Sorcerer
3. Deja Vu
4. Astral Projection
5. Seance
6. I Ching
7. Cabala
8. The Unexplained
9. Wind Dance

Ataraxia is one of the many pseudonyms that the prolific synthesizer composer, Mort Garson, goes by. This is said to be his "sequel" to Black Mass. Excellent synth tunes centered around occult themes, you can't go wrong! More early synth composer stuff to come...

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Ataraxia - The Unexplained

Ridiculous Finds

An angel in the form of a Factory Records distributer came down to my local record store in Denton, TX, Recycled Books & Records, and sold a crate full of ORIGINAL, MINT condition records and cassettes. I nearly cried when I found these.



Ike Yard - Ike Yard (LP, Factory America, 1982, US)



Dominatrix - Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight (12", Streetwise, 1984, US)



Nasmak - 4Our Clicks (LP, Plurex, 1982, Netherlands)



Metal Urbain - Les Hommes Morts Sont Dangereux (LP, Celluloid, 1980, France)



Section 25 - Always Now (LP, Factory, 1981, UK)

WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

I had to brag a little.

Life Functions Terminated

Demo (MP3, Not On Label, 2008, US)

1. Wage
2. Take Back The Artifact

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Life Functions Terminated - Demo

Drexciya

Bubble Metropolis (12", Underground Resistance, 1993, US)
1. Aqua Worm Hole
2. Positron Island
3. Beyond the Abyss
4. Bubble Metropolis
5. Danger Bay
6. Welcome To Drexciya

An early record of the prolific Drexciya. Check out tons of information about them at Drexciya Research Lab.

download here:
Drexciya - Bubble Metropolis

What I've Been Working On

Sorry for the lack of posting lately. I have been working on many different projects, and working close to 50 hours a week. I can offer you a few things to check out if you're interested. A long time friend/bandmate and I have been trying to get a small electronics business off the ground. In the last couple of weeks we've finished our first prototype-- a 3 octave monophonic synthesizer, the LZX Industries Monolith. We made a video demo of it, and were excited to find out that it was featured on Matrix Synth the next day. You can check out that video here:



We've also been working under a new title musically, and we've cut a few new tracks which you can listen to here:

PHANTASTES

Both tracks were recorded live in our studio with:

LZX Monolith (above)
8Z8 (Our Roland TR-808 Clone)
CGS Cynare
Thomas Henry's UD1 & Clangora
MFOS Oscillators & ENV Generators
MIDIbox SEQ v3

I've been busy! Now that internet is on at my new place, I'll be getting back to posting shortly.

Hembrug

VA - Hembrug (Cassette, Finger In The Dike, 1982, Netherlands)

1. Sluik - You've Got To Listen To Me
2. Sluik - I Felt A Bit, I Was
3. Sluik - Back To Burnsley
4. Sluik - Open Window
5. Sluik - Never Ending
6. Ma Colle - Funeral
7. Ma Colle - Toys
8. Ma Colle - Rotterdam '41
9. Opel - Untitled Construction 1
10. Opel - Untitled Construction 2
11. Rob Van - On The Road
12. Rob Van - Grey
13. Rob Van - Ind. Imp. 1
14. Rob Van - Sounds, Words, Visions
15. Rob Van - Biofeedback
16. Paay - 1a
17. Paay - 4
18. Paay - 3b

Wonderful compilation of synth experimentation from 1982. This was previously posted by No Longer Forgotten Music about a year ago, but it was unindexed, which made it pretty difficult to differentiate between bands/songs.
Minimal Wave reissued the Sluik tracks from here on to a 7 inch, but it looks like they're all sold out.

Get this. It's wonderful.

download here:
VA - Hembrug

I'll be back in a bit

I started a new job this week, and I'm moving into a new place next week.

I'll get back to posting as soon as I can.

-Shane

Duet Emmo

Or So It Seems (CD, Mute Records Ltd., 1992, UK)

1. Hill Of Men
2. Or So It Seems
3. Friano
4. The First Person
5. A.N.C.
6. Long Sledge
7. Gatemmo
8. Heart Of Hearts

More from Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis, this time collaborating with Daniel Miller of Mute Records/The Normal/Silicon Teens/etc. This was originally recorded in 1981/1982.

download here:
Duet Emmo - Or So It Seems

C.K.C

20h25 (7", Ponce Pilate, 1981, France)

1. 20h25
2. Tous Les 7 Ans

Cool French synth punk-ish no wave-ish tunes.

download here:
C.K.C - 20h25

Coldreams

Morning Rain (7", Rock Hardi, 1986, France)

1. Morning Rain
2. Eyes

Very nice melancholic postpunk/wave single.

download here:
Coldreams - Morning Rain

Los Iniciados

La Marca De Anubis (LP, Dro, 1982, Spain)

1. Obertura
2. La Marca De Anubis
3. La Comitiva Celeste
4. Maritatón y El Nilo
5. Isis y Osiris
6. Resurrección
7. Atlas
8. Mantis Religiosa
9. Ella Es Intangible
10. El Hombre Sin Nombre
11. Peter Pan
12. Soy El Vacio

Goofy Egyptian-themed side project of El Aviador Dro, I'm sure everyone's seen that video by now. Nice synth bloops and bleeps.

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Los Iniciados - La Marca De Anubis

Dome

Will You Speak This Word (LP, Uniton, 1982, UK)

1. To Speak
2. To Walk, To Run
3. To Duck, To Dive
4. This
5. Seven Year
6. Atlas

Peculiar experimental/industrial album from Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis. Really hard to explain this one, it's pretty out there. I'm not sure if the "industrial" tag is even correct. "This" is one of the strangest/coolest songs I've ever heard.

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Dome - Will You Speak This Word