March 5, 2023

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Zenta Sustained's Serpent Track Patterns 12" received a couple good reviews this week.

The first, pictured above, is a contextualizing review from Oskar on WCN TV that is able to trace the progression of ZS and the efforts of Bloomer and, specifically, McKinlay's recent output with THE RITA. Available via the White Centipede Noise Patreon.

The second, quoted below, is from the ever-thoughtful Erik Nystrand (Capers, Usagi Productions et al) and was posted in the Noise Now Playing Facebook group (and on the WCN Discord server).

"Having not heard any earlier Zenta Sustained, this was not what I expected at all. McKinlay and Bloomer, motorbikes and legs, gotta be loud and wild I thought. And it is, but not the way I imagined. Two-layered attack of aggressive pops and some feverish bass-heavy raking, all very minimal, very very dry. In a way it reminds me of the first Zone Nord record, the last Regim cassette, Vårtgård et al, but driven to extremes. Like frying old cigarette butts in a dry pan at full heat. Seriously rewarding, obviously. And my initial surprise is soon replaced by a "but ofcourse..." - McKinlay has done plenty in this vein (it's just that I don't have any of it), and Bloomer has stripped things bare before (certain parts/blocks of his excellent tape Bully Hiss come to mind). Listen closely in headphones and this strangled electronic drippage becomes incredibly loud - sonic water torture. Listen in speakers at proper volume and it sounds like a rain of rocks and dirt on a coffin lid. Badass record." - Erik Nystrand


Knurl's H2T CD has been reviewed over at 1208 North Fuller Ave Apt 1

Excerpt: "The sound has an immediate acceleration as if moving at high speed. Layers of noise and distorted roar overlay on Piece 1. Once everything is in full mass, things pulsate and throb, whilst higher pitched distortion screeches over and through the entire sound. At different points it feels as if the sound is trying to slow down, but moves at such a high speed, this creates an abrasive friction that rubs alongside the main mass of noise. This is very, expertly put together and delivered."

Click here for the full track-by-track review.

Rusalka's Base Waters, previously reviewed by the same blog (pertaining to its LP edition), is now available on CD.

"It is as if the sound destroys itself in order to move on..."

Thanks to the folks above for their positive reviews. Copies of the releases are still available from the source, as well as the artists and many fine distros worldwide.

NEW EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTION

Drug Porn. 65 minutes. 2018.
A film by Frederick Maheux
Music by Bruno R. Julian

Professional Blu-Ray with 20 page booklet by Steven Purtill

Drug Porn is an experimental documentary about the spectacle of substance abuse on social media. In the context of the opioid and fentanyl crisis, the film explores the digital landscape of users who document and publicly share their consumption online.

Drug Porn is not only about the individual motivation to expose oneself, but about the Web as a media and how it transforms the notion of community, love, family and communication. More than 45 hours of footage, hundreds of pages of blog posts and interviews were distilled and remixed using glitch and cut-up techniques to insure anonymity, transcend the shock factor and unfold this complex, singular and stratified use of social media.

Limited to 100 copies.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/280818609

Frédérick Maheux is a multimedia artist whose main interests are emergent subcultures of the digital age, eschatological futurology, and speculative realism. Beside his work in experimental and documentary cinema, he creates noisy video games, produces industrial music under the name Un Regard Froid and practices the art of analogic collages. He is currently a doctoral student at UQAM in the communication department working on underground video games creation and their potential as epistemic objects.

https://www.frederickmaheux.com
 

 

iDEAL Recordings
INCIPIENTIUM - Study in Still Life CD

Lake Shark Harsh Noise / related
CHRIS FRATESI – Stunad CS
TAB IN/TAB OUT / THE RITA 7”
THE CHERRY POINT – Visiting Hours CD
THE RITA – Lake Depths Lurker CS
THE RITA – Leopard Skin 2CD
THE RITA – Magazine 2LP
THE RITA – Sharks and the Female Form LP
THE RITA / TRERIKSROSET LP

menstrualrecordings
MERZBOW – Antimonument CD
MERZBOW – Paradise Pachinko CD
MERZBOW – Project Frequency LP
MERZBOW – Psychorazer CD
MERZBOW – Vratya Southward CD
MORTAR – Invokation DVD-R
MORTAR CD
PRODUKTION – Dokumentum1 CD
PRODUKTION – The Sound of Pre War Germany CD

No Rent
DARKSMITH - “Regret Everything” T-Shirt
DETERGE - “Motives” T-Shirt
SKIN GRAFT - “Condemned” T-Shirt
TIM GICK – Body Without Organs CS
TORSCHLUSSPANIK – Intersexual Healing 2CS

Tribe Tapes
ARGIOPE – Original Waters CS
GOLGOTHA TOLL – Take Up A Lament CS
HAND & KNEE – Song of the Sirens CS
LUNUS – The Moon Spit CS
SLACKING – Roundhouse a Bootlicker 7”

self-released
DRUG PORN Blu-Ray

BARSTOOL MOUNTAIN - Tightrope Walker LP
CASA DI CACCIA - Grand Total CS
MATRIARCH CD
MO*TE - Throw a Stone CS
MOLENA & THE RITA - Barre CS
UMPIO - Sin Memoria CD
UN REGARD FROID - Exophilie CD

JUTE CD
MASS MARRIAGE CS
THE NAUSEA LP (co-released with BISAD)
OF THE SKULL CD
SPRING OF LIFE CS
WINCE / ALTAR OF FLIES LP