Merz – "Sonido Directo Nº 1" (Self Released) 1985

Sonido Directo No.1, more manifestations of the information overload techno-hell that this tape predicts for our present, and Luis Mesa's past future. The thing is with our information ,not so, super highway,is; there's is now so much conflicting information available at any one moment, that state secrets can be aired publicly, worldwide, and nobody could possibly believe it because the anti-viewpoint, the anti-fact, has already been put out there. So in effect the naked truth is cancelled out. Truth and anti-truth,lie and anti-lie conveniently annihilate each other,paving the way for a stealthy acquisition of world control,and nobody will believe it has happened. The more in your face the untruth is the bigger the truth that can be made to appear as lies.....The big lie as Hitler called it. The best example of this, post Reichstag fire,is obviously 9/11, and more recently the Ukraine situation.......does anyone really know what is going on there? No,and that's exactly what they want,conflicting information from a conflict zone in the information age;and we in fact know nothing!

Yes, this is another great cassette from Merz........or am I lying ?

Tracklist:

A1	Babilonia
A2	Direktionrecht
A3	Summun Lus, Summa Iniuria
A4	Plata
B1	Muerte Y Gloria
B2	El Sistema Mata
B3	La Columna
B4	La Cólera

 

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Merz – "Bustos" (IEP) 1985

Merz brings us the sound of a close miked body,the claustrophobic sounds of a heartbeat and blood flowing through narrowing arteries. The title track on side one, is basically the flesh jail that we are all incarcerated in solitary confinement for a life sentence; we protest our innocence but no-one is listening,because there is no-one there to hear our screams.

“Fe y Sol” is the loneliness of life fading away from isolation,only then do the cold cell walls rot to release the prisoner.

OK, so I'm feeling a tad negative today......its not as bad as all that......well in fact it is;so just get on with it because its all we've got and this is how it is, because it IS! The best advice I can give is 'Don't waste your life looking for answers because there isn't any'. The closest anyone's gonna get is on this cassette(one among thousands of others).

Tracks:

A		Bustos	14:25
B		Fe y Sol	18:15

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Merz ‎– "Meditacion" (IEP ‎– IEP 10) 1985

More from the twisted tape machine of Luis Mesa,aka Merz. There are times when this cassette sounds like its being chewed up by the tape player.Just as you reach for the pencil to rewind the creased and mangled tape from the pinchers, you realise...."No,it's meant to sound like this!".
You can't do this with digital recorders,there's nothing to touch,and any tape simulators can't match the smooth curves of the analogue sine wave.Its strictly square waves,steps and blocks; which has its uses, but is basically shit for real time manipulation,knob twiddling and general mucking about.
Basically excellent minimal sound source fuck-upery from the Iberian peninsula.

Tracklist:

A1	Tentaciones
A2	Voz
A3	Una Confesion
A4	El Sur
A5	La Otra Babilonia
B1	Moral
B2	Vida Interior
B3	Inunda Mi Ser
B4	Martires
B5	El Estado Alfa

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Merz ‎– "Justicia Divina" (IEP ‎– IEP 01) 1983

Well we've had Merz-Bow, now we naturally must move on,or backwards, to Merz, and some Spanish Industrial noise.
Luis Mesa is Merz (Not to be confused with Protag's side project of the same name),and he produced plenty of minimal distorted noisescapes around the mid eighties.This being the earliest from 1983.
Various droning synths,and found sounds are all fed through some budget distortion unit and manipulated well into the VU red zone. At times it sound quite like those spy transmissions on short wave radio,best heard on the Conet Project,but glitched up into a grinding noise not too far removed from a pitchshifted dentists drill approaching your healthy tooth next to the rotten one.

Tracklist:

A1	Carne Para El Matadero
A2	Penitencia I
A3	Fisura En El Cerebro
A4	Líbano
A5	Sexta Edición
B1	Matando Ancianos
B2	Penitencia II
B3	Justicia Divina
B4	Penitencia III
B5	Perdón, Señor

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Merzbow ‎– "The Lampinak" (ZSF Produkt) 1985

From what was previously thought of as the worst year for music since 1975;but turned out to be better than any year between 1988 and 2015.From 1985 sprung forth another Merzbow cassette.Like the failing machine in the Eraserhead factory it scrapes,crackles and splutters.Droning with distorted fried circuitry squealing a death rattle of cruel reality.The artwork suggests that this is Masami's "Watership Down", with the main theme of pitilessness in the natural and non-natural world made real by the searing noise avalanche making your sub-woofers bounce in and out like a child's trampoline. In this version Hazel disembowels himself rather than be torn to pieces slowly by The 'Generals' "Ethnic Cleansing Death Squads".Helplessly entombed in a collapsing rabbit hole, Bigwig and the rest of the rabbits gasp for air as the warren is filled with Zyklon B. Kehar,the Seagull has switched sides after being paid; and the 'General' begins the clampdown for his Rodent Dystopia.
Just replace the Rabbits with Humanity,and the noise begins to make sense.

Tracklist:

A1	The Lampinak
A2	Serpent Power
A3	Live At House
A4	Carcas On The Floor
A5	Village Of 8 Graves
B1	5th Innocent Victim
B2	Zykle
B3	Invocation
B4	Nym Ma Pa

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Throbbing Gristle - "Industrial records Studio,Teac 8-track recording,18/03/1979" (Bootleg)

This recording from March 18th 1979 was essentially what became "CD1",released by Mute in 1986.Except, that this is a superior version,with less production values,basically a raw mix done on the day of the recording session.
It's kind of a "Heathern Earth" from 1979,but without the invited audience of TG brown nosers, and not much in the way of vocals. All mixed in the melee  are parts of other TG tunes,mostly Carter's sequencer bits from the more popular tracks.And lots of Gristliser,as featured on the artwork 'wot I did'.
The files were provided by that man Stephen Surreal again!

• Bass Guitar, Vocals, Violin, Effects [Gristliser] – Genesis P-Orridge
• Guitar, Cornet, Effects [Gristliser] – Cosey Fanni Tutti
• Synth, Drum Programming [Rhythms], Tape [Tapes] – Chris Carter (2)
• Tape [Tapes], Cornet, Computer – Peter Christopherson

Tracks:

1 - Untitled. (42:11)

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Throbbing Gristle ‎– "New T.G. 2" (Self Released) 1982

The follow up C-60 to "New TG 1",which contains more the same jamming improv from some early session from 1976 to 78.Among the odd future 'Hit',like 'Slug Bait' and '(We hate You)Little Girls';are some urban ethnic moments fused with some of Carter's bedroom Tangerine Dream-isms, while P-Orridge waffles on through that Roland Space Echo that appears on virtually every TG track.
Interesting stuff,finding our cuddly Industrial pioneers searching for an identity,and by jiminy, do they find it......but not necessarily on New TG 1 or 2; but the foundations are there that will launch more imitators than the Sex Pistols or Kraftwerk put together.
(Thanks is due to Mr Stephen Surreal for sourcing this treasure)

Tracklist:

A	Untitled (28:52)
B	Untitled

  (29:15)

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Leibstandarte SS MB ‎– "Triumph Of The Will" (Come Organisation ‎– WDC 881015) 1981

A fuzzy rumbling noise fest wasn't attention seeking enough for William Bennett,he of Essential Logic, Whitehouse and the Come Organisation. So why not overdub a load of speeches by the higher echelons of the National Socialist and German Workers Party? The logic was essentially to create notoriety, but creatively a pretty uninspiring recipe.
 MB (Maurizio Bianchi) had delivered two of his usual noisy symphonies for  Come Org to release; but Bennett decided to firstly overdub speeches by Goebbels and uncle Adolf,and then add Leibstandarte SS to MB's name. Which I understand was Hitlers personal SS bodyguard unit. This kind of thing could muddy one's reputation!  Largely, it has been seen basically as a bad publicity stunt,and has gone to reside in the bad taste draw. 
Personally, I would have preferred the noise to have been mixed higher and the speeches a lot lower....in fact not there at all. I never play this record ,because it just sounds like a record of Nazi Speeches,rather than Industrial noise. A bit of a half-arsed hatchet job if you ask me.

Tracklist:

A -Triumph Of The Will (18:32 )

B - To Birkenau (18:44) 


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M.B.(Maurizio Bianchi) - "Endometrio" (Self-Released cassette) 1982

Side one is a microphone without a windshield taped to a tree in a force ten gale.....with echo.
Side two is a pneumatic drill hammering away at the inside of a metal water tank,in a force ten gale.....er.....with echo.
Basically, two more noise-scapes that wouldn't be out of place in a brain washing facility at the re-education center.There's one near you.

Tracklist:

A	Endometrio (1980)  (23:10)
B	Endemetrio (1981)  (23:36)

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M.B.(Maurizio Bianchi) ‎– "Regel" (Self Released Cassette) 1982l

Are we listening to a record stuck in the run off groove collecting more and more dust? A close miked divers helmet with its occupant struggling for breath? An automatic weapon rapid firing in a enclosed steel clad box?.....possibly all these things,but essentially it's another masterful noise-scape from Maurizio Bianchi.Have a nice day!

Tracklist:

A	Untitled	23:33
B	Untitled	23:00

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MB (Maurizio Bianchi) ‎– "Technology2" (self released cassette) 1981

The Godfather of Italian Industrial is ,of course Maurizio Bianchi, better known as MB. A master of the dysfunctional fuzzy glitch on a grand scale. His compositions remind one of a system on the verge of breaking down irreversibly.Never has there been a time since WW2 that this music has been more appropriate.Play this tape while this metaphorical Rome is burning.MB was there at the start of something,but his compositions sound like the end of something else.The final word in Industrial noise-scapes.

Track Listing:
 

A		Side A	30:00
B		Side B	29:40

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Laxative Souls (LXSS) ‎– "Twist And Decease" (Multiple Configuration ‎– LXSS A) 1982

 

This is a far superior album to the "Desinfektionraum" album. A lot denser fog of fuzzy noise and ,as far as I can see, no mention of Nazi's.......hang on,"Nacht Und Nebel  7-12-1941" has got to be some atrocity reference.....i could google it,but I'll leave it to you if you want to. I'll deduct a point for that.
Top quality sinister-ish Italian Industrial........you know what to expect!

Tracklist

A	Off Komarov	31:45
B1	Introduction Sych	7:49
B2	Xanthous Yahoo	5:38
B3	Niccolai	2:50
B4	<< Nacht Und Nebel >> 7-12-1941	6:28
B5	U. I. K. ?	8:34

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LXSS (Laxative Souls) ‎– "Desinfektionsraum" (Multiple Configuration ‎– LXSS G) 1984

Oh fucking 'ell, Nazi influenced track titles.....Yawn! Arbeit Macht Frei......Groan!......From the home of Fascism and the only country to declare war on all sides in WW2......yep, its more Italian Industrial,from the awfully monikered 'Laxative Souls'(aka Roberto Marinelli);thankfully contracted to LXSS.If it couldn't get any worse, there's some Porn loops as well!Predictably of a female's sex groans. So no prizes guessing(not gassing) as to the demographic this record is aimed.That's right, the almost exclusively male, Industrial fan.The Loner with a Boner,in between viewings of 'Shoah',and bashing the bishop to some saucy  internet mucky movie.
Tired clichés ,they may have been, by 1984.If you like Industrial music,it will not disappoint.As it says on Wikipaedia:"He(Roberto Marinelli) mainly worked with raw electronics, distorted vocals, concrete sounds, self assembled electronic circuits, and sample sources, such as news broadcasts, documentaries and recordings"(!?);you mean,like every other single fucking Industrial group? However it would have been improved by dropping the Nazi angle,or at least making it a bit more subtle.
Can't fault the cover though,a fine piece of art indeed.

Tracklist:

A1	"N. N."	9:46
A2	Arbeit Macht Frei	13:56
A3	Genickschuss	7:11
B	Stehzelle	30:34

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Zona Industriale ‎– "Neutro" (ADN TAPES 13) 1985

Italy seemed to be Europe's second power in the bulging Industrial shoebox.One of the lesser known exponents of the genre was one Zona Industriale.Not a very imaginative group name,but they made a quite attractive minimal style of 'Industrial' music.
Mainly concentrating on singular sounds,with refreshing non-existent use of echo,leaving the noises to breath in a closed room with short fuzzy reverberation bouncing off the wallpaper. No Nazi references to the fore,only Industrial subject matter numbers two and three; Pornography and Cannibalism.I could actually play this more than once,its that good.

Tracklist:

Pornografia	21:03
Cannibali In Vetrina	21:00

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Con-Dom ‎– "A Prince Of Our Disorder" (Sounds For Consciousness Rape ‎– SFCR CD004) 1993

"Con-Dom stands for Control-Domination, and is the one-man industrial noise band of Mike Dando. Con-Dom explores any kind of social tensions and control: political, religious, racial, with an acid, violent and uncompromising attitude. He is well-known in the industrial scene for his furious ravaging vocals and the devastating live performances, in which he turns into a real stage animal."
So it says on Discogs.
I suppose this person is the British equivalent of G.G. Allin?Acting out the role of the most disgusting person on the planet.Spouting racism ,and other vile traits of a bigot,he confronts us with all that is ugly about the human animal.
Frequently attacking and groping audience members; often on the receiving end, as his victims defend themselves, -Dando is attempting to explore the depths of his own personality by more than just flirting with extremes,he actually tries to become them.A kind of musical method acting equivalent in a quest for personal freedom
Control-Domination is the theme. Control, domination, manipulation, organisation ... The forces of control  - mass culture, mass media, mass mentalities.Freedom lies from within, and Con-Dom believes to attain that one has to challenge taboo's and the extremities of human behaviour to discover the pure personality within.
Well, its either that or he's an attention seeking racist sex pervert who places shock value over content.
This album,which consists of a 3" Cd and cassette, is dedicated to T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia),with whom he seems obsessed.
" It is a journey into the realm of the intensely personal - one man's outer struggle and inner search for an individual "faith"; one man's very personal response to the human condition. Lawrence was a remarkable man - an enigmatic outsider who lived a tortured odyssey of physical and spiritual extremes in pursuit of a goal; a way. His life, writings and example are an inspiration to all who crave real freedom".
Personally, I don't wanna go through the Live Con-Dom experience,just as I wouldn't wanna have been beaten up by G.G.Allin, but I'm open to the concept,and the Records aren't too far off the standard of a good Whitehouse release. Nice packaging too.

Track Listing: 

CD		Seven Pillars Of Wisdom / Confession Of Faith	21:57
A1		Triumph	6:00
A2		Seven Pillars Of Wisdom	5:51
A3		Credo	5:29
A4		The Eighth Pillar	6:10
A5		Triumph	6:00
B1		Confession Of Faith Parts 1 & 2	7:09
B2		Confession Of Faith Part 2	2:21
B3		Confession Of Faith Part 2	2:39
B4		Confession Of Faith Part 3	7:03
B5		Credo	6:39
B6		The Eighth Pillar	3:40

Seven Pillars of Wisdom / Confession of Faith: Live Assault 49 - Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, USA, 12-10-91.
A1 and B5 - Recorded on The Hellfire Club, KFJC, Los Altos - USA.
A2, A5 - Recorded at The Armpit Gallery, San Francisco - USA.
A3, B3, B6 - Recorded at EPE, Paris - France.
A4, B1, B4  - Recorded at Sensory Lab, Los Angeles - USA.
B1 - Recorded at Jimmy's, Bourdeaux - France.
All recordings made between 15-10-91 and 05-11-92.

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Nails Øv Christ ‎– "Dark Night Of The Soul" (Sound Of Pig ‎– SOP 20) 1986

Sinister,dark ambient scrapings recorded in a steel lined ventilation system ,'with something' lurking at the end of one of the shafts;either obscured by a bend or approaching from behind. Could have been a BBC Radiophonic Workshop soundtrack for a 1970's episode of Dr Who? But no! File under Industrial.
(A rare English artist on Sound Of Pig)

Tracklist:

A1	Untitled	2:25
A2	Untitled	2:38
A3	Untitled	4:03
A4	Untitled	2:11
A5	Untitled	2:43
B1	Untitled	4:29
B2	Untitled	2:06
B3	Untitled	4:11
B4	Untitled	3:27

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