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"Al Qaeda and Demonologists are reportedly finding their black metal
roots with this cassingle. I figure Bad Brains put reggae and hardcore
hand and hand so why can't I do that with black metal and dub for this
review? I haven't heard either of these crews so this makes for a quick
get-to-know-ya.
from Inside Noise : TAR 026 - "AL QUEDA starts their side with a sluggish beat, before all hell breaks loose. Wild guitar, hideous vocals, and the same blown out beat, along with huge amounts of white noise. The track cuts suddenly and another starts. It is soon evident that their side contains several short tracks. The second track begins with a rock riff that slowly is buried under piles of HNW static. It is immediately followed by a looping rumbling noise, a reverberated guitar loop, and metal pulsing and scraping as the third track. The fourth track is cut up screaming, metal chugging and buried drums, metal screeching and looping, whole track seems like one big loop. The last track contains beautiful looping ambience, squirming tadpole glitching laid overtop. The ambience fades and the glitching continues. Each track seems like a preview for something greater. Ideas and thoughts sketched out. It would have been nice to hear the continuation of ONE of these tracks on the cassette that took up the entire 4.5 minute duration, but the schizophrenic noisecore blast quality is nice, especially out of the context of noisecore. DEMONOLISTS side starts with high pitched pulsating hissing that starts to blur and gain more low end, evolving into a more chunky, HNW style wall. It gains an almost scraping-like high pitched static blast over top of the wall, which now sounds like the pulse from a dying cassette recorder. The wall marches on, grainy, but gains what sounds to be an almost hallow quality to it- a father away feedback sound that isn't as close as the static is in the forefront, that drones away as the wall crunches and burns. The wall gains sub-bass that compresses the sound of the track and creates even more tension. Somehow DEMONOLOGISTS have created a blackened wall of torture that fades into nothing. 5/5, a very interesting listen" - Evan Craig TAR023- “Sweet black latex packaging holds small xeroxed insert and black cassette. Side A begins with what sounds like the failed inflation of a balloon in a tight chamber. The struggle to blow up the balloon, the squeak of pressed lips, the shrill and frequency of saliva blowing, that begins to crackle as the blowing intensifies. Slowly the sounds seem as if they are coming from both above and below water, the blowing still heard, but the pulse and pop of bubbles from below greatly present. The blowing becomes almost rhythmic, turning from the squeaking of lips to the squeaking of a voice. The bubbles become greater and of more volume, their popping becoming more and more important. The next track sounds like junk guitar and the tapping of metal. It then turns into a more junk-oriented affair, the scraping sounds like multiple items upon the guitar. It then moves into an almost bow-like sound moving back and forth across the strings, to the point of what sounds like almost breaking. The guitar sounds like it actually gets turned ON and plugged in, the E string down-tuned, being bowed, while more junk is being tossed and thrown and rubbed against the guitar. The guitar drones low and full of bass, the junk calms. The junk stops and the guitar droning gets deeper and more concentrated, it sounds like a fat synthesizer. The B-Side starts with more junk sounds, piling on top of each other. The tension of strings is heard overtop all of the junk. It continues on and generally sounds like the two previous guitar tracks. The next track picks up in a similar vein to the first track, but instead of bubbles scraping and screeching. The tense scurrying fades and turns into longer drawn out drones that begin to gradually get more and more choppy. There is a dichotomy between lower bowel drones and high static-driven blown out scraping. A wide atmosphere and metal on metal taping with long echo trails is found on the following track. This is by far the most moody of the improvisations, a hostile bare environment where every detail is important. The hits die down for a short period, before coming back, closer, with longer reverb trails sending the listener deeper into the abyss. The tapping becomes faster, the droning ceases, and a sort of faux-rhythm is formed with the frequency of the beats, before fading. I find the cassette to be a little drawn out, and some of the tracks drag on for just long enough to become trite. Some decent concepts float about on the cassette, and the final track on the B side (Metal Sheets) seems to be the most (seemingly) thought out of the pieces. 2/5 " - Evan Craig
from Indieville : TAR020- "Eclectic comp's worth of synth-pop, wacked-out garage, digigrind, electro-hop, brou-ha-rock, lo-fi grumble, freaky improv, and indefinable ephemera. Well, that covers some of it. Seriously, D;O;UXF? is out there, but what might be labelled a lack of cohesion actually makes for an appealingly unpredictable grab-bag of sonic lunacy. As one might expect from a gallery of unknowns (I didn't recognize a single name upon cracking this baby open), the quality level fluctuates, though there are several gems and a few promising finds. For me, one of the biggest treats was Columbus, Ohio's Anna Ranger, an eighties-obsessed dinky synth-pop trio that designs swell pop songs out of tinny drum machines & keys. "They Don't Bury Their Dead in Columbus" is brilliant and infuriatingly catchy, whereas the macabre juxtaposition on "Mutant Beast" is tongue-in-cheek goodness. Elsewhere, The Judy Experience's jazzy dub gracefully bonks, The Shudders' scuzz-rock gracelessly ferments, and Mystic Defender's deformed groove-funk exuberantly bounces along. Not every experiment pays off (I like no-wave and noise, but Eliyas is just annoying), but then you have tongue-in-cheek treasures like Hugs and Kisses' "Condoms Make My Dick Go Limp," which somehow don't disappoint. Anyway, to summarize -- a solid, bizarre, hopelessly eclectic comp. Just how I like 'em." - Michael Tau TAR023- “ France's Olivier Dumont, whose sole other release under the 'Allein Luddite' banner is a 2009 CDR on the Ambolthue label, uses this five track cassette to carefully explore the sounds produced by several instruments of sound – a water pipe, an unconventionally-played guitar, a “scraper and rod,” and some metal sheets. Each instrument is allotted its own composition (though the guitar gets two), meaning the listener becomes very familiar with each sonic platform. My favourite piece on this tape is the very self-descriptive "Water Pipe." Whereas the other tracks feature metallic equipment more closely associated with industrial rumblings, this composition is a unique study in liquid gurgles and frothy squeaks. Compositionally, it isn't brilliant, but it is a fascinating passage of sound from a textural standpoint. Elsewhere, Dumont's two guitar tracks tread the same ground as insane junk guitarist Brian Ruryk, pushing the boundaries of the guitar by utilizing varied textures – he experiments with prepared guitar and also appears to use a bow. The second of the two tracks is my favourite due to its no-holds-barred urgency, which drops the listener helpless into its craggy inferno of noise. Meanwhile, “Metal Sheets” toys smartly with negative space and percussive attack-and-decay. Try playing it at high-speed for an added layer of amusement. Altogether, Allein Luddite's artifact is a curious cassette that explores sound for the joy of it. It's perfect for those of us who walk around particularly attuned to the sounds wisping around us." - Michael Tau
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TAR034 - S.C.O.A.M. / Pregnant Spore - Circle The Excess C40 - $8 (limited
to 50 copies)
TAR031 - Seven Lies About Girls / Derek Rogers split C60 - $8 (limited
to 50 copies)
TAR032 - Gaze -III C60 - $8 (limited
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TAR029 - V/A - Negro Woman Of America Your Electric Future Is Now Stay Beautiful - C80 + Zine & Download - $8 (limited
to 99 copies) 19 tracks and 20 pages of audio visual oddities creaking, blasting, groaning, squirming, and churning through your innocent head holes, welcoming you to a bold new tomorrow.
TAR028 - Great Slave Lake - UntitledC30 - $8 (limited
to 50 copies)
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