Rapaz Nuvem - Demonstração (self release, 2011)

1 Sem Nome 08:46
2 Sem Nome 06:06

progressive electronic music from Portugal

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Peter Wright - Transfusion (Last Visible Dog, 2000)

01 Transfusion

70+ minute track recorded for a gallery in New Zealand; starts off with a lush soundscape of chimes and bells and electronic buzz before it dissipates into a vast expanse of hum and skronk and reverb and lots and lots of S P A C E. Very musique concrete.
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Pawel Grabowski - Cirr's Song (Drone Records, 2005)

01 Cirr's Song 1 9:13
02 Cirr's Song 2 8:28

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Listening Mirror - Intensity Breeds Inertia (aReW recordings, 2010)

1 Rogue Brother 11:20
2 The Wonder of Christine 8:00
3 Nothing Seen 10:43
4 Without Saying Goodbye 12:42

Listening Mirror is the sometime collaborative sound project of Jeff Stonehouse.

Jeff lives and works in the South East of England. Close to the hills of the South Downs and the coast beyond

Jeff has been making and manipulating sound since the early 1980's, inspired by the Post-Punk and Industrial movements of that time.

He uses found sounds and field recordings to produce soundscapes which are sometimes enhanced by talented collaborators and sometimes left to breathe on their own.

Listening Mirror is an attempt to manipulate sound as a defence against itself, to extract some beauty from the noise that surrounds us all every day.'
aReW recordings

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Nasienie – Blackwood (Webbed Hand Records, 2011)

01 Land and Sea 04:51
02 Insomnia 03:09
03 Old Enough To Know Better 02:19

Nasienie returns with an EP of finely produced ambient soundscapes.

Despite its brevity, this trio of ambient compositions seems to expand the experience of time itself.
Webbed Hand Records

“‘Land and Sea’ used a sample of “Land and Sea” by Halkyn. This one talking about some free folk.
‘Insomnia’ inspired by an original “Insomnia” movie (1997) and Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner. Pure ambient.
‘Old Enough To Know Better’ – kind of abstract hop, I guess.”
— Nasienie

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Uitgezonderd – Burning Giraffes at Sea (Webbed Hand Records, 2011)

01 I tried 05:56
02 Birth of the Hurricane 05:15
03 Shadow 04:41
04 Child’s Play 07:03
05 Salt Water 03:50
06 Red Ring 04:33
07 Painbrain 06:47
08 Long Walk Home 06:11
09 Burning Giraffes 04:55
10 The Mist 04:53
11 While My Giraffe Gently Weeps 03:11

This ambient concept album crafted with piano and effected guitar bring to mind a melancholy film soundtrack.
Webbed Hand Records

“This album is a process of hours and hours of working without sleep. Isolated in a room, with just a laptop, guitar and piano. It can be seen as the melancholy of a bitter old man who will die in a few minutes. Enjoy!

…The work is open for interpretation, for me personal it’s about a period in my life, I see it as the last minutes of recalling memories before the death of the person…

It’s the second album made as “Uitgezonderd”, first one, “Only the Lonely” was more drone/noise, and this style has evolved to the sound in this album.”
— Jeffrey D. (Uitgezonderd)

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melophobia – rain 11_03M (Webbed Hand Records, 2011)

01 rain 11_03M

melophobia follows up 10_2M [wh147] with a contribution to Webbed Hand’s long-form ambient “Rain” series, a work of shifting sound textures and great subtlety.

Rain is a series of conceptual tracks produced for Webbed Hand Records. Each “Rain” is a CD-length ambient recording ideal for quiet listening while meditating, writing, or going to sleep. Typically the recordings in this series are minimalistic soundscapes, with motifs played out cyclically rather than progressively, in order to induce relaxed states.
Webbed Hand Records

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Thierry Massard - Inconnu (suRRism-Phonoethics, 2011)

01 Tiny Pitfall
02 Exercice Préliminaire
03 Crunchy Craft
04 The Best Slice of
05 Carbon Street
06 mmmmmmmh
07 7 fois 7 font 49
08 Inside
09 Myself & Me
10 Où étiez-vous ?

'Times how into somehow that would less be centered
by identifying the disabled diagrams resulted through experiencing the black-light spectral messages
as fluorescenting the conversation lamps'
-undRess Béton

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Lechones Sangrientos - Kaseum (suRRism-Phonoethics, 2011)

01 David Lynch Lunch Kaseum
02 NaCi
03 Kanopedia I
04 EbaY
05 Caratula Gorrion
06 Kanopedia II Live in Japan
07 Alesis X
08 PerfectH
09 Kanopedia III
10 Mas Aya
11 Pork Fest

'less wave with independently smiling at the momentum
more similar may cause this, so they are certainty such as unsanitary moments'
-undRess Béton

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Judith Egger & Michael Northam - Andapa Garden (Edition Graphon, 2003)

01 Andapa Garden 20:04

Sound substrata of the inner garden. Underground Sound wide open. Trees and bushes as a long sustained, hollow music.
Birds, butterflies and other animals seen only in sounding forms by the internal eye, entering the night in an ecstatic sleep state, dreaming with the sound of a human hidden light. Leaves with tiny little poems of sound written on it, the drone flowers of a secret floral language...
A cd not just to hear but also to plant in the cd-player, to let its roots grow deep in the electronic filaments of the equipment and watch patiently the blossom of digital flowers of sound. A small musical herbal. Organic music in the true sense of the word...
Edition Graphon

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Underwater Noises (Lost Children / Ephre Imprint, 2011)

01 Paolo Veneziani – Inside the edge
02 Cop killin’ beat – Tanaro
03 LLS04 – 80% water
04 Ennio Mazzon – Plain
05 Enrico Coniglio – The carb’s secret
06 Un Vortice di Bassa Pressione – Hydrocoma pt.3
07 Christian Di Vito – Arborfelix
08 Leastupperbound – The humpback whale
09 Alessio Ballerini – Half water
10 Francesco Giannico – Another time in this earth
11 Obsil – Two years ago
12 Ornitology – Restless
13 Elisa Luu – Piano
14 Gigi Masin – A fog book
15 Pierpaolo Leo – Bioluminescence

The Lost Children Net Label proudly presents Underwater Noises - a compliation album curated and produced by Attilio Novellino and Enrico Coniglio in conjunction with Ephre Imprint.

The theme running through all tracks of this work is 'water' (and its numerous concerns risen around the globe).
The album is comprised of tracks by 15 Italian artists (Enrico Coniglio, Francesco Giannico, Gigi Masin, Obsil, Elisa Luu, Attilio Novellino (Un Vortice Di Bassa Pressione) and Pierpaolo Leo among others) working with electroacoustics, microsounds, emotional drive and drowned sounds, all in a free-experimentation zone.
Each artist was prompted to submit a track inspired somehow by the notion of water, according to their individual angle. The upshot is a multilayered work, giving voice to the umpteen facets of a theme which has always created a particularly deep and serious attraction for musicians working in the drone/ambient scene.
The sonorities of field recording, glitched digressions, electroacoustic idylls, dreamy soundscapes, abysmal notes, dilated, diluted, purified, desecrated water...
Together these artists have releases across labels such as Touch, Porter, Laverna, Sub Rosa, Ripples, Cronica, Zymogen and more.
The project is released on Ephre Imprint as a strictly limited edition CDR, plus in conjunction with the Lost Children Net Label as a download.
Lost Children / Ephre Imprint

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Ben Woods - We Are Silhouettes Now (Lost Children, 2010)

1 This Departure 3:44
2 Together Standing 5:50
3 Your Footprints, My Shadow 5:43
4 Those We’ll Never Know 4:15
5 Parting Words 2:02
6 Above & Beyond 3:20
7 We Are Silhouettes Now 2:50

Lost Children Net Label proudly presents Ben Woods' We Are Silhouettes Now. A wholesome offering of layered sky-gazing soundscapes, piano driven introspection and subliminal bliss.

It is an addictive seven track EP that will entice its listeners with its elegant structures and variations, reminiscent of those found in the cinematic compositions of Angelo Badalamenti. The music subtly finds its way under the listeners skin, stopping time, bringing a moment of peace draped in shades of melancholic yet uplifting blue as reflected so dexterously in the artwork by Ludo Vanroy. In a way it can be seen as the extension and pinnacle of These Passing Thoughts, a collection of 'endless hours of wasted moments', which will offer the additional fix the listener will crave for after listening to We Are Silhouettes Now.
Lost Children

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Pharmakustik - Granular Computing (DNA Production, 2010)

01 Granular Computing 01 08:12
02 Granular Computing 02 07:20
03 Granular Computing 03 06:12
04 Granular Computing 04 05:56
05 Granular Computing 05 05:52
06 Granular Computing 06 03:26

"Granular Computing" features radical new techniques in granular transformation of audio-particles, clinical rhythms and robotic voices for a powerful, innovative and harsh electronica-sound-perspective 2011.
The album involves excessive use of new software and imposing plug-in-machinery.
DNA Production

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International Email Audio Art Project Volume 6 (HalTapes, 2011)

01) David Wampole & Dave Fuglewicz
COPD
USA
barkingtuna(AT)tampabay(DOT)rr(DOT)com
http://www.davefuglewicz.com

02) Rolna and Jeremy Gluck
Much of You (remix)
Hungary and UK
http://officialrolna.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/jsgluck

03) Stupid Opium
The Final Macarena
USA
stupidopium@hotmail.com

04) Otolathe and Hal McGee
death panel
USA
http://soundcloud.com/otolathe
http://www.halmcgee.com

05) Kolihapeltis
I Am Merely An Organism; How Can I Possibly Survive In A Universe Which Is Plotting Against Me?
USA
ibreatheoxygen@yahoo.com

06) Björn Eriksson
Tele-graph
Sweden
http://ruccas.org/wiki.pl/Miulew

07) Buzzsaw & The Shavings
Failing to Affix the Monarchy that Montesquieu Assigned
USA
http://www.tapegerm.com/jamroom/bands/20/

08) Balogh
Mystical Mix Up
USA
SHADOWENTITYWIZARD.BLOGSPOT.COM

09) Filthy Turd
uxeual uh-buuman
UK
http://filthyfilthyturd.blogspot.com/

10) Fabián Racca
Saucepan lid music
Argentina
http://carbonoproyecto.wordpress.com

11) Olga Nosova
III
Russia
www.myspace.com/olganosova

12) THF Drenching
Lift Up Lightly The Unstable Barn!
UK
drenching@gmail.com

13) Jeremy Gluck & Seiei Jack
I am too shy
UK/Japan
http://www.jeremygluck.com/
http://twitter.com/SEIEIJACK

14) Ochre Aunt (Steve Fitzpatrick and Brian Horst)
A Waking Dream in Magnesium (Excerpt)
USA
http://www.myspace.com/ochreaunt

15) Nacht (Dan Hosker + Jay Reeve)
(On A) Drunken Ocean
USA
jay_c_reeve(AT)hotmail(DOT)com

16) Whitey Alabastard
Change the Channel!
USA
whitey_alabastard(AT)yahoo(DOT)com

17) Bryan Lewis Saunders
Steel Warrior
USA
www.bryanlewissaunders.org

18) Tree and Hal McGee
2011
USA
treenoise(AT)gmail(DOT)com
http://www.halmcgee.com

19) Bryan Lewis Saunders, Jeremy Gluck, and Lezet
Key Words (alternate take)
USA/UK/Serbia
www.bryanlewissaunders.org
http://www.jeremygluck.com/
www.lezet.blogspot.com

20) Acclimate
On the Edge of Nothing
New Zealand
http://www.acclimate.co.nz

21) Decoy Jews (Jon Thoresen and Keahota Hota)
Not Sorry
USA
jon.jonthor.180(AT)gmail(DOT)com

22) PostVerbal (Lee Kwo, Jaan Patterson)
Drawn from the eternal impact
Australia/Germany
http://postverbal.rrism.com/

23) Wehwalt
vrombissement d'un pigeon aux faces parallèles
France
www.myspace.com/wehwalt

24) François-Emmanuel Fodéré
Indian Flash
France
http://audioblog.arteradio.com/Francois_Emmanuel_Fodere

25) o.melby
The Naked Smurf
Norway
ohmelby(AT)gmail(DOT)com

26) Origami Emergencyka
sitwenyxt
Norway
http://ronnywaernes.com/

27) Posted Bury (Hopek Quirin, Jaan Patterson)
Plenty of Not
Germany
www.myspace.com/hopekquirin
http://undressbeton.com

28) stalaktos
petrified
Mexico
www.stalaktos.com

29) undRess Béton and Hal McGee
Portable Smiles
Germany/USA
http://undressbeton.com
http://www.halmcgee.com

30) PBK
Found Objects
USA
http://pbksound.com

31) Otto Von Rhinau & undRess Béton
Chateau Subtelabor
France/Germany
ottovonrhinau@gmail.com
http://undressbeton.com

32) djozr
the weight of the billion shadows he casts
USA
djozr.bandcamp.com

33) Bryan Lewis Saunders & Wehwalt
Life is a Runaway Semi-truck part II (short version)
USA/France
http://www.bryanlewissaunders.org/
www.otorragie.blogspot.com

34) Jason Kavanagh
Another Notch on Winter's Bone
Scotland
http://itsujitsu.wordpress.com

35) Carlos Ramirez & Anton Mobin
Urban Myths
USA/France
http://soundcloud.com/carlos1111
http://antonmobin.blogspot.com/

36) William Davison & Jaan Patterson
Subterranean Clamor
Canada/Germany
http://www.recordism.com
http://surrism.com

37) K.A. Pham and Pat Rubbish
Badgers & Buckshots
Australia/USA
arn_anh_mahp@hotmail.com
patrickcooksey(AT)hotmail(DOT)com

38) Raw Onion Spin-cycle with Hal McGee
Giraffe-Cock in the next life with confetti.
USA
geronimoarafat@gmail.com
http://www.halmcgee.com

39) Erick Diego & Jaan Patterson
Eclipse of the words
Mexico/Germany
http://www.myspace.com/erickdiego
http://jaanpatterson.com

40) Violet
64 steps of length
USA
http://zeromoon.com/violet

41) PBK and Artemis K
How Do You Spell Whore?
USA/New Zealand
http://pbksound.com
http://acclimate.co.nz

42) Corroded Master
SnareCO3
USA
CorrodedMasterBand(AT)gmail(DOT)com

43) Dead Wood
Rule Of Thumb
UK
http://blotchcreek.blogspot.com/

44) Daniel Barbiero
Indigo Grey on Grey
USA
garisenda2000(AT)yahoo(DOT)com

45) Tag Cloud
A Controlled Burn
USA
limbus4(AT)gmail(DOT)com

46) Seiei Jack, Jaan Patterson, and Jeremy Gluck
Sexfish
Japan/Germany/UK
http://twitter.com/SEIEIJACK
http://jaanpatterson.com
http://www.myspace.com/jsgluck

47) Jeremy Gluck, Seiei Jack, Jaan Patterson
I want to use your mind
UK, Japan, Germany
http://www.myspace.com/jsgluck
http://twitter.com/SEIEIJACK
http://jaanpatterson.com

48) Ohne Worte (Anthony Donovan & Jaan Patterson)
Agonist Ergo
UK/Germany
http://murmurists.blogspot.com
http://jaanpatterson.com

49) Rohypnoise
Financial Scum
France
http://Rohypnoise.free.fr

50) Jack Hertz
One Minute from Time Drone
USA
http://jackhertz.com

51) Jack Hertz & Quisp Quake
60 Seconds from Black Sunday
USA
http://jackhertz.com
http://quispquake.info/

52) Tree
three out of four is 58
USA
treenoise(AT)gmail(DOT)com

53) Clutter & undRess Béton
Including Time
UK/Germany
http://www.cluttermusic.com
http://undressbeton.com

54) Sean Monsoon / Hal McGee / Tree
certain of none
USA
treenoise(AT)gmail(DOT)com
http://www.halmcgee.com

55) Runar Magnusson, The Crying Cowboy, Jaan Patterson
On Tip Toes
Denmark, Iceland, Germany
http://runarmagnusson.wordpress.com
http://undressbeton.wordpress.com

56) John Daly
Memory
Ireland
www.myspace.com/tunedin52jd

57) Dave Fuglewicz and Zebra Mann
The Spider Dance
USA
http://www.davefuglewicz.com
www.tapegerm.com/jamroom/bands/1204

58) J. Dippold
Shimmy Shimmer
USA
dippold(AT)gmail(DOT)com

59) Promute
Dance of the Tree People
USA
shaunsandor(AT)hotmail(DOT)com

60) Alignak
Brain Train
USA
alignak_band(AT)hotmail(DOT)com

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Roland Kayn - Cybernetic Music III (Reiger-records-reeks, 1996)

not the original cover artwork....

Roland Kayn passed away the 6th of january... RIP...

here a post by Classical Drone:

Another of the great pioneer electroacousticians passed away this week. Roland Kayn was a part of the early electronic improv groups, Nuova Consonanza, with Ennio Morricone, Franco Evangelisti and Aldo Clementi, but his mark came with huge electronic epics that he started composing in the mid-1960s. One part of his Cybernetics project was released on the legendary DGG Avant-Garde series of LPs, and in 1970 Kayn released a 3-LP set of a 148-minute work, Simultan. By the late 1970s most of his work was electroacoustic, all of it big: Makro (released on 3 LPs) in 1977, Infra (released on 4 LPs) in 1979-80, Tektra (released on 6 LPs and later reissued on 4 CDs) in 1980. He created his own label, where he has released 15 albums of his music, 13 of them electroacoustic, all but one as 2-CD sets, none of them reissues of the LPs. He adapted marvelously to the digital age, increasing his output dramatically, with 220 of his 287 works composed in his last decade, all of them electronic. In 2009 alone, he composed 30 electronic works for a total of over 36 hours of music.

Even as I am staggered by the quantity, everything that I've heard by him transports me to a different place, and I always look forward to his works when they appear in the iPod rotation. I suspect that his work in cybernetics led him to some kind of generative system, but most of the documents on his web site are in languages I don't read (Dutch, German, Italian, etc.). Hopefully more detailed information will become available in English about his music.
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Juanjo Palacios - Portuario (Audiotalaia, 2011)

01 Rozamiento
02 Atraque
03 Contenedor
04 Pantalán

I personally met Juanjo Palacios a few months ago. We had the opportunity to gather in Madrid for a gig organised by our friends of Latimeria (Juan Antonio Nieto and Almudena Villar). I had been chatting on the net with him since I found it’s release as Blezna, released at Alg-a Netlabel. Since always we had in mind a future collaboration and I wanted him to work on a project for Audiotalaia. Finally after a wait that was worth here we have Portuario. The new instalment of Juanjo Palacios is a four track EP that combines all the interests of this particular artist.

Palacios defines himself as a phonographer and sound artist and he has been involved in many projects regarding Soundscapism. He combines the materials and soundscapes that he captures on field trips with processed drones and ambient textures. Palacios uses soundscapes as textures and elements to transport certain sonorities to specific places. This time, with Portuario, the issue its a Harbour (Musel Harbour in Gijón, North of Spain). The usage of both soundscapes and field recordings provide the release with a bast palette of sound structures that can be heard as abstracted soundscapes, or auditory schematisations of the sound of a shore.

Finally and reviewing it’s previous work at GreenField Recordings, we can understand the consistency of Palacios’s work. At Luis Antero Netlabel, Palacios released a Soundscape album based on shore recordings (Borde Litoral), on Audiotalaia this artist releases an abstraction of the shore or the coastline. If on the previous album we had a precise study of the northern coastline of Spain here we have an evocation of the same.
Audiotalaia

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Catalyst Fantasy – Positive Energy (Webbed Hand Records, 2011)

01 Catalyst Fantasy(6:24)
02 Do What You Are Told(5:20)
03 Here It Comes(5:04)
04 Milk and Cookies(8:16)
05 Oh, Little Horn(4:00)
06 Positive Energy(5:20)
07 Power is Singular(5:12)
08 The Existence of Money(4:16)

Mathew Sforcina from Australia and Sun-Inside from Ukraine join up as Catalyst Fantasy on this experimental/electronic work.

The project of two musicians living in different parts of the world:
Matthew Sforcina (Australia) – vocals
Sun-Inside (Ukraine) – music

This well-produced collaborative effort stands out very distinctly among the variety of electronica artists operating today, though to my mind it is reminiscent of the pioneering works of neo-dada industrial groups like Cabaret Voltaire and Coil, a very high commendation indeed. However the themes explored are very uniquely those of the artists, and despite the great distance between them they bring it all together as if they share a studio.
Webbed Hand Records

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Drone Wallah – Caput Mortuum (Webbed Hand Records, 2011)

01 Diogenes’ Lantern 16:11
02 Faute de Mieux 17:00
03 Crowned With Elder part 1 13:14
04 Brutum Fulmen 06:30
05 Crowned With Elder part 2 08:41

Drone Wallah’s “Caput Mortuum” serves up the characteristic drones, ranging from soothing to intense.
Webbed Hand Records

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The Musk-rat Cult – The Last Mark of the Upcoming End (Webbed Hand Records, 2010)

01 Lead Your Plough Through the Bones of the Dead 10:00
02 The Monster 03:13
03 The cry of all things that are going to die 12:32

These abstract dark ambient works by the Musk-rat Cult approach sound from a painterly perspective.

When asked to describe this album, here’s what the artist said:
“It’s hard to write something about this album, the idea was to create music that’s like an abstract painting – everyone can hear something different in it. I’m a painter, so I’m always surprised with what other people can see while looking at my paintings. Sometimes they see it as something completely different from what I thought while creating them. I wanted this album to be as abstract as possible and I think it works. There were a lot of different oppinions about it, someone told me, that it sounds like a soundtrack to David Lynch’s movies (which may be true, I’m a big fan of those), someone else said it’s more like a musical way of describing mental disorder or a psychedelic trip.
While recording this album I used a lot of strange noises, some of them are animal sounds with some effects used on them, others are radio noises. I even used a noise that my radio started making during an aurora in Iceland. I don’t think anyone else have ever used this sounds to create music.

…TLMOTUE is the 4th album by this project. First years of creating music as TMC (2005-2007) was just experimenting with different sounds and noises. There were a lot of demos, I put the best tracks together and that’s how the first official (at least for me, it was never released) record of TMC was created. It’s a 10-track EP called “Mechanical Bananas, Rubber Spoons and Jelly Mutants from Outer Space”. I think the title tells a lot about how it sounds, it’s like a strange, psycho child of Monty Python and Merzbow.

Between 2008 and 2009 I used to play in many different bands, I needed something different, something made only by myself. That’s when I thought about creating something as The Musk-rat Cult again. Before I used to think about it as something not really serious, but at that moment I thought that I can make it something more than just a way to kill some time. I started creating new music, that was still very noisy, but it became darker. That’s how the second EP called “Enema” was created.

After “Enema” I felt that the idea for this project in that shape is over. That’s why just after recording “Enema” I started working on the first “real” album as TMC. The name of it was supposed to be “Hidden Faces and Surreal Voices”, but finally I changed it to “Mutatis Mutandis (Hidden Faces and Surreal Voices)” Again the title tells it all – mutatis mutandis which means “the necessary changes having been made” is a perfect way to describe the way I felt while creating this music. It is probably the first record by TMC where I haven’t used only noises and different sounds, but I combined them with more traditional sounds and real instruments.”
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Nurse With Wound - Soresucker (United Dairies, 1990)

01 I Am The Poison
02 Journey Through Cheese

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