Ben Wildenhaus - The Limping Axeman

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Rick Reed - Dark Skies At Noon (Elevator Bath, 2005)

1 Dark Skies At Noon 30:06
2 Ceremony - Parts 1 & 2 17:57
3 Ghosts Of Energy 17:49

Reed’s droning, crackling, lulling, screeching patchworks become as aurally-demanding as a Hecker or a Pita, while projecting also an out-of-the-box bigness and a vaguely psychedelic warmth, or a frayed (as opposed to diced or pixilated) edge that is, to my ears, very unique . The music here is not straight drone, or as uni-directional as that word might imply; it does not creep long, plunge deep, or run up towards abandon. Pure tones, static loops, and granulated washes collect and regress to form a looming mass of nearly symphonic austere sound bites, conjuring the spirit of writhing, head-cleaning “noise” music but projecting a cleaner vision, a high-lonesome, spectral conglomerate of disembodied machines.

The sound is spacious and arch-ful, though never fully quiet, as if there is continual off-site energy blowing through so that all lost is replaced, reflected, or refracted through a brilliant sensitivity to texture and pitch. Field recordings, violin, and the familiar guitar of Keith Rowe avoid becoming focus and instead evolve within the mix, rounding out the organism of Reed’s compositions, the hyper-real connectedness of such shrill and singularly uninviting tones and waves. Dark Skies At Noon is hands-down the best release of any Reed involvement that I’ve heard, and, in a limited pressing of 328, it is something to be treasured.
Brainwashed

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Fabio Orsi - Stand Up Before Me, Oh My Soul! (Preservation, 2010) avalaible for pre-order!!!

The Preservation label presents Stand Up Before Me, Oh My Soul! from Italy’s Fabio Orsi.

Fabio’s prolific output has had him heralded as a master of modern ambience, creating rich, freeform atmospheres with organic instrumentation and processed sounds. Though known for momentous pieces of hypnotic power, this work marks a dynamic new turn in Fabio’s sound. The force of his composition takes more of an overt stance on Stand Up Before Me, Oh My Soul!. The raw and primal pulse at the heart of his music is writ large here with a punk mindset, unleashing a heady mass of guitars against a backdrop of cavernous, shimmering distortion and crashing drums. (courtesy of Rich Baker, who also performs regularly with Nadja’s Aidan Baker) It also boasts a bristling sense of lysergic, hazy melody.

Brutal and glimmering, dark and beautiful, Stand Up Before Me, Oh My Soul! drops loud and large in pursuit of pure dissonant bliss.

Stand Up Before Me, Oh My Soul! is the first in a new limited edition CD series from Preservation called Circa. 300 copies only will be available of each release in the series and each will feature a design by Mark Gowing. Each design will be realised using a specially created abstract alphabet of shapes, determined by artist, title and catalogue number for something both fixed and random.
Preservation

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The Wounded Violets - The Wounded Violets (suRRism-Phonoethics, 2010)

1 Sad Hill
2 Stone Bird
3 Hollow Core
4 Deora
5 Skeleton Key

'there’s your wish!'
-undRess Béton

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The Side Effect - Act 3 & 4 Balcony Scene (suRRism-Phonoethics, 2010)

1 Act 3
2 Act 4

suRRism-Phonoethics is proud to release The Side Effect by Dan Pålsson (Pythagora), Pierre Sjöbring (Pilectro)

'many suppliers delivered at instances through fur borough
and so called skins tied nine
of them back in 1951'
-undRess Béton

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Pablo Ribot - Mix.Step (suRRism-Phonoethics, 2010)

1 Intro Dm fux
2 Cycle
3 Airport Interference
4 Mthfucker
5 Antimateria
6 T-Khazeem pt.1
7 T-Khazeem pt.2
8 T-Khazeem pt.3
9 Dial
10 N_chip
11 Alpha Frecuencia
12 Tunel
13 Inn Dub
14 Snapshot

suRRism-Phonoethics is proud to release Pablo Ribot's 4th sPE_release 'Mix.Step'!

Audiovisual artist, producer, composer and guitarist.
Mix.Step (2010) released with the suRRism-Phonoethics netlabel.

His work focuses on electronic-experimental-electo-acoustic music.
Micro sounds, broken and unarticulated shapes, are combined with free-style,
taking influences from the avant-garde, jazz, glitch and circuit bent sound.

Pablo Ribot grabbing the nut once AGAIN!
suRRism-Phonoethics

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Zacarias Malden - Prompt (suRRism-Phonoethics, 2010)

1 Prompt I
2 Binario
3 D-base
4 Prompt II
5 Hexadecimal
6 Microcontrolador
7 Prompt III
8 Microchip
9 Pascal
10 Prompt IV

'These as can still that must be expressed.
Retouched by and the to along of us,
MEMORABILIA,
of whose of I what very number sentence acts
then they blurred

not do be Language'

-undRess Béton

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CONTROL-Z - Cut To Cut (suRRism-Phonoethics, 2010)

1 Cut X
2 Cut XX
3 Cut XXX
4 Cut XXXX
5 Cut XXXXX

'he decided to hence, so the rest already already did try to do cancel.
fortunate sample was times as they also noticed colors-
while realizing the wait the step was caused!
larry was out of reach…
could wanting to deceive a mission?
ranting cause trashed ‘bangs’'

-undRess Béton

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Saluki Regicide – The Shades to Appease (Webbed Hand Records, 2010)

01 Intro 00:15
02 Whispering 03:44
03 The Robot Had to Obey 04:33
04 55 Monstrous Pictures 03:20
05 Just a Little Bit Farther 05:36
06 Song of Amergin 05:24
07 What Plan? 08:02
08 The Shades to Appease 07:43
09 E Pur Si Muove 06:50

Saluki Regicide returns to Webbed Hand with a long-awaited sequel to “Mirage Emigrants” [wh012] — an album full of atmospheric sound textures and evocative samples.

More work from a recording project described as “haunted head music to disturb your inner child.” Saluki Regicide was the first major project of C.P. McDill and he still considers it his primary one. It was originally most active 2003-04, then sporadically thereafter, usually in the form of collaborations and long-form works. This album signals a return to the original style of working as Saluki Regicide, and even hints at future directions.
Webbed Hand Records

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Black Aurora - Veil (Webbed Hand Records, 2010)

01 Veil 09:37
02 The Church of Apprehension 10:43
03 Sepia 14:25
04 Radiance 06:42
05 Gates to Oblivion 12:10

The concept behind the music of Black Aurora was to invoke a dark and empty atmosphere that at certain times would let light shine in, only to engulf it after it had shone too long. Between heavy, droning guitars, dark ambient pads, and the occasional use of church bells and orchestral strings, the music of Black Aurora is not only music, but an experience in creating a one of a kind atmosphere that brings the listener in, and wont let them out until the final droning note fades away.
Greg Armbruster

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A Quiet Norway - Live! (Amplified Music Pollution, 2010)

1 Live!

Recorded at Acufenos Festival (Madrid) & La Clinica Mundana (Valencia) November 2010 special thanks to Mathis Dikkanen, Knut Magne Valle, Juan Antonio Nieto.

Rune Martinsen & Jean Montag
Amplified Music Pollution

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International Email Audio Art Project Volume 4 (HalTapes, 2010)

"Hal McGee a major collaborator in history of sounds... Challenging fun project! So many to discover, perfectly streamlined... Amazed to be part(s) of it. thanks for doing it siR Hal McGee!!
undRess Béton

01) Simon Langdon
Cat + Pocket Fan + Ocarina + Oscillator
UK
Baacardi(AT)hotmail(DOT)com

02) André Pissoir
Refracted Grin
Germany
http://www.myspace.com/andre.pissoir

03) Jeremy Gluck
One minute
UK
http://www.myspace.com/jsgluck

04) Richard Knight
Less Canvas
UK
www.1bpm.net

05) Otto von Rhinau
Nope
France
http://www.dogmazic.net/Otto_von_Rhinau

06) Lux Pogo (Adrian Beentjes, Anthony Donovan, Jaan Patterson)
I Shit On Most Specified Transmitters
USA/UK/Germany
www.classwarkaraoke.com

07) kx - second lost puppy revolte
Neda
Germany
emitter19.blogsport.de

08) Origami Boe
007U
Canary Islands/Spain
http://origami.teks.no/boe

09) Tree
cragly
USA
treenoise(AT)gmail(DOT)com

10) Microwave Windows
Got A Light
USA
microwavewindows(AT)gmail(DOT)com

11) Zebra Mann
Corrupted Angels
USA
www.tapegerm.com/jamroom/bands/1204

12) Let's Fight!
This Road Belongs to Theophany
USA
http://myspace.com/letsfightoh

13) Zis kil & Wehwalt
Ascension vers les papilles
France
otorragie.blospot.com

14) Hal McGee
no-input mixer for IEAAP4
USA
http://www.halmcgee.com

15) Whitey Alabastard
Hold me
USA
whitey_alabastard(AT)yahoo(DOT)com

16) Kalendar
51.5.0.02.26112010.210450
UK
http://soundcloud.com/kalendar

17) Doug Michael
Radio Sky Part 2
USA
dmic(AT)att(DOT)net

18) Brook Hinton
Remains (Sketch #1)
USA
www.brookhinton.com

19) Tainted Corrosive Mist
#89
Germany
www.myspace.com/taintedcorrosivemist

20) Rolna
The Turning Point
Hungary
http://officialrolna.blogspot.com

21) Penis Culture (Thomas Denesha and Julia LaDense)
Cincinnati
USA
http://julialadense.tumblr.com

22) Cementimental
Doesn't Much Care for Psy-trance
UK
www.cementimental.com

23) The Digitariat
Sandra Romain
UK
thedigitariat(AT)yahoo(DOT)com

24) Flesh For Frank
55 seconds of headache material
Canada
frank.zen(AT)vif(DOT)com

25) Jack Hertz
One Minute From Dark Destinations
USA
http://jackhertz.com

26) Kathy Burkett
Moody Q Waves
USA
burkettkathy(AT)yahoo(DOT)com

27) audi0d3ath
eh
UK
www.soundcloud.com/audi0d3ath

28) Lezet
Trigger-happy
Serbia
www.lezet.blogspot.com

29) La Cosa Preziosa
Sleep Anxiety
Italy
http://www.lacosapreziosa.com

30) Deerpark
ZOIO
USA
sdohring(AT)hotmail(DOT)com

31) Petar Alargic
1"
Serbia
www.petaralargic.com

32) Don Sigal & Pat Cooksey
Work Related Mayhem
USA
http://www.oppositerecords.com/
patrickcooksey(AT)hotmail(DOT)com

33) Insomniatic Narcoleptic
Mr. Owl
USA
rocker4life.jeremy(AT)yahoo(DOT)com

34) Creek Bats
A Spectacle
USA
creekbats.bandcamp.com

35) Travis Johnson
improvisation for laptop computer (with distant train)
USA
travis6johnson.tumblr.com

36) Arno Peeters
amunite
The Netherlands
www.arnopeeters.com

37) kirchenkampf
timeslip
USA
johndgore100(AT)yahoo(DOT)com

38) Matthew Sforcina
Sinkery
USA
http://www.matthewsforcina.us/

39) Allan Zane
Sped-Up TV Cut-Ups Poem With Lysergic Ambience
USA
allan_zane(AT)yahoo(DOT)com

40) Free Jazz Alienation
Failed Attempts At Rhetoric
USA
infinitetoytrains.tumblr.com

41) Anton Mobin
Kiss, Lia
France
http://antonmobin.blogspot.com/

42) Seiei Jack
KCAJ IEIES
Japan
http://twitter.com/SEIEIJACK

43) Ben Presto
Short meditation in front of the washing machine
Germany
oinko(AT)tiscali(AT)it

44) Stupid Opium
Kiwi on Fire
USA
stupidopium(AT)hotmail(DOT)com

45) Tullio DeSantis
Nothing from Something
USA
www.tulliodesantis.com

46) Plato and the Western Tradition (Boyd Nutting and David K. Barton)
Wings on the Web
USA
nuttingb2(AT)hotmail(DOT)com

47) Jim Ivy and Tree
The Burmese Cynic
USA
bipediment(AT)gmail(DOT)com
treenoise(AT)gmail(DOT)com

48) Violence and the Sacred
The Cape of St. Mary
Canada
http://www.viosac.net/

49) The Subliminator
no les no more
USA
subliminator2003(AT)yahoo(DOT)com

50) Zilmrah
Choking Alone
USA
http://www.myspace.com/zilmrah

51) Old Vulgarizer (Dave Fuglewicz and Jeremy Samuel Gluck, featuring the voice of Michael Fleck)
Take 7
USA/UK
http://www.davefuglewicz.com
http://www.myspace.com/jsgluck

52) Secktor 7g - (Jay Reeve)
Optimum Vision
USA
jay_c_reeve(AT)hotmail(DOT)com

53) Murmurists
Dog Eat Dog Eat Dog
UK
http://murmurists.blogspot.com

54) TI*TO [Trance Industrial Toy Orchestra]
bird recitaal live - best moments remix
Germany
www.transindustriell.de/tito

55) The Fungus Moth
At The Doors Of Coastal Corrosion
UK
www.MySpace.com/thefungusmoth

56) Mike Honeycutt
EMAA1
USA
http://djmysterymike.blogspot.com/

57) John Wiggins
The Ropes
USA
wiggins(AT)wonderlandnyc(DOT)com

58) Adriva
oba 2
Russia
adriva(AT)yandex(DOT)ru

59) Naked Triangle Project
Pizza Party Tribute
USA
http://analtonal.blogspot.com

60) Eli Elliott
Shop Till You Static
USA
www.Elienation.org

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Stephen Vitiello - The Smallest Of Wings (self release, 2005)

The Smallest of Wings, 2005, Vitiello's newest "environmental experience" and the centerpiece of his recent exhibition at the Project, does something similar but shifts the focus from the built to the natural world. In purely visual terms, all that distinguishes it from an empty room are six small white speakers, mounted at ceiling height, and a bench in the middle of the floor. What really inhabit and energize the space are six channels of sound assembled from the low thrum of beating moth wings (recorded in upstate New York Upstate) and the higher-pitched buzzing of hummingbirds (tracked down a little farther from home, in the Brazilian Amazon). In this new work, Vitiello again transports us from the physical and psychological here and now while making sly reference to the inherent imperfections of his technical means (the insect and bird sounds often seeming to imitate the crackle of static).

Vitiello's work is strongest when least visual: The Smallest of Wings functions precisely by encouraging us to conjure up or make visible, as a spirit, by magic arts; hence, to invent; as, to conjure up a story; to conjure up alarms imagery of our own rather than handing it to us on a platter. Whenever he introduces objects--even, as is usually the case, objects explicitly associated with the reproduction of sound--the results feel limited by comparison. So it is with Noisy World, 2005, in which a pain of speakers have been built into the pages of an old book about the problem of noise pollution, turning it into the kind of self-consciously self-defeating one-liner that might be charming from a younger artist but feels too cute for one of Vitiello's experience. Having the speakers broadcast a song by the Christian indie-rock band Danielson Famile also seems an odd way to add heft. Speaker Shooting (cannon) and the related Speaker Shooting (cannon pieces) (both 2002-2005) suffer from the same problem: Despite a list of venerable ancestors including Nam June Paik Nam June Paik, Gustav Metzger, the Who, and Einsturzende Neubauten, destroying an item of sound equipment and documenting the results, as Vitiello does here in the form of four large photographs and, uh, charred bits of speaker, now seems a less-than-vital activity.

Crazy Wall Thing, 2005, a "wall drawing" produced in collaboration with Tony Oursler, also makes use of partially disassembled speakers but avoids the dead ends of the previous examples. Here, the massed circular forms of twenty-eight small, uncased speakers--each painted with a crude smiley face--create an abstract connect-the-dots design. Those that are linked to a floor-bound CD player and amplifier emit unidentifiable squawks and twitters that flit unpredictably from spot to spot. While meditative, immersive works like World Trade Center Recordings and The Smallest of Wings succeed by exploiting the format's capacity to effortlessly collapse grand scale or negate far-flung diversity, rougher, more abstract projects like Crazy Wall Thing generate an altogether different, manic energy.
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undRess Béton - The Unfiled 7 (suRRism-Phonoethics, 2010)

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undRess Béton - Unrecorded Tissues (suRRism-Phonoethics, 2010)

1 Unrecorded Tissues (ASIDE)
2 Unrecorded Tissues (BSIDE)

now as roots nurse taught flying
the call of authentic appears in diapers fun
none of those were menda’s he said.

Im er rev.in eyes

please wind - du your called vague
jerk jets deleted then realized like now she wasn't to purse paradoxes

hexer measured that fortunate flower dress
den is not in or but loving out

paradoxes purse i life
those especially fear only

decided was the fact that bled his tongue
‘endloser traum’ der may reverese
min hidden errors is like the bio gesicht...

Furry sight we use to disgust as mex bags!
Deforcement tides fur or and for lost sorry

loosen undRessed handles
hatte - & if had hid hidden, we might

ist so wie ein pondered telephone
just it’s trendy scale

here you’re just bags!

As he cancel topf technic as or cooking
my forced pants drop any files

time the lost!

Can flangerology in dude flies say her
discuss as my die welk trash be

paper
love

called fluctuations are over

was fly
my now is:

got risen
auch too i bag,
the bugs as bags

don sideways now
hier natural at urne,
ties,
put fruit about have eitherstand
that nuns youRs getting

(relieved version of ‘deleted my trash’)

-undRess Béton (on date to date)

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Matthew Sforcina - Pillar of Light (suRRism-Phonoethics, 2010)

1 Push the Alto, Man
2 Irony equals
3 Will I then enjoy it
4 The Feminine Masculine
5 Pillar of Light
6 Mmmm (feat. Footwear is Always by Sun-Inside)
7 Fantastic Pillastic
8 Disciple of Discipline
9 The Four Winds 45.9 MB
10 September Play List (feat. Arena by Sun-Inside)

'light 124 and white-light
correctly installed requirement lamps

become is the are of virtue
a still image to no I universe.'

-undRess Béton

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Drone Wallah – Augury (Webbed Hand Records, 2010)

01 Augury Part One 39:57
02 Augury Part Two 25:06

Drone Wallah is C.P. McDill’s project devoted solely to expansive drone works.
Webbed Hand Records

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Drone Wallah – Womble-cropped (Webbed Hand Records, 2010)

01 Dog of the Seven Sleepers 05:28
02 Womble-cropped 20:45
03 The Devil’s Paternoster 23:18
04 Every Bullet Its Billet 20:21

Drone Wallah is a recording project of CP McDill (Saluki Regicide, Djinnestan, Akashic Crow’s Nest, Tree Helicopter) focused on long, shimmery works of drone ambient. This is the sixth release under that name.
Webbed Hand Records

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Giesela - Weiß (Gruenrekorder, 2005)

1 Holzbock
2 Baracken
3 Überfahrt
4 Adlerstraße
5 Hans-Werner
6 Azuma

The fidelity and ease of compact discs (and, subsequently, of digital audio, as embodied, or at least epitomized, by MP3s) has taken John Cage’s famous realizations about the nature of silence and turned them outward. Now that the absurdity of the concept of pure silence is commonly appreciated, we use field recordings to explore the sounds that are actually there, however remote they may be. Giesela’s Weiß doesn’t even try to make good on its enticing subtitle ("Field recordings and melodicas"), but it more than makes up for that image of a Caribbean sound art by taking raw audio and transforming it into casual soundscapes without ever fully losing the sense of the original material. The opening track, "Holzbock", is at first so near-silent you’d think we might have to wait for a subsequent recordist to wander along and make something of it, but then the creaks of an old house start up and you might find yourself pining for the calmness that had come before. "Überfahrt" uses scraps of cello to develop a lilting backdrop amid percussive punctuations. Tellingly, several of Giesela’s sources involve children. "Baracken", quietly, employs a child’s voice, before vaporizing into a suite of white noise figments, and two others, "Adlerstraße" and "Azuma", contain "textures" from a "T. Siefert Children-Soundensemble." The last of these is a delightful mix of wooden wind chimes and tertiary space tones that’s like the encapsulation of the perfect weekend morning. Together they promote a sense of wonder that’s captivating and, occasionally, more than a little scary.
e/i magazine

Luckily things fall on good ground with the last release, by Giesela, whom we met before, in Vital Weekly 523, as Giesela Rot, aka Marc Riek, the man behind the label. His release is subtitled ‘Field Recordings And Melodicas’, by which he doesn’t mean literally melodicas, but more ‘the other sounds also used and given to me by my friends’, which means sounds of a cello and children, which pop up in various tracks. Riek himself is responsible for the field recordings used here. In the six pieces these sounds are put together in a kind of microsounding way. Silent, careful, inaudible but also warm and digital. Its a release to keep your full attention with, other you’d miss out on something. Throughout the music is quite intense, even when it’s not always finding new paths to walk along. It certainly stands out from the previous two.
Vital Weekly

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Jérémie Mathes - Árset (Mystery Sea, 2010) available now !!!!!

a close friend is publishing his sophomore album on Mystery Sea... so buy it !!!! and like always check the back catalogue of Mystery Sea....


"Le jour, je collecte et capture des images sonores que je retire de leur réalité tangible. La nuit lorsque tout est calme en surface,
ces fragments m'apparaissent sous un autre aspect sublimé qui modifie ma perception initiale. Mon attention se porte sur la myriade
de micro détails produits par la captation sonore. Je m'abandonne alors à révéler les imperceptibilités de de leur structure inhérente.
Modélisant cette matière ineffable, je m'efforce de concevoir une architecture du non visible. Hors de toute temporalité, mon esprit accomplit son voyage nocturne."

"During the day, I collect and capture sound images that I separate from their tangible reality. At night, when everything seems calm on the surface, these fragments appear to be sublimed and changed in aspect, which modifies my initial perception.
My attention is set on the myriad of micro details produced by the sound capture. I then abandon myself to reveal the imperceptibilities
inherant to their structure. Modelling this unspeakable matter, I strive to conceive an architecture of the non visible.
Out of all temporality, my spirit accomplishes its nocturnal journey."

- Jérémie Mathes, January 2010

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