KK Null - Oxygen Flash

Artist: KK Null
Album: Oxygen Flash
Year: 2008
Genre(s): Noise

One of the most original, cosmic, dynamic, and trippy names in the Japanoise scene, KK Null brings us nothing short of supersonic excellence with Oxygen Flash.

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Posted by DW.

Lovedrug - The Sucker Punch Show

Artist - Lovedrug

Album - The Sucker Punch Show

Year - 2008

Genre(s) - Indie / Alternative

Lovedrug was shown to me yesterday, and I was immediately drawn in. The vocalist has a pretty unique voice, and their music is great. Check them out!

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Posted By: KB

Napalm Death - Scum

Artist: Napalm Death
Album: Scum
Year: 1987
Genre(s): Grindcore

First Napalm Death album and a prime example of incredible early grindcore, Scum is THE Napalm Death album to have if you're into them and all. Their other stuff is good, but this is incredible.

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John Wiese - Black Magic Pond

Artist: John Wiese
Album: Black Magic Pond
Year: 2006
Genre(s): Noise

Various live excerpts from John Wiese; some good material here.

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Thomas Giles - Pulse

Artist - Thomas Giles

Album - Pulse

Year - 2011

Genre(s) - Rock / Electronic / Metal

Solo project from Thomas Giles (Between the Buried and Me).

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Posted By: KB

Melt-Banana - Charlie

Artist: Melt-Banana
Album: Charlie
Year: 1998
Genre(s): Noise rock, punk

Classic Melt-Banana album. One of my absolute favorites.

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Yakuza - Of Seismic Consequence

Artist: Yakuza
Album: Of Seismic Consequence
Year: 2010
Genre(s): Progressive metal, experimental

One of the most unique bands in the Chicago scene and in underground metal in general right now is Yakuza. Their last album (by last I mean most recent and possibly final, as the band has talked about calling it quits lately) was an absolutely brilliant triumph of everything they had done well with each previous release. Definitely one of the best albums to come out last year (which reminds me... I should put up a top ten list or something on here). Anyway, check it out.

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Venetian Snares - Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole

Artist: Venetian Snares
Album: Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole
Year: 2005
Genre(s): Electronic, experimental, IDM, breakcore

More insane fucking VSnares from Aaron Funk. Closes with a cool SKM-ETR remix.

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Renaldo And The Loaf - The Elbow Is Taboo

Artist: Renaldo And The Loaf
Album: The Elbow Is Taboo
Year: 1987
Genre(s): Avant-garde

Another totally bizarre but totally awesome Renaldo And The Loaf album. This was their last album. Worth it for Hambu Hodo alone, but there are a lot of great tracks on here...

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Earth - Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1

Artist: Earth
Album: Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1
Year: 2011
Genre(s): Drone, western, post-rock

Earth's new album is a lot like all the rest of what they've been doing recently, but that isn't a bad thing... it's just a bit more sprawled out, jammy, and experimental this time. Really fucking good.

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Can - Tago Mago

Artist: Can
Album: Tago Mago
Year: 1971
Genre(s): Experimental, psychedelic

Sorry if the genres throw you off; I'm not really sure how to classify this. Absolutely classic album, though.

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Sloth Demon - God

Artist - Sloth Demon

Album - God

Year - 2011

Genre(s) - Noise

Sloth Demon is my personal noise project, and this is the first time I'm releasing anything. This EP has been done since about June of last year, I have wanted to put this up for quite some time . Its just noise, and also my first attempt at making it, so any comments would be appreciated.

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Music Bay

If you're looking for even more new music, one of our friends is starting a blog of his own called Music Bay, which you can check out here. Just a few albums up so far but also great stuff so far. I'm expecting good things out of it, so you should check it out and support it if you're feeling into it.

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Lasse Marhaug - The Sky Above, The Bud Below

Artist: Lasse Marhaug
Album: The Sky Above, The Bud Below
Year: 2010
Genre(s): Noise

First post of 2011! Cheers. Anyway, a quality noise blog I frequent called the static fanatic just posted this the other day and I just listened to it. Now this was honestly my introduction to Lasse Marhaug (I know he's a fairly well-known name in noise, but still, there are a lot of those), and I really enjoyed it. This is a somewhat short release, just a C-20 with two ten-minute-ish tracks. Definitely some interesting noise, though. I would recommend the blog I found this at to any fans of noise as well as this release.

So where should I go next with Lasse Marhaug? If you know his work, help me out.

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Alec Empire - Generation Star Wars

Artist: Alec Empire
Album: Generation Star Wars
Year: 1994
Genre(s): Electronic, experimental

Alec Empire has been doing unique and original electronic music for some time now. Here's one of my personal favorites.

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Daniel Menche - Radiant Blood

Artist: Daniel Menche
Album: Radiant Blood
Year: 2005
Genre(s): Noise, drone

Beautiful loud droning noise soundscapes from Daniel Menche. I think this is the proper cover art but if it isn't please let me know and I'll get it fixed.

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Circle Of Animals - Destroy The Light

Artist: Circle Of Animals
Album: Destroy The Light
Year: 2010
Genre(s): Industrial, metal

Circle Of Animals is Sanford Parker (Minsk, Nachtmystium, High Confessions) and Bruce Lamont (Yakuza) with various guests such as the drummers from Cephalic Carnage, Sonic Youth, Tortoise, and more. This album sounds to me like an attempt to return to the Wax Trax! industrial sound from back in the day, but is by no means merely nostalgic- it certainly shines a new light and puts its own original spin on industrial metal. I got this one for Christmas and had never heard of it before and was extremely pleasantly surprised. Highly, highly recommended.

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Posted by DW.

By the way...

Sorry I haven't been posting much. I'm on break from school which means I have a much slower Internet connection at the moment and it's kind of impractical to contribute right now. Nonetheless, here's at least one album since I haven't put any up in awhile. In mid-January I should be speeding up my posting to a regular pace again.

Julie Christmas - The Bad Wife

Artist - Julie Christmas

Album - The Bad Wife

Year - 2010

Genre(s) - Sludge/Experimental

Julie Christmas (Made Out of Babies, Battle of Mice) solo debt.

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Posted By: KB

Pretty Lights - Making Up A Changing Mind

Artist - Pretty Lights

Album - Making Up A Changing Mind

Year - 2010

Genres(s) - Electronic / Dance

From Last.fm:

Pretty Lights, real name Derek Vincent Smith, is an electronic music artist from Colorado. Smith’s music is the byproduct of digital sampling and crosses many genres, forming a combination of glitchy hip-hop beats, buzzing synth lines, and vintage funk and soul samples.

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If you like what you hear, the rest of Pretty Lights music can be downloaded free at http://www.prettylightsmusic.com

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Gholas - Загадка

Artist - Gholas

Album - Загадка

Year - 2010

Genre(s) - Post Metal/Sludge

Self released album from New Jersey Post Metal / Sludge band Gholas.

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