Nobody's Children - No One's Child

Seems like the snow has fucked off for a bit, at least until later tonight. Called our plow dude yesterday when things were at their worst, he said "oh yeah I'll be there in an hour!" and nothing doing, no further communication. Thank God for snow tires and a manual transmission. Here's a relatively new duo of Heath Moerland (you know, Sick Llama / Fag Tapes) and Andrew Coltrane (Hermitage Tapes) gettin all weird and wonky. Five untitled tracks on two tapes in a spraypainted TDK data cartridge case with a couple posters... sick.

This one goes out to my girl Tef who's picking up the pieces in Santiago, Chile. Glad to hear you and yours are all ok. Sorry about your grandpa's beer.

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Prurient - Guide To Grooming

The snow continues and escalates. It'll be a bitch getting home from work today. Here's a rip of more classic Prurient harsh noise circa 2001. I was fortunate enough to find a brand new copy recently from an overseas distributor, still charging the original price. This rip has the B-side properly split up, as opposed to another rip floating around out there.

A1: Have Mercy, Lord Have Mercy
B1: Maji
B2: Arson: Band-Aid
B3: Fire Alarm (The Language Of The Body)

Link removed. Look for monorail trespassing reissues soon.

Ryan Bloomer - Ten Elbow Strikes

It's snowing pretty heavily outside, and it looks like more of the same all weekend. Here's a little bit of noise to warm up your evenings. Twenty minutes of noise from Trauma Tone's Ryan Bloomer, alias Stegm. Two untitled tracks on Abhorrent A.D.

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Crosse Humiliation - A Very Young Rider

What a great tape. Greh Holger (Hive Mind, Cleanse) and Paul Gunsberg (New Pledgemaster) do some nice muted power electronics about horses or something like that. What's not to like? 77 copies on Chondritic Sound.

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The Mossy Throats - Electric Swamp

Far as I know, Mossy Throats is a solo project of Dan Dlugosielski who runs the Excite Bike label out of that noise morass of Michigan. This tape, however, is on Sam Goldberg's Pizza Night from late 2008. Sounds like that reed fuckery that everyone's been so fond of recently.

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Barf Thoth - Dark Speech

Heath Moerland side project on Fag Tapes circa 2006. It's kind of hard to believe this label is close to five years old now. Weird vocal samples, 77 copies I think.

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YOUNG#NINE

This tape is a mystery. No artist mentioned, no title, no track names, just the catalog number: YOUNG#NINE. Odder still is its release being recent, around the same time as other Young Tapes such as YOUNG#EIGHTEEN and YOUNG#NINETEEN. I might merely be missing something, but I saw no announcement from Peter F. (who runs the label) mentioning this tape, and was sold out from the source when I noticed its existence. No idea what the edition might be, but all Young Tapes releases must be low runs judging from how quickly they are sold out.

Ran into some problems tagging track 1 for this release; information is properly displayed in Foobar2000, but not in Windows Explorer or dBpoweramp's ID3 tagging utility. If this matters to you, please check it out before listening.

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Skin Graft - 24 Grudges

Wyatt Howland delivers five tracks of bleak, weird, depressing noise on this Pleasure Dome Tapez reissue of an 8-copy cassette on Howland's own SKSK. 24 Grudges, 25 copies.

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Prurient - Dracula Syndrome

2002 Prurient, as he was still refining his progression from found sound/improvised percussion to balls-out harsh noise cut-ups. This first release on Immaculate:Grotesque's Truculent Recordings was limited to 100 copies, containing a C30 and a C50 for over an hour of noise. Still kind of unclear to me whether or not my copy is a special edition, as others I have asked who own it did not have theirs lashed to a piece of doll furniture as pictured. In any event, the contents of the tapes appear to be the same. Downloading both archives is necessary.

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Masonna - Compilation 1987-1992

Rare as rare can be, didn't even show up in a huge Masonna collection recently auctioned off on ebay. This tape, limited to 50 copies, has a single compilation track comprising many individual segments of Masonna material between the dates mentioned, mostly unreleased it seems. The flip has a live track recorded at Bears in 1992, with an audience list printed below that includes Yamatsuka Eye, Masahiko Ohno, the late Shohei Iwasaki, and most likely David Hopkins.

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Heart2Heart / Impregnable

2006 split on Impregnable's own Callow God featuring defunct Providence chicknoise outfit Heart2Heart on the a-side. 75 copies, I think.

A: Heart2Heart - Mme. Détruit Automatiquement
B: Impregnable - Can I Tell You

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Jason Crumer - Walk With Me (Live)

In late 2008, prior to the release of his most recent full-length noise CD Walk With Me, Jason Crumer of American Band, Facedowninshit, and Aluminum Noise put out this private cassette edition containing a live rendition of the titular track and a great b-side featuring a lovely rambling junkie. There were six copies produced with completely unique, handmade packaging.

A: Walk With Me (Live)
B: Untitled

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Pedestrian Deposit + Prurient - Red Head

An apparently rather limited tape on RRRecords from 2004, I find the claim that this is an edition of 48 copies dubious, as I was able to get a copy relatively recently for quite cheap. In any event, this single-sided cassette has some fantastic noise from these two heavyweights. I've been told that my rip is an improvement in quality compared to whatever else is floating around out there. If you're downloading this you probably know what you're in for.

A1: Sap
A2: Collar
A3: Apple Core
A4: Streaks

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Really Depressing - Untitled

This is a really weird one-off collab between Heath Moerland and Wes Weaver on Heath's Fag Tapes label. It's FT033, which would probably put it around 2005, and is listed as being out of print on Heath's personal discography, but he is still selling it for $9 on discogs.com. It's some really wicked, slow, meandering shit that sounds like some sorta 70's purgatory with some field recording of what seems like a vert skateboarding ramp to boot. 8 untitled tracks. 50 copies.

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Ahlzagailzehguh - Hard To Return

This is from a special edition of Ahlzagailzehguh's first vinyl LP, on Hospital Productions. A C20 specially packaged with Bypassing Time Passing, limited to 20 copies.

NOTE: this is just the cassette rip, not the LP.

A: Return From
B: Return To

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