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#27
Black Velvet Stereo – Iron Trees c19Containing four tracks of dark, rumbling dronescapes, Iron Trees has been seeing a lot of play on my tapedeck. Black Velvet Stereo crafted the tunes on broken down...
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#28
Baalberith/Razakel Krieg – Dawn of a New Existence cd-rFor those hoping the Baalberith half of this split will be Abortion of Religious Futility Part 2, you're out of luck. The earlier thrash...
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#29
Akoustik Timbre Frekuency – Gnostik Spasms cd-rFrom what I can gather, Gnostic Spasms is a summoning or banishing device of some sort or another, complete with the necessary sigils included in the...
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#30
Dark Isle – Poetry By An Open Fire cd-rCollecting two eps and some unreleased work, Poetry By An Open Fire is 25 tracks of experimentation with electronic beats, neoclassical keyboards, and ambient...
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#31
Epocha Tristèsse – Epocha Tristèsse cd-rA collaboration between two of the underground's more prolific musicians, Brazil's Kavara (Satanic Forest, Northern Forest, Láppide, etc, etc) and Germany's F...
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#32
Art Imperial – Look at the Moon I Feel the Agony of Tomorrow cd-rOh, I'm so digging this. A single track of astral, instrumental, ambient black metal, Look at the Moon... is a total trance inducer. The...
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#33
Collapsed Arc – In Cursive c20Collapsed Arc is at it again, this time with two side long slabs of glitchy looped audio. In Cursive is dense and claustrophobic, possessing a disjointing non-percussive...
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#34
Art Imperial/Northern Forest – Nagando Nas Brumas Do Noctivago Crepusculo cd-rEver since hearing Art Imperial's Look at the Moon... a few posts back, I've been dying for them to release some more...
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#35
Brian Green + Frske – Output Data c20I'm finding myself rather unimpressed with what this collaboration has to offer. A hodgepodge of beats, samples, and static drenched synthesizers, Output Data is...
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#36
Bloody Ridge Rum Runners – High Plains Drifter/Live from the Lion's Den c47Bloody Ridge Rum Runners appears to consist of one core member, Slugg, who occasionally plays with a full band ensemble. Side...
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#37
Ghostrider – Voices c33I'm a total sucker for 80's sounding synth stuff, and Voices is just dripping with those sort of neon retro-futuristic tunes. The majority of the tracks are all about oscillating...
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#38
Captain Three Leg/Cop Bar – split 3'' cd-rFuuuuuck yea. Captain Three Leg gets the split going with six tracks of grind infused with sludgy break downs and shouted, almost hardcore style vocals....
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#39
Crabskull – Phlegm Rock #1 c90I'm not 100% sure, but I think Phlegm Rock #1 is an earlier release than Jovian Black Opera. The sound is certainly different between the two. Here there's a much heavier...
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#40
Bob Blaize · Jeph Jerman · Travis Johnson – Sky Bells c60As you've probably already inferred from the title, bells play a central role here on Sky Bells. However, you can't just chalk this up as a...
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#41
Black Velvet Stereo – Metal Rain Machine c40As good as Black Velvet Stereo's earlier Iron Trees was, Metal Rain Machine is even better. The sound is more layered and nuanced then the earlier release;...
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#42
Afterlife/Dry Valleys – Split c39Good vibes all around on this sweet little cassette. Afterlife kicks things off and fills up their side with a polyphonic synth burner. Cosmic pulsations drift over...
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#43
1%er – Tomorrow Will be Worse c32A live recording consisting of a malfunctioning synthesizer, tape noise, and what I assume is someone dragging around heavy furniture (there are a lot of *thuds* and...
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#44
The Hare and The Moon – The Grey Malkin c41I'm not particularly well versed in folk music and what's in my record collection is all stuff from this side of the Atlantic. So, I had a little trepidation...
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#45
Force Fed Life – Reminiscent Nostalgia cd-rBilled as “depressive black metal,” a more accurate description of Force Fed Life would be “repetitive guitar riffs and incoherent mumbling”. The first half...
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#46
156 – Frontyard/Backyard c42I'm not quite sure if the 156 fits the definition of musique concrète, so I'll use the more generic 'sound collage'. It's not really a genre I'm particularly interested in...
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