
Saturday, March 08, 2008
Last Night's Law

Friday, March 07, 2008
Reading
"Rope Piece" = "Rope Trick"?
Timeless on eBay
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Status + More on Locrian
Blastitude (well, Blogstitude) had this to say about the new Locrian single:
Not too long ago, in response to their relatively pastoral track on the split cassette with Daleth, I said that I wanted to hear a Locrian recording more like their loud and aggressive live sets, and they've gone and done just that with their 7-inch on the Bloodlust! Private Series, two guitar-driven noise/drone attacks, sewn together by weird tech-metal riffing. Just what the doctor ordered. Side two ends in a seamless lock groove that I listened to for probably a little over two minutes, over at the dryer folding the clothes, spacing off, when I suddenly figured it out and snapped to attention and, I shit you not, whispered out loud: "Lock groove!"
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
OUT NOW: B!102 Mark Solotroff + Sshe Retina Stimulants CD

OUT NOW:
BloodLust! 102
Mark Solotroff + Sshe Retina Stimulants
"Excellent Manipulation of Distorted Tape Death
- Part Two - Super Density Assemblage" CD
$14.00 USA/$17.00 World @ postpaid
(In 1996, NG5361 [also of Sigillum S] and I collaborated
on a recording project entitled, "Excellent Manipulation
of Distorted Tape Death," which was released on
BloodLust! as a four cassette, six-hour box set [4 x C-90],
limited to 50 numbered copies, housed in a large vinyl box.
The project utilized progressive analog tape generations
and sound fidelity decay as both a direction for the
concept that we worked under and for the sounds that
we manipulated and ended up with. In 2006, NG5361
revisited those recordings, in a more digital manner,
and he came up with two new masters: "The Edit"
- a disc of eight tracks, each drawn from one of the
original cassette sides -- and "Super Density Assemblage"
- two self-explanatory, 28-minute-long tracks, built from
multiple sections of the box set. This is the second of these
new masters to be released on CD. Professionally
duplicated CD, single panel, double-sided insert; color
artwork; in jewel box with shrinkwrap; Released in 2008)
Tracklisting:
1: Super Density Assemblage - Part 1 (28:00)
2: Super Density Assemblage - Part 2 (28:00)
More information on the original release:
http://www.discogs.com/release/284880
ALSO AVAILABLE:
COMING SOON:
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Yet More on Locrian...
Locrian
“Plague Journal” b/w “Apocryphal City, Portents Fallen” 7”
(BloodLust!)
Two sides of atmospheric post-industrial drone for guitar and machines. There’s a picture of a wind-damaged storefront on the insert, which makes a lot of sense, I suppose. Synths and loops and oscillators provide the background, noise and scrape, while the guitar scratches out a few melodic blues riffs. Pretty nice take on what can sometimes be a tough thing to bring across on vinyl without sounding overwrought. 300 copies, white vinyl, white sleeve.
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/717
Luasa Raelon/Envenomist on Smooth Assailing
Locrian Member in the News
Terence's new show - "Don't Give Up the Ghost" - features a dynamic video, entitled, "The Badge of Punishment," which is built around a Prurient performance from March 2007, at The Flowershop, in Chicago.
Monday, March 03, 2008
Status - 03/03/08
The B!102 Mark Solotroff + Sshe Retina Stimulants "Excellent Manipulation of Distorted Tape Death: Part Two - Super Density Assemblage" CDs should be in-stock by the end of the week, and paid pre-orders will be mailed out ASAP.
The Mauthausen Orchestra master is on its way to the pressing plant and everything should be on track for the March 24 release.
A short term solution for the Super Eight Loop series is in place, so I should be caught up with the March editions within a couple of days.
Office ambiance: Bauhaus "Go Away White"
Last Copies of Aaron Dilloway 7-inch
A Mammal Review
Gary Beavuvais sent a copy of the latest Mammal release, this plain white sleeved 7" on white vinyl that he done for the Bloodlust! label. Story goes these two tracks was taken from an aborted Mammal lp entitled 'Death Rider' which also functioned as a soundtrack to a film w/the same name. I dunno, to me, seems a shame that the thing was shitcanned. Mammal's at his friskiest here, layin down some serious gnarled biker rock guitar squalls over layers of programmed percussions. It got me thinkin the film is probably noddin hard into some heavy Anger (as in Kenneth) homage but I guess we'll never know. If your lookin for someone what's come to bury OM & not praise them, Mammal sounds up to the task. And how.
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Locrian Review
Locrian: Plague Journal | | |
by [ j ] | |
Released as part of Mark Solotroffs’ (Bloodyminded) Private 7” series, Locrian offers up two metal-tinged slabs of dizzying psychedrone. |
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