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>(decrescendo) Final Chapter
Recorded 18/9/2019 iphone Mono Recording. No Cut No Overdub Edit. Recorded in a park before dawn in August 2019, it was released for the first time in December on a series of cassettes by fashion brand CAV EMPT and sold out immediately. In 2020, "Ugusudani Apocalypse" was released on LP by The Trilogy Tapes in the UK. In 2020, he self-released a cassette box with three versions recorded in the same park. In 2021, The Trilogy Tapes will release a second pressing of the album with a poster in a do…
Wormwood
In the early 2000s there were several great (now classic) Evenings releases on labels like Chondritic Sound, Ekhein, Monorail Trespassing and his own Tapeworm Tapes imprint...these have been my go-to late night listening for the past decade. With it's super muddy, snail-paced build ups of hazy lo-fi rumbling drones...it is quite literally the ideal noise for evening listening. He had a way of taking the sound and approach of early HNW and making it more hushed and mellow, as if you were hearing …
Gascha Muche
Tip! *In process of stocking* An extended and remastered edition of this excellent tape (one of my favorites in the AAD catalog) that came out last year and sold out way too fast. When I first heard this material I immediately knew it was worthy of a CD edition, but we already had everything mapped out for a tape. So here it finally is, just in time for his East Coast Tour this Fall...and this is not an act you can afford to miss...truly one of the most unpredictable and interesting Harsh Noise …
Dark Water Otter Whores
Tip! *In process of stocking* Reissue of the infamous collaboration between Canadian Harsh Noise titans The Rita, Taskmaster & Sick Buildings. Originally available as a single sided tape that was only the 15th AAD release at the time (2007), this was and still is an important document of "Harsh Noise Wall" in it's earlier more dynamic developmental stages.
Live At Sendai Contemporary Museum
Tip! *250 copies limited edition. In process of stocking. 2022 stock* Killer live performance from 1999. Energic high class harsh noise. Pressed on heavyweight half/half - black/milky clear with black, white and cokebottle green splatters 12".
Live In Taiwan 1995
Tip! *195 copies limited edition. In process of stocking. 2022 stock* Originally released on B side of Vaginal Disco cassette on MSNP now presented on a gorgeous transparent yellow vinyl. Recorded live at Art Demolition festival held in Taipei, Taiwan 1995. Mastered directly from Hi8 master tape.
Xerxes
*350 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* Retrospective boxset feat early Xerxes tape releases. Remastered by the artist himself. Harsh Noise at its finest! Deluxe boxset with 16 page booklet.
The Maternity Music
*300 copies limited edition. In process of stocking. 2022 stock* Produced and mixed at Xerxes Studio during October-November 1996. Reissue of tape originally released on Mother Savage Noise Productions in 1997. Brutal and crushing Harsh Noise.
Defective Politics
*300 copies limited edition. In process of stocking. 2022 stock* Originally released on cassette on Self Abuse Records in 1997.
Tapes 1991-1994
Tip! *500 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* Retrospective boxset from this Japanese Noise god. Includes his tapes, live and unreleased studio material from the same era. Deluxe boxset with 20page booklet.
Amlux
** Limited edition of 300 ** Certainly Amlux is a very cohesive and well-constructed piece; starting more softly than usual, the record slowly builds into the chaotic harsh sound that Merzbow is well known for, but this time adding some actual recognizable music elements (like rhythms), and constructing various surprisingly well-texture soundscapes, that made of this album a more focused and immersive piece that effectively keeps engaged during 40+ music of primal noise. Records like this are t…
Personalization
*40 copies limited edition* Rapid-fire assault of short-length cut-up, collage, and power electronics tracks. c27 cassette with 4-panel insert printed on lightweight red card stock.
Depraved
*60 copies limited edition* Studies in depravity via mic, electronic and cassette recorder. A climax of pleasured vox and looped brutality. Clear blue C20 cassette with full-body sticker labels and 4-panel insert.
"There was a time where i thought that anything was possible"
Music For Nobody
*50 copies limited edition* Fervent & ecstatic UK electronics, a violent step towards self-acceptance. Mastered by Foul Prey. c44 cassette with 4-panel insert printed on heavyweight blue card stock.
Mirror Of Simple Souls
*55 copies limited edition* Recorded in June-July of 2021, “Mirror of Simple Souls” is a selection of acousmatic noise compositions inspired by the writings of 13th-century mystic & heretic Marguerite Porete. The suite’s 4 pieces were produced through an array of analog and digital methods, including sampling/resampling on various 4-track recorders, heavy use of digital and tape cut-ups, and effects processing with Max MSP.
“Sforza Gramsci” is a moniker used by Ollie Turbitt, a Scottish experime…
Doa-Hage-Rmn
Limited edition 88 numbered copies. At the dawn of the 1984 year, the apocalyptic interruption of Armaghedon hijacked neurological experimentation on the tracks of ancestral density, whose symbiotic traces can be found in the current Doa-Hage-Rmn, a radiological symphony that draws its inspiration from the electrolytic resonances of the most radical non-conformism. The exhortation is to pay attention to the subliminal message contained therein, which can be lethal for those who will not accept i…
Noise, Violence And Destroy
Sabotage Organized Barbarian, best known by their acronym S.O.B were part of a hardcore punk movement in the 80s that envigorated Japanese youth along with other acts like GISM and Gauze. The ravaging tempos and punishing aural densities grappled with the ears, and their sphere of influence quickly broke the banks of their native Osaka, with acts like Napalm Death acknowledging the bands importance for their own sound and grindcore to come. In 1988, S.O.B teamed up with Alchemy Records founder …
Slap Happy Humphrey
The world of Doji appears and disappears through the stormy noise like sunlight through a tree... Slap Happy Humphrey is the world's only cover band of noise-tinged Doji Morita, and the world's only cover band of Doji Morita. Folk and noise - at first glance, these two seemingly contradictory elements create a miraculous space. Itakura Mineko's voice is also good. Morita Doji is definitely present, albeit vaguely, behind the noise... Mineko Itakura of Angelin Heavy Syrup, Hiroshi Fujiwara of Sab…
Zouroku No Kibyou
* Deluxe edition in wooden box with color print on the lid that reproduces an amazing draw by Hideshi Hino. Contains vinyl with white label, 40 pages book with original photos from concerts complete with credits from every show, tape with rare 6 studio tracks recorded in April and June 1980, 9 postcards, a big poster, a numbered certificate in 99 copies plus live photo book (two A3 double face foldable), one Japanese sheet, a lucky triangle card, extensive liner notes by JOJO in Japanese and Eng…
Feedback Of N.M.S.
**Deluxe edition in wooden box with color print on the lid that reproduces original Alchemy cover. Contains double vinyl with white label, exclusive black t-shirt in premium cotton, unreleased A4 draw by Takuya Sakaguchi, a big poster, a numbered certificate in 99 copies plus six cards reproducing Takuya Sakaguchi's original drawings and adding an unreleased drawing and extensive notes in Japanese and English. ** Incapacitants are the best noise band to ever come out of Japan; the group was for…