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Sunken Dimension
Cyess Afxzs and Scathing both represent the newer wave of harsh noise, with prolific output in recent years, coming up with top notch releases one after another, and in a way I feel it was only a matter of time for this fruitful collaboration to happen. These artists have a musical ear for harsh noise. We've been hearing it in their works with compositional, cinematic qualities. Perhaps because they live on different continents, the idea of them working actually together had not occurred to me b…
OAF
Paul van Trigt's project Idler delivers 20 minutes of fantastic micro-cassette abuse. Broken and primitive desolation, death rattle of failing telephone lines, the revolution of man-eating robot printers. Apocalyptic sound of dystopian electronics. 3" pro CD in mini digipak.
Children Of The Wisteria
Green Tea is noise project by Nick Forté (Half Mortal, Rorschach) with an extremely evocative, even psychedelic approach. 'Children of the Wisteria', the second full-length album following the project's brilliant debut on New Forces, brings forth wonderful and tasty harsh noise, floating on the currents of an exotic ocean of tranquillizing new age sounds. A deep listening and whole body experience for noise lovers.
s/t
Here are four recent Finnish noise artists cooking up a split with outstanding harsh noise, on a release that stands on its own feet. If you’ve been following what's happening in the scene, you should already know that these artists can definitely deliver. On top of everything, on this split they've found a common thread to make this release feel like a proper album, a rarely achieved feat with splits or compilations. There is also a double cassette metal box of this material released by Relictu…
Peace
Violent Shogun returns to Satatuhatta with a new CD called 'Peace.' This timely named album once again showcases what Remi does best. It combines atmospheric synth sounds and textured tape loops with harsher, organic bangs and scrapes to tell a story. No gimmicks, just true artistic vision using the tools of sound.
Burnout
Impakt is a regressive combination of high speed freestyle junk noise and electronics overload. No effort has been spared to deliver a fast moving freight train of bricks and porcupines crunching through your walls and/or eardrums. When the velocity is too high the G-forces will take care of the rest. Bones will snap like potato chips at a marathon of George A. Romero movies. Burnout is the first album of this collaboration between Finnish lardmongers MT (Unclean, Stinkfinger) and PD (Kartio, Um…
Universal Noise
Tip! On their fifth album, The New Boyfriends explore the universal phenomenon of sound. Everything started with a big bang, which still echoes and vibrates through eternity, creating the most crucial thing in existence called Noise. 'Universal Noise' guides the listener through the electro-acoustic ages of this planet called Earth. It was recorded in various locations, from rural countryside to the deepest forests and freshest streams. This sonic journey varies from huge macrocosmic rumbles to …
Slow Urge
Tip! *150 copies limited edition on chrome tapes* Slow Urge is the second release by Primitive Wings, released only two months after the project’s debut full-length CD, 'Morphosis'. Recorded during the same sessions as the full-length, these seven noisy tracks formed a branch of their own, which is different, but still gets nourishment from the same soil as the predecessor. 'Slow Urge' is 21 minutes of straightforward mono noise. The approach is raw and primitive, but it still lets the nuances a…
Breath And Steam
'Breath and Steam’ is the latest CD album by Rémi Dazet, the mastermind behind Violent Shogun. He's been active lately also with other projects like Hattifnattar, Cryptofascisme and Mold, which are swimming in the similar experimental noisy waters. All those projects stand on their own feet, and the releases have been well thought out and nothing less than brilliant. Nevertheless, Violent Shogun can be seen as his main project, and it's always exciting to see which directions the sound is progre…
Morphosis
Satatuhatta is honoured to present the debut album of Primitive Wings, a new project by Jaakko Vanhala. ’Morphosis’ is a highly evocative album, bringing into mind vivid flashes of something primal, perhaps from the prehistoric past. At the same time it’s very raw, but without being utterly harsh. It can be seen as a sum of the artist's previous projects Zoät-Aon, Secret Apex and Vanhala, but it still presents something new.
Listening to the album, you can imagine insects digging their way throu…
1 & 2
2CD reissue of the two first The New Boyfriends cassettes released in 2020. The New Boyfriends is collaboration of Mogao and Aprapat. Harsh junk abuse and hot steam!
Prolonged Troubles In Concentration And Memory
Tyhjä Pää is noise artist from Northern Finland and is known for fierce live shows, handful of tapes and split releases from recent years, also being a long time organizer in noise underground. ”Prolonged Troubles In Concentration And Memory” is the first full lenght album by Tyhjä Pää and it sets the standards of what Finnish noise is in 2023. Album is masterfully crafted, razor sharp and detailed cut-up junk noise, like a constant barrage of flying sharpnels, built up with a vision that reveal…
Watcher Of The Skies
Imagine yourself in a distant cabin, surrounded by cold wilderness. Power lines are splitting the landscapes like electronic highways, loudly buzzing and crackling in the air. Soon blizzard is roaming outside, freezing winds hammering the window shields and clattering the loose roofing. Cold trying to push it's way through narrow openings of the wall into the warmth of the cabin. Snow storm is blocking the view from the window, starting to slowly resemble static noise from the analogue TV. Kettl…
Energiavampyyri
Tip! *120 copies limited edition on chrome tapes* Haudat is one of the most promising new noise acts in Finland at the moment. Debut tape was self released last year and it was noticed quickly in the noise scene. Sound is juicy reel-to-reel driven textural harsh noise with expertised focus in the making. Fans of H.Ö.H. and Barstool Mountain (Altar Of Flies) will want to check this one out.
Sheer
*120 copies limited edition on chrome tapes* Corral Shut is back on Satatuhatta with new tape and three tracks of uncompromised harshness. Scrap metal elements are still there but focus is more on textural side, breaking the signal and driving it to the max, while sheets of metal are squealing in the background.
Dreag
*Chrome tape ltd to 120 tapes* Zalhietzli and Dressing team up for this exciting split release on Satatuhatta. Both projects work in the realm of tape noise and while Dressing's approach is more hands on tape manipulations on the recorded sounds and surroundings, it sounds that Zalhietzli operates on circuit level, fusing the sound source and breaking the sonics with constant electronic shocks. They both have mastered their approach for textural broken sound and compliment each other perfectly o…
A Satyr And The Sinner
*In process of stocking* Debut tape by Touch Starved, a newcomer in Finnish noise. Harsh electronics with minimal approach that leaves the room for textures to really sink in, brokened by sudden bursts of piercing feedback. Atmospheres moving from dark to ethereal with really nice ambient passages.
Marisko
*In process of stocking* Burning elektronix and scrap junk in a blender with some octopus ink. Put that in your breakfast and prepare mentally to drop down deep into the Mariana trench of DIY-noise.
The New Boyfriends 3
Tip! On this third release The New Boyfriends breaks out from duo formation, introducing Masa on saxophone to become together a brain blistering harsh jazz trio. First part is filled with two scorching harsh noise tracks where junk metal abuse, harsh pedal noise and fierce sax blowing collide intensively. The second one focuses more on atmosphere and textures while retaining the qualities of harsh noise
Secret Apex
*In process of stocking* An intense, lysergic sounding mixture of electronic music and noise. Distorted objects, ecstatic drones, feedback and field recordings get mixed with traces of electroacoustic experimental and kosmische musik. Contains a wide array of sound sources from field recordings done in Malaysia to a pipe organ recorded in a concert hall in Finland.