Atrophy - Unwanted Sounds

Atrophy - Unwanted Sounds

Originally Released 2000(?)

This tape I have no idea how I got it, I think someone threw it in with an order I made or something, because I didn't- and still don't- know anything about Atrophy or Torture Music Records. I kinda think I got it from Monorail Trespassing or something way way back? Apparently this is James Kosharek, who ran Torture Music and also recorded under the name Voltage Regulator, and based on what's on the discogs page they were not active for very long. This album is a strange lo-fi spacey beast, part of it sounded exactly like it was takeoff and landing sounds from planes cut into loops, field recordings and swooshing feedback- not especially harsh, just weird juxtapositions and strangeness. 

DOWNLOAD:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/8jvxv8ofgmxgke3/Atrophy.zip/file

Jason Campbell/Expose Your Eyes - Split

Jason Campbell/Expose Your Eyes - Split

Originally released 1999

The Campbell side of this noise soup is actually just a couple steps away from the HNW that would dominate their later output- it starts abruptly and never lets up until it just as abruptly ends about 30 minutes later! There's a lot going on in here, and it sounds 'played' as opposed to 'allowed to happen' but it's right on the edge. Low tones almost form a kind of subliminal melody underneath it all and higher pitched sounds chirrup and squeal throughout and I liked it- it doesn't have the wild cutup energy of other Campbell recordings from around the same time but it still feels active more or less the whole way through.
Expose Your Eyes have been around since at least 1985 according to their discogs page and even though they've done splits with Government Alpha, Nocturnal Emissions and Smell & Quim (among others!) I don't know a single fucking thing about them! Maybe because I was not that into their half of this split? It's kind of lifeless to my ears and just meanders across 20 minutes of tape and then finally picks up in the last 10. If it was three ten minute tracks I think I would have liked it better, or maybe if the preceding 20 minutes had felt more intentional instead of just like a holding pattern till the end. Anyway here ya go-

DOWNLOAD:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/ebq7yjjqti7w2fb/Jason_Campbell_Expose_Your_Eyes.zip/file

Jason Campbell/Zanoisect - Split

Jason Campbell/Zanoisect - Split

Originally released 1999

The Jason Campbell saga continues, this time sharing a split with extremely prolific and long running but little talked about (at least as far as I can tell) noiser Zan Hoffman, here appearing as Zanoisect! Zan Hoffman I am mostly familiar with thanks to tireless weirdo blog Die or D.I.Y.?, a true resource for anyone into hissy cassettes turned into hissy mp3s- like me, obviously! I've heard so much good shit via that blog and they keep their links updated so go back back as far as you dare into the archive. 

Anyway Zan Hoffman, what a guy! Follow that discogs link and dive into the many psuedonyms and collaborative efforts and splits and what-have-you that date back to the early eighties and continue up until about 2011- I was worried for a minute that they had died or something but they're still performing, check out their facebook!

Oh no, I forgot to talk about the tape!

DOWNLOAD:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/u8u2383o8e3u310/Jason_Campbell_Zanoisect.zip/file

Dogproofracoonbubble - This Drinking Water Is Not For Sale

Dogproofracoonbubble - This Drinking Water Is Not For Sale

Originally Released 2001

Can there be such a thing as outsider art in noise? Is there an inside? If there is an outside then Dogproofracoonbubble is there far on the periphery of even that. This cassette maybe isn't as weird or far-reaching as 57 Different Versions Of The Same 5 Children Live In Me but damn I love this stuff. It has a very evocative sound, maybe just for me personally, I don't know. It sounds like you grabbed a cassette out of a crumbling cardboard carton in a dream and woke up with it in your hand.

DOWNLOAD:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/a1oxlj2i0omthb1/This_Drinking_Water_Is_Not_For_Sale.zip/file

Hyperdriver/4 Flies On Grey Velvet - Split

Hyperdriver/4 Flies On Grey Velvet - Split

Originally Released 1999

Hyperdriver's label, Beergut Recordings put this tape out, and their side is a thick slab of battered noise whooshing and wapwapwapping with some clean-ish guitar or samples pushing through the fuzz, more wooshing, then overdriven rhythmbox beats with short sequenced bass loops, followed by wooshing! The whole thing has kind of a digital effects feel to it, not like a computer but like the effects built in to like a SP sampler, if that makes sense. Looking at Hyperdriver's discog's page it seems like they're still making music and apparently moved a couple degrees further into the beats and noises world of breakcore/speedcore! 4 Flies On Grey Velvet serves up a 30 minute splatter of harsh loops and chopped up sounds of all kinds- mixer feedback? Mangled tapes? Unearthly voices? Yes yes yes! Jason Campbell of 4FOGV is of course still active as well just look at this! Anyway here is some more old noise you old noise people-
DOWNLOAD:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/adu530m776djozu/Hyperdriver_4FGOV.zip/file

Gasolineman/Prurient - Split

Gasolineman/Prurient - Split

Originally released 2000

This tape has such good art. That's it. Gasolineman is good, Prurient is doin the early 2000's thing they were doin, and the whole thing is like 20 minutes long. It's harsh noise! I don't really have anything to say about it. It's not especially unique or exciting, it's just standard, reliable, early 2000's harsh noise.

DOWNLOAD:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/8zypvfjeqn5msqx/Gasolineman_Prurient.zip/file

Brian T Cox - Fright Night In The House Of Horrors & Swamp Of the Living Dead

Brian T Cox - Fright Night In The House Of Horrors

Brian T Cox - Swamp Of The Living Dead

Originally released 1994

Okay so this is a cheat for sure but it's October 1st and I'm posting this shit! The artwork alone makes it worth it, but I enjoy these tapes for how loose they sound, like Brian just had a mic running through some reverb and whoever came through the kitchen had to get on the mic and go "AH HA HA HA HA" before they could microwave their Hot Pocket or get a glass of Kool Aid. Plus the fact that they aren't split into tracks like the BBC sound effects records, it's a continuous piece on each side, it's almost like what your mom would do if you told her to make a noise album! And then convinced gas stations to sell it!

DOWNLOAD:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/5oexj185kzzcewc/Brian_T_Cox.zip/file