Jason Campbell/D-503 - Split

Jason Campbell/D-503 - Split

Originally released 2000

Oh boy I have so many splits to go still, here's my split with Jason Campbell, JC does the DD3 harsh cutup noise that was such a huge influence on my forming noisebrain, while I was wandering around in the dark ambient tape-and-computer shadows that I so often return to- my side is dominated by a 24 minute track that's mostly tape pulling and drones followed by a track of an Audiomulch feedback setup that pretty much played itself to tell the truth- but a lot of what I was doing at the time was just setting up systems and seeing what they did. Am I a musician yet??

DOWNLOAD:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/er722gekkkl6b58/Jason_Campbell_D-503.zip/file

Dorian Gray - μοuϭα αȹεⲖⲕεⲓ

Dorian Gray - μοuϭα αȹεⲖⲕεⲓ

Originally released 2000

I got this cassette for free from the artist after seeing a listing on the alt.noise newsgroup- which I've decided to just not explain what the fuck a newsgroup or Usenet is cos you have the internet already, just look it up. Anyway I can't find anything about this on discogs or anywhere, all I can find is my own review of the tape from almost twenty years ago so who knows if they ever did anything else, there are almost thirty acts named Dorian Gray and I don't really care enough to dig through all the listings (even though I already mostly did). All I know is they went to UMass in 2000, cos that's what the contact info says, and put out one c30 in an edition of 23, and it's pretty weird! It's one 15 minute track, repeated both sides, with distorted bass rumbling hard panned to one side and bright chiming tuned percussion panned to the other, with what sounds like French movie dialogue towards the end. It's pretty good!

DOWNLOAD:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/yok3o8z99s6buu9/Dorian_Gray.zip/file

Edwin Perry Manchester - S&S

Edwin Perry Manchester - S&S

Originally released 2014

Since I'm putting everyone else on the proverbial chopping block hereabouts, I figure I might as well stretch my own neck out again, and not even for the last time! This was released about the same time as the SPACE tape I put out, limited to ten copies with handmade packaging and is entirely made from a circuit bent Speak & Spell, recorded onto 4 track. This is sourced off the tape itself and not the 4 track recordings, unlike the Space tape, so it is probably a bit more lofi than that one- when I'm a corpse someone else can dig through all my 4 track recordings to try to unearth whatever hidden gems there may be-- I started doing it but I backed them up on a biometrically locked harddrive and I've since lost my old fingers.

DOWNLOAD:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/tpofks91zch12xz/EPM_S&S.zip/file

4 Flies On Grey Velvet/The Praying Gods/The Violet Grind - 3 Way Split

4 Flies On Grey Velvet/The Praying Gods/The Violet Grind

Originally released 1999

Back to the splits, I got so many 4FOGV/Jason Campbell splits from 99-02 that it seems completely crazy to me that I cannot find more copies of them online, the only one I can find ever is the JC/Prurient split and whoever ripped it didn't even scan the full artwork! But I have to admit that these tapes had a very outsized influence on my young self and exposed me to way more noise weirdos than I could have possibly hoped, for instance the supremely weird Praying Gods! PG and 4FOGV are both from London Ontario, which meant nothing at all to me back when I first found them on mp3.com, but since I have learned that that city is the home to the Nihilist Spasm Band and has been since 1968 or so, so maybe that is part of what shaped these noisey weirdos? Or maybe they had no idea and London is just a weird place to live. And also Violet Grind, who I know nothing about really, although looking at their discogs page I probably should, they put out stuff on labels I was into at the time even! Ah so many missed opportunities, so many old noise tapes I'll never listen to, so here's another one cast off into the void, in the hopes that it reaches interested ears-

DOWNLOAD:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/9j8h47euqgi6w28/4FOGV_PG_VG.zip/file

Nuclear Pig Shit - Farm Noise

Nuclear Pig Shit - Farm Noise

Originally Released 1998

Here is another old old Hospital release, this has the scissors logo on it but it says Hospital Recordings instead of Hospital Productions, check out the scans included, also note that I wasn't online when I ripped this and tagged it so I just guessed what year it came out and I was off by a year even though now looking at the inner art it says '98 on it, but anyway I'm too lazy to change it so everyone who can't handle that you'll have to change the tags yourself! ANYWAY this is some low low lo-fi junk noise, clanging crashing and banging, some piano not really played so much as abused, all of it mixed just by dubbing cassettes over each other with a karaoke machine because Megan Griffin HATES GREATLY DISLIKES COMPUTERS! The tracklisting on this is probably not actually correct cos the last 'track' on here is what was on side two, which is just 15 minutes grabbed at random from side one, I debated even including it in the file but I guess it's on the tape so you get it too! 

DOWNLOAD:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/m8gmbeacous258w/Farm_Noise.zip/file

Prurient - Captivity; Dig Through The Wall

Prurient - Captivity; Dig Through The Wall

Originally Released 1999

OO wow a Prurient release that isn't even on Discogs, what a rare and splendid treat! According to the (black on black printed) insert this is HOS31- I think! It's two maxell c90s painted black, with black on black inserts, in cassette cases glued together with a piece of cardboard in the middle, wrapped in a bunch of loose magnetic tape, sewn into a shingle with heavy wire! And if that wasn't dark enough for you then the very first track, which is of course 45 minutes long, is called I HATE MYSELF! It's unremittingly bleak and harsh and loud, which to 20 year old me sounded like the best thing ever but to me now sounds like a big time commitment! I got old I guess, and no longer excited by the prospect of Prurient blasting their genius across my earholes for 180 minutes at a time- or not I guess since I sat through real time dubbing of this monster just so I could show it off to you, my loyal (?) readers (??)! Are you reading this nonsense? Just skip it and listen to this behemoth!

DOWNLOAD:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/8t2lebcqq5ohurr/Captivity_1999.zip/file