#Siltbreeze

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The Dead C - The Operation of the Sonne (1993)

[goodbysunball]

Best of 2023

Toledo, OH, Dec. 30, 2023

It's going to take years to unpack the last few months of 2023. Whatever mental trauma is inflicted upon those removed from the situation in no way approximates the devastation and inhumanity occurring daily to millions. That the US is funding it all, and institutions and businesses domestically are punishing those who speak out about it, is sickening and terrifying. The latest Lulu's email newsletter wrote more eloquently about it all than I could, and plainly calls for empathy at the end: "Be good in a bad world."

And we do that, pretending things are normal for the sake of others, our kids, our partners. But things are not normal, and that pressure forces other changes, because while we can to some degree control what happens within our lives, there's no fix for seeing (let alone experiencing) dead, maimed children regularly on Instagram, victims of bombings without caution or consequence. A sense of powerlessness pervades. What we can do is keep talking, sharing and banding together. Being good in a bad world.

Some notes:

Lots more instrumental, or nearly instrumental, music than usual this year on my list, which tracks with the current climate. Music without words, or without discernible words, leaves space for thoughts to become untangled, sure; but a lot of what’s highlighted below felt more transcendent than meditative.

I still listen to rap quite a bit, but very few new songs I heard stuck around past a few days. Call it malaise from living in an era where every other song on the radio has a trap beat. Starlito dropped a clunker, which shouldn't have shocked me but did, and it personally felt significant. Maybe it’s indicative of the old guard’s demise, but hopefully it removes a wall and allows me to engage with newer rap music better. That being said: Veeze's Ganger was head and shoulders above everything else; billy woods' short verse on "As the Crow Flies" made me gasp the first time I heard it (and I also loved ELUCID's verse on "Baby Steps"); and I listened to The Jacka's The Jack Artist most of all.

Of all the books I read this year, two books by Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season and Paradais, stood out. Melchor’s prose is incredibly powerful, bleakly funny and vicious in equal measure. The sharp, frank assessments by characters in often ludicrous situations feel like a product of the contemporary but imbued with some ancient wisdom. Shout out to Julia S. for the new and notable South American literature tips.

In the midst of holiday/short day doldrums, amidst endless bleak news reports, it was difficult battling back cynicism to listen to anything, especially back to all of these records and tapes listed below. It ended up being oddly therapeutic, highly enjoyable and maybe necessary, the same as when I force myself out to shows when it's easier to stay home. That feeling chips away at the notion of this list-making exercise as futile, for me certainly, but hopefully also for you. Thank you for reading, and I hope you find something you like, too.

And so:

LP

Lewsberg, Out and About (12XU)

Equipment Pointed Ankh, From Inside the House (Bruit Direct Disques)

The Native Cats, The Way On Is the Way Off (Chapter Music)

Water Damage, 2 Songs (12XU)

VoidCeremony, Threads of Unknowing (20 Buck Spin)

Emily Robb, If I Am Misery Then Give Me Affection (Petty Bunco)

CIA Debutante, Down, Willow (Siltbreeze)

Olimpia Splendid, 2 (Fonal/Kraak)

Nusidm, The Last Temptation of Thrill (Bruit Direct Disques)

Incipientium, Underg​å​ng (Happiest Place)

Witness K, s/t (ever/never)

Leda, Neuter (Discreet Music)

12"/10"/7"/CS

Chrome Cell Torture, Laugh Then Lie 7" (Scarlet)

Joe Colley, Acting As If 10" (Substantia Innominata)

Disintegration, Time Moves For Me 12" (Feel It)

Life Expectancy, Decline CS (Iron Lung)

Gabi Losoncy, Lieutenant single-sided 12" (self-released)

Peg, We Know Who You Are and Everyone Is on the Lookout CS (No Rent)

Romance, Seven Inches of... 7" (self-released)

Sial, Sangkar 7" (La Vida Es Un Mus)

Slow Blink/Stomachache split CS (Hectare)

Howard Stelzer, oh calm down you're fine CS (No Rent)

Troth, Idle Easel 12" (Digital Regress)

Mark Van Fleet, Vordenal CS (Refulgent Sepulchre)

Stress Positions at the Pilot Light, Dec. 9, 2023

Shows

Bill Orcutt & Chris Corsano duo at Jackson Terminal, Knoxville, TN, April 1

Hell & My Wall at DRKMTTR, Nashville, TN, April 7

Cyberplasm, X-Harlow & FKA Ice at the Pilot Light, Knoxville, TN, May 18

Lewsberg at JJ's Bohemia, Chattanooga, TN, September 27

Stress Positions & Utopia at the Pilot Light, Knoxville, TN, December 9

Five songs favorably commented upon by my 3 y/o daughter*

*Something that happens so rarely that I try to take note when it does

Dua Lipa, "Levitating"

Martin Frawley, "Heart In Hand"

Mount Trout, "Hang Around"

Witness K, "In Knots"

The Young Senators, "Ringing Bells (Sweet Music) Part II"

[bandcampsnoop]

6/16/24.

As I heard "No Lateral Line" from The Sheaves (Phoenix, Arizona) I thought three things: first, this doesn't sound like current music. Second, this reminded me of The Fall and The Herms.

Wow. If I was taking a Snooping the Bandcamp test, I would have gotten 100% since those three observations were made on January 28, 2024 when we posted about their debut LP.

"A Slave For Institution" is due on June 20th via Dot Dash Sounds and SDZ. None other than Tom Lax (Siltbreeze) wrote a short review on the Bandcamp page which included the following observation regarding The Sheaves as "an outfit of desert peccaries whose swinley snouts have expertly strung together another string of stinging pearls for thine earholes."

[dustedmagazine]

People Skills — Hum of the Non-Engine (Digital Regress)

Hum Of The Non-Engine by People Skills

Philadelphia likes its music noisy.Bardo Pond kicked off a wave of fuzz, grime, and mixed fidelity is hazy in the early 1990s.Philly heads like Tom Lax with his Siltbreeze label champion the out-rock chaos and broken signals emanating from the “cradle of liberty.”Lax and others have sussed out most of the city’s sonic sewer dwellers including Jesse Dewlow, who records solo as People Skills.Dewlow is unique in the Philly scene in that he comes across as a downtrodden recluse, content to coax a molasses-thick gloom cocktail from his damaged implements.He’s not rockin’ out; he’s wading through a knee-deep murk.Unsure of his destination Dewlow is concentrating on the voyage, putting one unsure foot in front of the other and wending his way.

People Skills’ closest contemporary analog sound-wise is the Californian duo German Army.Both projects are relatively enigmatic.Not many people know who is behind GA, and it’s almost impossible to find a photo of Jesse Dewlow online.They also employ similar palettes: guitars, an almost monotone vocal, broken synths and samples.The primary difference is that Dewlow seems to draw influence from Gate and The Shadow Ring, whereas GA are acolytes of Throbbing Gristle and early Nocturnal Emissions.Dewlow’s oeuvre is more experimental tinkerer than it is proto-industrial stoic.

Dewlow’s Siltbreeze LP Tricephalic Head arrived in 2014 and was straightforward and song-oriented in nature as far as People Skills material goes.Subsequent releases spanned the spectrum between morose bedroom incantations and noisy, ramshackle Rube Goldberg constructions.Hum of the Non-Engine is a grab bag of these modalities, the best of all Dewlow’s personalities.There are both highly conceptual mood pieces and mutant pop gems on display.“The Library Is on Fire” is an example of the more outré side of People Skills, its intertwined layers of gurgling synths and detuned strings drifting artfully and with an off-kilter stride.Dewlow flips the script and becomes a songsmith on “Flag for Gravity.”Complete with a lumbering drum machine rhythm, the song wouldn’t be out of place on a slowcore band’s demo tape.

The short noise piece “Oval House” leads into the haunting “Thinking Back Through our Mothers,” a gloomy electroacoustic construction.Barely heard conversations bleed into an unsettling moan that feels rather uncanny when paired with the pretty melody that Dewlow layers on top.A Sentridoh-esque ditty closes out the first side of the LP, and on the flip Dewlow continues exploring the many facets of lo-fi bedroom spirit-summoning.The mood appears to lighten, which is relative when discussing People Skills’ music, but the tempo remains leisurely throughout the remainder of the album.Dewlow masterfully balances alien atmospheres with recognizable signifiers and dispatches these strange missives at a pace that makes Hum of the Non-Engine a captivating listen.His Philly noise is delivered slowly, one moody piece at a time.

Bryon Hayes

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On the decks

FREE TIME/DEAD TIME is the first full-length 12" LP from Robbie Judkins’ long-running experimental sound project LEFT HAND CUTS OFF THE RIGHT. The album combines elements of focused minimalism, experimental electronics and twitching musique concrete to create a series of meditative compositions that reflect on the precarious boundaries between labour, leisure, and the quality of lived experience under late-capitalism. Judkins exploratory practice of sonic experimentation invokes the work of Black to Comm, Laaraji, Ashtray Navigations and Kali Malone across its seven dense movements.

"Instant Pop Expressionism Now!" is an ultramodern polyglot of smatterings that at once sound familiar, but you can't quite place it. Swell Maps? Happy Refugees? Monochrome Set? Maybe. Kinda. It's in the stitching, but the design & thrust is all Famous Mammals.

IMO this is more a cross between the Homosexuals and Os Mutantes (minus the tropical feel), or something. Love it!

[noloveforned]

putting together stuff for tonight's no love for ned on wlur at 8pm. you can catch a repeat of last week's show immediately after at 10pm to give you four solid hours of whatever it is i do on the radio. as is the new norm, last week's show is below and streaming on mixcloud for those of you with more exciting friday night plans!

no love for ned on wlur – july 21st, 2023 from 8-10pm

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De Algemene Verwarring #96 - 4 September 2023

The ninety-sixth episode of De Algemene Verwarring was broadcast on Monday, September 4, 2023, and you can listen to it by clicking on the link below that will take you directly to the Mixcloud page:

Yes, we're back at it after a long summer break, it's September 4 and it's bleeding hot in the Quindo studio, so nothing has changed. Pictured below is the UK postpunk band The Psychedelic Furs at around 1980, a lineup that wouldn't last long but that was responsible for the self-titled debut album that was released in 1980. The band was brought to my attention again by the Dynamite Hemorrhage radio show. Host Jay Hinman mentioned some reviews that he had read about the debut album being characterized as the ultimate mix of Roxy Music and The Velvet Underground. For me it was also the first time I heard these two bands mentioned when talking about The Psychedelic Furs, but it kinda makes sense. Anyway, the debut album is really really a great record, sexy and groovy and made to dance to. So I played the track "We Love You" from the Furs. There's more old music in this episode from The Prunes, The Vultures, The Peechees, Armitage Shanks, Blod. But moreover, the summer spawned some really great releases, I don't think I have ever bought so many records in the summer months as I did now in 2023, and most of them being new releases. The new Famous Mammals lp is a masterpiece, there's new bands such as Children Maybe Later, The Sheaves and Burnt Envelope, and new releases from bands such as the synth goths from Es and droners Pefkin. So, a great episode, if you ask me. And beneath the photo you can find the playlist for the show. Enjoy!

Playlist:

Armitage Shanks: Are Friends Electric? (7” picture disc “Are Friends Electric?” on Damaged Goods, 1997)

The Vultures: Alcohol (7” “At Home” on La Vida Es Un Mus Discos, 2015, reissue, originally released in 1981, self-released)

Patsy: Heathen (12” “LA Woman” on La Vida Es Un Mus Discos, 2017)

The Peechees: Well Worth Talking About (split 7” met The Drags, “Radio Disappears” on G.I. Productions, 1996)

Burnt Envelope: I’m Immature (LP “I’m Immature: The Singles Volume II” on Hozac Records, 2023)

The Sheaves: Lariat Slung (LP “Excess Death Cult Time” on Minimum Table Stacks, 2023, reissue, originally released on tape by Moone Records in 2022)

Famous Mammals: Empty London (LP “Instant Pop Expressionism Now!” on Siltbreeze Records, 2023)

Children Maybe Later: West Macarthur (LP “What A Flash Kick!” on Slothmate Productions, third pressing 2023)

Liars: Rose And Licorice (Oneida cover) (Split LP met Oneida “Atheists, Reconsider” on Version City Records, 2002)

Es: Emergency (7” “Fantasy” on Upset The Rhythm”, 2023)

The Psychedelic Furs: We Love You (LP “The Psychedelic Furs” on CBS, 1980)

The Prunes: Man Falls Down (LP “Lite Fantastik” on Baby Records, 1988)

The Pheromoans: Wizard Thing (LP “I’m On Nights” on Alter Records, 2015)

Peter Jefferies: Whatever You Want (LP “Closed Circuit” on Grapefruit Records, reissue 2023, originally released in 2001 on Emperor Jones Records)

The Cat’s Miaow: Hollow Inside (LP “Songs ’94-’98” on World Of Echo, 2022) - Ross Cummings ook in The Shapiros en Hydroplane (recent ook compilatie uitgekomen op World Of Echo)

Pefkin: The Lunar Pull (split LP met Roxane Métayer on Morc Records, 2022)

Blod: Leendet Från Helvetet (LP “Leendet Fran Helvetet” on Aguirre Records, 2022, reissue, originally released in 2017 by Forlag For Fri Musik)

De Fabriek: Harrisburg (LP “Blecheintopf - Music For Modern Art Exhibitions, Volume Two” on Futura Resistenza, 2022, reissue, originally released on cassette in 1982 by New Bulwark Records & Tapes)

[ozkar-krapo]

STRAPPING FIELDHANDS

"In the Pineys"

(10". Siltbreeze. 1994) [US]

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Transatlantic Teutonic Two Step Take 119 [Oct 11th 2023]

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Tracks:

Skiftande Enheter - Öppna Landskap - Öppna Landskap EP (2022)[ Happiest Place - HP14]

The Fiery Furnaces - Norwegian Wood - The Fiery Furnaces/Ted Leo Split 45 (2005)[Razor & Tie - 79301-80858-7]

Bob Kuban And The In-Men - Drive My Car - Drive My Car 45 (1966)[Musicland USA - 20,007]

Die Monitr Batss - Blackout Cross - Matmos / Die Monitr Batss - Split Seven Inch (2004)[Ache - ACHE016]

Woodhead Monroe - Identify - Identify 45 (1982)[ Stiff Records - 6.13475 AC]

Pow! - Castle Of Faith (Mikey Young Remix) - Free Flexi w/ Crack An Egg LP (2017) [CASTLE FACE 81]

Maximum Joy - In The Air - In The Air 45 (1982)[Y Records – Y26]

Damaged Bug - Exit Vollmer - Flexi 45 (2021)[Sometimes Records - 001]

Cobra Killer - Try It - Right Into A Kick For More 45 (1999)[Digital Hardcore Recordings (DHR) - DHR 23]

Sparks - Profile - Get In The Swing 45 (1975)[Island Records - 16 153 AT]

Terry Malts - Disconnect - Terry Malts / Dead Angle Shit Split (2012)[Loglady - LL007]

Plasticland - In My Black And White - Flower Scene 45 (1985)[Midnight Records - MID 4510]

Plattenbau - Slave / Ship - Sleep / Paralysis 45 (2018)[Not On Label]

Bruce Haack - Incantation / Song Of The Death Machine - V/A Dig This 7 inch EP (1970)[Columbia - AS 3]

Roy Montgomery - It's Cold Outside - Double 7 inch s.t. EP (1996)[Siltbreeze - SB58/59]

John Updike - Reading From Pigeon Feathers "Lifeguard" (excerpt) - Reading From Pigeon Feathers "Lifeguard" 7 inch (1963)[Calliope Records - CAL 17]

[amplifiedwires]

Y'all Need to Stop Sleeping on Kevin Boyer & Tyvek

Was reminded of Tyvek's underrated greatness when Tom Lax @ Siltbreeze tweeted this today:

Which of course led me to devouring the album on bandcamp and remembering how Tyvek is such a HUGE influence on one of my fave current bands - Parquet Courts.

Joe Casey from Protomartyr has a great pull-quote on em:

Here's the new re-release of Blunt Instruments on bandcamp:

They played a co-bill last yr at Third Man Records w/another of AW's fave new bands - David Nance Group (a/k/a Mowed Sound)

David Nance had this to say on IG:

GO ENJOY SOME TYVEK TODAY PPL!

[salon-du-salon]

MINITEL

Juliette Bineau, Lionel Fernandez, Hendrik Hegray, Erik Minkkinen

minitel crie, chante, joue avec des guitares, des percussions, des lecteurs K7 et divers autres ustensiles non réglementés. minitel est transe joie et bruit. minitel comprend des gens comme Juliette Bineau, Lionel Fernandez, Hendrik Hegray, Erik Minkkinen /…/ no-wave bien digérée ou d’une transe bruitiste et mécanique par des activistes de la scène parisienne 

(Jérôme Noetinger ~ Metamkine)

The French they are a funny race. They like to do it with their________. Drum machines? Synthesizers? Baguettes? Aperitifs? I forget how that old chestunt ends, anyway, the Bruit Direct label is doing a fine service to us all by providing the most wonderous noise escargot, seemingly feeding their potent Gros Gris a diet of petit greens & toxic earth. The 2nd release, this 7″ from Minitel is a plump bugger ripe w/schizophrenic angst; the a-side is clearly borne out of the avant soil once trod upon by Ilitch & DDAA while the flip sounds like the band harvested an entire field of wormwood, distilling it into a noxious absinthe of Swans like potency.  

(Tom Lax ~ Siltbreeze)

Hot, tangled, primal noise scrape rock action with tons of moaning, drum triggers and full-on Greco-Roman scrambler guitar/FX box grapple. France’s answer to Sightings has produced a swift, saturated blow of old-school industrial terror and classic hive attack/defense tones for maximum discomfort. Some more peaceful, tribal motifs on “Sang” and “Minogue” on the B-side act as a cooling off from the hammer attack of the first two songs. Anti-music, pro-knuckledrag, and just what a lot of you yobbos out there want. Actually reminds me of the washing machine churn score of the movie “The Entity,” which Thurston realized the potential of on the Male Slut single. (Doug Mosurock ~ Dusted Magazine)

www.discogs.com/fr/release/1230111-Minitel-Minitel

[dialoogid]

Hall of Fame - Hall of Fame (2000)

[goodbysunball]

Mid-year report: 2023

More for my sake than yours, my memory's like a sieve these days - but here's a quick list of the stuff that's resonated most so far this year. Yes, I am going soft on you.

Sixteen alphabetical bullet points:

Cheater Slicks, Ill-Fated Cusses LP (In the Red)

CIA Debutante, Down, Willow LP (Siltbreeze)

Joe Colley, Acting As If 10" (Substantia Innominata)

Delco MF's, March of the MF's 7" (MF Records)

Disintegration, Time Moves For Me 12" (Feel It)

Leda, Neuter LP (Discreet)

Nusidm, The Last Temptation of Thrill (Bruit Direct Disques)

Olimpia Splendid, 2 LP (Fonal/Kraak)

Primitive Man & Full of Hell, Suffocating Hallucination LP (Closed Casket Activities)

Tàrrega 91', Fill De La Merda 7" (La Vida Es Un Mus)

Terrine, Standing Abs LP (Bruit Direct Disques)

Valee & Harry Fraud, Virtuoso (SRFSCHL/Fake Shore Drive) - minus the Twista verse on "WTF"; gonna live in "Dutty Laundry," "Sea Bass" and "Yea But Um" for the rest of the summer

Veeze, Ganger (Navy Wavy)

Witness K, s/t LP (ever/never)

Young Nudy, Gumbo (RCA)

Young Thug feat. 21 Savage, "Want Me Dead," and Young Thug's "Mad Dog" and "Gucci Grocery Bag" - been enjoying Metro Boomin's version of Business Is Business a little too much, given that it's weighed down by terrible features, but these songs stick

[bandcampsnoop]

9/26/23.

Well, that escalated quickly. Just the other day, I posted about a 7" from Oamaru, New Zealand band Cuticles. Now, the venerable Siltbreeze label is releasing a full-length from the band called "Major Works".

There is definitely a guitar-chug sound reminiscent of The 3Ds and fellow Kiwis Opposite Sex. The only label I can think of that would be as good a fit for this album would have been Xpressway.

[dustedmagazine]

CIA Debutante — Down, Willow (Siltbreeze)

Photo by DIGARD Aurelien

CIA Debutante-Down, Willow LP by Siltbreeze Records

“Dark web…in the dark ages,” mutters Nathan Roche in voice like a tombstone, as a percolation of electronics corrodes in the background. The sound is immersive and disturbing, noises like factory equipment clashing with eerie Suicide-like beats. A dystopia emerges, but which dystopia? Are we trapped in some pre-Enlightenment dungeon, with dripping walls and iron chains and shadowy instruments of torture lurking in corners? Or are we in the wrong-turn environment of right this minute, where bitcoin billionaires arrange drug deals and assassinations in the blighted corners of a digital reality. “Dark Ages” slips queasily between these possibilities, as dread seethes and beats clatter and Fall-like rants morph into Current 93-ish apocalypse. It’s a creepy ride, but worth taking.

CIA Debutante has been at its unsettling craft for most of a decade, a duo of poet/guitarist Roche and the visual artist Paul Bonnet, who manages electronics and beats. Down, Willow is the group’s fourth full-length album, though there have been a slew of singles and EPs as well, and it has a startling dark clarity to it.

Consider, for instance, the two “Old Masters” tracks that bookend the disc. The opening salvo forms out of void-ish rush, a keyboard oscillating as Roche utters cryptic phrases. The lyrics are full of technological nouns, hard drives and floppy drives, files and replication, but also some archaic markets. “Old Masters” are at once antique oil paintings and neglected wav files, and the mystery resolves in a pun, as Roche mutters, “Truth be told, no one knows what mastering is.”

The second version comes at the very end of the recording, amid a rattle of metal, a foghorn moan of flickering tone. The lyrics are largely repeated—a horse carries old masters under threat of whip, but whether they are paintings or digital files is unclear—but the music is more agitated and dense. A sound like an old typewriter—or is it a glitch beat—clatters in the background, as space-age bloops of tone bloom and fade.

It’s a surreal movie in sense-surround, a VR-environment rusting at the edges, and you never know exactly where you are or what is happening. And yet it’s quite compelling on its own koan-like terms. Contradictions open passageways to strange alternate landscapes. A dove dies mid-ballet. An architect dreams a building. A cabinet minister awaits a clandestine meeting in a boiler room. It might be 1300 or 1800 or some futuristic ruin of now, and as in all the best nightmares, it’s all of them at once and none of them.

Jennifer Kelly

[chocsetennui]

NOUVEAUTE DISTRO : RATCHARGE 40

À la croisée du fanzine punk, de Faites entrer l'accusé, de L'Anthologie de la subversion carabinée et d'un vieux journal totoïde des années 1960-1970 à la OZ Mag (UK), Re Nudo (Italie) ou Marge (France), il y a cette quarantième publication ratchargienne. On y parle beaucoup de violence, de flingues, de meurtres, de culpabilité, de prison et de la possibilité d'une rédemption, mais aussi de non-violence ou encore d'humour, de drogues, de littérature, de cinéma, de bande-dessinée et de restaurants libanais interlopes en guise d'oasis dans des villes gentrifiées. Les gros morceaux creusés au fil de ces 52 pages artisanales au format magazine répondent aux noms de JOHN WATERS, JOSEPH ANDRAS, CHARLES MANSON, JM BERTOYAS ou BLACK MASK/ UP AGAINST THE WALL MOTHERFUCKERS (gang de rue anarchiste dans le New York des années 1960), mais on y croise aussi, pour peu qu'on garde les yeux ouverts, des références à VALERIE SOLANAS, SILTBREEZE RECORDS ou JOHNNY DEPP, ainsi qu'une paire d'illustrations de GEOFFREY KAISER.

42 pages A4, dispo à prix libre, idéalement 5€, par mail