Valerio Tricoli: Clonic Earth (Pan)Valerio Tricoli’s latest 5-track release for the esteemed Pan label starts faintly. A flutter of lossy chorused sounds gradually increases in...
EAR INFLUXION
Words about electronic & experimental music
SINCE 2010
Nine Inch Nails: “The Downward Spiral (The Bottom)” (Further Down the Spiral, Nothing 1994)One of several great remixes of Nine Inch Nails by Coil and Danny Hyde, each one lending a distinctly...
Erik Levander: Halv (Full of Nothing)Full of Nothing’s album notes on Bandcamp namecheck Fennesz, Ben Frost, and vintage Cure bootlegs as touchpoints and then end with this...
Död: Muscle Trax (Opal Tapes)Död’s Muscle Trax throws listeners a curveball from the very start. “PowerBar Bar” is a prolonged, dingy drone that would feel at home on Cold Meat...
Spahn Ranch: “Kenneth, What’s the Frequency?” (The Blackmail Starters Kit, Cleopatra 1994)Some of LA-based industrial outfit Spahn Ranch’s repertoire hasn’t aged so well, but this offbeat track from...
JK Flesh: Rise Above (Electric Deluxe)When I was younger and first got interested in industrial music and subsequently noise and power electronics, I used to delight in recording already...
The Curse of the Golden Vampire: “Caucasian Deathmask” (The Curse of the Golden Vampire, 1998)The trio of Justin Broadrick of Godflesh/Jesu/JK Flesh notoriety, Kevin Martin (GOD, The Bug), and Alec...
Maoupa Mazzocchetti: “Tombolo” (A-Tranquility, Unknown Precept 2014)Great undulating cut from Mazzocchetti from the great A-Tranquility EP released by French label Unknown Precept a couple of years...
Dive: “Mindtorture” (Concrete Jungle, Daft 1993)Dirk Ivens’ Concrete Jungle remains one of my industrial favorites of the 90s, taking his cruder early sounds and merging them with something more...
Positive Centre: Nonharmonic Beautifault (Leyla Records)Mike Jefford’s Positive Centre project is ironically named if you consider the quite dark sounds that emanate from within....
Godflesh: “Someone Somewhere Scorned” (Slavestate, 1991 Earache)Godflesh continues to evolve and fascinate, but I’ve always had a soft spot especially for their earliest ones. Slavestate felt...
Lakker: Struggle & Emerge (R&S Records)Lakker’s latest full-length veers even further from the dancefloor than their last, the utterly fantastic and...
Throbbing Gristle: “Don’t Do As You’re Told” (Heathen Earth, Industrial 1980)One of TG’s classic weird jams from their live sessions released as Heathen Earth in on their own Industrial label in...
Meat Beat Manifesto: “God O.D. (Eight Frozen Modules’ Eight Ways to O.D. on God Mix)” (Storm the Studio R.M.X.S., Tino Corp 2003)(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Gnaw Their Tongues: “My Orifices Await Ravaging” (All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity, 2009)Maurice De Jong has many aliases, virtually all of which are new to me, having gone poking around for...
Recent Comments