PUTREFACTION SETS IN

 

I don't give two shits about goregrind....at least I didn't think I gave two shits until a couple of weeks ago when Clay sent me a copy of this fukkn masterpiece. Maybe it's not even goregrind (or not actually goregrind), but whatever the fuck it is I WANT MORE. I'm gonna blast "Putrid Deliquescent Mass" on the bus on the way to work this morning. 

REPUGNANT INCEPTION OF DECOMPOSING PAROXYSM

MORE SMOKE // TOTAL CEREAL

 

Noisecore Argentine vs. Noisecore Utah in an eight song, four minute grudge match. 

MORE SMOKE // TOTAL CEREAL

SOMNO PROFUNDANTE

 

Fucking other worldly synth from New Mexico - there might not be a better night driving soundtrack this side of PHARAOH OVERLORD's III. Something like S U R V I V E at their most primitive on a serious I See Good Spirits bender, this tape transmits heavy ethereal electronics that are at one with the organic form....they positively breathe. And I can't think of a better title than Mortal Feel.

MORTAL FEEL

 

04 MARCH 1986

Another journey to the past glory of '80s community radio, split into two parts. The first ninety minutes are  a hodgepodge of world music, funk, psych, dub, acid rock and an absolutely slamming Bill Haley track, all hosted by Pat Wright....and then shit gets real good. I like DEVO as much as the next guy (read: not nearly as much as Jon Kortland), this forty five minute special had me mesmerized. Wild primitive demos and live freakouts, like a fan club celebration on air thirty seven years ago today. There's something extra rad about hearing the early sounds exalted while their commercial success was still fresh in listeners' minds. True and actual freaks with no apparent through line...and that's why radio rules. 

KALX - 04 MARCH 1986

 

CUR

 

What happens when you trade fidelity for mania? CUR happens. This is shoelace headband ramshackle raw punk for the glued out masses - tortured and awesome. It's not even five minutes long, I recommend listening on a loop. 

ÍNUGAMÌ

TIME FRAUD

 

TIME FRAUD just nails it. This tape is the soundtrack for every fucking rainy day. The soundtrack for every melancholy. The soundtrack of your past dragging you back. TIME FRAUD is sound of your memories...or maybe just mine. Perfection is rarely this simple. 

TIME FRAUD

THERE IS A PLACE NOT FAR FROM HERE

WHERE YOU COULD GO, YOU COULD DISAPPEAR

I WILL BE THERE AND YOU WILL BE SAFE

THEY WON'T HURT YOU MY FRIEND, YOU CAN GET AWAY

YOU CAN GET AWAY

OLD CITY

It's fine to be a um of your parts when you're made up of the best things, and that describes Portland's OLD CITY in a nutshell. Members of ADELIT@S, ASS END OFFEND, DEAD CULT, SQUALORA cranking out gruff, addictive dark punk that conjures COMPLICATIONS, LEATHERFACE and Greg Sage while sounding like nothing except OLD CITY. I confess that I came to the band late (this tape is from 2016), but it gave me an excellent opportunity to ingest everything at once...which was a definite positive. Choice cut: "Peaceful Atom"

A SUBSTANCE NEVER SEEN BEFORE