Contact Compilation 8

"Contact Compilation 8" 11.28.2011 - HalTapes - Bandcamp download

You can stream and download here:

http://halmcgee.bandcamp.com/album/contact-compilation-8-2011

Tracks:

01 The Soliton Project (UK) & Jason Kavanagh (Scotland) - the ties of a common cause

02 Vziel Projet (Ukraine) - Trivial Track

03 Ars Sonor (Sweden) - Krakatau

04 Xtematic (Croatia) - Ss01

05 Òscar Hidalgo (Spain) & Dog As Master (Hal McGee, USA, 1986) - Showering The Dog "primer lladruc"

06 Skullcaster (USA) & Microwave Windows (USA) - cultures to exhume, an examination in order to debunk popular myths

07 Travis Johnson (USA) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - Tunnelbana

08 Travis Johnson (USA) & Half An Abortion (UK) - Deterministic Spurt (One Minute Mix)

09 Tree (USA) - cornbread porcupine

10 Ars Sonor (Sweden) & Jason Kavanagh (Scotland) - Thinking about Death

11 Bryan Baker (USA) & Amok III (Italy) - the ghosts of Bear River

12 violet (USA) - no working title 11.24.11

13 William Spivey (USA) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - Porcupine

14 M.Nomized (France) - Nostalgia

15 Seiei Jack (Japan) & Hal McGee (USA) - NAKAHAL

16 Vziel Projet (Ukraine) & RedSK (USA) - How To Become A Personality Without Feeling Oneself Stupid part 0

17 Plan Quinquenal (Argentina) - La mort de l´affection

18 3bc (USA) - Sir Barkelot

19 Noiztradamuz (Argentina) - presion

20 Abysmal Dirge (New Zealand) & 3bc (USA) - Failed Transmission

21 William Spivey (USA) & Zreen Toyz (France) - Hidden World

22 Abysmal Dirge (New Zealand) & Dave Fuglewicz (USA) - Casually Opaque

23 Post-Avantist (Kuwait) - Landing In Dimension Sixty Seven

24 The Implicit Order (USA) & William Spivey (USA) - Spivey Point

25 Ars Sonor (Sweden) & Marax (USA) - Tunnelbana

26 Whitey Alabastard (USA) - Abducted at the Theatre!

27 William Spivey (USA) - Cavern

28 The Implicit Order, 3bc, James Bess, Ars Sonor, Stirner, & Whitey Alabastard - Noise Orgy

29 Travis Johnson (USA) & Whitey Alabastard (USA) - Babhatr

30 Thee Uncondemning Monk (Australia) & Abysmal Dirge (New Zealand) - Droplets in Quiddity

31 Hari Hardman (UK) - Vim Giiirders

32 Whitey Alabastard (USA) & Bulky Acronym (USA) - Accordion To Whom

33 Ars Sonor (Sweden) & Whitey Alabastard (USA) - Aggravation

34 Whitey Alabastard (USA) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - Uncertainty

35 Bruce Hamilton (USA) - comm

36 Lumen Kishkumen (USA) & Nicholas Rejack (USA) - Dreadsnare

37 Vziel Projet (Ukraine) & Ooy (Japan) - How To Become A Master Of One's Thoughts and Feelings part 1

38 MC Trashpedal (USA) - Mayfly Wake

39 Post-Avantist (Kuwait) / Der Domestizierte Mensch (Germany) - I Ate My Claudia

40 Vziel Projet (Ukraine) & Tree (USA) - tropic madness

41 colonel XS (Europe) - Petit étude coupé

42 Instagon (USA) / Professor Sonic (USA) - Porta-Cell

43 Terry Childers (USA) - 50waystoloveyourlever

44 Wehwalt (France) - de l'ordre

45 Maquinaria Av. (Peru) - Aleatorio N°1

46 The Implicit Order (USA) - More Lies

47 kirchenkampf (USA) & The Implicit Order (USA) - apogee

48 Abysmal Dirge (New Zealand) / Tree (USA) - this is pleasant

49 3bc (USA) & The Implicit Order (USA) - Midnight Showing

50 Der Domestizierte Mensch (Germany) - The loneliness behind the noise

51 Marax (USA) - Thanks For Spamming Us About Your Spam Problems Eric

52 3bc (USA) & Stirner (The Netherlands) - We Interrupt This Program

53 The Implicit Order (USA) & Marax (USA) - The Funhouse Impaled by the Carousel Unicorn

54 Hobo Liked Gnomix (Russia) & Serban Mircea-Constantin (Romania) - Indian night vision

55 Coma Centauri (USA) & Hobo Liked Gnomix (Russia) - Other mechanica

56 To-Bo (Germany) - Showmaster

57 Zreen Toyz (France) - Radioactive Zone

58 Tree (USA) & Dave Fuglewicz (USA) - My Neon Gaze

59 Zreen Toyz (France) & Dave Fuglewicz (USA) - Coagula Phone

60 Post-Avantist (Kuwait) & Travis Johnson (USA) - Tronsel Lake, Louisiana Fishing Report

Total Length: 59:57

Gone

"Gone" - 11.28.2011 - Muchausen Sound 29 - Download

You may stream or download here:

http://www.archive.org/details/MaraxGone

Track:

1. Gone 1:59:57

Total Length: 1:59:57

A Bright Red Scream (video)

A Bright Red Scream:

http://youtu.be/fVTtLAtB_EI

Marax - A Bright Red Scream
Written and recorded by 
Marax

in collaboration with Rex The Ninth and Ars Sonor 2011.
Video edit by Christian Salva
http://www.youtube.com/salvamhz

Released 11.22.2011

Frankenstein

"Frankenstein" - 11.21.2011 - Muchausen Sound 21 - CDr Limited to 25

Also available at Internet Archive as a free download

Track:

1. Frankenstein 36:02

Total Length: 36:02

November 21, 1931 marks the premiere of one of the greatest monster movies, Frankenstein. I have grown up to this movie and have related to it at several points in my life. So here is my tribute to Boris Karloff as Frankensteins Monster. Happy 80th Anniversary!

Contact Compilation 6

"Contact Compilation 6" - 11.17.2011 - HalTapes - Download/Bandcamp

you can stream and download it here:

http://halmcgee.bandcamp.com/album/contact-compilation-6-2011

Tracks:

01 Dao De Noize (Ukraine) - Mantra IV

02 Ars Sonor (Sweden) - USSR

03 Erik Bullon (Peru) - Absent from the body

04 Dave Fuglewicz (USA) and The Implicit Order (USA) - Blank Skip

05 Fani Konstantinidou (The Netherlands) & Zreen Toyz (France) - Corrosive Land

06 William Spivey (USA) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - Tunnelbana

07 William Spivey (USA) & Zreen Toyz (France) - Subliminal Interface

08 Wehwalt (France) - se tremper les mains

09 Amok III (Italy) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - Devil's Banqueting Dishes (Cassandra Olofsson Boogie)

10 ufusufusufus (Portugal) - chinohka

11 Ars Sonor (Sweden) & d0x10 (Finland) - The Reactor Explosion is Imminent

12 The Implicit Order (USA) & Travis Johnson (USA) - Lagengebre

13 3bc (USA) - The Traveler

14 Jan Kees Helms (The Netherlands) - corridor 02

15 Damien Ark (USA) - Noise Opera In Sixty Seconds

16 The Man From Ultra (Scotland) vs. Herv (Ireland) - Rope of Pearls

17 Kawol (Japan) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - Tunnelbana

18 Michael Cosma (USA) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - ZoVerPullTunnia

19 Shades Wade (USA) & d0x10 (Finland) - breaking the tb core

20 Amok III (Italy), Der Domestizierte Mensch (Germany), d0x10 (Finland) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - 2 Notti in B&B con Centro Benessere

21 William Spivey (USA) - between the lines

22 Damien Ark (USA) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - Tunnelbana

23 Stirner (The Netherlands) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - Tunnelbana [Piercing Mother Earth Mix]

24 FaZe Exile (USA) / Tree (USA) - to pick a title

25 Ly-Teep (USA) - synken-Nauts tickel-F0rmidabel

26 Grain Drop (Taiwan) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - Invisible Pink Unicorn

27 frankie death (Australia) - an excerpt from a speech given by a moth on the paradoxical nature of living within non-duality as translated by a Malaysian mystic

28 Hal McGee (USA) & cR-teK (Finland) - Sooounoundafterounooooon

29 Zreen Toyz (France) - Micro Tales

30 Jeremy Gluck (UK) / Hal McGee (USA) - Contact

31 Òscar Hidalgo (Catalonia, Spain) - elpoblet

32 Hal McGee (USA) & Ronny Wærnes (Norway) - Monotrons Gets Me (Us) Going

33 d0x10 (Finland), Hal McGee (USA) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - Some Things are Subject to Change

34 Rafael González (Spain) & Hal McGee (USA) - Untitled (?????????????)

35 Stirner (The Netherlands) & Hal McGee (USA) - monotronhoneytonedroidcontact01 [Stirner RmX)

36 Stirner (The Netherlands) & Hal McGee (USA) - monotronhoneytonedroidcontact02 [Stirner RmX)

37 Zreen Toyz (France) & Hal McGee (USA) - Global Electric Marijuanalysis

38 kawol (Japan) & Ooy (Japan) - curfew

39 Bedawang (Belgium) &  frankie death (Australia) - beLIEve

40 M.Nomized (France) - Breaking Robot

41 T0rphy (France) & The Implicit Order (USA) - Andrene

42 Jeremy Gluck (UK) & Seiei Jack (Japan) - The Key Word

43 Elizabeth Veldon (UK) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - The Glasgow Underground

44 ErocNet (Sweden) - Broken Bell

45 Stirner (The Netherlands) & Hal McGee (USA) - monotronhoneytonedroidcontact03020401 [Stirner RmX)

46 Stirner (The Netherlands) - contactgestoord

47 D.J Urinal Cake (Australia) - Cute Fluffy Bunnies

48 3bc (USA) & Frankie Death (Australia) - Ignition

49 hypnoskull (Belgium) - 4millionamericans

50 Ars Sonor (Sweden) & Lezet (Serbia) - Tunnelbana

51 M.Nomized (France) & Usher (France) - Worker Bees

52 The Noisettes (USA) & Bedawang (Belgium) - Bed Of Nails

53 Coma Centauri (USA) / The Implicit Order (USA) - Right Between The Eyes

54 Bedawang (Belgium) - Aural Meditation

55 The Noisettes (USA) - The March of The Noise Underground

56 Ars Sonor (Sweden), Phil Ford (USA) & Pèninsolar (USA) - Tunnelbana

57 Der Domestizierte Mensch (Germany) & To-Bo (Germany) - As Loud As Possible

58 Marax (USA) and Flavien Gillié (Belgium) - Singing Bowl

59 Marax (USA) - Henry Mancini Death March

60 Stirner (The Netherlands) & Bedawang (Belgium) - No Moves Like Jagger, Moves Like Masonna

Funeral Liturgy

"Funeral Liturgy" - 11.15.2011 - Black Circle Records 8

Download here:

http://blackcirclerecords.bandcamp.com/album/funeral-liturgy

Tracks:

1. Funeral Liturgy 11:15

2. The Funeral Sermon 11:20

3. An Order Of Committal 12:20

4. Burial Of A Child 14:35

5. The Wind Whispers Never 12:09

Total Length: 1:01:39

I'm personally excited for this release because it marks my 40th release! This year has been an extremely productive year, with new sounds, new directions and a lot of new people. I have to extend a heart-felt thank you to elizabeth Veldon for being willing to release this on her new label, and also to James P. Keeler of WILT. Had it not been for his timely release of "Harsh Fields" [WILT, MARAX & GOOSE] none of these releases this year would have even happened! Seeing that "Harsh Fields" had been released, sparked something in me to get back to recording, and since February 2011, I haven't stopped. So thank you to you James and to all who continue to listen deeper and hear more in these sounds. 

Reviews:

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Rexington Steele

Heathen Harvest

"Funeral Liturgy", I am happy to say, is a Marax work that is easily on par with the very eerie and profound "Black Veil of the Sanguinarian", what I consider a definite classic Marax work from a few years past. While there is no noise in this one, Eric Crowe somehow managed to create something just as deeply black, something that I personally would have trouble listening to in unfamiliar places with little to no light. This is by no means a light entry. It is by all means exceptional. What Eric has wrought here is among his crowning achievements, and he did it with sonic simplicity, and a solid and unflinching theme: mortality and its finite nature, as experienced through the glass of centuries of tradition with regard to faith, and built as a electronic stare in the face of the Reaper himself.

This EP takes on the color of Western attitudes toward, and rituals of, death. There is no enlightenment here, no acceptance of death, only an auditory representation of the bleakness that engulfs a mortal soul when the soul of another passes on. The entire album feels like a paralysis amidst an unceasing wind of fear itself. The majority of the work consists of drones that are just as cold as corpses, tinged with very palpable solitude and desperation, even anger. It is something of a story that no one wants to hear, but one you can only run from. This has little to do with grief, but is a very concise representation of what we perceive as the injustice of death, the terror of the unknown, the bleakness of the fact that there is no return, and that sooner or later, YOU TOO shall be no more…

A track like "The Funeral Sermon" is a puzzling one to me. I know and hold Eric very dear to me, and I know he is a man who holds faith close to his heart sincerely, and it is that sincerity that makes me celebrate his faith, or at least, his capacity to feel it set so strongly within him. Having said this, what puzzles me is the way he chose to deliver it. The song itself is brilliant without a doubt, being made up of a continuing, almost suffocating ether of sound consistent through the work [broken only by the equally stunning and even glorious "Burial of a Child"], and a Marax trademark that is the down-tuning of a male voice. This time, it is that of a preacher, and the very morbid nature of this sound-manipulation seems to be an affront to what is supposed to be the comforting nature of such words from a spiritual leader. Some who hold the same faith may even consider it blasphemous, but to people like us who have the fortitude to meditate, and even base our arts heavily on the universal certainty that is death, it makes those words a bit more sincere. After all, it is told that ghostly beings sometimes sound that way. So that, at least to me, gives it a sort of transcendence, a blending of life and death.

Stunning.
Almost overwhelming when one becomes pensive in its grasp.
Not for the faint of heart.
Not in any way

I Have No Vision Of The Future For Myself, If Indeed I Survive To See It

"I Have No Vision Of The Future For Myself, If Indeed I Survive To See It" - 11.14.2011

Muchausen Sound 28 - 1x File download:

http://www.archive.org/details/IHaveNoVisionOfTheFutureForMyselfIfIndeedISurviveToSeeIt

Track:

1. I Have No Vision Of The Future For Myself, If Indeed I Survive To See It 59:54

The Weight of Insignificance

"The Weight of Insignificance" - 11.11.11 - Muchausen Sound 24 - 2xFile

http://www.archive.org/details/Marax-TheWeightOfInsignificance

Tracks:

1. Bleeding The Color Of Nothingness 49:08

2. The Nothingness Continuum 49:08

Total Length: 1:38:15

The Weight of Insignificance is a 2 disc release based upon 2 different styles perspective on 1 sound source. The original sound source is the hiss and light static from a Wah pedal. The first disc is a slightly treated minimalist style. The second disc is a more densely layered Death Industrial approach, still incorporating the original sound source.




Review:
Sunday, November 13, 2011
C. Reider
http://www.vuzhmusic.com/blog/2011/12/03/now-playing-netlabels-ii/

The normally screamin’ noise monster Marax takes an ultra minimal approach with this release, exploring the self-noise of a wah pedal. A droning, low-frequency oscillation with a mild static wash.

This reminds me, of course, of Nurse With Wound’s “Soliloquy for Lilith”, in which Steven Stapleton found that waving his hands around a certain effects set-up caused a seemingly magic sound response, creating an accidental, playable instrument.

The second track is the same source material as the first, taken in a more post-production / effected direction.

Both tracks are fascinating and yet extremely minimal.

Heavy Drone (Ars Sonor & Co.)

"Heavy Drone by Ars Sonor & Co." - 11.05.11 - Black Circle Records 005 - Bandcamp download:

http://blackcirclerecords.bandcamp.com/album/ars-sonor-co-heavy-drone-ep

Track:

1. Untitled 10:18

This ep collects together the remixes received by ars sonor of their 60 second track 'heavy drone.'

final mix by ars sonor 

Tracklist:
01. The Implicit Order & Ars Sonor - Heavy Drone
02. Marax & Ars Sonor - Anoesis
03. 3bc & Ars Sonor - Heavy Drone
04. Nico Selen & Ars Sonor - CCP2.3
05. Zreen Toyz & Ars Sonor - Heavy Drone
06. William Spivey & Ars Sonor - Heavy Drone Foam.LR
07. Elizabeth Veldon & Ars Sonor - Heavy Drone Falls Down - Heavy Drone Gets Back Up Again
08. Ethnomite Pux & Ars Sonor - Newdrone
09. Hjiemo`diinji & Ars Sonor - X
10. Amok III & Ars Sonor - Espansiometro Prampolini
11. Catmilk & Ars Sonor - Heavy Drone (One Minute Mix)
12. Frankie Death, 3bc, Ars Sonor, Bulky Murdoch Acronym & Elizabeth Veldon - Hello, my Love, and my Love, Goodbye

credits

released 05 November 2011

Ars Sonor & Co. Extended DNA

"Ars Sonor & Co. Extended DNA" - Black Circle Records / 007 - 11.06.11 - Bandcamp Download:

http://blackcirclerecords.bandcamp.com/album/ars-sonor-co-extended-dna

Marax appeared in this release, the track was a collab with Ars Sonor & Rex The Ninth

Tracks:

1. A Bright Red Scream (Marax, Ars Sonor, Rex The Ninth) 6:44

2. Espansiometro Prampolini (Amok III & Ars Sonor) 4:15

3. Heavy Drone (Catmilk & Ars Sonor) 4:12

4. X (Hjiemo Diinji & Ars Sonor) 3:56

Contact Compilation 4

"Contact Compilation 4" - 11.10.2011 - HalTapes - Download/Bandcamp

You can stream and download it here:

http://halmcgee.bandcamp.com/album/contact-compilation-4-2011

Tracks:

01 Grudakris (USA) - kooma ta see mi

02 Le Syndicat MMX (France) - Session 13 Extract 04

03 hypnoskull (Belgium) - schlaganfall

04 Ars Sonor (Sweden) - Two Souls

05 Ars Sonor (Sweden) & elizabeth Veldon (UK) - A Broken Telephone is Calling You Again and Again

06 Hobo Liked Gnomix (Russia) & Hal McGee (USA) - Whistler (Small atmospheric phenomen)

07 Deutsches Kulturgut (Germany) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - 71 Assembly Levels to Mars (with Voice)

08 Ars Sonor (Sweden) & Subversive Intentions (USA) - Helm Envesvar

09 One Infinite Loop (USA) - Transistor 23

10 Coma Centauri (USA) - Paper Blue

11 Wehwalt (France) - y'en a pas un qu'est vivant

12 Zreen Toyz (France) - Below The Surface Of Things - Part 2

13 The Jesus Fish Experience (USA) and Bulky Acronym (USA) - just a phase

14 kawol (Japan) - ascension

15 Bedawang (Belgium) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - Yurei

16 Tree (USA) - tunin'

17 Bedawang (Belgium) - Mort De Rire

18 3bc (USA) - Solitude

19 3bc (USA) & Marax (USA) - Narrow Internally

20 Deutsches Kulturgut (Germany), Ars Sonor (Sweden) & Wehwalt (France) - 0000

21 Zreen Toyz (France) & Lezet (Serbia) - Punchline

22 Bedawang (Belgium), William Spivey (USA) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - Paracosm

23 Gülce Özen Gürkan (Turkey) - So Cold

24 Aural Resuscitation Unit (USA) - Endlesser

25 Rafael González (Spain) - 28-10-2011b

26 Zreen Toyz (France) & Bedawang (Belgium) - Mongolian Death Worm

27 Bedawang (Belgium), Deutsches Kulturgut (Germany) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - Furitaa

28 Bedawang (Belgium) and Marax (USA) - Benzodiazepines

29 Professor Sonic (USA) - Thee Breakdancing Flame

30 Thee Uncondemning Monk (USA) - We Are Of

31 3bc (USA) / Zreen Toyz (France) - A Pleasant Surprise

32 3bc (USA), Hal McGee (USA), Ars Sonor (Sweden) - Cognitive Liberty

33 Kawol (Japan) & Lezet (Serbia) - Crimson

34 Ars Sonor (Sweden) & Pèninsolar - When Time Becomes a Loop

35 Marax (USA) - Throat Drone

36 Subversive Intentions (USA) - Recipe for Databend

37 Bedawang (Belgium) & Usher (France) - Möglis

38 James Bess (USA) & Hal McGee (USA) - IO

39 Hypnoskull (Belgium) & Òscar Hidalgo (Catalonia) - anem-nos-en

40 thx1137 (France) - Hitchhiking on the moon

41 Thoughts (Laetitia Schteinberg - Sweden & Roberto Lazzarino - Italy) - Transformation of an Ugly Duckling

42 Dave Fuglewicz (USA) and Viscera (USA) - Universe (short mix)

43 meachabear (Japan) & kawol (Japan) - anomalocaris

44 Ly-Teep (USA) - pre-Preci0us's n0vem (barin'-Tr0u)

45 kawol (Japan) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - Past Won't Follow

46 Serban Mircea-Constantin (Romania) - Moment 11

47 Ooy (Japan) & Zreen Toyz (France) - Tooyz001

48 To-Bo (Germany) - 20111109

49 Hobo Liked Gnomix (Russia) & Ooy (Japan) - Ooy's tale for Gibber

50 M.Nomized (France) - Skull Song

51 Usher (France) & Zreen Toyz (France) - Laure Ralentie

52 Der Domestizierte Mensch (Germany) plays Hal McGee (USA) - Dog-Noise-Torture

53 Pharmakustik (Germany) - Voconecrosis

54 Tree (USA) and Bulky Acronym (USA) - mind control knob

55 Bulky Acronym (USA) and Post-Avantist (Kuwait) - Post-Asiatic Gongs Of Arachnophagous Electro-Buddhas

56 Bulky Acronym (USA) and Kris Gruda (USA) - Jingle Hell Reaction

57 Dave Fuglewicz (USA) and The Noisettes (USA) - There's Someone Else Here

58 Emit snakebeings (New Zealand) + Òscar Hidalgo (Catalonia, Spain) - AnUs UnkLet

59 Die Rache (Germany) + Kopfschmerztablette (Germany) + Deutsches Kulturgut (Germany) - Tesendalo-Found on old Tape 1991 (remix 2011)

60 bf baker (USA) - Out in time

Total Length: 1:00:00