Marax | Coma Centauri "Coerced To Pull The Trigger"

Marax | Coma Centauri "Coerced To Pull The Trigger" C60 - Worthless Recordings - 12.04.2011

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Tracks:

MARAX

A1. Emotionally Raw 5:39

A2. Plotting What's To Come 4:18

A3. Fingers Gripping Tight 2:58

A4. The Gun Speaks For Me 17:00

COMA CENTAURI

B1. Vie Clignotant Avant Une Observe/Euthanasia (RIP Dr. Kevorkian) 4:49

B2. 土蜂 2:22

B3. Right To Die 3:21

B4. I Have Officially Accomplished Nothing Except For Madness (For Eric) / One Nation Under Extreme Anxiety 3:03

B5. When Pushing Daisies Becomes An Art Form 2:36

B6. Memory Eraser (In The Form Of A Bullet) 4:02

B7. The Innocent Martyr 1:36

Total Length: 51:44

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012
Demian Johnston
Dead Formats

So here it is. A test of my capacity to handle samples. The first side of this tape starts off with Marax doing some of the most interesting HNW I have heard in awhile. It's tough, twisted, scary and totally brutal. It's also peppered with a ton of samples. To say peppered might be an understatement. It's "peppered" the way an unfortunate convenience store clerk may be "peppered" with buckshot during a botched robbery. It's almost a radio play. Maybe it is actually. That would be kinda cool… but I just can't get into what I am hearing. If it was just the samples on one track and just the noise on the next I could totally get behind this but I just don't like it. I know some people will fucking love this though. I am like that dude who fucking loves peanut butter and kills for chocolate but throws up at the thought of a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup (my old roommate and Rorschach guitarist, Keith Huckins is that guy). I love Marax's work and this seems pretty personal. It's all about suicide so I guess if you are going to make noise "about" something you can either just say it's about suicide, you can write lyrics and sing over the noise or you can have samples accompany it. I guess this is pretty effective and it's super well done but I just don't dig it. At the end of Marax's side you get a track that is almost free of any samples and it pretty much rules. I guess Marax is peanut butter to me. Coma Centauri's side also starts with some fucking killer HNW mixed with just enough stutter to keep in interesting. There is also some odd use of sampled loops that are not quite the same and the samples of people talking but are more along the lines of odd music and tape manipulations. It's pretty interesting and kinda gets into that electronic vibe. Like I almost imagine that this person could also be into dub step or something but it's damn crazy. There is no real narrative through this as there was on the Marax side so I am not sure how this is exactly about suicide either. The track titles mention Jack Kevorkian, having a right to die and being generally depressing so I guess that is it. There are some subtle samples here and there. They fit in pretty nicely with the noise in general but when I hear FDR's familiar voice it kinda looses me. Maybe I need a more open mind because I bet the average noise fan would fucking love this. Packaging looks nice. A little 90's in the type treatment but it's definitely solid. 

Contact Compilation 9

"Contact Compilation 9" 12.01.2011 - HalTapes - Final Installment in the series

You can stream or download here:

http://halmcgee.bandcamp.com/album/contact-compilation-9-2011

Tracks:

01 B.Lone Engines (UK) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - Richard Hammond [Delphinapterus Leucas Mix]

02 Abysmal Dirge (New Zealand) & Marax (USA) - Opuscule

03 Jason Kavanagh (Scotland) - what I shall attempt to show here

04 Dave Fuglewicz (USA) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - New Commandments for the Molecular Age

05 Dog As Master (Hal McGee, USA, 1985) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - (Not So) Hard and Cruel - Lying Helplessly by the Seashore

06 Tree (USA) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - tipping scales, unfortunate haze

07 Ars Sonor (Sweden) - MK-ULTRA [DSV Version]

08 Ars Sonor (Sweden) & The Implicit Order (USA) - Inception [CCP Version]

09 Arco Enarmonico (Spain) - Invocacion

10 Deutsches Kulturgut (Germany) & Abysmal Dirge (New Zealand) - DK and Luke

11 Hari Hardman (UK) - Kaput Musick

12 To-Bo (Germany) - Kleine Ameise

13 The Soliton Project (UK) & Jason Kavanagh (Scotland) - (N) nR jawhole

14 Hobo Liked Gnomix (Russia) & d0x10 (Finland) - bor-us-kraakdoos-with-d0x10

15 Flavien Gillié (Belgium) - L'Agape Redira Ces Mots

16 Bedawang (Belgium) - They Live, We Sleep

17 Modulator ESP (UK) - Electronic Lament

18 Der Domestizierte Mensch (Germany) - Ich weiss nicht was das bedeutet

19 Ironing (USA) - What A Girl

20 To Die (Indonesia) - Depressi

21 Kopfschmerztablette (Germany) - Dark Prophet-1 min Daydream

22 M.Nomized (France) - Death Race

23 Zreen Toyz (France) - Below The Surface Of Things - Part 3

24 Serban Mircea-Constantin (Romania) - Old Improvisation on A Very Old AudioTape

25 Rafael González (Canarias, Spain) & Òscar Hidalgo (Catalonia, Spain) - ultraperiferia macarrónica

26 Michael Cosma (USA) & Hobo Liked Gnomix (Russia) - Blues Naked Nerve

27 thx1137 (France) - Tintamarre

28 Travis Johnson (USA) & Marax (USA) - The Spiraling Life Of A Pop Star

29 Individual Distortion (Indonesia) - That Awkward Moment When You Read Her Defensive Hypocrisy Status

30 Hal McGee (USA) & M.Nomized (France) - Dadatronic For Ray

31 William Spivey (USA) - Clown Soup

32 Seiei Jack (Japan) & Kopfschmerztablette (Germany) - Revilution

33 Coma Centauri (USA) & Marax (USA) - Back and Forth Multiple Databending Personality

34 ErocNet (Sweden) - Q2Wise

35 Hal McGee (USA) & Bedawang (Belgium) - My Forehead Is Getting Bigger And My Nose Fell Off

36 Abysmal Dirge (New Zealand) & Bedawang (Belgium) - Stuck In A Vortex

37 Ly-Teep (USA) - Dying-Fr0m the pain 0f living-In my brain

38 Stalaktos (Mexico) - Nitrammite

39 Jefferson Star Destroyer (USA) / Subversive Intentions (USA) - Feedback Is Unnecessary

40 3bc (USA) - Boost

41 Tim Kaiser (USA) / Emerson Orsborn (USA) - forming of the finite through decay

42 Òscar Hidalgo (Catalonia, Spain) - no en queda gens. adéu

43 Abysmal Dirge (New Zealand) - Broken

44 M.Nomized (France) & William Spivey (USA) - Cristal Drill

45 Pharmakustik (Germany) - Mononarcosis

46 Vziel Projet (Ukraine) - vrode

47 Whitey Alabastard (USA) & Subversive Intentions (USA) - Oh Butterfingers!

48 Serban Mircea-Constantin (Romania) & Hobo Liked Gnomix (Russia) - part 09 remixed 2

49 3bc (USA) & William Spivey (USA) - lost in a crowd

50 Péter Kecskés (Hungary) - Music for Emo-H

51 To-Bo (DE) & Der Domestizierte Mensch (DE) & Das Gonob Quasiforma (UA) & d0x10 (FI) - What A Shit

52 Jef Der Dood (Belgium) - Urartu

53 Koas (USA) & Ars Sonor (Sweden) - Untitled

54 Lob Instagon (USA) & Robert Walthall (USA) - PROCELL 1iL Spectral Mix

55 Hobo Like Gnomix (Russia) & Hal McGee (USA) - Kraak Ho Hal Bo Bent

56 Bulky Acronym (USA) - forgive me lord for committing alchemy

57 b/art plantenga (The Netherlands) - Audio DJ Teknical Difficulties

58 Igloo Martian (USA) - Sleep

59 D.J Urinal Cake (Australia) & frankie death (Australia) - all become one

60 frankie death (Australia) - Stereo Out