Reona + T. Mikawa “Live at Bar Isshee” CD
A live documentation of a collaboration between T. Mikawa: Electronics and Reona: Tap Dance, Metal sheets, Chains, Loud speaker.
Disarming, complex tension creeping through a labyrinth of junk metal fracturing with razor sharp noise stabbings; the sonic sum of a malfunctioning single jet engine spraying shrapnel into your entire body.
Original cover artwork by Reona.
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Parasite Nurse “Lack” CD
Parasite Nurse’s follow up to 2023’s “Life Is Beautiful” with “Lack” which as far as I’m concerned, it might be necessary to listen to as a whole, all tracks in order and in its entirety. tl;dr Samantha’s words about this release do a better job than anything I could write to describe this intricate, piercing mesh of frequencies where substances blur beyond recall.
” the result of a tumultuous year culminating in an almost tranquil state. in stark contrast to its predecessors, this is not a record that deals with mental instability, debilitating emotion or disappointment in myself and those around me. i have experienced strong romantic and sexual emotions since i was old enough to comprehend them. my life has been filled with intense connection with the world around me whether they were fleeting or prolonged. like most, i have loved, lost, yearned and lusted. following two years of overwhelming feelings of love and betrayal, overcoming an addiction to a medication recklessly prescribed to me, an attempt on my own life, various flings and temporarily losing myself entirely something clicked in my brain. the void in my life previously filled with attempts at romance and sexual desire is no longer present. i have come to cherish the deep and meaningful connections i have with those that i love and care for far more than i was previously capable of. this new phenomenon is entirely alien to me, however. no longer desiring romantic and sexual fulfillment is not something i have experienced in my time as an autonomous person. it has brought my humanity as whole into question for me while simultaneously affirming it. these pieces are a sonic representation of the result of paths i have taken up to this point. thanks for listening.”
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Priest In Shit “Virgin Martyr” CD
Four tracks of harsh noise with a junk noise vortex that leans into all manner of collapsed constraint.
Richard Ramirez, Sean Matzus, and guests Anjilla Ulfhednar, Scott Kindberg, Thomas Puopolo and on a blistering documentation of their live at Ende Tymes Festival 2024 with Scott Kindberg & Nicky Colucci.
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Original artwork by Ewan Aparicio
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Slit Throats “Distort Maniac” CD
Distort Manic is a full length CD building off of a Japan-only EP from last year, with extra tracks recorded upon his return from and inspired by his time at Machine Parts Fest.
Fundamental harsh noise from an artist who presumably sees any form of compromise as a humbling privilege not to be taken. Patient and measured in the spirit of chaos and other possibilities. Expansive havoc.
Mastered by Grant Richardson Cover photo by Midori additional photography Josh Levi
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Spore Spawn “Okoranaideto”
Following up 2017’s Ochitsuitara Oxen CS, Okoranaideto is tension modulated, diamond precision cut-up segments that break to blistering cacophonies of harsh noise euphoria. Shun Ando also runs the excellent label 16 Shots Per Second-16shotspersecond.jp/spsp.html
Collage artwork by Leah Purse
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DEATH DEDICATION “Dopamine Abjection Sabotage” CD
Tracks complied from previously released cassettes released on Property Solution as “Dopamine Scythe”, “Imprudent Abjection”, “Pure Slaughter Value” and “Sabotage Momentum”
All sounds and non-sounds by Aaron Aspinwall
Mastered by Nolan Throop
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Ghost Dance “The Future Holds Nothing Else But Confrontation” CS Debut release from Western Michigan based Travis William’s Ghost Dance. Harsh Noise testimonial to Public Enemy. Mangled layers, cracking, stabbing analogue growling, a total sonic bludgeoning. Subordinate terror kicking off an era.
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J H K “Sugar Mountain”
Transient malevolence, brief burrs of noise surge to blast strikes suddenly broken cycles yielding dissonant, soft details of dynamic strains of textural breadth, gleefully inviting dead spaces broken by a gravelly crunch and the void which seems to swallow every sound.
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Richard Ramirez “Eye Contact” CD
Thriving on tension and draped in expansive, whirring squall of electronics underpinned with junk noise, combative waves of dissonant sheets of shimmering blown out frequencies.
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JSH Rev 13:6 CD. Pure harsh noise recorded live, straight to tape, following up from 2022’s superb Job 16:9 on Phage Tapes, Stockholm based harsh noise artist Johan Strömvall Hammarstedt, boss and founder at Ominous Recordings rips through a perfect blend of harsh and junk noise, ruthlessly dishing out crushing peels of feedback and suffocatingly, dense layers of harsh noise.
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Parasite Nurse Life Is Beautiful CD. NYC Harsh Noise Cut-up artist Parasite Nurse tears ceaselessly into sonic landscapes, intricately slicing through the membrane of consciousness creating fleeting portals of pavement saw tonalities and blinding blasts expertly delivered. Catch Parasite Nurse alongside fellow NYC artist J.H.K. on their European Tour Oct 2023
Leah P | USC | Of The Skull Limited edition 3x CS set. Each box and artwork hand made by Leah P, box set includes new cassettes from Leah P, Unsustainable Social Condition and debut release of Of The Skull, live project of Leah P and Matt Purse.
Perfected Grave Vault CD
Perfected Grave Vault “Mutative Forecast” CD A collection of eight tracks originally released on cassette 2022-2023 Perfected Grave Vault is Aaron Aspinwall and Charles Mumma GRHN
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FUOR “GAZE/HUE” CS
Debut project from Adam Jennings (Our Wrongs/Winters In Osaka/Urine Cop) Gaze/Hue offers layered, grainy textures bound by intervals of studied compositions and improvisational primitive absorption.
Mastered by Lasse Marhaug
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Following 2020’s “Onomatopée Suicida” on Total Black, T. Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai lead off the wild odyssey of “Oxen Man’s Uneasiness”, peeling off panning swells, blasting particles into sprawling towers of free form dissonance with an oceanic force.
Tracks two and three expand upon the duo’s free form challenge to frequency range and give space to density, effectively pushing the boundaries of their enduring style.
The last track is a final, crashing shore-break of static energy, a re-entry of total trademark cacophony.
Original artwork and design by Kevin Donald McEleney mastered by Grant Richardson
Copies also available through: Scream & Writhe (Canada & EU), NeDS (Japan), White Centipede Noise (Germany/EU), Tordon Ljud and Adhuman (UK) Skeleton Dust and Torn Light (USA).
Czech Republic artist NBDY utilities precise measures in his approach to cut-up noise. Tearing into passages with precise immediacy which at points abruptly hyperextends into crisp, bracing passages of pure stillness.
Mastered by Grant Richardson original photography by Leah Purse
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Copies also available through: Scream & Writhe (Canada & EU), NeDS (Japan), White Centipede Noise (Germany/EU), Tordon Ljud and Adhuman (UK) Skeleton Dust and Torn Light (USA).
Dressing is the experimental noise project of Dublin based artist Kevin Kirwan with two previously self-released cassettes and a CD reissue of those two cassettes on the Cork based experimental label Krim Kram. https://www.krimkram.com/
Dressing “From the Body to the Door” $10.00 https://oxenrecords.bigcartel.com/product/dressing
Dawid Kowalski’s Purgist new CD recorded in anticipation of his 2022 US tour. Original artwork and design by Justyna Bielecka.
Purgist “Heartsink” $10.00 https://oxenrecords.bigcartel.com/product/purgist-heartsink
scum / Unsustainable Social Condition “Necessary Downfall” CD
Split release featuring scum and Unsustainable SoCal Condition: harsh noise .
scum / Unsustainable Social Condition ” Necessary Downfall” CD | Oxen Records (bigcartel.com)
KNURL “The Final Decisive Moment” CD
Unassailable harsh noise across the span of nine incomparably sculpted tracks.
KNURL “The Final Decisive Moment” | Oxen Records (bigcartel.com)
Systemic Sewage / Unsustainable Social Condition “All Available Weaponry” CD
Tape Mail collab between C. Mumma (Unexamine), Grand Rapids and USC, Los Angeles.
(Note on cover and inner photos: Gerry Adams, Brendan Hughes and Ivor Bell photographed by British Military intelligence after their capture in 1973. They would be interned at Long Kesh.)
Scathing ” A Capital Beneath The Waves” CD
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Scathing “A Capitol Beneath The Waves” CD
Austin Texas’ Scathing. Blistering Harsh Noise from the master of aural havoc Kenny Brieger.
Mastered by Grand Richardson
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