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Knar - Beezle Rond Kips - 30-Oct-04 08:41 AM
oh yes ! by far the best of the A Klass Limited series to date.
one you might play while driving through the english countryside with the Queen, being dragged 8Metres behind on a chain.
Or perhaps as an intro to a childrens playshool hour, with satan.
The album comprises of some really lovely and seamless Moby
styled atmospheric textures, layer after layer of dense but
casually lofty cloud-like synths. thunder strikes the clouds go black and a deluge of rain comes in big fat drops.
(MC SlyPussy)

k5k - Rave Massacre - 24-Jan-04 06:24 PM
Im now getting quite used to the nasty noise slabs that have been tearing out of this very pro-active yet proudly underground Auckland based digital hardcore label lately.
This release, an intense and somewhat painful eleven track exploration into the world of dance music terrorism and industrial sound manufacture. Punishingly excessive amounts of machine gun static, gain overloads, twisted sound manipulations and frequencies, subsonics and sample experimentation are common place throughout this nasty and severely disturbed bastard child.
An innovative product that takes on the big music names like Madonna and Garbage and mutates them into huge and sinister cut up works of sheer noise and electronic chaos. Also features the input of Hakaider and other label mates.
Simon P

Schizoid - All Things Are Connected - 14-Nov-02 08:33 PM
Ive personally been a digital hardcore devotee since my first dose of Destroyer by Alec Empire. This led me to other DHR acts like ATR and EC8OR and for a time I greedily ate an overly DHR saturated diet. Sadly, DHR ouput has drastically waned in relevance as budding rock star wankerism has swamped their early drive but luckily others have stepped in to fill the angry void, Schizoid being an example.

Canadian act Schizoid has been kicking around for a while now, being one of the the first official acts signed by D-Trash Technolgies. Initially this meant a stream of free MP3s via the various mp3.com, BeSonic and other free hosting sites (as well as

@home based ftp sites) but now D-Trash have seen fit to collect a slew of these tracks plus various unreleased material to create All Things Are Connected, the labels first professionally pressed CD.

This disc is one of the first hardcore discs I have heard in a while that I can honestly say is pushing the genre in an admittedly parallel but still distinct (if not necessarily unique) direction. Most digital hardcore types stick firmly to punk rawk source material (for riffs anyway), perhaps stealing the odd metal dead chord or hammer on but definitely jumping into the mosh pit sporting a mohawk and hightops as opposed to jack boots and black hood. Schizoid however spends more time working the Black Metal angle, primarily with the vocal treatment. This disc is way more Mayhem than Black Flag, diluting much of the political feel and instead pushing more of a fuck it all or purely destruction oriented intent.

Sonically its like getting mouth raped by a digital answering machine thats playing back a long distance call from from

Rotterdamn thats getting line crossed with cell call from the pit of a Mayhem gig in Poland. This is not gabber in the pure sense as waaaaaaaay to much dangerous shit is flying around. Calling it complex would make it sound far too academic though - think chaotically flailing high pressure fire hose or perhaps an over-revved lawn mower with the shielding removed crammed into a crowded business tower elevator. Manic for sure, pissed off definitely. . .with a MAJOR asshole on it. A lot of the time it makes we want to reach for an inhaler (despite the fact I dont use or need one).

The songs are constructed from a mix of blatant theft type material (movies, commercials, metal albums, etc.), sofsynth blips and bleeps and refreshingly, un-hammerhead sounding percussion loops. A lot of digital hardcore types never recover from Bram Bros

lure and devolve off into numbingly retreaded Amen break purgatory. All Things Are Connected completely bypasses this lame ass ghetto and instead makes as excellent use of brutally chopped 909 kicks as it does stolen guitar riffs and bad science samples. Admittedly, there are a couple of transgressions, the Dr. Who Exterminate sample should be marked permanently off limits for example but overall this disc pulls off its high speed audio cement mixing with blood red flair. The third track New God works in some very cool plugin vocal effects along with some almost Carnival of Souls sounding backing material, resulting in far more menance than some of Schizoids brethren. The vocal treatment in particular is really nasty, like J is screaming with his mouth full of glistening entrails (this is not an exageration). The last track Amputate is like a contact sheet for the rest of album in
this aspect - it includes soft intro sections, lifted diatribes and unnerving tape mangled guitar riffing together with the obnoxious vocal atack in such a way that it kicks your slovenly ass just as much as your aching head. Lets just say that none of the tracks suck, its all good and its all intense.

All Things Are Connected is an example of black metal intents setting fire to the digital hardcore trappings without completely burning down church that gave rise to it. Normally I consider black metal to be the false metal but this disc is one of the few with a strong black metal influence other than brutal types Incantation that pulls it off without sounding stupid or infantiley goofy (that can be good too though). Unlike other acts, this is substance over style, or more aptly, a dangerous substance in dripping blackened style. Its invigoratingly hardened shit that is aggressive and blatant enough that I think most of us could do with a double force feeding.
(Moron)
industrial.org

Various - System Corrupt - 14-Nov-02 08:30 PM
V/A SY/CO–system corrupt-CD-BW artwork

Never heard of the Australian hardcore/noise/electro collective
System Corrupt, uh? Its about time you did.
A great zine (no frills), full of perverted corporate business adverts and. The infamous Goulburn Poultry Fanciers Society compilation : volume one is hacked and slashed pop hits from Britany Boobies to Wake me up before you go, next will give a big (but polite) kick in
Mr-Puff-Daddy-and-friends-from-what-corporate-hip-hop-becames arses. Experimental poetry on blood (or is it red paint ahaha) stained flyers. These people sell tee-shirts (and nice ones, too), they make great flyers and stickers, broadcast radio shows, organise free parties, turn pop 7" into noise miracles by changing the place of the supposed-to-be-center hole.
They touch and pervert and make art of almost every crap you can think of and youre still laying in front of your TV whining about how much tired you are ?/ And now this comp. Distorted-till-death jungle drumbeats. Rhythms so fast your automatic BPM counter died merely watching them. Well chosen and very funny vocal samples. Overall an excellent comp for those days when this extra stamina is required to (go to and) work or play your favourite quake like, doom-like, unreal-like or whateverthehellthislatestwolfensteinclonein3Dis®-like.
/Highlights ? Yep : Null Object and its ambient approach of rhythm-driven brainwashing (best track on the comp); Fraughman and
oh my what did YOU do to my guitar riffs; Core-Tex Labs who seems to have hacked a tape of French TVs Worst Of and delivers a 5 minutes binary attack, Mute Freak with a less straightforward approach of beat torture manages to avoid the clichés of electronica and Anti Kati, whos got a system and it works (or so they say, with samples from The Day the Earth Stood Still).