fancyjamtime wrote:Hey, late to the party on this I know, but does anyone have Merzbow's "Pulse Demon", or indeed any good Merzbow album as I have none.

Was unaware of this cat until lurking the Merzbow thread. Intriguing.

Check here. You might need to go a few pages in for the Merzbow if I remember correctly, but there was a ton of it. As well as a ton of other stuff, which means that the pages take damn near forever to load, so be patient!

conifer - conifer
http://www.mediafire.com/?gwmiz04e5ma

"Bands have been naming themselves after all manner of objects and creatures since the beginning of rock and roll. Heavy bands tending toward the mighty, the fierce or at least the very large. All manner of monsters and demons, various tigers and lions and even some sea creatures have been represented. But the largest, most imposing objects in nature have been sadly neglected as a source for inspiration and band-naming. TREES. So we have Conifer to right that wrong. And in doing so, judging from this ferocious slab of indie rock / metal sludge hypno-pummel, you'd certainly be forgiven for thinking this particular tree could take on any of the rock demons and metallic beasties that came before. Conifer sleepily trawl through the dark recesses of post rock, taking the languorous slow burning churn of bands like Slint or Seam Or Bastro, all dark and brooding, simple and insistent, and stretching the riffs and melodies into expansive stretches of moody melancholy, swathed in Pink Floydian swoosh and whirl, before dropping the bomb. Massive downtuned guitars explode, splitting post rock atoms into clumps of corrosive riffage, peppered with raspy howls and screeching banshee melodies, sometimes gaining momentum and becoming unstoppable exercises in epic doomy drone-metal ala Neurosis or Isis, sometimes becoming glacial explorations into slow motion doom a la Khanate, and other times employing distorted ghostly computer vocals and buzzing psychedelia into Butthole Surfers-like sonic freakouts. A lot of this does definitely sound like Isis, Neurosis, Pelican or Buried At Sea, which is obviously a good thing, but more often it sounds like a doom-sludge A Minor Forest or a post rock Boris or a very metal Slint. Which is an even better thing!" - aquarius records

fancyjamtime wrote:Hey, late to the party on this I know, but does anyone have Merzbow's "Pulse Demon", or indeed any good Merzbow album as I have none.

Was unaware of this cat until lurking the Merzbow thread. Intriguing.

Here's 'Pulse Demon', and a few other good ones:

Merzbow - Venereology
3 Merzbow albums, Door Open at 8am, New Takamagahara, Ikebukuro Dada

sweet...i really wanna check out Pulse Demon after so many recommendations...

i have the two albums for bondage performance if anyone wants 'em...

slowriot wrote:conifer - conifer

Have just put this on.

Please be awesome like I hope it will be!

WELL!?

slowriot wrote:WELL!?

Awesome

Also, thanks everyone re: Merzbow. Am enjoying presently.

i found this thread while googling around for high rise stuff and basically crapped my pants... some amazing music in here. the high rise stuff nina posted, the ohkami no jikan tapes, the third world war stuff, the watchtower records, all things i have been enjoying in a very serious way over the past couple of days. obviously i'm completely new to these forums but i really appreciate all this awesome stuff you guys have posted.

someone requested the first pain teens upthread so i thought i'd post it... this is a cd rip i got from s!sk. i have a ton of jap psych/noise stuff (well, along with everything else) i can post if people are interested, let me know (generally prefer to post things that are oop :).

part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?iieimvz2mxy
part 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?zl25zl2izpr

(let me know if you have trouble opening this, i split it into two zip archives... for windows i recommend the free/open source tool 7-zip, but any archive tool should open this fine.)

also would love reposts of the les rallizes and high rise cd-r stuff posted way upthread and any stuff from la musica records people might have, esp the cassettes. i love the way nanjo recorded all that tape stuff, crazy
skronky maxed-out guitar levels. i can't get enough of it.

hm, i'm having problems with your two zips...anyone else?

may be because the extension (.001) is not associated with your archive program... try right-clicking and going to "open with winzip' or 'open with winrar' or whatever your archiving software is.