Action Beat - 2009 - The Noise Band From Bletchley

Genre: Noise Rock
Label: Truth Cult / Southern / Cargo
Sounds like early Sonic Youth, Trans Am and other guitar noise groups x 2

Noise Rock Collective with lot of people on stage. Often joined by guests.

It reminds me on EA80 sometimes, and yeah Junge of EA80 played with them too.

Mostly instrumental and in your face. Visit their myspace and pick up a date from their massive noise rock tour.

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Killer / Killerlady - 1997 - Kulturschutzschuhe, 1998 - Hardcorekiller, 1998 - Ladyshave

Genre: Lo-Fi, Noise, Freak Folk, Singer-Songwriter
Label: Musikzimmer (DE)

If you like Woods... ;-)

Here is a bunch of 7"+10" by the german Killer / Killerlady.

Behind the name is the singer of the german punkband EA80 - one of the most independent, true punk band, since over 25 years. You may call them the german Joy Divison, but it's more like that. Anyway - Killer is another direction and just share the stronge and unique voice of Junge with his band. The records are mostly 4-track recordings with tiny songs with lot of feedback, distortion and home recording experiments, but stop - it's not noise at all. I would say it's kind of Singer-Songwriter/Industrial Noise :).

Some american influences, some electronic and lots of tape hiss and noizzzzzzzeee...

The most outstanding track is New Life Form, which differ from the rest. A spacey trip with mickey mouse on LSD. ;-)

So if you like Woods - check this, it's quiet comparable to them in aestethics and sound!

This is rad and more than 10 years old!

Tracklisting - Hardcorekiller

1. Silence Making Noise
   
2. Crisis What Crisis
   
3. With Patti Smith
   
4. Riot
   
5. Gods Monkey
   
6. Smell & Western
   
7. Pissed Off
   
8. Universe
   
9. In The Mood
   
10. Penis Microphone
    
11. Headpump
    
12. New Life Form
    

Tracklisting - Kulturschutzschuhe

1. Kulturschutzschuhe
   
2. God - Jesus - Crack
   
3. Research S.P.K.
   
4. Noize Jeans
   
5. Fuck III
   
6. Fire the warm gun
   

Tracklisting - Ladyshave

1. Hardline Numbskulls
   
2. Vibes of Screaming fear
   
3. Bullshit Propaganda
   
4. Waste of Breath
   
5. Why do we suffer

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Gowns - Red State (2007)

Genre: Shoegaze, Noise-Folk, Indie
Label: Cardboard Records

Red State, though, is an album with a particular sound, like the sun-bleached Polaroids of one’s family, documenting personal exercises in communal cultural contexts. Melodies lie obscured under a matte of cracked electronics, trains of thought dissipate before reaching a resolution, and thick streams of static and noise disturb states of ghostly beauty. Imperfections are purposeful and frequent, and the music derails from its predetermined path with consistency.

Tracklisting

1. Fargo 
   
2. Rope 
   
3. Fake July 
   
4. White Like Heaven 
   
5. Lie Down 
   
6. Clawless 
   
7. Mercy 
   
8. Subside 
   
9. Advice 
   
10. Cherylee 

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Vertonen - The Ocean Is Gone, The Ship Is Next (2003)

Genre: Drone
Label: Ground Fault Recordings

Vertonen is Chicago experimental music veteran Blake Edwards and this CD continues an ongoing exploration of turntable-fueled drones. The opening track's title is self-explanatory: "untitled for air organ and turntable motor". Recorded live on the radio in Chicago, this piece is a fourteen minute long deep and dense mix of beautiful bass tones and thick breathy hums playing endless phase games with each other. On the second piece, a very heavy speaker-rattling bass tone loops through the beginning as metal-percussion sounds slowly cycle in the background. Scratchy vinyl sounds and dense ambient tones continue throughout as some recognizable vinyl-sourced sounds emerge- like a looped horn-line perhaps. the regular sound of the loop disturbs the drone atmosphere a little, adding some humor to a track that doesn't seem to need any. The next piece, "Four chambers plus their various fluids" kicks out the noise from the get go- fast and loud cycling noise whirring and flanging endlessly. Hissy field recorded sounds predominate as the track fades out to silence. "Soma Trio Study (2)" is the shortest cut one here at 5 minutes and could have used a little more time to develop. The sounds at play are delicate and melodic slowly evolving loops drifting in and out of phase- a bit like Philip Jeck, perhaps and much more romantic than the claustrophobic sounds on the previous pieces. Final track begins with warbly locked groove piano sounds eventually overtaken by a darker, machine loop that slowly fades in as the piano plays on. The mix of endless drone frequencies and more loopish vinyl sounds works wonderfully throughout this disc. -- Angbase

Tracklisting

1. Untitled For Air Organ And Turntable Motor 
   
2. The Last Great Circus Of Desperate Heritage 
   
3. Four Chambers Plus Their Various Fluids 
   
4. Soma Trio Study (#2) 
   
5. Harbor Surfacant

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Ashtray Navigations - Tristes Tropiques (1999)

Genre: Avantgarde, Freeform, Noise, Drone
Label: Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers, Blackbean And Placenta Tape Club, Rhizome

one-man-and-a-tape-machine-against-the-universe...

The highlight is about ten minutes in when some of the baddest-assed tabla playing I've ever heard comes down the pike with the expected (but still effective) space/drone heaven-rock accompaniment. (Blastitude 9)

Tracklisting

1. Reel (19:07)
2. <...Rail Between> (18:04)
3. Thier Heads Are Green And Their Hands Are Blue (6:26)
4. Bethesda Before The Rain (1:50)
5. Bethesda During The Rain (1:23)
6. Bethesda After The Rain (7:00)
7. <...It Sure Is> (8:23)
8. Theme From ''TRISTES TROPIQUES'' (3:11)

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The Punks - Thank You for the Alternative Rock (2005)

Genre: Freeform Noise Rock with less Rock, Improvisation
Label: 5 rue cristine (US)
Similar Artists: Gang Gang Dance, maybe

This record got everywhere bad reviews, so this seems really bad music to die for. But give them a try. I can't remember any single song when I listen to this CD, but who cares. Random improvised freeform rock

Tracklisting

1. Theme From John Chavez
2. Jean Travolta
3. track 3
4. Rock and Roll Punks Rock Rock and Roll
5. track 5
6. track 6
7. Drop It Like It's Hot
8. Beaches and Canyons
9. track 9
10. Turn Up the Awesome
11. Comida
12. track 12

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