Don Haugen – angels with black wings CD-R)

Don Haugen hails from Eugene, Oregon, USA. I got a small parcel containing various trading goodies including this album. Upon the first listen I was pleasantly surprised. This is almost relaxing music. There`s four long tracks in here (total running time = 75.30 minutes, damn!!!). This is low-fi ,drony,  almost chill-out material. Every track evolves slowly, moves slowly, and slowly drifts like a subtle assemblage. It sounds like a mix between field recordings, ambient noise and ambient darkwave. A  peaceful, almost meditative mood, with a highly desolate atmosphere included. Feels like it`s  late at night and I`m caught inside a lifeless, empty factory. I`m slowly agonizing, my soul is freezing, will someone please help me. Feed me more, indeed. More information here:

http://www.obfuscatedrecords.com/ob/

feel free to also check out:

http://www.humanmonster.com/

https://www.facebook.com/don.haugen

http://www.seasonalaffect.com/

Trotsky`s Watercooler – gas money (CD-R)

Trotsky`s Watercooler is the solo noise project of mister Dan Reaves, from Orlando, Florida, USA. I like this album, it`s not harsh noise. It`s even relaxing at times. There`s six tracks and a grand total of 52.07 minutes of experimental noise. And here`s what it looks like:

1- is this thing on: low-fi frequencies (almost ambient noise) + various banging & grating = bringing me down the road to hell.

2- Mount Fuji eruption 1707: random percussions + banging + harsh distortion  (there`s something dark running in the background too).

3- happy birthday, your dying: percussions mixed with weird frequencies, providing almost musical qualities = noise techno maybe? Feels like slowed down and toned down and stoner version of  Pan Sonic..

4- for granpaw meeker (live at Austins, Winter Haven, Florida):  short light distortion \ frequency burst + grating \ scratching in the background = noise which melts in your mind not in your mouth.

5- untitled – untitled larvae cerebrum: there`s some type of dark synth line colliding with various noisy doodads = definitely meditative material here.

6- caetera desunt (rest is lost): a mashup \ a mix of various noisy stuff (distortion, phasers, what the fuck) = a chaotic infernal joyride indeed. I can`t wait to hear some more. More information here:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Trotskys-Watercooler/154854337868626

he`s soundcloud friendly too:

https://soundcloud.com/trotskys-watercooler

Black Beast Of Arrrghhh – bread for the host and salt for the blood (cd-r)

I also got this one as another trade item (hey, I love trading stuff, sue me).  No front \ back cover, no information whatsoever, sweet fuck all. After doing a short search on the internet I discovered that BBOA is a solo noise artist from Zachary, St-Petersburg, USA. He seems to be really active on www.soundcloud.com (lotsa mighty impressive free noise tracks) and www.youtube.com (good live footage).  This album consists of one 30.34

minutes long single track. It starts off with some dark ambient noise,  mixed  with some unidentifiable sounds  + a couple of lo-fi vox samples, it goes in that direction for the first 11 minutes. It slowly mutates into light noise territory, with some harsh noise elements thrown in (think Merzbow, the l ate MSBR)for good measure. It starts to calm down, relax, chill-out near the  end (after the first 26 minutes or so). Ending this track the same way it started, nice and slow, that`s the way to do it, nice and slow. I don`t think this is a noisy release at all. I file it under a long imaginative, creative experimental nearly noise track.  Recommended if you can find it. Damn straight baby.

Node Pajomo Summer 2012 (zine+ cd-r)

Node Pajomo is a cut and paste contact zine. Expect a huge list of addresses of people into: mailart projects, ongoing mailart projects, tape traders, zine exchange, zine seeking submissions, collaborations, help and archives. No internet contacts, it`s all about the good old, old school postal system. This time around it`s a Node Pajomo \ Pukka Joint Massif split zine. PJM is all about reviews. I really like Node Pajomo`s reviews short and sweet. I will probably contact `Letterfounder` and `Hiroshima Yeah`zines. They seem really interesting. Included inside is a `Audio Mail Art Project` compilation  cd-r featuring 22 underground, fringe artists. The compilation offers a mixture of lo-fi pop, funky electronics, light techno, spoken word, noise, experimental noise, ambient noise and rock and roll (Staggeredly`s performance is worth the price of admission). Imagine in this day and age, no email address, no my waste page, no faceshit \ shitface page, no twitterooni, no fax machine, no texting, how technologically retarded is that. Hey respect to the old school. He`s physically doing something instead of virtually. He`s not the only one either.He`s also one of the two reasons why Mastock came back. Contact: Node Pajoma, PO Box 2632, Bellingham, Washington, 98227-2632, USA.

Meatball Machine – craptastic ! (cd-r)

I got this cd-r as a trade item. No front \back cover, no contact, no information whatsoever. I was curious and I wanted more information, so I googled it. The only data I found was about a Japanese horror movie released in 2005. I watched the trailer on youtube. It kinda looks and feels like watching `Tetsuo The Iron Man Part 2`.  I love weird movies like that. I have to buy a copy. Now I`m losing it. What was I reviewing here ? Meatball Machine`s Craptastic !  cd. It`s a 21.50 minutes long track of evolutive noisework.  Basically the  noise moves, evolves and mutates in strange ways. I hear a mixture (in no particular order) of: various percussions, metal banging, raw feedback  some movie + machines + computer samples. There`s some near calm moments in between the noise apocalypse. If you`re into static, repetitive, redundant feedback noise, then this baby`s not for you.
              I recently did another search on googgle and discovered that you could download the full album for free at:
http://powdergangrecords.bandcamp.com/releases
Here's also what the cover looks like (pretty funky if you ask me):