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Drowner "modern paranoid" c40 Now available!!! HW#12 edt. of 50 ($7ppd US/$9ppd INT). contact/paypal: levijberner at gmail dot comWednesday, November 21, 2012
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
hw#13
c40 Edt. of 50 (deleted)
2nd album from NF project. Surrealist sound-collage.
Analog synth, tape loops, field recordings, electric tabla,
drum machine blurred psychic awakening/melt-down.
Free download:
http://soundcloud.com/horseworship/new-forest-material-side-a
http://soundcloud.com/horseworship/new-forest-medium-side-b
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
hw#11
c26 Edt. of 60 (deleted)
Material on Hideous Seed originating with
Jacob DeRaadt (Sterile Garden/Basement Tapes)
supplying reel to reel source tapes of record loops to
Luis Gonzales (Lavas Magmas/Crooked Columns)
for heavy analogue processing and arrangement.
Result is fantastic modern electronic music with
archaic tendencies. Embracing industrial tape
culture with resolutely forward thinking processing.
hw#10
Sterile Garden/Vexations
"kassette nord" c26
Edt. of 40 (deleted)
Material on this cassette composed of very limited and one of one Sterile Garden cassettes from the very beginning of the project. Collage/remix winter of 2012 by Vexations. Heavy distant industrial dub music.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
new Vexations c10 on Prima Donna
http://primadonnarec.tumblr.com/post/18971542945/vexations-break-their-legs-two-bleak-shorts
Reviews from Bixobal
Vexations "Terror as the key to pleasure"
The first release on Levi Berner's new label Horseworship, following the demise of Zen Enthusia a while back. This release is Levi's new solo project (he previously recorded under the names Algiers and Pity) and an excellent beginning. The first side is heavy waves of building, overblown synthetic sound drawing to mind the early period M.B. releases. The undercurrent of the heavy noise there is almost symphonic. The second side is more spacious in its separation of sounds yet still overdriven into the red distortion. This side unfolds doomy slow moving electronic moving in shifting layers. This one comes with a b&w translucent j-card with pretty much no info.
L. Berner "Deny at all costs"
Heavy square wave electronics from Levi under his own name instead of the Vexations moniker. Unlike other releases on this label, this one has titles for each side. The first is "Bite Her Lip" and the second is "Someone Who Has Lost a Lot of Blood". Both display intense, crisp electronics - not distorted as one some other releases but that dense, metallic harmonic quality. There are major portions of both than sound like being inside of a machine with its incessant throb. However as suggested by its title, the second side suddenly loses its lifeblood - the pulse - and spreads out, even if only for the final coda. It is nice dissolution of the tape's energy and a transition out of its head space. This is packaged in a double j-card card with both sides of both card being printed in b&w.
Regosphere/Vexations
This split sees the recent analog synth / new age revival strained through industrial eyes. The synths bubble and arpeggiate, but in a harsh way. This gives it a musicality and progression that is shy of harsh noise without giving up the intense edge. Regosphere lean toward this noisier side more than the Vexations do and lay down a bleaker atmosphere with more distortion and tighter repetitions of sound. Vexation is blown out but oddly uplifting, sounding like it could be the soundtrack for a bootlegged outtake from the film "Blade Runner". Although I enjoy the cassette overall, it is the Vexations side which stands out for me with its darkly sci-fi sound which almost suggests destroyed futurist cities that retain some majestic beauty. Both projects are one man outfits, the former being Andy Quitter from the Midwest, and the latter Levi Berner of Portland, OR. Levi is the one behind this label and it is nice to see him putting out recordings again after a period of only focusing on live performance. Like some of the other releases on his new label, this comes with two nested double-sided j-cards with b&w imagery.
Catholic Guilt "Iron Black Cross"
Old fashioned power electronics complete with spoken passages touching on playing with dead animals and being locked up. Well, that is an oversimplification. There are some intense blasts of in the red noise, but there are other passages with richer and more subtle details which makes the atmosphere closer to Ultra than Whitehouse. There is also a more up to date fidelity on this cassette which gives this a wider aural space lacking in a lot of later day noise. No titles are given and that helps me think of this release as one whole suite rather than contrasting individual cuts. It is nicely packaged in a double layer, double sided j-card (ie one inside the other) displaying densely posterized b&w images of nature. A pretty impressive first outing for a 19 year black metal kid just starting to explore this style.
http://blog.bixobal.com/
The first release on Levi Berner's new label Horseworship, following the demise of Zen Enthusia a while back. This release is Levi's new solo project (he previously recorded under the names Algiers and Pity) and an excellent beginning. The first side is heavy waves of building, overblown synthetic sound drawing to mind the early period M.B. releases. The undercurrent of the heavy noise there is almost symphonic. The second side is more spacious in its separation of sounds yet still overdriven into the red distortion. This side unfolds doomy slow moving electronic moving in shifting layers. This one comes with a b&w translucent j-card with pretty much no info.
L. Berner "Deny at all costs"
Heavy square wave electronics from Levi under his own name instead of the Vexations moniker. Unlike other releases on this label, this one has titles for each side. The first is "Bite Her Lip" and the second is "Someone Who Has Lost a Lot of Blood". Both display intense, crisp electronics - not distorted as one some other releases but that dense, metallic harmonic quality. There are major portions of both than sound like being inside of a machine with its incessant throb. However as suggested by its title, the second side suddenly loses its lifeblood - the pulse - and spreads out, even if only for the final coda. It is nice dissolution of the tape's energy and a transition out of its head space. This is packaged in a double j-card card with both sides of both card being printed in b&w.
Regosphere/Vexations
This split sees the recent analog synth / new age revival strained through industrial eyes. The synths bubble and arpeggiate, but in a harsh way. This gives it a musicality and progression that is shy of harsh noise without giving up the intense edge. Regosphere lean toward this noisier side more than the Vexations do and lay down a bleaker atmosphere with more distortion and tighter repetitions of sound. Vexation is blown out but oddly uplifting, sounding like it could be the soundtrack for a bootlegged outtake from the film "Blade Runner". Although I enjoy the cassette overall, it is the Vexations side which stands out for me with its darkly sci-fi sound which almost suggests destroyed futurist cities that retain some majestic beauty. Both projects are one man outfits, the former being Andy Quitter from the Midwest, and the latter Levi Berner of Portland, OR. Levi is the one behind this label and it is nice to see him putting out recordings again after a period of only focusing on live performance. Like some of the other releases on his new label, this comes with two nested double-sided j-cards with b&w imagery.
Catholic Guilt "Iron Black Cross"
Old fashioned power electronics complete with spoken passages touching on playing with dead animals and being locked up. Well, that is an oversimplification. There are some intense blasts of in the red noise, but there are other passages with richer and more subtle details which makes the atmosphere closer to Ultra than Whitehouse. There is also a more up to date fidelity on this cassette which gives this a wider aural space lacking in a lot of later day noise. No titles are given and that helps me think of this release as one whole suite rather than contrasting individual cuts. It is nicely packaged in a double layer, double sided j-card (ie one inside the other) displaying densely posterized b&w images of nature. A pretty impressive first outing for a 19 year black metal kid just starting to explore this style.
http://blog.bixobal.com/
Thursday, February 16, 2012
dead voices on tapes #1
About an hour of raw monophonic analogue synth modulations, white noise build-ups, tape loops, etc. Long stop/start edited study of crude sounds and duration based pieces. Dead Voices On Tapes is a sub-label of Horse Worship, using recycled audio books/music cassettes, limiting the release to the number included in the set.
-LB.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Regosphere/Vexations review
"Regosphere is a name that is constantly gaining momentum in the noise scene. With dense and apprehensive death industrial work and harshness that is never overdone, the self coined term of “anxiety electronics” is a considerably accurate one. Vexations is a project that I’m not particularly familiar with but this project’s side is an excellent pairing with Regosphere’s sounds.
The Regosphere side, titled “Heat Lightning (Waiting For Blood To Boil), is a constant buildup of anxious atmospheres and weird synth sounds. Industrial loops push the track forward to its crunching, harsh noise finale. The sound here is strangely warm but still quite hostile; the enveloping nature of it all creates an atmosphere of discomfort and uneasiness. The loops eventually devolve into clanking industrial sections that then devolve into straight harsh noise but the track as a whole is very detailed and composition oriented. One can get lost in the atmosphere or pick out the individual sounds; they all play of one another excellently.
The Vexations side consists of a more melodic, dronelike sound. A synth loop dominates the track and almost sounds like The Knife gone straight experimental. The tones are heavy and wash between clean and distorted but overall are very subdued and drone oriented. Entrancing tone patterns are backed by bassy rumbles and provides a great juxtaposition to the Regosphere side.
These artists are very well paired, making this split an essential one for fans of Regosphere and otherwise."
-review from Existence Establishment.
http://existest.org/ee_v3/?p=4366
The Regosphere side, titled “Heat Lightning (Waiting For Blood To Boil), is a constant buildup of anxious atmospheres and weird synth sounds. Industrial loops push the track forward to its crunching, harsh noise finale. The sound here is strangely warm but still quite hostile; the enveloping nature of it all creates an atmosphere of discomfort and uneasiness. The loops eventually devolve into clanking industrial sections that then devolve into straight harsh noise but the track as a whole is very detailed and composition oriented. One can get lost in the atmosphere or pick out the individual sounds; they all play of one another excellently.
The Vexations side consists of a more melodic, dronelike sound. A synth loop dominates the track and almost sounds like The Knife gone straight experimental. The tones are heavy and wash between clean and distorted but overall are very subdued and drone oriented. Entrancing tone patterns are backed by bassy rumbles and provides a great juxtaposition to the Regosphere side.
These artists are very well paired, making this split an essential one for fans of Regosphere and otherwise."
-review from Existence Establishment.
http://existest.org/ee_v3/?p=4366
Sunday, January 29, 2012
hw#9
hw#7
Edt. of 20 (deleted). Jan. 2012
free d/l (side a)
free d/l (side b)
Sunday, January 1, 2012
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