Mami
(Oxen - OXEN030) Cassette $6.75 (Out-of-stock)
Deliberate, confrontational harsh noise barrages, peeling and scything layers of bare-nerved sheets of complete harsh noise satisfaction. Texas-based noise artist Alexis Cash is in command on this excruciatingly gratifying on-point release. C20
The Good Times Are Over For Good
(Oxen - OXEN028) Cassette $6.75 (Out-of-stock)
An emphatic and unsettling statement of harsh noise endurance. Abusive commotion, compelling showers of junk metal, howling noise clamor by this former Los Angeles artist now based in Texas. C30
BLACK SAND DESERT / UNSUSTAINABLE SOCIAL CONDITION
Black Sand Desert / Unsustainable Social Condition
(Oxen - OXEN031) Cassette $5.00 (Out-of-stock)
Volatile harsh noise delivered with taut, barrier smashing intensity by Greh Holger and Matt Purse on one side, a studio recording ahead of a neck-punch, face-melting live set at The Handbag Factory, which, as it happens, is right there on the flip. C20
TED BYRNES / UNSUSTAINABLE SOCIAL CONDITION
Unsustainable Social Condition With Ted Byrnes
(Oxen - OXEN018) Cassette $3.10 (Out-of-stock)
Two new tracks of fractured, scraping slides into blunt, violent vocals implicating fluid scenes of graphic horror. Matt Purse of Fenian and Of The Skull delivers harsh electronic noise and vocals, while special guest Ted Byrnes (Airway, LAFMS) brings the junk metal and all things percussion to this jarring, peak noise massacre. C10
Check out “Corpse Of Dignam” here: https://youtu.be/lkzzEfPToyk
S.R. CANO / MATT PURSE / STEVE TOUCHTON
Remainderless
(Oxen - 005) LP $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
Blasts, squeaks, rasps, and uncommon squelch frequencies comprise the aggregate sum of the three unsettling tracks by this Los Angeles trio with connections to XBXRX, tik///tik, and Fenian. Clear vinyl. Free download card. Listen to a sample here: http://fenian.bandcamp.com/track/remainderless-sample-edit-of-tracks-from-12-ep
K2 / Constrain / Fenian
(Oxen - OXEN016) CD $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
One solo track by each artist, plus a fourth three-way collaboration. The fluid and propulsive “Sarrogate For Mass Murder” is impossible to mistake for any artist but K2, with its shuddering-soaked layers of frenzy. Constrain delivers blasts of harsh electronics and static assault textures on “Recognizable Mask.” Electronics meet glass smash on Fenian’s “Phenomenology,” where unrepentant harsh noise careens across multiple lanes of blacktop. The brain-bending collaboration track “Spreading Particles Go Smokey” overflows with petulant dissonance and repeated lightning strikes of shuddering rubble blasts. A pristine surge assault of cut-up harsh noise protocol.
Mutual Transgressions b/w Solitary Solace
(Oxen - OXEN011) 7-inch $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
Wrong Hole’s Nial Morgan slashes paths through forests of electro-tape destruction with sleep-deprived swagger with “Mutual Transgressions.” his compositional prowess is on rare and inspiring form throughout Mutual Transgressions’ specifically obtuse personal narrative. On the flip, the equally malicious and unhinged “Solitary Solace” by Contrain’s Kevin McEleny ladders to a crushing apex of sublime cacophony. Edition of 100
The Boundary
(Oxen - OXEN022) Cassette $5.25 (Out-of-stock)
Perpetually chaotic compositions from the master of assault expression. Anxious, frenetic, harsh noise cut-up supremacy. C15
Pump-Powered Permawave
(Oxen) 10-inch $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
Entropic noise by the hating Hater and his pump-powered suitcase noise device. Four tracks and a couple locked grooves for your pleasure. Orange vinyl. Edition of 200.
Standard Deviation
(Oxen - OXEN032) Cassette $6.25 (Out-of-stock)
Thoroughly superb harsh noise, abounding with blossoms of metal corruption. Alan Bloor scours and scythes through the destructive stress of an active, real-time debauching of iron caging and light gauge stainless steel. No overdubs, no loopers. C40
Leah P
(Oxen - OXEN034) Cassette $4.50 (Out-of-stock)
A confident unleashing of forceful, dissonant, soaring tracks, expertly crafted and structured to sublime and dynamic crescendos of equal parts cut-up, harsh noise and extended harsh noise technique. Peak assault intuition. C10. Edition of 50.
Live In Japan
(Oxen - OXEN033) LP (one-sided) $9.50 (Out-of-stock)
Adrenaline assault sets recorded May 2016 at Ochiai Soup in Tokyo and at the historic holy land of noise, Namba Bears in Osaka alongside Masonna and Solmania. Some of the best in present-day cut-up / harsh noise, gliding through exploding tensions with the full-force of discordant, noise-squall grenade incursions, trampling ears and minds with a focused and visceral, frenetic fury. Edition of 100
20 Eyes
(Oxen - OXEN015) Cassette $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
Solo electronics by Chiaki Omachi. Dense HNW elongated over a static, infinite line of punishing black mold assault. C40
Wood And Metal / The Rita
(Oxen - OXEN024) Split cassette $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
A resolutely hypnotic fury of junk and skin-pummeling percussive mandate on one side by Charlie Mumma (Sissy Spacek, Unexamine, Sewer System) and Ted Byrnes (LAFMS, Airway), recorded live recording at (the) Handbag Factory, Los Angeles. On The flip Sam McKinlay draws from this source and constructs a highly charged, restless harsh wall blast, uncompromising and masterclass in scope. A lingering climax disintegrating all boundaries, emphatically gruesome.
Upside Down
(Oxen - OXEN029) Cassette $6.75 (Out-of-stock)
This Tokyo-based noise artist delivers scarred, harrowing muzzle blasts of harsh noise cut-up excellence, laying bare a cathartic declaration of an undeniable surplus of talent. This is the first physical solo U.S. release for scum following abrasive cannon volleys of caustic cut-up greatness on Stray Dog vol. 2. C20
SEWER SYSTEM / UNSUSTAINABLE SOCIAL CONDITION
Sewer System / Unsustainable Social Condition
(Oxen - OXEN030) Split cassette $4.50 (Out-of-stock)
Six tracks of vomitus ruination by Charlie Mumma on side A, whose singular strategy of feedback, percussion and growling tension deconstructs noise-core elements with unique and totally dynamic results. Matt Purse pays feedback-laden tribute to Yukimasa Okada on side B with junk-noise conflict obliteration resolving into corrosive harsh noise cohesion. C10
Confuse
(Oxen - OXEN) 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
Strength in tightly concentrated havoc. An action massacre, sounds shattered with steamy, crowded menace. Charred mutilation across two sides, defining the kinetics of destruction. Total slaughter by Mumma and Wiese.
Brath
(Oxen - 013) CD $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
This full-length blizzard of bass and electronic noise, with fusillades of vocals and drums like Razors continues Sissy Spacek’s noisecore trajectory while at the same time achieving new elevations of extreme noise-gore. Fans will be rewarded with the velocity of putrefaction, bleakly unable to lay anchor amid relentlessly immersive chaotic fluctuation.
Alone Gone
(Oxen - OXEN017) CD $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
Harsh noise cut ups by William Hutson of Anthracite, Rale, and Clipping. Nine tracks, fifty minutes, the complete works. Four tracks were previously released on the Nothing All Day Nothing cassette (Skeleton Dust 2013).
https://soundcloud.com/fenian/tattered-syntax-90027-oxen018
Carnal Opponents No Brothers
(Oxen - OXEN006) 7-inch $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
Sublimely merciless junk-scarring workshops in charred iron and static by Charlie Mumma and Danny Costa. Numbered edition of 100.
UNSUSTAINABLE SOCIAL CONDITION
Dispersant
(Oxen - OXEN023) CD $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
Pure harsh noise and throat scrapings. Abrasive and unsettled, formed inside an air-starved oxygen tank. Fifty-five minutes, four tracks of peak volume, bleak oblivion, careening into the sonic rumble of a toxic death. Unyielding fulminations of harsh noise.
Stray Dog Volume 2
(Oxen - OXEN019) Cassette $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
Tracks by Dromez, Kakerlak, scum, Circuit Wound, FACIALMESS, Leah Peah, Sissy Spacek, Scalp Elevator, Tralphaz, BLACKPHONE 黒電話 666, Jay Randall, Brown Piss, Black Sand Desert, and Mass Marriage.
Stray Dog
(Oxen - 010) Cassette $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
Tracks by P.I.G.S. (Chiaki Omachi), KIRA (Charlie Mumma and HHL’s Brent Rellstab-Randel), F.T.P., Sissy Spacek (Mumma and John Wiese), Sects, The Pig Lady, Wrong Hole, Constrain, Kiran Arora, Allegory Chapel LTD, and amk / GX Jupitter-Larsen / Elden M. C65
