Frog Pocket - Come on Primates, Show Your Teeth!

i personally love this album cover so freaking much. but its not just the cover. inside, there is an album structured not unlike that of drukqs by aphex twin, harsh and coarse breakbeats surrounded by lush soundscapes and minimalist acoustic solo tracks. however, there are some distinctions. the acoustic tracks are varied, one of them being a stringed instrument plucked with painfully strong dynamics (read: the strings gonna snap), others feature pretty ambient wind instruments and textures. the tracks with breaks are often orchestral, often creepy, and always have amazing rhythm (and odd times, of course. you know how much i love me some odd time signatures). i have heard the album as a whole described by someone on the internet as "music to murder someone to".

p.s. this song is in 10/8, just like the famous theme of "mission impossible" :3

Ruby My Dear - La Mort Du Colibri

melodic breakcore/braindance, some funny samples, harsh insanity at its best :)

also, looky! you can download it for free (legally!) at the dudes label, over here.

Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport

pulsing electronic music with a healthy dose of reverb and dancyness. one of those albums that tends to cross the line between noise and dance music.

Power Pill Fist - Kongmanivong

noise made entirely with an atari. ranges from harsh to chippy, but sounds amazing for the entire album, and flows well. a side project of the amazing "black moth super rainbow".

Igorrr - Moisissure

death metal + old plunderphonics + breakcore = hawt(!?)

yeah, this dude is amazing, but also pretty dang creepy. great album throughout, anyways, a disturbing but interesting trip.

p.s. today is the 50th post of noise daily! woo!

The Octopus Project - Hello, Avalanche

quirky experimental tunes, very catchy and fun to listen to. this album incorporates old mountain folk instruments along with the octopus project's signature electronic doodling in odd time signatures.

The Flashbulb - Red Extensions Of Me

a very nice introduction to drill n' bass, with incorporation of live instruments like pianos and live drums. very detailed work, and the origination of the famous "lawn wake" series of songs, with a lead with a level of harshness reminiscent of a dentist's drill.

The Residents - The Mole Show (Live in Holland)

the residents, an amazing avant-garde deconstructionist group/troupe of weirdos in (sometimes) matching costumes, performing one of their several bizarre live musical dramas, interspersed with comments and narration from penn jillette, of penn and teller fame. the story is, uhh, well, it seems to be about moles migrating? or something? i am not entirely sure, but is pretty interesting to try and figure out! one of the many great albums from the residents, you'll surely be hearing back from them on this blog sometimes soon :)

Hrvatski - Swarm & Dither

this blog's second hrvatski album, and thusly it's first repeat feature (i like hrvatski, k?). from the adorable text to speech song "vatstep dsp" to the atmospheric scaryness that lurks throughout the album, this is really a piece you have to listen through from the beginning.

Battles - Atlas

one of my first math rock albums, looking back (which shows how young i am, heh), but it was also, at the same time, and introduction to space rock, pitch shifting, alternate tunings, and looping jams. maybe its just nostalgia, but i still freakin' love the crazyness (even if they did "sell out" by going on the twilight movie soundtrack)

Xanopticon - Limnal Space

uhh, yeah, anyone out there who says all techno is slow, boring, and repetitive? here ya go. blazing at insanely fast tempos with ever changing time signatures, keeping an entire focus on rhythm and sound, ditching melody almost completely, this music is like speedcore, but with more creativity.

Sabrepulse - Chipbreak Wars

happy chiptune + crazy breakcore = yay!!!

Richard Devine - Asect:Dsect

brilliant glitchy soundscapes and beats, with extremely imaginative noises by an amazing sound designer, richard devine.

p.s. i have been running this blog for a month today! yay! :D

Toshimaru Nakamura - Egrets

my inspiration for my experimentation in no-input feedback loops. a genius in the world of experimental ambient glitch/noise.

Holy Fuck - LP

yeah, i know, not really that obscure/new, but still really fun. pulsing improv melodic noisy electronic music, with lotsa trippy effects and manipulations that keep things sounding interesting :)

Clark - Totems Flare

this clark is a creative chap, i'll give 'im that. he kinda creeps me out though...

.snd - Atavism

painfully minimalist.

Them, Roaringtwenties - Future Sandwitch

i'm back! sorry about the guest post, i was out for yesterday, and i am trying to make this a regular thing. today we've got some crazy noodly math rock, with heavy doses of autotune and vocal chaos. its a bit overwhelming, but all in good fun.

They Might Be Giants - Flood

Guest post here. I am the regular posters brother. Sorry for any confusion; so am I. This is a album I picked, it isn't as crazy as by brothers usual stuff. I recommend this band and album to anyone who doesn't favor static and loud noises. Others might like it as well. My brother also likes this album. It has very diverse songs from an operatic opening (Theme from Flood) to an accordion based song (Istanbul). I also recommend any other album by this great band. You might also know them, if you are a weird fan freak, as the band who did the theme song for "Malcom in the Middle" and the "Hot Dog Song" from "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse".

Enjoy //o-o\\

Nero's Day at Disneyland - From Rotting Fantasylands

exotic, insane, chaotic idm/breakcore with influences from 15th century sacred music to early electronic music to, again, circus music (keeping in the theme, here!). noisy, but not in the loud sense, more in the "wtf is going on in my ears"' sense.

ooh yeah, by the way, for those of you who don't like to pirate, the whole album can be streamed for free, legally, from the artist himself, over here: http://soundcloud.com/biot13013/neros-day-at-disneyland-from-rotting-fantasylands-stream

enjoy :D

Circus Contraption - Our Latest Catalogue

one very interesting genre is cabaret, and an even more interesting subgenre is dark-cabaret, cabaret with a kind of dastardly, wacky, or even disturbing sense of humor or vibe. circus contraption is one such example of the genre, while also adding in the traditions of circus music and some almost charmingly vulgar and offensive sets of lyrics. this band even ends up taking a few jumps into the realm of avant-garde, which adds even more to the insanity that the circus brings.

Bomb 20 - Field Manual

ok, even i can't come up with a good genre to call this. some odd mix of breakcore, noise, and soundcollage? i have no idea. but it is freaking amazing.

Alva Noto - Unitxt

minimalist ambient glitch trip through data and rhythm and math and sound. this guy is a genius, and i honestly don't think i am exaggerating here. he has sonic and rhythmic ideas that most people would never even consider, and all while generally staying within the limits of the traditional electronic music template (4/4 time signature, 120-ish bpm). this is one of the essential alva noto albums, a few other (in different styles) being "For", "Viroon", and his famous "Xerrox" projects. i might post those some other time, because they are just that good. ok enough ego stroking for noto, enjoy the sounds.

p.s. just in case you are wondering about the random things being read in the intro track down there, that is explained here:

"...the album is one of the few (if not the only) Alva Noto releases that feature vocals. French sound poet Anne-James Chaton intones in a robotic manner on two tracks, including opener “U_07.” He reads the contents of Nicolai’s wallet (credit cards, driver’s license, receipts, etc.) in a constant outpour. This only furthers the album’s harshness, reducing personal information about the man to mere information, data to be processed."

Vim! - A Random Collection Of Consonants

another free chip album, just to keep with the pattern. this one is a bit more oddly structured, and a little more experimental. all of the tracks are really loveable, though :3

download/stream it free here: http://www.archive.org/details/mtk132

Peer - Dances EP

the few readers of my blog who are not too into the whole noise thing have probably been waiting for something a little more melodic, so here we go. some very nice melodic chiptunes written on two (2) gameboys, with a great sense of rhythm as well! best of all, you can download it FREE (as in BEER) over here: http://pierre.slinckx.net/dances/

if you have already bought it on the black market for 20 dollars, uh, you kinda got ripped off dude.

p.s. this is the first time i actually had to upload my own audio, and it may have been a bit altered in the compression process, so you might wanna check out the actual track if you want full accuracy. uh, woo for being obscure :s

EDIT: Video didn't upload correctly, sorry everyone :(

I recommend downloading the album, I mean, its free anyways :P

Hella - Hold Your Horse Is

heavy, noisy math rock, with a drummer on drugs that apparently make time go slowly. tapped discordant patterns often make their way into these things, but it creates a sort of harshness that is very fun to listen to. also, tempo shifts are all over the place here.

HEALTH - Get Colour

high tempo noise rock/punk, monotone droning vocals and lots of neat synth effects, juxtaposed with death metal style double bass drumming. from wikipedia: 

"To promote their 2009 album, Get Color, the band held a sweepstakes contest, in which a winner of a golden ticket was awarded a free trip to Los Angeles to go to Magic Mountain with the band. Other prizes included locks of the band members' hair and posters autographed in blood."

...yep

BT - This Binary Universe

highly polished glitch music (heh, kinda an oxymoron) by a very talented producer with a very fond love of the retrigger effect (so much that he patented it as the "stutter method", even though tracker nerds had been doing in for years). despite the whole patent thing, he does retriggers very well, and manages to make interesting sounds out of otherwise normal beats.

Terminal11 - Illegal Nervous Habits

cutting up samples into lots of pieces and making crazy beats out of em... sort of like matmos, but different. also, much more extreme, very fast bpms. this music might give your ears seizures, honestly. but, in a good way.

65daysofstatic - The Fall of Math

gosh, these guys kinda have a complex genre, for sure: apocalyptic instrumental post-rock post-idm/drumandbass math rock, with lots of electronic themes and samples and effects (for example, heavy use of granular synthesis on live drums!). they have a cult fanbase called "65kids", and not the creepy kind of cult with initiations and robes and sacrifice and stuff*. so, yeah, that is all i have to say about them i guess, ok.

*apologies to radiohead

Art Bears - The World As It Is Today

crap, almost forgot to post today :o

but, here i am. today, i've got some discordant art-rock/avant-garde with lots of politics and screaming (wee?). anyways, enjoy :p