various | way-out: the sound of um

the point of this compilation was to collect a bunch of bands whose music makes you go "umm!". in reality this means a whole bunch of noise from the tape underground, a genre that i dabbled in as "label boss" but never fully embraced. let's face it, the scene was completely overwhelmed with dodgy noise bands - people recording any old distorted shit and calling it music - that you had to work hard to find the good stuff.

i think i got some of both here.

::: cefodie - two years today
::: children at play - sandhopper ina storm
::: culver - replace position
::: expose your eyes - acceptance feature
::: expose your eyes - acceptance feature no 2
::: hoom - headwaters
::: the infant cycle - -
::: kjetl d brandsdal - joustra
::: labrador - wot a downer
::: lee milan - untitled
::: melanchthon - different kind
::: mlehst - 100 ways of saying no
::: phlegm - ringing [i did this - it's rubbish]
::: realm of dreams - alien grounds
::: schizoid wikler's - pink punker
::: schmrtz - play it again sam
::: shimmer - space
::: sideboard radiator - china in your hands
::: the speeding peters - insulin kens
::: tenmaka - nice man
::: tuob & leigh smith - blyth, lexi & syd
::: wand packer - wave theme
::: zarathustra - klasikal

get it.

kjetil d brandsdal & jan christian kyvik | untitled

another release by kjetil - this time accompanied by jan christian kyvik (not kybik as i've spelled it in the id tags for these files), who would later lend percussion to noxagt. these three tracks are generally on the noisier and more fragmented side of kdb's stuff.

7" released on betley welcomes careful drivers in 1998.

i have a headache.

no pic as i forgot to scan it before it went back into storage. goof.

kjetil d brandsdal | kdb

as well as breathtaking fjords and beautiful ladies, among certain circles norway is known for its noise. this isn't noise as in the processed japanese stuff - this is the more pastoral new zealand stuff, more drone than noise really. and kjetil d brandsdal is one of its most prolific activists, recording under his own name, variations of his name, plus numerous other monikers, mostly famously in the band noxagt.

here is his second album. i'll be posting a load more of his stuff in the near future.

lp released on his own "kdb" label in 1996.

geologically, a fjord or fiord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides, created in a valley carved by glacial activity.