burning star core “challenger” compact disc

• challenger (4:53)
  
• beauty hunter (5:25)
  
• through the bars of a rhyme (2:11)
  
• mezzo forte (3:58)
  
• no memories, no plans (3:00)
  
• hopelessly devoted (3:25)
  
• mysteries of the organ (6:00)
  
• un coeur en hiver (4:11)

hospital productions press release...

burning star core — challenger — cd challenger is a composed work rather than his more improvised work, each piece revolving around a central melodic theme with field recordings, an audio diary bridging the gaps. it’s emotions of a period of time set to tape. the sounds range from pure tonal mood to huge electronic crescendos. but what’s most remarkable is the use of space, where parts come in and drop to build or recede. when the piano crashes in “mysteries of the organ” its almost a frustration of paradise, a rejection of perfection or maybe a jolt of inexplicable life, unable to be translated into proper communication. juxtaposed with the quiet haunting of “hopelessly devoted” which sounds like a love letter written to outer space, it makes for an album that is both dynamic yet consistent as a full statement. licensed from plastic records.

jason crumer “ottoman black” compact disc

• town crier (3:05)
  
  news rips through the community (2:21)
  
  
• self deceiver (4:32)
  where were you (3:01)
  
  
• betrayal after betrayal (5:19)
  
  after betrayal (3:35)
  after betrayal (3:35)
  
  
•  nothing could have stopped this (2:17)
  
  
•  pissed off response (0:07)
  
• certified blue (6:16)

sutcliffe jugend “the fall of nature” compact disc

• the fall of nature (58:20)

kevin drumm “snow” c30 cassette

• untitled (1)
  
  
• untitled (2)

hospital productions press release...

kevin drumm - snow - c30 dismal.

wolf eyes / sickness “there is a part of me that you will never know” long playing record

• a diet of speed and beer (13:53)
  
  
• 47 polaroids (13:20)

kevin drumm / prurient “all are guests in the house of the lord” compact disc

• first memory of pain (5:23)
  
• on this slab (6:38)
  
• there died venus (4:41)
  
• though the apple is rotten (3:38)
  
• in long rows (10:08)
  
• comes another brood (7:43)

burning star core “body blues” seven inch single record

• body blues
  
  
• the pleasure is mine

ahlzagailzehguh “bypassing time passing” long playing record

• bypassing time passing (1)
  
  
• bypassing time passing (2)

sutcliffe jugend “this is the truth” compact disc

• born again (4:09)
  
• what if (5:02)
  
• this is the truth (6:50)
  
• restraint (6:10)
  
• pigboy (5:15)
  
• your weakness (8:32)
  
• obsession (8:20)
  
• blind ignorance (5:34)

akitsa “sang nordique” compact disc

• introduction
  
• riposte
  
• frontière
  
• sang nordique
  
• au combat
  
• vers la victoire
  
• le nature de mon pays
  
• fin

akitsa “goétie” compact disc

• ouverture de l'esprit (4:22)
  
• haine et vengeance (5:14)
  
• les opposants brûleront (3:04)
  
• revanche (7:46)
  
• les ruines de la modernité (4:53)
  
• affront final (5:00)
  
• hiérarchie (6:40)
  
• pendaison de l'humanité (7:30)
  
• ode au temps passé (5:22)
  
• dernier souffle (2:24)

zaïmph “sexual infinity” compact disc

• neither knoweth (1:34)
  
• signal aggression (8:34)
  
• lamination (8:23)
  
• the mutterings of life (1:43)
  
• isolation in ecstasy (7:59)
  
• double infinity (12:43)

hototogisu / prurient “snail on a razor” compact disc

• flashing like the void (37:29)
  
• snail on a razor (15:37)
  
• this is now (16:46)

hair police “prescribed burning” long playing record

• gnarly
  
• times

the new blockaders / thurston moore / jim o’rourke “the voloptulist” compact disc

• the new blockaders & thurston moore - the voloptulist (14:09)
  
• the new blockaders & jim o'rourke - 840 seconds over (7:08)

magik markers “inverted belgium” one-sided long playing record

• inverted belgium

kevin drumm “imperial distortion” double compact disc set

• guillain-barre (17:23)
  
• more blood and guts (19:57)
  
• snow (16:03)
  
  
• snow (18:44)
  
• romantic sores (18:32)
  
• we all get it in the end (13:25)

hospital productions press release...

what does a person do when faced with a work like imperial distortion? there are rare moments in an artist's work where they reveal a greater truth. kevin drumm has already made such a statement with his last major solo work, 2002's sheer hellish miasma. where that record took noise music to a new level of near-impenetrable exactitude, imperial distortion is an altogether different beast. beauty as an aesthetic can be as terrifying as horror, desire unfulfilled, romance that lingers and never goes away, no matter how disappointing. a preoccupation with death can be the only result. on this extended long-form release, kevin drumm comes face to face with minimal drone music and confronts the genre by providing one of its absolute pinnacles at the forefront; movement. drone music at its most concentrated and ably performed has build and depth in its tones. although there might be the illusion of stasis, the opposite is true. from the opening 20-minute track 'guillain-barre,' the mood of the album is laid clear. the arrangements are shadowy layers of soundtrack-like tones not entirely unlike the work that popul vuh provided for herzog's films. by track two, 'more blood and guts,' with its ominous bell tones, it becomes apparent that there is a true nothing that's associated with these sounds, other than the mood-inducing hypnosis and the feeling of drowning, yet having no ability to fight the slow pull. the middle portion of the record is 'snow,' which was released as a limited cassette last year on hospital productions. this material was a teaser for the full album imperial distortion. the tracks have an almost ballad-esque sense of elegance, using tone and frequency as melodic portals to nowhere. the sustain in the piece suggests a weight while remaining alarmingly pleasant to the ears. the tension suggests an anxiety that never truly dies. the alarm comes from the juxtaposition of tones and mood. while the tones may sound gorgeous in their purity, the mood implies a profound sense of unease and perhaps an acceptance of the inevitability of existential dilemma. this point is most thoroughly evidenced by the albums closer, 'we all get it in the end.' while the piece starts out with lullaby ease, a few minutes in, an equally severe dark drone eclipses the light and the night takes over. here in the enveloped sounds, the clouds pass over the moonlight creating a spectral dark that is unforgettable in its intensity. to answer the initial question of imperial distortion, this is a work that commands intellectual and emotional commitment on the levels of the greatest works to come from this genre. kevin drumm has accomplished that rare balance to create a masterwork that no one has yet to come close to in this era. your best bet is to surrender.

macronympha “sex and death” seven inch single record

• pussy is my soul (2:46)
  
  
• the doom pussy (is coming) (2:47)

controlled bleeding “shanked and slithering” compact disc

• swallowing scrap metal no. 9 (3:14)
  
• shanked and... (4:01)
  
• bees no. 1 (0:09)
  
• bees no. 2 (0:18)
  
• dry lung (11:33)
  
• vole (2:08)
  
• experiments infuck (2:14)
  
• bladder bags (session no. 1) (19:54)
  
• hymn no. 1 (6:25)
  
• horsemeat (yak remix) (4:37)
  
• swallowing no. 5 (power mix) (8:21)
  
• bladder bags (session no. 2) (15:03)
  
• hyme no. 2 (1:43)

“showtunes of the condemned” compact disc

• sinking body - return of the ear (13:42)
  
• pleasurehorse - cure wounds (light) (4:27)
  
• smashed femur dance party - losing you (1:48)
  
• work/death - skull mantra - headspace vapor analyzers (6:01)
  
• pleasurehorse - cure wounds (serious) (4:21)
  
• smashed femur dance party - house of the rising sun (1:53)
  
• meerk puffy - bomb bomb bomb (10:58)
  
• work/death - sokubaku - paper & string against gravity (3:01)
  
• pleasurehorse - cure wounds (critical) (2:54)
  
• smashed femur dance party - beat goes on (2:01)
  
• work/death - encoder decoder message / numbers theory (2:56)
  
• kites - total peace (9:53)
  
• work/death - head injury support group - obliterated by cross hatching (3:02)

pedestrian deposit “volatile” compact disc

• kogal fascination (5:27)
  
• testuria / naïve (6:46)
  
• vent 2 (8:38)
  
• naomi (in and out of consciousness) (15:10)
  
• live 2001.12.17 (21:41)

hair police “hair police” compact disc

• 
  
• 
  
• 
  
• mortuary servants
  
• rare animals