Unilateral - Unilateral (Musiques Hybrides 9)

Another one from the French-Guy-Who-Did-One-Really-Good-Hardcore-Record-In-Bizarre-Circumstances vaults. Leonard De Leonard, as far as one can tell, is a bit of a maverick, and this label seems to deal with just about every genre imaginable. A brief glance at Discogs, his house, techno and 'illbient' releases might lead you to think that an attempt to do music of a more intense nature would result in a clichéd and uninformed product. But amazingly, the end result is a very cohesive and authentic record. Filthy and screechy enough to sit among the more severe French artists, with a strong enough sense of rhythm and occasional hip-hop references to comfortably slip into a Deathchant-esque set with. There's even a very nice and strange minimal breakcore-ish track thrown in for good measure.

A1 Quand Ça Démage (5:16)
A2 Encore (6:19)
B Poulaxx (8:52)

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We now have a seemingly endless line of rips being donated by an old chum and now a great anonymous Andomorph benefactor. These are not 'new', but have been ripped over the years by both said benefactor, myself, and a few other people, almost like a private version of this blog. So, all these rips are steadily going to be unleashed here over the coming weeks. The first of this collection was up yesterday(To see what was uploaded yesterday, see yesterday's post), and the next will be up in 15 minutes, possibly a few more today. God bless.

Various - Hardcore Fever - Extrem Mission Vol 3(E Child 006)

The final release from what seems to have started off as some sort of minimal techno label. There are two 12"s in the Hardcore Fever series, and 3 compilation CDs of the same name on Omnisonus, presumably the parent label. This one features lesser known producers Delidax(now producing Electro House of some sort, god bless them) and DJ Adess(AKA Stark Miller, also now doing some sort of house music, god bless him too). It also features the debut of a young La Peste with a surprisingly direct track. The rest of the music is very much of the Liza N Eliaz school of gabber. A personal favourite is DJ Adess' Acid Q.G with its gritty percussion and nice build towards the end.

A1 Delidax - Miss Sucks (6:14)
A2 DJ Adess - Acid Q.G (4:57)
B1 Hangars Liquides - Pterodaktyl's Orgasma (5:07)
B2 Delidax - Defcore (6:53)

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LZ131 - Untitled (Zeppelin MZM4120)

More of the same....well, that's not true. This is more drum machine/distortion territory, ranging from buzzy electro to somaticsian cold synths and 190bpm breaks.

(To save myself typing, it's 5 Untitled tracks.)

Check Discogs, if you don't believe me.

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LZ132 - Untitled (Schweiz Records 02)

Ralf Endrass and Christian Treuter bring together afro-cuban jazz, industrial, house, dub and all sorts of other nonsense on their releases, and in the mid-90s produced a series of records numbered LZ129-132, this obviously being the last. Side A is 26 minutes of pretty relentless power electronics, while the flip could have been written by Laurent Garnier, with its jazzy synth solos and all, it's actually quite enjoyable.

A Zukunft/The Future (25:52)
B Untitled (8:52)

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Cosmics - Vol. 1 (Vision 31)

Instrumental industrial breakbeats by Knut Remond of 16-17/Voice Crack, in the vein of Mark Stewart.

A1 Ghettomix (2:50)
A2 Bluietta (6:54)
B1 Sitting Bull (6:21)
B2 Hard Jive (4:45)

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Richard Devine - Polymorphic (Six Sixty Six 03)

Debut release from the soon-to-become sound design guru, Korg consultant, about 50 other jobs and occasional musician. As with all SSS records, this is pretty much as severe a work as Devine has done.

B2 Was not only heavily sampled by Angel Flo on S.O.D.O.M 007, but also by Unibomber on Distort 1, if memory serves me right.


A1 Refractor (7:01)
A2 Metalloid (6:07)
B1 Moving Plexor (6:02)
B2 Nekteric (6:32)

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