Noise Transmission CD
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A true underground electronics recording from 4 european projects ranging from death industrial to harsh noise and power electronics.
 
 

MÖRDER MACHINE feat. Atrax Morgue
CAZZODIO
IRIKARAH
RECTAL SURGERY

This release is a documentation of the 2nd  Noise Transmission festival  in Düsseldorf, Germany featuring exclusive new tracks from almost all bands. The live-sound was digitally recorded &  digitally mastered  resembling a sound quality usually only met by "studio" standards. The CD features 4 color booklet & 4 color 2-sided inlay card (clear-tray) with live shots from each band.
 
 

Mörder Machine (Italy)
obscure, minimal obsessed death industrial from Atrax Morgue's mastermind Marco Corbelli. A deep psycho-pathological sonic lesson into human disorientation.
Pounding analogue sounds with brilliant live vocals from Italy's "Death is the only art I know" madman. Tracks: "Living Dead" (of the sold-out debut tape "Happy  Birthdeath"), "I'm So" from the Death Show CD ( Slaughter Productions ).

Cazzodio  (Italy)
music for street violence. Harsh, distorted rhythms, brutal noise: this is true power electronics for a world where chaos is the only valid parameter. In Düsseldorf  Cazzodio featured extremely powerful vocals on each track (giving us two tracks on the NT cd which are even better than  their "Ill tempo della locusta" debut cd on Malignant  /  Black Plague ).  Tracks: "Waste" (previously unreleased), "Attaco al cuore dello stato" (exclusively performed for the festival).

Irikarah (Germany)
Being known for superbly slamming industrial rhythms (Track: "Mistress of Agarthi"), Irikarah features some brilliant (and scarce !) live vocals on the track "Fight Fast" including evil looped noise and "obscure" samples presenting a new gem to the rhythm 'n noise world. This is no stuff for the weak - but a must for followers of "real" german industrial.
Exclusive material for the festival, going beyond his about sold-out "Tormentum" (Membrum Debile Propaganda) and "Kampfsequenzen" (Steinklang) releases.

Rectal Surgery  (Germany)
Mixing fierce electronic noises with feedback and static to an apocalyptic cocktail, they give your legs a kick with really fucked up beats at the same time. Their tracks "Gefahr" and "Diecimilla meloni" give versatile, dynamic material for the industrial waste junkies out there.
 

 
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Reviews:

 Spectrum MagazineSpectrum #4, September 2000

With the clarity and ferociousness of the production you would be hard pressed to pick all of these tracks as live recordings, yet the nine tracks from four different artists were recording at the 1998 Noise Transmission Festival held in Germany.  The artists collated on here cover the power electronic and death industrial genres either exclusively of bridging the two.  First up is Rectal Surgery with a pounding mix of industrial noise, beats, scattered samples screamed vocals.  In particular the fusion of mechanized beats (bordering on gabber) and noise in ‘Gefahr’ is very impressive.  Irikarah is a name I have not come across before, but creating a subdued noise industrial piece with ‘mistress of agarthi’ then stepping into searing noise/ power electronics on ‘fight fast’ (my speakers sound if they can barely withstand the punishment being dished out).   The Cazzodio tracks are a little different to that of the tracks I have heard off their debut CD in that vocals are included here in the guise of either spoken sections or death metal screeches.  I don’t know how convinced I am with the vocals themselves (particularly when growled) but the music if of the same high caliber of industrial strength power rhythms (albeit a bit slower overall than normal) and hefty slabs of concrete noise.  To bring the CD to a conclusion Morder Machine (feat. Atrax Morgue) grinds things down to a death obsessed halt with two tracks, including one previously off the ‘Death Show’ CD.  Vocals gargling razorblades over a death industrial pulse and scattered screeching mayhem envelopes the room with both ‘Living Dead’ and ‘I’m so’.  With this act the vocals are the true wonder obviously working in a cyclic fashion in feeding off and giving back to the creation of the deadly atmosphere of the obliterated slow beat and noise textures. Overall worth getting if you have an interest in any of these artists.
 

Sideline   No. 29,  November 1999 / December 1999 / January 2000

A completely mind-splattering documentation of the 2nd Noise Transmission  festival in Düsseldorf, Germany, this compilation gives us a taste of the speaker frazzled, volume fried resentation via wonderful live recordings by the four participants.  Rectal Surgery opens with a regurgitated-from-the-gut-of-the-machine, rhythmic throb upon which a plethora of samples are woven-sound bytes from the realm of media confusion.  "Gefahr" contains coughing, static percussion that mutates and corrodes the eardrums, jittery at the edge of the chaos void.  The use of weird samples interlaced with the noise makes the Rectal Surgery ride quite a wild one (the high school marching band decimated by the caustic burp of noise is
particularly enjoyable); there's a level of mischievous playfulness that gets repeatedly bludgeoned by the onslaught of noise.
Irikarah's "Mistress Of Agarthi " bleeds distortion from wiry veins extending from whatever instruments they incorporate to the amplifiers; needles continually puncture, the sticky mess dripping all over the production.  "Fight Fast" follows, a fuzzy recording of a church choir (?!) interrupted by electronic flotsam and jetsam; further in, samples of a disorientating war-like nature blossom from the valve-punched electronic tumult; it all comes full circle, as a mass chorus leads us out of mayhem.
Cazzodio are up next, and I've got high expectations after their brilliant first CD on Black Plagve/Malignant, Ill Tempo Della Locusta.  "Waste" simmers with subdued ferocity, the scathing vocals reminding this listener of a slightly clearer take on Mental Destruction's indecipherable spewings (maybe it's the inflection?); the music pummels, a slow death (industrial) march into the eye of the flame.  Samples and an infernal buzzing open "Attaco Al Cuore Dello Stato," the irritating ambience destroyed when the dirge-like machinery pummel kicks in; the path plowed by this track is littered with rhythms spawned by nuclear explosions and radioactive debris -- just excellent.
Mörder Machine's "Living Dead" is death industrial straight from the belly of hopelessness, piercing, jagged razors of disemboweling noise upon which Marco Corbelli (Atrax Morgue, Slaughter Productions) adds vocals of the vomiting corpse variety.  If you think that was gruesome, "I'm So," from the grisly Death Show CD, has Marco completely
wrenching his vocals from a place no normal, living human being could imagine (his soul must be on rent from Hell, because these are definitely not human intonations, more like something vicious and depraved that has died and still struggles for a life it no longer possesses); the display here is absolutely brilliant, one of the most vivid vocal presentations I have ever heard within the realm of death industrial.  Kudos to deafborn for the excellent live recordings as well as gathering these tracks for all to enjoy (?!).
(JCS:7/8) JCS
 
 

Sonic Seducer (in German)   Oktober 1999

Ende letztes Jahres fand im Düsseldorfer AK47 das zweite Noise Transmission Festival statt, welches vom Sonic Seducer präsentiert wurde und nun auszugsweise als Tondokument in sehr guter Tonqualität vorliegt. Als Opener traten Rectal Surgery auf die Bühne, die ihren ursprünglich unstrukturierten Lärm mittlerweile so fest im Griff haben, daß sie eine ernsthafte Alternative für alle jene darstellen, denen Atari Teenage Riot einige Spuren zu konventionell sind.
Irikarah bot an jenen Abend gewohnt kraftvollen Rhyhtm Noise sowie eine seiner leider viel zu  raren Gesangseinlagen. Als Headliner fungierten schließlich die beiden italienischen Acts Cazzodio und Mörder Machine (aka Atrax Morgue). Erstere boten PowerNoise, bei dem die Vocals des Shouters aus dem Hardcore Lager eine gelungene Überraschung darstellen, während der stimmliche Überbau im MM-Set sehr tief in die psychotische Welt des Marco Corbelli blicken ließ. Die Vorbereitungen für das nächste NT Festival Ende November (dann u.a. voraussichtlich mit Einleitungszeit und VO.I.D.) laufen bereits auf Hochtouren.
 
 

Bodystyler (in German)  Oktober 1999

Der Sampler zum gleichnamigen Festival mit je zwei bis drei Stücken der beteiligten Bands, live beim Festival aufgenommen und digital nachbearbeitet - Rectal Surgery, Irikarah, Cazzodio und Mörder Machine. Diese Namen sprechen eigentlich schon für sich - Krach, daß es einem die Ohren wegbläst, bzw. daß einen Beifahrer im Auto wieder mal drauf
aufmerksam machen, daß mit dem CD-Player wohl irgendwas nicht stimmen kann, wenn man diesen Sampler einlegt. "Kenner" bemerken hauptsächlich die gute Soundqualität (für einen Live-Mitschnitt wirklich beeindruckend) und die "Newcomer" Rectal Surgery, deren Song "Introducing Minidisco" wohl demnächst ein kleiner "Clubhit" werden könnte. Sollte. Muß!
Irikarah und der Haupt-Act des Fesivals, Mörder Machine, liefern netten Noise ab, aber vor allem Cazzodio aus Italien legen es darauf an, die Lautsprecher der Hörer zu schrotten. Wenn hier die Vocals ein bißchen weniger aufdringlich an Fußballfan-Gerülpse erinnern würden, wären Cazzodio meine Lieblinge dieses Samplers geworden. So sind's dann doch eher Rectal Surgery. lachi. Bewertung:   :-)
 

Recycle Your Ears Webzine, June 2001

This compilation, published back in 1999, was the first CD release of the german deafborn label, as well as the rendition on disc of a festival organized by this label in Düsseldorf in 1998. Four bands were present on stage (or, more precisely five, since Mörder Machine was "featuring Atrax Morgue"), and are also represented on this disc.
It all starts with Rectal Surgery, whose members are also managing the deafborn label. Agressive power electronics with shouted, very loud and rather high pitched vocals. Inspired of old school power electronics, Rectal Surgery's music is dense, and, if not as intense as what some newer acts can offer (think Control or IRM, for example), straight to the point and efficient.
Rectal Surgery is followed by another german act, Irikarah, whose two noisy tracks didn't really catch my attention. "Fight fast" is full of samples from WWII speeches, which is rather unoriginal and annoying, and I wasn't that impressed by this act.
However, the great Cazzodio are the first ot the two italian acts presented here, and the live recording puts a lot of emphasis on the aggressive, metal-like singing that comes here with the catchy, crunchy and very heavy music of this act. Sounding different than on CD, Cazzodio show here a nice aspect of their old concerts (the new performances are instrumental), the music being really in the background, compared to the vocals.
Finally, Mörder Machine featuring the famous Atrax Morgue close thise noise fest with long, slow tracks, that might not be as dense as Cazzodio's or Rectal Surgery's, but carry on a lot of aggressivity and anger, mostly with the help of a deep, distorted and strange voice.
"Noise Transmission" is an interresting compilation. Without any track that really stands out, and without the benefit of a very good sound recording, this sampler offers a live recording of a noise performance, which is rather rare in this scene. A nice way to be introduced to the featured bands, it is also a mandatory documents for their fans (get these Cazzodio tracks!).
 
 
 

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