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12-2009: there has not been talk lately about C30 tape by one damn fine and deliberately toxicated electro-techno-duo called fist of jesus. but its still on the menu, you just cant see it yet.
maybe some sort of compilation next year? how should i know.

some reviews of hyster tapes from possible places added there.





H Y S T E R T A P E S:

DESTROY ALL TIE FIGHTERS: C60 tape (HYSTER01, 2001)
*all gone already. some of the material got released on cd-r in 2002 behalf of musically incorrect records (MIR#6),
it was an split release with skullpture.

DIETER M?: doin? it dresden style (HYSTER02, 2003)
*recycled tape, 38min of finest DM live action from yr 2000. recorded in dresden squat A.Z. Conni. edition of 50. sold out.

XXIII: live at la-bas (HYSTER03, 2007)
*when active totally unknown and now defunct finnish group that got started as simple harsh trash metal gatherering/beating
exercise and eventually evolved into more "civilized", slightly gamelan-like outfit which main characteristic seemed
to be the fact that every instrument, whether electric guitar or piece of scrap metal sheet, is a percussion instrument.
this is the first actual release, recording of their third or fourth (opinions differ) gig, from year 2004.
about 40 minutes. recycled tape. edition of 50 copies.
1,5e + postages

YOUR OWN SHADOW BLOCKS THE LIGHT compilation tape (HYSTER04, 2007)
*C60 including pieces of:
XXIII (sleepy scrap metal percussion, lo-fi guitar amplifier hum & feedback + some old weak synth sounds)
kyt?& suihkonen (gently delayed plucked scrapings of the violin)
culver (lo-fi guitars on top of other guitars & buzz from UK)
grey park (imitation of life as stern asian man in sound of space gone quite terribly wrong)
destroy all tie fighters (moving sough & feedback of guitars bowed and vocals)
mosaic antenna (very taped recordings of rumblings of odd lo-fi objects in jyv?kyl?
yuriyuri (hi-fi recording of extended exercise on highpitched analogue whine)
its probably the best thing since free bread!
recycled tapes & edition of 100 copies
2e + postages

GREY PARK: 2 x live at koko theatre (HYSTER05, 2007)
*two gigs played & recorded at koko theatre, helsinki. first one is from year 2004 and the second almost precisely two years after that.
eerie and oddly cultivated droning lo-fi ambient noise made with effect boxes, couple of radios, tapes, one laptop, one vintage synth and
three assholes.
dubbed on whatever. edition of three million copies.
1,5e + postages

PLEASURES AND DAYS: live (HYSTER06, 2008)
*C30 tape of seriously alienated and politically hysterical steal©-paste electro-pop-disco. 5 hits recorded live in various spots
(atleast one of them got burned down soon after the gig. coincidence..? YES!) around finland during years 02, 03 and 04.
on recyloid pates and an edition of 32 copies.
UP AGAINST THE WALL, BABY!!
1,5e + postages

CULVER: they killed suzie carter (HYSTER07, 2008)
*a side 13+ min of splendid and terribly static yet somehow grisly, psychedelic drone from UK. b side little bit longer and bit harsher but
more or less the same. quite the pick for one of those nights when the mirror stops working the way it should. very good.
50 copies. recycled tapes.
1,5e + postages

RE-CLIP: notes 99-09 (HYSTER08, 2009)
*superb 50+min selection from a vault of 10 years worth of pretty funky techno/electro lo-fi clicks, cuts, clippings, tiny broken beats,
odd ambient stylings, home field-recordings and even some quite mr.oizoesque rhythms. works very well while you aimlessly wander
thru that desolate, nightly/daily urban landscape you quite erroneusly call your home.
editon 0f 50 copies, recyckeld dapes.
2e + postages



O T H E R T A P E S:


PASILIAN SAVUT: painostava esiinotto (THISMO3)
*C90. its impossible to describe this one.. its mostly made with electric guitars and bass and by people who
actually seem to know how to play their instruments, and this time its a good thing. the tape seems to oddly create an
totally new musical genre of its own, i think they used to call it "grungejazz" and.. well, thats just stupid.
what ever the genre or no genre at all: this is great, beautiful & totally original stuff.
3,5e + postages

Garbage can compilation volume 1: "ONE WAY" (DOK-04)
*very odd compilation covering atleast spoken word, power electronics, lofi drone ambient, surreal cut-up noise,
experimental sounds made with C64 and some evil nordic heathen laptop easy listening noise which all are
bonded together with constant sinustone that whines through the tape from the beginning to the end.
artists are: Lasse Ekstrand, Nordvargr, Goto80, Institut, Grey Park, Empty and Crank Sturgeon.
..more detailed description coming as soon as i get some sense out of it.
4e + postages

BLOODY LETTER: slowdown (TA132)
*C24. short bursts of harsh noise and bit longer slabs of creepy dark ambient from japan.
works quite well with coffee and thus makes a really good early morning soundtrack.
3e+postages

DRENCHES: beast purge (TA282)
*C22 of almost ambient, electronic.. stuff? there is not that much happening here, actually. why not? well, you decide.
3e+postages

UTON: live in death (BREAD AND ANIMALS)
*C40, two live shows recorded in France (w/ Bridget Hayden in Reims) + odd spoken word/field-recording piece
where some man makes it pretty clear that its "OK"... both shows are actually surprisingly noisy affairs, this being
UTON afterall..
4e + postages

DECONDITION: the universal nothingness (FREAK-TAPE-022)
*C-40. (power) electronics from finland 2006. its quite firmly glued into the more ambient end of the PE pole. for the most part.
theres also some vocals which sadly just tend to destroy the nice heavy, dark and dazed feel the loops and soundscapes on
this tape manage so well to produce. maybe thats the point, who knows.. for me they just sound very very ordinary and
unnecessary.
4 e + postages

SQUAMATA: rust fetish (FREAK-TAPE-023)
*C20. plain excelent finnish junk + gadgets harsh noise.
4e + postages

ULUL AZMI: I tape (A.T.K.1)
*quite strange combo of deeply religious spoken word ponderings on the subject of teeth and harsh noise.
28 minutes. on recycled tapes.
2e + postages

HUNTON QUINTET: kuutelus (IKASUS-03)
*special agents Concrete and Stepanoff with guitars, percussions, synths/laptop, vocals and piano in Porvoo AD 2005.
athmospheric, creepy, devastating and totally disorienting experience. i think they recorded some things under
a name ANTI/UTON some years ago..
4 euro + postages

KANTTORIPOIKA / RE-CLIP: split (t.ed-002)
*17min/side of pretty clever electronic etc musica from these solo gangsters of new wave of finnish electronic ug.
some danceable, some mystical, some not. its simply the best.
3 euro + postages

BASEMENT BOYS: at the basement (t.ed-001)
*2 x 45min, same menu on both sides. heres an expert opinion 4 u:
"...I feel like I could listen to this kind of ambient Cluster-esque stuff the Basement Boys are laying out
for a solid two months. Theres no drums or rhythm per se, but theres definitely a track of something that is
propelling all this stuff forward and I dont think there are songs as much as portions melding into each other.
I cant even really trace a pure synth sound coming in as much as general electronics being tweaked for
large portions of it. When beats do start to get integrated, you barely notice, because the music is already moving you up.
Its just another layer on what becomes kind of a glitch-hop kinda thing that doesnt rely on stealing
your little brothers Adderall to get into it. Its a long tape, Ill tell you what, but flows pretty easily.
If you can manage to score a copy, youll friends will be asking you to put it on at all the next slumber parties.
Guaranteed." 8/10 -foxy digitalis

3 euro + postages

TWO WHO: kesämaalla / talvikaupungissa (IKASUS-07)
*two easy going yet intense long live guitar n violin + tiny gadgets exercises. first slab recorded finnish countryside
summer impromptu at some farewell party for bunch of hippies leaving for india (good riddance!).
other side recorded winter at the first its all in your mind two day musicfestival, that time held inna
little box onna center of kallio, helsinki. what time? 2008 probably.
4 euro + postagents

THEO ANGELL / GOODWILLIES: split (IKASUS-11)
*C-90 of sounds from america circa 1997-2005 A.D. lots fine!
4e + postages

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