Excellent limited edition collaboration LP from two notorious UK 'noise' groups, The New Blockaders and Putrefier. The sound here harks back more to the early hermetic, electro-acoustic feel of the first few Blockaders releases, with Putrefier working subtle magic with original source material that tends towards the more minimal side of Industrial entropy. There are slithers of metal, slates slowly detached from suburban roofs, broken glass, bursts of atonal whirlwinds and the sound of microphones gorged on charged silence. The tracks are fairly short, each focussing on a pretty distinct vibration, allowing you to fully plug in to each 'movement'. A classic release from these two, the album comes in an edition of only 500 copies with this special edition featuring a bonus CD-R of collaborative material only available with the first 100 copies (in two numbered batches of 50 each), all of which are already sold out at source. Recommended.

Another major milestone in Vinyl On Demand's on-going deluxe documentation of the furthest fringes of the European underground, Viva Negativa is the culmination of several years worth of commissioned remixes, extrapolations on and collaborations with the work of The New Blockaders, the UK's most consistently feral noise group. The quality of the track listing is pretty staggering – a testament to the liberating effect those early TNB sides had on a whole generation of otherwise culturally disenfranchised post-punks – and plays even better as a state-of-disunion round-up than recent attempts at void-articulation like Gold Leaf Branches, Invisible Pyramid et al. Almost every major contemporary noise artist is featured and Volume One has tracks from Oren Ambarchi, Anomali, Ashtray Navigations (a beautiful slice of slow blown-to-smoke tone), Emil Beaulieau, Benzo, Cisfinitum, Controlled Bleeding, Dieter Muh, Evil Moisture, Freiband, Grunt, The Haters, Jason Kahn, Zbigniew Karkowski, Komafuzz, Kraang, Lockweld, Massimo, Daniel Menche, Thurston Moore, MSBR, Nocturnal Emissions, KK Null, Pita, Plethora, Prurient, Richard Ramirez, Scanner, Silvum, srmeixner, Asmus Tietchens, Treriksroset, uh…V/VM (woops!), Vortex Campaign, Keith Fullerton Whitman, John Wiese, Nobuo Yamada and Z'ev. The whole deal comes packaged in a beautiful full-colour/laminated hard card box with the LPs pressed on 180g vinyl in hand-numbered sleeves and bundled with a poster/manifesto. This one knocked us clear on our asses, a staggering document. Highest recommendation.

Another major milestone in Vinyl On Demand's on-going deluxe documentation of the furthest fringes of the European underground, Viva Negativa is the culmination of several years worth of commissioned remixes, extrapolations on and collaborations with the work of The New Blockaders, the UK's most consistently feral noise group. The quality of the track listing is pretty staggering – a testament to the liberating effect those early TNB sides had on a whole generation of otherwise culturally disenfranchised post-punks – and plays even better as a state-of-disunion round-up than recent attempts at void-articulation like Gold Leaf Branches, Invisible Pyramid et al. Almost every major contemporary noise artist is featured and Volume Two has tracks from AMK, Art Break, Aube, Bloxus, Alexei Borisov, Broken Penis Orchestra, Cheapmachines, Courtis, Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Aaron Dilloway, Embudagonn 108, Government Alpha, Idea Fire Company (great quartet line-up track with slow choral vocals and droning machine dreams), Incapacitants, Lasse Marhaug, Merzbow, mnortham, Jim O'Rourke, Dave Phillips, Plexia, Putrefier, Christian Renou, RLW, Damion Romero, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Spiracle, Sudden Infant, Giancarlo Toniutti, Violent Onsen Geisha, Brendan Walls, Withdrawal Method, Wolf Eyes & Achim Wollscheid. The whole deal comes packaged in a beautiful full-colour/laminated hard card box with the LPs pressed on 180g vinyl in hand-numbered sleeves and bundled with a poster/manifesto. This one knocked us clear on our asses, a staggering document. Highest recommendation.

Wild document of classic noise action from this alter ego of The New Blockaders featuring Richard Rupenus alongside Dominik Fernow (Prurient) and Ron Lessard aka Emil Beaulieu. Recorded live at the No Fun fest 2006, Silent Movie also comes with a silent DVD of the show that makes for pretty surreal viewing when viewed without the record spinning in the background. DVD also comes with a commentary by G.X. Jupiter-Larsen. Edition of 500 copies.

Relentless psychedelic brutalism from legendary UK noise group The New Blockaders, with the Rupenus brothers joined by Phil Todd of Ashtray Navigations for a live recording drawn from The Red Rose in London in November 2003. This is very much in the contemporary style of TNB and makes a great companion piece to their amazing Das Zerstoren, Zum Gebaren from Thurston Moore’s Nightmare Before Christmas with a staggering feel for dynamics and tectonic accumulations of bastard textures that is as exhilarating as it is confusing. This is TNB’s modern black nightmare sound perfectly rendered. At the time this was scheduled to be the last TNB performance. Edition of 300 copies. Recommended. 

Inspired 25^th anniversary reissue of one of the all-time oddball UK Industrial/experimental classics, Mixed Band Philanthropists’s legendary The Impossible Humane. MBP was a pseudonym for Richard Rupenus of The New Blockaders and pals who put to together this insane LP with the help of a bunch of cassette contributions from a veritable who’s-who of DIY/avant gods. MBP then dredge the whole thing through several layers of impossible aural logic until you have one of the most spectacularly grid-locked and obsessively dense sides of scattershot/ plunderphonic noise/drone never released by United Dairies. Includes appearances from Nurse With Wound, Andrew Chalk, Nihilist Assault Group, The New Blockaders, Organum, Asmus Tietchens, Smegma, Tom Recchion, Merzbow, The Haters, Giancarlo Toniutti, HNAS, P16.D4, Vortex Campaign and more. Something about this set really suits the cassette format too. Recommended.