Meatronic Recordings & Netlabel: Releases

[MTR-018] Kenji Siratori - Parasite Noise

noreply@meatronic.com (Meatronic Admin) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:00:00 -0400

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Kenji Siratori
Parasite Noise

01 -Parasite Noise Part 1
02 - Parasite Noise Part 2

Two molten slabs of noise from Japan's Kenji Siratori. This noise album is unbelievably tasty, but the scorched gastrointestinal tract you may experience as a result is the price of admission. There really is no other way.

[MTR-017] Carl Kruger and chefkirk - Unexpected End of Formula

noreply@meatronic.com (Meatronic Admin) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0400

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Carl Kruger and chefkirk
Unexpected End of Formula

01 - carl kruger chefkirk - unexpected end

chefkirk + carl kruger = UNEXPECTED END OF FORMULACarl and I have been collabín since 2004 and this is our 5th release together.Mr. Kruger and I have a release under the moniker Ibiza Shock Troops. Troops consisted of Carl supplying the beats and my no-input mixer modulations thrown on top. The source material for UNEXPECTED END OF FORMULA was originally intended for another I.S.T. release, but i really didnít like what we had. Carl sent me the original beats back in late 2007. I added the no-input and shelved the whole thing. I broke it out in 2008, but didn't like the new changes. Finally I dug this stuff up again in August of í08. After many, many CPU edits, and 1 final mix Jan. 2009 it is done.chefkirk [http://tibprod.com/chefkirk.htm ]carl kruger [www.myspace.com/cockasians910 ]

[MTR-016] black beast of arrrghhh - serenade

noreply@meatronic.com (Meatronic Admin) — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:00:00 -0500

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black beast of arrrghhh
serenade

01 - debris
02 - yrahcaz
03 - signals
04 - diminishing pulse
05 - split fragments
06 - DON'T PANIC
07 - moronic yo-yo
08 - dolcissimo
09 - commiedore attack
10 - dawn
11 - attacca
12 - redrum

In true "you can't judge a book by it's cover" fashion, the low fidelity aesthetic of this release's cover art does no justice to this high fidelity stereophonic opus. It's hard to classify Serenade into a single genre due to it's complexity of styles, ranging from dark ambient to grindcore. black beast of arrrghhh tackles the great feat of keeping the listener interested by creating dynamics not only from track to track, but inside the tracks as well. Ambient textures are beaten down by grindcore-esque blast beats and vocals and then subdue back down to synth driven soundscapes. Your ears will thank you for listening to this one.

[MTR-015] The Whole Series - Whole

noreply@meatronic.com (Meatronic Admin) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:00:00 -0500

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The Whole Series
Whole

01 - Whole - somnaphon + one lifeless eye + sick to the back teeth
02 - Whole - alphajerked + lounge gizzard + fncvlns + land manatee
03 - Whole - carbon 13 + black beast of arrrghhh + instagon
04 - Whole - wolfseule + allan zane + m31 + chopstick
05 - Whole - jolthrower + oubliette + wyrm + invisible illness + keloid schematics
06 - Whole - mr. stonecipher vs miss muffins + adrien barbobott + cockasians + at&t
07 - Whole - otolathe + exit 27 + the uh... + abraxas apparatus
08 - Whole - rubbish + cozmonot13 + the raytownian(s)
09 - Whole - owl brain atlas + slop + thee virginal brides
10 - Whole - subscape annex + carl kruger + le scrambled debutante + mystified + zilbread

"The whole is greater than the sum of it's parts" was the statement used to describe this during it's submission phase in late 2008. From that, thirty-eight individual artists from across the globe submitted tracks that were used to create this "collaborative" release. Each track is named in accordance with which artist's tracks are used. There is a slight loss of identity with something like this, but if you listen close enough you'll be able to tell who did what. And if not, that just gives you that much more reason to seek out the individual artists :) The mixing and mashing was done by Josh Sherman (a/k/a Insecticide Lobotomy a/k/a 0.5 of the Meatronic staff) in early 2009.

[MTR-014] Insecticide Lobotomy - The Melted Battery

noreply@meatronic.com (Meatronic Admin) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:00:00 -0500

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Insecticide Lobotomy
The Melted Battery

The Melted Battery

The Melted Battery is 25 minutes of densely packed layers of harsh noise, guitars, babies and even a hand drum. No post-processing effects were used, so this release is as raw as the day it was recorded. In case you're wondering, that is a real battery that was melted by Insecticide Lobotomy during his set at Tampa Noise Fest 2.

[MTR-013] The Living Room Series - Living Room Two

noreply@meatronic.com (Meatronic Admin) — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:00:00 -0400

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The Living Room Series
Living Room Two

01 - Living Room 2 - LR2track1
02 - Living Room 2 - LR2track2
03 - Living Room 2 - LR2track3
04 - Living Room 2 - LR2track4

Meatronic Recordings presents the second in our Living Room Series, where large groups of musicians gather in somebody's living room with the express purpose of recording improvised music. Living Room 2, curated by Fil & Nath of Bruital Orgasme, comes to you from a living room somewhere in Belgium. They recruited the following shredders: -jean-claude charlier & son orchestre : Plays in 'Les Phônes', with self-made instruments, featured on a compilation of experimental musical instruments and instrument builders, with john cage, aphex twin, tom waits, and many more, on Orbitone... http://www. myspace. com/lesphones(bass clarinet, likembe, bowls, bells, hand-made instruments, ...)-lucille calmel : performer, with her body&voice... http://www. myspace. com/screenlovesexaddiction(body, soul, voice, laptop, ...)-gibby : he's playing in a lot of different bands, with a lot of different styles, from harsh noise to easy listening, with blues and folks influences...sometimes... http://www. myspace. com/70kg_man(guitar, effects, keys, ...)-Bruital orgasme : fil & nath, well, you know us...(guitars, effects, moog, likembe, whirling tubes, bells, melodica, voices, ...)Recorded to a 4-track cassette recorder, and a digital recorder. Recorded and mixed by fil.

[MTR-012] M31 - Graviton

noreply@meatronic.com (Meatronic Admin) — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:00:00 -0400

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M31
Graviton

Graviton

Graviton takes you on a trip through a worm hole and drops you off 400 light years away. Layers of sound swirl around your head and assault your ear drums, the textures range from light and fluffy all the way to extra crispy. Keep in mind while you're listening to this release that it was recorded with no overdubs using the same setup that M31 has been using live (Note: As always an artist's setup can change, Meatronic Recordings will not be held responsible if the M31 show you experience does not include the same setup used on this recording).

[MTR-011] Lezet - Distorted Piano Recordings

noreply@meatronic.com (Meatronic Admin) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:00:00 -0400

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Lezet
Distorted Piano Recordings

01 - LEZET - recording 1
02 - LEZET - recording 2
03 - LEZET - recording 3

Igor Jovanovic records and performs under the name of Lezet. Someone's comment about the sound of Lezet was "like Zorn without saxophone," and Zorn's influence is quite clear in a lot of Lezet's other work. For Meatronic Recordings, he submits this patient study of the interaction of piano with distortion, and it is quite hypnotizing once you figure out what is going on. Contra-puntal lines throw off side-band distortion in beautiful and startling ways somehow.

[MTR-010] Otolathe - Enter Alia

noreply@meatronic.com (Meatronic Admin) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:00:00 -0400

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Otolathe
Enter Alia

01 - otolathe - ring of pills
02 - otolathe - ran down
03 - otolathe - leave
04 - otolathe - give 'im enough tape
05 - otolathe - another deep breath
06 - otolathe - source of tang
07 - otolathe - dial unstable tone

Otolathe presents a 7 track collection of explorations in what he calls Big Block Minimalism. Employing technologies like thyratron tube synthesizers, unstable old analog solid-state machines, field recordings, digital sampling, custom software, analog tape, and vinyl, Big Block Minimalism comes at you in large chunks. Unlike most "minimalist" works there is a shedload of brutal loud aggression going on. It’s ambient, but it’s noise. It is an effort to document the auditory instability of analog circuitry, but it is also a search for digital instability by setting grimy and crusty synthesizers such as the Metasonix S-1000 Wretchmachine and Hal McGee’s old Octave Cat into aleatoric and stochastic software constructs via Max/MSP, Reaktor and Ableton Live 7.

[MTR-009] Somnaphon - a ballerina thru the zoo

noreply@meatronic.com (Meatronic Admin) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:00:00 -0400

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Somnaphon
a ballerina thru the zoo

01 - the raw acid fawn file
02 - Room 12
03 - dweller on the threshold
04 - menhir near here

"a ballerina thru the zoo" deals with hidden/secret meanings, the reality lying just beneath the surface. Every word and every sound has a secret meaning. Rearrangements and anagrams abound. "menhir near here" is dedicated to Mr. Stonecipher.

[MTR-008] The Living Room Series - Living Room One

noreply@meatronic.com (Meatronic Admin) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0500

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The Living Room Series
Living Room One

01 - Living Room One - LR1
02 - Living Room One - LR2
03 - Living Room One - LR3
04 - Living Room One - LR4
05 - Living Room One - LR5
06 - Living Room One - LR6
07 - Living Room One - LR7
08 - Living Room One - LR8
09 - Living Room One - LR9
10 - Living Room One - LR10

A singular collection of disparate musicians presents a a blockbuster exploration of multi-genre splicing and improvisation. This collaboration features Big Sugar Victorious's Santo diRizzia on cassette manipulation and acousmatics, Beardtongue's Joshua Manchester on extended drum techniques, Insecticide Lobotomy's Josh Sherman on custom electronics and no-input mixer mojo, Don Butler of HUNKER DOWN ROY on low-frequency electro-acoustic oscillator, and Otolathe's K. Paul Boyev on analog subtractives. Ha, then they all trade rigs and proceed to fuck shit up even more. Then Otolathe takes the result and digitally denatures or otherwise adulterates this potent broth.

[MTR-007] Carl Kruger - Gravity Maps II

noreply@meatronic.com (Meatronic Admin) — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:00:00 -0500

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Carl Kruger
Gravity Maps II

01 - I
02 - II
03 - III

These tracks were the outcome of attempting to wrangle as many interesting sounds out of a mixer with the gain turned up on each individual channel while 1/4 inch chords (plugged into only the mixer) fed back, buzzed and hummed. In a nutshell, this approach employed feedback looping and other minimal-input tinkering, using two busted RadioShack mics, a noisey little mixer, a bunch of faulty chords, one cheap distortion pedal, one effects rack mount thing (Zoom 1204) and a pair of headphones for more feedback. All material recorded onto four track, thus each track contains four layers of sound. Various effects, primarily chorus and reverb, were used sparingly to create depth and distinction. By the way, the individual layers, they were used in real-time as the layers were recorded to tape.

I was trying to get as close to the sound of the machines / equipment themselves, focusing on all the incidental sounds that are usually viewed as undesirable by-products of them (hums, squeaks, et al ;) The more pronounced modulations originate from the overdriven gains on the mixer pushing its naturally occurring hum into the red, where the signal seemingly disappears beyond the audible range of human ears. Fun! No vocal sounds, keyboards, computer generated samples, or instrument sounds were used in these recordings. The lone exception of an outside source being the sound of a plane flying over at 11:30-11:39 in the third track, which sounds incredibly well placed for it having been a coincidence.

As the title suggests, this is the second in what will be an ongoing series of releases I plan on producing. The initial gravity maps was released October 2007 on the Norwegian label Ambolthue, as both a limited edition CD-R as well as an MP3 release.

Thanks to Ryan Lewis, August Trager, Jeff Chappell, Sean Hart, Roger Smith, James McRea and Joy Kubis.

Recorded March 2007 in Wilmington, North Carolina for my sweet little potato, Meredith.

[MTR-006] Baby Daddy - For Your Special Someone

noreply@meatronic.com (Meatronic Admin) — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:00:00 -0500

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Baby Daddy
For Your Special Someone

01 - Let's Get Comfy
02 - Sky Rockets in Flight
03 - Smoking in Bed

Baby Daddy does it again with For Your Special Someone, an elaborate three track offering that can very well be used as a soundtrack for makin' babies. Recorded and produced in the heart of the 910 Noise Collective of Wilmington, North Carolina. Mr. Stonecipher and Carl Kruger would like to remind you that "Baby Daddy will eat you, you're welcome." This release is dedicated to Meridith and Lea Maureen.

[MTR-005] Insecticide Lobotomy - Mister Limey

noreply@meatronic.com (Meatronic Admin) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:00:00 -0500

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Insecticide Lobotomy
Mister Limey

Mister Limey

Mister Limey tells a story of an adventure through both time and space. Layers of harsh noise are coupled with atmospheric textures to give the listener a sense of movement and space. Subtle use of traditional musical instruments along will natural rhythms and oscillations help to keep it all relevant. Best served in complete darkness at full volume.

[MTR-004] The Saint Petersburg Institute of Noise - Robot Ears

noreply@meatronic.com (Meatronic Admin) — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:00:00 -0400

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The Saint Petersburg Institute of Noise
Robot Ears

01 - Insect Joy - Twin Seraphs
02 - Breed the Circus - Demo No. 6
03 - Big Sugar Victorious - Dada, 1963 (Oh, What a Mess)
04 - Insecticide Lobotomy - Request Timed Out
05 - Self Hatred Brings Liberation - Neon Blood
06 - Su Sous Toulouse en Rouge - Las Voces en el Aire
07 - Otolathe - Otolathe Worries About You
08 - 3p1L3pT1c F1t - MIE
09 - St. Petersburg Institute of Noise - Pier Hydrophone
10 - Pairs - Severe Seed
11 - Kristin Calvarese - Super Grover
12 - HUNKER DOWN ROY - Spring 2 Death
13 - The Uh... - Subliminal Coffee Cups to the Mayor
14 - Microwave Windows - Live at KFJC (July 14th, 2007)
15 - Mis-Hap - Homebase

Meatronic, in collaboration with the St. Petersburg Institute of Noise, presents Robot Ears, a compilation of Central Florida noise and experimental music. Robot Ears features tracks from Insect Joy, Sous sous Toulouse en Rouge, The Uh..., HUNKER DOWN ROY, Kristin Calvarese, Otolathe, Insecticide Lobotomy, Pairs, 3p1L3pT1c F1t, Mis-Hap, St. Pete Institute of Noise, Breed the Circus, Big Sugar Victorious, Self Hatred brings Liberation, and Microwave Windows. Contact us if you are interested in a CD-R (professional) copy of this release.

[MTR-003] Kristin Calvarese - The Earth has a Force Field

noreply@meatronic.com (Meatronic Admin) — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:00:00 -0400

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Kristin Calvarese
The Earth has a Force Field

01 - Tater Tots
02 - CookieDoughBlast
03 - Super Cancer Aids
04 - Herpaghonasifilitis
05 - Sleepy Foot
06 - Super Grover
07 - Chicken Vegetables

A heapin' helpin' of noise served up from the kitchen of Kristin Calvarese. She's lighting up the Central Florida noise scene like a fire in a flammable pajamas factory.

[MTR-002] HUNKER DOWN ROY - The March Issue

noreply@meatronic.com (Meatronic Admin) — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:00:00 -0400

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HUNKER DOWN ROY
The March Issue

01 - Shatner vs. Nimoy
02 - Lou Reed Has Died and Gone to Hell
03 - Are We Rolling, Alfonzo (feat. Crash Mitchell)
04 - Bad Motocycle
05 - Spring 2 Death
06 - Save the Cisco for the Disco (feat. Crash Mitchell)
07 - cks 666
08 - Gonzo Alfonzo (Mike Love 666 Remix)
09 - Trance
10 - Spring 2 Death (Bloxwhich Bitch Box Remix)

The March Issue is HUNKER DOWN ROY's effort to twist your earbrain up into an unfamiliar knotspace. Hints of madness and method entangle you as you listen to it. This release features contributions from the notorious Crash Mitchell, as well as remixes by Mike Love 666 and Bloxwhich Bitch Box.

[MTR-001] Insecticide Lobotomy and Otolathe - Self-replicating Pain Fibers Are Ready To Invade Your Central Nervous System. Bummer.

noreply@meatronic.com (Meatronic Admin) — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:00:00 -0400

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Insecticide Lobotomy and Otolathe
Self-replicating Pain Fibers Are Ready To Invade Your Central Nervous System. Bummer.

01 - Electrocutioner
02 - Flogging The Nuclei
03 - Gearheadz
04 - Hurtin' It
05 - Hey, Kingsize
06 - Opaque Katz Rectangle

Don't call it a come back, and definitely don't call it a split. This action packed collaborative release is the result of combining two volatile entities and then placing them in the same room as a bunch of gear. The end result? Noise, banter, and an overall sense of well being. Yeah, it's pretty good shit.