Undocumented Aliens ft. Eggblood - New World Disorder
shackinthebarleyproductions.bandcamp.com/track/new-world-disorder

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Another 45 tracks / 4+ hours of eclectic underground madness, juxtaposing huge expanses of crackling harshness and industrialised bleakness against time-warping acid wig-outs, uncanny synth-scapes, dense concrète collages and so much more! shackinthebarleyproductions.bandcamp.com

Undocumented Aliens - New World Disorder (ft. Eggblood)

ZWAaRVERtEERbAaR + Truck Van Rental - Dat.sun Signaltracker
shackinthebarleyproductions.bandcamp.com/track/dat-sun-signaltracker-2

Exquisite Tones for Oozing Ears - Vol. I
45 tracks / 4+ hours of ripping noise, brain-bending drone, cranky improv, blown-out beats, ice cold ambience and all manner of indescribable oddness! shackinthebarleyproductions.bandcamp.com

Dat.sun Signaltracker (with TRuCK vAN ReNTaL)

Maarikwilmaar (with TRuCK vAN ReNTaL)

Review Vital Weekly:
ZWAARVERTEERBAAR & TRUCK VAN RENTAL (CDR)
It’s by artists of the same name as the label, in collaboration with Truck van Rental, one of the various vehicles of Marc van Elburg. He also works as De Hondenkoekjesfabriek, De Kanker, Hogswetter, Jack-Jack En De Wandelende Feedback, Mayoman, Monobrain, and O.C.O. I had him down as a man of noise, so I checked volume levels before I started the play button. The CDR has six pieces, lasting only 20 minutes, and the musicians love their noise and rhythm. In the three pieces that extend more than four minutes, it’s a bit too easy and lacks variation. What sources are used, I don’t know; skipping records, electronics, and effects would be my best guess. It’s a pretty effective little noise release, just long enough. www.vitalweekly.net/number-1472

Maarikwilmaar (with TRuCK vAN ReNTaL)

Vital Weekly 1487
DE FABRIEK – DE AANSLAG (CDR by De Fabriek)
www.vitalweekly.net/number-1487
The Dutch tax office sends out its requests in a characteristic blue envelope. The tax assessment is ‘aanslag’, which means ‘a hit’ or an attempt at someone’s life. The latest release by De Fabriek comes in one of those envelopes. It’s about what is called ‘kinderopvangtoeslagaffaire or toeslagenaffaire’, which Wiki explains for us as “The Dutch childcare benefits scandal (Dutch: kinderopvangtoeslagaffaire or toeslagenaffaire, lit.?'[childcare] benefits affair’) refers to a political scandal in the Netherlands involving false allegations of welfare fraud by the Tax and Customs Administration (Belastingdienst) against thousands of families claiming childcare benefits. Between 2005 and 2019, approximately 26,000 parents were wrongly accused of making fraudulent benefit claims, resulting in demands to repay their received allowances in full. This sum often amounted to tens of thousands of euros, driving families into severe financial hardship.” De Fabriek makes clear, in no uncertain terms, what they think about this. For this release, De Fabriek honcho Richard van Dellen took a backseat and Chandor Gloomy delivered sound material to Martijn Hohmann, who mixed this with his music, and reasonably quickly, there was this concept and four finished pieces, and with Van Dellen’s blessing released. Music-wise, we find De Fabriek in a particular experimental corner we haven’t heard in quite some time. I know Gloomy lives in the Netherlands, but I don’t know much about him. The four pieces deal with the cruder end of drones, primitive sampling, and, possibly, turntable manipulations; I hear looped and scratched vinyl. There are also some highly obscured field recordings. However, the music refrains from being all too noisy, as distortion is not too much part of it. There is a creepy undercurrent here, which is hard to define, but I like to think of that spooky uneasiness; maybe of a bit of dystopian, big brother is watching you, but that’s no doubt the thematic approach drawing me right in.The titles and some info are printed on the playable side of the disc, which I never saw before and looks great. (FdW)

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