PULSE EMITTER
2010
Cosmic Images;
Expansive;
EE01CD;
CD;
2010;
recorded 9/2009;
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"Cosmic Images is Pulse Emitter's deepest and most personal work to date. Combining his growling modular synthesizer patterns with sweeping keyboard motifs, the beauty and vastness of the universe is evoked in five movements, each based on nebulas, galaxies, etc. The sections morph into one another for one epic prog synth journey. CD in jewel case, mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk, art by Daniel Lopatin. The first release on Daryl Groetsch's private press label, Expansive."
Over Clouds;
Root Strata;
rs63;
C40;
2010;
recorded 12/2009;
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"lovely set from portland based daryl groetsch that falls nicely into the realms created in his meditative music series. two long sides of analog drift, punctuated by occasional bright harmonics and sparse fluorescent rhythms. soundtrack to carl sagan's visions of other worlds in 'cosmos'. edition of 100 dubbed cassettes with offset printed covers."
Lava Lamp;
Cylindrical Habitat Modules;
Twenty-First Module;
C50;
2010;
recorded 11/2009;
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"One of the biggest landmarks in the CHM discography thus far, can barely contain my excitement to be dropping a new tape for Daryl Groetsch's PULSE EMITTER project. One of the most consistently phenomenal and completely underrated artists out there, with one of the most spot-on, incredibly conceptual releases I've heard in a while. Based completely on watching a lava lamp, Daryl's unearthly modular waves ooze and melt in the trademark Pulse Emitter fashion. This one has kind of a "Meditative Music 2" vibe, with crackling pulsations and hollow Elaine Radigue-style drones that transfix as the lamp does. "Starts out pretty cold, then warms up, just like the lamp". Side B represents the lamp in full swing; "Rising Columns, Falling Orbs"... Some of the most ominous and oddly beautiful creep-waves I've ever heard. Just floating by. Guaranteed to turn your brain into an amorphous, shifting blob of wax, and the rest of your body into a statuesque, unable-to-move column of light and water. Mind-boggling and truly spot-on, conceptually. One of my favorite Pulse Emitter joints for sure, could not be more proud to release this. Edition of 100 with full-color cardstock covers and labeled tapes."
Longing Thresholds;
NNA Tapes;
NNA012;
C30;
2010;
recorded Dec 2009-Jan 2010;
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"The latest work from Portland, OR synthesizer veteran Daryl Groetsch. Layered, melodic analog synth music for astronauts that yearn for the..."
"Based on Michael Whelan's cover art for Isaac Asimov's Second Foundation and Foundation's Edge novels. Daryl Groetsch: Oberheim OB-8 synthesizer"
Sunset Into Night;
Gneiss Things;
Gneiss Things 09;
CDR;
2010;
recorded 12/2008;
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Meditative Music 4;
self released;
CDR;
2010;
recorded 4/2010;
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descending tones symbolize brain waves slowing down, delays tuned to theta and delta frequencies, designed for sleep but good for any calm time, dark but restful. i sleep with this all the time now, and often barely make it past the 10 minute point before i'm out. a full hour on CDr, months in the making. "sleep. recorded with synthesizers and Lexicon PCM 80."
Pulse Emitter / Josh Hydeman / Sleeping with the Earth split;
not on label;
CDR;
2010;
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2009
Decaying Ships;
Ultra Eczema;
UE065LP;
LP;
2009;
recorded Oct-Nov, 2007;
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"The road is long, sweaty and tense when your shoes are made of metal and you have to walk through a labyrinth with a magnetic floor to reach a brown sea full of hungry lobsters. The ship is waiting though, and the tension is building up heavily with every spin of this record, heavy meditative aircraft static blurr slowing down your usual codeine rhythm! Modular synth carpets at its nastiest! you'll be purring when you're on the actual boat.. thick like your mommy's wallet, yet sparse droning that'll get you more "out there" than Bob Marley at his vaguest. 2 pieces pushing your brains to one side if the volume is right. Limited to 300 copies, comes in a neon green and black sleeve by Ulf F Faefs."
Oppressive Nature;
Digitalis Industries;
ace024;
CD;
2009;
recorded November 7-15, 2008;
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"I've been a fan of Daryl Groetsch AKA Pulse Emitter's synthetic concoctions for years now. Hailing from the hotbed of Portland, Oregon, his work is almost unparalleled when it comes to modular synthesizer excursions. "Oppressive Nature" is a 40 minute journey into cities that will soon be lost and overrun to the wilderness. The thematic idea behind the album is nature's inevitable reclamation of the concrete jungles we've constructed and amassed. Where Groetsch truly succeeds on "Oppressive Nature" is creating such an organic landscape with his synth. His work here is highly focused and dialed-in. Through the static and electronic waves something warm and almost triumphant emerges. Heavy saw waves weave a chaotic mass of urban debris, smoothed over by the sine waves of time. Barriers fade away as they consumed by sonic vines that find their way into all these aural cracks. The result is oddly beautiful in an almost post-apocalyptic way. Nature always wins. Limited edition of 500 copies in chipboard gatefolds by Stumptown."
reviews:
Animal Psi
Grass;
Gift Tapes;
GT009;
C30 tape;
2009;
recorded May 22-23, 2009;
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"Fellow NW-based Pulse Emitter, the solo project of modular synth mastermind Daryl Groetsch, has created a beautiful work, half of which is reminiscent of his self-released Meditative Music series, while the other half delves into the weirdo world of sub-earth root structures crawling with insects. Grass is one of my favorites from his recent discography and Gift Tapes is extremely honored to present one of his works."
reviews:
stoneskilled
Grasslung / Pulse Emitter split;
Phaserprone;
PPR14;
CDR;
2009;
recorded 5/2008;
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"Three tracks of Analog Modular synth, made in accordance with the winged eye of the oval. Packaged in a letterpress, diecut, duplexed, fold-over sleeve with insert, and diecut CD folder."
Progression to Desolation [repress];
Black Horizons;
BH-03;
LP;
2007;
recorded 9/2006;
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"Not much to say about this really after a few years of it's being released, besides it was an excellent release then, that has, and will stand the test of time to be remembered as one of this era's synth classics. "Ball Crushing". 75 copies on red translucent vinyl, 30 on black that are leftover from the first press, you can pick. All come packaged in a copper on black screenprinted sleeve, from Seizure Palace, and designed by me, for maximum label aesthetic. Only available from label and artist."
Meditative Music 3;
self released;
CDR;
2009;
recorded 3/2009;
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"placid waves for reflective times. recorded with analog modular and TX81Z."
reviews:
Gift Tapes Blog
Radio Scenic Glow Vol. 1 compilation;
Upstairs;
CDR;
2009;
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Julian Lynch,
Autre Ne Veut,
Baggy Magnum,
Alice Cohen,
Stellar Om Source,
No Fun Acid,
Pulse Emitter,
Nackt Insecten,
Caboladies,
Oneohtrix Point Never,
Driphouse,
Asha Sheshadri,
Earth Station,
Mechanick Preachers,
Elfenbeinturm,
Games,
Africa Germany,
Gatekeeper
Modern Language #1 - Synth Tape compilation;
Snapped In Half;
siht24;
C60;
2009;
recorded 4/2008;
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"Andrew Coltrane,
Head Boggle,
Demons,
Angel Of Decay,
Evenomist,
Pulse Emitter,
Carlos Giffoni,
Oneohtrix Point Never,
D/A A/D,
Spine Scavenger."
2008
Unearthly;
Tape Tektoniks;
tek22;
C60 tape;
2008;
recorded oct 27--nov 30 2007;
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"Two loooooooong tracks of super heavy modular synth research from world's favorite chief engineer Daryl Groetsch. These recordings defy the laws of nature and leave you lost somewhere at the rear end of a vast universe. Side A sounds like Galactus playing pinball with planets in slow-motion. The flipside is a crawling ether mattress drone in classical void style. Ltd. to 100 copies."
reviews:
Cassette Gods
Nakamichi;
GMBY;
GB99;
2xCDR;
2008;
recorded 12/2006;
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"Massive layers of modular musk find themselves tangled in a web of whispering and crackling triangle and square waves. Over these two discs, Portland's programming master pushes his synthesizer to a new level. The man is so in tune with his machine, I'm starting to have cyborg suspicions. Nakamichi alternates between the murk and the crystalline, splitting the difference with a healthy amount of rasp and gurgle.
This 2xCDR set is an edition of 100. It comes packaged in a homemade digipack cut out of recycled LP covers (with actual digipack trays)."
Meditative Music 2;
self released;
CDR;
2008;
recorded 1/2008--2/2008;
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"this recording takes you to a peaceful, balanced place,
a sound environment befitting sleep, massage, or
deep reflective thought.
recorded with modular and FM synthesizers
for pure waves of simple beauty."
reviews:
Gift Tapes Blog
People Who Do Noise;
Cold Hands Video;
DVD;
2008;
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"Smegma,
Daniel Menche,
Pulse Emitter,
Yellow Swans,
Honed Bastion,
Oscillating Innards,
GOD (bryan eubanks and leif sundstrom),
Kitty Midwife,
Josh Hydeman,
Soup Purse,
Sisprum Vish,
Argumentix,
Redglaer,
With Caro"
Compilation Submission Collection;
self released;
CDR;
2008;
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this includes all tracks submitted for compilations through 2007 except those that were vinyl sides, recorded live, excerpts from existing releases, or on joke compilations. some of the comps never came out. a bunch of short, weird tracks, 1 hour 13 minutes in length, in short dvd type case, handmade stamp on cover and disc, each unique, on new/old accounting paper.
2007
Progression to Desolation;
Black Horizons;
BH-03;
LP;
2007;
recorded 9/2006;
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"Finally Pulse Emitter gets the treatment he deserves, a full 12" of vinyl to lay down two prog flavoured tracks of synth drone. Created using homebuilt synth modules, and meticulously contructed into a sci fi storyline, this could be a soundtrack. Suffocating layered heavyness, dry synth hiss, oscillator click terror meets equally with beauty, a quality rare among Pulse Emitter's peers. Each cover and insert is a unique paint marbled design, silkscreened / designed over by Nick of Seizure Palace. Edition of 300 copies on black vinyl."
reviews:
Outer Space Gamelan;
smooth assailing;
Facial War Tactics
Meditative Music;
self released;
CDR;
2007;
recorded 7/2007;
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"use this CD for sleep, massage, or any activity where
a peaceful and balanced sound environment is desired.
recorded with FM and analog modular synthesizers."
reviews:
Gift Tapes Blog
Pulse Emitter / Envenomist split;
Black Horizons;
BH-14;
C46 tape;
2007;
recorded 8/2007;
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"Two side-long tracks occupy this release. Both artists here move through dark immersing synthesized environments. Pulse Emitter provides a more barren yet varied track that has movement. Also of note to fans of Daryl's "Meditative Music" release, this has similar yet more ominous tones that create a slowly moving melody. Envenomist's side hits with his longest released track, an ebbing and flowing sea of organic synth waves. J-card is a 3-panel horizontal folding affair, offset printed silver on black linen paper, clear labels. Edition of 150 on hi-bias chrome tapes."
Deadly Space Missions;
8mm recs;
CDR;
2007;
recorded live 2006/5/27 and 2005/9/7;
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Creeping Obesity;
Chondritic Sound;
ch-163;
3" CDr;
2007;
recorded 3/2006;
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"absolute slow motion electronic bombing from one of my favorite current synth steel workers. true nightmare programming to form tight oscillation and shifting buzz to reach an abrupt end. color cover and grossly painted CDr."
Compounded;
Vile Bile Tapes;
VB08;
C16 tape;
2007;
recorded 6/2006;
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"Synth madness from my favorite sound scientist. Less cinematic than recent releases, more sci-fi droning weirdness. Always a pleasure. Spray paint and silkscreen."
Green Comet;
Brise-Cul;
SADE 059;
CDR;
2007;
recorded 2/2007;
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"Our favourite electronic engineer finally came with a disc that is perfect for the Brise-Cul label after asking us to not release the first ones he sent us. This oneis a huge behemoth track of Pulse Emitter's fine characteristic loud drone sounds played with a big sense of control few have... I say that just in case you don't know Pulse Emitter... Just in case... The CDR were spray painted on a fucking huge PULSE FUCKING EMITTER stencil and come on pink paper with the schematic of the track..."
Planetary Torture;
Housepig;
CDR;
2007;
recorded 4/2006;
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"Portland's Daryl Groetsch has been releasing sounds under the name Pulse Emitter since 2002. Using hand-built modular synthesizers, he creates torrents of sound that evoke vintage warm drones and mechanized rythyms to chaotic 8-bit crush, and everything in between. In 'Planetary Torture' he captures the sounds of world downfall, destruction, and rebirth. This cdr comes housed in an envelope & insert hand-printed by Seattle lino-block artist Nic Schmidt, and is limited to 100 copies."
reviews:
smooth assailing;
Outer Space Gamelan;
Heathen Harvest
Pause;
Barfing Dagger;
BDR060;
recycled tape;
2007;
recorded 1/2007;
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Violent Cosmos;
Organic Pipeline;
OP018;
CDR;
2007;
recorded live 2006/12/03 and 2006/11/16;
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Drunken Astronaut;
Abhorrent A.D.;
AAD03;
C26 tape;
2007;
recorded 5/2006;
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"sounds far too intricate to be made by a 'drunken' astronaut, he may have been stoned though for all i know...stoned and alone. surrounded by strange buttons and machinery and filled with overwhelming solitude, claustrophobia and vertigo. lost abysmal synth throb from the darkest cockpits."
Circuit Wound/Pulse Emitter-split;
Swampland Noise;
SWL048;
c28 tape;
2007;
recorded 8/2006;
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Doctor Who vs. The Noise;
The Institute For Organic Conversations;
compilation;
ORCO 016;
CDR;
2007
3 Elements. featuring Pulse Emitter, View, Brizbomb;
no label;
CDR;
2007;
recorded live 2006/12/03;
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Sonic Couture 2007;
Below PDX;
compilation;
CDr;
2007
Orthopedics;
Iatrogenesis Records;
compilation;
IR047;
CDr;
2007
2006
PORTLAND;
RRRecords;
compilation;
3 LP;
2006;
recorded 7/2006;
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1 side each - Bdong, Daniel Menche, Nkondi, Okha, Pulse Emitter, Smegma
Pulse Emitter & Pete Swanson;
Jyrk;
CDR;
2006;
recorded 7/2006;
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"Heavy metallic ESP sound on this team-up between Portland-based Kosmiche/threat project Pulse Emitter and Pete Swanson of Yellow Swans. Classic extra-terrestrial tone-worlds that are somewhere between Kluster, CCCC, a riff-less Hawkwind and Spacemen 3 circa Recurring/Suicide. Edition of 150 copies." --volcanic tongue
Ramped;
Audiobot;
BOT 186;
CDRx2;
2006;
recorded 12/2005;
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Pulse Emitter / Acre split;
Cherried-Out Merch;
C30 tape;
2006;
recorded 7/2006;
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spokE;
emr;
emr27;
3" cdr;
2006;
recorded 4/2006;
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Magma;
snip-snip records;
CDr;
2006;
recorded 11/2005;
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"crushing waves of molten slag. massive enveloping darkness"
Outpost;
snip-snip records;
snip-snip 39;
CDr;
2006;
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"deep forboding electronics"
recorded live November 19th, 2005;
Psychoacoustic Soundclash with Nozmo King;
KFJC 89.7 FM;
Los Altos Hills, California;
engineered by Groundswell Grawer Monchichi;
kfjc.org
Fall;
Rundownsun;
Rundownsun No. 9;
c30 tape;
2006;
recorded 10/2005;
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"ominous. dark-cloud-doom-drones gather and give way to cold harsh winds of static. dread sets in. paralysis by fear. the deafening hum subsides, the frantic chatter of the final moments breaks through. the last transmission, the last sound before the fall. edition of 100. offset and screen printed 2 panel covers on heavy paper. xerox insert. xerox labels. high-bias tapes."
Suburbia Melting / Pulse Emitter;
Dumpster Score;
DSC#017;
double 3", each with unique artwork;
2006;
recorded 7/2006;
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"S.M. makes contact with a tin foil covered radio underneath a local a.m. tower. Processed at home to reach the deepest realms of space. P.E. summons analog demons, with sharpened claws, scraping their way out of your speakers. Your bowels shake with subharmonic tension. Then you see its eyes......"
Drone Season I: The Drone Season is Open;
Brise-Cul Records;
compilation;
SADE 040;
CDR;
2006;
recorded 9/2005;
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Various Artists;
Amp;
compilation;
AMP001;
net release;
2006;
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download album
www.archive.org/details/amp001
Live from the Devil's Triangle: Volume IX;
KFJC;
compilation;
KFJC 18;
CDx2;
2006;
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Brizbomb, Pulse Emitter, View split;
no label;
CDr;
2006;
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No Noise is Good Noise;
Noise Machine;
compilation;
NOISE : 001;
CD;
2006;
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99 artists, 99 tracks
Valley of Sickness. Sounds of Irritation and Infection from the Willamette Basin;
Obscurica Records;
compilation;
OB-036;
CDR;
2006;
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Eugene Noise Fest 06,
Humanmonster;
compilation;
hm-cd02,
CDRx2,
2006;
image;
2005
Mountain;
Audiobot;
BOT 114;
CDr;
2005;
recorded 6/2005;
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"Sparse synth drone composition that erases all active knowledge of time and space from your mind. Leaving you numb in a bleak void of throbbing pulse grit. Like being frozen into the core of a misty mountain, no heartbeat or emotion, just pure generated waves of emptyness. Mountain was adjusted in strength and frequency to be a viable base defense. Packaged in demented anti-minimal full color fold-out covers by Jelle Crama & Godrapist, in an edition of only 80 copies. Classify under : alien synth psych."
reviews:
indieworkshop.com
Collisions;
Chondritic Sound;
ch-136;
3"CDr;
2005;
recorded 6/2005;
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"one twenty+ minute piece of sparse synth tones, twising static and unexpected analog grit from this portland artist, hot on the heels of his killer CDr on swampland. color artwork on silver paper, painted CDr."
reviews:
Aversionline;
AURAL PRESSURE;
volcanic tongue
Recycled Music;
RRRecords;
recycled tape;
2005;
recorded 8/2005;
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Different Waves;
Blossoming Noise;
DL01BN;
net release;
2005;
recorded 12/2004--1/2005;
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This work was recorded in 2004 before, during, and after the tsunami in Asia.
It was recorded using modular synthesizer, analog delay, spring reverb, and no hands (no human intervention while recording).
Blood Voltage;
SWAMPLAND noise;
SWL-024;
CDR;
2005;
recorded 3/2005;
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"sparse modular synth drone that builds and builds until you achieve a stoned out mindset and forget that the world begins or ends, that you even exist or if you ever were."
Vent;
STOP/EJECT Records;
EJECT06;
CDR;
2005;
recorded 3/2004;
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"Sounds projected by bloated synth roadkill overflowing with wiggling, distorted maggots. The scene of a car crash in the Atari dimension where nobody can decipher your 8 bit analog calls for help. Comes packaged in a screenprinted digipak with die cut cover."
Exo;
Morbid Tapes;
MT#4;
CDr;
2005;
recorded 2/2005;
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"slow creeping synth drone excellence"
Pulse Emitter / Warning Broken Machine;
Live @ DIVA 3/19/05;
Obscurica Records;
OB-006;
CDR;
2005;
image
"Homemade wave generators and synth components by Pulse Emitter meet opto-theremin and bent-circuit toys of WARNING BROKEN MACHINE.
Parts of this are reminiscent of the Forbidden Planet soundtrack.. other parts have some SERIOUS low end sine wave action that will be inaudible unless you have a subwoofer. If you do use a sub, you're in for a sonic treat with this one."
These pieces were performed in conjunction with an event called:
Rhythm from Wreckage: Adventures in Vidsonic Art.
They played against (or with) video art from Carl Diehl, LoVid (NYC), Sue Costabile (SF), and others.
None Thus Far;
Barfing Dagger Records;
compilation;
CDRx2;
2005;
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ENF05/D1 ;
Obscurica Records;
compilation;
OB-015;
CDR;
2005;
image
Catz-en-Jammer (cd2);
TIBProd.;
compilation;
tibcd35-2;
CDRx2;
2005;
image
Eugene Noise Fest 05 ,
Humanmonster;
compilation;
hm-cd01,
CDR,
2005;
image
2004
Pleistocene ;
House of Lies Recordings;
HoLR 025;
CDR;
2004;
recorded 11/2004;
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Moth Drakula / Pulse Emitter split;
EM_IUA REC;
em16;
CDR;
2004;
recorded 1/2004;
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"Pulse Emitter brings about 20 minutes of super thick and
fuzzy synth noise. smooth sounding, but gritty in the loungiest way.
Moth Drakula does two reworkings of the same tape loops and a fuzzy 'guitar vs. 16ch mixer' boxing match."
Golden Cancer Aches;
House of Lies Recordings;
HoLR 023;
CDR;
2004;
recorded 7/2004--8/2004;
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in 12 page 8.5 X 5.5 inch art book
Underwater Corpse;
House of Lies Recordings;
HoLR 015;
CDR;
2004;
compiled 6/2004;
image
in 13 page art book
bruise < smudge < arc ;
House of Lies Recordings;
HoLR 014;
CDR;
2004;
recorded 5/2004;
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Lung;
Synthnoise;
CDR;
2004;
image
R<>T / Pulse Emitter collaboration;
House of Lies Recordings;
HoLR 010;
CDR;
2004;
source recorded 4/2004;
image
Graham Moore/Pulse Emitter split;
Blossoming Noise;
BN001;
CDR;
2004;
recorded 8/2004;
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artwork by
Val Denham
Moth Drakula / Pulse Emitter split;
Drunken Goblins;
SWAMPLAND noise;
SWL008;
c20 tape;
2004;
recorded 7/2004;
image
All I Want For Xmas Is Bowel Disrupting Noise;
STOP-EJECT Records;
compilation;
EJECT07;
CDR;
2004;
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2003
Polyakov;
Synthnoise;
CDR;
2003;
recorded 8/2003;
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Sack of Bugs;
Synthnoise;
CDR;
2003;
recorded 11/2002--1/2003;
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