Schizoid Ops – Gerbil Feed (2012)

Eye Machine 

• Dada music 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Non-music
• Freeformfreakout 
• Plunderphonics 
• Sound collage

Comment: I can remember for a time when I decided to reverse the tape of The Fall`s dadaist post-punk issue Perverted By Language (1983, Rough Trade) and then listened to it from the beginning to the end. In fact, the result was not more frantic and weird with regard to the original one (being the favourite of mine by them). Schizoid Ops` 7-notch issue is a bit different case though obviously there is something which may remind of it. More profoundly, this issue is based on more and less known pop song structures which are heavily and thoroughly chopped up and warped. And they have done it with great pleasure. Furthermore, the volume level is very unstable, at times it is barely audible and at times it shouts into your ear. I guess the intention of it is to demonstrate its hostile antipathy against the music industry, towards the RIAA, against the established norms in producing mainstream music and representation of it. By its ideological context it is remarkably more enjoyable than by its nihilistic musical approach. The issue is a part of the discography of Eye Machine Recordings.

Copy Wrong #1 (2012)

Eye Machine Recordings

• Avant-garde 
• Experimental 
• Plunderphonics 
• Harsh noise 
• Grindcore 
• Sampledelic 
• Non-music 
• Electronic music 
• Sound collage 
• Leftfield 
• Freeformfreakout

Comment: by Wiktionary the term “copywrong” does mean the unethical use of, or disregard for, copyright law. Indeed, this miscellany of 13 tracks by 11 artists (or 12 artists because one of the artists is tagged as unknown and by Luxurious Dagger there are up a couple of tracks) is an example of how popular music can be changed into something peripheral and extreme being heavily mutilated, slowed down and excessively mixed together (for instance, J-pop-based light-hearted harmonies are interlaced with harsh noise torrents, or Luxurious Dagger`s version of The Beatles` Come Together is thoroughly ravaged, or different styles used to play from the both channels at the same time or being switched on and off incessantly. There are also up weird samples, barely audible sonic layers as if being thrown into water. Reality around an average listener is substantially warped and changed into mayhem. There are represented such artists as Ben Presto, Public Domain, noiseoftherose, Luxurious Dagger, MBD, Captain Missouri, Third Organ, Ryder Farms, Hat Goblin, Otto V. Rhino, (o)†hers, and The Implicit Order. This miscellany is represented by Eye Machine Recordings. I guess ideologically a purpose of this issue may be related to capture some basic pop values and employ them ridiculously to derail the mainstream control and intention to manipulate with the people in a certain way.

Hat Goblin – Brandishing My Conch EP (2012)

Eye Machine Recordings

Archive.org

• Singer-songwriter 
• Indie rock 
• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Alternative rock

Comment: just breath in and be ready to start off listening to this 7-track issue though there is not much happening at all. It is based on shrill guitar twanging and intoning by a slacker musician called Chris Bading from Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. By mentioning his slacker side I meant only his aesthetical, primitive approach. Otherwise Chris Bading is highly prolific I guess you have no time to enumerate all his issues at Bandcamp, for instance. It could be said the recent whole chimes like being played as one homogeneous piece. However, having gotten many listening times behind I would compare it with some kind of acoustic session by an archetypical grunge man wherein the listener can discern more colours rather than just being a monochromatic flicker. At times his attitude is being more relaxed, at times being starkly desperate and emotionally strident. As we know very well the premise of one sort of art is to be spawn across the spiked way with tears, sweat, and pain. As a result of psychosis and the instability of a state of mind. In a word, it is a quintessential home recording example where the guitar and enterprising will are needed to demolish the prototypical blueprint of masculine man with guitar. Yeah, it reminds me of a sweet span of time in the end of the 00s when such artists started to appear to the limelight. The issue is a part of the discography of Eye Machine Recordings.

Captain Missouri - Ordinary Pinecone Tricks (2012)

Eye Machine

8.8

/Lo-fi, Anti-folk, DIY, Primitive pop, Singer-songwriter, Psychedelic folk, Blues, Primitronica/

Comment: Captain Missouri (also being known as a half of Brain) hints at the blues tradition which is mixed up with noiseful, even primitivistic guitar twangs and acute, rattling drums. Throughout the course CM exploits lots of electronic devices and manipulates with knobs thereby making up feedback-laden sonic labyrinths. At Sandbox; Children Play Nicely the soundscape gets evolved into a mesmerizing, psychedelic ditty. 

Brain - The Dogs Side B (2010)

Eye Machine
Eye Machine

8.8

/DIY, Lo-fi, Primitronica, Alt-folk, Psychedelia, Anti-folk, Weird folk, Free folk, Experimentalism, Freeformfreakout/

Comment: these 11 tracks can be considered drunken songs somewhere around the campfire - as we have been having knowledge such kind of action can be appealing at least since Animal Collective`s Campfire Songs. It extends from expanding, in unison produced guitar and vocals in chorus and ferocious guitar strumming to synth-driven instrumental compositions, however, all of that is surrounded with a remarkable amount of gritty, rough hiss. The last track The Dogs is a truly demented one, involving and replacing the elements of electronic cuts and warped folk music and looped rhythm sections and sampledelic bits to each other. In a word, it is a weird shit by Captain Missouri, and C. Russel Lewis. In any cases, the more you listen to it the more beloved it gets for the listener. For instance, 03 (Folding) is an absorbing ditty. In conclusion, The Dogs Side B is a pop and anti pop album at the same time. Is it provoking? Definitely yes.