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SX 038EP
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A mere five months after the first lacquers were cut, the latest and presumably last in the Shock 12" EP series arrives. This particular episode features simultaneously the most mentally unbalanced and "commercial" (within certain parameters?) Shock music yet. "Cycle of Aberration" is just that, nine minutes of pulsing, crackling & clicking overlaid with a demented synth attack dissolving into clouds of distorted hiss. "Distinguished Invalids" is a massive pop tune created solely to appeal to "the kids" and "the dance floor" -- 14 minutes of pounding rhythm, heavenly voices, and massive, sub-bass organ blasts. Edition of 300.
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SX 037EP
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"Welcome to another sojourn in hell. 'Bilharzia' is 15 minutes of electronic nausea, adding layers of bleeping LFO nastiness to a relentlessly repetitive base. I have no idea how to categorize it and don't intend to try. Definitely one of the more twisted pieces of music I've been involved in creating. You should know you'll get what's coming to you with a song called 'Make a Joyful Sound.' Pounding brutality and a bad time guaranteed to be had by all. There is a kind of tune in there somewhere though, lurking dimly in the background." --Stefan Jaworzyn, 2013
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SX 026CD
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Second edition with "amended" artwork (no more lightning bolts that look like varicose veins). Live and studio material, including a great piece from the Demolition Club and a sickening 27 minute twin guitar feedback duet. How did this ever sell out the first pressing? What a world. Ascension features Shock label-head Stefan Jaworzyn (former member of Skullflower) and Tony Irving (aka Derv).
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SX 023CD
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Originally released in 1993 by Shock. A great compilation of unbelievable rarities and unreleased junk from the Twisted Village label. Artists include Crystalized Movements, Vermonster, Luxurious Bags, Bongloads Of Righteous Boo, and Garbage And The Flowers, plus a couple of special items. Totally amazing. Other artists include: Wormdoom, Bimbo Shrineheads, JT, and Tono Bungay.
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SX 021CD
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Originally released on Shock in 1993. Six motherfucking bands, 76 minutes of motherfucking "music": Ascension (non-SJ version), Beautiful Penis, Cosmonauts Hail Satan, Derv, The MikePostMortem, and Splintered. What a line-up! Who'd put something like this out now? The motherfucking compilation of '93 (or was it '92? I forget), plus lots of grotesque Sav X artwork.
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SX 030CD
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Originally released on Shock in 1996. The highpoint of the early Shock catalog and the last release for 17 fucking years. CD1: "As Above" (36:44) CD2: "So Below" (46:37), a feedback extravaganza of pretty much unparalleled proportions. Recorded in Jan '96 through a 16-track desk, providing some mind-blowing clarity in the percussion dept, as a live transmission to KFJC in the Bay Area. "... It is difficult to see how much better they could get. This, though, is definitely their peak, their Trout Mask Replica... The guitar excess is ecstatic. One of the few cases where naming yourself after a Coltrane album is not mere hubris. Awe-inspiring." --Ben Watson (Hi-Fi News, Jan '97)
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SX 036CD
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"It's flashback time at Shock. Everybody loves the '80s now innit, and everybody positively adores old tapes of bedroom noodling... So, always keen to exploit the latest trends, Shock has rummaged through the archives to come up with Eaten Away by Shadows, over 79 minutes ('value' for money!) of SJ archive stuff recorded between '82-'83, before editing Shock Xpress, playing in Whitehouse, Skullflower, etc. This was recorded mostly in Bristol, some in London while living in a squat up the road from M. Bower. (Mr. P. Best was crashing on my floor around then. Hilarious times were had by all.) It moves from 'guitar rock' to metal-banging, drone, and industrial, and ends with some major guitar 'deconstruction' and a positively uplifting organ/feedback orgy. Most of it doesn't sound too obviously like anyone else, so as far as influences go, the dedicated can ponder what I'd been listening to (other than the Satanic voices in my head) at any given point. Suggestions on a postcard, please. Many cheap instruments were abused in making this music. Guitars and mics were dropped, hit, beaten with pieces of metal and occasionally with an axe, and pretty much all of it (including a good old Dr. Rhythm) went through some sort of distortion and a dysfunctional tape echo unit. Various glitches and tape oddities may be discerned at various points, all part of the music's many charms. Tracks are ordered as they appear on the cassettes, the titles (some a tad uninspired or stemming from idiotic 'private' jokes, sorry) are off the inlays. One piece was previously heard on a Fusetron 7", another appeared as the Hydra track on the Melt/Dissolve compilation, and one was chopped up and used on Band Of Pain's Reculver CD. All are presented here in vastly superior sound quality. The album's mastered by Andrew Liles, so it sounds amazingly good (given the limitations of the source material), and we don't want to hear any moaning about the fact it's in a jewel case, not a repulsive digipak! " --Stefan Jaworzyn, 2013
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SX 035EP
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Shock -- the confounding "noise/free jazz/what the?" label run throughout the '90s by ex-Skullflower/Whitehouse/Ascension man Stefan Jaworzyn -- is back with a new series of limited 12"s. This is a 30-minute introduction to the new world of Shock, a jarring departure observing lessons in repetition from Brion Gysin's calligraphic paintings to Cabaret Voltaire's Three Mantras to '90s minimal techno, and with an incredible cut by Noel Summerville that picks up every detail of the mostly analog synth manipulations.
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SX 028CD
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A complete 23 minute performance (at an EP price) from June of 1988 by the trio of Rudolph Grey (guitar), Jim Sauter (tenor sax) and Beaver Harris (perc.). The slow feedback-laden opening builds into a sincere spiral of psychedelic sound-core, and in its own way this cuts to the heart of the Rudolph Grey sound experience as well as any other extant document. Most homes could use a copy.
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