Bored Fortress Not Not Fun from Fusetron

In case you missed the sold out latest NNF Bored Fortress singles club, here's three offerings available from good ol fusetron....
What I've gathered....
Shepherds: Meneguar alterego (?) side project, have to get that new LP, heard nothing but great things.
Ignatz: Blues/folk from the future, a million effects on fingerpicking shuffling far away sadness.
Skullflower: Heavy, guitar drums drone from one the pioneers of the genre.
Axolotl: One man noise project of drone-psyche.
Last but not least is Slither and Thurston Moore and company doing what they do best....Slither I think is more electronic-y (no myspace) and Thurston and Paul have a full length live release out together of free jazz. All good stuff, another impressive year. If there would be the thing to have to keep up with the latest in nu noise it's this 3 year and running collection.... a who's who directory of sound/experimental/noise artists for the next century. Put it in the voyager, send it out into space.
All out from NNF, for purchase from Fusetron:

*Artist: SHEPHERDS/IGNATZ
Title: Split
Format: 7"
Label: Not Not Fun
Country: USA
Price: $6.50

*Artist: SKULLFLOWER/AXOLOTL
Title: Split
Format: 7"
Label: Not Not Fun
Country: USA
Price: $6.50

*Artist: SLITHER/THURSTON MOORE & PAUL FLAHERTY
Title: Split
Format: 7"
Label: Not Not Fun
Country: USA
Price: $6.50

robedoor - 8" lathe cut

Someday I will take the time to sort out all the acts working in this noise-scape haunted anti wave that's happening because I need to keep reminding myself by listening all over again to each one of these side projects. It doesn't help that they are all on split 7"'s with each other and members are swapped between things...Not Not Fun, dnt, they created this amazing movement/ scene that is expanding out into the universe. This is ground zero for exactly the most interesting sound being created.

I mean if you feel like experimental noise that you've never heard before.

I think the description from NNF sums it up the best "headless druids falling through a portal", it's nightmarish, sound, why is it scary? I keep asking myself, what is it about what's here that's so unsettling? Maybe it's the disconnect from any sound reference, you don't immediately recognize the noises. There's nothing jarring, nothing making you jump...screaming, it's more subtle, building up, but it's organic somehow. There's no grating keyboard/electronics, it's all ghostly. Like the tribal ghost punk of These are Powers. It's going to take a long time to sort out, make some sense of, but will never stop being so rewarding.

Again, if you're in the mood for druids falling through portals...

*Artist: ROBEDOOR
Title: Faded Crusade/Pitiless Messiah
Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut
Label: Alt.Vinyl
Country: UK
Price: $26.00
"Limited edition of 100, clear, square, hand-cut by peter king 8" lathe
Frankly terrifying blast of thunder from these LA noise monsters. Here, their towering funnel of sound is channelled into a night-time ditch of punk bastardism. Its spat out on the floor, trodden on, then blown up to a thousand times the size of a moon and thrown at the head of modern man. This is raging, yes, but there is much beauty at work here too, a subtlety below the raging surface that is present in all this bands work." -Alt.Vinyl

From fusetron. This lathe cut will slowly degrade and just make these sounds all the better, like disintegration loops. And you will listen to it a million times, since it costs $26 bucks.

New bored fortress club - Year 3

I missed out on Year two of the bored fortress seven inch subscription club, but year one was pretty amazing....silevr daggers, robedoor, yellow swans, racoo-oo-oon, just amazing split after amazing split with informative inserts written by NNF, it was an education in noise. I somehow missed out on year 2 but tried to pick them up when I saw them listed individually at ss records.
This years is almost ready and I'll keep checking and announce it here as soon as I hear about it.
Thurston played the knitting factory last night and he made an acoustic guitar sound huge and would hold it against the amp and behind his head feedbacking everywhere. He's nearly 50 and I think even in high school I knew that they had been around forever and weren't something you should mess with unless you are prepared to take seriously. Hopefully he will have 50 more.

This email was sent Saturday from Not Not Fun:
5) BORED FORTRESS YEAR THREE IS CLOSE we should be putting our annual split 7" club up for sale in the next 72 hours or so. we're thrilled as heck about the artists and bands on board this year, so keep an eye out for it if yr into this sort of thing.

Thrash Sabbatical (12"+2x7") Thurston Vs. Everyone!

It would be really incredible to see a catalog of all the sonic youth side projects and splits, the sheer output of this band since 1981 will take decades still to unearth and sort through, recategorizing and rating. Not to throw another release on the pile, but here it looks like he's teaming up for split 7's and a 12" with an all star team of psyche-noise, everyone from gang wizard to robedoor is on the reverse.
It's still amazing that he is so involved in the scene and continues to support great bands and even release some of these projects on SYR, but this is more than just a few vinyl discs, this will be a piece of artwork if not not fun has anything to do with it. It's going to be christmas morning. Partially because I really have no concept of what this is going to sound to sound like. Right before I run over and put it on the record player will be a memorial, because things won't ever sound the same again.

Deathbombarc has it, and I thank them....$25.

An elaborate box-set of vinyl, pairing Thurston Moore 3 times with a selection of amazing Los Angeles acts. Box set will include equaly amazing art designed/curated by Britt & Amanda of Not Not Fun.
Thurston Moore (you know the dude, he is in Sonic Youth) contributes music that ranges from beautiful acoustic guitar work to fierce noise and charging thud rhythms.
Men Who Can't Love is the gang of young LA noise dudes that do the tag team thing like it is the ultimate party. They share the 12" w/ Moore, and hit you over and over with the tagteam efforts of Solitary Hunter, Impregnable, Moth Drakula, Haircut Mountain Transit, Toxic Loincloth, & Privy Seals.
Barrabarracuda are the much more friendly sort, but welcome at the same party. Featuring Grace of Foot Village and Amanda of Pochahaunted on fireworks... erm drums and vocals, plus Britt of Robedoor on guitar and Nichole of Child Pornography on keyboard. Their split 7" w/ Moore is definitly the most melodic of the bunch.
Kevin Shields (here as Eva Aguila of Gang Wizard & Amy V of Yuma Nora) fuses searing walls of aluminum with angelic harmonies for a tension that evokes pure joy. Their split 7" with Moore is matched with equal amounts joy and angelicism, but in soothing rather than tense manner.