oTo T31 - Purple Better One
Kev Trundley of AcidFuck on an atmospheric trip. Field recordings from inside the head something dangerous. The kind of soundtrack you should hear whenever someone says 'this used to a sacred burial ground before they built these houses'.
oTo T32 - Paradise Camp 23
All the way from the USA, but sounds like it has been bounced off a star and been dragged back through a grubby little nebula. This collage of noise, voice and rock guitars swims and changes colour like a cuttlefish.
oTo T33 - HEDREN
Another in the oTo sequence of mangled film soundtracks. This time 'The Birds' get chlorinated. Will give you sore, red eyes.
oTo T34 - THE PRESTIDIGITATORS
Beautifully brutal jazz-noise aggro. Totally exhilarating blow-out catharsis. Absolutely drives you sane. One of my (Rob's) personal faves. As good as any noise you'll hear this year, guaranteed.
oTo T35 - LA MER DU NORD
Fantastic free-rock duo improvisation/dual. One of those rare recordings where the combatants seem telepathically linked. This tape fucking rocks.
oTo T36 - CANDI NOOK
Woman of extreme music, Fiend and Susan Lawly recording artist, Candi Nook takes on techno and cuts off its hair with a breadknife. Alternately worryingly unstable and rinky-dink funny, this is the sound of presets on the edge.
oTo T37 - O'DEA
oTo's occasional celluloid series comes to a conclusion. Featured feature this time is Night of the Living Dead 'reanimated' (ahem) with the usual filter-embalming.
oTo T38 - VIATICUM
US Freak-outs from James Lindbloom's band. Sometimes krautrock, sometimes Vibracathedral-esque, always groovin'. Very alive.
oTo T39 - bin.audio[box]
Possibly the oddest of all oTo releases. This short piece (19 minutes) features klunk-y glitches and digital processing accompanying the sound of two microphones being taped up in a box and labelled with marker pen. Has to be heard on headphones for the full on 'this-is-what-it's-like-to-be-a-parcel' vibe.
oTo T40 - Brian Lavelle
Two longish tracks from one of the leading lights of the no-audience underground. Fantastic, beautiful, haunting. Scrapes, fuzz, far-away melodies will make you rewind and replay over and over.