I am sure I would feel the same, but I'm not familiar with most of the label. Of the bands I've heard, the only ones I flat-out don't like is Psychadelic Horseshit.. and I'm not really into Bardo Pond, who is just kinda there.
On the other hand, I dig A Band, Gas, Ex-Cocaine, US Girls, Chickens, Ashtray Navigations, Halo of Flies, Harry Pussy, Times New viking (hit or miss but they've got some awesome stuff), Un, Sebadoh, Yips, Resineators, Der TPK, Eat Skull, sic alps..
As for bands on there I love with all my heart and soul... Dead C! Oh my god, I LOVE Dead C, one of the most perfect bands ever. Gate, also, who are strongly related to Dead C, and maybe even better... MONOLAKE and especially Wisher Table are two of the best albums ever (even thought siltbreeze doesn't put out all thier stuff)... albums to put on at 3 AM in complete darkness and zone out to. Pretty sure Wisher Lake is out of print, too, so...
This release from New Zealand noise rock guitarist
Michael Morley completes a trilogy for the Table of the Elements label that began with the drone masterpiece
The Dew Line and was followed the equally impressive, if a little off kilter,
Monolake. The third installment is a continuation the desolate themes of isolation that made the previous records discomforting explorations of lucid guitar texture's and rambled vocal desperation. The vague song forms reflect the music of his other project,
Dead C, in some manner, yet, at the same, that is probably the only other comparison to this unique brand of noise shaping, feedback-drenched minor-key strum underlined by droning loops and the noise of corroding speakers. Like fellow New Zealand noise groups
Rain and
Flies Inside the Sun, Gate's charm lies in the apparent homemade isolation that gives them a tone unlike anything else. Such outlandish experimentation could not occur in the calculation of a studio environment, like a feedback-drenched minor-key strum underlined by droning loops and the noise of corroding speakers. Somehow this is a little hard to hold the attention, yet, as whole, this record is fine and bold statement, and is certainly a vital album in the spectrum of '90s post-rock and noise music. That Gate has worked with guitarist
Lee Ranaldo of
Sonic Youth may give an indication of the six string-havoc on offer here.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/skrd2g
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Also, of course, Pink Reason is absolutely AMAZING, another one of my favorite bands.
Finally, Siltbreeze has released quite a few Charalambides records, and they're in my top 20 bands also, I mean holy shit! JOY SHAPES is a masterpiece, and one of the most depressing albums ever... enjoy this gem:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T6M8TBLS ...
I've only heard a bit of Blues Control, what I've heard, I've dug.. I'd like to get some more, any reccomendations? Any other Silt band reccomendatios in general?
Okay, damn, sorry I hijacked the thread, but I just to say.. Siltbreeze rocks! I think!
Is FAG COP a real band? anyone remember that band OFFICER MAY? They did one album ("smoking in a-minor", haha) and one ep and then broke up. Kinda like a weird noise rock band, sorta like drive like jehu.,. also that band 400 Blows, awesome noise rock band who did two albums and the lead singer was a former cop himself, and wore the uniform when they played.. then THEY broke up... what is it with noise rock bands who disband so quickly... anyway..