Hi from your friends at D-Trash Records!

Enclosed is a list of upcoming releases on our label in the 2nd half of the year, and a bit of an update on some recent albums. We saw the number of releases coming, and thought to pass along this musical newsletter. A bit out of order with the numbering for our catalogue, but what we lack in organization, we make up for in quality and quantity in these next releases.... Read on, and download the full MP3s (even the previews) for a peek at what's cooking.
-SCHIZOID

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Upcoming CD Releases:



SEPTEMBER 9 2009
[DTECH08] THE M.E.M.O.R.Y. LAB (Modern Expressing Machines Of Revolutionary Youth)
-The M.E.M.O.R.Y. Lab are the 'then' brainchild of the 'now' 3-time Grammy award winning sound engineering guru Marc Urselli. Joining him in the ‘lab are Nicola “the Old Nick” Curri, (FUNERAL ORATION) and Fabrizio “Malfeitor Fabban” Giannese (ABORYM, FUNERAL ORATION). Established in Italy 10 years ago, their debut CD sees an official release on D-TRASH Records through the “D-TRASH Technologies” line of professionally pressed CDs. Dark and avant-garde, this eerie set of aggro-electro industrial trash metal songs is influenced by bands such as FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY, SKINNY PUPPY, THE YOUNG GODS, DAS ICH, MINISTRY, PANTERA, CHRISTIAN DEATH, FEAR FACTORY, CURRENT 93 and various post-black metal bands.
Preview MP3: http://www.archive.org/download/DTECH08-TheMemoryLab-TheMemoryLab/dtech08_04_thememorylab_mind_rape_governments_business.mp3


COMING 2009
[DTRASH123] FEUH Trash-Test
-Our French friends re-release their debut album on an official pressed CD album available on the D-TRASH store soon featuring updated new awesome artwork! Driving and powerful thrash-guitar based techno metal, from this noisy and energetic 4-piece from France. Consider, if you will if members of SUICIDAL TENDENCIES and THE PRODIGY got together to be in a THE VENTURES cover band?!
MP3: http://www.archive.org/download/DTRASH123-Feuh-Trash-Test/dtrash123_05_dunknprunk.mp3

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Just Released Albums For FREE Download!!(!!):

NOW RELEASED!

[DTRASH126] NOT HALF I Want It To Be 1983 Again
Al Al this time bowls a strike with this puzzlingly brilliant release of new material - Glooping glitches' rhythms pitterpatter through the experimental nostalgic-noisescapes shaped by Atari 2600-laced days of yonder.
MP3: http://www.archive.org/download/DTRASH126-NotHalf-IWantItToBe1983Again/dtrash126_04_mp1983.mp3


[DTRASH127] THE FIRST SEED The First Seed
-Thick and crusty breakcore makes up the punishing D-TRASH debut of notorious Toronto DJ 'THE FIRST SEED'. Longtime a staple of T.O. extreme electronic shows, and other allies like HERE'S MY CARD RECORDs, his full-length album is an echoing bomb blast of dark rhythmic-dnb-noise dn'b experimentation!
MP3: http://www.archive.org/download/DTRASH127-TheFirstSeed-TheFirstSeed/dtrash127_02_riot_manifest.mp3


[DTRASH130] TUARAG GEEKS Gaggeo De Golosinas
-We're very happy to bring aboard another artist to the D-TRASH roster, this is TUAREG GEEKS from Mexico, who did an album a few years back on DHR Limited. Now they release their next full length "Gaggeo De Golosinas"!
MP3: http://www.archive.org/download/DTRASH130-TuaregGeeks-GaggeoDeGolosinas/dtrash130_01_el_galaxias.mp3


[DTRASH2009] VARIOUS ARTISTS D-Trashcast / New Releases In A Continuous Mix
Contains material culled from the DTRASH120's, in first half of 2009. 16 songs put in a continuous mix by J.Schizoid at D-TRASH HQ in 07/2009. Play at a dirty rotten volume! Features new tracks from PHALLUS UBER ALLES, FEUH, UNITUS, TUAREG GEEKS, NOT HALF, DISBREAKZ, DISTONN, MIND DISRUPTION, THE FIRST SEED!
Listen Here: http://www.mypodcast.com/fsaudio/dtrash_20090704_1148-457799.mp3


THROUGHOUT 2009

PHALLUS ÜBER ALLES 5 Fingers Make A Fist

Vol. 1 Heatwave EP - June
Vol. 2 Brawl At The Boys & Girls Club EP - August
MP3: http://www.archive.org/download/DTRASH129.1-PhallusUberAlles-Heatwave/dtrash129pt1_01_heatwave_motown_version.mp3
Preview: http://www.archive.org/download/DTRASH129.2-PhallusUberAlles-Brawl/dtrash129pt2_03_brawl_ambassador21_remix.mp3

Vol. 3 Cockpit EP - August
Vol. 4 Fuck The Radio Remixes - September
Vol. 5 Make It Bleed EP - October
-"Five Fingers Make a Fist" 5-part release, spanning over the course of 2009, to lead up to the 2nd full length of original tracks from digital hardcore legends, PUA!


AUGUST 2009


[DTRASH133] THE ART OF SEPPUKU Muuumieeen
-Talk about extreme - this mix of white hot digital hardcore driven by roaring gutteral vocals will bring the dead back from the g(rave)! Better than mere e-grind, this gives bands like AGOROPHOBIC NOSEBLEED, THE BERZERKER a run for their money!
MP3 Preview: http://www.archive.org/download/DTRASH133-TheArtOfSeppuku-Muuumieeen/dtrash133_01_from_the_grave_to_the_rave.mp3


[DTRASH132] DISTONN / DISBREAKS Unpredictable Breaks=Unpredictable Mind
-Two of the SUBVERT PUNX, DISTONN & DISBREAKZ decided to release ultimate breakcore/punk release. Anarcho breakpunk gabba terrorist DISTONN will kick your ass with his breakcore/jungle bits and DISBREAKZ will kill your brain cells with his breakcore/mashup bits mixed with crazy power pop vocal cutz. Breakcore!
MP3 Preview: http://www.archive.org/download/DTRASH132-DistonnAndDisbreakz-UnpredictableMinds/dtrash132_01_my_name_is.mp3


SEPTEMBER 2009

[DTRASH124] NO BRIGADE Fuck Army
-Brampton jokers NO BRIGADE kicked our ass with their debut "Welcome To Hell" - now the duo take us through a more refined and lethal dose of their explosive digital hardcore energy. Also will include bonus live DVD from 2008.

[DTRASH134] RANDOM Selection
-UK electronic act RANDOM's finest moments from their discography are compiled in this concise release of dark techno/mind control. Meditative electronic sounds that recall fine moments of early 1990's underground ambient electronica such as Warp Records' output.

[DTRASH128] VARIOUS ARTISTS Dex-Trash
-The first in of many of an 'Underground Series' set of releases, aimed at spotlighting some of our favorite fellow artists - We present a SID-chotic collection from our friends at DEX AND THE CITY Records, one of the coolest breakcore netlabels around!


OCTOBER 2009

[DTRASH131] CPUWAR Technical Violence Remixes
-"Reissue" of this never released remixes EP - to include 2009 remixes, including mixes from NOT HALF, TUAREG GEEKS, SCHIZOID and more, including perhaps? some new CPUWAR material? Shhhh!.


ALSO 2009

THE PHOERON "In the Depths" - Symphony No.3
THE PHOERON Subjective Variables [Universal Equation remixes]
NOCORE Live DVD
ZYMOTIC Greatest Hits CD
IYOV [Babylon Disco and co. black metal digital hardcore side project]


COMING SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER, TORONTO CANADA
LOST COMPOUND #06 aka D-TRASH FEST #3 PARTY!
Will feature an insane mix of hot acts from both the LOST COMPOUND and D-TRASH Records hometown gang for an unforgettable night! Watch www.myspace.com/lostcompound, the D-TRASH site for more info.

Love,
Your friends at D-TRASH Records

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ALBUM: Tanin No Kao
LABEL: D-Trash Records
REVIEWER: Matthew J.
DATE: 2-10-09

With their mixture of hard drum 'n' bass beats, aggressive guitars, and punk-inspired shouts (often in Japanese, no less), Swiss group Matamachete are one of the more interesting things to hit the industrial scene of late. "Modus Operandi" opens their newest album with a violent blast pummeling breakbeats, chunky metal guitar riffs, and atonal yelps, something like what you'd imagine Mindless Self Indulgence would sound like if you replaced the juvenile humor with some real punk nihilism. Title track "Tanin No Kao" is brutal but funky, Japanese lyrics barked through a vocoder over gargantuan guitar chords and a rumbling hip-hop rhythm, and "Greed" can't quite decide of it's sexy or angry, pairing a throbbing bass and dirty synth sequence with mean guitars and throat-tearing shrieks. For all its intensity and barely controlled rage, this album has its lighter moments, too. "Brand of the Beast" and "Count Me Out" cross new school metal grooves with hip-hop breaks and a cleaner vocal delivery; they're big and brutal, but there's a funky vibe that's infectious and fun. "Freedom of Choice" actually slows down the electronics to a tempo approaching mellow, though the staccato vocals and  sharp guitar riffs give the song its requisite edge, and "Few Things to Share" is one of the album's slowest tracks as well as its darkest, vocals snarled over a languid but oppressive rhythm section. With an aesthetic that draws on aggressive breakbeat and jungle rhythms as well as unapologetically metal guitar riffs, this is an album that manages to appeal in equal measure to drum 'n' bass and hard rock fans; it will especially appeal to fans of the new breed of industrial metal represented by groups like Rabbit Junk. Check out Matamachete online at www.matamachete.com.

ARTIST: BlipVert
ALBUM: Stop:Skronk:Explode!
LABEL: D-Trash Records
REVIEWER: Matthew J.
DATE: 2-10-09

BlipVert is the solo project of Will Redmond, who also plays in a number of other projects, including experimental act Cartridge and minimalist dub act E. Priest. Redmond's solo material runs the gamut from video game music to drum 'n' bass to ambient, but all uniquely spliced together and sped up into a frantic and punishing blur of ever-changing sounds and rhythms. Dub music is just about the last genre anyone would ever describe as frantic, but Redmond manages to make it happen on the first track; as "Peace with Ummem" segues from flute trills and footsteps to studio buzz and drumbeats, the rhythm turns into something fast and distorted but nonetheless possessed of an instrumental reggae flavor. It sounds like Lee "Scratch" Perry getting pulverized by a runaway freight train. "Big Boy Slip" is all abrasive distortion and sudden tempo changes, and "Barbwire Girls" slips seemingly at random between high-BPM hardcore techno and washes of ambience. As if the frenetic nature of his music wasn't enough, Redmond also makes several of his compositions  extra creepy with what sound like disturbing playground rhymes, as on "Couch of Soob" and "Tao to a Feel." While Redmond is certainly capable of moving into mellower territory, as on the purely ambient outro "Georges" or the Art of Noise-inspired "Bye Judy, Don't Make 'em Sad," the pure unpredictability of this release is enough to drive a typical techno listener to self-harm. Noise freaks, on the other hand, will eat this up.  Visit ww.synapsecompound.com for more information on BlipVert and Will Redmond's other projects.

http://www.regenmag.com/Artist-Spotlight-106-BlipVert.html

"BlipVert is Will Redmond as microcosm, cramming all of his diverse talents into a condensed blur of electronics that borrows from everything:  jazz, glitch, metal, IDM, funk, classical, and probably at least a few genres that haven't even been named yet. Holding advanced degrees in musical composition and teaching, he performs on a range of instruments, from keyboards to flutes to guitar, in a number of other projects, including avant-garde jazz duo Cartridge and abstract dub project E. Priests, but on his newest BlipVert release, the aptly titled Stop:Skronk:Explode! (DTRASH104), all of his diverse influences come together. Unpredictable and frenetic, it's a musical stream of consciousness, a real-time window into the mind of an eclectic and well-educated composer."

D-TRASH got featured in the latest ZERO TOLERANCE magazine, issue #27.  We finally have our hands on a copy and here's how the q and a between SCHIZOID and ZT editor went down - click on the graphic to see the article:

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D-TRASH CDs sale & MATAMACHETE review at CRUCIALBLAST

We like this greate distro and label that is out of the States who makes some intense grindcore noise sounds... CRUCIAL BLAST Records who also ! is having D-TRASH as a 'featured' label of the month in their online merch shop.  A bunch of our cds are there on sale price and available here like  "Virus Has Been Spread - ATR Tribute" the DTRASH100 DVD , CONTRA Enter the Winter, FAUX PRIDE "Slapstick Bitch", VARIOUS "Rising Tide Compilation"   UNITUS "Cross Contamination"  and also ! The SCHIZOID "All Things Are Connected" disc which we're sold out of now.    Heres' a comment about us in this featured section and also a new review they did of the MATAMACHETE disc that is new in their stock.   

http://www.crucialblastshop.net/index.php?feat=1

Knar / Mr. Genetor - Split CD
CD-R/digital download, D-Trash Records, 2008
www.dtrashrecords.com

Knar and Mr Genetor, two noise-mad Canadian producers of electronic lunacy, have combined their efforts to present this (very imaginatively named) split CD. While Mr Genetor is a relatively new addition to D-Trash's stable of artists, Knar has been at work for quite some time - his 2000 release, "Neo Industrial Zombie", has been lauded as a great example of trashcore/breakbeat mayhem - especially as it was produced entirely on a C64!
This lo-fi approach is not as evident on "Split CD". While the production quality remains minimal, even primitive at times, it is still crisp and clean. Except, of course, where the static bursts of brown noise are supposed to appear and fry your synapses. To be perfectly honest, this is one of the better-assembled albums of this genre on the market. "This genre", of course, refers to that grey area falling between erratic, complex glitchiness à la Squarepusher and semi-industrial breaks in the vein of Panacea. To complicate matters, there is also the undeniable presence of some serious downtempo ambient atmosphere (that would not be considered out of place on an Autechre record) to contend with, too. In other words, fairly standard IDM fare - but seriously listenable, unlike much modern electronica that all starts to sound the same halfway through the CD.
The album itself (a rare thing, with split discs, to be treated to a full 13 tracks when the majority of artists make similar projects a quick five or six track EP) possesses a wonderfully protean feel - growing from deeply atmospheric, through frenetic breakbeats and finally emerging as a mature, melodic sound over the last few tracks. There is no one highlight that can be identified on "Split CD" - whether viewed as a holistic entity or as individual offerings, Knar and Mr Genetor have created one of the better examples of contemporary noisy IDM available today.

-- David vander Merwe [7.5/10]

Here's a cool write-up we found about FAUX PRIDE's great 2008 release "Slapstick Bitch" on the CRUCIAL BLAST RECORDS webshop.  This grindcore/crazycore label distro puts out a ton of great material as well as stocking thousands of the finest titles of underground extreme music (including some DTRASH, which are available to purchase through the shop).  About the FP disc they said:


FAUX PRIDE   Slapstick Bitch   CD   (D-Trash)
"If you explore the D-Trash catalog in depth (which with literally hundreds of releases in their catalog is no mean feat, let me tell you), you'll discover just about every possible known form of underground electronica and industrial music, everything from dystopian sound-collage and 80's style industrial to hardcore rhythmic noise, digital grindcore, black metal influenced breakcore, and everything in between, usually leaning towards the noisier and punk-influenced end of the spectrum. There's one project that recently released a new album on D-trash that actually combines many of these different sounds, a one man band called Faux Pride who has just released his third and apparently final album called Slapstick Bitch on the Canadian label. The goofy title, adolescent, gore-splattered album artwork and erratic mix of styles will probably turn a lot of people off, but I dug this album. The Manchester-based Faux Pride combines fierce gabber rhythms, harsh noise, brutal digital grindcore, weird soundscapes and LOTS of heavy, distorted breakbeats, cut up and sliced into jarring chunks of sound and edited back together into abrasive blasts of dark rhythmic sound. Noise and breakbeats are at the core of this disc, with distortion bleeding through everything, even the spoken word samples, and the only periods of calm that Faux Pride allows through the course of the sixteen songs on Slapstick Bitch are momentary fields of minimal ambience that appear between tracks. The tracks are mostly instrumental, and the only vocals that appear come from recycled film samples, sampled Gwen Stafani vocals, and other pilfered recordings, chopped and processed and looped over the grinding rhythmic noise and harsh breakcore collages. All of the heavy layers of distortion, noisy programmed blastbeats and huge, block-rockin' breaks remind me of the Curse of the Golden Vampire debut that Alec Empire did with Justin Broadrick and Kevin Martin of Techno Animal, but Faux Pride goes for a much more chaotic and spastic plunder-blast assault than COTGV. Fans of the harsher Digital Hardcore sound will love it."

Phallus Über Alles - Les Femmes de la Guerre
CD-R, D-trash Records, 2008   www.phallusuberalles.net

For those who aren't familiar with this american band yet, don't misunderstand the name: Phallus Über Alles aren't machos, they're girls, they're feminists, and they're pissed off! So they attempt to express their anger against the contemporary world (and more specifically against the male-dominated hierarchies) by performing some raging digital hardcore - electro punk.
"Les Femmes de la Guerre" is their first record to be released on the Canadian label D-Trash Records, since their first album, "Iron Woman", was published in 2004 by Fatal Recordings (Hanin Elias' label), and the recipe doesn't seem to have changed very much since that time.
So this new EP CD contains 7 tracks : "Fuck the Radio" (a potential hit, but not really fitting into the standards of broadcasting as you can guess), in its original version and in a "flaccid", censored radio edit ; "Brawl at the Boys and Girls Club" in two remixes respectively performed by Robad Pills (a breakcore producer based in Florida) and Hansel (another american band from the D-Trash catalogue, who plays a mix between hip-hop and electro-industrial), and in a quite surprising dub mix made by Phallus Über Alles themselves ; "Beefed Up" (which has a more "poppy" feeling at the beginning and then turns into breakcore) and "Fakecore Outro" (a short and harsh technoïd instrumental track). The whole thing is packaged in a "Soviet" artwork (red stars, cyrrilic letters, and so on).
Globally, "Les Femmes de la Guerre" is a pretty well-produced EP, but isn't really enough to satisfy those of us who are waiting for a Phallus Über Alles new album since a while. Let me get this straight: this record isn't going to renew the genre, but without a doubt it's gonna kick some ass.
-- Olivier Noel [7/10]

Matamachete - Tanin No Kao
CD, D-trash Records, 2008 www.matamachete.com

The members of this Swiss band define their own music as a mix between punk, drum 'n' bass and industrial. Reading this statement, one could easily be led to believe that Matamachete is just another one of these digital punk, Atari Teenage Riot wanna-be bands which are often described this way. In this case, just listen and you'll quickly find out that you were wrong...
Matamachete's unique sound is mainly punk and harcore-based (old-school American hardcore to be more precise), sprinkled with some hard-techno beats, drum'n'bass/breakbeat programmings and a few synth lines. That means that the guitars and vocals are basically more over-mixed than the electronics. Speaking of punk and hardcore influences, Matamachete's music is full of an energy and a primal rage which are very much typical of these genres - you can feel them into the harsh screamed vocals and the guitar riffs, which are as they always should be in this music style: simple and tough. Their lyrics express lots of anger, oppression and frustration, but also a huge will to survive and to keep their head held high while facing the pain and the unfairness of this world. Well, not very original, one could say, but obviously really efficient and powerful. As a matter of fact, once you put this CD into your player and press 'play', you can't stop head-banging until the end!
The album's title, "Tanin No Kao", and the eponym track (one of my personal favorites on this record), contains Japanese words and seems to be inspired by the samurai way of life and code of honour (though I can't be sure of this as I am not fluent in Japanese). However that may be, to sum things up, this record's general atmosphere is pretty dark, cold and clinical, as you can easily guess by seeing the artwork, which deserves to be mentioned: the cover photo shows a girl shot in the eye by a high-tech syringe. The result is beautiful and disturbing, just as Matamachete's music!

-- Olivier Noel [8/10]

NOVEMBER 2008: New DTRASH119 MP3 Album Download from GRRZZZ (DTRASH119)

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DTRASH119 GRRZZZ (France) / Optima Ferox
-Meet our new friends from Paris, France, who play in industrial punk duo GRRZZZ. They are DIY anarchists who are constantly
touring across Europe in all squats and other alternative places. They welcome all people that struggle using their hands and brains in order to make an alternative way to capitalist domination and do not like false rebel suckers in weird clothes. Expect from this release, and their concerts a unique mixture of Industrial Punk, Digital Hardcore & Noise Electronics. Recommended for aficionados of such diverse groups as Ministry, Front242, Godflesh, Big Black, Atari Teenage Riot!

http://www.archive.org/details/DTRASH119-Grrzzz-OptimaFerox
http://rapidshare.com/files/160094814/dtrash119-grrzzz.zip
http://www.lunaticfringe.org/~schizoid/dtrashrecords/digitaldownloads/119.html
- more mirrors

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COMING LATE 2008 / EARLY 2008:

DTRASH120 - CONTRA (Canada) - Red Squirrel, Black Squirrel
DTRASH121 - MIND DISRUPTION (Germany) - Fuck Yeah
DTRASH122 - UNITUS (Canada) - (unreleased tracks EP)
DTRASH123 - ZYMOTIC/HEARTWORM (Canada/USA) - Split CD
DTRASH124 - NO BRIGADE (Canada) - Back To Hell

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Check out D-TRASH Records in this month's ZERO TOLERANCE Magazine, review of this year's DTRASH100: D-Trash Music Video DVD!

http://www.lunaticfringe.org/~schizoid/dtrashrecords/news/news-dtrash100reviews.html
Watch the next issues for an upcoming Label Spotlight feature on D-TRASH Records in ZERO TOLERANCE Magazine! (www.ztmag.com)

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DTRASH104 - BLIPVERT - STOP:SKRONK:EXPLODE
http://www.gothtronic.com/?page=23&reviews=5332

"Originally blipverts were a kind of new high-speed, high-intensity television commercials which caused the nerve systems of certain viewers to overload. Now, this is really the effect that struck me when listening to the album 'Stop:Skronk:Explode of this American madman called BLIPVERT. In earlier days, when I listened to the songs of Kid 606, they beat me to a jelly. Cutting 50! songs into pieces and rebuild them into a song of four minutes, drove me already up the curtains. BLIPVERT takes it even one step further. He manages to throw overboard every single form of song structure and creates 'something' with a combination of noise, breakcore and ambient soundscapes. It sounds to me like there is a kind of intergalactical top 40 from another Milky Waysystem that is rumbling to us at a speed of a thousand miles per hour. This goes way too far for me! It might just be unique, but I'm never through with this BLIPVERT -cd. This is - in a matter of speaking - the most raw electronic record I have ever heard. After this electronic-deathride you will be almost death and in need for quick respiration."