Skjálfti is the noise project of Icelander Þórir Georg. Society of Witnesses is his first release on the recently re-vitalized Hundrað Prósent Plastík label (though hardly his first release – Skjálfti has been active since 2017), and right from the start it assaults the senses, a high-pitched whine boring a hole through your jaw like […]
Category: Noise
Wüünderbar Holokaust – “This Machine Fucks” and “Wüünderbar Spilar Wunderlich” Cassettes (2026)
These are the final two cassettes in the recent spate of releases from the Icelandic noise label Hundrað Prósent Plastík and in a way I’m glad I saved them for last, because Wüünderbar Holokaust’s This Machine Fucks feels like the synthesis of the three other aritsts who were part of this series, Mávar, Ófreskja, and […]
Mávar – “Corium” Cassette (2026)
Mávar makes anxiety ridden ambient noise. That’s what the insert that comes with this cassette says. And it’s not wrong. I was bummed when Icelandic DIY noise label Hundrað Prósent Plastík went dark after releasing five wonderfully-packaged CDs back in 2023. But tiny, dare I say micro, labels do come and go, and I was […]
Skjálfti – “They Are Bad People, They Deserve To Suffer” (2025); Ófreskja – “Íviðjulykkja” (2025)
RÓF is a new Reykjavik-based label “specialising in limited, hand assembled releases of noise and other post-industrial forms of art”. Its first two physical releases are CDrs by the artists Skjálfti (“Trembling” in English) and Ófreskja (“Unfresh”). Both are packaged in folded over A4 paper sleeves insert into plastic bags – about as DIY as […]
Daisuck & Prostitute – “死ぬまで踊りつづけて” (“Keep Dancing Until You Die”) (1981)
I remain powerless when faced with obscure vinyl, curiosity and a need-to-have-it impulse flaring up in my amygdala and forcing one hand to reach for the record and the other my wallet. Which is precisely how I found myself spending something like $80 on this album the other day over at one of my newest […]