XXIX  THE NIHILISTIK KITCHEN UNIT / R.A.PAVLOV

split tape

TNKU/R.A.Pavlov cassette

At that time international noise contacts were easy to establish en masse in the following way: soon after someone had published a zine, all the artists represented therein with interviews or reviews (although reviews has already started to fall into decay as a genre) started to write each other and communicate via both modem internet and snail mail. So when Armantas Gečiauskas, now a famous noise traveller Arma Agharta, having toured all over the world from Mexico and Greenland to Philippines (see www.arma.lt), аnd back then a grindcore scene member and the publisher of the Infected by Dementia zine, had published an interview with me in that zine and released a split tape of Stop Asking Stupid Questions/Invader From Mars (a project by Kei Yokota of Outermost etc. from Japan), all the other characters from the zine made acquaintance of me very soon, among them Toni Kandelin from Oulu, Finland, of the Hammasratas label (which means Teeth Wheel, although I don't remember whether it had influenced my choice of the material for the split). His band The Nihilistik Kitchen Unit (which I translated literally into Finnish as Nihilistinen Keittiöyksikkö) played the harshest (mainly because of the loudness though), killer noise, while I put on my side some of my teeth scratching recorded about 5 years before (almost the whole collection of teeth scratching recorded by me having been released later as a separate tape). The piece's name means Stereoteeth. The artwork was weird and one of the most impractical ones in our history. The tape was tightly glued in the cover consisting of two pieces of cardboard joined by a strip of bookbinder's leather, which should have represented a book. The stock of the leather was exhausted soon, the tape has to dry too long, but, true to the idea of not limiting print runs, I could not satisfy the demand very soon, for I was already tired of making copies of it all and it was in fact hardly already possible. So in 2009 I have reissued it in a simplified form.

A review in Russian on the site of the late Dan Noiser of Karelian noise act Galaxy The Incubator.