IX: International Gird_09 Day

090909 is upon us, and with it Gird_09's IX. It's been quite some time since a release of this kind, going back to Jenna Flechette in 2003 (though I did release four tracks via myspace in 2006-07). It's been fifteen years since I took the name Gird_09, so this is a good occasion for a new release.

IX consists of eight tracks, and four images for your pleasure.
The genre is some kind of industrial ambient, that I have chosen to call horror ambient. The tracks are inspired by horror films and books, and tell a loose tale, but are not an attempt to make a soundtrack as such.

01 Chains
02 Through the Curtains
03 the Chase
04 Corvix
05 Waiting
06 Cold Storage
07 Wearing the Mask
08 Gird_09 is Dead

IX will also be released in 19 copies on cd-r, but due to the evil h1n1 virus, the publication has been postponed for a couple of weeks. Those of you who are set to receive a copy can enjoy the mpfree version for now, and look forward to getting the physical version soon. It is my belief that the packaging will be worth the wait.

As always, there is no copyright and you can listen, manipulate and spread any way you want. Enjoy.

Download, or stream, the tracks from last.fm here: http://www.last.fm/music/Gird_09/IX

Download tracks and images from mediafire here: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=4e45d983058f8c9ee5c3dee5769931ec06b5f831c4e44b0ab8eada0a1ae8665a

Japanese Whore/Z-19 Through the Shredder.

I have a semi legendary recording for you today. Atleast to a select circle.

Through the Shredder is an extensive reworking by Cthulberg (Atropine, Mauled by Sloths, Pogrom Synod, Epilektrician etc) of my complete catalogue anno 2001.

It was released after I decided to disband both my projects (Japanese Whore and Z-19), and has only been heard by a select few. Never before available for download.

There is no copyright on this work, and you should feel free to copy, distribute, sample or further develop what you find in these files.

Enjoy, and share!

Get the files at mediafire.

Other relevant links:
http://www.myspace.com/mordisco
http://www.myspace.com/pogromsynod
http://www.myspace.com/cthulberg

Music For Boiling Humans

Today I ditched the amplifier and speakers I used to record all my outputs between 1999 and 2002. My most productive period, no doubt. It didn't feel good, but it's the way it is, it was broken.

To commemorate it I present you with Music for Boiling Humans, from 2001.



Originally recorded as a side project to Z-19, under the name Japanese Whore, and released in 20 copies on FrP. The monicker Japanese Whore was later dropped, along with Z-19, and since that most of the files have been available as Gird_09. Not all of them however... This re-release also contains an alternate version of one of the tracks. (Incidentally the name Japanese Whore remains in the intro...)


Thanks to Batcheeba for creating a new, superior, cover and HBA for providing a copy of the original music (mine was lost of course).

Here's the file:
http://www.mediafire.com/?cwyj5tzeezc

Be Sure to Share. :)
93

House Arrest

These two tracks from early 1999 represent a more house influenced take on music, but still quite dark and industrial I suppose. The incarceration theme was by chance, but looking back at my mood, and life situation, when I made them I see a certain truth to it.

House Arrest, by Gird_09 (F!02)
1 - Forbidden by Law
2 - Against My Will

Cover art by Batcheeba.

Again I must point out that these tracks are made with inferior equipment, and not mastered.

Enjoy.

Download here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?himnmgjnyrl

Kultur Terror, Live in Studio December 1998

In december 1998 Vidkun Qristus and Gird_09 spent about a week in the same house we had recorded Støy Helvete E.P. earlier the same year. (More on the Støy Helvete E.P. will come at a later date.) By this time we had slightly upgraded our equipment, utilizing a Roland MC-303, Zoom effect box and Behringer eight track mixer. We were very inspired by artists such as Deutsh Amerikanische Freundschaft, Laibach, Cassandra Complex and Suicide and recorded a highly minimalist demo.

Five tracks resulted from the sessions (a sixth was written, but never recorded), two of these (93 and Discotime) ended up on the 93-demo, while the rest were heard by very very few.

Live in Studio December 1998, by Kultur Terror (F!01)
1 - 93
2 - Discotime (short and lethal)
3 - Jesus from Nazireth
4 - Bambi
5 - the United Nation

Logo by Vidkun Qristus.

93 was mainly inspired by Aleister Crowley and the Book of the Law, and was intended to be the opening number in a planned concert. It was a reworking of a track from Støy Helvete, along with the original 17 second version of Discotime.
Jesus From Nazireth was our most political number, attacking christianity and nazism at the same time.
Bambi was the most Suicide inspired song, and also inspired by a track Gird_09 had made along with Salvador of Darkside of the Force-fame, back in 1994.
Finally the United Nation was the Laibach inspired song, and also very inspired by Operation Desert Fox, which was ongoing at the time. The original version contained a number of samples related to this, but technical limitations meant we had to leave them out of this version. (Incidentally I have no idea what the lyrics are, even though it is me blurting them out at 240bpms there...)

Unfortunately these are the final tracks from KuTe to date...

Remember that these tracks were recorded live on inferior equipment, by inexperienced individuals. Everything is in mono and no noise reduction has been applied.

Thanks are due to: Ørjan Ommundsen (Achtung!), Jon Lassen, Salvador Sanchez, Vegard "li'l wolf" Dyvik and Tor Egil Halvorsen, as well as Gird's grandparents for lending us a house for our "studio" and romping ground.

Download here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?otqyjgqrydc

93

Free Records, Poser! is 10 years old this summer, and it's time we put some of the old recordings out there on the internet to comemorate 10 years of unproductive pipe dreams.

Granted, the ten years have not been entirely eventless. Back in 1999, when me (gird_09) and Vidkun Qristus founded FrP it was meant as a faux lable to put out our Kultur Terror (KuTe) records. At the time our ambitions ran high, and FrP was to be a part of KULTUR. KULTUR in turn was our version of NSK, sort of. We tried recruiting other members, and at some point there were six of us, involved in different projects, musical and otherwise. FrP however never took off.

There was the original KuTe-demo, my various projects (Z-19, Japanese Whore and Jenna Flechette, now collectively known as Gird_09) and a strange remix project by T.Kulberg of Atropine/Epilektrician fame. All this was "published" via FrP! at some time or a another using different media.

Free Records, Poser! was also very much a part of our anarchic anti-establishment ideology. We had a basic thought that we would adopt the different symbologies of authoritarian movements that we opposed, mix them together and somehow display them for what they was. FrP is also short for Fremskrittspartiet - a right wing/racist/objectivist/islamophobe political party in Norway.
The FrP! logo is itself a recolored version of their logo, with a big bite added to it. (The color however is a stab at some other entity, who also used a green apple to put out music...)

Anway, it's been ten years. It's time to let the music do the talking.
Enjoy!

Love is the Law.
Love under Will.
There is no law but do as thou wilt.