Last Night On Earth ‎– Last Night On Earth

Improvised psychedelic ritual noise not that far away from Vibracathedral Orchestra by Bridget Hayden, Melanie Delaney (Ashtray Navigations) and Jani Hirvonen (Uton, Pupil Wah). 2006 cdr on Ikuisuus.

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Various ‎– Noisenet # 7: UK Noise Compilation tape

Very nice tape featuring loads of UK noise artists, both classics and then-emerging ones,  including Ashtray Navigations, Coits, Neil Campbell, Smell & Quim, Culver, Expose Your Eyes (the tape's highligh IMO), Mlehst, Con-Dom, and Grey Wolves. Do you need anything more than that? 1996 tape on the Taiwanese label Noise (no, not the German label releasing Running Wild records).

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The Cavities ‎– Thee Asteroids Have Hit Our Heads AKA Various ‎– Soldering The Fuckin' Solitude Monitor 7"

Bleak Bliss had posted this last year in its original form as the Soldering the Fuckin' Solitude Monitor 7", but unfortunately it has been expired, so here I'm uploading another version of this release. For some reason, this has also been released as Thee Asteroids Have Hit Our Heads by a band called The Cavities, about whom I know nothing (could anyone lighten me up?). Discogs says this is a mispress of the original 7" and has a different artwork and different catalog number, but the tracks are the same, with one organ-and-loops track by Remora, guitar improvisations by Joincey's Coits, a psychedelic loop dream by Ashtray Navigations, and a fuzzed bass-noise piece by Ghostdad. 1997 7" on Phil Todd's Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers.

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Ashtray Navigations ‎– To Get Beyond Nihilism By Revaluing Combat 3" CDr

"To get beyond nihilism by revaluing combat" was a motto of Charles Ludlam, American queer actor and theatrical director, who reworked in a pastiche fashion elements of pop culture. This motto, appropriated by AIDS activists - Ludlam was an AIDS victim - implies that being active (revaluing combat) is the way of overcoming interpellated notions of passivity (nihilism) within society. I'm not sure how Ashtray Navigations reflect this message through this wee little cd, but the fourth 20-minute track (the first three ones are all less than a minute long) contains a mournful but embattled spirit driven by a wailing cello and cymbal/drum action. Great stuff. 2005 cdr on Hypnagogia.

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Ashtray Navigations ‎– The "O" Mouth Direct Input Raygun 7"

Ashtray Navigations sound very Skullflower-y here, somewhere between black metal-y fuzzy static harshness  and fizzy psychedelia. 2009 7" on Turgid Animal.

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Ashtray Navigations ‎– The Love That Whirrs cd

Psychedelic madness nodding to Total. No plastic ass drum beats or incoherent guitar solos by Phil Todd here, so grab it without any doubts. 2005 cd on Last Visible Dog.

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