The rather controversial named Whore’s Breath is the wall-noise project of  Cincinnati’s David Hilshorst. It started in 2021, and to date, it has coming on for one hundred and fifty releases to its name. The project’s work moves between set/ old school, shifting & active, or texturally experimental- with it being one of the more consistent/interesting projects on the walled noise scene.  David Kindly agreed to give us an email interview.

This year saw the fine folks at Headpress releasing Cannibal Error by David Kerekes & David Slater- the truly definitive and wholly fascinating chronicling of the so-called ‘video nasties’ phenomena/era. The book is a revised, reworked and expanded edition of the year 2000 book See No Evil — pushing the original page count up from four hundred to nearly six hundred pages. I tracked down one of the book’s authors David Kerekes for an email interview —discussing the book, and his personal history with the video nasties.

Tim Ritter is one the key/ important figures in the Shot-On-Video/ultra-low-budget horror genre. He was behind titles such as Truth Or Dare (1985), Killing Spree (1987), and Day Of The Reaper(1985). His work often features creative/ interventive gore/ kills, shifts in tone between unsettlement & humour, and darkly quirky touches. Late last year the fine folks at SRS Cinema released The Tim Ritter Collection- a four Blu-ray set, taking six of his SOV releases- these move between the classic low-budget horror anthology Twisted Illusion (1985),  deranged & demented Escape from Prison Killer film Creep (1995), and Reconciled Through The Christ (2004)  a Christianity-focused mix of horror, drama,  and thriller.  Tim kindly agreed to do an email interview, and below we’ll find our in-depth/ lengthy interview.

Set up at the start of 2023 Radiance Films is one of the more recently formed boutique labels, though to date it’s released over a hundred titles. These move all over the film genre map- with a general focus on great & fascinating cinema. Each release- be they single films, or boxsets feature wonderful new scans and a great selection of the most worthy/interesting extras.   Behind the company is Francesco Simeoni, the former director of content for Arrow Video. Below is an email interview with Francesco.

Appearing towards the end of 2023, They Blessed The Body Breadcrumbed was the first solo album from Renaldo M- one-half of the British avant-pop/(off) world music duo Renaldo and the Loaf- who have been peddling their strange sonic wares since the late ’70s.  The album stands as one of the late highlights of last year being a wonderful varied & unpredictable thirteen-track affair - which moves between urgent & ethnically odd, through to the percussive & quirky, onto the manic and unsettling, though to the charming & tuneful, to sinisterly disquieting. I managed to get an email interview with Renaldo M- aka Portsmouth-based Brian Poole.

The Hana Haruna project started in 2018- initially making crude and brutal walled noise, but as it’s progressed it’s moved more towards layered, detail, and often progressive wall craft with an ambient undercurrent.  To date, it’s released over two hundred releases. Behind the project is Ken Jamison from Portland, Oregon who also runs the internet-based noise label Basement Corner Emissions( which we discuss later in the interview), as well as been behind a few other projects. Ken kindly agreed to give us an email interview.