Dead Door Unit
Playing The Flute Down Baltimore Pike
*50 copies limited edition* Dead Door Unit is the solo noise moniker of Ken Geiger, a prolific experimental and metal musician from NJ. Vocalist for the death metal band Blemish and one half of the junk noise duo Master Grave Services, Ken has been releasing high test tape noise as Dead Door Unit since 2022, and for years before that under his own initials. DDU is a sonic scrapheap of mangled degradation. Junkyard sampling, vertigo-inducing loops, and careening feedback tangle together in twiste…
Dead Harbor
This is a cassette released by American noise artist Dead Door Unit from the country's experimental/noise label Tribe Tapes in April 2024. Contains two 2-minute Lo-Fi junk harsh noise songs using field recordings and tapes.
A sound lover's feast. The reincarnation of the individual sounds would be enough but the scalpel is applied in broader strokes.
Abandon
Philadelphia-based K. Geiger is active under the guises of Dead Door Unit, Master Grave Services, and his imprint French Market Press producing ultra-limited noise tapes (often 7 copies or less) in unusual packaging that echoes labels like Sound Probe or SFCR. "Abandon" brings with it a refinement in style differentiating itself from early cassettes like "Laugh At The Devil". While I once described that release as reminiscent of an embryonic Prurient, this debut disc is both an evolution and a p…
Laugh At The Devil
Tip! *2024 reprint* Dead Door Unit is the alias of Northeastern US artist Ken Geiger. The project follows in an exploratory vein of tape-recorded junk noise and field recordings. "Laugh At The Devil" is a work raucously out-of-time, bringing to mind the murk of mid-aughts Hanson releases or even the obscure malice of Dom Fernow's earlier work. Geiger breeds a fresh perspective through destruction and reassembly; "desperation."