atonar's 50 more or less randomly chosen favourites by artists that turn up zero relevant search results on ILX

I have never heard of a single one of these. I wouldn't mind hearing them all

yeah, think this is the first list where not a single one rings a bell. anything with a beat and a melody to start me off?

getting Deep Bobbins vibes lol

Interesting list, I have no idea about any of it, maybe we have reached our NWW list apex, this could be a lotta fun to go through.

I’m zero for fifty on this list too. Looking forward to this one!

Some further info/context:

Ákos Rózmann - Hungarian-Swedish electroacoustic composer, Stephen O'Malley has been rereleasing his work on Ideologic Organ/Editions Mego.
AS11 - Greek artist, recorded a few things for Antifrost, since seems to have disappeared.
Astor - Mark Harwood who runs the Penultimate Press label.
Banetoriko - Japanese artist, formerly based in LA, now in Osaka, releases on Neurec and Banned Production among others.
The Bricoleur - Michael Lawrence who does bespoke vinyl cutting as Bladud Flies!, associate and sometime sound engineer of Current 93.
Cas de Marez - Dutch actress who occasionally dabbled in sound.
Club Skull - collaborative project of Akifumi Nakajima (Aube), Fumio Kosakai (Incapacitants/CCCC), Hiroshi Hasegawa (CCCC/Astro)
Dislocation - long-running Japanese free-jazz/noise group, this CD is on the venerable PSF label.
Dusa - Swedish artist Charlotta Naas, sort of musique concrete with occasional hip hop beats and field recordings, seems to be retired
.es - improv duo from Osaka, resident at the Nomart gallery space. Sax player Takayuki Hashimoto died a few years back. They've collaborated with basically everyone in Japan.
Ferial Confine - early project of Andrew Chalk.
Fis - sort of post-techno project from New Zealand but based in Berlin, the disc in the poll is a collaboration with Maori artist Rob Thorne.
Fumio Kosakai - well known as a member of Incapacitants, C.C.C.C. and formerly Hijokaidan.
Guds Soner - aka The Sons of God, Leif Elggren and Kent Tankred, veteran Swedish performance and multimedia artists.
Hajsch - Hans-Jurgen Schunk, ran the Quiet Artworks label, member of PFN (whose 'Akasa/Fur Cleo' LP is included on this disc) and Kontakta.
Hands To - Jeph Jerman's alias for early work.
Human Greed - Michael Begg (Fovea Hex, etc) and Deryk Thomas (known for his cover art for Swans, etc) - this album has guest appearances by Clodagh Simonds and David Tibet, amongst others
I.A.M. Umbrella - project of R.Kitch, was part of that sort of scene in the US southwest that included people like Voice of Eye and Ure Thrall.
Inyogogyo - Asahito Nanjo (High Rise, Mainliner, etc) with Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple, etc)
Joseph Lewis & David Steans - Yorkshire filmmaker weirdos with ties to the New Blockaders/Bladder Flask/Metgumbnerbone axis.
Jun Konagaya - best known for his long-running industrial noise project Grim, formerly of White Hospital.
Kengo Iuchi - Japanese noise-folk semi-legend, retired since the late 90's.
Katahtonios - anonymous record that may or may not be the work of Uli Rehberg and Asmus Tietchens, very much in the vein of Werkbund.
Lilith - Scott Gibbons of Chicago, did three albums for Sub Rosa in the 90's.
Lise-Lotte Norelius - Swedish electroacoustic composer, currently director of Fylkingen in Stockholm.
Marsfield - Andrew Chalk, Vikki Jackman, Robin Barnes and Brendan Walls
Massimo Ricci - well-known Italian music writer, this is his only album despite musical activities going back to the 80's.
Metamorphosis - North English postpunk/experimental group, this was their only LP, released first by Flowmotion and then reissued by Third Mind. I think they had vague ties to people like Hula and MFH/Pump.
Michael Moser - Austrian composer and cellist, member of Polweschel, ex-member of Zeitkratzer.
Mne-mic - post-CCCC group of Mayuko Hino with Ranko Onishi.
Noizeclot - one of many anonymous solo projects by John Zewizz of Sleep Chamber.
Nord - Japanese electronics group that have been through many mutations since 1979.
Onna-Kodomo - Dreamlike improv group led by Yuko Hasegawa and usually involving Shizuo Uchida (Hasegawa-Shizuo, Nijiumu, etc)
Oral Constitution - Norwegian hippie collective group active from the late 80's to mid 90's roughly, very influenced by Current 93 it seems.
Phurpa - Russian group performing Bonpos ritual music.
Redglaer - Bob Bellerue who is fairly well known in US noise and experimental circles.
Reiko A. - ex-wife of Masami Akita, ex-member of Merzbow - Akita has been systematically erasing her contributions from reissues in recent years.
Rozenhall - Daniel Rozenhall, Swedish electronics artist, ex-director of Fylkingen.
SEC_ - Italian electroacoustic/noise artist Mimmo Napolitano, has collaborated with a lot of people, his solo work is less known.
Soldier Garage - solo guitar/voice venture of manga artist Migiwa Shimizu, this CD is again on PSF, he's not so well known outside of Japan but did play at the Tusk Festival about a decade ago.
Steeple of Fyre - one of Dusty Lee's many mutations of Mauve Sideshow.
Takumi Akaishi - Japanese hurdy-gurdy player, frequent live collaborator with Keiji Haino amongst others.
Toukaseibunshi - project of the late Hironari Iwata who was active mainly from the 80's to early 90's with sporadic releases in the years leading up to his death.
Ulkomaalaiset - improv group with Edward Ka-spel of the Legendary Pink Dots with his wife Alena Boykova and Martin Heuser.
A Vegetarian Bavarian in Exile - sole solo record of Elke Puecker of HNAS/LPD and ex-wife of Edward Ka-spel.
Venus in Virgo - collaboration of Reiko Azuma (mentioned above) with Sumihisa Arima.
Vetrophonia - Russian Futurist noise group with Nick Soudnik of ZGA with the late Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (Linija Mass, Stalnoy Pakt, Ultra label).
Ward Phillips - aka John Mylotte of Metgumbnerbone.
Yamashirube - psychedelic/noise project by Hide Uchida, contributed to one of PSF's Tokyo Flashback compilations.

Whew! that was long.

awesome

I have only heard Ulkomaalaiset, Hands To and Metamorphosis, heard of Ferial Confine

went w/Ulkomaalaiset, just recently got into that one

really wanna hear Mne-mic, had no idea Hino had done other work

Have heard two of these, voted Dislocation over Tetsuo Furudate.

Reiko A. - ex-wife of Masami Akita, ex-member of Merzbow - Akita has been systematically erasing her contributions from reissues in recent years.

How can anyone tell?! How can he, in fact?

yeah I would like to know more abt that

and there are actually Merzbow releases that are not walls of harsh noise fwiw

ok this Mne-mic record rules

More people should know about that Mne-mic record! There's also DFH-M3 who haven't released a record but there is video evidence out there - it's Hino and Onishi with Junko from Hijokaidan, just total screaming beauty.

Should have just embedded this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRJM4JH3rjE

the only artist I've heard any of here is Nord, but not that particular release

Ulkomaalaiset is the only one I’ve heard from this list. Interesting looking list. Thanks for the brief blurb explaining what they are.

xxp omg that video just made my day

atonar do u actually own the "A Vegetarian Bavarian in Exile" record/model mountain?

super psyched to check out CLUB SKULL next here

I sold my Vegetarian Bavarian record a long time ago alas, twas a thing of beauty but poverty was looming at the time, liquidated a lot of records that I now regret.

Huh

lotta Raymond stuff in this one, yep

Mission accomplished, I don't think I know anything in this list!

Akita has been systematically erasing her contributions from reissues in recent years.

whoa, you're right. the original Cloud Cock OO Land CD has an 18+ minute track with her, now missing from the recent reissue

7 of these names were familiar to me to some extent, although reading through atonar's companion blurbs I recognise quite a few people mentioned.

wow this is a heavy list. thanks for all the context. will be returning!

yeah I'm gonna keep coming back to this one as well

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

voted jun konagaya since it’s the only one i’ve heard (and remember hearing). it’s good though!

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

what the hell, I definitely voted for Ulkomaalaiset here

At least we know now that people aren't voting for records they haven't heard

Happy to see a vote for Konagaya - great, idiosyncratic album. If you like that you should check Grim's "Message" - same sort of weirdly childlike vocals applied to a sort of vaguely creepy hippie folk template - and the sequel to Organ, Travel which is a little darker in tone, reminds a little of Menace Ruine or something like that.