RFI - Hi, My Name Is Scott. Who Should I Hit Up For Noisy Noise & Rad Atonal Shit?

Hi there. My name is Scott Seward, and I like pie. I'm gonna be starting a new column devoted to really noisy/annoying/avant/difficult/fucked up/etc music that is NON-metal in nature. Dutch dinosaur gabber, string quartets wielding mallets, fuck, i don't know, as long as it's cool and I like it, I'll write about it.
So, I'm asking you, my friends, to hit me with links for any labels/distros/artists that you never ever thought you would read about in an American metal magazine, and I'll take it from there. I'm looking for new releases, but I'll probably throw in some archival stuff too from time to time. electronic, acoustic, overamplified insect field recordings, i'm up for anything.

Thanks! You are all stars in bars!

(NO, i am not totally lazy. i've been thinking of people to spam too, but it never hurts to reach out to a vaster nerdly empire.)

I saw these guys last night and they are amazing you should give them lots of press, easily one of my favorite Bay Area bands of recent years

http://www.myspace.com/oax

Shit And Shine! Awesome British noise band whose song "Toilet Door Tits" from last year's "Kuss Mich, Mein Liebe" album is honestly the Sister Ray of the 00's

btw I am totally psyched for this episode of Scottness

xp Shakey: Oaxacan are going to be touring with Sir Richard Bishop as his backing band this summer. Mike Guarino - their drummer - is really underrated as far as drummers go.

0th is a great band- just learned that their album is called "Tammy" and the band is called 0th, and not the other way around. Ooops. Anyway, 0th gets thumbs way up.

Mike Guarino - their drummer - is really underrated as far as drummers go.

yeah I chatted him up a little bit after the show - I had kinda forgotten what a joy it can be to see a really creative, disciplined "free jazz" sorta drummer, just amazing

http://www.resipiscent.com/

-- lots of good stuff. The guy who runs the label, James, is really cool, nice person.

a few more links

http://zum.bigcartel.com/ - distro of the George Chen
http://brutalsoundeffects.com/noise00.html
http://www.ugEXPLODE.com

thanks, dooooods. keep 'em coming. i'll check all this stuff out when i get a chance.

btw I am totally psyched for this episode of Scottness

Agreed, sounds like a great column! Here's one, archival but interesting: the MEV40 set by Musica Elettronica Viva.

bellows - a couple of guys from barnacled doing horn metal, they're on some beefheart/king crimson/sabbath trip except without the guitars. they just put out a CD in feb but they're still providence's best kept secret.

http://www.myspace.com/bellowsbellows

mi sousaphone weighs a ton

vitals podcasts/mailouts are great for keeping an eye on below the radar noise/drone nad im enjoying especially now that my phone can zap podcasts out of the air while im working
http://www.vitalweekly.net/podcast.html

Dude I know in seattle swears by something called "Walrus Machine."

I've never actually heard them, though.

The GX Jupitter Larson "Big Time Crash Bang 2008" LP sounds cool. It's nothing but the sound of car crashes, mangled to various degrees.

Scott -- there is tons of Baltimore noise you should check out. i would reccomend contacting True Vine
and seeing if they can hook you up with some of the noisier local stuff they have, but failing that i can send you some of the shit i know.

Kammerflimmer Kollektief are more ambient/drone than noise, but if you like improvised avant-garde electro-acoustic music with odd electronic effects and noises, they're a good choice:

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Kammerflimmer+Kollektief

http://www.myspace.com/astral_social_club

seconded - was logging in to say check out Neil Campbell & Matt Bower projects.
also the UK magazine Rocka Rolla covers this beat of which you speak, metal magazine with very little actual metal.
You will encounter many rabid Mike Patton fans.

Mike Patton of Crank 2: High Voltage fame?

You definitely need The Sound Projector magazine, if you haven't seen it already:

http://www.thesoundprojector.com/

Massive, more-or-less annual, UK print compendium of fringe and noisy music of all types. Excellent mix of really detailed knowledge and unpretentious, fannish enthusiasm. Great archived radio shows on the site, as well.

An antiquity sampler called the Gift of Noise from 1983. An MP3 rip from the original vinyl.

A history of it on my blog.

just bumping this in case someone didn't see it. i should have time this weekend to spam noiseniks around the globe.

hey scott I sent u a message through the ilx webmail but I'm never sure if that thing works

i got it! thanks. i've been meaning to get back to you.

ok cool

Always a place in my heart for the kindly sound poetry progenitor Henri Chopin. I was fortunate to see him just months before he died.

this is so much fun! i mean, i haven't even written anything yet, but i'm already having so much fun digging thru the infinite layers of interweb c-20 tape only scuzz clank blip labels and listening and e-mailing people. i needed this. something new to reinvigorate my fondness for rockcrit and feed my exploratory nature. don't get me wrong, writing about metal all regular-like for the last 4 years or so has been fun, but i often had to pull teeth to get people to send me the stuff i REALLY wanted to hear and write about. now, i don't care. fuck thor and his kult ass. dude in france is totally hooking me up with atonal monkey music! i may never listen to metal again. i've got crazy shit coming from around the globe. in this new economy(trademark), we need noisy lunatic music more than ever. and burbling electronic brooks hacked into pieces via ancient elctronic brook hacking machines.

i need a name for my new column. whoever thinks of the best one gets a free cool and possibly noisy and/or arty record in the mail. plus, a 45. and a tape.

"Noise Monitor"

not bad!

even the graphic i found might work:

http://www.burntechshop.com/images/sl130andled.jpg

nice!

dad a , i think you may be the winner by default. i'll give it till midnight tonight!

YAY this thread

I think "Clank Blip" is a great name. Or "Noise Filter".

Also, if you haven't already spent at least 27 hours listening to Aube records, you've got a really jarring and excellent week awaiting you.

that's a good idea. i need more aube in my life.

ooh, noise monitor -vs- noise filter. now i'm torn.

i'm gonna change the rules and bump this thread for awhile. if i get some more ideas i'll send them to my editor at decibel and let him decide. the winner gets one record, one 45, one tape, and one book of my choosing.

"Sonic Damage"? "Sonic Apostasy"?

The former is also the name of a band tho'

Yeah, go with "Sonic Apostasy"

(as my choice! feel free to reject it!)

"Disharmonic Shootout"?

"Infernal City of Dissonance"

Too long, but there it is.

frozen sounds
bad almanac
the agitator general
pink tentacle journal
nothing like music
altered racket
the wages of din

What about a spin on the classic track-title "Noise Not Music"........"Noise And Music"?

more noise, please
skronk alert
metal is for pussies

Iller Noise

Ok maybe don't send my last one in

noise will be noise

OK Atonal Dynamite

keep them coming, they are all going to decibel hq.

I googled the phrase really complicated sound theory but didn't surface much :( Um, but here are some fun suggestions for your considering:

Reflections From the Time Loop
Fume Delirium
UFO Pricks
Grey Acid
The Blood I Drink
Reports From the Blindspot

^^Blood I Drink=line from Alvarius B tune but I figured if EdIII can submit a Steven Jesse Bernstein song then that's alright, right?

MegaHurtz
Sonic Reducer
Clatter

NOISE IS FOR HEROES

http://blog.eun.org/avila/cARTELDELRUIDO.JPG

the wages of din!

^^Blood I Drink=line from Alvarius B tune but I figured if EdIII can submit a Steven Jesse Bernstein song then that's alright, right?

― invitation to rabies (╓abies), Wednesday, April 29, 2009 2:41 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

f'kn LOVE bernstein... should've cited source on that one, the guy's canon in my house but not so much everywhere else

in the 80s a friend of mine did a column called "and then my mind split open" after the VU lyric, these are always appropriate + fair game imo

I was introduced to Bernstein about a year or so ago when a guy I met insisted I hear the track Face. Really awesome album. I wish I had more similar to it. I've got that Uncle Jim album (which I suppose is cannon among some of my friends like Bernstein is among yours), and I've been meaning to find the similar Burroughs CD but no go.

the wages of din

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, April 29, 2009 2:37 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

hi, you win. e-mail me your address and i will send you a gift package.

holy shit I just saw this!

it is a freakin' honor

I don't understand why there's no YELLOW TEARS thread on ILX, so I'm starting one now

i'm working on my third column and i haven't sent edward his prize package yet! sorry, edward! i'm sending it tomorrow!!! what can i say? i'm old and slow.

soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much fun putting these together. getting such great stuff/response too. wish i had twice the room though. so much stuff i could write about every month.

in the first column i featured: lucas abela/rice corpse (with a great live shot of lucas doing his thing! glad i could get his bloody face in the pages of a metal mag), jeff surak and his awesome violet album (violet ray gas and the playback singers), that totally amazing ata ebtekar ornamentalism album, and the 905 Tapes label. (such a great label. check them out if you haven't already and you like new noize/drone)

still having a lot of fun doing this every month. i try to mix things up as much as i can. here is what i've written about/mentioned in my first six columns:

august

rice corpse - mrs. rice (dual plover)

violet - violet ray gas and the playback singers (zeromoon)

ata ebtekar and the iranian orchestra for new music performing works of alireza mashayekhi - ornamentalism (sub rosa)

905 tapes - tape label that features people like circuit wound, hollow bonez, blown doors, kylie minoise, joe breitenbach, etc

september

florian hecker - acid in the style of david tudor (editions mego)

starving weirdos - into an energy (bo' weavil)

william fowler collins - perdition hill radio (type)

nate young - regression (ideal recordings)

john weise - circle snare (no fun)

mania - ultra-negative (freak animal)

tetragrammaton - elegy for native tongues (subvalent)

october

gx jupitter-larson's zelphabet series (zelphabet)

fedora corpse records (gote, expo 70)

malleable records (embarker, flannel injection, c section)

noveller - paint on the shadows (no fun)

courtis/moore - brokebox juke (no fi)

group doueh - treeg salaam (sublime frequencies)

november

an anthology of chinese experimental music 1992-2008 (sub rosa)

tomutonttu - tomutontuu/tomutonto (fonal)

kreng - l'autopsie phenomenale de dieu (miasmah)

tim olive - the specialist (em)

gog - mist from the random more

sperm whales/color rabbit - split lp (little furry things)

kommissar hjuler and mama bar - asylum lunaticum (intransitive recordings)

nurse with wound - the surveillance lounge (dirter)

december

actuary/peacemaker/hfattm - split cd (vomitcore)

jason zeh/explosive improvised device/nicholas ceparski/teeth collection - split cassette (factotum tapes)

extreme noise terror/cock e.s.p. - split single (little mafia)

olekranon - recycle human lung (inam)

black roller crop rotation - prayers from the rotten soil (crucial bliss)

light of shipwreck - in the empty wreckage of a dream (1-2) (gears of sand)

locrian - drenched lands (bloodlust)

the crowned heads of europe - witnesseth (sounds of battle and souvenir collecting)

fellacoustic records (jim fellahean, steve makita, etc.)

january

house of alchemy label (stone baby, century plants, peonies)

love earth music (instagon, +dog+)

skeleton dust recordings (being, infirmary, haemorrhaging fetus, remlap)

spooky tree (urthquake, noise nomads, squidlaunch, diagram a, chrome jackson)

um, and i also featured utech records. but now i can't remember what month that was...

i write about stuff that i like. again, if there are any labels that people think i should cover or new-ish albums, lemme know. or if YOU or anyone you know makes rad noise/experimental stuff and want to be (possibly) featured, lemme know.

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hey, at the very least, i got a picture of group doueh into a metal magazine.

the new aaron dilloway thing, with some other guy (turman?), is really good. it's called blizzard and he recorded it during one. i think it was a tour cdr thing until recently. ice cold synth drones, total 70s sound.

i'll check it out. my fave new thing is the komissar hjuler and mama bar vinyl album on feeding tube records. lovely and demented cut-up/tape/concrete stuff that they do so well.

was gonna write about this servile sect cd i got, cuz it's amazing, but then i find out that it came out in 2008.

gx jupitter-larson's zelphabet series (zelphabet)

these are cheap, but I somehow never get round to picking any up. if I saw one in the shops, I probably would, but the only place in London that sells them is most of the way up a big hill.

any you particularly recommend?

order A, G and H anyway. the hit-rate's pretty good, I expect.

wait where can i read this?

decibel magazine

just bumping this to say that i love doing this column every month and if anyone in ilx-land makes or knows anyone who makes drone/noise/avant/atonal/weird/deep psych/experimental/etc music you should e-mail me. like, if you know someone with a tape label or whatever and they would want a little shout-out in a metal mag, lemme know. i'm always looking for stuff. good stuff. interesting stuff. or at the very least weird stuff. over the top. "extreme". you know. like that. the newer the release the better, but that's not really a big deal. "this year" is new enough.

just wrote about this and it is so goddamn great and i want everyone to know about it:

http://www.sedimental.com/images/covers/boestti_package.jpg

http://www.sedimental.com/catalog/index.php?ID=56

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winner of my first annual noise challenge:

http://decibelmagazine.com/Content.aspx?ncid=380339

0th is a great band- just learned that their album is called "Tammy" and the band is called 0th, and not the other way around. Ooops. Anyway, 0th gets thumbs way up.

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Monday, March 30, 2009 4:44 PM (1 year ago)

This album is soooo fucking good.