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Brume – Normal Aug 12, 2020

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Sounds shrouded in mist hover as we discuss “Normal” by Brume. While it’s hard to put this CD into words, we do our best as we talk about split brains, psychological planes, and the places Christian Renou’s work takes us. Fade into its haunted essence and discover new ways for sound to ignite fires.

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Recent listening:
Brume “No Thing”
Christian Renou / Anemone Tube “Transference”
Richard Ramirez “Bleeding Headwound”
Black Leather Jesus “Torturous Chapter”
David Gilden “Temporary Sedation”
Himukalt “Last Wish”
Breaking the Will “Mortal Terrain Incendiary”
Star “Linzess for Polymuse”

In Conversation with Joe Colley (Crawl Unit) Aug 05, 2020

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Whether under the Crawl Unit moniker or his own name, Joe Colley has created his own unique strain of noise since the late ’80s. We were elated to have Colley join us for an in depth conversation about his work—both sonically and visually—his early experimentation, and the feeling of the boundary-free era of ’90s noise. Let the speakers crack and the floorboards creak.

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Photo of Joe Colley by Mike Shiflet

Cabaret Voltaire – The Voice of America (with guest Juan Mendez) Jul 29, 2020

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Juan Mendez (Silent Servant) joins us to discuss a major root in industrial sound — Cabaret Voltaire’s “The Voice of America.” Juan talks about the importance of this record in relation to his work as well as the entire landscape of industrial and experimental music. We also get into his history as Silent Servant, his work with Sandwell District and more. The damage is done and the messages have been received.

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In Conversation with Black Leather Jesus Jul 22, 2020

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To say we had a blast talking to Richard Ramirez-Matzus and Sean Ramirez-Matzus, the core of Black Leather Jesus, would be a criminal understatement. This 2 hour talk could have easily been 10 hours. We get into the early days of Black Leather Jesus and Deadline Recordings, our favorite horror movies, and so much more. Time to sharpen your pencils like a knife in a giallo; another noise history lesson is in session.

Check their music out at Richard Ramirez’ bandcamp and
The White Visitiation
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Dissecting Table – Between Life and Death Jul 15, 2020

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Japanese industrial psychosis plows through the wastelands in the form of Dissecting Table’s “Between Life and Death.” We are fully on board for Ichiro Tsuji’s unique industrial art and have a blast digging into his post apocalyptic sounds. Hop into a flamethrower-equipped car and crank this dystopian masterpiece. Everyday is one more day of insanity.

Note: Due to hardware failure, we lost the Connelly’s clean audio and are working from the call audio instead so it doesn’t sound as pretty as usual.

This album is included in Dissecting Table – Ultra Materials (1986-1991)
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Recent listening:
Richard Ramirez “Anger Built Machine”
Richard Ramirez “Male”
Richard Ramirez “Audio Negativism”
Black Leather Jesus “Torturous Chapter”
Like Weeds “Any Government That Places Profit Before People Is Pure Evil”
Like Weeds “Ourselves Alone”
Wolf Creek “Corruption Overload”
Various Artists – Kulture Shot 2
Skin Graft & John Wiese “Accessible World”
Timisoara “Cells of Heaven”
Timisoara/TADM “I Am Not Dying In A Nightmare”
Ennio Morricone “Crime and Dissonance”

Recent Viewing:
Dissective Table – Live in 1988
Dissecting Table – Dead Zone live video

Speculum Fight – Highball Jul 08, 2020

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Damion Romero’s project Speculum Fight rides the American noise railways as we discuss 1997’s “Highball” CD on WIN Records. Damion gave us some background information on this album as well as his equipment and inspiration around this time. Put on your engineer’s cap and enjoy the scenery thru the lens of Speculum Fight.

Cool web archive photos from MSBR’s site
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Recent Listening:
Cherry Point “Buried Alive”
Kjostad “Extinictionst”
Richard Ramirez “Tragic Birth Forming”
Linekraft “Industrialized Criminals History”
Banetoriko “Sakasa no Kikiro-men Yori”
Banetoriko “Beside the Sluice”
Tangerine Dream “Phaedra”
SDEM “Deloc”

Tangerine Dream – Zeit Jul 01, 2020

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As nearly every classic Japanese noise artist has cited Tangerine Dream as a huge influence, we thought it was time to cover them and their “Zeit” double album from 1972. One of the very first full on experimental ambient records, “Zeit” sends us all on an abstract sonic path while we dig up the roots of what makes up everyone from Aube to Merzbow to Nord and countless other noise legends. Touch the haunting heavens with this masterpiece of experimental art.

Recent Listening:

Anenzephalia “Noehaem”
Dissecting Table “Between Life and Death”
Empty DNA “Moon Crawls Above”
K. Leimer “Music for Land and Water”
Marc Barreca “Twilight”

Nord – Electronic Initiation Jun 24, 2020

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Are we in the cosmos? Underwater? The jungle? It’s possible we are in all three at the same time with Nord “Electronic Initiation.” Nord is one of the earliest Japanese noise projects, and this brain buster of a CD came almost 20 years into Nord’s existence. Midway through the episode, we got messages from Kimihide Kusafuka, aka K2, aka owner of Kinky Musik Institute, the label that put this CD out. Kusafuka gave us some behind the scenes info on “Electronic Initiation” including one bit of information that changed our whole perception of the album.

Recent listening:
Gnawed – Subterranean Rites CD
Megaptera – A Horse in the Eye is Part of the Art LP+CD
Pleasure Island – Special Forces LP
Irgun Zwai Leumi – Klirrfaktor LP
Moral Order – Examples of Solipsism 12″
Geography of Hell – Live I
Geography of Hell – Live II
Linekraft – Death Still Persist CD
XX Committee – Network CD
Macronympha – Super Oxide CD

Various Artists – Sounds of New Music (with guest Aaron Dilloway) Jun 17, 2020

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Aaron Dilloway takes us on a time traveling journey, as far back as the 1920s, to get into some of the earliest roots of experimental music with “Sounds of New Music” on the legendary Folkways Records. This compilation features works from avant garde composers like John Cage and Edgar Varese, as well as some strange instructional tracks and other primitive sonic experiments. Hear the sounds of the distant past and understand the sounds of the future.

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Puchase this album here: https://folkways.si.edu/sounds-of-new-music/contemporary-electronic/music/album/smithsonian

Recent Listening:
Dead Body Love “Low-Fi Power Carnage”
Dead Body Love “Maximum Dose”
Heat Signature “Dehumanization in Progress”
Striations “Campaign of Cruelty”
Blunt Force Trauma “Bled Out”
Contagious Orgasm “Voltage Controlled Filter”
The Cherry Point “Black Witchery”
Sewer Election “Sex/Death”
Lasse Marhaug “the Great Silence”
Ordo Equilibrio “Reaping the Fallen – The First Harvest”
Francisco Lopez/Scott Arford “Solid State Flesh/Solid State Sex”

Solmania – Trembling Tongues Jun 10, 2020

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Shredding down the sun-drenched modified noise guitar highway we go with Solmania’s “Trembling Tongues.” A very unique Japanese noise project, Solmania delivers some psychedelic overdrive noise. We go through an interview with Masahiko Ohno from Bananafish #9 and and get into his own noise world. Greh pronounces Solmania one way, Tara pronounces it another way, and Mike bounces between the two, which is only fitting when discussing this wild CD of noise madness.

Recent Listening:
Actus “Egy Út Az Erő És A Rendszer Birodalmába = A Way To The Empire Of Strength And Order”
Pirkan “s/t”
International Mail Music Group “s/t”
Corporate Park “Exchange”
Bacillus “I Hope You Get Better Soon But You Probably Won’t”
Incapacitants “Fabrication”