There’s so much of interest broadcast on Resonance FM that it’s almost absurd. Segments pop up as part of the website/radio station’s podcast, including, in mid-July, a segment of Pete Kemble’s show, The Heard World. An entry titled “A Collection of Distorted Noises” is exactly that, with Kimball fracturing the sounds of a preacher and […]
Overdose Kunst is two Japanese musicians, Takeshi.f and Ryuta.k, who are well represented by a pair of recent five-track netlabel releases. War of Kelgenetu, on Umbrella Noize (umbrellanoize.com), moves easily from brash static to light field recordings to somnolent tunefulness, the highlight being the title cut, in which drowsy piano and a loping, skipped beat […]
It’s the day that the dark-clad and gloom-oriented have long been awaiting: June 6, 2006, or 6/6/06, the most Satanic day of our century, at least until 2066. In its honor, here are two expanses of dark ambience, courtesy of the aptly named Noisejihad Live netlabel, housed at noisejihad.dk/netlabel. The label traffics, as its name […]
The organizers of E3, the big annual video game expo held a week ago at the Los Angeles Convention Center, have turned down the sound, even as video-game manufacturers have begun to turn up the music. What in the past has been an implausibly loud mix of business and fun, so loud that you couldn’t […]
There is little if any appointment listening on the web. Don’t let the phrase “webcast” turn you off. More often than not, a live web broadcast is archived, as with Matmos member MC Schmidt’s April 30 appearance on the Shirley and Spinoza Internet radio show (compound-eye.org/radio). By day, Schmidt has been teaching a “Sound as […]
In the world of noise music, no one can hear you scream. Or, more to the point, your scream may be heard, but it’s likely to have been so utterly transformed by digital and analog sonic torture devices that it will not be comprehended. The squelched voices in the work by a duo going by […]
Want to hear more from Tyondai Braxton, one quarter of Battles, the electronified math-rock outfit newly signed to Warp Records? There are two MP3s up at his website, tyondai.jmzrecords.com, both from the History That Has No Effect album, a “solo loop” set released on the JMZ label in 2002. (JMZ has also released work by […]
Tis the season for many things, but as the year winds down, the noisemongers at the Noisejihad Live netlabel certainly don’t have good cheer on their minds. The latest entry is a half hour of tentative dissonances by Eske Norholm of Denmark (MP3), caught on tape as the middle act on a bill that also […]
This year, an electronic-music anniversary passed with little fanfare. Two decades after the release of Brian Eno’s album Thursday Afternoon, it was made newly available in a remastered edition. The occasion provided an opportunity for something I’d wanted to do for a while: host an online discussion on a specific topic, and then post a […]
The podcasts from brainwashed.com are often like a good college radio show, a string of great songs casually strung together, but occasionally they’re much more, like when they plumb the depths of the record collection of the series’ host, Jon Whitney, or when they focus on the work of a single artist, or related artists. […]