Quick Links, News and Good Reads: (1) Yes, that is the early drum’n’bass figure Photek who’s got a remix on the new single, “Cool,” off Gwen Stefani’s Love. Angel. Music. Baby., currently atop one of Billboard’s many charts. … (2) Guitar Hero, the video game (info at guitarherogame.com); (3) a new turntable from Vestax apparently [...]
The name of this band is (Sound of Impact). Those parenthesis are part of the name, the reference likely to how the crash of a plane is registered in the transcript of black box recordings. At least that’s what Big Black, the rigorous minimal hardcore band, intended when it used the term for the title [...]
Norwegian noise-meister Lasse Marhaug played a 40-minute set this past July at the Norberg Festival in Sweden. The event is preserved as a high-density (192 Kbps) if lo-fi MP3 at the Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre’s sound archive (teks.no/lasse_marhaug). What begins as light, bouncy reverberation (King Tubby’s idea of a Jew’s harp) expands into thick white [...]
Has access to Japanese electronic music gotten easier, thanks to Apple? Apple launched an iTunes Music Store in Japan on August 3, bringing to 20 the number of countries with iTunes stores, including not only the U.K. and Germany, but Finland and Luxembourg. Region-specific iTunes stores include region-specific downloads. Thus, sampling Japanese electronic music should [...]
Continuing in the podcast-recommendations, in light of the recent iTunes software upgrade, definitely check out the series from brainwashed.com, whose latest hour-length download (MP3, dated June 30) includes musician-approved material by such goth-noise-art figures as Current 93 and Nurse with Wound, among others. Direct link to the brainwashed podcast here.
Waldchengarten is the first act to get a release entirely to itself on the Noisejihad netlabel, based at noisejihad.dk/netlabel. Noisejihad releases free downloads of live concerts, and previous entries in its series have paired the likes of Zbigniew Karkowski and Fl/ex’0, and Ryfylke and Danny Kreutzfeldt. The twofers have helped because noise is often so [...]
Tiny Creatures’s self-titled album has appeared on two different netlabels, as the seventh release from Birdsong (birdsong.co.il) and number six from Imaginary Albums (imaginaryalbums.com). And tiny these creatures are, the collection’s 26 tracks ranging from 28 seconds in length to just over four minutes, with the majority clocking in at under two minutes. The whole [...]
Listening to a live recording of noise-meister Zbigniew Karkowski on an MP3 has about as much fidelity (in the general experiential sense of the word, as well in the more common audio one) as watching the big weekend game on a countertop TV the size of a small loaf of bread. Such an MP3 is [...]
The new album from Sal., Ohne Titel Mit Titel, now downloadable from the Test Tube netlabel, will appeal mostly to veteran noise fans, but there are nods to a more general audience. While three tracks are about as pleasurable as the wind breaking against a cheap microphone during an ill-fated field-recording trip to the shore [...]
Following up yesterday’s introduction to the Noisejihad Live! netlabel, here’s another recommendation. In brief, don’t be scared off by the site’s thus far longest and largest track, a nearly hour-long opus by Danny Kreutzfeldt. His entry appears on the label’s second release, dated February 19, 2005, and shares its virtual space with the group Ryfylke. [...]