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GENERAL VISUAL ART / LITERATURE DISCUSSION / Re: Deaths / RIP

Last post by Andrew McIntosh - Today at 03:13:55 AM

Cronos.
This one hits hard.

All hail!

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GENERAL VISUAL ART / LITERATURE DISCUSSION / Re: Deaths / RIP

Last post by Stipsi - October 01, 2026, 06:43:06 PM

Cronos.
This one hits hard.

#3

CLASSIFIED ADS / Re: Metal to the Core 1986 || ...

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Last post by Bringbackthewhip - October 01, 2026, 04:26:24 PM

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[id m + Jay-Z]

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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REV...

Last post by k.p.g - October 01, 2026, 04:06:30 PM

id m + Jay-Z - A Dull Lit Spigot to Frown on O'clocks (Secret Mang)
Seeing this appear on the Secret Mang Discogs raised my morbid curiosity through the roof.  "Of course I have to check out the noise tape that credits Jay-Z right on the front," I said to myself.  It took only 3 seconds to realize I had made the right decision.  What's really going on here is what I have to assume is id m utilizing something like a CDJ to cut up only Jay-Z vocal stems as sound source.  Results in what I can only describe as "the endzone of plunderphonics;" skittish vocal cut-up noise that crunches itself into oblivion for brief moments until exploding back into a bunch of grunts and woos.  How much of this is really thought out and how much is left to chance is really unknown.  I could see it sliding on either end of that scale.  By no means harsh, but still retains that crushing bludgeon that the best harsh stuff contains; a hilarious and rewarding release.

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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Live show reports / commen...

Last post by k.p.g - October 01, 2026, 02:59:43 PM

Any footage of this ?  The description sounds great.

Nothing beyond some iPhone clips but both sets were recorded onto my Walkman.  Planning to dub some off when things are quiet on the home front again.

[Slacking]

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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Live show reports / commen...

Last post by urall - October 01, 2026, 12:35:22 PM

Took a trip down to Baltimore, Maryland last night to catch Slacking & Private Collector on the miniature tour they are on right now.  They were joined on a mixed bill with several other local bands, so a friend and I were really there to catch the noise.  Took closer to the 2 hour end of things both ways, but both performers made things more than worth it to travel.

Slacking went first for the two, and delivered nothing short of a spectacular set.  Since 2023, I have had the pleasure of seeing Jim's sets develop from longform bursts of psychedelic noise into more refined journeys that dare to stretch the borders of noise and general experimental music.  Last night was no different, as tape loops and oscillator screeches brushed elbows with ritualistic drones and even calming passages of beats that felt very Boards of Canada to my ears.  Throughout the entire set, I thought to myself "wow, he's got things locked in.  I wonder if we are seeing songs for a future release."  Turns out, NO, we are not.  That was just a totally improvised occurrence.  MAN!  Now that is even more impressive to see; someone who has such total command of their sound palette that they make even winging it look totally intentional.  I am excited for my next chance to see Slacking after this, as I think that the forward-thinking nature of Jim's working process lends itself to expansion that will only guarantee a more improved result on the next outing.  But I should still say, this was definitely my favorite time catching him live up to this point.

Private Collector was an act who I was very curious to see after a promising release on Tribe Tapes and some thoughtful conversations exchanged.  What I could not have expected was to be totally floored by how hard he rocked it on this dreary Sunday!  Prior to the set, when discussing sound, he mentioned that much of what he is going for is the sound of multiple signals with high gain fighting for dominance in the mix. 

"Oh you, mean like Skin Graft?"
"Sort of, but my volume knobs are much lower."

Certainly were!  But funny enough, whether intended or not, the kind of hot-blooded intensity I would expect from the work of Wyatt Howland was present throughout this Private Collector performance.  It made for perhaps the most intense lowkey set I have ever seen.  Signals continued to push each other aside at a moderate hum, with each static change feeling like a seismic shift in the set.  There was some tape introduced, but it felt so buried in the mix of electronic decay that I imagined something akin to fidgeting around a broken tape deck to figure out why there's some hum whenever you try to enjoy some light listening.  Each choice that the artist made managed to build upon the previous one in such a thrilling manner.  By the time it was over, I could not believe what I had seen.  Such intensity!  Wow.  And here I thought that the Slacking set might have been the peak of it all.  Nope.  This fresh face delivered a knockout of equal proportion.

Not often is one treated to a touring bill that just blows you away on all fronts.  I hope to see more of these two on the road (and maybe on recording) together.  There is some sort of spiritual connection in their respective works that makes sense and elevates them both to greater heights.

Any footage of this ?  The description sounds great.

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GENERAL VISUAL ART / LITERATURE DISCUSSION / Re: Extermination Zone Reprint

Last post by FreakAnimalFinland - October 01, 2026, 11:12:04 AM

Oh yes. If Answer Me! could be witty and creative, Mike Diana could be visually neat & adolescently creative...

Fuck certainly is more like scribbles on school books -level offenses, vulgar angst, breaking taboos with "I'll just throw this shit..." -approach. I have all the FUCK magazines and original book as well. Should have somewhere also his VHS recordings which are pretty much similar nature. As a zine format, it is still kind of relevant document of certain things. To go and read it from PDF on the screen, no point, hah..

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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: WHITE CENTIPEDE NOISE PODC...

Last post by FreakAnimalFinland - October 01, 2026, 11:00:23 AM

yes, indeed. I would think big part of the late 70's, 80's industrial, the machinery and soundscape was already quite "old". With futurism, they were seeing the idealistic birth of industrialization. Bringing some speed and excitement to boring agricultural italy.  When looking at industrial music, UK 80's, that was already era of deindustrialization. Birth of industrial music goes exact same timeframe as industrial collapse. Dirty old factories, certainly would be there, but also in a way "the sound of past". Of course it is debatable if artists who live that exact moment find any nostalgia etc or if that comes a bit later.

Mika Taanila was talking about in Special Interests 6. I asked something about his work that is odd quality of being focused on tech and sort of futuristic aspects, but oddly nostalgic or old perspective. He replied "R. Buckminster Fuller once wrote that when you try to look far ahead in the future, the exactly same amount of years open up in the past. We're there in the middle, the present tense. This is the kind of pendulum that I try to achieve with my films."
I find that more interesting than being very narrowly in as small sphere as social media feed on ones hand. Conscious view into something. It is talked in the interview how horrid the feed is when you kind of accidentally end up in it, hah..

I know at least one noise release where sound source was indeed browsing IG feed. Chaotic random racket as basis of source. Due the randomness and quickly changing nature of it, might work just fine. Like Dead Body Love explaining how some of his tracks had source of fast forwarding death metal CD's. Player skipping fragments of seconds music becomes abstract mess. Massive distortion would mutate it to vivid harsh noise. Knowing that albums may be just fast forwarding metal music CD's doesn't really effect how I feel about them, hah. If turned out some albums was IG feed as source, I must say I may have small caution toward it.




Episode overall is good to check out. Other decent topics as well.

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GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: WHITE CENTIPEDE NOISE PODC...

Last post by mouthsagape - September 30, 2026, 10:24:30 PM

Perhaps most interesting topic briefly discussed was speculation of "social media feed noise" as contemporary industrial cut up sound.

It relates to some of my own comments I have once in a while speculated, that many of former industrial/PE ideas relating on absence of artists/creator and absence of notions of art was good AS LONG as it was bound to be idea that needed man to do it. There was perhaps idea of machine sound albums, but involved great deal of creative input for it to happen.

Oskar mentions comfortable analogue (or perhaps mechanic?) sounds, and indeed, while there may have been talk about bleak and rusty loud machinery, I would assume there isn't albums made out of machines that sound like garbage. Instead, there are recordings that manifest themselves as music or some sort of aesthetically pleasing sound. Same with artwork revolving around industry. Most of all its all the cool looking and sounding things.

Its like paradox of futurism. Dude on motorcycle with leather helmet on, speeding across rural italy may give hint of speed, power and intensity. Soon when you have reached next level, its electric scooter and neon yellow vests and waiting on line with swarming human mass of the like.

Noise or industrial can be now merely generated and it became largely uninteresting in that context. Like noise that became "pure noise". Static distortion generating itself without any meaning, suddenly isn't as interesting as someone who was trying to do it. Elecronic zip zap noise suddenly ain't that interesting when its self generating machine doing it. Cut up became obsolete when someone build you cut up modular box that farts out cut-up noise on same level of creativity as if you turn on water tap. Dark ambient that tried to capture spirit of inhuman coldness may have been great until it really was the inhuman coldness of synth pad application, hah....
And so on and on. Human artistic pursuit to reach for something that is hard to really fully grasp is really golden touch compared to something that just generates "it".

I don't think sounds of IG feed producing random sonic waste to your consciousness is as interesting as it may sound like. Surely suitable topic representing social decay and media downfall and waste of life and creativity, but I would not link it aesthetically nor "ideologically" similar.

Topic is so vast that it is hard really to put it into words in compact and clear way.

Hey, thanks for spending time with the episode! Just to clarify the point I was making, I think it's less that the sounds of Instagram detritus are "interesting" to me on their face so much as they are very much the sound of "now," and provide an interesting springboard from which to explore digital timbres, much in the same way the cacophony of industry was a jumping off point for the earliest crop of industrial artists. The way different apps compress (and distress) audio, the rewards users get for the reuse/repurposing of obnoxious and irritating sounds... plenty of interesting possibilities for use in noise. This gets at your point re: the human element giving a work its proper context; where scrolling dronelike through an app is basically an automated action, exploring the implications through sound has the potential to be engaging. For me it's a question of both effort and intent.