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GENERAL VISUAL ART / LITERATURE DISCUSSION / Re: Deaths / RIP
Last post by Hyena - Today at 07:35:48 PM
Quote from: tiny_tove on Today at 01:16:32 PMJim Goad. Haven't been in touch for many years, but his work on ANSWER ME! was one of the things that got me started. Kudos also for the redneck manifesto. Very opinionated but likable chap to correspond with.

Confirmed?
#2
GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: WHITE CENTIPEDE NOISE PODC...
Last post by WCN - Today at 07:27:57 PM
Out now - AFTERBLAST with Jim Haras of Fusty Cunt / DETERGE

A 2 hour follow up discussion to Jim's first appearance on the podcast over 3 years ago. Topics discussed: noise at the office, gatekeeping, Boy Scouts of America, the current state of noise, the younger generation, what Jim likes to eat, and much more.

https://www.patreon.com/whitecentipedenoise
#3
NEW RELEASES ANNOUNCEMENTS / ROTAT Care Package
Last post by Vermin Marvin - Today at 03:38:26 PM
Care package LTD 10

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#4
Jim Goad. Haven't been in touch for many years, but his work on ANSWER ME! was one of the things that got me started. Kudos also for the redneck manifesto. Very opinionated but likable chap to correspond with.
#5
Isn'tses new album "Throwing a Shoe into a Black Hole"





We are excited to announce our new Isn'tses album 'Throwing a Shoe into a Black Hole', which is out now for pre-order on cassette or digital from Cruel Nature Recordings:

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/throwing-a-shoe-into-a-black-hole

Full album release 14th Aug

An intense mind-bending spacey journey of wild explosive emotion and sonic textures,
This raw and chaotic ten track album was recorded in our studio using a mix of programming and realtime improvisation. It combines complex beats, textures, unpredictable sounds and frenetic rhythms, at times with melody and screamy vocals as well as noise elements.

The album is "Kinda Like" a deep delve into the vision of the "Sol Receiver" looking through a tunnel with "One Eye" whilst doing a "Freekfall" into multi-dimensional space that was always around us, while authorities dare to shout "I Spit on Your Rave" and the freedom fighters endeavor to "Free the Party". "I'm Not The" one to suggest you "Undo Fear Biases" as you hit the "Rave Button" it's a "Do or Die" situation rectified only by Throwing a Shoe into a Black Hole.

Lisa McKendrick: Drums, sequencing, analogue modeling synths, vocals, sound recordings, dictaphone, lyrics and effects.

Tim Drage: Noises, modular synths, filters, chiptune hardware, circuit bent devices, field recordings.
#6
gear/tech/etc / Re: Best website(s) to buy use...
Last post by Cementimental - Today at 10:59:57 AM
Here in the UK Vinted is suprisingly good for finding toy/consumer instruments to circuit bend, cheap pedals, blank media, and general 'collectable'/vintage stuff which normies are getting rid of who don't about the inflated ebay 'value' of.
#7


MSK 147 Killer Sieben - Nachtschicht
https://mayaschwarzekatze.bandcamp.com/merch/killer-sieben-nachtschicht

Killer Sieben
Nachtschicht
36 pages photo album (36 colour photographs)
Nachtschicht Zine containing 13 classic Killer Sieben prints
Includes "Nachtschicht" CD-R
3 MSK sticker
Limited to 2 copies
MSK 147


MSK 146 Der Smogwürger - Nachtmeerfahrten (Limited Handnumbered CD-R)
https://mayaschwarzekatze.bandcamp.com/album/nachtmeerfahrten
7 handnumbered copies. Includes 3 DIN A4 sized inserts and 1 MSK sticker.

MSK 143 Giulio Fontana - Momentum (Limited Handnumbered CD-R)
https://mayaschwarzekatze.bandcamp.com/album/momentum
7 handnumbered copies. Includes 3 DIN A4 sized inserts and 1 MSK sticker.
#8
GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Merzbow Top Hits
Last post by Moran - Today at 03:15:54 AM
Quote from: Balor/SS1535 on July 19, 2026, 08:50:02 PM
Quote from: Moran on July 19, 2026, 08:19:49 PM
Quote from: Balor/SS1535 on July 19, 2026, 07:18:17 PM
Quote from: Moran on July 19, 2026, 07:03:53 PM
Quote from: Balor/SS1535 on July 11, 2026, 08:24:18 PMI think the real question, then, is figuring out how his veganism fits with the earlier porn/trash themes.  A lot of people act like the embrace of straight-edge marked a gap in the project's thematics (and Akita's own insistence that it did only complicates this), but I suspect that there is more similarity than difference at bottom---and that part of the key for figuring that out is revealed through the way he has no problem with AI.
Speculating (I haven't spent much time analyzing Merzbow), but Merzbow seemed like an extension of Masami Akita first and foremost. Many other artists limit the scope of their projects more. If one expects the more limited scope from Merzbow and sees him departing from it, this could be seen as a "gap." Whether or not Masami Akita is sharply aware of the relationship of this aspect regarding the vegan/porn themes and the whole project wouldn't change much, I think.

Akita the person vs. Merzbow the project has been a question that I have had for a while, as he does release noise under his own name on occasion (which would suggest to me that he sees reason to distinguish himself from the project)?  I could have sworn there was an article about Merzbow from a while back that argues in favor of not collapsing Merzbow onto Akita himself.

At the same time, however, his revisionist tendencies with album reissues (removing his ex-wife's contributions, for instance) certainly make it seem much more personal.

After all this time, though, it might just be too complicated to try and parse this at all.
I'd be interested in reading that article if it comes up.

Reading his interviews often makes me think is he being serious/honest here?

I'll take a look around to see if I can find it---it might have been the Japanoise book, but I am not certain.

He certainly seems serious, and he has seemed to be so since the beginning.  The earliest interviews/comments by him I have read are in the Merzbook, and he speaks almost like an academic!
(Replying in the Merzbow thread.)

Right. I wonder to what extent the parts that feel odd are related to language/culture differences. The part about the machine-generated visuals is an example, though that could be ignorance or a lack of opportunity to explain better. Hard to believe that someone who engages with such technology as much as he does would have a simpler idea of it than my older family members.
#9
GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: FINNISH NOISE
Last post by f.ov.f - Today at 02:16:42 AM
https://kurluk.bandcamp.com/album/kurluk-resting-place-vile-trauma

Kurluk / Resting Place - Vile Trauma
We made pro CD-R split release for the upcoming Harsh Ways Fest.
Kurluk plays harsh noise. Resting Place plays industrial.

50copies in dvd case with insert.
#10
GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: TAINT/MANIA/ Everything Ke...
Last post by Moran - Today at 12:55:27 AM
Thank you for the clarification.

Listening to Virulent Nihilism again after having been a bit put off by the immediate sound and the vocals in the second louder section reminiscent of Indications of Nigredo, the compositions are without excessive sections and layered with sounds that emerge and blend into others unobtrusively. This approach to layering, which for me became more salient starting with the 2011 releases (Grotesque Mirth and the split with Custodian), keeps repeat listens where I focus on different parts of the layers interesting: part of the timeless quality of my favorite Mania releases.