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Last post by Leewar - Today at 05:52:01 PM
Coming soon - outrage as black metal band are discovered to not actually be satanists.
#3
I know.
AIW appears as currently popular (in almost any music style) cos-play approach. Someone being outraged that man is not African, seems like someone being upset that dude in batman costume wasn't really batman?
However if someone would say French man has no business dealing with Angola as he has no connection to it, ah please. I guess it could display ignorance of not even knowing nor caring whatsoever how someone from France may have even personal ties to this history? I would not be surprised. When Xiu Xiu probably would have had possibility to discuss with artists or find out some angles they didn't possibly even know, the bitch move is to go online to do rage baiting nonsense. Some hailed them as having courage and doing important work. To me it appeared as total cowardice and endorsing the most disgusting online brain cancer culture.
#4
Last post by moozz - Today at 02:53:48 PM
I do have plenty of pedals and still get excited to try new things. Usually new gear brings the level of enthusiasm up for a while. If the gear sounds great/interesting to my ears it will excite me whenever I include it in my signal chain. I am not getting that much new gear anymore (I can achieve a lot with what I have if I just keep practicing, trying different combinations, and just using my imagination) and I am slowly learning that a new fuzz is not gonna sound much different from the fuzz pedals I already have. But then again the last pedal I bought was a fuzz :)
I have kept almost everything I have bought. I feel like if a pedal does not sound good then I am using it wrong or I should use it with a different sound source. Maybe one day I will realize it might be that a certain pedal just is not for me and I should pass it on. Looking forward to that day.
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Last post by Stipsi - Today at 01:19:11 PM
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on Today at 09:54:34 AMI do wonder would it make sense to call it scam, as I assume the scam would mean he actually convinced someone and there really were people who checked out his music with desire to get some african industrial? I would think man simply was influenced by texts GO published as descriptions of their albums. Putting some sort of context to the mood of sound, as opposed of thinking anyone actually believes is a fact, hah...
Extreme music from africa. heh..
I think Xiu Xiu statement was ultra lame. Like so lame and scripted contemporary BS, that it seemed more of parody, than real. Target audience of such thing, and as method of creating clicks and promotion, I guess it works for that purpose exactly.
I'm not sure is a parody...
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Last post by Moran - Today at 01:06:41 PM
I don't think this is less okay than other provocative performances. Xiu Xiu's statement is status quo pearl clutching.
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I do wonder would it make sense to call it scam, as I assume the scam would mean he actually convinced someone and there really were people who checked out his music with desire to get some african industrial? I would think man simply was influenced by texts GO published as descriptions of their albums. Putting some sort of context to the mood of sound, as opposed of thinking anyone actually believes is a fact, hah...
Extreme music from africa. heh..
I think Xiu Xiu statement was ultra lame. Like so lame and scripted contemporary BS, that it seemed more of parody, than real. Target audience of such thing, and as method of creating clicks and promotion, I guess it works for that purpose exactly.
#8
Last week I just listened Viodre vs A Fail Association tape. Its the latest one, and one of those easier releases will less of "wtf is this?" -stuff and more just eye candy noise blast.
I don't remember have I even read their interviews before? I often heard people raving about how great the project is, but never really got the greatness of Interpol Alchemi. Even if I appreciate really highly albums that appear like collections of different sessions and different approaches, this album I do own, but it never really hit hard. However, as a band format, and live act and all that, of course very much appreciated!
In interview pt1, I think interesting moment is when the main spokesman says, grown man, that all his friends are from noise scene, perhaps just one isn't. I think this could be even interesting topic of its own. When I think of it, I barely have so called "normal friends" at this age. Of course there are upstanding citizen, family men, hard working manual labor guys, more intellectual guys and whatever... but it is hard to really point out anyone who would not be, or have had past in the underground culture. The so called normal folks I know, must be relatives.
Of course I do not know only noise people, but also metal, punk, skinhead, visual artists, activists, hooligans, ...whatever, but all they have some sort of different angle to things compared to just grinding the daily life as part of society. I am pretty sure this does effect in life quite a bit. First of all, that people you know, are somewhat different from the mass. But also, when not being part of any specific "community", but interacting with wide variety of very different kind of underground movements, there is not really strict cultural guidelines for thought and behavior. It often leads into situations when you are in situations where you react in ways of am I supposed to be upset about this? Should this somehow anger me?. Things that only make sense, if you replicate behavior in specific community, but barely makes sense outside it. Situation put you literally in position where the normal, meaning conforming to a standard or expected, just ain't happening.
However, of course in life, you end up interacting with regular citizen all the time. Many are indeed not as regular as one would expect, but most often it is frustrating and annoying interactions. Of course grown up man can handle it, but it is not preferred to waste time on that type of discussions or life in general.
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Quote from: k.p.g on November 22, 2025, 09:09:28 PMMerzbow - Green Wheels (Urashima, reissue)
First listen of the day was this monolith of a 2xLP. File it under one of the weirder Merzbow LPs of the 90s. Tons of synth blipping, a little bit of metal scraping, but the part that shines is the vocal work. I never have really listened to any Merzbow with extensive vocal work. It's good! Is there any more like this? Dead Body Love comes to mind when listening to Masami freak out on the mic.
This sounds interesting, as I don't think I have heard Masami do vocals elsewhere? I know that Bara does vocals on a variety of albums, though.
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