The NO PART OF IT interview series was initiated in the same questions being asked of 30+ people in February of 2019. A new entry with answers from each artist will be posted on the 13th of each month.
http://nopartofit.blogspot.com/2020/05/interview-series-15-jacob-deraadt.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NoPartOfIt+%28NO+PART+OF+IT%29
Scheduled in March, 2019
I'm pretty sure I met Jacob in 2010, at Denver Noise Fest, although I am pretty sure he didn't perform then, and rarely did until around five years later. There he gave me one of his tapes from his main project, Sterile Garden. It's hard to describe it, especially knowing how widely varied it can be, and frankly, how much of the discography I haven't heard yet. What I have heard is deeply rooted in industrial noise; wind-licked tape screech, basement drones, grinding piles of near-dead loops, cut-up field recordings crumpled up and set on fire, and so forth. DeRaadt is also a visual artist and his cover art often is a perfect reflection of this sound via what I can only assume is manual xerox collage, screen printing, elaborate cut-outs/stencils, and various ink experiments.
