https://www.patreon.com/posts/83531814QuoteCommunication Medium (W/ Max Julian Eastman)
Max Julian Eastman is a noise musician known for recording music under his own name and with projects like Greathumour and Tantric Death as well as the proprietor of what we consider to be one of the best American noise labels currently in existence. In contra to countless other labels that endlessly put out everything that comes out of "the scene", Max approaches Tribe Tapes with an aesthetic and conceptual theory. There is a general sense of discovery here, with reissues of artists that you certainly have never heard of, and a strong, unmistakable visual aesthetic. A welcome addition to the Counter-Agency of the Avant-Garde, indeed.
Max discusses the label, his label's reissuing of classics from the late Marco Corbelli's Slaughter Productions label, the avant-garde and post-punk beginning of industrial and noise music, Smell and Quim, Atrax Morgue, the Haters, and much much more.
80 minutes podcast, as described above. Casual discussion, nothing utterly deep or odd, but discussion does also go into territories that WCN or Noisextra doesn't really cover. We get to hear all sorts of things of making reissues, Slaughter prod, being fan of weird noise as opposed to flat out harshness.
One unusual thing is, that they give credit to old UK noise! Short clips between interview plays a bit of Smell & Quim and Astray Navigations. Besides that, they also talk about it. Not in huge amount, but still name dropping Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers label, Ashtray Navigations, appreciation for Simon Morris, and so on. Grunt used to play in UK a lot at some point. Of course in 2005'sh that 90's scene wasn't exactly same anymore, but still got to see a lot of that stuff plus many more. UK noise was kind of weird noise, and the ones who were creating just brutal harshness were rare. Romance one of those who stood out as more "typical" harsh noise, in middle of countless weird noise acts. Including the cross over into slapstick performance, projects that used guitars, perhaps drums, but were kind of noise, not rock. They do talk how it is surprising how little talk there is about UK noise these days. Although, I wonder if there really every was huge amount of talk about them? Lots of tiny edition tapes. Lots of gigs with merely handful of people there. Perhaps
old (and new) UK noise topic could be topic of its own on this forum, if someone has things to say.
I have fond memories of hoarding stuff from defunct distros/collections of Harbinger, BWCD and more before discogs dominated and price explosion happened. Nothing better than looking boxes and boxes of
dead stock, and label boss thinking only Pain Jerk original tapes has value, and everything else is like.. 2-5GBP... Or visiting Birthbiter "office" and finding out his old distro stock from 80's STILL had "Right To Kill" LP, unplayed. Obviously now higher price, though. Chop Shop steel plate 2x10", new and unopened. Can't expect such things happen anymore. Visited many time Cheeses International, that was really devoted dealer of noise. His catalogues would be rare treat to find now. Every item, personally described by the man himself. Never bulk sale speeches and selling points. Not sure of Millstone (swe) was influenced by this (or the same attitude that used to be there as opposed to using bulk sale speeches). Another possible topic - when did the "press release" replace personal approach in noise? Back in the day, even the biggest, Tesco, Artware, Anomolous etc, had all short personal comments in many releases on their catalogue.
