New good harsh noise?

Started by FreakAnimalFinland, August 12, 2011, 10:55:09 AM

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Half Aborted

Quote from: tisbor on September 19, 2011, 02:13:59 PMStill have to check Matteo's new output Lettera22 but i doubt it's harsh noise.

It is harsh noise for sure, with element of drone, concrete and field recordings. Great stuff, some of the most exciting new noise going.

Tooting my own horn here but my duo Inverted Nepal with my friend Paul (who played on classic Smell & Quim albums The Jissom Killers and A Sod's As Good As A Wank To A Blind Arse) have been recording some material lately that will most likely appeal to fans of the dense, active 90s harsh noise sound. A tape should be out soon.

tisbor

Quote from: Half Aborted on August 13, 2012, 06:54:25 PM
Quote from: tisbor on September 19, 2011, 02:13:59 PMStill have to check Matteo's new output Lettera22 but i doubt it's harsh noise.

It is harsh noise for sure, with element of drone, concrete and field recordings. Great stuff, some of the most exciting new noise going.

Tooting my own horn here but my duo Inverted Nepal with my friend Paul (who played on classic Smell & Quim albums The Jissom Killers and A Sod's As Good As A Wank To A Blind Arse) have been recording some material lately that will most likely appeal to fans of the dense, active 90s harsh noise sound. A tape should be out soon.

A year has passed and yes, i confirm that Lettera 22 is excellent!

xdementia

***self promotion***

Existence Establishment Presents: Lackthrow - Release 2xCDR http://existest.org/ee_v3/?p=5506

Lackthrow is a name most unknown to noise fans of today but Andrew Powell has been active and creating noise under several different guises – twit/ch, Internal Empty, A Hymn For Her – since 1990. The project has been alive and hyperactive for many years and time has seen it take many forms from experimental surrealism, or harsh Masonna-influenced cut up noise, to power electronics and back again. Even spanning into weird ambience, synth-pop and cybergrind influences.

jesusfaggotchrist

Quote from: xdementia on August 17, 2012, 07:02:34 PM
***self promotion***

Existence Establishment Presents: Lackthrow - Release 2xCDR http://existest.org/ee_v3/?p=5506

Lackthrow is a name most unknown to noise fans of today but Andrew Powell has been active and creating noise under several different guises – twit/ch, Internal Empty, A Hymn For Her – since 1990. The project has been alive and hyperactive for many years and time has seen it take many forms from experimental surrealism, or harsh Masonna-influenced cut up noise, to power electronics and back again. Even spanning into weird ambience, synth-pop and cybergrind influences.

I talked with him on facebook, such an articulate dude.

Potier

A Snake In The Garden - The Shepherds Are Lost, The Sheep Are Scattered (Sound Holes) - 2012
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John Madigan Moloney ‎– Illusion.DisIllusionment (Jungle Crunk) - 2011
Heart Of The Whore - Life Of Vapor (Phage Tapes) - 2012
Faux Pas ‎– Dobbel Haestkuk (Second Sleep) - 2011
Developer - IF 15 (Imminent Frequencies) - 2011

jesusfaggotchrist

is Zebra Mu worth checking out or am I wasting my time?

and more pe than noise but I'm looking for something resembling harsh noise/pe mixed with breakbeats like what Folkstorm attempted on Sweden.

STREETMEAT

ALL of the STIFF SANCTORUM tapes!!

FreakAnimalFinland

Quote from: xdementia on August 16, 2011, 12:37:56 AM
Being

FUCK!!!
I see Xdementia recommended this already back in 2011...  Now currently listening to "Hunters Fingers" tape and it is killer noise release. C-20, but that's pretty much enough. Starts little bit slow. Makes me first think "ässh... another crackle study", but then full power hits in your face. Brilliant!!!
I know this is just because due my hoarding habits of noise tapes, I got bunch of Being stuff already in piles just waiting to get listened. But already today wasting time on few semi-ok'ish releases by whatever projects, I really like the feeling of being cleansed by purifying noise blast what shows skills and taste. Now I know what I'll grab next when I go through shelves of bought-but-not-listened-yet items...

Got couple of these in distro and recommend for fans of good no-bullshit harsh noise!
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Potier

@Mikko - Are you serious, you've never listened to Being before Hunters Fingers?

FreakAnimalFinland

Yep. I think I have couple tapes, but just haven't listened them yet. Needless to say I have probably 1000 items waiting..
I don't remember anyone stressing how good it actually is... Or lets say, the people I would know they aren't just saying because he's friend or local.
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martialgodmask

Derek from ex-Messiah Complex (Scotland) has started making new death industrial/harsh noise by the name of Asahara.

First album can be found at http://vilenoise.bandcamp.com/album/a-perfect-love-a-perfect-hate, have spun it in the car a few times, sounds great loud.

FreakAnimalFinland

Well, some of the named dropped in this topic are not really "new good harsh noise".
Like this Asahara, it's more of Pleasure Ground era Prurient. There's tones of dark keyboards, some noise on top and delayed screamo vocals and each song has kind of rhythmic or compositional structures more common with contemporary post-industrial/"PE" than just sheer loud harsh noise.

At the same time, it kind of shows that just solid, rough, nasty harsh noise appears to be almost nonexistent minority now?!? Where are the really NEW and GOOD bands?
As reminder, that what it is, that I'm looking for in this topic (feel free to start new good PE, new good ambient, etc..):

QuoteWas listening to Encephalophonic "beauty/death" tape today. Very good stuff. I think tape format, and C-20 length, compliments this release. Presentation of tape brings little connection to MSNP aesthetic, but without utter copycat behavior.
So what it is? It's something what mixing together Macronympha/Sickness/K2 and so on would deliver. It has the fast paced edits of metal junk and pedal noises of Sickness/K2 without being so fast, but with Macro kind of blown-out sound (although cleaner/sharper) with tasty mono-to-stereo transitions happening once in a while. In every way appears to be "typical" elements of harsh noise, yet what is the good dynamic harsh noise of today. I mean:

1) no lazy walls
2) no crackle studies
3) no keyboard melodies thrown in mix
4) no improv jams
5) no lo-fi feedback drone
6) no computer cyber noise


EDIT: lets add no power electronics, no ambient, no drone!!!

Just the heavy duty and ENERGY filled harsh noise? From Finland I think about some works of Umpio and some works of Keränen. But then when I start to think some good harsh noise things, even from many known artists, suddenly my mind wanders few years back?

As reminder what is harsh noise I mean:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYz2l4FP4cI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUzHNKHh1mk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT7GbQSnfys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHksWF5R0Qk

etc.
Plenty of possibilities there... but see the list of no no's.  Other good music to other topics...
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martialgodmask


FreakAnimalFinland

but that said, perhaps topic for new good PE or something could be useful? But that stuff appears to be quite well presented now. It was very different some years ago, when rough PE appeared to be minority, and harsh noise was going strong.

Now many of the past harsh noisers have moved on to less straight noise. I don't say that it is bad. Possibly better, than restrict creative impulses.

However, many times I find myself craving for solid brutal harsh head rituals, but mostly option is to look back. 20, 15, 10 years....   So I remain little amazed, is solid brutal harsh noise living now quiet moment? As this approach is (to me) very timeless, I think basically anyone can challenge the masterworks and it doesn't sound like there would be retro back in the 90's nostalgia, but simply capturing the pure essence of noise.
Now that I listened for example always praised "Pulsedemon", I have no problems to say, that BEING tape mentioned few messages ago, probably tops that. It may sound heresy, hah, but I find it true. Of course it is different. Same could be said about Testicle Hazard output being easily better than anything Incapacitants released after ... 2005? My humble opinion. And despite one could say the operational field of harsh noise is very limited, I would not agree. Certainly huge variety of tools, methods and approaches what approach from different angle, but remain.... pure.
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