Walked 2 1/2 miles from work to Joe Crawl Unit's magazine shop in oakland to get this magazine.
My first impressions are mixed, but overall the arrangement, packaging, and content is professional. It fit in perfectly at the magazine boutique. I showed it to my roomate and he said the iphone scan thing on the cold spring add on the back cover was lame, I have to agree with him. But I want that Sleep Research Facility CD, talk about field recordings...
Michael Esposito did a show in the bay area recently, I don't remember. I saw it advertised and wanted to go but I just missed it. He's doing a collab set with Vertonen this month, that should be excellent. Just purchased his collaboration with Francisco Meirino, very much looking forward to "milking that for all its worth."
Since Rudolf
Eb.er did the artwork for this issue, It would have been great to see him also write some lines in the "Field Recordings" article.
Loved some of the many sections of the Loke Rahbek article! Excellent stuff. "You don't put that much energy in things that you would put when living in a place where nobody would take care of you" Especially
Influence Of Artists "It is difficult because none of them nothing to do with the sound, but the atmosphere these men were creating during their time, you get a feeling of necessity and seriousness about their work that noise music is lacking too often"US Bestial Forces compilation review, I really loved it and agreed with it even though it was hard to stomach at points. Im glad I was left out of it, although It would have been encouraging to be included in it I liked that it starts with a positive hook: "As document of scene, as document of 2010'ish movement in USA, where power electronics has had massive uprise, US Bestial Forces is excellent." and then turns negative and pretty much stays that way: "However it would be simply foolish to think that vast majority of these bands could pull out interesting album that could be lined up in level of cult classics, or even contemporary highlights of genre"
Ouch! But yeah.
I could go on with the criticisms that were spot on, but instead I feel like I could take this opportunity to state, for the record, that the Striations track came from excerpts of 2 separate
live recordings. I added the intro sample and the outro piece was recorded separately in my garage, again with amplifiers and a tape player. Things are progressing beyond that. But if listening to so much of TAINT's work has taught me anything, its convinced me to "stop complaining and make due with what you have."
The "Newbie" bands on this comp that play live, regularly, are the ones to watch out for in the future. I took this review as an honest counterpart to the Heathen Harvest review, which I also enjoyed when it came out.
"Cunting Daughters who's noise and vocals sound piss weak after Nyodene D's heavily produced assault" I remember this moment too when I first listened. One of the major faults of this comp is, unfortunately, quality control.
"Slogun trademark vocal delivery simply instantly makes band stand out from everybody else" Best track of the comp. Imagine a new slogun b-card release.
"Heavy Breathing has perhaps slightly more interesting textures than many others" Heavy Breathing fucking rules. They have earned their spot in the last sentence of the "highlights."
"Is this really what I want to do and hear, or do I simply settle on substitute?" A constant problem for everyone no matter where you are from or how old you are. The final forms are all we have to judge the work by. But every individual is completely different and has a story to tell about why they are doing what they do, some of them set the conditions right, while others do not, and their work could reflect this.
The technology critique is a nice touch!
This is key:
"notice how you can get lured into bullshit if you don't constantly consciously challenge what you're doing!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TimbreThis magazine is obviously the product of some very thought out and developed work on all parties involved, as a fan of this music, I fucking appreciate their efforts.
