FFH/Richard Dunn

[Balor/SS1535]

CD version or no deal, Hospital!  I'll just be burning my own discs for the time being thanks to the nice download that came with the one-off tape.

[Manhog_84]

Damn. Thought it would feature the little girl!

Was thinking about this too. I wonder if it's a legal thing with printing her face considering the story or if Richard gets autistically stuck on certain images to attach to his stuff. He's definitely the type of guy who really digs through the most obscure shit to find his art. Look at Zyklon & Leather.

What is the story? I always thought it's funny that the band name is ambiguous FFH with luger in logo, picture of a seemingly random black girl and album title: MAKE THEM UNDERSTAND. I still have no fucking idea what should I be understanding. Great album though, especially the first track. Bleak as hell!

[burdizzo1]

Damn. Thought it would feature the little girl!

Was thinking about this too. I wonder if it's a legal thing with printing her face considering the story or if Richard gets autistically stuck on certain images to attach to his stuff. He's definitely the type of guy who really digs through the most obscure shit to find his art. Look at Zyklon & Leather.

What is the story? I always thought it's funny that the band name is ambiguous FFH with luger in logo, picture of a seemingly random black girl and album title: MAKE THEM UNDERSTAND. I still have no fucking idea what should I be understanding. Great album though, especially the first track. Bleak as hell!

I wouldn't imagine it was a random choice. She was Sherrice Iverson, and she was murdered at an American casino in the late '90s. Don't know if there was a fascination with the particular case, but there is definitely 'something' about the image in the context of a p.e. album cover!

[prolapsedlielack]

Damn. Thought it would feature the little girl!

Was thinking about this too. I wonder if it's a legal thing with printing her face considering the story or if Richard gets autistically stuck on certain images to attach to his stuff. He's definitely the type of guy who really digs through the most obscure shit to find his art. Look at Zyklon & Leather.

What is the story? I always thought it's funny that the band name is ambiguous FFH with luger in logo, picture of a seemingly random black girl and album title: MAKE THEM UNDERSTAND. I still have no fucking idea what should I be understanding. Great album though, especially the first track. Bleak as hell!

I wouldn't imagine it was a random choice. She was Sherrice Iverson, and she was murdered at an American casino in the late '90s. Don't know if there was a fascination with the particular case, but there is definitely 'something' about the image in the context of a p.e. album cover!

He does this a lot. It seems like a lot of it is a puzzle only he knows the answer to. Makes him one of the biggest geniuses in the (relatively) "modern" PE scene

[Balor/SS1535]

I'm not sure why it is such a mystery?  A murdered black girl immediately brings to mind questions of race, (sexual) violence, and power---concepts also evoked by related images of a German handgun and even Japanese bondage.  These are all themes that have been common in industrial music since the beginning.  But maybe I am missing something with FFH?

[prolapsedlielack]

I'm not sure why it is such a mystery?  A murdered black girl immediately brings to mind questions of race, (sexual) violence, and power---concepts also evoked by related images of a German handgun and even Japanese bondage.  These are all themes that have been common in industrial music since the beginning.  But maybe I am missing something with FFH?

The amount of references to Vegas he uses too...

[Balor/SS1535]

I'm not sure why it is such a mystery?  A murdered black girl immediately brings to mind questions of race, (sexual) violence, and power---concepts also evoked by related images of a German handgun and even Japanese bondage.  These are all themes that have been common in industrial music since the beginning.  But maybe I am missing something with FFH?

The amount of references to Vegas he uses too...

Power, spectacle, money, greed, sin, sex?  While the addition certainly enriches industrial tropes, at its core it does not necessarily seem too novel, conceptually speaking.

[Vrenndel]

Look at Zyklon & Leather.
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Google search led to an amateurish powerpoint slide video on youtube about the Bosnian war and Muslim women getting raped, with a Bengali written text in the description of the video. The original picture was featured. No further infos.

[NedOik]

Look at Zyklon & Leather.

Google search led to an amateurish powerpoint slide video on youtube about the Bosnian war and Muslim women getting raped, with a Bengali written text in the description of the video. The original picture was featured. No further infos.
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It's an image from 'Mission Rape - A Tool of War' a Danish documentary from 2014.

[Kaaoskultti]

I'm not sure why it is such a mystery?  A murdered black girl immediately brings to mind questions of race, (sexual) violence, and power---concepts also evoked by related images of a German handgun and even Japanese bondage.  These are all themes that have been common in industrial music since the beginning.  But maybe I am missing something with FFH?

The amount of references to Vegas he uses too...

Power, spectacle, money, greed, sin, sex?  While the addition certainly enriches industrial tropes, at its core it does not necessarily seem too novel, conceptually speaking.

I think it might be about specific events and themes, not those generally speaking. I have the impression most FFH releases goe in such direction, thematically - revolving around certain choices of.. "things". Pretty much like Prurient, come to think about it, as both artists prefer to scrutinize certain details, instead of focusing on the general aspect of deviant practices.

[Balor/SS1535]

I'm not sure why it is such a mystery?  A murdered black girl immediately brings to mind questions of race, (sexual) violence, and power---concepts also evoked by related images of a German handgun and even Japanese bondage.  These are all themes that have been common in industrial music since the beginning.  But maybe I am missing something with FFH?

The amount of references to Vegas he uses too...

Power, spectacle, money, greed, sin, sex?  While the addition certainly enriches industrial tropes, at its core it does not necessarily seem too novel, conceptually speaking.

I think it might be about specific events and themes, not those generally speaking. I have the impression most FFH releases goe in such direction, thematically - revolving around certain choices of.. "things". Pretty much like Prurient, come to think about it, as both artists prefer to scrutinize certain details, instead of focusing on the general aspect of deviant practices.

In that case, its just a matter of deferral of the same.  If the focus is on certain particulars, the follow-up question is inevitably: Why those?  It seems most plausible to me that the answer would be something along the lines of those particulars providing an idiosyncratic view on broader thematic interests.  While the particular in then novel, taking a wider perspective would show it to be a deviation from a pre-existing set of genre-expectations.

I like FFH, but I don't want to confuse vagueness with profundity.  I would rather have answers.

[prolapsedlielack]

I'm not sure why it is such a mystery?  A murdered black girl immediately brings to mind questions of race, (sexual) violence, and power---concepts also evoked by related images of a German handgun and even Japanese bondage.  These are all themes that have been common in industrial music since the beginning.  But maybe I am missing something with FFH?

The amount of references to Vegas he uses too...

Power, spectacle, money, greed, sin, sex?  While the addition certainly enriches industrial tropes, at its core it does not necessarily seem too novel, conceptually speaking.

I think it might be about specific events and themes, not those generally speaking. I have the impression most FFH releases goe in such direction, thematically - revolving around certain choices of.. "things". Pretty much like Prurient, come to think about it, as both artists prefer to scrutinize certain details, instead of focusing on the general aspect of deviant practices.

In that case, its just a matter of deferral of the same.  If the focus is on certain particulars, the follow-up question is inevitably: Why those?  It seems most plausible to me that the answer would be something along the lines of those particulars providing an idiosyncratic view on broader thematic interests.  While the particular in then novel, taking a wider perspective would show it to be a deviation from a pre-existing set of genre-expectations.

I like FFH, but I don't want to confuse vagueness with profundity.  I would rather have answers.

I do wonder if it's a case of the answers are right in front of us. I've noticed he always focuses on the female casualties of any event, but it doesn't seem to be the typical misogyny or faux-misogyny you usually see in PE.

[Duncan]

The emperor's naked army marches on