Latest episode really nice! I do appreciate that Noisextra takes opportunity to use online calls for making stuff. Even if sound quality is notch worse, it is decent enough. Only few random glitches here and there makes one lose word or two, but otherwise sound quality is perfectly fine for noise podcast!
So, what they have available is:
https://www.noisextra.com/2020/07/22/in-conversation-with-black-leather-jesus/2 hour long talk with two guys.
Ramirez has gotten plenty of "podcast attention" before, but he also has so much to talk about. There is some cross-over of information with former interviews, but it is often told in new ways, adding details. Like early recording methods are being discussed deeper, current day recording methods as well. Content, label deals etc.
There is funny moment when Ramirez mentions that thing he doesn't like with labels, is that they request specially some particular type of sound for release. And that it might not be his favorite type of sound, but label basically places order for very specific sound. And offers like that have been common.
Freak Animal did some of that. I recall also mr. Zeno Marxs' label Recalcitrant Noise asked him to do "material like I keep my stuff inside" for split LP with Alchemy of the 20th Century? I don't recall "ordering" anything that specific for FA (but might have), but for example Richard Ramirez "Tracking Device" was hoped to be more constructed material than plain noise. Not that plain noise of RR would be less good, but it was mostly to stand out. I have obviously not heard all of RR, but it sounds slightly different from most of his works. Example track is perhaps less complex and sound of it ain't too good at youtube:
https://youtu.be/MBBqIUG5ZPAModest irritation what may have caused for artist, may be good in getting brilliant releases done, hah..
From recent few episodes, all good.
Various Artists – Sounds of New Music with Aaron Dilloway is good stuff.
Nord – Electronic Initiation is kind of odd episode, when there are several things that I always thought was known by everybody. Like that Nord is primarily live recording unit, and their releases are pretty much always live music. It seems so clear when listening, or perhaps it is illusion of knowing it is live recordings? This CD is odd. 300 copies done sooo many years ago and you can still grab it for dirt cheap prices. While almost similar size LP editions from decade earlier goes for hundreds... and have been already even bootlegged.
Tangerine Dream – Zeit - some years ago I made decision that I can live without TD stuff, and sold the LP's I had. Same for kraut stuff in general. Yet, last year I just had feeling that no no no... and had to order the early years CD box set. Since then ZEIT was listened multiple times and while I will never really cite Tangerine Dream as any kind of personal influence for what I do, it simply is very good album of its style and compact CD box set fits somewhere in my piles of.. stuff.
Speculum Fight – Highball is another episode when the core unit of Noisextra talks about it themselves, but also got Romero to send in few written nuggets of info about recordings/live shows. If there was possible to get Romero to in-person interview, it would rule. One would really want to hear about old gigs, his work in general, also possibly his role in The Haters and such. Not to mention what he is up now. I recall doing noise DJ'ing for radio?
Dissecting Table – Between Life and Death. This is one of the best DT stuff. Of course the Ultra Point Of Intersection Exist LP is phenomenal. Between Life and Death is darker and slower. I felt that till 1996 material was so perfect, and 1997-2002 it seemed to start recycle too much of the same. And later on shifted style into something I was not so interested in. I do have several more recent DT, but they never had same 100% unique and recognizeable sound. Also, how could you not like band who did performance called "dead body and me"?
