Seems like K2 episode is online now. Good vinyl I listened not so long ago!
So far in 2021:
Bad Sector – Polonoid (with Kyle Wright). I like early Bad Sector stuff, but some later works, including his live gig I attended, was way too much leaning to rhythmic electronic music. Good discussions here, including story of the special edition coming with floppy disc containg file for screen saver, haha...
Maeror Tri – Language of Flames and Sound. OEC actually repressed this, nearly like the original. disc is just in more convenient plastic sleeve than just attached in middle of the die-cut brains. Really noteworthy album, that gets pretty noisy too. When noise CD needs to be repressed, it usually tells there is something unusually good there.
Sickness – I Have Become the Disease That Made Me. Talk about unusual and obsessive way of making noise! I know handful of people who just seemingly can't let go. Track is never finished and small tweaks are being made over and over again. I know this leads to different results, than just farting out random noises. Personally, always been somewhere in the middle. Rarely random, rarely edited too much. This is really nice episode, as it containt the Noisextra crew, but also publisher and the artists sharing their recollections about the album. Even when being track-to-track commentary, it is also partly interview that illuminated several things in Sickness that I don't think I ever read from interviews?
In Conversation with Mason Jones (Trance / Charnel House) Good interview episode, talking about Trance, his early 90's Japan tours, bringing over artists, arranging shows before internet era, doing absolutely noteworthy and important Ongaku Otaku magazine, and so on and on.
Esplendor Geometrico – Mekano-Turbo (with guest Shane English) This episode is unusual as it is rare case of nodding approval towards the old industrial tape blogs! I personally NEVER downloaded single rare tape. I was never part of that scene. Never had soulseek, don't even know how torrents work or what to do with similar file sharing software. All that said, nevertheless, it seems odd that such things seem to never be mentioned? One can glorify handful of tapes being dubbed or sold by distributor, yet blogs that made impossible material available for hundreds of people who had no idea such stuff even existed.... I know some prefer that there is no access to everybody. Insist that it is not
the same to download and be really personally involved. Yeah, sure. But despite I personally have zero interest in downloading music, it would seem like crucial for history of genre to acknowledge also value of that side. Like guest of this episode, he concludes first time being exposed to EG, was on... was it Mutant Sounds blog? We are talking about things that happened c. 15 years ago. Seemingly not that long, but it's like people in 1990 talking about thing they listened back in 1975...
Premature Ejaculation – Anesthesia (with guest Charlotte Sartre) XXX actress with interest towards industrial talk here about Premature Ejaculation, as well as he work in the business, effects of both covid and pornhub scandals.
Listener Questions - I sent bunch of question for them too, and some appeared here. I have listened all their "publicly available" episodes, since Merzcast. That's a lot of giggles and plenty of noise information what can't be found elsewhere. It would be brilliant if they could gather
oral history of noise -type of book. If anyone read things like
Please Kill Me book, that seems pretty good format for noise book as well. Instead of author writing history, you got the oral history, straight from the sources. There are books about noise, but I feel there still is not THE book, that could capture variety of global noise. It is possible that such book could emerge, not from "academic study", but compiling oral history and publishing that as-is.
https://www.noisextra.com/archive/
