Re: [microsound] powernoise

[John Nowak <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 5, 2004, at 1:24 AM, chthonic streams wrote:

> > > As far as the american idea of noise, the way I understand it from 
> > > hearing about it from others, is that there is a distinction between 
> > > noise (merzbow, Le Syndicat, Nautical Almanac, etc.) and 
> > > 'powernoise', which is the ant zen kind of simplified but heavy beat 
> > > based industrial stuff
> >
> > There are a lot of "wall of noise" acts I'd consider powernoise, 
> > mostly from the US. I'm not in touch with it though, as powernoise is 
> > too much nonsense and showmanship and pissing contestish for my 
> > tastes, so I can't name names. I've always called the ant-zen stuff 
> > hard techno or something like that... after all, it really is just 
> > noisy, crap techno (redundant, I know).
>
> while many have unfortunately gotten kind of pedestrian, some of the 
> a-z artists have more to them than that.  converter and morgenstern 
> overlap into noiseambient and powernoise.
>
> i understood powernoise and power electronics to be pretty much the 
> same thing, all derived from whitehouse and the more extreme TG 
> tracks.  lots of screaming over loud analog gear pushed to its limits 
> and/or distorted beyond belief.  people like con-dom, bloodyminded, 
> and slogun.

Yes, Slogun is who I was trying to think of.

Indeed I have both Converter and Slogun t-shirts from a few years 
back... :-)

- John


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