Re: [microsound] powernoise

[John Nowak <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the information! A little power electronics will keep you 
from going insane when surrounded by a bunch of academic nonsense all 
the time.

(Not that all academic music is nonsense.)

- John

On Oct 5, 2004, at 3:58 PM, Tone0010@xxxxxxx wrote:

> holy shit.
> I come from Michigan, and I was kind of surprised to hear talk from the
> low-key microsound board about power electronics-style noise, which is 
> the sort of
> stuff we listen to around here.
> I don't really know where to begin here to tell you what it's like 
> musically
> with this stuff.
> In Michigan we have Wolf Eyes and the American Tapes label which 
> despite what
> any of you laptoppers think remains great. We also have Animal 
> Disguise run
> by Mammal with Viki and Hair Police and a bunch of other people on it. 
> And
> there's a bunch of smaller labels around here too, I don't want to 
> have to list
> them.
> Over in Minneapolis is the Freedom From label 
> (http://www.freedom-from.com/)
> with a bunch of stuff on it, a lot of it isn't noise but a lot of it 
> is. If
> you go to their links page you will find a bunch of labels that have 
> noisyness
> on them, you probably haven't heard of a lot of it.
> Then of course there's Providence RI, from which comes the Load 
> records label
> (http://www.loadrecords.com/). This label houses a good synthesis of 
> noise
> and metal, with people like Lightning Bolt, Nautical Almanac, and 
> Metalux
> holding court. And Fort Thunder was from Providence too, which is 
> important.
>
> Uh, that's where most American power electronics seems to be coming 
> from
> these days, so go check it out.
> bill


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