[microsound] Re: powernoise

[pm.carey@xxxxxxxxxxx (Patrick Carey)]

* chthonic streams <chthonic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>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.

* Anthony Saunders <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>I on the other hand was under the impression that "power noise" and
>"power electronics" were very different.  PE being Whitehouse, Sutcliffe
>Jugend, Genocide Organ, Con-Dom, Grey Wolves, Taint, Grunt, Slogun,
>etc, and PN being Ant-Zen style rhythmic noise.

This is pretty much how I've always seen it.  PN being a *much* more
recent strain of "noise", with emphasis on rhythm, and even "beats"
(evolving from, among other things, stuff like The Klinik, PIAS & KK
bands; take Dirk Ivens f.e. going from The Klinik -> Dive -> Sonar,
certainly a staple of modern PN), unlike most of the PE artists
mentioned above.  No doubt many of the young Ant-Zen'rs have GO, WH,
early SPK & TG in their bins though.

* Tone0010@xxxxxxx:
>I was kind of surprised to hear talk from the low-key microsound board
>about power electronics-style noise...  In Michigan we have Wolf Eyes
>and the American Tapes label...  Over in Minneapolis is the Freedom From
>label (http://www.freedom-from.com/)...  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...

>Uh, that's where most American power electronics seems to be coming
>from these days, so go check it out.

I wouldn't classify Wolf Eyes, much on American Tapes, or anything on
Load as "Power Electronics".  Freedom From comes much closer to having
artists that fit this description, but as with AT and Load, most are
just "noisy".  I'm certainly unaware of recent developments in this
area, but I always thought folks like Slogun, Taint, Bloodyminded
(ex-IA, a WH clone) & Knurl were the top of the NA PE contingent.


-Patrick


NP: Rokia Traoré - "Bowmboï"
[Brilliant gig a few nights back]



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