Noise
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Belgium’s fine Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere. label released a bundle of four new cassettes on Friday. Alocasia Garden, Christopher Whitley and Tereshkova have each produced a new title. The fourth is a compilation featuring one track each from Uaxactun, RVH, False Moniker and Sequences. All of the contributions are faithful to the AVA methodology. Alocasia Garden…
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Seki Takashi was born on an island. Honshu island to be specific, in the city of Sendai. Home to about one million Japanese, the city is the largest in that country’s Tohoku Region. He’s since moved southwest to Tokyo. Like a lot of people who’ve left a smaller hometown for one of the world’s major…
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We should never take artists who also work as curators for granted. The ego (not to mention energy) required to make a lifetime commitment to art is considerable. When those rare individuals find ways to balance their own creative output with support and promotion for other artists, they deserve special recognition. Los Angeles-based Yann Novak…
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The noise genre is sometimes criticized for its lack of subtlety, as if it were the death metal of electronic music. It is an unfair generalization of course, but you have to invest a good chunk of time in between a pair of headphones to hear it for yourself. Yavor Grancharov’s new 10-track cassette, recorded…
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No matter how adventurous your taste in music, there is something oddly unsettling about albums that feature multiple styles. You may be entirely comfortable pressing play on your old CD copy of Tom Waits’ Bone Machine right after your favourite Alice Coltrane record. But put both genres on the same disc, and we can’t get…
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After two years and more than 40 cassette releases, Belgium’s extraordinary Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere. label has a vinyl release for us. Ontmanteling is an eight-piece noise work by fellow Antwerpian O Ratel Ratel. Recordings like this one are often described as sound sculptures. If that term strikes you as a bit grandiose, you’re not alone.…
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