Archive of posts filed under the industrial category.
L.A.Y.L.A.H. Anti-Records – the teen years
I know I’m always going on about how the NME of the 1980s was far superior to the current version. Part of that is nostaliga, part of it is the sheer breadth of stuff that was covered, which couldn’t be catered for elsewhere. All fair enough, and done to death here. But then I remembered …
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GUTTERBREAKZ
Beyond the Implode
Another great post from Beyond the Implode, this time on Herman Nitsch and the like. I was actually involved in showing one of his films at the Scala a while back. It was pretty good from what I can remember (I was doing my usual trick of organising great events and then spending the whole …
shout outs
belated tip of the hat to Geeta for her ‘women and noise’ entry and the great back page piece in The Wire. And also to Beyond the Implode, Gutterbreakz, Dan Molex, Crumbling Loaf and Drip Drop Drap. And all you other fuckers out there, especially if you’ve left comments here. And finally a heavily filtered …
blissblog
Simon on Keenan’s noise primer – bang on, and similar to my thoughts when reading it. I think there is scope for noise and subversion, though not in the black and white way in which Simon characterises DK’s position. For example, as he says, noise can be meditative and lulling as well as total derangement. …
Coil: Ocean July 25th 2004
This was always going to be a strange one. As Matt has said, it can often be difficult to experience Coil’s music on its own without delving into the underlying philosophy. These days I’m somewhat distant from both, though I recognise they had a tremendous influence on me in the past. When I was seriously …