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Velvet Underground - Live At The Gymnasium, New York City, April 20, 1967 https://youtu.be/pf6wmcqUjV4 and of course THE LEGENDARY GUITAR AMP TAPES I go through semi-regular periods where I listen to little else besides VU boots. The ones you mentioned are great (especially love "I'm Not A You...

La Monte Young - Two Sounds 1960 This piece is probably his most fucked sounding, always wondered if Rupenus somehow heard this somehow before he did new blockaders. He and Terry Riley got a big gong and rubbed ash trays on it. Early Young had a lot of interest in scraping metal, apparently his the...

Glad to hear In Camera is hitting the spot. I like most of his early solo LPs but that one is really on another level. H to He... and Least We Can Do... get lots of plays around here too, as well as their debut from '69, although it's in much more of a late psychedelic/art rock style and has little ...

the darker stuff like Van der Graaf Generator VDGG are still a bit 'to do' for me. My dad loves them and would play Pawn Hearts often and even got me a cd copy of it when I was a teenager which I still have and listen to quite a bit. But beyond that I don't think I have ever meaningfully listened t...

https://youtu.be/TimGQPF_qBk Winter games may be over but Olympic Shit Man is always in season! Don't watch a ton of live footage (usually makes me wish I was there) but stumbled upon this recently and it put a smile on my face. I've not A/B'd it, but this would appear to be a different set then th...

I do indeed fuck heavily with many prog/related offshoots. Where to begin?  It might not be immediately obvious (or interesting?), but there is certainly a connection to the primordial days of noise. One recurring theme I've noticed when talking to older guys is how before there was anything resembl...

Jane Arden & Jack Bond Anti-Clock (first time pressing came out last year of this soundtrack to a late 70s nonlinear/fever-dreamish psychodrama, cool record though the film is underwhelming IMO). I agree on the film being underwhelming. I watched it last year and it felt like it wanted to be an...

Randomly felt the urge to pull my copies of the Solaris/Mirror/Stalker soundtracks by Eduard Artemyev the other day. Some of my favorite soundtracks for sure, mostly composed on synth (at least Solaris is) but they are pretty varied and far from all atmospheric or ambient. Work well as stand alone a...

Mesmerizing that people say far right themes aren't transgressive and don't violate the mores of the dominant culture when the pushback seems to not only be the consensus here, but is completely in line with the media/institutional power. Can you honestly look at what gets pushed these days and say...

Love Hairdryer Peace , pull it out every couple years and it still sounds incredible. The Hospitals other releases are alright, but that one is on a whole other level. It's a very dissociative listening experience, like you're hearing it while floating outside your body. I remember when it came out ...

Yeah, Agog is so so good. His sound kind of hits the bullseye for me, combining a lot of my favorite aspects of ‘80s and ‘90s noise and tape music. It would be nice to see some kind of box set of his hard to find cassette releases, I know there’s a lot I haven’t heard. I was actually introduced to ...

I've got a lot of down time at work today, so why not? A few of my favorites, no particular order: Wolf Vostell- Decollage Musik (proto-noise I suppose but still way weirder than you) Fossils/Darksmith- Million Year Spree Agog- Dust Is Their Food And Clay Their Meat Yeast Culture- IYS Aaron Dillowa...

Without overthinking it, 5 more that haven't been mentioned:

-Airway 'Live At Lace' (LAFMS, 1978)
-Male Rape Group 'On To 83' (Broken Flag, 1983)
-Yeast Culture 'IYS' (Petri Supply, 1989)
-Monde Bruits 'Portuguese Man-Of-War' (Vanilla, 1991)
-Darksmith 'Total Vacuum' (Hanson, 2010)

Great post ^^^. I've not heard any of these besides 'Vega'. Never considered late first phase M.B. in connection to it either but makes sense, will have to listen soon with that in mind. Likewise I've not heard Af Ursin's 'Itinera', will add it to the list. I have the opposite holes with Timo's work...

No problem, hopefully you end up liking some of it. A few of Chalk's 90s/00s records could fairly be called drone, but I wouldn't characterize anything I've heard from the last decade + that way. It's always minimal, but more in an Eno/Budd kind of way. Sema/Robert Haigh is another loose reference. ...

13 cds does seem like a lot, but it’s an exhaustive project, as far as i understand there’s lots of interviews, radio performances, unreleased stuff, etc that is going into it, a massive booklet as well. I don’t know if it’ll for sure end up being that big, since there’s a chance my source was exag...

13 CDs seems like a lot for the Shadow Ring, I wonder how much is in the vaults that hasn't been released in some form already? Even including all of the 'Remains Unchanged' 2xLP, the live bootleg, all the previously unreleased tracks from 'Life Review' etc. I can't figure how it adds up. Maybe som...

Hope this thread continues to have legs, it's very relevant to my own interests. Don't have time to offer much of substance ATM, but will echo praise for Regional Bears, for my money the most consistently interesting label of the last five or however-many years.  No Rent is also often not my thing, ...

Tom, 34, Philadelphia. Longtime fan of all manner of strange/difficult/stupid sounds, of which Noise obviously figures. Used to run an infrequent label/distro called Crisis of Taste. Currently record solo (T.D.), collaborations with Skinner (many of which end up on his The Gift of Music label or our...