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I think it's safe to say, Paul never did give a flying fuck*.

Asshole was home before...

I'm tense!


* the semi apology in the liner notes is quite sweet tho

I mean. It's silly. I'm silly. This obsession, right. But 73 , the two studio tracks. All eleven minutes and thirty five seconds worth. Are these not the creme de la creme a la FUCKING harsh? Of course they are. The proverbial pervection. The singed to scorched harshblish. Harshbliss. Harsh stuff ai...

In fact I don’t believe I’ve seen/heard any kind of concerted ‘noise and live drums’ situation that wasn’t just a load of tossed off, tastelessly maximal, rockist bollocks. I remain open minded, however. With the exceptional exception of live drummer'd Hijokaidan, I'd (generally) be inclined to agr...

Or. And I never wanted this to dissolve into one of them boring-arse how you got into the shit shits but apparently...uh. So let's say, at least as far as I'm concerned, there never really were any epiphanies, noise-wise. Just acknowledgements (or, okay, epiphanies, you win) along a continuum of con...

Maybe this thread is more in reference to the listener / buyer perspective ? I think of those who buy physical copies of any noise release they find on Bandcamp, without any knowledge of the greater happenings or history of the genre. Exactly. And perhaps that even better illustrates what I was try...

(so I imagine) Okay, I'll come clean, the idear* is ludicrous simple and plain. But to affirm, says me, no less ludicrous than this tragicomical figure, sitting down and reaffirming to themselves that, "Yes. At this moment. I am listening." No matter. I figure, as long as we're fairly fir...

Not yet into the cans, plural, (currently a can, singular) so apologies in advance if this spew is not sufficiently incoherent. Maybe I'll come back later this evening when I've got my in the cans hat on. This is perhaps more tangential to the topic but seems to have been talked around a fair bit t...

Another try. Noise for its own sake. Call it a sort of default position that might necessarily keep a would be tastemaker honest*, a position which might point to an intrinsic power of noise, namely, that it might (intrinsically) resist the categorical. To the question, what are you getting out of i...

I think we need to define the term "noise for noises sake" to continue this conversation I'd think so. It's like taking The Absurd and saying, well haha, that (The Absurd) is all about the hahas, the shits, the giggles, no more to be said and would you PLEASE STOP GRINNING. (thank you). W...

I'm just paranoid enough to entertain the possibility that the man the myth follows the forum chatter closely. Not all so very long after some (shall we reflect not-entirely-well-considered) words (not mine) were spilled dinging certain of the more "composed" approaches to soundsmithy-ing,...

flush-faced flits of raw chiseled textures scoring deep into just the barest, faintest gasps at the most impermeable of interminable depths Howzabout a pretense at unpacking this, or to anyhoos flop out reference to comments submitted for the aforelinked, among them, I hesitate to call this harshno...

666 Volt Battery Noise - Audio Super-Predator Great harsh noise. I have a feeling that 666VBN is kind of forgotten? They shouldn't be! One of the few western artists who released an album on Vanilla Records. Gone but most assuredly not forgotten in these parts. Name seems to be popping up a bit mor...

Quite the coup for Satatuhatta someone said. Or might say someone whose hopes and prayers for more in the coup de grâce persuasion went full fla…flabbaberblabberbagasted when this wee spot o primitivo snuck in on the quiet. Quiet the operative word, or one of em. A sort o craftily threaded documenta...

As a maker, the more familiar tends to be subject to stricter sets of criteria, weighed in wider terms of what's been done, what hasn't, what could be better. (And such criteria would almost necessarily be among the least attractive, as a listener.) As a listener, similar gauges likely apply, but t...

With noise it's not unlikely that a person commenting on the shit is, has been, or has the intent to be, involved in making shit of their own. That definitely influences the listening choices and the criteria, in an inverse way, at least for me. As a maker, the more familiar tends to be subject to s...

I don't know, man. I thought I knew what this was about until those five (great!) youtubes were linked and now I'm confused as hell. Which is probably a good? thing. Mercury Hall's Living Table immediately leapt to mind, at least in terms of an attempt apparent to shuck certain perceptual grains int...

This one I LOVE, although I don't have the skills to open it - lol. This came before dremels were a thing, so maybe if I dremelled it and pried it open like a tin can with pliers I could get at the tape. but I'm happy with it as is. maybe there's a Bandcamp version of it online? k2 front [We Destro...

When noise is genre codified in such a way, the focus is entirely on its heaviness or extremity, but this should be a limitless and expansive form of sound that nearly defied typical language in its description. Good argument, old argument. One that's been going on for a while now. Syncs on a level...

Offhand I'd call the idea ludicrous but there again you'll often see people headbanging at noise shows. Heck I've done it myself, likely quite a lot in fact if maybe only somewhat conscious of the fact. Probably goes back to that cultural conditioning thing, monkey see monkey do, etc etc, but it'd ...

Offhand I'd call the idea ludicrous but there again you'll often see people headbanging at noise shows. Heck I've done it myself, likely quite a lot in fact if maybe only somewhat conscious of the fact. Probably goes back to that cultural conditioning thing, monkey see monkey do, etc etc, but it'd b...

In November 1993, Iwasaki and his brothers partnered with Harman International Industries in a $55 million promotional deal that broke records for a celebrity endorsement (equivalent to $130,603,408 in 2021). The first Harman International Industries campaign, which ran in the US from 1993 to 1994 ...

Car/kitchen is for streaming through apple music, usually classic rock/prog/metal/punk, I can't listen to noise in the car or while cooking, sorry that's time for Judas Priest or Bob Seger or some shit like that. Car for sure noise all the way, totally worth souping up the system for it, but cookin...

I’ve had a couple favorite tapes get partially recorded over with silence when I accidentally had the deck in Rec mode when I hit play. Labels, PLEASE punch the tabs on your tapes so this can’t happen to us. Heh, I once knew an idiot, a true idiot (and I would know!), who in his more antisocial day...

Katsuhiko Yamashita's performance with dry ice and metal objects is something I will never get tired of and it has inspired me in so many ways to search for approaches that don't require electricity at all. That performances is awesome! He sorta reminds of Kiyoshi "white gloves" Mizutani,...

Immediately following the recent chat of it on the WCN Discord, my deck tried to eat the Energy Gradient tape on Cloister. After then eating a blank I was dubbing a new release on, the deck fully stopped any playing motion and had the awfulest time fast-forwarding and rewinding any tape. That's wha...