Although of English and Canadian origins, Plastikman's Richie Hawtin is closely connected with the current Detroit techno scene associated with figures such as Kenny Larkin, Stacey Pullen, Eddie Fowlkes, and Derrick May. His Plus 8 label -- co-owned and operated with John Acquaviva -- is one of the most influential experimental dance music imprints, and Hawtin's own tracks recorded as Plastikman and F.U.S.E.. are highly regarded as faithful, intelligent, forward-stepping updates of the Detroit sound. More
Kid606's music is impossible to pigeonhole. Citing influences from Napalm Death to Modest Mouse to Joy Division, he spits out spastic, scatterbrained, and utterly beautiful electronic music. Born in Venezuela as Miguel Depedro, Kid606 now lives in San Francisco, where he runs the Tigerbeat6 label out of his comfy abode. In many ways, the style of Kid606's music mirrors the role he has established for himself (or been thrust into by the music press) in the electronic music scene. More
marco haas from cologne, germany, co-founder of the minimal techno / house label shitkatapult released a series of bone dry rocking bassy techno tracks on eps like stromschleifen ep or zartbitter ep. this is knarztechno with a stubbornness basing on a solid hardcore references. once t.raumschmiere is set in its track there is no way in stopping it! the 4/4 basskick sets speed to 128 bpm heading through underwood, the string arrangements swarm through reverb enlarged cathedrals nesting some wicked sounds. does the term electrofuck attract you? t.raumschmiere grants a lifelong warranty.
The BBC has published online a brief feature, with audioclips, about music experimentation, titled "Sex Drugs and Four Minutes of Silence." To borrow a now infamous bit of BBC phraseology, the title unnecessarily sexes up a story that stands on its on merits. It's an interesting collection of brief interviews, including the late John Cage recounting the epiphany he had as a result of entering an anechoic chamber, an entirely soundproof room. Found at Disquiet.com
Mixmaster Morris (real name: Morris Gould) began his career as a DJ around 1982, spinning indie and punk music while attending college in London. As he continued, he expanded to experimental jazz and fusion artists like Sun Ra and Captain Beefheart. He also started to host one-man electronic shows, using loops and tapes to make hypnotic, ambient mixes. He began to work in London's pirate-radio scene, where he first gained the nickname Mixmaster Morris. More
One of my favorite radio stations is wfmu from New Jersey USA. Right now, I only found the time for listening to Donna Summer's show. But by researching for information or MP3 files of "WIRE-artists" I very often came across of further plalists of other wfmu radio DJs. And what's also remarkable, is the wfmu artist browser. It let's you search for certain artists. The results are links to shows in witch the artist is played. That's very handy, because most of the wfmu shows are archieved for listening. So from now on, I will also post links wfmu shows.
I just started my own Foto weblog. I don't have a digital camera, so don't expect new ictures every, but I will scan some more pictures right now. Please feel free to write some comments on the pictures. Right now there are only some pctures of a Console concert and some "urban art" pictures.
My fotoweblog is located at: nomadsoul.fotopages.com
An installation artist and electronic music composer based in Stockholm, Sweden, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff has presented his minimalist-leaning audio-visual works in Europe and North-America. An active promoter of avant-garde art in the the 1980s and early 1990s through publications and record labels, since the mid-'90s he has been focusing on his own music, which has become growingly minimalist, a hour-long piece often consisting of the clever use of only a handful of sound sources. More
A live-streaming of the first event featuring the spectacular discographic project by the japanese Noise artist Masami Akita alias Merzbow: an encyclopedia of noise entitled "Merzbox", containing 50 CDs that, by using low-tech equipment in an anti-conventional way, create a flooding of the senses, negating the opportunities for sound to be distinguished. This collection of manifestations by the "King of Noise" dating from the years 1979-97 was played at the Kunsthalle exhibition "Yayoi Kusama" (www.kunsthallewien.at) in full length in a continuous listening session of approximately 60 hours, introduced and ended with a one-hour live act by Masami Akita.
Noisemakers Masima Akati -- a.k.a. Merzbow -- and Russell Haswell marked the beginning of their Satans Tornade project with this 1999 direct-to-tape recording. Word immediately began to spread, and the two have since revisited the project on several occasions.Those already familiar with Merzbow and Haswell will have an idea of what to expect on here: insane electro-grind, extreme computer music, a frenzy of white noise with little or no discernible melody or rhythms. And you'd be right.The magic of the two is how they constantly manage to reinvent improvisational electro-noise and to push the limits of what noise is and how it can be perceived.
<img src="www.antville.org" align="left"" hspace="3">There is no need to argue: Merzbow stands as the most important artist in noise music. The favorite moniker of Japanese Masami Akita appears on 100s of albums. The name comes from German artist Kurt Schwitters' famous work "Merzbau," which he also called "The Cathedral of Erotic Misery." Akita's choice reflects his fondness for junk art (through Schwitters' collage method) and his fascination with ritualized eroticism, namely in the form of fetishism and bondage. All these elements constitute the Merzbow persona.More
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Video: Merzbow special 80MB
This TV special on Merzbow broadcasted on VIVA2 shows a live performance of Masami Akita (MERZBOW) and Zbigmiew Karkowski in August 2000 @ the C.U.B.A. in Muenster, Germany.
'ThinkToy' began as an experimental music project heavily centred around mixing fragmented media & music samples for the purpose of finding new ways to use music for positive change, general mental reflection or just plain stupid fun. ThinkToy adopts a Fair Use approach to music-making.
Kateryna Zavoloka is a musician from Kyiv city, Ukraine. This is her first release since three years of making music. The sound of Zavoloka is very impuslive mixture of rich and dense however sometimes abstract analogue and digital noises, melodies and idm like drums. Often unexpected music design and courses create an impression of body motion of a fighter in kung-fu drunken style. This rather short but very interesting release however called SUSPENZIA (in regards of Natalia Zhizchenko essay) that is "suspension" or "slip" in russian or ukrainian.
Many music videos tend to be about escape and illusion — the illusion of fame, wealth, sex, glamour and fantasy. The video for Johnny Cash's "Hurt" isn't about any of those things. It deals with a theme not so common in music videos:reality.
In the short history of music videos, few have had the emotional heft and visual impact of the clip shot by director Mark Romanek in the Tennessee home of the ailing country legend. More
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Johnny Cash, whose five-decade career defined and refined American music, died early this morning of complications from diabetes; he was seventy-one.
Earlier this week, Cash had been released from a Nashville hospital after a two-week stay for pancreatitis. The singer had been in ill health for the past six years. He was initially diagnosed with Shy-Drager Syndrome, a type of Parkinson's Disease, but subsequent diagnosis found him to have autonomic neuropathy, which left him susceptible to bronchitis and pneumonia. More
Lab360.com is offering more than 40 DVD audio ripps. You can listen to movies like "The Big Lebowski" or "Bowling for Coloumbine" but also to stuff like "Dude, where's my car ?".
All the files can only be streamed, not downloaded.
Taking a page from seminal British post-punk outfits like The Fall and The Au Pairs and their American no wave counterparts DNA and The Contortions, Erase Errata sets off spastic, clattering rhythmic explosions with stridently barked vocals, wonderfully thin razor-edged guitar, a nervous low-end, rattling machine-gun percussion, and occasional keyboard flourishes and trumpet blasts. Sudden time changes and not-quite-linear song structures help make this abrasive din all the more intriguing. More
In her Paradise Island side project, singer/multi- instrumentalist Jenny Hoyston from Erase Errata explores the more abstract, avant-garde side of her music. Paradise Island's debut EP, Get Up, and the full-length Lines are Infinitely Fine, which were released in 2003 on Dim Mak, dabble in lo-fi electronica, folk, and off-kilter rock and pop -- pretty much every style except the angular brand of no wave-inspired music she plays with her main group.
I just have discovered, that the Altavista music search isn't working on the "Microsoft Internetexplorer". I'm using the Firebird (Mozilla)- Browser and it's working perfectly. I will have a look in the next few days.
<img src="www.antville.org"align="left" hspace="3">With plenty of musical history and an unfettered passion for contemporary club tracks Stefan Betke aka Pole is probably best known for his minimal dub sounds between the clicks and cuts of modern electronica.
While the origins of Pole hail back to the summer of 1996, when he accidentally dropped his near legendary "Walldorf 4-Pole" filter (which, in its newly damaged state, began to generate seductively unpredictable crackles), Betke’s musical playing field covers a much broader spectrum. More
The amount of Björk sound and video files on the internet is tremendous! Just when I thought I allready new lot's of great resources of Björkstuff, I found an entry in the mp3 link section of zerogweb.net, which was leading to even more interesting webpages.
Here they are: Mike Troiano This webpage offers islandic versions of some of Björks songs.
Björkoholic
Download more than 100MB of video material, including a video of young Björk, from this webpage
Björk FTP site Because of the high traffic on this site, I couldn't connected to it. But all fans of Björk should try, because it's supposed to offer more than 8GB of content!
Björk Bytes Almost 40 Björk remixes and live versions are waiting to be downloaded!
As you migh allready have noticed, at the top of every article, to the left of the date is a new link. This link leads to all the articles of the same topic.
For example, a link named "The WIRE 235" will lead to all the articles I wrote on artists mentioned in issue 235 !
Laurie Anderson enjoyed a public visibility greater than virtually any other avant-garde figure of her era. Her infrequent forays into rock aside, Anderson nevertheless remained firmly grounded within the realm of performance art, her ambitious multimedia projects encompassing not only music but also film, mime, visual projections, dance, and -- most importantly -- spoken and written language, the cornerstone of all of her work. More
I just discovered that the same webpage whis is offering all those fan made autechre mixes, is also offering lot's of Aphex Twin Remix mp3 files. Unfortunaly, my downloadmanager is not working on theire webpage :-(
Kaffe Matthews has been making and performing new music with digital gadgetry all over the world for the past ten years. The music is vast, sculpted into textural landscapes and vibrating granular technorhythms. On stage, she processes sound from carefully placed microphones and an occasional violin. Recently she has collaborated with Christian Fennesz, mimeo, Charles Hayward, Jon Rose, Pan-sonic, Butch Morris, Andy Moor (the EX) and many others. More
Although of English and Canadian origins, Plastikman's Richie Hawtin is closely connected with the current Detroit techno scene associated with figures such as Kenny Larkin, Stacey Pullen, Eddie Fowlkes, and Derrick May. His Plus 8 label -- co-owned and operated with John Acquaviva -- is one of the most influential experimental dance music imprints, and Hawtin's own tracks recorded as Plastikman and F.U.S.E.. are highly regarded as faithful, intelligent, forward-stepping updates of the Detroit sound. 
Kid606's music is impossible to pigeonhole. Citing influences from Napalm Death to Modest Mouse to Joy Division, he spits out spastic, scatterbrained, and utterly beautiful electronic music. Born in Venezuela as Miguel Depedro, Kid606 now lives in San Francisco, where he runs the Tigerbeat6 label out of his comfy abode. In many ways, the style of Kid606's music mirrors the role he has established for himself (or been thrust into by the music press) in the electronic music scene. 
marco haas from cologne, germany, co-founder of the minimal techno / house label shitkatapult released a series of bone dry rocking bassy techno tracks on eps like stromschleifen ep or zartbitter ep. this is knarztechno with a stubbornness basing on a solid hardcore references. once t.raumschmiere is set in its track there is no way in stopping it! the 4/4 basskick sets speed to 128 bpm heading through underwood, the string arrangements swarm through reverb enlarged cathedrals nesting some wicked sounds. does the term electrofuck attract you? t.raumschmiere grants a lifelong warranty.
Mixmaster Morris (real name: Morris Gould) began his career as a DJ around 1982, spinning indie and punk music while attending college in London. As he continued, he expanded to experimental jazz and fusion artists like Sun Ra and Captain Beefheart. He also started to host one-man electronic shows, using loops and tapes to make hypnotic, ambient mixes. He began to work in London's pirate-radio scene, where he first gained the nickname Mixmaster Morris. 
An installation artist and electronic music composer based in Stockholm, Sweden, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff has presented his minimalist-leaning audio-visual works in Europe and North-America. An active promoter of avant-garde art in the the 1980s and early 1990s through publications and record labels, since the mid-'90s he has been focusing on his own music, which has become growingly minimalist, a hour-long piece often consisting of the clever use of only a handful of sound sources. 
A live-streaming of the first event featuring the spectacular discographic project by the japanese Noise artist Masami Akita alias Merzbow: an encyclopedia of noise entitled "Merzbox", containing 50 CDs that, by using low-tech equipment in an anti-conventional way, create a flooding of the senses, negating the opportunities for sound to be distinguished. This collection of manifestations by the "King of Noise" dating from the years 1979-97 was played at the Kunsthalle exhibition "Yayoi Kusama" (www.kunsthallewien.at) in full length in a continuous listening session of approximately 60 hours, introduced and ended with a one-hour live act by Masami Akita.
Noisemakers Masima Akati -- a.k.a. Merzbow -- and Russell Haswell marked the beginning of their Satans Tornade project with this 1999 direct-to-tape recording. Word immediately began to spread, and the two have since revisited the project on several occasions.Those already familiar with Merzbow and Haswell will have an idea of what to expect on here: insane electro-grind, extreme computer music, a frenzy of white noise with little or no discernible melody or rhythms. And you'd be right.The magic of the two is how they constantly manage to reinvent improvisational electro-noise and to push the limits of what noise is and how it can be perceived.
'ThinkToy' began as an experimental music project heavily centred around mixing fragmented media & music samples for the purpose of finding new ways to use music for positive change, general mental reflection or just plain stupid fun. ThinkToy adopts a Fair Use approach to music-making.
Many music videos tend to be about escape and illusion — the illusion of fame, wealth, sex, glamour and fantasy. The video for Johnny Cash's "Hurt" isn't about any of those things. It deals with a theme not so common in music videos:reality.
Johnny Cash, whose five-decade career defined and refined American music, died early this morning of complications from diabetes; he was seventy-one.
Taking a page from seminal British post-punk outfits like The Fall and The Au Pairs and their American no wave counterparts DNA and The Contortions, Erase Errata sets off spastic, clattering rhythmic explosions with stridently barked vocals, wonderfully thin razor-edged guitar, a nervous low-end, rattling machine-gun percussion, and occasional keyboard flourishes and trumpet blasts. Sudden time changes and not-quite-linear song structures help make this abrasive din all the more intriguing. 
The amount of Björk sound and video files on the internet is tremendous! Just when I thought I allready new lot's of great resources of Björkstuff, I found an entry in the 
Laurie Anderson enjoyed a public visibility greater than virtually any other avant-garde figure of her era. Her infrequent forays into rock aside, Anderson nevertheless remained firmly grounded within the realm of performance art, her ambitious multimedia projects encompassing not only music but also film, mime, visual projections, dance, and -- most importantly -- spoken and written language, the cornerstone of all of her work. 
I just discovered that the same webpage whis is offering all those fan made autechre mixes, is also offering lot's of 
Kaffe Matthews has been making and performing new music with digital gadgetry all over the world for the past ten years. The music is vast, sculpted into textural landscapes and vibrating granular technorhythms. On stage, she processes sound from carefully placed microphones and an occasional violin. Recently she has collaborated with Christian Fennesz, mimeo, Charles Hayward, Jon Rose, Pan-sonic, Butch Morris, Andy Moor (the EX) and many others. 
