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I’ve noticed the touch of drums by Mick Harris right from the first listening. The entire result of this project is insanely beautiful. Amhakara:
Started by John Zorn (saxophone) of many, many things, most notably Naked City, Mick Harris (drums) of Scorn, Napalm Death, and Bill Laswell (electric bass) of Praxis, Material, Tabla Beat Science, in 1991, [...]
Chaos Royale sounds like “a truck carrying a dancehall soundsystem crashing into a death metal gig, in a nitroglycerine factory”. Luke Chaos, UK born and Tokyo based music producer, remixer and vocalist, combine Hardcore Hip-Hop, Dubstep, Death metal, Avant-Garde classical, Reggae, Noise and all kinds of heavy sounds into a new style of music. Anna SuperNova:
Dälek (pronounced ‘Die-a-leck’) is an experimental hip hop duo from Newark, NJ. The group comprises MC Dälek (vocals) and the Oktopus (production). They have often toured with artists from radically different genres, such as Godflesh, Isis, Prince Paul, The Melvins, De La Soul, and Lovage. Dälek’s music is dark, noisy and atmospheric, equally inspired by [...]
Scorn is the project of former Napalm Death drummer Mick Harris. Scorn was a two man project with Harris and bassist/vocalist Nicholas Bullen. In fact, the first Scorn album featured a reunion of the three members of the original Napalm Death line up: Harris, Bullen, and Justin Broadrick (from Techno Animal, Jesu, Ice) who played [...]
Etudes Schaefferiennes
Pierre Schaeffer (1910–1995) was a French composer, noted as the inventor of musique concrète. He is generally acknowledged as being the first composer to make music using magnetic tape. Accordind to Wikipedia, musique concrète (concrete music), is a style of avant-garde music that relies on recorded sounds, including natural environmental sounds and other non-inherently-musical [...]
“Poème électronique” (Electronic Poem) was composed in 1958 by Edgard Varèse, the father of electronic music, and Iannis Xénakis, one of the most important modernist composers of the 20th century, under the direction of Le Corbusier, one of the most important architects of the 20th century. This recording is only an approximation of the true nature [...]
A brilliant mix of Nude (Radiohead) by James Houston, played by old computer parts.
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Techno Animal was formed in 1990. A mechanoid manifestation of Justin Broadrick and Kevin Martin’s increasing appetite for studio explorations, the name was a practical abbreviation addressing the concept of a technological animal. Hydrozoid
Techno Animal have worked on a project with Alec Empire (Atari Teenage Riot) in 1998, called The Curse of the Golden [...]
Kevin Martin is a pioneer in the dubstep scene. Maybe you don’t know, but he founded The Bug with DJ Vadim in 1996. They worked together on the album Tapping The Conversation. The Bug’s music draws influence from dancehall, noise, grime, and hip hop. More subdued influences would include dubstep and the dubtronica and broken [...]
Swod is the recording project of Oliver Doerell (Belgium) and Stephan Wohrmann, two accomplished musicians who met in Berlin sometime in 1991. Oliver plays guitar, bass and all manner of electronics. Stephan plays piano and drums, arranging an almost neo-classical structure within a recording that already sounds ghostly and cinematic. Fugitif 2: [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.620741&w=425&h=350&fv=]
