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Episode 171 Chapter 30, EMS Analog Synthesizers. Works Recommended from my book, Electronic and Experimental Music  Welcome to the Archive of Electronic Music. This is Thom Holmes. This podcast is produced as a companion to my book, Electronic and Experimental Music, published by Routledge. Each of these episodes corresponds to a chapter in the text and an associated list of recommended works, also called Listen in the text. They provide listening examples of vintage electronic works featured in the text. The works themselves can be enjoyed without the book and I hope that they stand as a chronological survey of important works in the history of electronic music. Be sure to tune-in to other episodes of the podcast where we explore a wide range of electronic music in many styles and genres, all drawn from my archive of vintage recordings. There is a complete playlist for this episode on the website for the podcast. Let's get started with the listening guide to Chapter 30, EMS Analog Synthesizers from my book Electronic and Experimental music.   Playlist: MUSIC MADE WITH EMS ANALOG SYNTHESIZERS   Time Track Time Start Introduction –Thom Holmes 01:34 00:00 1.     Delia Derbyshire, “Dance From ‘Noah' " (1970). Composed for a television program. Used the EMS VCS3. 00:55 01:44 2.     Selections from the demonstration disc, EMS Synthi And The Composer (1971). Excerpts from Harrison Birtwistle, “Medusa,” Peter Zinovieff, “January Tensions,” and Tristram Cary, “Continuum.” 06:15 02:34 3.     Peter Zinovieff and Harrison Birtwistle, “Chronometer” (1971–2). Featured both the EMS Synthi VCS3 and modified sound recordings of the ticking of Big Ben and the chimes of Wells Cathedral clock. 24:23 08:48 4.     Mike Hankinson, “Toccata And Fugue In D Minor” (Bach) (1972) from The Classical Synthesizer. South African record realized using the Putney (EMS) VCS3. 07:04 33:06 5.     Electrophon, “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” (1973) from In a Covent Garden (1973).  Electrophon Music was described as the studio where the electronics were recorded and produced in the UK by Radiophonic musicians Brian Hodgson, Dudley Simpson. A variety of synthesizers were used including the obscure EMS Synthi Range, a multi-effect instrument. 03:04 40:10 6.     The Eden Electronic Ensemble, “Elite Syncopations” (Joplin) (1974) from The Eden Electronic Ensemble Plays Joplin. Realized using the EMS VCS3 and Minimoog synthesizers. 04:53 43:12 7.     Peter Zinovieff, “A Lollipop For Papa” (1974).  Realized with the EMS Synthi AKS. 06:26 48:04 8.     Peter Zinovieff and Hans Werner Henze, “Tristan” (Long Section) (1975). Tape accompaniment realized with the EMS Synthi AKS. 07:40 54:40 9.     J.D. Robb, “Poem of Summer” (1976) from Rhythmania And Other Electronic Musical Compositions. Realized using the EMS Synthi AKS. 02:04 01:02:18 10.   J.D. Robb, “Synthi Waltz” (1976) from Rhythmania And Other Electronic Musical Compositions. Realized using the EMS Synthi AKS and Synthi Sequencer 256 (digital sequencer). 01:52 01:04:24 11.   Bruno Spoerri, “Hymn Of Taurus (Taurus Is Calling You!)” (1978) from Voice Of Taurus. Realized using a host of equipment, including a few EMS instruments: EMS Synthi 100, EMS VCS3, EMS AKS, EMS Vocoder 2000, Alto Saxophone with EMS Pitch-to-voltage Converter & Random Generator, plus the Lyricon, Prophet-5 Polyphonic Synthesizer, ARP Omni & Odyssey, Minimoog, Moog Taurus Bass Pedal, RMI Keyboard Computer, Ondes Martenot , Vako Polyphonic Orchestron, Bode Frequency Shifter, AMS Tape Phase Simulator, Echoplex, Roland Echo, Roland Rhythm Box, Bruno Spoerri. 02:48 01:06:16 12.   Henry Sweitzer, “Open Windows” (1979) from Te Deum.  Realized with the EMS Synthi AKS. 11:11 01:09:02 13.   Eduard Artemyev, Yuri Bogdanov, Vladimir Martynov, “Le Vent Dans La Plaine,” “Io Mi Son Giovinetta,” and “Why Ask You?” (1980) from Metamorphoses. Composed and realized using the EMS Synthi 100, a large synthesizer unit combining several EMS3 models and connecting circuitry. 08:38 01:20:14 14.   Jean-Michel Jarre, “Les Chants Magnétiques,” (side 1) (1981) from Les Chants Magnétiques. Portions realized with the EMS Synthi AKS, EMS Synthi VCS3, and EMS Vocoder 1000. 17:58 01:28:52 15.   Alessandro Cortini and Merzbow, “AAMC” (2017) from Alessandro Cortini And Merzbow. Recent recording with all sounds realized using a vintage EMS Synthi AKS. 04:49 01:46:40   Additional opening, closing, and other incidental music by Thom Holmes. My Books/eBooks: Electronic and Experimental Music, sixth edition, Routledge 2020. Also, Sound Art: Concepts and Practices, first edition, Routledge 2022. See my companion blog that I write for the Bob Moog Foundation. For a transcript, please see my blog, Noise and Notations. Original music by Thom Holmes can be found on iTunes and Bandcamp.  

This month we're back to the mid 80s to talk about our favourite songs of 1986, including thrash metal classics, proto-industrial stompers, enormous pop bangers, massive cheesy 80s soundtrack rock and loads more.We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them back to Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order.She also joined us on the episode to read out the countdown, which we found out as we recorded so all reactions are genuine.Now, admittedly, in parts we're a little bit brutal to some of the songs in the list as we're three separate people with differing music tastes, but please remember that to be in this episode at all the songs have to have been in one of our top 10's of that year.Bands featured in this episode include (In alphabetical order, no spoilers here!) - a-ha, The Art Of Noise ft Max Headroom, Big Black, The Bolshoi, Bon Jovi, Billy Bragg, Stan Bush, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Crowded House, Cutting Crew, Europe, The Go-Betweens, Bruce Hornsby & The Range, The Housemartins, Hüsker Dü, In The Nursery, Iron Maiden, KMFDM, Kenny Loggins, Merzbow, Metallica, New Order, Public Image Ltd, R.E.M., Lionel Richie, Shub Niggurath, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Slayer, The Smiths, & They Might Be Giants.Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2SmV87RMDnpidlUpn4m7lU?si=Ssrrhy8iRtCgFXSP9-QXug&pi=p67BZNXETwqB5Find our We Dig Music Pollwinners Party playlist (featuring all of the winning songs up until now) here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45zfDHo8zm6VqrvoEQSt3z?si=Ivt0oMj6SmitimvumYfFrQIf you want to listen to megalength playlists of all the songs we've individually picked since we started doing best of the year episodes (which need updating but I plan on doing them over the next few months or so), you can listen to Colin's here – https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5x3Vy5Jry2IxG9JNOtabRT?si=HhcVKRCtRhWCK1KucyrDdgIan's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2H0hnxe6WX50QNQdlfRH5T?si=XmEjnRqISNqDwi30p1uLqAand Tracey's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2p3K0n8dKhjHb2nKBSYnKi?si=7a-cyDvSSuugdV1m5md9NwThe playlist of 20 songs from the other two hosts was scored as usual, our favourite song got 20 points, counting down incrementally to our least favourite which got 1 point. The scoring of our own list of 10 is now slightly more complicated in order to give a truer level of points to our own favourites. So rather than them only being able to score as many points as our 10th favourite in the other list, the points in our own list were distributed as follows -1st place - 20 points2nd place - 18 points3rd place – 16 points4th place – 14 points5th place – 12 points6th place – 9 points7th place – 7 points8th place – 5 points9th place – 3 points10th place -1 pointHosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey BGuest starring Helen Jackson-Brown.Playlist compiling/distributing – Helen Jackson-BrownRecorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig PodcastsThanks to Peter Latimer for help with the scoring system.Part of the We Dig Podcasts network along with Free With This Months Issue & Pick A Disc.Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/wedigmusic.bsky.socialInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/wedigpusicpcast/Find our other episodes & podcasts at www.wedigpodcasts.com 

Episode 743: April 22, 2025 playlist: Joseph Allred, "The Groundhog" (Old Time Fantasias) 2025 Scissor Tail Shonen Knife, "Dizzy" (Sweet Candy Power) 2025 Damnably SAULT, "K.T.Y.W.S." (10) 2025 Forever Living Originals david thrussell and die teufelsmaschine, "eros maximus" (eros maximus (ost)) 2025 Ant-Zen Chris Brokaw, "8 Or 9 Things" (Ghost Ship) 2025 12XU Creeping Pink, "By This River Again" (Mirror Woods) 2015 Castle Force / 2025 Mascarpone Discos Monolake, "Ice" (Gravity) 2001 Imbalance Computer Music / 2025 Field The NRG, "Re-NRGizer (Chill-out version)" (Warehouse Justice! (The Chill-out Room)) 2025 Surface Reality Sharpie Smile, "The Slide" (The Staircase) 2025 Drag City Moin, "X.U.Y." (Belly Up) 2025 AD93 Jules Reidy and Sam Dunscombe, "Gracelords" (Edge Games) 2025 Futura Resistenza Sandwell District, "Least Travelled" (End Beginnings) 2025 Point of Departure Gryphon Rue, "Squatter's Quarters" (I Keep My Diamond Necklace in a Pond of Sparkling Water) 2025 [self-released] Merzbow, "Untitled" (The Prosperity Of Vice, The Misfortune Of Virtue) 1996 i / 2025 Room40 Glare, "Guts" (Sunset Funeral) 2025 Deathwish Anthony Pateras, "Sans Visages #1" (Reise der Schatten) 2025 Hallow Ground Email podcast at brainwashed dot com to say who you are; what you like; what you want to hear; share pictures for the podcast of where you're from, your computer or MP3 player with or without the Brainwashed Podcast Playing; and win free music! We have no tracking information, no idea who's listening to these things so the more feedback that comes in, the more frequent podcasts will come. You will not be put on any spam list and your information will remain completely private and not farmed out to a third party. Thanks for your attention and thanks for listening.

Lawrence English is a brilliant artist, composer and curator based in Australia. In this wide-ranging interview, Lawrence spoke to me about many topics, touching architecture, philosophy, field recordings, running a record label, and emerging biotech. One of his many projects is the record label Room40, which is celebrating 25 years, and punctuating this podcast are some clips from some of Lawrence's albums, including Even the Horizon Knows it's Bounds, Shell Type, and Observation of Breath. You'll fine several links in the show notes so you can explore each project more fully.Like all my episodes, you can watch this on my YouTube channel or listen to the podcast on all the podcast platforms, and I've also linked the transcript to my website where you'll also find all the separate links for the albums featured in this episode.Lawrence English websiteNewsletterBuy me a coffee? Thanks! Podcast merchOther episodes which I think may interest you: with Jesse StewartCeara ConwayLinsey Pollak Verna GillisStephen Nachmanovitch(00:00) Intro(01:42) commission for Naalu Badu Art Gallery of New South Wales(15:39) excerpt from Even the Horizon Knows Its Bounds(20:00) architecture and design of cities, Metabolism, Japan(28:24) Young Person's Guide to Hustling in Music and the Arts(34:03) sound art(38:13) Room40 label, Akio Suzuki(45:43) the importance of curiosity(47:30) other episodes and ways to support this series(48:20) about Field recordings, with clips, relational listening(57:40) biotech cerebral organoids(01:07:03) clip from Shell Thype(01:08:35) Lawrence's different musical phases and collaborations(01:16:31) recording the organ Queensland(01:21:28) And a Twist from Observation of Breath(01:24:10) ambient music, harmony and pulse, Merzbow(01:27:19) childhood musical memoriesphoto T. Pakioufakis

La historia de la música no depara un lugar de importancia a esta manifestación sonora hasta 1913, año del manifiesto de Russolo que preconiza los intonarumori o máquinas de ruido. Mucho más tarde despierta el ruidismo en Japón y en la escena del rock alternativo._____Has escuchadoAn Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music. Third A-Chronology 1952-2004 / Peter Rehberg (Pita). Sub Rosa (2004)Doing by not doing: [Iannis Xenakis. Persepolis + Remixes. Edition I] / Zbigniew Karkowski. Asphodel (2002)Acid Bath, Drip Bones: [Ju-Jikan: 10 Hours of Sound from Japan] / Pain Jerk. 23five; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002)“Luigi Russolo, Intonarumoris, 1913”. YouTube Vídeo. Publicado por david rato, 1 de julio de 2012: [Vídeo]Minazo Volume 1. Voices from the Sea / Merzbow (Masami Akita). Important Records (2006)_____Selección bibliográficaARIZA, Javier, “El ruidismo en el cine. La expansión del universo acústico en imágenes”. En: El sonido de la velocidad: cine y música electrónica. Editado por Pablo G. Polite y Sergi Sánchez Martí. Alpha Decay, 2011ATTALI, Jacques, Ruidos: ensayo sobre la economía política de la música. Traducción de Federico Álvarez. Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1995ATTON, Chris, “Fan Discourse and the Construction of Noise Music as a Genre”. Journal of Popular  Music Studies, vol. 23, n.º 3 (2011), pp. 324-342BAILEY, Thomas Bey William, Micro-Bionic: Radical Electronic Music and Sound Art in the 21st Century. Creation Books, 2009*BIJSTERVELD, Karin, Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century. The MIT Press, 2008BROWN, Barclay, “The Noise Instruments of Luigi Russolo”. Perspectives of New Music, vol. 20, n.º 1-2 (1981), pp. 31-48*CUSICK, Suzanne, “‘You Are in a Place That Is Out of the World…': Music in the Detention Camps of the Global War on Terror”. Journal of the Society for American Music, vol. 2 (2008), pp. 1-26*DEMERS, Joanna, Listening through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music. Oxford University Press, 2010*DOLAN, Daniel, “Cultural Noise: Amplified Sound, Freedom of Expression and Privacy Rights in Japan”. International Journal of Communication, vol. 2 (2008), pp. 662-690FRIEDL, Reinhold, “Some Sadomasochistic Aspects of Musical Pleasure”. Leonardo Music Journal, vol. 12 (2002), pp. 29-30*GODDARD, Michael, Benjamin Halligan y Nicola Spelman (eds.), Resonances: Noise and Contemporary Music. Bloomsbury, 2013GRAHAM, Stephen, “Noise as Concept, History, and Scene”. En: Sounds of the Underground: A Cultural, Political and Aesthetic Mapping of Underground and Fringe Music. University of Michigan Press, 2016HEGARTY, Paul, Noise/music: a History. Continuum, 2007*ILES, Anthony et al., Ruido y capitalismo. Arteleku, 2011*KAHN, Douglas, Noise Water Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts. The MIT Press, 1999*KELLEY, Caleb, Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction. The MIT Press, 2009NOVAK, David, Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation. Duke University Press, 2013ROSELL, Oriol, Un cortocircuito formidable: de los Kinks a Merzbow: un continuum del ruido. Alpha Decay, 2024*ROSS, Alex, El ruido eterno: escuchar al siglo XX a través de su música. Seix Barral, 2010*SCHWARTZ, Hillel, Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond. Zone, 2011SIM, Stuart, Manifesto for Silence: Confronting the Politics and Culture of Noise. Edinburgh University Press, 2007VENN, Edward, “Rethinking Russolo”. Tempo, vol. 64, n.º 251 (2010), pp. 8-16*VOEGELIN, Salome, Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art. Continuum, 2010* *Documento disponible para su consulta en la Sala de Nuevas Músicas de la Biblioteca y Centro de Apoyo a la Investigación de la Fundación Juan March

Indecipherable. Artists this episode include 5F-X, Guitless, and Meat Beat Manifesto & Merzbow. The post Ep. 387 – Mysterious Actual Intent first appeared on Fancy Pants Gangsters.

En este episodio de Libertad Jazzera, hemos escuchado a Ahmed; Lotus; Meat Beat Manifesto & Merzbow; Paul Dunmall, Tony Levin and Paul Rogers; Eunhye Jeong & Francisco Mela. Seguir leyendo Libertad Jazzera. Edición de Septiembre. en La Montaña Rusa Radio Jazz.

We got together with Jesse Sanes (Cleanse, Liebestod) to watch the classic "Oh! Moro volume 5" VHS. It was cool to see footage of Osaka after having been there, let alone revisiting some classic noise sets from Merzbow, Monde Bruits, Masonna and more! For the ExtraNoisextra on the patreon, we talk about the new Cleanse tape and how Greh and Jesse work together. This 20 minute segment immediately follows the episode on the patreon feed.

For this episode of Songs of Our Lives, I invite Lawrence English on the show. I've known Lawrence for almost two decades now, and I am in constant awe of his music, his drive, and the way he builds community through his work. A new collaboration with Akira Kosemura has my attention right now, but I know there's always something else lurking around the next corner. Our conversation is winding, vaguely on topic (and in the usual format), but we hit some high points with his love of anime, the power of Public Enemy to open windows, Merzbow's uplifting spirit, the surprise of Ace Frehley's solo album, Sakamoto bringing out the tears, and so much more!Listen to all of Lawrence's picks HERE (note that we didn't get to all these picks in the episode!)Lawrence English's WebsiteLawrence English & Akira Kosemura “Selene”Room 40Songs of Our Lives is a podcast series hosted by Brad Rose of Foxy Digitalis that explores the music that's made us and left a certain mark. Whether it's a song we associate with our most important moments, something that makes us cry, the things we love that nobody else does, or our favorite lyrics, we all have our own personal soundtrack. Join Foxy Digitalis on Patreon for extra questions and conversation in each episode (+ a whole lot more!)Follow Foxy Digitalis:WebsitePatreonInstagramTwitterBlueskyMastodonThe Jewel Garden

Iggor Cavalera (Sepultura, Cavalera Conspiracy) joins us for an incredible discussion. Iggor provided the perfect DJ set throughout Day 1 of the NWN/Hospital Fest, capturing the spirit of what the festival was all about. We go into his history from starting Sepultura as a 13 year old in Brazil, to playing with Boredoms in Japan, to collaborating with Prurient and Power Trip, to his current noise explorations and tons more. Iggor has carried the torch of the underground since the early 80s and the flame still burns! For the ExtraNoisextra segment on the patreon, Iggor talks about his gear, field recording in the Amazon, record shopping with Merzbow in Japan and more. This 20 minute segment is in the middle of the episode on the patreon feed.

Die Brainwashed - Radio Edition ist eine einstündige Show mit Musik von den Künstlern und Labels auf Brainwashed.com. 1. Blonde Redhead, "Melody Experiment" (Sit Down for Dinner) 2023 Section1 2. Joshua Hill and Micaela Tobin, "Fade Away" (Tent Music) 2023 Whited Sepulchre 3. Euglossine, "Pollinator" (Bug Planet Is the Current Timeline) 2023 Hausu Mountain 4. The Bug, "Sickness(Slowly dying)" (Machine 2) 2023 Pressure 5. Aereogramme, "The Black Path" (Sleep and Release) 2003 Chemikal Underground 6. Merzbow, "CATalysis No 3" (CATalysis) 2023 Elevator Bath 7. Fugazi, "Returning the Screw" (In On the Kill Taker) 1993 Dischord 8. Lankum, "Newcastle" (False Lankum) 2023 Rough Trade 9. Fabiano do Nascimento, "Babel" (Das Nuvens) 2023 Leaving 10. Drawing Virtual Gardens, "Be aware there is a goat hidden in the trees" (22:22) 2023 Lost Tribe Sound 11. Lusine, "Zero to Sixty (ft. Sarah Jaffe)" (Long Light) 2023 Ghostly 12. Theodore Cale Schafer, "See You Soon" (Trust) 2023 Students of Decay * Eine Sendung vom 29. Juli 2023. # Brainwashed - Radio Edition Email podcast at brainwashed dot com to say who you are; what you like; what you want to hear; share pictures for the podcast of where you're from, your computer or MP3 player with or without the Brainwashed Podcast Playing; and win free music! We have no tracking information, no idea who's listening to these things so the more feedback that comes in, the more frequent podcasts will come. You will not be put on any spam list and your information will remain completely private and not farmed out to a third party. Thanks for your attention and thanks for listening. * http://brainwashed.com

CITR's 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. Friday afternoon's broadcast features David Fennessy, Melkor, Undirheimar, 400 Lonely Things, Ascendant, Celer, Austin Oting Har, Between Voices, Leo Okagawa, and finally…after what feels like months of respecting official launch date embargoes, the CITR Global Network premiere of the new Meat Beat Manifesto / Merzbow collaboration ‘Extinct‘.

Sam and Jason are back on the bi-coastal swing, digging into the wild world of Beatles covers, encompassing the great to the terrible. To kick the clicks off, Jason rounds up selections from Vortex favorites PM Dawn, Todd Rundgren, Tom Jones, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers,  plus left field takes from Boris and Merzbow, Spooky Tooth, Sinéad O'Connor, and more. Then, Sam takes things in a cosmic direction, examining multiple covers of one song, the Beatles' classic "Across the Universe," with takes by 10cc, Scorpions, Rufus Wainwright, Beady Eye, Sean Ono Lennon, and even Sam's own band, The Format. Check out a Spotify playlist of these fab selections. Call us anytime at 1-877-WASTOIDS. More podcasts and videos at WASTOIDS.com | Follow us on Instagram and YouTube.

XIU XIU is an experimental rock group with an eclectic and at times deeply noisy sound, and lyrics that deal with dark and intensely personal subject matter. They are extremely important to me personally going back to my teen years, and were my direct gateway to the world of harsh noise, specifically through hearing a remix of one their songs by THE CHERRY POINT. Jamie Stewart was kind enough to talk to me about the noisier side of XIU XIU, including working with artists such as MERZBOW and PRURIENT, memories of The Smell in LA, drug influenced sound experiments and much more. XIU XIU FOR LIFE.Support WCN Podcast and get much more: https://www.patreon.com/whitecentipedenoiseOpening track: "Don Diasco" from Knife Play https://xiuxiu.bandcamp.com/album/knife-playClosing track: "Maybae Baeby" from Ignore Grief https://xiuxiu.bandcamp.com/album/ignore-griefFor noisy, exclusive and independent XIU XIU releases: https://xiuxiu69.bandcamp.com/This episode is brought to you by:Initial Shock Fest II in Montreal, Canada initialshock.screamandwrithe.comSupport the show

On this week's podcast we're using the occasion of Meat Beat Manifesto and Merzbow's new collaborative record as an opportunity to talk about each project as well as that new record. Both Jack Dangers and Masami Akita's respective paths and discographies have brought them into proximity with industrial music, but both have

We are too excited for Japan so we delve into a classic comp that emanated out of Osaka — "Noise Forest." A truly mandatory CD, "Noise Forest" brings together a powerhouse of early 90s Japanese noise stalwarts such as Merzbow, Masonna, CCCC, Mode Bruits and more. Traverse with us and get lost on the “Noise Forest.” For the ExtraNOISEXTRA segment on the patreon, we go over multiple versions and sessions of Merzbow "Travelling" that was released by Slowdown Records.

Este episódio com destaque para: Faust, Merzbow, Folk Implosion, Jim O'Rourke entre outros. Com Gonçalo Formiga & Zé Maldito dos Cave Story

In the most on-topic episode of this podcast to date, Carson and Dawson discuss a very straightforward FOB song. Other topics include Dream Theater listeners, potential Merzbow collaborations, and when an album is too long.

Die Zonic Radio Show ist die hör-mediale Erweiterung der Kulturerscheinung Zonic. ## No X-mas for… - Eine Neinnachten-Selection 1. Autopsia - Stille Nacht (gRAVE remix) – V.A.: Excelsis ~ a dark noel – Project Records 2. Herbst in Peking - X Mas Mantra – Merry X-Mas – Moloko + 3. Attrition: Silent Night – V.A.: Excelsis ~ a dark noel – Project Records 4. Merzbow - eat beat eat #2 – V.A.: Scumtron - Mute 5. Panasonic - Elephants Memory remix – V.A.: Scumtron - Mute 6. Tabea Blumenschein, Frieder Butzmann, Gudrun Gut & Bettina Köster – White Christmas – 7" – Marat Records 7. Basement 5 - Last White Christmas – 1965-1980 – Island Records 8. The Business - Step Into Christmas – Bollocks To Christmas – Secret Records 9. Okkultokrati – All I Want For Christmas Is Glue – Black Hole X-mas With... – Fysisk Format 10. Anastasia - На Рѣкахъ Вавилонскыхъ Пс.137 – 12" – Dom 11. Aporea - Ѕвѣздо, Ѩвлѩющаѩ Солнцє / Dzezdo Javljajushta Solnce – На Рѣкахъ Вавилонскыхъ – Eigenrelease 12. Al Cisneros - Yerushaláyim / Yerushaláyim (Version) – Sinia 2012-2022 Dub Box – Sinai 13. Dub Spencer & Trance Hill – Silent Night Dub (Stille Nacht Dub) – Christmas In Dub – Echo Beach 14. Tabea Blumenschein, Frieder Butzmann, Gudrun Gut & Bettina Köster – Stille Nacht goes Disco – 7" – Marat Records 15. Can - Silent Night – 7" – Virgin 16. August Darnell – Christmas On Riverside Drive – V.A.: A Christmas Record – ZE Records 17. Johnny Dowd - Jingle Bells – The Pawnbroker's Wife – Glitterhouse 18. Suicide - Hey Lord – V.A.: A Christmas Record – ZE Records 19. The Qualities - It's Christmas Time – Sun Ra presents The Qualities – Norton Records 20. MCH Band - Tag für Tag – Es reut mich f... – Black Point 21. Wild Billy Childish And The Musicians Of The British Empire -Christmas 1979 – Christmas 1979 – Damaged Goods 22. The Fall - No Xmas For John Key – Peel Session (27th November 1978) – Strange Fruit 23. Miles Davis – Blue Xmas (To Whom It May Concern) – Facets – CBS 24. John Lee Hooker - Blues For Christmas – Blues For Big Town – Charly R&B 25. Karel Svoboda vs. HiP vs. Autopsia: Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel * Sendung vom 14. Dezember 2022 # Zonic Radio Show Süd Die Zonic Radio Show ist die hör-mediale Erweiterung der Kulturerscheinung Zonic. Thematisch frei zwischen Musik, Literatur und Kunst changierend, gibt es von tieftauchenden popkulturellen Features über experimentelle Klangstücke oder Sound & Poetry- Mixe bis zum Hangeln durch den News-Jungle eines extrem offenen musikalischen Spektrums alles zu hören, was potentielle Relevanz im stetig sich ausbreitenden Zonic-Kosmos hat. Und über dessen Rand hinaus! Die Wort- & Musikauswahl liegt bei Zonic-Herausgeber Alexander Pehlemann. * http://www.zonic-online.de

CITR's 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. The countdown is on for what many of us in CITR Land consider the real “most wonderful time of the (programming) year!”. Indeed. CITR's 24 Hours of Radio Art 2024 takes place on Wednesday, 17 January. This Friday afternoon's broadcast serves as a preview of what to expect next month. Tune in for recent releases by Aki Onda, Merzbow, Nagarekeri, Mario Lino Stancati, Mark Vernon, Shaun Robert, Angélica Castelló, Joana de Sa, Lucie Pachova, plus the CITR Global Network premiere of Mattin's ‘Seize The Means of Complexity‘.

The next mixtape instalment is by experimental musician Colin Andrew Sheffield. Born in El Paso and now based in Austin, Sheffield took his passion from being a self-taught drummer in Texas to a total transition to electronic music. For this mix, he's compiled a captivating selection of experimental electronic music. Since the mid-90s, Sheffield's work has consistently focused on the use of samples: deconstructed loops of hidden melodies and textures found in his collection of physical media. Through the re-contextualization of other commercially available recordings, like an alchemist of audio collage, he aims to distil the essential qualities of these works and convert them into new recordings. Sheffield's music is full of atmospheric soundscapes, which shift and unfold, offering subtle waves and suspended stillness. From earlier work like First Thus (2005) to the most recent Images (2023), Sheffield's solo projects showcase his ability to explore diverse sonic ranges. One of our favourite records this year, Images, was entirely constructed from heavily edited and manipulated samples from jazz records and represents a true distillation of Sheffield's interests as both a composer and an obsessive listener. In 1998, Sheffield founded the Elevator Bath recording label, which has been releasing experimental works from a variety of artists from the US and abroad, featuring names such as Merzbow, Francisco López, Susane Drone, and himself. The mixtape he's prepared for us, he says, was a lot of fun to compile. I limited myself to selections that are all quite recent or at least no more than a few years old. I tried to represent my tastes in various forms of experimental music and throw in a liberal dose of work from some good friends. There are a couple of brand new tracks in there from forthcoming releases too, so it's a bit of a taster of things to come. Hopefully, it flows well enough and has something for just about everyone. Thanks for giving me the impetus to create this mix! Tracklist: Andrew Anderson + Colin Andrew Sheffield Clarioned - Elegies Valerio Tricoli Mimosa - Hostilis Concepción Huerta - Trepidation Adam Pacione - Pos. Neg. Jana Winderen - The Art of Listening: Under Water Roméo Poirier - Les grandes lignes Matt Shoemaker - Pasar Gede Marta Zapparoli - The resonant sky of Krems Merzbow - Hat 1046 Susana López - Drones to Zazeela Richard Ramirez - Protective Custody 2 Telesurgient - Lifeline Sequences - Illuminated and Translucent TIBSLC - Hypertranslucent (2) Werner Dafeldecker - Neural Pendant - Dream Song Of The Woman Electric Capablanca - Capablanca Spin Felicity Mangan - Digging The Pedospheric Vibes III Jim Haynes - Variant, number four Colin Andrew Sheffield - Embers Kate Rissiek - Floating In Darkness Jake Muir - Cauldron Koray Kantarcıoğlu - Agat 01 Rick Reed - Leave a Light on for Tony

Welcome to a new episode of the 'Who Art Thou?' podcast!Today I will be joined by Thomas, Chloe and Pierce of the band Tvashtar Paterae. We'll be chatting about their new EP, Love Songs to the Moon, which was released at the beginning of this month and is a fantastic collection of songs that kept me surprised throughout it's 26 minute runtime.On top of this we'll be chatting about how the band started out, their influences, Merzbow, the Green Giant, what is currently inspiring them and where they hope to bring Tvashtar Paterae to in the future.Really had a lovely time chatting with all of them, they are a very talented band and I hope you enjoy the episode!Tvashtar Paterae BandcampTvashtar Paterae on Spotify

Jeff and Ben are joined by Adam Wright, owner of one of the most important extreme music labels of the 21st Century, Crucial Blast Records. As artists who released records as part of the label's Crucial Bliss CD-R series, it was wonderful to finally meet and talk to Adam at some length. During the interview we cover a lot of fascinating ground, including his early years as a musician in the Maryland doom and hardcore scenes, the enduring influence of horror films in his love of heavy extreme music; a theme that moves from Adam's earliest years to the devastating horror noise doom-filth of the infamous Crucial Blast artist Maurice de Jong aka Gnaw Their Tongues. We also discuss the label's origin story and some of Crucial Blast's seminal early releases by Merzbow, Weed Eater, The Angelic Process, The Goslings, among numerous others--the beginning of a deep dive into the label's massive discography. The interview covers a lot of interesting topics including the evolution and eventual nexus of hardcore and extreme heavy music, our shared love of harsh noise, and Adam's recent passion for the emerging improvisational death metal scene. We really look forward to part 2 and hopefully meeting Adam in person in the near future!

Episode 643: July 29, 2023 playlist: Blonde Redhead, "Melody Experiment" (Sit Down for Dinner) 2023 Section1 Joshua Hill and Micaela Tobin, "Fade Away" (Tent Music) 2023 Whited Sepulchre Euglossine, "Pollinator" (Bug Planet Is the Current Timeline) 2023 Hausu Mountain The Bug, "Sickness(Slowly dying)" (Machine 2) 2023 Pressure Aereogramme, "The Black Path" (Sleep and Release) 2003 Chemikal Underground Merzbow, "CATalysis No 3" (CATalysis) 2023 Elevator Bath Fugazi, "Returning the Screw" (In On the Kill Taker) 1993 Dischord Lankum, "Newcastle" (False Lankum) 2023 Rough Trade Fabiano do Nascimento, "Babel" (Das Nuvens) 2023 Leaving Drawing Virtual Gardens, "Be aware there is a goat hidden in the trees" (22:22) 2023 Lost Tribe Sound Lusine, "Zero to Sixty (ft. Sarah Jaffe)" (Long Light) 2023 Ghostly Theodore Cale Schafer, "See You Soon" (Trust) 2023 Students of Decay Email podcast at brainwashed dot com to say who you are; what you like; what you want to hear; share pictures for the podcast of where you're from, your computer or MP3 player with or without the Brainwashed Podcast Playing; and win free music! We have no tracking information, no idea who's listening to these things so the more feedback that comes in, the more frequent podcasts will come. You will not be put on any spam list and your information will remain completely private and not farmed out to a third party. Thanks for your attention and thanks for listening.

Ben Arzate is in the cyber house to talk about his short novel ‘Music Is Over', published by Malarkey Books in 2022. Malarkey describes ‘Music Is Over' as “a picaresque surreal horror novel” that “imagines the lost years of musician Juntaro Yamanouchi [of the Japanese Noise band The Gerogerigegege]. It is weird, bizarre, violent, and surprisingly sweet.” If you're into Japanese Noise, trains that lead to nowhere, industrial wasteland cities filled with strange doctors, mysterious foreigners, psychotic policemen, and unfriendly residents, this is the book and episode for you. If you don't know much about this kind of music, not to worry. In the last segment of the episode, David Novak, author of the award-winning book ‘Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation', drops by to talk with me about it.   MEDIA AND MUSIC IN THE EPISODE IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE: Noise—Royalty Free Sample Pack “Da Da Da” by Trio “Roygbiv” by Boards of Canada “Smell the Medicine” by Melt-Banana Excerpt from the “Talking About Noise Music” episode of Oliver Kemp's YouTube show ‘Deep Cuts': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXgI082zbtM From the 1989 album by The Gerogerigegege, ‘Showa' From the 2001 album by The Gerogerigegege, ‘Saturdaynight Big Cock Salaryman' From the 1988 album by The Gerogerigegege, ‘Sexual Behavior in the Human Male' From the 1999 album by Boredoms, ‘Vision Creation Newsun' From the 1996 album by Merzbow, ‘Pulse Demon' From the 1989 album by Boredoms, ‘Soul Discharge' From the 1989 album by Boredoms, ‘Soul Discharge' Hanatarash—live at Bears, Osaka, Japan   LINKS: Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Goodpods: https://goodpods.com/podcasts/rock-is-lit-212451 Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rock-is-lit/id1642987350 Trio banned video of “Da Da Da”: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x43dxly Ben Arzate on Twitter: @BenArz13 Ben Arzate's blog: https://dripdropdripdropdripdrop.blogspot.com/ Purchase a paperbacl copy of Ben's novel ‘Music is Over': https://malarkeybooks.com/music-is-over Purchase the ebook of Ben's novel: https://godless.com/products/music-is-over-by-ben-arzate?_pos=1&_sid=9c00e6f1d&_ss=r Ben's work on Substack: https://benarzate.substack.com/ Read David Novak's book ‘Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation' for free and find out more about him: https://www.japanoise.com// Christy Alexander Hallberg's website: https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/ Christy Alexander Hallberg on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube: @ChristyHallberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben Arzate is in the cyber house to talk about his short novel ‘Music Is Over', published by Malarkey Books in 2022. Malarkey describes ‘Music Is Over' as “a picaresque surreal horror novel” that “imagines the lost years of musician Juntaro Yamanouchi [of the Japanese Noise band The Gerogerigegege]. It is weird, bizarre, violent, and surprisingly sweet.” If you're into Japanese Noise, trains that lead to nowhere, industrial wasteland cities filled with strange doctors, mysterious foreigners, psychotic policemen, and unfriendly residents, this is the book and episode for you. If you don't know much about this kind of music, not to worry. In the last segment of the episode, David Novak, author of the award-winning book ‘Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation', drops by to talk with me about it.   MEDIA AND MUSIC IN THE EPISODE IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE: Noise—Royalty Free Sample Pack “Da Da Da” by Trio “Roygbiv” by Boards of Canada “Smell the Medicine” by Melt-Banana Excerpt from the “Talking About Noise Music” episode of Oliver Kemp's YouTube show ‘Deep Cuts': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXgI082zbtM From the 1989 album by The Gerogerigegege, ‘Showa' From the 2001 album by The Gerogerigegege, ‘Saturdaynight Big Cock Salaryman' From the 1988 album by The Gerogerigegege, ‘Sexual Behavior in the Human Male' From the 1999 album by Boredoms, ‘Vision Creation Newsun' From the 1996 album by Merzbow, ‘Pulse Demon' From the 1989 album by Boredoms, ‘Soul Discharge' From the 1989 album by Boredoms, ‘Soul Discharge' Hanatarash—live at Bears, Osaka, Japan   LINKS:  Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Goodpods: https://goodpods.com/podcasts/rock-is-lit-212451 Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rock-is-lit/id1642987350 Trio banned video of “Da Da Da”: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x43dxly Ben Arzate on Twitter: @BenArz13 Ben Arzate's blog: https://dripdropdripdropdripdrop.blogspot.com/ Purchase a paperbacl copy of Ben's novel ‘Music is Over': https://malarkeybooks.com/music-is-over Purchase the ebook of Ben's novel: https://godless.com/products/music-is-over-by-ben-arzate?_pos=1&_sid=9c00e6f1d&_ss=r Ben's work on Substack: https://benarzate.substack.com/ Read David Novak's book ‘Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation' for free and find out more about him: https://www.japanoise.com// Christy Alexander Hallberg's website: https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/ Christy Alexander Hallberg on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube: @ChristyHallberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Goff, also known as Cascadia Bagpiper, has been a professional bagpiper since 1984. Originally from San Diego, he currently resides in the Pacific Northwest and plays memorials, funerals, weddings, and various celebrations. John is also an experimental musician, playing guitar, synthesizer and bagpipes with a wide range of musicians including Crash Worship, Neurosis, Merzbow, Steve Von Till, and NØISE, a collaboration with artist Shepard Fairey. In this episode, John shares a few of his many anecdotes, experiences and insights as an experimental musician turned professional bagpiper. We also get a brief history of the instrument, the outfit and the journey that landed him in this vocation. Long time pals Joe and John get a chance to catch up, hear some fruits of their collaborations and they revisit the time Vincent Gallo visited John at his Portland home. This ep is supported Native Instruments. Use code "podcast" to get 50% off Komplete 14 Select, visit https://www.native-instruments.com/en/ This ep is also supported by Izotope. Use code "fret10" to receive your software discount at https://www.izotope.com/ https://www.cascadiabagpiper.com/ http://www.noiseproject.com/

This perilously entertaining episode of Electronically Yours features electronic musician, DJ, producer, and remixer Jack Dangers. He is best known for his sterling work as the main man behind Meat Beat Manifesto, and has collaborated or remixed for David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, David Byrne, DJ Spooky, Merzbow, Depeche Mode and Coil amongst many, many others.  Jack is also a rare synth nut, and an avid collector of unusual video and audio recordings. Ladies and gentlemen, treat yourself to the prime audio soup of the one and only Jack Dangers... If you can, please support the Electronically Yours podcast via my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/electronicallyours

Rain welcomes John Vanderslice to LaunchLeft today.  John launches Spacemoth, and together we discuss how getting away from the handbook and taking risks can make a lasting piece of art. John doesn’t hold back on his views of creativity, production, artists' treatment, and more. Spacemoth joins in to discuss recording studios and her music. Stay tuned to the end to hear Spacemoth’s vibey track ‘UFO Bird’.  -----------------  LAUNCHLEFT OFFICIAL WEBSITEhttps://www.launchleft.com  LAUNCHLEFT PATREON https://www.patreon.com/LaunchLeft  TWITTER https://twitter.com/LaunchLeft  INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/launchleft/  FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/LaunchLeft  --------------------- LaunchLeft Podcast hosted by Rain Phoenix is an intentional space for Art and Activism where famed creatives launch new artists. LaunchLeft is an alliance of left-of-center artists, a curated ecosystem that includes a podcast, label and NFT gallery. --------------------- IN THIS EPISODE: [01:08]John discusses his journey through what, how and why he writes his music.  [07:28] What two artists inspired John to step out of his comfort zone.  [10:27] John’s examples of ‘whatever it takes to get by’.  [11:55] John talks about his collection of instruments.  [13:57] What would John do if he ever stopped making music?  [17:31] What non-attachment means to John and how grieving informs an artist.  [20:29] How John spends his time in and out of the studio and his views of this creative art.  [27:51] Spacemoth talks about finding Tiny Telephone and the different vibes in studios.  [36:40] Listen to Spacemoth’s song “UFO Bird” from the album, No Past No Future.   KEY TAKEAWAYS:  Artists must always find something inspiring. They are constantly looking for gems in music and others. Sometimes when “accidents” happen in the studio, they can result in fantastic music. Collaboration in music is the key to making lasting records while the artists have fun and find joy in making them.   BIOGRAPHY:  The Reintroduction of John Vanderslice by Grayson Haver Currin Nearly 20 years ago, or just after the start of this century, John Vanderslice made some of his generation’s most masterful singer-songwriter records. Life and Death of an American Four-Tracker, Cellar Door, Pixel Revolt: Every year or so, he’d release another set of engrossing songs set expertly on edge, vulnerable excavations animated by a new dawn of endless-war unrest. Those albums sounded like little else, each blown-out drum line or warped calliope melody or sun-baked synthesizer layer a testament to Vanderslice’s laborious process and tireless ingenuity. (There were rumors, possibly true, he once cut 500 hours of tape for a single album.) This dovetailed, of course, with his emergence as a keen analog revivalist and the proprietor of one of the best studios in the country, San Francisco’s Tiny Telephone. But on a sunny winter day in his gently sloped Los Angeles backyard, feet from the little green cabin where he now makes music, Vanderslice beams as he disavows all of it. “I went from this scrappy dude who wanted to own a studio to someone able to record in a big room with a full orchestra, like fucking Frank Sinatra, the end result of an obsession with songwriting,” he says of his maximalist apogee, 2011’s White Wilderness, brushing hair so blonde it sometimes seems white from his suddenly trenched brow. “I should have wrapped it up right there—no more tape, no more reel-to-reel, no more linear format. Let’s blow it up. It took me a long time to learn how.” Let’s round it, in fact, to a dozen years: Crystals 3.0—the culmination of a span of ecstatic experimentation with harsh noise and hard drugs, curious samples and cascading sequencers—is both a new pinnacle for Vanderslice and the manifestation of a revelatory outlook. A seamless 19-minute sequence of melodies so memorable they belong in an ice cream truck, static bursts so meticulous they belong on a Merzbow tribute and beats so spring-loaded they belong on a trap record, Crystals 3.0 applies the unencumbered enthusiasm of vintage Vanderslice records to his ideas about breaking old molds, about avoiding easy interpretation. “Songwriting is inherently conservative, and I just don’t have the mindset to write something like ‘Exodus Damage’ again,” Vanderslice, now 55, says, grinning broadly in his contagious way. “I want to make music that poses more questions than it answers.” The essential elements here are nothing unprecedented for Vanderslice. He was, after all, the sample guy in his acclaimed band of ’90s weirdos, MK Ultra, and his approach to crosshatching rhythms and hooks in playful patterns betrayed a love of hip-hop and electronica at least since 2004’s Cellar Door. During pandemic lockdowns, though, a budding fascination led him to embrace those elements unabashedly—drugs, from acid and coke to mushrooms and MDMA. After years as the songwriter who didn’t drink on tour for fear of how it might impact his craft, the spoils of a libertine Los Angeles became distinct tools, allowing him to tunnel into his creativity in distinct ways. He would build electronic trances on ecstasy or up the mushrooms on recording days, looking for unimagined connections. During 2022, Vanderslice would often sit in his backyard studio in some pleasant psychedelic state and work while a film—maybe something by the Maysles Brothers or Frederick Wiseman—played in the background. If something caught his ear, he’d often weave it into the music, using the distortion inherent in those decades-old documentaries to counter the rigidly clean tones of digital instruments. No context, just the serendipity of overlapping moments. Those samples populate Crystals 3.0 like reawakened ghosts, maybe guests of honor at one of the drug parties Vanderslice throws in the backyard with his partner, Maria. The whole dense little record feels like a distilled fête, its 13 overlapping tracks functioning as fragments from conversations and encounters. Bits of singing that might have fit on Pixel Revolt about sequences that Chicks on Speed would have loved; celebrations of jungle drums run into sunken-keyboard miasmas, like an old friend pulling you aside to deliver some bad news. Vanderslice spent a year building, sorting, and stitching together these pieces; despite the brevity, you may spend just as long trying to unpack every layer, and decode every secret. It is no mystery that the music Vanderslice made at the start of this century is no longer in supreme vogue, not a source of major cachet. He’s not only OK with that but also invigorated by it, the way it permits him to pursue whatever excites him. When he talks about music, he hopscotches between modern rappers and classical composers, abrasive producers and Charles Mingus, beaming as he goes. He gloats about one day dying broke, about creating with no master plan except what’s right in front of him. “You have to move on to more challenging silos,” he says, “or you’re just going to be a boring fucking artist.” Named for a novel method of synthesizing pure LSD, Crystals 3.0 overflows with youthful vim, the sense that to settle into an old pattern is to be dead already. If you have previously loved John Vanderslice, you will hear him here instantly, whether it’s that familiar warble during “Crystals 26” or the way he cavorts with hooks. If you’ve never known him, you will instead instantly hear a mind on post-modern fire, trying, like always, to make sense of our modern mess. This side of John Vanderslice’s sound hid in plain sight for two decades on records that remain essential because of those very interests; it has never sounded more full, dauntless, or thrilling than on Crystals 3.0.   RESOURCE LINKS Podcast - LaunchLeft John Vanderslice - Website John Vanderslice - Twitter John Vanderslice - Facebook John Vanderslice - Instagram John Vanderslice - Bandcamp - Website John Vanderslice - Wikipedia Spacemoth - Website Spacemoth - Bandcamp - Website Spacemoth - Instagram Spacemoth - Twitter Spacemoth - YouTube

Having recently discussed his collaboration CD with Merzbow, we thought it'd be a great time to have a conversation with Christoph Heemann. One of the main culprits behind H.N.A.S, Ultra, Mirror and so much more, Christoph provided some incredible insight and an equally incredible laugh. This is a great historical episode that looks at the underground from the '80s and beyond. For the extra segment on the Patreon, Christoph talks about working with David Tibet and being a part of Current 93's "Soft Black Stars."

A collaboration that has come up on two recent Seven Inch Sundays, and one that was requested multiple times in our early podcast days, Merzbow & Christoph Heemann "Sleeper Awakes on the Edge of Abyss" is this week's focus. An interesting and unexpected work, this album settles in quickly and brings up as many images as it does questions. It's a great look at '80s Merzbow through the lens of Christoph Heemann.

Nirvana(1), Jeanne Vomit-Terror, Nose Bled, Synth Bard, Warren Enström, YlangYlang, Bastard Noise & Merzbow, City of Caterpillar, T.J. Borden, Himukalt, Weyes Blood, and Lou Reed.

Episode 84 Psychedelic Japan, Part 3   Playlist Boredoms, “Super Going” from Super æ (1998 Birdman). Boredoms (ボアダムス), alternatively known as V∞redoms, is a Japanese experimental/noise/space rock/tribal drumming band from Osaka, founded in 1986 by Yamatsuka Eye. Known for their extended jams and heavy drumming, it is remarkable that they had some mainstream success in the 1990s. Bass, Hira; Drums, EDA; Drums, Vocals, Yoshimi P-We; Guitar, Yamamotor; Music by, Boredoms; Words By, Vocals, Tibetan Bell, Effects (EQ-phasing), Electronics, Eye. 12:26. Boredoms, “7-(Ewe Remix)” from Super Roots 7 (1998 WEA). Bass, Effects, Hilah; Drums, Percussion (Electronic), E~Da; Drums, Sampler (Samples), Percussion, ATR; Drums, Vocals, Tape (Bird Flying Sound), Keyboards (Casiotone), Yoshimi P-We; Guitar (Guitars), Yamamotor; Sampler, Synth, Kiyoshi Izumi; Vocals, Synth, Tape (Open Reel), Electronics (Vacuum Cleaner), Bell, Effects, Sounds, Electronics, Tape (Insects, Bird), Eye. 4:05 OOIOO, “Oizumio” from Feather Float (1999 Polystar). Pronounced OH-EE-OH, Band formed by trumpeter and drummer for the Boredoms on a whim as the result of a photo shoot she once did. Bass, Handclaps, Maki; Drums, Handclaps, Yoshiko; Guitar, Vocals, Djembe, Bongos, Roland Juno and Casiotone synthesizers; Piano, Jew's Harp, Talking Drum, Scratches, Noises (Birds), Yoshimi; Guitar, Vocals, Handclaps, Kyoko; Producer, Yoshimi. 3:39 OOIOO, “1000 Frogs And 3 Sun In A House” from Feather Float (1999 Polystar). Bass, Handclaps, Maki; Drums, Handclaps, Yoshiko; Guitar, Vocals, Djembe, Bongos, Roland Juno and Casiotone synthesizers; Piano, Jew's Harp, Talking Drum, Scratches, Noises (Birds), Yoshimi; Guitar, Vocals, Handclaps, Kyoko; Producer, Yoshimi. 10:28 Boredoms, “"Ҩ" (Spiral)” from Vision Creation Newsun (2001 Birdman). There have been some live performances of this music from Vision Creation Newsun where Eye has recruited as many as twenty drummers to join the fray, all positioned in a circle with Eye conducting from the middle. And it's said that this is not one of his most extreme performance setups. Bass, Effects, Vocals, Hilah; Drums, Percussion, Electronic Drums (Electric Pad), Vocals, ATR, E-Da; Drums, Percussion, Keyboards (Casiotone), Vocals, Yoshimi; Guitar, Vocals, Yamamotor; Vocals, Synth, Sampler (Samples), Turntables, Tape (Open Reel), Vocoder, Computer, Electronics, Edited, mixed by, Eye. 6:33 Boredoms, “"↑" (Arrow Up)” from Vision Creation Newsun (2001 Birdman). Bass, Effects, Vocals (Vox), Hilah; Drums, Percussion, Electronic Drums (Electric Pad), Vocals, ATR, E-Da; Drums, Percussion, Keyboards (Casiotone), Vocals, Yoshimi; Guitar, Vocals, Yamamotor; Vocals, Synth, Sampler (Samples), Turntables, Tape (Open Reel), Vocoder, Computer, Electronics, Edited, mixed by, Eye. 6:26 Adachi Tomomi, “Gamp” (2001 unofficial release). Adachi Tomomi is a performer/composer from Tokyo, Japan. He plays improvised music with voice, computer, and self-made instruments. 2:35 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., “The Creation Of The Human Race” from 41st Century Splendid Man (2002 tUMULt). Bass synthesizer, bass harmonica, Tsuyama Atsushi; Drums, Yoshida Tatsuya; Electric Guitar, Synthesizer, Other Dancin' King, Hiroshi Higashi; Electric Guitar, Effects RDS 900, Synthesizer, Kawabata Makoto; Cosmic Companion, Ayano; Space Phone girl, Yoko; Synthesizer, Higashi Hiroshi; Vocals, Cotton Casino. From a picture disc version of this recording. 9:12 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., “Dalai Gama” from 41st Century Splendid Man (2002 tUMULt). Bass synthesizer, bass harmonica, Tsuyama Atsushi; Drums, Yoshida Tatsuya; Electric Guitar, Synthesizer, Other Dancin' King, Hiroshi Higashi; Electric Guitar, Effects RDS 900, Synthesizer, Kawabata Makoto; Cosmic Companion, Ayano; Space Phone girl, Yoko; Synthesizer, Higashi Hiroshi; Vocals, Cotton Casino. From a picture disc version of this recording. 4:32 Merzbow, “Argus” from Karasu: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 4 (2009 Important Records). Music by Masami Akita. We included a cassette release from Akita in part 2 of this series. That was from early days for Merzbow, 1984. It seems fitting that we include a more recent CD by him here. Limited edition of 1,000 copies. Recorded and mixed in Tokyo, Feb 2009. 19:40 Opening background music: Far East Family Band, “Parallel World” from Parallel World (1976 MU Land). Music by, arranged by, Far East Family Band. Produced, recorded, computer mix by, Klaus Schulze. Recorded November 15th to December 5th 1976 at the Manor Studio, UK. Opening and closing sequences voiced by Anne Benkovitz. Additional opening, closing, and other incidental music by Thom Holmes. For additional notes, please see my blog, Noise and Notations. See my blog for the Bob Moog Foundation.

It's the OffspriNovember a full month of Offspring songs! It's never been done before! This week we talk about the Smash smash "Bad Habit." One of us loves it and the other hates it. Yep, you guessed right. We're joined by Rob a.k.a. metal.txt, who mostly talks about Merzbow but also talks about guns and road rage, and a little bit about the Offspring. Rob shows up around 1:40:50.  

Michael Tau had spent years obsessed by the extremes of musical expression. “Extreme Music: Silence to Noise and Everything In Between” is the culmination of decades of research into the sounds (and silences) that comprise the outer limits and conceptual expressions that stretch the definition of music. Tau defines and categorizes these recorded sounds into sections that allow fans and newcomers to explore the fascinating world of musicians who defy convention. He explores a wide range of extremes including volume, speed, and vulgarity to packaging, recording methods, unplayable media, outdated technologies, and digital pioneers. He asks and answers the questions: Are all sounds music? Is silence music? Does a plate of rotting food once cataloged, packaged and sold by a distributor qualify as music?“Extreme Music” includes over 100 interviews with makers and musicians as Tau uses his background in psychiatry to help readers understand what motivates people to create and listen to non-mainstream music. As a fan of multiple avant-garde musical genres, Tau uncovers the pleasures (and sometimes pain and frustration) found at the outré fringes of music.“Extreme Music” is the ideal guide for curious seekers, die-hard fans, and cultural investigators. Michael Tau was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. As a teenager, he was introduced to bizarre and adventurous music via the after-hours CBC radio program, Brave New Waves, which he recorded onto cassette to listen to the next day. In university, he attended noise shows in lofts in Montreal's quasi-industrial districts, to the detriment of his hearing. He has since written for numerous underground music publications and has authored several music zines. When he isn't listening to the Merzbow boxset, he works as a physician.Purchase a copy of “Extreme Music: From Silence to Noise and Everything In Between” through Feral House: https://feralhouse.com/extreme-music/Listen to a playlist of some the music discussed in this episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0pTeMurVDluqaY0txFEPF0?si=de95b551eb3d4ebbMusic Not Available Through Spotify Playlist:Jem Finer's “Longplayer”: https://longplayer.org/ or www.trinitybuoywharf.com/whats-on/longplayer8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis' ‘Kind Of Blue' called ‘Kind Of Bloop' by Andy Baio: https://kindofbloop.comVulfpeck's ‘Sleepify' album: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTE2UdbmDw4Hantasi ‘Vacant Places': www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qut4OjmBS0 Visit Michael Tau's website: https://anomalyindex.com/The Booked On Rock Website: https://www.bookedonrock.comFollow The Booked On Rock with Eric Senich:FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/bookedonrockpodcastTWITTER: https://twitter.com/bookedonrockINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/bookedonrockpodcastSupport Your Local Bookstore! Find your nearest independent bookstore here: https://www.indiebound.org/indie-store-finderContact The Booked On Rock Podcast:thebookedonrockpodcast@gmail.comThe Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” & “Nasty” by Crowander (https://www.crowander.com)

It's time for another legendary noise VHS viewing with "Good Alchemy Video." A mandatory visual document, we get classic footage of Masonna, Incapacitants, Merzbow, Solmania, and Hijokaidan. The explosive excitement of these performances infect us and anyone who pops this in their VCR. Adjust your tracking and prepare for the glory of noise.

Jim O'Rourke takes a journey through his deep history with us and we were absolutely thrilled. We get into 1980s Chicago, setting up shows for Merzbow and Zoviet France, the cassette culture network, working and living in Europe with John Duncan and Christoph Heemann, and so much more. Jim has more stories than most people have had days, so sit back for a first hand historical account of the underground world. For the ExtraNoisextra segment on the Patreon, we have a great talk on Jim's history with and love of film.

Ron and Matt talk with Nathan of Safdie, Karloff and owner/operator of No Funeral Records about the Full Of Hell & Merzbow split

"Ambient as interesting as it is interesting"The term Power Ambient is yes, another attempt at putting a badge or genre to a wide-encompassing range of music stylistically, but it's one that I have often gravitated towards amongst many others when describing a particular style of music we are dealing with here.When it comes to a spectrum of Ambient music styles, I'm more often than not on the ‘lean in' side of things, than the ‘lean back'. It's easy to throw up Brian Eno's definition of Ambient music “…as ignorable as it is interesting” to help elaborate on what I mean, as essentially within a Power Ambient context, we are removing the desire to ignore it.To put it another way, Power Ambient is best suited to those who want to immerse themselves in the music; the wall of sound; big movements; rumbling bass; wide frequencies, and layers of dense drones. These are elements that envelope a space in richness; be it soft and all-encompassing like a heavy blanket, or more on the noise spectrum, making your body rattle and the hairs on your neck stand-up on end. But the common output is that you're better off taking note of what's happening, than sticking it on in the background and making a cup of tea.It's not a new descriptive term. A 2014 Fact magazine article captured a few artists that seemed to be prevailing in this style, alongside a mix that Chris SSG loosely described as including Power Ambient (now Chris references his style as Big Room Ambient) and more. recently a Bandcamp list (although not sure all that stuff aligns with my own vision for it). There is no doubt in my mind, however, that a powerful style of Ambient music has exploded in recent years (as has the creativity of Ambient music in general, really). Perhaps this style has been more embraced due to a couple of things. In dark times comes inherent anger and expression, and it's pretty grim out there right now. For any music culture, this can often send people into darker production spaces. Secondly, I can feel an emerging undercurrent of rebellion for what ‘Ambient' can stand for nowadays. With a world of meditative apps and ‘Piano Chill' playlists continuing to give Ambient music a certain reputation, (at least we have moved on from Spa music, right?), I have a feeling this stereotyping is pushing producers, and even listeners to explore new styles of Ambient music, and opening doors into more expressive forms of music that stand out against an all too frequent beige playlist. Don't get me wrong, this doesn't mean that Power Ambient is just noise and complexity for the sake of it (it can be) but like all music, there's an art to getting the balance right. For me, Power Ambient can range from relatively quiet, intense soundscapes with a mysterious underpinning, to just short of full-on Merzbow wall-shaking. Call it a version of Noise, Drone, Experimental, whatever, but wrapped in a different guise, it's still bearable as Ambient music but stops short of becoming too much. I wanted to highlight just a few of my favorite artists whose broad strokes defined ‘Ambient' music, has always made me sit up and listen. As with all Portals features, I try to focus on a mix to bring the idea to life and a jump-off/entry point for the artists included. This was harder to mix than a regular DJ set, because of the inherent energy of Power Ambient music. Used consistently in a mix, at some point you're going to get burnt out and it will start to fade into the background just like listening to white noise. In my experience, Ambient tracks with force or energy are best used interspersed in sets to make people lean in and grab their attention, or as part of other styles to continue a certain level of energy (I've heard this type of music as an interlude in more heavy beat-driven sets for example). It can also work great as a live show where the listener knows what they are getting into already, of course (earplugs at the ready). As a 1hr+ mix, I, therefore, had to be considerate of the energy and flow and tried to create a few distinct chapters with peaks and troughs and an easy onramp at the beginning. I encourage you to use the links below to jump off into each artist's universe on Bandcamp. Despite it being a relatively well-known list of musicians when it comes to the Ambient enthusiasts, I've tried to give a good snapshot of artists that might push into this style within some of their works, especially if any of this music is new to you. RIP to two influential producers included in this mix, Cesar (Mount Shrine) and one of the greatest noise/experimental artists of our time, Mika Vainio. Listen on Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Youtube (below) or the ASIP Podcast. astrangelyisolatedplace · Portals Episode 11: Power AmbientDownload MP3Tracklist:01. James Murray - Second Sight (Home Normal)02. Ameeva - Die Wellen (9128.live)03. Faru - Mirror of Consciousness (Self released)04. Sciama - Subsumed (Auxiliary)05. Joachim Spieth - Akasha (Affin)06. Abul Mogard - Against a White Cloud (Self released)07. Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Baja dos Singlos (A Strangely Isolated Place)08. Mount Shrine - Foggy Deck (Cryo Chamber)09. Araceae - Gleaming Embers (Faint Music)10. Markus Guentner - Cavus (A Strangely Isolated Place)11. r beny - vestigial (Self released)12. Caterina Barbieri - TCCTF (Important Records)13. Christina Giannone - Realms II (Past Inside The Present)14. Christina Vantzou - Glissando for Bodies and Machines in Space (Kranky)15. Pechblende - Shackles of Time (Auxiliary) 16. Tim Hecker - Hatred of Music II (Kranky)17. Bana Hafar - Intersecting Voids (Self released)18. FRKTL - Scene I: Terra Nullius (Self released)19. KMRU & Aho Ssan - Resurgence (Edit) (Subtext Recordings)20. Mika Vainio - Kytkenta (Connection) (Touch)21. Rafael Anton Irisarri - Arduous Clarity (Dais)22. Mika Vainio - Unessa (Sleep) (Touch)Also….

In episode 11 of Accolades Video Series I talk to Skyler Skjelset (Fleet Foxes) about Merzbow, a Japanese noise project started in 1979 by Masami Akita. Merzbow is best known for a style of harsh, aggressive noise. Since 1980, Akita has released over 400 recordings and has collaborated with various artists. As well as being a prolific musician, he has been a writer and editor for several books and magazines in Japan and has written several books of his own.

This month we're all meeting up in the year 2000 to hang out in the Millenium dome, play Timesplitters on the PS2, & try to avoid getting sued by Metallica for downloading Master Of Puppets on Napster. We'll also be talking about wind instruments fashioned from root vegetables, uttery brilliant but thoroughly depressing movies, & we speculate whether Thom Yorke was turning up at every recording studio in the world in 2000. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Ian's wife Lydia, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them to Colin's wife Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order. Helen also joined us on the episode to read out the countdown, which we found out as we recorded so all reactions are genuine. Now, admittedly, in parts we're a little bit brutal to some of the songs in the list as we're three separate people with differing music tastes, but please remember that to be in this episode at all the songs have to have been in one of our top 10's of that year. Bands featured in this episode include (In alphabetical order, no spoilers here!) - A Perfect Circle, AFI, Antony & The Johnsons, At The Drive In, Badly Drawn Boy, Belle & Sebastian, Bjork Ft. Thom Yorke, Bright Eyes, Cave In, Cinerama, The Cure, Darude, Deftones, earthtone9, Electric Wizard, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, PJ Harvey ft Thom Yorke, Isis, Merzbow, Misery Loves Co., Shellac, The Smashing Pumpkins, Snapcase, Radiohead, Sugababes, Teenage Fanclub, Ulver, VNV Nation, The White Stripes, & Yo La Tengo. Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4urz0OMSmN8DZVToTaVKAx?si=5923b29122764198 Find our We Dig Music Pollwinners Party playlist (featuring all of the winning songs up until now) here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45zfDHo8zm6VqrvoEQSt3z?si=Ivt0oMj6SmitimvumYfFrQ If you want to listen to megalength playlists of all the songs we've individually picked since we started doing best of the year episodes, you can listen to Colin's here – https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5x3Vy5Jry2IxG9JNOtabRT?si=HhcVKRCtRhWCK1KucyrDdg Ian's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2H0hnxe6WX50QNQdlfRH5T?si=XmEjnRqISNqDwi30p1uLqA and Tracey's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2p3K0n8dKhjHb2nKBSYnKi?si=7a-cyDvSSuugdV1m5md9Nw The playlist of 20 songs from the other two hosts was scored as usual, our favourite song got 20 points, counting down incrementally to our least favourite which got 1 point. The scoring of our own list of 10 is now slightly more complicated in order to give a truer level of points to our own favourites. So rather than them only being able to score as many points as our 10th favourite in the other list, the points in our own list were distributed as follows - 1st place - 20 points 2nd place - 18 points 3rd place – 16 points 4th place – 14 points 5th place – 12 points 6th place – 9 points 7th place – 7 points 8th place – 5 points 9th place – 3 points 10th place -1 point Hosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey B Guest starring Helen Jackson-Brown. Playlist compiling/distributing – Lydia Clarke Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig Podcasts Thanks to Peter Latimer for help with the scoring system. Say hello at www.facebook.com/wedigmusicpcast or tweet us at http://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast or look at shiny pictures on Instagram at http://instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com

This month we're all meeting up in the year 2000 to hang out in the Millenium dome, play Timesplitters on the PS2, & try to avoid getting sued by Metallica for downloading Master Of Puppets on Napster. We'll also be talking about wind instruments fashioned from root vegetables, uttery brilliant but thoroughly depressing movies, & we speculate whether Thom Yorke was turning up at every recording studio in the world in 2000.We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Ian's wife Lydia, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them to Colin's wife Helen, who totalled up the points and worked out the order. Helen also joined us on the episode to read out the countdown, which we found out as we recorded so all reactions are genuine.Now, admittedly, in parts we're a little bit brutal to some of the songs in the list as we're three separate people with differing music tastes, but please remember that to be in this episode at all the songs have to have been in one of our top 10's of that year. Bands featured in this episode include (In alphabetical order, no spoilers here!) - A Perfect Circle, AFI, Antony & The Johnsons, At The Drive In, Badly Drawn Boy, Belle & Sebastian, Bjork Ft. Thom Yorke, Bright Eyes, Cave In, Cinerama, The Cure, Darude, Deftones, earthtone9, Electric Wizard, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, PJ Harvey ft Thom Yorke, Isis, Merzbow, Misery Loves Co., Shellac, The Smashing Pumpkins, Snapcase, Radiohead, Sugababes, Teenage Fanclub, Ulver, VNV Nation, The White Stripes, & Yo La Tengo.Find all songs in alphabetical order here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4urz0OMSmN8DZVToTaVKAx?si=5923b29122764198Find our We Dig Music Pollwinners Party playlist (featuring all of the winning songs up until now) here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45zfDHo8zm6VqrvoEQSt3z?si=Ivt0oMj6SmitimvumYfFrQ If you want to listen to megalength playlists of all the songs we've individually picked since we started doing best of the year episodes, you can listen to Colin's here – https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5x3Vy5Jry2IxG9JNOtabRT?si=HhcVKRCtRhWCK1KucyrDdg Ian's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2H0hnxe6WX50QNQdlfRH5T?si=XmEjnRqISNqDwi30p1uLqA and Tracey's here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2p3K0n8dKhjHb2nKBSYnKi?si=7a-cyDvSSuugdV1m5md9Nw The playlist of 20 songs from the other two hosts was scored as usual, our favourite song got 20 points, counting down incrementally to our least favourite which got 1 point. The scoring of our own list of 10 is now slightly more complicated in order to give a truer level of points to our own favourites. So rather than them only being able to score as many points as our 10th favourite in the other list, the points in our own list were distributed as follows -1st place - 20 points2nd place - 18 points3rd place – 16 points4th place – 14 points5th place – 12 points6th place – 9 points7th place – 7 points8th place – 5 points9th place – 3 points10th place -1 pointHosts - Ian Clarke, Colin Jackson-Brown & Tracey BGuest starring Helen Jackson-Brown.Playlist compiling/distributing – Lydia ClarkeRecorded/Edited/Mixed/Original Music by Colin Jackson-Brown for We Dig PodcastsThanks to Peter Latimer for help with the scoring system.Say hello at www.facebook.com/wedigmusicpcast or tweet us at http://twitter.com/wedigmusicpcast or look at shiny pictures on Instagram at http://instagram.com/wedigmusicpcast Part of the We Made This podcast network. https://twitter.com/wmt_network You can also find all the We Dig Music & Free With This Months Issue episodes at www.wedigpodcasts.com

Dylan Walker, singer of Full of Hell, sits down to discuss the evolution of the Pennsylvania's ever transforming nightmarish sounds, imposter syndrome, their new album and working with your heroes like Japanese noise artist, Merzbow.

On this weeks episode we discuss " Noise Music" and it's place in the world....we may also talk about Anthrax....not the band.

In this episode Dwid Hellion and I talk about the band he has done since late 80's which is Integrity. The band started in Cleveland now Dwid lives in Belgium. While other members are scattered around the maps we talk his solo stuff Psywarfare which we hate labels but I would say harsh pe noise with psychological warfare going on. But anyways we didn't go to into it but in early 90's Psywarfare played with Merzbow first time over in states. Anyhow we really didn't get into his label to much but dwid does a label called holy terror and also does art. Which we talk about, and check out his label and current stuff Integrity has coming up a new full length at some point soon. So does Psywarfare has a new lp coming soon, and also check out Controlled Death box set just released on Holy Terror.

In this week's episode, Mark and Jasper are joined by the fabulous Vicki Wickham to chat all things pop and beyond, starting with her experiences as producer of TV show Ready, Steady, Go! in swinging sixties London, when Vicki became good friends with Dusty Springfield, through writing for Fabulous and Melody Maker to managing Labelle in the 70s and much else besides.Vicki talks about how she got her foot in the door of television and reminisces about writing lyrics for Dusty, then tells the story of moving to New York to open a US office for Track Records. We then find out how she masterminded the metamorphosis of Patti Labelle and the Blue Belles into groundbreaking pop trio Labelle, who Mark reckons paved the way for TLC and even the Spice Girls.Vicki, Mark and Jasper then listen to clips from an audio interview with Morrissey, in which the seeds of his later racism are occasionally audible, and Vicki admits that although she was nominally his manager for a short while, he was mostly interested in hearing the stories she had to tell. (In any case, he turned out to be unmanageable.)The trio then pay tribute to the Heartbreakers' Walter Lure, singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle, Jack Sherman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and R&B singer D. J. Rogers before Mark and Jasper present some of their highlights from the new pieces going into the RBP library. Mark selects pieces on pop television, Led Zep IV and Patti Smith, and Jasper rounds things out with the Scissor Sisters and Merzbow.Pieces discussed: Vicki Wickham, Ready, Vicki, Go!, Labelle's Nona Hendryx audio, Vicki Wickham's Pop Guide to London, Graham Nash, Ashford & Simpson, Morrissey audio, Jon Savage with the Heartbreakers, Pete Makowski on the Heartbreakers, Justin Townes Earle, Red Hot Chili Peppers, D. J. Rogers, TV pop, Led Zeppelin IV, David Bowie, Patti Smith's Horses, The Germs, Morrissey, Scissor Sisters, Richard Pinhas & Merzbow and Echo & the Bunnymen.This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts

In this week's episode, Mark and Jasper are joined by the fabulous Vicki Wickham to chat all things pop and beyond, starting with her experiences as producer of TV show Ready, Steady, Go! in swinging sixties London, when Vicki became good friends with Dusty Springfield, through writing for Fabulous and Melody Maker to managing Labelle in the 70s and much else besides.Vicki talks about how she got her foot in the door of television and reminisces about writing lyrics for Dusty, then tells the story of moving to New York to open a US office for Track Records. We then find out how she masterminded the metamorphosis of Patti Labelle and the Blue Belles into groundbreaking pop trio Labelle, who Mark reckons paved the way for TLC and even the Spice Girls.Vicki, Mark and Jasper then listen to clips from an audio interview with Morrissey, in which the seeds of his later racism are occasionally audible, and Vicki admits that although she was nominally his manager for a short while, he was mostly interested in hearing the stories she had to tell. (In any case, he turned out to be unmanageable.)The trio then pay tribute to the Heartbreakers' Walter Lure, singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle, Jack Sherman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and R&B singer D. J. Rogers before Mark and Jasper present some of their highlights from the new pieces going into the RBP library. Mark selects pieces on pop television, Led Zep IV and Patti Smith, and Jasper rounds things out with the Scissor Sisters and Merzbow.Pieces discussed: Vicki Wickham, Ready, Vicki, Go!, Labelle's Nona Hendryx audio, Vicki Wickham's Pop Guide to London, Graham Nash, Ashford & Simpson, Morrissey audio, Jon Savage with the Heartbreakers, Pete Makowski on the Heartbreakers, Justin Townes Earle, Red Hot Chili Peppers, D. J. Rogers, TV pop, Led Zeppelin IV, David Bowie, Patti Smith's Horses, The Germs, Morrissey, Scissor Sisters, Richard Pinhas & Merzbow and Echo & the Bunnymen.Rock's Backpages is proud to be part of the Pantheon Podcast Network.

The Eight Year Anniversary Show! Shelter, Larry Wish & His Guys, Eszterhas, Abdallah Ag Oumbadougou, Patrick R. Pärk, Joshua Fit For Battle, The Hell Hole Store, Nostrum Grocers, German Army, Ylang Ylang, Plant Lab, Moon Ra, Pulse Emitter, and Merzbow.

On this episode of the podcast, a conversation with Full of Hell's Spencer Hazard. We talk working with Merzbow, the Body, and some of the philosophy behind the band's extreme, abrasive sound.