Special Interest

OK. If such topic exists - I could not find it. Remove this or so. I was just thinking that it is not necessary to create the new thread for every single person who 1. had connections with industrial scene etc. 2. died.

Today while browsing through Napalmed releases etc. I noticed this:

ENG | MartiN.B. died on March 2013. He sadly passed away. The most effective experimentator in the band's history. Called to line-up on July 2006, become important part of industrial gear.

http://www.napalmed.cz/info.html (http://www.napalmed.cz/info.html)

Since Napalmed was one of the bands that has been creating such an awesome harsh noise, it is truly sad news. I wonder what the future will be for the band...

I think that the main member has always been Radek Kopel, so we hope that this project will be active still. In my opinion this is one of the best European noise industrial band since 2000s.

Uh, I hope Radek will continue with Napalmed. They did some really good stuff.

napalmed is xlent

RIP Storm Thorgerson.

(http://www.centrosangiorgio.com/rock_satanico/articoli/immagini/jeff_hanneman.jpg)

So long Jeff Hanneman!

Allah yer hammnuh ya habibi....

Noisefanatics Board
http://chondriticsound.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=55969 (http://chondriticsound.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=55969)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ALwKeSEYs

HAIL Jeff!

"Hell Awaits" backmasked

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Xjj_ra8lQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Xjj_ra8lQ)

George Jones RIP

Legions of the night - night breed - repeat not the errors of the Night Prowler and show no mercy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/07/richard-ramirez-dead_n_3403785.html

Wasp factory author Ian Banks passed away

And also Arturo Vega:/

My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them, and the Sea because it has always frustrated me, destroying what I have built, washing away what I have left, wiping clean the marks I have made

Shannon Smith (RIP)

J. Gandolfini. Though I never managed to watch Sopranos.

I am shattered... Sopranos is the first series that made me appreciate watching TV after many years of just watching news and tv comedies...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Smart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Smart)
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Mick Farren died recently.

The first Deviants album and his first solo are classic bent/wrong aggressive psychedelia, his sixties memoir "Give The Anarchist A Cigarette" is the best thing of its genre I've ever read, and I am told by people who know about such things that his sci-fi novels were good too.

All-round interesting guy. Dying at age 69 just after doing a gig in a small venue seems suitably rock'n'roll.

I've been meaning to check his Sci-Fi novels out for a long time, I should get around to that. "Give The Anarchist A Cigarette" is great stuff. His book on amphetamines, shaped like a pill, is pretty good, for what it is.

All around great guy.

Joey LaCaze (Eyehategod) (http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2013/08/r-i-p-joey-lacaze-eyehategod/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+invisibleoranges+%28INVISIBLE+ORANGES+-+THE+METAL+BLOG%29)

We are very sad to report that Joey LaCaze, drummer of Eyehategod, has passed away. Though details are sketchy at this point, we’ve received confirmation from a very credible source that he has in fact passed. The band recently completed a tour of Europe and was gearing up for a string of dates in celebration of their 25th anniversary.

Feels kinda strange since they just recently had a gig here in Finland w/Grunt.

Fuck!!!
Can't believe that he died!! I speak with him a lot in Budapest before gig. He was great and funny guy..
So sad about this goddamn news...
RIP...

posted 24.08.2013
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We talked in the gig and he said he's finally decided to start releasing his noise works, what he has recorded hundreds of master tapes worth since early 90's, but never released before.

Fuckin' miss this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKFapWssqnc
Joey was amazing!!!!!!!!

Oldest scenesters may remember Marco Veronesi of ADN Records. He sadly passed away this week. :/

A sad weekend...
LSK (Antaeus, Hell Militia,...)
Lou Reed

R.I.P. Lou Reed
Thank you for creating Metal Machine Music album.

...and The Velvet Underground...and the solo work.

Tremendously influential but under-appreciated artist.

I don't know if I would say Lou Reed is under-appreciated. Definitely in his time, yes. But nowadays I don't think so.

Velvet Underground were one of the best bands that have ever existed.

this really made me sad...

He's definitely gotten well-deserved recognition in the past couple decades, but I still say that the general public doesn't realize just how massive a presence this guy was within the world of pop music (but then again....fuck the general public!) He's not a household name like some of the other titans of music. Most people probably know him from the Bowie association and that's it. Oh, and the whole Loutallica thing....

Wayyyyy ahead of his time. His work has helped spawn subgenres like punk, goth, noise, etc...

Spinning some Velvet Underground & Nico and White Light/White Heat in his honor tonight

My top 5 Lou Reed records:

1) Berlin - comically miserable and over-dramatic failed marriage album, "somebody else woulda cut off both her arms" - what a line! Good job you were such a nice guy in comparison Lou!
2) Metal Machine Music - done well before TG and Merzbow, great trance-out semi-ambient noise
3) Street Hassle - even more hilarious and now speed-addled misery and the title track is his best ever song - can't listen without blubbing
4) Take No Prisoners - double album of out-of-tune jazz/spoken word versions of songs with deliberately hideous sleeve, not as infamous but makes MMM seem like Frampton Comes Alive
5) Lulu - great obnoxious way to go out with wildly pretentious poetic noise-metal that pissed off all his fans as well as Metallica's and the record actually sounds great to me

Mark 'Chopper' Read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopper_Read

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za9K16qv6Wk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za9K16qv6Wk)

R.I.P Sten Hanson (1936 - 2013)

"Born in Klövsjö, Sweden on 15th April 1936, Sten Hanson made his appearance in the early sixties as an experimental poet and composer. From an early stage he was aware of the importance of tape-recording techniques in the renewal and development of poetry’s resources. Text-sound-visual image, often combined with intensely personal 'live" performances, are vital ingredients in Sten Hanson's artistic workmanship and he is ore of the forerunners in the field of multi-media art. His works include electro-acoustic pieces as well as instrumental and vocal compositions. From the end of the sixties up to 1979, he worked essentially with electroacoustic music and created, with Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Åke Hodell, Bengt Emil Johnson, the theory and the practice of a new aesthetic field: "The electronic text-sound". Sten Hanson realized a large number of works in various styles : works for television, ballet music, performances, audiovisual performances assisted by computer, pieces for instruments and tape and/or electronics, works for orchestras and computer music. Hanson was member of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) International. In Sweden, he was Director (1968-1977) and then Chairman (1980-1984) of Fylkingen, chairman of the ISCM (1975-1981), member of the Royal Academy of Music of Sweden and President of the Swedish Composers' Union (1985-1994), chairman of the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music (ICEM) from 1997 to 2002."

http://www.ubu.com/sound/hanson.html

Hadn't seen anything to confirm the above but it certainly now appears to be true.

MASSIVE tip of the cap to Sten Hanson, an awful lot of people I know giving respects and celebrating his great work.

R.I.P. Bernard Parmegiani (27 October 1927 - 22 November 2013)

" Bernard Parmegiani was a composer best known for his electronic or acousmatic music.
He started off as a sound engineer for French television (ORTF, later known as RTF). Originally an actor during the four years studies at Lecoq & Decroux school, he joined the "Groupe de recherches musicales" (GRM) in 1959 for a two years master class. His first major work (Violostries) was composed in 1962 for a choregraphy performed for Théâtre Contemporain d’Amiens directed by Jacques-Albert Cartier.

Pierre Schaeffer gave him the direction of the Musique-Image departement at ORTF. During that period he composed for numerous film directors, such as R. Lapoujade, P. Foldès, P. Kamler, V. Borowczyck, P. Kast, J. Baratier or P. Kassovitz. He furthermore extended his musical researches into the field of video-art after a journey through the U.S.A. He directed three musical videos when he returned: L’Œil écoute (1973), Jeux d’artifices (1979) for the research departement of ORTF, and L’Écran transparent (1973) in Köln (Germany) during his residency at West Deutscher Rundfunk (WDR).

His interests also expanded to live performance: in the seventies he interacted with jazz artists for improv sessions with french jazz fellows J.-L. Chautemps, B. Vitet or M. Portal, and went to London to perform live with The Third Ear Band.

He created numerous jingles & soundbites for public radio stations (France-Culture or France-Musique), public television service (Antenne 2) and the Aéroport de Roissy.

During his entire career he also composed music for stage (dance & theater), screen and other media (radio & television alike). But he remains focused on electroacoustic music (or acousmatic music as defined by GRM long-time director François Bayle) conceived to be played back for the best rendition on the acousmonium broadcasting system developed by the "Groupe de recherches musicales" (GRM). "

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http://www.inagrm.com/sites/default/files/mini-sites/parmegiani/co/Bernard_Parmegiani.html

RIP, Akifumi Najakima/Aube.

This is the saddest thing happening in a long while...
G.R.O.S.S. was on of the most important labels of its time when I got more heavily into noise....

Can't believe...
RIP

Devastating news about Aube! According to wikipedia he passed away already in September. Anyone knows what happened?

NELSON MANDELA.
I was planning to release one special art-edition release on his day of death. So sad he couldn`t last few months!
Now I have to go w/ Independence day of Sudan 1st of Jan. or Gambia 18th of Feb.


 

Zbigniew Karkowski is dead.

Oh dear. That's a shame.

Time to play Mutation (Aube/Zbigniew Karkowski).

R.I.P. Mikhail Kalashnikov

(http://www.gunsandammo.com/files/2011/12/300px-Rifle_AK-47.jpg)

Read about him dying on the way to see a shaman in the jungle because he wouldn't use Western medicine or something. First thing I thought was how did he know he had cancer if he wouldn't use Western medicine?

Not sure why but I've never heard the guy's work or knew anything about him.

Western medicine wasn't able to help him. I don't see anything weird in that. Don't worry about you've never heard the guy's work or knew anything about him. I am affraid he didn't heard about you and your music too. Everybody of us didn't listen all in this world.

Ok, went back & re-read. One thing said Western medicine couldn't help & someone else posted that he "refused Western medicine".

The only interesting thing I've read about him is that he was an obnoxious asshole.

I'm hardly worried about not knowing his work...

He refused Western medicine because it wasn't able to help him. Probably I would do the same thing.
Everybody of us is obnoxious asshole. I didn't know that you are so much interested in what somebody thinks about us.
Always music/art is more important than its creator, even if he is "obnoxious asshole" or talks stupid things.

It's a good thing he died so we could have this wonderful discussion...

Al Goldstein of SCREW magazine died. I had a subscription years ago; too bad I have no idea what happened to them! I use to know someone who worked there. Seems like he was a cartoonist or something.

http://streetcarnage.com/blog/al-goldstein-1936-2013/#more-73524

Ariel Sharon, Rest In Palestine.

!!!!

R.I.P. Kelly Churko (1977-2014)

"Kelly Churko was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada and was based in Japan since 2001. In addition to solo performances, he also played in Hospital (w/ Ben Wilson, Masa Anzai, Chris Kelly), Ossuary (w/ Sotoyama Akira, Ito Keita), Almost Transparent Blue (w/ Masa Anzai, Skye Brooks), AKBK, Guilty Connector, Lethal Firetrap, Palimpsest (w/ Cal Lyall), Nikka-sen (w/ Tabata Mitsuru, Cal Lyall, Yamamoto Tatsuhisa), Toque (w/ Tim Olive), Fujii Satoko Orchestra, etc. He also has collaborated live or on recording with Government Alpha, Astro, Zbigniew Karkowski, Bastard Noise, Ilios, Paal Nilssen-Love, Jason Mears, Harris Eisenstadt, and plays regularly with Japanese improvisers including Tamura Natsuki, Kawai Shinobu, Iwami Keigo, Ikezawa Ryusaku, Kamimura Taiichi, Matsumoto Kenichi, Nakamura Kenji, Ando Akihiko, Saito "Shacho" Ryoichi and more."

Kelly Churko - Keitai Casualty:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uaEKkFnWjE

PAIN JERK + KELLY CHURKO (Live):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4NmYdRkH1M

Run Run Shaw (Shaw Brothers) 1907-2014 !

Riz Ortolani

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf1Vt6r-sj8

Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

And Eduardo Coutinho (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0184202/ (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0184202/)), greatest brazilian documentarian has died today too. It seems like his schizophrenic son stabbed him to death, stabbed his wife (she's in critical state) and tried to kill himself.

Gloomy sunday.

Alain Resnais
Think I should watch 'Last year at Marienbad' again, this time with the soundtrack of Nurse with Wound's - Echo Poeme: Sequence N° 2. Don't know if it works. Has anyone already experienced this?

I should have posted here at the time but RIP Adam Cooley (Scissor Shock) May 28, 1986 - February 4, 2014

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Psychic-Existentialist-The-Life-And-Work-Of-Adam-Cooley/1406424169607426

I've just heard from a friend that Robert Ashley has died.

Robert Ashley,
composer,
March 28, 1930 – March 3, 2014.

Article:
http://blog.frieze.com/robert-ashley-1930-2014/ (http://blog.frieze.com/robert-ashley-1930-2014/)

Discography:
http://www.discogs.com/artist/32210-Robert-Ashley (http://www.discogs.com/artist/32210-Robert-Ashley)

Track "Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon" from the album Automatic Writing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAHxm8eXsF4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAHxm8eXsF4)

http://www.digitalspy.com/music/news/a559597/gwar-frontman-dave-brockie-aka-oderus-urungus-dies-aged-50.html

50 is way to young, fuck that sucks

Minimal Bastard (Slovenia) died last night.

"When Slovenia declared its independence from Yugoslavia Minimal Bastard toured the country on a moped. His performance consisted of him driving the moped on stage and revving it a few times. He is a legend in the Balkans."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX0F7-s1oog

I had chance to met him when I was play in Ljubljana last year. He was very funny and weird guy.

RIP

Seems to be my day for discovering new artists. Anyone who calls himself "Minimal Bastard" is alright in my book, and looking/listening around on YT shows some interesting, if not always bearable, material. This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOvOi_nIoTg) is pretty inspiring.

Harry Novak RIP

Frankie Knuckles RIP

i've read this evening

cause of death?

complications from Type-II diabetes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1PsDyhNFBI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1PsDyhNFBI)

A member of  D.O.A. passed away:

http://streetcarnage.com/blog/doa-rip/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aky3AKQJtdg

Jason McCash from The Gates Of Slumber passed away...
RIP

today 4 years anniversary of death of Peter Steele.

That conspiracy guy, Michael Ruppert, died a couple of days ago.

very funny guy. met him several times during the year and Carnivore's Retaliation teached me how to read between the lines as a kid.

All hail Peter, miss the fucker and all the music he did not get to write. Carnivore and TON have been huge influences for me.

Yeah, by suicide. Having seen that 'documentary' about his ideas, Collapse, doesn't surprise at all.

It's a good movie, much recommended:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDV6Wv5e_ew (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDV6Wv5e_ew)

Michael Glawogger, the director of Whores' Glory (among other great docus) died in Liberia yesterday at the age of 54. The cause of death was malaria. In case you have never heard of the guy or his work, be sure to check his webpage. Some great stuff there!

http://www.glawogger.com

Ahh. føkk. He was a very good director. Sad to hear.

Joe Young of Antiseen

http://clclt.com/theclog/archives/2014/04/30/antiseen-guitarist-founding-member-joe-young-dead-at-54 (http://clclt.com/theclog/archives/2014/04/30/antiseen-guitarist-founding-member-joe-young-dead-at-54)

Mighty Joe Young's guitar tone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtL5ZWbBya4

saddest news ever.
antiseen has been one of my fave 10 bands ever and his simple yet effective riffing brought me back into listening punk oriented stuff after many years of non-rock oriented stuff.

I am gutted.

R.I.P. H.R.Giger

"Hans Rudolf "Ruedi" Giger (5 February 1940 - 12 May 2014) was a Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, and set designer. He was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for Best Achievement for Visual Effects for their design work on the film Alien. He was named to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2013."

John Sharp aka MR NATURAL.

John Everall aka John Several, Jah Sev (Tactile/Sentrax Corp) died today. http://www.discogs.com/artist/81873-Tactile

A good friend and someone I will miss, a talented musician and a great drinking companion.

Sorry for your loss.

Bernard Heidsieck died Sat 22nd Nov.

(http://md1.libe.com/photo/274659-bernard-heidsieck.jpg?modified_at=1303133506)

I saw some news that Axl Rose is died. Is it true?

No, it's a hoax. Axl's alive and kicking.

Indeed. Looking REALLY good too.

(http://images.starpulse.com/news/resize_image.php?source_image_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.starpulse.com%2Fpictures%2F2013%2F01%2F14%2Fpreviews%2FAxl%20Rose-20130114-1.jpg&fp=262x85&target_height=300&target_width=300)

It's not funny then...

Giulio Questi :( "Se sei vivo spara", goriest spaghetti western ever

I just found news that Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream passed away... Tangerine Dream is one of my biggest influence and one of my favorite bands ever. My father gave me their LPs when I was very very young and that completely changed me. I'm so sad about this... :(

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It's like a death in the family...

A majour musician with a majour influence. I'll be celebrating his legacy for sure.

Walter Marchetti passed due to a heart attack. I enjoyed his work immensely.

Alberto De Martino R.I.P.

(http://www.locandinebest.net/imgk/LAnticristo.jpg)

Christopher Lee

(http://static.bafta.org/images/originals/new-rexfeatures-604703d-10528.png)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-tDnavDCwI

NOTHING was beyond this man's scope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVzOve8T39w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVzOve8T39w)

I would have loved a split with Heino

Ornette Coleman 1930 - 2015

Rip Randy Howard - :(

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/12/bounty-hunter-kills-country-singer-randy-howard-in-tennessee-gunfight

Laura Antonelli ha sleft us :/
for all Italian males of my age sh'es been a real goddess.

Not only for Italian males :) She took part in my sexual fantasies when I was being teenager. Beautiful woman.

actually really effecting me this morning after getting the news from marco.
fuck.  she stares down at me and looks out at me from half my apartment walls and shelves.

she's been probably everybody's girlfriend for people of my age... but a girlfriend that was both hot and sweet...

and damn she could act...

ornette coleman left the building on 11.6.2015 but i was offline to honor this.

pure energy, like razors of fire, a whole new vocabulary for chaos

RIP Dieter Moebius (Cluster/Harmonia)

Vlad Blasphemer RIP

http://www.maniacbutcher.com/ (http://www.maniacbutcher.com/)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wes-craven-horror-maestro-dies-818806

The Last House on the Left is one of my all time favorite films and obviously Nightmare on Elm Street film series is total classic along with The Hills Have Eyes 1 & 2! His old movies pretty much introduced me to the horror movie genre.

Very sad news... RIP Philthy "Animal" Taylor.

The Guardian's calling him the man who invented Thrash Metal and for once I'm inclined to agree with them. His signature drumming style helped turned rock into Metal. A fucking legend.

Mind you, sixty one is a good innings. He would have had enough booze and drugs in his system over the years to kill lesser mortals many times over. Amazing that Lemmy's outlived him. Anyway, he would have had a complete and satisfying life and I salute him.                   

Hard to believe no one posted this sooner:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/gunnar-hansen-villain-of-texas-chain-saw-massacre-dies-at-68/2015/11/09/dd8258a8-8708-11e5-9a07-453018f9a0ec_story.html

In Memoriam: Jihadi John
http://www.somethingawful.com/news/rip-jihadi-john/ (http://www.somethingawful.com/news/rip-jihadi-john/)

not sure whether to post here or comedy

Zinger

RIP a bunch a' people in Paris, that's a good few bones for the charnel catacombs. RIP indeed!

Shigeru Mizuki :(

One of my favourite mangaka's ever

Lemmy:

http://www.spin.com/2015/12/motorhead-lemmy-dead-ian-fraser-kilmister-70-rip/?utm_source=share-fb

"It's all over and I got you down,
Gonna chase you round and round,
Mess around with the way I feel,
Gonna offer you a whole new deal,
Gonna lay it on ya just for kicks,
Down on ya like a ton of bricks"

unreal

Terrible news...

I liked this comment - "So rocknroll he didn't know he had cancer until it killed him". Motorhead had gigs lined up and everything. They just never fucking stopped, even though he'd been unwell for the last year or so (well, some gigs were cancelled). A fucking unbelievable legacy.

At the risk of being disrespectful, I'm not sad at all, I'm actually quite happy. Not that he's dead, but for everything he's done. I'm celebrating his achievements, not mourning his death.

One of the human beings that became such an icon, that his death was quite a non sense news, because level of his (and whole Motorhead) activity was huge until the last second. His attitude in whole had nothing to do with "dying".

Ellsworth Kelly, if you ever get the chance to see his paintings in person do not miss them. Especially the rivers series

David Bowie :(

Alan Rickman. who doesn't/didn't love Alan Rickman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd8oXBe_Rp8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd8oXBe_Rp8)

Frank Kelly

:(

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(http://www.adnkronos.com/rf/image_size_400x300/Pub/AdnKronos/Assets/Immagini/Redazionale/S/Emerson_Keith_Wiki.jpg)
keith emerson

(http://images1.citypages.com/imager/u/original/6782293/10371318.0.jpg)
Jaime Carrera - Minneapolis artist and recent member of Cock E.S.P. He was a brave and honorable freak, and a sweet man. He will be missed.

I will miss him.

Viola Beach (whole band + manager)

I know, this is a bit late news and the band itself has propably zero fans in this forum... BUT... the story of their death is quite interesting:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/viola-beach-what-know-far-7385648
Rarely you hear a whole band die at the same time.

People in Belgium (I don't know the details).

Merle Haggard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKuc4nfJByc

liked him very much RIP Merle

Tony Conrad

RIP
Quite influential minimalist/drone violinist and filmmaker. Saw him live once some years ago performing with G.P.-Orridge and Edward O'Dowd.

That album he did with Faust is brilliant.

RIP

Was lucky enough to see him in Glasgow in 2005. 1 hour+ of torture by violin!

RIP Merle....

Prince =\

kiss was a superb exercise in Minimalism.
he had nothing I shoul have enjoyed but I liked everything he's done...

after seeing his super bowl performance a few years back i remember thinking the man clearly knows his way around fuzz/distortion and it wouldn't surprise me if somewhere in his vault there is at least one experiment into noise

i don't know but he was the autor of this creepy backmasking message so i had sympathy for him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnm-u4Xq9ag

Black babies.

(http://www.budspencerofficial.com/images/main_motiv_budspencer_announcement.jpg)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRl-LiF1VsU

Damn!
Bud Spencer was a hero of mine since early childhood. I'm sure it's his movies I've seen most often and I'll rewatch them again whenever I get the chance.

Scotty Moore

(http://quotidianomolise.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/scotty-moore-and-elvis-presley-the-men-who-changed-the-world.jpg)

Gordon Murray

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36670186?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook

shit week

So, Alan Vega has passed at the age of 78. Great legacy lives on.

Oh shit.

damn :/

Aw shit!
Will be playing Frankie Teardrop right now to scare my neighbours.
Saw him live 2007 or 2008, one of the loudest concerts I ever attended.
RIP

(http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/30700000/-Gene-gene-wilder-30760615-800-600.jpg)
My first favourite American comedian... Too man flicks to mention... But obviously Young Frankestein...

likely a face remembered with a name never so.
such is the fate of the character actor.
bud spencer pops up in itallo films that I pick up in seemingly any genre.
thanks for the notice of his passing.

I read on Alex's (Climax Denial) facebook that Paul Von Aphid (Pink Sexdeath, Degenerate Slug, Demon City Reaper, Grinding Halt, Martian Church XX, Nippon Leathergirl...) is dead. Anyone have more news?

(http://www.audiovisualizers.com/toolshak/vidsynth/buchla/buchla.jpg) king buchla

devastated..

The Godfather of Gore croaked:

http://www.comingsoon.net/horror/news/770105-herschell-gordon-lewis-1929-2016

Some have given that title to Lucio Fulci which I think is bullshit cause HGL was the OG (original grandpa) of Gore. Rest in pieces old man...

it's a generation thing.
eventually that hostel director will get the title when he dies

Just learned that comic artist Steve Dillon died last week at the age of 54. Best known for his work with Garth Ennis on Preacher, Hellblazer and The Punisher.

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LEONARD COHEN died November 7th 2016.

he's gotta be the worse loss of this year, for me at least.

agreed
with scott walker my favourite songwriter EVER.

On first glance I thought this meant Scott walker had died. When that happens it'll be an entire year of mourning.

I knew some of his work before, but the first time he really got me was in Natural Born Killers with Waiting for the Miracle. After that I went back to his older works.

From The Future:
"...And all the lousy little poets coming round trying to sound like Charlie Manson...
...I've seen the future, baby: It is murder..."
Beautiful!

Fucking shit, 2016s body count is devastating!

countless songs with some of the absolute best lyrics ever.

Huge loss. What a legend. Timed well with the new album and his "I'm ready to die" statement.

Last night I stopped off at his old Montreal home where there was a memorial set up for him. Lots of candles and flowers, and lots of people even though it was quite cold out.

boo 'hoo.
did you all really listen to his songs when he was alive?
can you quote his less obvious lyrics?

I was a fan since the soundtrack of natural born killers

so The future is my favourite album

can i have this honour? :D

There'll be the breaking of the ancient
western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There'll be phantoms
There'll be fires on the road
and the white man dancing
You'll see a woman
hanging upside down
her features covered by her fallen gown
and all the lousy little poets
coming round
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson
and the white man dancin'

Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St Paul
Give me Christ
or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don't like children anyhow
I've seen the future, baby:
it is murder

curious what you're trying to get at with those remarks david? i'm not a hippy or liberal in the slightest, i posted it here because i remember discovering the room full of midwest noise freaks i was with while on tour also loved his shit and i thought no one else did because i had grown up listening to it. but yeah, fuck the doo-wop phase though... 

really the only two albums I've never revisited are Ten New Songs and Dear Heather, the latter of which I don't think I could even recognize a single song off of. everything else has its worth and there's not a single weak track on the first four albums, and only a handful of bad moments on everything else that followed. Old Ideas was great, Popular Problems might get lumped in with TNS and DH, and first listen of the new album is promising.

Billy Miller / Norton records

gave us hasil adkins albums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCq_frng4_8

Pauline Oliveros

Add Fidel to the list.

And David Hamilton

another dead dictator

No, no, no. Fidel was a "Champion of Social Justice". Just read Twitter, dude.

you defend this dictator with twitter? even if joking...

Dictators ain't all bad. Don't you know that everyone in Cuba can read? They can just only read what the Government allows them to read. That's not a big deal after the Gov. went to all the trouble to teach them to read and all of the cars are from the 1950s. You know, classic cars refurbished with bailing wire & washing machine parts. Social justice, dude. EQUALITY.

well, they can read and have a good basic healthcare (arguably better than th USA)
cars refurbished with wire and washing machine parts are not classic. but rope and second
equality my arse

Literacy & basic healthcare equals good dictator. No one needs anything else.

good dictator... hmmm.
apart from those killed, obviously.

And I thought Americans were the ones who didn't get irony.

He's new... Give him some time and he'll get Keith's bullshit eventually haha...

2016 doesn't go far enough. Everyone else is still alive. Hoping Trump pushes the button before Xmas.

hope so.
then I can hang out with the cool kids

I feel like at least around 55% of Keith's posts are ironic, sarcastic, or cynical in some way, charming young lad that he is haha.

hoped so, then I wouldn't have to buy all those xmess gifts but as trump will be inaugurated in January, then hope it is all those spring and easter gifts I won't have to stump up for, though will tuck up my annual prescription pre pay

Mickey Fitz from the Business...
met and had long talks with him several times in the past 2 decades... fuck...

Fug. Used to really dig The Business. One of the better premier Oi! bands who didn't fall into any political trap one way or the other but kept to their moral basics. Interesting how they started off quite poppy and hardened up the way on.

Wonder if it means the band will keep going, though. I expect they would.

really... their Suburban Rebel LP is one of the records any Oi fan should have... tracks like THe Real Enemy, get out while you can, etc. are impressive.

I remember that record sounded loud even at the lowest level... it had a very rough, yet powerful editing and singalongs were fucking crazy.

"The Real Enemy" is one of the best punk songs ever. I have spoken!

one of the best punk songs ever is a challenge in the making!
where to go? original punk, second gen punk, or punk attitude?
here goes-

cranked up really high- slaughter and the dogs
transmission-joy division
sister ray-velvet underground

Yevgeniy Yufit. 13th of December

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPvwx-mBu64 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPvwx-mBu64)

In May 2016 Andrey Alexeev from Comforter / SOI Tapes died. Andrey was a one from first Russian noise and noisecore musicians, also SOI Tapes was a really first Russian label for noise music.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/221185-Comforter

Thanks for that introduction Levas, that's a nice bit of celluloid miserablism.

fuck, didn´t know about that one..one of my favourite film directors..

princess leia is toast.

It could have happened in a universe far far away for the little I care.

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Apparently Fisher was into some heavy cocaine use during filming of the Hoth scenes in Empire Strikes Back. Pretty funny.

Richard Adams, author of, among other things, "Watership Down", one of my favourite novels. Ninety six when he died. I've never read "Plague Dogs" but have seen the animated movie based on it and found that very good. "Shardik" looks interesting as well.

Consumer Electronics?

haha.

respect!

82 years old .
uhm

And never married...

never married but never dead before either ( unless you accept all those apocryphal acid deaths)

Totally agree with you, was sad too :(

Can drummer Jaki Liebezeit

some of the internet is claiming JOHN HURT who played "The Elpehant Man" has died of pancreatic cancer... some of the internet claims he is still alive. bizarre! he was also the guy who the chest-burster broke out of in "Alien"... good scene!

Are the sites linked by wikipedia reliable?

It's official. Hurt was a fine, fine actor. Played Caligula in "I, Claudius" and obviously quite relished the role. Also was a Doctor (haven't seen that episode yet, must get around to it). I recall him playing the dancer Nijinsky in a biopic of the man, he didn't have to dance but was giving a monologue, I recall it being very sombre with him saying things like "I am not mad". He had a great voice.

Yes, great actor! RIP

John Hurt's monologue in "The Proposition":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUVsDy0sc3k

I always liked his versatility, particularly by being able to play Winston Smith in his earlier days in '1984', and then playing the effective opposite role later in his career as the High Chancellor Adam Sutler in 'V is for Vendetta'.

"Versatile" is a word that's been used for him so far, and it is interesting to look at his career in the round and see the variety of roles he's played. From mainstream blockbusters to Beckett on stage, he was always able to adapt to his role. I can see why it's easy to typecast actors into certain roles. Somehow Hurt managed to avoid that.

Really must get a copy of "1984".

That was a great role and a great movie, he will be really missed.

I thought that was a great piece of casting.

Plague Dogs is very very good.
I liked Watership Down, loved Plague Dogs.

BTW found that one in a free box on a street corner. One of my favorite things is coming by books that way, and I always recycle my books the same way.

Tara Palmer Tomkinson, England's rose, has died from 'unexplained' so that's nice. I don't care about people dying at the best of times but this was particularly under whelming. Rot in piss coke head.

The sadness is heaped on more: a brain tumour!! (there's a lot of that going around at the moment)

she was almost royalty, so pay some respect.

Ok I won't make any comment about her collapsed nose.

I bet she would of been a good girl to party with.

Are you talking about her nipples?

didn't know she had any. thought they rotted off with coke use.
or did prince Charles order them cauterised?

Tony "IT" Särkkä

I would of partied with her nipples.

RIP Bill Paxton. Near Dark, Aliens, Predator 2, Terminator...

i must remember Paxton into "A simple plan " , great movie of Sam Raimi, and in the character of obtuse brother in Weird Science of  John Hughes

Paxton was also in Weird Science, Fraility, & The Vagrant (I remember it on vhs but not whether it was any good or not. Scream Factory is releasing it soon on Blu-ray).

I am pretty sure he had Hardcore punk connection. cannot recall why...

http://www.metalinjection.net/this-is-just-a-tribute/suicidal-tendencies-frontman-pays-touching-tribute-to-his-late-friend-actor-bill-paxton

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TOMAS MILIAN

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"scandinavians" (?)

Mika Vainio

WHAT?!

yeah, where this from?
who can validate?

Erkki Kurenniemi
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Rough times for Finnish electronic icons.

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Mary Tsoni, actress of Dogtooth, dead by pulmunary edema, in other words overdose -most likely- . Age 30.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7_NNNPgyrU

Powers Boothe passed away today.

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R.I.P

noooo :/

aawww snap, I was gonna do that one.
Killed himself; cheese overdose probably.

dare you, get drunk and watch them all!

Denis Johnson, author of Train Dreams and Tree of Smoke amongst others. Debut novel Angels still packs a punch, pretty harrowing book that always treats its 'white trash' characters with a sensitivity that transcends or is in opposition to their often hideous actions.

Decent short story here, must read more... https://granta.com/happy-hour/ (https://granta.com/happy-hour/)

RIP Ace Still of Goatlord/Doom Snake Cult

FOREVER BLACK, DWELL IN HELL.

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RIP P

fuuukkk

Pierre Henry

Came to post this. RIP

Paolo Villaggio.
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During the 70's, the Cioran of Italian comedy, mixing slapstic to social satire with an extremely cynical approach. During the 80s he lost any appeal, but his early TV apparition and most 70's movies are classic.
First 3 Fantozzi, Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno (devastating comedy/drama with incest/morbid moments), il Belpaese (satirical take on Italian lead years), Fracchia la belva umana. and many more were classics that unfortunately will request a very open mind from non-Italian speakers to be understood.
Any Italian has watched his movies several times and even those who dislike him use sentences or words created by him.
Its cynical take on the (then) growing middle class has some links to Monty Python’s meaning of life, so do the several surreal moments, but we are in a completely different field that mixes typical Italian “comical masks”, to Intellectual top “sauer comedy”, to French and B/W actors like Tatì, Keaton, etc.
Il secondo tragico fantozzi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKh7hBPQMjU

Narrating voice was the best thing, and a big influence on many other comedians.

Despite being an extreme left militant, he was big friend of many capitalists, lobbyists. He was conscious of this contradiction and made a lot of fun on this.
His books, even recent ones, are extremely cynical, funny but tragic at the same time, showing his constant battle with his own weaknesses, vices, etc.

Mr. Blaash of Weresmyskin 'zine.

http://www.nwnprod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=59996&sid=66e7137cfea7b0b17019af69d3284c64

George A. Romero

Damn, his "trilogy of the dead" was the first real touch I had with zombie flicks (I don't really count Evil Dead which was the first film I bought). Not a huge loss at this point of his career but I still owe a lot to him for making me such a weirdo.

Thanks for writing all that good dialogue. I'll always remember you for that.

That fanny from Linkin Park, Chester Bennibgton.

Hanged himself with a belt (just one more reason to like belts!!)

wonder why so many musicians/famous people choose hanging as a suicide method... seems extra miserable. if i were to do it i would want the last few minutes to be peaceful, nice big shot of fentanyl laced heroin would do the trick, surely cornell couldve copped some one last time...

Indeed, it looks an agonizing death but i guess they pass out very quick and they don't feel the asphyxiation. Quick pass out like the "choking game" , i imagine. Overdose will result in asphyxiation too, i think. Best way, but bloody mess, is get a heroin shot, relax for a minute or two, but not too long to change your mind, pick up a gun and blow your brains out.

I have heard it said that hanging is a much more "final" way of suiciding than others. If done correctly, the neck snaps and one dies almost instantly. There is a bit of a science to it. Professional hanging takes weight, rope strength and length, distance etc all into account. So a personal attempt could well be lengthier, more painful and even botched. Fortunately for this Bennibgton, his calculations seemed to have been correct.

One's best bet would be a good dose of Nembutal, if it can be procured. It's a bit guarded due to it's known lethal efficiency. I just recently got the book "Final Exit" which describes the most efficient methods (apparently, I've yet to read it).

The problem with suicide as it stands today is how hit and miss it is. Plenty of unsuccessful attempts in the world, sadly. It's not just the legality of it, it's how it's unaccepted in society and culture. Stupid, like nearly everything else we humans do when it comes to Death.

Personally I'd go with drugs and alcohol, perhaps combined with a good old Roman bath. It would be slower but I understand far from painful and could well be almost pleasant. I'd have to get dosage right, though, but that wouldn't be impossible.

Some people at least put a degree of thought into it (some people survive initial attempts to try again). But resources certainly have a lot to do with it. Different methods vary depending on countries - in Pakistan jumping in front of trains is popular, in China apparently insecticide is often chosen. I imagine guns would be frequently used in the US. Given that the leading cause for suicide world-wide is poverty (and not mental illness, despite the best hopes of anti-suicide wowsers), using whatever's handy isn't surprising.

Jumping may also depend on location too, there are places in the world that are frequently used as jump points. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u10VsLsWPc4&t=825s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u10VsLsWPc4&t=825s)

Head on the railway tracks (plus train) has got to be a sure bet. Hopefully Trent Renzor will kill himself next.

Hehe, this is the local one http://www.redbull.com/gr/el/stories/1331641870607/ptisi-ston-isthmo-tis-korintou-peter-besenyei . Haven't listened any failure !

speaking of books on suicide, this is the definitive one.

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jumping in front of a train or laying on the tracks is brutal/badass. surely not the cowards way out.

guns are used in the US more so then countries where they are unavailable, but they're really unreliable unless you have serious firepower. most people living in poverty just have shotguns and there are plenty of stories of people living after blowing their faces off so one would have to be very unstable to choose that method.

I once caught a docu. on PBS about suicide in Japan via their bullet train. It happened so often that there was a specific announcement for employees for suicide via train. I think Japan's suicide rate has gone down a little the last few years...?

For jumping, this is a good story: https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Fucked-Up_Mad_Max/10586

I think I've only known two people whom offed themselves. One was the father of an aunt I do not care for. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He shot himself with a rifle that he had hidden when family took all of his other firearms. The other, was a junkie about to go to prison. He shot up a bunch of coke & climbed up into the heating ducts or attic or something.

Any excuse to hear some Doug Stanhope:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLE69z86emM

re-suicide.

as a psychiatric nurse have seen a lot of successful attempts but also a lot of failures, and i don't mean ill thought out attempts or 'cries for help'
like a lot of things, suicide is something you need to apply yourself to to ensure success.

knew Romero personally. met him at several festivals when I was working for comics and horror fest. cool guy.
I think he lost it (artistically) a few years ago, his latest works were ugly (Island of the dead had some great moments, despite asia argento and the "thinking Zombie") , but the trilogy, craze, martin, monkey shines, etc. were all good (more or less).
his conceptual work on Zombies was great and agreeable, despite the liberal overtone.

personally he was very smart and great fun to be around with.

rip

"If you're good, Jesus send the bugs for you."

hear hear!!

Damn, Tobe Hooper passed away!

RIP Holger Czukay

It's brutal for sure. I have to go to work every day by train and I surely hear at least once a month that there's a delay because of a "human accident" somewhere on the rail-network. Once I witnessed the aftermath myself on the opposite railway, the legs were separated from the rest of the body over the distance of one village at least.

Sucks for the train driver of course, wouldn't choose this job nowadays with such a high ratio of rail suicides.

If you want to off yourself, do it decent with a car in the garage, good ol' carbon monoxide is a clean and comfortable way out.

If you're going to kill yourself I don't think "clean and comfortable" are generally very important considerations to the party at hand.

Vomitgore chick Brandy Petri aka Ameara Lavey gunned down http://www.straight.com/news/959941/charges-laid-murders-brandy-petrie-and-avery-levely-flescher-langley

http://www.modelmayhem.com/amearalaveybrandy

Not true. Plenty of instance when the suicide considered some methods over others. In a lot of cases it's a matter of using whatever is handy, certainly, but if you've got a choice you should use it. I know I'd prefer clean and comfortable. Nembutal or nitrous oxide, together with larges amounts of alcohol and drugs. The last thing I'd do is something like jump in front of a train or truck.

It's a real pity one can't just go to the doctor, explain one's situation, and be prescribed something effective and painless, then make one's arrangements, say one's goodbyes and then just die. Instead we have various scary, painful and unconditional "methods" that put most people off except the very desperate. Suicide should be for all.

I hanged myself (I passed out then came round, sorry) comfortably off a door handle, just had to take into my head that breathing was just another thing in my life that I was denied and would just have to suffer through.

That doesn't sound very comfortable.

I only explained half, sorry. The length of rope was such that I could sit with with it closing off my trachea and jugular, without really being suspended by it, if that makes sense? Plus I passed out very quickly.

The word 'snug' springs to mind.

All his scenes in Twin Peaks season 3 were wonderful. Poignant and powerful.

You forgot Paris Texas

Harry Dean Stanton was also in Alien, Kelly's Heroes, Up in Smoke, Cool Hand Luke, Christine, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, Escape from New York and a shitload more!

In a few years, none of the 'Greats' in film will be left...

"Stanton... Ruminating about death in a 2013 interview in The New Yorker, he said, “When you’re deep asleep and not dreaming, where the fuck are you? There’s total blackness, it’s nothing, right? So I’m hoping that’s what death is, that it’s all gonna go. I don’t want to deal with any consciousness afterward.”

Kirk Douglas still lives, but it looks like he's already in the stage of mummification.

He was great in the recent Twin Peaks series. The scene with the hit and run was stone cold.

I discovered him with Alien.

I didn't know he was in Godfather II, amazing!

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Just went through my head that he had the tendency to die horrible deaths in his movies, I mean Alien, Wild At Heart, Escape from NY....poor him. I forgot what happened to him in Repoman though.

'Raging Bull' Jake LaMotta


It's been a long time since I watched the Scorcese movie with Robert de Niro as LaMotta, so I don't remember much about it. Should rewatch it.

Charles Tolnay -- guitarist of Grong Grong / King Snake Roost / Lubricated Goat / Bloodloss

grong grong is some of the best ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cKsgIbHTKs

Need to check that clip.

This quote popped up yesterday:

“I lay awake for about two nights after seeing Grong Grong, still wondering if I actually saw what I really saw,” - Jello Biafra - Maximum Rocknroll (1983)

well enjoyable.
still remember 'in the raw' by lubricated goat on the, i think, 'dope, guns,...' video comp from amphetamine reptile.

Hugh Hefner

He had a good run.  Made the most of life

So long, and thanks for all the tits.

Tom Petty.
Ironic band name aside given his demise, he released some memorable tunes.

Comedian Ralphie May.
He was asides from being pretty funny a rather enormous gentleman, so this was likely to happen sooner than later. still a shame. I really enjoyed his work. There will definitely be a big Ralphie May shaped hole in American comedy for a while to come!!

UMBERTO LENZI: Almost Human, Eaten Alive, Cannibal Ferox, Manhunt in the City, Gang War in Milan, Spasmo, Violent Naples, Rome: Armed to the Teeth...

etc, etc, a great film maker in many genres.
look these films up as tribute.

Martin E. Ain (Hellhammer / Celtic Frost)

"He died on October 21, 2017 following a heart attack"

:( for both of them.

Long live the memory and legacy of Hellhammer/Celtic Frost!

Umberto Lenzi had a distinguished career. RIP

RIP Malcolm Young

I salute you!

Everyones favourite baddie has passed on - Charles Manson

Free at last.

what a week... fred cole, malcolm young, charles manson... all great guitarists!!

The scythe swings wide.

Z’ev

loved

Sum Things
Symphony #2 - Elementalities
Z'EV / Francisco López - Buzzin' Fly / Dormant Spores ‎
Graham Moore & Z'EV - Mezzo
Outwaard ‎

Chu Ishikawa Died December 21, 2017. Well-known as music composer for many films soundtracks including Tetsuo, Nightmare Detective and more.

Sergey Svistelnik (OMS Records, Ukraine). † Rest in peace, friend †
https://www.facebook.com/sergey.svistelnik

We say goodbye to the original French nymphette France Gall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf1xAgNRecg

Michael Davies

DikMik -- Hawkwind electronix guru

already gone in november, duh. bring on the space ritual!!

one of the most powerful voices of the 90s and one of the very few female vocalist I could stand.
saw her live twice and was impressed

interesting character with a very complex life done of anorexy, alcholism, abuse, etc.

JJ, the vocalist of the Offenders, died sometime this month. Classic TX hardcore.

http://www.maximumrocknroll.com/j-j-jacobson-obit/
https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2018-01-12/playback-strike-up-the-bond/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az2UI1lpRbc

they were among my faves when I started listening to hc. their bass player was one my idols. (I think he then worked with DRI)

Mark E Smith

mark e smith. fucking gutted.

Jack Ketchum

http://www.jackketchum.net/

Damn, read a couple of his books.

Mark E. Smith (The Fall) died on 24 January 2018 after a long illness at the age of 60

Girl next door is a classic, but also many others

RIP Jóhann Jóhannsson.

RIP Tomas Denis, aka Qebrus

https://youtu.be/BQsemBgsN_s

Extreme glitch sound designer who had a lot still to give. Gone way too soon.

Overdoes of barbiturates.

Killjoy, horror fanatic & vocalist for Necrophagia kicked the bucket.

Adam Parfrey

Oh no!!

Dennis Nilsen

sucks he was a good dude

As tribute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwzwjGGIj7Q

Does anyone know what's happening with his autobiography? (as was the government had banned its publication)

Glenn Branca

Demi Moore (I think)

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEq57S094ro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEq57S094ro)

I don't think the government banned it, it is the same situation as Ian Brady's book - it can only be published after they died

no bans
it depends who inherited his rights, etc.
I think everything is currently in the hand of his lawyer. I hope it is not a disappointment as the Gates of Janus, still an interesting read, yet displaying this complaining / victimizing attitude towards society that was pretty annoying considering he was no Bobby Sand, but a fascinating perv slaughtering kids.

Gates of Janus was a letdown and certainly dampened my enthusiasm for reading his autobiography. It's what made Sotos' afterword so amusing because he cut through the bullshit that Brady laid down for the entire book

At 3000 pages I probably won't be reading it (read this though: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dennis-Nilsen-Conversations-Britains-serial/dp/1782194592/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526549308&sr=1-1&keywords=dennis+nilsen) still good to hear.

Josh Martin - Former guitar player for Anal Cunt and Adolf Satan

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/josh-martin-dead/

Shoko Asahara

Bret Hoffmann (Malevolent Creation) dead at 51.

np MSBR Destructive Locomotion
& Incapacitants Sarin Will Kill Every Bad Aum !!!

Dmitry Vasilyev, Monochrome Vision label's owner.

what???!

"Yesterday Dmitry Vasilyev passed away by accidental drowning in the waters of the Black Sea."

dude deserves his own topic, but until that here's this, honoring a true friend:
https://extra.resonance.fm/episodes/athens-inner-city-broadcast-number-17-dmitry-vasilyev-beyond-the-iron-curtain-2017-11-30

Hironari Iwata (Haiginsha, Toukaseibunshi, Angakok)

He seemed to be active after return back after long absence... I wonder what happened. While ago I made discogs order after years not buying anything there. It was Toukaseibunshi cd from some random dealer. But never got the disc. Money got returned, but doesn't really help situation of currently missing Toukaseibunshi CD!

Nicolas Roeg

Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks.

Listening now with a heavy heart to his album Sky Yen, exoerimental electronics from 1974.

https://youtu.be/0wNrYw6FeiY

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/obituaries/hardy-fox-dead.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/obituaries/hardy-fox-dead.html)

And I didn't saw it anywhere but earlier this week while searching stuff on a a Residents binge...

residents always confusing ---- like, from an "inside" source i once heard (in my kitchen!) = it's only 2 guys....
so if that's true, then the music side is gone, but the voice remains... yes? no?

Yeah, it seems like that's correct based on what I've read on his book (it's free on his homepage and it is a very nice read http://hardyfox.com/home/ (http://hardyfox.com/home/)) and from things you can sort of figure out from the Residents documentary.

From Hardy Fox homepage:

r.i.p.
bad timing - don't look now - track 29  - - are the best

Jonas Mekas

Really interesting man and filmmaker. Somehow inspired by his 365 Day Project, in 2009 I wrote a poem each day of the year. (Well, "poem" is exaggerated for sure, as I'm a completely talentless writer, so mostly there's just some words put together, but I like the result nonetheless.)

Jonas Mekas is such an insane talent - he was the inspiration for a lot of cool films/music/art etc. Major loss, but certainly lived long enough haha

Mark Hollis of the long defunct but none the less great Talk Talk.

Sad news. RIP. He and Talk Talk have always been a grand source of inspiration for me and something to strive towards. Their two last studio albums are immaculate.

Keith Flint (from The Prodigy) was found dead this morning from apparent suicide. Even though I'm not too keen on anything after "Fat of the Land", the Prodigy were the soundtrack to my adolescence and I'll always love them for that. Rest in Power.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOiZ0dK6cKM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOiZ0dK6cKM)

Never liked the prodigy as most of the rhythmical bands of that era, but in person he was funny as hell and life they could raise hell.

Loved the videos anyway.

Same here, big influence on my youth.  Unleashing the punk spirit into the electronic world.
RIP, and very sad it was suicide.

now Luke Perry has died at 52 after suffering stroke last week.

Scott Walker is dead. Another good man gone...

https://4ad.com/news/25/3/2019/scottwalker19432019 (https://4ad.com/news/25/3/2019/scottwalker19432019)

That's sad :'( Scott 1-4 has been the records I've been listening the most from all the music from the 60's. Especially 3 and 4. Tilt and Drift are masterpieces too. And of course I love the idea how he changed his musical direction to what it was in his later days.

Rest in peace.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J6XPXC-AKZ0

keith richards is outliving everyone.... dick dale, andre williams (jailbait!!)... now walker...

RIP Scott Walker

One of my favourite moments ever in any movie is the sequence in Bronson from Winding Refn when The Electrician is playing. Still gives me goosebumps.

RIP author Gene Wolfe. He died on April 14 from heart disease.

"The Book of the New Sun" series, which was recommended to me hear by Mr. Arkhe, became my favorite books after my first read. He was an incredible writer. Rest in power!

apart from being arguably the greatest sci-fi author of all time gene wolfe used to work for pringles, specifically helping to design the machine that makes the chips, and i will never believe that the pringles guy is not gene wolfe himself

(http://pontus.mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/untitled_44.jpg)

I think I heard about Gene Wolfe from Sam Hyde- and the covers of any of them with 'claw' in the name looks great, been searching for them at thrift stores but no luck.

I'm always on the lookout for 2nd hand Gene Wolfe books but have had very little luck. Only time I found them was in Bay Area bookstores.

earlier this week: mike mcgrath has left the building. dude started muffwiggler forum, respect.
globally influential for today's synthesis/synthesizer/modular/electronic sound community

Kaldrad - Blazebirth Hall

William Levy died earlier this week. RIP.

Saw that one earlier today. Crushing. One of the best there was.

Pekka Airaksinen 6 May 2019

Finnish composer/pioneer of electronic music.

Peggy Lipton aka Norma Jennings from Twin Peaks.

Doris Day

Lorin Partridge
Co-Host of Jim Goad’s Group Hug

RIP

Roky Erickson.  A good friend of mine would listen to his albums on repeat for hours.

Bushwick Bill of the Geto Boys. RIP

Rutger Hauer

Got The Final Cut queued up for tonight's viewing.

George Hilton

Ginger Baker

Dave Riley / Big Black bass player

Neil Peart / Rush

Damn! Both of them faced and conquered quite a bit of hardship in their lives. RIP.

Toshio Saeki. Free at last.

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/toshio-saeki-erotic-illustrator-dead-1202675466/ (https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/toshio-saeki-erotic-illustrator-dead-1202675466/)

Guyotat

Late in the game but of course the giant that was Kirk Douglas!

Watched Paths of Glory in his honour the night of.

Andrew Weatherall says thank you and goodbye at 56. Killed by a blood clot to the lung.

Quite gutted by this. Have enjoyed a whole raft of his output over the years, his production work for Fuck Buttons being right up there. And seen a good number of his DJ sets at various places. Hope he went peacefully.

He taught a whole generation of indie kids about acid house, which is a great thing.

Cyjan of Dead Infection. Party's over.

José Mojica Marins/Zé do Caixão/Coffin Joe
One of the greatest, R.I.P.

I hadn't heard about this!  Such a terrible loss.  Going to have to dig out the Coffin Joe vhs for this weekend to celebrate his genious!

David Roback - Mazzy Star

Max von Sydow

David "Barbarian" Paul

Dyanne Thorne

I totally missed this one. She died of cancer already in January. Never too late for an Ilsa marathon.

Genesis P-Orridge

S/he looked in a rough way for a long time. Leukemia is a cunt, but the constant fund raising thanks to the US healthcare system must have been the biggest drain.

Made some poor decisions in life if you have read the Cosey ArtSexMagic book, but then most of us do to some degree.

Time to rest.

Whatever you think of industrial / PE, the death of a true innovator, radical free thinker...

Will never forget the first time I heard Hamburger Lady, on the radio, age fourteen. That was brutal, and perfect, and brutal. And perfect. Months later the same radio dj, or possibly some other fucked up radio personage of comparable vision, broadcasts Persuasion. And I think I fell in love.

GPO was from another planet

Eduard Limonov

:(

Good riddance. Good news to know that anti-Ukrainian piece of shit is dead.)

Gabi Delgado Lopez  (DAF)

Uderzo

Stuart Gordon

I cannot keep up with the movies I need to watch because of the directors/actors/actresses who have died recently.

Krzysztof Penderecki has passed away.
https://culture.pl/en/artist/krzysztof-penderecki

This one blows. Probably the best modern composer.

RIP. Creative and relevant to the end. Had the pleasure of seeing him conduct his compositions at a classical music festival 2-3 years ago.

Jeff Grosso. Single greatest loss skateboarding has endured, and that's saying a lot.

Bill Withers

Pentii Linkola.

Pentti Linkola. Dogmatism...

Juan Giménez, argentinian artist, illustrator of The Metabarons; victim of Covid-19.

Interesting chap with some interesting ideas, very few if any I would agree with personally. At least, though, he had a pessimistic appraisal of what's happening.

John Prine

Lee Konitz

Peter Beard

Philippe Nahon. The cinematic face of power electronics

Struck me as romantic and conservative - much more so than dogmatic.

I agree. Interesting guy. Fetishizes life/nature a bit too much for my taste though.

Namio Harukawa

He created some of the best erotic art around. Can't get enough of his works.

that fucking sucks. for those who haven't checked out his works I second the recommendation!

RIP

Damn. I wish my legacy was as cool as “he spent a lifetime drawing giant asses suffocating skinny dudes”.

shit, I help setting his Milan exhibition in the 90s... He was funny... that sucks

Mike Sanchez - Lurker in The Murk

Florian Schneider.
What a fucking disgraceful year 2020.

When people who's work I admire and enjoy die, like Florian Schneider, I tend to feel a bit good about it, as to me it's the completion of a lifetime's effort that no longer needs prolonging. I felt that about Lemmy, Lux Interior, Conrad Schnitzler, other people who I think did a good job navigating the shitstream of Life in a satisfactory and certainly entertaining way.

I mean, how long do we want people to live for, anyway? Some get out while the getting's good. That's more luck than I'll ever have.

Helin Bölek († April 3, 2020) and İbrahim Gökçek († 7 May, 2020) from Grup Yorum (Turkey), both died of a hunger strike against the suppression of the group by the Turkish government.

Little Richard

Jerry Stiller

loved him King of Queens

RIP Michel Piccoli

Time to watch La grande bouffe and Themroc again.

Irm Hermann
Great actress in many Rainer Werner Fassbinder movies, and a lot others…


I post in this thread way too often, shitty fucking disgraceful year!

yeah dude that fucking sucked. he always used to send me his stuff. nice guy

Denise Cronenberg

https://deadline.com/2020/06/denise-cronenberg-dies-sister-david-cronenberg-costume-designer-was-81-obituary-1202957451/

Sir Ian "Bilbo" Holm

RIP Ash

Carl Reiner, 98 years old. A monumental legend in comedy - if you've not heard the 2000 Year Old Man albums he made with Mel Brooks, or the films he made working with Steve Martin (The Jerk, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The Man With Two Brains etc) then seek them out.

I'm regretting the day when his comedy partner Mel Brooks joins him in passing. Comedy really will never quite be the same again...

RIP Marc Orleans of Sunburned Hand of the Man.

Milton Glaser

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/obituaries/milton-glaser-dead.html

Ennio Morricone

Damn. Legend.

Charlie Daniels

I don't know many of you are into scat / extreme porn, but I just discovered that veronica moser passed away 1st July.
Always loved her.
Great respect.

Essi Granlund aka Nikoleta_trans (1994-2020)

character from finnish adult amateur sites killed with a kitchen knife

https://www.instagram.com/essigranlund/?hl=fi

https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000006573479.html?fbclid=IwAR0Gdf1AF1cdQkQJnv2yhhmfUPZtTlC6H1vyoX7SRXs_hR0TZLvlU391W1Q

John Saxon

This is really not the right thread to start browsing this forum after a few weeks of absence. Damn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewtB8GPqWLw

Cor Fuhler - couple weeks ago already...bummer

No one mentioned Mr. Chi Pig - damn do I love me a little early SNFU and have since my teenage years!

Never saw SNFU and never really tried to get into them, but have always intended to try.

The first time I saw Chi Pig was after he had just been kicked out of a bar on Commercial Drive in Vancouver. He was extremely wasted and more or less about to pass out in the entrance. He was still funny, though. A definite legend and Vancouver staple who was important to many people beyond mere "fans".

He kissed me once at a bar in 2010 after the Killing Joke gig on Granville (the place was just called Venue as far as I recall.) I spit a rum and coke in his face. Never a band I got super into, but have always thought they were pretty good at what they did. Don't think I ever caught them live, but Mr. Chi Pig would often sing 'Glycerine' by Bush at the Cobalt when I'd be there for karaoke nights.

yea... veronika moser, queen of the extreme

cor fuhler,  also on my long list of check-them-out-asap, now gone

mr chi pig -- flying high

cardiacs boss tim smith has also left the building

Yeah this one hit quite hard. Utterly singular and under recognised artist who just got completely fucked by tragic health issues.

simeon coxe / silver apples

early oscillator music pioneer crossing over into rock/pop

RIP!
Saw him performing as Silver Apples in 2017 in an old deconsecrated church. As far as I remember, I really liked the show.

Artist Timo Ketola.
Been in touch every now and then for 15 years, chatting about books, music, art and whatnot. Never got to cash in on that standing invitation for a cup of tea in Italy. Very sad news.

already months ago...

Tomek Twardawa / Genetic Transmission

i only know electro bruitiste album (of his many releases) and some youtube/zoharum clips, but i enjoy it

Only just found out artist Ron Cobb died last month. Still have my battered copy of "Colorvision" from the 1970's. Love his work.

Jerry Jeff Walker
Billy Joe Shaver
Sean Connery

I will miss him.  He was in so many good movies, from James Bond to Indiana Jones.

Alex Trebek

I came to post this as well.  He is someone I have seen on TV my entire life, and it will be strange not being able to see his face and hear his voice anymore.  He will be missed.

Peter Sutcliffe has gone the way of the dodo....

damn it, Corona!

this one genuinely saddened me. I'm a trivia nut and Jeopardy is the perfect show, Trebek had an unbeatable manner. Funny but never obtrusive.

Diego Maradona

Basically God.

Yeah, at least the Hand of...

Daria Nicolodi

I like to think there's a few people here who rate the music of Harold Budd enough to commemorate his death. Just nice, turn-off-your-brain music for the great many times it's needed.

Soundtrack to a long drive on a winter's day.

"Juno", the last track off of The Pavilion of Dreams, had to have been an influence on Howard Shore when composing the soundtrack to David Cronenberg's Crash.

Fantasy artist Richard Corben died just this month. Some of his stuff was a little too sword-and-sorcery for mine but he had a very unique and somewhat strange style.

Kim Ki-duk

David Brownstead/666 Volt Battery Noise.

MF DOOM
.
I was completing middle school when my best friend at the time introduced me to the newly released MM..FOOD? and the rest is history.
I wasn't lucky enough (yes you older people reading this I'm fucking envious of you) to be born decades prior to witness the origins and expansion of noise & industrial culture, etc.
but I can safely say in retrospect that for someone born in the 90's, DOOM was clearly a huge gateway to obscurity:

-Multiple aliases, some of which you only knew it was him because of the voice, rather than being credited
-The approach to sampling made it clear that non-musical sounds could be repurposed for intrigue, atmosphere, sound collage
-Of course word choices and references to countless things I'd never heard of before

The list goes on and I have a strong feeling I'm not the only one on this board who owes a little or a whole lot to Dumile.

Just one of the all time greats. No other lyricist quite on his level. R.I.P.

MF Doom passing bummed me out much more than I thought it would to be honest. Operation Doomsday, Vaudeville Villain, and Madvillainy are all game changing albums. For one person to put out SO MUCH quality in their lifetime is so rare. I don't pretend to be some hip-hop enthusiast or expert but his producing and rapping is of such high quality, I think it's going to leave a big hole in the scene. One of the best.

Alexi Laiho

100% agreed. That run of albums in the early/mid 2000's in particular was incredible ... King Geedorah, Viktor Vaughn, Madvillain, mm..food ... any one of those would cement a legacy. Only Kool Keith, ODB or GZA come close to him in my books.

Blue Gene Tyranny passed a few weeks back also. Worst news.

David Britton- author of Lord Horror

RIP MF DOOM

"Music producer Phil Spector - who transformed pop with his "wall of sound" - dies aged 81, while serving a murder sentence"


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38922788

Barry Le Va passed on the 24th....left a great body of work behind him too

Larry Flynt.

"old news" now but SOPHIE died 10 days ago :(

RIP to Sabbaoth of Goatpenis and Suppurated Fetus...

https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Sabbaoth/48921

He will be missed.

RIP, been blasting Goatpenis all night

Chick Corea

I feel like an idiot only finding out about this chap this evening. The world could do with a few more of his calibre.

fuck... this is why he was not blasting anymore instagram with his massive amount of posts... so sorry :(

Lou Ottens

Thanks for the cassette.

Indeed! And he worked on developing the CD. 

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/inventor-of-the-audio-cassette-lou-ottens-dies-at-94 (https://www.sbs.com.au/news/inventor-of-the-audio-cassette-lou-ottens-dies-at-94)

RIP DMX

Joao Verissimo of Extremoccidente from Portugal...
quite sad...

The greatest poster artist Enzo Sciotti passed away few days ago.

Giannetto De Rossi RIP

A sad time for the golden ages of Italian genre cinema!

Damn, this one is bad. He was not even 60 yet and surely had many great films in him still. RIP.

tempest storm

The composer Lars-Gunnar Bodin passed away at the age of 85. Bodin was one of the pioneers of the Swedish sound art scene together with people like Åke Hodell, Bengt Emil Johnson, and Öyvind Fahlström.

See him guide into the heart of the EMS electronic music studio which he managed for a while, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Your8ICLnvM
Vintage now, state of the art back then in 1980.

Franco Battiato passed away at the age of 76. One of the real electronic experimenter of the Italian pop panorama, in my opinion. Electic artist and an excellent musician.

Wrote some very hard and weird experimental records as well as some of the best pop songs ever, also for other singers, like Alice.

He was a mystic, often radically changing interests and obsessions. 

Kentaro Miura, creator of Berserk

Really sad news yeah. :( I should re-read/finish it.

Robert Rutman died on 1 June, at the age of 90.

John McAfee. Suicide™ in Spanish prison.

I heard this earlier.  Very sad, as he was certainly an interesting character.  It was fun watching him run for president a few years ago.

he's always remembered for all the malware he found on my floppy discs back in the day.

Peter Rehberg (Editions Mego).

Damn...that's awful. Such an unfathomably crucial force and platform for experimental music. RIP.

Really awful news! Saw him live many times in the last 25 years or so. With Jim O'Rourke and Fennesz or with Stephen O'Malley as ktl, which were one of the loudest and most intense concerts I ever witnessed.

My favourite laptop  noise...whatever track:
#3 from Get Out CD

Chris Yustinich of Final Solution, blasting FS all day, to me one of the best power electronics outfits ever RIP

Damn it! Yeah, Final Solution all day!
RIP

That’s a bummer, poor mr davis…

I was keeping an eye on all that, his friends worked hard to get him out of the animal shelter and into foster care.

That’s great to hear. Very happy to hear

Charlie Watts

eric wagner / trouble ....apparently died from antivax-freedom..

that freedom can be real..... TROUBLE.... I'll see myself out.

Lee "Scratch" Perry

Already two months ago, but Sven Gross singer of Fleshcrawl.

This news hit me hard, I used to listen to loads of dub reggae , it was a Sunday morning ritual. He had an amazing ability to strip back a track to reveal its inner soul. A true experimenter, usually aided by the locally grown weed he found the weirdness in whichever track he touched.

Jean-Paul Belmondo and Michael K. Williams

Michael K. Williams is a huge and devastating loss. Legendary performances time and time again on the small screen solidified him as one of the greatest of our era. Just sheer brilliance. I'm bummed.

Austrian avantgarde filmmaker Ferry Radax

Fucking Norm Macdonald.

Larry Lifeless

Richard H Kirk, aka Cabaret Voltaire.

A real genius. I'll be drinking a few for RHK this evening.

hails to lifeless, thanks for the noise

my chain was: boston not la (groinoids) --> kilslug --> upsidedown cross

Lars Vilks. A great loss.

Andrea "Nebelhexe" Haugen (Aghast, ....) was murdered in the Kongsberg attack. Damn, that's pretty shit!

terrible, we were connected for "family" reasons approx 20 years ago and was a nice person.
Bad way to go..

Ooof....horrible way to go.

Also RIP Paul Blanca, Dutch photographer. Made some beautiful intense photographs.

Hank Van Helvete, changed the way I meant the word erection.

Austrian writer Oswald Wiener died last week.
He was part of the so-called " Wiener Gruppe " and also participated in the “Art and Revolution” (Uni-Ferkelei) campaign with others of the Viennese Actionism movement.

darn :( sorry

Only meet him once when Turbonegro played with San Fransisco Boogie Band (Union Carbide as a gay psych band). One of the funniest shows I ever attended. 20 in the audience on a Tuesday in the early nineties. Hank was nude most of the time wearing white cowboy boots and a belt. Like a cheerful GG. 

Alvin Lucier

90 is quite a stretch. i once spent some time walkin through his installation in tallinn Kumu museum, paper speakers

Lawrence Weiner (1941-2021). I like his art and audio-recordings. RIP!

Jerome Deppe, decent guy and Experimental musician linked to David E Williams and Andrew King

Not particularly relevant here, but: Betty White.

Hjarulv Henker of Der Stürmer.

https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Hjarulv_Henker/31020

Alexander Lebedev-Frontov

1960-2022

Just saw the Ultrasomnambula bandcamp notification email. Just from the very first words before opening it i was afraid it's gonna be really bad news. Indeed.


He was great artist. Respect. Salute.

That is sad news. RIP. Need to listen some Veprisuicida today. Got introduced to that project via IR reissues and I have enjoyed each and every of those a lot.

I am devastated. One of the very first contact I had behind the iron curtain.

Ronnie Spector

Ricardo Bofill

Spanish architect whose buildings can be seen in several Jess Franco films (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DF95eR-XgAA_dCR?format=jpg&name=large)

Tom Smith of To Live and Shave in LA has passed away…this sucks

This one really hurts.  A legend, an all-time favorite, gone too soon.  Fuck cancer.

Spinning Les Tricoteuses and lots more Shave today, plus Ohne, Miss High Heel, NH Meth...

RIP.
Kicked off today with Merkwürdig Riechen...hot damn! This is wild. The man was not confined to any one style.
This also got me thinking, the only other vocalist in experimental/noise to compare to, is Annie Stubbs. On a few miscellaneous Krank tracks, and B-side of the Krang Music/Browning Mummery split 7" on Novichok last year is a pleasant reminder of Tom Smith-style

Flav from Paris wave/oi band Paris Violence

Thomas Tibert of Cotton Ferox / White stains

Monica Vitti

Betty Davis

Syl Johnson

bonus: 10 yr anniversary of whitney houston's bathtub experiment

Nick Zedd 27.2.2022 "He died today of complications of cirrhosis of the liver, cancer & hepatitis C. "

 . . . So sad ! Love his works , also the cooperations with Richard Kern . R.I.P.

Philip Jeck

RIP Mira Calix, really quite gutted about this.  Only 52, that is no age.

Her Warp albums from the early 2000s were highly influential to me, and she managed to push her art installation works to some really obscure places. 

Jordan Mooney.

Hermann Nitsch

Such a loss. A tremendous genius with a powerful vision. The O.M. Theatre is a 'totality' everyone should experience at least once in a lifetime. RIP.

Klaus Schulze.

Very bad news, I´m spinning "Timewind" now, what a masterpiece. I remember when I listened to it under LSD. The day after I was at home doing music, super inspired.

Latest episode of Noisextra is paying tribute to Hermann Nitsch. Haven't listened to it myself,  but will try during this weekend.

Gabe Serbian RIP

i was his friend on facebook. interacted with him several times online. very cool guy.

i knew his health wasnt great but had no idea he was near death's door.

RIP

I really don't know if this is true, but it was reported that Albin Julius died yesterday. But if it is true, a resounding RIP.

https://www.spqrlabel.com/albin/?fbclid=IwAR2zuGtPwQUY9tXreOulu31O8ujM1vKLGwksS46RZY4uxZnFFX3ITcLfbxA

Terrible news! But is there a credible source? And what’s this about Albin ”Sunlight”, had he become a born again Christian lately? I lost track of his activities a decade ago.

Sad but true. Albin passed due to a sudden health issue. We are all speechless since he was very lively and fun to be collaborate with until the last minute.

A clear statement I allow myself to add is that it is not suicide as somebody implied, somebody misunderstood a metaphore about him leaving this planet, written by a close friend of Albin's but it was just a romantic way to say he simply sadly passed.

Regarding sunlight: No he was not  born again Christian, but into psychedelic cultures.

A great comrade that went way too early and a unique man with great talent that will be missed a lot. Nur die Besten sterben jung

Vangelis

Blade Runner would have been so different with some alternative soundtrack.

Hakim Bey

I googled to find more information/obituaries. Never realized he had NAMBLA connections. Good riddance.

More positive farewells to Ray Liotta who was a cool actor, and to Alan White who managed the impossible and followed Bill Bruford as the drummer for Yes.

Andy Fletcher of Depeche Mode at 60. I must confess to having been a big DM fan as a 'little boy', and in many ways they were a gateway to harsher industrial sounds later, in my teens.

RIP  Not too old either.

Julee Cruise

RIP Jean-Louis Trintignant. I remember him best from The Great Silence, a bleak film if there ever was one.

Great film and a great actor. I double featured two of his films with Alain Robbe-Grillet, Successive Slidings of Pleasure and Trans-Europ-Express, the other night.

Massimo Morante (GOBLIN)

RIP  I just watched Susiria for the first time a few days ago, and their score was one of the highlights.

Leigh Smell the Stench died last month..

oK do you know the cause of is death ?

suicide

hmm.. really? Confirmation somewhere?
Its just couple months ago when emailed with him about things.
There was certain incident going on, which seemed potentially escalate bad.

Jean-Luc Godard

From what I have seen via his FB profile, people close to him as well as family appear to have confirmed this.

damn. Well, RIP Leigh!

RIP

Henry Silva

Pharoah Sanders

I had been listening to him all week coincidentally. Sad news.

Jerry Lee Lewis

I'm finding I'm not the only one who honestly thought he was dead before this.

DH Peligro

Nik Turner and Keith Levene.

Issei Sagawa

Perhaps they can set the cremator to a nice slow roast in his honor.

Angelo Badalamenti

Manuel Göttsching of Ash Ra Tempel

Ruggero Deodato.
Monsieur le cannibal

Eduard Artemyev
1937-2022

Famous and talented yet totally pro-putinist in the late years; an open eurasian fanatic who violated Ukrainian borders illegally visiting the Crimea for the so-called eurasian bridge forum. Another genius who turned criminal. 

Vivian Westwood

Not sure if there are many soccer fans 'round here, but...Pelé, one of the greatest!

Willem de Ridder died last Thursday. RIP!

Graham Ovenden (died on December 9th 2022, but only just announced to the general public via the website Pigtails in Paint)

Good riddance.

Gangsta Boo

:(

Tom Verlaine

Maria Zerfall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1LP8d_Z9AM
Artist Talk with Christine Weyhreter/Maria Zerfall, 14/08/2022

Damn, really sorry to hear that! Was listening a lot to the VOD box lately.

The interview with her in the YT link posted above is very good and interesting.

RIP :(

Peter Weibel  :(

Well, shit. Interesting artist/filmmaker and curator who was in the right place at the right time. I've never visited ZKM but I'm a fan of the mammoth-sized exhibition guides he's helped edit over the years (coincidentally, I just received in the post today a copy of the Better Books/Bookz catalogue).

Gary Rossington, guitarist and last original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd

Max Hardcore March 27, 2023

Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952 – 2023), a legend. RIP.

Somehow I didn’t hear that Kato David Hopkins of Public Bath Press passed away last year on November 24, I searched and didn’t see it mentioned here. Bummer

I thought I had posted it here, but, yeah, seems to have flown pretty under the radar. We're all the better for his works.

Mark Stewart (Pop Group)
R.I.P.

very sad

Jerry Springer

Harry Belafonte

Giovanni Lombardo Radice aka John Morghen. Was in some of the best: Gates of Hell / City of the Living Dead, Cannibal Ferox, etc.

Pugh Rogefeldt didn’t die in 2004 with the demise of Bathory’s Quorthon. The greatest prank in BM history, as perpetuated by ”Lords Of Chaos”, had this as Quorthon’s birth name.

The real Pugh Rogefeldt, the beloved prog troubadour, died peacefully yesterday at the tender age of 76.

Al from Hellnation was killed last Thursday being hit by a car

Frank Kozik

Helmut Berger

Good riddance to Rolf Harris.

Damnit, I was hoping to get three "good riddance" replies in a row...

Kenneth Anger

Tina Turner.

Thunderdome!