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Started by HongKongGoolagong, April 21, 2013, 03:47:03 PM

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HongKongGoolagong

TEENAGE NUREMBERG (RRR/Pure CD, 1995) - Easiest way of getting hold of a representative sample of original 82/83 material. Difficult listening: pure noise music done a long time before noise music became a genre. Shortwave radio, primitive delay and distortion effects, some ranting and incoherent vocals about 'National Socialism' on the live title track. Strange outro sampling John Lennon and amusing segment showing how unimpressed his schoolmates were with the project.

HORN OF THE GOAT  (Freek CD, 1995) - Co-credited to Merzbow but I believe this should be considered purely as a CE album (the only 1990s output) as Masami Akita's input was minimal - members of Ramleh seem to have had more to do with it. Varied collection of samples, electronics and drones all with an alien and unfriendly vibe, well mixed with a professional feel to it. Reference points include the Moors Murders, wartime sex slavery, Leonard Lake, Sally Mann. Very downbeat record.

NOBODY'S UGLY - (No Fun LP, 2007) Two long soundscape pieces which according to the listener's mood can be either transcendent or set the nerves on edge. Black Cotton Wool on side one works better - that title is a reference from Gitta Sereny's 'Cries Unheard'. William Bennett is credited as 'producer' and some of these sounds were later reused on the first Cut Hands album.

CROWD PLEASER (Hand To Mouth LP, 2009) - I would recommend this above all others, one of my favourite records of the last decade. Side two is a piece similar to the previous album but side one has five sections of individual 'songs' done with help from Mattin - ultra powerful rushes of noise violence over which quite distressing lyrics are bellowed in a very angry voice. I noticed some input taken from the memoirs of alcoholic UK footballer Paul Gascoigne, and from Deborah Spungen's famous book about her daughter, but this is mostly a personal and autobiographical kind of performance poetry in a similar style to his tracks with late era Whitehouse. Crazy, aggressive and very intense material.

SEX PIG - USA LIVE (Artecnico/Gift CD, 2013) - New Japanese release with an edited version of a 2008 show which featured Mark Solotroff helping out. Title is from a vigilante flyer sent to Peter Sotos's mother in the 1980s. Rushes of drunken and squalid noise with a rowdy sounding crowd who have to be told to step backwards "or Daddy won't continue" in classic heavy metal show style. Crowd Pleaser and late Whitehouse lyric shards which sound especially strange when performed acappella over a howling audience. A lot of atmosphere in this recording, you can almost smell the alcohol ODs, the increasingly unsavoury conversations, the next day's regrets.

FreakAnimalFinland

Of course the RRR 's 3xLP box is essential for old material. Unfortunately not full length tapes, but even as edited LPs, really good!

And even if I may have been somewhat critical of Best collages, in long run, I think his American Campgrounds book actually grows. And quantity of material contributes to create something much more than one single or handful of collages.
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HongKongGoolagong

Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on April 21, 2013, 05:51:17 PM
And even if I may have been somewhat critical of Best collages, in long run, I think his American Campgrounds book actually grows. And quantity of material contributes to create something much more than one single or handful of collages.

I'm not sure how true this story is but I heard that James at Creation was quite worried about the legal consequences of publishing that. Yet any perversion or malice in the collection is very much in the eye of the beholder: the book works as a kind of Rorschach Test.

What you don't get in print or scanned on screen is the physicality of the collages: I have a small original and it's been heavily worked on with black paint, tape, staples and a liberal coating of glue for a crude lamination effect - well, I hope it's just glue at least.

An entertaining 'Desert Island Discs' type show with Consumer Electronics is at https://soundcloud.com/resonance-fm/22-30-00-abject-bloc/

Johann

Awesome, thank you very much! CE has interested me very much, but i admit i really never knew much about them. that Stream is quite entertaining as well, Thanks

cipher chris

Any sources for the 'Sex Pig' release?

ConcreteMascara

Quote from: cipher chris on April 22, 2013, 03:11:22 AM
Any sources for the 'Sex Pig' release?

And is the recording from NFF?
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roadkill33

Quote from: ConcreteMascara on April 23, 2013, 08:44:43 PM
Quote from: cipher chris on April 22, 2013, 03:11:22 AM
Any sources for the 'Sex Pig' release?

And is the recording from NFF?

Philip posted it on his website. vague information, tracklist is there however.
http://philipbest.blogspot.com/2013/04/campgrounds-live.html




HongKongGoolagong

Sex Pig recording is from 09-06-08 - Apop - St Louis.

Cementimental

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Hope it's OK to kind of relevantly spam this forthcoming London Consumer Electronics show here. Sorry if it bothers people but wouldn't want anyone to miss out:



Copies of Sex Pig will be available at this event.

Full details here = http://www.special-interests.net/forum/index.php?board=8.0

HongKongGoolagong

"I firmly believe after this performance that people should have to apply for licence to be able to create sound; this can surely only be endured, let alone enjoyed, by the most autistic of the autistic." - you really can't buy reviews like that - http://www.thrashhits.com/2013/05/live-deafheaven-the-secret-consumer-electronics-london-borderline-09-may-2013/

Any reports on the one last night?

jesusfaggotchrist

Always found these guys to be much better in terms of sound than Whitehouse. Unpopular as it may be, Whitehouse doesn't scratch my itch for aggression like other pe acts of the time.

Cementimental

Quote from: HongKongGoolagong on May 26, 2013, 06:12:54 PM
Any reports on the one last night?
I don't have and haven't yet seen any proper review but it was great times, really enjoyed everyone's set and had fun playing my own, and there was one of the most active crowd reactions to a Consumer Electronics show I've seen, lost of moshing and attempted stagediving. I remember years ago a tiny bit of that sort of action happened at a CE show and a load of standing-at-the-back chin-strokers were getting upset about it on the Sue Lawley forums, maybe times and audience have changed. :)

HongKongGoolagong

Quote from: Cementimental on May 28, 2013, 05:58:09 PMthere was one of the most active crowd reactions to a Consumer Electronics show I've seen, lost of moshing and attempted stagediving

Glad to hear that, standing stock still 'appreciating' a visceral cathartic piece of psychodrama/performance seems unrealistic to me and it's why I stopped going to Whitehouse shows when they became a two-piece although still liked the records. Real violence of the sort you get in normal bars/nightclubs is never any good but in the old days you'd half expect to go home covered in beer and bruises as part of the fun. On one occasion Sotos's blood was all over my shirt.


Mikerdeath

Quote from: cipher chris on April 22, 2013, 03:11:22 AM
Any sources for the 'Sex Pig' release?

An update on this would be much appreciated.

Scat-O-Logy

Quote from: Mikerdeath on May 30, 2013, 03:37:46 AM
Quote from: cipher chris on April 22, 2013, 03:11:22 AM
Any sources for the 'Sex Pig' release?

An update on this would be much appreciated.

Got my copy straight from Philip & Sarah but seems like they already sold out their copies. In some parts there's some awkwardness but overall quite solid album in my opinion. Loving Philip's vocals!