shitfun.

Ashtray Navigations makes my favourite noise. Less aggressive than most of what you've mentioned, more crude & sparse atmospherics. His stuff varies in mood/quality and naturally he's stupidly prolific.

Heil Spirits do it well.

The Living End do a cool song about noise.

yeah man,

Heil Spirits live is fucking amazing.

Y35.3/mr skelton live back in the day...the best power electronics/noise set i've ever witnessed (thanks Cumbersome).

...a friend of mine claims that americans have no idea how to make good noise/power electronics. of course there are exceptions, but i fear there may be some truth in his cynicism...ok, there's no fear whatsoever.

what do you all think?

Most of what I like is from either the UK or Australia. I don't have any favourite US noise groups though maybe that's because a lot of what comes out of the US seems more testosterone driven, like Wolf Eyes and the Hanson/American Tapes stuff has a lot of pummeling frat boy shit that doesn't offer much in the way of dynamics.

Haven't heard everything on those labels and obviously there are exceptions.

Stuff from the UK like Whitehouse and Ramleh is just much weirder, which is what I like.

Burning Star Core is my favourite noise artist, (thread!), but I love Prurient.

Ashtray sounding great, shaun!

I think that seeing Whitehouse live permanently changed my brain chemistry.

Haha, hilarious Prurient clip above, Tim.
I'm visiting his Hospital Productions record store in NYC in November.

Prurient scares me, the man wants to destroy music in all its forms.

necktie said 17 minutes ago:

Y35.3/mr skelton live back in the day...the best power electronics/noise set i've ever witnessed

Check out Mark Skelton's solo noise project Galactagogue, and don't forget his delightfully named band John Butler Fucks Kids.

I don't have any favourite US noise groups though maybe that's because a lot of what comes out of the US seems more testosterone driven, like Wolf Eyes and the Hanson/American Tapes stuff has a lot of pummeling frat boy shit that doesn't offer much in the way of dynamics.

hmm, i feel the opposite; to me wolf eyes (and prurient, sissy spacek/john weise et al) seem to care about compositions and texture a lot more than whitehouse, who are - to my ears anyway - roughly 90% confrontation and 10% everything else.

i agree that local noise artists are generally quite strong, though.

That's true, but Whitehouse and other UK groups like Ramleh offer food for thought, whereas the US stuff just feels like a guy sitting in a room laying down abrasive tracks and then indiscriminately releasing them.

It's not so much a judgment on the style of noise but rather the different attitude/demeanour of the artists. the UK dudes seem to be grappling with ideasm and are generally more interested in challenging their audience rather than offering up context-free slabs of sound.

skelton is the man.

anyway (plug) check out our shop if any of you get a chance - we have a bunch of amazing releases that fit into these categories.

rad.

voxcyclops@gmail.com

Heil Spirits do it well.

yes. very well.

I like Absoluten Calfeutreil.

I need to see Heil Spirits live. What I've got on CD is pretty awesome, and I'm sure that more volume would only help matters.

Heil Spirits is touring Melbourne in September, playing some shows. Two of those are in Thornbury, at Loophole on Fri 18th and a houseshow at Skelton's place on Sat 19. I'll post the full line-ups a bit closer to the date.

I like Absoluten Calfeutreil.

fuck yeah man, eli and the two mark's.

beautiful/brutal/pure.

My favourite Mark Groves project is Dead Boomers, with Leith Thomas.

i haven't heard them.

can you describe it?

rad.

House show Saturday, Thornbury

anyone here into Safe?

EVENT

was just at a pretty incredible gig at Serial Space put on by Now Now dude Sam Pettigrew's new label ''It'll Be Awesome''. Pia Van Gelder, Aemon Webb, Peter Blamey & Kusum, Black Cracker. I believe the first release on that label is Black Cracker, trombone & electronics.

(Warning: Shameless self-promotion)

^ Live recording of my band Umbilical Tentacle

aaaaaahhhh crap try again....

http://soundcloud.com/spasmoslop/umbilical-tentacle-the-beast

I'm playing a SPASMOSLOP solo gig this Friday at The Johnston St Milk Bar in Abbotsford, opening for a bunch of rock and ''funk'' bands.

*Polygasm are back at The Johnston St Milk bar and this time they are bringing along their friends, Purple Tusks, Wartooth and kicking things off is Joe Guiton!

As always, Polygasm shall regale you with their own spiffingly harmonious and rather special brand of rock'n'roll. Sure to keep your feet a'tappin' and your choruses calling.

Wartooth will keep your pelvis thrusting to their rocksteady riffs and beats.

Joe Guiton's gonna tell us some stories and sing from the balls.

Purple Tusks are a 6 piece band that pump out the funk and spice up the night with a little latin, hip hop and reggae. All in aid of your booty-shaking pleasure.

That's the who... But what about the where?

Well... hidden underneath Victoria Park train station is one of Melbourne's community-focussed little venues.

The Johnston St Milk Bar.

From out the front it looks like a nice little cafe with nice comfy seating and tables, through a side door there is a gallery full of local wacky art, and out the back there is the sweetest little lantern-lit space that is reminiscent of a Berlin beer garden... this is the place to hang out, play table-tennis, drink fine beers, eat cheap gourmet pizza and fool around on the baby hammond... Oh... and of course listen to awesome local bands rockin throughout the week.

Music starts around 8pm, but get in early for the yummy gourmet pizza, it's so good the kitchen gets swamped with orders*

274 Johnston St. Abbotsford.

I don't know if the bands know I'm playing, but the owner says I'm opening at about 7:00pm. Come down for pizza and noises.

tenzenmen noise trials

fast canoe - machine codes

torturing nurse/umpio split tape

torturing nurse - survive/life lathe press 7''

automating/torturing nurse - contest to kill 100 people tape

Blarghstrad Noisesmith @Gasometer

And go see Spasmoslop on Friday.

Norwegian noise legend Lasse Marhaug plays the Northcote Social Club next Thursday Sept 20

Tonight... I'm on 7:00pm sharp

Nyarg! Spasmoslop! In my local! and I can't go. Have a blast.

Finally! Proof positive that adult pedal punchers are talentless hacks.

I'm playing 2 noice gigs this Saturday night.... http://letsnoise.blogspot.com . . . . .

This one @ KIPL

*Cantankerous Records brings you some varied noise...

WORD OF LIFE CHURCH SS = Synth/noise extravaganza...
http://mindtimedestroy.blogspot.com.au/

SPASMOSLOP = Otherworldly vocal driven noise...
http://soundcloud.com/spasmoslop/spasmoslop-non-monoglot

TODD ANDERSON-KUNERT = Audio/visual doom/noise...
http://www.toddanderson-kunert.com/index.php?%2Fproject%2Fperfromance-at-conduit-arts%2F

DOTABATA = Organic instrumentation destroyed by harsh electronics...
http://www.myspace.com/dotabata

BONO = Some more noise...
http://www.atu2.com/band/bono/bono.jpg

Starts early!
FREE!
All ages / BYOB welcome.

136 Roden St West Melbourne (a short trek from either Southern Cross or North Melbourne stations).

Various tapes and so on available on the night...*

http://www.facebook.com/events/464926360194110

Then this one at Black Goat:

*Hex On The Beach, Umbilical Tentacle, First Love, Sick Sad World, Badd, Swimsuit Dynamite, Wet Lips
Followed by....
HARD OUT DANCE PARTY feat. DJs Cat Attack & Gob Job Goblin

Fundraiser for EMPOWER Foundation, Thai Sex Worker Organisation/Union

A message from Empower...

“For Empower its important that people are not giving money because they feel sympathy or have the image of [sex workers as] victims, [with] no choice etc etc.... Sex workers in Thailand are Sweet Smart, Strong and Sexy..the head of the family providing a good income for the family and the country. Sex workers in Thailand don't want anything special..just the same protections, benefits and rights as other workers and members of society. Together they join as Empower to fight for a space in society to stand proud, strong and still sexy!! Empower hopes everyone will be bad and have a great time! We hope you have a lot of fun for your event.”

for more info about this organisation.....http://www.empowerfoundation.org/*

http://www.facebook.com/events/510511225631143/

Stumbled across this (free for a limited time) IOS app...

''Sprak is a noise app, noise as in crackles and phat distorted drones.
Sprak is an instrument for people who loves to experiment with noise.
Sprak was born out of a need to play with evolving noisy noise while riding the train.

Awesomely awesome glitched out noised curcuitbentish app''

New Kevin Drumm, out now on eMego. Someone tour him, please.

this mammoth of a quintuple lp (+ a 7'') bad boy arrived in the mail today.

time to bunker off underground and wear out the needle...

gala

24-hour improvisation starts in about half an hour, anyone welcome to play: http://www.facebook.com/events/143949965783518/

''Today at 9:00am until April 28 at 9:00am

1/177 Beavers Rd, Northcocte

= A Deer Head Apparition thing =

A long long form improvisation in a warehouse backing onto Merri Creek. Long enough to come, play, stop, go home, make a sandwich, have a little sleep, come back and keep going: to smudge the line between dreaming and waking like just so much cheap eyeliner: to dissolve the world in sound.

Bring a loud instrument/device if you want but be a good sort and don't drown out the quiet ones. Like any party it'll be a drag if only the loud people can hear themselves.

9am Saturday til 9am Sunday. Venue is at the end of Beavers Rd Northcote, backing on to Merri Creek. It's waiting to be rebuilt and the owners have kindly made it available for the day and night.''