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TheSpirit
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July 12th 2010


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I feel like you would like some noise-ambient willie

Willie
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July 12th 2010


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I love the ambient stuff (Autechure, The Orb, FSOL), but the noise stuff doesn't work for me in an ambient setting. I can deal with a bit of noise mixed in with harsher industrial (like the stuff Numb do on their albums).

Meatplow
July 12th 2010


5523 Comments


I don't think you would like this much Trey, youtube Total War though and see what you think.

also have you heard Ben Frost? probably the most convincing blend of noise, electronic and ambient i've heard, its subtle and well crafted. Theory of Machines and By The Throat are superb.

ironstone3
July 14th 2010


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Check out No Trend - Too Many Humans.. Promotes the same ideology except with a more punky hardcore edge.
Take that stupid hipsters!

Meatplow
July 14th 2010


5523 Comments


psh, the ideology is only interesting when it borders on the point of parody

Willie
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July 14th 2010


20673 Comments


I don't think you would like this much Trey, youtube Total War though and see what you think.


Listening now… just whispers so far…. very cool beat and the siren sound in the background is cool… getting a bit repetitive now… slowing down to ambience… the ending is ok… so: a bit too repetitive for me, but not too noisy. I would have liked it more if they used what they had as a foundation and took it a bit further.

Sabottheory
July 14th 2010


355 Comments


sounds likeable

Bitchfork
July 14th 2010


7581 Comments


It is. I'd have to say that it's much better than anything else in NON's portfolio, particularly a certain one hundred dollar album from the late seventies, beginning with a P, and ending in agan Muzak...

But yeah 1930, Venerology, and most of Masonna's, Yellow Swans's, and a few other notable noise artists's portfolios are better than this.




Willie, maybe you'd like The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud? Post-industrial/martial/folk/dark ambient..?

Meatplow
July 14th 2010


5523 Comments


Apart from the odd exception most NON/Boyd Rice related stuff i've heard is terrible, more notable as a footnote in the evolution of early industrial/noise music than anything. His public persona is generally far more interesting than the music, still this, The Boyd Rice Experience's Hateville! and Death In June & Boyd Rice's Scorpion Wind are 3 of my favourite albums.

Have you seen Pearls Before Swine, Bitchfork? It's this Australian film starring Rice as a hitman where he pretty much takes over the film with his insane, corny dialogue. Douglas P. is in it and it's the most hilariously self-indulgent thing i've seen.

Listening now… just whispers so far…. very cool beat and the siren sound in the background is cool… getting a bit repetitive now… slowing down to ambience… the ending is ok… so: a bit too repetitive for me, but not too noisy. I would have liked it more if they used what they had as a foundation and took it a bit further.


Agreed, in the context of the album though the repetition feels right to me as it pretty much builds up from the beginning into that as a climax.

The whisper is part of a hidden track at the end, the song on the album starts from where the percussion comes in after those sirens.

Bitchfork
July 20th 2010


7581 Comments


yeah.



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