Tag: noise

Borderline Noise Festival — Experimental Art Between Philosophers and Circus Performers

Hayden Potter visits the experimental electronic music gathering in the rolling rural landscape of the Jizera Mountains.

Published September, 2024

The DIY Mythology of Won James Won (interview)

Won James Won is a collective of musicians based between St Petersburg and Moscow. Established in 2003, the noise/rock band has put out a number of releases, cementing their status as one of the most prolific artists on the Russian underground scene.

Published February, 2017

Somnoroase Pasarele – CO (Baba Vanga, 2016)

Somnoroase Pasarele. The birds that left the cage.

Published February, 2016

Trauma

Traumas are sketches from life. Life is made of traumatic sketches.

Published January, 2016

Dědečkova Tažná Zvěř – Kdo hýří dýmějemi, bude pokárán!

There’s something primordial about noise. The rawness and unhindered ways of sound, the sound almost hijacking its maker and using him or her as its medium.

Published September, 2015

Noise School

Noise, gushing confusely and irregularly out of life, is never totally revealed to us and it keeps in store innumerable surprises for our benefit. Noise School is a tape compilation released in the beginning of the year by the defiantly DIY label Trash Can Dance, run by the effervescent Gert Moser, a cook by day, an avid patron of Estonian underground by night.

Published March, 2015

Hlukár / hLukáš SPLIT

Hovering on the fringes of Slovak experimental music, the Noize Konspiracy collective remains uncompromising in their ethos and works. The punks of the noise scene, kind of.

Published July, 2014

Czechoslovak No-Input Mixer Compilation

Is the no-input technique getting so popular in the Czech and Slovak Republics? Definitely not, but this compilation can give you the false impression that this may as well be true. Still, the contributors here are worth your attention and it would be a shame not to mention this release out now on the Czech netlabel Signals from Arkaim.

Published May, 2014

The Pink Cowboys of Forum Absurdum

One can always find something charming in a primitive and almost vulgar expression of music. This split tape serves as a shining example.

Published April, 2014

Sekta Obetí – the very attractive mysery of the Eastern smalltown

The original, 16-minute long EP called Obete Sekty was not only one of the best releases that the Slovak label Exitab put out, it can also, without any doubt, be considered as one of the best Slovak alternative releases of the last decade. The project, which was originally recorded almost 10 years ago was finally released in 2011 and now, after three years, Tomáš Ferko also known as Teapot has decided to revisit this piece, strongly connected with the memories of his hometown, Prešov, with the help of his friends.

Published February, 2014

Lanuk – o(O

There is music and sound that without any ornamentation or sycophantic tropes manages to evoke specific almost synaesthetic evocations. It is almost as if it didn’t need a particular source or origin, it is acousmatic, as if it existed alone, emitted into urban decay, those areas abandoned by the well-to-do and successful.

Published January, 2014

2013 in Czech music by Anek

Once again, as the old year meets the new, we are looking back on the musical happenings. The first one is by Anek from the Cáry Mlhy blog from Prague who will offer his insights and highlights of 2013 on the Czech underground music scene.

Published January, 2014

Jack Jack’s no-input

The unpredictability of the ‘no-input’ technique is one of the most intriguing things that you can come across when playing with your mixing board. And the worse the mixing desk, the better the feedback that your 'instrument’ can produce.

Published December, 2013

Skan-zen – Pure Distortion

Signals From Arkaim is a Prague-based imprint, following in the footsteps of CC-licensed, virtually existent releases of the once thriving netlabel scene. They mostly focus on uncompromising fringes of the experimental underground, but also have such releases as the noteworthy mixtape consisting of soundbytes from Czechoslovak TV series.

Published December, 2013

Střed Světa – Remixes

Our friend Střed Světa released an eponymous debut album earlier this year on our little baby, the Baba Vanga label. The idiosyncratic producer, who prefers to work in his Bohemian seclusion, has recontextualized years of sonic activities into a remarkable journey that bubbles, floats, crackles and hypnotizes.

Published June, 2013

SFA005 – Zelený Antoin

Recorded at our Easterndaze event in Brno in 2011, and in summer 2013 at Bratislava’s FUGA, a psychedelic, post-punky noise-driven journey into disquieting sonic realms, is now being released as a free download by the Czech netlabel Signals from Arkaim. The audio instantly brings recollections of the dinghy environs of the Boro club, where Antoin unleashed his psychedelic voyage, on a bleak autumn night.

Published March, 2013

VooDooMan – the sonic sorcerer from Bratislava

The Slovak sonic sorcerer VooDooMan, based in Bratislava, one of the firm personas of the local noise/audio scene, revels in hypnotic aural fissures, disorienting journeys through mangled synapses, created in his own custom-built software. His prolific output counts numerous tracks, from 3 second to 80 minutes long, an endless stream of aural conscioussness.

Published March, 2013

Plunderphonics: label interview

New label alert. Plunderphonics is a new digital imprint established this year by the 18-year old Krystian Stebnicki.

Published September, 2012

Subspecies – Subspecies (selfreleased, 2012)

Bratislava-based visual artist Boris Vitázek aka Stix is a well known VJ working mostly with the post-dubstep producer Stroon. Stix is also the main force behind the techno nights Trashold in the now legendary venue Subclub.

Published July, 2012

5 seconds of: Crime:Scene Compilation 13

The beginning of a song can preclude whether it will be carved into my sonic memory or whether my musical consciousness will bin the said tones forever. 5 seconds is a minuscule amount of time for a composition to unleash, a nano teaser of what is to come, or not.

Published April, 2012

Zombie Girlfriend – Music For Porn (self-released, 2011)

When Benedek Szabó, the mastermind behind the Hungarian project Zombie Girlfriend asked us to be the international platform through which the project’s second LP will be announced, we couldn’t say no. First of all we love Benedek’s musical humour, as manifested in the laid-back surfpop killer Jesus Stole My Zombie Girlfriend released as a part of the seminal Hungarian Lo-fi vol.

Published December, 2011

The om of Omm

High exposure to the Omm sound might lead to elevated states of consciousness - the fuzz drone trance. A new solo release by the Košice-based graphic designer and member of the audiovisual project BIOS, sees him delve into noise-ridden soundscapes, already explored with his aforementioned project, with his guitar as his mantra.

Published November, 2011

Poo – Kappa-Opioid Gain (single, 2011)

Massive blocks of sound, eroded by entropy into weird fractal pictures of mankind’s downfall / empty cities ovegrown by nature / random flashes of violence slowly enter the sonic ecosystem inhabited by frequencies that flow down on tilted walls of noise. Ibogain kappagrams.

Published September, 2011

Listening Lectures w/ Avoided & Marin

Bratislava’s underground electronic scene prepares a special gig for Monday: listeninglectures: visual by marin Avoided: Hangover Pop by uchylord ₩│╬₵├┤₴╟╢│╒╥Ɇʁ - You Came To My Party Depressed As A Shadow by uchylord Nihil Buldozer: Igor mortis by uchylord More on this Monday dementia (in Slovak) @ Radost music club, Bratislava, 11th of July » Read More

Published July, 2011

Obete sekty: from the vaults

Slovak producer Tomáš Ferko (Teapot) likes to keep himself busy with his various projects, collaborations, remixes… His EP Unrest was just released last week Unrest II will be released 18.7.

Published July, 2011

alice mange son coeur: a Bohemian new label

The brand new imprint alice mange son coeur is a truly modern label. It operates from Prague and is run by the young Sara Cross who A&R’d the label roster from her bedroom via Last.

Published June, 2011

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Published May, 2011

[gallery] Listen to the special Habitat collaborative radio from Bratislava’s Progressbar hackerspace. The lineup is composed of Bratislava’s dj’s, beatmakers and visual artists.

Published March, 2011

Various Artists – Zvukolom (LOM, 2011)

The idea for the new label LOM dedicated to “unknown or forgotten experimental artists ..