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« on: April 12, 2018, 06:16:31 PM »
great post tommm. I am pretty bummed out that the aesthetics of the genre (noise in general) can't seem to escape "low quality photocopy collage of murdered women" album art and "prurient" lyrics about rape, "paraphilia", and murder.
I was recently at a show of a bunch of relatively hyped up young bucks on the noise circuit and found it just so bounded and "safe". The same ridiculous pedal chains, the same sounds, the same lack of stage presence just, it boggles my mind that in a genre as free form as noise, the stuff that gets popular all follows the same stencil. Dude in a black denim jacket squeezing a contact mic while thoughfully twiddling nobs on one of his 50 DOD FX86s. No movement, no sense of purpose, just boring not even that loud noise.
So much noise today just lacks any sense of catharsis, and I'm boggled how at this moment in history, the genre seems dominated by dudes content to drop 2 grand on pedals, chain them, and call it a day. Fuck the Rita. Fuck Berghain era Hospital Productions.
That said, there is good stuff out there. Japan - still rules. No Rent Records have been putting out some great releases over the past few years. Skin Crime's newer releases have gone down a psychedelic well and I dunno, it gets me pumped. I just miss noise shows being genuinely frantic, "dangerous" but ultimately inspiring psychedelic experiences in lieu of this endless repetition of the same forms and aesthetics, a bunch of denim jackets nodding their head to the "beat' and silently shuffling away as the "performer" turns the volume down on his mixer. It's like noise is turning into hardcore.