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Your Top Five Power Noise CDs (including compilations)

topic posted Sat, December 23, 2006 - 2:18 AM by 
I'm a relative newbie to this genre but I like what I"ve heard so far
from Grey David, a DJ at FATE, DEFIANCE and the BOX in Santa Cruz.

I was wondering if everyone would be so kind as to pick their favorite
five Power Noize CDs (including best of compilations)

I'm also a bit confused. I saw earlier posts refer to Combi Christ as Power Noize.

I just saw their excellent live show with KMFDM in San Francisco (I would have been embarrassed to
follow them onstage as KMFDM did, rather tepidly)

I liked them a lot but I would consider what they do to be Industrial or perhaps EBM.

What's the difference between these three genres? I assumed that it meant having a lot more distorted
tracks all the way around, but combichrist has the same four on the four beats, the same treated shouted
vocals, the same kind of martial vibe.

Can anyone help me with this one. I'd really love to know.

By way of introduction:

I'm also beginning a project called nO thiN -g that is combining, amongst other things, traditional
Belly Dancing rhythms with Noisy, Industrial timbres. We just has our first successful improvisational
live show at DEFIANCE in Santa Cruz with Robin Jacobs (founding ex-member of Switchblade Symphony
on guitar) and John Connell, a fantastic multi-ple instrumentalist on distortion bass (and ultimately synthesizer
and vocals). I did all the percussion, drumming, synthesizer, processing, vocals and live looping using a lot
of traditional middleeastern instruments through pitchshifters, distortion boxes, et. al. It was a blast. More to come.
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    Re: Your Top Five Power Noise CDs (including compilations)

    Wed, January 3, 2007 - 5:36 AM
    that sounds rad what you're doing with belly dancing and powernoise.

    as far as combichrist, I don't like them because of their preconceived "fake" powernoise sound. all the hard kicks and tribal stuff doesn't make the sound powernoise. I consider them (as a lot of people do, as on wikipedia) terror ebm which is a combination of a slew of industrial styles and techno styles...but yeah, they have a very general (to me, boring) equation that they stick to in music.

    I love anything by imminent, somantic responses, hypnoskull, converter, W.A.S.T.E., or winterkalte. Try looking those up.
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    • Re: Your Top Five Power Noise CDs (including compilations)

      Wed, January 3, 2007 - 6:52 AM
      thanks for the recommendations. I was beginning to think that there was noone going to respond.

      I don't know, I'm a newbie, but they sure had a rocking great show.
      It's pretty commercial though.

      But then again, I love NIN and I remember when he first began, EVERYONE in Industrial Music hated his guts.
      I could never see it because he was a really good producer and wrote really catchy tunes but who knows.

      Thanks I'll check that stuff out, Nathan!

      Happy New Years.

      Rick
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    Re: Your Top Five Power Noise CDs (including compilations)

    Mon, January 8, 2007 - 4:21 PM
    What awesome responses.


    now to get these bands playing here....-sighsigh-
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      Re: Your Top Five Power Noise CDs (including compilations)

      Mon, January 8, 2007 - 7:09 PM
      well in last year SpinTHIS got here:
      - Synapscape
      - Asche
      - Caustic
      - C/A/T
      - Victo Ecret and Vuxnut (W.A.S.T.E was playing at 5lowershop event couple weeks later with Cacophony)
      - Black Lung
      - Loma Prieta (our local boys!)
      - Cervello Elettronico
      - ENDIF
      - The Operative
      and more...
      so they've made at least 4 good events, including one 3-days colaborative festival in march (www.dark-tekno.com/binaural)
      i hope this year will be even better,
      the problem is that there's not really much people showing up for noise live shows :(...
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      • Re: Your Top Five Power Noise CDs (including compilations)

        Tue, January 9, 2007 - 6:12 PM
        So did you guys locate most of this stuff as Mp3s or as CDs

        and..........................I have some really good compilations of abstract electronica
        (really on the other side of noise, but still very creative and interesting music)
        and I also have my own CDs out of found and invented sounds/live looping,
        abstract electronica and avant garde/experimental vocals.

        Anyone wanna trade me a couple of CD comps with favorite power noize
        in exchange for one or more of these?

        I live off of my artistry which means, I'm low on green a lot of the time so this is enough material that
        I couldn't afford to go out and get it all.

        One last question: what's the best source for this stuff?
        I'd prefer to patronize a locally owned record store in the Bay Area if there is one that carries this stuff but
        I'm also interested in good online resources for this stuff
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    Re: Your Top Five Power Noise CDs (including compilations)

    Sat, February 10, 2007 - 1:59 PM
    Synapscape - So What (best Noize album EVER, in my opinion)
    Dive - First Album
    S.I.N.A. - Snapshot
    Noisex - Over And Out
    Ant-Zen 5 year Anthology - Disc 1

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      Re: Your Top Five Power Noise CDs (including compilations)

      Tue, February 13, 2007 - 2:53 PM
      I want to add:
      Terrorfakt - Teethgrinder
      soooooooooooo yummy!
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        Re: Your Top Five Power Noise CDs (including compilations)

        Fri, February 16, 2007 - 1:57 PM
        We could run around in circles defining "power noise," but I'd wager most people on this Tribe would basically use the term to describe rhythmic, structured, post-industrial, and often vocal-free -- but not quite free-form experimental -- electronic music with distortion and harshness as their main tonal base. (As opposed to Terror EBM, which is more like spooky trance/dance with "evil" [read: "cheesy goth cosplay kid using distortion to sound like an angry goblin with laryngitis"] vocals.)

        Some of the CDs I've been liking that you might enjoy include:

        * Scrap.edx: Recoil the Void - and/or- Collect:Erase (collaboration with Liar's Rosebush)
        * Pneumatic Detach: Viscera -and/or- Re-Viscera (remixes)
        * The Operative: Held Hostage to Skeptical Intelligence -and/or- An Adoring Circle of Radical Calamity
        * Imminent Synapscape: Screenwalking EP
        * V/A: Forms of Hands 06

        On the slightly more techno side, I like Edgey, This Morn' Omina, Speedy J ("A Shocking Hobby"), Censor, Panacea, Venetian Snares, Needle Sharing, old digital hardcore, etc.

        The best labels for this stuff right now seem to be the ones that cross-over between dirty beat-noise and more accessible industrial-dance artists, e.g., Hive Records, Ad Noiseam, Hands, Ant-Zen, Mechanismz, Sistinas, Crunch Pod, and more. There are plenty of other small European labels if you want more pure harshness and hate-fuck-kill noise bands like Genocide Organ, Whitehouse, etc. Hell, with Wolf Eyes on SubPop Records and selling out hipster venues across America, this stuff is practically everywhere. Even the fashion-first nightclub kids are listening to noise -- just go to Das Bunker in Los Angeles and you'll see trendy Hot Topic victims rocking the downstairs dancefloor like they just invented the shit last year.

        Oh, and one more note: If it's on Metropolis Records, it isn't power noise. It's power synthpop, at best.

        Sorry for the long-ass post. I'm new to this Tribe. HELLO!

        JG
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