Nitzer Ebb
are one of the very few UK based bands that was a part of the 80’s and
90’s front guard Industrial/EBM efflorescence (if you will), which I
find a bit surprising. Nearly all Industrial bands were from North
America or were from Northern or Eastern Europe (Belgium, Germany) and
otherwise skipped the UK entirely. It seems that all of the components
were there but maybe they were too busy latching on to the burgeoning
Manchester acid psychedelic of Happy Mondays and Stone Roses to have
space for anything else. I am sure this is a gross generalization, but
I might not be missing the mark by much. Outside of Nitzer Ebb,
who, I might note, took on a German sounding albeit made-up name, I
can’t conjure up a single UK Industrial/EBM band from the UK. Maybe I
am missing something obvious, and please correct me if I am, I think
this is a pretty interesting observations since I can’t think of any
other genre (even grunge) with so little UK input. Discuss.
Nitzer Ebb have released their first album since
the mid-90s with the 2009 release of "Industrial Complex”. Along with
the album came a tour which I caught on its NYC stop. This is Promise recorded live on Nitzer Ebb’s 2009 tour.
This is the twelfth release in the Trass! MP3-Releases-series of monthly Origami-releases in the Trass! Anarchive-series, and the first to come in 2009 after a long break. TRASS! Anarchives is an Origami Republika sublabel, and Ambolthue has got the pleasure of offering you all these records for free as MP3-releases. All you have to do is download the zip-file and burn your record and print the cover to a piece of red(!!!) paper. Track 3 to 5 were recorded on Klubb Kanin 10 year anniversary, Sound Of Mu, Oslo, Norway. Compiled by Boe A22 for christmas 2008-9. Released: 24.Oct.2009
This is the ninth in the Trass! MP3-Releases-series of monthly Origami-releases in the Trass! Anarchive-series, and the first to come in 2009 after a long break. TRASS! Anarchives is an Origami Republika sublabel, and Ambolthue has got the pleasure of offering you all these records for free as MP3-releases. All you have to do is download the zip-file and burn your record and print the cover to a piece of red(!!!) paper. Pille A147 and Alexander A148. Recorded live at the Hohlrgroth, Zurich, Switzerland, May 18, 1998. Additional noise interferences by Real Origami Replika and B9 A07. From Aborted 10 cassette box, 1998. Released: 25.Jul.2009
This is the third in the Trass! MP3-Releases-series of monthly Origami-releases in the Trass! Anarchive-series in 2008. TRASS! Anarchives is an Origami Republika sublabel, and Ambolthue has got the pleasure of offering you all these records for free as MP3-releases. All you have to do is download the zip-file and burn your record and print the cover to a piece of red(!!!) paper. Live performance by A248 and A249. Avant-Gotlandica, Tapeten, Visby/Sweden, June 11, 2007. Released: 22.Mar.2008
For
the last 25 years, Dan Burke's project Illusion of Safety has charted
the intersection of sound, noise, silence and music using everything
from conventional instruments to field recordings to random
sound-generating objects. To celebrate the big anniversary, Illusion of
Safety will perform a live set on Airborne Event.
[...]''Кен — настоящий, абсолютный дилетант. Мало того, что он не умеет играть
ни на каком инструменте, он даже и не пытается. Он никогда не был
последователем какого-то направления или чьей-то школы, а сам стал
основателем своего стиля DIY-электроники, и основной движущей силой его
творчества всегда было искреннее любопытство, энтузиазм и
непосредственность. В звуковом аспекте его интересует буквально всё,
что способно издавать звук. Кен вспоминает, что на студенческих
вечеринках вместо того, чтобы слушать модную музыку в компании друзей,
он включал один за другим тостеры, чайники, вентиляторы, соковыжималки
и все прочие электроприборы одновременно с радио и телевизором,
настроенными между передающими каналами, и долго слушал весь этот шум,
пока кому-нибудь из хозяев не надоедал нервирующий концерт. То, что
записанный звук может оказывать такое же воздействие, как и
оригинальный, в своё время произвело на него настолько сильное
впечатление, что он бросился записывать всё подряд: точилки для
карандашей, водопроводные трубы, холодильники, сейфы, а иногда даже
попадались электронные устройства, которые активно использовали в
студийной работе его друзья-композиторы Конрад Шнитцлер, Дэвид Майерс,
Скотт Концельман и Алан Марголис.''