| Various Artists / District Of Noise Vol. 5 |
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| Album: | District Of Noise Vol. 5 | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Oct 2012 | |
| Label: | Sonic Circuits | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2012-10-14 | Pull Date: | 2012-12-16 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | Dec 16 | Dec 9 | Dec 2 | Nov 25 | Nov 18 | Nov 11 | Nov 4 | Oct 28 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 26, 2013: | Proselytizing Catharsis Suite Of Silence: Smear, Control, Censor | 4. | Dec 06, 2012: | minimum entropy ii Class Warfare Is Confusion, Tenebrae (Excerpt), Game 2 | |
| 2. | Jan 02, 2013: | 2012 Top Classical/Experimental Albums i Suite Of Silence: Smear, Control, Censor | 5. | Dec 05, 2012: | Wednesday Night Live A Likely Story | |
| 3. | Dec 12, 2012: | Catharsis Class Warfare Is Confusion | 6. | Dec 05, 2012: | minimum entropy Beach Blanket Bombscare |
| Album Review |
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| Diego Aguilar-Canabal Reviewed 2012-10-11 | ||
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Sonic Circuits is a Washington DC experimental music collective, and annual festival that is really not coordinated very conveniently with Stanford’s fall quarter (god fucking dammit), but they can sure put together a fine compilation to fill us in on what we’re missing. A lot of avant-garde stuff here, strange and pleasant sounds that would make musical malcontents such as John Cage or Marcel Duchamp green with envy. KZSU’s favorite guitar-cello duo Janel & Anthony appear on separate solo projects here, each with surprising doses of electronic dissonance. Chester Hawkins (Blue Sausage Infant) plays with local friends in the psych-rock trio Catoctin. A lot of noise musicians bring interesting, short pieces that would sound great at The Lab’s Noise Pancake events. (Despite being vegan, those pancakes are quite tasty.) FCC clean 1. (3:58) Amptext: Chaotic cello dissonance 2. (4:05) Anthony Pirog Ensemble: Buzzing, humming drones. Bleating bassoon, jangling windchimes, other randomness. Aimless but intriguing. 3. (3:26) BLK w/Bear: nervous, distant loops of noise with some dark layers of droning guitar 4. (4:03) Boris Bobby Jr: scattered, frantic free-jazz melee, descends into some quiet musings before erupting into chaos again. 5. (4:08) Colla Parte: a bit more restrained free-jazz—some dissonant vibraphone layers, upright bass, and wandering, spirited tenor sax that reminds me of Archie Shepp 6. (4:08)* Fast Forty: looping, nightmarish echoed samples of the phrase “class warfare” ad infinitum. Terrifying, Orwellian, but somehow hilarious. 7. (4:34)** Janel Leppin: really intense suite—buzzing noise, bubbly synth layers, mystical oud-like wanderings, ends on some creepy static whispers. 8. (5:12)** Jeff Carey: BLISTERING HARSH NOISE! The transmitter is broken. Subtle, nuanced—one of the best noise tracks I’ve ever heard. 9. (3:56) Layne Garrett: eerie, distant drone meditations—screeching hiss of scraping symbals; basement cacophony; carvernous Lustmord-esque hums. 10. (4:02) Lost Civilizations Experimental Music Project: frenetic, futuristic free-jazz—skronking while people enjoy Ethiopian food. 11. (3:38) Mercury Fools The Alchemist: underwater static transmissions with some narcotic guitar and cello overdubs 12. (3:10) Slut Walk: slow, sleazy synth modulations with an unintelligible Dick Panthers-esque voiceover. 13. (4:09)* Catoctin: What’s this—a beat? a melody? Woah. Sounds like SF space rockers 3 Leafs playing a very anxious / tense / caffeinated (but still tight, jazzy, percussive) jam. 14. (2:28) Violet: a burst of earshattering noise 15. (3:35) Cory O’Brien: layers of buzzing, windy static. Noisy but restrained. 16. (3:59) TI0741: rumbling, hypnagogic layers of fuzz and synth droning 17. (4:15) Troglobite w/Amma House: slowly crescendoing layers of tape hiss, oscillating feedback, chirping 18. (4:02)* Tag Cloud: plodding, ritualistic dirge of eerie alien synth, gentle entranced hippie tambourine 19. (4:02)* Sansyou: gorgeous guitar arpeggios layered over some slowly emerging Megabats-esque beats and kraut synth hypnotism. | ||
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