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Burning Star Primary is the task of C. Spencer Yeh, a Cincinnati, OH-based composer/multi-instrumentalist with the capacity of conjuring ominous drones from his violin or subtler digital textures. Yeh, also an associate of Loss of life Beam as well as the Gordy Brothers, started Burning Star Primary in 1993. He …

Sunroof! was the new-millennium guise of U.K. guitarist Matthew Bower, a longtime veteran from the experimental noise-rock picture. Bower had started his career having a short-lived music group known as Pure, which mutated into Total in 1982; five years later on, Total transformed in to the prolific Skullflower, which demonstrated …

After departing Vibracathedral Orchestra in 2006, veteran Uk experimental musician Neil Campbell centered on Astral Sociable Golf club, an outlet for his solo and small group recordings and performances that melded throbbing, intense techno beats with dense, overwhelming tapestries of psychedelic noise. Campbell constructs his confounding, manic collages with a …

Swedish experimental post-punk group the Skull Defekts shaped in 2005. Clamorous and atonal in character, the initial lineup presented Daniel Fagerström, Henrik Rylander, Jean-Louis Huhta, and Joachim Nordwall for 2007’s Bloodstream Spirits & Drums Are Performing and 2009’s The Temple. In 2011, previous Lungfish vocalist Daniel Higgs was brought in …

Electro-noise duo the Yellowish Swans created in Portland, OR, in 2001, using the intention of combining punk’s confrontational stance using the aggressively digital audio of glitch. Like a great many other sound performers, Peter Swanson and Gabriel Mindel Saloman self-released many CD-Rs and cassettes of the music, in addition to …

British isles avant-garde collective Vibracathedral Orchestra was shaped in 1998 by Julian Bradley, Neil Campbell, Bridget Hayden, Adam Davenport, and Michael Flower. The group’s visual is dependant on long-form drones arriving straight from the ’60s custom of Eastern-inspired rock and roll and folk music, exemplified within the musings of obscure …

From a bedroom within a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand, Birchville Cat Motel issues forth a reliable blast of albums of alternately ghostly and aggressive drone-heavy sound rock and roll. The alter ego of guitarist, songwriter, and manufacturer Campbell Kneale, Birchville Kitty Motel is comparable to fellow D.We.Y. space rock …

Hailed as sonic groundbreakers or derided as alienating and pretentious, Brooklyn’s Black colored Dice force the limits of hardcore and noise rock and roll. Acquiring their cues from Melt Banana, Merzbow, and Harry Pussy, Dark Dice fixate on several records per “melody” and concentrate on producing a audio that’s as …