Best Underground American Noise Act of the Noise-Punk Era (ca. 1998-2005)

Thanks! I totally forgot about Neptune and their scrap guitars...

thanks whiney

this compilation is great, kudos to whiney for putting this together. it's wild to revisit some of this stuff again and seeing it historicised and especially remembering all the live gigs genuinely makes my heart ache. it's interesting to see how it seemed stateside as I only saw some of these bands play in the UK, where fitted alongside stuff like vibracathedral orchestra, all the noisey Sheffield/leeds/Manchester bands. there was a proper scene for it in a way I haven’t really seen since and yeah some of those ATPs were amazing

Yeah, this whole scene was a pretty huge part of my life for a good chunk of it. A historically interesting time, truly a one-of-a-kind moment that I feel very lucky to have been involved in. So yeah, thanks Whiney.

atp nightmare before christmas 2k6 4 liiiiiiiife

^Yep - also the Instal and Subcurrent festivals in Glasgow (later was David Keenan's noisefest, featured all the usual suspects like Wolf Eyes, Prurient, Hototogisu, Double Leopards, Mouthus etc etc)

latter

AMAZING!

I totally ignored this stuff while it was happening (mostly because I found the scene too impenetrable/daunting) so this is pretty interesting to dive into with next to no context.

irl lol @ "You Cannot Do This Out Here"

I bought that CD just to make the mix since i didn't think the Killball record was really representative of what FF "meant"

just prior to this I was listening to a bunch of late 80s/early 90s indie/punk/underground stuff and thinking how interesting it was to have these scenes that were completely antithetical and hermetically sealed off from mainstream musical tropes, just really unrelated to anything you would hear on any radio station or TV show. And this stuff feels like an extension of that ethos. the general sonic unpredictability of it seems like its major virtue.

damn i cant believe i was only one of 2 that voted j weise

Surprised Prurient didn't place higher.

thanx for making these whiney

this whole thing feels sort east coast to me though... although i guess most of the west coast stuff im thinking of / listening to ca this time is what your calling 'arthur mag' stuff. still wld be cool for someone to chronicle/memorialize some of that stuff as well

Lamp otm.

I totally ignored this stuff while it was happening (mostly because I found the scene too impenetrable/daunting) so this is pretty interesting to dive into with next to no context.

irl lol @ "You Cannot Do This Out Here"

― Οὖτις, Friday, March 4, 2016 12:59 PM (40 minutes ago)

you were an sfindie bro weren't you? the action was happening on spockmorgue iirc

oh I saw some shows and was tangentially aware of various people (lol Filthmilk) and I've always kept a toe in various experimental scenes and subscenes but a lot of this stuff felt very aggro/east coast and just kind of... why would I buy a record of this, y'know? idk this was happening at a time where I was def not feeling a lot of contemporary scenes and was digging more into older shit, just tons of stuff from the 70s mainly. The noise scene seemed like a real headache to keep track of.

i think that dude is getting kicked out of his space. He once backed into my bandmate's car. For a while he was doing noise shows in Potrero park, which were fun.

cops shut down the one show we tried to do at Potrero park, man that was a disaster. shouldn't have publicized it.

SFPD stopped us from setting up, brought along like 6 cars full of cops - 2 weeks later they sent a bill for $3,500 in overtime charges demanding that we pay it. fucking leeches.

(we did not pay it)

I tried to get deeper into SF stuff (Hospitals, KIT, Numbers, Spacek), because this was a problem with the poll from jump, but if Lamp and sarahel want to tell me who i'm forgetting, I'm all ears

we had this discussion upthread, where you pretty much dismissed most of the relevant Bay Area acts as "too rock"

lol

There was also a whole Chicago/Midwest scene that is somewhat included in this poll

we had this discussion upthread, where you pretty much dismissed most of the relevant Bay Area acts as "too rock"

― sarahell, Friday, March 4, 2016 5:15 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The bands you mentioned — Burmese and Total Shutdown and Mae Shi — are all on here!

I won't deny that I do have an East Coast bias tho, because that's where I was at!

Yeah Pink and Brown/Burmese/Total Shutdown/XBXRX/USAisaMonster were too "rock band" for the poll,

― posts baloney - whine iverson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, September 23, 2015 2:45 PM (5 months ago)

Literally every last one of those bands are represented on the mix

sorry, didn't listen.

did anyone ever see Doomsday Student before they broke up too? mems of Arab on Radar... i missed out

xp

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they were great!!! The best of the three post-Arab on Radar bands I've seen. They played with Retox (ex-The Locust).

xp - l-r: me, you

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plowing through disc 3 starting to feel like I need a break.

Fathers Day's "I Have So Much Respect For Women" oddly appropriate these days

also non-retro, also immune to being licensed and used in marketing/ad industry

― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, September 23, 2015 2:43 PM (4 minutes ago)

Tylenols Ouch campaign

Ouch campaign was a real pioneer in what would basically be how the music industry worked from 2005 to present

Just blasting these bands all day. This is rapidly becoming my nostalgic happy place :O

as much shit as i gave you on this thread, thanks for yr mix.

axolotl was rly good

Can anyone Leonardo those Whiney mixes, pretty pls?

Guerilla Toss and Horse Lords are the only bands I can think of that formed after 2010 that belong in this class. I really miss the abundance of insanely great experimental/noise acts in the 00's.

I would also shout out
Divorce: https://divorce.bandcamp.com/album/divorce-2
White Suns: https://whitesuns.bandcamp.com/album/sinews
Palberta: https://palbertapalberta.bandcamp.com/album/bye-bye-berta

But, yeah, pickings are slim these days

My wife loved yr mixtapes btw whiney

:)

i know they were excluded from this poll but i just found this video of Arab on Radar playing in a boxing ring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOfduAP8E8M

I really miss the abundance of insanely great experimental/noise acts in the 00's.

― flappy bird, Monday, June 19, 2017 5:40 PM (three hours ago)

they miss themselves too -- now everyone's older and is having kids and merch sales doesn't offset the cost of touring the way it used to, and now it's all about darkwave and minimal wave and live PAs

yeah it sucks

now it's all about darkwave and minimal wave and live PAs

painfully otm

dj martian always knew he would be vindicated in time