― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 11 April 2003 19:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
As far as recorded material goes, I don't listen to either Roggaboggas or Lord Of The Rings Modulator very much. That doesn't mean they're not good; I honestly don't listen to that much pure noise in my leisure time. I'm more of an organic noise kinda guy--I like instruments making noise more than machines. Some of the stuff on LOTRM did make me want to shake my non-existant booty, though.
Brinkman is on tour now with Mindflayer. MAKE SURE YOU GO SEE THEM. They departed last night, and are coming back in a few weeks.
I think Freakzone are punker, and they contain members of Forcefield (and just about every other band related to The Fort, for that matter.) When last they played they broke a toilet, dumped garbaged all over the floor, knocked people over, threw chairs and tables, shot tin cans from a massive canon and got yelled at by a snobby art bitch who works at AS220. The first time they played (if it was the first and if it was the same band; this 'first time' was an un-identified band with the same members less some) they shot off fireworks inside, used spraypaint in a non-ventilated area and lit stuff on fire. All while dressed as a bunny and a crazy scientist with a big block head. That was pretty punk.
― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 11 April 2003 19:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
tried to go see some f.f. videos last weekend here (nyc) at the kreps gallery. maybe it was too late, but it was empty when i got there. mindflayer are playing in long island city this weekend. will for sure check that out. a few months ago i picked up the "f.f. video collection" on vhs at kreps when pleasurehorse played and they showed f.f. videos. they had another vhs tape there that i did not pick up and have cursed myself for not doing so. ben mcoskar was really nice and answered a lot of questions for me there.
i would have to agree with ian, in that i don't listen to f.f. all that often. but, when i'm in the mood they hit the spot. their overall aesthetic (visual and musical) is so cool.
― marcg (marcg), Friday, 11 April 2003 19:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 11 April 2003 19:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
Matt Brinkman's solo work is limited to the Transmittens CD on Vermiform, a split LP with Pleasurehorse and some casettees (I think.) Maybe also some CD-R releases as Meerk Puffy; a split CD-R with Nautical Almanac definitely.
I can't really direct you to a website, unfortunately.. bulbrecords.com and loadrecords.com might have some information. I think there was a page on bostonnoise.com with a Brinkman discography on it, but I think it's old and out-dated.
― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
Will check out Transmittens for sure...
thanks again for the info!
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://thunderrecords.animaldisguise.com/catalog.html
the freakzone ep is listed there. i have a bunch of the real slow radio volumes and they are really great. cool mix cds stuff from (i guess) mostly providence pepople.
― marcg (marcg), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
where can one order this amazing piece of plastic?
― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 11 April 2003 21:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― msp, Friday, 11 April 2003 21:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― banana, Friday, 11 April 2003 21:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
in related news - anyone heard Noxagt?? I loved Kjetil's solo stuff, though I assume this is way different. What does he play in the band? Is the CD worth getting?
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 11 April 2003 21:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
www.heresee.com
i am not sure if this is still in print though...
― marcg (marcg), Friday, 11 April 2003 21:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
ring modulator ----- envelope filter ----- phase shifter | | | distortion | | ---------------------------------------chorus | amplifier or more effects
Instant fun!
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Friday, 16 January 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago) link
Meerk Puffy's LP on Animal Disguise is absolutely amazing. Psychdelic oscillator and thump thump weird stuff. Locked grooves for additional stoned confusion.
― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:21 (twenty years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:44 (twenty years ago) link
forcefield used to just be two people, brinkman and p.lobe--they were, i think, the only ones on the early CDRs. they're definitely the only ones on lord of the ring modulator.
― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:47 (twenty years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Russ, Thursday, 26 February 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago) link
what does Forcefield actually sound like? I tinker with CoolEdit just like the next guy but I don't how to decipher Jon's diagram.
― Shaun (shaun), Thursday, 26 February 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago) link
they sound like muppets in a garage disposal...that is, awesome.
― marcg (marcg), Thursday, 26 February 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago) link
― marcg (marcg), Thursday, 26 February 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 26 February 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.fortthunder.org/music/ff/
There's earlier stuff there and...
http://www.loadrecords.com/bands/forcefield.html
newer stuff there.
― Sir Hiss! a.k.a. Jon Williams in brrrrrrrrrrrRochester! (ex machina), Thursday, 26 February 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago) link
Ian's post now has me researching freakzone.
― Shaun (shaun), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Sir Hiss! a.k.a. Jon Williams in brrrrrrrrrrrRochester! (ex machina), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago) link
― marcg (marcg), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:38 (twenty years ago) link
Oh! There's a Real Slow Radio mp3 here:
http://www.bulbrecords.com/MP3.html
I poked at Armageddon's web site ( http://www.armageddonshop.com/ ) but didn't find any Thunder stuff.
Off Topic: Hey look, spot the ILXer here!http://www.animaldisguise.com/bands.htm
― Sir Hiss! a.k.a. Jon Williams in brrrrrrrrrrrRochester! (ex machina), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:43 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago) link
A live document of a spur-of-the-moment collaboration between NEIL BURKE (MEN'S RECOVERY PROJECT), MR. BRINKMAN (FORCEFIELD and MINDFLAYER), and FAST FORWARD, captured July 7th, 2002 at the Common Ground--Battleboro, Vermont's 30-year-old hippie collective restaurant and bar. Upon arrival at the club the artists discovered no promotion had been done and the house P.A. was locked up in the manager's office--who naturally had left for the night. Subsequently, the performers broke into the office, freed the P.A., and joined forces in a punishing assault of pure noise freakout--delivered with an arsenal of analog sound devices, over-effected guitar, and vocal body slams--performed to a horrified audience of a handful of hippie transients. When life hands you lemons, hippies get hurt.
Pretty fun listen.
― Sir Hiss! a.k.a. Jon Williams in brrrrrrrrrrrRochester! (ex machina), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Sir Hiss! a.k.a. Jon Williams in brrrrrrrrrrrRochester! (ex machina), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:53 (twenty years ago) link
― marcg (marcg), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:59 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:00 (twenty years ago) link
The trick is to make a LINK to his website (or mindflayer or laserbeast) and then click it from the thread. BAMF!
― Sir Hiss! a.k.a. Jon Williams in brrrrrrrrrrrRochester! (ex machina), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Sir Hiss! a.k.a. Jon Williams in brrrrrrrrrrrRochester! (ex machina), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:11 (twenty years ago) link
new haven for berkeley refugees
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:11 (twenty years ago) link
HEY LOOK! IT'S IAN, DAVE AND BALDING JON!http://www.cca.org/dave/images/draper-dave.jpg
― Sir Hiss! a.k.a. Jon Williams in brrrrrrrrrrrRochester! (ex machina), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:16 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:17 (twenty years ago) link
i don't think mindflayer are touring anytime soon! if they are, i haven't heard about it.
since i posted about cdrs with rekkid grooves, i got the nautical 'we want war' tour cdr which is like that. it's crazzzzy.
― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Sir Hiss! a.k.a. Jon Williams in brrrrrrrrrrrRochester! (ex machina), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:17 (twenty years ago) link
are you EVER going to get your computer back?
re: KRAP- i am ripping this now for Nate. It's a pretty good record, but in general I'd rather listen to Brinkman's solo stuff, as I'm not a big fan of Neil Burke (as either Sinking Body or Man's Recovery Project) or Fast Forward. I think this was recorded during that short tour the three of them did around the time of Tin Can Full of Dreams--they all three played in Providence after the fest one day, and I think left on tour? dave correct me if i'm wrong, pls.
― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Sir Hiss! a.k.a. Jon Williams in brrrrrrrrrrrRochester! (ex machina), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:35 (twenty years ago) link
^ forcefield has gone off in new directions
― BICICLETA EMOCIONAL!!! (Jon Williams) (ex machina), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:49 (twenty years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 7 May 2004 01:57 (twenty years ago) link
Or a drunkenly scrawled straight-edge X?
― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Friday, 7 May 2004 02:08 (twenty years ago) link
the mindflayer reissue... eh. that one isn't as good as the one on Bulb, it's true.
forcefield are still the punkest band eva.
― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 7 May 2004 02:35 (twenty years ago) link
whoa!
― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link
I just picked this up for $3. Supposedly it is Matt Brinkman attacking the Wolf Eyes discography. Track 3 is perhaps the most brutal remix I have ever heard. Let me set the scene for you:
It is 800 AD. You are a druid on a misty moor. A UFO touches down during your pagan ritual, and the aliens mind meld you to teach you the secrets of advanced civilization. Your brain is full of terrible scorching magnesium lights. Magnetic lines are burned into the earth. The ground is scorched by radiation. The Elder Gods do not relent in filling your primitive mind with their secrets. Their spaceship hums.
― Holy Crap! Typhoon is Coming!!! :O (ex machina), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 2 June 2005 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link