something a little different...

If you haven't noticed (and I'm pretty sure I get zero traffic, so... you haven't, because you're not reading this), I try to post once a week, on Sundays.
This week, though, I'm going to do what this post's title says. I resurrected my five-and-a-half-years-dormant noise project and made a new four-minute EP... and then I decided to jump on the bandcamp bandwagon (or bandcampwagon, if you will). So, instead of uploading a rip from a tape in my modest collection, I instead offer a free EP of my own creation, which you can download here: http://oskoreinoiseindustries.bandcamp.com/

A little background... Earlier today, I sat down to listen to a bunch of new tapes I just got from SAORS, and rip them to mp3. First up, a split tape between Ecuador noisecore band Cacasonica and Fonograma Trapek, who I know nothing about. The Cacasonica side was great, I prefer the split CDrs I have of them with Colico and Captain Three Leg but this is still good stuff. Then I flipped the tape over for FT, who I've never heard of before. About ten seconds in, my shitty twenty-buck boombox decides to chew up the tape. To get the tape back out, I had to rip the door off the boombox, rendering it useless.

I started listening to a wrestling podcast, then after a couple of minutes I decided to also rip apart my now-useless boombox with a pair of pliers because I'm mature like that... and, somewhat influenced by Frank Goshit I decided, hey, why not use Audacity to document the process. About an hour (and one gashed finger) later, I have a binbag full of broken pieces of plastic and sixty-two minutes of too-minimalist-to-be-fun noise (and feedback, since I had Audacity set to play what it was recording and my laptop mic was picking that up as well as the noise I was making). I split the recording into sixteen parts of about four minutes each and put them all on top of each other, and now it's dense enough to be interesting for me to listen to... though I am a little disappointed with how normal the handheld vacuum cleaner I used to clean all the little pieces off my bed sounds...

 

I guess this kind of noise might be frowned upon by the art noise scene who actually know what they're doing, it might be more appropriately labeled shitnoise perhaps... but fuck it, I don't listen to noise so I can sit here and try to work out what effects pedals the dude's using, or which fancy computer software the sounds have been fed through. This is primitive, but it's a genuine aural documentation of destruction. Whatever. If anybody actually does download it, I hope you like it enough to keep the file and not just delete it.