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White Noise – An Electric Storm
Founded in London, England in 1968, White Noise was initially an experimental electronic music trio comprised of Delia Derbyshire (a sound technician at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop who was best known for arranging…
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The Music of Tony Conrad
Tony Conrad and Alex Gelencser, 1998. The early bird, I mean minimalist catches, I mean gets the worm, I mean word in edgewise–or actually a lot of words in every direction–all over the…
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The Crazy People – Bedlam
Rumor has it that the album Bedlam by the Crazy People was actually the brainchild of one person: American jazz trumpeter, producer, and musical entrepreneur Johnny Kitchen (real name Jack Millman), who assembled…
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Michael Yonkers Band – Microminiature Love
Minnesota son Michael Yonkers started rocking in the early 1960s and, despite a seriously debilitating back injury incurred in 1971, continued on for decades. After a mid-’60s stint with his first, more traditional…
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Sandy Bull – Inventions
Recorded in 1964, Inventions by the American folk musician Sandy Bull (1941-2001) is simply one of my all-time favorite albums of instrumental string music. On this first CD edition released in 1995, the…
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Einsturzende Neubauten
Exploding out of West Berlin, Germany in 1980, Einsturzende Neubauten’s unique approach to apocalyptic noise made them one of the most important and impressive industrial bands of the 1980s. In contrast to their…
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Arcane Candy’s 2021 Favorite Releases
(In alphabetical order by artist name.) New Releases • Natik Awayez – Manbarani LP (Sublime Frequencies) • Dagara – Gyil Music Of Ghana’s Upper West Region LP (Sublime Frequencies) • Mien (Yao) –…
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Theoretical Girls
Heaved up from a filthy gutter inside the incredibly fertile New York City art and music scene of the 1970s, the Theoretical Girls–one of the best-named outfits ever–hurt the feelings of at least…
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Throbbing Gristle
Noise. Do you consider it music? If not, can it at least be part of music? No? Then does noise have your permission to even exist? Stop shaking your head. Just kidding. Noise…
