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William Hooker + DJ Olive + Z’ev + Somebody + Crib at Spaceland
Los Angeles, California Saturday, August 17, 1996 Crib consisted of one man on solo electric bass who let another haze of dark, pulsing minimal drone slowly spray out in all directions. Very nice.…
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Sonic Boom + Further + Kitten Sparkles at Spaceland
Los Angeles, California Friday, August 16, 1996 Kitten Sparkles is the new solo noise project of Don Bolles (Germs, 45 Grave, Celebrity Skin, Three Day Stubble). Employing shortwave radios and electronics, he maintained…
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John Fahey + Gastr del Sol + Smog at Spaceland
Los Angeles, California Friday, August 2, 1996 Jim O’Rourke and David Grubbs of Gastr del Sol. Photo by Rich Jacobs. This was an acoustic guitarathon to end all “athons.” Smog was melancholy and…
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Borbetomagus at Jabberjaw and Glaxa
Los Angeles, California Saturday, June 8 and Sunday, June 9, 1996 Borbetomagus is a free-floating, amorphous blob of extremely loud sound that swirls around other dimensions and occasionally gushes out into the realm…
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AMM at The Ivar Theatre
Los Angeles, California Wednesday, April 24, 1996 Audience members scope Keith Rowe’s guitar. Photo by Pat D. AMM is a British free improvisation group that has been operating since 1965, when they pretty…
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Anna Homler + Steve Peters + Steve Roden at The Wikiup Cafe
San Diego, California Thursday, February 1, 1996 Steve Peters laid down some slowly evolving, austere electronic soundlands with occasional chanting and singing while Anna sang in “tongues” and manipulated many “found” (searched for?)…
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The Electronic Poems
For 60 years now, avant-garde composers and musical outsiders alike have tried to flex your head—electronically. Iannis Xenakis. In the middle of the 20th Century, a small handful of avant-garde classical composers crumpled…
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Keiji Haino + Fushitsusha
Fushitsusha at the Table of the Elements Yttrium Festival in Chicago, Illinois, November 1996. Hmm, I didn’t know that anyone was allowed to construct an entire sound-realm of their very own that is…
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A Glance at 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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Rich Jacobs Interview
Rich Jacobs at the Move 2 art show opening at New Image Art in Los Angeles, California, 1998. Photo by Pat D. What do you lust for? Wow. Maybe nothing or something simple…
