Where to start with... NOISE
I realise this may be a bit of a loose category, so let me try and explain.
I think I like "noisy" stuff. That is to say, I listen to a lot of instrumental stuff, and shoegazey stuff, and lo-i bits and pieces -(eg, Fuck Buttons, 65days, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Crystal Castles, Sleigh Bells, Pains of Being Pure at Heart) but I guess none of these would be really classed as "noise" to a fan.
So where should I begin with going a bit deeper into the world of noise and experimental music? Spotify/youtube/myspace links would be lovely, ta.
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it depends i suppose
if you want really noisy analogy stuff - in which case go for some merzbow - i am liking his thirteen birds albums which are a bit less brutal than some of his stuff can be.
if you want more loud guitary stuff - i cannot reccomend sunn o))) enough - or early Boris...amplifier worship is really good.
Links
http://www.myspace.com/stephenomalley
merzbow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfKVzINik5Q
boris: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCJq0CTCoyE
For more ambient experimental stuff check out philip jeck and fennesz and early growing...
more links
philip jeck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NRihiAcgHY
fennesz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4jzMEDT6LU
growing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-T_Fu5yFBk
with free grouper: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWSVE198yGw
Cheers, I have Pink by Boris, which I like.
I was surprised that a lot of it seemed fairly traditional kind of bluesy-metal though. Is their other stuff different, or am I underestimating it?
There are two Boris' variants
They're the same band but do different styles
BORIS (Pink, Heavy Rocks, Smile etc) who pursue a more heavy sabbathian sound.
and boris (At last...Feedbacker, Dronevil etc) who do more droney noisey stuff. Amplifier Worship sits somewhere between the two as far as I can tell.
their first couple of albums
are all heavy droney noise. it think BORIS are more experimental while boris are more garagey rock (which most of their more recent stuff has been...). at last...feedbacker being a good one to check out and amplifier worshipper and absolutego
i also forgot - Godflesh and jesu - both of who are amazing.
Everyone forgets Jesu.
...
http://www.youtube.com/user/openyourskull
i'm not the best person to talk because i don't go that often myself
but i think if you live in london...then might be an idea to get yourself down to one of those^ sorts of gigs, see some of this stuff live
Skullflower
Always Skullflower. They're just the daddy of noise for me right now. Orange Canyon Mind is fucking gorgeous, get that. IIIrd Gatekeeper is another classic release. Or if you're after something more brutal, try Malediction.
Burning Star Core are also brilliant, get Challenger.
Been listening to some Ascension recently.
who are a side-project of Stefan Jaworzyn from Skullflower and that's pretty amazing stuff too.
Should probably say
more of a post-Skullflower project, than a side
well I wouldn't say I knew much at all about noise
I really am not an expert at all... maybe some distinction should be made between noise, drone, free jazzish improvy stuff, metallish and so on ..... but I'm, not gonna.
but maybe it would be best to listen to stuff that is more song based first? I dunno, try any early Dead C album, eg Trapdoor fucking Exit, Harsh 70s reality, The Whitehouse, or Tusk. all good, a lot of their stuff takes the form of Sonic Youth's Expressway to Yr Skull (i.e. song then extended noisy/droney bit at the end). yeah, I dunno
also, Yellow Swans new one is apparently good, Going Places. um, most people would recommend Merzbow, but since he has 300 albums, I would probably start elsewhere. maybe go for Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music? the first Nurse with Wound album is pretty amazing. also, those crazy Japs Mainliner make some great noisy psyche rock. Mellow Out especially.
some random clips
Lou Reed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr0KkzbbqPI
Dead C:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QVelULWPFY
Harry Pussy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpymIiouhnw&feature=related
Sun City Girls:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o_dPNOy0QY
Nurse with Wound:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YTUfUe49Cg
I was hoping you'd suggest something!
Well,
more like saying buy a Beatles album
my favourite noisey band of the moment
GOBBLE GOBBLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGzVQBUZc_E
can get loads of there stuff for free at
http://gobblegbl.tumblr.com/
house...what?
it is kind of hard electro-house....
admittedly noisy hard electro-house but definitely not noise. interesting listen though. :)
i fully admit its not noise..
i said it because i think it fits pretty well between the posters mentions of crystal castles and sleigh bells, but i definitely argue against house, pixies cover or not - hard electro indie maybe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO7JLYuwQyY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56l5NXWWcHk
although they do a nice sideline in touching olafur arnalds style piano. House to me is DJ misha and Tim unless were talking about the medical drama, in which case 'vasculitus'
when people talk about electro though what they generally mean is electro-house
electro itself is historically something completely different
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSpS3xhS14c
tbh, i listen to quite a bit of house and i don't know who misha and tim tbh.
that seems to me an indier version of this sort of thing i guess
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUf459p5i-A yeh it works as a crystal castles-like recommendation though and those ones you posted are better actually. i kinda like that first one.
so anyway, there's not much of a discussion left really. you think it's good. i think it's alright. we both know it's not noise...agree to disagree? (altho i'm not even sure on what)
sorry i was going old school
DJ misjha and DJ tim - access - just the one house tune i can remember from the 90s when i did the occasional spot of clubbing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o4joooH5tg
it's all good, easy
:)
(http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/gerogerigegege/senzuri_power_up/gerogerigegege-senzuri_power_up-02-anal_beethoven_2.mp3)
Horse Vomit
a group called "Belong
oops. prematurely pressed enter
a group called belong does instrumental stuff. basically just waves of distortion, but has an ethereal melodic quality to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix_vfMSb-Tk&feature=related
As well as Godflesh and Jesu...
loads of the other Broadrick related stuff is pretty noise (although along with those above I don't entirely "get" where that phrase begins and ends)...
Curse of the Golden Vampire - Mass Destruction album is noisiest one
White Static Demon - nuff said
Final - kinda v dark ambient stuff
Techno Animal - changed over time from loads of looped stuff to really heavy rap stuff a la Dalek
God
Ice
Greymachine
blah...
Youd probably really like
Isis as well - check out oceanic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH_0SwBP9AY
get metalmachinemusic by lou reed
he pretty much invented it. but it does totally suck
He only invented in, in as far as
Merzbow has been completely inspired by his Metal Machine Music.
If you want to talk about the people who invented noise as/in music you need to take it a few decades further back to the Futurists, especially Luigi Russolo and his Intona Rumori. None of the actual instruments were saved through history because of the fascists, but read this http://www.ubu.com/historical/gb/russolo_noise.pdf
i know they're not originals in any way but the linked recordings on the same site are pretty interesting too
http://www.ubu.com/sound/russolo_l.html
Fascists trashed the instruments???
Really? I never knew this.
As far as I was aware the Futurists provided the cultural foundation for Italian Fascism and the movements artistic exploits were heavily funded by the fascist state
As far as I'm aware - i'll look up references in the morning.
you're right initially, they were lots of links between the two but as they moved in the 1930s Italy adopted German Fascism's ideas of 'degenerate art' etc. and condemned the Futurist people they'd initially supported.
I think that Russolo at that point moved to Paris where his instruments were destroyed by the Germans or Italians but by the general bombing of Paris, rather than them specifically smashing them up for cultural reasons...
this is just vague memories of something i read a while back so could be wrong though.
You guys are right
The Futurists liked war and violence because of its noise and visceral images and they were fiercely patriottic about Italian territory.
Can't seem to find who the bombers in Paris were though, allied or German?
No
he didn't
Kevin Drumm.
At the moment most the noise I'm really enjoying is the hybrid black metal stuff
I absolutely reccomend Dutch one man group Gnaw Their Tongues http://gnawtheirtongues.blogspot.com/ , as well as Menace Ruine http://www.myspace.com/menaceruine , Gnaw http://www.myspace.com/gnaw666 and Burial Hex http://www.myspace.com/burialhex
I also fully recommend Nadja, if you like the heavy droney guitar driven stuff http://www.myspace.com/nadjaluv
i've been recently discovering those first few
and a very enjoyable discovery it's been.
Love Gnaw
Khanate affiliated aren't they? I really need to check out Khanate...
Burial Hex was great when I saw him live.
Same singer if I remember right.
Great album. I'll be seeing them at Supersonic next month - very exciting. The Khanate albums (the last two or three anyway) are a good bit 'more' minimalist. Should try KTL as well - Stephen O'Malley and Peter Rehberg doing ambient dronescapes - very nice.
yeah, Gnaw is Alan Dubin's project and he 'sung' for Khanate
Gnaw's album was one of my favourite things released last year, seemed to be pretty underrated. I really liked the complex layers of noise and the surprsingly catchy drum grooves. Looking forward to seeing them at Supersonic as well!
5 must-hears
Fennesz - Black Sea
Pan Sonic - Gravitoni
The Fun Years - Baby, It's Cold Inside
Xela - The Dead Sea
Zelienople - Give It Up
Last two can be heard on Type Records' SoundCloud page; can't be bothered looking for links right now!
Oh yeah Ben Frost
By the Throat
surprised no one else beat me to this...
Shit, forgot about that
Utterly terrifying, borderline traumatising in places.
^one of the best albums ever made.
slightly more extreme than the Pains Of Being Pure At Heart but still good :P
It was you I was thinking about with my comment...
even though this isn't an archetypal 'first noise' in the way something by Merzbow might be
i can see it being a good shout because it's a pretty accessible mix of some elements and attitutudes of noise with ambient and modern classical-esque composition...
might be a good way-in. might not be. idk.
*'first noise record' that should say.
His Theory of Machines album is also well worth a listen
possibly a bit better. IMO.
Oh yes, Ben Frost
and as with most noise artists, even better heard live than on album
Kylie Minoise
And I'll reiterate these ones, in capitals:
SKULLFLOWER
HARRY PUSSY
DEAD C
You should also listen to Naked Shit.
I like Nackt Insecten of the Scottish types
there is a Nackt Insecten vs Kylie Minoise LP too. EXCITING
I HAVENT HEARD IT
For noise-rock
you need Skullflower (start with IIIrd Gatekeeper) and Dead C (there's an excellent 2CD best-of called Vain, Erudite and Stupid).
Also check out Fushitsusha - massive slabs of molten rock with plenty of feedback. Their leader, Keiji Haino, has a bunch of solo releases too, as well as collaborations with the likes of Merzbow, Boris, etc etc.
And for drone, you can't go wrong with the mighty Earth II.
definitely Fushitsusha
maybe Mainliner too.
isn't the kind of Velvet Underground & Nico or what-have-you of noise
Merzbow's 1930...? not *that* 'difficult' either
there's a lot of free noise here (and in lots of other places)
http://www.archive.org/details/CD1 as a tribute to MSBR, who is great himself. also been relistening to Emil Beaulieau recently and some old Harry Pussy stuff down the noise-rock line.
i would say wolf eyes
but i don't think noise fans like them. but they are good.
i once saw a band called white mice. they were more a bit more noise rock then straight up noise, but they were very good.
yeah they do
Burned Mind is an excellent record.
40 seconds of creeping, creaking near silence on the first track?
It slays
<3 White Mice.
Bunch of utter mentalists, with some sick sounds.
I'm late to the thread and everythings already been sad :(
but what the hell on my list would be:
The Dead C - Top dawgs, nothing beats this, though maybe more Noise-Rock
Gate - Michael Morley from the Dead C making similarish stuff some say better, now gone more beaty
Skullflower - Don Juans of the Uk scene, I still reel from seing them live in St Giles
Kevin Drumm
Yellow Swans
Pete Swanson - One of the dudes from Yellow Swans, just released two LPs on his private press, gorgeous as usual
Fennesz
Belong
Tim Hecker - the last three are definitely more droney ambienty washes of noise but still up there in my idea of noise.
for pure (mostly) fucked
abstract noise
try
Daniel mensche (cataract is a winner)
Hototogisu
Lasse Marhaug
Birchville cat motel
John wiese (circle snare especially)
There's a load of noise out there but tons of it is balls.
Cheers, everyone, lots of stuff here to try out.
Skullflowers and Yellow Swans both getting several mentions, I'll definitely give them a spin.
YOU ARE RIGHT TO DO SO WITH BOTH OF THOSE
BURNING STAR CORE TOO. ESPECIALLY 'OPERATOR DEAD, POST ABANDONED'
Ashtray Navigations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eJywEZ-KY0
I was at that gig
exciting news
If we're moving towards the Drone end of things
Ashtray/Skullflower compardres Vibracathedral Orchestra rule the roost.
Astral Social Club as well.
believe Campbell's a Diser too! :)
This lot ought to slap you all around the fucking room, if you have them LOUD:-
Sutcliffe Jugend - when pornography is no longer enough
Whitehouse - asceticists 2006, mummy and daddy
KK Null - extasy of zero-g sex, oxygen flash
Prurient - the black post society
Skullflower - taste the blood of the deceiver
Dror Feiler & Lasse Marhaug - no more drama
Carlos Giffoni - arrogance
Absolut Null Punkt - metacompound
Pita - get off
SPK - information overload unit
Sister Iodine - flame desastre
John Wiese - soft punk
Various Artists - extreme music from japan
Sutcliffe Jugend!!!
and all the rest get exclamation marks as well, even the ones I don't know: Pita, Carlos Giffoni, Sister Iodine and John Wiese. I'll be sure to check them out
all the Pita stuff is pretty incredible. altho some of his stuff is more minimal electronica-based things
John Wiese is amazing as well. bought a beautiful droney split he did with Daniel Menche the other day.
playing london in a few months as well: http://www.last.fm/festival/1568850+The+Lowest+Form+of+Music:+The+Los+Angeles+Free+Music+Society+in+London
for me it's his Sissy Spacek material which is the best though...
I can't listen to Sutcliffe Jugend without grinning ear to ear.
It's so fucking silly. Especially live.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsDQ9jSpmII
1:18 in especially made me almost burst into laughter when I was at this gig. Also the album 'The Victim as Beauty'.
a few great records
Hospitals- Hairdryer Peace
Wolf Eyes- Dread
Burning Star Core- The Very Heart of the World
Psychic Paramount- Gamelan Into the Mink Supernatural
Yesyesyes to 'Dread' and 'Gamelan...'
Hairdryer Peace is incredible.
no-one mentioned Haswell & Hecker yet so I might as well
Acid in the Style of David Tudor and Wild Tracks are both great records from last year...and were part of my post-Merzbow introduction to noise/power electronics
Judging from MBV fan reactions to this
you may not like noise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGql2BaRPS4&feature=related
holy shit.
that was really great.
cheers.
no one's mentioned HEALTH?
Or is it too obvious?
At any rate, being someone whose shares the tastes of the OP, I'd say that HEALTH's Get Color would be a perfect entree to the land of noise.
No way.
Self-titled is one of the noisiest albums I've ever heard. It's just fucking tribal drumming and guitars that sound as though they're being gutted alive.
does anyone fancy making a mixtape of good stuff and chucking it up online
like a primer for us noobs?
that would be ace!
I have nothing better to do so may play around with one now.
A lot of it would have been mentioned above anyway though.
Some of it's a bit silly, missing a lot of acts and it's pretty obvious but still....
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U95WVV22
cheers!
we download this later!
Cheers for doing this
I realise your post's a few days old but would you kindly re-upload? 'The file is temporarily unavailable'.
Can I recommend Pyramids With Nadja?
It's got elements of rock/noise and pure naked emotion. Close your eyes and listen on headphones in the dark- you'll see whole other worlds in the little sonic touches and motifs.
It's got a good mix between nice, melodic shoegazing, pianos and mad, pummeling drum machines, and almost full-on, distorted noise. Somehow, although pieces go on for 20 minutes but unravel in a perfectly natural way despite having seemingly no structure.
If we're talking 'noise' like a journey via pure sound without typical 'song'-like elements, this will make you very happy.
It's free to stream at: http://pyramidswithnadja.com/
Just adding to the already fine recommendations on this thread. ; )
The Sub Rosa compilations!
You could do a LOT worse than check out the Sub Rosa, Anthology Of Noise & Experimental Music compilations. Not only are they exceptional they also give a far better history of noise music than you're likely to get from this thread,
There's loads of different possible histories of noise music
Which is one of the points of the Sub Rose compilations in my mind. Distilling a history of noise from this thread might be very interesting indeed
I'm struggling to suggest something useful to you
it would just be random suggestions and I don't know if you will like them.
Asking for suggestions for good 'noise' records is like asking people for good examples of 'music'.
If you mean 'noise' as a constructed genre however, that has gained currency in the last 30 years; then it's much easier to recommend something because answering this question is like suggesting a ‘good grunge album'. Within this genre- noise IS NOT MUSIC. Therefore, most of the suggestions in this thread have nothing to do with this rather narrow genre as they are mostly based on traditional musical compositions (no mater how atonal, it’s still music).
If you actually mean 'noisy music', I’d go through the influences of the bands that you cited in your original post: if you look at MBV you will discover ‘noisy’ garage bands like the Sonics and countless psych-noisy bands that have influenced Merzbow a bit too. If that’s what you mean then the random suggestions made above might help.
"Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise" (Jacques Attali)
Awesome thread!
It’s already pretty comprehensive for a newcomer, there’s days worth of stuff here! Off the top of my head, here are a few that haven’t been mentioned that I think are worth pursuing, because I’ve had albums in my top 10 end of year lists
Lietterschpich:
Israeli 8-piece made a really progressive rewiring of noise circuitry with ‘I Cum Blood in the Think Tank’ – embodied all the sexual debasement end of the spectrum whilst holding up some really detailed and abrasive narratives. Disbanded after that album I think, maybe one after, but I’m not sure.
http://www.myspace.com/doomdub
Grey Wolves:
Some people don’t like their fascist imagery, but they’re a very politically antagonistic noise group and it goes with it – not White Power Electronics. They’re responsible for the massively aggressive Death Industrial genre and make crushingly bleak dark ambient. I like album ‘Catholic Priests Fuck Children’ the best, not just because of the title!
http://www.myspace.com/greywolvesexit
WOLD:
A kind of ultimate transcendental black metal noise crossover, in a different way to the Skullflower BM/Noise stuff. No links for anything anywhere. They played their first ever gig in New York the other week – and it was free. Why don’t I live in New York.
Blood Stereo
Dylan Nyoukis (of Chocolate Monk label) and Karen Constance husband & wife band. Brighton based sludge lunks and feral art freaks, Wire regulars and Colour Out of Space curators. Can’t have a noise thread without mentioning these freaks. Following this link will drop you into a pretty awesome world of noise not mentioned here:
http://www.myspace.com/bloodstereo
Atari Teenage Riot Live at Brixton, December 1999
digital hardcore filtered through a wall of sheer hellish noise.
I forgot about that earlier, but it;s one of my favourite cds of all time - album, live recording or otherwise. Such a subtle but significant shift in sound. Harrowing.
Question
So how exactly do noise fans differentiate between good noise and bad noise? What marks out their favourites from someone who is shit? I am curious.
Good noise is always on nicely packaged vinyl.
For me, you could do worse than buy up the complete back-catologue of Turgid Animal Records / Mutant Ape. Always reliably sick - the put out an astonishing amount of harsh-electonica, drone and nasty black metal:
http://www.mutant-ape.co.uk/
oh my god
the White Medal tape on Turgid Animal. ESSENTIAL BLACK METAL!!!
thassa bit of a non-question
what makes any music better that another.
It fuckin bites your soul hard.
Whether it was a super limited edition of 50 one-sized 10" sold out in 16 minutes of announcement or not
And whether the artist is 'sincere' in their use of swastikas/autopsy photos on the cover or not.
:)
Yeah I get that,
I know that all music taste is deeply subjective and everything. It just seems to me that with noise you are working with a more limited palate (this is mainly based on listening to the mix someone linked to above) For a random example, I like Kraftwerk because they have brilliant melodies, well constructed tunes, innovative ideas, and some cool robot voices (which all contributes to my soul being proverbially bitten hard). But how much actual difference is there between someone highly regarded like Merzbow and some noise which is not good?
I'm pretty ignorant about the subject really (mainly working from that mix, as i say), just pondering.
Understandable question but really not gonna be solved by asking the internet about it
but by listening to some stuff.
Most genres sound pretty much all the same until you really get into it. Noise if anything has a broader range of sounds especially if you use the looser definition of the term and include all sorts of noise-rock, synth weirdness and experimental music...
Also lots of Merzbow's stuff is pretty bad or at least disliked by many noise fans. :)
I'm really not that knowledgeable about noise
i think most of the stuff i like strays more towards the drone/ambient end of the spectrum. Some albums i really like which would probably be classed as noise, though, are:
Burning Star Core - Challenger
Birchville Cat Motel - Four Freckle Constellation
Hospitals - I've Visited The Island of Jocks and Jazz
Sunburned Hand of The Man - Fire Escape
Pocahaunted/Robedoor - Hunted Gathering
Go down the slippery slope of Gerogerigegege obsession
Even their stuff which isn't 'noise' is more Noise than most noise acts.
the noisecore records are the most 'accessible' (haha) to start with I guess. Tokyo Anal Dynamite, Yellow Trash Bazooka and Instruments Disorder would be good places to start. Load of stuff is findable on music blogs etc, just do some googling.
Yellow Trash Bazooka - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXZ21s71kDU
Then one day you'll wake up having payed £££ on ebay for a 7" field recording of explosive diarrhea and wonder where it all went wrong.
Tunnel Canary
obscure canadian 70's proto-noise recently rediscovered and reissued, this record is REALLY good - http://www.secondlayer.co.uk/index/p6690.htm
Trailer for documentary with some live clips http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP8icVH5PU4
Amazing guitar noise + girl screaming noise but also some of the tracks on the record surprised me with nuance and interesting sounds... really good.
no one has mentioned these yet....
A few good places to start looking...
http://www.notnotfun.com
http://www.rrrecords.com
http://www.blackest-rainbow.moonfruit.com
Good to see mention of Emil Beaulieau, but no mention of THROBBING GRISTLE yet!!!! or BOREDOMS! or THE RESIDENTS!!!!!!!!!!
Afternoons Modeling
http://afternoonsmodeling.tumblr.com is a NET label with free downloads of a wide variety of noise and experimental music - you should check that out for sure
LIG
LIGHTNING BOLT, YOU FUCKS.
C'mon. I thought they were fucking huge.
I helped clean up my store after the giant rush of people last Christmas Eve. I decided to put on Earthly Delights, not ever having heard it before.
In short: MERRY CHRISTMAS =D
Also I am so glad that the very first name mentioned was Merzbow. If all other noise musicians were to die in a fire, the noise world would survive just fine with that insane Japanese sonofabitch still going.
They're not noise but they are totally amazing.
Incapacitants is the correct answer to the thread title tho Merzbow is the inevitable one.
NoFunFest New York
is a good place to learn about more noise artists (http://www.nofunfest.com).
Prurient is cool.
I guess the already mentioned Soft Punk by John Wiese is my favourite at the moment.
And here are some small labels and mailorders(i mentioned some of them in another post already):
http://hastenochkorset.blogspot.com/
http://www.licht-ung.de/
http://toxicfactoryrecords.blogspot.com/
http://www.econore.com/
http://www.slowboy.de/
very constructive
Noise
Pierre Schaeffer - etude aux chemins de fer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9pOq8u6-bA
Luigi Russolo-Corale 1921
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHvcdAvORFw&feature=related
Squarepusher-Steinbolt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyw-_JxwFPY
Tim Hecker-Dungeoneering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE37ihb8ot8
Russolo
If you haven't already, I recommend you read this:
http://www.dxarts.washington.edu/courses/460/russolo_theartofnoise.pdf
Cheers, really interesting.
how about...
http://fmguk.bandcamp.com/
not so much noise as much as drone
but Gregg Kowalsky has put out some really sublime stuff including last years release of 'Tape Chants'.
Evan Caminiti has done released truly awesome guitar based noise this year in 'West Winds'
and how could I forget The Noise band from Bletchley, for ragged Rhys Chatham/Sister era Sonic Youth aural bliss -> www.myspace.com/actionbeat
Action Beat
Oh yeah they're great! Touring a lot and recently got a new album out...
you cant go wrong with Ekca Liena
Beautiful and dark,
his latest release is Pathless, on which you can find this track
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P8U09z-G_o
but there are some much better tracks to be found elsewhere too for example -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2qWThWFon8
Start with stereolab...
Nurse with Wound's collaborations with Stereolab starts fairly Pop and slowly introduces more noise elements until it becomes Noise.
In this order:
1- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7lqLAT2AYg
2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iHIsQ6uoKo
3- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd6cswYs4eU
4- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON2F7doATWk
5- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAjhwGugyjg
With Merzbow I'd start with any of the albums from the '13 Japanese birds' series, relatively accessible as they have drumming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfKVzINik5Q
also:
Hair Police
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPhsR-mgFhQ
sudden infant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtDIyWOglJ8
jason crumer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSW5llvhy0A
this song is a mess but so am i
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtBnCfD6GTY
BJ Nilsen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQfv3DqM2t8
MoHa!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU37r99shDQ
Kyoka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a65uOV2sLfQ
Contagious orgasm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el0oY1y1rD4
Come to this tonight if you're in London
http://www.transientconstellations.co.uk/images/21st-oct-flyer-web.jpg
Here are some suggestions for a starting point:
Whitehouse - Bird Seed (contains the track Wriggle Like A Fucking Eel, which is as perfect as noise gets)
The Gerogerigegege - Tokyo Anal Dynamite (classic, but hard to get hold of)
Government Alpha - Artificial Pomegranate (furious Japanoise)
Merzbow - Music For Bondage Performance (pretty easy on the ear compared to some of his stuff)
Nurse With Wound - Homotopy To Marie (one of their earlier, harsher albums - cool stuff)
For a good intro via a compilation or two, check out the Anthology Of Noise And Electronic Music series on Sub Rosa. They've recently released the sixth volume and it's really interesting. Also, if you can find them, the Extreme Music compilations on Susan Lawly (from Japan, from Africa, from Russia, from Women) are consistently good. Hope that helps.