music that sounds like gears, cranks, pistons, electricity, machines and that
open-ended. just because this is the best music, I reckon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bnnNCUtN58
^ requisite Throbbing Gristle link to kick things off.
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Rage Against The Machine
I reckon Oneida are the best band of the last 10/15 years
a lot of their music has a machine-like quality. psychedelic grinding and hammering machines. Kid Millions as the centrifuge.
http://open.spotify.com/track/69d383hmA6LA9H8IiF1iJP
there was a profile in Wire a few months ago
of a young Glaswegian guy who used to work as an intensive care nurse and was interested in the sound of hospital machinery and monitors. I can't for the life of me remember his name... think it might have been something like Dave Darbyshire. Any help appreciated!
I'll have a browse
I bought almost all of last year's issues.
yeah I've got it at home somewhere, wish I'd taken it with me.
it was late in the year and it might have been in Cross Platform
Sonic Youth - 'I'm Insane'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4yM7lvlZ-0
And a bunch of other stuff from 'Bad Moon Rising'.
bunch of Silent Hill stuff, too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pUaPZyZIyAg
first two soundtracks are gold
like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNHiYk2_DSg
yesss
so much this kind of thing.
Psalm 69 and Filth Pig <3
also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUHsBuCKSdI
Reptile by Nine Inch Nails of course
http://youtu.be/sfhkXxmnYHc
Simple Minds — 70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9xf9MgSCB4
this is surprisingly good
early Simple Minds is brilliant
Sons & Fascination, in particular, is a masterpiece, and well worth giving a listen if you're at all interested in the experimental side of post-punk—>new wave period.
Alternatively, get hold of the Early Gold compilation, which should convince all but the cloth-eared of how good Simple Minds were in the early days. Thirty Frames a Second, for instance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwtrSEVbbWc
Spooky - Clank
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSDphHKSGHU
Pierre Bastien
Dude actually makes music from machines he builds himself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhkuQgiYQ0I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrvZ5dMCej4
this looks so cool
was in response to jack_on_fire's post below
skinny puppy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u07F8jMH_VY
Einsturzende Neubauten
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqzeDIT6EKU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGv0jnDqeog
i think this should be a thread in itself
Die Interimsliebenden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nufIYi_WYF0
swans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSRjYYUE-_c
Cabaret Voltaire - The Voice of America/ Damage is Done
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl0TA0RhIhM
Thomas Leer and Robert Rental - Attack Decay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umzl6SWd1X8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIuKcrXBAuk
SPK - Post-Mortem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGRx2U2uZsw
he tried to give me syphilis by wiping his cock on my sandwich
the normal - warm leatherette
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5QErPDNcj4
Cromagnon - Caledonia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPiO_G-DEHs
Wolf Eyes
http://youtu.be/HoPYY4oNq9A
think the dissonant keyboards in the chorus of memory machine make it sound quite mechanical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssBdDRJx_w
Surely
WE CARRY ON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-oZyAKiWsc
Another chap who makes his own noise-making gear
Author and Punisher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtQesGgT7nw
Very Godflesh-esque
Actually that song isn't particularly
but some of it is, y'know
Autechre - Under BOAC
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=CJpY6mZCGI0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DCJpY6mZCGI0&gl=GB
?-ziq - the sonic fox
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=pbEcFg9kRZc&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DpbEcFg9kRZc&gl=GB
alt + 230
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Cheers
I was on my iPhone though. No idea how to do it from there.
Fiedel - Doors To Manual
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdSkpKmn-N0
Remember Noxagt, they were good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVDxrLO1m7M
MoHa! are pretty good too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w-ukg6M6ZI
just been listening to this all the time for a few days
http://blackhat.bandcamp.com/
Oh this one is like electricity!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRYWiCh38G0
Burning Star Core - Benjamin
stars with a car crashing into a pylon in the middle of the night? Then the wires flap about in the wind a bit.
Trust me, it's well visual.
Let's not forget Metal on Metal/Abzug by Kraftwerk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Yr4Cd0W5s
and Brian Eno - St Elmo's Fire
is supposed to sound like electricity, courtesy of the wonderful Mr Robert Fripp on guitar...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B807CcVxW9U
Not really music then, eh?
Perc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPt2ac2sXqI
Old Apparatus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zK15WJsOJI
Cvalda from Bjork's Selmasongs...
Not sure if it's heavy enough for this thread though...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09BkUQFWQgs
Black Rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXWs9zHQlck
Manics - The Intense Humming of Evil
Strangely enough not a centrepiece of the post-Everything Must Go live set
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbITPljzybE
My dad heard some A Place To Bury Strangers once
and asked me why the band had decided to record the track in a heavy engineering shop and that it sounded as if there were several grinders lathes and stone cutters working in the background.