NOISE?

Back in March I had the pleasure of promoting and engineering a gig for the Edinburgh based band USURPER, it was a low key quiet affair with a sound scape of ambient amplifier hiss punctuated with scrapes and squeals, hardly a foot tapper but for me a welcome change to fidlly fee irish music or twangy indie bollocks.
Ali and Malcy of USURPER gave me a few Cds of their recordings and recordings of a few friends of theirs, my personal favorite was a 2007 live recording they did with Sticky foster.
Check out the second track from the USURPER and STICKY FOSTER choc. 194 cd.
This track consists of clinks, clanks, cello squeals which create a jarring and uneasy sound scape.

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GIANT TANK http://tinyurl.com/37had5d

7 things.

Things I like (in no order)

Number 0ne
The Yamaha LS9 32 channel digital mixing desk.
I jus love the damned thing, been learning to use it at the Deaf institute in Manchester it's a good bit of fun, I fucking love the scene memory function and the fact you can put a graphic EQ on the master with the volume faders acting as faders for the EQ. Genius.


Number two
The fact HEALTH have a 2nd DISCO album on the way
HEALTH - USA Boys by cityslang

Number three
The City of Edinburgh, I wanna go back.

Number four
Wilson by Daniel, beautifully illustrated graphic novel with a really offbeat but moving story.













Number five
I Just found The needle drop on you tube, Internet's busiest music nerd.
Experimental/ electro/ Doom/ music reviews.

Number six
The Letter Þ. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9E

Number seven
I've taken up drawing again, I designed a poster for one of my favorite noise acts USURPER.
I put them up for small gig back in late March which was fun.