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RRRecords is a record label and used and new record shop based in Lowell, Massachusetts. RRRecords was the first American record label to publish underground "noise music" in the early 1980s, and published the first American vinyl by Merzbow, Masonna, Hanatarash, The Hanatarash, Violent Onsen Geisha, and various other artists. In its first 20 years, RRR has issued hundreds of releases. The label's owner, Ron Lessard, is a tireless supporter of new artists, and created several sub-labels and series to specifically highlight unknown and underground musicians. RRR Sub-labels and series One of the most popular of the RRR sub-labels is the Recycled Music series, which consists of used Compact audio cassette, cassette tapes of pop and rock music that have been taped over with new music by a noise band.Howe, Bria"BoyZone, Clang Quartet, Jeff Rehnlund and Relay for Death: Green noise through recycled cassette tapes" Independent Weekly, July 8, 2008 RRRecycled tapes are labeled with a simp ...
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Chop Shop (musician)
Chop Shop a.k.a. Scott Konzelmann, is a noise musician who has released recordings on RRRecords, Pure, RRRecords, Banned Production, V2 Institute for the Unstable Media, V2_Archief and Generator Sound Art. Chop Shop creates sound using salvaged materials and speakers to create drones and other sounds specific to the speaker created. Often the speaker features prominently in the packaging as a photo or daguerreotype. Chop Shop is known also for innovative packaging using leather, tar paper, steel plates, etc. Konzelmann is also part of Generator Sound Art, Inc. in New York City. In 2005, Chop Shop was part of the ''Activating the Medium'' Festival. Discography (selection) * Steelplate - 1991 (2 10" EPs bound to 10" square plate of steel) RRRecords. * Tension Charge Discharge - 1994 (3" CD in metal mesh package) V2 Institute for the Unstable Media, V2_Archief. * Plays Emil Beaulieau - Red & Buried (5" CD) RRRecords, Pure. * Smolder - 1998 (3" CD on copper plate wrapped in lead) V2 I ...
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Hanatarash
Hanatarashi (), meaning "sniveler" or "snot-nosed" in Japanese, was a noise band created by later Boredoms frontman Yamantaka Eye and featured Zeni Geva guitarist Mitsuru Tabata. The outfit was formed in Osaka, Japan in 1984 after Eye and Tabata met as stage hands at an Einstürzende Neubauten show. After the release of the first album, the "I" was dropped and the name became "Hanatarash". They used a variety of unusual noise-making objects, including power tools, drills, and heavy machinery. Live shows Hanatarash was notorious for their dangerous live shows. Some of the band's most infamous shows included Eye cutting a dead cat in half with a machete, strapping a circular saw to his back and almost cutting his leg off, and destroying part of a venue with an excavator (and not a bulldozer against common beliefs) by driving it through the back wall and onto the stage. At a 1985 show in Tokyo's Superloft, the audience were required to fill out forms due to the possibility of harm ...
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Emil Beaulieau
Emil Beaulieau, or more fully, “Emil Beaulieau: America’s Greatest Living Noise Artist” (born July 5, 1957) is the stage name of Ron Lessard, a prominent noise musician who primarily records for his own label: RRRecords. He has collaborated and performed with many well-known noise artists, including Merzbow, Pain Jerk, Richard Ramirez from Black Leather Jesus and Sonic Disorder. Beaulieau frequently performs with a custom-made four-armed turntable A phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910) or since the 1940s called a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogu ... named the Minutoli after its creator, a friend of the artist. Dressed in his trademark pink dress shirt, tie, and grey cardigan, Emil Beaulieau acts out comical performances. Emil Beaulieau is also believed to have been the first to have applied the LAYLAH Records term “ anti-re ...
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Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell () is a city in Massachusetts, in the United States. Alongside Cambridge, It is one of two traditional seats of Middlesex County. With an estimated population of 115,554 in 2020, it was the fifth most populous city in Massachusetts as of the last census, and the third most populous in the Boston metropolitan statistical area. The city also is part of a smaller Massachusetts statistical area, called Greater Lowell, and of New England's Merrimack Valley region. Incorporated in 1826 to serve as a mill town, Lowell was named after Francis Cabot Lowell, a local figure in the Industrial Revolution. The city became known as the cradle of the American Industrial Revolution because of its textile mills and factories. Many of Lowell's historic manufacturing sites were later preserved by the National Park Service to create Lowell National Historical Park. During the Cambodian genocide (1975–1979), the city took in an influx of refugees, leading to a Cambodia Town and Americ ...
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Merzbow
is a Japanese noise project started in 1979 by , best known for a style of harsh, confrontational noise. Since 1980, Akita has released over 400 recordings and has collaborated with various artists. The name Merzbow comes from the German dada artist Kurt Schwitters' artwork ''Merzbau'', in which Schwitters transformed the interior of his house using found objects. The name was chosen to reflect Akita's dada influence and junk art aesthetic. In addition to this, Akita has cited a wide range of musical influences from progressive rock, heavy metal, free jazz, and early electronic music to non-musical influences like dadaism, surrealism and fetish culture. Since the early 2000s, he has been inspired by animal rights and environmentalism, and began to follow a vegan, straight edge lifestyle. In addition to being a prolific musician, he has been a writer and editor for several books and magazines in Japan, and has written several books of his own. He has written about a variety o ...
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Masonna
, better known by his stage name Masonna, is a Japanese noise musician. He was born on November 16, 1966, in Miyazu, Kyoto, Japan. was started in 1987 in Osaka as Maso Yamazaki's noise project. The name is a combination of the Japanese words and . It is also a pun on the name of the pop singer Madonna. The name is sometimes rendered as an acronym for or Mystic Another Selection Of Nurses Naked Anthology. Maso also performs as Space Machine using vintage analog synthesizers. He has performed with the psychedelic rock group Christine 23 Onna (with Fusao Toda of Angel'in Heavy Syrup), which then became Acid Eater with the addition of two members, as well as the noise supergroup Bustmonster and the noise trio Flying Testicle. In 2018, Maso began performing and releasing under the name Controlled Death. History Maso has said that he became interested in making noise music when he heard the sounds of destruction on television as a child, but that his first exposure to the Japan ...
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Anenzephalia
Anenzephalia is the ''nom-de-plume'' of noise musician B. Moloch, who is occasionally joined by Wilhelm Herich of Genocide Organ. Anenzephalia was one of the first projects to record for the Tesco Organisation label. Partial discography *''Lyse'' 7" (Tesco Organisation, 1993) *''Fragments of Demise'' LP (RRRecords, 1993) *''Ephemeral Dawn'' CD (Tesco Organisation, 1995, reissued in 2007) *''New World Disorder'' EP (Tesco Organisation, 1998) *''Anenzephalia'' CD (Death Factory, 2001) *''Die Sender Müssen Schweigen'' 10" (Power & Steel, 2002) *''Noehaem'' LP/CD (Tesco Organisation / Zaetraom, 2003) *''Untitled'' split CD with Operation Cleansweep and Inade ( Teito Sound Company, 2007) *''Projected void'' 7" (Tesco Organisation / Zaetraom, 2008) *''Kaltwelt'' LP/CD (Tesco Organisation Tesco Organisation is a German record label, mail order company and distributor, specialising in industrial, noise, neofolk and ambient music. Tesco has also organised music festivals in the ...
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Blackhouse (band)
Blackhouse is a Christian industrial band based in Eureka, California. Blackhouse plays what has been cited as "primo industrial rock", contrasting with industrial rock styles promulgated by artists such as NIN, Klank, or Circle of Dust. Blackhouse was formed in 1984 and is cited as the first band to make industrial music for the Christian market. Background Musically acclaimed and sometimes cited as being a founding band of the entire genre, Blackhouse has ensued for over three decades, and the band has produced a myriad of releases in that time. Often the band finds itself riding the fine line between artistic expression and forming a message in a way that could be accepted in the broad Christian community. One album featured a cover showing a rabbit crucified, with the thought of exposing the real meaning of Easter. The sound that Blackhouse offered was far outside the norms of Christian music at the time of the band's formation, and live performances met with resistance from ...
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Skullflower
Skullflower is a British noise rock band, formed in 1987 in London, England. Led by guitarist Matthew Bower, the band attained a cult following with a sound based on "sludgy, Black Sabbath-style riffs overlaid with feedback, fuzzed-out guitar noise, and throttling rhythms, all played at a high volume." Always an improvisational outfit, the band's music grew increasingly free-form over the course of their career, moving farther away from the rock music form. The band's lineup has been fluid; the early core members were Bower, drummer/vocalist Stuart Dennison and bassist/guitarist Stefan Jaworzyn. Other contributors included guitarist Gary Mundy of Ramleh Ramla or Ramle ( he, רַמְלָה, ''Ramlā''; ar, الرملة, ''ar-Ramleh'') is a city in the Central District of Israel. Today, Ramle is one of Israel's mixed cities, with both a significant Jewish and Arab populations. The city was f ..., bassist Alex Binnie, bassist/drummer Stephen Thrower of Coil, and auxiliar ...
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Burning Star Core
Burning Star Core is the experimental music project of violinist C. Spencer Yeh. Originally conceived 1993 in Cincinnati, the project is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Composing music that's driven by his violin, Yeh's Burning Star Core project is known for its unique blend of musique concrète, ambient, drone, and psychedelic music. His albums ''A Brighter Summer Day'' (2002), '' Blood Lightning 2007'' (2007), '' Operator Dead... Post Abandoned'' (2007) and '' Challenger'' (2008) received favorable write-ups from critics. History Burning Star Core was founded C. Spencer Yeh in 1993. The idea for the project arose from Yeh's desire to produce music that broke barriers and challenged traditional perceptions of music. He began releasing his music on his own Drone Disco label via cassette and CDr. In 2002, Burning Star Core released ''A Brighter Summer Day'', marking the first time the project received wider distribution. '' The Very Heart of the World'' followed in 2006, ...
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Cassette Culture 1970s–1990s
Cassette may refer to: Technology * Cassette tape (or ''musicassette'', ''audio cassette'', ''cassette tape'', or ''tape''), a worldwide standard for analog audio recording and playback ** Cassette single (or "Cassingle"), a music single in the form of a cassette tape * Digital Audio Tape (or ''DAT''), a digital audio cassette tape format, mainly used by professionals * Digital Compact Cassette (or ''DCC''), a short-lived digital audio cassette format aimed at domestic users * Videocassette, a cassette containing videotape, for use in VCRs * Data cassette, the magnetic tape in plastic housing Music * ''Album'' (Public Image Ltd album), a 1986 Public Image Ltd album called "Cassette" on certain editions * Cassette (New Zealand band), a band from New Zealand * Cassette (South African band), a band from South Africa * The Cassettes, a Washington, DC based "Mystic Country"/Steampunk band formed in 1999 * Cassette (Romania), a band from Romania People * Benny Cassette, American ...
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List Of Record Labels
File:Alvinoreyguitarboogie.jpg File:AmMusicBunk78.jpg File:Bingola1011b.jpg Lists of record labels cover record labels, brands or trademarks associated with marketing of music recordings and music videos. The lists are organized alphabetically, by genre, by company and by location. Alphabetical * List of record labels: 0–9 * List of record labels: A–H * List of record labels: I–Q * List of record labels: R–Z By genre * Bing Crosby's record labels after 1955 *List of Christian record labels *List of electronic music record labels * List of hip hop record labels *List of tango music labels By company *List of EMI labels *List of Kakao M labels *Record labels owned by Sony BMG *List of Sony Music labels *List of Universal Music Group labels * List of Warner Music Group labels By location *List of Bangladeshi record labels *List of record labels from Bristol *List of New Zealand record labels *List of Quebec record labels *List of West Coast hip hop record labels *List of ...
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