"Harsh" is a collaborative effort between us and Le Vide, which is happening every third thursday at The Rebar (1114 howell st). The aim of this series is to cross breed two already convergent styles of music: Harsh Noise and Break-Core, and all of their associated genres. The noise genre represents wide variety subgenres, one of which is called "Harsh Noise", the aim of many proveyeurs in this genre is to create an over whelming assault on the senses... This aim, to completely over stimulate, is also evident in the genre of Break-Core. Modern music in general has in recent years witnessed and overwhelming amount of interest from fans of these respective genres and with that, more artists that one way or another fit into one of These two genres.Each installation of Harsh will feature two acts of each of the respective genres. Combine that with rotating cast of resident DJS including: Android Heart, NoahNine, MCVD, Cathartec and Wm. F. Buckley, Jr .All with epilepsy fueled imagery provided by VJ Low Rez and you have a formula for energetic over saturation
for booking please contact :harshbooking@yahoo.com
UPCOMING EVENTS
April 19th featuring:
NKONDI
Inspired by Japanese noise artists, nkondi has always strived to be as loud as possible,
and yet have a sound unique as to stand out of the crowd. Based on arhythmical rhythms and destroyed electronics, nkondi has used mostly analog equipment for
his endeavours in experimental music...
XISIX
XISIX is elektro-chemical acid ragga bass + drum for adventurous spirits.
XISIX is whirlwind shrapnel tour de force for your head/heart + BOOTY
XISIX is a glitch in the robot machine drone society program. Rebel vibrations
XISIX is pure gangsta blipkore beauty versus Decay. Burning brighter than supernovas
XISIX is hidden smiles of joy through one's trials and tribulations.
XISIX is not fitting in even when you want too.
XISIX is a tool to accelerate awareness + consciousness.
XISIX is revolution frequencies.
XISIX is wastelander muzik.
Penetration Camp
Based in Puget Sound, Penetration Camp creates sonic sculptures utilizing homema de instrumentation
as well as both conventional and non-conventional sound sources. The results range from sublime
multi-layered soundscapes to ferocious audio assaults. Unlike many "noise" or "experimental" acts,
Penetration Camp does not utilize laptops and eschews programming, not because such
tactics are beneath them,but because both members are too stupid to deal with computers for anything other
than viewing pornography . Instead, this duo improvise sets by drawing sounds out of self-made and modified
devices as well as using samples and other audio sources to fill out their performances. Musical influences
range from pop and punk to harsh-noise and drone, and Penetration Camp's output fluctuates accordingly.
Penetration Camp's live sound tends toward the harsher side of noise, but instead of issuing an abrasive set
of 10 minutes of white noise, the band creates full and varied sets of everything from sound collages to
ritualistic death-industrial The band has four full-length albums as well as assorted compilation and
other releases.
100 pieces
Though a relativitely new face on the NW's Break Core Scene
100 Pieces creates thick ,agitated BREAK core with a twinge
of dirty drum and bass that he describes as " ...pumped full of
opium & slowly dismembered .. heavenly look on the face...
...the tears of eros
and a special guest DJ performances by :
NAHA:
and guest Break Core Turntablist D3f113Out of the medieval darkness that is the US midwest, comes a tall stranger. Armed only with dex and wax,
he wages a constant war against civilization itself. Who is he? Why is he? Does it really matter?
Regardless of the answers his toil continues...
March 15th featuring:
John Wiese : Solo artist, collaborator, freelance band member and probably one of the most intense noise acts around today ! (for more info please see press kit) Fetal Distress : Fetal Distress is Trevor Harmon. Hearing the music he makes is like listening to a musical suction
abortion. A bloody mass of limbs and organs, drums and synths, peppered with often violent and
humorous vocal samples swirl about in the disposal container between your ears. He holds a
mirror inches from your face reflecting the ugly nature of every day society, politics, and the beast
in us all. Fetal Distress has arrived bearing, with a smile, the timeless gift of trauma in the form of
epileptic breakbeats with paranoid schizophrenia and bass thicker than the president's skull.
Today's pig is tomorrow's bacon. Febuary 15th
featuring: KJ Sawka
NAHA: "In her ten years behind the decks, NAHA has crafted her mixing style and technique which is
as diverse as the genres she spins, including techno, breakbeats, digital hardcore, hip-hop, and jungle.
She has found anamalgamation of these sounds in her specialty, breakcore. She has played
all across the U.S., including Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, Oklahoma, Florida,
New York, New Mexico, Arizona, Washington D.C., and multiple cities in Canada. In Seattle she has
held dozens of residencies, hosted on air and online radio shows and performed with bands Exorcismo
and Black Pill Book. Her 3 hour weekly internet radio broadcast on Groovetech.com ran every week
from December 1998 through 2003."
Plethora : Plethora is Stan Reed, (PsychForm Records, Broken Penis Orchestra, and
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer). An absurd nihilistic surrealist sound project whose mission is to trick the
brain into thinking it is on heavy drugs.
Ear Venom : Ear Venom is based in Seattle. They're active participants in the underground
noise/ experimental scene, organizing and playing shows with needed regularity - more than witnesses,
Ear Venom are a part of the backbone of the Seattle experimental music arts. As a performance duo,
preferring to play mostly in caves and abandoned ship yards, these two individuals have been working
closely together to express themselves as a singular sound event. The eyes play tricks on you as the
hallucinatory effects of the venom gathers strength, what is two is one, one is two. As well, the sounds
play tricks on you and the poisonous duality of their audio movements both savage and cleanse the
mind. With vocal manipulation, repetition, homemade and altered/abused instruments, feedback,
complaints from the neighbors, and other effects all used as a means to process their combined
ephemeral emotions, Ear Venom stand as their name implies.-
-William, BSBC.. Electric Heavyland
Logic Probe
Derek and Dave got their start using beat-up records, yard sale keyboards, effects pedals,
and anything else that could make noise. Over time, their equipment has steadily evolved
from samplers and keyboards to laptop computers yet their offbeat musical vision has
remained intact, never shying away from unexplored territory. Logic Probe has completed
soundtrack work for several independent films, self-produced three full-length albums,
remixed songs for bands such as Botch, Waxwing, and Obelus, and has played shows
where ever they were allowed. Logic Probe also performed at the 2006 Decibel Festival,
where they shared the stage with Telefon Tel Aviv, Lusine, Apparat and Alex Smoke. Honed Bastion (side project of Dead/Bird)
:
Honed Bastion is the solo noise/sound project of Portland, OR artist
Nicholas Bittakis, who is also in Dead/Bird . Bittakis uses sources from electronic refuse to junk
metal, heavily processing signals, creating slow digital creeps to organic savagery.