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Noise Not Music

Over-closeness, the noise and heat of being.

Day: May 29, 2018

Mix: Skeleton Dust Memorial Day Show

Here’s a mix of four full performances at last night’s show at Skeleton Dust Records. It has a pretty wide dynamic range, so adjust volume with caution. If anyone wants the individual recordings just let me know.


https://noisenotmusicdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/skeledust1.mp3

00:00. Ben VanWeelden | 10:31. Slit Throats | 21:44. Scant | 34:31. Kjostad

Jack Davidson Mixes Leave a comment May 29, 2018October 5, 2018

“Over-closeness, the noise and heat of being.”

            Don DeLillo, White Noise

Welcome to Noise Not Music. Here you’ll find reviews of recent albums, various features and lists, and occasional mixes. I do not agree with the statement I’ve chosen as the title for this site; everything I write about here—a great deal of which could be called “noise”—is music. Catchy name though, eh?

I tend to focus on material that resides in the experimental or avant-garde realm of music, but nothing is off limits. If you have an album you’d like me to review, please email me or comment on a post. When I say nothing is off limits, I really mean it. However, I only review albums I like, and the “reviews” themselves are more intended to encourage discovery rather than to express my personal opinion. Also, I will be much more likely to review an album if it is not sent as a promo blast/press kit. I almost always restrict coverage to things that have come out in the past two weeks or so.

Currently the site is written by just me, Jack, but I’m open to expanding in the future. If you’d like to write a guest review or essay (or anything, honestly; I’m not picky), just let me know.

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  • Miscellaneous
  • Mixes
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Previous Posts

  • Review: Maninkari – Fahon (ferme-l’oeil, Feb 22)
  • Review: ReProCor – Meditations on Concrete Jazz (Research Products Corporation, Feb 21)
  • Review: IT IT – Two Squirrels Fighting Each Other at the End of the World (self-released, Feb 19)
  • Review: Patrick Shiroishi & Dylan Fujioka – のの (self-released, Feb 19)
  • Mix: Sublime Delirium
  • Review: Springboard – “The Coward” (Neutral Archive, Feb 14)
  • Review: Psychiceyeclix – SHELPULTURA (Doubledgescissor, Feb 12)
  • Review: Leila Bordreuil – Not an Elegy (Boomkat, Feb 10)
  • Review: Moses & Blue – Mammoth Conglomerate (self-released, Feb 6)
  • Review: Sarin – You Can’t Go Back (Prosthetic, Feb 5)
  • Review: Chris Williams – Of Yours (self-released, Feb 5)
  • Review: Python vs Cobra – Bitte Nicht Füttern EP (Brain Pussyfication, Feb 5)
  • Review: Dan Blacksberg & Julius Masri – SUPERLITH II (self-released, Feb 5)
  • Review: Ego Depletion – Eeeeeeg Synfffff Derpzzzzz (self-released, Feb 4)
  • Review: Where Is Mr. R ?! – 18 Luglio (2035, Feb 3)
  • Review: Zebularin – Semantic Radiation (Cruel Nature Recordings, Jan 29)
  • Review: I N S T I T U T R I C E – Cohortes (Un je-ne-sais-quoi, Jan 29)
  • Mix: The Noise Not Music Comfort Robots Present a Lullaby for Those Too Scared to Sleep
  • Review: Giacomo Salis – Naghol (Grisaille, Jan 24)
  • Review: Rock Flint Contemporary Ensemble – Forgotten Potions (self-released, Jan 26)
  • Review: Li Weisi – 车间四重奏:警报器操作指南 (self-released, Jan 25)
  • Review: Max Hamel – Sounds of Summer: Field Recordings of Solar Electronics (Refulgent Sepulchre, Jan 23)
  • Review: Native Instrument – live ateliers claus 04 (les albums claus, Jan 22)
  • Review: Dan Gilmore – Pulped Memoir (Hologram, Jan 21)
  • Review: Peea – Ins0lemnia (self-released, Jan 20)
  • Review: Vindfængsel – You Can’t Regret What You Don’t Remember (Nazlo, Jan 17)
  • Mix: Kidz
  • Review: Naturaliste – Temporary Presence (Almost Halloween Time / Gertrude Tapes / Public Eyesore / Unread, Jan 15)
  • “Review”: Absolute Table Field – Clowncar Bleedthrough (Neutral Archive, Jan 19)
  • Review: Arturas Bumšteinas – Amazon Fishing with Yahoos (sirr-ecords, Jan 17)
  • Review: Pool – Hard Labor (Makeshift Encounters, Jan 16)
  • Review: Coma Winds – Fuoco (Abhorrent A.D., Jan 13)
  • Review: Plants – Tapes 2014-2015 (Hemlock Garden, Jan 11)
  • Review: Gemengung – E.O.T.F. (Black Artifact, Jan 8)
  • Review: Bacchus – Bacchus (Solar Asceticists Productions, Jan 10)
  • Review: Loxe – Prosa Poética (self-released, Jan 10)
  • Mix: Next Generation Leeders
  • Review: ცოდნის მფლობელები – ყოველდღიური რჩევები (Gates of Hypnos, Jan 4)
  • Review: Luxury Mollusc – DEFENCELESS RECIPIENT OF OVERTURES (Full Logic Control Recordings, Jan 1)
  • Review: readymade music (for listening) – perfect music (audio) & for making (self-released, Jan 2)
  • Feature: Favorite Albums of 2020
  • List: Favorite Short Releases of 2020
  • Feature: Favorite Eponymous Debuts of 2020
  • Feature: Favorite Compilations, Reissues, and Archival Releases of 2020
  • Feature: Favorite Songs of 2020
  • Review: Audiosmogg – Home Office Ambience (Bleeding Ear, Nov 24)
  • Review: Kal Spelletich – The Blessing of the ZHENGKE ZGA37RG (Eh?, Nov 22)
  • Review: The False Face Society – Running Me Down (Index Clean, Nov 19)
  • Mix: Unruly Electronics
  • Review: Zhao Cong – Fog and Fragments (presses précaires, Nov 17)
  • Review: Five new releases from Prava Kollektiv (Amor Fati, Nov 18)
  • Review: Martin Rach – Ghost, Don’t Scream (attenuation circuit, Nov 15)
  • Review: Negativland – The World Will Decide (Seeland, Nov 13)
  • Review: Papal Bull – Arch-Alcohol of Song (My Dance the Skull, Nov 12)
  • Review: Cody Brant – Tapes (1997-2020) (self-released, Nov 6)
  • Review: EVA – DEMO (self-released, Nov 10)
  • Review: Liam Kramer-White – Every Moment Worldwide (WHY KEITH DROPPED THE S, Nov 8)
  • Mix: Dusty Sun (Remastered)
  • Review: goner. – A Hell for Horses (self-released, Nov 3)
  • Review: Duncan Harrison & Ian Murphy – Slow Lightning (Sham Repro, Nov 2)
  • Review: Various Artists – Birdsong from the Lower Branches (Hypnagogic Tapes, Nov 3)
  • Review: Wreck of the Minotaur – A Little Roy One on One Reissue (Tomb Tree Tapes, Oct 31)
  • Review: eric – We Can’t Be Stopped (Trading Wreckage, Oct 31)
  • Review: Potion – Cemetary (self-released, Oct 31)
  • Review: Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda – gi n ga (Hasana Editions, Oct 25)
  • Review: Pantea – Things (Active Listeners Club, Oct 23)
  • Review: Kiera Mulhern – De ossibus 20 (Recital, Oct 23)
  • Mix: All Hallow’s Eve
  • Review: RODEOGLO – BLVCKHEVRT (Dismiss Yourself, Oct 21)
  • Review: Kouns & Weaver – The 1990 Cincinnati Reds (self-released, Oct 20)
  • Review: Blattaria – Dream, Dwell, Die (A Fine Day to Die, Oct 18)
  • Review: Staffers – In the Pigeon Hole (ever/never, Oct 16)
  • Mix: Grave Rave
  • Review: Rich Teenager – Sardanapalus (self-released, Oct 16)
  • Review: Horaflora – Eaves Drop (enmossed, Oct 15)
  • Review: Unknown Artist – Campfire Tales (Tribe Tapes, Oct 14)
  • Review: Condo Horro – Thin Red Line (Fall Into Void, Oct 13)
  • Mix: Wholesome Halloween
  • Review: Henry Collins – Prepared Rain (zamzam, Oct 5)
  • Review: Raven Chacon – An Anthology of Chants Operations (Ouidah, Oct 2)
  • Mix: The Shadows of Memphis
  • Review: Patrick Shiroishi & Eldar Tagi – Flock (Fort Evil Fruit, Oct 2)
  • Review: Illicit Relationship and Bryan Lewis Saunders – Walk Before You Crawl (self-released, Oct 1)
  • Review: Alice Kemp – Songs in the Key of NO (Fragment Factory, Oct 1)
  • Review: Hubert Karmiński – baŚNIE na nowo (wielu, Sep 27)
  • Review: Dylan Burchett – coast to coast (self-released, Sep 26)
  • Review: Raised by Volts – Eye Fern Eye, Tooth Fur Tooth (Wealth and Physical Stamina, Sep 25)
  • Review: Subversive Intentions – Not the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to the Anthropocene (Histamine Tapes, Sep 25)
  • Review: Sugar Pills Bone – Is This My Husband’s Cemetery? (Bad Cake, Sep 25)
  • Mix: Anything Goes
  • Review: Z(erpents) – Black Mold and Hot Springs, Taipei (Future Proof, Sep 21)
  • Review: Marco Paltrinieri – The Weaver (Canti Magnetici, Sep 21)
  • Review: Pumpkin Friend – Checking Out of the Boredom Hotel (self-released, Sep 13)
  • Review: LACITTÀDOLENTE – Salespeople (Trepanation, Sep 18)
  • Review: Anla Courtis – Hydrockphonia (Nazlo, Sep 16)
  • Review: Legion of Swine – Pig for Victory! (self-released, Sep 12)
  • Review: American Cig – At Reptile Care (Commuter Disk, Sep 12)
  • Review: Wetkoff – He Is Lying (self-released, Sep 12)
  • Mix: Temporary Places
  • Review: Unknown Artist – CKQ (Spricht Editions, Sep 9)

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Favorite Labels

  • Abhorrent A.D.
  • Adversary Electronics
  • Base Materialism
  • Buried in slag and debris.
  • Canti Magnetici
  • Chocolate Monk
  • Consumer Waste
  • Crow Versus Crow
  • Cruel Nature
  • Czaszka
  • Doubtful Sounds
  • Eminent Observer (operated by yours truly)
  • enmossed
  • Erstwhile
  • Every Contact Leaves a Trace
  • Exodisque
  • Fort Evil Fruit
  • Fractal Meat Cuts
  • Fragment Factory
  • Glistening Examples
  • Hanson
  • Helicopter
  • Index Clean
  • Marginal Frequency
  • My Dance the Skull
  • nausea.
  • Neutral Archive
  • Orb Tapes
  • Penultimate Press
  • Podunk
  • Prensa Manual
  • presses précaires
  • Recordings for the Summer
  • Regional Bears
  • sirr-ecords
  • Skeleton Dust
  • Sono Space
  • Steep Gloss
  • tanzprocesz
  • Thalamos
  • Tochnit Aleph
  • tsss tapes
  • Tutore Burlato
  • Vitrine
  • Wasted Tapes
  • WHY KEITH DROPPED THE S
  • Why? Records
  • Wormhole World
  • zamzamrec
  • Zazen Tapes

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City Medicine - Catch Me (self-released, 2016)
UVC - Haulin' Bundles at the Glue Factory (Irrational Tentent, 2021)
Praying for Oblivion - Doppelgänger (Neural Operations, 2019)
Michael Barthel - Ververbüntede (Coherent States, 2019)

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