Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Die Fabrik on thursday, which makes a bit more sense if you say it in a german accent, I’m sure, was an interesting mix of a load of music I’d like to get to know more about. We arrived, apparently, three quarters of the way through a note (or was it a chord?). But things soon livened up and there were some decent slabs of angry noise served up by DJ Durge, while the ambient end of the range isn’t so much my thing.

Last night I met with Tracey, who is over from Tokyo for one of her friends weddings, we went for a curry with a few of the other guests. Poor thing wasn’t feeling too good after spending too much time flying and not enough sleeping, so she had to leave us to it. Which was a little strange, since I have nothing in common with her friends except knowing her (nice enough people, but they’ve got other things on their minds apart from getting to know some near random stranger, so I make my escape at the earliest feasible point). Upset I didn’t get much of a chance to talk to her, hoping she’s had a good day at the wedding today and can find some time for me tomorrow.


6 comments

  1. it’s worth listening to the whole of that nurse with wound album to get the full effect – but note that it isn’t representative of their work. glad you liked the crunchy stuff! :)

    • I think people need a bit more of a beat to dance to it…

      But, yes, the ‘shouty man’ stuff was pretty good, lots of distortion, lots of anger, lots of good driving music…I’d appreciate some recommendations at some point…

      • for modern stuff, you can’t go far wrong with dulce liquido and winterkalte. if you’re prepared to wade through some high pitched interference then whitehouse are pretty seminal in this field. i haven’t heard any coum transmissions but they are always regarded with admiration, and are historically related to whitehouse i believe.

        • I’ve dabbled with Whitehouse – indeed *nearly* caught them over in Tokyo, that’d’ve been a helluva gig, noise to the home of noise – but I’ve always felt I needed a better eq to take out the high pitch whine, I think mp3 should be good for doing that if only I could find the right lame options…one of my favorites, though, is that Covenant b-side ‘alva mydral’, white noise where they modulate out various tones to induce a kind of anti-beat.

  2. Anonymous

    So sorry

    I deserted you.. it wasn`t intentional. Pleased that we were able to catch up a little more on Sunday. It was great to see you..
    Tracey

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