NO WAVE (a deep current)
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holterbachupdated 5 days agoUsing rock culture tools to go far beyond rock culture, and going out there
From No New York compilation to eternity and a larger geography.
No Wave appeared and grew up in the same time as Punk. If there are familiarities, these 2 asethetics are very different in nature. Where Punk could be described (quickly) as minimal accelerated rock'n'roll, the fields of exploration of No Wave are way larger, noisier, messy. At crossroads with non-occidental music, free-jazz, noise, industrial and experimental music, a poetic of the extreme, mavericks of expression.
(From that point of view, The Contortions, Bush Tetras, ESG and their minimal wild funk are connected to No, but are also the more in between and closer to Punk or New Wave things).
This, is a collection of musicians who said NO to everything our narrow minded culture would expect music to be.
This is of course not a top, all of these records are marvels, i've just tryed here to respect a sort of historical timeline
In this list, there are 4 periods :
- from 1976 to the early 80's with the original bands Mars, DNA, Dark Day, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Beirut Slump, The Contortions, Red Transistor, Circle X, Theoretical Girls, The Static, Notekillers and early Industrial and post-punk bands like Cabaret Voltaire, SPK, Leather Nun, PIL, This Heat, Swell Maps who have too much in common with early No Wave not to be mentioned
- from early 80's to 90's or more with bands like Sick Dick and the Wolkswagen, Ut, Interference, Sonic Youth, Swans, Glenn Branca, Elliott Sharp/Carbon, Rhys Chatham, Rudolf Grey, Borbetomagus, Savage Republic, Deutsch Americanische Freundshaft, Einstürzende Neubauten, Sprung aus den Wolken, Nox, Test Dept. and weirder Post-Punk acts like Dome, Lemon Kitten, The Pop Group, Fote
- At the mid/late 80's new bands clearly possessed by the same demons like Missing Foundation, DUSTdevils, IDF, Zga, Dead C., Dust Breeders, Keiji Haino, Hojokaidan, Zeni Geva
- And the late comers of the 90's to 2000 who have nothing to see with the origins, but whose music clearly have the spririt of this aesthetic
Record labels to remember : Lust/Unlust, ZE, 99, Neutral, Zoar, Disques du Crepuscules, Zick Zack, Piano, Independent Project, Rough Trade, Dossier, Blast First, Atavistic, New Alliance and countless home made productions...
From No New York compilation to eternity and a larger geography.
No Wave appeared and grew up in the same time as Punk. If there are familiarities, these 2 asethetics are very different in nature. Where Punk could be described (quickly) as minimal accelerated rock'n'roll, the fields of exploration of No Wave are way larger, noisier, messy. At crossroads with non-occidental music, free-jazz, noise, industrial and experimental music, a poetic of the extreme, mavericks of expression.
(From that point of view, The Contortions, Bush Tetras, ESG and their minimal wild funk are connected to No, but are also the more in between and closer to Punk or New Wave things).
This, is a collection of musicians who said NO to everything our narrow minded culture would expect music to be.
This is of course not a top, all of these records are marvels, i've just tryed here to respect a sort of historical timeline
In this list, there are 4 periods :
- from 1976 to the early 80's with the original bands Mars, DNA, Dark Day, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Beirut Slump, The Contortions, Red Transistor, Circle X, Theoretical Girls, The Static, Notekillers and early Industrial and post-punk bands like Cabaret Voltaire, SPK, Leather Nun, PIL, This Heat, Swell Maps who have too much in common with early No Wave not to be mentioned
- from early 80's to 90's or more with bands like Sick Dick and the Wolkswagen, Ut, Interference, Sonic Youth, Swans, Glenn Branca, Elliott Sharp/Carbon, Rhys Chatham, Rudolf Grey, Borbetomagus, Savage Republic, Deutsch Americanische Freundshaft, Einstürzende Neubauten, Sprung aus den Wolken, Nox, Test Dept. and weirder Post-Punk acts like Dome, Lemon Kitten, The Pop Group, Fote
- At the mid/late 80's new bands clearly possessed by the same demons like Missing Foundation, DUSTdevils, IDF, Zga, Dead C., Dust Breeders, Keiji Haino, Hojokaidan, Zeni Geva
- And the late comers of the 90's to 2000 who have nothing to see with the origins, but whose music clearly have the spririt of this aesthetic
Record labels to remember : Lust/Unlust, ZE, 99, Neutral, Zoar, Disques du Crepuscules, Zick Zack, Piano, Independent Project, Rough Trade, Dossier, Blast First, Atavistic, New Alliance and countless home made productions...
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