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would anyone like nurse with wound's "a handjob for the laughing policeman"? it's quite good if you like his more rhythmic stuff.

absolutely! i loves me some old industrial...

mine, or his?

yours...is someone else posting industrial? i must've missed it...either that or i don't know who the artist is...

speaking of which, i listened to the stockhausen stuff this morning while doing the dishes...good stuff...

Red Square wrote:yours...is someone else posting industrial? i must've missed it...either that or i don't know who the artist is...

well, i don't consider nww industrial, and i don't know anything about a handful of dust. ok. i'll post it tomorrow: need to re-rip it.

thanks!

i've always considered NWW industrial because it follows the certain artistic aspects of industrial...also because they were mentioned a lot in The Industrial Culture handbook...but yeah, they seem more noise to me...industrial/noise tend to overlap each other a fair bit...

sleepkid wrote:

dontfeartheringo wrote:

dipshit jigaboo wrote:If you need some more funk in your life, or have not heard the song "troglodyte", download this album.

Jimmy Castor Bunch - It's Just Begun

http://sharebee.com/a6c35297

this record is HOT.

So much of this has been sampled by Eric B!

I'm surprised this record has never been re-issued or put out on CD. Wouldn't trade my copy for the world. It slays.

My friend Pat, who is one of those cratedigger soul/funk DJ's (amongst other things) told me that Jimmy still plays on occasion at Salsa clubs in the Bronx.

I'm trying to find out where and when, because I need to see him.

enframed wrote:

Mama Clortho wrote:a handful of dust - Philiosophick Mercury
a handful of dust - Spiritual Libertines

Anyone? I can upload their other albums if anyone is interested.

yes please.

A Handful of Dust

Besides founding notable avant-garde New Zealand label Xpressway, not to mention his even more extreme company Corpus Hermeticum (which between them have released efforts from such musical innovators as Peter Jefferies, Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos, and Flying Saucer Attack), Bruce Russell has pursued a musical career in a variety of areas, most notably the radically inventive trio the Dead C. A Handful of Dust is his equivalent of a solo project, though most of the pieces he creates feature fellow Kiwi experimentalists Alastair Galbraith, usually on violin, and percussionist Peter Stapleton. Russell's goals with A Handful of Dust have always been couched in an erudite combination of academic study in European 16th and 17th century science and epistemology with free noise and improvisational goals; resulting in a series of radical electronic compositions with song titles like "The Third Dance in Honour of the Sabbatai Sevi" and album titles like The Philosophick Mercury, and covers which feature reproductions of centuries-old woodcuts and scientific designs. Many releases consist of live performance pieces, often 30-minutes-long or even longer, while others are brief studio snippets appearing only on lathe-cut singles or cassettes. It all makes for a fascinating blend.






Music Humana (1995)

Designed as a counterpart to The Philosophick Mercury, with the same overall sense of design and packaging, Musica Humana differs from its counterpart in terms of musical content. Whereas Mercury collected two free-form shows of the band live, Humana compiles what purportedly are the "complete works" of the band from 1990 to 1993. Sources for material include a regular full LP, Concord (originally released on Twisted Village), and a variety of tracks from singles and compilations, including one from the legendary Killing Capitalism With Kindness collection on Turbulence. Russell and Galbraith are the specific stars of the show this time around; Stapleton doesn't appear anywhere on the collection, while the only two guests -- Russell's Dead C bandmate Morley and young son Max -- show up on a single track, the brief "Calling Radio Ethiopia." The Handful of Dust aesthetic runs at full force throughout the various cuts, whether it be the barely-minute-long noise/spoken word collage "The Lonesome Death of Albert Ayler" or the concluding quarter-hour tense semidrones of "A Brief Apology." Russell and Galbraith are credited with everything from vocals and guitar to "toys," and the mad, playful, and sometimes harrowing nature of Dust's work gets more than an adequate airing as a result. "Masonic Inborn" starts off calmly enough, with a squiggly, heavily processed instrument playing the American national anthem while found-sound conversations carry on, only to conclude with a sheet of white noise and dim, muddily recorded pounding. Russell's vocals, as before, seem to consist of readings from the obscure 16th and 17th century texts he enjoys, at least when they appear and are reasonably intelligible. Like Mercury, Humana is packaged as part of an issue of Russell's mock journal Logopandocy, this time containing Russell's sharp "free noise manifesto," "What is Free?," along with an enlightening discussion between Russell and Galbraith and a study of the Jacobean litterateur and nobleman Thomas Urquhart.




Jerusalem, Street of Graves (2000)

Consummate musicians, the trio of Alastair Galbraith, Bruce Russell, and Peter Stapleton appear in numerous collaborations and project from this small but highly productive scene. With all Handful of Dust recordings the only prerequisite is total free form with no composition or rehearsals -- somewhat modeled on European free improvisation collectives AMM and MEV's approach. The results from these post-punkers is far-less academic than the older guard of improvisation, and Handful of Dust wrestle with feedback and noise in a similar fashion to Japanese underground rockers Fushitsusha on this CD. The industrial hum of broken machinery, electric hum, and arcing feedback build an apocalyptic one-take session which has the trio sitting on the edge of the earth, seemingly working with all the detritus discarded from other music to create their own chaotic world of noise.




I will upload the other one and some Alastair Galbraith (not sure which ones are out of print?) in a few days.