Damion Romero’s project Speculum Fight rides the American noise railways as we discuss 1997’s “Highball” CD on WIN Records. Damion gave us some background information on this album as well as his equipment and inspiration around this time. Put on your engineer’s cap and enjoy the scenery thru the lens of Speculum Fight. Cool web archive photos from MSBR’s siteFollow us on Instagram: @noisextraFollow us on Twitter: @noisextraaaSupport us on Patreon: patreon.com/noisextra Recent Listening:Cherry Point “Buried Alive”Kjostad “Extinictionst”Richard Ramirez “Tragic Birth Forming”Linekraft “Industrialized Criminals History”Banetoriko “Sakasa no Kikiro-men Yori”Banetoriko “Beside the Sluice”Tangerine Dream “Phaedra”SDEM “Deloc”

As nearly every classic Japanese noise artist has cited Tangerine Dream as a huge influence, we thought it was time to cover them and their “Zeit” double album from 1972. One of the very first full on experimental ambient records, “Zeit” sends us all on an abstract sonic path while we dig up the roots of what makes up everyone from Aube to Merzbow to Nord and countless other noise legends. Touch the haunting heavens with this masterpiece of experimental art. Follow us on Instagram: @noisextraFollow us on Twitter: @noisextraaaSupport us on Patreon: patreon.com/noisextra Recent Listening: Anenzephalia “Noehaem”Dissecting Table “Between Life and Death”Empty DNA “Moon Crawls Above”K. Leimer “Music for Land and Water”Marc Barreca “Twilight”

Are we in the cosmos? Underwater? The jungle? It’s possible we are in all three at the same time with Nord “Electronic Initiation.” Nord is one of the earliest Japanese noise projects, and this brain buster of a CD came almost 20 years into Nord’s existence. Midway through the episode, we got messages from Kimihide Kusafuka, aka K2, aka owner of Kinky Musik Institute, the label that put this CD out. Kusafuka gave us some behind the scenes info on “Electronic Initiation” including one bit of information that changed our whole perception of the album. Follow us on Instagram: @noisextraFollow us on Twitter: @noisextraaaSupport us on Patreon: patreon.com/noisextra Recent listening:Gnawed – Subterranean Rites CDMegaptera – A Horse in the Eye is Part of the Art LP+CDPleasure Island – Special Forces LPIrgun Zwai Leumi – Klirrfaktor LPMoral Order – Examples of Solipsism 12″Geography of Hell – Live IGeography of Hell – Live IILinekraft – Death Still Persist CDXX Committee – Network CDMacronympha – Super Oxide CD

Aaron Dilloway takes us on a time traveling journey, as far back as the 1920s, to get into some of the earliest roots of experimental music with “Sounds of New Music” on the legendary Folkways Records. This compilation features works from avant garde composers like John Cage and Edgar Varese, as well as some strange instructional tracks and other primitive sonic experiments. Hear the sounds of the distant past and understand the sounds of the future. Follow us on Instagram: @noisextraFollow us on Twitter: @noisextraaaSupport us on Patreon: patreon.com/noisextraPuchase this album here: https://folkways.si.edu/sounds-of-new-music/contemporary-electronic/music/album/smithsonian Recent Listening:Dead Body Love “Low-Fi Power Carnage”Dead Body Love “Maximum Dose”Heat Signature “Dehumanization in Progress”Striations “Campaign of Cruelty”Blunt Force Trauma “Bled Out”Contagious Orgasm “Voltage Controlled Filter”The Cherry Point “Black Witchery”Sewer Election “Sex/Death”Lasse Marhaug “the Great Silence”Ordo Equilibrio “Reaping the Fallen – The First Harvest”Francisco Lopez/Scott Arford “Solid State Flesh/Solid State Sex”

Shredding down the sun-drenched modified noise guitar highway we go with Solmania’s “Trembling Tongues.” A very unique Japanese noise project, Solmania delivers some psychedelic overdrive noise. We go through an interview with Masahiko Ohno from Bananafish #9 and and get into his own noise world. Greh pronounces Solmania one way, Tara pronounces it another way, and Mike bounces between the two, which is only fitting when discussing this wild CD of noise madness. Follow us on Instagram: @noisextraFollow us on Twitter: @noisextraaaSupport us on Patreon: patreon.com/noisextra Recent Listening:Actus “Egy Út Az Erő És A Rendszer Birodalmába = A Way To The Empire Of Strength And Order”Pirkan “s/t”International Mail Music Group “s/t”Corporate Park “Exchange”Bacillus “I Hope You Get Better Soon But You Probably Won’t”Incapacitants “Fabrication”

Pete Swanson joins us to melt icebergs and flood alleyways with “Cities in Fog” by Jeff Greinke. Swanson recommended this strange ’80s muted atmospheric haze for us to cover and we couldn’t have been happier to swim in this watery abyss. Pete brings his deep knowledge of obscure experimental scenes and sounds as we discuss where this album comes from and where it takes us. Let the dark tides roll in. Check out Pete’s label Freedom to SpendFollow us on Instagram: @noisextraFollow us on Twitter: @noisextraaaSupport us on Patreon: patreon.com/noisextra Recent Listening:Hermit/Thirdorgan “Dead Tech Machine Gallery”Ruhr Hunter “Ritual Before the Hunt”Umbra “Unclean Spirit”John Duncan “The Tailing”Kjostad “Environment Electronics”Form Hunter “s/t”Strafe Fur Rebellion “Vogel”Bill Fontana “Landscape Sculpture With Fog Horns”Pierre Huguet “P.N.G.”McCann/Twomey/Sullivan “Saturday Night”Lauren Pakradooni “Flite”Leo Kupper “Kouros Et Kore/Innomine”John Van Rymenant “Memory Stop” and “Scan Lines”Mike Cooper “World Slide” and “Rayon Hula”Jack Briece “Heterophonious Fool”Eugene Carchesio “Circle Music”Lisa Lerkenfeldt “The Speed Of Images”claire rousay “A Heavenly Touch”

In our first journey to the Netherlands, we encounter the fantastic DMDN “Agonistes 1 & 2” cassette on G.R.O.S.S. and fall headfirst into its grinding swirl. Sjak Van Bussell, the man that is DMDN, gave us some incredible information behind this tape. He also filled us in on other aspects of his work, including his band THU20, his label Midas Music, and his time touring with Merzbow and the Haters in 1989. Celebrate noise. Follow us on Instagram: @noisextraFollow us on Twitter: @noisextraaaSupport us on Patreon: patreon.com/noisextraInterview with Mike on Port City Sound Check out Vital – The Complete Collection book Recent listeningThe Haters “Mind the Gap”The Haters “Drunk on Decay”The Haters “In the Shade of Fire”The Haters/Con-Dom “Enraptured Violence”Drape Excrement “Sic Transit Gloria Mundia”Lionel Marchetti “Sirrus”Arv & Miljo “Orientering I Denna Värld”Altar of Flies “Let New Life Rise In The Face Of Death”The Rita “The Voyage of the Decima MAS”

Through the advent of teleportation technology, Chris Sienko returns to Noisextra and we all go the farthest back in time yet with Robert Ashley’s “The Wolfman.” Sienko lays down some serious information. “The Wolfman” is an absolute precursor to noise as we know it, and we dig our claws into this destructive piece of sound as well as Ashley’s work in the 1980s. Noise history lesson is in session. Follow us on Instagram: @noisextraFollow us on Twitter: @noisextraaaSupport us on Patreon: patreon.com/noisextra

It is time for another entry in the Pure series as we dig into one of the more obscure titles under the Pure banner in the form of Rend “Proberta Gerber.” We were able to get in touch with Sean, the man behind Rend, and he provided us with some great information not only on this CD, but also on his work with the Plague in Perspective label. No time like now to dig deep and get washed away by Rend. Follow us on Instagram: @noisextraFollow us on Twitter: @noisextraaaSupport us on Patreon: patreon.com/noisextra Recent listening:Ames Sanglantes “Human Pillar”Ames Sanglantes “Mega Star Barbies”Black Leather Jesus “Juliet of the Spirits”Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement “Water Witches”Black Sand Desert “Concavity”Black Sand Desert “Blight”Blister Pack “Swing, Brother, Swing”Mistletoe “Perchta”Mistletoe “Vampyric Gaze 1918” Mistletoe “Gestas & Dismas”Demons of Mind Music “Night of the Infernal Mistress”Plague Mother “Wither & Scatter”Chaos as Shelter / Ruhr Hunter “One”Hive “Demiurge”