[audio] Merzbow live in Vienna, 18 May 2010

Merzbow live at FLUC, Vienna, 18 May 2010.

I posted this one a long time ago, but recently reworked/remixed it. So I deleted the old version and now we have this better version. This is the tour he did with superstar Hungarian drummer Balázs Pándi.

Mirrored here-

[audios] FFF, Duran Duran Duran and Zombieflesheater, live in Zurich, 24 April 2010

FFF, Duran Duran Duran and Zombieflesheater, live at Make or Break at Hangar 11, Kloten (Zurich), 24 April 2010.

Mirrored here- Mirrored here- Mirrored here-

[audio] Mark Hosler live in Tucson, 17 April 2013

Mark Hosler (of Negativland) live at Plush, Tucson, Arizona, 17 April 2013.

Mirrored here-

[audio] Crowhurst live in Los Angeles, 23 May 2013

Crowhurst live at Five Star Bar, Los Angeles, 23 May 2013.

I had a video of this entire performance up on YT for a while, but YT killed it for, what else, copyright infringement. Which has me scratching my head, because it's all pretty much improvisational noise with a drummer.

The only thing I can think is that the singer recites a few lines from the 1960s rock song House of the Rising Sun (at about 17:00 in). But it's not like the band is playing the song; the singer is just babbling off the lyrics to more improv noise with a drum beat. Is that why YT killed the video? Do they consider that copyright infringement? Ridiculous.

But what does YT care? You've heard the expression regarding monstrosity companies like Google: 'too big to fail'? Well, Google/YT isn't too big to fail, they're too big to care. There are so many thousands of videos uploaded every minute to YT, what the hell do they care if they kill one of them, even if it is on the flimsiest of justifications?

So, that video is no more. But here's the audio.

Mirrored here-

[audio] O/H live in Los Angeles, 20 March 2015

O/H live at Nuit Noire XI at Jewel's One, Los Angeles, 20 March 2015.

O/H = Rich Oddie of Orphx and Dave Foster of Huren and Teste.


Mirrored here-

Video I shot-

[audio] Otto von Schirach live in Budapest, 19 March 2010

Otto von Schirach live at A38, Budapest, 19 March 2010.

With Balázs Pándi on drums/percussion.


Mirrored here-
 
Some pictures here- https://www.a38.hu/en/picture-gallery/otto-von-schirach-volkova-sisters

[audio] Dalglish live in Los Angeles, 15 February 2015

Dalglish live at Complex, Los Angeles, 15 February 2015.

Dalglish aka OST aka O.S.T. aka Original Sound Transmissions aka Rook Vallard aka Rook Valard aka Rook Vallade aka Chris Douglas. Mirrored here-

[audio] Hecate and Nihil Fist live in Berlin, 27 Nov 2009

For my friends in Berlin. Tenth anniversary of this show, first time posting this.

Hecate and Nihil Fist, live at Cosmic Devastation at Raum 18, Berlin, 27 November 2009.

Even by Hecate's standards, this one was a rather experimental show for her I think.

It was Hecate on electronics and vocals (sounding a whole lot like Nivek Ogre on the Ain't It Dead Yet? recording), and also somebody playing electric contrabass through some effects like distortion, delay, etc..., and there might have been a third person on stage with her. I forget. It was a long time ago.

So this one leans more toward ambient noise doom drone, but it does get a bit rhythm-y in the second half. More industrial than breakcore.

Nihil Fist opened the show and just about blew the doors off the place. Hell ya.

Also playing this night was Christoph da Babalon. I did get a recording of his set as well, but his laptop was having that RAM overrun audio hiccup thing happening every 30 or 40 seconds during his entire performance. So unfortunately, that one I won't be able to post.

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[audio] Genesis P-Orridge live in Los Angeles, 17 July 2014

Genesis P-Orridge live at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 17 July 2014.

Genesis came to LA to raise money for a documentary film he was trying to make in Africa. His presentation featured a brief, live musical performance.

Musicians for the first two songs of this recording are Cyrus Rex on electronics, Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb on vocals, and Los Angeles underground music luminary Baseck on electronics.

Douglas and Cyrus Rex would go on to form Black Line shortly after this performance. I don't know if these first two songs are Black Line songs, or perhaps songs that Cyrus composed as DJMREX, which was his moniker at this time.

Genesis then grabs the mic at about 10 minutes in, and does spoken word for the remaining 10 minutes, while everybody else lays down some lovely noisy synth parts, which I think were largely improvisational.

mirrored here

[audio] David Oliphant live in Tucson, 20 Nov 2010

David Oliphant live at Solar Culture, Tucson, Arizona, 20 November 2010.

Solo performance from David Oliphant here, although you may know him from his work in Maybe Mental, Life Garden or Amnesia Quartet.

or mirrored here

[video] Author & Punisher live in SLC, 15 July 2019

I recorded another crushing set from Author & Punisher, mid July 2019, Salt Lake City.

Full set, 4k, four cameras this time.

[video] noisy show in Vienna- Assimilatah, Fall Into Dry Lungs, Hyperpiss

So I went to Vienna a couple weeks ago for my birthday. When I was packing my stuff for the week, I thought 'should I bring my recording stuff or not?' I didn't know of any shows in the week that I'd be there, and I'd asked my Viennese friends to keep an eye out for shows that week, but there was nothing on the radar.

But my audio recording setup is just a small audio recorder, my mic and mic cable, and some small adaptors. I had room in my carry-on for that, so I threw it all in there, just in case.

Good thing I did, because it turned out that a show materialized while I was there. Full-on noise show, and it was organized by a guy I knew, Wolfgang of Hirntrust Records in nearby Linz. In fact, he was playing that night, so I knew I wouldn't have any trouble recording the show.

Unfortunately I had only one camera with me. But that was good enough to get what I needed.

Hyperpiss

Fall Into Dry Lungs

Assimilatah

[audio] Zan Lyons live in Brighton, 31 May 2007

Zan Lyons live at National Noise Day, Brighton, UK, 31 May 2007.

Zan Lyons live in Brighton, 31 May 2007 by Humorless Productions on Mixcloud

Joy Through Noise live in Los Angeles, 29 March 2014

Joy Through Noise live at CELEBRATE EVERYTHING, Complex, Los Angeles, 29 March 2014.

IDM industrial drum and bass noise hybrid.

Joy Through Noise live in Los Angeles, 29 March 2014 by Humorless Productions on Mixcloud

Audio recorded, mixed and mastered by Brian Albers at Humorless Productions.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Humorless-Productions/190626074303436?ref=hl

http://www.mixcloud.com/humorlessproductions/

http://humorlessproductions.wordpress.com/

Stereo board mix 

Nady stereo condenser mic for room/audience 

Focusrite Saffire Pro24 preamp/interface 

Presonus Studio One 2 for recording and mixing 

Soundtrack Pro for mastering 

Macbook Pro

[video] Richard Devine live in Los Angeles, 22 Nov 2013

Highlights from Richard Devine's performance at CELEBRATE EVERYTHING at Complex, Los Angeles, 22 November 2013.

The full performance was about 40 minutes, and I understand that he has plans on releasing more (all?) of his footage from this night.

I'm currently working on all the rest of the video I shot this night (Loopgoat, (303) 909-1604 (Baseck + CyrusRex's one-off(?) performance), Twin Braids (Baseck + Joy Through Noise) and headliner Duran Duran Duran), and I'll have some clips up shortly.

this week on Best in Show- KK Null live in Austria 2009 and Merzbow live in Austria 2010

 

Another combo show this week with a short (~20 minutes) but really amazing live recording of KK Null in Graz from 2009, followed by Merzbow live in Vienna from the spring of 2010, a performance for which he was accompanied by drummer Balázs Pándi.

Sunday, 5pm west coast time, listen at http://mixlr.com/humorless-productions/

SkinCage and Not Breathing live in Tucson, 17 April 2013 (audio and video)

Full sets from both. All audio recorded, mixed and mastered by me. Video capture and editing by me as well.

All-star night in Arizona as these two legends opened up for Negativland mainstay Mark Hosler (who I recorded as well, but hasn't (yet?) given me the go-ahead to post his recording anywhere, so that one will remain buried in the archives for now).

Audio here (which is the same recording, but it might sound a little sharper than the YouTube audio)-

SkinCage live in Tucson, 17 April 2013 by Humorlessproductions on Mixcloud

Not Breathing live in Tucson, 17 April 2013 by Humorlessproductions on Mixcloud