[audio] Fractional live in Los Angeles, 24 September 2010

Fractional live at Das Bunker, Los Angeles, 24 September 2010.

Mirrored here-

[audio] Split Horizon live in Los Angeles, 1 December 2012

Split Horizon live at some unnamed warehouse in Los Angeles, 1 December 2012. Mirrored here-

[audio] Richard Devine live in Los Angeles, 25 February 2005

Richard Devine live at iComplex offices, 25 February 2005.

Back in the 90s in LA, there were a few dj/artist collectives that would organize the underground-y electronic music shows- Darkmatter Soundsystem (the only one that now, in 2020, still organizes shows) handled most of all the breakcore shows, Mashup Soundsystem also did breakcore shows, ELM did idm shows, usually on the harder/darker side, but sometimes not, and would regularly bring some combination of Otto v Schirach / Phoenecia / Richard Devine to town (Pet Shop show in Silver Lake is legendary!), and also Infinite Complexity aka iComplex did probably the widest variety of musics, idm and industrial and techno and dubstep and drum and bass and other random stuff.

And this is not to mention LA's long-running industrial club Das Bunker, still going strong, but quite frankly is a whole lot less underground than those others I mentioned. Although Franck and company still will have some good live acts play their hallowed halls every now and then.

This Richard Devine show was actually not a proper concert; it was a private party for about 15 or 20 people. I don't remember why Richard was in town, or if he played some other show that weekend. Honestly, I don't even know how I was invited to this one, except that iComplex head honcho Whoman is a super nice guy who thought I should be there I guess.

1 (0:00)

2 (6:51)

3 (10:13)

4 (16:23)

5 (21:19)

6 (28:33)

7 (33:21)

8 (38:09)

9 (42:48)

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[audio] Scuzi live in Oakland, 24 September 2011

Scuzi live at Cremation of Care at Zool, Oakland, 24 September 2011.

Mirrored here-

[audio] Iszoloscope live in Los Angeles, 13 August 2010

Iszoloscope live at Das Bunker, Los Angeles, 13 August 2010.

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[audio] Iceburn live in Salt Lake City, 16 July 2016

Iceburn live at Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City, 16 July 2016.

Well, this recording is a bit of a mess, but these guys are so good that I thought it was worth posting.

So what notable music artists has SLC sprouted? Besides the Osmonds? Jeez, I dunno. Can't think of any. Iceburn is literally the only name that comes to mind.

Iceburn was most active I think in the 90s and early 2000s. Then they took many years off, and if I remember correctly, this show in 2016 was a bit of a reunion show after that long hiatus.

But this recording is far from perfect. I don't remember the circumstances, but I missed the first 2 minutes 15 seconds on the board feed, and missed the first 5 or 10 seconds on the mics as well. I don't even know how this is possible when you consider that I only need to hit one record button to record both feeds. And then, when the board feed does kick in at 2:15, it has a terrible hiss on it, which you can't really hear except for between songs.

But, I shined it up pretty good.

Mirrored here-
 
One video I shot here-
 

[audio] Broken Note live in Los Angeles, 16 March 2012

Broken Note live at Blue Moon Nights, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, 16 March 2012.

Mirrored here-
   

[audio] Joy Through Noise live in Los Angeles, 15 August 2014

Joy Through Noise live at Complex, Los Angeles, 15 August 2014.

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[audio] Grypt live in Los Angeles, 20 July 2013

Grypt live at Run, Alhambra, Los Angeles, 20 July 2013.

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[audio] Cdatakill live in Denver, 15 October 2007

CDatakill live on Frequencee Mind Controlle, Denver, 15 October 2007.

CDatakill live on the radio, which I fixed up to sound like a live concert.

This was from his relatively early days, when he leaned much more toward breakcore than his later recordings. Not sure of the names of any of the songs, but I do recognize some of them, so those will have been released on albums or compilations. But there are at least a couple that are unreleased outside of this recording.

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[audio] wAgAwAgA live in Prague, 19 June 2010

wAgAwAgA live at Parukarka Bunkr, Prague, 19 June 2010.

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[audio] Moab live in San Diego, 7 December 2013

Moab live at The Casbah, San Diego, 7 December 2013.

http://www.moabband.com/

https://www.facebook.com/moabband

http://moab1969.bandcamp.com/

http://www.last.fm/music/Moab

Andrew Giacumakis, vocals and guitar

Erik Herzog, drums

Joe Fuentes, bass

Mirrored here-

One video here-

[audio] Scrap.EDX live in San Francisco, 3 February 2008

Scrap.EDX live at DNA Lounge, San Francisco, 3 February 2008.

Mirrored here-

[audio and video] Wolves in the Throne Room live in San Diego, 19 July 2014

Wolves in the Throne Room live at Ché Café at UCSD, San Diego, California, 19 July 2014.

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I don't think this is the complete show. Their songs tend to be very long, and I think they only played three this night, and I think I missed the first one. Still, the second and third songs go for more than 30 minutes, so I thought it was worth posting.

I think what happened was this-

Ché Café is just a small room on the campus of UC San Diego, and is student-run. At the time of this recording (I think they've since closed down), they had some very old equipment, and the main mixing board didn't have any way for me to record except to use the headphone jack. It had no RCA outs, no 1/8" group outs, no XLR outs, no nothing except some outputs to get the signal to the main PA speakers. That's not ideal, but I've used the headphone jack plenty of times before and I can get perfectly useable audio that way, but I would never do that without asking the person mixing the show if it was OK if I took that output, meaning that the mix engineer wouldn't be able to listen on headphones.

So, that's what I did, and no doubt the mixer guy said 'ya, no problem, I won't need headphones, I'll just listen to the PA.'

And of course, once the show starts, he realizes that he, in fact, does need them, so he doesn't even hesitate to unplug my cable so he can listen and mix the show on headphones. It's little consolation, but at least he set the mix during the first song and then plugged my cable back in for the second and third songs.

I video’d both songs. View them here-

[audio] Mr. Unruly live in Oakland, 1 June 2019

Mr. Unruly live at Oakland Secret, Oakland, 1 June 2019.

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[audio] Continues live in Los Angeles, 30 January 2014

Continues live at Complex, Los Angeles, 30 January 2014.

https://mattress.bandcamp.com/music

https://www.facebook.com/Continues-140361789324344/

You might know Dan from the legendary Californian scrapyard industrial junk punk band Babyland. Following the demise of Babyland, Dan went on to form Continues.

As one of the two people in Babyland, you'd expect that some of the sounds from Babyland would carry over to Continues. You wouldn't be totally wrong on that account. However, Continues takes a wholly more melodic approach to electronic music than Babyland, with a much heavier hand on the lush string synths and more tuneful melodies.

Dan obviously has a healthy love for the synthpop bands of the 80s and many of the post-punk and synth bands of the 80s and 90s and beyond, and he very much wears his love of those bands and those sounds on his sleeve in Continues.

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[audio] Frontline Assembly live in San Francisco, 6 June 2006

Frontline Assembly live at DNA Lounge, San Francisco, 6 June 2006.

On the Artificial Soldier tour.
Mirrored here-


(0:00) Buried Alive

(7:32) ?

(13:04) Dead Planet

(18:57) Bio-Mechanic

(24:20) Maniacal

(31:34) Backlash

(37:42) Millennium

(44:17) Prophecy

(50:51) Unleashed

(56:19) Plasticity

(1:06:19) Gun

(1:12:34) Mindphaser

(1:19:14) outro noise

[audio] Vex'd live in Leipzig, 20 November 2009

Vex'd live at The Distillery, Leipzig, 20 November 2009.

Mirrored here-

[audio] Corrections House live in San Diego, 6 January 2014

Corrections House live at Soda Bar, San Diego, 6 January 2014.

Supergroup of underground music nobility-

Mike Ix Williams of EyeHateGod on vocals

Bruce Lamont of Yakuza on saxophone

Sanford Parker of Nachtmystium on drums and electronics

Scott Kelly of Neurosis on guitar

Mirrored here-

Couple videos I shot this night-

Hoax the System

Drapes Hung by Jesus

[audio] Oake live in Los Angeles, 20 March 2015

Oake live at Nuit Noire XI at Jewel’s Catch One, Los Angeles, 20 March 2015.


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