Extreme Volume Pop

Shitcore: An Appreciation by ablablablablabla

extremevolumepop — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:18:04 +0000

I’ve been parodied. I’m a bit flattered.

Shitcore: An Appreciation

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Shitcore is dark and fast music using no melodic development to express its themes. Where noisecore and harsh noise warned us of the apocalypse, shitcore assumed it as society wailed on toward demise with a whimper and not any drastic warning-type motion. Civilization has become decadent and valueless, and escaping the cycle of rebellion shitcore projects a world before the moralization of values, in which personal values can triumph. Shitcore denies inherent value in tone and ideal, and deconstructs the overbearing sense of world and social bounds around us with primal noise bearing no complexity in texture and theme. The anti-music and lifestyles of the shitcore genre employ intuition and logic to replace deconstructed illusion with structuralist sensibility and a sensitivity toward existential value. Unlike most noise which focuses on humanist or romantic themes, shitcore articulates the lawless extremity of nature.

It’s like listening to a fan slowly playing an early Mozart piece. Shitcore is similar.

I’m convinced that a lot of HNW and power electronics is music designed for children because is it painfully simple and repetitive. People like it because it’s obscure, kvlt, whatever… the truth is that it’s atonally simplistic, goes nowhere in song development, and showcases no really unique ability except to waste your time. Maybe that’s the artistic point — emptiness — but then listening to a blank tape is more effective, and pleasant.

Listen to shitcore if you want to distract yourself, fragment your concentration and dull your possibilities of ever understanding the difference between good noise and crap.

Reposted from Chondritic Sound Forum

Noise

extremevolumepop — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:13:51 +0000

Rock music, particularly the more negative, abrasive forms of it, has a harsh, caustic wavelength I think, whether one finds a song individually enjoyable or not. It seems to engender death. Hence: so many dead “rock stars”…

Noise, whether rythmic or abstract, seems entirely more in keeping, at least sonically, with the focus of the human mind, no matter what the individual thematic content may comprise. It may have something to do with unintentional alpha wave frequencies in certain electronic music, but it seems to, at times, touch a very spiritual place conventional music cannot go.

Noise feels right to the ear, as life is full of random noise, and stimulates the soul, whereas rock simply agitates some reptilian part of the brain that is focused on survival, kill or be killed, fight or flight…I have never been as elevated, emotionally, during a rock song, as I have during the playback of certain electronic frequencies or rhythms. At least, on an unconscious level.

Hence, while pure noise may be the new extreme, it is certainly, oddly, more in keeping with the original intention of pure music, than anything that has ever come out of rock.

Noise functions as a form of sonic thaumaturgy, asking of the listener what ordinary music cannot: that he adapt to the sound, rather than the sound adapting to what may be his natural taste. There is no pretension of “good’ vs. “bad” with noise, only the article itself. If music is entertainment, then noise is conditioning. Noise replicates life instead of romanticizing it.

At any rate, once the listener has been conditioned to accept abstract noise as the new extreme, where else can music go except…silence?

I find, as I get older, that I have a greater contempt for rock, a greateer appreciation of Mozart, and a greater understanding of why, exactly, noise is so effective an instrument of communication between an artist and an audience. It simply appeals to certain religious and masochistic tendencies that have never been bred out of mankind. It is, obviously, the next logical step in musical evolution, and one that I have been proud, in my own small way, to be a part of. Give me Noise!

Some New Sounds

extremevolumepop — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:09:24 +0000

Haven’t updated in a long while, but…here are some new sounds.

“Rummaging Through the Dysgenics Lab”

“Alien Possession”

Strange Dreams

extremevolumepop — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:06:11 +0000

I had a dream last night that I was feeding a cat that shape-shifted into Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. That was right after I found myself the last man in the world, tasked with the awful responsibility of impregnating many hot, young, fertile babes so as to replenish the planetary population.

Somewhere in there, I discovered an odd book full of newsclippings that had the name Jim Goad listed as “author”.

(Scary Lost Highway whisper)
But it wasn’t Jim Goad.
It…looked like…Jim Goad…
…But it wasn’t Jim Goad.

(Actually the picture in the book that was supposed to be Jim Goad looked nothing like him. It actually looked more like Wally George.)

Any ideas on the meaning of all this?

BTW: Here’s the REAL Jim Goad: Jim Goad Official Website

Quote for the Day

extremevolumepop — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:30:52 +0000

“We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission,” said Harry Schoell, the chief executive of Cyclone Power Technologies, one of the companies behind the machine.

Link

Audio Ugly 6

extremevolumepop — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:00:50 +0000

Well it took damn near forever to get done, but here it is and it ain’t, a they say, all that bad. Note: Right now it can only be downloaded as a two-side from Archive.org, for LULU has taken a shit on me for some reason.

Anyhoo:

It’s finally finished! The next great installment in the most bizarre compilation of cutting-edge musical insanity yet conceived! Audio Ugly Six is 71 whopping minutes of home recorded punk, metal, noise, experimental, electronic, ambient and inexplicable from sonic artists The Mediocres, Sick To The Back Teeth, AJE, Cranial Drill and Bad Command or File Name, plus such Audio Ugly alumni as Abe Sandoval, Tophopolis Laughing Goo, The FxDx, Rubbish, Mystified, The Soybeans, Extreme Volume Pop, Red Skulll, and Earth Incubator. Certainly one of the greatest Audio Ugly installments ever, this massive compilation of chaotic convergences will destroy the eardrums and assault the soul! 14 artists – 21 tracks!

Trax:
Side A:

1. Sick To The Back Teeth – “Blood from the Mouth”
2. The Mediocres – “I Know a Guy Who Loves to Get High”
3. Red Skulll – “Trash Invasion”
4. Extreme Volume Pop – “God is in His Holy Temple”
5. The Soybeans – “Ox Tongue Baby”
6. The Mediocres – “Track 21″
7. Sick To The Back Teeth – “Surrender”
8. The FxDx – “Heavy Metal Thunder”/”Outer Space Attack”
9. Rubbish – “Black Hawk”

Side B:

10. Mystified – “Hoedown”
11. Bad Command or Filename – “Shitting Out Your Mouth”
12. Cranial Drill – “In My Rocking Chair”
13. AJE – “My Everything”
14. Tophopolis Laughing Goo – “Hellish”/”Lurker”/”painful”/”Terror”/”Torture”
15. Earth Incubator – “You Are The Product”/ “Your Last Days”
16. Extreme Volume Pop – “Field Recordings 1 and 2″
17. Abe Sandoval – “Revelation’s Engaged”

Note: All views expressed by the artists are their own and do not reflect necessarily reflect those of the maker of this compilation.

Download here:Audio Ugly 6

Special Thanx to Chris Bennett. Sick to the Back Teeth, and that guy from the Mediocres. Can’t remember the dude’s name right now, as I am really tired.

J.G. Ballard R.I.P

extremevolumepop — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:32:02 +0000

Sad news. Author J.G. Ballard, who wrote the novels Crash and The Atrocity Exhibition, has died. He was 78. His work, a bleak look at a dystopian future as a sort of surreal, Freudian landscape of consumerism and nihilism, was a huge influence on the early industrial/noise scene. He was celebrated in several publications from V.Vale’s groundbreaking Re/Search company. At the heighth of his career, his novel The Empire of the Sun, a semi-autobiographical account of his internment in a Japanese prison camp as a boy during W.W.2, was made into a film by Steven Spielberg. His novel Crash inspired the song “Warm Leatherette” by Daniel Miller, and was made into a controversial movie by David Cronenberg in 1997.

He was a HUGE influence on the author of this blog, both as a writer and musician. The world is a little more empty and meaningless today with the news of his passing. R.I.P James Graham Ballard, Topographer of Dystopia…

Love and napalm, forever…

Link

Goo Pop

extremevolumepop — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:53:00 +0000

My and my good friend Chris (Tophopolis Laughing Goo) are working on a project together. Below are some excerpts from it.

GooPOP69

Some Stuff I’ve Been Working On

extremevolumepop — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:10:00 +0000

And there’s alot more than this, but I didn’t have the patience to upload everything yesterday.

Here

Let me know what you think. IF you think….

Extreme Volume Pop: “Mokushi”

extremevolumepop — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:26:44 +0000

Some good noise I think. If you hate it, let me know. (It won’t change anything.)

love and napalm,

Tom B.

Download here

(Yes, I am well aware that Maurizio Bianchi has a project named Mokushi, too. I just like the damn word, okay!)