(check out that sweet Morphophoneon on the cover from 1951, its a tape loop with multiple playback heads for to create delay)I got this comp the other day at Waterloo Records of rare and/or previously unpublished noise and electronic music from the 1920s to present. The album is 2 disk, includes 26 tracks, and also comes with a 56-page booklet (that i have yet to read in its entirety.) The comp was put out by Sub Rosa, an ambient/industrial/noise/electronic label based in Belgium.
The first disc shows the more electronic side of noise music history. Its purpose seems to be to try to tie the ambient/electronic noise of recent years to experimental and ambient composition of the past. Its includes mostly tracks from the 1960s which to me sound just as avant-garde and show just as much (if not more) progressive artistic insight as the tracks on the cd from the 1990s and 2000s.
The second disk in my opinion is where teh reel gold is found!!1! This disk seems to highlight the concrete/tape music side of noise. Its star tracks are both amazing tape music pieces from the 1960s, 1- Antithese by Mauricio Kagel and 5- Electro-poeme by Leo Kupper, both which remind my greatly of Lucky Dragon's album Hawks and Sparrows.
If you like noise but your understanding of it's history doesn't go beyond the 1980s this something you should definitely take the time to check out.
-Greg
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If it's not militant walls of harsh, don't expect to see me listening to it.
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