Abstinence

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Abstinence is an experimental industrial music project founded in 1985 in Belmar, New Jersey, USA, now based in Brooklyn. Its sound ranges from bombastic to noise, ambient soundtrack to industrial music and uses video/audio dialog and sound samples.

Since 1982, Abstinence has created experimental industrial music that follows in the traditions of the Beats, the Dada movement, the Futurism movement, punk rock, the origins of industrial music, the freedom of the experimental art movement and the human rights art movement.

Abstinence utilizes tunnels, decommissioned military bases, warehouses, bathrooms, abandoned buildings, basements, freeway underpasses and various indoor/outdoor environments as sound laboratories to create unique soundscapes that coalesce with power tools, a variety of traditional analog / digital instrumentation and percussion.

Discography

Full length albums and EPs

• Revolt of the Cyberchrist (1994, Furnace Records/Silent Records)
• Theorem (1995, Furnace/Silent)
• The Path of Maximum Resistance (2005, s6k media)

Singles

• Frigid 12" EP (1994, Furnace/Silent)

Compilation appearances

• Hellscape (1995, Furnace/Silent) includes the songs "Interference" and "Screaming Into the Void VSmix: (Virtually Silent Mix)"
• New Industries (1995, Dynamica Records - Germany) includes the song "Frigid Changes"
• Hellscape 2 (1995, Furnace/Silent) includes the song "Fractured/Assassinate the Beat"
• Operation:Beatbox (1996, Reconstriction Records/Cargo Records)^{[disambiguation needed ]} includes the song "Two-Three-Break"
• Ikebana : Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused And Recycled (2003, Important Records) includes the song "Freq"

Filmography

• Backyard Glances soundtrack Alva Skateboards (1987) includes the song "Level 7"
• Multiple Cross Wounds unreleased video (1991)

Members

Current

• Darryl Hell (1985–present)
• John Bechdel (1993–1996, 2004–present)
• Deftly-D (2004–present)

Past members

• Steve Herring
• Bill Kuegler
• Mike Roberts
• Eloise Mourning
• Paul Raven
• J.Burns
• Jerry Franklin
• Bill Latshaw
• Tommy Latshaw
• Tommy Walling
• Mark Yard
• Mike Scrivani
• Greg Hunt
• Terry Hughes

Related bands

• Operation Mindwipe
• Rock'it Society
• Patient 4311
• Nau-Zee-auN
• Zero Times Infinity

External links

• Home page
• s6k.com Aartivist site run by Darryl Hell
• Voidstar Productions
• Furnace Records on discogs.com