The Bastard Noise is an electronic music project. The Bastard Noise has published noise music recordings under various names over the years such as Man is the Bastard Noise, MITBNoise, "The Skull" and Bastard Noise.
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History
The Bastard Noise was founded in 1991 by Henry Barnes, W. T. Nelson and Eric Wood, initially as a side project of powerviolence band Man Is The Bastard.
Project personnel and past contributors
Project Members are Joel Connell (Man is the Bastard, P.H.C., Neanderthal) W. T. Nelson (Trogotronic, Geronimo, Unicorn), Danny Walker (Intronaut, Uphill Battle, Phobia) and Eric Wood aka Throatrake (Man Is The Bastard, Antennacle, Neanderthal).
The Bastard Noise often collaborates so there are a number of notable contributors, collaborators and ex-members who have participated throughout the life of the project. Among them are Masami Akita, Henry Barnes, Bobby Bray, Buckethead, Filth, Usen Gandara, Keiji Haino, Isreal Lawrence, Josh "Ovalteen" Lewis, Tara Tavi, Justin Pearson, Jay Randall, Leila Rauf, Koji Tano and John Wiese.
Unique sound and instrumentation
Although The Bastard Noise utilizes many instruments, the project has come to be known and recognized by the idiosyncratic sound of their purpose-crafted gear unique to the project. Electro-acoustic devices such as "the Coil", controllers such as joysticks repurposed from broken arcade games and a vast array of high and low voltage analog audio generators were invented, engineered and hand-built by Henry Barnes (who builds as Amps for Christ and Guitars For Christ) and W. T. Nelson (who builds for Trogotronic) specifically for The Bastard Noise lending to the projects' distinctive sound. Recently the project has come full circle to the roots of where it began with a return to a powerviolence/progressive repertoire and traditional instrumentation such as amplified bass guitar, keys and drums along with the unique electronic instruments characteristic of its sound.
Selected discography
The Bastard Noise project has documented its work inside the recording studio, on stage and even in the kitchen with well over 100 recordings issued. Many of these were self-released, the rest were issued by select underground (and occasionally above-ground) worldwide labels such as Alien8, Deep Six, Gravity, Ground Fault Recordings, Hear More!, Helicopter Records, Housepig, Kitty Play, MSBR Records, Relapse, Thumbprint Press, Triage and Vermiform.
- (1993) U.N.D. / Bizarre Uproar / Bastard Noise (Self-Released) 3-way split 12" LP
- (1996) Merzbow / Bastard Noise: Voice Pie (Relapse Records) compact disc split album
- (1996) The Gerogerigegege / Bastard Noise: Ramones compact disc split album
- (1998) Bastard Noise / Spastic Colon: split album
- (1998) Bastard Noise: If It Be Not True (Vermiform) compact disc album
- (2000) Bastard Noise / Hospital: (Noisebludgeon) compact disc split album
- (2000) Bastard Noise: Skullwave (Helicopter) compact disc album
- (2005) Bastard Noise: The Analysis of Self-Destruction (Alien8) compact disc album
- (2007) Bastard Noise + Antennacle: collaborative 7" (Kitty Play)
- (2007) Bastard Noise / Amps For Christ / Unicorn / Antennacle / Sleestak / Hierophant: No Skull Left Unturned (Hear More!/200 mg) compact disc Three CD Multi-Split Album, Books and other materials
- (2009) Bastard Noise: Our Earth's Blood IV (Cathartic Process) Five CD box-set.
External links
References
Kopish, Brian (2007). No Skull Left Unturned. Hear More! Records & 200MG.
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