Maurizio Bianchi

Selfportrait Maurizio Bianchi

Maurizio Bianchi (December 4 1955 in Pomponesco in the Province of Mantua) is an Italian pioneer of noise music, originating from Milan.

Biography

Bianchi began to produce music in 1979, since 1980 using electronic equipment with the avowed goal "to produce technological sounds and in such a way to work on complete realising of the modern decadence".

In the beginning, he published tapes under the alias Sacher-Pelz. In 1981, William Bennett, head of the band Whitehouse and the British Come Org. label, offered Bianchi a record contract, which Bianchi signed unchecked. It was based on a "joke contract" that Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound had sketched. The contract assumed all rights to Bianchi's work. After delivery of the tapes Bennett edited-in speeches by Nazi leaders, and instead of the relatively unsensational name MB, it was published under the alias Leibstandarte SS MB, named after the SS unit that worked as bodyguards to Adolf Hitler.

Until 1984, Bianchi published on other labels intensively as either MB or simply Maurizio Bianchi, sometimes several albums and/or tapes per year, as well as numerous tracks to compilations.

Bianchi became religious and withdrew from the music business. Much of his work is sought today by collectors, especially as they appeared in extremely small editions. In 1998, encouraged by Alga Marghen label head Emanuele Carcano, who offered him a label of his own, Maurizio Bianchi started again to make music. The label is EEs'T Records, through which he released new editions of all old MB albums, as well as many new releases.

Therefore, since 1997, he was back on the underground scene, working on several projects both in solo or in collaboration with other Italian artists (Giuseppe Verticchio/NIMH, Arnaldo Pontis and Corrado Altieri/TH26, Davide Femia/MDT, Saverio Evangelista, Matteo "Hue" Uggeri/Sparkle in Grey, Emanuela De Angelis and Eugenio Maggi/Crìa Cuervos) and international (Klaus e Danijela Jochim/Telepherique, Sandro Kaiser/Frequency In Cycles Per Second, Akifumi Nakajima/Aube, David van Ravesteijn/Land Use, Siegmar Fricke, Nobu Kasahara e Hitoshi Kojo, Maor Appelbaum, Jozef Van Wissem, Craig Hilton, Phil Julian/Cheapmachines).

Sample

In 2005 a 2-CD-Set named Blut und Nebel was released, consisting of a remix of his first ten LPs. Bianchi submitted the sets first CD, remixing the first 5 LPs from 1981 and 1982, to Wikipedia. The more than 45 minutes long track can be downloaded here, though it due to technical reasons has been split in three parts.

• "Blut Und Nebel", CD 1, Pt. 1
• "Blut Und Nebel", CD 1, Pt. 2
• "Blut Und Nebel", CD 1, Pt. 3 (all parts in .ogg format)

Discography

Leibstandarte SS MB As his releases on Come Org have been massively manipulated, Maurizio Bianchi does not count these records as part of his discography.

• "Triumph Of The Will", LP, 1981, Come Org
• "Weltanschauung", LP, 1982, Come Org
• "White Power" compilation track, 1982, Iphar

Sacher-Pelz

• "Cainus", Tape C-60, 1979
• "Venus", Tape C-60, 1979
• "Cease to Exist", Tape C-60, 1979
• "Velours", Tape C-60, 1980
• "Mutation For A Continuity", 4CD, 2001, Marquis Records
• "Clerzphase", CD-R, 2006, Stridulum Recordings
• "In Hoc Urbia Miazi", CD, 2007, Old Europa Cafe

MB / Maurizio Bianchi

• "Mectpyo Blut", Tape, 1980, Mectpyo Sounds
• "Com.SA", Tape , 1980, Mectpyo Sounds
• "Technology", Tape, 1981, Mectpyo Sounds (also as Doubletape "Technology I + II")
• "Symphony For A Genocide", LP, 1981, Sterile
• "Menses", LP, 1982, Mectpyo Sounds
• "Mörder Unter Uns / Neuro Habitat", LP, 1982, Mectpyo Sounds
• "Regel", LP, 1982, Mectpyo Sounds
• "Mectpyo Bakterium", LP, 1982, DYS
• "Das Testament", LP, 1983, Mectpyo Sounds
• "The Plain Truth", LP, 1983, Broken Flag
• "Endometrio", LP, 1983, Mectpyo Sounds
• "Carcinosi", LP, 1983, Mectpyo Sounds
• "Armaghedon", LP, 1984, Mectpyo Sounds

• "Colori", CD, 1998, EEs'T Records
• "First Day Last Day", CD, 1999, EEs'T Records
• "Dates", CD, 2001, EEs'T Records
• "Frammenti", CD, 2002, EEs'T Records
• "Antarctic Mosaic", CD, 2003, EEs'T Records
• "Maurizio Bianchi Plays The Clockwork Orange", LP, 2003, Marquis Records
• "Cycles", CD, 2004, EEs'T Records
• "A M. B. Iehn Tale", CD, 2005, Small Voices
• "Mind Us Trial", 2CD, 2005, EEs'T Records
• "M. I. Nheem Alysm", CD, 2005, Silentes
• "Dead Colours", CD, 2005, Silentes
• "Niddah Emmhna", CD, 2005, Silentes
• "Mokushi XVI, XVI", MP3, 2006, Mirakelmusik
• "Blut Und Nebel", CD, 2006, Slaughter Productions
• "The Testamentary Corridor", CD, 2006, Silentes
• "603...Annus Mundi", MP3, 2006, Sinewaves
• "Men's True Hated", CD, 2006, Menstrualrecordings
• "Carcimetrio", CD-R, 2006, Simple Logic
• "Escape to Bela-Zoar", CD, 2006, L. White
• "R. C. E.", CD-R, 2006, Simple Logic
• "Genocidio 20", CD-R, 2006, w.m.o/r
• "The Testamentary Corridor", CD, 2006, Silentes
• "Konkrete Klaenge", MP3, 2006, Radical Matters
• "Elisionem", CD, 2006, Klanggalerie
• "Nevrobatterio", CD-R, 2006, Authorised Version
• "Muitnelis", CD-R, 2007, Tibprod
• "The Industrious Tubal-Cain", CD-R, 2007, Shasha
• "Menstruum Regles", CD, 2007, Silentes
• "Aybasi", compact cassette, 2007, Young Girls Records
• "The Self-portrait of M. B.", CD, 2007, Silentes
• "Avaddohn", CD-R, 2007, Transmit

Collaborations

• "Chaotische Fraktale", CD-R, 2003, CPS, with Frequency In Cycles Per Second
• "Letzte Technologie", CD-R, 2004, CPS, with Frequency In Cycles Per Second
• "Final Signal", CD, 2005, CPS, with Frequency In Cycles Per Second
• "Zehn Tage/Touka", CD, 2004, Afe, with Telepherique
• "Junkyo", CD, 2005, Noctovision, with Aube
• "Mectpyo Saisei", CD, 2005, Para Disc, with Aube
• "Psychoneurose", CD, 2005, Manifold, with Land Use
• "Secluded Truths", CD, 2005, Silentes, with NIMH
• "Together's Symphony", CD, 2005, Silentes, with NIMH
• "Arkaeo Planum", CD, 2006, Small Voices, with TH26
• "The House Of Mourning", CD, 2006, Radiotarab/Coldcurrent, with Telepherique
• "Endokraniosis", CD-R, 2006, Tibprod, with Siegmar Fricke
• "Genologic Technocide", CD-R, 2006, Spatter/Pagan Moon, with MDT
• "The Epidemic Symphony No. 9", CD, 2006, Octpia, with Nobu Kasahara and Hitoshi Kojo
• "Stroma-Konkret", CD, 2006, Monochrome Vision, with Siegmar Fricke
• "Environmental Meditations", CD, 2006, Topheth Prophet, with Maor Appelbaum
• "Regolelettroniche", CD, 2007, Baskaru, with Emanuela de Angelis
• "Micromal Sonorities", CD, 2007, Artecnico Inc., with Saverio Evangelista
• "Psalmodiam", CD-R, 2007, Menstrualrecordings, with MDT
• "Das Platinzeitalter", CD, 2007, Incunabulum, with Jozef Van Wissem
• "Chaotische Fraktale/Letzte Technologie", 2CD, 2007, Silentes, with F.I.C.P.S.
• "Electrostatic Deflection", CD, 2007, Silentes, with Maor Appelbaum
• "Der Abgrund", CD, 2007, Silentes, with Frequency In Cycles Per Second
• "Erimos", CD, 2007, Digitalis Industries, with Hue and Fhievel
• "Nefelodhis", CD, 2007, Cold Current, with Sparkle in Grey
• "PU 94", CD-R, 2007, Simple Logic, with Craig Hilton
• "Primordium", CD-R, 2007, The Eastern Front, with Siegmar Fricke

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Maurizio Bianchi

• New releases of Maurizio Bianchi / M.B.
• Bianchi-Essay (until 1998) and Interviews (until 2001)
• Bianchi-fansite with complete discography and interview
• Short bio- and discography
• Biodiskography at Discogs
• Download site for the mp3 album Mokushi XVI, XVI
• White Power

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