Weapons Cache

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[Susan Lawly | Very Friendly | Whitehouse | WIlliam Bennett | UK]

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The newest project of William Bennett of UK noise/industrial legends Whitehouse.

“William Bennett, with or without Whitehouse, is a complicated man. Cut Hands, his latest project, might initially seem like a departure from the harassing Noise-critique of Whitehouse, but there are continuities….Cut Hands is one of the only truly thoughtful responses to the question of where Noise can go next, because it at once breaks with and continues it so profoundly. Afro Noise I is a remarkable record, whichever way you look at it, and it will be interesting to see how Bennett’s dedicated fans react to it. If he no longer says anything out loud, it’s because he doesn’t need to. Menacing, intricate and every bit as cerebrally scarring as any viciously dark synthpolemic, the sound does the work for him.”

– The Wire Magazine, June 2011

AFRO NOISE: VOL 1

“#5 Best Album of the Year” — Boomkat

“#6 Best Album of the Year” — Quietus

“One of only two or three albums released this year that deserves your time, your money and your attention.” — FACT Magazine

Cut Hands sound sample here.

TM EYE
[Pittsburgh, PA | Machine Age Records and Studio]

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“While TM Eye’s music is wholly danceable, song titles like ‘Pollution’ and ‘Deepwater Horizon’ suggest the electronics – and – vocals duo is up to something more than just kicking out
party jams. Its aesthetic is steeped in cultural references and the music is a fusion between song – based writing and classic dance music influences. The sound of TM Eye is distinctly shaped by Pittsburgh’s post – industrial legacy and its effect on the people and the landscape of the city. TM Eye is Phil Boyd, best known as the singer and guitarist in Modey Lemon, and Preslav Lefterov, an electronic music producer and one of the founders of Machine Age studios in Pittsburgh. The band came together in late 2009 and performed their first shows in early 2010. TM Eye has supported Blondes, Matthew Dear, and Girl Talk in Pittsburgh over the past year.”

TM Eye sound sample here.

TROGPITE
[Pittsburgh, PA | Sabbath Reality | Lighten Up Sounds]

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“Slamming yet minimal industrial landscapes constructed with tape loops, samplers, electronics and voice. Trogpite is the curious moniker of [Pittsburgh, PA] based sound artist Nick Painter. He has been involved with various crews of sonic delinquents over the years including Lord Bird Golden Cobra (w/ Kenneth Painter Jr.), Fuck Telecorps (w/ Edgar Um Bucholtz), Casual Approach (w/ Joseph Roemer), Cock Scene Investigator (w/ Ed Um and Joe Roemer) and Veras Unlimited (w/ an early Lighten Up split cassette release under their belt) to name a few. This new long play cassette collects a full hour of solo electro-creep. Greased tape-loops and loose grooves are slowly piled up and ultimately destroyed. Not overwhelmingly harsh, but totally rhythmic and sleazy minimalism. Beats, grunts and nasty moods.” — Lighten Up Sounds label description of ‘Noise Nancy’ c60 cassette

Trogpite sound samples here.’

sets between acts from:

DJ SLINKY and TESCO JANE

The Cut Hands US Tour is a project of Tesco USA

@ THE SHOP
4314 Main Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15224

8pm to 11pm
$8 Presale
$10 at the Door

Sunday, October 23 at 9PM
21+ $5
Brillobox [4104 Penn Avenue]

Live electronic music performances from:

- Xanopticon [San Francisco, Peace Off, Hymen Records]
Pittsburgh native in town for the night while on tour with Zola Jesus

- Disheveled [Pittsburgh]
industrial solo project of Greg Vaneck from local duo Prometheus Burning

- Mind Tiger [Pittsburgh]
aka Dream Weapon, aka Syne Lapse Variate

- Rolling Ruler [Pittsburgh]
collaboration of Vasculator [Void Tactical Media] and Luke Owens [Technoir]

- Relative Q [dj set, Pittsburgh, Young Robots, ultrawizardsword]
the driving force behind the ultrawizardsword podcast

More information:

http://rhinoplex.org/xanopticon

http://www.myspace.com/mindtiger

http://rhinoplex.org/vasculator

http://technoiraudio.com/

http://relativeq.youngrobots.com/

TICKETS: http://www.showclix.com/ev?ent/52261 / $10 / Belvedere’s / 21+

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PICTUREPLANE (Denver/Lovepump United)
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TEENGIRL FANTASY (Oberlin/True Panther, Merok)
http://www.myspace.com/tee?ngirlfantasy

GATEKEEPER (Chicago/Hippos in Tanks, Merok, Fright, Upstairs)
http://www.myspace.com/iii?gatekeeperiii

w/ MAJEURE (Pittsburgh)
CUTUPS (Pittsburgh/Stackin Paper)

[Visuals]
CASEY HALLAS (Pittsburgh)

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http://www.facebook.com/VI?A.Pittsburgh

http://twitter.com/#!/via_?pgh

http://vimeo.com/viapgh

LAST PARTY BEFORE THE RAPTURE,
midwest style electronic mayhem // broken neo rave tunes // steamcrunk // corrosive electro // booty bass for space druids

COME GET WRECKED
oakland, CA
location details to be announced on the day of the party!
$7

// CUTUPS, DJ : wrecked, rhinoplex, lazercrunk, Pittsburgh

http://soundcloud.com/cutups/cutups-astral-flash

http://soundcloud.com/cutups/cutpus-five-million

// DIMENTIA, LIVE : katabatik, void tactical media, Oakland

http://soundcloud.com/voidtacticalmedia/dimentia-x24sfbay

http://www.katabatik.org/dimentia

http://soundcloud.com/dimentia

// 8CYLINDER, LIVE : unmapped north, thac0, rhinoplex, Pittsburgh

http://unmappednorth.com/releases.html

// INTONER, DJ : contortion, death guild, Oakland

http://soundcloud.com/voidtacticalmedia/intonerdjset-x24sfbay

// HEARTWORM, LIVE : slowleak, 5lowershop, San Francisco

http://soundcloud.com/heartworm

JUST ADDED FOR BONUS AWESOMENESS:

// WMX, LIVE : So Simple, LA

http://soundcloud.com/wmx

// XANOPTICON, LIVE : hymen, thac0, San Francisco

http://soundcloud.com/xanopticon

// SPLIT HORIZON, LIVE : void tactical media, katabatik, oakland

http://soundcloud.com/splithorizon

// Video by Panoptix, 8Cylinder, and Moiré
// Massive sound by POD SOUNDSYSTEMS (aka heath sound yah!)

FROMTHEGUT, VOID TACTICAL MEDIA, and RHINOPLEX present a night of experimental electronic mischief, midwest style, featuring longtime Pittsburgh collaborators and solid exciting local support.

10PM – 4AM
at
Fredericks of Hollywood
oakland

Wednesday, May 4th
WRECKED and FRONT 412 presents:

FROM THE ASHES
A night of renegade electronic music

Featuring live performances by:

ASCHE – (Ant-Zen/Germany)
PROMETHEUS BURNING
ANALOG PLEASURE MODEL – (feat Shawn Rudiman)
DJ CUTUPS

BRILLOBOX
4104 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224

21+ Event, $7 in adv. $10 at the door

http://www.myspace.com/aschefichart

http://www.prometheus-burning.com/

http://soundcloud.com/analog-pleasure-model

http://cutupsmethod.com/

Sunday April 10 at 8:30 PM
21 and over, $5
Belvedere’s [4016 Butler Street]

Performances by:

- Yatagarasu [Austin, Texas]
8-bit electronic hardcore

- Bubblegum Octopus [Verona, New Jersey]
synth pop/picothrash/digigrind

- Bit Mummy [Pittsburgh]
8-bit electrochip

- Ag Ag Lady [Pittsburgh]
synth pop/experimental electronics

- 8cylinder [Pittsburgh]
abstract lo-fi hardcore

More information:

http://www.myspace.com/yatagarasu

http://www.myspace.com/bubblegumoctopus

http://www.myspace.com/8bitmummy

http://www.brokewhorerecords.com

http://rhinoplex.org/8cylinder

thursday april 14th

destroy your inhibitions with

CAPTAIN AHAB
…deathbombarc / dualplover / los angeles
genre defying fun – anything goes and probably will

plus live sets from pgh ragers

SYPHILIS SAUNA
total trashtronica behind backwards NE and overground studios

COMIC STRIPS
young, hungry, electro bangers, with releases on crux, rot10 and more

and sliced and mixed up tunes from CUTUPS

8PM Door / All Ages / $6

at The Shop
4314 Main Street
Bloomfield, Pittsburgh

links

http://www.captain-ahab.com/

http://soundcloud.com/comic-strips

http://soundcloud.com/syphilis-sauna

more info, about their latest album “The End of Irony”:
For far too long we have loved things in the name of “guilty pleasures.” What is, and what is not cool can be so fickle. To protect ourselves, we have reinvented irony to serve as a silly suit of armor that says: “I’m just kidding around, so don’t get all judgy-pants on me.” Of course, this type of behavior just made accusations of hipster-ness fly off the handle. When it really comes down to it though, we all know that having fun shouldn’t be a crime. That is why Captain Ahab has declared The End of Irony. In fact, that’s what their fucking new album is called! It’s called The End of Irony.

Do you love Powermetal even though it is just for thirtysomething LARPers? Well, good for you! Shout it to the sky! Do you like shaking your ass to some Electro-Clash even though your neighbor scoffs because you forgot it’s called Nu-Rave now. Well fuck names! Do you want to cuddle in the morning sunlight to some 70’s Soft Rock, but your sweetie-pie thinks you’re making fun of him/her? Dude, making love is awesome, and sometimes being sappy isn’t a bad thing! Captain Ahab knows how you feel. They love all these criminalized sounds and many more, and they combine them in a way that irony would never permit. There is serious commitment going on here. Commitment to making epic songs that defy expectation, trends, and any sort of cool-factor. But we’re not talking about some lazy mash-up album, here. They have composed these songs from scratch. The album creates a meticulous and sweeping cosmology that would satisfy even the headiest of 70’s prog heshers. Captain Ahab is fucking committed to freeing your soul! No short cuts on this album. Is that a live guitar player? Yeah, duh! Every band has one of those. So what do you think of this live orchestra then? How about this master sitar player flown out from India to play in a room next to a guy with a modular synthesizer the size of the WOPR. These songs are the real deal, passionate and unafraid. They’re the result of Captain Ahab’s dedication to their audience. If you are ready to be set free, then your lucky day has come. All you need to do is LISTEN!

Captain Ahab is Jonathan Snipes and Jim Merson from Los Angeles, CA. Jonathan writes, records, performs and produces the music, while Jim physicalizes the songs in live performance with aggressive “take off your pants” dancing action. They have appeared alongside No Age, HEALTH, Mika Miko, High Places and many others in the films ‘Live at the Smell’ & ‘40 Bands in 80 Minutes’ as well as shared stages with the likes of Kid606, Cylob, DAT Politics, Glass Candy, mc chris, John Frusciante, Richard Devine, and 3OH!3. In 2011 Captain Ahab will tour Australia and New Zealand for tours, as well as their eighth tour of the USA.

Also some videos:

Captain Ahab – I Don’t Have a Dick LIVE @ the Smell from Captain Ahab on Vimeo.

CAPTAIN AHAB “The End Of Irony” from Deathbomb Arc on Vimeo.

Thursday January 20 at 8PM
All ages, $5
Overground Studios (3481 Denny Street)

Live chiptunes and 8-bit breakcore from:

- Nullsleep (8bitpeoples, New York City)
- Syphilis Sauna (Backwards Records, Pittsburgh)
- Mind Tiger (Pittsburgh)

with a DJ set from:
- Xanopticon (Hymen, Pittsburgh)

More information:
http://nullsleep.com/
http://soundcloud.com/syphilis-sauna
http://mt23.bandcamp.com/
http://rhinoplex.org/xanopticon

Highly recommended event in Detroit this Dec 31st. – cutups

http://www.voidtacticalmedia.org/x24d/

After x24 at extent, we bounce it back to core for a solid New Year’s Eve party in Detroit. RMS, stalwart contributor to Katabatik Soundsystem, will be joining up with us as Additiv, Vasculator, Xanopticon, and Split Horizon all flow through as well. Local support from Killx8 and Redrot rounds out the night for the dawning of our next year. Full scale with solid sound, x24 continues our tradition of community grounded, cutting edge events. Come check out where we are headed, it’s looking awesome…

Full Lineup:
RMS – SFBay
Additiv – SFBay / Berlin
Vasculator – Pittsburgh
KillX8 (who IS this??)
Split Horizon – Detroit
Xanopticon – Pittsburgh
Redrot – Detroit

This event is 21+, BYOB. Location is Eastern Market Detroit.
$10, or $8 with rsvp to x24@voidtacticalmedia.org
Void Tactical Media : http://www.voidtacticalmedia.org
Sister Event in SFBay : http://www.voidtacticalmedia.org/x24

saturday dec 11th

a wrecked smasher with special guests

EUSTACHIAN
Splatter Breakcore, Art Metal, DSP grind,
Power Violence, Neo Horror Scores, and Spooky Dance-tronic
from San Francisco on Murder Channel, Ad Noiseam, Death$ucker, Fathme

CHEEZFACE
slime blasted electronic punk

http://www.myspace.com/cheezfacemusic

plus locals

DISHEVELED
doom beats from proburn’s vaneck

XANOPTICON
eviscerated rhythms

The Shop, 4314 Main St in Bloomfield
$5 cover / All Ages / 8PM – Midnight