List of most popular noise artists/noise history

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Who is popular in noise these days? I’ve been watching the WNC podcasts and listening to NoiseExtra interviews and those have been great. I haven’t gotten to their year end episodes yet- I just wanted your opinions.
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Paperback wrote: Fri May 06, 2022 1:15 am Who is popular in noise these days? I’ve been watching the WNC podcasts and listening to NoiseExtra interviews and those have been great. I haven’t gotten to their year end episodes yet- I just wanted your opinions.
Food for thought: the guests featured on those podcasts are generally chosen more based on the hosts’ connections than on some broad gauge of overall popularity. I think WCN, Phage, S&W, etc. all do fine work, but at the end of the day they’re businesses working with what they have: they’re not a Supreme Court for quality assurance. We’re in an interesting time because live shows have yet to come back to the same level of prominence pre-pandemic. I think once touring starts coming back, we’ll have a better picture of which people are putting in the most effort and which people keep getting invited back to perform: I think that may be a better gauge of popularity when combined with online impressions, rather than just blind impressions alone.
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Veering off topic: I only recently discovered the WCN channel on youtube. I really like the format. The interview with Vomir was really enjoyable, and the host himself seems genuinely enthusiastic and likable. But overall, a lot of the interviewees just remind me of what I dislike about "noise bros" and the whole tattoos-and-black-tees, world-weary, jaded put-on/needy, stimulation-addicted manchild sulking thing that's so prevalent within noise circles.
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¾ dead wrote: Fri May 06, 2022 11:51 pm manchild sulking
absolutely... and it's me and it's you also. but why :hissyfit: ?
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I think it's cos noise is very identity centric. for a few reasons: the emphasis in DIY; the relative obscurity of it; the themes haha... and for some reason this ends up with everyone actively neglecting their identity / personality, in a strange/ironic decentering of the person.
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¾ dead wrote: Tue Oct 27, 2020 6:03 pm It's a weird thing. I do think a lot of the early Whitehouse stuff is, um, frustrating. A "ruined orgasm" of sound, if you get my pornological parlance. But it just sits right with me. There are a few artists like this.
wdyt of the new cut hands release?



strange without being truly disorientating. it's been nearly released for months and months.
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I haven't heard it! :rofl:
I really have trouble with any motivation to keep up with new releases, so it's mostly done through hearing from a select few artists via email newsletters and seeing new releases pop up on Discogs.

I might like to give it a listen when I can though.
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¾ dead wrote: Thu Jun 16, 2022 2:04 am I really have trouble with any motivation to keep up with new releases
yeah, me too. noise is boring
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drift wrote: Thu Jun 16, 2022 2:08 am
¾ dead wrote: Thu Jun 16, 2022 2:04 am I really have trouble with any motivation to keep up with new releases
yeah, me too. noise is boring
It can be! Though I really mean that in regards to all music.
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¾ dead wrote: Thu Jun 16, 2022 3:12 am
drift wrote: Thu Jun 16, 2022 2:08 am
¾ dead wrote: Thu Jun 16, 2022 2:04 am I really have trouble with any motivation to keep up with new releases
yeah, me too. noise is boring
It can be! Though I really mean that in regards to all music.
at least it isn't all ska.
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