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To whom it may concern / RE : Richard Rupenus / TNB

I urge anyone who has been fucked over by Richard Rupenus to stage their very own 'TNB Anti-Performance' (or rather, 'Anti - TNB Performance') and destroy every TNB release they own.To replace any memories associated with TNB with better ones, and to deny that they ever heard of the project TNB at all.To wipe all trace and memory of TNB from this planet.You wanted Nihilism,right?! Well here you go! 'Nichts Fur Niemand'!

I am ashamed to have trusted Richard Rupenus and to have worked with him. I made two records with TNB ('Shadenklang' and the special limited edition release with artwork by VDO) One of which sells for hundreds of pounds.I never got copies of either of these records.After over a year of excuses such as 'I'll send them a.s.a.p' and 'I've been very busy with other things', I have had enough.I'm assuming he has sold the records I am owed.This has gone as far as it's going to go without taking some kind of action.Smashing up a copy of a TNB record might seem insignificant, even pointless in the grand scheme of things, but I think such basic actions can speak volumes.

At the Broken Flag festival, people were walking out of the TNB performance.Yes, it was that bad.A Parody of a Parody.Beyond an insult.Anyone who says it was a good show is a fucking moronic waste of sperm and should be turned into gas.Originally I was asked to perform at that festival but shortly before it I was told that I would be 'upsetting the applecart' if I was involved in their performance.I would not be able to live with myself had I done that.I am so glad that I was asked not to perform.

Whether or not he cares about this, I don't know.I assume he does not. For all I know he's some junky fuck up that has sold the vinyls he owes me and sent the money into his veins.For all I know he might be yet another boring alcoholic who's pissed all the cash he got from selling my work down the toilet.He might be into coke and put it all up his nose.I don't know, and to be honest, I don't care.All I know is that he owes me, and I will not stop until I get what I am owed.

It's a matter of principles and what one is willing to do to uphold them.

I'm ready to fucking burn.

Hal Hutchinson.

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−	The New Blockaders may sound like a hip Indie Rock band, and they may want you to believe such a thing to lure unsuspecting listeners. As merchants of 'anti-music,' ~~they~~ embrace Luigi Russolo's 1913 Art of Noise manifesto and although Russolo is widely credited as being the first major noise theorist, contemporary Noise artists like TNB were the first to progress from the use of noise as assault on tonality to the development of a rich, complex language capable of subtleties of shade and nuance without sacrificing any of its feral power or ability to unlock repressed personae in the listener.	+	The New Blockaders may sound like a hip Indie Rock band, and they may want you to believe such a thing to lure unsuspecting listeners. The brothers Richard (born 1950) and Philip Rupenus (born 1958), as merchants of 'anti-music,' embrace Luigi Russolo's 1913 Art of Noise manifesto and although Russolo is widely credited as being the first major noise theorist, contemporary Noise artists like TNB were the first to progress from the use of noise as assault on tonality to the development of a rich, complex language capable of subtleties of shade and nuance without sacrificing any of its feral power or ability to unlock repressed personae in the listener.

	Their manifesto (1982) proclaims, 'Blockade is resistance. It is our duty to blockade and induce others to blockade: Anti-music, anti-art, anti-books, anti-films, anti-communications. We will make anti-statements about anything and everything. We will make a point of being pointless…’ Everything about TNB entails refusal. The title of their collection Gesamtnichtswerk is important here. It reminds us of Wagner’s dream of the ‘total art work’ – the Gesamtkunstwerk, but the art is replaced by nothing.		Their manifesto (1982) proclaims, 'Blockade is resistance. It is our duty to blockade and induce others to blockade: Anti-music, anti-art, anti-books, anti-films, anti-communications. We will make anti-statements about anything and everything. We will make a point of being pointless…’ Everything about TNB entails refusal. The title of their collection Gesamtnichtswerk is important here. It reminds us of Wagner’s dream of the ‘total art work’ – the Gesamtkunstwerk, but the art is replaced by nothing.

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	They served as a major influence on legendary Noise pioneers as Merzbow and their influence on the current crop of popular crossover Noise artists such as Prurient and Wolf Eyes is immeasurable. Collaborations in recent years with artists such as Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore have brought their anti-sound to a younger and diverse audience. The metal-bashing of K2, the awkwardness of Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, the density of Macronympha and the abrasiveness of Merzbow all owe something to the anti-music of TNB. They, more than any other, define the essence of true Noise music both in art and in act.		They served as a major influence on legendary Noise pioneers as Merzbow and their influence on the current crop of popular crossover Noise artists such as Prurient and Wolf Eyes is immeasurable. Collaborations in recent years with artists such as Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore have brought their anti-sound to a younger and diverse audience. The metal-bashing of K2, the awkwardness of Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, the density of Macronympha and the abrasiveness of Merzbow all owe something to the anti-music of TNB. They, more than any other, define the essence of true Noise music both in art and in act.
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-To whom it may concern / RE : Richard Rupenus / TNB
+The New Blockaders may sound like a hip Indie Rock band, and they may want you to believe such a thing to lure unsuspecting listeners. As merchants of 'anti-music,' they embrace Luigi Russolo's 1913 Art of Noise manifesto and although Russolo is widely credited as being the first major noise theorist, contemporary Noise artists like TNB were the first to progress from the use of noise as assault on tonality to the development of a rich, complex language capable of subtleties of shade and nuance without sacrificing any of its feral power or ability to unlock repressed personae in the listener.
-I urge anyone who has been fucked over by Richard Rupenus to stage their very own 'TNB Anti-Performance' (or rather, 'Anti - TNB Performance') and destroy every TNB release they own.To replace any memories associated with TNB with better ones, and to deny that they ever heard of the project TNB at all.To wipe all trace and memory of TNB from this planet.You wanted Nihilism,right?! Well here you go! 'Nichts Fur Niemand'!
+Their manifesto (1982) proclaims, 'Blockade is resistance. It is our duty to blockade and induce others to blockade: Anti-music, anti-art, anti-books, anti-films, anti-communications. We will make anti-statements about anything and everything. We will make a point of being pointless…’ Everything about TNB entails refusal. The title of their collection Gesamtnichtswerk is important here. It reminds us of Wagner’s dream of the ‘total art work’ – the Gesamtkunstwerk, but the art is replaced by nothing.
-I am ashamed to have trusted Richard Rupenus and to have worked with him. I made two records with TNB ('Shadenklang' and the special limited edition release with artwork by VDO) One of which sells for hundreds of pounds.I never got copies of either of these records.After over a year of excuses such as 'I'll send them a.s.a.p' and 'I've been very busy with other things', I have had enough.I'm assuming he has sold the records I am owed.This has gone as far as it's going to go without taking some kind of action.Smashing up a copy of a TNB record might seem insignificant, even pointless in the grand scheme of things, but I think such basic actions can speak volumes.
+TNB always suggested more than a band or musical project. They are bent almost as much on philosophy and literary ambitions, issuing manifestos and texts and referencing the likes of Debussy and Nietzsche. TNB never set out to be part of a self-glorifying youth movement where pompous, romanticized bullshit dies hard in an endless, capitalistic magic show. Instead, they depict the emotional tonalities of an ambivalent, ambiguous new century with no form and direction. Their musical legacy offers respite from the fraudulent herd of co-opted streamlined sounds, which masquerade as experimental.
-At the Broken Flag festival, people were walking out of the TNB performance.Yes, it was that bad.A Parody of a Parody.Beyond an insult.Anyone who says it was a good show is a fucking moronic waste of sperm and should be turned into gas.Originally I was asked to perform at that festival but shortly before it I was told that I would be 'upsetting the applecart' if I was involved in their performance.I would not be able to live with myself had I done that.I am so glad that I was asked not to perform.
+They served as a major influence on legendary Noise pioneers as Merzbow and their influence on the current crop of popular crossover Noise artists such as Prurient and Wolf Eyes is immeasurable. Collaborations in recent years with artists such as Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore have brought their anti-sound to a younger and diverse audience. The metal-bashing of K2, the awkwardness of Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, the density of Macronympha and the abrasiveness of Merzbow all owe something to the anti-music of TNB. They, more than any other, define the essence of true Noise music both in art and in act.

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	Hal Hutchinson.		Hal Hutchinson.
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