Links in Music
General Links.
World Serpent.
- E-zine Flux
has a lot of WSD-related material on its music pages.
Please check World
Serpent homepage, complete with recommendation how to join WSD mailing
list. The music pages
of Flux contain links to a number of WSD bands. Especially recommended,
Sol Invictus/Tony
Wakeford homepage,
which has lyrics to the latest SI album (In The Rain). Also, quotes from
book and interviews by Tony Wakeford.
``The older I get the more I realise that there probably is no hope or answer to the way we are. We have made this
world a mess because the vast majority of humanity are greedy, vicious and stupid and will continue to be so at
every possible opportunity.'' -- T. W.
- This was written in the Spring of 1996. Now
Flux moved (from
gold.net to easyweb.easynet.co.uk, losing ``l''
from .html's on the way) and is updated significantly.
There are a lot more World Serpent-related pages.
- The
Experimental Record Labels page of maldoror@why.net
(Joev Zoch).
Discographies of record labels, mostly affiliated with WSD.
Joev Zoch also hosts the indispensable
Alexandro Jodorowsky
homepage.
- An excellent site! Herein lies the superbly detailed homepage of
Nurse With Wound, in addition to the writings of Austin
Osman Spare. It is maintained by Jeff Reid, whose
homepage is
also recommended. Nurse With Wound is a group consisting primarily
of Steve Stapleton, surrealist and visionary. Its catalogue
contains 30+ bizzarre experimental records; in addition,
Stapleton worked with artists like Current 93, Death In June,
Tony Wakeford and Legendary Pink Dots (Stapleton worked on
``Asylum'' by LPD, one of my favourite records ever).
Temporarily out of order
- Current 93
homepage. A good one: its maintaner also writes a massive
C93 book, soon to be completed.
My favourite group. Sounds like Venusian pop music, assuming Venusians
are all schizoid depressives freaked out on acid. No
description is possible, because all albums (which are a-score)
are so much different. Related to NWW and DIJ.
-
Death in June homepage. Death in June is one of the darkest
``racialist'' (the word used by Rev. Boyd Rice to describe DIJ)
groups around. Douglas Pierce (who is DIJ for last 10 years or so)
is a genius (judging by those of his songs covered by Current 93).
Most of DIJ output I came across so far left me disappointed, and
I find Douglas' philosophy pompous and silly. ``Racialism'' I might
tolerate and even appreciate (Boyd Rice I rather like), but I object to
the lack of humor. DIJ gave birth to
Sol Invictus
who I love.
- Other great folks associated with Sol Invictus:
-
David Mellor of
Evil Twin actually maintains his own homepage -- the only
one to do so in the whole WSD crowd. And a good
homepage it is.
- The only piece of data I was able to find on
Fire+Ice, a solo project of Ian Read from Sol Invictus.
I have written
a poem after ``Fael Inis'' by Fire+Ice.
- Crisis,
a radical Trotskyist punk group, lead by Douglas P. and Tony Wakeford,
which later on became the
Death in June.
-
Ordo Equitum Solis first two or three albums (depending on
whether you count EPs) were extremely good, with the
progressive-medieval sound years before same sound became
en vogue. Tony Wakeford facilitated, wrote some lyrics,
and, in turn, OES played on some of Sol Invictus albums. Recently
OES switched from WSD to the highly inferior
Projekt label, and
here issued the bland DCD-ish Hecate album.
- Besides cutting oneself up with a razor, the only thing
to live for is Throbbing Gristle.
I'm just crazy about this group. The best thing about TG is that
you (whoever you are) won't like it.
The homepage in
Sweden looked promising
when I first found it, but it seems that no additions were made since then
(no way to check -- it`s black on black on my monitor,
due to a misguided anti-Exon move on part of a maintaner).
An page of TG
in found in archives of Michael
A. DuVernoi, which are definitely worthy one's attention
(Guy Debord, Voynich manuscript, PTV...). To think of it,
it's one of the best sites on the Net. TG split to give birth
to Coil, Psychic TV and
Chris and Cosey (a. k. a. Creative Technology Institute).
Another TG
homepage is hosted by
WWW.BRAINWASHED.COM
which also has an LPD homepage and a Coil homepage.
- This site is in Hungary, and consequently extremely
slow:
Coil Homepage. Coil is an occult/experimental group,
consisting primarily of John Balance and Peter ``Sleazy'' Cristopherson.
Before Coil, Sleazy was a member of
Throbbing Gristle,
and (with Balance) Psychick TV.
There is an
alternative site of Coil homepage.
- Here is the
Soleilmoon catalogue.
Soleilmoon carries
many kinds of obscure music evolving around industrial and gothic genres.
Most of this stuff is otherwise unavailable. Their
links page
is quite impressive.
- Not really a WSD band, Legendary Pink Dots collaborated with
Steve Stapleton, and there is much crossover of ideas between LPD
as WSD clan. Technically, though, they are a WSD band: their last two albums
``Chemical Playschool 8+9''
and
``From Here You'll Watch the World Go By'' is on WSD. LPD has
its own mailing list, cloud-zero, a huge Usenet following and a number
of homepages, containing, among other things, complete lyrics to all
LPD albums (on the latest records of LPD, you may find the Internet
address of their mailing list).
Here is the
LPD homepage,
with most cloud-zero archive, and here is an
alternative
homepage, modelled on Jeff Reid's excellent pages for
Nurse With Wound.
There was a delightfully written article,
titled The Secret Dance of the China Dolls:
The Story of the Legendary Pink Dots
on a page which is no more;
I stored a
copy locally (taken from the Cloud Zero mailing list)
- By no means a WSD group, Psychic TV
appeals to the same kind of occulto-fascist discordian
sickos and perverts. In fact, half of
WSD bands were conceived when the appropriate musicians were members
of Thee Temple of Psychick Youth or played in PTV.
PTV was founded as a broadcasting medium to
spread out the message of a new religion --
Thee Temple of Psychick Youth (TOPY).
Or may be it was all an elaborate
put-on -- does not matter. Here is one all-encompassing
site on PTV and TOPY, by Michael
A. DuVernoi (recommended to anyone interested in anarchy,
cut-ups, dadaism and everything else).
Industrial, Punk et al.
- An
Industrial page. Especially recommended is the couple of
archived Usenet
essays by BOE666 on the subject of Industrial subculture.
...As for Chris & Cosey, I think the TGT album that they
did back in 1990 anonomously along with Brian
Lustmord state their take on contemporary "Industrial"
quite well. This was a deliberately bad EBM CD, which
just happened to sound a great deal like 90% of the
crap that WaxTrax! and PIAS were churning out at the time.
The constantly repeated lyrics on "Revo" say it all:
"This is what you want/This is what you get!"...
Quite revealing.
-
Al
Crawford might be elevated to the status of net.god through
the endless reviewing of music on the Usenet, always stimulating and
fresh. I used to archive all his postings in these pre-WWW times, but now he
has his own archive, with al reviews collected. Essential site.
Al also moderates rec.music.reviews. On the same
site, you may see the
list of all
CD possessing Al Crawford.
- The Seconds magazine.
Seconds is a glossy medium-circulation magazine (mostly)
about music, consisting almost exclusively of the interviews.
I love this interview
with Genesis P-Orridge (of
Throbbing Gristle and Psychick TV fame), dealing
with GPO's expulsion from UK due to allegiance of the Satanist child abuse.
Michael Moynihan of Blood Axis does
an
interview with Whitehouse. Also,
Allen Ginsburg explains his sexual preference and ruminates
about the NAMBLA membership.
- The homepage of
Extreme Records,
with a lot of material on Muslimgauze and other Extreme artists. Muslimgauze
is is a pseudonym of Bryn Jones, an Englishman who is not a Muslim
and never was in any of Near East (or Muslim) states. The
body of work by Muslimgauze, produced for Western market
exclusively (it's probably banned in fundamentalist Muslim
states) consists mostly of the extremist
anti-Israeli propaganda, with album titles such as Hebron Massacre, Hamas Arc
and Vote Hesbollah. Jones does not seem to be able to explain rationally
his politics: I suspect that Muslimgauze is a multi-layered hoax. However
offensive his message might be for some, the music is decent.
- ``You are not supposed to enjoy a Wire gig'' quoth
Wire members. Wire was the first group who consistently pursued
that Einstuerzende Neubauten's
``Entertainment Through Pain'' shtick
(needless to say, 5 years before EN). Wire and Buzzcocks were two
original punk bands who had some musical and spiritual
content in addition to gobbing, speed and politics. Turned
into alternative dance in 80-ies, no less painful on ears
(though by and large less rewarding). Wire solo members
(except the drummer Robert Gotobed) all produce magnificient
solo works (and Gotobed is credited on one
Fad Gadget song).
I was happy to find a detailed
homepage of Wire, with all lyrics and stuff.
``Drag my canal, you saucy old salt, pale in belief
I'm not without fault...''
- Well, Einstuerzende Neubauten have a
homepage too.
Beware of sound files.
- Nobody I know has ever heard anything by Fad Gadget except in
my own apartment. Fad Gadget, a. k. a. Frank Tovey, a performance artist
who made tons of excelently weird music. He does not have anything
to do with electropop, gothic or industrial, though is usually
grouped with electropop, gothic or industrial.
Worked extensively
with Daniel Miller of Mute Records and made an album with
Boyd Rice (``no musical instruments were used in making of
this album'' sez liner notes).
Toured with Einstuerzende Neubauten
and wrote a song ``Collapsing New People'' about experience
(one of the reasons I still listen to N. E. sometimes).
Avoid his latest album (Frank Tovet and the Pyros, Grand Reunion),
it's among the worst dogs of 90-ies. There is a
future
homepage of Fad Gadget in Sweden, and a
smaller page in Austria.
-
FINDUSTRIAL:
History of
industrial music in Finland.
[KOI8 |
translit],
written in Russian
by Genrikh Zalkin.
Progressive music.
-
Progressive Music Index
from Gibraltar mailing list. An indispensable
list, containing about everything one ever wants to know
about music (at least one who died in 1975). Otherwise not
much useful (no way to find most of these records anyway --
all good music is obscure, but the real good music needs (and finds)
independent channels of distribution, which ``progressive''
ultimately lacks).
- Here is
Progressive Rock Home Page, which was created by
Mike Borella, with contributions from other
denizens of the Usenet newsgroup rec.music.progressive
(formerly alt.music.progressive).
- malcolm's house of vicarious delusions
The homepage of
Malcolm Humes, who is
responsible for the most interesting progressive
homepages (and sports healthy interest
in other interesting things, unlike some other progheads
who sport unhealthy interest in all uninteresting things).
Highly recommended.
- A nice
list
of links for Peter Hammill and Van der Graaf Generator,
accompanying a German-language VdGG page. Hammill is a unique artist
in his ability remaining very productive despite 30 years of
complete obscurity (outside of Russia) -- and he's the last
of English progressive artists still worth listening
after the years. It never ceases to amuse me, in a pleasant
way, that in Russia VdGG and Hammill are cult figures
of no less caliber than King Crimson, Yes and Genesis,
and far more popular than, say, Zappa, Roxy Music
or Rush.
- For links and information on
Hawkwind, see
my article
Zvukovaya Ataka Gorodskikh Partizan on
``Effects''
page.
Russian music, also Yury Naumov and Rush Limbaugh.
- A few homepages of Grazhdanskaya Oborona, a number one
independent collective from Russia. GO (and associates) has
worked under 10-20 names, altogether putting at least a hundred
of full-blown albums, with styles ranging from punk to goth
to satanist industrial to apocalyptic folk.
- Here is the
lyrics
of Egor Letov, in transliterated Russian, with tablatures,
at
Maxim Moshkov's library.
This site also contains the lyrics in all transliterated formats,
and a lot of other stuff (complete Pelevin collection, other SF, KSP, rock...
Heartily recommended)
-
Lots of lyrics for GO, from MIT Russian Club.
- Here is another
homepage, containing a lot of
marvellous interviews, a huge annotated discography and a load
of other goodies.
-
On my
Kontrkultura archives, there is
an interview
with Egor, (Oct. 1993) taken from the banned
newspaper Den'.
- An article about
the political
party under the leadership of Eduard Limonov (the famous poet)
and Egor Letov.
- The most recent addition: a
collection of links and a
couple of audio files, in Finlandia, courtesy of
Timo Hamalainen.
Also at this site:
Russian
toilets page.
- Here is the site for KOI-endowed Russian-speakers. Almost every
lyric piece for almost any popular song:
Songs Homepage, from MIT Russian Club
- A meta-library of
Russian music, mostly pop and KSP links.
- Here is the
Aquarium homepage, by Sergey Girlya. Aquarium is a Russian experimental
rock group, which degenerated after 1986. However, the first
efforts by Aquarium were memorable (tribal percussion, tape experiments,
unclean industrial cello on fuzzbox, array of badly-but-forcefully played
acoustic instruments and an aura of surreal weirdness). Aquarium is
venerated in Russia about as much as Dylan or Dead in US.
- This is an equal opportunity homepage.
Here are
Rush Limbaugh archives, and also that of
Yury Naumov. Naumov is a Soviet guitar hero with
less skill than Tommy Bolin a week before Bolin
died from heroin addiction and less brain than Yngwee
Malmsteen a week after Yngwee dies from putting his
wah-wah in a wrong socket. Born in Novosibirsk,
now lives in NYC. Terminal case of de-evolution.
- An ambitious project, entitled
Russian Indie Music Homepage.
A lot of stuff, if you like 'Merikan college radio clones
from Russia.
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