Make Some Noise Artist Profiles
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THE ARTISTS :
ATARI TEENAGE RIOT 
Formed in Berlin by Alec Empire, Hanin Elias and Carl
Crack, with Nic Endo swelling the ranks later, the band has been synonymous
with Digital Hardcore Recordings since its inception when ATR left EMI in
the mid-90s. Since then they've toured with Wu-Tang Clan and Rage Against
The Machine in the US and Nine Inch Nails in the UK. They've released three
albums, including an official bootleg of their Brixton Academy triumph in
October 1999. Their first, 'The Future Of War', has now sold 200,000 copies
worldwide.
Atari teenage Riot live @ Royal festival hall reviewAlec Empire Interview here
Nic Endo Interview click here
SLANG
Residents at notorious South London noise session Scum Dancing, Slang
are Ben Willmott, Tony Lee and Ben Crosland. They're based around Worcester
and London, UK. As well as appearing alongside Stereolab, Si Begg,
Ultramarine, U-Ziq and others on the 'Chinese Whispers' album project,
they've remixed Lo Recordings' Aphex Twin vs Mike Flowers 'Freebase'
sessions, R.O.C. and Black Sabbath Riot. Slangs release debut single on
Spiky is due any day now.
BOMB 20
Berlin's Bomb 20 released the highly acclaimed 'Flip Burgers And
Die' EP and 'Field Manual' albums with Digital Hardcore Recordings, both of
which became seminal moments in the scene's history. He's since moved on the
start his own label, Audio Chocolate, with Patric C of EC80R and also has
tracks lined up for release on Mille Plateaux and a host of other
sympathetic labels, including his exclusive contribution to 'No More Rock
And Roll', 'Blood Money'.Check out our Bomb 20 Interview
COBRA KILLER
Cobra Killer is Gina from EC8OR and Annika from Shizuo's band
GIVE UP. They have no money, but they do have a large collection of sixties
records and a pocket size sampler. And a vigorous imagination. Tunes you
know you know pop up one after another but you just can't place them.
Snippets looped and distorted, jostling together into a sublime concoction
of aural cookies. In the Cobra Killer universe Barbie has sex, everyone has
their own helicopter, orange juice comes in the colour of your choice and
flares never went out of fashion.
KID SPATULA
Mike Paradinas has recorded under many names including Mu-Ziq,
Kid Spatula, Jake Slazenger and Gary Moscheles, and currently
Worcester-based producer Paradinas, who has been given props by everyone
from Bjork to Lou Reed, is using the Kid nom de tune for his more extreme
experiments. Mike is close to completing his new Mu-Ziq album for Virgin,
something approaching his tenth artist album so far.
HELLFISH & PRODUCER
Former champion turntablist Hellfish and hardcore DJ
Producer have released scores of 12"s on their Deathchant label, their mash
up of 200-plus BPM gabba, old skool hip-hop and breakbeat hardcore finding
acclaim both from devoted hardcore fans and anyone generally sick of the
current rampant blandness in pop today. The pair released a mix CD 'Constant
Mutation' through Mike Paradinas' Planet Mu imprint last year, and of course
gave 'No More Rock And Roll' its title with the track of the same name.
PANIC STEPPER
With a grounding in jazz & the avant-garde, Panicstepper has
turned his attention to creating a hybrid of experimental
music,improvisation & depraved and abrasive beats. A collision of disparate
influences from the New York downtown scene ( Zorn, DNA. ), Hip Hop, Digital
Hardcore, Motown, Parliament / Funkadelic to the Japanese Now Wave movement
(Boredoms, Melt Banana, Merzbow.) push the boundaries of music & the
cross-pollination of sounds. His first EP for Trash
Records - entitled "$40 And I Could Be A Woman"made a huge impression on Flo
Records, who just couldn't say no to releasing a full length album,
"Hyperurban Hardcore Erotics". Panicstepper's process of hybridisation
continues with the
'Agro Jazz' album, a cerebral concoction of free-form ProTools improvisation
featuring impro-jazz maestros Steve Beresford and the legendary
Derek Bailey.
MEDUSA
Medusa has several 12" releases to his credit and an eponymously
titled album recently released on Nation Records furthest outpost Flo, who
describe him as follows:The bastard spawn of an unholy union between The
Prodigy, Puff Daddy and Roni Size. A contorted, hysterical, perverse
aberration of cerebral ecstasy and physically abusive vibrations. An
uncompromising mind-and-body fuck. Created with the precision of a neural
surgeon's scalpel and delivered with the relish of a butchers fervour,
Medusa displays an irrepressible delectation for carpet-bombing switchblade
percussion stabs with incendiary basslines, pushing sound to the very bowels
of consonance - female hip-hop vocals struggle to breathe in a climactic
grind of gut-churning technoid gloop. Medusa has several 12" releases to
his credit and an eponymously titled album recently released on Nation
Records furthest outpost Flo.
DJ SCUD / APAHSIC
DJ Scud A.K.A Toby Reynolds and Jason Skeet - Aphasic have
numerous releases to their credit on their own Ambush label. Based in South
London, they have continually put out music which challenges convention,
incorporating the influences of free improvisation and musique concrete,
within the soundsystem culture of drum & bass, hardcore techno, hip-hop and
dancehall reggae. In addition to Scud & Aphasic tracks, Ambush have released
material by Shizuo - also on DHR, Din-S.T and Christopher Fringeli, mainly
on 12" single. A related label Full Watts puts out excellent mutated
dancehall reggae, available on 7" single only, such as the DJ Scud produced
'Kill Or Be Killed' by Blood Klaat Gangster Youth. A collection of Ambush
"Drum N Noise" tracks can be found on the 'Mash The Place Up' compilation
album.
2ND GEN
2nd Gen is Wajid Yaseen, former bass player with Nation Records act
Fundamental, and now a Mute Records artist, with a full length album, 'Irony
Is' released to widespread critical acclaim. 2nd Gen have previously
recorded a series of uncompromising 12" E.Ps both on Flo Records and
Novamute, combining propulsive hip hop beats with blasts of explosive noise
and electronic experimentation. 2nd Gen live, are a devastating, yet
exhilarating sonic experience, not to be missed.
THE FIGHTING COCKS
Combining the talents of punk rock guitar mangler Matyi,
scratcher DJ Assassin and rappers Nomi and Susanna. With several releases on
their own FGZ Records and numerous live appearances they are building an
appreciative following for their irreverent blend of mashed up beats, guitar
noise and even Hungarian folk! A healthy disrespect for the music industry
shows through in their on-stage attitude and production tools of choice:
Amiga, mixer, turntables.
TRIP THE SYSTEM
TTS have existed for some time purely
as a chaotic live experiment, slotted into a variety of club nights - the
premise being that 'things will break down', CDs will glitch and jump, decks
will feedback, and if something can be distorted it should be. In addition
to DJ appearances at Make Some Noise events, TTS have released limited
edition CD compilations and collaborated with
avant garde spoken word performer DJ Maya, the results of which will
hopefully be released at some point in the future.
KID 606
The Kid is San Franciscan power book manipulator Miguel Manel. He
has released numerous singles and albums, for labels such as Mille Plateux,
Fatcat Records, and his infamous 'remix' of NWA for maverick UK noise label
V/VM. In addition to these he has his own label, Tigerbeat 6 and regularly
plays out live with his laptop & Reaktor software, a master of the sonic
glitch & massively distorted beat.
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