Apartment Therapy on Dream Noise Records

Static Park - Apartment Therapy - Dream Noise Records

I'm really happy to announce the release of my new album on the great Brazilian netlabel Dream Noise Records. I have discovered some fine artists through this label, such as Noise Machine which is the project of Marcelo França who runs the label, or Enxame, Ultimo Mondo Cannibale and God Pussy, the last two having answered a Static Park Questionnaire recently.

So, Apartment Therapy is 3 tracks of static noise with harsh noise passages, and it was mainly done with my new set-up which is:

piezo mic => Dream Crusher + 4 Eyes + Harmonist + Super Crunch Box + Rat Pedal + Octave One + Boss Reverb & EQ

You can download the album HERE

The Static Park Questionnaire 09 - Ultimo Mondo Cannibale

 Ultimo Mondo Cannibale

01 What is your name / age / nationality ?

Jason Campbell / 40 / Canadian

02 How did you get into noise ?

I found noise by tape trading "metal" music with Pierre-Marc Tremblay of Ames Sanglantes. He sent me one of his first tapes, and also dubbed me some Knurl and Merzbow cd's. Around the same time, I was buying tapes of shitnoise/noisecore from Dan of Deche-Charge. These two I thank for my noise obsession today.

03 How did you choose the name of your project / What does it mean to you ?

Names and meanings i have no comment, as I have had at least 15 projects since 1997 'til present.

04 Which one of your releases would make the best entry point into your work ?

Funeral Home c90 for best entry point.

05 How do you record ? (live, sequencing, multi-tracking etc..)

I use field recordings only now as a sound source, and manipulate them into globs of messy harsh noise. Multi-track tape recorder for recording, 3 DOD Death Metals, and adobe audition cc for any mastering before recording onto tape.

06 What is your favorite piece of gear ?

DOD Death Metal.

07 Do you play live ? How is it different from your releases ?

No live shows yet, maybe in the future.

08 Who would you like to collab / make a split with ?

I would love to split with Incapacitants !

09 Do you listen to other types of sound/music ? Which ones ?

At the moment, I listen to mostly harsh noise, hnw, dark ambient, but I also love Indian classical music, as well as finding weird releases such as funeral ritual music from africa.

10 What is your favorite record at the moment ?

Everything by Sleep Column!

Here are some of Ultimo Mondo Cannibale's latest digital releases :

Black Matter Phantasm &Ultimo Mondo Cannibale – Split – Nahsh AtrymProductions – 2014

Ultimo Mondo Cannibale –Blood Mania - Punk Noise – 2014

Enxame & Ultimo MondoCannibale - Cannibalistic Maquinery – Dream NoiseRecords – 2014

Ultimo Mondo Cannibale –White Zombie – HNW – 2014

and Jason's Facebook page is HERE

True & a reflexion on HNW purity

I made a trade with Alksandar from Dead Body Collection last week and among other things he sent me the latest issue of his mag Pure Nothing Worship.

The mag deals with all kinds of "dark" music, doom, sludge and noise. There are lots of interviews and reviews and although the content is quite varied it doesn't depart from this "dark" line and it gives a sense of purity of intent as you read through.

There has been a bit of discussion going on in HNW circles over the last couple of years concerning what is "acceptable" or not within the genre, specifically what themes are OK.

Basically, back in, say, 2010, it was all grim. Not really though since people like Richard Ramirez or Sam McKinlay were influenced by stuff that was not obviously grim, like silly 70s movies. But most of the HNW themes were grim. However projects like Love Katy, Pooh, Cory Strand have changed that with themes that range from Katy Perry to Winnie the Pooh and Harry Potter.

As usual, some like that and some don't. Personally I don't mind at all the expansion of themes because I don't really see static noise as a genre anymore but more as a building block (a brick ?) you use in your sound construction.

This way of thinking is what brought me to Static Park, where I use static noise in various contexts. As you know if you're reading this, I've been experimenting with this project for a little while now, doing harsh noise, adding guitars, mixing static noise with beats and so on...

All that being said, I'll be a HNW guy forever and still listen to Vomir or Dead Body Collection on a daily basis. The Pure Nothing Worship mag brought me the urge to make something "pure" again, both sound-wise and visually within the scene I feel I belong to nonetheless, Harsh Noise Wall.

I called it True as a nod to how people used to talk about Trve noise or black-metal... As for the cover, well you can see the obvious Vomir inspiration.

Here's the set-up=

White noise => Fuzz Factory + 4 Eyes + Harmonist + Super Crunch Box + Super Octave + Memory Boy + Reverb + EQ

Listen / Download HERE

The Static Park Questionnaire 08 - Extreme Chafing

Extreme Chafing

 

01 What is your name / age / nationality ?

Joe. 30. And I live in New Mexico in the USA.

02 How did you get into noise ?

Twodeadsluts Onegoodfuck. I can't remember if I downloaded some of their stuff or found one of their records at the record store first, but both of those did happen. After that, I started getting into it more as I was able to get it for review when i used to do a zine. Soundo Maso Records used to send me a lot of stuff. Great label.

03 How did you choose the name of your project / What does it mean to you ?

Before I quit eating processed food and that garbage, I would semi-frequently have stomach distress. This combined with low quality toilet paper one generally finds at work, as well as sweating in the summer typically resulted in a very painfully chafed ass. The name Extreme Chafing is in honor of my suffering of chafed ass. The first recording Chass (which I think is still waiting to be released) says it all.

04 Which one of your releases would make the best entry point into your work ?

Probably the Epidermal Nevi, Neoplasms, & Cysts 3xCDr on Altar of Waste Records. Nearly 4 hours of material that spans well over a year in recording dates.

For someone looking for a shorter, easier entry point, maybe the Sand in My Crack 3" CDr on Forever Escaping Boredom Records.

05 How do you record ? (live, sequencing, multi-tracking etc..)

Typically I record from mixer to dual tape deck. Then I rip to computer and do straight editing (cutting out shit I don't like, splitting tracks, etc). I don't do anything fancy at all.

06 What is your favorite piece of gear ?

Being a gear junkie, this is a difficult question as there are so many that always get used. I'm gonna have to choose 2 and say my Boss DD7 and Digitech Grunge. But there's oh so much more....

07 Do you play live ? How is it different from your releases ?

I have a few times. The only real difference is that I plan my setup before doing a show. I fiddle and switch when recording at home.

08 Who would you like to collab / make a split with ?

Extreme Hair Stench. He did an amazing track on the What the Hell is a Jiggawatt?!? Compilation and we could do a collab/split about head lice. I've never really done a collab before, but i have a couple splits (one w/ Vasectomy Party, the other w/ Nightmare Task Force, yet to be released) where the other project has followed my theme, which is totally awesome.

09 Do you listen to other types of sound/music ? Which ones ?

Yes, though I mainly listen to noise. Other stuff I'm into includes grindcore, black metal, drone, doom metal, doom-drone, punk, hardcore, some industrial, etc.

10 What is your favorite record at the moment ?

I don't have much time for listening to records with work, wife, and kids, but the last tape I listened to was pretty awesome. It was En Nihil / Compactor split. I have Deche Charge's Disgrace to the Corpse of Seth LP waiting to be played and I'm sure that will rule.

Extreme Chafing blog

Extreme Chafing Discogs page

Hair On My Food label blog

Serious Business Cdr label blog

Busey Teeth Cdr label blog

HN / HNW Playlist w/ Links

Lots of excellent releases recently... Time for another playlist including them, as well as some older stuff I'm listening to these days...

01 Merzbow - Tauromachine - Release Records – 1998 CD
02 Hoggle - The Oubliette - Okto Media – 2012 Tape + Bandcamp
03 Vomir, Dead Body Collection & Wet Dream Asphyxiation - Annul Void Nothing - Forever Escaping Boredom – 2013 Tape + Bandcamp
04 Carrion Black Pit & Sleep Column - Split - T.R.U.P. Rec – 2014 CDr + Bandcamp
05 Creation Through Destruction & SSRI - Split -Geräuschmanufaktur – 2014 Tape + Bandcamp
06 H.N.H.1 - Hell Noise Houston 1 - Compilation - Bone Records – 2014 Tape + Bandcamp
07 Portrait Of A Slasher - Dark Night Of The Scarecrow - Self-Released – 2014 Bandcamp
08 God Cage - Viscera - Self-Released – 2014 Bandcamp
09 RU-486, Steel Hook Prostheses & Demonologists - Whispering Eye Recordings – 2014 Tape + Bandcamp
10 Sogra - Vyvoroten - Self-Released – 2014 Bandcamp

The Static Park Questionnaire 07 - Ecoute La Merde

Ecoute La Merde

 

01 What is your name / age / nationality ?

Vivian / 25 / French

02 How did you get into noise ?

Via the mighty French grind label (now dead) called Human Circus Records, which was also the house of Vulgar Nausea. First catching some grindcore stuff, then going deeper into noisecore / harshnoise and a research always calls another one, and that's it.

03 How did you choose the name of your project / What does it mean to you ?

ECOUTE LA MERDE was the title of an album from ROMPRAI ETRON, who was one of the first person I got in touch with when I began making noise in 2005. The sense of it is always evolving, from the basic provocative / humoristic meaning to the decalrations of Antonin Artaud at his most schizophrenic.

04 Which one of your releases would make the best entry point into your work ?

Diazépam et autres Benzodiazépines, out on Diazepam. Ecoute La Merde is in perpetual evolution, like an entity. With its own stages...

05 How do you record ? (live, sequencing, multi-tracking etc..)

My recording studio is located in the basement of a psychiatric hospital, where I record only live and direct to tape. And I never listen back to what I've done.

06 What is your favorite piece of gear ?

Reel to Reel players and Ibanez DL 10.

07 Do you play live ? How is it different from your releases ?

Iplay live often and I enjoy touring. It's different from releases because in the studio I use much stuff (which is also large, such as organs, turntables...) and on tour, I have to select efficient stuff which is not too heavy. That's the main point. On the other hand, I have to say I'm shy about connecting with the audience when I play under the ECOUTE LA MERDE monicker, and I think I have to make something fast, agressive and brutal. No more than 5 minutes time. This is different from the other bands I play in.

08 Who would you like to collab / make a split with ?

Someone I don't know, in order to discover him or her.

09 Do you listen to other types of sound/music ? Which ones ?

Every kind of music (really), from french 60's pop to blues, classical music, Enka, hip-hop, Russian balalaïka, goregrind, glitch, power electronics, black metal, ... no limit.

10 What is your favorite record at the moment ?

Jojo Hiroshige / Shiraishi Tamio - Enka Mood Collection - An'archives

Mare Di Dirac – Tupilaq - Greytone

Oxidised Razor / Olocausto - Rotteness Live 2012 / Necrobsessive Neurosis - United Guttural Records / SBRT Records / Rampant Thrush Records

The Underground Pollution website is HERE

Static Park tapes for trade

 

I have received these rather beautiful artist copies of the 2 tapes I've done as Static Park for the SF label Turmeric Magnitudes ran by musician / great guy Greg Gorlen.

These are:

Static Park - What Net / Until Then

Greg Gorlen / Static Park - Split

The solo tape is sold-out from the label, while you can still get the split for 5 bucks.

If you want to trade with me for one or both of these beauties, send me a message.

I'm interested in noise, harsh noise, hnw, noisy beats, cdrs, tapes, zines... you know

The Static Park Questionnaire 06 - Nascitari

Nascitari

01 What is your name / age / nationality ?

Lorenzo Abattoir, 26, Italian

02 How did you get into noise ?

I have listened to a lot of raw black metal and once I found a split release between Akitsa & Prurient. That was my first contact with harsh noise.

03 How did you choose the name of your project / What does it mean to you ?

Basically Nascitari means nothing, it's like a kind of paronomasia. The sequence of letters forms a combination between the words "born" & "reborn" in Italian : "nascita" & "rinascita". It's a representation of Ouroboros, the cyclical nature of things. For me it's a condition of life that you need to love; where suicide or any other kind of strong acts has no meaning except as a form of human aesthetics.

04 Which one of your releases would make the best entry point into your work ?

One of the first releases of the Nascitari project was in VHS tape format and was entitled VHNW. I think that was one of my best recordings, directly into the vhs tape recorder with analog audio and video.

05 How do you record ? (live, sequencing, multi-tracking etc..)

I record in different ways, depending on the project, concept , source, time & space, but in general I use an old reel to reel magnetophone to finalize my sound material.

06 What is your favorite piece of gear ?

Animal bones & DOD buzz box.

07 Do you play live ? How is it different from your releases ?

Yes, I frequently play live shows. Everything is different. My releases are usually studio works based on sound detailing through analog & digital ways. Whereas when I'm playing live I like to recreate the sound starting from zero. I like to improvise with space & time or change my set-up during the performance. I don't like to have a rigid structure in my live sessions.

08 Who would you like to collab / make a split with ?

I've just done a collaboration project with Hermann Kopp, called Psicopompo. That had been my wish for a long time and I can't ask for nothing more, although I'm always open to new collaborations and splits.

09 Do you listen to other types of sound/music ? Which ones ?

Absolutely, I listen to a lot of experimental jazz, neoclassical , neofolk, movie soundtracks & also raw black metal. I really like the new experimental music scene in general; in my opinion labels such as Denovali / Tumult / Greytone produce a lot of amazing contemporary works.

10 What is your favorite record at the moment ?

… Maybe the 7" of Phew "Finale/Urahara"…but it's a very difficult question, I don't have a precise answer.

The Nascitari blog is HERE

And HERE is Lorenzo Abattoir's blog.

Rhe Bum Days EP

Rhe Bum Days consists in 4 experiments around static noise.

 

"The Bat Must Rest"

 

After "Bat Radar" and "Make The Bat Drink" here's a new one in my bat series... What can I do ? The sound of delays makes me think of bats... 

 

The set-up for this one was=

 

White noise => Dream Crusher + 4 Eyes + Harmonise + Memory Boy + Reverb + EQ

 

The little "trick" is that the 4 eyes is set at maximum compression to create this tense bassline, the rest is up to the memory boy.

 

"Crunch The Skank"

 

The idea was to mix a minimal dub drum track with some crunch.

 

As usual the beat is made out of processed samples. I used a lot of phasing FX on the drums to create the sounds.

 

The crunch is made with this set-up:

 

White noise => Fuzz Factory + 4 Eyes + Super Crunch Box + Harmonise + Memory Boy + EQ

"Chunks Of Dirt"

Another noise-hop track. The vocal sample is from Ol' Dirty Bastard's track "Rollin' Wit You" (album is Nigga Please, Elektra, 1999). I love ODB and this album is very nice but it's difficult for me to listen to it because he sometimes sounds like he's suffering and I get the feeling that the people who put him in the studio at this moment were exploiting him. Is it wrong to listen to someone who is not playing with madness anymore but surely loosing it completely, live ? It's ironic considering the amount of exploitation movies I've watched, but in this case I think ODB was not acting.

Anyways, the rest of the beat was made by pitch-shifting most of the drums - 1 octave and doubling that with the original sample I love the snare sound I got that way.

The high pitched sound is actually me breathing against the piezo mic.

There is also some electric guitar in there (the 2 distorted notes)

For both of these the set-up is=

Fuzz Factory + 4 Eyes + Super Crunch Box + Harmonise + Memory Boy + Reverb + EQ

 

When I did the breathing thing the gain of the Crunch Box was obviously way high as to make some noise and the reverb was set on hall at maximum level because, well, I have limited breathe.

"Weird Machine"

This one is a room recording with some reverb added. I did a lot of noise reduction on it to get rid of the hiss and then did a low pass filter on the reverb to get that muffled sound. The bassy sound is the same source pitched-down + hard limiter + reverb.

The feedback is

Fuzz Factory + 4 Eyes + Super Crunch Box + Reverb + EQ, pitched down a little to fit the bass.

Listen / Download HERE

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Static Park Questionnaire 05 - God Pussy

God Pussy

01 What is your name / age / nationality ?

Jhones / 1989 / Bra$il

02 How did you get into noise ?

I always had connections with punk and hardcore music, then with time I started hearing more and more grindcore, noisegrind ... I remember the blogs I used also had some HNW. I must confess I did not understand anything the first time, it was something disturbing my mind. Then I spent almost every day delving into this sound and getting to know other projects in the line of harsh-noise.

03 How did you chose the name of your project / What does it mean to you ?

Hard to say, because the name was chosen because of my Goregrind influences. I wanted a name that would cause some amazement from the start. I've had many issues and discussions because of it : people calling me sexist, some boycotting my releases, accusing me of blasphemy... I love the name, but it's just a noise project's name ! God Pussy is not sexism nor blasphemy. It is not even music, just a manifestation ... But see it as you want.

04 Which one of your releases would make the best entry point into your work ?

My first one, L'arte Dei Rumori, dedicated to Luigi Russolo, from start to start. It's not only a dedication, I tried to feel what he felt in his work, so I chose a metallurgical start my journey. The album was created with the sounds of machinery.

05 How do you record? (live, sequencing, multi-tracking etc..)

It depends on the moment. I'll almost always use pedals, synth, oscillators and never forget the contact-mics.

06 What is your favorite piece of gear ?

Amplified objects (preferably metal), Grunge FX 69B, Digitech Death Metal, Buzz Box, noise generators. These I never let out !

07 Do you play live ? How is it different from your releases ?

When I perform, I try to be as noisy as possible, abusing the contact mics... Whereas with albums I always work with concepts, maintaining an aesthetic and working with the information I possess on my chosen subject.

08 Who would you like to collab / make a split with ?

I'm already very happy to have worked with monsters of noisy music such as Gx Jupitter-Larsen, AjaxFree, Kylie Minoise, Richard Ramirez, Armenia, Napalmed, Vulgar Disease and others who have influenced and continue to influence me to this day.

09 Do you listen to other types of sound/music ? Which ones ?

Sure, I love to hear the work of Bezerra da Silva, Antonio Vivaldi, Cartola and of course I listen to grindcore, rap, hardcore... All of these music have some content and do not settle with the mediocre lives we live.

10 What is your favorite record at the moment ?

Abesta -Tosco

Noise Machine - Gallery Of Murderers

Merzbow - Fantail

Carrion Black Pit - Architect Of Ruins

There are so many more!! These are the ones I put on quite often. You can hear great works from contemporary musicians, simply log into these pages:

God Pussy's Blog is HERE

The Dissonance From Hell blog is HERE

and HERE is God Pussy's Facebook page.

 

The Static Park Questionnaire 04 - Poète Maudit

01 What is your name / age / nationality ?

Zach Hill / 19 / American born, German descent (I can't play the drums.)

02 How did you get into noise ?

I started out playing in punk bands, and eventually learned I liked improvising and making weird sounds and screwing around more than practicing structure or songs. From there I went on to free improv techniques, then building my own simple instruments, then to electronics. I love noise because literally anything goes in it.

03 How did you choose the name of your project / What does it mean to you ?

Les Poètes Maudits is a collection of poetry curated by Paul Verlaine. It was one of the first collections of poetry I ever read outside of school textbooks. It was a collection of poets he deemed to live outside of the norms of society, such as Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Corbière, and himself (under a pseudonym). I am still a very avid reader of poetry, especially the early avant-garde (Dada, concrete, Surrealist), Beat, and Romantic eras. In turn, my tracks are all titled after lines from old poetry, predominately from French poets.

 
04 Which one of your releases would make the best entry point into your work ?

I tend to have two styles, one being long, droning, ambient pieces made mostly from field recordings. For this style, I would say "The Conqueror Worm" is one of the best places, especially if you don't want to deal with 40+ minute pieces.

The second style is more traditional power electronics, live recording, and handmade instruments. For this, I would say "Come from forever and you will go everywhere."

  
05 How do you record ? (live, sequencing, multi-tracking etc..)

I alternate between multi-tracking and live recording. I also use a lot of field recordings which I then digitally manipulated.

06 What is your favorite piece of gear ?

Although I don't use it as much of late, it would be a modified, cheap old guitar of mine. I keep it strung/tuned CCGGCC, I've built a killswitch into it, plus some cosmetic changes. I use it for extended techniques and drones, predominantely.

07 Do you play live ? How is it different from your releases ?

I have yet to play a live show. I would love to start.

08 Who would you like to collab / make a split with ?

John Wiese, GX Jupitter-Larsen/The Haters, and you. Originally one of my biggest wishes was to work with Vomir, but that's already in progress.

09 Do you listen to other types of sound/music ? Which ones ?

Oh, I listen to all kinds of things. A lot of old punk, avant-classical music (Cage, Stockhausen, Penderecki), (free) jazz, and old blues.

10 What is your favorite record at the moment ?

Of albums I've bought in the last year or so, I've really been excited over Melt-Banana's Fetch. Also, I've been listening to Daniel Menche's The Marriage of Metals a lot lately.

You can listen to Poète Maudit HERE

And HERE is his Facebook page

The Static Park Questionnaire 03 - Unusual Affairs

Scott
 
01 What is your name / age / nationality ?
 
Scott / 32 / USA

02 How did you get into noise ? 
 
I first really heard noise through grindcore bands that would incorporate noise into their sound. Mostly through The Communion (NYC)

03 How did you chose the name of your project / What does it mean to you ? 
 
I was watching Blood Feast and that little phrase (''I do cater to... Unusual Affairs'') stuck out to me. I then asked on a certain social networking website if anyone would like to start a collaborative HNW project under that moniker and Quentin was into the idea, So was Sean Matzus, who has contributed to a few releases of ours. We all share a love for film, but there wasn't a lot of thought behind choosing the name. I just liked how it sounded.

04 Which one of your releases would make the best entry point into your work ? 
 
Probably Hooded Remains, a tape released by the great label Total Black. It's a bit longer than our other releases and has 4 tracks instead of 1 or 2 so it has some nice variation.

05 How do you record ? (live, sequencing, multi-tracking etc..) 
 
I usually record my layer live and add Quentins layer and some samples later.

06 What is your favorite piece of gear ? 
 
I don't know if I consider it my favorite piece of gear but I think the only pedal I've used on all recordings is the DOD Grunge.

07 Do you play live ? How is it different from your releases ?

I would love to play live sometime however we both live in different states. I actually moved to Oregon from California shortly after Quentin moved to California from Oregon.

08 Who would you like to collab / make a split with ?

The dream, of course, would be Nick Blinko.

09 Do you listen to other types of sound/music ? Which ones ?

I can't think of a genre that doesn't have it's gems. But I guess my playlist recently would look mostly like: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Rudimentary Peni, France Gall, Francoise Hardy, Chantal Goya, Shabazz Palaces, Fear, Samhain, Wu-Tang, Nico and probably something I'm forgetting.

10 What is your favorite record at the moment ?

A tie between Irm by Charlotte Gainsbourg and Cacophony by Rudimentary Peni.

Quentin

01 What is your name / age / nationality ?

QUES/25/USA

02 How did you get into noise ?

A few local bands before my time that incorporated it into their music.

03 How did you choose the name of your project / What does it mean to you ?

Scott wanted to start a project named after part of a line from Blood Feast. I enjoy HNW and Blood Feast so I hit up Scott and we started Unusual Affairs.

04 Which one of your releases would make the best entry point into your work ?

Dark, Dead Corners . 

05 How do you record ? (live, sequencing, multi-tracking etc..)

For this project I only record one or maybe two layers then send it to Scott.

06 What is your favorite piece of gear ?

Don't have a Favorite.

07 Do you play live ? How is it different from your releases ?

We do not play live but maybe one day that will change.

08 Who would you like to collab / make a split with ?

I would have to agree with Scott, Nick Blinko.

09 Do you listen to other types of sound/music ? Which ones ?

Lots of artists from the 90's Memphis Scene.

10 What is your favorite record at the moment ?

Cacophony.

You can listen to Unusual Affairs HERE

Crack Concrete

This release is the result of little ''experiments'' I made this week.

''Noisy Neighbor'' is a ''noise-hop'' track that samples the track ''Oh Brian Dibb'' by the Nihilist Spasm Band (album No Record, released on Allied Record Corporation in 1968). The noise part is piezo mic => Fuzz Factory + Super Crunch Box + Octave One + Memory Boy + EQ.

''Touch A Bird'' (because I was reading an interview by Hüsker Dü in which they mentioned Birds Of Fire by Mahavishnu Orchestra so I was listening to that just before making this track) is a drone made with this set-up=

White noise => Fuzz Factory + Super Crunch Box + Grunge pedal + Memory Boy + EQ

on top of which I play a contact-mic'd Tibetan bowl through the Super Crunch Box with quite a bit of reverb and delay added.

''Grit'' is a completely different thing. Recently I made a hip-hop instrumental sampling AMM, this time I wanted to make a funky, gritty boom-bap beat by sampling some European free improv thing.

I chose a quite emblematic one, Topography Of The Lungs by the trio of Evan Parker, Derek Bailey and Han Bennink, released on Incus Records in 1970. All the sounds on ''Grit'' (except the scratching) were sampled from the 1^st track on this album, namely ''Titan Moon''.

With ''Soaked'' I wanted to see what happens when a harsh noise wall is done with ''too much'' FX. I have already talked at length here about my opinion on effects like reverb and delay in HNW on this blog so I won't start again... All I'll say is that with this track I wanted to see what happens when you overdo it haha.

The set-up for this track is :

Radio (not tuned to static, just random short-wave radio talk) => Dream Crusher + 4 Eyes + Harmonise + Super Crunch Box + Metal Muff (nano) + Memory Boy + Boss Reverb + EQ

I used the fuzz pedals with ''light'' settings as to let some of the radio's mid and high frequencies bleed into the track because I thought it would be more interesting with the FX treatment.

The Metal Muff is set on minimal distortion.

Everything on the Memory Boy is at a maximum, except the feedback knob because if it were all hell would break loose (I mean a short and fixed feedback loop...)

The Reverb is on ''Hall'' with time at 75%. That's a lot of reverb...

I tried to keep a crunch going on and not smoothe it out completely with the fx. The result sounds like it was recorded with a mic from a different room, almost like an old-school bootleg, which I like a lot. The fx makes lot of harmonics come out of the wall, which is more or less what I had in mind when I made this track.

Listen / Download HERE

The Static Park Questionnaire 02 - Dead Body Collection

Dead Body Collection

01 What is your name / age / nationality ?

Aleksandar / 27 / Serbian

02 How did you get into noise ?

A friend told me: "one crazy guy has released 50cds in a boxset of pure unlistenable noise!". I found out the name of the "crazy guy", it was Merzbow. I bought Russian mp3s with Merzbow releases and that's it. I must confess that I didn't understand it at first listening but after a year it came from the speakers to my heart. Later I discovered Masonna, KK Null, Emil Beaulieau, K2 and a ton of power electronics. It became my life.

03 How did you choose the name of your project / What does it mean to you ? 
 

It was some kind of tribute to Atrax Morgue. When I listened to "Give Me A Corpse" I had the idea of a pile or collection of corpses which impressed me. Later I came up with the Dead Body name and it totally fits my vision for the HNW I wanted to create. My project's name can also be seen as a tribute to Dead Body Love, but actually it's for Marco's obsession.

04 Which one of your releases would make the best entry point into your work ?

It's hard to say. Every release holds a special place in my heart.

05 How do you record ? (live, sequencing, multi-tracking etc..)

Live, without overdubs, without mastering. I want to archive exactly the same raw sound which I was hearing during recording.

06 What is your favorite piece of gear ?

DOD FX69 Grunge or Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi. DOD FX86 Death Metal and DOD FX59 Thrash Master are also very important in my setup.

07 Do you play live ? How is it different from your releases ?

Yes. Sound approach is the same as when I record but the visual aspect and loudness is something that you must see and feel live.

08 Who would you like to collab / make a split with ?

Huh! Maybe with Prurient. I really like his 7" collaboration with The Rita. ...or with Douglas Pierce ahahahaha

09 Do you listen to other types of sound/music ? Which ones ?

I have been listening to doom metal and dark ambient for ages. Apart from that and noise/power electronics, I like krautrock, a few post punk legends, a handful of old heavy metal bands like W.A.S.P. or Iron Maiden, some slower black metal bands/projects, a pile of heavy stoner rock/metal bands and I'm a big fan of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

10 What is your favorite record at the moment ?

Let me name 3 all time fav albums and songs:

Albums :

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part

Thine - In Therapy

Canaan - A Calling To Weakness

Songs :

Killing Joke - Love Like Blood

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Do You Love Me?

Navicon Torture Technologies - The Stars And The Scars

You can listen to Dead Body Collection HERE

Learn about his activities (gigs, releases etc.) HERE

And HERE is his Facebook page.

The Static Park Questionnaire 01 - Wram

Wram

01 What is your name / age / nationality ?

Alexey Weselow, 40, Russian.

02 How did you get into noise ?

When I was 18 years old, I played the drums in punk-rock bands : Los Parasitos and MozgolomЫ (sic!!). Then I studied Russian philology at the university, got married, had a family, children, job... but I was still doing lots of varied music. A few years ago I understood that I really wanted to play noise, so I got pedals and started.

03 How did you choose the name of your project / What does it mean to you ?

When I went to the university I had a great interest in dead Indo-European languages (Hittite and  Tokharian). The  Tokharian word ''wram'' has two meanings : first it can mean ''thing'' (Sache, Res) second, locativus of war (water) / in the water. Also, wram written on brahmi looks beautiful.

04 Which one of your releases would make the best entry point into your work ?

I think it would be Mutisme (my first release). But frankly speaking I don't make any difference between my works.

05 How do you record ? (live, sequencing, multi-tracking etc..)

For Wram it's only live. I use radio, audioplayer and contact mics.

06 What is your favorite piece of gear ?

I like the Zvex Fuzz Factory.

07 Do you play live ? How is it different from your releases ?

I played live only as Parpita. It was noisy, merry and nervous.

08 Who would you like to collab / make a split with ?

With any of your projects really. (note from Static Park : you're too kind!)

09 Do you listen to other types of sound/music ? Which ones ?

Of course. I like funeral jazz, ambient, post punk, dub. I listen to Troum, Maeror Tri, Bohren And Club Of Gore, The Cure, And Also The Trees, Scorn...

10 What is your favorite record at the moment ?

Troum - Tjukurrpa (Part One: Harmonies)

Bohren and Club Of Gore – Dolores

Astral And Shit - Subtile Corpus 

Listen to Wram HERE

Stomp Box

HNW / Harsh Noise Playlist w/ Links

01 Daniel Menche - Ram Horns - Banned Production – 2003 CDr
02 Werewolf Jerusalem - Carnal Violence - Robert & Leopold – 2011 Tape
03 FRKSE - Guilt Surveillance - Divergent Series – 2012 Bandcamp
04 Clipping - Clppng - Sub Pop – 2014 CD
05 Enxame & Ultimo Mondo Cannibale - Cannibalistic Maquinery - Dream Noise Records – 2014 Archive
06 Lorenzo Abattoir, Nascitari, M​arko Jović, ​Antisocial Block - Split - Turmeric Magnitudes – 2014 Bandcamp
07 Portrait Of A Slasher & Richard Ramirez - Deep Red - Self-Released – 2014 Bandcamp
08 Sogra - Loose Chtonic Move - Torga Amun – 2014 Bandcamp
09 Starr Party - Health-Sanity - Self-Released – 2014 Bandcamp
10 Ultimo Mondo Cannibale - Blood Mania - Punk Noise Records – 2014 Archive

Wall Watching available from 4 Eyes

Static Park - Wall Watching - 4 Eyes

I'm really happy to have a new release on Scott P. Soles' fantastic netlabel 4 Eyes (I had already released something on his netlabel as Butch Bag, a wall called Hoodies Full Of Blood) because I'm a big fan of Scott's HNW project Unusual Affairs, which is a duo with Quentin Ques (here's their Bandcamp) and because 4 Eyes has some killer releases by some of my favorite artists including:

Martyr Of Sores

Glasgow Smile

Revelation Of The Dead Girl

She Walks Crooked

An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter

Black Leather Jesus

Black Matter Phantasm

Velfaerd

and lots more...

This release is Static Park in HNW mode for two walls. 

Set-Up:

Radio => Fuzz Factory + Harmonise + Super Crunch Box (on ''Paint Of Dawn'')
+ Rat Distortion + Octave One + Memory Boy + Boss EQ 

Listen / Download from 4 Eyes

PS: Scott also runs the "physical" label Petite Soles, which is also a great label with a focus on hnw and noise. Check out some of PS's stuff here.

Harsh Noise Waltz compilation on Aught Void with a track by Static Park

Harsh Noise Waltz - Aught Void - 2014

Static Park has a track called "Some Like Stuff" on this Aught Void compilation curated by Ethan Vilu of Halloween Quest Records. 

It can be downloaded for pay-what-you-want from the Aught Void Bandcamp and includes tracks by Static Park cohorts such as Black Matter Phantasm, Clive Henry, Starr Party and Velfaerd. Really proud to be part of this casting ! I also really enjoyed the last track by Poète Maudit, who has featured in a recent SP playlist with his Recycled Music tape on RRRecords, so check him out.

Seven Years Bad Luck, trade-only CDr available

I have made another Static Park trade-only CDr. You know the deal, a selection of 10 tracks for about 1 hr of sound, nice diy packaging, insert with all the gear details + a sticker.

Get in touch if you want one @ thestaticpark-AT-gmail-DOT-com

Fumes EP on Bandcamp

Two experimental tracks inspired by graffiti, I actually got the ideas for these while hunting for street-art with my wife Carlotta (did I tell you we have a street-art project called Mental Links ? You can see some of our work here)

"Not That Subway" (a reference to the Subway Art book by Martha Cooper & Henry Chalfant that helped spread graffiti from the streets of 70s New York) is noise-hop I guess.

 I wasn't aware that noise-hop was a genre, or rather I thought I had invented it but a couple days ago I saw a thread on the Maniacs Only forum mentioning Clipping, Death Grips and others as part of a "scene" so I guess it's a genre after all...

All the samples, including the drums, were taken from AMM's AMMusic album (Elektra, 1967). AMM was an imrovised electro-acoustic band formed by Eddie Prevost (drums), Keith Rowe (guitar) and John Tilbury (piano) and it greatly influenced the more minimal side of improvised music in the following year, Keith Rowe in particular being pretty active alongside people from the onkyo scene like Toshimaru Nakamura, Sachiko M and Otomo Yoshihide.

So I sampled that and added a layer of noise, the set-up being=

Piezo + Dreamcrusher + 4 Eyes + Super Crunch Box (with the gain open about 25%) + Memory Boy

I must say I may have been influenced by a recommendation in the aforementioned thread: the album was=

 FRKSE - Guilt Surveillance - Divergent Series - 2012 and you can listen/download it here. Very good stuff.

"Bombing Fumes" is an ambient room recordings compressed to the max as to make a pulsating bass sound appear in places, with another layer of noise with the same set-up as the 1st track, only the Boss Harmonist is in and set at the lowest.

Listen / Download the Fume EP HERE

Static Park playlist in the Wire

 I bought the latest issue of the Wire today and was pleasantly surprised that they had published the Static Park playlist I sent them.

It's in the July issue: