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I’m delighted to have Toxic Chicken return for a second release with Postmoderncore. Toxic Chicken has been kind enough to describe the album for us: Inspired by the postmoderncore guitar improvisations of New Zealand’s very own ‘The Unknown Rockstar’, your trusted chicken friend tried to pi.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive…
Layers of guitar loop, build, shimmer and combine as lines float through gauzy shimmering textures. Unknown Rockstar is the current alias Sam Stephens, a musician currently based in New Zealand, uses for most of his solo work.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG,…
A picture of the Unknown Rockstar drinking beer inspired Toxic Chicken to create this album of sometimes fun and sometimes quite beautiful electronic music. Funky; a good time Toxic Chicken is the long running project of one Kai Nobuko.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item Tile,…
Loops, phrases, and rhythms lurch in and out of focus around each other. As sounds and moods progress, surprises and magic happen. I've never heard anything else that sounds quite like this. Tangent is an artist focusing on electronic, computer based, algorithmic, and process music, although there's.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive…
Reeds drone, string rattle, lines play past one another. Rattle and groan. Bombast and clank. Unknown Rockstar is the current alias Sam Stephens, a musician currently based in New Zealand, uses for most of his solo work.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG,…
Gloopy, noisy, harmonic slabs of rich round sound roast and ferment. Unknown Rockstar is the current alias Sam Stephens, a musician currently based in New Zealand, uses for most of his solo work. He is an instrumental performing and recording artist....... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image,…
Sounds build and mutate from scritch and scree, squeak and clank, to intensity, rupture and roar, whilst maintaining their enigma and inscrutability. Unknown Rockstar is the current alias Sam Stephens, a musician currently based in New Zealand, uses for most of his solo work.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia…
A longform guitar improvisation. Spiralling, steely, overtone rich guitar lines and loops create a variety of cold, metallic, but murky spaces. Emotions, sentimentality and the odd surprise arise. Unknown Rockstar is the current alias Sam Stephens, a musician currently based in New Zealand, uses for.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive…
The Doll spent a year exploring the inner noiselife of the hand dryers and air blades that dwell in castles, cathedrals, pubs, venues, museums etc. This album is made from a selection of live recordings performed in public bathrooms for unsuspecting members of the No Audience Overground.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent,…
Seven years in the making. How are these bootlegs the worst? Where did they come from? Why inflict them upon the world? Tangent is an artist focusing on electronic, computer based, algorithmic, and process music, although there's still plenty of room for improvisation within this remit, particularly.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive…
A new age monster is born in a playground. Before the children and before the weather an assemblage was recorded. Two brothers had a dialog that sounded like a monologue. Nobody knows what happened to the number six.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram,…
As with Volume 1 of the Dada Songwriting project, Rejection dryrot ripple Gombage , each contributor created two mins of raw sound - a single track recorded live with no post-processing. After each set of four submissions arrived, they were blindly put together to create a track - as and when they a.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive…
These recordings were made in 2015 - 16 in Washington DC, Forth Worth and Auckland. You can feel the spaces of a three-story concrete stairwell, an echo chamber on a busy street, a concrete bunker room, and 'Vortex', Richard Serra's 67 foot high weathering steel sculpture.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks,…
a collective of scientists, electric guitars, hanging drums, broken electronics and citizen astronomers. a strange optically audible phenomenon from an otherwise-unremarkable star. light/sound growing dimmer by up to 20% of maximum intensity.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item Tile,…
A couple of guitar improvisations. Recognizably the guitar, but strange and detached, not always comprehensible. Unknown Rockstar is the current alias Sam Stephens, a musician currently based in New Zealand, uses for most of his solo work.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item Tile,…
Two live Unknown Rockstar sets. The first set is a noise set from 27th of April 2017 at Audio Foundation. Unknown Rockstar played as part of the Musical Electronics Library (MEL) tape release . He used noise generators from the MEL library.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item Tile,…
am Nigerian prince and I have Extension Cord Symphony 9, my two sons 2 and 8 play on this recording and they can send you one million dollars if you just got to western union and ask for a green dot special moneygram.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG,…
An enigma, sounds on the edge of liminality. Is there structure here? Muffled and baffled. Tangent is an artist focusing on electronic, computer based, and algorithmic music, although there's still plenty of room for improvisation within this remit, particularly plunderphone improvision.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent,…
Art should reflect the artist’s vision for the world. The world this piece intends to create is shrouded in spectral lights and abysmal darkness, it is a world caught between bestial cruelty and yearning sentimentality.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG,…
The sounds of circuits and strings layer, combine and mutate to calming and transcendent effect. Unknown Rockstar is the current alias Sam Stephens, a musician currently based in New Zealand, uses for most of his solo work.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG,…
Each contributor created two mins of raw sound - a single track recorded live with no post-processing. After each set of four submissions arrived, they were blindly put together to create a track - as and when they arrived in Corporal Tofulung 's inbox.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image,…
Deeper in what exactly? Deeper enmeshed, deeper commitment to the consequence of decisions, deeper related to the world? A rediscovery of the clean guitar, unadorned except for the most basic of loop pedal usage.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR…
"I was walking through Capitol Hill, Seattle one weekend, and encountered an abandoned piano at the side of the road. I decided it needed a final piece of loving, so I recorded it in my phone. The next week I found the piano had been joined by a second, and both pianos had had their keyboards smashe.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive…
After sporadic gigs and jams throughout the years, the brothers bring you live and dirty recordings to feed your need for scummy trash rock. Zombie Prom Queen are a pair of lo-fi trash blues rock lovers, who occasionally get together to celebrate nasty rock spazz power.. This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks,…
Some guitar playing, some drone. All very cheerful, of course. Unknown Rockstar is the current alias Sam Stephens, a musician currently based in New Zealand, uses for most of his solo work. He is an instrumental performing and recording artist....... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item…
Supercomposer does his thing with the Unknown Rockstar back catalog. His treatments engage with the material in a variety of ways, but the music always keeps its organic nature. Minimalist Mixing // Conceptual Sound Experimental Mashup // Music of Chance.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image,…
A pair of raw guitar improvisations. Unknown Rockstar is the current alias Sam Stephens, a musician currently based in New Zealand, uses for most of his solo work. He is an instrumental performing and recording artist....... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG,…
Live party times, rock n roll and blues, chaos and fun. A rawkus two piece, Chops Stephens on guitar and Corporal Tofulung on drums and vocals. Raw rock, stripped-back blues and rashers of gut-bucket hollering.. This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, PNG,…
Hypnotic, dreamy, confrontational, complex - the album travels through many moods and styles. An assemblage of live parts, samples, treatments, field recordings and anything else that can make a complex organic composition like this work.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item Tile, JPEG,…
A rich mushy bed of chords and floating melody lines warp and shimmer, both oppressive and hazy. A father/son duo that collide their differing ideas and music creation techniques together, and assemble the bits into unusual albums with a whiff of power and madness.. This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks,…
Simultaneously mind-expanding and oppressive, Cyberphobe provides another installation of music to challenge and provoke. Cyberphobe: a non-musical entity of intermittent output nursing a collection of aging synthesizers, effects units and recording equipment and producing the occasional piece of mu.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive…
The compilation CD given away to guests at the Monsta Mash. Rocking and rollicking.. This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3
Tuned into a strange subliminal dimension of hiss, woosh, thud and gibber. Improvised with a custom Pure Data feedback patch, laptop and vocalisation. Tangent is an artist focusing on electronic, computer based, and algorithmic music, although there's still plenty of room for improvisation within th.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive…
The Unknown Rockstar continues his exploration of the drone and the echo, using guitar, keyboard and electronics to build rippled and whorled sound tapestries that distort and fragment around the listener.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, PNG,…
This is music made by someone who loves sound. Grant takes his sources and slows them down and fragments them and listens closely to what happens. He loves the grain and whorl, the texture he pulls from his music, and gives to us.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG…
Two contrasting tracks of live echo guitar recorded on the 28th of April, 2007. Potato Pickel is bluesy, and Rice Pickel builds shimmering overtones layers from echo blurring. Unknown Rockstar is the current alias Sam Stephens, a musician currently based in New Zealand, uses for most of his solo wor.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive…
Recorded live at the first Deep Earplug Music at Happy on the 18th of June, 2006. This was a feedback piece for two amps, two guitars, a bass, a drum, some cymbals, and various effects. Unknown Rockstar is the current alias Sam Stephens, a musician currently based in New Zealand, uses for most of hi.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive…
Recorded September 2004 at Rick's in Brooklyn, Wellington, New Zealand. Thanks to Totally Obsessed By Skulls Studios, Sydney Australia. Bad music for bad people by shambolic skeletons. shamblus in extremis excelsis.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG Thumb, Metadata,…
Bends and Moans was recorded live at C.U.E. in Kobe, Japan. The performance, the 67th Volume of the "Live from Far East" series, took place on the 25th of November, 2005. The performers were 石上和也 (Kazuya Ishigami), 稲見 淳 (Sunao Inami) and Tangent.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item…
Three songs of cowboy style rock music.from a recording session the Opium Cowboys did in 2004. The Insatiable Opium Cowboys were a group of friends who played music together in 2003 and 2004. They gigged together regularly as Richie Rhinestone and The Insatiable Opium Cowboys.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia…
Disturbed Bits is a series of long pieces of beautiful and intense power electronics. They investigate the ability of the juxtaposition of treated loops of different varieties to create resultant sounds that are different in character from the source material, perhaps "greater than the sum of its pa.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive…
Disturbed Bits is a series of long pieces of beautiful and intense power electronics. They investigate the ability of the juxtaposition of treated loops of different varieties to create resultant sounds that are different in character from the source material, perhaps "greater than the sum of its pa.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive…
More treated looping samples, with an acoustic guitar interlude, capture a poor emotional state better than was understood at the time the album was written. A solo experimental project, of usually improvised music of different forms.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item Tile, JPEG,…
A variety of huge warping samples, intermittent brain busting beats, scary drones, and a generally powerful and intense aesthetic. With a keyboard interlude. A father/son duo that collide their differing ideas and music creation techniques together, and assemble the bits into unusual albums with a w.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive…
Disturbed Bits is a series of long pieces of beautiful and intense power electronics. They investigate the ability of the juxtaposition of treated loops of different varieties to create resultant sounds that are different in character from the source material, perhaps "greater than the sum of its pa.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive…
A continuous piece/suite, an evolving enchanting pulsing soundscape. A solo experimental project, of usually improvised music of different forms. Tangent Precipitate journeyed through a broad range of music production techniques and genres.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item Tile,…
A cassette released as Tangent, before the projects split into Tangent Precipitate for solo music, and Zombie Prom Queen for the duo. With vocals by Voodoo T Savage and cover art by Reece. Originally released through stink magnetic tapes, though almost no copies were actually made (through my own sl.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive…
A dose of sloppy garage blues influenced rock, fucked up and angry. Minimal production and raw vocals have direct impact. A pair of lo-fi trash blues rock lovers, who occasionally get together to celebrate nasty rock spazz power.. This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Flac, Item Image, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG…
Disturbed Bits is a series of long pieces of beautiful and intense power electronics. They investigate the ability of the juxtaposition of treated loops of different varieties to create resultant sounds that are different in character from the source material, perhaps "greater than the sum of its pa.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive…
Disturbed Bits is a series of long pieces of beautiful and intense power electronics. They investigate the ability of the juxtaposition of treated loops of different varieties to create resultant sounds that are different in character from the source material, perhaps "greater than the sum of its pa.... This item belongs to: audio/postmoderncore. This item has files of the following types: Archive…