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Postmoderncore
Postmoderncore is a New Zealand based netlabel with music of many genres.
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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 plunderphone improvision. Sam Stephens also releases music as Unknown Rockstar.
Topics: Plunderphonics, Bootlegs
Topics: Plunderphonics, Bootlegs
An involved journey through a series of sound/psychic/sample spaces. A solo experimental project, of usually improvised music of different forms. Tangent Precipitate journeyed through a broad range of music production techniques and genres. Generally albums had an emphasis on the capture of the raw and unpredictable creative moment. Tangent Precipitate has been retired, and further music is now produced as the Unknown Rockstar and as Tangent.
Topic: Samples
Topic: Samples
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. You can hear the sounds of mixing bowls, water, tin cans, clapping, footsteps, dental impressions, dental floss, a partial denture, a hand-carved wooden knife, a metal water bottle, a screw driver, an umbrella, piano, chairs,...
Topic: Improvisation
Topic: Improvisation
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. returning to full brightness over erratic and unpredictable periods of time. not explained by known cosmic phenomena. leading hypothesis: a dense host of foreign bodies passing through line-of-sight and listening periodically obscuring the amplifiers....
Topic: Improvisation
Topic: Improvisation
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. 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.... working with known, unknown, and experimental elements to create recordings of interest to...
Topics: Avantgarde, Improvisation, Assemblage, Sampling
Topics: Avantgarde, Improvisation, Assemblage, Sampling
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. See Dick Whyte on Bandcamp for more Supercomposer albums.
Topic: plunderphonics
Topic: plunderphonics
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The moods, shades and places of the feedback drone interactions of three guitars explored, drawn into slow movement, complexity and drive. A solo experimental project, of usually improvised music of different forms. Tangent Precipitate journeyed through a broad range of music production techniques and genres. Generally albums had an emphasis on the capture of the raw and unpredictable creative moment. Tangent Precipitate has been retired, and further music is now produced as the Unknown...
Topics: Instrumental, Drone
Topics: Instrumental, Drone
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 whiff of power and madness.
Topics: Live Electronics, Improvisation, Samples, Power Electronics
Topics: Live Electronics, Improvisation, Samples, Power Electronics
This recording is deeply hypnotic, a miasma of huge pulses, a slow moving raft of shimmering tones. A solo experimental project, of usually improvised music of different forms. Tangent Precipitate journeyed through a broad range of music production techniques and genres. Generally albums had an emphasis on the capture of the raw and unpredictable creative moment. Tangent Precipitate has been retired, and further music is now produced as the Unknown Rockstar and as Tangent.
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Topics: Drones, Drone
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In 2005 Postmoderncore released a retrospective compilation, to celebrate its fiftieth release, and fifth year as a label. The compilation provides a great overview of what the label was doing at that time.
Topic: Various Artists
Topic: Various Artists
An album of keyboard/organ music. The first and third tracks are live recordings of a Hammond, and the second track is "...a live recording of keyboard through delay, played with a mind for interlocking/interweaving figures and exploring overtones - I find that listening to it intently sets me in powerful trance states." A solo experimental project, of usually improvised music of different forms. Tangent Precipitate journeyed through a broad range of music production techniques and...
Topics: Meditative Electronic, Echo, Delay
Topics: Meditative Electronic, Echo, Delay
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 parts" as it were. The first five work the power of running sounds over top of themselves to bring out certain interesting and powerful parts of them, long and involved explorations A solo...
Topics: Samples, Power Electronics
Topics: Samples, Power Electronics
Do This is an album with tracks in a mixture of styles. Do This itself is a collection of samples. Some of the other tracks are made up of samples, such as I Spent My Night, which is a free jazz cutup. There is also some electronic music, and a track of keyboard music, I Spent My Day. A solo experimental project, of usually improvised music of different forms. Tangent Precipitate journeyed through a broad range of music production techniques and genres. Generally albums had an emphasis on the...
Topics: Electronic, Sample Madness, Samplist Culture, Sample
Topics: Electronic, Sample Madness, Samplist Culture, Sample
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A whole variety of pieces electronic and acoustic, rhythmic and freeform, progress through a series of moods. A solo experimental project, of usually improvised music of different forms. Tangent Precipitate journeyed through a broad range of music production techniques and genres. Generally albums had an emphasis on the capture of the raw and unpredictable creative moment. Tangent Precipitate has been retired, and further music is now produced as the Unknown Rockstar and as Tangent.
Topics: Industrial, Instrumental, No Wave, Power Electronics, Mutant Blues
Topics: Industrial, Instrumental, No Wave, Power Electronics, Mutant Blues
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 parts" as it were. The first five work the power of running sounds over top of themselves to bring out certain interesting and powerful parts of them, long and involved explorations A solo...
Topics: Samples, Power Electronics
Topics: Samples, Power Electronics
Forceful electronic music, and brute-force sampling. A solo experimental project, of usually improvised music of different forms. Tangent Precipitate journeyed through a broad range of music production techniques and genres. Generally albums had an emphasis on the capture of the raw and unpredictable creative moment. Tangent Precipitate has been retired, and further music is now produced as the Unknown Rockstar and as Tangent.
Topics: Noise, Experimental, Samples, Samplist Culture
Topics: Noise, Experimental, Samples, Samplist Culture
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 parts" as it were. The first five work the power of running sounds over top of themselves to bring out certain interesting and powerful parts of them, long and involved explorations A solo...
Topics: Samples, Power Electronics
Topics: Samples, Power Electronics
Recorded live at the Festiva of Enjoyment at Enjoy Gallery in Wellington NZ on the 25th November 2002. Jeff plays baritone sax on the first track, and tenor sax on the second. A performance with the aggression of the title. The first track starts with a roaring wall of sax noise, working its way to a power drone tone (that has given me images of Jeff with a saxophone mouthpiece connected to a jet engine), and then to more subtle tonal landscapes. Halfway through the second track, Jeff pulls out...
Topics: improv, Instrumental, Free Jazz, Drone
Topics: improv, Instrumental, Free Jazz, Drone
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 musical collage, and music videos . The resultant albums offer a jaundiced view of contemporary society and all who sail in her, fleshed out with voices as diverse as Sylvia Plath, George W Bush, John...
Topics: Plunderphonics, Commentary, Avantgarde
Topics: Plunderphonics, Commentary, Avantgarde
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 still plenty of room for improvisation within this remit, particularly plunderphone improvision. Sam Stephens also releases music as Unknown Rockstar.
Topics: Plunderphonics, Improvisation
Topics: Plunderphonics, Improvisation
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Live at the Cross, Wellington NZ on the 4th September 2003. Rock in a country vein. For this release the Cowboys are Richie - guitar, Tony - guitar, Smiley - drums and Sam - bass. "Why doesn't rock music sound like it used to?" 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. The common ground the Cowboys had in their thoughts about rock music, and the...
Topic: Country Rock
Topic: Country Rock
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 parts" as it were. The first five work the power of running sounds over top of themselves to bring out certain interesting and powerful parts of them, long and involved explorations A solo...
Topics: Samples, Power Electronics
Topics: Samples, Power Electronics
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A variety of electronic and sample based music, from the rhythmically beautiful simplicity of Elevated States of Consciousness #001 to the more power electronic sample destroying sound of The Way. A solo experimental project, of usually improvised music of different forms. Tangent Precipitate journeyed through a broad range of music production techniques and genres. Generally albums had an emphasis on the capture of the raw and unpredictable creative moment. Tangent Precipitate has been...
Topics: Sample, Psychedelic, Meditative Electronic, Power Electronics
Topics: Sample, Psychedelic, Meditative Electronic, Power Electronics
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. Darkness and Light exist on the same continuum, and art should be willing to reflect the spectrum, between sheer horror and radiant beauty. This album should be seen as an effort to that end. This album is essentially a collection of semi-spontaneous improvisations made over...
Topics: improvised, dark, monolithic, meditative
Topics: improvised, dark, monolithic, meditative
An album of electronic and electro-accoustic music. Ranges for more chilled out pieces such as the static meditation of Tuning Into Your Own Frequency to the full overdriven loops sound of Broken Aesthetic. A solo experimental project, of usually improvised music of different forms. Tangent Precipitate journeyed through a broad range of music production techniques and genres. Generally albums had an emphasis on the capture of the raw and unpredictable creative moment. Tangent Precipitate has...
Topics: Electroacoustic, Loud/noise, Meditative Electronic
Topics: Electroacoustic, Loud/noise, Meditative Electronic
Recorded live at Bodega in Wellington NZ on the 29th April 2003. With Rick playing alto sax and clarinet, Sam Stephens playing bass, and Smiley playing drums. The Rick Jensen Trio/Quartet was started in New Zealand 1999, now based in London U.K. The group is a live performance ensemble that has many members come and go through the years. All the music is completely improvised, making every performance and recording completely unique. See Rick's bandcamp for more recent activity.
Topic: Free Jazz
Topic: Free Jazz
Electronics and cutups. The title track uses Dada techniques of running two vocal tracks against each other. A solo experimental project, of usually improvised music of different forms. Tangent Precipitate journeyed through a broad range of music production techniques and genres. Generally albums had an emphasis on the capture of the raw and unpredictable creative moment. Tangent Precipitate has been retired, and further music is now produced as the Unknown Rockstar and as Tangent.
Topics: Experimental, Samples, Samplist Culture, Dada
Topics: Experimental, Samples, Samplist Culture, Dada
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. 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.... working with known, unknown, and experimental elements to create recordings of interest to those who are curious about the manifestations of sound....
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Topics: improv, Instrumental, guitar, feedback, drone
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Topics: improv, Instrumental, guitar, feedback, drone
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 slackness).
Topics: Ambient, Electronic, Industrial, Experimental, Unfinished Messy Rock
Topics: Ambient, Electronic, Industrial, Experimental, Unfinished Messy Rock
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. He is an instrumental performing and recording artist.... working with known, unknown, and experimental elements to create recordings of interest to those who are curious about the manifestations of sound. The Unknown Rockstar is at heart an improvisor, and the albums he...
Topics: Instrumental, Guitar, Improvised, Drone
Topics: Instrumental, Guitar, Improvised, Drone
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. The second set is an ambient keyboard set from 20th of May 2017 at the Aotea gallery. Unknown Rockstar played as part of the Heavy Habit tape release gig . Unknown Rockstar is the current alias Sam Stephens, a musician currently based in New Zealand, uses...
Topics: Improvisation, Noise, Ambient, Auckland, Great Barrier Island
Topics: Improvisation, Noise, Ambient, Auckland, Great Barrier Island
Mastered from tape, this collection covers a broad sweep of insanity. A no-fi masterpiece. Featuring CasioTony, M.C. Lard, the Ghoul, Nip Trash, Mother's Little Helper, Rats in Paradise, and D.B. Shambles.
Topics: Lo-Fi, Unfinished Messy Rock, Various Artists, Cheap Electronics
Topics: Lo-Fi, Unfinished Messy Rock, Various Artists, Cheap Electronics
Recorded live at the Newtown Community Centre in Wellington NZ on the 7th of August 2004. Recorded the same evening as the Rick Jensen Trio release the excursionist. Jeff plays baritone sax. Jeff spends most of this performance in a continuous drone of overtone manipulation and investigation of the space he is in, with flurries of notes sneaking in later on. A subtle work that rewards listening. Jeff Henderson is an integral part of the New Zealand improvised music scene. He is truly a world...
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Topics: improv, Instrumental, Drone
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Topics: improv, Instrumental, Drone
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. The levels were adjusted so that quiet tracks could be heard. Otherwise there was no post production. Each contributor provided one word which were added to 3 others to create the track title. The title of the album was created by writing the 40...
Topics: Dada, Chance, Assemblage, Compilation, Various Artists
Topics: Dada, Chance, Assemblage, Compilation, Various Artists
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. Recorded on a phone in the toilets of Wales and England, with a splash of Spain, Portugal & Romania for good measure. The Doll has been making no-fi sounds since 2004. She likes to augment her vocals with...
Topic: Noise
Topic: Noise
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. We played electronics through chance indeterminists techniques. Do not talk about this recording with anybody or you will not get the one million dollars. you thank. Dead Air Fresheners are a Pacific Northwest collective of semi-anonymous musicians who prefer to work from a chance...
Topics: Avantgarde, Seattle, Portland, Washington, Improvisation
Topics: Avantgarde, Seattle, Portland, Washington, Improvisation
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.
Topics: Rock, Blues, Hollering, Two Piece
Topics: Rock, Blues, Hollering, Two Piece
A pair of raw guitar improvisations. 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.... working with known, unknown, and experimental elements to create recordings of interest to those who are curious about the manifestations of sound. The Unknown Rockstar is at heart an improvisor, and the albums he releases are single or multi track improvisations, or assembled from improvisations.
Topics: improv, Instrumental, guitar, blues
Topics: improv, Instrumental, guitar, blues
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. 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.... working with known, unknown, and experimental elements to create recordings of interest to those who are curious about the manifestations of sound. The...
Topics: improv, Instrumental, guitar, drone, blues, echo, delay
Topics: improv, Instrumental, guitar, drone, blues, echo, delay
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 parts" as it were. The second set of five use pure granular superimposition to build tracks, with a different approach to most users of granular synthesis. A solo experimental project, of...
Topics: Samples, Power Electronics
Topics: Samples, Power Electronics
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 parts" as it were. The second set of five use pure granular superimposition to build tracks, with a different approach to most users of granular synthesis. A solo experimental project, of...
Topics: Samples, Power Electronics
Topics: Samples, Power Electronics
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. Generally albums had an emphasis on the capture of the raw and unpredictable creative moment. Tangent Precipitate has been retired, and further music is now produced as the Unknown Rockstar and as Tangent.
Topics: Meditative, Soundscape, Samples
Topics: Meditative, Soundscape, Samples
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. Sam Stephens also releases music as Unknown Rockstar.
Topics: Avantgarde, New Zealand
Topics: Avantgarde, New Zealand
CD of hand diced improvised remixes of material by Tangent Precipitate and from other sources. Could be called Plunderphonics improvised in real-time. A solo experimental project, of usually improvised music of different forms. Tangent Precipitate journeyed through a broad range of music production techniques and genres. Generally albums had an emphasis on the capture of the raw and unpredictable creative moment. Tangent Precipitate has been retired, and further music is now produced as the...
Topics: Improvisation, Samples, Samplist Culture
Topics: Improvisation, Samples, Samplist Culture
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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. Tangent Precipitate journeyed through a broad range of music production techniques and genres. Generally albums had an emphasis on the capture of the raw and unpredictable creative moment. Tangent Precipitate has been retired, and further music is now produced as...
Topics: Instrumental, Improvisation, Samples, Power Electronics
Topics: Instrumental, Improvisation, Samples, Power Electronics
A mixture of sample based styles, some sequenced, some more abstract. Wood, Brass, Nylon Part 2 (Reclining Remix) is a very beautiful remix of a guitar track from an earlier Tangent Precipitate album. A solo experimental project, of usually improvised music of different forms. Tangent Precipitate journeyed through a broad range of music production techniques and genres. Generally albums had an emphasis on the capture of the raw and unpredictable creative moment. Tangent Precipitate has been...
Topics: Electronic, Remix, Sample
Topics: Electronic, Remix, Sample
Recorded live at the Newtown Community Centre in Wellington NZ on the 7th of August 2004. With Rick playing alto sax and clarinet, Sam Stephens playing bass, and Dean playing drums (Dean also does 7 inch releases as Lil' Skull). Recorded the same evening as the phenomenal Jeff Henderson solo saxophone release A. The Rick Jensen Trio/Quartet was started in New Zealand 1999, now based in London U.K. The group is a live performance ensemble that has many members come and go through the years. All...
Topic: Free Jazz
Topic: Free Jazz
An album of contrasts in mood and methods - the power of chance juxtapositions rears its head through out. contains elements i'm interested in further exploring. 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. Sam Stephens also releases music as Unknown Rockstar.
Topics: Sampling, electronic, drone, juxtaposition, field recordings
Topics: Sampling, electronic, drone, juxtaposition, field recordings
A double CD of improvised piano, influenced by classical music, jazz, and the avantgarde. Recorded on the sly in Massey Conservatorium of Music practice rooms on a day of September 2004. The album is for Ms Ruby Nekk. 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.... working with known, unknown, and experimental elements to create recordings of interest to those who are curious...
Topics: improv, Instrumental
Topics: improv, Instrumental
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 parts" as it were. The second set of five use pure granular superimposition to build tracks, with a different approach to most users of granular synthesis. A solo experimental project, of...
Topics: Samples, Samplist Culture, Power Electronics
Topics: Samples, Samplist Culture, Power Electronics
The compilation CD given away to guests at the Monsta Mash. Rocking and rollicking.
Topics: Rock, Trash Rock, Trance
Topics: Rock, Trash Rock, Trance
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 most of his solo work. He is an instrumental performing and recording artist.... working with known, unknown, and experimental elements to create recordings of interest to those who are curious...
Topic: Instrumental
Topic: Instrumental
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. He is an instrumental performing and recording artist.... working with known, unknown, and experimental elements to create recordings of interest to those who are curious about the manifestations of sound. The Unknown...
Topics: Improvisation, Psychedelic
Topics: Improvisation, Psychedelic
"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 smashed. So I played the strings directly. Both pieces reflect the decay and misuse of the pianos, and the environment they spent a short time in before going to their final resting place." The...
Topics: Instrumental, Piano, Improv, Found, Junk
Topics: Instrumental, Piano, Improv, Found, Junk
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 parts" as it were. The second set of five use pure granular superimposition to build tracks, with a different approach to most users of granular synthesis. A solo experimental project, of...
Topics: Samples, Power Electronics
Topics: Samples, Power Electronics
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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. The common ground the Cowboys had in their thoughts about rock music, and the contrasts in their individual styles made for good times for the Cowboys and their audiences.
Topic: Country Rock
Topic: Country Rock
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. All the music has been created using a very old record player, second hand microphones, discarded tape recorders and various bits of wire. An intriguing visual artist and a music lover. His experiments with turntables and junk lead him to the creation of his first...
Topics: sampling, plunderphonic, lofi, noisy, surface noise
Topics: sampling, plunderphonic, lofi, noisy, surface noise
This album is constructed from guitar drones, keyboard washes, and mutated samples. 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.
Topics: Improv, Experimental, Samples, Drone
Topics: Improv, Experimental, Samples, Drone
An album of beautiful, relatively sparse instrumental playing, on acoustic and electric guitar and on clarinet. The instrumental methods and modes developed through the Tangent Precipitate era are bought to a more focused conception of improvisation and sound under the guise of this new persona. 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.... working with known, unknown, and...
Topics: improv, Instrumental, guitar, clarinet, improvisation
Topics: improv, Instrumental, guitar, clarinet, improvisation
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. 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.... working with known, unknown, and experimental elements to create recordings of interest to those who are curious about...
Topics: Instrumental, Guitar, Improvised, Looping
Topics: Instrumental, Guitar, Improvised, Looping
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. The Shambolics made nasty, dirty punk rock music in 2003 and 2004. Started by the core members Dead Boy Shambles on guitar and Stumbly Shambolic on drums and vocals, they invited Sleepy Sam Shambles to play bass for them and then Evil Stan Shambles to play saxophone. They terrorised...
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.
Topics: Rock, Trash Rock, New Zealand, Unfinished Messy Rock, Mutant Blues, Garage Rock
Topics: Rock, Trash Rock, New Zealand, Unfinished Messy Rock, Mutant Blues, Garage Rock
Recorded live at the Newtown community centre in Wellington NZ. With Rick playing alto sax and clarinet, Sam Stephens playing piano, and Dick Whyte playing cello. The Rick Jensen Trio/Quartet was started in New Zealand 1999, now based in London U.K. The group is a live performance ensemble that has many members come and go through the years. All the music is completely improvised, making every performance and recording completely unique. See Rick's bandcamp for more recent activity.
Topic: Free Jazz
Topic: Free Jazz
Cyberphobe's story of the failure of the world we live in. The long awaited album. 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 musical collage, and music videos . The resultant albums offer a jaundiced view of contemporary society and all who sail in her, fleshed out with voices as diverse as Sylvia Plath, George W Bush, John Cage and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and...
Topics: Political, Cheap Electronics, Sampling
Topics: Political, Cheap Electronics, Sampling
Recorded from a live to air broadcast on Radio Massey sometime in August 1998. Originally released on Lizardmull Records, Palmerston North's premier swamp label. Thanks also to Loco-Weed Productions for finance. Phallus is an old Palmerston North swamp rock/noise/slop collective, that freaked out together for an indeterminate period in several configurations before imploding. Smiley: Vocals; Campbell: Guitar; Sam: Guitar and Bass; Barbara: Vocals; Dylan: drums.
Topics: Punk, Unfinished Messy Rock, wild wild rock'n'roll
Topics: Punk, Unfinished Messy Rock, wild wild rock'n'roll
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. One xylophone and three metal flowers, occasionally three analog tone generators we found in the street. One brother calls another. Van, garage, and hotel room studios. Press rewind. Produced by Pascal Lee with Dead Air Fresheners. Dead Air Fresheners are a Pacific Northwest...
Topic: improvisation
Topic: improvisation
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 parts" as it were. The first five work the power of running sounds over top of themselves to bring out certain interesting and powerful parts of them, long and involved explorations A solo...
Topics: Samples, Power Electronics
Topics: Samples, Power Electronics
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 arrived in Corporal Tofulung 's inbox. The levels were adjusted so that quiet tracks could be heard. Otherwise there was no post production. Each contributor provided one word which were added to 3...
Topics: Dada, Chance, Assemblage, Compilation, Various Artists
Topics: Dada, Chance, Assemblage, Compilation, Various Artists
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. He is an instrumental performing and recording artist.... working with known, unknown, and experimental elements to create recordings of interest to those who are curious about the manifestations of sound. The Unknown Rockstar is at heart an improvisor, and the albums he...
Topics: Guitar, Improvisation
Topics: Guitar, Improvisation
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.... working with known, unknown, and experimental elements to create recordings of interest to those who are curious about the manifestations of sound. The Unknown Rockstar is at heart an improvisor, and the albums he releases are single or multi...
Topics: Improvisation, Instrumental
Topics: Improvisation, Instrumental
Some guitar playing, some drone. All very cheerful, of course. 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.... working with known, unknown, and experimental elements to create recordings of interest to those who are curious about the manifestations of sound. The Unknown Rockstar is at heart an improvisor, and the albums he releases are single or multi track improvisations, or...
Topics: improv, Instrumental, guitar, drone, echo, delay, avant-garde
Topics: improv, Instrumental, guitar, drone, echo, delay, avant-garde
Recorded live to air on the Deprogrammer show, hosted by Sam and Smiley, on MUNT FM on the 16th of June 2003. Robyn Kenealy appears on vocals for lamplight. A talented folk and country performer who has been performing his ever increasing song book of originals and favourite songs for some years. His powerful and flexible voice and keen sensibilities on the guitar make him always worth seeing. More recently his work with the Bent Folk is well worth checking out.
Topics: Folk, Country, Accoustic, Singing, Self-released, Guitar
Topics: Folk, Country, Accoustic, Singing, Self-released, Guitar
Recorded live at the Photospace in Wellington NZ in July 2003. With Rick playing alto sax and clarinet, Dick Whyte playing cello, and Sam Stephens playing double bass. The Rick Jensen Trio/Quartet was started in New Zealand 1999, now based in London U.K. The group is a live performance ensemble that has many members come and go through the years. All the music is completely improvised, making every performance and recording completely unique. See Rick's bandcamp for more recent activity.
Topic: Free Jazz
Topic: Free Jazz
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 parts" as it were. The second set of five use pure granular superimposition to build tracks, with a different approach to most users of granular synthesis. A solo experimental project, of...
Topics: Samples, Samplist Culture, Power Electronics
Topics: Samples, Samplist Culture, Power Electronics
Robyn Kenealy, Craig Irie, and the Unknown Rockstar performed on this evening. Robyn is a folk and country performer and songwriter, and comic book writer. Craig is a Wellington poet, organiser of the Wellington Word Festival for a number of years, and a founding member of the Word Collective. He is backed by The Unknown Rockstar, who then does a solo set. All three artists appear on the Salad Bones CD compilation of spoken words and music.
Topics: Folk, Instrumental, Spoken Word, Improv
Topics: Folk, Instrumental, Spoken Word, Improv
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