Dark Ambient/Noise/Power Electronics/Industrial Genre

Been getting into a lot of this stuff recently. Stuff like Wolf Eyes, John Weise, Pharmakon, Puce Mary. For me, the harsher the better. I have only just started dipping my toes into it. And i've given a few older acts a go, in particular Whitehouse.

Anyone got any other recs?

 

I wanna get into Merzbow, but his discography is mental. No idea where to start.

 

Sub. No recs rn but this has been my lane for a month or so.

 

excited to check out the new Perc LP

 

I have the same issue. any help would be appreciated

 

I just went on soulseek and d/l a shit tonne haha.

Need to go back and listen to his last one again. Got a feeling i'll enjoy it more this time round.

 

get 1930 - it's amazing

many will say Pulse Demon and it's good too...

also some of my fav artists... Prurient, Kevin Drumm, Yellow Swans and Hair Police

 

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LOL
3+ hours of Prurient incoming

 

I saw this earlier and just immediately knew I’d never listen to it

 

My band did shrooms on Tuesday and while deep in it we did an impromptu dark noise set in our practice space that absolutely opened my head lol. Makes me want to look into these genres more now that I maybe understand what I should be listening for

 

hey! who would have thought! high five : )

 

i'm truly curious the mindset someone gets in when they're like "hey, i'm going to sit down and listen to a full three hours of prurient"

this isn't meant to be a criticism of prurient's material, more of, well, when someone would want to actually partake in this haha

 

yeah like, I like parts of his records but I mean, does the album come with anti-depressants? I feel like I would just be emotionally drained

 

I like the fact that this thread exists.

 

so I guess you guys stay away from things like books and movies that are not "happy"...

because you know, you can only do 10 mins of it... or whatevs...

it is part of the human experience and some people engage with such things

 

lol yeah I dont read books

180 minutes of noise is a lot, don't be dense. I liked Frozen Niagra but it does get grating for me in it's entirety so I can imagine this will be an exhausting listen especially since it seems it won't have any of his melodic/synth/techno tendencies to break it up

 

the not happy part has nothing to do with it to me, don't put words in my mouth

it's music that is harsh, hard to absorb, and intense. what mindsets do you have to be in to have a focused three hours of that? i'm not judging, just genuinely curious

 

well this is supposed to be ambient/drone - so not that hard to swallow

harsh noise is not for everyone and not for any time - I sure as hell need to focus on it and concentrate and that's something that doesn't happen any given day

you also don't have to consume all of it in a single sitting (as opposed to say books, where you have to live with the thing for a long while)

so you avoid harsh, hard to absorve and intense art in general? not criticism, just trying to understand

 

No, but I don't think I've ever listened to a three hour album regardless of genre. Like I said, I like him and am actually hoping to enjoy this - you're just talking about one of the longest albums in recent memory in the most inaccessible genre I can think of as if it should be an easy pill to swallow. This sort of music definitely has its place or I wouldn't be here, but I think being intimidated by 180 minutes of harsh sonics really has nothing to do with an ability to appreciate difficult or "not happy" art

 

yup this

like, has someone listened to the entire disintegration loops series in one listen? i'm sure they have. but like, you must be one intense music listener if you did that

 

I got through the first one in a slow day at work.

 

but that's just one! what about like, the first three at once

that's basically this album

 

Yeah. There's zero chance in fuck I'm absorbing all of that in one sitting.

 

@Horrorca have you heard this? don't know if you fuck with techno at all but one of my favorite albums in the genre of the past few years and it definitely partially fits in here

 

One time during foreplay I had Music on shuffle and a Prurient song came on