“Industrial” (Used 11 times)

Part of the Electronic Musik back catalogue now being made available as free downloads.

http://www.archive.org/details/Fonikem090 

A live recording from the 2nd Festival of Improvised Music 2006 (Pyramid Arts Centre).

Features Fonik with guest Pascal Nichols (Part the Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides)

Ian Simpson - prepared lapsteel

Harry Gallimore - electronics

Pascal Nichols - percussion

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Previously available as a limited edition cdr from Electronic Musik.Recorded in St Brides Church, Liverpool UK as part of a Frakture Concert in 2007.

The piece was completely improvised. The piece starts very, very quietly so dont be deceived when playing on this page that nothing is there !

Download Fonik - Scattergraph here http://www.archive.org/details/ScatterGraphem092

Digitally recorded by Harry Gallimore.

Harry Gallimore - electronicsIan Simpson - prepared lapsteelwww.myspace.com/fonikfonik

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This is a live collaboration from duo Pesticide Organica and Noise Research / Fonik (aka Ian Simpson).

Released by Electronic Musik you can download it for free here http://www.archive.org/details/SplatterCushionem087

The first of tonight's three presentations is billed as a new collaboration between Pesticide Organica, Fonik and Noise Research performing improvised avant electronica / concrete with processed reeds and found sound chaos. Fonik hit the MM radar last summer when they managed to be the most fucked up sounding thing at Dry Bar's not inappropriately named Fucked Up All Dayer; "flicking switches and twisting knobs, playing with oscillations to build an abstract sound-picture stripped of any melodic convention.". Tonight one half of the duo is doing much the same thing, although his source material here comes not from the inside of a physics lab but the natural world: birds shriek and water crashes, processed into something altogether more alien as his hands wander around a table containing what looks like the contents of the world's coolest shed. Meanwhile a second artist (I'm not sure who's Pesticide Organica and who's Noise Research) supplies additional layers from a laptop whilst a third adds occasional sax notes. As the piece progresses the ripples become swamp creatures, more layers are added and the sax gradually moves into free jazz territory. (Cath Aubergine)

When Mike Mangino and Chris Shepard started writing music together in the late 1970s, their goal was not to develop a repertoire and play gigs, or even to perform live in front of any audience. Everything they needed was right there in Piscataway NJ: a basement full of musical toys and instruments, novelty space microphones, a TR-606 (the same "Roland" who was listed as a member of Big Black), a SH-09 (Cabaret Voltaire's favorite synth), and -- perhaps most importantly -- a tape recorder. Every Monday night, they'd write a new song from scratch. A couple hours later, the song was recorded, never to be performed again.

By 1981, this dedication to spontanious creativity had already produced countless recordings, and the duo began releasing cassettes as Smersh via their own Atlas King label. A definitive Smersh discography may not even be possible, but this one lists more than 30 Atlas King cassettes. As these tapes traded their way across continents, Smersh developed a devoted following in places far beyond Piscataway, leading to releases on dozens of other labels from across the globe. A 15 song sampler featuring some of the many highlights from Smersh's vast discography, spanning 1983-1993, is now available here at the Free Music Archive.

My obsession with Smersh began relatively recently, when I first heard the song "Sweet Little Bishop" in the WFMU library, off a 7'' released by Sweden's Börft label in 1991 (listen). Then it got stuck in my head for several days straight. My subconscious couldn't remember what it was at first, mixed it up with some bizarre Prince song. But then i remembered that mysterious Smersh 7'' -- the one that stood out amongst the other Börft stuff in the library (Swedish artists like Frak and Enhänta Bödlar, who are also uncategorizable and each worthy of their own post!). I set about tracking down as much info as possible find about Smersh...

Bacillus is Ian Simpson (electronics and tape edits)Bacillus Bacillus is the solo project of Ian Simpson, a UK based improviser, sound artist and composer. All the work realised under this project uses electronics and sound manipulation as its textural medium. Some of the works are improvised and some use a graphic or text scores as their basis. Many use found sounds and field recordings. Some of the original source material has come from Ians very first experiments with tapes and electronics in the 1980's. Although essentially a studio project there are occasional live performances.The Radio Mast ep was originally issued on 3" cdr in 2005 and is now beingmade available here with most of the other Electronic Musik releases.

download here http://www.archive.org/details/RadioMastem077 

Other projects featuring Ian are Noise Research, Fonik & Id of Mobius.

Current Bacillus releases

• First Circuit (electronic musik)
• A View From a Hill (electronic musik)
• Threads of Fabric - (opsound)
• Radio Mast EP - 3" cdr (electronic musik)
• Osaka Dawn (white label music)
• Leaving Planet 9 (with Paul Burnell on electronic musik)
• Collapse EP (electronic musik)
• Lithium Burn (split with Fonik, electronic musik)