A personal archive of industrial, noise & avant-garde disturbances.
Explore
Three interactive features, then nine sections that run from the tradition's pre-history to the records, scenes and texts that argue it into being.
The archive, mapped
Every artist, label, form and scene in the archive, drawn as a turning body of its own connections. Drag it, search it, follow the links.
ExploreThe full deck
Over a thousand questions on industrial, noise and avant-garde music. Filter by difficulty and topic, shuffle, search, and click to reveal the answer.
ExploreOne per form, charted
A single recording per form, plus three wildcards: the chart at the heart of the audio department, each entry with a streaming search link.
ExploreThe Long Tradition
Six chronological essays covering the long pre-history (1913–1975) through the founding wave, turn, crossover, dispersal and streaming age.
ExploreGenre & Taxonomy
Twenty genre entries covering power electronics, harsh noise wall, death industrial, dark ambient, rhythmic noise, glitch, Japanoise and the surrounding contested categories.
ExploreFounding Texts
Eight manifestos and position statements, from Russolo's 1913 letter to Pratella through the Industrial Records prospectus and the Harsh Noise Wall refusal.
ExploreThe Practitioner Axis
The list of every practitioner and precursor figure in this archive, in alphabetical order. Each entry leads into a full artist page.
ExploreImprints & Catalogues
Label histories. Industrial Records, Some Bizzare, Mute, Cold Meat Industry, Ant-Zen, Hospital Productions; the imprints that pressed the records, distributed the catalogue and frequently went under.
ExploreRecordings, Equipment, Studios
The physical objects the genre exists as. Records, master tapes, equipment, studios and the techniques behind them. The Second Annual Report, the Akai S1000, Beck Road, the tape cut-up.
ExploreSleeves, Posters, Photography, Film
The visual mode. Sleeve design, gig posters, scene photography, performance and film documentation. The visual vocabulary the tradition shipped its records and ideas in.
ExploreWe must break out of this narrow circle of pure musical sounds and conquer the infinite variety of noise-sounds.
Luigi Russolo · The Art of Noises · 11 March 1913