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tnewhandl Since: Feb, 2011
#1: Mar 10th 2011 at 3:42:19 AM

Maybe the oddest "genre" I've ever heard.

Anyone else heard of it?

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#2: Mar 10th 2011 at 6:10:53 AM

Suck.

I'm sorry, but there is such a thing as going too far.

This combines the worst traits of several genres, and I just do not like it. Whitehouse in particular, I just cannot stand.

edited 10th Mar '11 6:16:25 AM by SpainSun

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#3: Mar 10th 2011 at 9:28:35 AM

The genre title sounds like some sort of factory machine corporation, which, listening to some examples of the music on Youtube, is pretty apt.

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chocoboxxx Since: Dec, 1969
#4: Mar 10th 2011 at 9:34:22 AM

Noise≠music.

edited 10th Mar '11 9:35:22 AM by chocoboxxx

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#5: Mar 10th 2011 at 10:12:10 AM

[up][up][up] I'd like Whitehouse more if the vocalist didn't sound like a ranty tryhard version of David Tibet. Quiet down and let the noise do the yelling.

Not that I particularly like David Tibet's vocals either, but that's irrelevant.

edited 10th Mar '11 10:13:03 AM by DarkDecapodian

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#6: Mar 10th 2011 at 11:25:52 AM

[up][up] I'm not familiar with the noise scene at all, but a statement like that seems like Flame Bait. And can probably be proved wrong by someone more familiar with noise music.

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chocoboxxx Since: Dec, 1969
#7: Mar 10th 2011 at 11:53:12 AM


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Litis from Israel Since: Jul, 2009
#8: Mar 10th 2011 at 12:03:55 PM

The thread is not about Choccobox — Madrugada}

OT: Just what the hell is power electronics about? Industrial, only even noisier?

edited 10th Mar '11 5:18:35 PM by Madrugada

SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
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#9: Mar 10th 2011 at 12:26:38 PM

Noise+Industrial+Some aspects of the heaviest of metal.

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chocoboxxx Since: Dec, 1969
#10: Mar 10th 2011 at 12:30:17 PM

[up][up]I listened to about 5 power electronics tracks from different groups to form my opinion, I don't think you can sway me, and I apologize for coming off as opinionated, but calling me an asshole dude? Not cool, man. Not cool.

edited 10th Mar '11 12:32:11 PM by chocoboxxx

Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#11: Mar 10th 2011 at 5:20:16 PM

<Mod Hat ON>

More talking about the music and less talking about how another poster worded his post. And that applies to all of you.

<Mod Hat OFF>

edited 10th Mar '11 5:20:24 PM by Madrugada

JHM Apparition in the Woods from Niemandswasser Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hounds of love are hunting
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#12: Mar 10th 2011 at 7:12:53 PM

Hmm... I don't actually dislike power electronics as a genre concept, but Sturgeon's Law definitely applies to the thing itself, as it does with anything in noise.

I actually like a lot of Whitehouse, especially the earliest and most recent material, but less for the obvious appeal (catharsis) than for the sense of improvisation and texture that most people tend to overlook. (I also refuse to take William Bennett (or Phillip Best) seriously, but that's a whole different matter.) Most of the Sotos period is not to my taste, however; too dour and self-conscious.

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BalrogKick Since: Jan, 2011
#13: Mar 19th 2011 at 3:34:07 AM

Heavily into this genre years back. But JHM is right on the ball about how homogenized it is: You could close your eyes, grab a random album and the reaction wouldn't be much different from most of the other random albums you didn't pick. Granted, it's much more of a performance genre that seeing live will do wonders with, but after a while it seemed pointless to buy albums that they spend more time coloring the vinyl of than the tracks themselves.

I still do have my fair share of favorites, though. Brighter Death Now, Control, Bloodyminded, Prurient, Hair Police, Fire in the Head, Slogun, Deathpile and Guilty Connector. It's not for everyone but I love my pure blasts of noise from time to time.

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#14: Mar 19th 2011 at 7:28:17 AM

I really wish "power electronics" was some kind of twisted hybrid of electronic music and power metal.

Not least for the reason that my housemate keeps blasting out Whitehouse and it sounds awful.

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#15: Mar 19th 2011 at 8:37:33 AM

[up][up] I've heard a lot about Slogun, but haven't actually heard anything. Must look into them.

It seems that what we have in common with our taste in the genre is that all of those artists (that I know) have a much greater flair for dynamics (and timbre) than most. Prurient, for example.

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tnewhandl Since: Feb, 2011
#16: Mar 19th 2011 at 4:46:37 PM

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I feel so utterly sorry for you. I wouldn't want an accented man telling me 5000 ways I suck while disorted bass plays without my permission.

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#18: Mar 19th 2011 at 5:16:12 PM

Merton: I thought of power transistors and such, myself.

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tnewhandl Since: Feb, 2011
#19: Mar 19th 2011 at 5:22:02 PM

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He called to tell you that I suck? Are your eardrums still functioning?

[up]

It was called Power Electronics because of the apparent power associated with verbally abusing people. How deep.

edited 19th Mar '11 5:22:45 PM by tnewhandl

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#20: Mar 19th 2011 at 5:31:06 PM

Well... It was more a pun on the volume, I think, as a lot of early Power Electronics performers were primarily instrumental; Maurizio Bianchi is a classic example.

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tnewhandl Since: Feb, 2011
#21: Mar 19th 2011 at 5:34:47 PM

It's also odd that William Bennett is quite lucid in personality.

SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
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#22: Mar 19th 2011 at 5:40:38 PM

I knew a local Power Electronics band whose lead singer got arrested for killing dogs.

/anecdote

Not that I think they're all like that or anything, I just thought of it now for some reason.

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#23: Mar 19th 2011 at 5:42:47 PM

[up][up] Which is one of the many reasons that I do not take his whole "I believe what I say!" schtick seriously.

[up] Yeah, it's a bit like Black Metal: Mostly just brooding people, but with one or two genuine nuts.

edited 19th Mar '11 5:43:49 PM by JHM

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tnewhandl Since: Feb, 2011
#24: Mar 19th 2011 at 5:48:20 PM

[up]

Not only lucid, but from what I've seen, a nice guy, not the stab-you-in-the-back-lives-in-a-burrow maniac I imagined. Maybe that's one of the points of the genre, or something.

BalrogKick Since: Jan, 2011
#25: Mar 19th 2011 at 5:53:22 PM

I'm probably a bit biased for Slogun, he was one of the first PE acts I got into and his material is janky, dirty electronics and not really as dynamic as Prurient. I do enjoy how abrasive it is, and he sounds pissed on every track.

Also, I'm sure a few people here will get a crack out of this live blooper.


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