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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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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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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OT: Just what the hell is power electronics about? Industrial, only even noisier?
edited 10th Mar '11 5:18:35 PM by Madrugada
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.
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.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.
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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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.
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.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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Which is one of the many reasons that I do not take his whole "I believe what I say!" schtick seriously.
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
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.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.

Maybe the oddest "genre" I've ever heard.
Anyone else heard of it?