Third Noise Principle: An Extended Blurb

3/8/2019

What a hell of a box! Cherry Red's third volume in their series of "formative electronica" overviews (the first covered the UK, the second continental Europe) draws in names both well-known (Suicide, Ministry, the Residents, Moev, Chrome) and obscure (Data-Bank-A, Architects Office, XX Committee, Rational Youth). Modern composers like Terry Riley and Philip Glass comfortably share space with Controlled Bleeding, Executive Slacks, and Voice Farm in this 4-CD set in a 48-page hardbound book.

Some of our illustrious EC community also appear! Hal McGee is represented by a snippet from the first ever Dog As Master release, a lo-fi bit of industrial sound collage bliss that's somehow related to yet much less refined than his current assemblages (not that there's anything wrong with being less refined!). Rick Franecki appears both on an F/i track AND an F/i collaboration with the criminally underrated industrial group Boy Dirt Car, both of which show why F/i is a legend of American space rock. Al Margolis contributes a fascinating early If,Bwana track from the gorgeously punny Freudian Slip cassette (look up the album cover for the pun!).

Everyone's favorite girl on fire Leslie Singer provides a charmingly DIY bit of sound collage madness in the form of Girls On Fire's delightfully named "Cat Vomit Punk House". Mental Anguish, Chris Phinney's project, is there as well with a lovely piece from MA's fourth cassette.

As with any compilation, the listener will play a mental game of "If I curated this.....", but the selections are solid throughout and they flow perfectly. Get this to hear our wonderful fellow EC'ers during their early years, and stick around to be enthralled by the rest! Even Ministry's goofy synthpop-era dub track sounds good in this context!

A REQUEST: If anyone has ANY information on Isosceles, please contact me! They seem to have been scrubbed completely from the internet (and history as a result) bar their track on disc four. Their track sounds VERY ahead of its time, reminding me of some of the dub techno I enjoyed in my younger years.

Editor's Note:
Chris Phinney has eight copies of Third Noise Principle for sale.
You can contact him by email to arrange a purchase.

16 Comments

Aimee Naworal link

3/8/2019 02:03:25

I really enjoyed listening to this collection. I enjoyed being able to hear more of what our EC peers created,while driving in my car. Great synopsis Adam <3 Meh!

Adam J Naworal

3/8/2019 02:04:00

MLEM <3

Dylan Houser

3/8/2019 05:09:50

Chrome sandwiched between If,Bwana and Dog as Master!

3/8/2019 08:11:43

Off Chrome's noisiest release, no less!

Chris Phinney

3/8/2019 07:20:39

Isoceles was pretty much a one off, they prefer it that way, according to Ricard Anderson curator of this compilation. On all volumes disc 3 is the noisiest Richard's intention, he asked me if he could place my track on disc 3, to sorta break it up so to speak. Lol

3/8/2019 08:12:29

You'd think there'd be SOME documentation of their tape outside of this compilation! Also, that makes sense re: disc three being the noisiest.

3/9/2019 09:34:16

Adam,

Yes one would think so!

3/10/2019 16:09:45

Ah well, a little mystery goes a long way ;)

Leslie Singer

3/8/2019 17:49:05

Adam, thanks for the great review and posting! And thanks to all for listening!

3/10/2019 16:07:54

Thanks for the kind words and for reading my review/blurb, Leslie!

Little Fyodor

3/8/2019 21:12:45

Awesome sauce!! Congrats to all of the EC community members who got to represent!! I imagine y'all knew this was coming...?

I was curious if I was possibly on the Architects Office selection, though I doubted it based on the number in the title, so I looked for my copy of their first tape in my box of irregularly shaped tape releases, the first time I had gotten my mitts in there in quite a while, and found the tape and confirmed that the piece used was from that tape (the very first piece on it, thus the 01), which was the only tape AO made before briefly joining forces with WoG (during which Evan and I played with AO). It occurred to me that I described this tape in the Walls Of Genius archive but never included any visual evidence of it....

Anyway, quite a collection, indeed interesting and impressive in its breadth, and congrats again to all who might see me saying this who are on it!!

3/9/2019 09:39:02

Fyodor,
Thanks, yes to answer your ? Since last spring, Richard almost got Devo on it but Universal denied it seems. Shame.

3/10/2019 16:08:44

I didn't realize you were part of AO, Fyodor! I suppose my usually dilligent research failed me that time XD Thanks for reading my words :)

3/10/2019 16:37:50

Just to be clear, Adam, in case I wasn't, I did *not* contribute to the AO piece that was included in the Third Noise Principle comp. I *did* participate in AO for their first few live performances, maybe as many as six, which make up the bulk of AO's 2nd and 3rd releases, which were released by Walls Of Genius. Many gory details about which can be found at http://www.haltapes.com/wog-0012-partitions.html and http://www.haltapes.com/wog-0013-dispensation.html.....

3/11/2019 02:11:35

I figured that out :) I just would've mentioned you were involved with AO at some point in my blurb if I was aware of it!

Littlefyodor

3/11/2019 02:14:25

Adam, ah, gotcha!

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