The brilliant Solipsistic Nation podcast has featured Speak Onion in their recent show about people who use iphones/ipads/ipods to make electronic music. This show features various artists who use Apple’s mobile hardware in different ways to make all kinds of electronic music. The last 10 minutes or so of the show are devoted to our boy, Speak Onion, including an interview and his live set from last January, Speak Onion at Brecht Forum, January 19, 2009. Listen to Solipsistic Nation No. 193 right here.
Those of you know who’ve seen SO’s ruinous live styles may know that all those beats and loops are coming from an iphone running Beatmaker. They may get ripped apart afterwards, but that’s where they start. So go grab the new episode of Solipsistic Nation, and subscribe to their podcast while you’re there, because there’s plenty of new and awesome electronic music coming out of there every week.
Clairaudient has been hard at work lately developing strange new frontiers in choreography and motion-controlled soundscapes. The deranged dance/noise duo performed in March at Chelsea Piers as part of a benefit for Haiti Relief, and in case you missed it, the video is below:
This piece, “Underneath It All, I’m Just A Skeleton” is a preview of what you can expect at Clairaudient’s upcoming appearance at the Alternative Arts Association Dance Showcase. Clairuadient will be busting moves and blowing speakers along with plenty of NYC’s other most cutting=edge choreographers. Come check it out!
“…a raucous form of extreme soundwork that is equal parts hardcore techno, drum’n’bass and noise. This is the sound of the U.S. underground Breakcore scene, a quickly evolving genre, and Speak Onion is one of it’s masters.”
The Village Voice is hip to NYC’s boss of drum’n'noise. The feature includes some insight into what the hell Speak Onion is on about, a review of Trigger Pusher, and some background on I.B.N. They said, among other glowing praise:
“Only the Floor Is Rotten” may teem with enough nasty, pixilated bass synthesizers and stuttered tripwire breakbeats to satiate a dozen warehouses packed full of revelers, but the relentless waves of twinkling keyboard figures underneath all that havoc come bearing cosmic melodic gifts. “The Last Thing You Remember,” meanwhile, pushes the noise-as-bracing-assault envelope with a fuck-you intensity, mashing reams of hyperventilating wavelength chirp together with evil-algorithm, bit-crush malevolence.”
Yeah, that’s about right.
So grab the Village Voice this week to get a piece of Immigrant Breast Nest history! And stay tuned for future Speak Onion news, including the upcoming show on 3/14 at The Charleston in Williamsburg and the upcoming split release with Xrin Arms!
“For these brave few that seek out breakcore for their listening enjoyment, Speak Onion is the man for the job. Blending the intricacies of breakcore with the sheer power of noise, Metabolor is perfect for the breakcore fanatic,”
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“Speak Onion brings forth gunfire drums and imminent doom with his music,”
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“…but those well-versed in the genre [breakcore] will find Speak Onion a strong player in the field.”
among other fantastically positive things. We are not surprised. Speak Onion is the boss of NYC drum’n'noise and he doesn’t stop at Metabolor, recently having dropped Trigger Pusher on us, and with Snow Braid– a split with Xrin Arms– about to drop, the madness continues.
First off, we have new releases from Speak Onion and David B Applegate coming this month! Just getting the mastering done. Speak Onion’s “Trigger Pusher” is an EP of 2 looooong tracks capturing the bonkers live energy he’s been bringing to the stage of late, and David B. Applegate’s “King Of The Campus” is a full length bursting with sklatter, BOOM, and blOOr for days. Get excited. Any minute now. Check out the artwork.
Also, check out Speak Onion’s new website design, and find him on Twitter. You can expect him to be hollering about breakbeats, fish, beards, eating, and maybe Nord synthesizers or whatever the fuck that dude is ever talking about.
Also, did you find me on facebook yet? I didn’t!
Derek Tibs (CEO, Immigrant Breast Nest)
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I don’t really get it yet. I’m used to walking around getting money and fucking bitches and bringing blown out sounds to the people of earth, so this chit-chat and blah blah blah is not really my speed, but I’m sure I’ll have this shit working for me any minute. I bet that mark-ass trick, Don Drope knows how to use Facebook right.
Anyway, search for and add “Derek Tibs” on facebook for one more way to keep up with I.B.N. happenings. You can also find your man, Speak Onion, on there, and become a fan. Do it. Other Immigrant Breast Nest artists to follow!
About Who measure’s the measurers? CB says, “Flips, clicks, drones, buzzes, pops and even glitches are thrown together and have things done to them that they could never have imagined in their wildest nightmares…” and “‘Who measures the measurers?’ retains far more accessibility to a general audience than most projects this avant-garde would manage to…”
Accessibility? Ok, if you say so!
This comes just in time to get the people ready for the latest and greatest T-MOM offering, to be released this month, Overcoming Adversity City. It will dagger your ears.
The Free Albums Galore blog, which highlights only the finest free music from all over the internet, has featured IBN’s David B. Applegate project Blind Moany Wat in its electronica section. Earning a favorable comparison to experimental music luminary DJ Spooky, the Free Albums Galore folks extol: “those who like their electronic music scratching the boundaries will find this interesting.” Interesting like a porch weevil beating a wrecked tattoo on your eardrum with six legs & its head, ya heard? Get the record directly from IBN here and check out the Free Albums Galore blog review here.
Watch this space! A new Thermometerometer joint, “Overcoming adversity city,” will be dropping from the back real soon. Delayed because Dan broke his foot in a pot-hole and needed to focus on trip-hop for a while, Thermometerometer is now in the final stages of the process which results in your having brand new electro-spew to cram in your ear-holes. “Overcoming adversity city” has the hot tracks! It has the hot beats & wrecked bass noise! It is swaggering! Famous people who have heard it already say it could very well be the newest Thermometerometer record ever! GET READY.
