John Wiese
Circle Snare LP
PPM
"Out of all of the American noisemakers, California's John Wiese is among my absolute favourites. Although like many of his peers his release schedule is almost impossible to follow, with tapes, cdrs and limited vinyl coming faster than Ron Jeremy's teenage understudy, he defined the genre with the seminal 'Soft Punk'. Taking fragments of punk and hardcore, he pieced together an album which showed why American noise differed from European noise (and Japanese noise for that matter) and to these (battered) ears remains unmatched in the genre. Since then he's been touring incessantly and anyone lucky enough to have caught him live will know what I mean when I say his sets have to be experienced in the flesh. 'Circle Snare' was recorded on his January 2008 Scandinavian tour, a tour I was lucky enough to catch at least a glimpse of, and this disc goes some way to representing the visceral experience of the shows. Taking his trademark Max/MSP concrete experimentation and throwing it up against subtle drones, the album starts quietly, but before long we're dragged kicking and screaming into deftly separated ear-pummelling sound. This isn't quite the kind of amplifier destruction you might expect from Wolf Eyes or their Mid-West set however; there is something more technical and almost more academic about Wiese's knife-like processes. On stumbling out of the Oslo venue where I witnessed this set performed, I remarked that he was the "Autechre of noise" and I'll stand by that comment. John Wiese makes noise that sounds like everything is in a specific place for a specific reason—something rare and beautiful. It might be punk, but this punk can play his instrument better than most. Startlingly good." — Boomkat
BATCH—C.C.C.C./The Haters/Merzbow/Sissy Spacek
$49 USD
Coronado –
Merzbow/Sissy Spacek "Coronado" 2xCD
Merzbow/Sissy Spacek
$15 USD
Cosm –
Sissy Spacek "Cosm" CD
Sissy Spacek
$10 USD
Amplified Crystal –
C.C.C.C. "Amplified Crystal" CD
C.C.C.C.
$10 USD
Community Center Cyber Crash/Live In Pittsburgh –
C.C.C.C. "Live In Pittsburgh" CD
C.C.C.C.
$10 USD
Tractor 2023 –
The Haters "Tractor 2023" CD
The Haters
$10 USD
Black Tupelo –
Alex York "Black Tupelo" CD
Alex York
$10 USD
Magnetic Stencil/ 1 –
John Wiese "Magnetic Stencil" 3xLP
John Wiese
$50 USD
Pitched Intervention –
Sissy Spacek – Absorb Wanting Symbols CD (Petite Soles)
Sissy Spacek
$10 USD
The Elusive Flexure –
The Elusive Flexure 2xCD
Joseph Hammer/Joe Potts/John Wiese
$15 USD
Solid State of Time –
Solid State of Time CD
Robert Turman/John Wiese
Sold Out
XCIII –
XCIII CD
Smegma/Merzbow
$10 USD
Plays –
Plays CD
Merzbow/Smegma
Sold Out
Continuous Hole –
Drew Daniel/John Wiese "Through Mazes Running" LP
Drew Daniel/John Wiese
$20 USD
White Gold –
White Gold — 3 CD
The Cherry Point and John Wiese
$9 USD
Pitched Intervention –
Sissy Spacek — Tempo Scalato LP
Sissy Spacek
$20 USD
Magnetic Stencil/ 2 –
Paul G. Smyth/John Wiese — The Outlier CD
John Wiese
$12 USD
Sissy Spacek – Radio Format 3xCD Boxset
Sold Out
Live At Zebulon –
Airway – Live at Zebulon CD
Airway
$9 USD
Black Witchery –
The Cherry Point – Black Witchery CD
The Cherry Point
$9 USD
Mind Obscured –
Wasteland Jazz Unit – Mind Obscured CD
Wasteland Jazz Unit
$9 USD
Kiki & Kastor –
Kiki & Kastor CD
Testicle Hazard
$9 USD
Sissy Spacek "BMW" CD
$9 USD
The Plotted Pavillion –
Strain of Laws – The Plotted Pavillion CD
Strain of Laws
$9 USD
Pitched Intervention –
Pitched Intervention — Black and Gold Cover LP Edition
Sissy Spacek
$14.50 USD
Digging Through Time by GX Jupitter-Larsen (Book)
$23 USD
LHD "Hysterical Blindness" (Book)
$26 USD
Count To One –
Skull Sküll "Count To One" CD
Skull Sküll
$9 USD
Ancient History –
Trance "Ancient History" CD
Trance
$9 USD
s/t –
Sissy Spacek – First Four CD
Sissy Spacek
$9 USD
Disfathom –
Sissy Spacek – Harm 2 CD
Sissy Spacek
$9 USD
John Wiese "Seven of Wands" 2xLP
$25 USD
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