Distruct

by P16.D4

Distruct cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Selektion
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 40:10
  • Community rating: 3.77/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Onnyk, Bladder Flask, The Haters, Merzbow, Thomas Memmler, Stefan E. Schmidt, Vortex Campaign, Ralf Wehowsky, Roger Sch枚nauer, Hiroki Kocha, Ewald Weber, Nurse With Wound, Die T枚dliche Doris, Philip Johnson, Fredrik Nilsen, Harold Schellinx

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The enigmatic German collective constructs a disorienting onslaught of recycled noises, employing aggressive tape splicing and musique concr猫te methodologies. Relentlessly abrasive and non-musical, the recording is a hallmark of European experimental anti-music and radical sound manipulation.

Genres

Descriptors: noisy, avant-garde, experimental, electronic, distorted, conceptual

Tracklist

  1. Kultstudien Zu Anselm Weiberg (7:02)
  2. Meere, Giganten Und Berge (10:01)
  3. External Symbols (3:20)
  4. Aufmarsch, Heimlich (3:59)
  5. Svenska F枚rt盲ring (0:21)
  6. Kryptogramme (VII-XI) (4:37)
  7. Upset Twilight (2:05)
  8. Les Honteuses Alliances (3:39)
  9. Martello Tower (0:24)
  10. Luxus & Mehrwert (4:42)

Credits

  • P16.D4 - primary artist
  • Achim Wollscheid - cover
  • SST - lacquer cut by
  • Philip Johnson - organ, violin, pipe [pipes], voice [submitted by]
  • Ewald Weber - percussion, concept by, performer [chairs], performer [toilets], vocals, noises [surrounding noises, alto]
  • Roger Sch枚nauer - percussion, concept by, performer [chairs], vocals, noises [concrete], performer [weinmarkt], concept by
  • Nurse With Wound - vocals
  • Gerd Neumann - concept by

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