My New Favourite Band

[transbot]

White Babies On The Black Market


True Pioneers in minimalist atmospherics - shame they split so long ago.

My own particular favourites are The Day She Dropped The Line[/i] and Untitled 2.


I wonder, where are they now?...

[Stan]

HAHhahaha, I can't believe he even put that stuff on there, it's not our best. If you're really into it, I have tapes and tapes full of much more interesting material than that.

[transbot]

Yeah, man - commit them to MP3 if you can, and I'll certainly give 'em a good listening to.

It's very interesting stuff - not a bit like the (if you'll pardon me here) dirge-like, visionless krud of IvenFaint[/i] that clogs up most of the site (it's their site, for some godawful reason).
It's got character - I can sense in it that it must've felt like a bit of an adventure at the time. Is that you on muted guitar in Untitled 2[/i]?


Matt and Justin's The Sea Merchants Are Dead Now And No Longer Can I Heed This Destruction[/i] and The Machine Cries A River Of Smoke[/i] are intriguing pieces, also.


Tell me Stan, are you into Pere Ubu[/i]?

[Stan]

Yeah, we did some later stuff, but Justin kind of disappeared. It was always an adventure. For those tracks, at least the first one you mentioned, we took a bunch of flourescent bulbs out to the railroad tracks and smashed them and stepped all over them. The sampler I was using at the time was a terrible, terrible Roland with 8 banks and only like 5 seconds of total save time. Didn't know that until we recorded it, but liked how it sounded, so we just looped it on a mini-disc player. Most of the stuff we did was on the spot. We'd take some things or go somewhere, use a processor if necessary, make some sounds and then find a way to piece them together. We really got into it for a time and then started another band called Peppermint Kids that was a Boredoms type spaz out don't give a faeces band. Had quite a notorious reputation around here after our crashing of the elementary school talent show. Then even more when some girl got a guitar broken over her back. We played with A n a l C u n t once and it was great. Our last big show. Total blow out with faeces all over the floor and everything. Banned for life from that place. Now the guitarist, me, and this other kid that used to dress up in costumes and break stuff for Peppermint Kids have formed the most depressing band ever. Completely minimalist, sludgey, slow, atmospheric, doomy, driving, suicide metal/rock. Can't really describe it. Weep.