The Haters - In the Shade of Fire LP Merzbow Noise
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The Haters - In the Shade of Fire LP
Released by Silent Records, USA 1986
The Haters began in 1979 when GX Jupitter-Larsen realized he was more interested in making noise and destroying venues than in structured music. The Haters first performances didn’t involve any deliberate use of sound. Even if there were any sounds, the audio was secondary. Haters performances at the time were simple actions. Events such as hitting video cassettes with a video camera, watching dust form on a floor, or counting garbage cans along a street. The Haters only started using sound in live performances because of two necessities. One, the need of a stage curtain, and two, the need to keep track of time. Traditionally, the opening of the stage curtain signals the beginning of a performance, while the closing signals the conclusion. As nearly no place they performed had such drapery, The Haters needed to come up with something else that would duplicate this function. The Haters started using pre-recorded sounds on tape. The sudden start of the noise let everyone in the audience know that the performance had just begun. Likewise, the abrupt end of the soundtrack unmistakably marked the finale.
A central aspect of the Haters' work is that the sounds they produce are not music. This is a frequently repeated idea among noise artists, if only to distinguish pure harsh noise from more musical related genres such as noise rock, but the Haters take the idea far more literally than most. The sounds they create are made not with musical instruments or even audio equipment, but with physical processes such as grinding, crashing, and other forms of destruction. At the same time, there is always a pronounced, often absurd conceptual element to the group's work.
Vinyl = NM
Sleeve = VG+
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