 |  | | 6th Saint Petersburg Noise Fest- 1st &2nd of Nov - Festival report | On November 1st and 2nd, the 6th Annual Saint Petersburg Noise Fest brought noise artists from around the country (and globe) to the Tampa Bay area of Florida for 2 nights of difficult listening. This year’s fest was run and organized by Todd Novasad, who is also responsible for the Denver Noise Fest. The fest was hosted at the Venture Compound in Saint Petersburg, FL. The Venture Compound is a non-profit, anti-art gallery known for hosting both visual and sound art, which would likely not have a home anywhere else in the area.
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|  | | D.S.W.A.C.V - Doomed Wall-making | D.S.W.A.C.V is one of the key projects in the recently growing & blossoming UK walled noise scene. It’s based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, and started in late 2012; and has so far has putting out around 20 plus releases that take in CDR’s, splits & digital releases. It offers up HNW/ doom wall sound that mixes in elements of ritual ambience. The projects one & only member is L.M, and he kindly agreed to give M[m] an email interview.
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|  | | Dr Tom Whittaker - The notorious, gritty, and provocative Quinqui genre | Late last year Severin released Eloy de la Iglesia’s Quinqui Collection- a two Blu-ray set bringing together three brutal and provocative Quinqui (delinquent films)- Avajeros (1980), El Pico (1983), and El Pico 2 (1984)- all directed by Basque writer/director Eloy de la Iglesia (video nasty The Cannibal Man). The Spanish Quinqui genre was popular between the late ’70s and mid 80’s- it focused on youth gangs, juvenile crime, and inner-city poverty- with the films featuring liberal (often real) drug use, violence, and sexual content. The pictures often starred non-professional actors picked off the street with a real criminal background. After being intrigued and taken by the set films and its extras- I reached out to Dr Tom Whittaker for an interview- he contributed to the excellent documentary on the set Blood in The Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon. He’s an Associate Professor in Film and Spanish cultural studies at Warwick University, and also wrote the first English book on the genre The Spanish Quinqui Film- Delinquency, Sound, Sensation. The below email interview found us discussing the genre in general, as well as how music & sound is an important part of the genre's makeup.
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|  | | 2004 - Listed | Here we go again. Second year in a row that we submit to the trend: here's what rocked the musique[machine]'s writers world in 2004! Each contributor thought about his individual list, and we left it that way because we are very lazy, and we like it. Browse our archive for reviews and may 2005 be good for all of you, for all of us.
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|  | | Matthew Holmes - Of razor-sharp t... | It’s fair to say the Sharksploitation genre is often tried, tested, and to be honest, tired. Fear Below is a 2025 Australian film that tries to do some...
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| | | RDKPL - Herr Pes Trinch | Here’s two tracks of electronic noise from RDKPL, on Inner Demons Records; I’m reviewing this via a download code for Bandcamp, so there’s ...
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