(PC13) Noistruct - The Transgressor: In Dub (Volume 2)

The second volume of the "In Dub" series of "The Transgressor: Expanded"

Inspired by the music of Nine Inch Nails remix albums "Fixed", "Further Down the Spiral" and The Coil Remixes "Recoiled", Godflesh's "In Dub" remix series, Lux Nigra's Biophilia Allstars compilation, Ambient 4:Isolationism, Macro Dub Infection compilation series, Electric Ladyland series on Mille Plateaux/Force Inc, The Lo Fibre Companion on Invisible Records, Zhark International, Crossfade Entertainment, Gil Melle's score to the 1971 film "The Andromeda Strain", Zonal's "The Quatermass Project", Alec Empire's "Low On Ice" The "Chinese Whispers" compilation on Sprawl, Thomas Khonen, Fudge Tunnel "versions", Black Lung's "The Coming Dark Age" I-VII by Vitriol and the Final albums "One" and "Two" just to name a few influences...

"The Transgressor: In Dub" collects remixes of the successful 2016 Noistruct album released on ENDE Records produced by a range of artists and producers with no instruction and no direction other than to do whatever you like. The resulting remixes that suited this collection were directed here.

The result is a collection of eclectic remixes from various artists and producers over a range of styles and genres that range from dark dub, broken beat industrial, abstract hip hop, industrial doom metal, no step, dark ambient, foundsound experimental, musique concrete, minimal techno and downtempo, halftime breakcore and fuckstep among others.

This collection also includes a series of VIP remixes by Noistruct and other related projects such as Mandark and Notex. Some of these remixes were released on ENDE Records as new tracks with new titles. Some have never been released and some were only half finished and completed recently for these collections.

These collections show some of the tracks made between 2014 and 2016 that were considered for "The Transgressor" and would have suited the album but space and time did not allow.

"About 6 years ago while working on a collaboration with German breakcore producer Breakforce One (Gade Systems) that was eventually scrapped at his insistence.
I decided to stop being precious about my music and just re-release, reuse and rework a track I'd made before or include it on another album or EP even if it had already been released. With over 8000 tracks that I've made and some I thought deserved a second shot at being released. I kind of followed the example set by producers like David Thrussell. If it fit on a new release then use it again.
This method of recycling and changing the context of tracks is not something I do with every release but when it fits it can help something new I'm doing sound more complete. I'm not really interested in just throwing up random tracks together online to make a collection. I need a narrative and some flow and cohesion I can enjoy as a complete body of music. So some tracks previously available are retitled and reused here to add more weight and depth to the idea behind this collection of remixes"

- Boris Otterdam

VOLUME 1 AVAILABLE HERE:
protocorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/pc10-noistruct-the-transgressor-in-dub

BIOXEED:
Kumaran Mahalinga Iyer (Bioxeed) has been producing hardcore and experimental electronic music for over 20 years. His first release was "The Acid Test EP" for seminal Perth hardcore label Hardline Rekordingz in 2002. Since then he has released on Noisej and Bloodshed Limited which saw him do a split with Sei2ure.

bioxeed.bandcamp.com

CARTHAGE:
CARTHAGE (Damian Bennett) is an experimental/industrial producer from the UK. He has had releases on Irritant and Still Heat Recordings and released his latest album "Midnight White" on Avalanche Recordings in 2021 and will release his next album on ENDE Records in 2022.
He is currently one half of Khost with Andy Swan. He was one of the artists featured on JK Broadrick's Lo Fibre Companion compilation on Invisible Records in 1999.

He has been in a number of bands including Guage, Cortex and Deathless and still performs in 16-17 with Kevin Martin (The Bug/Techno Animal/White Viper/Curse Of The Golden Vampire) and Alex Buess (Ice). 16-17 have had releases on Digital Hardcore Recordings, Pathological and in 2019 on Trost Records. Damian also played on Techno Animal's hugely influential 1995 double album "Re-Entry"

carthage.bandcamp.com/album/midnight-white

DECEASED ESTATE:
Deceased Estate is a new kind of noise project from Boris Otterdam. Found sound, manipulated sampled sound and brief recordings are randomised, processed, recorded, layered, recorded, effected, smashed, spat on, rearranged and layered again and again and again until they create a cold, desolate soundscape that is neither here nor there.
Deceased Estate has had one album "Ashes Ashes" released on UK label Sunhole Records in 2020.

sunholerecords.bandcamp.com/album/shr065-ashes-ashes

KARL FORD:
Karl Ford is a Perth musician with a lengthy music career in experimental music, noise, industrial, metal and score work. Performing in bands such as Swapmeat, KFK (with Boris Otterdam) and Abe Sada (with Cat Hope) among others and producing as Reluctant Carnivore and Purple Ernie as himself. Among the visual work he has done includes pieces for Jim Thirlwell and Lucas Abela.

Karl Ockelford is a multi disciplinary artist who works individually and in collaboration across fields of film, sound, installation, photography and visual design. His work explores improvisation, abstraction and subterranean themes.
Karl’s collaborations include work with Decibel New Music Ensemble and individual members Stuart James and
Cat Hope on sound and visual projects, Rakini Devi with music production for dance pieces Best Dead and
Don’t Call Me Butoh, live performance and record releases with improvised experimental groups Abe Sada
& Sub Ordnance, remixes for labels Hidden Shoal and ENDE Records and has exhibited installation and
photographic works in a number of group exhibitions presented by the Perth Centre For Photography and Artrage.
Karl’s current creative practice involves sonic experimentation's through his solo music project Reluctant Carnivore,
personal studies of the interaction of sound/form through cymatics and investigations into new visual/sound
relationships through VR technologies.

DAVID PRESCOTT-STEED:
David Prescott-Steed is a sound artist and writer living in Melbourne, Australia. As well as being active in the experimental music scene, David has participated in sound art and new music events in Northern Ireland, Finland, Poland, England, The Netherlands, USA, and Australia. His audio work has been released through Gruenrekorder (DE), ENDE Records and Green Field Recordings (PT) among others, and was included in the NVG’s Melbourne Now exhibition.

enderecords.bandcamp.com/album/ende193-anthony-cooley-and-david-prescott-steed-34-20

AGNES OF SALAX:
Agnes Of Salax is an American born noise/sound art producer living in London UK. She has produced releases mostly for the UK ENDE sister label Sunhole Records. She has also appeared on compilations for ENDE Records and collaborated with UK producer Erohypnos.

soundcloud.com/agnesofsalax

MANDARK:
Mandark was a dark ambient/extreme noise and soundscape project for West Australian born electronic music producer Boris Otterdam.
Beginning in 2001 as a side project to Noistruct. Mandark created both analogue and digital recordings, ambient isolationist style soundscapes, impromptu field recordings, extreme noise, spontaneous live synth compositions and dark and disturbing film score sound. influenced by power electronics, extreme and abstract noise, nightmares, sleep deprivation, marijuana smoking and film scores. Mandark played live from 2001 until 2012 alongside producers like Fraughman, Reka, Gelido, Pselodux, Minorarc, Rotteur, Abre Ojos, Black Lung, Zen Paradox, Chrism and Fenris and Shinjuku Filth.

Mandark was officially retired in March 2020.

enderecords.bandcamp.com/album/ende217-mandark-latent-dream-thoughts-2001-2017

STEVE MATZKOV:
Steve Matzkov is an experimental guitarist and sound artist from Perth Australia. He is most well known for his work with Matzal and The High Impedance. He has collaborated with dozens of artists. Most recently in his new band Seven Hour Days.

stevematzkov.bandcamp.com

NOTEX:
Notex is the minimal techno side project for Boris Otterdam. Originally started in 2014 while living in Brisbane Australia.
Minimal dark techno, deeply submerged or drowned pulsing 4/4 kicks surrounded by ethereal choir cuts, distant soundscapes and mantra like repetition. Scratched, rearranged and morphed into strangely unsettling dancefloor alchemy and solitary electronic contemplations. Influenced by the likes of Solaris BC, Porter Ricks and DJ Manson.

enderecords.bandcamp.com/album/ende15-notex-fallout

SEROQUELLE:
Influenced by the abstract hip hop/illbient sounds by artists like New York rapper Sensational as well as Thomas Koner, CARTHAGE, Bomb20, Scorn, Boards Of Canada, 2nd Gen and Mille Plateaux's groundbreaking "Clicks and Cuts" series comes Seroquelle.

Keeping it dub inflected, bass heavy, crawlingly slow and almost lowercase in it's production. More like sketches of altered sound grabs than fully completed compositions. Rather than clean up and edit the rough edges, static, random ill fitting effects and audio clicks. Seroquelle utilises them to create unsettling and disorienting, dry and coarse, loosely assembled, degraded, unstructured, repetitive compositions.

enderecords.bandcamp.com/album/ende304-seroquelle-erthd

BELA LUGOSI'S DAD
Bela Lugosi's Dad is an experimental/illbient project for Allen Welsh. Former guitarist for Perth punk rock band "Energy Commission"