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whorefrost 02.12.2007 11:03 AM

New Blockaders
 
Any fans? The 4CD Antiology has been beating my ass savagely these past few days.

whorefrost 02.12.2007 02:25 PM

Yeah, they were pretty much my ATP highlight as well, along with Dead C. The early live shit from the antiology is unfuckable with.

Toilet & Bowels 02.12.2007 07:35 PM

i just found out that the new blockaders is one guy and when the NB play live he (new blockader bloke) gives source material to other musicians who perform for him while he stands in the crowd and watches.

racehorse 02.12.2007 07:42 PM

they were at atp?!? didn't know that, fuck, you guys were sure lucky.
i think that they are fantastic. especially the lp they did w/thurston & jim.

whorefrost 02.12.2007 08:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
i just found out that the new blockaders is one guy and when the NB play live he (new blockader bloke) gives source material to other musicians who perform for him while he stands in the crowd and watches.


Really? I had no idea.. they all had masks on at ATP, same ones as the Nihilist Assault Group wear on the Fun From None DVD.. I thought TNB was two guys, brothers?
There are two 4LP boxset tributes to TNB featuring commissioned reworkings of their source material.. that sort of fits in with what you're saying... interesting..

Toilet & Bowels 02.12.2007 08:16 PM

well that's what someone told me, i don't know this guy well but he's the kind of person who would probably know

sonicl 02.13.2007 05:11 AM

If you speak nicely to Nicfit, he has a magazine that I sent him that includes a feature on TNB and he might be able to scan the article and post it.

I hated them at ATP. If it wasn't for the fact that I was enticed into the room with the promise of other boardies being there I would have left after about two minutes.

nicfit 02.13.2007 05:55 AM

:)
I'll post the article as soon as possible.
I'm easily persuaded, eh Nefeli?

jon boy 02.13.2007 06:11 AM

the new blockaders - i like them they were good at atp.

nicfit 02.13.2007 06:23 AM

page 1
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/5...erspagege5.jpg

page 2
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/4...erspagedq8.jpg

here ya go, i put here the direct links because the board would resize the images and make them unintelligible.

sonicl 02.13.2007 06:27 AM

Consider yourself well and truly repped.

jon boy 02.13.2007 06:59 AM

phil todd ashtray navigations used to play in them.

whorefrost 02.13.2007 10:56 AM

splendid, thanks a lot for those scans

PAULYBEE2656 02.13.2007 11:26 AM

gotta check these out. i have been meaning to but got distracted along the path to freedom......

nicfit 02.14.2007 02:46 AM

Thanks guys (you know who you are) for the rep, but the credit for the scans is to be shared with sonicl, if it wasn't for him I wouldn't even have the magazine I took the article from! So, here is my "public", huge THANK YOU to sonicl for his kindness! :)

golden child 02.18.2007 10:38 PM

the ATP performance was a collaboration with the haters as far as i know, or it was supposed to be. the RRR pic disc is good, need that 4cd.

sonicl 09.12.2007 09:31 AM

The Nightmare before Christmas performance will shortly be available on CD from our friends at Blossoming Noise:

 


bn028CD
The New Blockaders / Das Zerstoren, Zum Gebaren

Released: September 25th 2007

Das Zerstoren
MP3s: (1) (2)

$12.99

After 25 years of the blockade, we are left with the final live document from The New Blockaders. Recorded in 2006 by Damion Romero at Thurston Moore's All Tomorrow’s Parties, Nightmare Before Christmas.

Total Running Time: 49:07

http://www.blossomingnoise.com/daszerstoren.html

sonicl 09.12.2007 09:34 AM

Also available is a box set of which I can make neither head nor tail:

 


bn028BOX
The New Blockaders & The Haters / Das Zerstoren, Zum Gebaren + Lazslo Toth, Gentle Hammer

Released: September 25th 2007

Das Zerstoren CD
Laszlo Toth, Gentle Hammer 7"

Limited to 100 numbered copies, this set includes Das Zerstoren, Zum Gebaren CD, Laszlo Toth, Gentle Hammer clear 7" with hand painted jackets by Richard Rupenus, Laszlo Toth metal lapel pin, handmade paper insert by Dave Phillips, 2 stamped postcards & 2 vinyl stickers by GX Jupitter Larsen. Housed in custom made wooden boxes.

$74.99

http://www.blossomingnoise.com/laszlototh.html

Everyneurotic 09.12.2007 09:41 AM

love them.

Toilet & Bowels 09.12.2007 11:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sonicl
The Nightmare before Christmas performance will shortly be available on CD from our friends at Blossoming Noise:


 


bn028CD
The New Blockaders / Das Zerstoren, Zum Gebaren

Released: September 25th 2007

Das Zerstoren (1), (2)

$12.99

After 25 years of the blockade, we are left with the final live document from The New Blockaders. Recorded in 2006 by Damion Romero at Thurston Moore's All Tomorrow’s Parties, Nightmare Before Christmas.

Total Running Time: 49:07

http://www.blossomingnoise.com/daszerstoren.html


i can't wait, one of my top 3 or 4 performances of the weekend, from a weekend filled with fantastic performances

sonicl 10.02.2007 04:07 PM

For anyone who's interested, there's an excerpt from the Blossoming Noise CD at their myspace. It sounds nothing like the audio onslaught that I remember it being. They didn't play two sets, did they?

PAULYBEE2656 10.02.2007 04:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by me, quite a while back
gotta check these out. i have been meaning to but got distracted along the path to freedom......



....still gotta check em out!

sonicl 10.05.2007 05:52 AM

While browsing for something else, I came across this site, which may be of interest to New Blockaders completists: Tochnit Aleph mail order

And when I came back here, Nefeli had bumped this thread to the top of the board. It must be fate, how could I not post the link?

sonicl 10.05.2007 07:48 AM

I hated the New Blockaders experience at ATP, the volume and the extreme frequencies, but what I heard of that CD I found totally different and would like to hear more of. I'm trying to stop accumulating CDs at the moment, especially ones that I don't really know if I'll like long-term, but I'm hoping that if I wait a while I'll be able to find it as a digital download somewhere, and then I'll almost definitely buy it.

sonicl 10.20.2007 12:13 AM

Volcanic Tongue review:

The New Blockaders
Das Zerstoren, Zum Gebaren

Blossoming Noise BN-028
CD
£8.99

The final live document to come from this legendary UK noise group is drawn from the most amazing TNB live action of their career, their massively psychedelic set from ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas curated by Thurston Moore. There were a ton of amazing performances over that weekend: Stooges, The Bummer Road, Wooden Wand, NNCK... but TNB pretty much ruled the weekend. Rumour has it that the line-up included Damion Romero, Has and Ben from Jazzfinger and Mark from Putrefier with Richard Rupenus conducting things via ESP from the sidelines but as with everything relating to the whole TNB mythos, facts are impossible to verify. The set was quite unlike anything they've ever really done before and hearing it again in this form, beautifully recorded and mastered by Romero, the amount of hallucinogenic detail and the intricate violence of the performance is even more apparent. It starts off with sudden blurts of extremely tactile lightning strikes before a bunch of voices cohere in a low fog of disruptive tone, building with shrieks and starts to the point where it becomes a huge opaque wall of vibrating tone threat. But what really sets it off - and what makes the whole thing sound so impossibly malevolent - is the evocative use of a highly vocal/vocoder sounding synth pattern that occasionally rises to the surface in waves of genuinely disturbing claustrophobic threat. At the time I was sure it was a modulated vocal but here the way it is subtly threaded throughout the performance like the most under-stated theme makes it sound more like a synth mutated to the point of electro-hypnotism. Certainly the most psychedelic noise record of TNB's career, if not the best of their live actions, Das Zerstoren, Zum Gebaren is already one of my all-time favourite noise releases. Highest possible recommendation. Edition of 1000 copies in full-colour digipak with sleevenotes by Byron Coley.


http://www.volcanictongue.com/artist...w%20Blockaders

NNNNN 11.06.2007 08:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nicfit
page 1
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/5...erspagege5.jpg

page 2
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/4...erspagedq8.jpg

here ya go, i put here the direct links because the board would resize the images and make them unintelligible.


Which mag is this? Do you know where I can get a hard copy?

pokkeherrie 11.06.2007 09:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sonicl
Edition of 1000 copies in full-colour digipak with sleevenotes by Byron Coley.


oh, i didn't know this thing was somewhat limited. i better not wait too long then.

nicfit 11.06.2007 09:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NNNNN
Which mag is this? Do you know where I can get a hard copy?

Those are from Rock-a-Rolla (UK magazine) , issue n°4 . July/August 2006.

www.rock-a-rolla.com
www.myspace.com/rockarollamagazine

NNNNN 11.06.2007 09:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nicfit
Those are from Rock-a-Rolla (UK magazine) , issue n°4 . July/August 2006.

www.rock-a-rolla.com
www.myspace.com/rockarollamagazine



Thanks a lot. Just ordered one... looks awesome

nicfit 11.06.2007 09:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NNNNN
Thanks a lot. Just ordered one... looks awesome

Glad I could help!
All the credit goes to sonicl (another boarder on here) who originally sent me the R-a-R issues :).

NNNNN 11.10.2007 08:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nicfit
Those are from Rock-a-Rolla (UK magazine) , issue n°4 . July/August 2006.

www.rock-a-rolla.com
www.myspace.com/rockarollamagazine


Just got Rock-A-Rolla mag in the post - loving it - will have to subscribe. Thanks again for the tip !

blunderbuss 01.14.2009 04:31 PM

Get yer official New Blockaders t-shirts from Drone Records mail order:

 

Toilet & Bowels 01.14.2009 06:41 PM

i would buy that but i hate it when t-shirts are just a square/rectangular picture printed on to a shirt

Everyneurotic 01.16.2009 08:04 PM

please post, nef!

Everyneurotic 01.17.2009 01:22 PM

damn!!! i can' rep nefeli.

very nice shirt.

Toilet & Bowels 01.17.2009 01:55 PM

yeah, that might be your best one yet

blunderbuss 04.22.2009 07:33 AM

The New Blockaders - Epater Les Bourgeois
Kubitsuri Tapes

 


Very limited CDR re-release of a 1985 cassette from The New Blockaders. 200 copies only.

http://www.secondlayer.co.uk/index/p7092.htm

http://www.myspace.com/kubitsuri

Skuj 12.27.2010 10:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by whorefrost
Any fans? The 4CD Antiology has been beating my ass savagely these past few days.


Got that, I'm number 436. Adore it.


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