TEXTBEAK: Recent Episodes
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Out now on Cleopatra Records, Sick for Songs a Season Eats produced by John Fryer (This Mortal Coil). It featuring collaborations with Mark Stewart (The Pop Group / The Maffia), Janine Rainforth (Maximum Joy), Peter Hope (The Box / Wrong Revolution / Peter Hope's Exploding Mind), Bestial Mouths, Searmanas, Vaselyne, Robert Disaro and more. Textbeak has been making and DJing dark and unusual music for many years now. Influenced by artists like Coil, Cabaret Voltaire, and Skinny Puppy, in the late 80s he began making music with whatever he had on hand in projects with long time friend Todd Sines (Planet E, Peacefrog). In 1991 Mike moved to Columbus, Ohio with Todd and joined up with Titonton Duvante (Residual Records) and Charles Noel aka Archetype (Ongaku, Black Nation) to start B/Re (Body Release). In 1994, his band Bath signed with Jevan Records (owned by gothic band Lestat) and recorded at Noise with producer Kramer (Shimmy Disc, Bongwater, Low, Galaxie 500). In 1998 he began to release solo works as Textbeak on labels such as Dark Daze (Carlos Peron of Yello), Moon Sounds (Dallas), Lasergun (Savas Pascalidis in Berlin), Tundra Dubs (Worker/Parasite), Sequel Sound (San Francisco). His label Philtre Com (with Claus Muzak Lucas Kuzma) released works by NT89 and others. In 2011 he began TXTBK's CHVяCH XV BяXK3N 7ANGvAG Radio which has become a staple of the dark electronic scene and featured mixes by Philipp Strobel [aufnahme + wiedergabe], CRIM3S, BLVCK CEILING, Clan Destine Records, Mannequin Records and many others. He has done many DJ mixes including Grim Harvest Halloween 2012 for Мишка with actor Omar Doom (Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds), Cleopatra Records and THE BRVTALIST. He has performed at events opening for Merzbow, Modern English, Bestial Mouths, Larry Tee, Nitzer Ebb, David J (of Bauhaus), Light Asylum, Test Department, Skin Town (Nick Turco of Zola Jesus), Meat Beat Manifesto, and The Legendary Pink Dots to name a few. He has remixed many artists including Blush Response (Ant-Zen), Architect (Daniel Myer of Haujobb), Tamara Sky (Lil Death LA), Bestial Mouths (Cleopatra, Clan Destine), and ∆AIMON (Tundra/Artoffact). From his compositions to his genre-destroying DJ sets, he constantly creates new and unusual sound collages and mixes. His latest release, Sick For Songs A Season Eats is on Cleopatra Records with a remix album coming out very soon.
Detroit Industrial - 019 TEXTBEAK - ASEMIC MUSICKMike Textbeak is a Philadelphia-based industrial electronic music producer and DJ known for his surreal soundscapes and deeply haunting lyrics and melodies. Blending elements of ‘80s industrial, Detroit techno, and witch house, his compositions draw comparisons to artists like Coil and Cabaret Voltaire.Textbeak’s new album, Asemic Musick, explores themes of confusion, chaos, and magick, and is a reflection of the current state of the world filtered through his eyes. The title refers to asemic writing or “writing without meaning,” which illustrates his use of cut-up techniques and self-created randomizing tools to destroy meaning and create something new and prescient in a world saturated with AI and plastic pop, and starved for unique visions.Mixed and Mastered by Chris Samuels of Ritual Howls and Mission to the Sun
Textbeak with Mark Stewart (The Pop Group), and Ben Hartman (DEFA) appear on a new song by Rodion Ladislau Rosca (Rodion GA) on a wonderful new compilation to support Radio Mulot (Nantes, France) that also features many amazing artists including Simon Crab (Bourbonese Qualk), Johnny Halliday (le vrai), Jack Shirt (Elephant House), The Legendary Pink Dots, Tutoriel, Humbros, TV Coharan (Gazebos, R Stevie Moore related), and more!!
Video: https://www.trebuchet-magazine.com/radio-mulots-illicit-waveform-society
Purchase the Radio Mulot compilation https://radiomulot.bandcamp.com/
Listen to Radio Mulot http://fieldmice.free.fr/mulot2.htm
In 1997, too tired to struggle with a locked art market, Julien Mérieau set up an analogue pirate radio station named Radio Mulot / France Museau. The project can be described both as a deviant history of music and a vector of sound manipulations and live experiences, inspired by dadaism, futurism, situationism, and of course industrial music culture, as a practice of reverse engineering and a deconstructive approach to radio media and mass media in general, including the World Wide Web.
The interest for the visual arts is crucial, the transmitter being used just ‘as a pencil’. No radio shows, no jingles, no talk, but instead, chunks of recorded voices, anti-jingles (found sound, etc.), dead writers talking through the voice of mediums, mixed with various soundscapes. The idea is to approach ‘music’ as a dissolving area that reaches and communicates with all kinds of artwork in visual arts, past and present, and the use of Internet and information technology having changed many things within the various forms of ‘music’ including the way to approach it in terms of sound programming.
"Un Nebun" contributors:
Rodion Roșca (Rodion GA) Because of his early experimentation with recording and effects, Rodion is considered the father of electronic music in Romania. In the early 70s, Rodion began experimenting with home recording equipment. In 1977 he formed Rodion GA, with the addition of Gicu Fărcaș and Adrian Căprar. Shockingly for an experimental act, Rodion GA even received radio airplay in Romania during the 80s communist regime of Ceaușescu.
Mark Stewart is an artist, vocalist, producer and songwriter from Bristol. As a founding member of The Pop Group and as a soloist, Stewart has remained an anarchic and pioneering figure since the punk era, a constant source of discordance amongst the frontiers of post-punk, dub, industrial, and electronic music.
In a body of work driven by an explosive form of lyricism and inspired by radical politics, protest movements, theory, philosophy, technology, art, and poetry, Stewart has fearlessly cultivated a revelatory collision of ideas, ideals, and influences throughout an indisputably groundbreaking and seditious career.
Textbeak has quite a history in industrial, and dark electronic and experimental music, influenced heavily by bands like Coil, Cabaret Voltaire, and Skinny Puppy. In 1994, as Bath, he released several albums on Jevan Records. He has since also released music through Cleopatra Records, Moon Sounds, Carlos Perón’s (Yello) Dark Daze Records, Tundra Dubs, 21/22 Corporation, Post Religion, Pale Noir, and Lasergun, and appeared on compilations with artists such as Coil, Sleep Chamber, Konstruktivits, and Portion Control.
DEFA (Benjamin Hartman) has been creating and collaborating on music since the early 90s and has been included on many releases with projects Bath, Textbeak, Mulga, and In The Shadow of the Monolith. His style is deeply rooted in dark, electronic, beat-driven visions and layers of blackened frequencies. This type of sonic dissonance was also a feature on his radio show The Dark Phonic Hour of Power. His latest release Digital Debris can be found at Hexx9 Records’ Bandcamp.
Textbeak remix of @killerwytch999 out now on @hexx9records
Buy it here: https://hexx9records.bandcamp.com/album/d3ath-iv3-b3cam3-wh3n-you-b3nd-the-fl3-h
Nu-Witch Industrial , oozing and bleeding from Fresno, Ca, Killerwytch is currently Recording more releases in an undisclosed location in California,USA . Broadcasting Rehearsals on AcidFairy's Facebook, and sharing them to multiple social networking groups while Taking On Remix, and Collabs from New and Favorited Acts From all around our Darkest World Yet
Remix of STCLVR by Textbeak. STCLVR is g. mor from jamestown, NY. he uses reasonably outdated software with a small array of table-top electronics to compose nasty, brooding, heavy-hitting harsh industrial "pop?" tunes. distorted-beyond-reason vocal shredding, synths covered in dirt and grime, and dark ass moods sprinkled with heavy metal guitar and an air of madonna. george's lyrics tread in cloudy toxic waste made up of all sorts of anxieties and fears, self-doubt and guilt, misandry and masochism, religion and weakness. STCLVR is machinegirl's depressed grandfather. STCLVR is black metal for witch house fans. STCLVR is disgusting. RIYL: KMFDM, NIN, plack blague, atari teenage riot, skinny puppy, street sects, salem, dreamcrusher, ohgr, ministry, bermuda drain era prurient..
Buy the original track here: https://stclvr.bandcamp.com/album/hostile-work-environment
Unreleased remix of "Silent Running" by Textbeak and BLACK Gallows for free limited download.
Check out all the official remixes here: https://phantasmadisques.bandcamp.com/album/scanners-the-official-remixes
And the original album here: https://phantasmadisques.bandcamp.com/album/scanners-2
MORGVE - REMIXES VOL II (2019) ON HEXX 9 RECORDS. 24 artists, 24 tracks of remix from MORGVE XV + earlier releases. A rare collection of devastating new witch house tracks.
Remix of @matersuspiriavision by Textbeak and @bestialmouths Released on @ppppd
https://phantasmadisques.bandcamp.com/album/scanners-the-official-remixes
https://blackjackilluministrecords.bandcamp.com/album/blackjack-illuminist-records-10-year-anniversary-manifest
Written and arranged by Coldlink. Remixed by Mike Textbeak. Mastered at Cauliflower Audio
https://coldlink.bandcamp.com/releases
Original song by https://soundcloud.com/kanga_kult Get the original here: https://kangakult.bandcamp.com/track/vital-signs
https://hexadiode.bandcamp.com/
HEXADIODE - IBEX is Brutal Resonance "Album of the Month!"
https://xosrecords.bandcamp.com/album/endpoint-fireworshiper In 1998-99, I along with Christie Elizabeth, Jason Adams, Rob VocTave Nagy, Eric Alleman, Jamie and Daniel Raible and several others went to work in an office space converted into a recording studio above a wig shop in Lorain, Ohio on many musical projects. Among them was an album for my band Bath. We recorded a 6 song album called Endpoint Fireworshiper and played several shows in that incarnation. We released one of the songs, "Redshot" on 12" vinyl through ArchETyp's 2122 Corporation label under the name 1954. Then we split the release and even some of the tracks into two EPs, Fireworshiper on Andréas Marchal's Vaatican Records and Endpoint on Jon Seven's Timetheory netlabel. The album was never released in its entirety... until now.
Bath - Endpoint Fireworshiper Beautifully re-mastered by Adam Boose at Cauliflower Audio
Written by Mike Textbeak, Jason Adams and Voctave Lyrics and Vox by Christie Wagner Spoken Word by Eric Alleman Ovtro by Jaimie Raible Produced by Mike Textbeak and Jason Adams
https://xosrecords.bandcamp.com/album/endpoint-fireworshiper In 1998-99, I along with Christie Elizabeth, Jason Adams, Rob VocTave Nagy, Eric Alleman, Jamie and Daniel Raible and several others went to work in an office space converted into a recording studio above a wig shop in Lorain, Ohio on many musical projects. Among them was an album for my band Bath. We recorded a 6 song album called Endpoint Fireworshiper and played several shows in that incarnation. We released one of the songs, "Redshot" on 12" vinyl through ArchETyp's 2122 Corporation label under the name 1954. Then we split the release and even some of the tracks into two EPs, Fireworshiper on Andréas Marchal's Vaatican Records and Endpoint on Jon Seven's Timetheory netlabel. The album was never released in its entirety... until now.
Bath - Endpoint Fireworshiper Beautifully re-mastered by Adam Boose at Cauliflower Audio
Remix of Finkseye "Adrenalin Drive" from upcoming album on Razgrom Records being released in February 2016. Remix by Man-009 (Tim Smith ex-Lestat) and Mike Textbeak.
Follow Finkseye: https://www.facebook.com/Finkseye https://soundcloud.com/finkseye
Follow Man-009: https://www.facebook.com/Man-009-1402429616638312
https://glitchmoderecordings.bandcamp.com/album/worst-case-scenario-vol-1-2 the full dystopia soundtrack. featuring remasters (all of Vol1), remixes from Black Asteroid, iVardensphere, BITES from 3 TEETH, Cardinal Noire, Textbeak and new songs!
https://philtrecomllc.bandcamp.com/album/textbeak-and-kachina-black-aquarian-ep
Remix by https://soundcloud.com/dktv111
https://philtrecomllc.bandcamp.com/album/textbeak-and-kachina-black-aquarian-ep
Remixed by https://soundcloud.com/apollyons-visage
https://digitalrecovery.bandcamp.com/album/i-ii-volume-i This release is dedicated to Ric Laciak of Ras Dva. Ric made a huge impact on many people's lives as well as the Industrial scene. This is a thank you for his inspiration and dedication to the noise he loved so much. You will forever be missed. Rest in Peace Ric (1968 - 2014)
All sales will be donated to his foundation at the Northwestern Memorial Foundation. foundation.nmh.org/laciak
From the Best of Frequency Fridays compilation available on CD or digital download in January 2013. Also, all proceeds will benefit Fuse Factory.
Image design by Steve Wymer.