Arcana

Arcane Device is David Myers who uses a technique of sound manipulation through feedback processing. however, his recordings are not really harsh dense walls of noise. rather, they tend to be what is sometimes referred to "ambient noise" or soundscapes in the vein of Hafler Trio or John Duncan.

FETISH is a split CD release between PGR and Arcane Device on Silent Records released in 1990. it consists of four PGR tracks and one rather longish track by Arcane Device.

TROUT was also released on Silent, and since i don't own this i can't really comment on it. but i'm sure it's quite good.

and actually, there are at least two other Arcane Device CDs available:

ALSO SPRACH ZRATHUSTRA (Anckarstrom 2) this was released as part of the Anckarstrom series and then later re-issued by Staalplaat.

ENVOI IN CUMIN (PlayLoud) this is the most recent, and aparently his last release. this is one long 72 minute track that is very reminiscent of Nurse With Wound's SOLILOQUY FOR LILITH on a first listen, but it's structurally much different. Myers takes a more technical approach to creating the sounds of Arcane Device. for this release he utilizes a term he calls a "soft loop". the process involves a pattern to base the entire piece on except that it never literally repeats itself. "even the time period remains unfixed". i like this disc quite a bit and highly recommend it if you can find it.

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For those who have not encountered either of these two albums: Also Sprach Zarathustra is extremely minimal and very darkly textured, all in a single track album. The music seems to hover at the interface between timbre and larger scale structure. Diabolis Ex Machina is at the opposite extreme... 19 short pieces, each highly rhythmic and violent. The textures are again highly complex, but here they are much more choppy, with distinguishable voices.

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Arcanta

Releases

A Fool's Cry CDEP (Projekt 1996)

The Arch

Releases

As Quiet As (Anything But)
A Strange Point of You LP (Anything But 1988)
Stay Lay 12" (Antler 1989)
The Messier Album CD (Antler 1990)
Second And Centuries CD (Discordia 1995)

Compilations

Hyena Ist Tot CD (Anything But 1988)
Call of the Banshee CD (Sub Terranean 1994)
Taste This Vol. 4 CD (Discordia 1995)
Electrocity Vol. 6 CD (Ausfahrt 1995)

Architects of Unity

Compilations

Dance Trilogy CD (Permis de Construiere Deutschland 1993)

Archon Satani

Releases

Virgin Birth... (Born Again) CD (Functional Organisation)
Beyond All Thee Sickness LP (AC Recordings)
Mind of Flesh & Bones CD (Staalplaat 1994)
In Shelter CD (Dark Vinyl 1994)

Compilations

2 x 6 LP (Cold Meat Industry 1991)
Karmanik Collection CD (Cold Meat Industry 1993)
In the Butchers Backyard CD (Cold Meat Industry 1993)
Andromeda - The Spectral Compilation CD (Discordia 1993)
Death Odors CD (Slaughter Productions 1994)
Cold Spring CD (Cold Spring 1994)

Area

Releases

The Perfect Dream LP/CD (C'est La Mort 1987)
Radio Caroline CD (C'est La Mort 1988)
Between Purple and Pink CD (C'est La Mort 1989)
Fragments of the Morning CD (C'est La Mort 1990)
Agate Lines LP/CD (Third Mind 1990)

Compilations

Une Saison En Enfer CD (Third Mind 1988)
Dr. Death's Volume 4 CD (C'est La Mort 1990)
From Across This Gray Land No. 2 CD (Projekt 1990)

Arecibo

Releases

Trans Plutonian Transmissions CD (Atmosphere 1994)

A Release Project

Compilations

Torture Tech Overdrive LP (If It Moves 1991)

Keith Arem

Compilations

Organism 01 CD (Dossier 1994)
Organism 02 CD (Dossier 1995)

Argine

Compilations

Intimations Of Immortality CD (Energeia 1995)

Argyle Park

Releases

Misguided CD (R.E.X. 1995)

Compilations

Doom & Gloom/Visions of the Apocalypse CD (Nesak International 1994)

Aria

Compilations

Gothik CD (Cleopatra 1995)

A.R. Kane

Releases

Lollita 12" (4AD 1987)
Sixty-Nine LP (Rough Trade 1988)
Up Home 12" (Rough Trade 1988)
Love-Sick 12" (Rough Trade 1988)
A.R. Kane LP (One Little Indian 1988)
Pop EP (Rough Trade 1989)
i LP (Rough Trade 1989)
Americana CD (Sire 1992)
A Love From Outer Space CDS (Luaka Bop 1992)
New Clear Child CD (Luaka Bop 1994)

Call it "haze of sound", or "dream music" as this British group likes to describe their creations. Starting off with 4AD, they released the 12" single 'Lollita' and collaborated with sample whizzes Colourbox to produce 1987's biggest surprise hit 'Pump Up The Volume'. Moving on to the smaller One Little Indian label before finally finding a home with Rough Trade, they released 2 brilliant EP's (the drifting 'Lovesick' and the more danceable 'Up home!'). Possibly their best album came afterwards. 'Sixty-nine' featured endless guitar noodling and A.R.Kane-style stoned vocals, but what was largely ignored was the fact that it's the most beautiful guitar noodling committed to CD. Start here if you can find a used copy of it. With their subsequent double-album release "i", A.R.Kane harnessed that guitar energy into more accessible, pop-like tunes (except the 2-minute "Long Body" which proves that they could still make a single chord move). Rough Trade collapsed for a period and in an odd move, David Byrne's label Luaka Bop signed the band and released "Americana", a compilation of the best tracks from the Rough Trade catalogue. Their latest album "New Clear Child" continues in more of the "pop" category, but it still maintains the same notion that if you've ever had a strange dream, this would probably be the music you heard in the background. [jason]

Arkham

Compilations

Intimations Of Immortality CD (Energeia 1995)

Arkkon

Atmospheric industrial from David Knight of Shock Headed Peters . The self-titled CD features guest performances from Lydia Lunch, Danielle Dax, and Karl Blake.