Finally got a chance to listen to the ‘No Tomorrow’ EP this guy posted on here awhile back. Awesome. Top notch experimental music.
Basically like new Pink Anvil which fills my fix for creepy/fucked up Halloween jams.
Eddie, are you influenced by Pink Anvil?
I love this sort of music. Halloween creepiness = A +
Yes I like the Eddie Entropy project a lot. That one song The Tunnel is right in line with my own tastes in weird electronic soundscapes.
The Eddie Entropy track that is on the prongs comp sounds like a lost Lead Into Gold track with some Genesis P. Orridge type lyrics. Good stuff.
Indeed. Best tracks are the opener and “Tunnel.”
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Wow, thank you! Happy you dug the EP voidhead, I had the feeling that it would be up your alley! The Eddie music is me and my buddy Nick (Revok on this board).
We are definitely influenced by Ministry and early Wax Trax bands, though I’ll confess I’m not a huge fan of Pink Anvil despite being a fan of both the men involved, it sounded like a lot of great ideas a little bit half-finished when I was hoping for it to sound more like the fabled lost DOTS ambient album. Though it’s been a few years since I listened so maybe it’s due for another run-through.
I started doing music in the early 90s and did a lot of experimental tape work, loving TG and SPK and zoviet france and all of that, so that aesthetic sneaks in. Though I’m a lot more pop focused these days in my taste.
To be honest, I don’t do as much of the Eddie music these days leaving more of that to Revok and I focus more on the voice. The vocals are rather the inverse of my day job as a yoga teacher. They are like guided meditations from a positive negatism background.
I’ll let Revok talk more music influences if he wishes.
Thanks again for the interest!
Yes Pink Anvil was very much half-finished sounding and the production was not stellar. However ‘Halloween Party’ is still dear to my heart on a personal level. I think maybe because the timing of when I bought it (freshman in college, discovering a whole different way of thinking about music - Wolf Eyes really nailed that one on the head for me) and how it influenced me, and the fact I listened to it completely through in the dark, stoned on headphones and was just entranced. I love the album. I think you should give it another go.
The second album ‘New Years Eve Party’ is even more half-baked and badly produced. One day I’ll upload the fucker for you guys to hear it I guess. Brody never replied regarding whether I could share it or not…
However I really love Pink Anvil nonetheless. I wish I was there for the concert that the recording is from.
As for Eddie, I did not realize Eddie Entropy was 2 people here nor did I realize you guys have been doing music since the 90s. Makes me feel better about myself because this stuff is really fucking good.
The thing is it has this kind of purity to it there is nothing ruining the songs and that kind of understated nuanced quality is really hard to achieve in this type of music. I don’t know if that came out right it’s hard for me to explain what I mean in type.
I think what I’m trying to say is that with experimental sound collage type shit, whatever you want to call this type of stuff, there is usually an element here or there that becomes too repetitive, or is too loud, something to throw off the piece and make it less than perfect. But I don’t hear that here.
It’s all very subtle but it takes a lot of skill to craft these kinds of compositions and not fuck them up somewhere along the line. I know because I’ve dabbling in this type of music for a few years.
Knowing your influences now makes more sense. I always assume people are my age which is especially stupid on the prongs forum where you’re all old geezers wahahahah!!! j/k
So anyway, respect. Carry on!
‘Halloween Party’
That has to be probably one of the most horrible records I’ve ever heard. I did only give it one listen to be fair though.
As for Eddie Entropy…I’m sure I’ve read about that name over here greeny???
Woot. Glad to hear people are digging Eddie! I think green death summed up most of our influences there. I’d probably say Lead into Gold and Coil are big influences on me. I like some of Halloween Party, I think Brody’s use of samples is always great. Especially that work he did on the opening track of the Flowering Blight album (at least I think he provided the samples for that).
Greendeath’s a seasoned pro, but I’m actually rather new to this music stuff. I just joined up with him on Ed about a year ago. We’ve worked together on short films and video projects for a good 10 years though. Were good at bringing out the weird in each other.
I’m way into that textured sound collage stuff you’re talking about Void. That’s probably my favortie type of music to work on, it’s definitely a challenge to keep that kind of ambient texture from turning into mush/noise etc.
We have a full length coming out around mid October on a net label that’s soundscape type stuff along the lines of No Tomorrow. We’ll keep yaz posted.
I’m a total geezer of the experimental scene, and I love it! =)
Thanks again for the kind words and for anyone interested, the “No Tomorrow EP” and a few others are available at:
http://www.edentropy.com/audio.html
All the EPs are not in the same ambient/noise genre though so your mileage may vary between them.
The second album ‘New Years Eve Party’ is even more half-baked and badly produced.
Maybe it was this one I heard and NOT the Halloween release???
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The second album ‘New Years Eve Party’ is even more half-baked and badly produced.
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It was never released. Void myspaced the guy to get a copy.
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To be fair, Pink Anvil was never meant to be high art - it’s just Barker and the other guy (who’s name suddenly escapes me) dicking around and they never made any claims to the contrary.
I bought my copy used.
Hey everybody, I did a remix of one of the tracks off of “Social Network” on the NIN remix site over the course of a couple sleepless hours last night. Could y’all pop over and rate it high so that I can win big and meet the Trent at the Social Network opening? Thank you!
Hey everybody,
A video for the title track of Eddie Entropy’s new album “Blot Out the Sun With Sex” (out Oct. 21 on Dark Winter) is now available:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMTBEguF4-M
Enjoy the brutality.
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Anyone had a chance to check out the video?
Yes! Watched it the other night, very cool man. I’m envious, I have zero video-making skills (much less equipment), which is why I produce those boring Windows Movie Maker videos for my band on FB, and hijack Wax Trax videos for our backgrounds in live performances. Nice work on the video, too, I dig the mood.
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Like the video and song a lot. Very subdued track. Atmospheric. Cool spoken word.
I like the high contrast black and white aesthetic you guys have going.
After his stint of identity thief, Eddie is back with a new EP: http://www.darkwinter.com/dw086.html
This was recorded in four different countries and even in a clay hut in the middle of the Sri Lankan jungle. It’s more lo-fi than the last few releases because I did more of the music and my rig isn’t what Revok’s is. Hope you dig it!
After his stint of identity thief, Eddie is back with a new EP: http://www.darkwinter.com/dw086.html
This was recorded in four different countries and even in a clay hut in the middle of the Sri Lankan jungle. It’s more lo-fi than the last few releases because I did more of the music and my rig isn’t what Revok’s is. Hope you dig it!
Listening now, enjoying. Care to elaborate on the circumstances surrounding the Sri Lankan bit?
EDIT yeah I like this one a lot kind of has like a creepy astral projection kind of vibe. Good late night music.