Nuno Canavarro - Plux Quba
"Koln, Germany around 1991. After a 40-minute train ride from Aachen, Christoph Heemann and Jim O'Rourke are sitting around with Jan St. Werner, C-Schulz, Frank Dommert and George Odjik. Heemann has brought with him a strange obscure disc (what else?) from Portugal by some group called "Plux Quba." Or is it the record? The label? Who knows, because no one here reads Portuguese, dummy! But what they do know when the needle hits the groove is that they've never heard anything like it. Attempts to cite reference points are soon given up, there are some similarities to Robert Ashley's later work, but even that is deceiving. It is simple, gentle, melodic, and yet completely alien. Originally released in 1988 on Ama Romanta, and reissued last in 1998 on Moikai."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mfJYGGCRSs&t=358s
>>70922486
This seems nice. Source on the O'rourke anecdote?
yeah i remember when I discovered, enjoyed, and dropped that album about 5 years ago
good on you for just finding out about it though
i'm sure you're not underage or anything
>>70922486
wow first time ive heard something that really excited me in months.
>>70922486
this is shit
Discovered this during my Mille Plateaux / Raster Noton period a few years ago, this is quite unique and worth listening to if haven't heard it already.
It didn't become a favorite of mine though, just return to it from times to times when I want something weirder than usual.
>>70924382
What's some glitch you really like?
>>70924236
here: http://www.dragcity.com/products/plux-quba
>>70924267
i'm portuguese, so i knew about Nuno some time ago. he is one of the pioneers of portuguese electronic/experimental music.
anyway, he is kind of *unknown*
>>70925986
Do you have any recs for someone who really enjoyed this record?
heemann is the man
canavarro is old news to the patrician scene tho keep up
>>70926019
from the same generation, take this gem by Tozé Ferreira:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uhiGxikzvw
https://www.discogs.com/T%C3%B3z%C3%A9-Ferreira-M%C3%BAsica-Debaixa-Fidelidade/release/795215
this guy used to play live concerts with an atar in stage.
i will leave this documentary here too. it's highly recommended for the curious ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLkUVsb-6SI&t=4007s
>>70926032
do you heard about Tozé Ferreira? Tó Neto? Jorge Lima Barreto? Anar Band? Telectu?
or most recently about Sensible Soccers, Live Low and Ghost Hunt?
>>70924555
Sorry, I forgot I posted in this thread.
At first I was into the basics : Alva Noto, Ryoji Ikeda, SND, Farben, Frank Bretschneider, the first two Clicks + Cuts compilations...
Two quite overlooked good glitch projects are Farmers Manual and General Magic, it seems like they had fun creating their weird stuff, unlike your average avant-garde musician. No Backup, fsck and Rechenkönig are all pretty good.
DAT Politics' Tracto Flirt, Sous Hit and Plugs Plus are all good too, it's basically like harshly distorted SNES music, the latter one being more pop. Their Tone Rec stuff is worth checking too.
The last person that impressed me in this genre was Grischa Lichtenberger with And IV.
Other than that, I think it's a more or less dead genre whose aesthetics were shaped by the limitations of the PPC Mac G3/G4 laptops they were using at the time. They have created plenty of tropes for the current and future generations to borrow, though.
Has anyone listened to the Oto Hiax LP? Thoughts?