noise

don't be put off by their name, these two guys make ultra rad mind bending noise infused melodies - heavy distortion - one of the darlings of the 2008 sxsw music festival

Food for Animals is a Baltimore-based hip-hop group clearly following in the footsteps of earlier avant-garde rappers like Busdriver, El-P, Deep Puddle Dynamics, and Prefuse 73. Noisy electro-thrash complimented by stuttery beats and quality rhymes augment a sound that draws from almost every genre of music.

The Incredible Flying Torture Orchestra is a self-marginalizing musical project from somewhere aiming for someone's enjoyment. Inspired by self-marginalizing historical figures such as Erik Satie and Brian Eno, The Incredibly Flying Torture Orchestra aims to create music that is neither purposeful or deceptive. The new album is available at this link: http://www.mediafire.com/?0mg1nzhnlmy

For a small country New Zealand has long been pumping out some impressive music. Way back in the 1960s it was crazed long-haired punkers messed up on all sorts of stuff - musical (the Pretty Things, Love, the 13th Floor Elevators, the Troggs and who-knows-what-else) and I guess otherwise.

Toronto, Canada’s Schizoid has been doing underground extreme electronics ever since 1998, mixing a lethal combination of hardest technoise and blackened grindcore styles, along the way dabbling in ambient, drone, black metal and other genres.