Description:
For almost a decade, the zine, Noise Receptor Journal, has been documenting the international post-industrial music underground. Each issue has featured reviews and exclusive interviews on dark ambient, death industrial, heavy electronics, power electronics, and other largely ignored forms of music.
Noise Receptor Journal remains a labour of love in the true spirit of the underground. Self-published (out of Melbourne, Australia) it documents a cultural landscape from a unique vantage point, being at once an established and respected voice on that landscape.
This book is the first in a series that compiles the long out-of-print, much sought-after early issues, and contains in their entirety Noise Receptor Journal numbers 1, 2 and 3, as well as new material.
Featured artists include: Alfarmania / Aischrolatreia / Aural Hypnox / Blitzkreig Baby / Fieldwork / Genocide Organ / Grunt / Halo Manash / Puce Mary / Survival Unit / Trepaneringsritualen / Wertham
Brief description: Richard Stevenson is an underground music writer and avid supporter of obscure and difficult forms of music, notably the post-industrial underground. The five issues of his first zine, Spectrum: Ambient/ Industrial/ Experimental Music Culture Magazine, were collected and reissued in book form in 2019 as Spectrum Compendium. His second zine, Noise Receptor Journal: sound with impact - analysing the abstract, first appeared in 2013 and is currently ongoing.
Review Quotes: "A welcome return of underground, yet pro-printed magazines in the absence of greats such as Spectrum, Degenerate, Descent, Bannanfish, Judas Kiss, Denshi Zatsuon, ND, Scraps of Paper and early issues of Resound and catalogs from RRR, Artware, SFCR, etc. All print is welcome in this era of online corruption. Keep up the important work". -Dominick Fernow/ Prurient / Hospital Productions