ADAM VOID “New Depression Era Rambler” (Cut in the Fence)

 

When Black Mountain, North Carolina, starts spitting out no wave/antifolk outlaws, you know something’s festering down south, something weird and rotten. That something weird and rotten is Adam Void, an experimental sound masochist with a bunch of keyboards and noisemakers and other dirty ephemera, as well as some recording equipment. On New Depression Era Rambler, Void taps into New Weird America, turns it on its head, introduces it to electricity and circuits, and terrifies both it/them/us in doing so. Get these demons out of my house!
 
Like a hermit popping back into civilization after a good sixty-year break, Adam Void alternates between undigested folk ditties and electric toy freakouts. He pokes and prods the newfangled equipment, jumping back and covering his face as he’s surprised by the sounds he makes. But he gets the hang of it, and the result is frequently exciting, the twelve short tracks slamming against each other in ADD glee. He’s like a hobo with a bindle full of samplers and drum machines, playing boxcars on the back tracks of Appalachia to audiences of squirrels, birds, and raccoons. Killer set!
 
https://adamvoid.bandcamp.com/
 
http://www.cutinthefence.com/
 
--Ryan

ADAM VOID"A Call To Ignite" C13(Self-Released)

Adam Void embodies the Renaissance artist, a multi-disciplined explorer and creator of sound capture/sculpture, photography, painting, writing, you name it. What really stands out here is a raw, sincere reverence for the unpolished, industrial-strength vibrations, their wringing out cyclical jolts of brute force, trapped and/or emulated by AV, and stuck to tape in DIY/No-Fi fashion. “A Call to Ignite” may bear only one lone train whistle in its denouement, but the preceding 12 minutes boast a jarring series of possessed/distorted Casiontone beats and Dial-Up-Modem-core destruction that carries every bit of weighted battery as any rusty-railed bridge bearing a heavy load across its creaking back.

https://adamvoid.bandcamp.com/album/a-call-to-ignite

https://www.cutinthefence.com/

and/or

http://adamvoid.com/

-- Jacob An Kittenplan

ADAM VOID"Freight Noise" C11(Self-Released)

A mile away, as-the-crow-flies, runs the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), Amtrack, and maybe some other trains. Riding to work, I am occasionally stalled, waiting for these ginormous steel caterpillars to pass by. The sounds their frictitious, heavy stories clang out are always mesmerizing, and I never really wished I wasn't “held up”. 

Listen to “Freight Noise”, on your own time, and also fall in love, with what it means to “plod along” and “deliver".

To sweeten the pot of danger-free novelty, A.VOID provides an earnest account (mini-zine)  of what it meant for them (and a friend) to hop trains for two weeks, through the south, in the rain.

Tape release includes a gorgeously earnest manifesto/zine. This is pretty much why an ephemeral tape culture exists, right?

https://adamvoid.bandcamp.com/album/freight-noise

https://www.cutinthefence.com/

and/or

http://adamvoid.com/

-- Jacob An Kittenplan

ADAM VOID "131 Fires"

Adam Void included just the kind of crudely scrawled psychopath note that tends to warms the cockles of my heart.  Feast your ears on this ladies and gents:


Order a tape here

adamvoid.com

This guy is involved in some political type stuff, but I won't hold it against him.