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AUDIO: Restraint Malfunction – “Harsh Noise Synthesis”

Posted on September 4, 2025 by Breaking And Entering Contributors

Milwaukee’s experimental underground continues to push boundaries with the latest release from local act Restraint Malfunction, whose new project “Harsh Noise Synthesis” dropped this week as the latest offering from the city’s noise music community. The collection represents a fearless dive into the more abrasive corners of electronic experimentation, with the producer weaving together walls of static, fractured sound, and

AUDIO: Ryan Winslow Jann – “The One-Take Blues”

Posted on August 29, 2025 by Allen Halas

Ryan Winslow Jann shatters conventional recording wisdom with a new release, “The One-Take Blues,” a sprawling experimental odyssey that pushes the boundaries of spontaneity and sonic exploration.

AUDIO: The Smudge – “The Black Book”

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Allen Halas

The Smudge plays with space in a new noise project.

AUDIO: Lil G Mills – “Zig Zag”

Posted on January 30, 2025 by Allen Halas

Nothing seems to stay in one lane, either, diverting from hip hop beats to loud, glitchy electro synths in the blink of an eye.

AUDIO: Lucky Bone – “The Vanishing”

Posted on June 5, 2023 by bslowbro

Noise act Lucky Bone released a new album this past week. Recorded after viewing the 1988 Dutch film “The Vanishing”, the album was created using locked grooves cut and pasted onto a groove-less, blank record. Opening with warped samples of ekphrastic film analysis, the album then continues into a bright, psychedelia-tinged soundscape of repetitious clangor and crackling texture; things conclude

AUDIO: Restraint Malfunction – “Torrential Assault”

Posted on May 19, 2023 by bslowbro

Restraint Malfunction unleashed a new album recently. The harsh-experimental noise act brings ten tracks that are meant to be listened to as one piece. Michael Jurek traverses a range of textural territories here from searing static to abrasive grinding to fearsome screeches to hellish clangor over nearly thirty minutes. Enter the power plant of auditory havoc with Restraint Malfunction’s “Torrential

AUDIO: Peter J. Woods – “Awful Answers”

Posted on May 5, 2023 by bslowbro

Veteran noise artist Peter J. Woods released a new album out on Skinwalker Recordings. It consists of two tracks, one being almost 14 minutes and the other being over 25 minutes. “The Display” consists of prolonged static harshness that eventually transitions into obfuscated, garbled vocal samples. The title track…is absolutely golden…it samples and loops Tina Fey talking on TV while

AUDIO: Citizen 2-13 – “Score”

Posted on April 29, 2023 by bslowbro

Harsh noise project Citizen 2-13 released a new album recently. It’s seven tracks that consist largely of industrial textures, dystopian atmospheres, amplified grinding and occasional alarm-like mechanisms that all culminate into a desolate, formidable odyssey. There’s a sense of danger and unsettlement embedded in this sonic installment like we’re going deeper and deeper into the depths of a secret government

AUDIO: TamperTamper – “No/Longer/Applicable”

Posted on April 6, 2023 by bslowbro

Noise act TamperTamper is out with their debut full-length album on FTAM Productions. Featuring recordings of social interactions, spontaneous song making and rambling thoughts that get sonically manipulated from time to time, the album has the surrealness of a conscious daydream along with the innocent nature of daily routines and friendly engagements. There’s playfulness while being raw and honest, spontaneous

AUDIO: Restraint Malfunction – “Total Drain”

Posted on April 4, 2023 by bslowbro

Experimental noise act Restraint Malfunction released a new composition recently. Spanning fifteen minutes, this piece consists of industrial noises that are simultaneously watery and metallic, just like the title suggests. Restraint Malfunction lets the sink run with “Total Drain.”

AUDIO: Names Divine – “The Crystal Arms!”

Posted on February 8, 2023 by bslowbro

Experimental act Names Divine have their first release out in quite some time, featuring two compositions each spanning nearly twenty minutes long. The music here is created to reach heights in consciousness and seek oneness with the cosmos. With angelic vocals, opulent keys and murmuring tenor saxophone, there’s a tried-and-true gateway to transcendence across these immersive soundscapes. Names Divine dance

AUDIO: Death Tape Super Bass – “Hellmouth”

Posted on February 2, 2023 by bslowbro

Prolific experimental/noise act Death Tape Super Bass is out with his first release of 2023. Over six tracks, Aaron Steinmetz explores minimal techno built from variably metallic and wonky textures. A couple tracks span over eight or nine minutes long; “Tooth Party” and “Sound Drown” give Steinmetz plenty of room to feel out industrial soundscapes with alarm-like repetitions. “Hellmouth” is

AUDIO: Restraint Malfunction – “Plangent Entropy (Deconstruction)”

Posted on January 3, 2023 by bslowbro

Experimental noise project Restraint Malfunction released an EP deconstructing their track “Plangent Entropy” from an upcoming FTAM compilation. It’s four tracks of sparking, simmering noise that rumbles at one moment but hisses at another, showcasing the diverse textural palette that Restraint Malfunction incorporates. It feels like we’re wandering around in a large boiler room and can’t seem to find the

AUDIO: Lucky Bone – “Waiting-Room (Phaseloops) – This World is Mean and Evil / Music for Moving Body (Composition for Going Somewhere, or Somewhere Else)”

Posted on September 12, 2022 by bslowbro

Noise artist Lucky Bone recently put out a lot of work on Bandcamp; this week we’d like to share the first two (of four) releases. The first is “Waiting-Room”, a 26-minute composition of 8-track tape loops. The second is “Music for Moving Body”, which is like a collage conceptualized as background noise for while you’re driving, representing the motion and

AUDIO: Restraint Malfunction – “Human Conduit”

Posted on August 18, 2022 by bslowbro

Harsh noise project Restraint Malfunction has a new record out this week. Spanning six tracks, this album comprises of the hellish experimentation that the project is known for but with continued unfazed exploration of texture, mood and tone. The first four tracks breathe sizzling heat while the last two tracks get sharply harsher with sensations of cutting into metal. Restraint

AUDIO: Frenia – “This Field is Required”

Posted on July 7, 2022 by bslowbro

Improvisational noise collective Frenia are out with a new EP. Limitless art, not a point on the map their Bandcamp poetically states, so eloquently describing the fluidity of Frenia’s seamlessly collaborative nature. There’s string, wind and percussion instruments utilized here but also spoken word, friendly banter, hand claps and wordplay; an excerpt of “Madness of the Day” by Blanchot is

AUDIO: Lucky Bone – “Dream Journals & Glass Coffins (4, 3, 7 & 8)”

Posted on March 16, 2022 by bslowbro

Noise project Lucky Bone has a new album out, inspired by recent dreams. Each suite consists of collaged pieces of harsh noise, pop-sensible songs, and distorted samples that all make for a most surreal listening experience. Lucky Bone shares on Bandcamp what specific imageries are represented in each track, some fragmented while others vivid. Luther Price’s film “Warm Broth” and

AUDIO: Restraint Malfunction – “Heat Magnet”

Posted on February 25, 2022 by bslowbro

Experimental noise project Restraint Malfunction brought us a new track this week. Many of Restraint Malfunction’s pieces have a “fiery” quality to them, and this one exemplifies that in full force. Over twelve and a half minutes, a searing cut of devilish oblivion is explored. Get a feel for apocalyptic noise set ablaze with Restraint Malfunction’s “Heat Magnet.”

AUDIO: Lucky Bone – “Music Box Memories (and other pandoras)”

Posted on February 21, 2022 by bslowbro

Experimental noise project Lucky Bone is out with their first record in eight years. It’s two elongated tracks of noise that bask in spontaneity and freedom. These tracks were made with methods such as said music box and tape manipulation, with the second track seemingly consisting of many shorter pieces collaged together. Textures range from harsh static to high-frequency clinging

AUDIO: Restraint Malfunction – “Merciless Pummeling”

Posted on February 17, 2022 by bslowbro

Harsh noise project Restraint Malfunction released a new album this week. Walls of noise engulf us like the fires of Hell, diving into different textures over four tracks. It’s volcanic, abrasive, and excruciating in sound palette and certainly lives up to the aggressive imagery evoked by its title. Restraint Malfunction delivers a powerful exhibition of fiery noise cuts with “Merciless

AUDIO: Death Tape Super Bass – “DRAFT”

Posted on February 2, 2022 by bslowbro

Experimental noise project Death Tape Super Bass has a new album out. Alex Steinmetz describes it as “dead serious authentic circus music” that gets progressively muddier as time goes on. Some tracks have techno sensibilities while others carry industrial electronica; there’s gruesome imagery of gouged eyes, severed heads, worms, a frog becoming a person, and other monstrosities. Death Tape Super

AUDIO: Plague Mother – “I Am Trying to Disappear”

Posted on December 8, 2021 by bslowbro

Harsh noise project Plague Mother have a new record out. It’s two tracks, each nearly ten minutes long, of fiery static and demented imagery that dooms one to another dimension. It feels like tortured isolation as the title suggests; after almost two years of COVID, such abrasiveness hits exactly where we lie. Plague Mother delivers withering sensations with “I Am

AUDIO: El Wrongo – “Demanding the Form to Leave”

Posted on November 3, 2021 by bslowbro

Noise rockers El Wrongo have a new single out this week. Entirely instrumental, the song begins with a creeping riff that eventually electrifies into an industrial-size hitter. It’s a linear one that knows exactly where it’s going the whole time but manages to still keep you at the edge of your chair. We hope to hear more from El Wrongo

AUDIO: Restraint Malfunction – “Pineal Cyst Extraction”

Posted on October 12, 2021 by bslowbro

Harsh noise project Restraint Malfunction is out with a new composition this week. The title basically refers to a tumor getting taken out of one’s eye, and you could say this eighteen minute-long piece sounds like exactly that. Some moments are shrill and piercing while others are more ominous and oceanic. It’s an abstract exhibition of variable textures from Restraint

ARTIST SPOTLIGHTS: Death Tape Super Bass, Citizen 2-13, Chamber of Knives, J. Mollerskov, Steve Schlei, Lorna Dune, Tampertamper, Pleasure Thief

Posted on September 7, 2021 by bslowbro

Noise label/concert promoter FTAM hosted a massive noise showcase in the backyard of X-Ray Arcade Sunday afternoon. Sets from Death Tape Super Bass, Citizen 2-13, Chamber of Knives, J. Mollerskov, Steve Schlei, Lorna Dune, Frenia, TamperTamper, and Pleasure Thief all took place. We got to talk to each and every one of them – except Frenia, since we spotlighted them

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