Abstinence (band)

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Abstinence
Origin Belmar, New Jersey, USA
Years active 1985 - present
Genres Industrial, noise, performance art
Labels s6k Media, Furnace Records, Silent Records
Members Darryl Hell, John Bechdel, Deftly-D

'Abstinence' is an experimental industrial project founded in 1985 in Belmar, NJ, now based in Brooklyn. Its sound ranges from bombastic to noise, ambient soundtrack to earbleeding powertool squeals. All in a lush tapestry of video/audio dialog and sound-samples.

Since 1985, Abstinence has created experimental industrial music that follows in the traditions of the Beats, the Dada movement, the Futurism (art), the raw vision of punk rock, the origins of industrial music, the freedom of the experimental art movement and the eternal global human rights art movement.

Abstinence utilizes tunnels, decommissioned military bases, warehouses, bathrooms, abandoned buildings, basements, freeway underpasses and various indoor/outdoor environments as sound laboratories to create unique soundscapes that coalesce with powertools, a variety of traditional analog / digital instrumentation and bombastic percussion.

Their lyrics and audio/video samples are focused on demystifying the political and societal world in which we live.

Contents

[edit] Discography

[edit] Full length albums and EPs

  • Revolt of the Cyberchrist Furnace Records/Silent Records (1994)
  • Theorem Furnace Records/Silent Records (1995)
  • The Path of Maximum Resistance s6k media (2005)

[edit] Singles

[edit] Compilation Appearances

  • Hellscape compilation featured "Interference" & "Screaming Into the Void VSmix: (Virtually Silent Mix)" Furnace Records/Silent Records (1995)
  • New Industries compilation featured "Frigid Changes" Dynamica Records, Germany (1995)
  • Hellscape 2 compilation featured "Fractured/Assassinate the Beat" Furnace Records/Silent Records (1995)
  • Operation:Beatbox compilation featured "Two-Three-Break" Reconstriction Records/Cargo Records (1996)
  • Ikebana : Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused And Recycled featured "Freq" Important Records (2003)

[edit] Films & Videos

  • Level 7 appears on the soundtrack to Backyard Glances Alva Skateboards (1987)
  • Multiple Cross Wounds unreleased video (1991)

[edit] People

[edit] Active

  • Darryl Hell (1985-present)
  • John Bechdel (2004-present, 1993-1996)
  • Deftly-D (2004-present)

[edit] Past members

  • Mike Roberts
  • Eloise Mourning
  • Paul Raven
  • Bill Herring
  • J.Burns
  • Jerry Franklin
  • Bill Latshaw
  • Tommy Latshaw
  • Tommy Walling
  • Mark Yard
  • Mike Scrivani
  • Greg Hunt
  • Terry Hughes

[edit] Associated Bands

[edit] Current

  • Operation:Mindwipe
  • Rock'it Society
  • Patient 4311
  • Nau-Zee-auN
  • Zero Times Infinity

[edit] External links

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