Noise Boys – miniminiminijupe

Stephan Eicher is one of the people from Grauzone so we got to love him really.

His first recorded music project we know of is Noise Boys. I was going to write all the things about fun lo-fi French punk that sounds like a 4-track and Suicide and stuff but then I found a piece he wrote himself :

“The Noise Boys EP was recorded on a Dictaphone & a Cassette Recorder at the Spex Club in Bern, on borrowed Instruments. A Roland Promars, a Korg MS20 and the beautiful CR78 Beat Box who run through a Big Muff distortion pedal. The Vocals went through a Space echo. I made 25 Cas. Copies for friends and fans of the short-lived ‘Noise Boys’, in which I played Gtr, Vacuum cleaner, Black & Decker & toy Instruments. I tried as hard as I could to sound like ‘Suicide’ missed and got a record contract….”

This makes me laugh so much I almost pissed myself, I mean who the fuck hoovers? I have no idea what effect Stephan’s band had on French Swiss (thanks to pesche) people at the time while American and English punks were naming themselves after and using the imagery of European situationists. Why is it always so exotic to borrow stuff from other cultures in an effort to make yerself seem dead sophisticated? Yeh European punk! Today xxjfg ‘say tray sophistic’ or something. We could get away with this if we was Canadian.

I-Robots – Frau (Boys Noize Remix)

We have been missing some nosebleed or as my mate Ian calls it German stuff for those of us who used to like heavy metal but stared taking pills instead of Newcastle brown ale down the disco. Ok, so the chips and burger after are nowhere as appetizing but at least you get a little exercise instead of a beer gut. As for the mental stability this creates, studies of skinny guys with mullets have as yet been inconclusive but the rise in bisexual clubbers has been noted. It almost happened last year but then the mushrooms kicked in, now is the time to bring on the summer of hate.

No one is daring call it industrial or anything dark cos then all the dance djs would have to stop being trendy ‘i can skate, and like hip-hop’ wankers and start wearing black (cept Black Strobe, they are already there). So, the new black? That was way back. When Eskimo did the comps, Tiefschwarz did the heavy as fuck sessions, Vitalic laid it on with an acid shaped suicide commando pile driver, Alter Ego threw boulders and Daft Punk’s The Brainwasher seemed to sample our unconsciousness. Clubs like Richard Clouston’s Kult 77 / Cosey knock you out with big nails and no denying the history. I always prefer listening to Pete Tong when the weather is lousy rather than the Miami to Ibiza shit he plays when the sun shines. Can we have a black summer daddy, can we?

So the shit that’s being played in this field right now may not exactly be Dave Clark’s remix of Let No Man Jack but it’s the watered down version that always sells, gets mixed easier and is more likely to make your average ugly kid joe clubber go off like a bicarbonate soda bomb in the bath. Fizzzzzzzzzzz

The Frau Boys Noize Remix is a fizz powered full on harsh horizontal distortion with some adverts from the cybernetic broadcasting system plugged in for good luck. It’s almost enough to make you go out and buy those German cleaning products but then you know at 6am some fucker would snort em and stick on a vacuum cleaner and start freestyling 20 Seconds to Comply over the top of it.