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Viking's Choice: Cracked Music From The Nurse With Wound List, Hypercolor Rave, More

Be it prog-rock, free jazz, musique concrète, Krautrock, deranged punk or psych-rock, the experimental music found on the Nurse With Wound List from 1979 could split open a third eye. Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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All Songs Considered

Viking's Choice: Cracked Music From The Nurse With Wound List, Hypercolor Rave, More

September 17, 2019 • Nurse With Wound's influential list of 291 experimental artists finally gets the compilation treatment, plus a toxic banger from noise-rock trio Buildings and rhapsodic rave music by Octo Octa.

Keiji Haino, Dark Wizard Of The Avant-Garde, Enjoys A Good Snack Cake

Keiji Haino in a solo performance at Schl8hof in Wels, Austria on Nov. 5, 2011. Peter Gannushkin/DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET hide caption

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The Record

Keiji Haino, Dark Wizard Of The Avant-Garde, Enjoys A Good Snack Cake

March 27, 2018 • Even musicians world-famous for manipulating darkness say they feared Haino, a legendary figure within avant-garde sound — until they realized he had a sense of humor, too.