The haters
The Haters are an American industrial band founded in 1979 . It consists of casual musicians around GX Jupitter-Larsen.
history
Apart from the only permanent member of the band, GX Jupitter-Larsen, the band consists of only short-term recruited participants, the band does not have a rehearsal room. The Haters first appeared in New York in 1979 at an appearance where Larsen smashed a pile of video cassettes with an old video camera. The first singles were released in 1980 and 1981, but the debut album In the Shade of Fire was not released until 1986.
Further appearances followed, always in black "hangman's attire", both in the USA and in Europe. By mid-2011, The Haters had made a total of 370 appearances. These always have a more performance- art- like attitude. For example, Jupitter-Larsen tore up paper for 15 minutes in Pescara ( Teeaarrr ), did not appear for performances (unlike the audience who watched the no-show), slashed a mattress in Colorado Springs, counted trash cans in Paris ( Ictanea All Nyrris ) or dug in Frankfurt or Birmingham holes in public green spaces ( Building Empty Holes ).
In the following years these motifs were repeated again and again, occasionally in combinations with one another, sometimes in an expanded form. During appearances in the 1990s, the frequently used motif of objects provided with contact microphones that - mounted on a drill - rotated against sandpaper ( The Grinding Gig , Changing the Tire , The Thinking Ross Did ). But also working with the so-called “Clici-Clic”, a hole punch equipped with a contact microphone , became a frequent motif.
There are collaborations with Merzbow , The New Blockaders, K2, MSBR, Aube, Mama Baer and Kommissar Hjuler , Torturing Nurse, Organum / David Jackman , Big City Orchestra and numerous other musicians.
concept
The Haters play “broken music” without using any instruments. Sounds or noises are produced by destroying objects. The band is less connected to a musical approach than an artistic one, Jupitter-Larsen explicitly stated: "Music per se has never particularly interested me". He himself sees noise, noise and noise as having a positive connotation.
proof
- ↑ a b c Mark Dery: Cyberpunk - Riding the shock wave with the toxic underground , In: Atomic Avenue , ISBN 3453042875 , pp. 628–630, 1990.
- ↑ performances.jupitter-larsen.com: 1979-1989 Performances by GX Jupitter-Larsen & The Haters , accessed June 13, 2011.
- ↑ performances.jupitter-larsen.com: 1990-1999 Performances by GX Jupitter-Larsen & The Haters , accessed June 13, 2011.