The New Blockaders

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Blockade Is Resistance 00:00 Tools
X-Nihilist Assault 00:00 Tools
History Of Nothing 00:00 Tools
Avaunt! Avaunt! Avaunt! 00:00 Tools
Viva Negativa! 00:00 Tools
Defiant Operatives 00:00 Tools
Epater Les Bourgeois 00:00 Tools
Hit Damage On A/B Over X 00:00 Tools
Untitled 00:00 Tools
Hidden Agenda 00:00 Tools
First Offensive 00:00 Tools
Simphonie In X Major (First Movement) 00:00 Tools
Simphonie In X Major (Second Movement) 00:00 Tools
Junk Rhetoric 00:00 Tools
Crincum Crancum 00:00 Tools
Free Uninterrupted Collective Karma - Part 1 00:00 Tools
First Offensive (live) 00:00 Tools
die stunde x 00:00 Tools
Falten (Part 1) 00:00 Tools
changez les blockeurs, part 1 00:00 Tools
Free Uninterrupted Collective Karma - Part 2 00:00 Tools
Falten (Part 2) 00:00 Tools
seinsart 00:00 Tools
Das Zerstoren, Zum Gebaren 00:00 Tools
Changez Les Blockeurs, Part 2 00:00 Tools
WaRuM HaTtE DaS BlOcKiErEn HaLtEn? 00:00 Tools
Live at Morden Tower 13th July 1983 00:00 Tools
Live at Morden Tower 12th Oct. 1983 00:00 Tools
Meta-Klamauk 00:00 Tools
Simphonie in O Minor 00:00 Tools
First Movement 00:00 Tools
Changez Les Blockeurs Part One 00:00 Tools
Second Movement 00:00 Tools
Live At Morden Tower <07/83> 00:00 Tools
Untitled (a) 00:00 Tools
Untitled (b) 00:00 Tools
Changez Les Blockeurs Part Two 00:00 Tools
Part 1 00:00 Tools
side a 00:00 Tools
Changez Les Blockeurs 00:00 Tools
Live At Morden Tower <10/83> 00:00 Tools
Part 2 00:00 Tools
Live At Sonic City - Excerpt 00:00 Tools
Blockade Is Resistance (1983) 00:00 Tools
Reductio Ad Absurdum Part Two 00:00 Tools
ChAnGeZ LeS BlOcKeUrS <1982> Part One 00:00 Tools
Live At Sonic City (Excerpt) 00:00 Tools
Live At Morden Tower <01/84> 00:00 Tools
Part One 00:00 Tools
Live At Anti-Fest 00:00 Tools
NuLl BeI OhR 00:00 Tools
side b 00:00 Tools
Live At Morden Tower <04/94> 00:00 Tools
Reductio Ad Absurdum Part One 00:00 Tools
Simphonie In 0 Major 00:00 Tools
MeTa-KlAmAuk (for Jean Tinguely) 00:00 Tools
Changez Les Blockeurs (Part One) 00:00 Tools
Part I 00:00 Tools
Warum Hatte Das Blockieren Halten 00:00 Tools
Free Uninterrupted Collective Karma Part III 00:00 Tools
Free Uninterrupted Collective Karma - part 3 00:00 Tools
Part Two 00:00 Tools
ChAnGeZ LeS BlOcKeUrS <1982> Part Two 00:00 Tools
[untitled] 00:00 Tools
First Offensive(Live) 00:00 Tools
Part II 00:00 Tools
Le Couperet - 1 00:00 Tools
20th Antiversary Offensive 00:00 Tools
Earcrash 00:00 Tools
Reductio Ad Absurdum (Part One) 00:00 Tools
Le Couperet-1 00:00 Tools
Reductio Ad Absurdum, Part 1 00:00 Tools
Das Zerstoren, Zum Gebaren (Live At All Tomorrows Parties) 00:00 Tools
Changez Les Blockeurs (Part Two) 00:00 Tools
Changez Les Blockeurs Part 1 (Excerpt) 00:00 Tools
Final Live Performance 00:00 Tools
Nul 1 Bei Ohr 00:00 Tools
DiE StUnDe X <1993> 00:00 Tools
SIDE 1 00:00 Tools
MordenTower <07/83> (Newcastle - England) 00:00 Tools
NK (Berlin 2012) 00:00 Tools
Reductio Ad Absurdum (Part Two) 00:00 Tools
Live At Morden Tower 10/83 00:00 Tools
Changez Les Blockeurs (Part 2) 00:00 Tools
ReDuCtIo Ad AbSuRdUm <1982/2002> Part One 00:00 Tools
Free Uninterrupted Collective Karma - part 4 00:00 Tools
Changez Les Blockeurs Part 1 00:00 Tools
Live At Morden Tower 07/83 00:00 Tools
Changez Les Blockeurs II 00:00 Tools
reductio ad absurdum, part 2 00:00 Tools
ReDuCtIo Ad AbSuRdUm <1982/2002> Part Two 00:00 Tools
MordenTower <10/83> (Newcastle - England) 00:00 Tools
Morden Tower 07-83 00:00 Tools
Changez Les Blockeurs I 00:00 Tools
Live 12-10-1983 00:00 Tools
Filllll 00:00 Tools
Kamtar & Rio / Mandrake Manfits 00:00 Tools
"--" 00:00 Tools
Live at Morden Tower 01/84 00:00 Tools
Live at Morden Tower 04/94 00:00 Tools
MordenTower <04/94> (Newcastle - England) 00:00 Tools
Morden Tower 01-84 00:00 Tools
Free Uninterrupted Collective Karma Part IV 00:00 Tools
Changez Les Blockeurs (Part 1) 00:00 Tools
A 00:00 Tools
SiMpHoNiE In O MiNoR <1991> 00:00 Tools
Club Puschkin (Dresden 2014) 00:00 Tools
Free Uninterrupted Collective Karma - Part IV 00:00 Tools
Morden Tower 10-83 00:00 Tools
1 & 2 Parts 00:00 Tools
History Of Nothing - Part 2 00:00 Tools
Free Uninterrupted Collective Karma - Part III 00:00 Tools
Outside 00:00 Tools
Inside 00:00 Tools
B 00:00 Tools
Morden Tower 04-94 00:00 Tools
Reductio Ad Absurdum (Part 2) 00:00 Tools
History Of Nothing / Part 2 00:00 Tools
Live At Hinoeuma (Part 1) 00:00 Tools
Changez Les Blockeurs <1982>, Part One 00:00 Tools
Changez Les Blockeurs Part 2 00:00 Tools
MordenTower <01/84> (Newcastle - England) 00:00 Tools
MeTa-KlAmAuK <For Jean Tinguely> <2002> 00:00 Tools
Changez Les Blockeurs <1982>, Part Two 00:00 Tools
Live At Hinoeuma (Part 2) 00:00 Tools
Gesamtkunstwerk 00:00 Tools
SIDE 2 00:00 Tools
History Of Nothing Part 2 00:00 Tools
Live At Hinoeuma 00:00 Tools
Reductio Ad Absurdum (Part 1) 00:00 Tools
Reductio Ad Absurdum <1982/2002>, Part One 00:00 Tools
Reductio Ad Absurdum <1982/2002>, Part Two 00:00 Tools
Live At Sonic City - Live Kortijk, Belgium, November 2017 00:00 Tools
Part IV 00:00 Tools
Antinoma 00:00 Tools
Epater Les Bourgeois 1 00:00 Tools
Manifesto 00:00 Tools
Generative X (II) 00:00 Tools
Changez Les Blockeurs (extract) 00:00 Tools
Club Puschkin 00:00 Tools
NK Berlin 00:00 Tools
Part III 00:00 Tools
Live At Sonic City 00:00 Tools
01 00:00 Tools
Pulp Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
Untitled 1 00:00 Tools
Falten Part 1 00:00 Tools
Le Couperet—1 00:00 Tools
Reductio Ad Absurdum: Part One 00:00 Tools
Simphonie In X Major First Movement 00:00 Tools
Organum 00:00 Tools
Epater Les Bourgeois 2 00:00 Tools
01 - new blockaders - changez les blockeurs, part 1 00:00 Tools
Track 2 00:00 Tools
Track 1 00:00 Tools
Auschwitz Abattoir 00:00 Tools
Side I 00:00 Tools
Falten Part 2 00:00 Tools
Live At The Termite Club (06/06/03) 00:00 Tools
NuLl BeI OhR <2002> 00:00 Tools
The Voloptulist 00:00 Tools
Track 3 00:00 Tools
Untitled 2 00:00 Tools
Manifesto 1 00:00 Tools
TNB 00:00 Tools
History Of Nothing II 00:00 Tools
Side J 00:00 Tools
First Live Performance (Part 2) 00:00 Tools
First Live Performance (Part 1) 00:00 Tools
le couperet1 00:00 Tools
simphonie in x major 00:00 Tools
Simphonie In X Major Second Movement 00:00 Tools
Simphonie in Ø Minor 00:00 Tools
Epater Les Bourgeois A 00:00 Tools
02 - new blockaders - changez les blockeurs, part 2 00:00 Tools
Epater Les Bourgeois B 00:00 Tools
840 Seconds Over 00:00 Tools
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The New Blockaders may sound like a hip Indie Rock band, and they may want you to believe such a thing to lure unsuspecting listeners. As merchants of 'anti-music,' they embrace Luigi Russolo's The Art of Noises manifesto (1913) and although Russolo is widely credited as being the first major noise theorist, contemporary Noise artists like TNB were the first to progress from the use of noise as assault on tonality to the development of a rich, complex language capable of subtleties of shade and nuance without sacrificing any of its feral power or ability to unlock repressed personae in the listener. Their manifesto (1982) proclaims, 'Blockade is resistance. It is our duty to blockade and induce others to blockade: Anti-music, anti-art, anti-books, anti-films, anti-communications. We will make anti-statements about anything and everything. We will make a point of being pointless…’ Everything about TNB entails refusal. The title of their collection Gesamtnichtswerk is important here. It reminds us of Wagner’s dream of the ‘total art work’ – the Gesamtkunstwerk, but the art is replaced by nothing. Lazier souls than I would place TNB within the pantheon-lineage of UK Industrial, although I see them as a free-standing unit with more in common with the Futurists and (maybe) Einsturzende Neubauten (without the ‘songs’): Electrical tools, metal, ear-shredding static noise - the very definition of nihilism through sound. Superficial similarities exist to forbearers like AMM’s free form music aesthetic, Throbbing Gristle’s Second Annual Report and Lou Reed’s one-off decadent, noise-loop experimentation Metal Machine Music. TNB differ in that they have never burdened themselves with writing excessive, sleazy Rock Pop put on, prone to current Pop culture sampling obsessions or attempts at confining unruly, nihilistic sounds. They create a true musical sound cluster of destruction to such an extent that their so-called ‘anti-music’ transcends nihilism into positivism/optimism suggesting new music. TNB always suggested more than a band or musical project. They are bent almost as much on philosophy and literary ambitions, issuing manifestos and texts and referencing the likes of Debussy and Nietzsche. TNB never set out to be part of a self-glorifying youth movement where pompous, romanticized bullshit dies hard in an endless, capitalistic magic show. Instead, they depict the emotional tonalities of an ambivalent, ambiguous new century with no form and direction. Their musical legacy offers respite from the fraudulent herd of co-opted streamlined sounds, which masquerade as experimental. They served as a major influence on legendary Noise pioneers as Merzbow and their influence on the current crop of popular crossover Noise artists such as Prurient and Wolf Eyes is immeasurable. Collaborations in recent years with artists such as Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore have brought their anti-sound to a younger and diverse audience. The metal-bashing of K2, the awkwardness of Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, the density of Macronympha and the abrasiveness of Merzbow all owe something to the anti-music of TNB. They, more than any other, define the essence of true Noise music both in art and in act. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.