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offline giarcthebastard from Bastardville (Heard and McDonald Islands) on 2004-04-04 14:11 [#01132063]
Points: 14 Status: Regular



What the hell are they about? Aphex Twin and Steve Albini
have referred to them as "influential". Fascinating. They
are fond of Peter Sutcliffe because "he got prostitutes off
the streets" and say that their idea of beauty is "the
victim". They are a collective of pro-paedophilia
misogynists who despise the human race, and your hero thinks
they're influential. Intelligent Dance Music.


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2004-04-04 14:12 [#01132065]
Points: 27325 Status: Lurker



Birdseed was a great album. You really have to be in the
mood for it


 

offline happy cycling from berlin on 2004-04-04 14:12 [#01132068]
Points: 2786 Status: Regular



any links? this sounds interesting


 

offline optimus prime on 2004-04-04 14:13 [#01132070]
Points: 6447 Status: Lurker | Followup to happy cycling: #01132068



noise.


 

offline REFLEX from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2004-04-04 14:15 [#01132072]
Points: 8864 Status: Regular



ughhh whitehouse is annoying shit.


 

offline optimus prime on 2004-04-04 14:16 [#01132075]
Points: 6447 Status: Lurker



kill your ears for no reason


 

offline giarcthebastard from Bastardville (Heard and McDonald Islands) on 2004-04-04 14:34 [#01132089]
Points: 14 Status: Regular



Let's all pretend that Richard D James doesn't think a
pro-paedophilia, misogynistic bunch of fuckwits are
influential. I now declare this message board redundant. And
Core is a poor excuse for a female.


 

offline optimus prime on 2004-04-04 14:51 [#01132099]
Points: 6447 Status: Lurker | Followup to giarcthebastard: #01132089



don't leave i love you.


 

offline plaidzebra from so long, xlt on 2004-04-04 15:06 [#01132106]
Points: 5678 Status: Lurker



obviously rdj has sadistic tendencies, based on his
smojphace sets of deliberate noise. ordinarily i prefer to
not dwell on the personalities of artists, i'd rather focus
on the music. though with whitehouse, that's not an issue
because they really are such shit.

if i was going to listen to something extremely violent, i'd
much rather hear merzbow. everything i've heard from
whitehouse ranged from mediocre to embarrassingly bad.
while merzbow also explores his interests in controlled
violence, at least it's aesthetically interesting.
whitehouse, to me, represents an ugly, uninteresting,
self-indulgent dead end.

while it's no secret that whitehouse is motivated by
sadistic desire, their compatriot peter sotos does publicly
celebrate child rape and murder. i've seen his artwork,
consisting of collages of "missing child" photos with men
ejaculating onto the children's faces. i've read interviews
with him in which he describes his profound pleasure in
reading about the reactions of parents whose children have
been raped and murdered. he has been affiliated with child
pornographers.

in their album artwork whitehouse and peter sotos are not
"satirizing" or "parodying" any childhood nostalgia trends
in music; they are celebrating and promoting violence
against children. btw, the same artist who has done album
covers for whitehouse that celebrate violence against
children is the same artist who did the cover for venetian
snares' "find candace."

nevertheless, i don't care what rdj thinks or likes, i'm
interested in the music, assuming it doesn't celebrate
violence or child exploitation.

for those who are interested in my opinion... : D


 

offline giarcthebastard from Bastardville (Heard and McDonald Islands) on 2004-04-04 15:15 [#01132115]
Points: 14 Status: Regular | Followup to plaidzebra: #01132106



So what does this tell us about Richard D James, Russell
Haswell, Steve Albini and everybody else who finds them
"influential"? The whole notion of "intelligent dance music"
has been ripped apart in this single thread. RICHARD D
JAMES, AKA THE APHEX TWIN, THINKS THAT A COLLECTIVE OF
PRO-PAEDOPHILIA, MISOGYNISTIC RETARDS ARE "INFLUENTIAL".


 

offline uzim on 2004-04-04 15:32 [#01132126]
Points: 17716 Status: Lurker



oh dear... i didn't know that...

i had only heard a little bit of them, and it didn't catch
my attention that much anyway, but now that i heard that i'm
definitely not trying to get into them!! °_°


 

offline uzim on 2004-04-04 15:33 [#01132127]
Points: 17716 Status: Lurker



giarcthebastard > maybe he thinks their music is
influential, that's all...


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-04-04 15:36 [#01132131]
Points: 35867 Status: Lurker | Followup to uzim: #01132127 | Show recordbag



well. I don't, and that's final!

- Richard D. James


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-04-04 15:37 [#01132132]
Points: 5437 Status: Regular



music has no goddamn linguistic reference points...
furthermore, having a rudimentary understanding of
Whitehouse, which, clearly, you do not... i contend with
your assertions of them being paedophilic misogynists...
this is merely the misinterpretation of their art by
thickheaded middleclass mommies who had the unfortunate
experience of walking in on their adventurous son while he
was listening to them... when a person takes a photograph of
a dead person does that mean they like killing people?


 

offline optimus prime on 2004-04-04 15:38 [#01132133]
Points: 6447 Status: Lurker | Followup to giarcthebastard: #01132115



s'only about the music.


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-04-04 15:39 [#01132134]
Points: 5437 Status: Regular



it's all facetiousness in the name of politics taken to the
extreme


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-04-04 15:39 [#01132135]
Points: 5437 Status: Regular | Followup to optimus prime: #01132133



yes... most importantly... otherwise lets not be influenced
by anyone because every single last human is an ugly
motherfucker


 

offline hobbes from age on 2004-04-04 15:41 [#01132138]
Points: 8168 Status: Lurker



where did you get the idea they are pro paedophelia ? any
links?
you should le us see the info you have before we can all
comment.


 

offline giarcthebastard from Bastardville (Heard and McDonald Islands) on 2004-04-04 15:43 [#01132141]
Points: 14 Status: Regular | Followup to DeadEight: #01132134



You pompous idiot. I am not middle-class, unlike you. So you
think that raping and murdering children is art? The fact
that you are defending them proves that you are totally
incapable of emotion.


 

offline mortsto-x from Trondheim/Bodø (Norway) on 2004-04-04 15:45 [#01132142]
Points: 8062 Status: Lurker | Followup to giarcthebastard: #01132141



What are you talking about?


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2004-04-04 15:46 [#01132144]
Points: 14042 Status: Lurker



yeah, fuck washington dc


 

offline hobbes from age on 2004-04-04 15:46 [#01132145]
Points: 8168 Status: Lurker



glarcthebastard,they murdered and raped children? and like
you know, but hardly anyone else right? or are they immune
to the law? just curious....


 

offline hobbes from age on 2004-04-04 15:48 [#01132146]
Points: 8168 Status: Lurker



not that i think the law does much good.....but surely they
know something? mi5 or some other sh!t.


 

offline X-tomatic from ze war room on 2004-04-04 15:49 [#01132147]
Points: 2901 Status: Lurker | Followup to giarcthebastard: #01132063



Please fuck off.

thank you.

bye bye now.

don't come back.


 

offline tango from Doncaster (United Kingdom) on 2004-04-04 15:49 [#01132148]
Points: 1620 Status: Lurker



on a sunday night the trolls came out to play.......


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-04-04 15:51 [#01132153]
Points: 5437 Status: Regular



when in music does a child get raped?
and you know what... why the fuck would i bother to defend
something that clearly neither of us has a firm concept
of... (namely whitehouse)... when all i have to do is draw a
line from absolutely every individual to something
fascistic? the majority of whitehouse is noise... if i like
noise, does this mean that i agree with the opinions of
absolutely every person who ever made it... the atom bomb
was noisy, so i must love the way killed thousands upon
thousands of japanese... makes perfect sense to me... music
is inherently abstract and untranslatable... and since
everyone gets something different from it... how on earth
can you make such broad sweeping extrapolations on
everyone's opinions on the world from their liking a piece
of music? if aphex twin loves fascism so much... why doesn't
he make his symbol a contorted version of a swastika? why
does he associate with fascists and heil everyone he sees?
wouldn't that be a better indication of what aphex's
opinions are on things?


 

offline hobbes from age on 2004-04-04 15:52 [#01132154]
Points: 8168 Status: Lurker



so no info then......... ? come on glarc. publicity stunt
over.


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-04-04 15:54 [#01132156]
Points: 5437 Status: Regular



this is how stupid rumours of no consequence get started...
whitehouse has made waves because of their art... so it
would be virtually impossible for them to have raped a child
and gotten away with it...


 

offline giarcthebastard from Bastardville (Heard and McDonald Islands) on 2004-04-04 15:55 [#01132157]
Points: 14 Status: Regular | Followup to hobbes: #01132154



Can't you do anything for yourself?


 

offline mortsto-x from Trondheim/Bodø (Norway) on 2004-04-04 15:58 [#01132159]
Points: 8062 Status: Lurker



Do they use the same cover-artist as VSnares?


 

offline horsefactory from 💠 (United Kingdom) on 2004-04-04 15:58 [#01132160]
Points: 14867 Status: Regular



There's a magical place
We're on our way there
Toys of a million all under one roof
It's called Toys R Us


 

offline optimus prime on 2004-04-04 15:59 [#01132161]
Points: 6447 Status: Lurker | Followup to mortsto-x: #01132159



yes. who apparently is a total freak.


 

offline giarcthebastard from Bastardville (Heard and McDonald Islands) on 2004-04-04 15:59 [#01132162]
Points: 14 Status: Regular | Followup to DeadEight: #01132156



They are completely fixated by control and abuse. You are
defending them. Therefore you believe that controlling and
abusing people is acceptable.


 

offline hobbes from age on 2004-04-04 16:01 [#01132163]
Points: 8168 Status: Lurker



well yes i can glarcthebastard....but since you came here
to talk about this it would have been better if you came
with at least one link. just to let us know what got you to
think this way about whitehouse. was it some guys post on
another mb that made you think like that? the music?
interviews?


 

offline hobbes from age on 2004-04-04 16:02 [#01132165]
Points: 8168 Status: Lurker



that was a reply to glarc #01132157]



 

offline horsefactory from 💠 (United Kingdom) on 2004-04-04 16:04 [#01132167]
Points: 14867 Status: Regular



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offline mortsto-x from Trondheim/Bodø (Norway) on 2004-04-04 16:04 [#01132168]
Points: 8062 Status: Lurker | Followup to giarcthebastard: #01132162



Do you have any articles about this group?


 

offline AlbertoBalsalm from Reykjavík (Iceland) on 2004-04-04 20:01 [#01132419]
Points: 9459 Status: Lurker



fuck off


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2004-04-05 00:01 [#01132513]
Points: 14294 Status: Lurker | Followup to mortsto-x: #01132168



I don't really know what they are all about, but a brief
foray into their discography shows this album,
Dedicated to Peter Kurten

and so here is an article about this 'Peter
Kurten'.

Okay, so what. Who gives a shit. Someone can create the
worst 'record' in the world (say an 80 minute cd of what
sounds like the violent rape, torture and murder of a
4 year old girl). Yeah, okay, as long as it is all fake and
no little kid was involved in making that, who cares?

I think it's just about de-sensitization more than anything.


 

offline mortsto-x from Trondheim/Bodø (Norway) on 2004-04-05 04:02 [#01132652]
Points: 8062 Status: Lurker



Bah. They just want to shock. And somebody IS obviously
shocked. Childish


 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2004-04-05 04:17 [#01132657]
Points: 5696 Status: Lurker



i saw them live last year here in Dublin and they were
really fucking excellent. Musically it was all about really
really throbbing power electronics. It was about taking you
to an altered state of mind through extreme lyrics and a
totally energetic showmanship and stage-presence. The lyrics
were confrontational and stuff but you just knew it was in
no way gratuitous and was from the heart. It was utterly in
the style of Chirs Morris's Paediophile program - cut to the
core of a society in social decay on one hand as relflected
in the media.

I first heard of them during RDJ's gabba/noise set at Sonar
2001 and it blew me away - pure angry energy that left you
really in a very mellow trance because of its harshness -
very clever i thought. Then Russel Hassel mixed em into his
laptop noise set at ATP03 and again it worked to take you
somewhere strange and stimultaing and angry at wars and
famines and the worlds horribleness.

Its mood music - anti-ambient i suppose.



 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2004-04-05 04:20 [#01132660]
Points: 5696 Status: Lurker



i saw them live last year here in Dublin and they were
really fucking excellent. Musically it was all about really
really throbbing power electronics. It was about taking you
to an altered state of mind through extreme lyrics and a
totally energetic showmanship and stage-presence. The lyrics
were confrontational and stuff but you just knew it was in
no way gratuitous and was from the heart. It was utterly in
the style of Chirs Morris's Paediophile program - cut to the
core of a society in social decay on one hand as relflected
in the media.

I first heard of them during RDJ's gabba/noise set at Sonar
2001 and it blew me away - pure angry energy that left you
really in a very mellow trance because of its harshness -
very clever i thought. Then Russel Hassel mixed em into his
laptop noise set at ATP03 and again it worked to take you
somewhere strange and stimultaing and angry at wars and
famines and the worlds horribleness.

Its mood music - anti-ambient i suppose.



 

offline plaidzebra from so long, xlt on 2004-04-05 13:59 [#01133388]
Points: 5678 Status: Lurker



I've seen images produced by Peter Sotos, see my earlier
post. Whitehouse applies a sadistic philosophy that has
nothing to do with politics or social commentary. Here's
some info about Peter Sotos:

Peter Sotos (1960?-) is a Chicago, USA-born writer most
noted for his obsessive, disturbing ruminations on serial
murder and sex.
In 1986 Sotos was arrested and charged with obscenity and
possession of child pornography. He was at the time
producing a self-published newsletter or "fanzine" named
Pure, which numbered among its topics appreciations of
serial killers and child abuse. The child pornography
charged stemmed from the discovery of a copy of a magazine,
Incest #4, which turned up during a search of Sotos's
apartment. Charges of obscenity were dropped, but Sotos was
eventually found guilty of the possession charge, and was
given a suspended sentence and a fine.

Sotos has continued to write, numbering among his works
Tool, Parasite, Index, Tick, and Lazy. He has also written
an afterword for Ian Brady's book The Gates of Janus.

He was until 2003 a seminal member of the industrial noise
band Whitehouse.

The original Pure, along with Tool and Parasite have been
reprinted by Jim Goad as Total Abuse.



 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2004-04-05 14:15 [#01133412]
Points: 27325 Status: Lurker



wow I think some sort of on topic discussion about music
just occured on XLT!!!!!

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGhi2u!!


 

offline uzim on 2004-04-23 10:27 [#01157740]
Points: 17716 Status: Lurker



taken from the FAQ of the official page:

"viii. Does Whitehouse have any political stance or
viewpoint?
- Whitehouse have never had any agenda in this regard. No
crusades, no mission. William Bennett: "There are certain
people who, for needs of self-affirmation of their own
prejudices, demand that certain things be demonised in
contrast to their own image. You know you're fucking loving
it, you know who you are, just admit it."


[...]

"xiii. Are Whitehouse 'misogynist'?
- The lyrics of certain songs (in addition to some of the
writings of Peter Sotos) have led certain people to the view
that the group is misogynist. Judging by the high
percentages of females at recent Whitehouse live actions it
might seem odd to reach this assumption. William Bennett: "I
don't think I'm a misogynist at all, although I can
understand why people might question that. There are a set
of much more complex emotional functions involved with these
songs and I've never felt that simple hatred was one of
them."


now...

they say people like to "demonize" them but they can't say
they aren't playing with it, too...

and they must still have some issues with women and stuff.

i don't know what to think really = /

*searches for interviews*

i downloaded their collaboration with NWW, "The 150
Murderous Passions", haven't listened to it yet but i feel
somewhat guilty about it. even if it's just downloading.


 

offline Q4Z2X on 2004-04-23 11:06 [#01157799]
Points: 5264 Status: Lurker



well, then,
i'd like to hear them explain in some way what their music,
in general, is about..


 

offline plaidzebra from so long, xlt on 2004-04-23 11:29 [#01157823]
Points: 5678 Status: Lurker



i read an interview with william bennett years ago in which
he said (paraphrased) "i don't eschew making music because i
can't make music, but because i choose to not make music."
he described whitehouse as an attempt to inflict violence on
the listener. i don't think it matters if you are male or
female.


 

offline Q4Z2X on 2004-04-23 11:39 [#01157844]
Points: 5264 Status: Lurker



.. so in a way, it's antimusic..?


 

offline k9d from mpls (United States) on 2004-04-23 11:42 [#01157846]
Points: 79 Status: Lurker



i agree there is more interesting noise out there than
whitehouse (boyd rice for sure), but since rdj said they're
important and we've got to talk about them:

i'm always joking with my friends (xx + xy alike) about
women belonging in the kitchen, etc. it's funny because it's
so blatently wrong, and we can say it with a straight face.
in minneapolis there's a zine called "skins" that's all
sappy poetry about the rough life of a racist. obviously a
bluff, and funny.

whitehouse seem more of the same. if they were actual
pedo-popping fem-killers that's what they would be doing,
NOT making art about the topic to draw attention to
themselves and get caught. creating controversy around an
issue isn't a bad thing, and the fact that people get upset
over this shit makes it obvious it needs to be talked
about.

everyone that is offended: will shutting whitehouse up end
pedophelia? what will? if it can't ever be entirely removed
from society, what is the healthiest way for it to be a part
of the culture?

also, people who ignore the personalities behind the art
(music) they are consuming are just as lame and uncultured
as the idiots who pay no attention to anything but what the
radio plays for them.


 

offline plaidzebra from so long, xlt on 2004-04-23 11:58 [#01157879]
Points: 5678 Status: Lurker



for the record, i don't advocate shutting anyone up, only
being honest about the intentions of so-called artists (not
that i take issue with your contention necessarily that
whitehouse creates "art").

k9d, some of your points are unfortunately uninformed. read
the rest of the thread... whitehouse are not having a laugh
like you and your friends about sexual stereotypes.



 


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