SECTION I: EXTREME SCENES
I.1 LOUD ............................................................................................15
I.1.1 The Loudness War.............................................................15
I.1.2 Noise Music.......................................................................18
I.1.3 Harsh Noise Wall..............................................................22
I.2 QUIET ............................................................................................33
I.2.1 Drone..................................................................................34
I.2.2 New Age Music.................................................................34
I.2.3 Ambient..............................................................................37
I.2.4 Homemade Drone............................................................39
I.2.5 Lowercase..........................................................................40
I.2.6 Onkyô................................................................................44
I.3 VULGAR..........................................................................................47
I.3.1 Blood and Guts.................................................................47
I.3.2 Pornogrind.........................................................................54
I.4 FAST ............................................................................................61
I.4.1 Speedcore..........................................................................62
I.4.2 Splittercore........................................................................69
I.4.3 Extratone...........................................................................71
I.4.4 Flashcore............................................................................73
I.5 FOUND...........................................................................................77
SECTION II: EXTREME DURATIONS
II.1 LONG ............................................................................................97
II.2 SHORT ...........................................................................................111
SECTION III: EXTREME RECORDS
III.1 LATHE-CUT....................................................................................127
III.2 LARGE .......................................................................................... 131
III.3 SMALL ..........................................................................................135
III.4 SHAPES.........................................................................................141
III.4.1 Places...............................................................................142
III.4.2 Sawblades.......................................................................143
III.4.3 Beyond.............................................................................146
III.5 PICTURES......................................................................................149
III.5.1 Picture Disc Prehistory...................................................149
III.5.2 Vogue Records................................................................150
III.5.3 Red Raven Records’ Zoetrope Discs............................. 151
III.5.4 Picture Discs in the Rock Era..........................................152
III.6 ADULTERATED .............................................................................159
III.7 NON-VINYL .................................................................................165
III.7.1 Records That Melt...........................................................165
III.7.2 Project Dark.....................................................................168
III.7.3 Other Unusual Materials................................................ 171
SECTION IV: TECHNOLOGICAL QUIRKS
IV.1 CHIPTUNE ....................................................................................177
IV.2 LOBIT ..........................................................................................183
IV.3 FLOPPIES ..................................................................................... 191
IV.3.1 Early Floppy History....................................................... 191
IV.3.2 Floppies as Subculture....................................................193
IV.4 MICROCASSETTES .......................................................................199
IV.4.1 Microcassettor.................................................................199
IV.4.2 One-Touch Recordings....................................................200
IV.4.3 dirgefunk’s microcassettes............................................201
IV.4.4 Dictaphonia......................................................................202
IV.4.5 Dictafawn.........................................................................203
IV.4.6 Lavender Sweep.............................................................204
IV.5 8-TRACKS .....................................................................................207
IV.5.1 Malcolm Tent’s 8-Track Obsession................................208
IV.5.2 8-Tracks in the Nineties.................................................. 210
IV.5.3 The 21st Century............................................................. 210
IV.6 CYLINDERS................................................................................... 215
IV.7 NON-TRADITIONAL FORMATS................................................... 219
IV.7.1 USB & SD.......................................................................... 219
IV.7.2 Self-Reliant Formats........................................................220
SECTION V: EXTREME PACKAGING
V.1 ELABORATE..................................................................................227
V.1.1 History of Elaborate Packaging....................................228
V.1.2 American Tapes...............................................................229
V.1.3 MSBR Records.................................................................233
V.1.4 Toxic Industries / Very Toxic.........................................235
V.1.5 Others...............................................................................239
V.2 DISGUSTING ...............................................................................243
V.2.1 Disgusting Accoutrements .............................................247
V.2.2 Packs................................................................................247
V.2.3 Body Fluids......................................................................248
V.2.4 Perishables......................................................................252
V.2.5 A Final Anecdote.............................................................255
SECTION VI: RECORDINGS?
VI.1 SILENT ..........................................................................................261
VI.1.1 Silent Pioneers.................................................................261
VI.1.2 Silent Recordings.............................................................263
VI.2 DAMAGED ...................................................................................273
VI.3 UNPLAYABLE ...............................................................................281
VI.3.1 Anti-Records & Underground Music.............................283
VI.3.2 RRRecords’ Anti-Records................................................284
VI.3.3 The Haters........................................................................286
VI.3.4 Major Ego Produkt Objekts & Aktions.........................289
VI.3.5 One-Off Anti-Records in the Nineties............................292
VI.3.6 Anti-Recordings in Other Formats.................................295
VI.3.7 Contemporary Anti-Recordings: NONE Records,
Michael Ridge, and Auris Apothecary.........................298
VI.3.9 Anti-Recordings: Tying It All Together..........................304
SECTION VII: THE DIGITAL AGE
VII.1 WAVES.......................................................................................... 313
VII.1.1 Mallsoft............................................................................ 313
VII.1.2 Broken Transmission.......................................................321
VII.1.3 Late Night Lo-Fi...............................................................324
VII.2 RINGTONES.................................................................................327
VII.3 BLACK MIDI ................................................................................331
VII.4 OUTSIDERS...................................................................................333
VII.4.1 R.A.E.D.............................................................................333
VII.4.2 Viper.................................................................................335
VII.4.3 Farrah Abraham.............................................................336
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