calls from people wanting to know where I find all this crazy shit. Well, I've gotten about 3 calls regarding that...but...one of the main sources for Obscuro!'s musical selection is a thing called the Nurse With Wound list. Back in the late 70's/early 80's, some dudes decided they wanted to sample a bunch of psychedelic German records and make weird sounds/be creepy. They called themselves Nurse With Wound, and went on to influence everyone from Negativland to Skinny Puppy to Sonic Youth. 
Personally, I'm not a big fan of their music...but I like their list! Upon releasing their first album, "Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table," they included with the LP a list of obscure 'outsider' musicians who had either influenced them or who they had sampled. Nothing else; just the performers' names.Now, with the power of the internet, it's relatively easy to dig up a lot of the albums by these groups, and dig I do indeed. Here's the entire list, for reference:
- Agitation Free
- Pekka Airaksinen (Sperm)
- Airway (Los Angeles Free Music Society)
- Albrecht D
- Alcatraz
- Älgarnas Trädgård
- ALL-7-70 (Alan Sondheim)
- Alternative TV
- Alvaro Peña-Rojas (The 101ers)
- Ame Son
- AMM
- Amon Düül
- Amon Düül II
- Anal Magic and Reverend Dwight Frizzel
- Anima/Anima Sound (Paul and Limpe Fuchs)
- Annexus Quam
- Aqsak Maboul
- Arbete och Fritid
- Arcane V
- Archaïa
- Archimedes Badkar
- Area
- Gilbert Artman (Urban Sax, Lard Free, Operation Rhino)
- Art Bears
- Art Zoyd
- Arzachel
- Robert Ashley
- Ash Ra Tempel
- Association P.C. (Pierre Courbois)
- Il Balletto di Bronzo
- Banten
- Franco Battiato
- Han Bennink
- Steve Beresford
- Jacques Berrocal
- Philippe Besombes
- Biglietto per l'Inferno
- Birgé Gorgé Shiroc (Jean-Jacques Birgé, Un Drame Musical Instantane)
- Blue Sun
- Raymond Boni
- Don Bradshaw Leather
- Brainstorm
- Brainticket
- Brast Burn
- Brave New World
- Anton Bruhin
- Brühwarm Theatre
- Cabaret Voltaire
- John Cage
- Can
- Capsicum Red
- Captain Beefheart
- Chamberpot
- Checkpoint Charlie
- Theatre du Chene Noir
- Chillum
- Henri Chopin
- Chrome
- Cohelmec Ensemble
- Jean Cohen-Solal
- Collegium Musicum
- Roberto Colombo
- Come (later Whitehouse)
- Companyia Elèctrica Dharma
- Comus
- Cornucopia
- Crass
- Creative Rock
- Cromagnon
- David Cunningham
- Cupol (a Wire side project)
- Dadazuzu (only ever made 1 track for a compilation release)
- Wolfgang Dauner
- Debris'
- Decayes
- Dedalus
- The Deep Freeze Mice
- Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft
- Dharma Quintet
- Dies Irae
- Dome (Another Wire side project)
- Doo-Dooettes (Los Angeles Free Music Society)
- Philippe Doray
- Roger Doyle (Operating Theatre)
- Jean Dubuffet
- Dzyan
- Eiliff
- Emtidi
- Eroc (Grobschnitt)
- Etron Fou Leloublan
- Exmagma
- Family Fodder
- Patrizio Fariselli (Area)
- Faust
- Luc Ferrari
- Fille Qui Mousse
- Floh de Cologne
- Flying Lizards
- Food Brain
- Förklädd Gud
- Walter Franco
- Free Agents (Pete Shelley)
- Friendsound
- Fred Frith
- Gash
- Ron Geesin
- Gila
- Jef Gilson
- Glaxo Babies
- Gomorrha
- Gong
- Good Missionaries (Alternative TV)
- Le Grand Magic Circus
- John Greaves and Peter Blegvad (Henry Cow/Slapp Happy)
- Fernando Grillo
- Ragnar Grippe
- Grobschnitt
- Group 1850
- Jean Guérin
- Friedrich Gulda
- Guru Guru
- Hairy Chapter
- Hampton Grease Band
- Henry Cow
- Pierre Henry
- Heratius
- Hero
- Juan Hidalgo
- Hugh Hopper
- Horde Catalytque Pour La Fin
- Horrific Child
- Ibliss
- L'Infonie
- International Harvester
- Iskra
- Island
- Martin Davorin-Jagodic
- Jan Dukes de Grey
- King Crimson
- Basil Kirchin
- Osamu Kitajima
- Kluster
- Frank Köllges
- Komintern (Red Noise)
- Kraftwerk
- Krokodil
- Steve Lacy
- Lard Free (Urban Sax)
- Le Forte Four (Los Angeles Free Music Society)
- Lemon Kittens
- Lily (band)
- Limbus 3/Limbus 4
- Bernard Lubat
- Alvin Lucier
- Magical Power Mako
- Magma
- Colette Magny
- Mahjun
- Mahogany Brain
- Radu Malfatti and Stephan Wittwer
- Mama Dada 1919
- Michael Mantler
- Albert Marcoeur
- Mars
- Maschine NO 9 (Krautrock supergroup)
- Philippe Mate and Daniel Vallancien
- Costin Miereanu
- Min Bul
- Mnemonists (Biota)
- Modry Efekt
- Moolah
- Anthony Moore
- Mothers of Invention
- Moving Gelatine Plates
- Fritz Müller
- Thierry Müller (Ilitch)
- Musica Elettronica Viva
- Music Improvisation Company
- Mythos
- Napoli Centrale
- Negativland
- Neu!
- New Phonic Art
- Nico
- Night Sun
- Nihilist Spasm Band
- Nine Days Wonder (band)
- Nosferatu
- Nu Creative Methods
- Oktober
- Yoko Ono
- Operation Rhino
- Opus Avantra
- Orchid Spangiafora
- Out of Focus
- Ovary Lodge (Keith Tippett)
- Tony Oxley
- Evan Parker and Paul Lytton
- Pataphonie
- Jean-François Pauvros and Gaby Bizien
- Pere Ubu
- Pierrot Lunaire
- Der Plan
- Plastic Ono Band
- Plastic People of the Universe
- Poison Girls
- Pôle (Philippe Besombes and Jean Louis Rizet)
- Pop Group
- Michel Portal
- Bomis Prendin
- Public Image Ltd
- Red Krayola
- Red Noise (French band)
- Reform Art Unit
- Steve Reich
- Achim Reichel
- The Residents
- Catherine Ribeiro and Alpes
- Boyd Rice (NON)
- Terry Riley
- Claudio Rocchi
- Rocky's Filj
- Ron 'Pate's Debonairs
- Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, & Oswald Wiener
- Ray Russell (musician)
- Terje Rypdal
- Martin Saint Pierre
- Samla Mammas Manna
- Gunter Schickert
- Second Hand
- Secret Oyster
- Seeselberg
- Semool
- Sonny Sharrock
- Silberbart
- Siloah
- Soft Machine
- Smegma (Los Angeles Free Music Society)
- Sally Smmitt (Sally Timms/Mekons)
- Alan Sondheim
- Snatch (Judy Nylon)
- Sperm (Pekka Airaksinen)
- Sphinx Tush (Only made two tracks)
- Stooges
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Demetrio Stratos (Area)
- Supersister
- Taj Mahal Travellers
- Tamia
- Tangerine Dream
- Ghédalia Tazartès
- Technical Space Composers Crew
- Mama Béa Tekielski
- Third Ear Band
- Thirsty Moon
- This Heat
- Jacques Thollot
- Thrice Mice
- Throbbing Gristle
- Paolo Tofani (Area)
- Tokyo Kid Brothers
- Tolerance
- Tomorrow's Gift
- Ton Steine Scherben
- TransMuseq
- Uli Trepte (Guru Guru)
- Twenty Sixty Six and Then
- Univers Zero
- Christian Vander (musician) (Magma (band))
- Velvet Underground
- Vertø
- Patrick Vian
- L. Voag (The Homosexuals)
- Michel Waisvisz
- Igor Wakhevitch
- Lawrence Weiner
- Trevor Wishart
- James White and the Contortions
- Whitehouse
- Wired
- Woorden
- Robert Wyatt
- Xhol Caravan/Xhol
- Iannis Xenakis
- Ya Ho Wha 13
- La Monte Young
- Frank Zappa
- Zweistein
- ZNR
2 comments:
Hi,
Mr. Steven Stapleton - "inventor" of NWW - was never allowed to put my name on his fucking "list" - so aren't you, whoever you are.
Please remove my name immediately from this blog. If you don't do so I announce another DMCA complaint to make Google erase your whole blog.
Best regards
Franz de Byl, musician & music teacher, Berlin
http://franzdebyl--nww-and-discogs.blogspot.com
Haha, done and done whoever you are. I copied that list from Wikipedia, so you'd better get on their shit too. Wouldn't want anybody hearing your music or anything...
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