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New York, United States (1997 – present)
Prurient is noise musician Dominick Fernow. He has released material on numerous independent record labels, such as American Tapes, Hanson Records, RRRecords, Load Records, Troubleman Unlimited, Chrondritic Sound, and his own label Hospital Productions. Active since 1997, Prurient has become one of the most well-known and influential names in the noise field, having been covered in major outlets such as Pitchfork Media and The Village Voice.
Fernow works primarily with a microphone and amplifier, and sometimes drums. On some releases he has been joined by Ben Barnett, Richard Dunn (FFH), John Wiese, Jeff Plummer (Immaculate:Grotesque, Shallow Waters), Kris Lapke (Alberich, MCMS), Sickness, Wolf Eyes, Macronympha, Philip Best (Whitehouse, Consumer Electronics), Sutcliffe Jugend, The Hototogisu, Carlos Giffoni, Wilt, Grunt, Nicole 12, and Emily Salvatierra. Fernow grew up in Wisconsin but now lives in New York and runs the Hospital Productions record label and retail record store. Fernow was also the guitarist of bands Football Rabbit, Vegas Martyrs, Taylor Bow, and Ash Pool (in which he also sings). More recently, Fernow has started marketing to the black metal audience with his label and creative works. He also is the primary live synthesizer player for Cold Cave.
Fernow works primarily with a microphone and amplifier, and sometimes drums. On some releases he has been joined by Ben Barnett, Richard Dunn (FFH), John Wiese, Jeff Plummer (Immaculate:Grotesque, Shallow Waters), Kris Lapke (Alberich, MCMS), Sickness, Wolf Eyes, Macronympha, Philip Best (Whitehouse, Consumer Electronics), Sutcliffe Jugend, The Hototogisu, Carlos Giffoni, Wilt, Grunt, Nicole 12, and Emily Salvatierra. Fernow grew up in Wisconsin but now lives in New York and runs the Hospital Productions record label and retail record store. Fernow was also the guitarist of bands Football Rabbit, Vegas Martyrs, Taylor Bow, and Ash Pool (in which he also sings). More recently, Fernow has started marketing to the black metal audience with his label and creative works. He also is the primary live synthesizer player for Cold Cave.
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Colonialist Nature And Misanthropy
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Bermuda Drain
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Time's Arrow
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persianbrown wrote:
thanks :)
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divine_wind wrote:
haha, glad you did, i was just about to mention that you should spread it around to any who might be interested
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endlesslonging wrote:
I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't mirror this: http://www.mediafire.com/?h1h2us9tz0l65pk
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divine_wind wrote:
i actually have Reflective Tile Inside The Tunnel; like most things, it's been in my "to-rip" pile for a long time now :(
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endlesslonging wrote:
With regards to the availability debate, I live in the UK, so it's incredibly difficult to get these ultra-limited releases. Often they'll be released in the middle of the night and be entirely sold-out by the time I get to my computer. I'm desperate for rips of 'Wrapped In The Flame of Illusion...', 'Colonialist Nature And Misanthropy' and 'Reflective Tile Inside the Tunnel', although I doubt the latter will ever see the light of day.
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PiecesOfQuiet wrote:
Yeah I saw the digital release thing and am definitely appreciative. I remember Coil did all their stuff digitally but then charged 20 bucks (after pound to dollar conversion) for it, which was ridiculous. Sometimes I wish I could just swoop in with cash, start a reissue label, contact the many noise labels with high demand releases that have been out of print for years and just re-issue them on CDs to all the people who haven't been listening to noise forever and a day. Eventually people would decide only sell outs would allow themselves to be re-issued though, and my label would collapse.
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Pillicide wrote:
Info on this overpriced c60?
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divine_wind wrote:
at the very least he's putting out digital releases of some of the super old/rare stuff for people that missed it (Colonialist Nature & Misanthropy just dropped on Boomkat)
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PiecesOfQuiet wrote:
On one hand Hospital puts out some of the best, most professionally done releases in the field. On the other hand they gouge and do tiny limited runs of releases guaranteeing even higher gouging by people who buy the releases and immediately unload them on discogs. I wish labels did more re-issues.
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divine_wind wrote:
yea i know they're always high, i bought both of the mentioned ones :D $195 is just a new, kind of ridiculous record though. i remember when he was apologizing for The Golden Chamber costing $20.
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PiecesOfQuiet wrote:
No I meant his special edition are always high, I'm not referring to his soon to be new release, which I didn't even know existed.
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divine_wind wrote:
oh no, talkin about a different one.
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PiecesOfQuiet wrote:
annihilationist special edition and eyes of winter watching special edition were both 90 plus I think.
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divine_wind wrote:
wait which one are you talking about
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PiecesOfQuiet wrote:
haha I didn't know info on that had been released! Yeah it was 100 bucks last time, I just bought the regular edition. How many different porno collages can you have?
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divine_wind wrote:
hah. no, that's how much the special edition box of the upcoming Prurient 2xC60 is.
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nabraxas wrote:
Noise $ Ltd.
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PiecesOfQuiet wrote:
Is Richard Ramirez trying to sell you something?
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divine_wind wrote:
$195? good grief
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PiecesOfQuiet wrote:
Try his noise meets simple musical element era of And Still Wanting, Cocaine Death, and Pleasure Ground. They're all (comparatively) accessible and probably what he'll be most known for 20 years from now.
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