Rubber City Noise
is (at least) three things...
1. RCN Electronics builds handmade electronic synthesizers, modules, effects, controllers, and other weirdo stuff.
2. RCN Recordings releases music on limited analog and free high-quality digital formats.
3. RCN Center for Audio & Visual Experimentation (RCNCAVE) is our collective arts space in Northeast Ohio.
NEWS:
2.22.12
∞Woah. Tons going on. First off, shows. To-night Dodecazurvan and Karl Vorndran are playing at Bela Dubby along w/ Lucio Menegon and the Drake/Henry/Scheible trio. Nearly exact lineup to the show we did at Now That's Class w/ these guys and it's gonna be rad!!! Details over here.
∞We've got a ton more shows lined up too. We're helping out Wizard Rapper Lil Iffy by supporting his show at Annabell's next monday. Before the show there's a lecture on Women of BBC Workshop at the same place. Should be fun.
∞That Friday, we've got a show at Annabell's w/ Jeffrey Young, Rob Phillips and TJ Borden, Dodecahedrons, and XXX Super Arcade. Then a bunch of rad stuff at the Cave. More info on all these shows over on the UPCOMING EVENTS PAGE.
∞And we gotta run, but real quick, looks like the FIRST BATCH OF 2012 is gonna be rocking here real soon. Three amazing tapes from Andrew Weathers / Ancient Ocean, Mike Shiflet / Joe Panzner, and Karl Vorndran. More info and previews soon.
1.24.12
∞Busy winter here. We're getting ready fr next Wednesday's show w/ Cleared, Mind Over Mirrors, Jeremy Bible, and Dreaded. Go do the Facebook thing over here. If you boycott Facebook, we salute you and here's the info: Wednesday, February 1, 8pm @ RCNCAVE (68 W. Exchange, Akron, Ohio). Check cave.rubbercitynoise.com fr more info on the Cave and how to get there.
∞Black Unicorn's Squid and Whale was reviewed in the issue 336 of The Wire. This tape has been sold out fr a while, but you can grab a digital copy fr free (or pay what you want if you want) over on the Rubber City Noise Bandcamp.
∞Our buddy Justin Snow, aka Anti-Gravity Bunny, posted the first review of Zurvan's Cymatic Sacrament saying it is "one of the best overlooked albums of last year. Only five goddamn dollars and only 50 made. This is way too good to miss." and in response we say, thanks dude, and yeah go grab a copy on Experimedia.
∞The Cane Swords and Griefhound splits from last year (the cassette and CDr are completely different albums) saw a little love too. The CDr got a haiku review on Anti-Gravity Bunny and the cassette was #14 on KZSU Stanford's Top Tapes of 2011.
∞Awesome stuff all around
1.3.12
∞Happy New Year, pplz. 2012 is here, we've begun preparations fr the coming global consciousness shift by preparing some amazingness fr everyone to listen to on the way out. Some great releases planned this year—the long-awaited Giant Claw/Black Unicorn concept album about a Martian expedition to long-fallen Earth in future space cassette film, a beautiful abstract Americana split between Andrew Weathers and Ancient Ocean, a split from Mike Shiflet and Joe Panzner (both of Scenic Railroads, doing solo sides), a full length from our Akron buddies No, Don't, and more TBA so stay tuned.
∞There's some new reviews of Jeremy Bible and Black Unicorn albums on our press page. We were pumped that the Journey of Enoch reissue that we just put out was reviewed in the January 2012 edition of The Wire (the annual rewind issue). Check out reviews over here.
∞We've got some great shows coming up. January 14 is the RCNCAVE's year anniversary and we're celebrating w/ a party at the Cave w/ all yr favorite RCN dewds, Cane Swords, Zurvan, Faangface, and No, Don't. The 28th is the Janbabyz Two birthday spectacular w/ Duunes, XXX Super Arcade, and Totally Awesome Black Unicorn. Info on upcoming shows over here.
Cane Swords - Le Synchroniseur Luminescent by Rubber City Noise
∞Cane Swords and Dodecahedrons featured on the Coreography Council 3 cd. This is a rad zine/compilation put together by Duunes' Brad Thorla. No online links to buy, but if yr in Akron pick up a copy at Square Records.
Ahh. Information overload. Seriously. Gonna wrap it up fr now. We'll be posting 2011 retro-spectives from the RCN dewds on our Tumblr over here. Finishing mixing and post production on new Black Unicorn and Cane Swords albums. Tons of projects popping off around here and lots of recording going on. Check back here fr updates. We love you.
12.5.11
∞Still lots going on. Wow. Yup. We had an amazing first two shows at the new RCNCAVE. The Cave Fest was mindblowing. We're still in the process of uploading multimedia (from Ingenuity too...) but you can check out some videos (including the awesome Zurvan video below) over here and pictures over here. Look fr a comp in the future from the Ingenuity and Cave Fest audio. Also big thanks to Blackfire, Hunted Creatures, and XXX Super Arcade fr a great second show.
Speaking of comps, we put together Cave Comp One fr Cave Fest, the first in a CDr series of RCNCAVE artists. This one features a custom and unique handpainted cover on the limited run. These turned out great and feature a bunch of previously unreleased and new tracks from Faangface, Cane Swords, Zurvan, Black Unicorn, XXX Super Arcade, Human, and Vatican (a new mystery project discovered in a semi-abandoned barn). Go preview and buy a copy at Experimedia.
We've got more rad shows coming up, including Mike Shiflet returning to the Cave w/ Joe Panzner, KBD Sonic Cooperative, Dodecahedrons, and performance art from Elaine Hullihen's Thomas Jefferson Committee. Details over here. Also in December, A Very Faangface Christmas, a live-action retro-style television special event by Josh Novak and featuring Zurvan, Contamination Diet, and more. Gonna be a rad month, and we'll be back in January w/ more.
Buy Zurvan's Cymatic Sacrament cassette while we still have copies.
11.2.11
∞Still lots going on. We just had an awesome Halloween benefit fr the new Cave and guess what... the RCNCAVE is back. We're celebrating the grand opening of the new space w/ CAVE FEST, an all day event. Going to be pretty great w/ a ton of amazing bands, food, records, art, and more.
∞The following Friday, Hunted Creatures (Pittsburgh, Dynamo Sound Collective), Blackfire (Cleveland, Wyatt Howland and Andrew Kirschner), and XXX Super Arcade are playing at the Cave.
10.01.11
Lots of stuff going on here, updates later. The new batch of tapes is out to-day and they're awesome. Also, super rad Wandering Cave t-shirts. Go check em out. Other big news is we're moving forward w/ the new Cave space. More info soon, but we'll need yr help. Fr now you can donate through PayPal (or credit card) over here. More updates soon, but here's a video fr the new Jeremy Bible tape to check out.
9.16.11
ALL WKEND LONG: THE WANDERING CAVE!!!
9.7.11
∞Just finished the promo video fr the new Zurvan tape. This is the deeeeeeepest drone tape that we've put out yet, and it's got a crazy ethereal and emotive quality to it. The video uses a portion of "Sonitus Vitualamen," the 25 minute Side A track. This cassette is gonna be off the hook, so check back and grab a copy when it comes out later in the month.
9.2.11
∞We've been super busy, tons going on. Gonna try to condense some of it here.
∞First off, the Cane Swords Minotaur Minitour was pretty eventful, both good and bad. Pittsburgh was great, big thanks to Ryan from Dynamo Sound. En route to Philly the brakes went out on our van—tons of winding Pennsylvania roads and like twelve hours and a U-Haul rental later we got to the Random Tea Room and played a rad show w/ Dan Shurley. No shows on the NYC front, venue cancelled at last minute and despite a thousand emails and phone calls nothing else worked out. But, we got to kick it on the beach and hang w/ friends fr a few days. So, crazy trip good when we weren't driving.
∞We're currently super focused on IngenuityFest 2011 and our space there, the Wandering Cave. This is the biggest event we've put together yet, and we've got a crazy lineup booked over the three days. Permalink.
∞As noted late time, the RCNCAVE was shut down after the Midsummer's Night Dance event. We're working on a new space, hopefully by October, and we'll have some links to a Kickstarter and some other ways you can help get us up and running soon.
∞We've got some rad press lately, including an interview w/ Black Unicorn in Clash Magazine and the new Cane Swords / Griefhound split featured on The Wire's Sleeves Received. Check out more on our new Press page.
7.14.11
∞In bad news, the RCNCAVE has been shut down. We're currently working on finding a bigger, better space in a more central area of Akron. We're still hosting shows at various venues around Akron/Kent, updates soon. Now onto good news—
∞The first review of the Cane Swords / Griefhound cassette is up on Zen Effects. We're waiting on supplies, but the companion split CDr (and reprints of Black Unicorn - Prosper Drift ∞) should be out very soon.
∞There's an interview w/ Black Unicorn in the latest issue of Clash Magazine. As the mag is UK only, we still haven't seen a copy. Hoping it's rad!!!
∞Cane Swords begin their Minotaur Minitour next Wednesday, kicking it off in Akron at Annabell's before Pittsburgh, Philly, and NYC. Details soon. Stay tuned.
6.27.11
∞Cane Swords / Griefhound split cassette is out. Grab a copy at Experimedia fr 5 bucks!!! We spent a night assembling these and putting random inserts into every tape, so yr getting some rad, exclusive bonus stuff. We'll have a separate Griefhound / Cane Swords split CDr here shortly.
∞Another Squid and Whale review over at Geräuschkrieg!. "Layering oscillating electronic patterns over deep-sea drone, Black Unicorn has fucking outdone itself. The musical narrative of a battle between two oceanic collosi; I was initially expecting some hokey, dramatic synth bullshit. What I got completely blew me away." Nice!!!
6.15.11
∞Squid and Whale featured on OMGVinyl's Tape Tuesday this wk. Mitch says it will "fuel your blade running fantasies. Soaring arpeggios, deep sea drones, claustrophobic headfuckery, it’s all here." Rad!!!
∞Waiting on the Cane Swords / Griefhound split still. It sounds awesome and can't wait to get copies. It's gonna be limited to 100, and 40 are going w/ Griefhound on tour. We'll keep you updated.
6.2.11
∞Ohio got crazy hot the past few days, shit is cooling down and we've got some rad news. Cane Swords just wrapped up and finished mixing in tha studio fr their upcoming LP on Experimedia. It sounds amazing, largely b/c of the talents of Ben Vehorn, tho you can't forget that the Traveling Temple was present.
∞Zen Effects just posted the first review of Black Unicorn's Squid and Whale. It's pretty awesome. Check it out here.
5.25.11
∞Anti-Gravity Bunny posted a fkn awesome review of Cane Swords' Big Warmup in the Mouth of Eternity — " . . . a fucking journey and a half. Layers upon layers of static & space dust, glitches & anti-matter. They build dense clouds of electro mist, raining ice crystals down through murky tumble drones, bubbling swamps of gamma rays, pulsars of technoise in a blazin hot swarm . . . Big Warmup is goddamn fantastic, an hour long disarray of non-abrasive synth noise that spits in your face and tells you to chill the fuck out." We've still got some copies for sale at Experimedia. They're only 5 bucks and you can go grab that and the new Black Unicorn plus whatever other albums you need (we love the new Jonas Reinhardt and Mountains LPs!!!). Also go bookmark Anti-Gravity Bunny because it's a killer blog!!!
5.20.11
∞Black Unicorn's Squid and Whale is now out. Buy it at Experimedia.
∞This Saturday, we're hosting The Warriors with Red Eye Theatre. Movie starts at 8pm, we'll have an improv soundtrack following.
5.4.11
∞TOMORROW: Cinco de Mayo in Space at Annabell's in Akron. XXX Super Arcade and Black Unicorn, playing with Boltzmann's Brain. SATURDAY: Cane Swords is playing under a bridge in Kent, in the afternoon. Nectarines.
5.3.11
∞Cane Swords c61 Big Warmup in the Mouth of Eternity is on sale at Experimedia b/c we've got a bunch of new music coming out. Next wk: Black Unicorn's Squid and Whale c27.
4.29.11
∞Just announced: XXX Super Arcade & Black Unicorn along w/ Boltzmann's Brain are playing a CINCO DE MAYO IN SPACE show at Annabell's in Akron next Thursday, May 5!!!
4.28.11
∞Red Eye Theatre is hosting a movie live scoring at the CAVE this Saturday, April 30. Should be rad, we're gonna watch Night of the Bloody Apes once w/ the original soundtrack, then again with it muted and score it ourselves. Come out and take part.
∞Also coming up on May 14, we've got Best Wishes (members of Legendary Seagulls), Mothcock, and Dave Hammer's Power Supply Improv. As always Experimedia will be playing and slanging records.
∞Black Unicorn's Squid and Whale is getting closer and closer. Going to be some cool packaging fr this one. It's limited to 50 and won't be available online, so be sure to grab it.
∞...and the big news. We're rockin Vimeo now. Stay tuned fr more and more updates. Right now there's music videos of the films that XXX Super Arcade and Black Unicorn scored at Cinesthetica, should have video from Mike Shiflet's @ the CAVE and Cane Swords @ Stone Tavern soon.
4.19.11
∞Added Upcoming section under Recordings w/ some info on forthcoming tapes. Also added Pictures section under Cave and uploaded a bunch of pictures from past events. More soon...
4.18.11
∞Great wkend all around. Updates soon (including audio, video, pictures, news, etc.). Great meeting & hearing L'éternèbre, Grey Ghost, Passerby, Floris Vanhoof, Dolphins into the Future, and Monopoly Child Star Searchers!!!
4.14.11
∞Cane Swords is playing to-night @ Stone Tavern in Kent w/ Best Wishes (sort of Legendary Seagulls 2.0). Come see the temple, wish happy b-day to Jeremy from Experimedia, and get pumped fr Saturday's triple header of Square Records Record Store Day, Cinesthetica and Dolphins into the Future, Floris Vanhoof, and Monopoly Child Star Searchers
4.1.11
∞NEW RELEASES:
...RCN002 - Black Unicorn - Prosper Drift
...RCN003 - XXX Super Arcade - Ladies and Gentlemen Gather Around, This Is XXX Super Arcade
...Download free digital copies on our discography page.
∞Here's a Facebook event fr the next CAVE show feat. Mike Shiflet and Spirit Animal (Dreamroot guys)
∞Here's a teaser website fr the Cinesthetica show that XXX Super Arcade and Black Unicorn are playing on April 16.
3.30.11
Next CAVE show is April 9th, featuring the awesome Mike Shiflet and more TBA.
—Also coming up April 16—>
∞730pm: XXX Super Arcade, Black Unicorn, & Zurvan live scoring surrealist cinema @ Joseph Saxton Gallery in Canton
∞10pm: Dolphins into the Future, Floris Vanhoof, Monopoly Child Star Searchers @ the Stone Tavern in Kent!!!
3.22.11
New website launched. Cane Swords Shit Gold Bootleg!!! now beyond ultra limited and up fr free download.
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