Disques Hushush
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Disques Hushush Inc. is an independent record label
created by Dimitri della Faille (aka recording artist Szkieve
) in Montreal
(Quebec
), Canada
in 1998
. Hushush mainly releases experimental
, improvisation
, electroacoustic
, dark ambient
and electronic music
.
, North America
, South America
and Asia
. Notable artists include Mick Harris
, Mark Spybey, KK Null
, Nihilist Spasm Band
, Reynols, Vromb
, Lilith (Scott Gibbons)
, C-drík
, Aube
, Goem
, Kapotte Muziek
, Moonsanto, Orphx
, Szkieve
, Ambre
.
hip hop or illbient
music, mainly by Mick Harris
.
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...
created by Dimitri della Faille (aka recording artist Szkieve
Szkieve
Szkieve is the name of an experimental and electronic music act from Canada and Belgium. Formed in 1998, Szkieve is the solo music project of Dimitri della Faille ....
) in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
(Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
), Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
in 1998
1998 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1998.-Events:*January 28 – "Weird Al" Yankovic gets LASIK surgery to cure his myopia...
. Hushush mainly releases experimental
Experimental music
Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...
, improvisation
Musical improvisation
Musical improvisation is the creative activity of immediate musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians...
, electroacoustic
Electroacoustic music
Electroacoustic music originated in Western art music during its modern era following the incorporation of electric sound production into compositional practice. The initial developments in electroacoustic music composition during the mid-20th century are associated with the activities of composers...
, dark ambient
Dark ambient
Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music that features foreboding, ominous, or discordant overtones. Although it had its roots in the 1970s, Dark ambient emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of newer, smaller, and more affordable Effects units, synthesizer and sampling technology...
and electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
.
Notable artists
Since 1998, Hushush has released over twenty CD and vinyls from more than thirty artists from EuropeEurope
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
, South America
South America
South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
and Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
. Notable artists include Mick Harris
Mick Harris
Mick Harris commonly known and credited both as Mick Harris or occasionally M.J. Harris, is an English musician....
, Mark Spybey, KK Null
KK Null
KK Null is a Japanese experimental multi-instrumentalist. He began as a guitarist, but soon added composer, singer, electronic musician and drummer to his list of talents, and also studied with the Butoh workshop....
, Nihilist Spasm Band
Nihilist Spasm Band
The Nihilist Spasm Band is a London, Ontario-based noise band. The band was formed in 1965 by Hugh McIntyre, John Clement, John Boyle, Bill Exley, Murray Favro, Archie Leitch, Art Pratten, and Greg Curnoe. Leitch has since retired, Curnoe was killed in a bicycle accident in 1992, and McIntyre...
, Reynols, Vromb
Vromb
Vromb is an electronic music act from Montreal Canada. Vromb has been international active since early 1990s....
, Lilith (Scott Gibbons)
Scott Gibbons
Scott Gibbons is an American-born composer and performer of electroacoustic music. His work is notable for its rigorous use of single objects as sole instrumentation .- Critical response :"Gibbons' tendency to understatement is extraordinary...
, C-drík
C-drik Fermont
C-drík is a vegan artist, academically trained musician, dj, singer, composer and drummer. He is a former student of electro-acoustic composer Annette Vande Gorne .-Biography:...
, Aube
Aube (band)
Aube is the name used by Japanese musician for his experimental noise records. He has released many CDs, LPs and cassettes since 1991, and is regarded as one of the most important noise musicians working today. He himself does not like to term his work "music," preferring the term "design": "I...
, Goem
Goem
Goem is the electronic music project of Frans de Waard, Peter Duimelinks and Roel Meelkop. Active since 1996, it is one of the most internationally visible project hailing from the Netherlands. They have released about twenty CDs and vinyls on various labels from Europe and North...
, Kapotte Muziek
Kapotte Muziek
Kapotte Muziek is the musical improvisation project of Frans de Waard, Peter Duimelinks and Roel Meelkop. Active since 1984, it is one of the most internationally visible improvisation and experimental project hailing from the Netherlands. The group began as the solo noise music project of Frans de...
, Moonsanto, Orphx
Orphx
Formed in 1994, Orphx is the electronic music project of Canadians Richard Oddie and Christina Sealey. Hailing from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Orphx is very active in the international industrial and experimental music scenes...
, Szkieve
Szkieve
Szkieve is the name of an experimental and electronic music act from Canada and Belgium. Formed in 1998, Szkieve is the solo music project of Dimitri della Faille ....
, Ambre
Ambre (band)
Ambre is a collaborative electronic music project between C-drik Fermont, John Sellekaers & Olivier Moreau, with other musicians guesting on occasion.-History:...
.
Hed Nod
Hed Nod is a sidelabel from Hushush. The main focus of Hed Nod is to release downtempoDowntempo
Downtempo is a laid-back electronic music style similar to ambient music, but usually with a beat or groove unlike the beatless forms of Ambient music. The beat is sometimes made from loops that have a hypnotic feeling...
hip hop or illbient
Illbient
Illbient is a term allegedly coined by DJ Olive to describe the iconoclastic music being produced by a community of artists based in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York in 1994...
music, mainly by Mick Harris
Mick Harris
Mick Harris commonly known and credited both as Mick Harris or occasionally M.J. Harris, is an English musician....
.
Hushush
- Various Artists - Four Ways Of Saying H₃O (CD - 1999)
- Szkieve - Des Germes De Quelque Chose (CD - 2000)
- Ambre & Mark Spybey - Sfumato (CD - 2001)
- Mark Spybey & Mick Harris - Bad Roads, Young Drivers (CD - 2001)
- Mick Harris & Ambre - Dys (CD - 2001)
- Moonsanto - Dogme (CDEP - 2001)
- C-drík - Dissolution (CD - 2001)
- K.K. Null - Peak Of Nothingness (CD - 2001)
- Moonsanto - Fraud - Hell - Dope (CD - 2001)
- Moonsanto - Fraud - Hell - Dope (Pesticides Forever Kit) (CD + Cass + Box - 2001)
- Martiens Go Home - Une Occasion De Chute (CD - 2002)
- Szkieve - Des Rythmes de Passage (CD - 2003)
- Christina Sealey / Richard Oddie / Mark Spybey - SOS (CD - 2003)
- Lilith - Imagined Compositions For Water (CD - 2002)
- Vromb - Mémoires Paramoléculaires (CD - 2002)
- Vromb & Szkieve - Le Pavillon Des Oiseaux / Le Monorail (7" - 2003)
- The Nihilist Spasm Band & Reynols - No Borders To No Borders (CD - 2007)
- Kapotte Muziek vs. Goem - KGM (CDEP - 2007)
Hed Nod
- Mick Harris - Hed Nod 01 (12" - 1999)
- Mick Harris - Hed Nod 02 (12" - 2000)
- Mick Harris - Hed Nod 03 (12" - 2000)
- Mick Harris - Hed Nod 04 (12" - 2000)
- Mick Harris - Having It (CD - 2000)
- Various Artists - Low End Recon (CD - 2001)