Noisex is the name of a power noise

Power noise

Power noise is a fusion genre among noise music and various styles of electronic dance music. It should not be confused with "power electronics", which lacks rhythmic elements and is closer to harsh noise...

 and industrial music

Industrial music

Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...

 act from Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. It has long been releasing music on the Ant-Zen

Ant-Zen

Ant-Zen Audio and Visual Arts is a German independent record label founded in 1994 by Stefan Alt , who serves as the art director. Visual arts from Ant-Zen are typically bleak but astonishing landscapes, or microscopic studies of what is often overlooked...

 record label and Rudy Ratzinger's label, Mental Ulcer Forges.

Members / history

Noisex was formed by Raoul Roucka in 1990. Originally calling his experiments T:U:T:P (The Unbelievable T.V. Preacher), Roucka changed the name to Noisex in 1992. Since then, Roucka has been the only member of Noisex, delivering a style of music he admits has been influenced by bands like Skinny Puppy

Skinny Puppy

Skinny Puppy is a Canadian industrial musical group, formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1982. The group is widely considered to be the founders of the electro-industrial genre....

, SPK

SPK (band)

SPK, formed in 1978 in Sydney, Australia, was a 1980s and early 1990s industrial music and noise music group. One member, Graeme Revell, would later go on to become a successful Hollywood movie composer.-History:...

, Nurse With Wound

Nurse with Wound

Nurse with Wound is the main recording name for British musician Steven Stapleton. Nurse with Wound was originally a band, formed in 1978 by Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak...

, Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle were an English industrial, avant-garde music and visual arts group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions...

, and Esplendor Geométrico

Esplendor Geometrico

Esplendor Geométrico is a Spanish industrial band. The band was formed in the early 1980s by Arturo Lanz, Gabriel Riaza, and Juan Carlos Sastre, who had all been members of El Aviador Dro Y Sus Obreros Especializados. They took the name "Geometric Splendor" from Geometric and Mechanical Splendor...

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Roucka also participates in a number of side-projects, including the solo effort DKF, Z:Z:Z with Richard Donhauser, Andxesion (a large group collaboration), Thorax, Ultra Instinct, and Cybernetik:Fuckheadz (with Patrick Stevens

Hypnoskull

Hypnoskull is the name of Belgian musical group whose style borrows elements of noise, industrial music, jungle, breakbeat, lo-fi, and techno. Hypnoskull currently releases music through Germany’s Ant-Zen record label.-Members / History:...

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Discography

• Terrorvision, (as The Unbelievable T.V. Preacher), Tape, 1992
• First Mistakes, Tape, 1992
• Save the Whales, Tape, 1992
• Out of Order, CD, 1996
• Over and Out, CD, 1997
• Ignarrogance, 2CD, 1998
• Rotation U.S.A., CDEP, 1999
• 1920.00, CD / Box Set, 1999
• 950.00, CD, 1999 (aval. in above Boxset only)
• Serious Killer, CD, 2000
• Groupieshock, CD, 2001
• Magnetom Vision, CDEP, 2003
• Brain on Rotation, CD, 2006

External links

• http://www.noisex.com Official Homepage
• http://www.myspace.com/noisex Official Myspace Homepage