Silent Records was a record label

Record label

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 established in 1985

1985 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1985.-January–March:*January 1 - The newest music video channel, VH-1, debuts on American cable. It is aimed at an older demographic than its sister station, MTV...

 by Kim Cascone

Kim Cascone

Kim Cascone is an American composer of electronic music who is best known for his releases in the ambient, industrial and electro-acoustic genre on his own record company, Silent Records...

 when he released PGR's debut LP, titled Silence. The label went on to produce primarily electronic 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...

 and ambient music

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

. From 1993 to 1996, three imprints (Flask, Furnace, and Sulphur) were started in order to highlight different genres of electronic music. It was Silent Records however, that moved into the ambient techno arena. In 1996, Cascone sold the label to an employee, who shifted the label’s focus to beat-oriented dance music. 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...

 the label shut down, having released over 140 titles during its 12-year existence.

Artists Released on Silent Records and its sub-labels

• !Bang Elektronika
• 23 Degrees
• 303 Terrorists
• 68000
• 69069
• Abominable Snowman Effuse Anal Tibet
• Abstinence
  Abstinence(band)
  Abstinence is an experimental industrial music project founded in 1985 in Belmar, New Jersey, USA, now based in Brooklyn. Its sound ranges from bombastic to noise, ambient soundtrack to industrial music and uses video/audio dialog and sound samples....
  
  
• Agencement
• Alaura
• Alpha Wave Movement
  Alpha Wave Movement
  Alpha Wave Movement is the electronic music project of Gregory T. Kyryluk. Alpha Wave Movement's musical style can be considered ambient, New Age, some space rock, and the classic 1970s period German style electronic music otherwise known as Berlin school and the ambient aesthetics of Brian Eno,...
  
  
• Alpine Vortex
• Ambient Temple of Imagination
• Anstalt Flesh
• Antihouse
• Apollo
• Arcane Device
  Arcane Device
  Arcane Device was the recording name of musician David Lee Myers from 1987 to 1993. He has collaborated with musicians such as Asmus Tietchens, Tod Dockstader, Marco Oppedisano, and Kim Cascone.-Discography:* Devices 1987-2007 double CD...
  
  
• Arthur Dent
• Artificial Paradise
  Artificial Paradise
  Artificial Paradise is an album released in 1973 by the Canadian rock band The Guess Who.Musically, Artificial Paradise finds The Guess Who showcasing a variety of styles: rockers , ballads and even world music...
  
  
• Asmus Tietchens
  Asmus Tietchens
  Asmus Tietchens , who also records under the monikers Hematic Sunsets and Club of Rome, is a German composer of avant-garde music....
  
  
• Astralfish
• Astral Matrix
• ATD Convention
• Attack Squad
• 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...
  
  
• B-9 D-Vine
• B So Global
• Bad Data
• Harvey Bainbridge
  Harvey Bainbridge
  Harvey Frederick Bainbridge is an English bass and keyboard player. He is best known as the bass player and keyboard player in Hawkwind....
  
  
• Belt
• Bilting/Karkowski
• Bleep & Edit
• Boards of Canada
  Boards of Canada
  Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic music duo consisting of brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin...
  
  
• Bola
• Brain Unltd
• Burning Sea
• Capslock
• Kathleen Cascone
• C.C.C.C.
• Cirrus Minor
• Closedown
• Command Co.
• Controlled Bleeding
  Controlled Bleeding
  Controlled Bleeding is a prolific experimental music group based in Massapequa, New York. The group was founded by Paul Lemos, the group's only consistent member...
  
  
• Cosmic Breeze
• Cosmic Trigger
• Crawling With Tarts
• The Dark Beautiful
• Deeper Than Space
• Deisel Guitars
• der Spyra
• Dialux Rouge
• Digital Poodle
  Digital Poodle
  Digital Poodle was a Toronto, Canada-based, electro-industrial/EBM band formed in 1986 and remained active until about 1995.-Background:Formed in 1986 by vocalist/programmer Heiki Sillaste , the project was considered Toronto's answer to the established Vancouver-based industrial acts like Skinny...
  
  
• Din
• Dislocation
• Dismembered Quietly
• Dreams Without Number
• Drome
• Dutch
  The Scumfrog
  Jesse Houk is a DJ/remixer/producer/artist from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is better known by his pseudonym, The Scumfrog, under which he has remixed songs by artists as varied as Britney Spears, David Bowie, Dido, Enrique Iglesias, and J-Pop Superstar Utada Hikaru. His first release was a...
  
  
• Earth Leakage Trip
• Earth To Infinity
• Earth Trance Interlude (ETI)
• Eighty Nine
• Electronic Counter Measure (ECM)
• Entrancing Iris
• Flying Testicle
  Flying Testicle
  Flying Testicle was an early 90's noise supergroup consisting of Masami Akita, Yamazaki Maso and Zev Asher. The group put out two releases before disbanding.-Discography:*Lamerican Sextom 7" vinyl - ZSF Produkt...
  
  
• Freeform
• Gescom
  Gescom
  Gescom is an electronic music project based in England with close ties to the band Autechre. The name is believed to have been derived from Gestalt Communication...
  
  
• Jeff Greinke
  Jeff Greinke
  Jeff Greinke is an American ambient music and jazz artist and composer currently based in Tucson, Arizona. He is known as one of the pioneers of dark ambient music, with his earlier solo albums often compared to works by Robert Rich, Brian Eno, and Vidna Obmana...
  
  
• Ray Guillette
• H2O
• Hafler Trio
  Hafler Trio
  The Hafler Trio is a conceptual and sound art collaborative between Andrew M. McKenzie, the only permanent member, and guest musicians. The project has seen the release of numerous albums and CDs in experimental musical styles ranging from electronica, cut-up, ambient, environmental soundscape,...
  
  
• The Hanatarash
• Hawkwind
  Hawkwind
  Hawkwind are an English rock band, one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. They are also a noted precursor to punk rock and now are considered a link between the hippie and punk cultures....
  
  
• Heavenly Music Corporation
• Hyperdelic
• Jega
  Jega
  Jega is the recording name of Manchester-based electronic music artist Dylan Nathan. Nathan has released records on the Planet Mu, Matador and Skam record labels....
  
  
• Jojo Hiroshige
• Horizon 222
• Hydrosphere
• Hyperdelicious
• Illusion of Safety
• Incapacitants
  Incapacitants
  are a Japanese noise music group formed in 1981. It consists of Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai, whose stated aim is to produce "pure" noise, uninfluenced by musical ideas or even human intention, using primarily feedback, vocals, and various electronics...
  
  
• Industrial Heads
• Institute of Technology
• Instrumental Transkommunikation
• Mariann Kafer
• King Felix
• Kinkakuji
• Dr. Timothy Leary
  Timothy Leary
  Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and writer, known for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs. During a time when drugs like LSD and psilocybin were legal, Leary conducted experiments at Harvard University under the Harvard Psilocybin Project, resulting in the Concord Prison...
  
  
• Tim "Love" Lee
• Lego Feet
• Legion Of Green Men
• John C. Lilly
  John C. Lilly
  John Cunningham Lilly was an American physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher and writer....
  
  
• The Lads of Acid
• Lightwave
• Liquid Nitrogen
• Lotus
• Love and Sincerity
• Love Spirals Downwards
  Love Spirals Downwards
  Love Spirals Downwards was an ethereal darkwave, dream pop, Atmospheric drum'n'bass and electronica recording act from California.-History:Love Spirals Downwards was begun by multi-instrumentalist Ryan Lum and then-girlfriend Suzanne Perry. In 1991, Lum and Perry recorded a demo, which led to a...
  
  
• Makyo
• Mataray
• Michael Mantra
• Mark Riva
• Martyr Colony
• Masonna
• Chris Meloche
• Merzbow
  Merzbow
  is the main recording name of the Japanese noise musician , born in 1956. Since 1979 he has released in excess of 350 recordings.The name "Merzbow" comes from German artist Kurt Schwitters' artwork, "Merzbau”. This was chosen to reflect Akita's dada influence and junk art aesthetic...
  
  
• Mild Seven International
• Mindope
• Mona Lisa Mescaline
• Monde Bruits
  Monde Bruits
  Monde Bruits was the Japanese noise music project of Syohei Iwasaki . The project was one of the earliest in Japan's noise scene, and it was Iwasaki who organized Masami Akita's first Merzbow show in Osaka, Japan...
  
  
• Mortal Vision
• David Moufang
  David Moufang
  David Moufang is a German ambient techno musician. He records with his partner, Jonas Grossmann as Deep Space Network project and his solo releases as Move D...
  
  
• Mushroom Nation
• Nature's Sound Creation
• Nonplace Urban Field
• 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...
  
  
• Ohmega Tribe
• Orange Sky
• Parade
• Patternclear
• Pelican Daughters
• Permutation Test
• PGR
• Phauss
• Pounce International
• Psychic Surfers of Zuvuya
• Psychic TV
  Psychic TV
  Psychic TV or PTV, is a video art and music group that primarily performs psychedelic, punk, electronic and experimental music...
  
  
• Michael Redolfi
• Jorge Reyes
  Jorge Reyes (musician)
  Jorge Reyes was a Mexican ambient electronic musician who incorporated elements of his native Mexican culture into his music...
  
  
• Robert Rich
  Robert Rich (musician)
  Robert Rich is an ambient musician and composer based in California, United States. With a discography spanning over 30 years, he is widely regarded as a figure whose sound has greatly influenced today's ambient, New Age, and even IDM music.-Early life:At an early age he thought he disliked music...
  
  
• S*Core
• Satellite IV
• Dave Scott
• Shades of Acid
• Elliott Sharp
  Elliott Sharp
  Elliott Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock,...
  
  
• Single Cell Orchestra
  Single Cell Orchestra
  Single Cell Orchestra is the performing name of Miguel Fierro , a San Francisco-born musician who has worked for many years in electronic music and techno. His first successful single was "Transmit Liberation", an underground hit that proved influential in the development of trip hop...
  
  
• Skozey Fetisch
• Solitaire
• Solmania
  Solmania
  Solmania is the Osaka-based noise music project of Masahiko "Masaki" Ohno , who runs the Works Fatagaga noise record label. Formed in 1984, Solmania is one of the earliest noise projects out of Japan...
  
  
• Spacetime Continuum
  Spacetime Continuum
  Jonah Sharp alias Spacetime Continuum is a producer of electronic music. After starting his musical career as a jazz drummer in London, UK, he moved to San Francisco, USA. During the 1990s Sharp released a series of albums on the Astralwerks record label...
  
  
• Spice Barons
• Steel Porn Rhino
• Syntax Error
  Syntax error
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• T2F
• Tapeworm
• Temporary Temple
  Temporary Temple
  Temporary Temple is a live album by Psychic TV. The album was recorded on July 28, 1984 in London and released on 12" vinyl. It was later coupled with another concert and released on CD as Temporary Temple & Atonal.-Liner notes:...
  
  
• Fiorella Terenzi
  Fiorella Terenzi
  Fiorella Terenzi is an Italian astrophysicist, author and musician who is best known for taking recordings of radio waves from galaxies and turning them into music...
  
  
• Terminal Sect
• Thessalonians
• Trancendental Anarchists
• Tylervision
• The Ultraviolet Catastrophe
• V.A.L.I.S.
• Violent Onsen Geisha
  Violent Onsen Geisha
  Violent Onsen Geisha is a Japanese noise music group, distinctive among many noise acts for frequently displaying a bizarre, sarcastic, and mischievous sense of humor...
  
  
• Vuemorph
• Waveform Transmission
• Westside Chemical Phibsborough
• White Stains
  White Stains
  White Stains is a poetic work written by English author and occultist Aleister Crowley under the pseudonym "George Archibald Bishop". It was published in 1898 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands....
  
  
• XKP
• Yarn of the Moonfruit
• Yellow Cab
• Tatsuya Yoshida
• Z-TRON

External links

• archival site website
• Silent Records @ Discogs