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Boyd Rice (born 1955) is an American experimental sound artist, archivist, and writer best known for his pioneering industrial noise music under the name NON, and most notorious for his Social Darwinistic proclamations (often receiving the accusation of Neo-Nazism).

1 Early sound experiments

As a teenager in the mid- 1970s, he began exploring various aspects of sound in his bedroom. Originally creating recordings for his own listening, he started to do performances, and eventually press records. His fondness for high-pitched female vocalists like Little Peggy March and Ginny Arnel led him to compile tracks using old tape recorders as instruments. One of his earliest efforts consisted entirely of a loop of every time Leslie Gore sang the word "cry".

2 NON

Under the pseudonym NON, he has recorded several seminal noise music albums, and collaborated with experimental music/ dark folk artists like Current 93, Death in June and Rose McDowall (site). Most of his music has been released on the Mute RecordsMute Records is a record label formed in 1980 by Daniel Miller primarily to release his own single, "Warm Leatherette", under the moniker The Normal. Mute Records made a name for itself as the label that was willing to sign post-punk artists like Frank To label. Rice has also collaborated with FoetusThis Foetus is a band. It should not be confused with the foetus that is an embryo in later stages of development. Foetus is the main entity of Industrial music pioneer J. An entity that has varied wildly in name, as in music. All the releases up to 1995, Tony WakefordAnthony Charles "Tony" Wakeford is an English Pagan folk and neoclassical musician who primarily records under the name Sol Invictus. Wakeford has long been influential in the neo-folk/ dark-folk scenes that continue to flourish throughout Europe under nu (pic) of Sol InvictusSol Invictus is an English Pagan Folk and neoclassical group fronted by Tony Wakeford. Wakeford founded Sol Invictus in order to pursue his own musical ideas. He was an original member of Death in June with Douglas P. He left in 1984 and recorded one albu and Michael MoynihanNotable people named Michael Moynihan include Michael Moynihan the journalist and founder of Blood Axis. Michael Moynihan the Irish politician. Michael Moynihan the libertarian journalist. of Blood AxisBlood Axis is the name under which journalist and author Michael Moynihan composes and releases music. Moynihan formed Blood Axis in 1989 after touring Japan at the behest of experimental music pioneer, Boyd Rice. Moynihan had previously founded Coup de G. His later albums have often been explicitly conceptual. On Might! (1995) , Rice interjects portions of " Ragnar Redbeard"'s Social Darwinist harangue, Might is Right over sound beds of looped noise and manipulated frequencies. 1997's God and Beast explores the intersection in the Soul of man's physical and spiritual natures over the course of an album that employs abrasive soundscapes with passages of tranquility.




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