System of Systems

Max Julian Eastman is a noise musician known for recording music under his own name and with projects like Greathumour and Tantric Death as well as the proprietor of what we consider to be one of the best American noise labels currently in existence. In contra to countless other labels that endlessly put out everything that comes out of "the scene", Max approaches Tribe Tapes with an aesthetic and conceptual theory. There is a general sense of discovery here, with reissues of artists that you certainly have never heard of, and a strong, unmistakable visual aesthetic. A welcome addition to the Counter-Agency of the Avant-Garde, indeed. Max discusses the label, his label's reissuing of classics from the late Marco Corbelli's Slaughter Productions label, the avant-garde and post-punk beginning of industrial and noise music, Smell and Quim, Atrax Morgue, the Haters, and much much more.

SOUNDTRACK:

Max Eastman "Extreme Psychedelia" Die Sonne Satan "Purity" Smell and Quim/Expose Your Eyes "Quim B" Ashtray Navigations "2" Atrax Morgue "Autoerotic Death 2"

LINKS:

Tribe Tapes Tribe Tapes Bandcamp Tribe Tapes Instagram: @tribe.tapes Adam on Ashtray Navigations 

Our friend from Los Angeles, the curator of the new LA gallery Imperial as well as online editor of Caesura Magazine Grant Tyler, joins the show to discuss the inability of the modern subject to properly look at art, the genius of Cezanne, Giacometti, Cy Twombly, the most consequential historical pinpoints of the last 50 years, the art world after the pandemic, Kanye (always some Kanye) and so much more.

SOUNDTRACK Eric's Trip "Follow"  Seigneur Voland "et autres germes de pourriture" Eyeless in Gaza "The Decoration" Smell and Quim "Anatomy Shatterme" The Homosexuals "My Night Out"

LINKS: Grant at Instagram: @grantedwardtyler Imperial Gallery Grant 'On Art and Freedom' Grant on Michael St. John's Grant on Darja Bajagic Adam 'Art's Moral Fetish' Grant's response to 'Art's Moral Fetish' 

During Art Basel Miami Beach 2022, Hadrian Belove asked Adam to meet up with him at Soho House, where he was with two young ladies Eva and Elena Sullivan. When Adam arrived, he was immediately taken with the gals' intelligence and savvy. Turns out, Eva and Elena are fashion designers behind the new brand Sullivan, which creates beautiful and elegant clothing for women at a price point that is much less depressing than something like, say, The Row.

Given that we seldom discuss fashion around here despite an interest in the industry, who better to come on than Eva and Elena. The girls discuss the absence of creative vision in the algorithmically driven modern fashion industry, and explain what they're doing to combat the trend towards "aspirational mid" that plagues modern beauty standards.

Soundtrack: Death SS "Heavy Demons" The Good Missionaries "The Force is Blind" Dan Melchior "Riding like Rommel"  Stalingrad "Hatred" (attached) Velvet Cacoon "Genevieve" (attached) OUTRO: Crime Mob "Knuck if you Buck" https://music.apple.com/us/album/knuck-if-you-buck/19440815?i=19440837

LINKS: Sullivan Clothing Sullivan at Instagram: @sullivan.clothing Elena at Instagram: @bimbofolklore Eva at Instagram: @postelitist Adam at Art Basel Miami Beach Part 3 

Around August of 2022, Adam opened up his email to find what was a message of profound encouragement, and could hardly believe it when it was addressed from "William Patrick Corgan," otherwise known as the frontman of Adam's first ever favorite band The Smashing Pumpkins. But that's exactly who it was. Billy had read Adam's 2021 book 'Communions' and, from there, a creative camaraderie developed. Now, Billy is on SOS by SP and completing the circle. Here, the icon of rock discusses fatherhood, the experience of being at the zeitgeist only to watch the zeitgeist fracture and tether, the new Smashing Pumpkins album Atum and the podcast that Billy has used to launch each of its track in its three-part rock opera song cycle, Judas Priest, the Scorpions, attacking the castle from within, AND MORE!!

SOUNDTRACK Smashing Pumpkins "Beyond the Vale" Smashing Pumpkins "Pissant" Smashing Pumpkins Crestfallen Judas Priest "The Ripper (Live)" Scorpions "I've Got to Be Free" The Cure "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep"

LINKS Thirty-Three with William Patrick Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins National Wrestling Alliance Adam Lehrer's Communions at Madame Zuzus Adam on Thirty-Three with William Patrick Corgan

Friend of the show and visual artist Tom Koehler brings Adam into his studio in Ridgewood, shows him some new landscape paintings, and discusses his art, the gallery that he runs, plastic surgery, weed paranoia, quitting nicotine, and even his stint as a member of the power electronics group Sharpwaist. Dig on it...

SOUNDTRACK: Sharpwaist "Amyl Nitrate" (attached) The Sadist "Penis in Pussy" (attached) Ravendark's Monarhical Canticle "Anti-Hunamismo Patrio" (attached) Alternative TV "Why Don't you do me Right"  Criminal Mafia "Eternal Sleep" The 28th Day "25 Pills"

LINKS: Tom at Instagram: @dieamerican Studio visit with Tom Tom interview Sharpwaist 'Sucking from the Breast of a Castrator'  

What started as a Substack and a podcast but became a prolonged conceptual art project IS NOW a full-circuit multimedia assault! Making good on his promise to broaden Safety Propaganda's reach, Adam launches SAFETY PROPAGANDA RECORDS in more attempts to aesthetically unbrainwash the masses. Text, image and NOW SOUND to break the programming and see the truth, for real.

And who better to launch the label with than one of our best friends Zac Davis, he of Lambsbread and assorted experimental noise and punk rock fame, with a new project: Clearance. The Clearance record is called, appropriately, Information Warfare.

"Memories of screenworld Hybrid chains of rhetoric forming broadly cast codex Chakra frequency blasting, soul into text, mind into vector Scalar soul in 9G, the last word heard always remains law for the time of being The reenactment of the procession (learning to embrace degradation), graduation to grammar, leaping over logic A new grammar to be learned and destroyed"

Zac and Adam sit down to discuss propaganda, rhetoric, info warfare, January 6 and the genre codification of atonal music

SOUNDTRACK: Clearance "001" Merzbow "Slave new Desart" Beefheart "Bat Chain Puller" SPK "Stammheim" Clearance "011"

LINKS: Safety Propaganda Records Clearance Information Warfare 

Marika Thunder is a New York-based artist who befriended the crew somewhere during the pandemic. Here, her and Adam discuss heroin, hard drugs, creative development, and Marika regales him with tales of her bohemian childhood as the only daughter of visual artist Rita Ackermann and experimental musician David Nuss...

OST: Spike in Vain "God on Drugs" https://music.apple.com/us/album/god-on-drugs/1556150663?i=1556150666 The Sensational Alex Harvey Band "Rock and Rool" https://music.apple.com/us/album/rock-rool-remastered-2002/1575434405?i=1575434590 Bushwick Bill "Ever so Clear" https://music.apple.com/us/album/ever-so-clear/698937345?i=698937498 Skrewdriver "Pulling on the Boots" https://youtu.be/_kCVjHnpitc Botched Chadification "Dylan Roof Should Have Gotten Buccal Fat Removal 

LINKS: Marika Thunder website Marika Thunder at Twitter: @Dikshit4Dikshit Marika Thunder at Nina Johnson Gallery 

In this episode, brothers in arms Adam, Will, artist Bradford Kessler and Rare Candy co-host Glen Rockney convene to discuss Nicolas Winding Refn's new six-hour Netflix series Copenhagen Cowboy, and the broader career arc of the Danish auteur.

Other topics include feminism, bodybuilding, Friedkin,Spengler, and I don't remember what else. Love. Hate. Can ya feel it? CAN YOU FEEL IT?

SOUNDTRACK: Cliff Martinez "Miu Stretches"  The Skeptics "Notice"  Aaliyah "Are you that Somebody"  Anti-Cimex "Victims of a Bombraid" Thy Serpent "Curtain of Treachery"  OUTRO Sisters of Mercy "More" 

LINKS: Bradford Kessler artist page Bradford at Instagram: @bradfordhurstkessler Rare Candy at Twitter: @RareCandyPod1 Rare Candy Podcast By NWR Nic Refn at Hollywood Reporter Nic Refn at Interview Mag Adam on Too Old to Die Young