Aaron Dilloway / Robert Turman

Aaron Dilloway

Aaron Dilloway is one of the most creative, prolific, and revered figures in the Midwest American experimental/noise scene. His performances and recordings incorporate rhythmic loops from eight-track tapes, vocal improvisations, found sounds, and field recordings. He uses contact microphones in order to generate harsh, feedback-laced noises, sometimes placing microphones inside his mouth in order to create bizarre, ogre-like distorted voices. While he channels some dark, violent energies into his sonic constructions, there’s also a crucial element of playful, absurdist humor to his work, making his performances confusing yet highly enjoyable spectacles of Dadaist performance art. While Dilloway is perhaps best known for his involvement with Michigan noise group Wolf Eyes, he’s had an extensive solo career, issuing hundreds of recordings (usually limited cassettes) under his own name as well as Spine Scavenger. In addition, he’s collaborated and issued split releases with other well-known noise and experimental artists such as Kevin Drumm, John Wiese, Lucrecia Dalt, and many others. Dilloway is also the owner of Hanson Records, a long-running experimental music label as well as a brick-and-mortar record store and mail-order service based in Oberlin, Ohio.

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Robert Turman

Robert Turman, an experimental, noise, and industrial musician originally from San Diego, California, whom over the decades has been releasing tapes, LPs and collaborative works.

Turman first came onto the underground experimental scene in the late 70’s as the ominous collaborator of the legendary noise outfit NON. Shortly after, Turman pursued his own unique vision as a solo artist, fusing together every possible influence at his disposal and laying those ideas down on numerous self-released cassettes like Flux (1981) and the prolific Chapter Eleven (1988) cassette box set. One of Turman’s most noted works, Way Down, came in 1987. It was a creation that utilized synthesizer arrangements and drum machines alongside guitar solos, piano chords, tape loops, and early sampling to create a whole new brand of danceable minimal synth blended perfectly together with the experimental soundscapes he was mostly known for.

In 2021, Chapter Eleven was given proper reissue treatment via his collaborative associates, Aaron Dilloway and John Wiese ( Hanson Records / Helicopter ). Way Down, another recent noted reissue, was originally released as a small run cassette in 1987, only to fall into tape label obscurity. Now Robert Turman’s industrial genre-bending masterpiece album Way Down has finally been excavated for a proper vinyl reissue after twenty-three years in the shadows. These works solidify Turman as a cut above the rest with respect to his talent and his natural ear for experimental composition.

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