Muslimgauze: Search & Destroy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuNOQu7pgow

what is that? sounds like a mix of classic era stuff

seconded. i was expecting it to be somehow combined with Jack The Tab but it seems not to be.

He wasn't recording at home. He worked almost every day in the studio with John Delf right up until he died.

not trying to be contrary but how could this be true? studio time is expensive, in the UK super expensive afaik. even if you have a pal who believes in your vision and owns a studio, a day of studio time is rent money, real money. the only people who can afford to be in a studio every day are people who own studios or people with immense amounts of studio budget

Cheap studios were in abundance back then and i believe the Abraham Moss Centre was very cheap. Keep in mind that Bryn lived with his parents and apart from buying his small amount of equipment had just about zero outgoings, so all his money was pretty much spent on studio time. it's definitely one of the reasons he was so prolific as the more he released the more income there was to spend on studio time.

thanks for this -- that's really fascinating, and almost unique in music, as far as I know, this sort of combination of factors.

He was putting out about 10 albums a year on labels like Staalplaat and Soleilmoon and Extreme, who probably sold enough to trigger some level of royalty payments. So yes it seems to have been a cottage industry for the guy, at least on a modest level.

See also: Merzbow.

I wish I could remember my (possibly incorrect) source for the circa-1998 home studio move story, it's been (yikes) 35 years since I was on some MG-associated message board that is long lost within the internet, I feel like I heard it there.