Legacy Cruft
By svc | July 1, 2007
This month, soulburn rapid oxidation technologies turns 10 years old.
The big problem with Nice Round Numbers like that is the inevitable feeling that they inspire in almost everyone: the nostalgic historical review, shot through a romantic, vaselined lens. Let’s pat ourselves on the back for all the great things we’ve done! Blather on about our high expectations for the future!
I’d be happy to ignore this part of the ritual, really. It’s a miasma of unmet expectations. Unfortunately, I seem to get a lot of questions about all of the projects that were once associated with sbrot. So here’s what happened to them.
Dissonance Magazine: Fell apart in 1997, about two months after registering the website soulburn.com, basically due to the dissolution of the friendship of the main two people involved. Soulburn was going to be the webzine replacement for Dissonance, as well as a label for short run cds. Not a good start!
}hexdump{: Never broke up as much as fissioned into multiple side projects in 1997. Two indie releases, Unit (1995) and Nybble (1996). Loren went on to da’ath, Doomsday went on to Syntax Error, and Leif went on to da’ath and rising!man!incinerator.
da’ath: Started in 1997, Broke up in 1998. One release on sbrot, Qliphoth (1997). Coined the genre of “krillbient” music, a mix of isolationist noise drones and recordings of marine mammals. (Now there’s a death metal band from Atlanta called da’ath. Although good, they lack krillbience. =8)
the “scorched” cd: This was the project that really broke the momentum of the label. Twelve different electronic musicians were solicited for tracks to make a compilation. The idea was that the compilation would include both the original tracks along with noise/digital hardcore remixes of those tracks by rising!man!incinerator. This was about 90% finished when one of the bands started demanding money for their track and threatening to sue if the album was released. Between the ensuing legal complications and a slew of money problems, the comp never got released.
rising!man!incinerator: On hiatus. Last show was in March of 2003.
state vector collapse: Still active. Last public show was in May of 2003.
So now, we will relegate soulburn.com to the downwardly mobile task of blogging, and leave all of this history to moulder into dust.
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