A week ago I had the opportunity to go to Genesis P-Orridges’ apartment and talk to her and Edley Odowd. It was an immense experience. I’m looking forward to seeing them at Bezerktown this weekend. Link to the interview in my bio.

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Number five is a brain-burner of a mix riveted together by Brooklyn industrial rhythm queens Appetite. Appetite is the current iteration of a best friend collaboration between Jane Chardiet (ex-Foreplay) and Ciarra Black (No-Tech) making confrontational “pop” music. Jane also writes and produces beautiful and challenging photographic work (janepain.wordpress.com/). Ciarra also DJs and co-ran the ultrafucked No-Tech club night from 2013-2015; it’s now the No-Tech record label (no-tech.bandcamp.com/releases).

Tracklist:

Sofia Reta - Roquefort - (Sofia Reta Corporation) - 2014 Carol - So Low - (Dirty Dance/ Weyrd Son) - 2016 (reissue of 1981) Anna Domino - Land of My Dreams - (Les Disques Du Crépuscule) - 1984 Jason Kudo - View From The Outside - (forthcoming Ascetic House) - 2016 Drew McDowall - Untitled - (Unreleased) - 2016 Horoscope - Possession - (Unreleased) - 2016 Ciarra Black - I’m Speaking To You -  (TBA Angoisse) - 2016 Via App - Con Artist - (forthcoming Break World) - 2016 Young Male - Drug Deal Videos - (forthcoming White Material 008) - 2016 DUST- Tell Me - (2MR) - 2016 Silent Servant - Dissociation - (L.I.E.S) - 2016 Marshstepper - Side B of Give Yourself To The Moon - (Ascetic House) - 2014 CP/ BW - Bored Hurt - (BW) - 2015 Shredded Nerve - excerpt from Boundless Epiphany - (Unreleased) - 2016 Susan - Screamer - (Epic) - 1980 Suicide - Cheree (Remix) - (Bronze) - 1999 (reissue of 1978) Dane Fantasia - New Fiend - (forthcoming No-Tech) - 2016 Cocteau Twins - Watchlar -  (4AD) - 1990 Rudimentary Peni - Rotten To The Core - (Corpus Christi) - 1983 The Dicks - Dicks Hate The Police - (Radical Records) - 1980 No Trend - Too Many Humans - (No Trend Records) - 1983 Cabaret Voltaire - Sex, Money, Freaks - (EMI) - 1987

Interview: Appetite

Photo credit: Chelsea Marks

Podcast number five is a brain-burner of a mix riveted together by Brooklyn industrial rhythm queens Appetite. Appetite is the current iteration of a best friend collaboration between Jane Chardiet (ex-Foreplay) and Ciarra Black (No-Tech) making confrontational “pop” music. Jane also writes and produces beautiful and challenging photographic work (http://janepain.wordpress.com/). Ciarra also DJs and co-ran the ultrafucked No-Tech club night from 2013-2015; it’s now the No-Tech record label (http://no-tech.bandcamp.com/releases).

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ST: How did you find your way to your particular sound? What, if anything, is appealing to you about “abrasiveness” as a tonal quality?

APP: Our sound was initially stumbled upon by doing the best we could with what we had. When we first started we had junk gear and just had to make it work. Some of our soundscapes became really informed by using equipment the wrong way to get the right sound, and that attitude has carried over as we have expanded our musicianship. Our abrasiveness comes naturally because of where we are coming from emotionally with this project. We’ve been best friends for ten years and started this project five years ago. We try to be open and honest when working with each other, and sometimes our honesty has a rawness that shines through in our music and performances.

ST: Jane, you document and contribute to tons of music communities, and you did a photograph series last year that explored what it’s like to inhabit a body; How does Appetite fit in with your other more visually-based projects?

JANE: Appetite is certainly an extension of the ideas that I explore visually. I think it is a very necessary vehicle for catharsis that I can not find while practicing photography. While I can express certain ideas through images, it lacks a sense of release. Even when a picture is executed, hanging on a gallery wall and I am interacting with people who are interacting with the image, the energy of a photograph feels finite while music, especially when performed live, is more malleable and alive.

ST: Ciarra, recently ended your No-Tech night in Brooklyn last year to focus more on solo producing, a No-Tech label, and DJing; how does this collaboration connect to all of that?

CIARRA: Appetite has always been a facet of No-Tech. When we started the monthlies two and a half years ago Jane would set up a “photo booth” with props and take photos of some of our friends and guests. You can see some of the images here https://janepain.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/photos-from-no-tech/. As far as Jane’s involvement with No-Tech going forward, Appetite is doing  a tape release for the label coming out sometime this summer. We spent some time learning to record ourselves and have been doing everything from my bedroom which seems to be the best set up for us. Jane will most likely do the art and photography for the release, so basically we are doing the whole thing ourselves. We are pretty excited!

ST: What do you like the crowd to be doing or experiencing when you perform?

APP: Dang, hopefully fucking freaking and being wild while also respecting each other.

ST: Tell us about this mix.

APP: We’d like to think that it is reflective of our musical backgrounds and influences while also being representative of the scene we are operating in here in Brooklyn and have included a bunch of our talented friends. It’s a mix of what we like and where we come from, techno, minimal synth, punk, industrial and noise.

ST: What parts of the nightlife in your city— or maybe further afield— do you care about right now?

APP: We are most into the DIY warehouse parties that are held by super committed promoters. Nothing Changes at Home Sweet Home. Bossa Nova Civic Club. Crazy after parties at Over the Eight. The Acheron. Palisades. Joe’s Pizza on Bedford avenue.

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Appetite play Surface Tension with Cienfuegos and The Creatrix on June 17 at 1192 Folsom in San Francisco.

Photo credit: Jane Pain