Russell Haswell - KASM 03

i saw someone on Reddit talking about how he showed up at their kids’ elementary talent show, walked on stage in between the kids’ acts with a shitty mixer, mic, and a guitar amp and just wailed away with a feedback/mixing board set for 10 minutes before he was bumrushed off the stage by angry dads. he handed out Russell Haswell stickers to all the crying kids as he was escorted out. epic shit. 

  On 2/8/2025 at 9:11 PM, cern said:

truly remarkable, He has a very weird aura of the little I have seen him in videos and photos 

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More like Russell Isnotwell

Also this, like all of his other stuff, is hopelessly terrible.

  On 2/10/2025 at 8:26 PM, Blir said:

More like Russell Isnotwell

Also this, like all of his other stuff, is hopelessly terrible.

 

But also the guy is together with a fancy actress, friend with RDJ and everyone + get to team up and touring with Autechre so he WIN 

Russell's pretty cool for the most part, I'm not a fan of his 'this track's called Fuck Four Tet and his stupid fucking friends' and 'Fred Again is a twat' etc that I heard when seeing him in Bristol and have heard elsewhere...just get over Four Tet if it's not your thing, it's easily avoidable, you're from two different worlds...But his Fact mixes, Wild Tracks, the Merzbow Collab and the Live Salvage releases were fairly formative for me when I was leaning into the more overtly experimental dross. I prefer his noise efforts to the modular minimal beats and ofc I hold Autechre in higher regard but there's space for him in my listening habits when the mood takes me.

  On 2/10/2025 at 5:36 PM, Scaramouche said:

The Concrete Fence EP he did with Regis on PAN was pretty good. 

 

 

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yeah that one was pretty good

  On 2/11/2025 at 2:50 AM, CJR said:

Russell's pretty cool for the most part, I'm not a fan of his 'this track's called Fuck Four Tet and his stupid fucking friends' and 'Fred Again is a twat' etc that I heard when seeing him in Bristol and have heard elsewhere...just get over Four Tet if it's not your thing, it's easily avoidable, you're from two different worlds...But his Fact mixes, Wild Tracks, the Merzbow Collab and the Live Salvage releases were fairly formative for me when I was leaning into the more overtly experimental dross. I prefer his noise efforts to the modular minimal beats and ofc I hold Autechre in higher regard but there's space for him in my listening habits when the mood takes me.

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"Fuck four tet and his stupid fucking friends"

"Fred again is a twat"

Based as fuck

  On 2/11/2025 at 2:50 AM, CJR said:

 'this track's called Fuck Four Tet and his stupid fucking friends' and 'Fred Again is a twat' etc 

lol fucking legend.

Been diving into his shit and yeah, I get why people think this music is lifeless. It's difficult to put a finger on exactly why this doesn't sound innovative at all and Autechre does. For some reasen you can really hear the coldness of the machines seep through his shit, while AE's music sounds alive as if it has a will of it's own. That doesn't have to make it bad per se, it just doesn't do a lot for me as a result.

Say what you will about the guy but he does get you people talking lol

  On 2/11/2025 at 2:50 AM, CJR said:

I'm not a fan of his 'this track's called Fuck Four Tet and his stupid fucking friends' and 'Fred Again is a twat' etc that I heard when seeing him in Bristol and have heard elsewhere...just get over Four Tet if it's not your thing, it's easily avoidable, you're from two different worlds...

completely agree with this! thats so lame

  On 2/11/2025 at 7:54 AM, Ivan Ooze said:

"Fuck four tet and his stupid fucking friends"

"Fred again is a twat"

 

 

Based as fuck

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'IDM is gay'

this is a good thread.

  On 2/11/2025 at 5:01 PM, dr lopez said:

this is a good thread.

Please take your positive friendly vibes somewhere else, you loser

russell haswell came to my daughter's school and gave everyone an F it was totally fucked up i'm not even in school and he gave me an F

the entire time he was playing a song of mixer feedback called "caribou get fucked" (he gave caribou an F as well!)

Sliced Up Pig Organs And A Headless Corpse In My Lap t-shirt. Bone through the nose. Fuck you and your family picnic. I will take shit in your hamper.

DJing exclusively Tycho/Haswell mashups for my next set

  On 2/12/2025 at 12:13 AM, picklish2 said:

DJing exclusively Tycho/Haswell mashups for my next set

Legitimately need to hear that!

  On 2/8/2025 at 5:00 PM, cern said:

How do u start enjoying listen to Russell Haswells music? 

get your friends to kick you in the head really hard first.

  On 2/12/2025 at 12:13 AM, picklish2 said:

DJing exclusively Tycho/Haswell mashups for my next set

just convolve the two and you might have a new genre 

  On 2/11/2025 at 9:07 AM, thumbass said:

Been diving into his shit and yeah, I get why people think this music is lifeless. It's difficult to put a finger on exactly why this doesn't sound innovative at all and Autechre does. For some reasen you can really hear the coldness of the machines seep through his shit, while AE's music sounds alive as if it has a will of it's own. That doesn't have to make it bad per se, it just doesn't do a lot for me as a result.

Say what you will about the guy but he does get you people talking lol

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i feel weird going all negative on this stuff because i like that there are people who take things to extremes but yeah my main gripe here is that it seems like that’s all there is to it with most of his music. i feel like the annoying guy saying “my daughter could paint that” but that’s kind of the feeling it evokes. in a performance i can the spectacle of confronting an audience with this being worthwhile in a weird way. but me pulling it up on a youtube stream doesn’t really have any effect. i know i can endure it, i appreciate noise and distortion in music but then after that im not sure why i would go back to it 

Just searched for kasm 02 on Discogs. Might be tempted to part with my copy! 

  On 2/12/2025 at 6:00 PM, exitonly said:

i feel weird going all negative on this stuff because i like that there are people who take things to extremes but yeah my main gripe here is that it seems like that’s all there is to it with most of his music. i feel like the annoying guy saying “my daughter could paint that” but that’s kind of the feeling it evokes. in a performance i can the spectacle of confronting an audience with this being worthwhile in a weird way. but me pulling it up on a youtube stream doesn’t really have any effect. i know i can endure it, i appreciate noise and distortion in music but then after that im not sure why i would go back to it 

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I'm probably getting a bit over my head in here but I've started to think that it's really the person who's experiencing the art who creates the artistic experience, the art itself is just a catalyst. So all the emotional content and interpretations come from the person experiencing and the best the artist can do is to try to push it in certain direction but in the end they have no control over how their art is experienced. And because of this the "meaningfulness" of the art is entirely subjective as well.

So besides things like minimalist and noise music and so on this also applies to for example extremely commercial pop that is maybe made solely to make money but can have a big personal meaning and emotional content to some people.

  On 2/17/2025 at 11:59 AM, zkom said:

I'm probably getting a bit over my head in here but I've started to think that it's really the person who's experiencing the art who creates the artistic experience, the art itself is just a catalyst. So all the emotional content and interpretations come from the person experiencing and the best the artist can do is to try to push it in certain direction but in the end they have no control over how their art is experienced. And because of this the "meaningfulness" of the art is entirely subjective as well.

So besides things like minimalist and noise music and so on this also applies to for example extremely commercial pop that is maybe made solely to make money but can have a big personal meaning and emotional content to some people.

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English is not my first language but I think this is interesting.

I'd like to take into consideration an artwork's broader cultural impact. When a work resonates with many people, it becomes culturally significant beyond just the interaction between artist and audience.

Some works shape society, influence other artists, or become symbols of a time or movement. While individual interpretation is always subjective, cultural impact can give a work a kind of objective presence in history. At the same time, this cultural significance and context also help shape the content and possible interpretations of the artwork itself.

  On 2/19/2025 at 8:55 PM, Worlds Most Johnsson said:

 

English is not my first language but I think this is interesting.

I'd like to take into consideration an artwork's broader cultural impact. When a work resonates with many people, it becomes culturally significant beyond just the interaction between artist and audience.

Some works shape society, influence other artists, or become symbols of a time or movement. While individual interpretation is always subjective, cultural impact can give a work a kind of objective presence in history. At the same time, this cultural significance and context also help shape the content and possible interpretations of the artwork itself.

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Yes, there's a larger cultural impact also. But this cultural impact is also fluid and can change meaning over time and place, and can be completely different from what the original creator was going for.

I think one funny example of changing cultural significance of an art piece is Julius Fučík's "Entry of the Gladiators", which was originally a dead serious military march inspired by the Roman empire and the novel Quo Vadis, then used for example by prisoner bands in Nazi concentration camps, and now it's mainly just associated with clowns and circuses. I mean this piece: