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Robots.Video: A Vintage Robo Alpha Performance
     


This impressive display of chaotic robotic noise is from a 1999 Detroit
performance of experimental noise artist Government Alpha
(performing as alter-ego ROBO-ALPHA). Government Alpha aptly describes
itself as Yasutoshi Yoshida's "Experimental Harsh Noise" project on their
myspace page. If you'd
like to hear more harsh noise, check out Government
Alpha's CDs or you might be interested in the "Extreme
Music From Japan" compilation CD (1995) from Susan Lawly (described
as "a very good representation of the finest noise Japan has to
offer"). The YouTube video has
collected a small but extreme range of comments from, "I want to be
a robot when I grow up" to "the most ridiculous waste of human energy
I've ever witnessed". Depending on your personal proclivities, you may
want to either increase your volume to maximum or mute it altogether
before clicking the play button. You have been warned. Props to our
friends at Pink
Tentacle for bringing this noise to our attention.
   

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