It has been quite a few years since I was looking for electropunk type music and on a peer-to-peer network found a folder (playlist) called “A Modern Mutants Handbook”. It contained electropunk, but also weird and chaotic guitar music. Later I learned that this “noiserock” has a base in the short lived Nowave scene from the 1970’ies New York. Actually a lot of music has a base in this scene and thus in my playlist you find no only Sonic Youth, but also Swans and Foetus. The cover of the playlist is of a documentary made about the scene.
- Suicide – Johnny (1977)
- James Chance & The Contortions – Dish It OutJames Chance & The Contortions – Dish It Out (1978)
- Mars – Puerto Ricon Ghost (1978)
- Teenage Jesus and The Jerks – Less Of Me (1978)
- Rosa Yemen – Rosa Vertov (1979)
- Foetus – Am I Surrounded By Incompetence (1981)
- DNA – Lionel (1982)
- Sonic Youth – I Don’t Want To Push it (1982)
- Swans – Gang (1983)
- The Flying Luttenbachers – The Critic Stomp (1992)
- Melt Banana – IN x OUT = BUG (1994)
- 8 Eyed Spy – Motor Oil Shanty (1997)
- Arab On Radar – Attack On Tijuana (1997)
- Liquid Liquid – Zero Leg (1997)
- Black Dice – To The Lions (1998)
- Erase Errata – 1 Minute Pyt (2001)
- Ex Models – Love Japanese Style (2001)
- Flux Information Sciences – Adaptech (2001)
- Les Georges Leningrad – Bad Smell (2002)
- A.R.E. Weapons – Fuck You Pay Me (2003)
- Athletic Automaton – Beyond The Arc (2004)
- AIDS Wolf – Volker’s Stoker (2005)
- Bubonic Plague – Orange Octagon (2005)
- Gay Beast – Disrobics (2007)
