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the silence industry

post-something-or-other-core!

About Me

we are a part of:

all our music is available for free under creative commons lisencing

feel free to podcast, broadcast, share on p2p, burn cds and give them to your friends, or sample for use in your own music

download "the realm of rust", new EP here

download "the silence industry" debut ep in a zip file: here

download the ep "dead words stolen from the walls of brave new cell blocks" in a zip: here

also check our soundclick site for more free mp3s: http://www.soundclick.com/thesilenceindustry

the silence industry has releases with these netlabels, be sure to check them out!! :

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/14/2006
Band Website: coming soon
Band Members: graham, laura, hyuma and josh... oh, and a chihuahua.
Influences: a whole bunch of music not limited to: the chameleons, new model army, the cure, hendrix, bad hair metal, the mission, sisters of mercy, steve reich, merzbow, depeche mode, killing joke, project pitchfork, ministry.
other stuff: anarchism, a barbarian princess, self-actualization.
Sounds Like: someone trying to beatmix the cure, merzbow, ministry and lycia all together, then running it through a deathmetal distortion.
Record Label: this is not commercial music
Type of Label: None

My Blog

an interesting article on free software

http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=5900I think that this has a lot of parallel with what some of my peeps and I share in terms of ideas on free music. Anyways, well worth the read.g....
Posted by the silence industry on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:51:00 PST

its time to organize!

the cost of living is soaring, meanwhile wages while still increasing in absolute terms are being left behind. this amounts to a drop in real wages (a worker's take home pay compared to the cost of l...
Posted by the silence industry on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:48:00 PST

donate to the iraq labour solidarity fund

I am passing on this message in solidarity. A friend of mine who is a union organizer from Iraq is part of the preparatory committee for a labour conference being put on by the Federation of Worker C...
Posted by the silence industry on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:42:00 PST

new release is coming along

still have no idea what it will be called, but the new release is coming along. it's taken me a bit longer to record this one because the ideas are becoming (of their own volition) more and more comp...
Posted by the silence industry on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:16:00 PST

co-operative netlabel is getting going, other news

hey!!!! I've been out of it for about a week with a nasty flu, but I'm feeling better so I thought I'd put up a blog about a few things.first off, the idea for the co-operative artist run free music...
Posted by the silence industry on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:57:00 PST

ILWU shuts down all major ports on the west coast to protest the iraq war!!!!

this is pretty kickass. I don't really know what to say about this other than that it's really a very inspiring display of solidarity. apparently after hearing about the strike, the Iraqi port work...
Posted by the silence industry on Fri, 02 May 2008 04:48:00 PST

download link for ep

I sent the ep to a netlabel for free online download publishing, but in the meantime, you can grab it from rapidshare here: http://rs217.rapidshare.com/files/102680557/the_realm_of_rus t.rarrapidshare...
Posted by the silence industry on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:26:00 PST

things almost returning to normal!

just getting stuff ready for the ep release, and wrapping up all of the other stuff that's kept me super busy over the last 3 months.it's all looking good! I've also been writing and have quite a bit...
Posted by the silence industry on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:15:00 PST

still waiting to track that live stuff

...for the jammy experimental song for the new EP, so in the meantime I decided to post another new track.it shouldn't be long before the EP is ready.hope everyone is well!graham....
Posted by the silence industry on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:34:00 PST

please! no adds from racists, nationalists, fascists, misanthropists and neo-nazis!!!!!!

despite the fact that it should be fairly obvious to anyone who's paying any attention at all that the silence industry stands for anti-power, anti-violence, anti-nationalism, anti-hierarchy, the soli...
Posted by the silence industry on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:55:00 PST