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About Me

Available Now:
Lapdancer: Slow Dance EP (Wabisabi Recordings)
RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK / MLEHST LP (BELIEF, UK) EURO 16.00 new 2006 recordings by both. Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock very special, like a traditional japanese theatre-play, but so very wrong and disturbing. Mlehst with excellent electro-accoustic collage sound. Limited edition of 250 copies heavy vinyl in fullcolour split-cover. Highly recommended!
The Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock side was remixed by me and then mixed again by R&G in Japan. Order Now thru Tochnit Aleph: http://www.tochnit-aleph.com/distribution
Lap Dancer: The Curse of the Pink Nurse(AUDIOBOT, Belgium)
Lap Dancer:FEMME DE ZOMBI Swampland Noise
LAP YODELER (AODL + LAPDANCER) full-length. No label yet
Lap Dancer: An Introduction to Momojiri Pornographics Green Ox
Micro-Mobile: Lapdancer: A Present for... from The Eyeslit-Crypt on Vimeo .
Lap Dancer: Metasex (p) 1-7 Xdey Recordings
Lap Dancer:Himitsu Chudoku (Knife in the Toaster)
Lap DancerBird Calls
Hidekzu Wakabayashi and Lap Dancer: The Limits of Light
Lap Dancer: Death-Letter Blues
Hidekazu Wakabayashi and Lap Dancer: Limitless Light
Nesin and Lap Dancer: The Vanity Remixes
Lap Dancer:Night Rituals of the Gaping Secretion
Lap Dancer: Abyssinia
The Cherry Point/Lap Dancer: MUGSHOTS Vol.5
Lap Dancer/December 23rd: Split cdr (Enmity Records)
SOLO WORKS
Lap Dancer: "Glamorous Noise Angels" (n0-age net label)

Lap Dancer: Triptych cdr (Self-Satisfied)
Lap Dancer: Noise for Skirt Manipulation (Opposite Records)

Lap Dancer: Scathe (Swampland)

Lap Dancer: Brazil, Japan - 3" mini cd-r (Knife in the Toaster)
Lap Dancer: Cute Pink Blood (Obscurica)
SPLIT RELEASES
The Rita/Lap Dancer: Split cd-r (Swampland)
Mutant Ape/Lap Dancer: Split cdr (April 2005)
Clear Days Always vs. Lap Dancer (Self-Satisfied)

aodl/lapdancer: Carpet Hag (Xdey Records)

COMPILATION APPEARANCES
Couscous: Compilation remixes of Clear Days Always (Self-Satisfied)
Lap Dancer: Paradox (A Secret) featured on "Stagedive Suicide" Compilation from Xdiedenroutey Records.
Lap Dancer + Warning Broken Machine: "Funya Funya Ni Naru," from Roil Noise International Noise collaboration compilation release
Lap Dancer on "Microphone as Sound Source" compilation
Nesin vs. Lap Dancer collaboration (Shit Eye Cassettes)
Lap Dancer primarily uses laptop, pedals, microphones, samplers and found sound objects to create a hypnotic and unsettling blend of electronic experimentalism, musique concrete and harsh noise. LD has released full-lengths on American (North and South), Canadian, European and Japanese labels, splits (the Rita, aodl, Mutant Ape, etc.), collaborations (Hidekazu Wakabayashi, Nesin, aodl, Zoon) and various compilation appearances. LD has reinterpreted (with permission) the works of: Bonnie "Prince" Billy, The Youngs, The Stares, AsvA, DOT., Nesin and Calla.

LAPDANCER SOUNDTRACK INFORMATION
Lapdancer has also been featured in the Vonn Fink (Razordolls) film "Suthern Cumfort" released in 2007 through Pulse Pictures. Lapdancer continues to, as Cioran would say, "circle the periphery" of music, freely moving from harsh chaotic noise passages to soothing ambient soundscapes. This is it. You are it and I am it. Let us move out from here, dance and celebrate this bizarre and wonderful happening.

Some Pleasant and Pleasingly Not-So Pleasant Reviews of Lap Dancer

Lapdancer is joined by some guests musicians for this little beauty of an album. Yoga Kitty has weird high wordless vocals, and there is also piano and guitar melodically pinning these compositions. That is not to say pinned down. Under all of this source fluff is Lapdancers acute sinewave worship, layers of field recordings, computer manipulations, and a slew of other highly polished tricks. The result is an amazingly well refined disc of deconstucted minimalism akin to William Baskiniski; Wonderfull minimal tone worship reminecient of Sachiko M; with a strangeness of composition fitting of Sudden Infant. Very good. A nice change of pace. - Machete Mob Blog (Seattle, WA, USA)

"That high pitched noise you're using has damaged my ears. did you ever listen to this on a pair of headphones!? i'll bet you didn't because no ears can take that kind of punishment. i'm actually going to reload the song to see if it's some kind of mistake. i must be a masochist. alright, here i go....yup, same thing. this is the first song for a review that i will not keep listening to as i write. so here's some comments on the mood and the sound. one, there is no mood. you've done nothing interesting here. or tell me that your intent with the mood was to annoy, because that you accomplished. i actually can't see why else you would put this on the site except to see how bad someone can trash it. as for the sound, it's terrible. one chord. that's it? that high pitched tone was the worst sound i've ever heard. tell me that you're not serious and doing this only because you like to make other people suffer." - Listener from Chicago, IL

"what is this. am I in space. What? Hello........anyone out there. Man WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT." - Listener from San Jose, CA

"A potential soundtrack haunter with great craftsmanship of atmosphere. It doesn't really have an audience, but it gets plenty of credit for just how goddamn creepy it could be if combined with an alien ship exploration scene." - Listener from Knoxsville, Tennessee

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/15/2004
Band Website: lapdancer.podomatic.com
Band Members:

Lapdancer: laptop, guitar, pedals, sampler, voices, microphones, mixing, programming, MiniDisc Recorder, CS Recorder, Vestax CD-J, screaming

Influences:

sounds of the city, nature, onsens, women moaning, voices, various languages, fabric ripping, fingers moving across various surfaces, static, white noise, pure tones, bodily functions in an auditory context, films of all kinds, artists of all kinds, literature, erotic photography, the idea of love, tantric sex, AV videos (only the kinky ones), Gnostic cosmology, the holy and the unholy, capacitation, mindfulness, Satanism, The Church of the Subgenius, Zen Buddhism, Thelema Magick, O.T.O., Semiotics, Phenomenology, leadership theory, science-fiction, horror, xxx movies, Excremeditation, Meditation, E.M. Cioran, Samuel Delany, William T. Vollmann, Martin Heidegger, Joe D'Amato, Takashi Miike, Bernard Rudofsky, David K. Reynolds, Maruo Suehiro, Warren Bennis, Discordianism, Vedanta Hinduism, Christianity, Sufism, Thoth tarot, Manara Tarot, Vincent Gallo, Tadanobu Asano, Sogo Ishii, Kiyokazu Washida, Constructive Living, Amarillo Records, Mimicry Records, Elsie and Jack Recordings, Troniks/PacRec, Audiobot, Self-Satisfied, Obscurica, Knife in the Toaster, Swampland, Lee Thayer, Corey Anton, Saint-Exupery, Walker Percy, Merleau-Ponty, Georges Bataille, Levinas

BANDS AND ARTISTS THAT I OFTEN RETURN TO:

Afrirampo, Acid Mothers Afrirampo, Alva Noto, Ami Yoshida, Alva Noto, Alvarius B., The Angels of Light, Anton Fier, Antonio Carlos Jobim, aodl, Area, Asterisk, AsvA, The Beacy Boys, Big Picture, Bohren und der Club of Gore, Bonnie Prince Billy, Bruno Coulais, Caroliner, Cephalic Carnage, The Cherry Point, Cornelius, Circle, Corrupted, Daniel Lanois, Danubius, David Sylvian, Dead Can Dance, Dengue Fever, Derek Bailey, Discordance Axis, DJ/Rupture, Dr. Dooom, Emil Beaulieau, End., Ennio Morricone, Emmylou Harris, Faxed Head, Fennesz, Fred Frith, Foetus, Ghostigital, Goatsnake, Godflesh, Goon Moon, The Golding Institute, Grinderman, Guapo, Harold Budd, Heavy Seals, Hijokaidan, Iancu Dumitrescu, Impaled, Jack Costanzo, John Wiese, John Zorn, Johnny Cash, Jon Brion, Junior Kimbrough, Kaada, Kazuki Tomokawa, Kevin Drumm, Kool Keith, Kutmasta Kurt, Kyuss, Lefthanddecision, The Locust, Luis E. Bacalov, MF Doom, Magical Power Mako, Magma, Manu Chao, Mark D, Martin Denny, Masada, Masakatsu, Takagi, Masters of Illusion, Mastodon, Matt Chamberlain, Maurice Fulton, Melt-Banana, The Melvins, Merle Haggard, Merzbow, Messer Chups, Michael Hurley, Most, Mr. Bungle, Mu, Mulatu Astatke, NWA, Nat King Cole, Nearly God, Neil Hamburger, Nesin, New Kingdom, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Bruno Nicolai, Nine Horses, The Nordic Miracle, Novo Tono, Otis Redding, Otto Von Schirach, Palace (Brothers/Music/Songs), The Paragons, Phew, Peter Thomas, Piero Piccioni, Pig Destroyer, Project Polaroid, Runzelstirn and Gurgelstock, Rudolf Eb.er, Robert Wyatt, Roy Orbison, Roy Paci and Aretuska, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sachiko M, Secret Chiefs 3, Sensational, Sex Machineguns, Skip James, Sleep, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, The Stares, Steroid Maximus, Sunn, Susumu Yokota, Talking Heads, Tholus, Thorr's Hammer, Tortoise, Ultra, The Ventures, Viktor Vaughn, Vincent Gallo, Volapuk, White Noise, Will Oldham, Willie Nelson, Yellow Swans, Yma Sumac, The Young Gods, Zip Code Rapists, Zombi, The Zombies

Sounds Like:

imaginary film soundtracks, daydreams, large machinery malfunctioning, nature, bodily secretions, voices moaning, "noise," "cut-up," gunk crust grind doom pornoise murk speed, grind junk

Record Label: Audiobot, Swampland, Opposite, Obscurica, etc....
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The Eyeslit-Crypt

I've been spending a lot of time with the written word: http://eyeslitcrypt.wordpress.comSelf-Satisfied is releasing "Ice Field" soon, very soon. ASVA remix 12" also to be released soon, very soon. St...
Posted by lapdancer on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:01:00 PST

Christmas in July

Its time to celebrate. The good folks at Self-Satisfied records (from my home state of Michigan, U.S.A.), are releasing the following: 1. Clear Days Always vs. Lapdancer SPLIT CD-R 2. Lapdancer EP3. L...
Posted by lapdancer on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:01:00 PST

The Sense of Place in Music (Re-Examined) (An Essay of Sorts)

The Sense of Place in MusicWritten by Rev. Drake Hills, Zen Noisician Adept (O.Z.O.) (AKA Lapdancer)I have begun to dwell upon the sense of place that emanates through me while listening to music. Eve...
Posted by lapdancer on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:59:00 PST

JULY 5th: Massive Progress on the new album

Today, I finished 2 new tracks for the new album:1. Immanence: A Plea2. How to Partake in Alien Goat WorshipThese are completely harsh and penetrating (shootin' straight for the earectum on this album...
Posted by lapdancer on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:46:00 PST

New Album in Production/New CD to be released

1. The Oregon based label "spacelessjam" will be releasing a Lapdancer retrospective/best-of CD, which will be tentatively entitled "Diabolical Mutations." I have compiled and remastered the original ...
Posted by lapdancer on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:27:00 PST

WITCH MOON OF SCATTERED BLOOD

The new album will be HEAVY. Excremeditation at its finest. I have recorded the first track, "The Witch-Moon of Scattered Blood," a 25 minute 5 piece psychadelic noise freak-out epic. I have also post...
Posted by lapdancer on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:23:00 PST

June News

June has been quite a productive month thusfar. I have been developing a slew of new tracks for some wonderful upcoming projects. I hate to be so vague and I promise that as soon as any of these proje...
Posted by lapdancer on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:26:00 PST

FURENDO: A Brief History of Hope

FURENDO: A Brief History of Hope"Furendo," as we now call it began in Incheon, South Korea in summer 2003. Mycohort Johnny Unicorn and I found ourselves living in the same neighborhood and between wor...
Posted by lapdancer on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:45:00 PST

LAPDANCER INTERVIEW

INTERVIEW WITH LAPDANCER (PART 1)BY DRAKE HILLSWHEN DID LAPDANCER BEGIN?The name "Lapdancer" came to me in the summer of 2004, I believe. Prior to that I was involved in a slew of various musical outl...
Posted by lapdancer on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 10:23:00 PST

Lapdancer: Slow Dance EP (WabiSabi Recordings)

Hello. Thank you for reading this. I was hoping you would have a look. I have boiled down this year's "magnum opus" aka "major headache" of an album into a modest EP, which I entitled "Slow Dance EP."...
Posted by lapdancer on Mon, 28 May 2007 03:02:00 PST