Contrastate

About the artist

Contrastate were formed in 1987 by Stephen Meixner and Jonathan Grieve. Their initial musical ventures were of a more improvisational nature, based on noise and volume (not to be confused with power electronics). Sounds emerged, sub-merged and re-emerged at varying painfully low frequencies with extremes of treble tonality. The idea was physical confrontation through sound. Nothing was ever released by Contrastate in this form, although some influences from this era are present on the first Lp “Seven hands seek nine fingers”.

Top songs

1. Poodles In Practice Dress At The Battersea Dogs Opera
2. Breaking The Strawmen
3. An End Marked By Pessimism
4. A Live Coal Under The Ashes (Part 1)
5. The Fingers Of My Foot
6. A Live Coal Under The Ashes (Part 2)
7. Poodles In Practice Dress At The Battersea Dogs Opera - Backwards
8. Perhaps It Comes Out of the Black Sea
9. Death follows the one eyed cow
10. Poodles In Practice Dress At the Battersea Dogs Opera (Backwards)

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