In alphabetical order:
AC/DC, ANTiSEEN, Albert Ayler, Backyard Babies, Anthony Braxton, Cardigans, Carnivore, The Church, Cinderella, John Coltrane, Chris Connelly, Culturcide, The Cure, Daisy Chainsaw/Queen Adreeena, The Darkness, Depeche Mode, Devo, Al Duvall, Entombed, FAGGOT, Falco, The Fall, The Flying Luttenbachers, Gilt Trip, Head East, The Hellacopters, High on Fire, Huey Lewis & The News, Immortal, Immortal Cringe, Iron Maiden, Isidore, Journey, Steve Kilbey, Killing Joke, Kraftwerk, Marduk, Melvins, Miami Dolphins, Mötley Crüe, Noctorum, Gary Numan, Philadelphia Eagles, Saint Vitus, The Saints, The Sword, t.A.T.u., Toxic Holocaust, Turbonegro, Uberkunst, V/Vm, Veruca Salt, W.A.S.P., Wasteoid, Marty Willson-Piper and Wire.
Sounds Like
In alphabetical order:
Aube, Emil Beaulieau, Bloodyminded, Contradiction, Crank Sturgeon, Death Squad, Dolores Dewberry, +DOG+, Al Eide, Alec Empire, Evil Moisture, Gang Wizard, The Gerogerigegege, Carlos Giffoni, Hair Police, The Hanatarashi, Hijo Kaidan, Intrinsic Action, The Jaguar, Leslie Keffer, Killer Bug, Laundryroom Squelchers, Macronympha, Mammal Holiday, Lasse Marhaug, Masonna, Merzbow, Newton, Nihilist Spasm Band, KK Null, Panicsville, Pengo, Prick Decay, Richard Ramirez, Reverb, Right Arm Severed, Rotten Piece, Sikhara, Solypsis, Sudden Infant, Super 8 Loop, Think Machine, Thirdorgan, To Live & Shave in LA 2, Twodeadsluts Onegoodfuck, Unicorn Hard-On, V/Vm, Ventolin Orchestra, Whitehouse, The Wolf Eyes and Justice Yeldham.
Cock E.S.P. was founded by E.W. Hagstrom in Minneapolis in 1993, drawing on the most subversive and absurdist elements of both popular and experimental Twentieth Century music and performance art, realizing a diverse and energetic palette of abstract electronic music influenced by such styles as Japanese Noise, free jazz, punk rock, black metal and hardcore industrial. Rare among the group’s boundary-pushing peers, Cock E.S.P.'s canon includes a high degree of self-effacing humor, satire and humanity; directly challenging the antisocial "shock value" norms and conformism common in underground music.
"Somewhere between repellent, hilarious and just plain ridiculously stupid." San Francisco Bay Guardian.
"Is this guerrilla performance art? Am I on a hidden-camera TV show? Am I just stupid for not 'getting it'? Are you fucking kidding me? These are all normal reactions and seemingly a part of the grand concept that the E.S.P.-ers have been pimping for a decade." Cincinnati CityBeat
"Minneapolis' Cock E.S.P. sound a bit like Radiohead - if Radiohead played an amplified cement mixer and forced Thom Yorke to shriek indecipherable obscenities in a donkey outfit while attacking his bandmates." Nashville Scene
"Paving the way for Wolf Eyes to make noise safe and fashionable for the MySpace generation." Pittsburgh City Paper
"Minneapolis' Cock E.S.P.might be called underground or performance art, but is more likely a joke." Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
"A borderline-beautiful display of human wreckage." Rochester City Newspaper
"Det kunstneriske understrekes også med kyllingdrakter, blod, toppløse maskerte damer og annet performancetull. Så får du heller låne hørselsvernet til naermeste baby imens." Dagbladet Fretag (Oslo)
""Musik die wie ein Faustschlag voll in den Magen geht." Dresdner Kulturmagazin (DE)
"På dét punkt er Cock E.S.P. sandelig grænseoverskridende: En hysterisk eksplosion af dårlig smag og dårligere manerer, der ikke kan undgå at få én til at reagere!" Geiger (DK)
"Horridly obnoxious sounding." Flipside
"There are folks spending a lot of money to convince us that the logical endpoint of indie rock is a market glut of plodding, vaguely tormented riff rockers. But in small dumpy rooms everywhere, the idiom is getting a real Viking funeral from noise artists chewing up the music and joyfully spitting back the debris. Cock E.S.P. crams smutty, snotty manifestos into nasty, brutish, short sets. I recommend safety goggles, ear plugs and punctuality." Chicago Reader
"No one had seen anything like Cock E.S.P. Their shows rarely exceeded five minutes. Often, they lasted only three. By the end, the stage was a catastrophe of overturned amps, smashed props, stripped costume pieces, and sprawled, nude bodies, the audience a daze of numbed ears." City Pages (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
"These longtime Minneapolis noise merchants dress up in ridiculous costumes, make sounds that will automatically loosen your stool and throw household appliances at each other." Go-Go Magazine (Denver)
"If Extreme Championship Wrestling were a noise band, it would be Cock E.S.P." Time Out New York
"Harsh electronics, grating noises, and spookily inhabited wastelands of sonic detritus." Dusted
"Semen-encrusted fun for the whole family." Torso
"Sonic hurricanes." Artforum
"Cock E.S.P. sounds like these guys want to be like Masonna but can't make it." Inferno
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"Cock E.S.P. makes creative use of sounds that would be rejected by other musicians as equipment failure, as if to point out that seeming disasters can become art as well as humor." Westword (Denver)
"As Cock E.S.P. has eloquently proved throughout their career, it's hard to take anything too seriously when it includes someone in a donkey mask humping an amplifier." Columbus Alive
"Splattering digital distortion and synapse-cauterizing electrospasms across your frontal lobe like some psychotic Jackson Pollock, Cock E.S.P. isn't the kind of band your mom wants you to like." Willamette Week (Portland OR)
"Fairly enjoyable audio pain." LA Weekly
"Self-destructs in as little as 30 seconds." Village Voice
"Dain-bramaged." Boston Phoenix
"I did not feel safe as these costumed crusaders began hurling large chunks of metal at the audience. The effect they had upon people was comparable to a natural-disaster." Icon Weekly (Iowa City)
"Cock E.S.P. kick up a racket that never sticks around long enough to irritate and after the first few tracks shows the kind of irreverent illogic that only a man in a donkey suit could really deliver." Brainwashed Brain
"There really is some talent required to make such an overwhelming clamor. It's hard to offend virtually everyone, but Cock E.S.P. manages to do so, from their name to the title of the albums to the guitar squelch codas to the live show audience members yelling, they manage to rub me the wrong way in just that right way. Right now, I'm listening to them on my portable CD player with the headphones lying on the desk, and you know what? It's still remarkably unpleasant! Destroy all music indeed." Royal Journal
"Likely to appeal to heavy drinking idiots." Dark Ambient News
"Unbearable and tedious." Muckraker
"Funny enough the first couple times, but tends to get boring rather quickly." Sinkhole
"An interesting listen." Industrial Nation
"May not fit into most people's idea of 'music' and you sure as hell can't fuck to it." Oui
"Confrontational and potentially dangerous, not only to an unsuspecting audience, but to themselves." The Scene (London, Ontario)
"A two-man noise comedy performed at ground zero during a bombing run." Alternative Press
"Squirming ugliness." The Wire
"There is never a boring moment." Vital Weekly
"Just as confrontational and extreme and aggressive as anyone else who grew up preening to Godbullies records." Bananafish
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Despite the fact that Cock E.S.P. is often noted for the most juvenile elements of their music, the group has transcended their early lo-fi experiments by producing some of the most powerful and inventive sounds in the harsh noise genre; the result of an ever-increasing focus and sense of professionalism. This dedication to their craft can be seen in the group's 16 albums, 11 singles and numerous videos, compilation appearances and cassette tapes. Over the years Cock E.S.P. has collaborated with such noted underground noise artists as Aube, Burning Star Core, Costes, Crank Sturgeon, Dolores Dewberry, Rosemary Malign, Lasse Marhaug, Merzbow, Mr. Natural, K.K. Null, Diane Nelson, Panicsville, Richard Ramirez, Smell & Quim, To Live & Shave In LA, V/Vm and Violent Onsen Geisha. The group has also appeared on compilations alongside such diverse artists as Andrew W.K., Derek Bailey, Bomb20, Cattle Decapitation, Coil, Current 93, Jad Fair, Harvey Sid Fisher, Carlos Giffoni, Bruce Gilbert, Hijo Kaidan, His Name is Alive, Jansky Noise, The Locust, Macronympha, Masonna, Thurston Moore, John Oswald, Reynols, Gino Robair, Sockeye, Throbbing Gristle and Today is the Day.
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Particularly noted for their live performances, Cock E.S.P. presents short and chaotic vignettes which pushes their absurdist concept to an extreme level. Concentrating primarily on the performance aspect itself rather than the sound, the group walks the path paved by such arts movements as Fluxus and the Futurists and then goes even further, causing the audience to question the basic precepts of liveperformance and musical recital itself. As of this writing, Cock E.S.P. has given 210 live performances and counting, throughout the US and Europe, playing various rock and jazz clubs, punk houses, theatres, festival stages, art galleries, underground spaces, record stores and warehouse performance spaces including: 1000fryd (Ålborg), ABC No Rio (New York), Atwood Community Center (Madison), AZ-Conni (Dresden), Bedlam Theatre (Minneapolis), Blå (Oslo), The Church (Minneapolis), Churchill's (Miami), Dodorama (Rotterdam), Empty Bottle (Chicago), First Avenue (Minneapolis), Flor y Canto Community Center (LA), Knitting Factory (New York), L'usine (Geneva), Maine College of Art (Portland), Missouri University (Columbia), MIT (Cambridge), Room 710 (Austin), Samfundet (Trondheim), School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Soap Factory (Minneapolis), University of Chicago (Chicago), and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis). In addition, the group has appeared on live bills with such artists as Acid Mothers Temple, Anal Cunt, Devendra Banhart, Black Dice, Bloodyminded, Borbetomagus, Boredoms, Caroliner Rainbow, Rhys Chatham, Dresden Dolls, Roky Erickson, The Flying Luttenbachers, Gang Wizard, Goodiepal, Hair Police, Harry Pussy, Impaler, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Edward Ka-Spel (Legendary Pink Dots), Steve Mackay (The Stooges), Melt-Banana, Melvins, Nihilist Spasm Band, Nine Inch Nails, Ovo, Sissy Wish, Stereolab, Steven Stapleton (Nurse with Wound), Sudden Infant, Thighpaulsandra, Tool, Wasteoid, Wolf Eyes and Z'ev.
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The roots of E.S.P. date back to 1984, when co-founder P.C. Hammeroids organized a metal-percussion noise ensemble called Grandpa Eats Goat Cheese to perform in Mankato, Minnesota. Over the next nine years, Hammeroids recorded and performed under several names, adding more and more electronic noise to the mix. In 1993 Hammeroids joined forces with E.W. Hagstrom, beginning the project which would soon become known as Cock E.S.P. Hammeroids retired in 1996 and was replaced by Matt Bacon, who has remained with the group ever since. The current line-up consists of Hagstrom and Bacon along with a revolving cast of musicians and performers including Jason Wade, Paige Flash, Scott Burns and Nicole Rode. Previous members and short-term collaboators include Hammeroids, Elyse Perez, Julia Gilman, RJ Remington, Sam Lohman, Pat Dundon, Andrew Alper, Weasel Walter, Rat Bastard, Misty Martinez, Matt St-Germain, Newton, Rexor, Madame Chao and the members of Unconditional Loathing. Cock E.S.P. has also done one-off performances with Suffering Bastard, Twodeadsluts Onegoodfuck, The Jaguar, Occasional Detroit, Humectant Interruption, Pablo's Triangle, Dustin Newman (Eugenics Council), John Gross (Page 27), Raws (Wasteoid) and Alexandra St-Germain.
i have an unconditional loathing cd . I got it from some kid who I worked with at a web development place . . he listened to mini discs all the time. I think his name was COck eSP
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