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Cock E.S.P.
Experimental / Comedy / Other

"SORRY "

Minneapolis, Minnesota
United States

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Last Login:  5/14/2008
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   Cock E.S.P.: General Info
Member Since3/15/2005
Band Websitecockesp.com
Band Members

InfluencesIn 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 LikeIn 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.

Record LabelLittle Mafia Records, V/Vm Test Records
Type of LabelIndie




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   About Cock E.S.P.

[ Full Discography ] [ Performance History ] [ Menasha, WI ]

Cock E.S.P. was formed in Minneapolis in 1993, and is currently comprised of Emil Hagstrom (electronics), Matt Bacon (electronics) and Paige Flash (performance/vocals). Drawing on the more extreme, subversive and absurdist elements of both popular and experimental Twentieth Century music and performance art, the ensemble creates an abstract and entertaining form of high-energy electronic music influenced by such styles as Japanese Noise, improvised free-jazz, punk rock, hardcore industrial and modern classical. Unusual among experimental music ensembles, Cock E.S.P.'s primary focus in satirical, commenting on both their underground music peers and on any element of world events or popular culture they feel the need to comment upon. Past projects demonstrating the group's technique include compositions assembled entirely from equipment and instrument malfunctions, as well as a performance piece suggesting that fetishistic sexual motives underlay American patriotism.

"Somewhere between repellent, hilarious and just plain ridiculously stupid."
San Francisco Bay Guardian

"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, Norway)

"Musik die wie ein Faustschlag voll in den Magen geht."
Dresdner Kulturmagazin (Dresden, Germany)

"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

"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)

"Confrontational and potentially dangerous, not only to an unsuspecting audience, but to themselves."
The Scene (London, Ontario)

"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

"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)

"Every genre of music needs their court jesters, those brave enough to step up and question the prevailing wisdom. In the loosely defined underground genre of 'noise,' Cock E.S.P. has assumed this mantle of responsibility."
The Scene (London, Ontario)

"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

"Minneapolis' Cock E.S.P.might be called underground or performance art, but is more likely a joke."
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

"Minneapolis' Cock E.S.P. haven't quite become footnotes in the subcultural encyclopedia a la Merzbow or Whitehouse, but not for lack of effort or notoriety."
City Paper (Baltimore)

"A borderline-beautiful display of human wreckage."
Rochester City Newspaper

"Fairly enjoyable audio pain."
LA Weekly

"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)

"The Twin Cities' only 'pure noise' band that anyone outside Minnesota would know."
City Pages (Minneapolis/St. Paul)

"Like a tornado."
Miami New Times

"If Extreme Championship Wrestling were a noise band, it would be Cock E.S.P."
Time Out New York

"Self-destructs in as little as 30 seconds."
Village Voice

"Cock E.S.P. spurts harsh, lacerating shards of white noise with a torture-artist's malevolent sense of humor."
Willemette Week (Portland OR)

"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 (Denmark)

"Almost dumb enough to be Falco."
CMJ

"May not fit into most people's idea of 'music' and you sure as hell can't fuck to it."
Oui

"Horridly obnoxious sounding."
Flipside

"An interesting listen."
Industrial Nation

"Semen-encrusted fun for the whole family."
Torso

"A two-man noise comedy performed at ground zero during a bombing run."
Alternative Press

"Harsh electronics, grating noises, and spookily inhabited wastelands of sonic detritus."
Dusted

"Sonic hurricanes."
Artforum

"If brevity is the soul of wit, then the 99 remixes of Cock E.S.P. on 'Hurts So Good' must be the wittiest music ever produced."
Brainwashed Brain

"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

"Unbearable and tedious."
Muckraker

"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

"Sure to annoy parent and neighbor alike."
Devin's Noise Corner

"Funny enough the first couple times, but tends to get boring rather quickly."
Sinkhole

"Cock E.S.P. sounds like these guys want to be like Masonna but can't make it.."
Inferno

"A sad bunch of twats."
Infinite Monkey

"Cock E.S.P. is a force in music that is hard to describe and even harder to tolerate."
Generation

"Squirming ugliness."
The Wire

Cock E.S.P. has collaborated with:
Aube
BunnyBrains
Burning Star Core
Costes
Crank Sturgeon
Jason Crumer
Dolores Dewberry
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Rosemary Malign
Lasse Marhaug
Misty Martinez

Merzbow
Mr. Natural
K.K. Null
Diane Nelson
Panicsville
Richard Ramirez
Smell & Quim
Suffering Bastard
To Live & Shave In LA
Twodeadsluts Onegoodfuck
V/Vm
Violent Onsen Geisha

and many more...

   
Cock E.S.P. has played on live bills with:
Acid Mothers Temple
Anal Cunt
Architecture In Helsinki
Ashtray Navigations
Devendra Banhart
Black Dice
Bloodyminded
Borbetomagus
Boredoms
Burning Star Core
Caroliner Rainbow
Rhys Chatham
Dresden Dolls
Eagles Of Death Metal
Roky Erickson
The Flying Luttenbachers
Gang Wizard
Goodiepal
Hair Police
Harry Pussy
Illusion Of Safety
Impaler
Jazzkamer
The Jesus & Mary Chain
Edward Ka-Spel
Laundryroom Squelchers
Low
Steve Mackay (The Stooges)
Melt-Banana
Melvins
New Young Pony Club
Nihilist Spasm Band
Nine Inch Nails
Ovo
Primal Scream
Sissy Wish
Sonic Youth
Spectrum
Spoon
Stereolab
Steven Stapleton
Sudden Infant
Thighpaulsandra
Tool
Wasteoid
Wolf Eyes
Woven Hand
Z'ev
and many more... 
   
Cock E.S.P. has appeared on compilation releases with:
Andrew W.K.
Derek Bailey
Kevin Blechdom
Bomb20
Cattle Decapitation
Coil
Current 93
Jad Fair
Harvey Sid Fisher
Free Kitten
Carlos Giffoni
Bruce Gilbert
The Haters
Hijo Kaidan
His Name Is Alive
Jansky Noise
The Locust
Macronympha
Masonna
Thurston Moore
John Oswald
Reynols
Gino Robair
Sockeye
Throbbing Gristle
Today is the Day
and many more... 
   
Cock E.S.P. has performed at:
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)
DienstBar (Berlin)
Dodorama (Rotterdam)
Empty Bottle (Chicago)
First Avenue (Minneapolis)
Flor y Canto Community Center (LA)
Knitting Factory (New York)
Know Name Records (Minneapolis)
L'usine (Geneva)
Maine College of Art (Portland)
Missouri University (Columbia)
MIT (Cambridge)
North Six (Brooklyn)
Room 710 (Austin)
Samfundet (Trondheim)
School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
Soap Factory (Minneapolis)
University of Chicago (Chicago)
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis)
and many more... 


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