Industrial, Breakcore, drum n bass Boris Otterdam
OTTERDAM INFLUENCES PART 7: IT TAKES A CITY OF ONE MILLION TO HOLD US BACK

Just a collection of Perth electronic musicians who influenced me and in some cases, came up alongside me. Peers as well as influences. Some from my old label 8-Bit Recordings, some from ENDE Records, somefrom Hardline Rekordingz and some that I lived and played shows with.

By the end of the 1990s. Perth Western Australia, "The world's most isolated city", a city of around 1 million people, 7 skyscrapers and lead by a mostly repressive Government, was beginning to warm to electronic music - beyond DJing.
Well..not exactly. But the end of the 90s did see an explosion in local original electronic acts as well as DJs. Dance Music was still not exactly massive and Perth was still mostly a rock n roll town but there were pockets of electronic producers around the city. By the end of the century in fact. The beats and breaks were poised to takeover. House, trance and typically commercial styles of techno were gasping for air in a city that was overdosing on drum n bass, jungle and hip hop. Perth was obsessed with breakbeat styles. Pubs were hosting jungle DJs, The Drum Club was becoming a weekly regular and alternative clubs were dropping more and more big beat and drum n bass. The most famous example of the product of this culture was a two piece drum n bass act formed by two friends from the metal scene who would later add local dnb DJ El Hornet and become the mega dnb act "Pendulum". Easily the most obvious example of Perth's love of the drums along with hip hop act Downsyde.

In 1998 after getting into noise and experimental music. I started attending noise shows regularly as well as eventually hosting some of these acts in my own shows. The Perth Goth/Industrial scene that had inspired me a few years previously was something I was attending nights for fairly regularly now that I was older and moved out of home. Some of the bands that had inspired me had folded and some like Cell 7 were still going. Eventually I met other likeminded fans of industrial, electronic music and the darker side of techno at alternative clubs, goth clubs, noise nights and punk shows. In 1998, The Perth Industrial scene pooled their interests and released a compilation called "Black Paradigm" which collected some of the remaining industrial and dark electronic acts like Hogans Anti-Heroes, Cambion, Biomekanik, and Red Kerb Kiss (some of which I've already played in previous podcasts). The Perth Industrial scene and the noise scene were the places you could mostly see the weirder glitch and ambient electronic artists, or maybe doing a short set at a rave or local electronic show at an inner city pub venue.

In the new century. The digital electronic music revolution had firmly arrived. In these clubs, gigs and local happenings I met groups like Chrism and Fenris, Gate and Zoo Transmissions. The sight of PCs being dragged on stage and harder, breakbeat and glitch oriented techno styles was at first resisted by the cool local media (A Bubblehead website review described an act as "who wants to see two goths chain smoking and right clicking their mouses?").
Spurned, in particular by some sections of the Perth industrial scene. The new breed had arrived and were inspired more by the likes of Squarepusher and Autechre than by Skinny Puppy and Nine Inch Nails.

THE LAST NINJA - THE LAST NINJA
DEADCODE - GUILTY (EXTENDED VERSION)
MODEX - DEG LOG AMBI
FRAGILE NINE - SUBHUMAN
PSELODUX - RESOL9
CUNTAG - OLE
BLING CROSBY - THE SAME
NEGATIVE ALPHA INDEX VS ORANGE DUST - GO ALGORITHM
ORANGE DUST - CROOKED ACID
CAMBION - T-NIPOLS
JAEK - TAUNTER
ANGRY TEENAGERS WHO WANT TO KILL PEOPLE - SUPERMASSIVE ASSHOLE
TIM JONES AND ELLA RUDLAND - UNTITLED
PENDULUM - VAULT
THE SHREDDER - BORN 2 BREAKCORE
MODULAR - SCISSOR QUIVERS
TEPID - UNTITLED
PSNIFFER - TEAM LEADER
ANUBIS COMPLEX - UNTITLED
STY OF CHRIST - ON SAND (MAYDAY MIX 2001)
BLOODHIVIAN - THE LITTLE BUGS...DIED SLOWLY
BR LOATHSOME - ARRIVAL
ZOO TRANSMISSIONS - LAMPREY
GHOSTSOUL - TWISTED DECAY
OTAKU ROBOT PARTY - SECTION TAPE ONE
DJ WELFARE MOTHER AND MC BELMONT FORUM - DA BOMB
RED KERB KISS - 2 HEADLESS MARY
AUDIO CEPHALON - CALX
HYDRAUL1K - WHY YOU FUCKIN WITH ME
RHYTHM METHODS - SINISTER BASS
VIOLATION - I'M THE WRONG NIGGA
FANATIK - BASSLINE TERROR
THE BLACK CAPTAIN - NO MAD (AUDIO CEPHALON RMX)
ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE - NOW YOU KNOW
PURPLE ERNIE - UNTITLED
MAPMAN - I'M FROM ITALY
JAEK - EATING PEOPLE
PAUL BLACKOUT - ADDICTION
ARKON - LANDWHALE RMX