Contrastate
About Contrastate
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”.
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Breaking The Strawmen
An End Marked By Pessimism
A Live Coal Under The Ashes (Part 1)
The Fingers Of My Foot
A Live Coal Under The Ashes (Part 2)
Poodles In Practice Dress At The Battersea Dogs Opera - Backwards
Perhaps It Comes Out of the Black Sea
Death follows the one eyed cow
Poodles In Practice Dress At the Battersea Dogs Opera (Backwards)
Virophilia
In Absentia
English Embers
Pierre Never Made It
Poodles in Practice Dress at the Battersea Dogs' Opera
Thirst For Knowledge
Altering the Circumstances of Human Life
Like a Saint on a Stake
Northern Twilight
Sleep Little Sister
As Time Began
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Midnight In This Century
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From the Opened Red Lips
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Extract No. 10
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locked inside a dying horse
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