Omit

I have to thank a reader for turning me on to this obscure kiwi noise artist (I unfortunately can't remember your name, but if you read this, contact me and I will mention you up here). I rarely check out musical tips such as these as I prefer to find my own way through the massive realm of underground music. Even in this case it took me a while to actually listen to any of Omit's work, long enough to temporarily forget the artist name, but eventually, after a recent obsessive need for noise music, I fell upon a few downloadable albums on the net and decided to finally give it a try... Holy fuck! This is some of the bleakest, most detached and desolate noise I've ever heard and yet it is all so tastefully and artistically executed that it is impossible not to be blown away the artist's vision.

The artist in question is one Clinton Williams. Active since the late eighties and releasing a few handfuls of homemade tapes and lathe cuts throughout the nineties (all sporting Omit's wonderfully unique and often complex, retro-futuristic and alien artwork), his persistent unwillingness to promote his own works has kept him under the radar throughout his entire career, making him an obscure cult favorite enjoyed by only a selected few. This headstrong career choice is possibly explained by rumors of Williams being a misanthropic recluse who worked as a complete hermit for several years before his peculiar recordings eventually were noticed outside of his cave.

Using homemade electronic equipment, tons of effects pedals, field recordings and the odd instrument, Omit has created some of the most achingly beautiful, yet downcast sound worlds out there. His world often has that outsider art appeal where the odd presentation might seem bewildering at first, but upon closer inspection, reveals crystal clear human emotions of a soul crushed by the weight of the world. There is a powerful honesty in these somber soundscapes (think Jandek with a better grasp on mood) that I've rarely heard out there. Don't let yourselves be discouraged by the gritty and often hostile facade of this man's music, behind it all is an artistic vision unlike anything you've ever heard. One might hear a few influences in Williams' sound, Throbbing Gristle comes to mind, but how he twists and mangles these into a wholly new entity is incredibly fascinating to say the least.

Intromit Label: Deepskin Conceptual Mind Music Release: 1989 Format: CS Cat. no: None
Song list:
Damn It (1:24) In Terms Of Life And Death (6:39) Discs (1:57) High Density (1:20) Wavering Minds Part 3 (1:22) ?Excerpt From Tape Two (2:31) ?Excerpt From Tape One (1:19) One Afternoon (2:13) Wavering Minds Part One (2:21) The Jaw (1:22) Ten (1:56) Guts (0:59) Excerpt From Domestic Recordings (2:19) Excerpt From Metric Capacity Of Nosie (sic) On Easter Monday (1:02) Ukelele Experiment (0:38) Excerpt From Domestic Recordings (0:59) Quarter To 12 On A Saturday Night (1:37) Small Angry Insect (0:27) Excerpt From The Repetitive Industrial Nightmare (The Workers Dream) (28:14)

Overcast Label: Deepskin Conceptual Mind Music Release: 1989 Format: CS Cat. no: None
Song list:
Overcast The Water (30:43) Endless Thought (30:53)

Alienation Label: Deepskin Conceptual Mind Music Release: 1989 Format: CS Cat. no: None
Song list:
Section: One. Part: One. (31:33) Section: Two. Part: Two. (31:32)

Internal Label: Deepskin Conceptual Mind Music Release: 1990 Format: CS Cat. no: None
Song list:
Section: One. Part: One. (30:16) Section: Two. Part: Two. (30:17)

Fluid Label: Deepskin Conceptual Mind Music Release: 1992 Format: CS Cat. no: None
Song list:
Section One: Thixotropy (The Inners Of My Skull Turn To A Thick Warm Fluid) (9:52) Section One: Agglutination (2:22) Section One: Floation To Rest (Absorbtion Of The Liquid Mind) (2:54) Section One: Corrosive Liquids (9:04) Section One: The Last Act Before Dissolving (In The Fall Of Trapped Localization Of An Awareness Becomes Even More Apparent) (5:50) Section Two: Eluent Immersion (4:10) Section Two: Drowning In Tubes (10:48) Section Two: Bloated Swollen Liquid Vessels (2:08) Section Two: The Rotating Cylinder (Container Of Oppression To Which Is Outwardly Denied) (4:11) Section Two: Consuming Soft Matted Masses (2:36) Section Two: The Sleepless Fluid (The Suffocation Of The Restless This Process Of Realization Was Never A Inhibition) (6:00)

Transmogrification Label: Deepskin Conceptual Mind Music Release: 1992 Format: CS Cat. no: None
Song list:
Section One: Premetamorphosis: The Misrepresentation (Observation Of The Primordial) (2:14) Defusing The Infection Of Control (2:38) The Beginning Of Compression Amplified By Dislocation (1:38) The Crossover (Unfed First Stage Larva)/(The Descent Towards Total Metamorphosis As In The Elimination Of Perspective. The Transformation Remains Incomplete. The Lives Of The Living Are Lost. The Forcing Of The Unfit. The Completion Of The Lifeless Is To Be Dragged Away For The Establishment Of Symbiosis) (7:34) Symbiosis (Living In The Remains) (0:51) Hypermetamorphic Fragmented Realization: A) Engorged First Stage - B) Soliciting Proximity - C) Regurgitation (Second Stage Larva) - D) Accretion (Third Stage Larva) - E) Reconstruction Of The Final Resolution - F) Upsurge/Below Verification (15:00) Section Two: Transformation: Infraction (Active Fourth Stage Larva) (5:23) Pupation (Engorged Fifth Stage Larva/The Breaking Point Of Metamorphosis) (4:40) Interaction Of The Cyclopoid Larva (2:52) Inoculation (Active Sixth Stage Larva Breeding Below The Representable Level Of Awareness) (1:43) Section Three: Postmetamorphosis: Eclosion (6:10) Sub-Degradation (First Grouping Of Metamorphic Values) (1:56) Incrustation (Second Stronger Grouping Inducing Formation Of A New Central Division) (1:41) Enburrowment (The Obligation/Rectification Of The Primordial) (5:07)

Retraction Label: Stomach Ache Records Release: 1993 Format: 7" Cat. no: SA-021
Song list:
Section One: First Stage: Pre-Gain (The Rise Of Disbelief) (1:48) Section One: Second Stage: Low-Depth (Reclaiming The Lost Retribution) (1:43) Section One: Third Stage: Down-View (Speculation to Replace The Main Trasngression) (3:56) Section Two: Fourth Stage: Sub-Retraction (Deduction From The Mind) (6:25) Section Two: Fifth Stage: Neo-Traction (Of The Beginning To The Point Of End) (1:09)

Quad
Label: Deepskin Conceptual Mind Music
Release: 1994
Format: 2CS
Cat. no: None

Song list:

CS 1 (Section One & Two):

Unit One: The Cross Fade (The Turning Point To A Cross Fade In A Carpark) (12:29)
Unit One: The Outcast (Rejection Enforcement Takes Hold) (3:24)
Unit One: The Rut (The Point Of Recall Is No Longer The Grasp Of Stability As A Result Direction Can Never Be The Same) (7:05)
Unit Two (Inner Base Unit One): Restrain (Point One) (2:01)
Unit Two (Inner Base Unit One): Recess (Point Two) (3:52)
Unit Two (Inner Base Unit One): Release (Point Three) (Myself Beyond The Point As A Real Person In Three Points) (2:15)
Unit Two (Outer Base Unit One): Self-Seperation Through Dislocation (State One) (6:34)
Unit Two (Outer Base Unit One): Self-Seperation Through Dislocation (State Two) (3:38)
Unit Two (Outer Base Unit One): Release Of Dislocation (State Three) (Absent Forms Without Any Resentment) (1:02)
Unit Two (Outer Base Unit One): Release Of Dislocation (Through Depseration) (State Four) (One Road Leads To Another But Never At The Same Forseeable Way; The Carpark Is A Lie, The Formation Of The Release Is A Catch) (3:30)
Unit Three: The Turning Point (The Cycle Continues In One Direction) (4:44)
Unit Three: Towards The Centre (Out Across Both Ways Before Or After There Is No Difference) (2:01)
Unit Three: Birth Of Fade Out (At 6AM On A Sunday Morning) (3:41)
Unit Three: Remissions Of Self-Separation Through Dislocation (1:51)
Unit Three (Outer Base Unit Two): Seclusion (Outlook One) (1:46)
Unit Three (Outer Base Unit Two): Reclusions (Outlook Two) (From The Walls Of Seclusion) (2:07)
Unit Three (Outer Base Unit Two): Reference Outside (Outlook Three) (3:31)
Unit Three: 1st Divider (In The State Of Three Doors The Bridging Of One Thought Direction Is To Remain Yet To Another; To Each Former Outlook, The Perspective Becomes Even More Abstracted Beyond Any Internal Level.) (2:59)
Unit Four: The State Of Change (Hallway To The Kitchen) (3:02)
Unit Four: 2nd Divider (The Divider Of The Hall Outside The Foundations Of The Kitchen) (2:01)
Unit Four: 8.30PM (On A Saturday Night The Kitchen Aids Remission In The Short Fall Into The Realm Of Obscurity, Well Before Any Outside Interference) (3:18)
Unit Four: The 1st Self-less Reflection (5:34)
Unit Four: 9.26PM (Re-Birth Of Self Within The Lifeform Of The Kitchen, Forgetting All Past Experienced Cycles) (2:29)
Unit Four: The 2nd Self-Less Reflection (6:34)

CS 2 (Section Three & Four):

Unit Five: Resectioned From Despair (Lost At The Opening From A Location Without Breathing) (3:29)
Unit Five: The 3rd Self-Less Reflection (The Breathing Of One Extension Now Closes In On Itself, Beyond That Is Nothing) (5:22)
Unit Five (Inner Base Unit Two): End-Dip (Mind Odyssey/State One) (Lost Of Any Relation To A Degree Of State, The Flow Moves Onwards) (5:10)
Unit Five (Inner Base Unit Two): The Act (Mind Odyssey/State Two) (Sub-Movement Towards The Re-Enactment Until A Point Of Unrecognisable Sickness Overrides And The Premonition Breaks Down As Before Into A Mass Of Unresolved Emotions) (8:48)
Unit Six: Odyssey To Fade-Out (Mind Odyssey/State Three) (Standing From The Back Of A Carpark To The Drop Out Of All Life; The Systems Of Compulsion, One Move Sucks To Another, The Self Of Formations As To The Point One's Self In One Major Direction. It Is A Move To Total Inner Selfless Insight; The Meaningless Flow Of Movement No One Vehicle Can Be Contained As A Factor To The End Drive Of A Carpark. If Any Need Exists Then It Is A Need That Is Compounded. This Passage Can No Longer Be Sustained. Disillusioned By A Growing Emptiness That Invalidates All Past reference. The Reconnection Now Becomes Impossible To A Point Of Moving In Or Straightening Out Now Becomes A Dimension Of The Same movement.) (23:09)
Unit Seven: The Fade Out (In The Black State All Direction Is Lost Void To All Extensions Inside The Four Walls Of Selfless Contraction, Closing Down All Aspects Of Drive To A Point Of Decimation. There Nothing Remains As Relevant.) (10:43)
Unit Seven: Gun-Down (Objecive Aggression With The Aid Of A Rifle. The Taking Out Of All Meaning, The Breaking Of All Self-Control.) (5:57)
Unit Seven: Sub-Fadeback (The Loss Of Control Now Takes Over; The Beginning Of The present Out-State Cannot Continue Onward. There Will Be Only Decay.) (6:12)
Unit Eight: The Lost State (Entropy/Descent Back To The Carpark, As An intervention To Dissolution. The Beginning Of The Lost State Throughout One Long Transgression To Another; There Was No Real Difference From One To The Other.) (12:24)

Appendix (Absolution):

Egress (Towards Retraction Of All Points) (4:06)
The Final Call (Resectioned Towards The Drive To Cross Fade, Before Absorption.) (6:11)

The Invision State Label: Trinder Music Release: 1994 Format: 7" lathe cut Cat. no: None
Song list:
Section One: First Stage: Negative Evaluation (Towards The Instep Of Location To Despair, To The Progressive Development Of Parasitical Mind Forms Of The Reprogressive Birth Of Pathogenesis) (4:02) Section One: Second Stage: The Edge Of Pointlessness (To The Moving Of The Hollowed Floor Plane Of An Internal Mind. There Flows Something Quite Undefinable) (2:02) Section Two: Third Stage: The Pretence Of Value (I've Watched A Thousand Pointless Lives Fade From The Balance Of Total Absurdity To The Great Edge Of A Vast Downfall) (1:51) Section Two: Fourth Stage: Conscious Standpoint (It Was Never Said, Never Stated. I Let It Get The Better Of Me Again) (4:25)

Rundowns Label: Deepskin Conceptual Mind Music Release: 1995 Format: CS Cat. no: None
Song list:
Section One: Run-Down Type; One (15:23) Section One: Run-Down Type; Two (15:25) Section Two: Run-Down Type; Three (15:12) Section Two: Run-Down Type; Four (15:13)

Deformed Label: Corpus Hermeticum Release: 1996 Format: CD Cat. no: HERMES016
Song list:
Unti One: The Rising Of Massed Deformities (Sway Out Of Control In So Damaging Themselves Upon A Raised Platform Of Barbed Hooks Fading Out Into Feedback) (16:25) Unit Two: Part I: Calling Master Aliboron (For A Jug Of Wine) (6:41) Unit Two: Part II: I Was Already Waiting For You Forever (7:19) Unit Three: Black Shaft Depletion (12:23) Unit Four: The Malformation Of Lost Territory (Post-Depletion) (15:11) Appendix: Sub-Unit One: Resumes Offscreen (1:42) Sub-Unit Two: Disordered (2:29) Sub-Unit Three: Disordered Throwback (2:50) Sub-Unit Four: The Dispersal Of Signals Now Fall Into Blackness (3:55)

Interior Desolation Label: Corpus Hermeticum Release: 1997 Format: CD Cat. no: HERMES030
Song list:
Section; One: Solitary Disembarkment [A Decay In Modern Civilization Pushed Forward To A Point In A Never Ending Fall. File Past A Thousand Empty-Like People In The Time Of Just One Day. Move-Ing Forever Forward In A Endless Progression] (23:04) Section; Two [Interior Formations Types One To Six]: Type; One [Stationary Movement] [The Death Of Individualism At The Expense Of Progression] (2:40) Section; Two [Interior Formations Types One To Six]: Type; Two [The Backdown] [Overpowered Into The Place Of Defeat] (7:44) Section; Two [Interior Formations Types One To Six]: Type; Three [Mimesis] [Missed Changes In The field Of Desolation] (2:03) Section; Two [Interior Formations Types One To Six]: Type; Four [Overflow] [The Dip Before Unfolding And Uncontainable In Any Direction. From Location To Location The Destination Is Forced Into Something Uncontainable] (2:27) Section; Two [Interior Formations Types One To Six]: Type; Five [Unfaithful Resolution] [Is A Lie Only The Continuation Will Survive] (2:40) Section; Two [Interior Formations Types One To Six]: Type; Six [The Screw] [Last Steps Towards Withdrawal] (9:37) Section; Three: The Withdrawal [The defeat Of Minimalism On The Outside Of Any communication Is Inconclusive] (23:48)

Zero
Label: Deepskin Conceptual Mind Music
Release: 1997
Format: 2X7" lathe cut
Cat. no: None

Song list:

7" 1:

Section One: Decent Towards A Cycle Like Futility (5:04)
Section Two: Foothold Lost (2:05)
Section Two: The Exhalation Of The Null Outline/Inline (1:08)
Section Two: Pre-Zero (The Growing Of The Grey) (2:19)

7" 2:

Section Three: Null-Matrix (4:03)
Section Three: Total Zero (1:42)
Section Four: The Falling First, Into Futility (1:25)
Section Four: From Zero To Nullism (4:10)

Complacency/Dissipation Label: Deepskin Conceptual Mind Music Release: 1997 Format: 7" lathe cut Cat. no: None
Song list:
Section; One. Two Forms Of Enddurance/Reclammation. Form One. Pathos (Seclusion) (4:20) Section; One. Two Forms Of Enddurance/Reclammation. Form Two. Succumber Irresolution (1:09) Section; Two. Two Forms Of Circumstance/Renunciation. Form Three. Vexed Overthrow (2:05) Section; Two. Two Forms Of Circumstance/Renunciation. Form Four. Part; One. Soliciting Disposition (2:18) Section; Two. Two Forms Of Circumstance/Renunciation. Form Four. Part; Two. Pathos Intemperate (1:05)

Transfusions Label: Deepskin Conceptual Mind Music Release: 1999 Format: CS Cat. no: None
Song list:
Section One: Type One: A)...14/5/98 Thusday 8;50PM - F)...17/5/98 Sunday 2;50PM (14:38) Section One: Type Two: D)...16/5/98 Saturday 4;16PM - H)...17/5/98 Sunday 4;55PM (14:40) Section Two: Type Three: C)...16/5/98 Saturday 3;15PM - I)...18/5/98 Monday 2;15PM (14:59) Section Two: Type Four: B)...15/5/98 Friday 8;15PM - E)...16/5/98 Saturday 8;20PM (14:31)

Rejector Label: Anomalous Records Release: 2001 Format: CD Cat. no: NOM19
Song list:
Bridge Rectifier (8:24) Uniselector (3:29) Full Relay (3:17) Timer-Run (4:08) Divider (4:04) Isolator (6:23) A/D Unit (3:19) Pivot Cycle (3:46) Rejector (7:26) Nanoput (9:24) Shell (3:54) Ripple (6:51) Bistable (3:16)

Tracer
Label: The Helen Scarsdale Agency
Release: 2005
Format: 2CD
Cat. no: HMS 005

Song list:

CD 1:

Sequester (20:54)
De-Trop (3:08)
Hex-Shader (2:34)
Rhythm Shift (4:54)
Decayer (3:02)
Din Shader (2:48)
Slip Link (3:11)
Tooper-Flex (4:29)
Mini-Trop (2:10)
Seq-Viod (1:34)
Rip Flex (3:05)
Syn Flex Dump (9:10)

CD 2:

Clicker (7:45)
Din-Cycle (2:55)
Link-Op (10:09)
EQ-Shader (3:21)
Tapper Flex (8:53)
Bug-Capper (2:12)
Pro-Hiss (6:17)
Flick (3:30)
Dinker Trop (3:23)
Eska-Flex (2:17)
Hisstronic (9:06)

Interceptor
Label: The Helen Scarsdale Agency
Release: 2008
Format: 2CD
Cat. no: HMS 012

Song list:

CD 1:

Disruptor (5:30)
DropSite (2:01)
LockNut Shadow (9:49)
Location Becon (10:03)
UNstable Rotor (3:36)
Lopper (5:33)
ReBiluDer Unmounted (6:23)
POD 4 Lander (5:18)
Blanker (2:54)
ReManagement System (8:25)
Soft Iron Core (6:38)
InPut Lander (3:36)

CD 2:

Loop ReBounder (3:28)
DeKKcaPOD (3:21)
OutPut Bender (3:04)
SideBand (1:50)
Skimmer (3:42)
HorZtial Tracking SyStem (13:27)
Transmitter LoGGer (9:46)
Drop PROcess Operator (8:27)
ToTal Point Failure (4:04)
Lander (4:33)
WaveForm Rider (10:03)
Rigged OutPut (3:06)