While you slowly wake up out of your post-holiday food/family comas in time to prepare for whatever New Year's Eve debauchery you have on the agenda, here's an indispensable Hanson Records "promo" video circa 1997 uploaded straight from the label's mastermind, the great Aaron Dilloway. This collection features some extremely rare performance footage of defunct Michigan projects, both featuring future superstars/mainstays of the 2000's noise underground, Mini-Systems (Nate Young of Wolf Eyes and Anthony Miller, a.k.a. HZMT) and Isis & Werewolves (Dilloway with Steve Kenney, later of Demons, and Andrew W.K., who I believe sits in on drums here) as well as some wonderful homemade films from Beast People (Dilloway, Young, and Twig Harper of Nautical Almanac), Ron Of Japan, and perhaps most fascinatingly to many, an early short film from Andrew W.K. (then going under his full last name of Wilkes-Krier) documenting the absurdist rocker/cult pop figure's uncomfortably bleak early travels through the dirges pof Michigan noise.
HANSON RECORDS Promo Video 1997 from Hanson Records on Vimeo.
Kids these days... Err, those days.
Posted by: raga | December 30, 2011 at 12:09 PM
Hey Paul..Thanks for posting this! Actually that was me playing drums on the Isis & Werewolves track and AWK was playing synth w/ Steve on guitar feedback.
Thanks again!
-Dilloway
Posted by: Aaron Dilloway | February 01, 2012 at 07:04 PM