34 Years and a Hundred Seven-Inch Records Later, John Wiese is a Prolific Noise Master

If you've been steadily making music for the last 13 years, you probably have a good handful of albums to show for it. If you've been steadily making noise music for the last 13 years, however, your discography is teeming with releases: limited-edition cassettes with handmade covers sewn from your grandmother's tatted lace and thrifted psychedelic baby blanket, CD-R's cleverly packaged in felted DVD cases, 3-inch CDs no one has the technology to play, and those are just the special ones because there are a ton more from collabs with all your friends. John Wiese takes the cake in this department, as today marks the release of his 100th seven-inch in 34 years of life. Take a second to ingest that, will you? One hundred. Seven-inches. Who does that?

He's performed with Sun O))), Wolf Eyes, Metalux, Kevin Drumm, Merzbow, Burning Star Core, Cattle Decapitation, etc., though likely if any of these names are familiar to you, you know who John Wiese is and this is all needless background info. Suffice to say that dude's earned every bit of the right to have a big party celebrating his work, as he's not only one unwaveringly prolific bastard, he's also quite good.

Tonight at Family in Los Angeles come marvel at this stack of plastic, as well as its art, as part of a sound installation featuring the 100th release—a one-sided record featuring a single lock-groove. Of course. There's also a book in all this, a hardcover 150-page monograph published by Helicopter (John Wiese's label). "Seven-inches really are the best," he says in the intro, "because, practically speaking, the only thing you can do while they play is listen to them."

100 Seven Inch Records by John Wiese
opening reception October 17, 6 to 9 PM
Family
436 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles

Pre-orders of the book available here.

Originally posted on our big daddy website, VICE.com.

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