Abstinence

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Name: Abstinence
Location: Brooklyn, New Jersey, USA
Years Active: 1985 - present
Label: s6k Media, Furnace Records, Silent Records
Current Members: Darryl Hell, John Bechdel, Deftly-D

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'Abstinence' is an experimental industrial project founded in 1985 in Belmar, NJ, now based in Brooklyn. Its sound ranges from bombastic to noise, ambient soundtrack to earbleeding powertool squeals. All in a lush tapestry of video/audio dialog and sound-samples.

Since 1985, Abstinence has created experimental industrial music that follows in the traditions of the Beats, the Dada movement, the Futurism (art), the raw vision of punk rock, the origins of industrial music, the freedom of the experimental art movement and the eternal global human rights art movement.

Abstinence utilizes tunnels, decommissioned military bases, warehouses, bathrooms, abandoned buildings, basements, freeway underpasses and various indoor/outdoor environments as sound laboratories to create unique soundscapes that coalesce with powertools, a variety of traditional analog / digital instrumentation and bombastic percussion.

Their lyrics and audio/video samples are focused on demystifying the political and societal world in which we live.

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  • Level 7 appears on the soundtrack to Backyard Glances Alva Skateboards (1987)
  • Multiple Cross Wounds unreleased video (1991)

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