Pulseblack is an uncensored publishing company for music, art, and books. Pulseblack is the home of the MekaDisko, Go Fight, Die Warzau, Bailigero, Everplastic, and more artists.
For the last 25 years, Pulseblack has served as the expression of art, music, writing, performance and more for drk artists working on the edge of their disciplines in industrial, Aggro, Dark Wave, and other edge genres. Pulseblack doesn't censor artists and prefers to not cut art in order to meet the temporary needs of the market.
Years ago, I found myself working on a project - a band - named Sister Machine Gun. We were doing a single called "Nothing." I really liked the mixes and felt like we did something that was going to hit the right people the right way. I, personally, had no illusions that it would be a radio friendly song. But for the dancefloor, for alternative venues, for people to blast at hundreds of db at home, it was going to work.
When it came out, the distributing record label had bleeped every single instance from every version, of the word "fuck". In my mind, the song was completely ruined. It wasn't just on a radio mix, tailored to that format, but on every one.
I was so distraught. In order to make this song palatable for the 3 or 4 times it might ever be on the radio, it was ripped apart and ruined for the thousands of times it might be enjoyed by a fan, at home, who didn't give a fuck if it said fuck.
From that moment, I wanted to have my own label where nothing like that would ever happen. I wanted a vehicle where people were free to hear what they wanted to hear. and the people who would never like that art just never had to hear it.
I know that what I do is for a limited audience. But I love that audience. I don't have any interest in big expansive audiences that have massive restrictions on what they are willing to hear and process. If they are going to be offended by any of these, I don't want them to have to hear it, or see it.
Sometimes a smaller audience is better.
The right audience.
