Disques Hushush Inc. (also known as Disques Hushush or more simply as Hushush) is an

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created by Dimitri della Faille (aka recording artist

Szkieve Szkieve is the stage name of Dimitri della Faille (born in Belgium). Szkieve is a pioneering ambient musician and new media artist. He has been performing electronic music, electronic experimental music, experimental and noise music since 1997. I ...

) in

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(

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

. Hushush mainly releases

experimental An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs whe ...

improvisation Improvisation, often shortened to improv, is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found. The origin of the word itself is in the Latin "improvisus", which literally means un-foreseen. Improvis ...

, electroacoustic,

dark ambient Dark ambient (referred to as ambient industrial especially in the 1980s) is a genre of post-industrial musicReed, Alexander: ''Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music'', Oxford University Press, 2013, , p. 190 that features an ominous, ...

and

electronic music Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...

Notable artists

Since 1998, Hushush has released over twenty CD and vinyls from more than thirty artists from

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and

Asia Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The continent, which ...

. Notable artists include

Mick Harris Michael John Harris (born 4 October 1967) is an English musician from Birmingham. He was the drummer for Napalm Death between 1985 and 1991, and is credited for coining the term "grindcore". After Napalm Death, Harris joined Painkiller with Jo ...

Mark Spybey Dead Voices on Air is Mark Spybey's Experimental music, experimental and Industrial music, industrial project formed after his departure from Zoviet France.Lengel, Kerry (December 2, 1999). "Dead Voices' Music Comes Alive", ''The Arizona Republic ...

KK Null , known by his stage name KK Null, is a Japanese experimental multi-instrumentalist active since the early 1980s. He began as a guitarist but learned how to compose, sing, play drums, and create electronic music. He also studied Butoh dance at M ...

Nihilist Spasm Band The Nihilist Spasm Band (NSB) is a Canadian noise band formed in 1965 in London, Ontario. The term " spasm band" refers to a band that uses homemade instruments. Most of the NSB's instruments are modifications of other instruments, or wholly ...

, Reynols, Vromb, Lilith (Scott Gibbons), C-drík,

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Goem Goem (pronounced ) is the electronic music project of Frans de Waard, Peter Duimelinks and Roel Meelkop. Active since 1996, it is one of the most internationally visible projects hailing from the Netherlands. They have about twenty CD and vinyl re ...

Kapotte Muziek Kapotte Muziek is the musical improvisation project of Frans de Waard, Peter Duimelinks and Roel Meelkop. Active since 1984, it is one of the most internationally visible improvisation and experimental projects hailing from the Netherlands. The gr ...

Moonsanto John Sellekaers is a Canadian-born musician and audio mastering engineer. Born in 1973 in Montreal, Quebec he later moved to Brussels, Belgium. Beginning with his project Xingu Hill in the 1990s, he has released over 60 records under various ali ...

Orphx Orphx is a Canadian music duo made up of Rich Oddie and Christina Sealey who perform techno, industrial music, industrial and experimental music. They have performed worldwide and have numerous releases on CD, vinyl and cassette through indie lab ...

, Ambre.

Hed Nod

Hed Nod is a sidelabel from Hushush. The main focus of Hed Nod is to release

downtempo Downtempo (or downbeat) is a broad label for electronic music that features an atmospheric sound and slower beats than would typically be found in dance music. Closely related to ambient music but with greater emphasis on rhythm, the style may ...

hip hop or

illbient Illbient is a genre of electronic music and an art movement that originated among hip hop-influenced experimental musicians from New York City in the early 1990s. The word "illbient" combines the hip hop slang term "ill" and "ambient"; DJ Olive a ...

music, mainly by

Discography

Hushush

*Various Artists - Four Ways Of Saying (CD - 1999) *Szkieve - Des Germes De Quelque Chose (CD - 2000) *Ambre & Mark Spybey - Sfumato (CD - 2001) *Mark Spybey & Mick Harris - Bad Roads, Young Drivers (CD - 2001) *Mick Harris & Ambre - Dys (CD - 2001) *Moonsanto - Dogme (CDEP - 2001) *C-drík - Dissolution (CD - 2001) *K.K. Null - Peak Of Nothingness (CD - 2001) *Moonsanto - Fraud - Hell - Dope (CD - 2001) *Moonsanto - Fraud - Hell - Dope (Pesticides Forever Kit) (CD + Cass + Box - 2001) *Martiens Go Home - Une Occasion De Chute (CD - 2002) *Szkieve - Des Rythmes de Passage (CD - 2003) *Christina Sealey / Richard Oddie / Mark Spybey - SOS (CD - 2003) *Lilith - Imagined Compositions For Water (CD - 2002) *Vromb - Mémoires Paramoléculaires (CD - 2002) *Vromb & Szkieve - Le Pavillon Des Oiseaux / Le Monorail (7" - 2003) *The Nihilist Spasm Band & Reynols - No Borders To No Borders (CD - 2007) *Kapotte Muziek vs. Goem - KGM (CDEP - 2007)

Hed Nod

*Mick Harris - Hed Nod 01 (12" - 1999) *Mick Harris - Hed Nod 02 (12" - 2000) *Mick Harris - Hed Nod 03 (12" - 2000) *Mick Harris - Hed Nod 04 (12" - 2000) *Mick Harris - Having It (CD - 2000) *Various Artists - Low End Recon (CD - 2001)

Others

*Various Artists - Modem Angels (CD - 1999) *Various Artists - Re:cover (CD - 2002)

External links

hushush official websitehushush at Discogs.com
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Notable artists

Hed Nod

Discography

Hushush

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Others

See also

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