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Glenn Branca and Elliott Sharp: "We are the Reality of this Cyberpunk Fantasy"

Mark Dery, Mondo 2000, 1991

GLENN BRANCA and Elliott Sharp philosophize with a hammer. And an anvil. And a stirrup. The two New York composers take Friedrich Nietzsche, who subtitled an essay "How One Philosophizes with a Hammer", a step further. They make music that jangles the bones of the inner ear and bruises the brain.

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