Cock E.S.P.

After briefly toying with a trio line-up including Robin Edgerton, Hammeroids and Hagstrom abruptly decided to change both name and stylistic direction by joining the noise sub-genre one critic dubbed "junk-noise." The premise of junk-noise rests on the fact that the noise music genre itself had run its course. Built as a free-form sonic amalgam of the most shocking and chaotic of 20th Century avant-garde art movements - futurism, dada and abstractism to name a few, noise music soon reached such an extreme level that it became hard to imagine any further exploration in this direction. The solution for forward-thinking noise artists was to break new ground in presentation rather than sound. Acts such as The Hanatarash, Violent Onsen Geisha, The Gerogerigegege, Smell & Quim, Emil Beaulieau and Evil Moisture abandoned the typical cover art, themes and performance styles of noise - a rather dry mixture of industrial and new music themes - in favor of approaches using varying degrees of humor and absurdity. Cock E.S.P., the title of a Hanatrash song, was chosen as the new band name as the duo explored comic noise and challenged the prevailing attitudes of more serious and traditional noise acts. A prime example of the noise produced during these years is the CD "Greatest Dicks," released by RRRecords under their Pure imprint.

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