Prurient Vinyl

While more recently regarded for his explorations of dance music, Dominick Fernow is better known for his iconic noise project, Prurient. (‘Noise’ being defined by Fernow as “the freedom to explore personal obsession outside of audience and genre.”) Founded in 1997 simultaneously with his own label Hospital Productions, Prurient collaged and assembled diverse and unpredictable sadomasochistic feedback landscapes with signature vocals ranging from whispers to screams over literally hundreds of underground cassettes and limited vinyl records that aroused a cult collector following.

After taking high frequencies and vocals to a maximum conclusion across shows between Europe and the USA, Prurient arrived at a radical mix of Drone, Noise, Industrial, computer music, Punk, and EBM, beginning with Pleasure Ground and culminating in what has been arguably referred to as his definitive statement, Frozen Niagara Falls, released on triple LP in 2015 to critical acclaim.