blackmaps is a Tokyo and London based independent label focussing on high end music driven content produced with acute attention to detail and presented as collectable works.With recorded sound at its core, blackmaps expands the parameters of the record label, with its focus dilating from music to experimental film, private press literature, design commissions, textile works, events and beyond. 
blackmaps（ブラックマップス）とはロンドンと東京をベースにするインディペンデントレーベル。音楽をその中心としながらも、新たなクリエイティブ集団としてフィルム、イラストレーションそしてデザイン作品までを手掛けるなどその活動範囲は多岐に渡る。


In 1979 RSkott ( Richard Scott Rusch )began making noise out of high school playing guitar in a punk rock band from Port Huron,Michigan called the ‘Decline’. Influenced by artists like Dome,TG,Spk,MB and Whitehouse he started recording under the name ‘Screw Machine’(the name coming from his factory job as a Screw Machine operator).After meeting Lon C Diehl, the two formed S/M Operations. They soon formed (with Carl Nordstrom) the pioneering American Industrial band HUNTING LODGE.
Scott performed and recorded with HUNTING LODGE until the late ‘80’s. He later performed and recorded under the names Demolition Addiction and ULTRAWIPE.
After moving to Los Angeles in the early ‘90’s Skott  recorded with John Napier( Ethyl Meatplow ) on the ECOLI release, ‘To Drool’.
In 1998 he joined the Los Angeles space rock band FARFLUNG. He co-wrote and played guitar on FARFLUNG’s 2000 release, ‘When Science Fails’,and wrote with FF, the song ‘9 Pin Body’.
While in FARFLUNG, Skott  and  Grenas made recordings under the name FERMALOY.  During this time he also played and  recorded with Nik Turner( Hawkwind ) and Hans Joachim Roedelius( Cluster ).His  guitar treatments can also be found on the Lydia Lunch w/the Anubian Lights release, ’Champagne,Cocaine&Nicotine Stains 
This Soundcloud page represents  past and present recordings.. 


Expression thru chance/Surrender to chance/Play the dice man roll your own questions on any street corner/Play safe only when it is dangerous to do so/Rip up all your tomorrows throw the pieces into the air/Let them flow follow the heart.  
Tuned for more exciting news...

Discography

Grace  2020
Eudaemonia  2019
David Stephenson 2018
I Become Disaster 2017
High Lonesome 2011
Stereo Side Two  2010
It's All In Your Head 2001

 "David is a great post-protopunk-singer/songwriter-with a dash of industrial-upper-Midwest-infused-drum-machined-mayhem-but-with-soul."  DJ Paul Critz, KFUG Radio. 

Songwriters who have that way with words, that ability to make any phrase sound like rock 'n' roll, they're always interesting, no matter what they're saying or what key it's being said in.  David Stephenson has it!

Honest music, chock full of beautiful mistakes, created in the basements and dive bars of the world, while young souls pile into the microphone and spill beer into my effects pedals. Played loud, recorded to Analog tape. 

The Ataris new album "The Graveyard of the Atlantic" will be released early 2012 on Paper + Plastick.

Add http://facebook.com/theataris for tour dates, merchandise and correspondence. 
Thank you.


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