The Violet Grind

The Violet Grind started in 1997 but the concept has been around since 1992. Gary (the main member of TGV) has claimed over 30 D.I.Y. cassette and CD releases worldwide. He's an active member in the California noise/experimental community and even though the Violet Grind is no more, Gary has entered a new project (with members of CTC, Sunshine Terror Sound, Mechinist and Conure) called Imperial Flower Assault Unit, which is heavily influenced by Japanese culture. We here at Childish thank Gary for his contribution to the Childish catalog, "Jazz Wind-chimes" an hour long journey into unseachable realms of noise.

Discography (as The Violet Grind):

~CASSETTES:~
-"The Violet Grind" c45 [June97-out of print]
-"On the Rim of a Blackhole" c60 [Violet Produkt-Sept97]
-"Wolves Bane" c60 [Violet Produkt-Sept97]
-split c60 w/FACIALMESS [Sept97]
-split c60 w/STATIC INSECT [Sept97-Violet Produkt]
-split c60 w/ORIGAMI REPLIKA [Nov97-Violet Produkt]
-split c60 w/X-ZUMMER "Riot Tactics" [Nov97-Violet Produkt]
-split c26 w/Chlamydia Test Cloud {ltd.82/out of print} [Mar98-Melody Breaker]
-split c20 w/ONQ+STOQ [Mar98-Chupa Verga-SSS]
-split tape #2 w/DARUIN [Mar98-Violet Produkt]
-"Pyston" c60 {ltd.372} [Apr98-Scrotum Records]
-collab c60 w/EHI "A Paper So Thin" [Apr98-FDR Tapes]
-collab c10 w/PAGE 27 {ltd.27/out of print} [Apr98-Violet Produkt]
-collab c? w/Charles Bascomb,CTC and .W.O.N."Shifty Thrifty",June98-Melody Breaker
-"Ballad For The Republic" c46 {ltd.50} [July98-Ultra]
-split c60 x2 w/ODAL/MISERY/CTC {ltd.50/special package} [Aug98-MB/VP joint release]
-"Caution" c30 {ltd.20/special package/out of print} [Oct98-Violet Produkt]
-"Bombs Away" c10+c20+28pg booklet {ltd.7/out of print} [Oct98-Violet Produkt]
-collab c90 w/THE TEASHOP MADMAN "While I Was Talking on the Telephone"
[Nov98-Dedfuk Records]
-split c60 w/AMES SANGLANTES [Nov98-Violet Produkt]
-"Sex Magick 999" c60 {ltd.30} [Nov98-JTY Tapes/Library of Porn]
-split c46 w/RIPIT [Nov98-Scrotum Records]
-collab c60 w/CTC "Grinding Against the Sun: the Expansion of Negative Light" [Nov98-Let It Rot]
-collab w/MOURMANSK 150 "Noise Dildos" [Dec98-Violet Produkt bootleg]
-"The Violet Grind blows up CTC with C4 explosives" c4 x5 {only 1 made}
-split w/DARUIN #3 (c47) [Jan99-Violet Produkt]
-"Nano-Tech" c60 [Jan99-Noise...In Theory and Practice]
-split c60 w/MONOBRAIN [Feb99-Hogsplash]
-split c60 w/ARMENIA [Feb99-Bizarre Audio Arts]
-split c60 w/ ROCHEL[Apr99-Future Zoundz]
-split w/PRAYING FOR OBLIVION "The Great Serpent" c40 [Apr99-Android Prod]
-split w/ORANGE JESUS c60 [May99-Verbrannte Erde Prod]
-collab w/MOURMANSK 150 "Noise Dildos Love Pussy" c20 [June99-Violet Produkt]
-split c60 w/NEXUS 6 [June99-Churn Tapes]
-split c60 w/PROTOTYPE EARTHBORNE [June99-FDR/Public Eyesore]
-"Jazz Wind-Chimes" c60 [August99 Childish Tapes]
-TVG vs. CIPHER UTOPIA/THE END split c60 [Oct99-TRONIKS]
~CDs~
-"Wolf Window" [Sept97-NEUS-318]
-split w/DARUIN [Mar98-NEUS-318]
-"N'Existe Pas" [May98-Menschenfiend Productions]
-"Flying Fox" [June98-NEUS-318]
-split w/MOURMANSK 150 "Claustrophobic Violence"{special package}[Nov98-NEUS-318]
-"SAMIZDAT" split w/RIPIT & MOURMANSK 150 [Oct99-Violet Produkt/Riposte/NZP]
~COMPILATIONS:~
-"Power Grid #1" c90 [Feb98-Violet Produkt]
-"fabrik compilationI: rator" c60 x2{booklet/special package}[Mar98-Noiseweb: F a b r i k]
-"Entartete Musik" c90 x2 {special package/ltd.100} [June98-New Noise]
-"Tape Heads #1" c90 [July98-Hal Tapes]
-"Compilation Vol.1" CD [July98-NEUS-318]
-"I Hate Noise Compilations" c60 [Sept98-Public Demand Cassettes]
-"Willpower Report #1" c60 [Sept98-Public Demand Cassettes]
-"the ICE compilation" c60 {ltd.50} [Sept98-Arctique Records]
-"Energy Directed Inward" c90+booklet [Oct98-Inner Space]
-"Compilation vol.2" CD [Nov98-NEUS-318]
-"The Cult of .W.O.N." CD [Jan99-Menschenfiend Productions]
-"Power Grid #2" c60 [Feb99-Violet Produkt]
-"Underground 6 Way Split #1" c90 [Feb99-Neo Barbaric]
-"Madness Incarnate 1" c90+booklet [Feb99-Verbrannte Erde Productions]
-"No Way For 8" c120 [Apr99-Riposte]
-"Out of Love Compilation #1" c60 x5 [June99-Out Of Love Records]
-"Freiheit: The Noise Revolution" CD [July99-Hermetik Museum]
-"Noise Conglomerate" c90 [July99-Anti-Everything]
-"Hearing Collateral Damage" c60 [Aug99-Violet Produkt]
-"dilatazioni vol.2" c90 [Aug99-Rarefazioni Uterine]
-"Compilation #5" CD [Aug99-NEUS-318]
-"God's Children 2" CD [Oct99-Novaya Zemlya Prod]
-"Shit Kebab" CD + 'Zine [Aug99-Jazzasin]

contact:

2605 San Carlos Ave.
San Carlos CA.
94070

information taken with persmisson from the violet grind site TVG