James / BALF
@balfnoise.bsky.social
BALF
NOISE ARTIST FROM THE NORTH YORKSHIRE COAST.
RELEASES OUT NOW ON INDUSTRIAL COAST INCLUDING SPLIT W/ QUIET HUSBAND & COLLAB WITH WREN ADOBE.
James
Dad of two.
Weird music lover.
Teacher for Post-16 SEND & SEMH.
https://linktr.ee/BALFNOISE
NOISE ARTIST FROM THE NORTH YORKSHIRE COAST.
RELEASES OUT NOW ON INDUSTRIAL COAST INCLUDING SPLIT W/ QUIET HUSBAND & COLLAB WITH WREN ADOBE.
James
Dad of two.
Weird music lover.
Teacher for Post-16 SEND & SEMH.
https://linktr.ee/BALFNOISE
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James / BALF
@balfnoise.bsky.social
· Aug 22
HIDING FROM THE BIRDS, by BALF AND WREN ADOBE
12 track album
industrialcoast.bandcamp.com
BALF & WREN ADOBE - HIDING FROM THE BIRDS | INDUSTRIAL COAST
12 tracks of noise and experiments verging on punk and power electronics. On the themes of anxiety, loss and terminal illness. Mastered by Rainy Miller.
industrialcoast.bigcartel.com
industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/album/hiding...
12 tracks of noise and experiments verging on punk and power electronics. On the themes of anxiety, loss and terminal illness. Mastered by Rainy Miller.
industrialcoast.bigcartel.com
industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/album/hiding...
BALF
Friday night in Boro.
Photos from Joe Copley and Wren Adobe (where I have half a head).
Friday night in Boro.
Photos from Joe Copley and Wren Adobe (where I have half a head).
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
BALF
Friday night in Boro.
Photos from Joe Copley and Wren Adobe (where I have half a head).
Friday night in Boro.
Photos from Joe Copley and Wren Adobe (where I have half a head).
Lover’s Leap - Ice Bed Thames | Outsider Art
One of the most heartbreakingly raw dark atmospheric albums I’ve heard this year. Lots of melancholic noise and cold electronics. You can feel the grief. One of my favourites Bride features on a track too.
outsiderart.bandcamp.com/album/ice-be...
One of the most heartbreakingly raw dark atmospheric albums I’ve heard this year. Lots of melancholic noise and cold electronics. You can feel the grief. One of my favourites Bride features on a track too.
outsiderart.bandcamp.com/album/ice-be...
Ice Bed Thames, by Lover's Leap
9 track album
outsiderart.bandcamp.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Lover’s Leap - Ice Bed Thames | Outsider Art
One of the most heartbreakingly raw dark atmospheric albums I’ve heard this year. Lots of melancholic noise and cold electronics. You can feel the grief. One of my favourites Bride features on a track too.
outsiderart.bandcamp.com/album/ice-be...
One of the most heartbreakingly raw dark atmospheric albums I’ve heard this year. Lots of melancholic noise and cold electronics. You can feel the grief. One of my favourites Bride features on a track too.
outsiderart.bandcamp.com/album/ice-be...
Hewn - Tendency
I met these lot at the gig on Friday night in the Northen Noise Boys East meets West summit thanks to Rainy Miller. They did a beautiful debut performance of tape loops processed through old synths and peddles. Amazing ambient experimentation.
hewnmusic.bandcamp.com/album/tendency
I met these lot at the gig on Friday night in the Northen Noise Boys East meets West summit thanks to Rainy Miller. They did a beautiful debut performance of tape loops processed through old synths and peddles. Amazing ambient experimentation.
hewnmusic.bandcamp.com/album/tendency
Tendency, by Hewn
6 track album
hewnmusic.bandcamp.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Hewn - Tendency
I met these lot at the gig on Friday night in the Northen Noise Boys East meets West summit thanks to Rainy Miller. They did a beautiful debut performance of tape loops processed through old synths and peddles. Amazing ambient experimentation.
hewnmusic.bandcamp.com/album/tendency
I met these lot at the gig on Friday night in the Northen Noise Boys East meets West summit thanks to Rainy Miller. They did a beautiful debut performance of tape loops processed through old synths and peddles. Amazing ambient experimentation.
hewnmusic.bandcamp.com/album/tendency
FRIDAY IT’S RAINY SEASON!
I’ll be warming up with a new noise set at 7:30 like you do. I don’t make the rules in Boro.
NORTH SEA WALL
TO
NORTHERN GOTHIC
Grab a ticket to save Disgraceland.
I’ll be warming up with a new noise set at 7:30 like you do. I don’t make the rules in Boro.
NORTH SEA WALL
TO
NORTHERN GOTHIC
Grab a ticket to save Disgraceland.
RAINY MILLER
DUELLIST
LENACHA
MIILLION
HEWN
WREN ADOBE
BALF
DISGRACELAND, BORO
7TH NOVEMBER
industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/merch/rainy-...
DUELLIST
LENACHA
MIILLION
HEWN
WREN ADOBE
BALF
DISGRACELAND, BORO
7TH NOVEMBER
industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/merch/rainy-...
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
FRIDAY IT’S RAINY SEASON!
I’ll be warming up with a new noise set at 7:30 like you do. I don’t make the rules in Boro.
NORTH SEA WALL
TO
NORTHERN GOTHIC
Grab a ticket to save Disgraceland.
I’ll be warming up with a new noise set at 7:30 like you do. I don’t make the rules in Boro.
NORTH SEA WALL
TO
NORTHERN GOTHIC
Grab a ticket to save Disgraceland.
Fixed Abode w/ Richie Culver (Noise Mix)
He’s ripping it up on NTS right now.
www.nts.live/shows/rainy-...
He’s ripping it up on NTS right now.
www.nts.live/shows/rainy-...
Fixed Abode w/ Rainy Miller 2nd November 2025
Prestonian singer songwriter Rainy Miller presents the progress check, a bi-monthly show playing an hour of archived experiments and influences.
www.nts.live
November 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Fixed Abode w/ Richie Culver (Noise Mix)
He’s ripping it up on NTS right now.
www.nts.live/shows/rainy-...
He’s ripping it up on NTS right now.
www.nts.live/shows/rainy-...
Reposted by James / BALF
Happy Halloween. Today is a happy day because of the release of the final installment of Emaztegaiak's Hell Trilogy, a project that Miguel A. García (R.I.P.) and I shared.
Thanks to Alex and Deathbed Tapes.
Share the link 🙏
See you in hell my friend 🐙🐙🐙
deathbedtapes.bandcamp.com/album/abismu...
Thanks to Alex and Deathbed Tapes.
Share the link 🙏
See you in hell my friend 🐙🐙🐙
deathbedtapes.bandcamp.com/album/abismu...
ABISMUEN ERROTA, by EMAZTEGAIAK
6 track album
deathbedtapes.bandcamp.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Happy Halloween. Today is a happy day because of the release of the final installment of Emaztegaiak's Hell Trilogy, a project that Miguel A. García (R.I.P.) and I shared.
Thanks to Alex and Deathbed Tapes.
Share the link 🙏
See you in hell my friend 🐙🐙🐙
deathbedtapes.bandcamp.com/album/abismu...
Thanks to Alex and Deathbed Tapes.
Share the link 🙏
See you in hell my friend 🐙🐙🐙
deathbedtapes.bandcamp.com/album/abismu...
V/A - Two [Is Greater Than] One - Part 2 | Pressure Dome
Second instalment of the collab series, the first was a few years back, on Yushh’s killer label. Deep rolling broken techno and bass sounds. Bristol still has that sound.
pressuredome.bandcamp.com/album/two-is...
Second instalment of the collab series, the first was a few years back, on Yushh’s killer label. Deep rolling broken techno and bass sounds. Bristol still has that sound.
pressuredome.bandcamp.com/album/two-is...
Two [Is Greater Than] One - Part 2, by Various Artists
10 track album
pressuredome.bandcamp.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
V/A - Two [Is Greater Than] One - Part 2 | Pressure Dome
Second instalment of the collab series, the first was a few years back, on Yushh’s killer label. Deep rolling broken techno and bass sounds. Bristol still has that sound.
pressuredome.bandcamp.com/album/two-is...
Second instalment of the collab series, the first was a few years back, on Yushh’s killer label. Deep rolling broken techno and bass sounds. Bristol still has that sound.
pressuredome.bandcamp.com/album/two-is...
‘RADICAL NORTH: INDUSTRIAL COAST PROVES EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC AND CULTURE CAN FLOURISH BEYOND ENGLAND'S BIG CITIES’
One of the best underground communities around getting their flowers in mixmag.
@mixmag.net
@industrialcoast.bsky.social
mixmag.net/feature/func...
One of the best underground communities around getting their flowers in mixmag.
@mixmag.net
@industrialcoast.bsky.social
mixmag.net/feature/func...
Radical North: Industrial Coast proves experimental music and culture can flourish beyond England's big cities
On a mission to place Middlesbrough as the leftfield epicentre of UK music, Industrial Coast is bringing some of the best experimental music to the North East
mixmag.net
October 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
‘RADICAL NORTH: INDUSTRIAL COAST PROVES EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC AND CULTURE CAN FLOURISH BEYOND ENGLAND'S BIG CITIES’
One of the best underground communities around getting their flowers in mixmag.
@mixmag.net
@industrialcoast.bsky.social
mixmag.net/feature/func...
One of the best underground communities around getting their flowers in mixmag.
@mixmag.net
@industrialcoast.bsky.social
mixmag.net/feature/func...
RAINY MILLER
DUELLIST
LENACHA
MIILLION
HEWN
WREN ADOBE
BALF
DISGRACELAND, BORO
7TH NOVEMBER
industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/merch/rainy-...
DUELLIST
LENACHA
MIILLION
HEWN
WREN ADOBE
BALF
DISGRACELAND, BORO
7TH NOVEMBER
industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/merch/rainy-...
October 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
RAINY MILLER
DUELLIST
LENACHA
MIILLION
HEWN
WREN ADOBE
BALF
DISGRACELAND, BORO
7TH NOVEMBER
industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/merch/rainy-...
DUELLIST
LENACHA
MIILLION
HEWN
WREN ADOBE
BALF
DISGRACELAND, BORO
7TH NOVEMBER
industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/merch/rainy-...
FDTV MIX FEATURING FILTER DREAD RINSING A BALF DUBPLATE!
October 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
FDTV MIX FEATURING FILTER DREAD RINSING A BALF DUBPLATE!
Kiran Arora - Virgin Forest | adhuman
Road trip listening. Subtle twisted field recording experiments. It’s so still and atmospheric, with an unease to it. They’re hitting the spot for me right now. It was recommended on a recent White Centipede Noise episode.
adhuman.bandcamp.com/album/virgin...
Road trip listening. Subtle twisted field recording experiments. It’s so still and atmospheric, with an unease to it. They’re hitting the spot for me right now. It was recommended on a recent White Centipede Noise episode.
adhuman.bandcamp.com/album/virgin...
adhuman.bandcamp.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Kiran Arora - Virgin Forest | adhuman
Road trip listening. Subtle twisted field recording experiments. It’s so still and atmospheric, with an unease to it. They’re hitting the spot for me right now. It was recommended on a recent White Centipede Noise episode.
adhuman.bandcamp.com/album/virgin...
Road trip listening. Subtle twisted field recording experiments. It’s so still and atmospheric, with an unease to it. They’re hitting the spot for me right now. It was recommended on a recent White Centipede Noise episode.
adhuman.bandcamp.com/album/virgin...
Bare Knuckle Pop
DJ DEATHDEFY - A Hopeful Monster
Is a future cult classic. He’s an incredible performer. Outsider pop that sounds like Talking Heads produced by artists on Dance Mania. Catch him while you can in tyre factories and basements.
industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/album/a-hope...
Is a future cult classic. He’s an incredible performer. Outsider pop that sounds like Talking Heads produced by artists on Dance Mania. Catch him while you can in tyre factories and basements.
industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/album/a-hope...
October 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Bare Knuckle Pop
Photos of my performance at HARI last week in Hull by James Cooper.
October 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Photos of my performance at HARI last week in Hull by James Cooper.
Richie Culver along with Steve from IC are the reason why I’ve been making music (noise) the last year. Underground king! New album on the way, spoken word voidcore with trap beats from Rainy Miller. Born by the Sea, Nerve Grid and Everything on Zero by Quiet Husband are some all timers for me.
INDUSTRIAL COAST
RICHIE CULVER
DJ DEATHDEFY
BALF
RACHEL DEAKIN
HULL UNTHINKABLE FESTIVAL
9 OCTOBER 7PM
HARI, HULL
RICHIE CULVER
DJ DEATHDEFY
BALF
RACHEL DEAKIN
HULL UNTHINKABLE FESTIVAL
9 OCTOBER 7PM
HARI, HULL
October 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Richie Culver along with Steve from IC are the reason why I’ve been making music (noise) the last year. Underground king! New album on the way, spoken word voidcore with trap beats from Rainy Miller. Born by the Sea, Nerve Grid and Everything on Zero by Quiet Husband are some all timers for me.
Rachel Deakin is an incredible photographer who’s showing a film on the night. She photographed early IC shows. Recent work of landscapes are so good. They’ve done a lot of the scaffolding sessions with Mary Anne Hobbs. Quality stuff.
www.instagram.com/racheldeakin...
www.instagram.com/racheldeakin...
October 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Rachel Deakin is an incredible photographer who’s showing a film on the night. She photographed early IC shows. Recent work of landscapes are so good. They’ve done a lot of the scaffolding sessions with Mary Anne Hobbs. Quality stuff.
www.instagram.com/racheldeakin...
www.instagram.com/racheldeakin...
DJ DEATHDEFY - A Hopeful Monster
Is a future cult classic. He’s an incredible performer. Outsider pop that sounds like Talking Heads produced by artists on Dance Mania. Catch him while you can in tyre factories and basements.
industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/album/a-hope...
Is a future cult classic. He’s an incredible performer. Outsider pop that sounds like Talking Heads produced by artists on Dance Mania. Catch him while you can in tyre factories and basements.
industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/album/a-hope...
October 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
DJ DEATHDEFY - A Hopeful Monster
Is a future cult classic. He’s an incredible performer. Outsider pop that sounds like Talking Heads produced by artists on Dance Mania. Catch him while you can in tyre factories and basements.
industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/album/a-hope...
Is a future cult classic. He’s an incredible performer. Outsider pop that sounds like Talking Heads produced by artists on Dance Mania. Catch him while you can in tyre factories and basements.
industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/album/a-hope...
Reposted by James / BALF
INDUSTRIAL COAST
RICHIE CULVER
DJ DEATHDEFY
BALF
RACHEL DEAKIN
HULL UNTHINKABLE FESTIVAL
9 OCTOBER 7PM
HARI, HULL
RICHIE CULVER
DJ DEATHDEFY
BALF
RACHEL DEAKIN
HULL UNTHINKABLE FESTIVAL
9 OCTOBER 7PM
HARI, HULL
September 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
INDUSTRIAL COAST
RICHIE CULVER
DJ DEATHDEFY
BALF
RACHEL DEAKIN
HULL UNTHINKABLE FESTIVAL
9 OCTOBER 7PM
HARI, HULL
RICHIE CULVER
DJ DEATHDEFY
BALF
RACHEL DEAKIN
HULL UNTHINKABLE FESTIVAL
9 OCTOBER 7PM
HARI, HULL
This is an incredible tape by @collap-sing.bsky.social check it out. The satisfying crackle that emerges on the first track is pure bliss like a bath of noise. The second track is intense industrial noise of the best kind.
October 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is an incredible tape by @collap-sing.bsky.social check it out. The satisfying crackle that emerges on the first track is pure bliss like a bath of noise. The second track is intense industrial noise of the best kind.
Reposted by James / BALF
As it’s bandcamp friday please check out, if you haven’t already, this top release by @balfnoise.bsky.social
BALF & WREN ADOBE - HIDING FROM THE BIRDS | INDUSTRIAL COAST
12 tracks of noise and experiments verging on punk and power electronics. On the themes of anxiety, loss and terminal illness. Mastered by Rainy Miller.
industrialcoast.bigcartel.com
industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/album/hiding...
12 tracks of noise and experiments verging on punk and power electronics. On the themes of anxiety, loss and terminal illness. Mastered by Rainy Miller.
industrialcoast.bigcartel.com
industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/album/hiding...
HIDING FROM THE BIRDS, by BALF AND WREN ADOBE
12 track album
industrialcoast.bandcamp.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
As it’s bandcamp friday please check out, if you haven’t already, this top release by @balfnoise.bsky.social
Grab the tape and donate to Mermaids UK for trans youth and their families!
constantexistentialcrisis.bandcamp.com/album/dinosa...
constantexistentialcrisis.bandcamp.com/album/dinosa...
October 3, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Grab the tape and donate to Mermaids UK for trans youth and their families!
constantexistentialcrisis.bandcamp.com/album/dinosa...
constantexistentialcrisis.bandcamp.com/album/dinosa...
SAVING DISGRACELAND
RAINY MILLER
DUELLIST
LENACHA
MORE TBA
FRIDAY 7TH NOVEMBER
7PM-2AM
DISGRACELAND, BORO
SAVE ONE OF THE BEST VENUES IN THE COUNTRY!
READ MORE BELLOW
IF YOU CAN’T COME BUT WANT TO SUPPORT THERE IS A GO FUND ME.
industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/merch/rainy-...
gofund.me/54a4264e8
RAINY MILLER
DUELLIST
LENACHA
MORE TBA
FRIDAY 7TH NOVEMBER
7PM-2AM
DISGRACELAND, BORO
SAVE ONE OF THE BEST VENUES IN THE COUNTRY!
READ MORE BELLOW
IF YOU CAN’T COME BUT WANT TO SUPPORT THERE IS A GO FUND ME.
industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/merch/rainy-...
gofund.me/54a4264e8
October 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
SAVING DISGRACELAND
RAINY MILLER
DUELLIST
LENACHA
MORE TBA
FRIDAY 7TH NOVEMBER
7PM-2AM
DISGRACELAND, BORO
SAVE ONE OF THE BEST VENUES IN THE COUNTRY!
READ MORE BELLOW
IF YOU CAN’T COME BUT WANT TO SUPPORT THERE IS A GO FUND ME.
industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/merch/rainy-...
gofund.me/54a4264e8
RAINY MILLER
DUELLIST
LENACHA
MORE TBA
FRIDAY 7TH NOVEMBER
7PM-2AM
DISGRACELAND, BORO
SAVE ONE OF THE BEST VENUES IN THE COUNTRY!
READ MORE BELLOW
IF YOU CAN’T COME BUT WANT TO SUPPORT THERE IS A GO FUND ME.
industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/merch/rainy-...
gofund.me/54a4264e8
Incredible gig on Saturday with Industrial Coast at The Auxiliary. 6jjacob played a set of broken dubby techno, pulling out old Hessle Audio classics. Burning Pyre heady dubby trippy sounds. Tactical Pagan hard dubby industrial steppers. Demdike Stare construct a DJ set like I’ve never heard before.
September 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Incredible gig on Saturday with Industrial Coast at The Auxiliary. 6jjacob played a set of broken dubby techno, pulling out old Hessle Audio classics. Burning Pyre heady dubby trippy sounds. Tactical Pagan hard dubby industrial steppers. Demdike Stare construct a DJ set like I’ve never heard before.
INDUSTRIAL COAST
RICHIE CULVER
DJ DEATHDEFY
BALF
RACHEL DEAKIN
HULL UNTHINKABLE FESTIVAL
9 OCTOBER 7PM
HARI, HULL
RICHIE CULVER
DJ DEATHDEFY
BALF
RACHEL DEAKIN
HULL UNTHINKABLE FESTIVAL
9 OCTOBER 7PM
HARI, HULL
September 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
INDUSTRIAL COAST
RICHIE CULVER
DJ DEATHDEFY
BALF
RACHEL DEAKIN
HULL UNTHINKABLE FESTIVAL
9 OCTOBER 7PM
HARI, HULL
RICHIE CULVER
DJ DEATHDEFY
BALF
RACHEL DEAKIN
HULL UNTHINKABLE FESTIVAL
9 OCTOBER 7PM
HARI, HULL
Reposted by James / BALF
I HAD THE HONOUR OF BEING INVITED TO JOIN A KRU OF ROBOTS TO MAKE A TRACK TO RAISE MONEY FOR MERMAIDS UK. BY THE INCREDIBLE @collap-sing.bsky.social
mermaidsuk.org.uk
mermaidsuk.org.uk
September 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I HAD THE HONOUR OF BEING INVITED TO JOIN A KRU OF ROBOTS TO MAKE A TRACK TO RAISE MONEY FOR MERMAIDS UK. BY THE INCREDIBLE @collap-sing.bsky.social
mermaidsuk.org.uk
mermaidsuk.org.uk