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Philip Best
Philip Neil Best (born 15 June 1968) is an English industrial
Philip Best
musician, visual artist, and author. A pioneer of power
electronics, he formed the band Consumer Electronics in 1982 Born 15 June 1968
at age 14.[1] Nationality English8

Best joined the group Whitehouse, in 1983. After a nine-year Occupation Experimental
hiatus starting in 1984, Best rejoined and remained with the industrial musician,
group until departing again in 2008.[2] author, artist
Years active 1982–present
Known for Founding Consumer
Contents Electronics, founding
power electronics
Career
record label Iphar,
Music
membership in
Writing
Whitehouse
Art
Spouse(s) Sarah Froelich
References
External links

Career

Music

In the early 1980s, Best also ran his own DIY label Iphar, releasing compilations of power
electronics. Through the circulation of these controversial cassettes he succeeded in promoting the
burgeoning extreme noise genre.[3] Among these cassette releases were On to 83, with Gary
Mundy. Torture Music by Iphar Clinic, a solo project, and White Power, a fake neo-nazi
compilation album with artists such as Maurizio Bianchi, Sutcliffe Jügend, and Best's other project
with Mundy, Consumer Electronics.

Best has been a frequent collaborator with Gary Mundy on projects such as Ramleh and
Skullflower.[4]
In 1995, under the Consumer Electronics moniker, Best joined forces with Japanese
noise musician Masami Akita – along with several Ramleh cohorts – to release Horn of the Goat.

Best continues to tour and release music as Consumer Electronics. The current line up includes
Best, Russell Haswell and Best's wife Sarah Froelich. Their most recent LP, Dollhouse Songs was
released by Harbinger Sound in 2015, and the piece "At Any Rate, It's Already Too Late" was
released on the Harbinger Sound Sampler compilation in 2017.[5]

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Philip Best discography

Date Title Project Label
Public Attack 3 (not on label)
1982 Consumer Electronics
Leathersex Iphar
1983 On To 83 Male Rape Group Broken Flag, Iphar
1995 Horn Of The Goat Consumer Electronics / Merzbow Freek Records
2007 Nobody's Ugly No Fun Productions
2009 Crowd Pleaser Hand To Mouth
2014 Estuary English Consumer Electronics Dirter Promotions
2015 Dollhouse Songs
Harbinger Sound
2019 Airless Space

Writing

In 1998, Best published his doctoral thesis at Durham University entitled Apocalypticism in the
Fiction of William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard and Thomas Pynchon, and later received a
doctorate in English literature.[6]

In 2016, a 60-page chapbook of writings by Best was published by Amphetamine Sulphate.[7]

Art

In 2010, a collection of Best's artwork entitled American Campgrounds was published by Creation
Books, with a foreword written by Peter Sotos.[8]

In December 2016, Infinity Land Press published Alien Existence,[9] a book of over 200 colour
reproductions of original artwork by Best, as well as 40 pages of his creative writings, and an
extensive interview conducted by Martin Bladh.[10]

References
1. Wallis, Jennifer (14 September 2016). Fight Your Own War: Power Electronics and Noise
Culture (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fight_Your_Own_War/Mo5XDwAAQBAJ?hl=en
&gbpv=0). SCB Distributors. ISBN 978-1-909394-41-4. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
2. "Philip Best discography" (http://www.korperschwache.com/skull/disc/best_disc.html).
Korperschwache.com. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
3. "Iphar" (http://www.discogs.com/label/Iphar). Discogs.com. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
4. "Philip Best" (http://www.discogs.com/artist/Philip+Best). Discogs.com. Retrieved
20 November 2014.
5. "Consumer Electronics" (http://www.discogs.com/artist/Consumer+Electronics). Discogs.com.
Retrieved 20 November 2014.
6. Best, Philip Neil (1998). "Apocalypticisim in the fiction of William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard,
and Thomas Pynchon" (http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/994/). Durham e-Theses. Durham University.
Retrieved 24 December 2020.
7. Best, Philip (October 2016). Captagon (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Captagon/0A5Q
tAEACAAJ?hl=en). Amphetamine Sulphate. ISBN 978-0-9991825-3-6.

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8. "American Campgrounds: Philip Best / Peter Sotos" (https://web.archive.org/web/20110917091

150/http://www.creationbooks.com/creation-titles/AMERICANCAMPGROUNDSB.html).
Archived from the original (http://www.creationbooks.com/creation-titles/AMERICANCAMPGR
OUNDSB.html) on 17 September 2011. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
9. "Infinity Land Press Web Page - Alien Existence by Philip Best" (http://infinitylandpress.com/29
99170-alien-existence-by-philip-best). Infinity Land Press Web Page. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
10. "Please welcome to the world … Philip Best Alien Existence (Infinity Land Press) – DC's" (http
s://denniscooperblog.com/please-welcome-to-the-world-philip-best-alien-existence-infinity-land
-press/). denniscooperblog.com. Retrieved 24 December 2020.

External links
Philip Best (https://www.discogs.com/artist/413440-Philip-Best) discography at Discogs
Philip Best (https://www.instagram.com/philip.best/) on Instagram
Philip Best (https://twitter.com/colourclimax) on Twitter
Consumer Electronics website (https://consumerelectronics.bigcartel.com/)

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