Guilty C.’s ‘Morbid Alert’ gets the A side and proceeds in a relentless mode to spread layers of grey rumble so thickly over their choice of other ingredients that they are rendered unidentifiable. So the piece may incorporate the sound of thunder, guttural groans, a kettle whistling, a car alarm and an old ZX Spectrum game loading in from a portable tape recorder. (Maybe if anyone has an antique home computer they could try to see if anything loads in from this tape, potentially birthing a whole new genre: Harsh Noise Ware!) The combination is like arctic turbulence constantly whipping up a maelstrom of icy debris. But by the four minute mark ‘Morbid Alert’ starts to fade out revealing airy wisps and a bleeping tone in its wake, making it feel very much like an excerpt from a larger more challenging work.
On the other side, Maaaa’s ‘In The Cage’ has far more recognisable elements and, consequently, becomes nasty catalyst for the imagination that’s thankfully brief. Panicked voices over a scribbling, lo-end electrical hum are joined by dogs barking, all agitated and desperately fighting to be heard amongst the overloading din. It provokes unwanted mental images of cruelty from nightmarish torture devices that, by the time it starts to sputter to a stand still, you are glad to be rid of.
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Holy shit. I am writing this right after I finished this for the first time and I am floored. I wasn't expecting this. Two very short tracks of intense noise and cacophony. Guilty C. is from Japan and sounds like being trapped in a giant Katamari of trash and death. Non stop horrendous noise that just wraps around your head and starts to crush it slowly. Maaaa hails from Poland and Russia and they have created a track that causes a ton of anxiety from the use of dogs barking alone. Frequencies and scraping sound accompany a giant choir made up of rabid animals. This sounds the way much of the Eastern Block looks. It's all very dark and horrid and I love it. Limited to 100 copies and obviously almost gone.
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Holy shit. I am writing this right after I finished this for the first time and I am floored. I wasn't expecting this. Two very short tracks of intense noise and cacophony. Guilty C. is from Japan and sounds like being trapped in a giant Katamari of trash and death. Non stop horrendous noise that just wraps around your head and starts to crush it slowly. Maaaa hails from Poland and Russia and they have created a track that causes a ton of anxiety from the use of dogs barking alone. Frequencies and scraping sound accompany a giant choir made up of rabid animals. This sounds the way much of the Eastern Block looks. It's all very dark and horrid and I love it. Limited to 100 copies and obviously almost gone.