Pain Appendix - Manuhypnoz CD
Pain Appendix seem to have taken giant leaps! Manuhypnoz consists mostly of scrap metal sounds, that are well thought out and composed even. The sound doesn't have a annoying room sound, but an aural sense of their own. At times it is nearly acoustic and at times it comes with that sweet distortion, just enough. Not too little and not too much, ripples and rips through the sonic scenery. There's also tasty moments of bassy synth visiting, very shortly but makes a strong effect at least for me. Especially the first two tracks on the CD are insanely good. It's January, and I am already 90% sure to declare this as album of the year. As cherry on top the of the cake, Emmanuel Bonini master makes a brilliant last touch to make this CD sound ridiculously good.
H.Ö.H - s/t CD
There's broken tape noise and then there's HÖH, which takes the whole genre to it's own territory. This is a collection of early HÖH tapes, and it is so broken, mangled up, unable to proceed. Many have tried this genre, some do very good recordings but this is the level I truly enjoy. Where it nearly sounds like the tape deck is just jammed up and someone is trying to salvage the tape out of it by carefully pulling it out to not to break it. There's the warm and immediate tape sound, I don't know if any mastering was even done. Later HÖH recordings are definately good, but these early ones are for me absolutely his best work.
