Waking up into first morning of 2026 and put on PRIMITIVE ISOLATION TACTICS "All Pressure Past" tape material from bandcamp. It made me think is there topic like this already? And if yes, there must be hundred(s) of new people at the forum since, so doesn't really matter.
Listening to P.I.T. tape, it makes me think about what other people have commented about project. Some say boring, nothing happening, too slow and simple or whatever. Then other people are exact opposite. Praising textures and the details. I guess it depends on a release, but "all pressure past" is good example where it is not ultra simplistic crackle study, but neither high energy blast. More like slow paced experiment on rough noise surfaces. He won't be overdubbing and editing his work to be somehow technically advanced. Instead, there is simplicity of manually processing the sound. What makes it interesting, is indeed the nuance and detail of the sound. It's not maximal harsh noise blasting, where you would need cut ups and swift changes to "keep it interesting" so to say. Noise may appear in this as if it was broken cable hum and some sort of rotating device interacting. Or let's say something like 2nd track beginning. It reminds me of what I was doing with Grunt "Karike" -CD, where you simply need to strip down noise into pure elements, to be able to appreciate particular sounds. Beginning of tracks sounds as if it would be electric dry grass.. until more typical harsh noise jumps in.
There are masters in simple "one thing" noise approach. Can think of several The Haters works where very little happens. It is almost funny that GX was explaining that it really took until his warm up show for K2 and MSBR back in early 00's that he decided to buy meatbox pedal, as he didn't want to sound like crap next to Japanese sound masters.
I've talked to handful of guys who are nowadays way more into direction of not wanting to hear any tricks. Not wanting to hear technical advances, but prefer good forward driving noise. Sound you can hear being performed and slowly developed. Not "let's give them wow moments".
Of course I do like many types of noise, but the most I have preferred noise crafted live, focusing on sounds that stand out as sounds, rather than layering and editing bunch of things that make the track. Even if it would be power electronics, it is usually better that the sound itself being focused recognizable sounds instead of being build out of multi-layered generic synth sounds.
