Quote from: Bloated Slutbag on May 23, 2020, 04:39:28 AM
Quote from: Potier on May 21, 2020, 11:52:16 PM
Jacob Winans is a great listen. Great mixture of textures, short field recording interludes, weird stereo effect pulse sounds. Noticed today also that he has a forthcoming release on Flag Day.
Just sampled the latter this morning and it certainly lives up the ah rather familiar-sounding label blurb courtesy Snake In the Garden chap, re- Textural obliteration and amplified apathy, ripping through the frequency spectrum from ear to ear.
And just to be clear here, this is not just a good thing, but possibly
the thing. (I'm riffiing here off an ongoing line I rant on about from time to time, most recently in the Levels of chaos thread... and like clockwork duly delete the next morning, but uh...)
Textural obliteration, or whatever you want to call it, is the thing that consistently elevates the cut-up shit. Well it elevates all kinds of shit, but as far as the hard-panners I think it can be critical. This goes back to SICKNESS, before whom cut-ups did not quite convince. People would go on and on about Masonna and I would not disagree. I would like the Maso, even love the Maso, but come the end of, say,
Mademoiselle Anne Sanglante the 'holes would demand their due and proper purification in the form of say,
Quietus. And then. SICKNESS brought frequency rippping textures so convincing that it frankly would hardly matter if the shit were cut-up or not. It just fucking rrrrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiippppppppped. SICKNESS is actually the one that helped me appreciate all manner of cut-up, texturally obliterating or not, and helped ensure for me at least that Masonna's place in the celestial spheres is secure.
<note to future early morning self. don't delete me.>Quote from: PedestrianOrgans on May 24, 2020, 05:09:28 PM
Quote from: Bloated Slutbag on May 23, 2020, 11:42:57 AM
Seems somewhat schooled in the Endo-isms, which might work for an artist that has performed (in a er painting capacity) with Endo.
I feel like most of current Japanoise is influenced/has worked with Endo. You could call it Endocore.
Admittedly the same could probably be said for just about any hard-panner on the planet. It would be hard not to be influenced in one way or another.
I may have been joking there with the aside about painting performances, but as far as the JP contingent there might actually be a few things which give Kawasaki an Endocore edge over the Spore Spawns, scums, Yasuhito Fujinamis and even the Kazuma Kubotas-
- the somewhat spare, measured metals whanging on metal
- the more focused or condensed sound palate
- the pointy-headed spiky-ness of the piercing screech
Not to say any of this is better, just more Endo-like (to this admittedly fucked ear). Almost like what might be ear-visioned if you combined the classic hard-panned Endo with the monophonic improvisations of recent vintage.
