That would be good. I think earlier talk was about Cold Meat. And knowing how slow they can be...
Anyways, as I started to talk about Militia, I simply couldn't refuse to put possibly their best release loud on stereos.
MILITIA "machinenzimmer / kingdom of our lord" mCDPraxis Dr Bermann TH-20
In PDB overview at
http://www.special-interests.net/forum/index.php?topic=38.0 I said:
Fuck, if I said the 3xLP was their best... well, it is only because this is SHORT. It is 20 minutes, packaged in A4 "special" sleeve with horribly pixelated images. Music is phenomenal. Just superior to about everything, but due being miniCD on oversized pixelated sleeve, it loses on 3xLP set.Really, only reason I might rate this lower than 3xLP is length. But if we look to material itself, this is simply unbeatable. One could say that what Test Dept could have been, Militia actually IS. Compositional skills of Militia is beyond all the other percussive industrial out there. Even if you find many times that the base of track is some steady beat of bass drum, there are layers of clang of radiators, large sheets of metal, obscure tones of synths, perfect reverbs,.. It doesn't sound as if they just grabbed "whatever available", and bang that. Instead it sounds as they went to search what makes the desired sound, and the compose the percussion patterns for each distinctive percussion instrument. These two tracks also are superior in composition. It's not only about one thing. But the flow of tracks from point to another is seamless, yet very clear changes. There nothing what sounds like it was sampled or uncontrolled by people at top of their skills. The massive droning choir like climax of the track with religious speech, sweeps anything what was left after near 10 minute percussive beat.
Next track is something like Test Dept at their best video soundtracks. High pitched fast junk percussion sounds almost like train going on tracks. Very clearly floor tom sound giving bounding base on track. Sometimes nearly random sounding, but perfect sounds of sheets of metal and "ping" of iron bars/pipes thrown around. No distortion really. Not beyond the analogue warmness. It's all slightly saturated and very close to surface. It doesn't sound distant, which is the problem of many later Militia works. Modern day digital recording probably couldn't provide the same atmosphere. After c. 4 minutes the divine organ drones start to fade in. It is very strangely out of timing compared to percussion. But while you'd think it could mean it ruins the track, actually it doesn't. Perhaps even opposite. Song slowly fades out, in utmost repetition, but something that could simply go on and on for perhaps LP side worth without getting old.
I hope this, will be among first to be re-issued. I guess it is the smallest edition of Militia releases?
