INCAPACITANTS "Ostracized Enigmatic Conqueror" cd
OEC
I missed the previous album. If anyone has spare copy of the 2017 CD, I'd be willing to buy / trade! Seems to be like 1st track continues in spirit of that CD. It is hard, rough, ripping, loud as fuck. Really, really good Incapacitants noise blasting. In the new noisextra episode GX talks about the old scene, where everybody sounded clearly different. There was barely anonymous noise, or "scene noise", so to say. It was all individual driven, where vision of the artist was the absolute focus point. While nowadays you got ton of bands who are excellent noise, but often could be done by anyone. The more true it becomes the more narrow focus you got and suddenly just about everybody has the same tricks and even similar tools to do them.
Incapacitants - well - that's another story, as they are so old. How difficult it is to make loudest and harshest noise? How difficult it is to keep it interesting? For duration of 60 mins... or... 40 years? Opening track of this CD is such a monster, it vitalizes my faith in Incapacitants to levels that two less interesting tracks are not big downers. First track is perhaps the safest of these. Something that can't be not liked. There is that clarity and high speed modulation of sounds, damage and free form chaos that is not so common in noise. Songs like these remains unique to Incapacitants. Some have attempted to copy it, but not succeeded 100%.
The other studio track is the later days style, where electronics are very "electric". Not broken. Not so noisy. Colorful, busy, electronic, even toy-esque vibe can be heard. It is good in contrast to first track, but as stand alone track, I would not return to it. In highly traditional manner, 3rd track that makes half of the album, is 2018 live assault. At times, fucking brilliant live noise. At times, you got the toy-electronics/pitch-modulation/sound bending and such oddities happening. With Merzbow, I have felt that the odd noise moments, random jumps into wrong direction and returning to good sounds is part of his free flowing colorful noise works. With Incapacitants, their work used to be so solid and tight, now occasional slips to weirdo effects is hard to swallow. In one hand, it underlines how good the other moments of live set are. In other hand.... well...
