EX.ORDER "Shuchu Ryoku" CD
At some point I was thinking there may be saturation point of "heavy electronics" type of stuff. Possibly it is still true, but it doesn't mean I would not like the style. Just keep wondering how it seems to be damn easy to do the synth oscillation and little processed vocals or samples.. but how difficult it is to do the same with some sort of own identity?
Ex.Order CD, not their best, but had not listened this for long time and decided to give it a spin. Cleaner than the oldest stuff, but it has its merits!
What we have here, is the classic heavy electronics sound. Never ultra aggressive, but dark and bleak.
Grey Wolves "Catholic Priests" CD
Soon new reissue on Tesco is available again, but this one I was listening is the Hospital reissue CD. Anyone who compared original LP with the CD, will find out how vastly richer the sound of CD is. Tracks pulled from original tapes. Even if the LP that wasn't too long, was of course GREAT, and true milestone of genre, yet also has that "vinyl treatment" on the overall sound courtesy of GZ DMM vinyl cut... In contrast, CD sounds like songs originally were, heavier and more detailed. It also displays how unique GW is. Like it always was. I liked the old catalogues that always announced it like... "industrial - power electronics - atmospheric - noise" or something like that. Describing both Open Wound distro in general, but GW as a project as well. "Catholic Priests.." is indeed all that. We tend to call them power electronics, for some reason, yet this album way more industrial. Including even beats! And surprisingly melodic... or harmonic? Couple hard hitting anthems you can easily rate among PE. No matter if I have heard these songs countless times since LP came out and also listened this CD many times, I am still kind of puzzled when thinking: what the hell is this really? And furthermore, how in world full of imitators, nobody has been really able to imitate GW? Rarely hear vocals like that, rarely such diverse mix of sounds, and songs on this, there isn't really another album like it. Of course I do not mean there should be GW imitators, but hard to really compare this with anything else when you really think about it. It would be great to hear new acts that do clearly industrial-noise/PE, but sort of escape the possibility to compare and set into specific era, plus like this album, having distinctive songs with pretty unique structures.
Yesterday, besides listening these, was visiting on couple galleries and museum. At small exhibition, there was female painter who had paintings titled as "melu - noise" and other one "A man is the bastard". Not accidental, but indeed references to exactly what titles suggest.
At the bigger museum, while liking some of it, I am almost amazed how the experimental sound presented in this type of environment is always so... samey? If you think guys smashing metal junk and rewinding tapes and recording it to analogue tape is "all the same", god damn, what is with the museum sound-art pieces? It really appears as if there was "museum soundtrack muzak generator" with very limited spectrum of ideas and sounds, that it has to be this, to qualify into museum. Absolute rubbish in every room that had "experimental soundscapes" and video art...
