Had not heard anything about these 3 new 7"s on Dead mind records, but I guess they were fresh from the press when I saw them in Belgian gig merch table.
ASTRO "Deformation Receiver" 7"
Noisy stuff! There is this veil of reverb that drenches the whole piece into kind of wet and saturated mass, but in level of details, its fast electronic noise. Distortion, electronics, synth, but basically only the echo takes the atmosphere closer to old oscillation wave Astro. This is noise!! Good!
K2 "Variation: Pianoise" 7"
So.. Piano, feedbacksystem, MTR and various effects. No computers, no midi. "Piano for Sadists" is great song title, and K2 does his best to malform the original sound into pure noise assault. Sound is slightly one dimensional compared to good old metal junk K2, but sharp ripping noise is still pretty nice. Rotated in few times and not entirely sure yet what to think of it, but as it appears to take several listens easily, it can't be bad.
Kazumoto Endo & Kazuma Kubota "Gyoen Bedieningshendel" 7"
This is right there on the edge of whether I will declare this collaboration Japanese being great.. or not that great. Why? I have kind of love & hate relationship with silence within noise. When stop'n'go / cut up harsh noise is done with precise editing and short diverse bursts of ultimate energy attack your ears from speakers - it can be some of the best. But when burst last 0,5 seconds, followed with 2 seconds of silence and 1 second bursts with 3 seconds of silence and and ... come on!! Play the noise! It's like puzzle what appears to be great, but the pieces are slightly scattered and it looks like not really put together. I know they must have been timing perfectly and planning the tensions of silence vs. noise, but problem to me is that it never climaxes. Jerks little here and there, but eventually doesn't go to any direction. Sound of noise itself, high voltage electrocution with ultra distorted noise pressure. Too bad the flow is so fragmented... Still - after all critics - in the style, it's still nice 7" to give playtime..
All 3 items are full color covers, good sound, printed labels, and pretty cheap for being ltd 200 each.