Prurient "history of aids" CD
Got the LP re-issues while ago. And was tempted to listen it again. Well, due conditions, didn't have turntable in the place I was spending several hours, but good speakers and cd player. So, instead of vinyl, just put the old original CD on player. It is pretty much what I remembered. In its strengths and weaknesses. I have always valued Prurient into high ranks of noise, yet it's hard to point out perfect release. Not even History of Aids is one. It has brutal heaviness on bass department. It has crispy high end crackles and distortions. But often sound is very suffocated and kind of "ready to burst".. but simply won't. There is like rumbling bass frequency and broken snap & crackles which sounds as if your speakers are ready to break. But sound will not be fully unleashed. Harshly malformed pitch/distort vocal effects break the surface with high pitched attacks, but noise itself rarely attacks fiercely. Many songs (there's 15 in 45 mins) are short 1 minute type of bursts. Grande finale of the cd is long simple tone, going through distorted filtering. Slowly modulated static tone, is kind of trademark backbone of many "PE" type Prurient recordings after this. Strength of album is absolutely fact that there isn't another noise cd like this. One can think about Masonna, Randy Yau,.. even Sutcliffe Jugend or such. And then come to conclusion that any link to them would be clueless and just inaccurate. Philosophy and the sound, is unique. And that's something what can be respected. But sonically, I still prefer albums such as "Fossil", "Black Vase" (2xLP edition with the nasty feedback track!) and "Arrowhead", where sound is more piercing and violent than low end rumbling and crackles. I really hope LP versions of Fossil or/and Arrowhead will be done! Especially latter, since I unfortunately only own the advance copy CDR, not even the real CD.
