Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on October 11, 2017, 04:25:11 PM
Got in mail handmade package with D.Coelacanth CDR and tape. What exactly is title of each release, who knows.
Stuff like this couldn't be made by the regular dude out there. It requires totally unique person to come up with something like this.
My copy arrived yesterday and it is indeed an impressive and unique surprise. Enjoyable and "fun," too!
W.C. "Live Stream" CS (Trapdoor Tapes) Probably a soundboard recording of apparently the only WC live performance. Good, if not quite menacingly loud soud, probably more due to the nature of the recording. First A-side track had me thinking the studio recordings were far superior, but by the second, I'd reconsidered that judgement. Very nice duel/duo vocal approach with detailed yet simple (read: no walls, no tencho beats) synth electronics brought to mind early '90's to 00's Whitehouse and maybe Deathpile.
Good stuff but not a ton of variation and may not win over new listeners compared to their full-length on Finders or the Scatmother split (which I thought was pretty damned good). Obviously would have been a different experience having actually been there. But nevertheless they clearly took the time to somewhat recreate their recorded sound live which some projects take forever to achieve. And kudos to them for not relying on wall noise or feedback which are not bad things, but still overused in PE.
Ottaven "Endless Loops From Morocco" 2xCS (Second Sleep) Looped field recordings with a sound collage approach that has musical elements, but is not quite music. Something like an audio walking tour of places the person behind the recordings went. Busy public locations, street performers, conversations, various music fragments at various distances, unidentifiable electrical noises, wind rustling against microphone.
First half of first tape emphasizes sound/voice, second half emphasizes rhythm/melody, then inverts formula toward end. Second tape basically follows that same formula, but switches from loop to loop more quickly, slowing down to focus on especially nice moments. Certain sections are not loops at all, but sound fragments that function as interludes. Some parts sound more like a Boss looping device or something, other sound like reel-to-reel loops. Some parts reappear much later after their first instance.
Pretty enjoyable "travelogue" sound collage. Good stuff if not a guarantee for frequent returns. Oh, and "endless" is obviously false advertisement, but I get the idea: very "ambient" in the sense of the adjective, and not the genre. Give me this kind of thing over some one-note droning or bass-heavy static any day of the week.
Current Worming "2" CS (Dogmatics In Outline) More brittle contact mic scrape and abrasive tape-driven frequencies from this Canadian (?) project. Seems like there's some interesting pitch-speed and warping happening on side A (vacuum-like hum and stuttering, tinny metal textures). Reminds me of earlier Wince stuff but "restrained." Side B is somewhat the same but heavier and more "harmonic" than the A-side, maybe using a condenser mic instead, then transitioning to some really nice BT. HN.-type synth/filter work. Unexpectedly, some mosquito-industrial drone interrupts late in the game. Some unintelligible vocals, even, then very nice "Death Penalty" static. This is enjoyable but somewhat uneven/lopsided in distribution of focus/intention of sound, so perhaps the least/lesser of the four Current Worming tapes. Still good stuff, best project from the label. Somehow doubt the possibility but hope to see more nonetheless.
Looking forward to some stuff from Throne Heap, too...
