Mixturizer

Started by FreakAnimalFinland, November 06, 2015, 04:38:01 PM

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FreakAnimalFinland

Just listend his newish tape "Relax". Returning back in action, this comes from summer 2015. I always considered project to be promising, but feels like they never really claimed it. This new tape is really nice surprise. It's not so often when bands have break in activity, that they would return with added brutality. First track of the tape is pretty decent harsh noise and for my surprise, it seems more "hand made" or lively action that what I associated past Mixturizer works to be.

Highlight is the 2nd track. It is like reply to some of better works of Masonna. Perhaps less dominating amount of vocals, but nevertheless, utterly piercing feedback, screaming, frantic noise action that appears to operate most of all in one clear layer. Nothing is drenched into echoes or muddy dense mass. Everything is right there clearly in your face. Noise flow very freely, without focusing on loops or repeating patterns. Also moments which appear close to synths, seems rather effected feedback. Sonic quality is most of all what seems improved. Maybe it is also thanks to all-on-red dubbed chrome tapes what gives the ripping quality to it.  Critical evaluation would probably conclude that there's nothing new here. Just same old noise, but something just hits me so directly.

It makes me think did I miss some crucial moments of this project? Is it really simply just much better than before or did I ignore some of his better past releases?
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FreakAnimalFinland

MIXTURIZER "Sonora Violenta" tape
RONF Records
Another 2015 tape what shows bands development. Less of vibes about Masonna, but just simple and to the point harsh noise. Little vocals, feedback and overall direct and in-your-face. Actually, it is quite surprising how little there is noise what is so brutally stripped down and still good. Was listening some Ryan Bloomer tape on Harsh Head Rituals and it wasn't like best composition out there, but especially on blasting volumes, simplicity of one layer of utterly rough noise gave it very different feeling than multilayered dense walls. Or even edited materials. It is hard to explain why exactly later Mixturizer tapes have been better than many "big names of noise" out there, but I believe it is mostly thanks to loudness and capturing energy of the moment. Without being wanky. Just simply brutal assault of noise.
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Potier

The above posts have piqued my interest in this project - seen the name come up before. Looked around a bit and realized that the releases mentioned were extremely limited editions... Unfortunate to say the least. Was unable to find a bandcamp or anything like that. How would one go about hearing some of this material?

Leatherface

Quote from: Potier on January 03, 2016, 02:44:24 AM
The above posts have piqued my interest in this project - seen the name come up before. Looked around a bit and realized that the releases mentioned were extremely limited editions... Unfortunate to say the least. Was unable to find a bandcamp or anything like that. How would one go about hearing some of this material?

You can contact Manuel directly. The best for a fast answer is to contact him on Discogs:

http://www.discogs.com/user/MCM

Andrew McIntosh

Manuel's a good bloke and I wish him all the best for his project and hope he goes far with it. But I've got to admit, I found "Relax" underwhelming. The elements Mikko writes about just didn't work for me.

It's good to see Mixturizer get a bit of attention, though. I understand he got frustrated with pissing in the wind with it and halted it, but now he's obviously got a bit more gumption to go with it again. Good on him.
Shikata ga nai.

Andrew McIntosh

Got Manuel's new tape "AS/AE/EAD" yesterday and have found that this lifts his game considerably. Three spirals, nicely and roughly recorded, that have a lot more thickness and power than previously. Reminds me somewhat of Mania in sound and intensity but more than anything just sounds like someone going bezerk in a rehearsal room with feedback, metal, voice and loads of over-loaded electronics. Very rough but with distinct sounds and a nice sense of timing, knowing when to hold back to allow the feedback to shriek and knowing when to build up and when to just start going bezerk again. Nice one.
Shikata ga nai.