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The brief spoken "caution (0:07) " (of "serious damage" to speakers) is followed by a spastic outburst of noise which seems to lend credence to that warning. Simultaneously scritchy, slurry and mechanical, souRce research's "kutof_fcut" surges with bubbly ripples and caustic scratches amid an industrial glare.
Actually quite catchy, "meneuet max." from CoH moves from abstract microscrapes into a nicely thrumming electron ditty, arranging the best of "glitch" into a groove robots could dance to. Shattered speech fragments, gritty static, a drunken background melody and whispery sweeps are only part of the surrealistic soundworld explored in
Cattivo's "neither-neither".
EsRm (apparently a joint effort among Leif Elggren , souRce research and matmos) plumb the sonic gray area known as "white" (14:43); droning atmospheres are infused with brighter strands of twisting feedback glints, faint acoustic guitar, lightly spattering beats and other more-or-less incongruous elements which are spread into a relatively-smooth hovering miasma (which gets quite a dose of high-speed warbles in its latter moments).
Distorted speech patterns form a multi-planed existence in an excerpt of Coil's moody/grungy "Broken Aura", which also sizzles with submolecular violence.
A nine-second bit of silence precedes the disc's second part, - dB... less abrasive environments waft in on the radiating soundwaves of "Green (Excerpt)", another souRce research track which simply luxuriates in a semi-mechanical haze. Andrew Poppy's sweet "Snowdronia (excerpt)" mixes long buzzing/floating strands with light piano-esque notes, while the soft, periodic gusts of "Lavin" by Ovum are set adrift on machine-like-though-cushy resonance.
With crytalline spookiness and sparser swirling strings, Andrew Poppy presents the house-of-mirrors effect with "Time At Rest Devouring Itself (excerpt)".
Other artists include, Cyclobe and AphasRia.
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