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“Bitte Vergib Mir -贖罪-” opens this EP, beginning with a droning bass tone, which is soon accompanied by a droning low voice patch, then what sound like restless whispering voices with lots of reverb on them. A synth string then plays a …
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WHΛLTHISИEY – Immediathism
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WHΛLTHISИEY’s Immediathism starts with “Boredom”, as a reverb-laden minor-key melody interspersed with deep, but short bass notes plays with a lush pad that shimmers in and out slowly. The piano is not repetitious and there is some deve…
SINNEN – MUR
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The EP release MUR by the band SINNEN begins with the track “DIVE_TERN”. This track starts with a slow beat which relies on the ride cymbal to propel it forward, and then a guitar comes in laden with heavy amounts of reverb and plays an Eas…
CHOKE – GRIP DOMINANCE
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The release GRIP DOMINANCE by CHOKE begins with soft organ playing a three note minor-key melody under short, synthesized bell tones with a delay effect on them. After a while, there is a hint of bongos playing an echoing rhythm behind the bell …
Yasuyuki Uesugi – Accepting Excessive Information Is Violence To My Brain
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Accepting Excessive Information Is Violence To My Brain begins with the track “No Matter What I Achieve, I Will Not Be Satisfied”. It is a droning track, but is quite active in its stasis, with bursts of resonance popping out of the noise, …
Whirling Hall of Knives – Ovoidulations
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Ovoidulations begins, as a synthesizer which sounds like a synth string with a very long filter sweep on it plays a mid-frequency note that drones, and another note comes in and plays in harmony with the first note, which is followed by a synth …
Alan Morse Davies – Junk Shop Radio
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This album is the result of Alan Morse Davies recording the sound of him going through an AM radio when the power was out during a typhoon in Hong Kong.
“Hong Kong AM1” is the first track. First, there is the sound of periodic noise bein…
Lotus on the Shore – Astral Projection
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Lotus on the Shore’s Astral Projection begins with “Part I”, where an extremely overdriven wash of bass and guitar play a semi-tonal noise riff repeatedly. A reverb-drenched bass drum comes in, playing a simple rhythm over the wash. There …
Serene Ailment and Mutations – Serene / Mutations
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This album is a split between Mutations and Serene Ailment.
Mutations’s side starts with the track “False Sense of Security”, which begins with a wall of noise, higher in the mid-frequencies without much low-end. It fades in, and is soo…
Shit Creek & Territorial Gobbing – Bastard Radio
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The first track of Bastard Radio is “Proper Bastards”, which starts with multilayered periodic noise overlayed with what sounds like some kind of sphincter letting out air with a bit of distortion with what sounds like the rattle of tin can…