Chicago’s Number None end up reworking two tracks from their own2004 3" CDR release Nervous Climates into two newpieces via the devolutions of Iowa’s Medroxy Progesterone Acetate’sside long remixes. The similarities to the original tracks are fleetingand buried as the barren landscapes of the originals are abused andbruised into extended storms on this cassette release.
Sloow Tapes
SolarKraken" begins with a difficult to interpret voice punched through witha mangled melodic snatch of a bashed electronic riff and it’s a goodthree minutes before the icy noise of the original reveals self. Evenso the sound is still one removed becoming a static ed up digging pulsewith segments of cold treble sailing over the top and the whole songhas a much more digital damaged feel than the organic drones of thesource material. Where "Polar Kraken" was the sound of the endlessflurries in the incalculable claustrophobia of the icecap’s snowydeserts, the reconstituted "Solar Kraken" is the sound and threat ofthe impossible emptiness of space. If space really did have an OST it'smore likely to be this than "The Blue Danube."
From a single‘systems engaged’ hum comes a intense near black noise dragging an offkilter crushing (possible) rhythm behind it like the backend of somejunkyard mechanical flying machine. Juddering along like the prematurerumblings of the blackest Metal I can only presume this one runs onfuels made from the bones of the working classes.
Side two’s“King of Dead" constantly detunes itself on a perilous knife edge offeedback that could just as easily be the screwed up highlights of asession of heavy guitar maltreatment. Even the slightest sound seems tobore holes in the brain as the shortwave cloud surrounds like a swarmof rodents giving off the sort off high pitch sounds that bypass theears and go straight to fucking up the eyes.
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