This very short but very fine 3" CD-R from Luke Younger pulls three pieces of damaged electric rushes from a kebab skewer and lets them stew slowly. These hot, metal, minimal seeds might have benefitted from a longer evolution, but it is better to be tantalized than unsatisfied.
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Claudio Parodi is sitting in a room, different from the one you are in, and slowly dissolving the relationship between his instruments and the space they occupy. Alvin Lucier's famous I Am Sitting in a Room informs Parodi's recording, the natural resonance of a room used as an instrument just as much as the resonating instruments themselves. Parodi has complicated the process a bit, but the idea is the same and the outcome is captivating.
The project's name may have instantly rang a bell in my head as a nod towards the band Total, but I’m not sure that everyone lives in a world where that connection would have been made; sadly Matthew Bower is not yet a household name. Actually playing this vinyl took a step further in revealing a moderate debt towards Bower's drone projects. This debut release from Kevin Doria's (half of Washington's weighty Growing) extra curricular pursuit has been rescued from the 2005's graveyard of cassettes revealing two heavily gorgeous slabs of fucked modern prairiescapes.
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This photocopied and folded A4 zine comes with a free eight track CD-R Feral Debris Vol. 2, which is pretty essential if you give a damn about knowing your up-and-comers. The pieces by Throurouf, Robedoor and Blue Sabbath Black Cheer are particularly incredible, and rank up there with their strongest materal to date, exclusive to this release as far as I can tell.