Chicago’s Number None end up reworking two tracks from their own
2004 3" CDR release Nervous Climates into two new
pieces via the devolutions of Iowa’s Medroxy Progesterone Acetate’s
side long remixes. The similarities to the original tracks are fleeting
and buried as the barren landscapes of the originals are abused and
bruised into extended storms on this cassette release.
Sloow Tapes
Solar
Kraken" begins with a difficult to interpret voice punched through with
a mangled melodic snatch of a bashed electronic riff and it’s a good
three minutes before the icy noise of the original reveals self. Even
so the sound is still one removed becoming a static ed up digging pulse
with segments of cold treble sailing over the top and the whole song
has a much more digital damaged feel than the organic drones of the
source material. Where "Polar Kraken" was the sound of the endless
flurries in the incalculable claustrophobia of the icecap’s snowy
deserts, the reconstituted "Solar Kraken" is the sound and threat of
the impossible emptiness of space. If space really did have an OST it's
more likely to be this than "The Blue Danube."
From a single
‘systems engaged’ hum comes a intense near black noise dragging an off
kilter crushing (possible) rhythm behind it like the backend of some
junkyard mechanical flying machine. Juddering along like the premature
rumblings of the blackest Metal I can only presume this one runs on
fuels made from the bones of the working classes.
Side two’s
“King of Dead" constantly detunes itself on a perilous knife edge of
feedback that could just as easily be the screwed up highlights of a
session of heavy guitar maltreatment. Even the slightest sound seems to
bore holes in the brain as the shortwave cloud surrounds like a swarm
of rodents giving off the sort off high pitch sounds that bypass the
ears and go straight to fucking up the eyes.
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