Hundreds of millions noises heard through my damaged ears.
Sounds Like
The theme music for an warped children's Tee Vee program.
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Talk about variety. This compilation contains 67 tracks by almost as many bands, crammed into 73 minutes of CD space. Brent C the compiler has told me that he accepted all submissions until the comp was full, without deleting anything. This lack of quality control would be a problem on a comp that had regular 4-7 minute tracks, but on this comp it works ok. Even the most annoying sounds (Which there are alot of here) can't be that annoying when they only last for a minute. Admittedly there are a few songs I really could live without, but usually by the time I muster up the will power to hit the skip button the song is over anyway.
I think this compilation should be touted as the current manifesto of scum. The variety and originality of this comp is simply incredible. Just about every scummy, crappy, noisey, strange, weird, unthinkable sound you have ever not thought of before is on this compilation. I'm finding it difficult to give any sort of all-encompassing review because not only does every track on this CD sound nothing like any other track, but at least 3/4 of them also sound nothing like anything else out there.
Regardless I will just give a few descriptions of tracks, as a full track-by-track is a bit beyond my motivation right now. Daimyo Gyoretsu song "Destroyed Robot" is a japanese woman saying some phrase in japanese repeatedly with some clinking and clanking in the background. Diamond Shamrock's track "Noyz Inda Hood" is a couple distorted hiphop samples that are off-timing and diverge and then reconnect, pretty cool. Inkpot Monkey's "Fooj" is a couple guys making funny mouth noises and laughing. Cyborg's "AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKFFCC" is an extended sample of an outtake from the making of a KFC commercial.
Joshua Bourke's "The Light" sounds like trippy chaotic techno w/ skinny puppy-esque vocals. Ude Wir's "P.L. $1,000,222.00$" is total feedback noise. B.C. Whitehead's "I Owe 25" is burping, grunting, sink sounds, tapping on a metal tin or something, and vocal cut-ups. The Evolution Control Committee's "Stairway to Royalty Payments" is a collage of samples from guess where. The End of Time's "Six Dimensional Space" is super lo-fi electro industrial. Histatic Charge's "Zero to Sixty" has a baby crying and distorted fucked-up synth playing.
You might get the idea by now, but if you don't, try to get this compilation when it comes out anyway. I don't know what Brent C's guidelines where for submission to this comp but I'd like to know because he managed to gather together some pretty ecclectic and strange stuff which may not fit all that gracefully on one CD together, but sure as hell would fit a lot worse into any other already-existing genre or scene. Viva Scum.
Rotcod Zzaj: Histatic Charge - HISTATIC CHARGE: From SET Cassettes comes this neat, tho' short, taste of one of his earlier tapes... all the way from the frontal assault on yer' lobes on the first tune to the soft & lilting electronics on side 2's first 'bonus' song (Prestatic Charge), this is a most enjoyable listen. Dr. Terrence 13 seems to have an affinity for mixing together a broad range of types of music, as on the SET tape 'Drain That Dirty Water', reviewed in I.N. #5. A BIG fan of D.I.Y., Dr. 13 shows definite skill and talent, and is NEVER bland or vague. His own liner notes support that - "This tape was made in reaction to the boring pap that is smeared inside our eardrums day in and day out. Go out and make your own music, D.I.Y." HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommended for a fine listening experience.
Histatic Charge was created after I was "fired" from a unremarkable rock band that never amounted to anything. The name refers to a former co-worker's ability to shock someone with static electricity, hence "his static charge". It means nothing, but sounded good enough in 1988.
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