Genre: Drone / Ambient

Track Listing:

01 Man Machine Drone
02 Hertz Two Oh
03 Diesel
04 Uncertainty
05 Baseline
06 Strange Winds
07 Piskadear (Composed By - Ctephin ) (Mystified Remix)
08 Always Beginning
09 Polar Out
10 Polar Out (Coldstream Remix)

I must say I was not particularly impressed when I first heard his music through some Roil Noise CD-R releases. It had some nice ideas, but tends to lose focus as it develops. Some of those were too long for its own survival skills, and simply some would not fit into my tastes within extreme music. Maybe just a matter of taste, but still something I need to have in mind when analyzing the music.

This release seems quite different, starting from the cover, b / w disturbing image of indelible dirt lost in ancient buildings, as in a scar that shall never heal. Deepened ambience and demonic soundscapes, infecting all corners with infernal dormancy. It also tends to be more focused, even if that means monolithic constancy at times, or boredom if you resist its call.

“Man Machine Drone” evokes that same organic disfunction, slowly fading into light or drowning into flesh. Cave resonance and unidimensional decline, into the cells and into the veins.
“Hertz Two Oh” proceeds the descent into regions long lost. We can now hear a very subtle crackle, as if all this suspension was unbearable, bodies will have to fall. Circular and predatorial, haunted by eternal return to images forced to dark.

“Diesel”, and machine slowly taking over human disease. Still obtuse and monotonous, as in hypnosis or a forced state of somnolence. Wavelength or the distance between first breath and eternal darkness. “Uncertainty”, still too vague to survive and too human to fly above hell.

“Baseline”, all voices recollected into nocturnal conspiracy. Cold lake of subterranean nothingness. But still a flame cursing all the way inside. “Strange Winds” and boiling secrets nailed to rocks and dust and sand. Ultra low ingestion of aerial masses, or the sound of a storm forming underneath the skin.

“Piskadear (Mystified Remix)” follows with a heavy dose of monochromic witchcraft and narcoleptic saturation. Composed by Ctephin, with whom Mystified shared some CD-R´s on Roil Noise I had access too. “Always Beginning” pops up as a strange object within the context of this recording, closer to some of those early releases I mentioned in the beginning. Rhythmic bleakness, forcing you to wake up in a way that pretty much interrupts any possibility of dreaming afterwards.

“Polar Out” (and the remix version) give some more coherence to the previous track. Slow motion implosion of all particles at once, but still a sketch of levitation, hopeful after a journey through the vast regions of loneliness. Some voices, a hint of light, a blindman´s cry.

Not a flawless release, but one that´s more consistent and effective. Hope to see some more of these ideas developed in the future. Worth checking out, if you´re into self medicated foggy trips.