Genre: Rhythmic Industrial/ Noise
Harshcore
01 Stunned Tuna
02 Mesmerian
03 Do it dodo!
04 Peeping
Der Einzige
05 Yellow 6 meets Yellow Swans
06 To beat or not to beat
07 Franco
08 El Bujun
Wonderfully resembling a 7" from the seventies, with an absurd, yet brilliant picture and matching graphics, "The Bujun Freakshow" wins several points for distracting and confusing the enemy, that is you. The hypothetical situation of this album finding it's way to the house of a seventies' psychedelic fan, who will turn pale after just a few seconds, is not higly unlikely. Inside the 7" cover lies a CDr with the two groups, Harshcore and Der Einzige, sounding pretty diverse and rewarding.
Harshcore begins with metallic rhythms and semi-psychedelic sounds and produce an acid-tinged industrial. Stunned tuna begins with a monotonic, head-in-the-wall style rhythm that develops into screaming metals crushing unto each other. It's hard to grasp at first, but Harshcore let a slow droning vibrations go under the mayhem and make this track very worthwhile. "Mesmerian " is more subtle, yet undoubtedly strange. Drum like rhythm is the background for alien-like sounds that somehow seem to fit over the sleepy rhythm.
"Do it Dodo!" explodes in a dirty and menacing industrial way. Reminding a lot of Noisex, especially from the albums "Over and out" and "Groupieshock" . it's heavy, screaming and drilling into one small point in the brain. Excellent. I am not sure who is talking on the track "Peeping" but she breaks the previous track like a twig and send it to another direction. It sounds somewhat sexy in the begining, and it turns into a slow , almost in audiable dirge. A very fine way to end "Side A" of the album.
Der Einsige begins with "Yellow 6 meets Yellow swans". As the title says, this track is more like a forced hybrid of the mental demntia of Yellow Swans with the beauty that Yellow 6 plays. The two unlikely brothers (in name only!) are combined into a powerful horrific, ear piercing shriek, over a low and meditative drone. A powerful result indeed. Fittingly named "To beat or not to beat" develops into a nightmarish drone with many sound samples n the background, a more experimental side to this album.
"Franco" continues with this notion and concentrates more on different percussion, adding more and more layers of them until it's just too much, and then some more. El Bujun ends this split with a track that sounds more dramatic and even touching. Beautifully emerging and summarizing the album.
Never heard neither of these bands before, but " The Bujun freak show" sure does the job in introducing them to non familiar ears. The tracks themselves, along with the arrangement and of course, art work, make a great album for Moriremo tutti records.
