BISTURI / VRIL / MIXTURIZER
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Reviewed on HEATHEN HARVEST
http://www.heathenharvest.com/
Packaged in a high quality paper sleeve, with colors ranging from the darkest, slimy green to brilliant black, it doesn’t take much to predict what is lurking inside this album. Sharing the general aesthetics of many other noise acts, one would be very surprised to find anything but ear piercing, speakers molesting noise. The three Spain-based projects, Mixturizer, Vril and Bisturi have gathered under the request of R.O.N.F records and each project, at its turn, is trying to win an undeclared competition to find the most painful and hostile batch of frequencies that is humanly possible.
Bisturi opens up with a blood chilling and nerve-bending track. Powerful drilling power electronics serves the basic foundation for ringing bells, somnambulist glitch slopes and tormented vocals, mixed with babies crying. Soon this whole wave of mutilation becomes one abstract cloud of vile and tormenting sounds. Is this effective? Well, not for full one hundred percents of the track, but for most of it does. And in case the sounds of crying babies, all mixed with the voices of apparently deranged lunatics do not sound tempting for you, the credits claim that this whole track was l recorded in a hospital by three doctors. NOW you should read this paragraph again, it has a completely new meaning with this tiny bit of information!
Vril has two tickets in this ride and begins with "Animal Wave" – a straight forward (Not that Bisturi were too coy themselves!) rusty needle down the tooth. The first one or two minutes gives away the impression that this is going to be a static, 100% powerful track, but it then shifts and turns into higher and higher peaks of terror. When it fades out, the mind is already empty and the brief second between this and the next track is barely grasped at all. Beefy form is, well, more beefy than the previous number. The pain is "fatter" and more widespread than before, it holds more elements and is richer with textures and dynamics.
Mixturizer hits off with several bombastic feedback manoeuvres that crunch down into one destructive assault. As the minutes pass, Mixturizer let the track sound like a burning flame, a justified ending to these four tracks of sonic corruption . Mixturizer manage to push the limits and bring more and more wrath, and with great skills . In the end, all that's left is silence, tainted with low hums and a short breath. So who won this thing? Find someone else to make the judgment or better yet, do it yourself. My brain is all fried up from this joyride.
Reviewed on WONDERFUL WOODEN REASONS
http://wonderfulwoodenreasons.homestead.com/current.html
If the darker and more atmospheric end of noise music is your bag then you'll already be well aware of R.O.N.F. Records. Last month I featured their excellent 'Altered Neurologycal Function Vol.1' comp and this month sees a cool split seedee from three bands who are all new to WWR. First up are Bisturi who open the album in a surprisingly psychedelic way with various half-melodies and broken rhythms scattered and roaming around the mix. A droning noise slowly builds in the mix along with some amorphous voice samples before the whole thing comes to a close with a birth. Second and third are Vril with a pair of erratic and acidic constructions of razor-edged noise. It's great restless fun that'll nicely soundtrack your next armageddon. Finally we have Mixturizer who, despite sounding like they're going to be a hip hop act, wrap things up with a cretaceous fuzzy roar.
Reviewed on VITAL WEEKLY
http://www.vitalweekly.net/
... The BVM split was more industrial – aural landscapes in which noisy objects emerge. The Mixturizer track (4) being the more substantial wall of (fairly) harsh noise. For some reason I cant get enthusiastic over these – I suspect its more my own depressive state rather than the snippets of over enthusiasm in which these releases seem to float. “irreverent orgy of guitar noise, tightly controlled feedback…. to make the dead walk full of mean and sick killer energy perfection…16 minutes of audio agony dealing with harsh feelings and clinic methods…”? (jliat)
