POTABILIZADORA
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Reviewed on CRUCIAL BLAST
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This one is for the steel-eared only. I come across some pretty ridiculous shit as I scour all known corners of the extreme music underground, looking for as yet unheard sounds to further blast my senses with, and some of the most absurd, far-out bands that I've discovered have been in the noise/grind scene. It's easy to write off noisecore stuff as just a third-rate Anal Cunt ripoff, but if you actually listen to some of the bands that have come out in the wake of Fear Of God and Anal Cunt and 7 Minutes Of Nausea, you can find some seriously weird sounds. If you are chaos-inclined and lust after the most extreme noise/grind/blurr craziness that you can get yer hands on, some of the weirdest shit ever came out of that fertile sewer- underground that was the noisecore scene of the early 1990s. That's the slimepit where this ultra-obscure band called Potabilizadora emerged from, a side project of another grimy grindcore band called Genital Masticator. If you were a rabid collector of foreign grindcore 7"s in the late 1990s, chances are you might have heard Genital Masticator, a Spanish band who played ultranoisy, low-fi grindcore that was entirely improvised, and who sounded more like Japanese extreme noise than anything that Earache Records fans were listening to back then. Apparently, however, the free-grind slop that these guys were playing in GM wasn't extreme and/or migraine-inducing enough, and they formed Potabilizadora around 1994 to really crack some fucking skulls. The band was a total basement project that recorded a handful of cassettes, and these recordings barely travelled beyond a small circle of extreme noise and grind freaks. Any given Potabilizadora tape would be packed with a non-stop barrage of short, caustic blasts of percussive blasting and mangled noise that the band called "songs", but really, this stuff just melts together into a single epic clusterfuck of freeform noise that, depending on what tape you were listening to, might run up to twenty minutes in length. The sound is sort of similiar to the bestial noisebursts of 7 Minutes Of Nausea, but even noisier. Jackhammer drum machines fire away in semi-automatic bursts through thick chunks of metallic scraping, industrial noise, and nauseating out-of-tune bass guitar noise. A slobbering, lobotomized death metal vocalist drools and vomits uncontrollably over the whole mess. Every couple of minutes, these mutants will actually converge and start playing a mindless punk riff for a few seconds, or puke up a distorted breakbeat or gabber rhythm, or a punishing slab of crumbling, ultra-distorted doom or some bizarre electro-industrial rhythm into the middle of their fleshy masses of demonic grindnoise, but these brief flashes of "music" are over before you know it and yer immediately swept back up in the cyclone of damaged blast. This is completely fucked, and it's easily one of the most retarded discs (and bands) that I've ever carried here at Crucial Blast. It's like someone took a copy of Napalm Death's Scum, a bunch of old, heat-warped Incapacitants cassettes, and a puke-covered copy of Ministry's Twitch, mixed all of that together and chopped the resulting mess up into short ten second bursts that are then rearranged into a new random order, and then play it at maxmimum volume through a P.A. system while some crazed asshole fires an M134 minigun directly into a concrete wall. This might be the stupidest shit ever, or total outsider grind genius. Or both. Probably both. Most of the tracks that appear on Sessions date back to 1994-1995, except for the last two which were recorded in the past couple of years. There's nearly 80 minutes of Potabilizadora's brutal concussion blasts documented here, and that's 80 minutes of warfare on your skull.
