This is one of those recordings that sounds like every non western culture is playing their instruments(amped) all at the same time. Infinite depths of drone are chipped away at with pinpricks of metal and stone sounding percussion. Strings, wind instruments, and unknown electrical noise sources all coalesce into a very forward moving sound. The movement is slow and steady but a sense of inevitability and invincibility is created. This is drone/noise/whatever not to be fucked with. Scouring, lulling, creeping. It says play real damn loud right there on the packaging and that?s what I did(on semi-shitty computer speakers). And I heard a sound that will appeal to not only the hipsters just passing through, but hardcore dirtdroners, free noise clatterers, and those already tuned to this frequency.

Every piece of searching for the guilty party has led me back to Phil Todd as the mastermind of this long floating dark spirit. A few other like/out minded people have helped out over the years and on this disc but this man seems to control the uncontrollable sound like a mother. This guy and his cronies should be as ?sell out all 25 copies? well known as any flavor of the month( and flavor of the ages) cdr star. But hell maybe they are and I have just been believing too much hype.

But forget what I said at the beginning of the review. That is just the first piece. The second track exists with less density and drone structure if you will. Lurking, sculpting percussion and spaced, spacey synth are the defining points of this one. Other elements are there but not as scathing and overbearing. This slight tweaking of raw materials is used to great, great effect on the rest of the pieces contained on this 5 inch circle.

But really this not a compact disc to break down track by track. This is one to sit down or stand up and just listen to uninterrupted. The flow is infinite and new ways of listening present themselves at every precise cd second. Raw noise, strummed acoustic strings, freedomized reed instruments, more wasted synthesizer, buried amp buzz, more open-ended drumming & hitting, and god knows what else can be found on the remainder of the disc. The thickness and application change but the intent, love that does truly whir and destroy always stays the same. 9/10 -- Warren Realrider (17 October, 2005)