The first side, Steve Kenney's "side two" is a short
drone piece that keeps you intrigued as the track progresses. A dirty, dark
synth loop that is always slightly changing underlies the track, short wailing
synth bits come in and out of the track as they please. As the base of the
track is moving forward these different alien abduction synth sounds
distract you from the small changes happening. The track is minimal, but keeps
me interested, I found out later that the steve kenney track on this tape is an
excerpt from a larger drone track from another album of his, which made sense
given that when the track ended the first time around, I was left wanting for
the track to keep going. I'm assuming the Tarr side of this tape is also a Tarr
track from another album, but Tarr's music seems to be harder to find online.
Tarr's "sux by suxwest" (great name) is a rougher
noise piece that quickly switches in overall sound, there's a lot going on as
different sections of the track are all multi-layered of rich extremely
processed sounds that blend with each other to sound like i've been kicked in
the head and i'm listening to my brain try and piece itself back together.
Parts of this track really are impressive with how much is going on, and
similar to Steve Kenney's side of this tape, I was left wanting more of the
track. I actually can't find anywhere on the internet where I can find more
information on Tarr, but I could find some tracks under his/her alias Drahog.
But then again, as with any obscure noise artist. Maybe one day I'll find another
Tarr tape in a random record shop similar to how I found this one, and I'll be
able to piece together more of Tarr's/Drahog's music.
Both sides of this short tape had my attention throughout, and
never really reached parts of repetition that would allow me to wander off. The
tape was put out by THIRDSEX. Which I believe is run by Tarr/Drahog, and is
Nero Porca Miseria on facebook. Their latest post says that NPM has been
terminated. Damn. This goes out to you THIRDSEX/NPM/Tarr/Drahog.
-- Lucas Martinez
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