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CDR from Doufu Records (DRCD05)

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Split cd featuring Stimbox (USA), Ronez (China) & Lasse Marhaug (Norway).
2006, CDR with handmade & stamped cover.

Stimbox is a noise music project run by Tim Oliveira, and is one of the most established names in the American harsh noise scene.

Ronez is a Chinese (Guilin) Noise/video artist, host of music program of local radio station, owner of the noise/experimental CDR label Doufu Reocrds. Focus on the study of audio/video feedback.

Lasse Marhaug is a Norwegian musician that records under his own name as well as with a ton of other groups (Jazzkammer, The Sleazy Listeners, The Territory Band,The Skull Defekts, Climax of Copenhagen just to name a few).

reviewed from Industrial.org:"... The disc is a three way pretty evenly split with Lasse Marhaug marhogging an extra minute or two but everyone keeping around the 20 minute mark. Oh, and it is chock full of noise in case you were lost on that front.


The disc opens with iheartnoise pariah Stimbox and a hair under 24 minutes of what non-believers might call "lazer blasts" (due to petty jealousy) but which he calls "Bioerotic Feedback". What you really get is some slick oscillator abuse (or a resonant filter about to burst open from the Q being cranked) juggled inline with some gristly distortion washes plus a nice tight reverb jumpsuit to make things sound even livelier. The razor sharp filter sweeps immediately evoke tentacled robots from 1950s science fiction, especially with the electric reverb glow around them. Generally there are at least two chains in play (if not more) and the way that harsh walls get built up out of all the zaps and blasting only to collapse in a massive crunch really lights me up. No shortage of frequency range and sound quality smooth like the best anal lubricant money can buy. Juicy.


Ronez takes up slot 2 with a dustier, cruder blast of harsh noise under the banner "Oily Teardrops". Plenty of fuzz breakup which makes me think of someone angrily banging their electric chainsaw against the concrete with each square wave stall. The track gets some stereo lovin though this mostly focused on depth of field (mainly a short delay between speakers though some hard panning gets done). The changeover from the smooth and slippery tentacle noise of Stimbox is a little jarring but once you acclimatize to peaked midrange the curling smoke from the burnt wires is reasonably captivating. I really like the scrabbly stuff about 5 minutes in plus the electric razor to the teeth sound that rudely jumps in every so often. My only complaints would be that the relative sound levels seem a little louder on my Behringers than the first track (though not painfully so) and that the feedback portions are scooped a little too close to the resonant frequency of my ear drums (your mileage may differ). The brutal displays of delay feedback crunch into cacophony starting halfway through makes it all worth the effort. Nice vocals as well.


The final segment of the CD comes from Norwegian native Lasse Marhaug. This track gets called "Obscurantis Orders" which probably means something to somebody. Really weird level drops on this track, a toss up between shock / gasp and frustrating. The low end really jumps out at the start compared to the Ronez piece and a bass cannon driving by your house might even knock shit of shelves. Being a fan of big bottom the low end grime does me fine though I wish it stuck around for longer. The sound comes off as really decimated, less sputtering fuzz and more like a high speed meat slicer is stealing every other millisecond. A tight reverb on everything also makes it nice and close and despite being almost 100% on, there is still enough room left for swoops and ramps. You can hear some very abused source material (or perhaps voice) here and there depending on the levels at the time but it is mostly so blasted that all that remains is fuzz and alkaline. The said level changes are hard to guage - very much intentional, a side effect of the pedal chains (real or virtual) in action, who knows? My guess is that this was a live recording and someone who shouldn't have been was tweaking the master levels but I am a pessimist. Only Lasse Marhaug knows for sure but I think the added frustration as feature does not quite offset the awkwardness of the jumps and some total stops would have made it easier to hop on board and stop wondering what was wrong with the stereo.


Of the three, the first two tracks definitely are preferred with Stimbox getting honours for depth and production (plus a reasonable track length for once). That said, overall there are no doubts about what you are in store for as this Doufu effort is purely of the harsh noise persuasion with almost zero slacker quotient. These people must have sore knobs I bet from all the twiddling.

by MORON @ industrial.org

Added by Hetleveiker on 23 January 2007