“If you're of the opinion that a five-hour plus long collection should come with rolling papers, step right up to A Harsh Smoker's Sonic Compilation.”
If you're of the opinion that a five-hour plus long collection should come with rolling papers, step right up to A Harsh Smoker's Sonic Compilation. While curator Nikola H Mounoud threads in assorted strains of whoa - Suicide Samurai Wann's slack-jawed synthpop, Synchromancer's acid astral dub, Biology Of The Future's micro-bleep bubbling bubbly - noise is the coin of the realm here. On "Nature" Kurumi Kadoya scrambles what sound like radio signals into a toxic, ill-tempered cloud; "Waiting Room" finds Digestive Frequencies piledriving one distorted bolt after the next into a too small aperture. Bob Bellerue's rotating, rattling drone wonder "Bambú Snafu" fricassees the synapses. Scobi Wan contributes the 15 minute long "So What", a squawking squeegee workout that escalates into disorienting extremism.
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