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| | :: Gnawed Vs Rxaxpxe - Split : | |
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| | artist: Gnawed Vs Rxaxpxe | |
| | album: Split | |
| | label: Industrial-Culture | |
| | cat num: IXC-MC-001 | |
| | genre: Noise | |
| | year: 2012 | |
| | website: N/A | |
| | | |
| | rls date: 10.2017 | |
| | source: Tape | |
| | quality: VBRkbps / Joint Stereo | |
| | tracks: 11 | |
| | length: 58:33 | |
| | size: 119,92MB | |
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| | A1 Gnawed - Routine Taboo 04:04 | |
| | A2 Gnawed - Flesh Cell 06:01 | |
| | A3 Gnawed - Forever 05:35 | |
| | A4 Gnawed - Pretend 04:22 | |
| | A5 Gnawed - Hiding The Scars 04:01 | |
| | A6 Gnawed - Chains 04:43 | |
| | B1 RxAxPxE - Burning Faith 05:52 | |
| | B2 RxAxPxE - Wisdom 06:37 | |
| | B3 RxAxPxE - Awakening 09:12 | |
| | B4 RxAxPxE - His Name 04:54 | |
| | B5 RxAxPxE - Free 03:12 | |
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| | > total playtime: 58:33 | |
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| | A Side arranged, recorded and mastered in 2011 by | |
| | Grant Ridchardson at the Rathole | |
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| | B side arranged and recorded by Rxaxpxe in 2010. | |
| | Mastered by Electro Jesus in the Humiliation Chapel, | |
| | January 2011 | |
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| | This is the first release on the newly-founded | |
| | Industrial Culture label from Germany founded in | |
| | March 2012; the Gnawed /RxAxPxE c60 split cassette. | |
| | A plain black cassette housed in a retro black and | |
| | clear cassette case, black and white artwork, 100 | |
| | standard copies and 23 limited steel edition copies. | |
| | This is an attractive first release; strong sounds | |
| | are needed to match these high opening visual | |
| | standards. | |
| | | |
| | Grant Richardson's Minneapolis USA based Gnawed | |
| | project have been releasing since 2009 with several | |
| | cassettes and splits with the likes of Taklamakan , | |
| | Pusdrainer and Disthroned Agony . Gnawed are | |
| | described as Harsh/ Industrial /Power Electronics. | |
| | | |
| | Gnawed begin with Routine Taboo which opens with an | |
| | impressive scope of Death blast and drone. The drone | |
| | increases in depth with incoherent vocalisations | |
| | from what sounds like sampled news or documentary | |
| | reports. Flesh Cell resonates blasts and noises that | |
| | carry things on smoothly from where Routine Taboo | |
| | left off, distorted hisses pitch in, followed by | |
| | sharp electronic frequencies over a choppy deeper | |
| | base sound. This functions as a Dark Ambient base | |
| | upon which power noises are overlaid. Forever hums | |
| | into action before turning into a Tibetan type | |
| | sounding drone punctuating through a rough sea of | |
| | coiling noises. This contrasts away from the | |
| | previous two tracks well. Gnawed reaches an | |
| | impressive bombast that does not get too muddied as | |
| | can sometimes happen in noise work, where artists | |
| | attempt to make form from overly chaotic work. | |
| | Pretend starts with a single synth blast before a | |
| | wall of noise parallels it, this uses more wall | |
| | methods with the synth making noises behind the | |
| | Walls' broken frontal blast. Wavering feedback | |
| | enters as a third sound/contrast; it pushes the | |
| | noise forward, so the wall is an element of the | |
| | entire composition, not the composition being a | |
| | composed wall. Hiding the Scars feeds back with | |
| | thumping deep noises battling sharp pitches of | |
| | noise. This is the most industrial sounding of all | |
| | the tracks, it sounds like a massive loud busy | |
| | factory kicking off sonically in production. Chains | |
| | opens with Hellish blasts of sounds, like uneven | |
| | over amplified breathing, this leans toward a more | |
| | noisy ambient sound, a violent slow finale to the | |
| | Gnawed side. | |
| | | |
| | The Gnawed tracks are all strong, there is variety | |
| | in all of the sounds used and different methods, | |
| | it's not all samey. There is a lot of inventiveness | |
| | and good use of sample, most certainly on the | |
| | opening track Routine Taboo. Sharpness and | |
| | consideration seem to define the Gnawed approach; | |
| | things never get murky or dull. | |
| | | |
| | Germany's RxAxPxE is a harsh noise+ project and has | |
| | been active since 2005. I am curious to see how | |
| | powerful RxAxPxE are in sound, due to their extreme | |
| | name, imagery and bold statements on their website: | |
| | | |
| | Formed in 2005. Combining harsh electronical noise | |
| | with gore elements, power electronics, explicit | |
| | lyrics and visuals, rXaXpXe creates the soundtrack | |
| | to a new reality. | |
| | | |
| | Burning Faith is a sharp Power Industrial work, a | |
| | sharp creaking blasting. It has a wall-like density, | |
| | but there's a lot more going on, beyond merely being | |
| | a wall. It is thick and dense compared to Gnawed but | |
| | still effective as there's clarity to the sound, a | |
| | defined density, with clear definitive sounds also. | |
| | The entire sound sharpens like fingernails on a | |
| | school blackboard as it progresses, an impressive | |
| | aggressive intro. Wisdom pulsates into action with | |
| | deep feedback and is then hit with static. The two | |
| | sounds compete for the forefront but seem to settle | |
| | on a truce where one leads, working in harmony | |
| | eventually with each other and it works in an | |
| | interesting way that contrasts with Burning Faith. | |
| | This suddenly accelerates into the rumblings of | |
| | Awakening which quickly turns into what I would call | |
| | an aggressive Power Wall, this is not like before | |
| | where a wall is an ingredient of the track, a lot of | |
| | grinding, sharp sounds and static blasts combine to | |
| | form an entire spiky wall. Awakening peters out to | |
| | kick into His Name which is a more recognisable | |
| | traditional wall that ups the ante even more. Crispy | |
| | sharp grinding sounds fight with blasts at a | |
| | hyperspeed of mass that is almost rhythmic or | |
| | looped, this intensifies as deeper blasts roar and | |
| | both weave through each other. There is a hellish | |
| | ambience created from the combination of both. Free | |
| | begins with a rumbling crackle, that is cut into and | |
| | later complimented with negative humming feedback, a | |
| | kind of low wall, industrial grinding noises make a | |
| | cameo appearance. | |
| | | |
| | rXaXpXe does use harsh sounds, but is master at | |
| | making them work together, a kind of simultaneously | |
| | brutal and beautiful noise. They are on their way to | |
| | creating a language of their own different but like | |
| | the New Blockaders did with noise early on. This | |
| | would be accelerated by moving away from | |
| | conventional noise sounds. Three raw elements can be | |
| | combined and become complimentary to each other. | |
| | rXaXpXe doesn't need the name or imagery as he makes | |
| | thinking noise, well produced thought out work, | |
| | seriously considered sounds. | |
| | | |
| | Both artists have made strong contributions to this | |
| | split. Each side is crystal clear, well thought out, | |
| | varied, inventive, interesting and impressive. Were | |
| | both artists aware of what the other was making, it | |
| | is difficult to decide who made the better side? | |
| | Each contribution juggles up existing genres freely, | |
| | a coincidental strength or an agreed method? It | |
| | shows both Gnawed and rXaXpXe capable of mixing and | |
| | shifting confidently and fluidly, I'd urge both to | |
| | throw anything in the mix and see what happens. This | |
| | split cassette serves as an excellent addition to | |
| | the work of both artists and a good first release by | |
| | Industrial-Culture. | |
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| | -- https://heathenharvest.org | |
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