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NF03 1999. Available. 10 EUR / $ cash or Paypal everywhere.
REVIEWS
"'Halogen Ball' has no theme, but lengthy tracks. The band
Alchemy Of The 20th Century (noted before for the excellent dark
ambience) provide a simple, yet effective dark track with drony
edge and samples to go about. Dieter Muh (from the UK, but with
linear notes in finnish! - the others are in english) open up
like wise dark but over their 15 minutes they evolve in quite
noisy affair of layered drones. Mnen follow about the same course,
but their track is shorter. Grey Park (this and Mnen are entirely
new names for me) use a wide instrumentarium in a collage form.
Not bad but at this length a bit too long too hold ones attention.
Not a bad score." (Vital Weekly, ?)
"The remit from Negative Foundations [sic] to these four
acts was to deliver aural apocalypse. 'We want the end of the
world pouring out of some poor cunts speakers' they said. 'We
want 'em to know what it feels like when Lucifer shoves his white
hot rident up their arses'. So… Alchemy have the first go and
kick things off in suitable style with a floor rumbling shelf
shaking monster that had me twitching the net curtains. Dieter
Müh take up the baton with 'Well Thumbed' a chugging low end burr
that takes you through half of its fifteen minutes and all the
while making Brighter Death Now sound like the Brotherhood of
Man. Noise freaks'll get a kick out of the jump in mix volume
that gives you the edge to take in the final few moments before
a lonely voice welcomes you back to relative safety. Start painting
the walls white and head for the bunkers as MNEM crank up the
volume with speaker shattering thud that sounds like the alarm
to clear the building. She's gonna blow you fuckers and take us
all down. Then… a Grey Park chip with what can only be described
as an anti-climax. Never mind, get it for the first three tracks
sit back and kiss you arse ta-tas. Class." (Just Glittering
2)
"Straight outta Matti Nykänen land come Grey Park who last
time around were making a big impression with their contribution
to the Halogen Ball CD - a mighty edifice of electro power ambient
noise knob tweaking resurgence." (Just Glittering 6)
"Neat collection of electroacoustic, musique concrete and
junk-noise works by Alchemy of the 20th Century, Dieter Müh, Mnem
and Grey Park. A strong enough overview of what's currently going
on at the peripheries." (Fourth Dimension Records Catalogue
December 1999)
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