HATESOUND - "Bastardized" - CDr - HATEMUSIC - 2009
Raging walls of buzzing electronic manifestations war against piercing sinewaves in this harsh noise wall spectacle. This is my introduction to HATESOUND, and though the packaging for this '44.40 minutes of harsh noise' is, to be frank, quite lazy and ugly (packaging tape wrapped around the torn edges of bubblewrap, white sticker label, messy handwriting, white-face CD in the same), the sound within makes up greatly for its Home-ly shortcomings.
Drooling voices seep into the rave of white-washed triumph, piecing together sloppy strands of over-extended and meandering samples, which are in turn soaked up into a harmonious orchestra of reverb-heavy screams and thoroughly drilling grungy atmospheres.
Skewered pop music samples flutter in and out of the range of high-pitched tones and grazing drones, all sounding like a possessed radio being processed in a rubbish disposal set to Excessively High.
Slightly industrial beats are to be found playing dangerously with barbaric glitches; I cannot tell if these are the product of the soundmaker or an insane amount of disc-damage.
While new sounds are to be heard further on down the route of this lengthy track (Hellish choirs of transmutated blues songs, pianos being garbled through the aforementioned rubbish disposal, absolutely ripping down-and-upwards warps of the core noise sound), and while this is certainly one of the most interesting HNW tracks I've heard in a while, some sounds appear to be repeating themselves and dragging on for much longer than they should. However, that is one of the only knocks on this album, a blistering tribute to the harshest of practices within the noise world, flooded with radio-unfriendly nonsense along the way.
