It’s not the first time that Austrian label Fall Into Void Records surprise undersigned with a remarkable release. This goes as well for the split Perception Multiplies Tour Split 2013, which is dedicated to the tour from three sweet projects that create beautiful lullabies… …despite three quite different projects involved…
Svartvit is one of the outlets of Dutchman Kevin Jansen, who released some material as well under the moniker UN aka Unsolved Deaths. But Svartvit for sure is his most productive alias. With the track Oostenrijk (which is Dutch for ‘Austria’, the country of this sonic event) he comes up with some bleak and tortured form of Harsh Noise, quite minimal in approach and pretty industro-grinding in sound. The general atmosphere is pretty blackened for sure and structurally chaotic in execution. 7/10
Next are two pieces by Struggling Bacons, Fading Headlights, a project by label-owner Petar. For about five years, Struggling Bacons, Fading Headlights are torturing our eardrums with several highly acclaimed releases, especially on their own label evidently. This material isn’t as harsh and distorted as Svartvit’s at all, yet rather of the ambient, nihilistic-floating kind. Without being ‘electronic’, I guess there is a certain flair of electronized minimalism, guiding the listener’s mind towards / or into / a specific transcendent state of mind. I truly adore the uncompromised execution, in case it might interest you! And from purely personal point of view listen, it is my highlight on this split… 8,5/10
The split-tape ends with three decompositions by Austria’s outfit OHMU (another name for a ‘gorgon’, a huge post-nuclear insect). I have to admit that I am not that trusted with this kind of sh*t, but the combination of Minimal Noise, Drone Punk (no idea if this does exist, but as from now on it does…) and Punk Industrial (another invention by undersigned???) sounds rather refreshing, if only played live on stage. I wonder if the drum patterns are always so virginally executed – which is not necessarily a bad thing, just an objective question mark within reviewer’s (tortured) brain… 7/10
I guess in a live setting, that this might be quite overwhelming and impressive. I do also appreciate the differentiation in between the different projects involved. And that’s why I think every open-minded ‘fan’ of Industrial Noise whatsoever – nope, you will surely know at least one of those projects, so you do not necessarily need any further comment, I guess. Check this out because it might please your sickened and twisted brain…