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WHITE CENTIPEDE NOISE Germany
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Here is also new review by Vital Weekly :
EDGE OF DECAY - VEIN OF METAL (CD by Aussaat)
Germany's Aussaat is rapidly expanding their catalogue of noise releases, sometimes with golden oldies such as Le Syndicat, Club Moral or Entre Vifs, but also with new acts, for me that is, such as this one. Edge Of Decay hails from Finland, with no other name known, but also working under aliases such as Invisible Waves, Olli Tanskanen, Vigilantism. He (so I assume for no good reason) has releases on such labels as Supreme Analog Torture Records, Antipatik Records, Staalwaart Records, Nacroplepsia, Freak Animal and Aussaat. I am the first to admit I didn't keep up with the development of noise music in the last twenty years. I know that Edge Of Decay isn't a harsh noise wall group, but is it power electronics? Or some other term? Let's dispense with the terms and let the music talk. Synthesizers are working overtime, buzzing loudly. Sometimes it's stuck in a rhythm, such as in 'Teenage Dreams'. On a few occasions, there are vocals, it's shouting in the background, or something out of a film. Maybe there is some metallic crashing and some kind of loop device at work. There are eight pieces of music here, and what I found most delightful is the variation within these pieces. Maybe delightful isn't the right word for the bleak music and ditto titles ('Love Violence', 'Infertile', 'Sterile Stimulation'), but I enjoyed the grim nature of this. As I may have said before, I am certainly not averse to good noise, the one with variation and not the mindless, endless blast, and as such, Edge Of Decay gets my seal of approval. Time to explore some more here from this furious Fin. (FdW)
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