Here we have the first foray into the 12" vinyl realm for Dada Drumming, offering up one 45rpm side apiece for the involved parties.? Okha opens it up with "Mute, Naked, Pure", a total assault of rather loud as fuck harsh noise with a lot of midrange, swelling low-end, and various bits and pieces of added texture/detail fighting to the surface in brief spurts.? It's rumored that a VCR was used to provide sources sounds in the process of putting this piece together, but who knows?? With enough distortion and chaotic movement, anything could've been involved - including the proverbial kitchen sink!? There's definitely a rugged sensibility to the sound, effectively so, and even though the unrelenting delivery can get tiresome and feel sort of typical at times, there's definitely some ferocity involved, as well as subtle atmospheric hints that make for a nice characteristic.? I love the well controlled ending, too.? Side B is a collaborative effort between Macronympha and Prurient dubbed "Perpetual Motion (Fucking and Sucking)", with plenty of wispy midrange distortion and raging swells of high-end to match Okha's approach.? There's a little more breathing room with this one, with a lot of movement and some killer low-end rumbles adding to the mix now and then, but this one tends to drop back rather than surge higher and higher - and I actually like that in most cases.? Rather than "fucking and sucking" you get more of a "sandblasting and grinding" kind of vibe from a lot of the textures... but then again, what's more interesting to listen to, anyway?? I'm goin' with the "sandblasting and grinding", myself.? The LP is pressed on clear gold/piss/beer colored vinyl and comes in a black sleeve with a color-xeroxed slab of collaged art pasted on the front.? Inside is an insert xeroxed on red paper with one side each devoted to additional artwork for the two artists.? Given the subject matter of the B-side, some pornographic images are unavoidable, but for the most part things have been well handled and I definitely think the cover has an interesting appeal to it.? Also cool is that rather than one massive 20-minute piece per artist, they each opt to stick with seven to nine minutes of material at 45rpm, so everything is nice and loud, aptly raw, and takes care of business with no lagging bullshit.? Not bad at all.? And it's nice to see another underground noise label stepping it up into the vinyl frontier!
[Dada Drumming]
Running time - 15:00 (approximately), Tracks: 2
[Notable tracks: both tracks are equally solid]
Dada Drumming - http://www.dadadrumming.org
