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Richard Ramirez - Hard Trainer [Jersey Flesh - 2011]

"Hard Trainer" finds the highly prolific and mulit-project linked Richard Ramirez offering up a c30 worth of intense & perverse Harsh noise with wallish dwells and of course gay porn samples.

The red Screen printed c30 tapes comes in a oversized 5x6"  red cardboard jewellery box, which features silk screen printed artwork of two men in a gym. One man is laying down with a semi erected member, and the other man is standing above his face hold a dumbbell. Inside the lid is a stuck on black and white label with the release info, ect on. This is the first release from this new Jersey based tape and cdr label, and it’s certainly a very pro looking and perverse start for the label.

Each side of tape features a single fifteen minute track, and side one features the title which all starts off with a  short sample of two men in a gym talking about training and eating American sausage. Then we drop into a crude and rolling mass of billowing and juddering noise tone, which fairly soon splits out into a mixture of ear tearing static and billowing fast  paced noise making. As the track goes on Ramirez keeps things very urgent, violent and nicely lo-fi with the track switching between ragged and blow-out billowings, battering static swims and brutal skin slapping juddering’s. The track ends with a longer sample of two men in a gym, with one of them getting  out some American sausage for the other one to enjoy.

Over onto side two and we have the track “I’m going to spray all over your face” and this starts off with more American sausage based gym recordings with the two men getting into full swing(so to speack). Then we into a very brutal, lo-fi and fast paced noise roar ‘n’ battering which nicely pummels into your head. At around the six minute mark the track drops into this murky and watery juddering type texture that’s very effective, but still nicely crude and battering. Nearing the ninth minute things turn more roaring juddering bound, but it still sounds feels quite water bound…maybe sounding a bit like a planes roaring and ragging propeller hitting a large  mass of water. Then the track finishers off with some  gay porn recordings of very active sausage action, with lots of face spraying going on too.

So all in all two sides of battering and lo-fi noise matter with wallish dwells and nice perverse edge to them. Another consistent release from Ramirez and a good first releases from this new label.

Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5

Roger Batty
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