First off we have to talk about the packaging for this set as it one of the most well designed and cool look HNW/ Harsh tape box sets I’ve ever seen. The box it’s self is square white vinyl and it features on the front just a simply but highly effective red cross emblem. On the back of the box the projects name and  the releases name take up the whole of the back panel in red screen printed letters. Opening up the box we have an eight page pro printed mini booklet- listing each tapes origin and their track listing. The tapes feature pro and screen printed labels which feature a red back ground with small black crosses over the top, with a number different of related crosses for each tape. Each tape is of a different length to coincide with the original released tape.  Also as part of the set you get a mini screen printed patch on white cloth, which features the projects name and large cross all in red ink.

So we move onto the four tapes themselves, and this is surely the one of  most consistent and rewarding collection of Richard Ramirez related project ever, as well as been some of the best HNW/Harsh noise/extremely industrial noise you’ll have heard. Tape one takes in the projects first ever tape release from 1996- it’s entitled “The Only Child” and original came in edition of 12 copies which were sold only at the projects early shows.  The c45 tape features a side long track on each side of tape, side ones track is entitled “The Only Child” and it finds the pair effortlessly and rewardingly slipping from head bleeding walled noise dwells, though to electro phaser like whooshes, purrs and rips.  Onto brutal spring like industrial tipped texturing, and back to walled noise bombardments.
Side two track is entitled “The Only Child (Aborted Version)”  is a ramshackle and brutal mix of fast moving roaring and oceanic grating walled noise, buried and muffled industrial drone matter, and ripping ‘n’ billowing storm bond noise texturing- unlike the first track all the elements here are forced into roaring and ear ripping thick focused noise storm, and the track often feels like your trying to stay on your  feet on a ships deck in the middle of a particularly brutal sea storm.

Tape two’s entitled “If I Hide Will It Show?” and this  was originally put out in 1998 in an edition of 13 copies. This is a c30 tape and each side of tape features a single tape side length track. Side ones track is entitled “Scout's Honor” and it  starts out with an fading in bank of rumbling and battering walled noise which builds to a slowly churning mass of  sound. It sounds like earth and a few rocks in mid pace cerement mixer running in an underground tunnel . The pair keep the track thick, subterranean and brutally through-out, there is some slight shift ’n’ movement with-in the wall with some of the more rock like tonalities getting more brutal & battering along the way, but there’s no really shift or mix into harsh noise or industrial extremeness on this track.
Side twos track is entitled “Hospital Ward-Section 4” , and this kicks in with a very loud  battering & fast paced 'wall' of noise matter that’s a mixture of ragging looped juddering, intense cracking static noise tonalities, swirl yet locked grey static sweeps and this distant mid-tone almost alarm type tone. This track literal nail guns you to the floor and starts ramming into with unrelenting rage ‘n’ looped churning- truly this is a great urgent and loud piece of noise making.

Tape threes entitled “Criminal Etiquette” it’s a C34 tape  originally appeared in 1999 in an addition of 13 copies. Side one features just the title track which takes up the full side of tape. The tracks built around  a juddering ‘n’ sparking electro texture loop that’s under fed by several buried and shifting noise textures. We also have present in the tracks make-up: a see-sawing throb, a horn like beeping,  a semi harmonic machine like drone and a few other difficult to define noise textures. The track has active and quite quirky feel about it, with the layers and textures of noise matter shifting under the main juddering ‘n’ sparking  texture.
Side twos track is entitled “Feeling Faint” and is built around a weathered and fairly even down pour of static tonalities, that is under run by this billowing tunnel like drone that from time  to time almost slips into harmonic shunts and drags, which threaten to stops the ‘walls’ assault but never do. At  just after the five minute mark this deep and pained hissing tone takes over the track as the main static down pour  switchers to heavy rain on Perspex roof like dwelling- but one can still make out the almost harmonic shunts and drags at the back of the track. At spot on the ninth minute it bursts out of it’s oppressive state as the more open static down pour and billowing drone of the start of the track is once more back to centre stage.

So onto the last tape and this is entitled “Hush Now” it’s a c34, and was released in a very tiny edition of just ten copies. The first side of tapes taken up by the title track, and this is like a unfolding & brutal  tunnel of noise with the pair mixing together layers of tight juddering billows, descending static rush, and haunting fan belt like grates & almost horn like judders that appear ever so often. As the track goes on the billowing harmonic elements seem to become more clear, haunting and devastating in their feel, yet the rest of the elements keep up pace and structure.
Over onto side two & we have another side long track entitled “Rage”, a this is a mixture and billowing yet catching noise judder, bubbling mid pitched almost aquatic drone matter, and buffeting horn like sustains. The track has quite an open & multi layered feeling, with the pair effortlessly recording the track so you can make out all the tracks different layers, which gives the track a real feeling of been three dimensional. Around the five minute mark the pair shift the horn like element to a drift harmonic like sweep of distant sound, and for some reason it brings to my mind 100s of women in long floor length dressers graceful moving up & down vast endless white corridors. By just under the ninth minute a more consistent judder and the off/on horn elements has returned. The track shifts through a few other textural layer shifts before it comes to an end on a eerier and fading billowing static drone dwell.  Truly the track is a breathtaking mix of extreme and creative multi layered mood setting noise- it’s a great end to this faultless set.

With out doubt this box set offers some of the most creative, consistent & wholly rewarding noise that Richard Ramirez has made with any of his many projects. This box set is also one of the more classy and distinctive noise tape box sets you’re likely to have ever seen. So if your into creative & dense noise this really is a must have item!. There were only 50 copies of this pressed, and that was back in 2009- so advise quick action if you don’t want to miss out on this masterpiece!