Top Bar
Musique Machine Logo Home ButtonReviews ButtonArticles ButtonBand Specials ButtonAbout Us Button
SearchGo Down
Search for  
With search mode in section(s)
And sort the results by
show articles written by  
 Review archive:  # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

Ampconstrictor - Magmabuto [Claustrophilia Records - 2012]

Ampconstrictor is a Italian HNW/ Harsh noise project, and it’s been active since 2009.  Behind the project is Giovanni Torregrossa (ex member of grindcore project Balatonizer & noise/ambient project Keimverbreitung).

This release comes in the form of a 3inch cdr, and the release is themed around Japanese Butoh dance. The Butoh dance form typically involves playful and grotesque imagery, taboo topics, extreme or absurd environments. It is traditionally performed in white body makeup with slow hyper-controlled motions, and it can happen or without an audience. There is no set style to the dance, and it may be purely conceptual with no movement at all.

The CDR features three tracks in all: “Magmabuto 1”, “Magmabuto 2” & “Magmabuto 3”. The first track is the longest of the three tracks at just over the ten & a quarter minute mark. The track starts with a slowly fading in ‘wall’ which is a urgent & edgy mixture of juddering ‘n’ electro knitting tones, which are ebbed by jittering roasting type tonalities. As the track progresses Torregrossa adds in  new layer detail such as: juddering fan belt like repetition, skipping static loops, and all manner of textural detail- these elements are  added in a fairly progressive manner, and they mostly follow the urgent/ taut pattern of the original ‘wall’- so this is active walled noise rather than Harsh noise with HNW dwells. It’s only towards the end when things hint at breaking down as Torregrossa thins the ‘wall’ down to nothing at the end of the track.


“Magmabuto 2” comes in at just shy of the nine minute mark, and this track focuses in on an almost stalling deep ‘n’ grinding tone. This tone shifts from brutal subterranean rip bound drone, onto billowing juddering, through to pummelling ‘n’ jittering dwells that at times feel like they could break down all togeather.

“Magmabuto 3” is the shortest and most simplistic track here. It comes in at spot on the three minute mark. And the ‘wall’ is based around a battered low end roast that has weaved through it thinner & machine like churner tonalities- these elements seemingly slowing then speeding up with in the ‘wall', though I’m not sure if that's just an illusion of the ‘wall’ it’s self.

All told this CDR offers up a rewarding selection of brutal HNW with Harsh Noise elements- so if enjoy active walled noise or HNW/ HN mixes this is worth a  look.

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

Roger Batty
Latest Reviews

Ampconstrictor - Magmabuto
Ampconstrictor is a Italian HNW/ Harsh noise project, and it’s been active since 2009.  Behind the project is Giovanni Torregrossa (ex member of grindco...
180424   Impulse - Impulse( Blu Ray)
170424   Jan Jelinek - Social Engine...
170424   Carlos “Zíngaro”, Guilherme R...
160424   The Borderlands - The Borderl...
160424   Rien - The New Source Recording
160424   Worship - Thoughts
150424   Lion-Girl - Lion-Girl(Blu Ray)
150424   Waidelotte - Celestial Shrine
150424   Iron Monkey - Spleen & Goad
120424   Spider Labyrinth - Spider Lab...
Latest Articles

The Music of Clay Ruby & Burial H...
Over the last couple of decades Wisconsin native, Clay Ruby has been creating some of the world’s finest dark electronic music under the Burial Hex mon...
280324   The Music of Clay Ruby & Buri...
290224   Sutcliffe No More - Normal Ev...
100124   Occlusion - The Operation Is...
181223   Best Of 2023 - Music, Sound &...
051223   Powerhouse Films - Of Magic, ...
181023   IO - Of Sound, Of Art, Of Exp...
210923   Lucky Cerruti - Of Not so Fri...
290823   The Residents - The Trouble W...
110723   Yotzeret Sheydim Interview - ...
250523   TenHornedBeast - Into The Dee...
Go Up
(c) Musique Machine 2001 -2023. Twenty two years of true independence!! Mail Us at questions=at=musiquemachine=dot=comBottom