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

Anonymous(2) - HNW [self release - 2012]

There are more than a few HNW acts who like to hide their identity, origins & make-up. This anonymous project (not to be confused with the historic war & atrocity based European project) seemingly has no name, neither has this release- so this I guess is the most mysterious HNW project yet.

The CDR release comes in a plain white card sleeve that features just a single black & white label with the letters HNW on it. The release offers up three untitled (surprise!) tracks that last between just under nine minutes & just over ten.

Each of the tracks is built around a fairly unforgiving, yet at times fairly active & shifting ‘walls’ of noise. These sometimes have shifting layers of electro texturing  & harsh noise drifts runing over the top of the 'walls'. The type of layers utilized here are fairly thin & shifting, mixing together static & almost slurred glitch like texturing.  The first two  tracks are a bit too shifting  & active in their feel for my liking, sure there some effective & rewarding textures on offer here- but more often then not the layers/ textures have shifted along before they start to truly enchant.

My favourite moment here comes in the form of the last ten minute track which is a built around a more fixed & unmoving ‘wall’- this is built around aquatic tipped electro drilling textures that a fed out into a hypnotic yet clinical  feel. I guess you could say this track sounds like a dense take on the type of futuristic& clinical sounding walled noise that Italian based TFT used to do. The track stop ’n’ starts once or twice, but mostly this is a impressive & intense bit of fixed ‘wall-making’.


On the whole this debut release offers up a fairly original & futuristic tipped take on walled noise, I just wish they’d made the first two tracks a little less active in their feeling, & focused more on fixed brutal memorability.

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

Anonymous(2) - HNW
There are more than a few HNW acts who like to hide their identity, origins & make-up. This anonymous project (not to be confused with the historic ...
190424   Zachary James Watkins - Affir...
180424   Ulvtharm - 7 Uthras
180424   The Bad Shepherd - The Bad Sh...
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)
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