Slashed Pretty Girls - Blood Orgy [DeathSex Electronics - 2015]Slashed Pretty Girls is a three piece walled noise project from Huston Texas- it brings together noise legend & HNW originator Richard Ramirez, Sean E. Matzus(theNIGHTproduct, Thewhitehorse, Last Rape, and Black Leather Jesus), and Tanner Garza( solo work, Priest In Shit, and Black Leather Jesus). The project focus in on sleazy & crude HNW, which is themed around violence against women & cult movies- this particular release is themed around Blood Orgy of the She-Devils, a trashy US Black magic themed movie from the 1973. The C60 tape is released on Death Sex Electronics- a relatively recent northern English label who are focusing in on walled noise & power electronics releases. It comes in an edition of twenty five copies- the unlabeled cassette comes in small black cardboard box. This takes in three colour still prints from the film( printed off on a PC printer), and stuck on colour artwork, which takes in a picture of a human body, hanging upside down over a bucket & being bled. The first sides track is entitled “Blood Orgy 1” & opens with a sample ( from the film I’m guessing?)..Of a women moaning with lighting in the back ground- this last around minute & we’re then into the wall. The ‘wall’ is of a very muffled, lo-fi yet dense quality, and is built around several layers of tumbling, juddering & lashing weathereld noise tones. Pace wise it falls around the mid-to-slight more rapid pace, and over the tracks length it subtle shifts through a few slightly different textural patterns( through it never moves too far from it’s original textural feel). To me the track was akin to wondering through some vast, decrepit & windowless house in the middle of a winter storm- as the wind batters & rages through the glass-less/ torn fabric lined windows. On the whole it’s a rewarding enough bit of wall-making, which has an effectively aged & atmospheric quality about it, and I particularly enjoy the points when the ‘wall’ seems to start to haze & muffle out more & more.
Fliping over to the second side & we have “Blood Orgy 2”, and once again this track starts with a sample from the film, and this time it’s a women speaking in mock sort of caveman/ Native American Indian voice about the birth of a baby. The ‘wall’ comes in at around the minute mark, and it’s a mix of taut & tight noise tones- taking in a juddering & rumbling lower to mid range fixed texture, which is webbed with subtle shifting spluttering ‘n’ jitter sub tones. Once again the whole thing has a very aged/lo-fi quality about it- I guess you’d say this track is a little more focused & set in it’s textual patterns, though that said there are a few sudden shifts along the ‘walls’ length- but fairly soon it returns back to it’s original setting. The whole thing has a rather rewardingly muffled & semi meaty sleazy air to it all, and the taunt- ness of the wall craft really does suck you in. Though this project has been active since 2010, releasing around six releases- this is the first time I’ve heard any of the projects work, so I can’t say how this compares with there other output. But I certainly found Blood Orgy a worthy release offering up two dense yet atmospheric slices of sleazy walled noise. Roger Batty
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