Release Helen Rytka/Transductor - Self Titled [R.O.N.F. Records - 2010]This C50 tape brings together two just over twenty minute slices of HNW matter from American and Spanish projects. On the first side we have a track from Release Helen Rytka which features Richard Ramirez( whose in Black Leather Jesus, Werewolf Jerusalem, Vice Wears Black Hose, An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter..and many more) and Nicole Dirge(whose in Adult Crash Unit, Battery Suspects, Death Carries A Cane, Massacre In Dinosaur Valley). And on the second side is a track by Transductor which is just Manuel M. Cubas(whose in Mixturizer Cadaverizer Noise, Mac-nolo) So the first side features the Release Helen Rytka track which is entitled “Stranglehold” & this comes in at just near the twenty three minute mark. The ‘wall’ is built around a billowing, muffled and mid-pace dragging pitch thats deep with bass and highly bothersome. This main tone has a smaller jittering static sub tones coming out of it ever so often as the ‘wall’ judders it’s way along. The track has a nice blunt & tunnel like consistence to it that brings to mind been strapped to an vibrating air plane engine, or the persistent drone of an underground train line. The pair wrap the ‘wall’ around you in a very unforgiving and ultra thick muffled manner- there is just no space, air or forgiveness at any point here, it just a tar black sound burial of the more gruelling and bleak form. Over onto side two and we have the Transductor track which is cypticlly entitled “ E.L.F.N” this starts out with around 20 secounds of someone walking around out side with dogs barking in the background. Then it the drops into the ‘wall’ which starts out as purely a thick, deep and tar black like rumble, but with-in a few minutes other subtones are coming off the main tones like: different pitched and patterned rumbles, sudden slow motion static snakes & jitters, coarse noise grain drags and falls, and slowed high pitch sears. At times the track almost pushes out of been HNW moving more towards slow motion Harsh noise, but it just pulls back from getting there. It’s a rewarding enough track I just wish there was more dwelling done here on the original un-stripped rumble tone that opened the track and runs under most of it. So this split offers up two very deep, murky and often bass swamped ‘walls’, with both sides quite nicely complementing each other with there tar black toning & suffocation sonic presence. I just wish the second track/side had dwelled longer in the thinned out textures from the start, as that would have made the track more rewardingly hypnotic. Roger Batty
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