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Ataraxy - Barriers [Toxic Industries - 2010]

“Barriers” offers up five tracks worth of thick and stern wall-making from this Müllheim, Germany based one-man HNW project. Taking in splits & comps the project has racked up a impressive twenty seven releases since it’s start back in summer of 2009.

The five untitled tracks here fall between the five minute mark up to the twenty five minute mark a piece. I guess you could define Ataraxy’s take on the genre as been quite cold, precise and firm in it’s feel. With each track been built around two or three clearly defined tones that run along side each other in a very controlled and upright manner.  The tracks tones are manly a mixture of: pressing drill drones, jittering or juddering static and the odd foray into stuck ‘n ‘ loop furnace noise roar.

Each track is rewarding enough  and as a whole the album has a certain stern charm about it, though I can’t really say any of the track particular  stand-out or vary much; you see Ataraxy knows how he likes to make noise, and he pretty much keeps to that template through-out all of  the albums tracks.

“Barriers” is a cold, calculated and working-man like collection of HNW making; so don’t expect much surprise or textural variation here, but if your after cold, unforgiving and uncomplicated wall making this could well be for you!.

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

Roger Batty
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