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Insurgent - The 99 Names Of God [Steel Sadist Rebirth - 2011]

“The 99 Names Of God” offers up a c32 worth of often detailed static texturing and minimalistic HNW from this US act who themes all his work around the Islamic fundamentalist world.

The tape offers up two side long slices of often quite complex, detailed & muilt layered noise texturing, with odd dips into more minimalistic and sparse walled noise- yet the urgency & tension are never lost from the tracks make-up.  Unlike many of this projects passed work there are no Islamic fundamentalist linked pray, TV or war samples  used on this release- this is purely a textured noise release.  Each side of tape is an often complex yet rewarding & shifting textured sonic map- the tracks take in all manner of: skiping, jittering, juddering, ginkling, static rip ‘n’ tear, textured noise jump ‘n’ seer, and the odd higher & aggravated tone coming in even so often- but neither track ever goes all out dense noise attack, as  both tracks are  kept on an intense textured noise knife edge. 

I was a little unsure about this release when I played it the first few times, as I initially expected and missed the samples that this project normally uses in its work. But over the next few plays I began to see that if the samples had been in place they would have ruined much of the taut knife edge tension that both of these tracks possess. So if you dig taut, tense yet shifting & detailed static texturing this is a must have release…it be interesting to see where this project goes next!

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Roger Batty
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