prurient guide to grooming (c20 from monorail trespassing)
this is really harsh stuff. i've been waking up to this tape for the past couple weeks, and i've reached the point where i wake up before it turns on so i can spare myself the shock. the sound of this isn't completely harsh, but the more atmospheric passages are so few that it seems like bringing them up will give the reader an incorrect impression of how this actually sounds. overall, this is cut up distortion pedal feedback and manipulated field reordings and samples, although those last two are also in small quantity. more than anything though the way that it's edited says that this is a prurient recording (so to speak), even more so than the sounds involved. fast cuts are alternated with longer passages in a rather distinctive way, and the recording seems to leak off the ends of the tape like a thick black line extending across a sheet of paper; it gives the impression that it keeps going whether or not you are able to follow it. for this reason i think that the cassette is really the noise medium, although the abrupt ending is certainly anticipated by the artist as they're recording it, the way that it happens seems very random when played back, and i think it shows how divorced this style is from traditional music. you want a climax? that was it. so, in summary, what can i say about prurient that i haven't said before? just buy the tape.