While in this current age of so called "Retromania" by Simon Reynolds, most labels are busy with relentless reissue of known names with a perceived fan base that will follow them, labels as Zoharum have plans of reissue of unknown gems of obscure names. While already known by the release of the remarkable "Tunguska Event" with and Envenomist which was reviewed a couple of years ago, his relatively large discography is dispersed on rare cassette editions. This double cd collect two of this tapes, from mid 2000 with a fistful of bonus tracks. This music is a type of noise that sometimes doesn't follow the canonical thick mass of sound to follow a more meditated approach bordering the territories of industrial.
The first of the two tapes, "Negative Rotation", is a monolithic track in eleven parts starting with sparse and hypnotic noises whose rhythmic structure and evolves with echoes of guitar, feedbacks, phantoms of radio waves, grains of noises, drones, quiet basses, ample noisy resonances, and sparse beats with the result that the listener is not overwhelmed but questioned by the effort of creating a such cohesive structure with so many sonic variations. There are two bonus tracks, "No Response" and "Succubus", which sounds like an outtake of the main release as they are based on the same ideas.
The other tape, "Intensive Fracture", is more oriented towards noise and is based upon a thick background noise and psychedelic evolution of high pitch so, instead of being a monolithic mass of noise, it features even some quiet moments of background noise resulting in an irksome but surprisingly varied opus as it moves to the spacey 2nd part to the overwhelming crescendo of the 4th. While in the same vein the bonus track "Stenbergsmannen", "The Great Moloch" and "EnvÄgskommunikation" are less oriented towards noise and especial in the second track a certain research for sound development is exposed.
This release is a little surprise form a relative obscure name which reveals a personal vision of a genre which is sometimes plagued by the dull repetition of a model. Recommended for all fans of noise and industial music.