This is the first of five albums sent by NO PART OF IT (and yes, they do use all caps), a small indie label with just under 60 releases since 2008. XEREX (all caps again) is an anonymous musical project by brothers Karl & Jan from rural Jesse, Germany. They're conjoined twins who also happened to have been grown in a petri dish as elderly mathematicians in 1972. ‘XEREX Meets Dracula’ is their first "invisible story" in the spirit of "choose your own adventure"-style novels. Or so the minimal info on the project's Bandcamp website and back of CD states.

Essentially, this is a drone/industrial ambient album. Beginning with Bela Lugosi offering a greeting in his Dracula guise, the first musical track (there are fittingly, 13 of them) is an organ/noise combo that is straight ahead drone. This is followed by a track of bell drone. The next one might be a rushing water loop, or something that sounds like a short sample of rushing water looped with some other sound that almost produced a rhythm. So far these drone/loops have been unmodified, meaning - playing the same throughout the piece. This changes on Track 5 (the longest track @ 8:47) when the industrial/bubbly synth loop diverges from linear and seems to fold in on itself. Even so, it doesn't sound a whole lot different from beginning to middle to end. The bass wobbliness of #6 invokes a rhythmless ambient dub, while #7 sounds like the whining drone of a hi-tech vacuum. #8 is a dominant higher frequency drone that changes little except for some wavering and #9 is a more musical drone loop with an open sort of resonance. #10 ios subtly organy and #11 is not so subtly bellish. (Maybe bellicosely bellish.) #12 sounds like it has everything including the kitchen sink, and #13 is a different organ/noise drone combo. $14 is sort of a majestic/triumphant churchy organ drone, and remember that #1 ("Velcome") was the 12 second Dracula intro.

All-in-all not a bad album even if the drones are somewhat static, there is a nice variety of them. Spooky? A little, but not as much as I had hoped for. Cool artwork on the CD though