Two EPs stitched into one cassette - "Onset of Oblivion" and "Abandoned Heritage" - paint a bleak, hypnotic landscape where time seems to corrode and disintegrate in real-time. This collaboration between this duet of Polish experimental producers and musicians, MOAN (known by his family as Rafal Sdej) and DEAD FACTORY (real name: Maciej Mutwil), feels less like an album and more like a séance with industrial ruins. It’s an uneasy, slow burn, with its static-laden drones and apocalyptic soundscapes evoking vast, empty wastelands, crumbling under the weight of abandonment. "Monochromatic" is particularly unsettling - 13 minutes of pure existential hum. It’s dark ambient for those who find comfort in the void.

Where MOAN’s input feels raw and organic, DEAD FACTORY adds a metallic edge, a sinister hiss that gnaws at the periphery of your consciousness. If you’re familiar with Raison d'être or Lustmord, this will feel like coming home - to a haunted, post-apocalyptic home, that is.

What’s most intriguing here is the subtle interaction between the two projects. Even if the tracks got taken from different solo releases, this interaction sounds more like a conversation, not a conflict - like watching two shadows overlap until they merge into something unrecognizable yet strangely cohesive. "Onset of Oblivion" offers a crumbling dystopia, while "Abandoned Heritage" channels nostalgia for something irrevocably lost. Both EPs work in tandem, showing how sound can act as both a tool of destruction and a form of preservation, deconstructing sonic spaces only to rebuild them with twisted echoes.

In a world teetering on the edge of collapse, this tape offers a fitting soundtrack: desolate, meditative, but uncannily alive in its decay.