Another split cd-ep co-released by Fin de Siècle and (inhospitable) lab, after the des Esseintes/Diskrepant one. L.E.A.K. (Lustige Elektro-Akustische Klaenge), who released "The old tea house" on Cold Meat Industry in 2001, offer one long track. Backward loops introduce a droning buddhist chant, swept away by a sudden burst of harsh noise, before more buddhist metal rattles and a cello (?) improvisation crawl in. Heavy percussive throbs serve as an almost constant background, while the last part has a more intimate ambience, with more backward samples, drones and a mechanical beat. It's an interesting and well constructed track, though I have a penchant for buddhist mantras and strings (here used in a pure, unfiltered form), so it's easy to win me over with that. Kosmophon is British artist Caesar Romero, who has released some kind of sleaze/spaghetti western thing that I'd be interested in hearing. These 2 tracks, on the contrary, are heavy analog synth stuff, with throbbing rhythms, distorted squeals, highpass galore... it sounds like a live recording, with variations over a single rhythmic pattern. Pretty wild and obsessive, on the brink of power electronics. It just gets a bit monotonous for my taste after a while, as it's just synth, but it's a tight performance.