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Mo*Te Vs. Industria Masoquista - Peak Time Align / Hipócritas Y Ciegos (2023)
Cassette tape
After Mo*Te’s excellent Throw A Stone tape I decided to dive into this split tape with Ecuadorian project Industria Masoquista and I was pleasantly surprised by finding a more raw and pure noise approach on this tape which nonetheless has strong mind freeing qualities that I like a lot. Let’s listen and dissect this tape below.
Listening journey
This split tape by Mo*Te and Industria Masoquista features both projects performing in full pure Noise form offering us two sidelong pieces of continuous intense sound. Mo*Te does still operate in his excellent Drone like approach on his side but also provides a more blank canvass to us in terms of the effect of the Noise on our minds. Just see it as the sonic equivalent of a minimalist two colour line painting versus a similar painting but with variations appearing as you move your eyers from left to right. The grind, grit, crunch and murky edge of Mo*Te are there combined with the aleatoric twinkling and a short melodic intermezzo of keyboard and synth tones but the progression is much more subtle and the piece moves more like an unending rich mass of molten rocks which is even more the case for Industria Masoquista’s side which is even more monolithic and a classic “fill tape side” kind of full length piece. Like a straight jam the piece really scrunches forward through layered murky metallic distortion and screeches only interrupted at times by delay affected at times quite funny sounding vocal bits. The totally diffuse wall nature of the side makes it much like a state of sonic matter you are straight into and afterwards are taken straight out of once the tape ends but has its musical (melodic?) moments hidden in the lava too. The art of appreciating wall Noise really becomes more the “feeling” of the Noise grabbing you rather than the sonic qualities, immersion or mind imagery the textures might conjure up and I like it.
This tape and the digital download version are still available from Skuggsidan here: https://skuggsidan111.bandcamp.com/album/mo-te-peak-time-align-industria-masoquista-hip-critas-y-ciegos
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