In The Red Recordings – ITR 152
Friday, October 14, 2016
Damien Dubrovnik - (2015) Vegas Fountain LP
Posh Isolation 144, Alter – ALT20
Copenhagen-based industrial duo Damien Dubrovnik (aka Posh Isolation founders Loke Rahbek and Christian Stadsgaard) follow up 2013's First Burning Attraction (ALT 008LP) with Vegas Fountain. Rahbek and Stadsgaard have continued to be consistently busy as label bosses but even more so as artists, performing more frequently worldwide and building a reputation for their fierce and powerful live show. They have also continued to hone their craft in the studio and found a working rhythm in which their live performance feeds into the studio work and vice versa. 2014's Patterns of Penetration 7" (ALT 701EP) was a teaser for this developing practice, but it arrives here full-force with Vegas Fountain, Damien Dubrovnik's strongest work yet. In the first couple of minutes of opening track "On It's Double," you get a sense that things have moved forward artistically in Rahbek and Stadsgaard's world. The clear production breathes a subtlety into some of the sonics here that perhaps wasn't revealed through the murk on previous records, heightening a tension that at some points breaks and dissolves into something almost melancholic -- evoked by the reflective landscapes of "Interior 2: See Water Glass" and "Interior 3: Matching Window Blinds." The attack remains however, with the punctuating saw-toothed bass notes and screaming tones of "Interior 1: Upper Lip" (considered "problematic" to cut by the mastering engineer), and the finale of the title-track, which has all the drama and explosive euphoria of their live show. Vegas Fountain is co-released by Alter and Posh Isolation.
Truth Syrum & Sister Midnight Split CS
All Hell – AH12
Truth Syrum / Sister Midnight
Is Mark Shellhaas and Kelly Jamison / Chouser
Is Mark Shellhaas and Kelly Jamison / Chouser
of Baltimore / Iowa City
caught in the web of
a pregnant spider. slow death
inevitable
c39
Heaven Plus & Powerwagon - (2013) Split CS
All Hell – AH-11
Heaven Plus / Powerwagon
is Cole Miller and Isaac Ledesma / Charles Free and Scifi Sam
is Cole Miller and Isaac Ledesma / Charles Free and Scifi Sam
of Los Angeles / Russia
stowaway angels
sing despair at no escape
from colony mars
c28
Dead Channel - (2014) Perfectly Neutral CS
All Hell – AH-13
Dead Channel - Perfectly Neutral
Is: Jack Gilbert, Cody Brant, and Shane McDonell
Of, Portland
my mind wonders in
the sink. while my body is
doing other things.
Ron Spoones - (2014) ST CS
All Hell – AH-14
Ron Spoones
Is Corey Hucks
Of Portland
He's been thinking bout
energy. while jumping rope
without any hands
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