Absoluten Calfeutrail – Total Scum Materials CD
Label: Sabbatical
Genre: Electronic, Power Electronics, Avant-Garde, Noise, Local
Total Scum Materials is the debut solo release from Northcote resident Mark Groves (Whitehorse, True Radical Miracle). Recorded during Semester 2 2006, synth-muck, spring reverb cracks and MS20 headaches characterise these demented Vangelis gunk bursts and Frostwave tantrums. The skuzzy error bank on offer is clearly perceptible: audible mobile phone interference peppers opening tirade ‘Tenant Howl’, while loop start/end points hiccup and derail the drones under ‘Perpetual Quandary’. Maybe that kind of garbage is your thing. Maybe you like to hear broken, wasted sounds. Hey maybe you would even like to hear a grown man impotently rage against a real estate agent! Black comedy! Proceedings conclude with a totally diseased take on the USHC classic ‘Negative Approach’.
Edition of 200.
Release date: April 1, 2007