23 February 2007

The Drone Dance


Lustmord vs. Metal Beast

From Forced Exposure:
“This album is the result of a collaborative performance broadcast live on KUCI 89.9, Orange County, California, June 20 1997. The performance was arranged at short notice, and structured so as to be largely improvisational. While musical fads and fashions all too often dictate form and function, neither Lustmord nor Metal Beast desire to be constrained by definitions, and as such the results are a powerful, collision of noise and rhythm, with no quarter given to compromise“

The finest Lustmord release if you ask me, with a brighter sound than usual. I think it's Metal Beast who comes from techno to be thanked to, but it works perfectly well. It sounds like a a field recording mixed with some drones plus heavily distorted dance rhythms which blends amazingly, and at the same time danceable too, which is not exactly the word to be associated with Lustmord in the first place. While I think this release might irritate some of the more hardcore/diehard Lustmord fans, I think it is good for him to have fun and experiment with concepts, elements and ideas that he normally avoids. I call it progress, and it sounds damn good to me.
Link:http://www.badongo.com/file/2298893

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