Damion Romero — Negative

With Negative Damion  Romero has managed to conjure up one hell of a shifting audio storm. Which drifts along with great menace, to suddenly rip apart with huge columns of feedback. If playing on head phones, it literal makes you jump in your seat, making one look much like their in the electric chair for a second or too.

The 30 minute track stars with city rain, storm sounds and rolls of sound- with sudden eruptions of speaker killing excess. Slowly but surely the background drones start to develop ,as the rain sound seems to surround you building on it’s self, then the agitated drones take centre stage, like dreadful purrs of some hellish engine, they always seem to building  up to explode once more. It summons up wonderfully the feeling of watching a huge industrialized city come to life under bitch black skys, you can almost taste the machines discharge in your throat, almost feel like your eye might start smarting from the thick poisoness atmosphere. At about the halfway point he adds a few little flourisher of morbid watery synth melodies, like going wrong children toys under the noise clouds, it’s little elements like this that makes this so captivating- though through out it keeps the same stale black air new elements appear and disappear. Romero really has a great ear for noise compositions and building a  sense of really tension.

A real noise highlight showing  great vision and personality of sound. Painting so well heavy and dense urbanised hell. A word of groaning fowl smelling machines feed by grey unformed people. An Orwellian nightmare canvas brought into audio form, sound colours slashed and ground in to the canvas. To order  direct moving in these metallic jaws.