Dosis Letalis — Dragging Through The Dirt

Dragging Through The Dirt offers up two sides worth of constant ripping ‘n’ pulling bass bound walled noise from this respected Serbian project. The release appears on Pittsburgh based Laura’s Girls Label- coming as either a C60 or digital download.

The dark burgundy red cassette features white stamps on either side- with this coming in a double-sided pro-printed J card sleeve. On its cover, we find a picture of a full skeleton lying in the dirt, and inside a repeated skull-like pattern. The tape appeared in an edition of thirty-three copies, and as of writing the label still have some left- so head over here to score a copy.

According to the tapes sparse liner notes both sides were recorded in one take- with no overdubs or postproduction, which makes the relenting and focused drag 'n'  rip patterns all the more impressive. So, on the first side, we find “Dragging Us Down”- here we get constant ripping ‘n’ pulling bass tone, which is both blown-out and gnarly edged. At the end of each rapid and persistent ripping drag, we get coarse crinkly and crackle static tips. I can also from time to time hear distant high pitch sweep in the mix.  The whole thing has a nice simplistic urgency about it, and at points, the constant pattern loop nearly creates a ragged groove type quality- though not quite, this is still very much brutal and tight textured noise making.

Flipping over the tape we have the track “Through The Dirt”- and this is fairly similar to the first side in its patterns, though this time around the rips seem slightly shorter, with more defined rough crackles and pops at the end of rapid pull/ rip. Also, the high pitch sweep is more obvious too- though the focus is still blow-out bass drags. At points, it feels like the patterns may suddenly stop or pull themselves apart, but they never do.

With  Dragging Through The Dirt Dosis Letalis sever up two sides worth of brutal and constant rip ‘n’ pull. On paper, the idea of simplistic and repetitive blow-out bass pulls may sound a little dull, but that’s not the case at all- as each time I’ve played this puppy I get pulled into another hour-long session, and time melts away.