
Applez91 - Hydrostatic Kill Pressure [HNW Netlabel - 2025]Hydrostatic Kill Pressure is created around manipulated water recordings. The nearly twenty-minute walled noise track is focused on a rewarding/ at point detailed mix of drilling, droning, and juddering texturing. The release appears on the UK’s HNW Records, with the cover work (unsurprisingly) showing a large body of water. The release, which I’d guess you’d say is an EP, can be found here.
Seemingly, the Applez91 project is from Italy- going from Discogs, it’s been active since 2020, with twelve releases to its name- but I suspect its back catalogue is larger than that. Apparently, quite a few/ most of the project releases utilise water as their source.
The single self-titled track comes in at nineteen minutes and forty-three seconds. The ‘wall’ is a taut, tense, and detailed mesh of a deep drilling bass purr, scuttling static grain, smaller jitterings, and the occasional off-pattern texture. Really, you can’t make out any of the original aquatic origins of the sources- and for me this ‘wall’s has a rather dusty/several-layer drill quality to it. The dense web of sound totally pulls you in, to lock on/ to investigate
If you dig taut & detailed ‘walling’, then Hydrostatic Kill Pressure will appeal. And as I’ve always enjoyed the use of water sounds in noise, I’ll most certainly be checking out more of Applez91 work.      Roger Batty
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