And if anyone’s work was fit for this kind of treatment It’s Ortmann's strange, deranged, sickly sonic worlds. Sadly I only  have a standard dvd player linked into the TV, so I sense I missing some of the sonic delights here, but it’s pretty impressive and mind screw/altering as it is.  In all there are 3 tracks on the release each given 7. 1 Surround sound and DVD audio treatment. First up we start with the superbly titled Armless Midget of Tienen which starts with strange scuttling/runnig sound that rather brought to mind the demented running around of the killer ventriloquist dummy in Argento’s Deep red. As the track progress Ortmann mixers in; bird song, high pitchers of sound, weird growling and crunching, bubble pitches and sinister electronics- that literally surround you, as all the DVD audio tracks are rightly described in the menu as 3D audio. As the track progresses it become more dragged out and less hectic with perching tones but never losing the feeling of uneasy- it finish just shy of 15 minute mark.

Next up Electronic Themes is really as it’s title suggest a collection of sleazy and haunting electronic and synth patterns that swim around your like deformed sonic fish- bringing to my mind the HP Lovecaft story From beyond where a mad doctor creates a machine that can show things and monsters that float around us in a parallel universe. This track comes in just over the 20 minute mark.

Lastly there’s Black Battalions of Maggots that users a surrounding and deranged mix of layers of; buzzing fly tones, piercing, ringing and cutting gong like harmonics,  drilling, vomiting and  noise attacks. A slow sinister and festering starting track that explodes in mayhem- just don’t have the sound too high or you’ll jump a few feet out of your chair when it sinks it teeth in noisy style.

Another disturbing, deranged and sick sonic nightmare from Ortmann, not as good as his album Nightmania, but he’s certainly once more effectively pushing your imagination in to the gutter and grime- and this time you can almost taste and see his demented and decaying audio worlds