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Flutwacht - Heroinloops [Steinklang Records - 2008]

Heroinloops offers up a rewarding mix of head slamming concrete old school industrial music often lined with noise sharpness and greyed dronescapes /bleak abounded ambience. Primed perfectly for  either creepy wonderings or neck snapping work outs.

The edition I have is the two disk version(there'a also a single disk version) which features the Heroinloops album and a  second disk which is full length collaboration between Flutwacht and N. Strahl.N in all both disk total 139 minutes of industrial mayhem and ill/ greyed ambience. So firstly let talk about the Heroinloops disk – it features 12 tracks in all which are fairly evenly split between dirty ‘n’ heavy beat bound repetitive old school industrial poundings and greyed, suffocating and airless ambient expanses lined with subtle and creepy voice samples and field recordings. It pretty much works out as one industrial track then one ambient track and though this is hardly the most original sounding album you’ll come across the tracks are all searing, atmospheric and memorable.

The Flutwacht and N. Strahl.N collaboration is entitled  Flut and features nine tracks in all with five tracks been joint collaboration and two a piece been solo works.  This disk tends more towards the atmospheric, creepy and noisy side of Fluwacht’s sound with nearly no pounding and fuzzed up electro rhythmic elements present here. Theres a greater user of sampled sounds and field recording too with the tracks been built around grating ugly steel tones, Or grim dripping water tones, or eerier clucking textures. Again it’s nothing too original but it’s consistent, highly atmospheric and a worthy companion to the first disk.

A throughly worthwhile double disk set that embraces both old school industrial nastiness and bleak ambience both very effectively.

Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5

Roger Batty
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