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Ryan Bloomer - Bully Hiss [Phage Tapes - 2009]

Bully Hiss finds Canadian noise-technician Ryan Bloomer (Piss Horn, Stegm & Flatline Construct) offer up a c30 cassette worth of detailed, shifting & often quite complex noise matter that mixes elements of: Harsh Noise Wall, static crunch & texturing, juddering faulty engine textures, and even at times dramatic almost harmonic drone edgers.

Firstly the tapes packaging is worth a mention as it has a nice professional edge & production yet with-out losing any of its underground edge. The tapes cover is screen printed white & red a various male a female figures sitting at a table- but the really neat thing is if you turn off the lights the white ink glows in the dark!. Anyway onto the sounds on the tape reels; Side one starts off with a complex mat of jittering static tone abuse, before it erupts into louder  territory then pretty soon once more shifts  into deeper, roaring static tone that`s jittered by  random crunch tones. And all of this happens with-in the first 4 or 5 minutes so as you can see Bloomer really does know how to detail & shift his noise craft in a very rewarding & often complex manner.  As the side goes on we come across: different levels of jitter `n` crunch loops under swept by this neat growing & dramatic drone, stalling loud engine tones, deep rumbling tones amassing in a more wall like manner, roaring & caustic drone flattening,  to jittering & grainy spoke like flicks. Bloomer really does cover a lot of ground in the tracks 14 minute run making it a wonderful tone to tone sonic noise jigsaw of the highest order.
 
Onto side 2 which opens with a  mix of jittering static crunch & white-hot noise roars; as the track progresses it becomes quite manically rhythmic as it speeds & crunchers on, before one more diving once more into more textural drone roars. This side certainly feels a lot more haywire rhythmic & almost runway manically tribal like at times in its intent. Again like the first side it`s very shifting & darting in its mix of tones & attack, going from: jittering static, to roaring type drones, through to brutal escaping air like tonally sears. Again it`s another great, complex and very reward side of noise matter.

Bully Hiss is a great just short of 3o minutes detailed & shifting noise attack which finds Bloomer doing his own distinct take on noise mixing all manner noise traits & styles in a wonderful focused & brutally entertaining whole. Very worthy of your time if you dig any kind of noise.

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Roger Batty
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