Top Bar
Musique Machine Logo Home ButtonReviews ButtonArticles ButtonBand Specials ButtonAbout Us Button
SearchGo Down
Search for  
With search mode in section(s)
And sort the results by
show articles written by  
 Review archive:  # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

Remlap & Werewolf Jerusalem - Collaboration [Pointless Blank Records - 2009]

On offer here is 60 minutes worth of violent & at times darkly atmospheric HWN collaboration between Werewolf Jerusalem(Richard Ramirez's most know & prolific project) & Remlap(the harsh wall noise project of Canadian Jake Vida who also runs Pointless Blank records).

On offer here are  two tracks which both fall around the half a hour mark a piece. The first 'Untitled' track is built around a series of fairly active & shifting static storm tones which the pair nicely layer, drag & rub over each other in a rather appealing & rewarding manner. As the piece progresses the trapped static tones become longer, more sluggishly & jittering at first; then more agitated and roaring in their feel. The  pair manage to keep the wall nicely thick & dense through most of the piece, though towards the last ten minutes or so it becomes alot more juddering & flickering on & off in it’s tone. In the last five minutes this quite long, quite eerier & grey static tone appears under the dying down roaring wall of noise & by the last minute or so we’re just left with creepy long stretched out grey static tone which seems to hint of a damned winters night spent in an abandoned & creepy house.

The second track comes in once more with a thick wall of sound, but it starts off in with a more muffled aquatic edge to the thick roars & storms of noise matter; the track is also slightly slower & caustic melting in it’s feel than the first track. Around the six minute mark the track becomes a lot more jittering in it’s feel with hints of jagged, ripping & rippling junk noise tones mixed with the slow jumping static tones to build a nice brutal sliding wall of sound.  Towards the twenty minute mark it gets a lot more speedy & jittering in it’s feel, the last minute or so of the track nicely fades out with a slowly crunching & atmospheric static jittering tone which once more hints at the aquatic crunch & slow submerging feel of the start of the track.

So all in all two very rewarding, crushing yet often atmospherically laced tracks worth of shifting & progressive wall making. To buy direct & hear samples pop along to Pointless blanks website here.

Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5

Roger Batty
Latest Reviews

Remlap & Werewolf Jerusalem - Col...
On offer here is 60 minutes worth of violent & at times darkly atmospheric HWN collaboration between Werewolf Jerusalem(Richard Ramirez's most know ...
301025   Daughters Of Darkness - Daug...
301025   Tulsa Terrors - Tulsa Terrors...
291025   Who? - Who?( Blu Ray)
291025   The Ghost Of Peter Sellers - ...
291025   Various Artists - Wiener Wasser
281025   Hawkwind - Hall Of The Mounta...
281025   Sebastian Tomb - Homicide Cos...
271025   The Liberation of L.B.Jones ...
251025   Detonation! Violent Riders -...
241025   Playful White Fingers - Playf...
Latest Articles

Michael Hurst Interview - Unbalan...
One of the more creative & original horror films I’ve seen/ reviewed recently is Transmission, a 2023 film which, a few months ago, received a DVD ...
281025   Michael Hurst Interview - Unb...
071025   Xiphos - The Rise And Fall Of...
030925   Third Window Films - A Label ...
130825   HNW fest- Barcelona- 12th Apr...
250725   Raté interview - Walled-in F...
180625   Matthew Holmes - Of razor-sha...
280525   The Residents - Visits From T...
090525   Ennaytch - Of walls, abused ...
150425   Dead, Dead Swans interview - ...
110325   Sebastian Tomb - Walls of unb...
Go Up
(c) Musique Machine 2001 -2025. Twenty four years of true independence!! Mail Us at questions=at=musiquemachine=dot=comBottom