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Taskmaster - Ruined Hope [Nurse Etiquette - 2010]

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"Ruined Hope" finds this  long running Vancouver based one man project offering up a c30 worth of very brutal, loud and unforgiving juddering, drilling and grinding HNW matter.

The two sides of tape really make up one long  and  punishing ‘wall’ which is built around a mixture of: juddering electric drill, saw or machine like tones. The tracks centred  around this  low down ’n’ dirty road drill like tone that alternates up and down in pitch ever so often.  Around this main tone is this manically vibrate judder which travels and circles in  endless violent  yet simple patterns.  The track feels like your stuck inside a  large steel box, and someones itrying to open with a run away road drill. At times you can almost feel like your physically vibrate yourself ,and I’m sure if you’d dared to take mind alter drugs on this your really would vibrate like a penny on top of a washing machine on long ‘n’ fast circle!.

Over the tracks total 28 minute length it doesn’t really alter that much or let up in pace; except around the mid-way point the vibrating ‘n’  juddering tone starts to  become more manic, rapid and intense in it’s attack. It sounds like a large steel door in a steel  box has been rapidly battered back ‘n’ forth and is near ripping off it’s hinges. As the track edges towards it’s last quarter Taskmaster  seems to amp the unbearable tension up and up, but in reality I think the wall is stay put- it’s  just the ‘wall’ playing tricks on you which is of course the sign of a great ‘wall-maker’ indeed.

"Ruined Hope" starts off very loud, persistently painful and drilling, and as the piece goes on the tension just builds and builds, so  by the end of it you feel very mentally battered and bruised yet somehow strangely  invigorated too.

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Roger Batty
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