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Dosis Letalis - Mass Media [Reason Art Records - 2016]

Mass Media is a C60 release from this up & coming/ prolific Serbian walled noise project. The tape appeared on Russian based noise label Reason Art Records in August of this year- it came in an edition of ten copies, and as I’ve writing the label still has copies available.

The labelled shop brought tape comes in a single sided colour sleeve. This  features  a green, red & black colour scheme,  taking in on the front cover two children sitting in front of a TV, with the words ‘Don’t Think’ on the screen.

Featured here are two side long tracks of dense yet layer rewarding walled-noise. First up on side A we have "Shaping Public Perception"-  this track brings together the following elements: A rumbling & constantly descending judder, A thinner flitting & rattle pattern, and a selection of sub tones- taking smaller scraping ‘n’ snapping tones, bumbling  jitters, and slurred rumbles. Together these elements create this detailed ‘wall’, that has quite a neat three dimensional feel to it, giving one the impression( when played with head phones) that you are literally surround by four  physical walls- which are each moving at a slightly different speeds/ patterns.  The layers remain fairly fixed though-out the tracks just shy of half-an-hour runtime, though I’m sure I do pick up a few subtle layer shifts- for example in the last ten minutes or so you get this thin & wiry  scrapping element moving through the stereo channel…though this could of course be an illusion/ trick of the ‘wall’.

Flipping over to side B, and we have the track "Constructing Public Belief"- once again this is another dense, layer detailed, and busy ‘wall’. It’s built around the following: A chunky & weighty judder, A thinner crisper slicing, and bubbling ‘n’ thick low-end. These main tones are once again lined with a few subtle sub tones, and these take in both thinner scraping ‘n’ flitting textures, and muddy jitters. Once again the ‘wall’ feels quite surrounding in its feel, though instead of creating a four-wall like impression; this track feels like one is stuck inside some lumpy, thick, yet continual flow underground waterfall. Again I think in reality this ‘wall’ is fairly fixed in it’s pattern, though my ears keep picking up very subtle(and possible) imagined layer shifts.

This is the third release I’ve check out from Dosis Letalis this year, and I must say  I was once again rather impressed. As both ‘walls’ here are consistent & rewarding on their own, but also work well as a pair, as they utilizes similar though not the same textural/ tonal selections.

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Roger Batty
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