The crossroads between Hash noise wall & harsh noise can be a difficult balance to pull off. Either it’s lacking enough wallish-ness, or the harsh noise elements are too subdued. And I’m happy to report Discipline And  Order manage the blend well enough over the four tracks, and around thirty-minute playtime of this CDR.

The four tracks each run between two & nearing eleven minutes mark, and aside from a few rough edges/ sloppy cut-offs- this isn’t a bad debut release. Following the releases (un) title- each of the tracks here are simply called Untitled- so for ease of review, I just list them in a number form. So opening up proceedings we have track One- after a few seconds of some rather point-less textural slicing, we move into the main body of the track. Here we find a tight choppy & churning low end, which is warped in a section of slower shifting static slices, cluttering hacks, and the occasion bothersome bass burnt sub-tone. It really is an amazingly thick, muddy, and muffled example of wall craft- and the shifting layer of lower-to-mid ranged harsh noise matter is really executed in a nice manner- as it’s mix focus more of the grinding low-end, with the more shifting detail mixed in a nice murky fashion- which really pulled me in deeper to the whole thing.

Track two is all about mid-range electro like hacking bubbling tones, which are edged with more skittering & buffeting sub-tones. Once again there’s a nice blunt & hazed feel to the mix- which nicely get one's brain working to try & untie each textural path.  Track three is the shortest of the four tracks here, and for me felt a bit too unfocused & messy for its own good- as we get a rather muddled blend of rumbling & ripping low-end, skittering & bay mids, and messy reverb-bound electro noise drones.

Finally track four sees a mixture of grinding & billow washed bass,  banks of mix fading cluttering junk descent, buzzing cable drone, and shifts of thinner hacking rattle.  I really like the way this track nicely shifts between paired back & taut, and bass heavily blunt crashing. Again the messy mixing is used to great effect on this track, and it adds a feeling of seared moody mystery to the proceedings.

So, in conclusion, this is a most worthy release from Discipline And Order- the blend of HNW & Harsh in done well, the use of messy mixing is most effective, and there are a fairly good selection of interesting textures present. It’s always great to see new projects put out a physical release instead of just another digital release- equally it’s great to see another project from the fairly sparse Russain HNW scene.(NB- sorry to Russain readers for not using the cyrillic script wording of the projects name, M[m] aging system can’t handle it! )