The release appears on Stockholm based Ominous Recordings- who at the present stand as one of the more prolific & quality bound noise labels around, putting out both a great selection of both walled & more general noise-related releases. This release came in two editions- one with a T-shirt and one without- the total of both editions came to 78 copies, sadly all copies have now gone of this release….pretty much disappearing on announcement. The black shelled cassette features a black with a red text label on one side, and this presented in a colour slip- which once again takes in a black & red colour scheme, with two stills of semi-dressed women & ghoulish/ vamp-like figures- which I'm presume are from the two films this release is themed around.

Each track here is named after the film they are themed around, and first up we get “Sexandroide Source” from Vomir- and this themed around 1987 French sleaze & gore fest Sexandroide- which is seeming a rather deranged anthology film that features tones of gore & female flesh.   The track takes up the whole side of tape and while it features the normal Vomir like crude & nasty feel, it's surprisingly layered & at points, semi-active  in said layers…which is really not what one would expect from the project.  The track begins with a blend of sluggish-yet-weighty low-end churn & this slicing ‘n’ spurting thinner mid-range static tone, the whole thing feels very lose &  nastily hazed in its attack. By around the two-minute mark, we start to get more additions to the sluggish-yet-heavily muffled mesh of noise- there’s a separate baying & slashing static element, this strange stretched female moaning, odd-yet-very muffled dragging tones & later knocking/ metallic jittering tones, and deep, deep down- this wavering sort of synth/ creepy electro vibe melody. Together these elements create such an unsettling & unbalancing felling of slurred sleaziness, with of course the extra punch of sluggishly galloping walled noise. A real surprise of a track from Vomir, and it be interesting to hear if he carries on down this slightly more nuanced & layer detailed tact in future releases.

Flipping over the tape and we have the track “Vampire Sadism Source” from The Rita- when one types 'Vampire Sadism' into Google you don’t get any hits, but if you add film into the search you get a few results- first of these is 1967’s  The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism, which is seemingly a cheesy German gothic horror film…so I'm not sure if this is what it’s theme about or not….anyway let us get down to the noise- to-hand. The track here is a bit more formal slice of walled-noise compared with the first sides track- it begins with a thick, taut-yet active blend of rolling ‘n’ churning low-to-mid range chug, and cluttering static hacks. As the track progresses & within the tightly/ skilfully controlled mesh of noise we get subtle twists & turns in the tonal map- be brief mico stops, drifts of more cluttering/ chopped texturing, more dragged out chugs and a few other variations. This, as we’ve come to expect from The Rita is a wonderfully controlled & skilful example of the walled noise form, and it makes for an interesting bedfellow to the more sluggish, hazed, yet active first track- not sure if I’m getting much sleazy vibe with this track, instead, it’s more of a controlled & cruel attack- which if this is themed around The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism nicely ties into this films torture dungeon theme.

When you get a split of this calibre you know you are going to get quality wall-craft, and that you most certainly do- as both sides are great. The real surprise here is of course the Vomir track, which is quite unlike what the Frenchmans done before. It was great to see this release getting a larger pressing, but it’s sad it’s now all gone…Let us hope it sees a reissue down the line, as this most certainly stands of one of the wall-noise highlights of 2020!.