Inclusive Secrets presents us with two forty-minute examples of punishing walled noise themed around heterosexual S &M. If you even have a passing interest in HNW I’m sure you'll be aware of Koobaatoo Asparagus- aka San Diego based noisemaker Michael Scott, as it’s one of the more super prolific names in the scene.

As with much of the project's output, this new release appears on its own label No Skinny Jeans. It’s a digital-only release- the cover art takes in a colour S & M collage, featuring a woman with a whip, chains, and an all in red bondage room. The release can be found here. 

Both tracks here are self-titled, and each comes in at spot on the forty-minute mark. The first track is a super thick and constricting example of HNW form- it brings together meaty bass judders, with a rolling mid-ranged noise drone. Together this unrelenting-if- simplistic mix creates a feeling of tightly wrapped brutality- which is of course perfect for the theme here. At points the two main elements nicely blur & grind into each other, creating this baying and airless mesh of sound- which well & truly blocks out the world around you for total walled noise submersion.

The second track thins things back a little, though once again it’s fittingly torturers. Here we have find a blend of muffled low-end chops, and constantly cluttering static hacks. The chops nicely shift in & out of focus, at times almost disappearing, while the static clutters are seemingly multiply and growing on each other. I think in reality this is just a trick of the wall, but it’s damn effective- as your mind seems to concentrate trying to follow both the static hacks, and wavering low-end. I guess with this track you get the feeling of a slowing S & M session, after the truly densely intense first wall- as if the master and slave are just coasting in the steady flow of pain and pleasure.

So Inclusive Secrets is another consistent Koobaatoo Asparagus release- sure it’s not jumping through clever textured hoops, or reinventing the walled noise form- it’s just another rewarding enough sonic brick in the project's seemingly endless growing wall of releases.