RJ Myato/Gorgonized Dorks — Split
The release is self-released by RJ Myato on his own label Enforced Existence. With the shop brought CDR featuring black sharpie writing on- this comes packaged in a see-through sleeve with a black, white & red PC printed cover- so a fairly standard looking underground noise release.
Kicking things off we have the Gorgonized Dorks track- this is entitled "The Rich Exterminated With Joy", and it comes in at the 9.23 mark. The track's a decidedly noisily hazed blend of throbbing ‘n’ stabbing electro tones, droning feedback purrs ‘n’ wails, with muffled-to-whispered voices/ samples bob about. The whole thing sits nicely enough between lulling searing & eerily atmospherics- it’s ok, though it did feel like it overstayed its welcome by around five minutes.
Next we of course we have the five tracks from RJ Myato- and these are much better. Each of the tracks falls around the two to nearing three-minute mark- and we begin with the wonderfully titled “Lint Shuffle”- this brings together slowly pitch-shifting noise sustains, choppy noise detail, and at times almost wonkily harmonic tone sweeps. As we move on we come to the rolling static grain-meets choppy-yet-sluggish junk stabs of "Shaped Tents"- which in its last quarter has guitar noise purr trying to break in. The split been topped off with the more walled noise focused “Carapace Joy Caliburnus”- with its mix of churning & meshed static grain noise, and worming-yet-droning tone shifts.
As a complete noise split this stands up well enough- but really the RJ Myato material shines most, and rewards re-listening - the Gorgonized Dorks track does work well with the rest of the split, but on its own, it’s a little run of the mill /overlong.