Slashed Pretty Girls — Blood Orgy
The C60 tape is released on Death Sex Electronics- a relatively recent northern English label who are focusing in on walled noise & power electronics releases. It comes in an edition of twenty five copies- the unlabeled cassette comes in small black cardboard box. This takes in three colour still prints from the film( printed off on a PC printer), and stuck on colour artwork, which takes in a picture of a human body, hanging upside down over a bucket & being bled.
The first sides track is entitled “Blood Orgy 1” & opens with a sample ( from the film I’m guessing?)..Of a women moaning with lighting in the back ground- this last around minute & we’re then into the wall. The ‘wall’ is of a very muffled, lo-fi yet dense quality, and is built around several layers of tumbling, juddering & lashing weathereld noise tones. Pace wise it falls around the mid-to-slight more rapid pace, and over the tracks length it subtle shifts through a few slightly different textural patterns( through it never moves too far from it’s original textural feel). To me the track was akin to wondering through some vast, decrepit & windowless house in the middle of a winter storm- as the wind batters & rages through the glass-less/ torn fabric lined windows. On the whole it’s a rewarding enough bit of wall-making, which has an effectively aged & atmospheric quality about it, and I particularly enjoy the points when the ‘wall’ seems to start to haze & muffle out more & more.
Fliping over to the second side & we have “Blood Orgy 2”, and once again this track starts with a sample from the film, and this time it’s a women speaking in mock sort of caveman/ Native American Indian voice about the birth of a baby. The ‘wall’ comes in at around the minute mark, and it’s a mix of taut & tight noise tones- taking in a juddering & rumbling lower to mid range fixed texture, which is webbed with subtle shifting spluttering ‘n’ jitter sub tones. Once again the whole thing has a very aged/lo-fi quality about it- I guess you’d say this track is a little more focused & set in it’s textual patterns, though that said there are a few sudden shifts along the ‘walls’ length- but fairly soon it returns back to it’s original setting. The whole thing has a rather rewardingly muffled & semi meaty sleazy air to it all, and the taunt- ness of the wall craft really does suck you in.
Though this project has been active since 2010, releasing around six releases- this is the first time I’ve heard any of the projects work, so I can’t say how this compares with there other output. But I certainly found Blood Orgy a worthy release offering up two dense yet atmospheric slices of sleazy walled noise.