TADM & Timisoara — I am Not Dying In A Nightmare
First off the oversize package is worth a mention -it features a full size cd with 70 minutes playing time and a 3inch cd with just over 20 minutes playing time with each disk having a satellite picture of a storm system on them. Opening up the first full size disk we have Timisoara’s cold Blood with it’s collection of woozy, slip in and out of focus piling up tones that really has a great messing with your head effect. It almost sounds like the original sound source could be funky guitar playing, or at other moments synth descends and climbs, but then there made into broken, shifting and dense tones. It certainly gives a very disorientating feeling and remains compelling through out it’s nearly half an hour running time, it’s also my favourite track here.
The next three tracks that take up the rest of the first disk are all TADM's and are all for the main part are very brutal noise. That temptation, what is that temptation is the first long track running just short of half an hour it starts with an atmospheric held tone before burrowing into your inner ear with layers overload modem or Morse code type tones, as it goes on the tone become more roaring and deep. It also stops for bellowing tones here and there before sending high pitchers out and crash in once more to all out chaos. The other two tracks use simlar shorting tones but are more hectic and brain screwing- with the final track even going towards rhythmic and almost musically like elements too.
The three inch disk starts with another short piece from TADM again with effective, accelerated and exhilarating tones this time with more of roaring and deeper static feel about them. Lastly we have another Timisoara track which once more users screwed up and woozy tones, but this is a bit more stormy and deep feel with quite an errier/ harmonic element shifting in and out of the more noisy tones. Not as disorientating as the other track but the never the less very effective.
So in summing it was great to hear the Timisoara tracks as he has a very interesting, original and effective way of deal with sound and noise. The TADM tracks are competent and enjoyable but pretty much what I expected after hearing his album from a few years back.