Torba/Dotåbåtå — split
The opening track on Torba's side "Anemia Modulare" fades in with a harsh buzzing and swirling texture of harsh droning sound and a background layer of delicate ambience. The way the track plays out is a build up starting with the noise at the beggining leading to an abrupt clarity of the ambience which appeared subtly at the beggining of the track and ends shortly after.
Following up is "My guitar wants to kiss your momma", a combination of crunchy bass wall and vacuum like droning that gets heavier as the track progresses and intensifies its texture to cyclone style patterns. The build up was very interesting, but I am highly confused at this point because the track seemed to end more abruptly than the last. Assuming this is not a defect on behalf of the dub or the master the track lead somewhere attractive and I would've liked to hear an extension of where it was going.
The next track "Arduino" opens up with a bell tone chiming sound that goes straight into choppy sputtering noise. The build up takes this track into a louder and more crunch driven texture as it develops into an intensified wall of noise with swirling textures behind it. The crunch becomes deeper and mortar like with textures of grinding rust and a parasitic lock of hollow air latches beneath the crumbling static. To close out the Torba side is a final track of heavy blackened drone entitled "#6 extreme noise remix". The use of heavy gloom laden guitar drone constructs ultimately meditative ambience and invokes dark patterns of industrial synth tones. Overall all tracks play through with little repition of textures and vary in structure but maintain a serious tone throughout. Though I'm not sure if it was just my copies of this tape, but at times there were moments when a completely irrecognizable sound would loudly pierce through.
Dotabata begins his side long track"rusted nails driven into dead wood" like a stage set with black droning matter and eventually reaches a point where a few riffs from a bass guitar overlap the drones before shifting into a blossoming wall of noise. The track carries out no longer in a very dark manner, and the atmosphere is seemingly relient on heaviness over actual atmospheric effect at this point. The wall is slow moving and crunchy with a muffled quality, but builds on that same texture as it closes out with a drop in volume until completely fading out. There was not much
to say about this side as it truly just built up and left, but the noise wall very well could've stood on its own without the preceeding ambient introduction.