Vomir/Black Matter Phantasm — Seclusion Room
The tape comes in a small plastic bag, and features just minimal black & white artwork which takes in an outline of a square, and text. I’ve not had physical sight of the book that comes with the other version of the release, but have seen stills & by all accounts it’s a 586 page paperback which takes in seemingly interchangeable static textures.
So first up on side one we have a Untitled track from Vomir, and this is built around a muddy ‘n’ loose judder, which is ringed by a muffled chopping pattern. It’s a nasty & crude bit of wall-making, which has that hopeless & sleazed Vomir air to it…as one would expect it’s a fairly fixed affair save for a sudden (and quite surprising) shift which happens around the five minute mark, where a more seared & crisp out pouring of static grain weeps into the wall for a minute or so, before returning to it’s originally setting….and there is one more very brief similar shift in the last few seconds of the track. Other than these minor textural detours this is a fairly typical slice of Vomir wall-craft…airlessly, sleazed & crude.
Over onto side two, and we have Black Matter Phantasm’s track which is entitled “Deltinu”. And this is a very dense, bleak & crushing bit of ‘wall-craft’- it’s built around two or possible three layers of similarly toned low-end, thick grey, and sludge bound juddering which is slightly edged by a thinner semi crinkled jitter. The whole thing batters away at you to creating this endless bleak, doomed, continual sludgy downpour. I now heard a few of this projects releases, and I must say this stands as some of the better work produced by the project.
So in conclusion this C60 offers up two unforgiving & unrelenting slices of walled noise nihilism - the Vomir side is ok, but a fairly standard, while the Black Matter Phantasm is quite effective in its endlessly crushing tarry weight.