Artist: Humanextermination Project/Crepuscular Entity
Label: Basement Corner Emissions
Catalogue no: BCE #26
Tracklist:
1. Humanextermination
Project - naturemarchtoextinction
2. Humanextermination
Project - mechanizedbloodpump
3. Humanextermination
Project – crucible
4. Crepuscular
Entity – Transgressed Evolution
This four-track EP (I
suppose you’d call it) caught me completely off-guard, in a good way I hasten
to add. I’ve encountered Crepuscular Entity before – in fact I recently
reviewed their Harmfulmelodics album
for this blog and I don’t think my brain has quite recovered from having all my
synapses and neurons seared into oblivion. More on CE’s contribution later, as
I must concentrate on Humanextermination Project’s utterly genre-defying take
on what noise music can be.
It’s not the
flesh-‘n’-bone vapourising blast of unmitigated chaos but instead something
that’s very much difficult to translate into words. ‘naturemarchtoextinction’ finds
the listener slap-bang in the middle of some twisted rainforest full of mutated
creatures, singing out their hearts from the treetops in a mad high-speed
warble. It’s strangely enchanting, unnervingly so, and in spite of that I
wouldn’t like to catch myself anywhere near wherever this exotic locale may be.
It feels like it was inspired in part perhaps by The Island of Dr. Moreau, with the addition of a generous helping
of off-the-scale hallucinogenic fungi just to add something ‘interesting’ to
the mix. In fact, the following ‘mechanizedbloodpump’ is probably the comedown
after imbibing all those mushrooms: an extended hyper-dysrhythmic convulsion while
the toxins riding the tube-trains of the blood vessels try to find an exit from
the nightmare.
And so on to HeP’s third
helping, ‘crucible’ – industrial machine crunch and disjointed rhythms showered
by a rain of Vulcan’s fireflies, metal scraping on metal, axle-grinders like
giant flywheels unleashing sharp-toothed fury and fire, the lava of molten
metal spitting and sizzling like some cornered beast. It may not be
‘traditional’ harsh-noise/power electronics but it’s just as intense and
supersonic in its own untrammelled and unconcerned way. It doesn’t care whether
you like it or not, it just barrels its way through like one of those massive
tunnel-drilling machines but speeded-up to 11.
I was also surprised by
Crepuscular Entity’s immensely listenable ‘Transgressed Evolution’ – starting
via a single irritating high-pitched whine which then goes on to evolve in all
sorts of interesting ways, with layers of abstract and industrial
machine-shop-like noises piling up on top of and crushing each other, churning
and roiling in a Bessemer furnace of immense proportions, black smoke belching
thickly into an already diseased sky, until it reaches the apotheosis of
dissolution, annihilation, disintegration, and bodily discorporation. This is
both nuclear fission and fusion all
in one.
This, if nothing else,
proves that noise as a subgenre of industrial/underground music still has much
to say and so many ways to say it. I’ll have some more of this please.
Psymon Marshall 2019.
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