Oxidation is like a recycling label: fixing up some older stuff, freshening it up, putting a label on it and giving it a second life. And Sick Days uses and reuses covers, giving them a second life. So it was probably just a matter of time before Marc and Jeffrey ended up on the same release somewhere.
The side of Marc is entitled "Waste of time, waste of money" in which he is very wrong, because ... Well, it's not! Marc's 10 minutes of field recordings from "somewhere" exist, and they don't sound that manipulated from source to this. Not much happens, but there is a constant movement. Sounds of birds and some kind of rattling which I couldn't determine after hearing it many times. The tension of "being", feeling away from where you usually are, a 10-minute holiday in your mind. In the second half, more textures are added, but I'll leave the exploring to the listener. If you read this far, you'll probably gonna get it anyway.
Sick Days' "Submit" is created style-wise not far from Marc: Contact mics and field recordings, but here, a music box is constantly audible, and the output is entirely different yet the same. "Submit" is a noise/scraping texture (roads, wind & ice) with an alienated melody in the setting. Stuff that could have been made from samples from a creepy horror movie. Waiting for the bad guy to start slashing or the doll to come alive. Well done, guys!
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