A new batch from Tribe Tapes, this time four actual cassettes again - As it 'should be' on a label with the word Tapes in it. The first is a C42 by Lunus, a side project by Devis Granziera, better known as Teatro Satanico. I don't know much about Teatro Satanico besides the name and them being from Italy. Every backstory I could have written ends here, and I'm focussing on this tape because, as a matter of fact: It's a really proper good release.
"The Moon Spit" is a re-release from 1996 (Allegorical Tapes), and during this time, Lunus - then still written as Lvnvs - was Devis together with Stefano Barban. Who I also never heard of, by the way. The eight tracks are based on heavily tribal beats with loads of distortion and compression. The first side allows us to get used to the sound of the beats - or maybe better: the beat-oriented layer - and the combination with the other layers of sound. Side two, however, opens with "Cipher, " which surprised me. It's almost like an underground version of the amalgam of Swans and Godflesh. Beautiful!
And from that moment on, the release gets out of control. In "Dead II", the noise is pushed to the front, and the rhythms are reduced to structures in the background. "Das Loch" sounds like a weird looped broken record player with a pure oscillator sound that could have been from an Atrax Morgue release. The final track, "Naked", is the first track where the rhythms actually sound like rhythms. As said, it's a really nice one, and for a 27-year-old release, it stood the test of time perfectly.
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