INNER DEMONS RECORDS – NEW BATCH 1/2024
The most recent batch of Inner Demons Records from Florida hit the office, and it’s massive (!!!) again. There are no less than 19 new releases by well-known and lesser-known artists, and in these coming few weeks, I’ll be looking at some of them. Or all of them, I don’t know yet. As I’ve written several Weeklies before, Inner Demons Records is the label of Dan Fox, who we know from projects Loss (Spectre Records / ant-zen), Fail, If and several other lesser-known but just as exciting projects. The thought behind the label is that everything goes style-wise as long as your heart is in the right spot. The rules you receive are clear (‘tRUMP SYMPATHIZERS, CONSPIRACY THEORISTS AND OTHER CULT MEMBERS NEED NOT APPLY’); for the rest, it’s art. Just art. Sounds. Noise. Rhythm. Walls. Anything …
For steady readers, another name that was recently published in the Vital Weekly (1417 and 1427) is Juice Machine. Yes, another Roger Chefkirk, but this is the project between him and Heather Chessman. ‘The Numbers’ is one 18-minute track, and it’s full of dynamics; it goes all over the place, and I like it. A lot. From all I’ve heard so far from them, this is my favourite. Having closed the Ibiza Shock Troops review about 30 minutes ago, which also had Roger ChefKirk in there, I am now used to the characteristics of his noise. It’s quite clear and straightforward, not that manipulated as in effects, and I guess it just took me some time to get used to it.
The track opens with a beautiful droney sound, over which slowly the noises get overhand, and before the track hits the 5-minute mark, it goes berserk. Pulsating sounds from what I think is a modular system and which no knob is not turned at some point. Playing this chaotically must be close to a workout at the local gym! The erraticness of sounds disappears a bit just before the 8-minute mark, and a slowly climbing pulse train creates a gorgeous moment of tension, after which the composition has a moment of rest, and the background layers get a bit more space to breathe. Then, a last hiccup from the evil noise maker himself before the synergy of the composition fades out as if there was a voltage depletion in the setup.
I said it earlier; I’ll repeat it once: I favourite Juice Machine so far.
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