Noise is about everything, and yes, everything is about noise. So you can’t find a subject unwilling to be noisified in some way or another. On this 3″ CDR on the label 999 Cuts from Israel, the Finnish project Rotat combines two subjects which are boobs and pain, into a 20-minute harsh noise attack on your eardrums. Extreme motorboating, if there was ever a recording made of that.
“Hung like a horse” and “Firefarter” are two recordings of harsh noise, and that is also the problem with me, your humble reviewer. What more can I say? Porn-related titles and imagery are, in my honest opinion, a quick way of getting noticed. And it seems a bit too easy … Noise – proper noise – is way more than boobies and wieners or political statements which are open for discussion, or, well, you know what I mean. With more effort, Rotat could have chosen another subject for titles and made a real difference with this release. Because musically, it’s more than ok!
Nice, harsh cutups, metal with contact mics … The ‘Horse’-track is a bit more high-frequency based, while “Firefarter” brings in a few more bass layers with loads of manipulated metal + mic sounds, and the feedback proves it’s all completely over the top. The noise is shocking in itself; there is no need for the artwork to be. The black woven bag and nipple clamps are a nice touch to get into the subject more. After all, noise appreciation does have a learning curve.
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