On the front cover is a picture of what seems to be a tape recorder showing its insides. The reverse side shows a Sony mixer with ‘spaghetti’ made of cables. I expect this album to provide proof that you don’t always have to use equipment how it is supposed to be treated. In other words, There is a good chance we will find some noise here… And yes, I am right! Oh, beautiful, noisy musicians of the world, keep this stuff coming!
‘Sony Guts’ is the newest release by Matt Luczak from New York, and I can’t tell you what or how much he has released so far because Bandcamp and Discogs mention entirely different numbers, and I don’t really have much to go from. Nowadays is normal, unlike when musicians were all about creating websites with complete and correct info. The internet ruined it partially because, at some point, everybody was overdosing on info, leaving it hard to differentiate between truth and lies. But that’s a whole different discussion: I’ll make peace in not knowing everything now.
What I do know is that this album has four tracks about ten minutes long, and it’s completely fucked up in a few ways. First of all, many cut-up techniques are being used, making it at moments so hectic you don’t know where to look. Especially with the vocal stuff on “TC-200”, there is so much happening. Layer upon layer of incomprehensible stuttering. Nice! ‘Wow and Flutter’ seems to have a bit more loops on the lower end, creating a sort of drone layer, but here, too, the vocals fuck things up severely.
‘Return to Unit'” is the most easy-listening track of the bunch. An orchestral sample creates a ‘sacred’ atmosphere, and from that moment on, there is a lot of – hell, I’m gonna invent some new words here – micro sampling noise terror done in higher frequency layers. Just listen, and you’ll know what I mean. Because of this, the second half of that track has just about zero sacredness left. Significant buildup here and a gorgeous track to finish this album with. A new name to keep track of, courtesy of the high output of Uncle Steve Davis from Love Earth Music! (BW)
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