Rupu Tapes is a tape label from Jyväskylä in Finland and they uphold the DIY ethics up to a very high standard. I think (though I haven’t read it anywhere so that I might be wrong as f***) that it is run by the same person who is behind Circle of Shit. And a little reading and a game of connect-the-dots tells us that he is also the person behind the project Junta. So it’s no surprise that several of the releases on Rupu are by one of his projects. This one is, however, the first I see from this label and the first in the Vital Weekly.
“Canny Alley” is almost 40 minutes long and contains five tracks between 3 and 11 minutes. All were recorded in live situations, but that might also be read as ‘all tracks recorded direct to disc, no overdubs or manipulation afterwards’ which would fit the rawness and relentlessness of these recordings. So what to expect musically? Noise. Of the harsh kind, though never resulting in HNW. Loads of dynamics, scraping things with contact mics, distortion and feedback loops. A few ‘silent’ moments as in ‘gasping for air’. “Arkinen Hysteria” has what seems to be a sequenced part in the end, and it must have been bliss to feel those basses in a live setting. In all their rattling glory.
“Haku Päällä” is a harsh noise where it’s almost as if heavy metal constructions are thrown over the place. Because of that, I had to think of Neubauten’s early 80’s. It has the charm of the pre-Kollaps recordings. But my favourite track is “The Final Watershed”. Why? It starts with incoherent rattling, which slowly becomes coherent and a little melody line is added even. And then the noise hits. And then, in the final part, it’s as if the performer(s) did something wrong, and they’re actually hurt. Or something else went wrong. But, how much more honest could you get your noise?
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