Kenji Siratori / Xa-Mul - Mutated Crime

Peculiar interpretation of satanism, called Xa-Mul meets a hybrid of cyberpunk and noise, called Kenji Siratori. About the participants in this split at first. Xa-Mul for me is the youngest brother of the project I'd never understood completely - Melek-Tha. Visual elements and not the sounds alienates me from this representative of Dark Ambient. I mean figures, sculls, pentagrams etc., smoothed with the help of computer effects etc. I dislike that synthetic coldness in visuals at first, but this is everyone's personal perception. Kenji Siratori - cyberpunk author, who has, since 2006, released somewhere around 400 albums, I guess. This is completely different approach to sound, conception and idea than I understand. It's the binary 0 and 1 stream that this japanese surprises. Can you call it other than "manufacturing" when you spit out albums and splits in such speed? No. Can you call it other than "manufacturer" when you talk about Kenji Siratori? I don't know. Now about this split. This album lasts for more than 70 minutes, packed in slim DVD case with a story by Kenji Siratori included. The split is opened by Xa-Mul. Monotonic, dark and rather dull piece. More than half of it there is not much more than static flow while you arrive to a sample (I think from the movie "Pi"). After that - rhythmic boom boom appears in the piece. And up till the end. I wouldn't call it as a masterpiece, but well, it is not that bad either. After that - long, lasting for more than 20 minutes piece of Kenji Siratori. It sounds as if the noise concert would be recorded from the other side of the wall while standing in the street. Here and there you can hear echoes of far away feedback and something what could be a vocal, but it seems more like a mirage from behind the grey and static curtain (not wall) of noise. Next - Xa-Mul again. One more monotonic fundament with high squeaks here and there and pitched down voice. The second piece of Kenji Siratori - noise that hides behind a thinner and more transparent curtain, but that would be all I could tell about this piece. Distant noises and atmosphere of a big city. Maybe that was the desired result. Album is closed with primitive piece of Xa-Mul. The beginning of it sounds like from the sound track of sci-fi movies from 80's. After a couple of minutes rhythm appears which, in case it would be under more distortion, could suit well for a gabber compilation. That's what this album is. I sat through it, listened to it, but wasn't convinced at all by these two performers. Do i need to comment more?

Format: CD
Released: 2008
Label: Hypermodern Records
Edition: 100

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