W.A.S.T.E. - Liquor, Drugs and Hate
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Lately fell into my hands a new album from a rhythmic noise project W.A.S.T.E. that comes from the United States. I must admit that although the project is working since 2003 on, the music it creates I know selectively, and I did not previously distinguished an opinion about the sounds they create.
The record is entitled "Liquor, Drugs and Hate" and after the first contact with this disc you can say that this is a very apt title. In fact, the first tracks sound like someone completely drunk entered the studio and using aggressive, noise music poured all his hatred on the CD. During the first hearing everything seems chaotic and devoid of any structure. Sounds change like in a kaleidoscope. Sometimes it is recalling achievements of harsh noise projects (such as Alpha or Merzbow Gouverment) than the looped structures which we are accustomed by Mono No Aware for example. Perhaps it is a little too far-reaching comparison, but I mean the chaos and unbridleness, which feeds us W.A.S.T.E. The beat is mixed up here with aggressive, perplexed noise samples, here and there are rudimentary, distorted vocals. There is plenty of noise, glitches and crackles. Everything is changing, chaotic and chopped up healthily. It is also happening a lot in the beat itself because apart from "hardcore" pounding, we have here the mass of drums, cymbals and other various types of strokes. Only the first of three pieces are a bit more "catchy" (although that word does not really match the W.A.S.T.E. music) After less than fifteen minutes of total destruction, there comes a breathing space in the form of quiet, ambient "Sometimes You Don’t Come Back". After the noise is mixed up with ambient (in various proportions) to return again to the pure and raw power noise, but rather more arranged than at the beginning of the album. Although in the middle of the record appears a few quiet and subdued moments, it does not impinge on the overall reception of the album, and ambient motifs give the depth to the disc. A piece that deserves attention is "Efficient Ways Of Killing Mass Amounts Of Motherfuckers (Bitch Per Minute remix)", it distinguish by simplicity and hardstyle feeling. The album ends with a great 'Mediaface ", remixed by Synapscape with their characteristic vocals, although W.A.S.T.E. feeling, it is not hard to hear who put hand to that remix. After hearing this album several times, it appears that all chaos is only apparent, and when you get used to these sounds, you can find in them some structure and harmony. I love albums that can be newly discovered with every hearing. And so it is "Liquor, Drugs and Hate". W.A.S.T.E. recorded the disc you have to get used to, but a pleasure of listening it increases with each playing of the album from a start. And from the seeming chaos and disarrange emerges diverse music with a large spectrum of sounds and a mass of interesting ideas. Besides, this CD is a real big energy boost. I still think that the "Liquor, Drugs and Hate" is the aptly titled record, but I think it may refer to something different than I thought at first. This record is like alcohol, drugs and hate. Affects the senses, stimulates and addicts.
Certainly I will reach for the "Liquor, Drugs and Hate" more than once and earlier W.A.S.T.E. albums. I can recommend it to all noise fans and the rest of people who are fond of experiments in music. But I discourage ones, who like the simplicity of sound and who wish to have everything listed "on tray".
Tracklist:
01. Want This World To Burn
02. Scab Collector
03. Steel Toed Rampage
04. Sometimes You Don’t Come Back
05. Butcher Knife
06. Still Drunk, Still
07. Crazy
08. Part 1 of Some Shit To Come
09. Efficient Ways Of Killing
10. Mass Amounts of Motherfuckers (Bitch Per Minute Remix)
11. Omega 3 (Doomer Remix)
12. Scab Collector (Catastrophe Noise Remix)
13. Mediaface (Synapscape Remix)
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The record is entitled "Liquor, Drugs and Hate" and after the first contact with this disc you can say that this is a very apt title. In fact, the first tracks sound like someone completely drunk entered the studio and using aggressive, noise music poured all his hatred on the CD. During the first hearing everything seems chaotic and devoid of any structure. Sounds change like in a kaleidoscope. Sometimes it is recalling achievements of harsh noise projects (such as Alpha or Merzbow Gouverment) than the looped structures which we are accustomed by Mono No Aware for example. Perhaps it is a little too far-reaching comparison, but I mean the chaos and unbridleness, which feeds us W.A.S.T.E. The beat is mixed up here with aggressive, perplexed noise samples, here and there are rudimentary, distorted vocals. There is plenty of noise, glitches and crackles. Everything is changing, chaotic and chopped up healthily. It is also happening a lot in the beat itself because apart from "hardcore" pounding, we have here the mass of drums, cymbals and other various types of strokes. Only the first of three pieces are a bit more "catchy" (although that word does not really match the W.A.S.T.E. music) After less than fifteen minutes of total destruction, there comes a breathing space in the form of quiet, ambient "Sometimes You Don’t Come Back". After the noise is mixed up with ambient (in various proportions) to return again to the pure and raw power noise, but rather more arranged than at the beginning of the album. Although in the middle of the record appears a few quiet and subdued moments, it does not impinge on the overall reception of the album, and ambient motifs give the depth to the disc. A piece that deserves attention is "Efficient Ways Of Killing Mass Amounts Of Motherfuckers (Bitch Per Minute remix)", it distinguish by simplicity and hardstyle feeling. The album ends with a great 'Mediaface ", remixed by Synapscape with their characteristic vocals, although W.A.S.T.E. feeling, it is not hard to hear who put hand to that remix. After hearing this album several times, it appears that all chaos is only apparent, and when you get used to these sounds, you can find in them some structure and harmony. I love albums that can be newly discovered with every hearing. And so it is "Liquor, Drugs and Hate". W.A.S.T.E. recorded the disc you have to get used to, but a pleasure of listening it increases with each playing of the album from a start. And from the seeming chaos and disarrange emerges diverse music with a large spectrum of sounds and a mass of interesting ideas. Besides, this CD is a real big energy boost. I still think that the "Liquor, Drugs and Hate" is the aptly titled record, but I think it may refer to something different than I thought at first. This record is like alcohol, drugs and hate. Affects the senses, stimulates and addicts.
Certainly I will reach for the "Liquor, Drugs and Hate" more than once and earlier W.A.S.T.E. albums. I can recommend it to all noise fans and the rest of people who are fond of experiments in music. But I discourage ones, who like the simplicity of sound and who wish to have everything listed "on tray".
Tracklist:
01. Want This World To Burn
02. Scab Collector
03. Steel Toed Rampage
04. Sometimes You Don’t Come Back
05. Butcher Knife
06. Still Drunk, Still
07. Crazy
08. Part 1 of Some Shit To Come
09. Efficient Ways Of Killing
10. Mass Amounts of Motherfuckers (Bitch Per Minute Remix)
11. Omega 3 (Doomer Remix)
12. Scab Collector (Catastrophe Noise Remix)
13. Mediaface (Synapscape Remix)
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