Moloch – Humane Too Sheeps (Prison Tatt)

 Ennaytch - True Devil (casstte, Machine Tribe)

This one took some listening as it caught my ear courtesy of MTR and I skimmed through it and was like "okay...wow...this has something" and immediately , well... bought it. Much of the recent MTR is coming in reviews and venture into uncharted territory, but I've been on an illbient journey  (first time in about twenty years) for months now and absorbed all of Scorn (prefer the more industrial stuff...sorry Mick) but a lot of the off the beaten track stuff like Weakener, and Possible Recordings output such as Ambush, Quiot and so forth but just NEED something different and Dadub was the way to go but also MH's Trace Decay,some Godflesh again...enough with the Mick/Justin vibe (can't be helped, and even though Headnod Sessions from MH is great to sample from, honestly...it bores the Hell out of me at times), I get it but the entire early Napalm Death rhyhtm section from Bullen and Harris to Broaderick have contributed more to the DnB/illbient/beats genres then any other. So...I regress, but point is this... this album is the perfect  medley of creative sampling, composing and just amazing Illbient/darkhop all around, BUT the thing here is that the sampling and so forth that goes into each collage = " song"  has more in common with Power Electronic/industrial than anything remotely hip hop in any true form. It's absolutely brilliant, to be perfectly honest!!

The mixed compositions of random beats and rhythmic structures  (everything from audio clippings to pipes, metal scrapes.... junk) make you tap your foot at times, maybe nod your head but then suddenly it fades into static, like someone switching back and forth through radio stations, then some pretty cool "Skinny Puppy/Frontline Assembly" shit with the vocal samples further chunked, funked and clunked in time to a groove...no doubt there... but it's more than just that. He seems to manage to create fairly simple yet elaborate tracks on  here, specific in arrangement and placement from style changes to which trakc is where, all leading up to something cohesive about "The True Devil" in this world, and I quite agree, but this guy, like so many in these genres go about it from a different angle (thinking of a lot Theologian work here) where it's more of a societal commentary than anything completely Anti, but the atmospheres or scenes that it creates in your head certainly bring it home in clarity as to who/what that True Devil is. Abstract.. but NOT (?). You get it. It's contemporary without the pomp and crap behind it. I'm a huge fan of folks like Chris Burden (spelled that right?) and the "piss christ" thing, but some stuff is a web of knotted mess (literally) that is said to symbolize something, but it doesn't t quite represent what it should.You really have to listen to it in order to really get it and it's broadcasting on this site so you can actually listen and read, makes more sense that way. 

While side A ends with "the true dddd...devil..." side B opens up more in a post industrial feel right away, (Grant Richardson, Control, would be proud...first name that popped in my head) that opens up the floodgates for some serious beat fest to commence. I mean, at one pint I'm thinking classic but unique post industrial here and even at a few stops along the way we visit the machine shop with true industrial...there are scrap metal rhythms here but collaged as Illbient, and literal machine shop stuff... because in some spots there are metallic pipes rattling and clanking and even more junk in the rhythms striking up some Einsturzende Neubauten credit in terms of overall sounds, but then it's almost slipping into Illbient/Jungle (yikes) territory with the transposition and beat structure. I've been dissecting this for weeks now and that's my interpretation over many listens, through my many moods, and so on...So what ever the Hell I said before the full review is moot. This is why I review this shit, it makes ME stop and go WTF? but in the positive direction. My cats asshole is staring at me...fucking LINUS!! so that tells me that it's time to wrap this up but seriously give this some real listens!! Then you will hear and feel what I'm talking about, it's got that Dadub post apocalyptic DnB/Illbient slant to it, but after almost a month of listening to it, it really screams PE/post industrial to me.