Artist Filthy Turd
Year 2010
Label Side-A Records
Genre(s) Harsh Noise, Sexy Noise
Filthy Turd is the English Noise/Power Electronics project of 'Filthy' Darren Wyngarde. Active since the early 2000s, with a puddle of releases on varying labels such as Hanson and Turgid Animal. Filthy Turd creates harsh soundscapes for sexual deviants. It's time to don the gimp mask and just into the stagnant waters of The Witches Tit The Golden Dung on Side-A.
Insane mumbling, clattering cymbals and dread inducing drones open the release. A slow build punctuated with the occasional burst of static. Almost like stumbling onto a ritual being held by that "town oddball" when walking home through the town centre. Quite unlike any Filthy Turd I've heard before but still just as menacing. Out of nowhere piercing feedback and distorted vocals cut through, absolutely punishing with occasional chanting carrying on. The vocals are low in the mix, almost to the point of inaudibility hidden as they are behind layered screams and static. When part of a lyrics does cut through the cacophony it creates intrigue. I found myself with my head right up at the speakers trying to decipher the lyrics. It didn't work, I also might have tinnitus. Still nothing ventured...
The releases lurches on, dripping bog water all over your carpet. The use of clean singing and chanting doesn't allow you to be at ease, like a house guest who's finished dinner but started to be incredibly nasty whist playing with his knife a tad too keenly, he could lurch forward and stab you at any moment. So to tension is created by Wyngarde, the alternation between all out sonic attacks and the calmer (but no more peaceful) chanting tracks. Worthy of note is the harmonica (??) that shows up midway through the release, creating a far more musical (yet still lacking melody) proceedings. Given the absurdity of the placement it's somewhat surrealistic and in a way quite funny. It lasts for all of 20 seconds before we're flung back into the audio equivalent of a burst sewage main in a psychoward. The percussion begins to sound as if it were played on burnt out car husks adding to the atmosphere.
Whilst Filthy Turd is primarily Harsh Noise there are definatly some Power Electronics elements to his sound and aesthetic. The use of high end on The Witches Tit... is very close in style to White Heterosexuals. Compared to all out Power Electronics thought, the same hyper-sexualised content is there, it's just conveyed in a far more captivating fashion. I advise everyone to pick this up, pour a glass of vino, close the curtains, look out the kleenex and wank yourself silly.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need a shower.
Year 2010
Label Side-A Records
Genre(s) Harsh Noise, Sexy Noise
Filthy Turd is the English Noise/Power Electronics project of 'Filthy' Darren Wyngarde. Active since the early 2000s, with a puddle of releases on varying labels such as Hanson and Turgid Animal. Filthy Turd creates harsh soundscapes for sexual deviants. It's time to don the gimp mask and just into the stagnant waters of The Witches Tit The Golden Dung on Side-A.
Insane mumbling, clattering cymbals and dread inducing drones open the release. A slow build punctuated with the occasional burst of static. Almost like stumbling onto a ritual being held by that "town oddball" when walking home through the town centre. Quite unlike any Filthy Turd I've heard before but still just as menacing. Out of nowhere piercing feedback and distorted vocals cut through, absolutely punishing with occasional chanting carrying on. The vocals are low in the mix, almost to the point of inaudibility hidden as they are behind layered screams and static. When part of a lyrics does cut through the cacophony it creates intrigue. I found myself with my head right up at the speakers trying to decipher the lyrics. It didn't work, I also might have tinnitus. Still nothing ventured...
The releases lurches on, dripping bog water all over your carpet. The use of clean singing and chanting doesn't allow you to be at ease, like a house guest who's finished dinner but started to be incredibly nasty whist playing with his knife a tad too keenly, he could lurch forward and stab you at any moment. So to tension is created by Wyngarde, the alternation between all out sonic attacks and the calmer (but no more peaceful) chanting tracks. Worthy of note is the harmonica (??) that shows up midway through the release, creating a far more musical (yet still lacking melody) proceedings. Given the absurdity of the placement it's somewhat surrealistic and in a way quite funny. It lasts for all of 20 seconds before we're flung back into the audio equivalent of a burst sewage main in a psychoward. The percussion begins to sound as if it were played on burnt out car husks adding to the atmosphere.
Whilst Filthy Turd is primarily Harsh Noise there are definatly some Power Electronics elements to his sound and aesthetic. The use of high end on The Witches Tit... is very close in style to White Heterosexuals. Compared to all out Power Electronics thought, the same hyper-sexualised content is there, it's just conveyed in a far more captivating fashion. I advise everyone to pick this up, pour a glass of vino, close the curtains, look out the kleenex and wank yourself silly.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need a shower.
Since when did Filthy Turd become power electronics?
ReplyDeletePut more eloquently: Aesthetically there are a lot of shared traits twixt Filthy and certain Power Electronics artists. The use of high end (primarily on this release and also on Dirty Fucking/Slaves (Dead Eternity Records)) point to a PE influence creeping into the work.
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