Mid Leopard Violet Prism - Carbohydrate Somnambulism

Artist Mid Leopard Violet Prism
Label Total Vermin
Year 2011
Genre(s) Psychedelic Noise, Drone

Another tape from the two headed noise monster that is MLVP. Featuring Nackt Insecten and Smear Campaign joining up again to make more long form, psychedelic twinged drones and sharp static bubbles. Whilst both artists are well known in their own right for their other projects they manage to bring their A-game to this tape.

Opening with Battery Acid Pumped Through Veins a tense drone rolls around like a snowdrift. Soothing at one minute, unnerving the next. The juxtaposition twixt the two moods offers the meat of this tape. The noise contained within serves a narrative purpose. From the very opening the listener is transported to a different realm. One full of broken machinery and parched deserts. Soundtracked by the sound of a million blow circuits and mechanical death throes. The A side contains calmer, drawn out music whereas the B side serves up slightly harsher and more disconcerting sounds.

There's always going to be comparisons drawn between MLVP and Smear Campaign/Nackt Insecten, but for me the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Full Meat Jacket - Full Meat Jacket

Artist Full Meat Jacket
Label Fag Tapes
Year 2005
Genre(s) Noisecore(?), Harsh Noise

Yet another mysterious tape from Fag Tapes. There is little to no information on this band available. As such it's up to the music to do the talking, a front that this tape will happily back up.

It's hard to classify many of the acts on Fag Tapes but none more so than Full Meat Jacket. Utilising drums, guitar and vocals to make many short, sharp attacks. It's nigh on impossible to pick out individual elements from the wave of sounds on display. Occasionally vocals will raise out of the swell but never in a fashion that would make them understandable. I find it hard to tell if the tape is one long tracks or if the many pauses denote the end of songs. Regardless when taken as a whole the tape unleashes a fury that is seldom seen in the somewhat bland noise scene nowadays.