Red Night Variations

Cassette tapes are the favored medium of the noise underground, a subculture that has had more and more to do with techno as of late. Apart from their nostalgic aspects, their clumsy tactility and muddy, mid-fi sonics create an atmosphere that Ruaridh Law exploited to maximum effect under his TVO alias on last year's creeping Red Night. Formally comparable to Echospace's similarly epic and at times inhuman The Coldest Season, beats arise only reluctantly out of vast pools of primordial...

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