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DON GARNELLI  Discography  CDR   (OhNoNo)   5.00


A 24-song disc that collects the complete "discography" of self-proclaimed "vegan edge lo-fi noise grind" artist Don Garnelli, a bedroom blast sculptor from the underbelly of the avant grind underground who has been releasing music via cassette in recent years, mostly through his tape imprint To Live A Lie. The entire body of work is apparently documented here in this nearly half-hour collection; we're talking really obscure, underground stuff here...for an electro grind project that I had never heard of prior to having it recommended to me by Ohnono though, Don Garnelli's music is surprisingly cool, almost more like a kind of super abstract, low-fi electronica than actual grindcore. Each track is a hyperspeed blot of digital noise, deformed electronica, and bombed out micro-grindcore, like Agathocles and Masonna being remixed by via the noisecore cut-up of John Wiese's Sissy Spacek, with snippets of amazingly beautiful post-rock ambience and floating glitched out tones emerging from a fog of boombox grindblasts, vomit vocals torn to pieces, and harsh eruptive feedback and lo-fi guitar noise. Sputtering aquatic rhythms battle brutal drum machine blastbeats. Oscillating sinewaves roam over piercing noisescapes. Pretty wild. The disc is presented in a hand-assembled digisleeve case with pasted on cover artwork depiciting a cartoon character getting their head sheared in half by a chainsaw, and includes an inster sheet printed on clear acetate, and is in a limited edition of 100 copies.