The now-defunct label Underradar put out this cool little cassette a couple of years ago, and we grabbed a handful of them before the label's catalog was sold off...it's a ten-minute cassette EP that features one lengthy track apiece from Aughra and Poison Arrows, and both offer up interesting ambient/noise soundscapes that are primarily created by intense sound processing using audio editing software as their primary instrument. Aughra is the solo project from Brent Eyestone of sludge/math/ambient metallers Forensics and goofball grinders Corn On Macabre, and his side of the tape presents another one of Aughra's gorgeous dark ambient dronescapes. It's equal parts krauty, kosmiche drift, buzzing ambient dronenoise, and massive enveloping low-end drone, very pretty and delicate, even when the distorted vocal-like noises and heavy guitar feedback begins to appear towards the end. It sounds a little bit like a low-fi Tangerine Dream, actually. Very nice.
On the other side is Poison Arrows. I don't anything about 'em, but their side of the tape serves up some intoxicating drone-noise that starts off like a sampled loop of amorphous rock music that is suddenly swept up in a tidal wave of sped-up tape speed and distortion, rising up into a crescendo of thunderous rumble before flattening back out into a strange phantasmagoric soundscape filled with percussive clicking and rhythmic thumps, the loud hum of dulled guitar feedback, weird blips and noises.
The tape comes in a beautiful hand-painted cover that was created by Brent Eyestone, and is limited to 130 pieces.