���� Dug up this long out-of-print 7" on Misanthropic Agenda from 2002 with that unearthed stash of rare Bastard Noise stuff we recently found, teaming up Bastard Noise with Misanthropic Agenda label boss and solo noise artist Gerritt Wittmer.

���� Man Is The Bastard: Bastard Noise's "Protozoa Syringe" is pretty brutal, coming from the Eric Wood / John Wiese duo-era of the band. Their signature use of extreme oscillator effects, shrieking high-pitched feedback and swarming insectile electronics is all accounted for, but as with much of the stuff that Bastard Noise did when Wiese was in the group, there's an added focus on concentrated high-frequency sound that turns this into a particularly abusive piece of noise-art. Still pretty psychedelic, of course, though it's missing those bestial hate-grunts of Wood's that I dig so much.

���� The three tracks from Gerritt Wittmer (Deathroes) provides on the second side are in a similar vein as his Sails The Seas Of Displacement material from around the same time. And it's an excellent pairing with Bastard Noise's monstrous electronics. Starting with "Focus", Wittmer spins off whirring abrasive electronics, hideously warped vocals caught in nightmarish loops, violent mic-rupturing screams, and controlled blasts of extreme noise that reach Whitehouse-like levels of low-fi sonic monstrosity. More along the lines of raw power electronics than most of the other stuff I've picked up from Wittmer, there's also a bit of that creepy, noise-collage approach that has marked his longer works, which ultimately self-immolates in a speaker-scraping locked groove.

���� Comes on marble colored vinyl in a clear Mylar sleeve with a multi-color transparent label affixed to the front. Minimalist, but cool.