Noise fans might know Kelly Churko from the mastering work that he's done for numerous noise releases, or maybe you've heard his ambient-noise duo Lethal Firetrap that he plays in alongside Kohei Nakagawa from Guilty Connector. The Confusion is Kelly's latest solo release, a single hour long track that moves through several different chambers of unearthly electronic sound. The track opens with a thick, heavy assault of chirping insectile synth-swarms strafed by backwards-masked feedback and underscored by massive subsonic earth-tremors, very Bastard Noise-esque, then shifts into abstract glitchscape and metallic drones. The Confusion then descends into vast expanses of rhythmic junk-metal clatter and booming industrial percussion adrift in a sea of reverb, as if you are travelling through a lightless underground munitions factory, the sounds of machinery echoing off of gargantuan cavern walls and forming a strange cadence of sheet-metal rhythms. From there, we move into super-minimal ambience, deep warbling low-end pulses shifting and singing at frequencies that at times seem to slip out of your range of hearing, gradually joined by higher-frequency drones and heavier, more distorted throb as metal pipes appear striking against each other and creating strange atonal melodies. The album continues through mutant tribal rhythms, squelchy alien electronics and flurries of digital chirps and swarming oscillator flux, massive seismic drones and buzzing sawtoothed distorto-grind, and when he cruises into the final ten minutes of the performance, things get really noisy, unleashing hive-blasts of swirling locust buzz, crushing mechanical loops, columns of white noise ascending towards the heavens, all forming into a holocaust of digital chaos that finally, abruptly blips out of existence at the end, leaving the track to fade away on echoes of treated piano, an evil, dissonant clanking that disappears into the distance. Churko has put together a dynamic suite of digital electronic noise that combines atmospheric qualities with total brain-melting chaos, and it falls somewhere in between the brutal blasting galactic electronics of Bastard Noise, Joe Colley's heavy mechanical minimalism and the resonant drones of Andrew Chalk and Jonathan Coleclough. Packaged in a white envelope with a full color 6-page booklet, and limited to 300 copies.