GÖTE Recycled Music Series CASSETTE (RRRecords) 4.50Gote's entry in the Recycled Music Series is a beautifully bleary slice of psychedelic amplifier slime and out-guitar abuse taped over a variety of 80s pop scum and atrocious self-help cassettes. The first section of the tape lays down some delicious narcotized guitar that slowly ambles over a murky landscape of rumbling machine noise, searing distorted amp-drone, and looped samples. It continues to grow more delirious and chaotic, more distorted noise pouring in along with more stretched-out samples and chunks of sputtering cable fuzz, while that reverb-soaked guitar keeps meandering around in the background, at various points transforming into desolate doom-laden chord progressions, or strangely surfy tremolo freak-outs, or eerie Earth-like dirges. As noisy as Gote can get, their tape is still one of the more musical offerings from RRR's tape series. Later on the first side, most of those looped sounds fall away, and we're moved into a realm of static buzzing feedback, malfunctioning cable noise that shapes into swarms of malevolent insectile chitter, and thick, evil bass-heavy drones that go on for some time. This grows ever more sinister as the drones build into writhing masses of organ drone and keening, almost violin-like minor key figures.
The second side delves into more abstract territory, beginning with simple guitar figures floating over grinding industrial noise and then launches into some maniacal shred guitar histrionics that are blasted through a wind tunnel. After awhile, it finds its way back into the menacing disembodied sludge metal riffery that we heard on the other side, planted among swells of pure amp hiss, echo effects and sinister two-note loops. The last half then travels into this weird netherworld of horror movie soundtrack effects, more shapeless metal riffs, flourishes of what sounds like electric jazz piano, and endless amp hum, and achieves a crescendo of heavily drugged, heavily psychedelic improv-sludge menace in the last moments of the tape.
Recommended to fans of the riffier Skullflower material, early Earth, and the heavier, more metallic Weasel Walter projects.