GANZER The War Scroll / Nahtriheccunde Gahinneverahtunin Zehgessurklach Zunnus CASSETTE (Rokot) 6.50This cassette features another batch of recordings from the obscure Russian occult electronics outfit Ganzer; with members of the apocalyptic folk/industrial band Majdanek Waltz behind this project, you'd be forgiven for expecting something a bit more atmospheric than what appears on this tape. These blasts of charred noise and blackened minimal industrial were originally recorded and released on Cdr back in 2004 and 2006, and range from the opening sounds of granular static and deep juddering reverberations that head into the kind of hissing electronic brain-death that Werewolf Jerusalem is known for, squirming masses of blackened synth-pulse and primitive machine rhythms, bits of cancerous, Atrax Morgue-style slime, blasts of shortwave radio carnage, straight-ahead harsh noise and garbled digital fuckery (with some seriously vicious saw-tooth drones ripping through the low-fidelity murk), monstrous dronescapes and hellish factory floor ambience, and swirling oceans of suffocating black static that build into a full-on HNW-style tranceblast, all veiled in wartime imagery and strange Slavic mysticism. It definitely has that harsh digital sheen/edge that is displayed on the other Ganzer tape we have in stock, but these recordings reveal more of an old-school power electronics influence to their sound when they're not blasting out a wall of distortion, particularly hinting at an appreciation for the "post-mortem" style of moribund electronic filth heard on any given Slaughter Productions or Aquilifer Sodality release in some of these sequences.
Limited to fifty copies.