This rare 7" on the Balefire label is back in stock here at C-Blast for the first time in nearly ten years; featuring the two-part "Moralist Factor", this Ep is based around a collaboration between Bastard Noise and noise artists Moz and Hermit that was completed via swapping tracks back and forth in the mail. The result is something in between the insectile electronic swarms of BN and a darker strain of experimental glitchscape.
"The Moralist Factor (Part 1)" begins with the sound of something resembling a trip-hop loop whirling beneath a steadily encroaching wall of nightmarish electronics, massive drones and howling synthesizers rising in a jet-engine blast of sound, huge and intensely ominous, a wall of apocalyptic deathdrone that is gradually invaded by Eric Wood's chirping oscillators and sputtering effects boxes. This rumbling factory nightmare drifts out from there into a vast expanse of chittering electronic noise and whirring high-end drones that becomes a gradual ascent into the stratosphere.
When the second half picks up on the other side, that insidious melody from the beginning of the previous track reappears, this time leading you into a hiveswarm of insectile oscillations, eerie half-formed melodies, trippy Theremin-like tones that echo over the mechanical rumblings that emanate up from below; it ends up somewhere surprisingly beautiful as those eerie looping notes come to the forefront and turn this somewhat dreamy dronecloud into something like the sounds of an alien wilderness at the end.
Released on green vinyl in a limited edition of three hundred copies.