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BASTARD NOISE / BIZARRE UPROAR  split  7" VINYL   (DP)   12.98
split IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

��� One of several split releases that Bastard Noise did in the 90s with Finnish power electronics fiend Bizarre Uproar, this record is pretty rare, coming out back in 1994 on BN/MITB member Eric Wood's own DP imprint; long out of print and fairly hard to find, we recently unearthed a handful of this 7" from a distributor, most likely the last copies of this crushing EP ever. Packaged in a letter-pressed cardstock cover printed by Thumbprint Press, it's one of the more sought after early Bastard Noise releases.

��� Featuring the early lineup of Man Is The Bastard members Eric Wood, Henry Barnes, and W.T. Nelson, the Bastard Noise side offers up three tracks of experimental electronics and low-fidelity rhythmic industrial from the group, starting with the ambient room noise and corroded electro-pulse of "Gunrange" through the sputtering, demonic power electronics of "Ham (Kansas City Mindwash)", where Wood hisses malevolently over a field of chirping tones and juddering low-end noise. That's followed by the unsettling high-frequency glitchery and oscillator fuckery of "Bats", which is harsh as hell. Some of this reminds me of Schimpfluch-Gruppe's abstract noisescapes more than the full-blast insect electronics of the Bastard Noise releases that would come later in the decade, but you still get some of that skull-shredding oscillator mayhem here, which obviously echoes the abrasive noise experiments found on the Man Is The Bastard albums.

��� Bizarre Uproar counters with a single track, "Sound Of Gigantic War Machines Malfunctioning". His own brand of grim, threatening power electronics and industrial noise combines what sounds like the rumble of small engines layered together into a rattling bed of metallic noise, chopped apart into passages of murky machine rumble and keening feedback. This is actually somewhat easy on the ears compared to most Bizarre Uproar stuff, a muted dronescape of mechanical murk that drifts and rumbles along quite nicely, with just the right amount of abrasiveness to keep this from slipping into a purely ambient wash of sound.