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BURNING STAR CORE  Recycled Music Series  CASSETTE   (RRRecords)   4.98


C Spencer Yeh's mighty Burning Star Core makes its move in the RRRecords Recycled Music Series with this lengthy free-skree monolith, a droning and slowly evolving junk jam rising out of ruptured electronic drone, skittering nervous violin and scraped strings, weird random junk percussion, horns, cut-up loops, computer chirps, and buried voices. Dreamy but unsettling, growing gradually into a massive violin and electronics generated drone-storm that consumes everything. Imagine Borbetomagus and Skullflower and Wolf Eyes and D Yellow Swans all going full blast simultaneously. Definitely LOUD and HEAVY when this jam reaches maximum overload.

This being part of the infamous Recycled Music Series, it has Burning Star Core's recordings dubbed over old commercial junk/thrift tapes (which could be anything from Annie Lennox solo albums to bluegrass instructional cassettes) that have been traded into the RRRecords used CD shop, and the packaging cobbled together with old cassette covers, duct tape, and magic marker. Due to the nature of audio cassette tape, often the original audio is still partly audible, merging and melting into the new sounds that have been dubbed onto its magnetic strip. thus making each cassette a hand-made and one-of-a-kind item on some level. Pretty cool.