New Batch – Oxen
9.23.16 by Mike Haley

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

I don’t know if this actually happens in real life, but you know in movies when someone robs a bank and the money explodes? They open up the duffel bag in the car, it’s full of cash in bricks, and then BLAMO! Red paint is everywhere.  Take that situation, but replace the duffel bag with Norelco cases, the bricks of cash with three cassette tapes, and the red paint with disgustingly intrusive, dynamic harsh noise. That is the new batch from Oxen.

The positive thinking of Kiran Arora‘s “The Good Times Are Over For Good” C30 sets the pace. Utilizing guitar, organ, tapes, and the drumming of Zach Fogle, none of which escape the processing department alive, frequencies are created that can be felt on the roof of your mouth. Sounds that are so raw and capable they could probably mess up your WiFi signal. They aren’t walls, more like electric fences holding back some type of esoteric destruction pressed against the chainlink. SO legit.

Anime Love Hotel, the project of Alexis Cash from Texas, brutally mushes sonic tape manipulations and potent, rigid convolution and her “Mami” C20. Both sides stay in a constant flux of crude levels, like rapidly switching from watching a child’s surgery in real life to at home on VHS. It’s a mentally damaging process with micocassette whiz that blasts through noise dregs like a knife. Again, SO legit.

“Upside Down” from Tokyo’s scum (aka: Sou Inomoto) finishes everything out. It’s a C20 of accelerated cut up onslaughts. Of machine gun buffering and regurgitation. Rusted Cycles of force with short-lived moments to recharge, then back to the force feeding. Such a crunch. SO legit.

All are available now from Oxen, but probably not for long.